My boss threatens to have me fired if my boyfriend shops at the store.

I work at a grocery store, my boyfriend and me both buy our groceries there and sometimes he'll see me and maybe wave or say hi, we don't chat or waste any time unless I also happen to be going on brake.

My department manager didn't know I was gay when he hired me and he figured it out when he asked me who the guy that was waving to me was. He made a weird face, not necessarily disgusted but you get the point.

Anyway anytime my boyfriend would enter the store after that, he would keep his eye on him. Now if he were to wave to me my manager would start to berate me and try and make it out like im slacking, when im just stocking shelves and smiling in his direction, nothing bad at all. He didn't care at all prior to learning he's my boyfriend.

After a week he has a private talk with me saying my boyfriend is causing too much of a distraction and he should shop here while im on shift and that if something didnt change i might be let go.

I was mad, told my boyfriend about it, he was even more mad. I didn't really want to make a big deal out of it though, this is a temp job probably wont even have it longer than a year or two. So i decided to prank my manager instead of getting into legal or corporate stuff. We have other gay friends that shop there, crazy enough we look just like regular people so no one would realize, including my manager.

Sure my boyfriend won't shop there but what about other gay people? That shouldnt matter he just doesnt want my SO distracting me at work...

So, i mentioned what happened to my 5 friends who mentioned it to their friends and so on.

My next shift i bore witness to 30 extremely flamboyant and openly gay men and women flaunting their sexuality in the store. My manager was trying to hide in the back but every customer needed "manager's" assistance for the most mundane questions lol. He ended up going home early but after that shock he actually stopped berating me for the past couple of months, he might just be happy that im not very open about my sexuality so he can choose to ignore it.

TL;DR My boss is homophobic and 30 gay men and women over dramatized their sexuality to make him feel uncomfortable because he was threatening to fire me because im gay.

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