I’m about to put in my notice at my store. I want to leave on good turns and remain ‘rehirable’ to use as a reference for future job hunts in years to come. Trouble is I have an appointment next week I know I have to call out to go since they didn’t approve it off and I can’t reschedule. My workplace has a history of firing employees who call out after putting in notice. I do have Ada/equal opportunity employer for this health condition that allows me to call out though. However new store manager who has a not great reputation doesn’t know about this condition and might try anyway despite middle managers recommendation to let me call out (last time I tried to work when I should’ve called out an emergency response team was called). My options are 1-put in notice now and hope they don’t fire me. 2- wait until after the appointment to put in notice and start my job a week later than I was hoping to or work both jobs at once since their schedules don’t overlap but completely exhaust myself.
I plan to do 1 since it’s best for my overall well-being and the risk of not being “rehirable” is smaller than the risk of the new job deciding to go a different direction.
But how is it even legal to fire somebody who follows the call out rules?? They don’t fire anybody who does if they haven’t put notice in so how is it different! Sometimes I hate the world we live in. And my health condition is stress induced and this is not helping!!! It’s a low end retail job. Don’t punish me for finding a job with moderately better pay and significantly better benefits. They could’ve kept me if they matched. Could’ve kept the last dozen employees who quit this quarter if they offered a competitive pay. They didn’t, and now half the store has quit or been fired -maybe even more than half. The kicker? This nationwide company has done a really good job marketing themselves as a company who cares about employees and is heavily greenwashed meanwhile Walmart does more for the environment.