I'm forced to live in this society where my self worth has to be tied to a job. I've worked here for 5 years, and went from crew member, to shift leader. I worked hard and cosplayed as a working individual. I genuinely enjoyed my coworkers and my customers and took pride in the job. I've done nothing but express to hr and the higher ups that I love my job, but the toxic and illegal happenings via my manager were making me and the coworkers miserable.
After months of saying they would speak to the manager, they sat me down and said “looking at your conversations with HR, the VP and the district manager, it seems that you don't like working here, so we're going to go ahead and just separate right now”
They gave me the week of pay that I worked, and paid out 38 hours of PTO.
Now I'm stuck with having to not only deal with these complicated feelings of feeling like I did something wrong, even when I know I didn't.
As well as the anxiety of finding out how to make money…I couldn't even afford my bills while working there!
And I have to keep convincing myself that I did nothing wrong, and I am not in the wrong for reaching out to hr.
And I have my manager and coworkers constantly telling me that they miss me and the store is already falling apart. And I miss them and still wish I worked there because I genuinely liked them.
it feels like getting out of an abusive relationship. I know I was in the right but I still get the urge to email them and thank them for the opportunity and take responsibility even though I have nothing to take responsibility for.
And not to mention the fact that I have to find out how to get groceries and pay my bills until I find a new job, which is going to be a hassle because I'm also going to school full time and I'm almost done with my degree, its terrible timing.
And also, I worked my ass off for years, ive never gotten a write up, not even a bad customer review. Now I have to start all over again
At will employment states shouldn't exist. They can fire you for any reason. I always did my job correctly and never once did I say I disliked my job. In fact I always said the exact opposite!!
At will employment is a joke and it should be illegal