Congrats on getting out of there! Hope wherever you're at now is better. Must have felt good the day you left, yeah?
Personally, maybe they're just more memorial but, I seem to run into the type of manager that likes to yell at you and belittle you a lot more than the other. (I just saw a thread about abusive managers like that today too..) There are the good ones out there, but there seems to quite a bit of the bad ones in retail. I think its because retail = minimum wage = minimum value employee. You're disposal to them.
Sorry but, I like the part where you ask your general manager about what your manager is doing, they say you're fine, but then get on your butt about other stuff.
I used to work with a lot of people like that, all my managers were, so I switched shifts. Guess what? A few months, all those people came to my shift. Nice.
(There are some nice managers, but I think the bad ones are just too exhausting for even them to deal with.)
Is it the weather or the food that makes people like that..? /jk