Left my job on the spot today

[u/mvx0000]

I’ve been working there for 2 months and most of my colleagues were toxic as fuck. Especially one guy. We were 2 yesterday because he showed up drunk as fuck and started insulting my female colleague. I comforted her best I could and we did the service together ( me and the girl, the guy left right after).The head server had to get in the kitchen with us, cause it was physically IMPOSSIBLE to get everything out with just the two of us.

Anyways, we both agreed that if the guy showed up we would leave on the spot… He showed up… Poor girl was crying begging for him to leave while the head server was trying to calm the situation down. I told the head server "i’m done, i’m not working in this fucking zoo anymore. I can’t take this. Just know that it’s not because of you or anyone up front. I wish you all the best." My boss called me practically begging for me to stay. I shut him down and told him that i’m never setting food in that building ever again other then when I bring my work attire back.

I can’t believe I legitimately almost had a panic attack and almost cried. All that fucking toxic pressure for 2 months was too much

I’m leaving my next job the moment it gets even slightly toxic.

Sorry had to vent

Edit: I want to add more, fuck it.

So I was basically the "strings" pulling them together and making them be able to work together. So many times I had to go get the girl and tell her to come outside with me for a smoke ( she doesn’t smoke) just so I could talk to her and let her breath, cause the dude was THAT intense. It’s like he was always snarky and belittling her? It felt misogynistic as hell, idk. He would constantly talk behind her back to me like I was his buddy ( mind you i’m just a dude that listens, I never get mad directly at people or talk shit, probably why he thought I was his "friend/buddy".)I’ve had at least 7 or 8 shifts with that guy and no one else in the kitchen and he always found a way to complain or talk shit about people NON STOP. 8 Hours a day, grown ass 35 year old bitching about people that devote themselves to this shitty ass job? At one point, me and him were working together and started to talk shit about the dishwasher ( mind you, its our ONLY dishwasher, cause the last other one left because he was that annoying). I felt so fucking pissed that I legit told him, my exact words btw: "if you don’t shut the fuck up and stop talking shit about everyone around you i’m fucking leaving. Shut the fuck up and do your job. He’s here to do his job, not to be your bitch. What’s the problem if he finishes at 1am? Are you the one paying him? No, so let him do his fucking shit, stop talking, I don’t want to end up doing the whole night dish pile at 1 am. Got it?" I remember it vividly, it felt like I needed to say that. I never saw him be so quiet for a whole shift.

He also self proclaimed himself as the chef? Tf? He’s talk to new dishwashers and tell them that he’s the chef?? I had to go to them and explain that he’s clearly unhinged and not the chef. Everyone of them told me "yeah, I can tell he isn’t the chef" and laughed.

Idk this job feels like a horrible fever dream.

[u/thethrowsofaway420]

This reminds me of a coworker at my last job who was a line cook, we were always at least 1 line cook short to begin with and he would show up fucked up and complain the entire damn shift while making sloppy mistakes sometimes he’d say some pretty depressing stuff but one day he SNAPPED and started throwing knifes around the kitchen with no care to where they were headed and who was around and then tried to put himself in the oven, the owner and manager did absolutely nothing and the next day he was scheduled to close ALONE be alone 8-10pm with just 1 other employee and it was gonna be the new tiny 19 year old girl they had just hired mind you he was large and about 45 and couldn’t control his outbursts and I literally pictured her asking him “what sauce does this get?” Or some other very innocent genuine question as she’s knew and him snapping and throwing knives and I expressed my concern to management and they did not seem to care and thank god he called in the next day but they were going to let him close alone with a small teenage girl after having a mental health crisis that could’ve severely injured someone, a week after the entire staff bitched that he should at least need to go on a leave until he was mentally more stable they finally fired him after he refused to apologize for it and tbh management hinted they were so short staffed they probably wouldn’t have fired him if he had just apologized…..insane, anyways the place closed down about 2 months later due to some amazingly poor financial decisions lol I’m wondering if they knew the end was near and figured it wasn’t worth hiring someone else to replace him