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Guess What Everybody?!!
16 years ago
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I'm unemployed as of today. Wanna hear how it happened?
I work at a Papa Murphys - a take and bake pizza place - and I was on the register. The only other person with me is my supervisor, Dustin. A man comes in with a gift certificate for ten dollars and wants to guy a pizza, but he asks if he could keep the certificate because his four-year-old son wrote "Dad" on it and this is apparently the first time he has done that. So since the gift certificate has a real sentimental value to this guy, I ask my supervisor if we could maybe make a photocopy and give him the original with "void" written on it. Dustin says it's probably okay, so I do just that.
The next day I come into work and there's a note on the desk for me. Apparently, even though I ok'ed my actions with the supervisor, my behavior is "totally unacceptable" and I'm being suspended for two god damn weeks. This is over a $10 gift certificate, mind you. It's a minimal wage job and I don't get that many hours, but I could have made $250 in those two weeks. Dustin was suspended, too, but two weeks seems pretty harsh for either of us. I would have gladly pulled ten dollars out of my wallet and given it the store. I wasn't trying to steal from the store, I was trying to be nice!
I spent the two weeks working on my resume and trying unsuccessfully to find a new job. Luckily an old employer at a framing store had some truckloads of art supplies to unload and organize for other stores. One of these nights would be immediately after the two weeks when I'm supposed to go back to Papa Murphy's, so while I was making a little money, I said I couldn't do tonight. I go back to the store today and lo, and behold! the manager tells me I'm being fired...WHAT?
I like this manager a lot, she's a lot better than my cranky older one who moved to another store, but come on!! It wasn't her decision, it was made higher up in the company by the area supervisor but I barely said anything while I was there. I jsut took my last check and left. While I was walking out, the area supervisor calls the store and I really wanted to grab the phone away from the guy on the register and give him some fury. I kept my composure, though.
By the way, Dustin, the supervisor kept his job. That's real fair, isn't it? These people thought I was a good worker, too. They were going to send me to a supervisor class next month. Now all that's gone. Also, I could have got 5 hours or so tonight unloading that truck. Why not tell me I'm fired up front? Why wait two weeks to tell me and make me miss another job? I hope that customer enjoys his fucking gift certificate with "Dad" written on it. Now I have to find another job in a shitty economy to pay off my worthless college degree.
I work at a Papa Murphys - a take and bake pizza place - and I was on the register. The only other person with me is my supervisor, Dustin. A man comes in with a gift certificate for ten dollars and wants to guy a pizza, but he asks if he could keep the certificate because his four-year-old son wrote "Dad" on it and this is apparently the first time he has done that. So since the gift certificate has a real sentimental value to this guy, I ask my supervisor if we could maybe make a photocopy and give him the original with "void" written on it. Dustin says it's probably okay, so I do just that.
The next day I come into work and there's a note on the desk for me. Apparently, even though I ok'ed my actions with the supervisor, my behavior is "totally unacceptable" and I'm being suspended for two god damn weeks. This is over a $10 gift certificate, mind you. It's a minimal wage job and I don't get that many hours, but I could have made $250 in those two weeks. Dustin was suspended, too, but two weeks seems pretty harsh for either of us. I would have gladly pulled ten dollars out of my wallet and given it the store. I wasn't trying to steal from the store, I was trying to be nice!
I spent the two weeks working on my resume and trying unsuccessfully to find a new job. Luckily an old employer at a framing store had some truckloads of art supplies to unload and organize for other stores. One of these nights would be immediately after the two weeks when I'm supposed to go back to Papa Murphy's, so while I was making a little money, I said I couldn't do tonight. I go back to the store today and lo, and behold! the manager tells me I'm being fired...WHAT?
I like this manager a lot, she's a lot better than my cranky older one who moved to another store, but come on!! It wasn't her decision, it was made higher up in the company by the area supervisor but I barely said anything while I was there. I jsut took my last check and left. While I was walking out, the area supervisor calls the store and I really wanted to grab the phone away from the guy on the register and give him some fury. I kept my composure, though.
By the way, Dustin, the supervisor kept his job. That's real fair, isn't it? These people thought I was a good worker, too. They were going to send me to a supervisor class next month. Now all that's gone. Also, I could have got 5 hours or so tonight unloading that truck. Why not tell me I'm fired up front? Why wait two weeks to tell me and make me miss another job? I hope that customer enjoys his fucking gift certificate with "Dad" written on it. Now I have to find another job in a shitty economy to pay off my worthless college degree.
My advice, firebomb the place. Or at least send the corporate headquarters a transcript of what happened. Ask your friend to be a witness, and ask the supervisor to speak on your behalf. Hell, ask the guy with the certificate to give an official statement. Don't let those bureaucratic fuckheads screw you so easily, hun. They CANNOT get away with this.
No one but the rich wants it.
i was working at a buffalo wild wings and training in the kitchen after being a cashier for for about 3 months. i asked my boss if i was going to be on the schedule for kitchen next week and he said (i quote), "you don't have enough experience" (...for training. ) since those were the only shifts i got scheduled for in the morning, i thought i was safe to just call in at noon that monday for the schedule to see if i worked. come to find i was on the morning kitcken shift and was a no call no show. i had been a motel employee damn it and they kinda liked me i thought. it seemed it would look to bad for the manager that scheduled me anyway, so they just canned me instead.
the point of me telling you all this is because i am employed now, i have my life back on track, and things are at least looking up. we all fall sown some time but i trust you can pick yourself up too. with those muscles, maybe with one finger.
*sighs, hugging you tightly* I'm sorry, bud.
i'm sorry that happen to you. *hugs tightly*
i hope you find another job
Don't get me started on the shitty stunts management has pulled on me before. It's a long and probably boring story but let's just say that after working my ass off for them, doing two jobs for the pay of one, being the only one to care about doing the job right, and looking out for the residents' welfare, I got set up to be fired from the retirement home dining room where I worked...and then when I got unemployment, they appealed it and got it revoked. If it weren't for the fact I was unemployed, and when I finally did get another job I made too little for them to garnish my wages and have me still survive, I'd have had to pay $1900 back to the state of Indiana.
And now my current job is trying to fuck me over too, by piling more and more responsibilities and jobs onto me, not giving me the time to do it in, criticizing everything I do, bitching over the littlest stupidest things, and constantly threatening me with firing if I don't do one or two things...even though I do everything else very well and am a damn good employee. All my co-workers think it's unfair I'm being harassed but what can you do? At least I'm doing my best to find other employment before the axe falls.
Long story short (too late) I understand exactly how you feel. I just hope things work out for you. *hugs*
customer center and the management would have used THAT as an excuse to fire you.
It's a no win situation, and I even suspect that the 'customer' may not have been what
he appeared to be.... (covert inspector, perhaps?)
Sorry you had to go through that bulltish. Just keep moving forward. dwelling on it will only eat at you.
However, they likely looked at it as you stupidly and knowingly accepting counterfeit currency (Even though it was not an act of malice). They wanted an excuse to cut someone down and they got it. A lot of places are doing this and the axe seems to mostly fall on the most undeserving people.
Legally, this could be appealed (Though going legal is unnecessary and expensive in this matter) and I'd say the odds are slightly off 50/50. You never know if the court will look at sentimental over actuality nowadays. I forgot what exactly a job can and can't do when it comes to firing, there were a few legal do-s and don't-s to it.
I danced a little close to that fire once. An elderly lady came into my workplace on college campus and was stressing that she couldn't type a report. The place closed in ten minutes and this was the only place she could use a computer. I noticed she was 'finger-typing' and I insisted that she let me type it up. It was a four page report and I managed to do it within ten minutes. Spell-check and everything. If any staff member with rule-bound thinking found out about that I could very well lose my enrollment and my campus job. It would be considered cheating since she didn't 'do' the report even though she had written it. (It was an online-only class too)
It was the nice thing to do and she wasn't capable of finishing it. Though I can't do all the 'nice' things that come to mind as that axe is always waiting around the bend...