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What even is job security?

Working at a small family owned chain of health food stores, wearing multiple hats as I am the entire grocery department, the only receiving person, the only backroom person, and informally doing many of the jobs that the assistant manager would do, not to mention helping out on register and cleaning and other departments. For about 2-4 dollars under the industry average for my official position. On Monday my manager tried to have me sign some paperwork giving me a warning because I left one trash bag in the backroom on Friday that the closers had to take care of. (Meanwhile the weekend team left me a pile of garbage bags sitting on the backroom floor for me to clean up.) Following this, the interim manager (who was sent in from corporate because the old manager left, the next manager never showed up, and the next manager stayed for two…


Working at a small family owned chain of health food stores, wearing multiple hats as I am the entire grocery department, the only receiving person, the only backroom person, and informally doing many of the jobs that the assistant manager would do, not to mention helping out on register and cleaning and other departments. For about 2-4 dollars under the industry average for my official position.

On Monday my manager tried to have me sign some paperwork giving me a warning because I left one trash bag in the backroom on Friday that the closers had to take care of. (Meanwhile the weekend team left me a pile of garbage bags sitting on the backroom floor for me to clean up.)

Following this, the interim manager (who was sent in from corporate because the old manager left, the next manager never showed up, and the next manager stayed for two weeks) screamed at me that my employment was up to her whim and she can fire me any time she wishes. Furthermore, she told me I was not allowed to contact corporate to tell them what she has been doing and saying to me and other employees (there's been complaints about her and we've lost a handful of other people recently who quit).

Anyway, woke up this morning and saw that my job position was posted online and when I asked her about that she just said that since my resume was online and had put out a few applications, she had every right to post my position as open.

So what is job security if my employment is reliant on one person's whims, I'm not allowed to talk to corporate, and my job is posted while I'm still employed?

Thanks for listening.

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