This is me whining and provides no value, so please bear with me, or mods feel free to delete if it's against community rule.
So the boss came to the store and I was doing my job. I dropped some meat on the machine, the thing was burning hot, I assume the meat would be burned and become inedible, so I immediately threw it away, I was clearly wrong, the thing was still edible, all I need to do was put it back.
The boss saw that and approached me, asking me, “why threw it away, who taught you that?”. I replied, “I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that.”
I proceed to continue my work as costumers coming in, at this point, my face was dead serious, as I realized I made a mistake and caused the man money. Then I saw him texting, then one of my colleagues （higher seniority than me） got a phone call from the office, then my colleague asked me what happened, and told me what I should have done.
I said “ok, got it”. I got so annoyed and confused, why the man can't just tell me what I needed to do in such circumstances, instead, he has to text the managements, and have the management call my colleague, and let my colleague educates me.
Like FFS, I know I made a mistake, and caused u three dollars of merchandise, but at least have the human decency to tell me directly. As if this is such a big deal that the whole company has to know that I'm incompetent and doesn't deserve to work here. I find this whole thing so ridiculous and unnecessary, it's almost funny, so I sneered.
It was probably too obvious, the man saw it, and probably thought I was mocking him. So he stormed inside the work station, and told me that I can leave. Later today, I got an email saying I'm terminated for “gross misconduct”.
Now thinking it over, I should probably done differently, apologize more sincere, stopping being so cynical, you know, just to keep the job so I can feed myself. But god, I hate that pretentious hypocrite.