So basically, I got fired after three days over text from my town’s local coffee shop. It’s just devastating because I was very excited, the hours worked well with me, the owners are friends with my grandparents, and were my former teachers in middle school.
Since I have cashiering experience, I was just told to be on the till for the first week and then I would eventually learn the food and drink recipes. I didn’t have any barista experience but I figured that everything would be okay and that I’ll eventually learn. At first, everything seemed to be going okay. One of the owners/my boss did state that she didn’t want to get employees at first because she liked things in a particular way. I just thought, “Oh. I’ll just have to be extra careful with organization.” However, near the end of the shift during the cafe’s closing time, I was told to hurry up with rinsing the smoothie blenders. There were some teeny tiny soap bubbles on the blades, which I got yelled at for. I took responsibility but thought that was an overreaction. I thought maybe my boss was just stressed out so I tried to give her the benefit of the doubt.
On my second day, I was told to put away some cream cheese in small cups for bagels. The only thing that my boss told me was to just make sure that the cream cheese portions were equal. I managed to get yelled at again because I was magically supposed to know that I was supposed to use the entire container of cream cheese for twelve of those cups when she didn’t even mention it. I also felt my heart sink when I overheard her whisper to my coworker that she was so excited to hire me, only to be disappointed because I’m slow-paced. I didn’t want to disappoint my family members, so I tried to pretend that everything was good.
Today, which was my third and final day. The other owner was here and at first, everything seemed to be going okay. The other owner did eventually get after me a little bit because I washed the blender for too long during a “busy period” even though no customers were rang up during that time. I did communicate the best I could with orders. Since the other owner had a meeting, I had to rush a little bit during closing. I thought everything would be better and that I’ll eventually have a more positive experience. Except, I got a text at around 3 pm saying that I was fired because I wasn’t fit for the job, was too introverted and kept to myself, and wasn’t well at multi-tasking.
I feel embarrassed because I genuinely tried my hardest and I know my family will hear about me getting fired but honestly, I know they’ll understand my side of the story. Plus, the other employees are still in high school and I know they’ll probably be struggling and eventually go bankrupt if they expect their employees to magically know everything in a day. I got another, much better, domestic violence advocate job anyways.