Thank God it's Friday! It's been a hard week for me. My boss got cited for a DUI about a month ago, prior to his 4 month drinking spree after he had been clean and sober for 18 years, and he's been a total asshole ever since. This is not surprising in light of the fact that he blew a .15.
It has been my experience that people who are verbally abusive are really talking about themselves rather than the people they are being verbally abusive to. It's still hard to take when you are on the receiving end. I do not do "victim" very well. I am very likely to tell him to go fuck himself very soon.
Remember my "My Experience in State Prison Diary?" That is the one thing that holds me back, because on some level I belive that I have to put up with this shit. (sigh) Ever since he got that DUI he has been sneering at me daily. It's my fault that he mispoke himself and I didn't' correct him, etc., etc. Bottom line is that he hates his mother, who is an alcoholic, which equates to all females.
We've got a male attorney in our office who is probably 5'4". My boss manages to get the word "short" into a conversation with him at least once a week.
I do all all the tapes he dictates, take care of all the mail that comes in with appropriate responses, cover his ass with all the phone calls from pissed off clients, do all the billing, and all the bookeeping. I am proficient in Word, Wordperfect, Legal Solutions, Quickbooks, DissoMaster, Photoshop Adobe Acrobat, Excell, and Power Point.
Guess I have answered my own question. I need to confront him about his verbal abuse and be willing to find another job.