My battle with a malignant narcissist

Chapter 2

If you have not read chapter one, catch up here.

I started at Outback July 2023. I was hired as a server. I didn’t have much prior restaurant experience.

I was pretty shy and quiet the first few months of my employment.

It wasn’t until deep into the Fall season that I was invited for a drink across the street REDACTED and a fellow server.

REDACTED was a very attractive female and I always found her to be a sweetheart at work.

Nothing really eventful happened but it was the start of something…

Not long after, the REDACTED’s sister started as a server. The three of us became friends and would hang out from time to time, often until the early morning hours.

I began pursuing the REDACTED’s sister for a while. We would hang out often but nothing really bore fruit.

All this, however, would drive REDACTED absolutely crazy, her words. I would get yelled at. I would feel daggers going towards the back of my head. It was all quite bizarre. Had it been anyone else, I would have thought maybe she had feelings for me. But REDACTED? Not a chance. REDACTED was way out of my league. So I thought.

We developed this strange “friendemy” relationship. We would fight but we both seemed to relish in it. There was this underlying fondness we had for each other though.

There were a few nights where REDACTED was going through a really hard time and asked me stay the night with her and just to hold her but nothing more. That’s all we did those nights.

During the day I would text REDACTED sweet things and hinted that maybe we were destined for each other. Things REDACTED would screenshot and remind me of to this day.

Months went by and stayed very much like this. It would soon hit the fan though. Tension was rising and I saw something I couldn’t ignore.

One day while I was acting as a part time manager I was standing near the POS while REDACTED was using it and we were talking. I noticed REDACTED was using her own number for our rewards program on a customer’s ticket. I asked her about it and she just smiles saying she does that sometimes.

While this was almost certainly against the rules, in my head, I was thinking “maybe she’s just padding her stats and as long as she doesn’t cash them in, no harm, no foul.”

So for weeks, I monitored REDACTED rewards account and eventually I realized she had used the points that day. I sift through REDACTED orders and I find a cash table they were used on.

What this means is that essentially a table decides to pay in cash and they tell REDACTED to keep the change. When she goes to close that table out, she then redeems her rewards lowing the table’s total. Since she was keeping the change, lowering the table’s total meant more cash in her pocket.

It was $15…

I measly $15…

With heavy heart I told a manager at the end of the night, she told the managing partner and he forwarded it to corporate.

Weeks went by and nothing happened to REDACTED. What happened to me, though, was me hearing bogus claims about me from multiple people. I reported it. I was told by the managing partner now that I reported this behavior it had become 2 sided. He told me she was reporting unhinged things like me staring at her while rolling silverware. The most concerning thing I had reported was REDACTED claiming that I was going around the restaurant claiming I had slept with REDACTED and her sister.

That. Never. Happened.

A little more time goes by and one shift the district manager comes by. Towards the end of my shift, I get cut, I’m made to cash out instantly, he takes me outside and fires me.

I later find out REDACTED went above our boss’s head and accused me of harassment. Harassment I never did.

Later REDACTED would tell me that she told management that she really thought what she had reported was true at the time, but that she was wrong.