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Whoo hoo, fired!

Now that I’ve sobered up a bit since I found out, I think I’ll blog about it

That’s right, I got fired. I was with this company for almost 2 and a half years and as of the 31st I was canned, less than 12 hours before the shift which they had scheduled me for not 3 days previously. A kicker there is that I thought something was odd when there was more than $150 more in my pay/deposit the same day (which had to be submitted 2 weeks in advance).

So to start at the beginning, I did my job well. I didn’t miss shifts, I didn’t turn down shifts and I always did what I was supposed to on my shifts. In 2 years I missed 2 shifts, had to cancel 6 shifts (all with at least 24 hours notice) and only ’screwed up’ once (thought it was proven after I had no control over it). So I was a pretty good employee.

I got a call on August 1st at 1:20am from a co-worker saying “You need to check your email, there is a new schedule out and you’re not on it.” Previous to this call, I thought I was scheduled for 100 hours. So I get out of bed and go check my email, there are 2 emails sitting there unread. One labeled “[CA] *MyUsername*” which was sent at 11:40pm July 31st and a second email labeled “[CA]Rota August & Sept” sent at 12:07am on August 1st. Now for me to get an email with my username in it isn’t normal, so something is up.

I click on the email with my username in it to find that my password/username isn’t working and thus I can’t read the email. I close the program and try again, still nothing. So I decide to message the person who sent it on AIM and ask if there is something I should know about since I can’t check my email. She asks for an alternate email address.

Moments later, I get a forwarded copy of the email which was sent to the email account I no longer have access to. You can read the email as I received in in the extended entry

In short form: I got a generic letter from them asking me to be “professional” and not to tell anybody that they fired me with less than 24 hours notice. Also, they didn’t give me an actual reason as to why I was fired. They also go on to say that I was not fired, but they were just “laying me off”. They then ask if I want the rest of my coworkers to be told that I simply resigned.

First off, I had less than a 2 hour window to get the email notifying me that I was being let go before they cut off my email. So unless I was awake at midnight, chances are I wouldn’t get it. When you’re firing somebody it’s usually good to make sure they’re going to be able to get the message. If they had even given me a 48 hour notice before completely removing all access that I had to the company, I might not be quite as upset. But when I have to be notified through an instant messenger it’s pretty insulting and definitely not showing any sign of “professionalism”. They can call me up at 5am to ask me to cover a shift for them but don’t have the common decency to call me and let me know I’m unemployed. Thanks.

So that being said, lets break down the email itself. First, they say that shifts are being eliminated. Were that that case and my shifts were being eliminated that would be fine, I would truly be laid off. However as other mods have informed me, my shifts were not removed another mod simply took them over. But they don’t want me telling other people this was their excuse and thus calling them out on their lie.

They say they can’t base it on longevity. It seems faulty though since they’ve been going on the whole time I had worked for them about seniority but whatever. A company should base employment on how the employee works. So it’s based on performance, reliability and availability. Strange, I did well in all of those. I did all of my work and when teamed with another I often aided them when they fell behind, the only times shifts were ever missed were emergencies which could not be ignored and I took nearly any shift that was given to me. So there is the 2nd load of horse crap they’re feeding me. But I failed several of these? And there have been issues that can not be ignored? Wow, it would have been nice if I was informed that there were issues. I mean damn I’m smart but I haven’t perfected mind reading yet. And for those reasons, I’m being laid off. No, when somebody is being let go because they’re not doing their job right they get FIRED. But whatever, I’ll take it this way since it looks better.

They removed my rights, my email and blocked me from my own account in-game. Which included many things I had purchased. They can bet I’ll be sending them an email about this to them in the next 24 hours to have the account returned so I can sell off anything I have left. And for the record it seems ‘good circumstances’ include me wanting to tear out your eyes with a rusted fork.

I am being fired, quit kidding yourself and trying to keep me from getting pissed. They then ask me to LIE and say I resigned. I would NOT resign from a job without something else lined up and none of my co-workers would believe if it they tried to push that story. What kind of dishonest employer would want employees to purposely be lied to? Oh wait, guess I answered my own question, huh?

They thank me for devoting 2 years of working shitty shifts and never complaining and hope that I stay with the community. Are you retarded? After treating me like shit the last thing you want me to do is stay in the community because I WILL tell all the customers about how poorly you treat staff, I will tell them about how you’re lowering standards and allowing teenagers to promote pornography to keep business up and I will point out the fact that you’re promoting youth gambling. So no, I don’t think I’ll be sticking around the community too much if you’re not paying me to do so, sorry.

I’m getting my vacation pay, no shit you didn’t have a choice. And you can bet that I’ll be filing for back pay that I didn’t get for a year and a half because you weren’t paying me time and a half for holidays. It should be enough to full pay off my rent for a month Yeah, because they totally put the P in Professional

I won’t get back to you because I will tell you off, and I’d rather tell them myself that I hate you.

Hope you get cancer,
Jeff
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