I work for a homeware store. Myself and a guy we'll call Larry are the only people in the stockroom and do the heavy, menial shit.
Hired me 2 weeks ago to replace Larry who's leaving. He'd been doing this singlehandedly with occasional help from a manager. He apparently kept asking them to hire somebody to help him for the entire 6 months he'd been here and they kept refusing.
So anyway, I get told by my manager that the director thinks I'm too slow to be Larry's replacement.
Here they have a dedicated, hardworking guy leaving because they refuse to have two stockroom operatives at the same time, and then they fire the replacement i.e me. So now they'll become extremely overwhelmed unless they can hire someone quickly before Larry and I leave, and they better pray they hire a unicorn, superhuman machine for this measly paying job.
Not too disappointed as this job was one of the worst I've ever had. Zero health & safety regulations – I almost slipped a few times climbing the storage racks because the heavier items are stacked at the top for some reason.
But it was still a job. Back to the hunt I guess. Fml
Edit: Starting to think maybe my manager saying it was the director's decision was BS, and that it was actually his decision. After all, I've only seen the director once so it's weird he can judge my work ethic, whereas my manager has seen me work everyday