Got a text today from my manager, firing me.
I'm a chef at a restaurant. Work Thursday through Sunday, open to way past close. One of the only ones who does work every day. Our restaurant has been closed for renovations the last 3 months. I stayed with them even after another job opportunity.
Two days ago I'm there cleaning equipment outside. Scrubbing off paint and plaster because the construction guys used my prep tables for their work.
My owner gets in my face screaming at me for not doing what I'm told when I literally had a checklist that was done. My manager had told him I wasn't doing what was asked. Clearly that was a lie. Go into work late yesterday because I had just been released from the ER for severe dehydration and got right back to doing the same thing. Every piece of equipment. Spotless, just so we can move it into the kitchen. Get told 45 minutes later to go home and come in on Tuesday at 1000. Then the text today. I'm pissed. I'm frustrated. I have busted my ass for them. Sometimes being the only one to have come in and working the bar as well as the kitchen. My manager told me I wasn't showing initiative. I think coming in straight from the emergency room is initiative.
So I texted him back and told him to show some initiative in being a better manager. Fuck it I guess. Couldn't get me to quit so he fired me.