Mentality ill people shouldn't work apparently*
I'm pretty sure my job fired me for being a “female” and “mentally ill” and I just don't know what to do. The roofing company was based in Portland OR and I understand that Oregon and Washington can fire anyone without reason but the reason the company (let's call the company “mahogany”) fired me for saying I was sleeping during orientation and I wasn't sleeping, there's no cameras in that room and they only have cameras outside at the parking lot. Everyone was sleeping, there was even a guy who kept coming in 30 to 1 hour late every day and he still has his job, the guy next to him was also occasionally sleeping but nobody said anything to him and made jokes about falling asleep. I also referred my partner to this job, I was supposed to start on the 10th but they moved me to the 18th so I started orientation with my partner instead.
Anyways, one of the managers calls me into his office with HR and the HR lady just came in today (she was supposed to do my orientation on the 10th but she couldn't I guess and moved me to the 18th and she still didn't do the orientation and had someone else do it) so she never met me or ever talked to me and they handed me a paper saying that I got fired, I asked why and he said that I was sleeping. They wouldn't let me talk and when I tried saying that I wasn't sleeping and looked at the HR lady and she says she just got here and don't know what's going on but if he said I was sleeping then I must have been sleeping. I wasn't and even if I was, nobody said anything to me since I been here for 3 days already. Like if I was sleeping why have they took a few days to fire me? There's no reason for me to argue, I didn't care anymore, I was about to head to the door to grab my stuff in the other room and he didn't even let me grab my shit. I told him “well I have to let my partner/ride know that I got fired and he has to take me home.” He said he didn't care and it's not his problem, I tried explaining to him that I need to talk to him because I have no way home. He didn't care and told me to follow him. Once we leave the HR lady behind, his whole tone and body language changed, as if he hated me or something, he was glaring, yelling at me.
Him and HR basically said I was stupid for thinking that sleeping on the job isn't an automatic fire. Like I get that you can't sleep on the job but I wasn't and even if I was, every job I worked at they reminded everyone multiple times that one time sleep is a fire or they would have 3 warnings then a fire. Pretty much all of my jobs I have worked at even gave people passes during orientation since we're all sitting in one seat for 8 hours straight, early in the morning when we all wanted to be on nights. Plus this is the kind of job that is hard to fall asleep to once you're out on the floor since you know, you're moving…
Anyways, as he was leading me out of the building, I asked again, can I talk to my partner/ride and he says that I can't be on the property, like sir I fucking get that but how do I get home if my partner/ride won't know that I got fired. Finally he says that he'll talk to him and he went back in to grab my sweater and handed it to me. Somewhere along the conversation it came to a point where he said if I won't leave, he'll make me leave. I walked off the property but then he tells me that I have to go across the rail tracks down the street and leave. Like bruh? You want me to get hit by the train and be in an unsafe area in Portland??? Why couldn't I wait in the car or I dunno on the fucking property?
Few other things I remember him also telling me that I don't even look like I'll be invested in a job like this, it's a hard job, a job that he thinks that I couldn't do or be engaged and enjoy and the best part, there's no women at all working this job, the only small handful of women are HR people/support. Like they fired the ONLY women who got hired at that company. He said that he saw me sleeping but somehow he didn't see the guys sleeping tho?
They also knew that I was mentally ill from the start and he tells me that mentally ill people shouldn't even be working here and that he didn't even know that about me, which is a lie but okay, management/HR would know about it since it was written. I just don't even know what to do or if I can even talk to anyone about this, I know I can't do anything about this but I just never worked an union job that was like this.
Oh and my partner finally called me back when I tried calling him after getting fired and asked what's going on and I told him what happened and he said he's leaving and going to take me home. When my partner went to go talk to one of the HR ladies (not the one who I talked with) she was shocked and confused on why I got fired especially when I been flying through orientation and told my partner to go talk to that manager who fired me, the man literally tried walking away from my partner to avoid talking to him, finally my partner caught up with him and asked him what's going on. He tells my partner that I shouldn't even have told him since it's not allowed to talk about it. Like bruhhh?? I live with him, of course he's gonna find out sooner or later especially when you pulled me out and told everyone you're just gonna talk to me and bring me back.
The manager told him to not get involved, leave me and this doesn't deal with him, he's not in trouble and to not quit and that I can find my own way home. I live in WA, there's not busses in Portland that will take me to my house. He told my partner that I can take a bus or get an uber. Like I don't have money for an uber, I just started this job and tf? Like he tried to hard to get my partner to not quit and just leave me???
Here’s the weirdest shit, so I was talking to my partner about this and I mentioned that I kept asking for him and he never been told anything about my fire. When the manager walked me out I said can I at least call my partner/ride and he finally said that he’ll tell him. Like this man walked into the room that orientation was in, grabbed my shit and walked out without telling my partner, I call him and then he goes to one of the other hr ladies and asked what’s going on and she was confused and didn’t know that I got fired then my partner goes and finds that manager and only then he says that I’m fired and tells him to not get involved and just keep working and that I’ll find a way home…? Like do you hate me that much that you would rather have me fend for myself without a ride in Portland?
Sorry if these kind of posts aren't allowed.