u/IndigenousShrek

I’ve been at this place for over 4 years now, working there through most of HS and now as I’m in college, trying to save money until I leave my town this fall due to a transfer of campus. And the job sucks. It’s at a busy restaurant that has minimal space, it’s fast paced, and it’s exhausting. Every day I come home I reek of the place and of food, and I’ve passed out from exhaustion on the couch multiple times. The work is easy for me, as it’s mostly just mind-numbing. My issues lie with my coworkers. I know some of them (including one couple, in which one has been there over a decade) hate me, as they’ve admitted it to my face and to others. I’ve had them throw knives and other utensils at me in the dish station, had hot pans slammed into my arms and hands leaving nasty burns, been tripped and shoved “by accident”, and all of it they get away with since there’s no proof it was intentional and there’s no cameras.

I was bullied bad in HS (pushed down flights of stairs, thrown across classrooms, knocked out from someone beating me up, told to do some nasty stuff to myself that probably is against the rules of the sub, etc), so I used to use it as a kind of retreat from life, since all the people I worked with were in college or older, and never seemed to have issues with me, other than the aforementioned couple. I have always tried to help people outside of my specific job, since I know I’ve upset people in the past and I want to make sure I don’t ever hurt or upset someone again.

Over the last two years, however, things have gotten way worse there. All the good people graduated or found better jobs and left, and most of the people I’ve been stuck with either hate the place, are related to the boss, or are close friends with the trouble couple. I’ve had new people mention that they thought I was gay (I’m not, just have had poor luck so far), and I’ve overheard some of the things said about me. I’ve been called one of the worst people there, a r*tard (don’t want to get banned for it if it’s against the rules), the boss’s pity hire, they’ve said I’m crazy, a POS, a creep/pedofile, and, one that hit bad due to my prior bullying, a f*g, something I got called a lot by a particular bully in my past that almost ruined my life. One of the two was spreading rumors about another coworker, and when I informed her about it, I wound up getting screamed at tonight in front of multiple other coworkers and a full dining room of people by the power couple. This isn’t the first time, and the last two happened after I stood up for another coworker who was either in tears or bordering a panic attack from him. I also found out that apparently the whole place hates me, and the only reason I still have a job is because the boss pities me.

I’m stuck at a crossroad now. I don’t mind doing the work itself, and I don’t know if it’s worth quitting if I leave in a few months, but at the same time, I had another anxiety episode tonight and don’t know how much more I can take before I snap back at these two. What should I do; stick around and suck it up, talk to the boss and tell them the issues (I’ll have to tell them not to bring it up to them, because the last time that happened the girlfriend in the couple showed up at this person’s house and almost ruined their relationship), or just put my two weeks in and flip all of them the bird?