My boss isolated me, decreased my hours every week and then didn't schedule me

So for context, I started working at a fast food type restaurant in late August-early September or thereabouts. Not a huge deal, all of my previous jobs had also been in food service so I figured I would be fine. I came to this job because they were going to pay me more than my other job or so they said. My first week there wasn’t bad, obviously there was stuff I could improve on because I was new and this was a different type of job than my other food service jobs (picture moving from working at a buffet to working at Chipotle or Cava – i dont work at those places but its the same concept). I’ll also add that they gave me 25 hours which I thought was pretty good for part time. It was nothing super serious.

At least that’s what I thought. Once I got to my second week, my boss, let’s call him “Alan,” started making these off handed comments saying stuff like “if you do that again I don’t think it’s gonna work out between us” because he was blaming me for something that I did not do, and nitpicking at me. Alan would blast really loud music to the point that neither me or my coworkers could really hear (and this was agreed on by everyone in the store that it was too loud), and sometimes when I was taking customers’ orders I would have to ask them to repeat themselves because I literally couldn’t hear them, and I don’t want to mess up anyone’s order. Alan pulled me aside at one point and asked me if I was deaf. I said no, and his response was to tell me that asking customers to repeat themselves is rude. When I asked him what I can do instead, he gave me no response and just walked away. About 30 minutes later he was on me about not heating something fast enough, so I rushed and ended up accidentally banging my hand on the hot side of one of the warmers. He sent me home after that, which I understood was likely just protocol but he made it very clear that this wasn’t a “I’m sending you home because you hurt yourself” but instead a “I’m sending you home because you werent doing a good enough job before this happened.”

After that week, my hours went down from 25 hours a week, to just 8 hours a week. I didn’t bother to question it because there were a few other new hires so I figured it just needed to be adjusted a bit. But Alan made his whole purpose to make my life worse. He started micromanaging me, he would stay long after his shift was up on the days I was there so that he could do this (most of the time he leaves at 5 but when I’m there he would literally stay until my shift was over, sometimes after closing), and would tell me all the time that I’m performing poorly, even though I worked so hard when I was there. I worked all of the stations in the front, and I picked up a TON of the slack for my coworkers, who would mess around on their phones for the entire shift, and they never got repercussions for any of that, but if I just looked down at my watch to check the time I would get yelled at. He would say stuff to me like “the longer you work, the better you’ll get at it,” despite barely ever scheduling me, or “I know you don’t work much, but you’re doing a sh** job right now.” (I wish I was kidding with that last one but thats actually what he said). He would mess with my hours too, texting me to tell me to come in an hour later or to leave an hour earlier. My friends and my significant other have all been telling me to leave this job and find something else ever since that second week.

It gets worse, though. About two weeks ago, I only got scheduled for 4 hours for that week. That’s one shift per week. I can’t do anything with that! And all of my paychecks except the first one had barely been above 100$. I’m not making enough to survive. So I reach out to Alan to ask him why I only got one shift and he said it was because of my availability. Which I know is a blatant lie because my availability is quite open. When I got hired I put down 2pm-closing every day except Friday which was 7am-4pm. I am in college so during times I am not available, I am in class or working on projects. And Alan had initially told me that it wouldn’t be a problem to work around my classes. I’ll admit I should’ve pushed back a bit more because I knew immediately that he was lying but I suffered and took the 4 hours. And I had gotten another 4 hours for this week too, on Tuesday. But I ended up not working it because on Tuesday, I was sick from food poisoning and I was throwing up everywhere; I couldn’t get out of bed so I called off. Which I hate doing. I NEVER call off unless it’s a situation like that (vomiting/diarrhea etc) stuff where you’re literally not allowed to work at a restaurant. Alan said it was fine, I hope you feel better soon, etc so I didn’t stress about it too much. But behold, the schedule gets uploaded for next week and I’m nowhere to be found on it. I have ZERO hours for next week. And since I couldn’t work this past shift, I am literally not getting paid for the entire pay period. And I just find it insane that another coworker was caught doing HARD DRUGS in the bathroom, and got a slap on the wrist yet here I am with NO shifts. For what?? I have no idea what I did to end up in this position.

I’m not going to act like I’m a perfect employee but I am extremely hardworking and willing to learn and improve on things as long as I know what I need to improve on. But this man has given me NO feedback on anything, only created a hostile environment and made petty remarks towards me and now I’m stuck with no hours. I don’t know but I feel like I just got soft fired. I really doubt he is ever going to schedule me again. I’ve been working since I was 16 and I’m almost 24 now and I’ve never had to deal with something like this in my entire life. I’m not that worried about unemployment cause I was able to connect with a supervisor from one of my previous jobs who is helping me to get that job back, but I’m also like, I don’t even know what my rights are with this (I live in California) and I don’t know what I should do as far as this job goes, or if theres even anything I can do other than just quit once I have my other job back. Because why talk to Alan when he’s just going to lie to me again?

Anything to make a bit of sense out of this situation helps, thanks.