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18 years ago
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I have good news, for a change! I GOT FIRED FROM MY JOB! Long story short I was asked by my head cashier to load a range, basically its a stove. A very heavy range onto a tall pickup truck bed. I told the head cashier I needed help. But being the uber bitch that she is she told me that I had to do it alone. Plus I had to do it fast and get back on the front line. She didn't want to look bad for the manager. I have a tape recorder and I was recording this just in case. So any way I'm outside in the snow and slush trying to load this thing. I have this woman bitching at me since she doesn't want it scratched. I'm grunting and trying to get this thing into her monster truck. Damn truck bed is nearly five feet off the ground and I'm trying to put this thing up. It starts to tip I try to keep it from falling backwards and instead it lands on its side. Plus it lands on my arm crushing it, I curse and try to push it up but my feet slip. I fall backwards onto my back, my arm is jerked out from under the box which falls with me.
Then the range falls onto my gut and my chest. This woman that I'm loading this range for asks me if I'm all right. Then she asks if its broken if she will get a new one. By this time some of my co workers who saw this come running out. I'm enraged by this point, I don't get angry I just go straight into blind, smash things, killing rage. I start screaming from between my teeth then I roll the stove off of myself. After I stand up I grab the damn thing, picked it up, and literally threw it into the back of her truck. By this point people are backing away since I put out a vibe when I'm angry. Of course my head cashier comes running out screaming at me. Bitch tells me that I should have waited to get help. That she told me I should have waited and that this was my own damn fault. I pulled out the tape recorder and played her telling me to do it myself for all those gathered.
She freaked out and started cursing me out, towards the end she told me I was fired. I threw my vest on the ground and just pointed a finger at her. I was too enraged to speak then I just walked off to the employee parking lot and drove home. I don't leave anything in my locker at work, too many thieves. But once I got home I found about five different messages on my answering machine from the manager. I'm suppose to go in tomorrow and have a talk with him. HA HA! Good news is I don't have any serious injuries, and I have leverage. HA HA! Now I just need to sort out my online life and things will be reasonably tolerable.
Then the range falls onto my gut and my chest. This woman that I'm loading this range for asks me if I'm all right. Then she asks if its broken if she will get a new one. By this time some of my co workers who saw this come running out. I'm enraged by this point, I don't get angry I just go straight into blind, smash things, killing rage. I start screaming from between my teeth then I roll the stove off of myself. After I stand up I grab the damn thing, picked it up, and literally threw it into the back of her truck. By this point people are backing away since I put out a vibe when I'm angry. Of course my head cashier comes running out screaming at me. Bitch tells me that I should have waited to get help. That she told me I should have waited and that this was my own damn fault. I pulled out the tape recorder and played her telling me to do it myself for all those gathered.
She freaked out and started cursing me out, towards the end she told me I was fired. I threw my vest on the ground and just pointed a finger at her. I was too enraged to speak then I just walked off to the employee parking lot and drove home. I don't leave anything in my locker at work, too many thieves. But once I got home I found about five different messages on my answering machine from the manager. I'm suppose to go in tomorrow and have a talk with him. HA HA! Good news is I don't have any serious injuries, and I have leverage. HA HA! Now I just need to sort out my online life and things will be reasonably tolerable.
Why in the hell did you have a tape recorder? I know you said it was "just incase" but still, thats either really paranoid, or youve had past experiences where you wish you had a tape recorder, right?
Love the end part though, lifting the range and just throwing it into the truck. Rage can be a dangerous thing indeed, releasing the inhibitors your brain places on your muscles and all so they can be used for closer to their max output. I'd say that you should wait until tomorrow though before discerning the extent of your injuries. Might have a few pulled muscles tomorrow. *shrugs*
And for Rhasiir, I'd suspect that he's had run-ins with this head cashier before. After all, if someone is like this to you, telling you to load something that heavy into that large a pickup alone, then undoubtedly they would have tried pulling stuff like that on you before. So likely SK was just waiting for a time like this with the recorder so he could screw the lady over with the truth. I've known him for a little bit, and I don't think he's quite paranoid enough to carry a tape recorder around everywhere.
But I will say this: don't let the manager get a hold of the recorder if you go in. Or make back-up recordings of the incident. And take one with you to the meeting if you go, record that. Maybe I'm the paranoid one, but where there's one crazed person like that lady, there's bound to be more. And I'd like to stay on the safe side.
With the situation you got in and the proof you have, you could reasonably get good insurance and possibly sue. I don't recommend that last option.
I'm sorry for asking to hear more, but stories where "evil" people get their comeuppance is tempting to me. It reminds me that "evil" doesn't always go unpunished.
I hope things are better now. And I do agree with the suggestion of making a copy of the tape.
I'll be praying for you. I wish you well.