So I'm sure some people have noticed my "this year got worse" status. The reason for that? I lost my job today. Yep. I was fired. I had been put on final warning months ago for my attendance and it was going to be a month to month basis with no set end date for the warning. Which means you can't have any unschedule absences (ugh okay my spelling sucks but give me a break it's been a long afternoon). That means they need 24 hour notice of you being off. Well there was one day I left early from being sick. My boss calls me in..."you do realize that's an occurence". Um...wtf!? Since when? Oh an occurence is basically when you call off and they don't have that 24 hour approval. Mind you they cut us slack of allowing 5 before we start getting in trouble for it.
I was like no. Since I've worked there it always took 5 leave-early's or come in lates to equal one occurence. I mean why should being an hour late count the same as not being there the entire day, right??? This was back in August. So last week I had mixed up when my one doctor appointment was. I came in and sent my boss a note about how I had to leave early for it and thought nothing of it. I worked a half day Friday. Then about 2:25 I get a note from my boss saying to meet her in this one room for a meeting. Which was odd to me. No one else got it. I go down there, walk in and see her and her boss. I knew it was bad. Not to mention someone that I was supposed to have training with for the next 3 days canceled them this morning.
I sit down and find out because of the leave-early last week I'm being fired. She was like do you have anything to say? My exact words were no because it wasn't going to matter what I said. It wasn't going to change what was happening. So why say anything? She ran through the firing paperwork, I signed what I needed to and sat in the room with the upper boss while she went up to my desk and packed my stuff. That was such a long wait in silence. Then my boss and I guess someone from security walked me out. I have no clue who the other guy was. I just grabbed my boxes and threw them in my truck and left. The only good thing...they didn't red flag me. What that means is after a certain time I could be hired back there if I applied for a job. Some people get fired (or quit) and they mark the file so they are never hired back.
But...it still doesn't help. There's now the whole...now what? I've worked there almost 10 years...right after high school. I had a job through most of my senior year, worked the 2 summers before that. So it's like just odd to go back to that trying to find a job process.
