I’m a 22 year old French man.
Today I got fired unexpectedly, randomly, without warning, as I was finishing one of my regular shifts, in a good mood, hopeful about the future.
In February I moved to Clermont-Ferrand, a city that holds a good reputation and a good standard of living and I got hired at an Ibis Hotel to work as a receptionist.
I quickly started to love this job. The hours were good and the salary was really good, especially for a 21 year old who dropped out of college.
I got along with everybody and loved the job in and of itself. It was basically a mix between administrative work and sales, and I had past experience with both.
I never had any friends and apart from the hotel, my life in this city has been quite empty so far.
I started to consider all my colleagues my family and I actually, for the first time in my life, started feeling content and excited to work.
I wasn’t trained properly and many mistakes were made on my part in the beginning, but for at least the last 3 months, I’ve been a model employee.
Today, at the end of my shift, my boss asked to speak with me.
He, in a nutshell, told me I was fired because a client left a bad review specifically mentioned me in it by name on Booking.com, saying that I has apparently drank what was left of a cocktail drink made for two clients in front of him and other patrons and that I had « refused » to serve him a beer as our supplies were empty.
I never, ever drank a drop of alcohol at work and I suspect he lied because he couldn’t get his precious beer.
He mentioned me by my first name which is odd since I never gave my first name to patrons.
Because of that I can’t help but think a conspiracy might be at play. To help budget restrictions perhaps?
Regardless, I’ve just lost a job I thought I would have for many years and I want to die