Yesterday I was fired for no apparent. My boss has bragged about getting people she doesn’t like canned by telling me “if I didn’t like you you’d be gone like X, and Y, and Z.”
What happened was basically this;
Boss and co worker confronted me in the kitchen. I responded. Boss told me I was getting too worked up. I asked how. “ Am i yelling? Am I being disrespectful? Am I out of line in anyway?” She responded “no, but I can tell you’re upset and it isn’t acceptable.” At this point I went outside for a breather and a smoke. Boss called higher boss over and I was fired for I guess being angry and out of control? But I have audio recording of the second half of the incident and am very clearly calm, in control, and work appropriate.
I came home and immediately filed for unemployment, so I’m assuming I should get that.
I worked in Michigan, which is an at will state.
Can I try to sue? Should I?
I’m angry that I’ve been there 3 years and NEVER had a disciplinary record for anything like that. In all three years I’ve been written up once and it had nothing to do with anything like that. And now I’m just fired? Is this something that can follow me?