My boss blames my panic attacks on the fact that I'm not straight.

Here's what happened.

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This happened a few years back and recently the whole ordeal gained some new ramifications, so just be advised it's a long tale.

A little context, I'm a teacher with a degree in advertising and have been involved with IT for the past 20-something years.

Although I found my love for teaching just some 10 years ago, I passed through a lot of schools in the meantime, from the big ones to the smallest

ones and accumulated a bunch of experience, both in the classroom and behind the scenes, designing

workbooks, video courses, learning platforms and things like that.

So I started thinking it was past the time to migrate to a management position.

The opportunity came in a prestigious school of digital art and I became its

teaching manager, overseeing all the teachers and the intern learning routines.

It was a hard but honest job for a time.

Soon it became obvious that my boss was not exactly what he tried to present to students and employees.

He would display bursts of anger and antagonize the team, demanding impossible results and asking

about tasks that he never assigned. But somehow it was our job to guess.

One time during a meeting, he grabbed a big chair and pretended to throw it across the room.

It was his idea of a joke. Nobody even flinched, because nobody laughed either.

In my country, employers may hold employees contracts up to three months,

which means that for 90 days you have no job

security and may be fired at any moment without any consequence to the company.

Which my boss reminded everyone all the time, half joking, trying to keep everybody on their toes.

He actually excused me from this treatment.

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