Yesterday I got fired from my job as school custodian over some of the pettiest shit. So, I've told this story: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/x95ak7/on_padministrative_leave_over_some_bs_at_work/
About my paid administrative leave and I was on hold for 4 days. Yesterday I was asked by the principal to come into his office for a meeting. He showed me documents of recommendation of termination and told me that as of immediately, I was terminated. I had a union rep with me to witness the whole thing, I don't think he'll do much but at least he was there.
But the reason I got fired, wasn't because of the fact that I had a incident with another co-worker (who was like a dean of students…in a high school? Usually a Dean is for colleges). The reason I got fired, was because I cussed in the presence of children. In, the fucking presence of children (any children who's offended at cuss words who read that, I'm not sorry, you'll learn these words down the road anyways.)
I wasn't given a suspension. I wasn't given a warning. Nothing. Just straight termination. I was also told that there was another incident where I was given a verbal warning, of which I was not clarified as to what they're referring to.
But if I had to guess, it might've been the incident back in May where I was caught in a incident with a road rage driver, whom was deliberately gaslighting me and others. I go to drive into the school to the parking lot and he turned over to the visitor's parking lot.
Before I went inside, he was angrily pointing at the ground for me to come over to where he was. The guy was like 125 feet away from me, pointing at the ground for me to come over to him with a want to instigate a fight. I never gave him that satisfaction, I just shouted back at him about how he thinks he's some tough guy wanting to fight on school grounds where we have cameras.
And that was that, he presumably drove off, probably took pictures of my vehicle for his private “people that pissed me off” photo album. Whatever. But, the thing about that was, I never got a verbal warning or ANY warning for it. Even when I told my supervisor and she said some people are crazy around the town where we work. That's not a verbal warning!
So I think the supervisor was just trying to cover her ass and make herself look good with this imaginary incident between that one and the one two weeks ago that I got paid administrative leave on.
Don't work for a school. It's all I can say. They can fire you over the tiniest things possible, such as this. I think they're full of themselves because I've heard so much shit go around in the break room to around the entirety of the school. Everyone is covering their own asses and when you're targeted, you get NO support. Just out the fucking door.
Fuck this school.