goodbye 9-5!

So I left work Thursday, Oct 19th and went to the dispensary because my body was in so much pain. Working for a distribution center was definitely taking a toll on my body. As soon as I get back to my car I get a text from my agency that the job I have been working at for the past 8 months has decided to let me go without notice. I kept re-reading the text thinking I somehow must have been mistaken.

As I continued to re-read the text I realized that I felt absolutely nothing. Of course I knew I was wrongfully terminated because of how hard I worked at the job and how I’ve been their trainer this whole time. It just didn’t make any sense. I had been fired on a Thursday so I also would go without a day of pay and the food that I had ordered to be delivered at work that Friday. What a bunch of assholes. I called my ex-coworker to see if we had all be let go but she said she hadn’t. It completely took me by surprise but I just found myself shrugging it off and driving back home.

I called my agency to get more information on why I was fired and was not offered much clarity. All that was said was in the notes there was an issue regarding production and protocol. And I could tell as I spoke to her that she couldn’t care less what I had to say and about finding me better work. She then offered me 3 jobs further out than my last job for minimum wage meaning I would be taking a $3/hr pay cut from the raise I had just received from the job that fired me. I refused and told her I would reach out the following week to see if she had any other positions available. Funny thing is I had reached out to her a month prior letting her know how awful the work experience had become and that I wanted to move to a different job.

It’s now been a couple of weeks and I’ve been applying to jobs and remaining positive that things will end up okay. My birthday is coming up and so is a new chapter so I have to remain hopeful. Part of me considered trying to get a lawsuit together but when I thought about all the preparation, time, money, energy it would require, it just didn’t seem worth it. My own agency didn’t believe me when I told them it was wrongful termination. In this day and age right and wrong see to be blurred. And I’m not gonna lie that job was an absolute shit show and I was relieved when I woke up on Friday and I realized I didn’t have to go back. I’m learning to embrace the good with the bad. Who knows what is coming next?

I’ll keep you guys updated.

Until next time,

Nina

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