How long have you been working their?
I guess the thing that I really don't understand about your whole situation is why you continued to work their, when it was
ruining your life.
Why you let it get to that point is beyond me. Why your husband didn't make you get out is also beyond me.
Now I don't understand your situation, but shouldn't you have quickly changed jobs when you noticed that it was effecting your life and health?
To me, you seem just as at fault as your employer. You should have never let this situation get to the point where it was ruining your life.
Their are so many other options for you out their, why didn't you move on one faster than you did? It's really not that hard.
Your job is unskilled labor, those kind of jobs are a dime a dozen. You probably could have gone to the store next door and acquired a job and changed your situation that day.
Heck, if you're in the New York/Manhattan area, you could have even applied for a dishwasher position. I know that some of the union hotels are paying minimum $18 an hour for that position. Plus, you would be working in a Union where none of what you are angry about would have ever occured.
You could have waited on tables at a local dining establishment. I'm sure in your area you could have easily pocketed $100+ a day, cash!
Those are just a couple of options. Maybe they don't suit you, but you get the idea. You got to do what you got to do so your life does not become in ruins. You need to take care of you and your family. Don't let some job ruin that. That's just common sense.
But a few of your statements worry me. Such as:
A jealous manager came up to me and told me that if I ever enjoy a conversation with my co-workers again she will terminate me and write me up
Jealous? Of what?
Maybe your manager shouldn't have worded it like they did, but, you have a high profile job where you are in plain view of your customers. Do you think it appropriate to be carrying on conversation, chit-chat, in view of them?
If you're chatting with a co-worker, you certainly are not taking care of the customer right?
ALL of us can only work part time, so it is cheaper for Victoria's Secret not to qualify us for health benefits.
That's common business practice.
Were you hired 'part time' or 'full time'? Wasn't this made clear to you at the time you were hired? If not, why didn't you ask?
If health benefits were a requisite for you, then why didn't you clear this up, or move on sooner?
After I got pnemonia, I lost my voice and they still threatened me to greet.
Take a sick day?
Anyways, don't bother trying to explain your situation to me, instead, explain it to yourself, as their is no real appropriate explanation (in my mind) as to why you let things get so bad in your life.
I'm really not trying to place the blame solely on you, nor am I trying to be malicious, I just simply want you to learn from this, and never get yourself into the same situation.
Or maybe, none of this is true and this thread was just a ploy for you to plug your husbands website.
Thank God I quit on the 14th (a day before my Birthday) 
