Basically what it says on the title. I worked in packaging for a semi small label making company and we had received a complaint from a one of your bigger customers that a box had the wrong product inside the box than what was labeled on the outside which is normally a packaging mistake on my end but after getting a closer look when they sent it back it turned out that our shipping clerk put the wrong product tag on the outside of the box because they grabbed the wrong box from our inventory pallet so it was a mistake on their part. I was threatened with termination by our Quality Control Manager(QCM) and Plant Manager(PM) over this even tho I didn’t have any fault they wouldn’t listen to me I even had a conversation with our QCM and told him they can’t be threatening to fire me when I haven’t even done anything wrong and I proved it to them but he said it didn’t matter a mistake in shipping means everyone has to get threatened for it. After this conversation I had a 5 day vacation planned that I went on and my coworker was out on leave aswell during this period, I guess they didn’t realize both of would be gone and only us really knew how to handle the whole shipping process so our PM sends me a text asking if I could post pone my vacation and that he heard about the conversation I had with QCM and if I needed to talk he would listen and that I was valued at the company. I didn’t respond to the texts because I was so frustrated with the whole situation because of how they get when any mistake happens but only on the packaging/shipping side of it. Now I’m gonna come out and say I’m not the perfect employee and I do make mistakes but if we’re adding everything up which I did ask them to do over a 12 month period I personally made 7 mistakes out of over 1000 orders which most of those orders had multiple parts shipping and compared to what I was told about how it was before I started I was a huge improvement on the situation. But anyways I come back from my vacation and lo and behold the PM left a giant mess for me to clean up in shipping which took me most of the day but I got it done on top of my regular daily duties. During those few days I was gone tho they said their eyes had really been opened up to the whole situation of what was happening in packaging saying every mistake stemmed from me and that I caused my coworker to look bad but even my coworker was shocked because he’s the type to own up to his mistakes and so am I that’s why we really got along but not matter how much he tried to explain to them that the mistake was him putting the wrong box tag on the wrong box was his mistake they tried to gaslight him into believing that I was the root cause of everything and they ended up firing me for performance issues but when they did it they listed me as being laid off because of all the good service I proved for them and the PM even told me if I needed a letter of recommendation in the future he would write it for me. There’s just so many things wrong with that place I would have to write a whole book on the situation to get all the points across but I was basically fired for someone else’s mistake and standing up for myself. I’m in a very fortunate situation where I can be ok without having a job for an extended amount of time but I just feel so bad having worked so hard and getting let go over this.