So on Tuesday, my company laid off 4 people from my team. (One of them was my sister)
That VERY SAME DAY they asked me to do overtime this weekend. Suddenly they need help covering the weekend morning shift. I work the evening shift and I’m already scheduled to work Saturday evenings.
So basically they wanted me to do Saturday 7a-3p + my 3p-11p, and Sunday 7a-3p.
Absolutely fucking not???? Don’t lay people off then if you’re not equipped enough to handle someone’s emergency sick call and only have one person to turn to and ask if they can work 24 hours in a 2 day span.
What the actual FUCK are these companies thinking?
To add insult to injury, my sister and her husband finally found a house (in this trash market) that works for their family, isn’t wildly overpriced, and ACTUALLY had a good inspection. They wasted a lot of money doing inspections on other houses, where their offer was accepted, but the inspection went horrible. They were searching for a long time and finally found the one and went into contract 3 days before. Then my sister gets laid off, which screws the house because you have to show proof of income at closing.
I know companies have no obligation to keep an employee just because they bought a house. It just sucks when clearly we are now short staffed because of their layoffs, but all they want to do is keep money in the big bosses pocket and overwork the employees they kept. But I also have no obligation to work outside of my regularly scheduled hours. 🤷️ I’m not gonna feel grateful my job was spared and now overwork myself to try and prove something to them.
Also, I will never feel bad about leaving these people with no notice when I find my new job lol. They have no consideration for other people when they lay them off without warning.
*also just want to add that my sisters lender gave her 3 days to find another job and save the house. They gave her until Friday to produce an offer letter from a new job. She called up an old boss from years ago who gave her her old job back. Basically, she was able to give the mortgage company the letter at the very last possible second. What a roller coaster. No one should have to go through that.