I was asked to come to work an hour early today for an employee meeting.<\/p>\n
I got to work, made coffee as I always do. My boss asked me to come with her, and not the other employee. I got into the room, and she read a prepared statement about all my errors, that I should promise to correct them all and one further error would result in my immediate termination.<\/p>\n
It turns out that what got her set off was I retyped one of our standard sheets, which was being used in 50th-generation skewed copies, so that it would be more legible. Instead of being thanked for taking initiative, I was told I had overstepped my authority. She also had found two typos on the sheet (easily correctible) and said that was unprofessional.<\/p>\n
So in the end, I was fired. I couldn’t believe it, after all the praise I have gotten for the work I’ve done, and the wide variety of tasks I’ve been assigned with virtually no training.<\/p>\n
I drove home, crying of course, and hugged my honey, then got to work calling Social Security and the County Human Services to report the changes. I found out that both myself and my honey will have to completely re-apply for TennCare and Food Stamps. Should be able to get them by November though. I also called on a couple jobs, and notified a friend who I met through work (just in case he was more loyal to my employer than his need for a friend). Oh yes, and I called my mother to let her know.<\/p>\n
I’m not going to bad-mouth them. There were errors made by me. There were errors made in training me, which mostly didn’t happen other than by criticizing the way I did things. I just want to know how I’m going to get through this month and the next few, on a reduced SSDI check and no other income.<\/p>\n
Again, thoughts and prayers are welcome.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Hugs,<\/p>\n
Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was asked to come to work an hour early today for an employee meeting. I got to work, made coffee as I always do. My boss asked me to come with her, and not the other employee. I got into the room, and she read a prepared statement about all my errors, that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}