I was fired earlier this week from my front desk job. It came out of nowhere, given how I have never been scolded, warned or written up for anything before and was recently awarded as the best employee. Until I was called in this week and told that I had violated so many rules that I was no longer allowed to work at this place. To call it shocking would be an understatement.
My superiors kept refusing to tell me the exact rules or violations despite all my questions. I only managed to get some answers today, from someone high enough to know these things but not high enough to have much influence over them. He told me about the case back in the summer when someone had tried to pay me with the second largest bill in this country's currency, despite the price being over four times less than that. I had refused it, as there hadn't been enough small bills in the register on that day. It is a normal practice here. People always try to break large bills here.
Well, this person had apparently flipped out, but not at me or in front of me, I would have remembered that. She found the phone number of the director himself online and called him directly to complain about me not wanting to break her huge bill. She had thrown a big fit. So I was fired. Not in the summer. Now. Over this.
I feel like I am going insane. This can't be real.