Short version: April was one of my worst months I've ever had, so in, May I quit.
Longer version: I started my job beginning of March. When I was hired by my supervisor, who btw quit only 2 weeks later, I made it clear I needed some days off as I already had plans. I gave him the dates I knew for sure and a few floating days that I wasn't fully certain about until I got my friends itinerary for her flights to visit me. My supervisor was perfectly happy with approving these dates for May which was nearly 2 weeks off. Plus a few days in April for my inlaws to visit for a long weekend. Again these days were approved immediately when I was hired. All of March in my new job was great; my coworkers were great, the job was easy to learn and chill, I was liking it for it only being a part time deal. In comes April. I wake up on a Friday at the end of the work week with a migraine so bad I can hardly open my eyes. Shoot a quick text with the help of my husband to my lead that I won't be in and apologize. Sunday morning I recieve a phone call that shatters me; my aunt who has been in the hospital for several months and was telling everyone she was getting better and her cancer was gone…is dying… my family, and I are devastated. I recently moved away from where I grew up, 8 hours of driving away in fact. I'm panicking and not fully sure how to process. My husband tells me to drive home so I throw some cloths in a bag and I'm gone. I send a message to my lead, explaining what's going on and that I'm not sure when I'll be back in. She wishes me luck and to keep her updated. My aunt passes away not long after I get there through the night. I'm crushed. I take the rest of the week off to grieve, be with my family and travel back home. I'm back to work on Monday, still not fully myself but I need to work through it. Then comes the weekend, my in laws come to visit, and of course I test positive for covid. I spend the weekend in my room away from my inlaws and husband. I text my lead that I tested positive and I will make sure I test negative before returning to work. I end up having to take a week off before I test negative on the following Sunday. Back to work for the week thankfully no issues. Back in on Monday and all is well. Tuesday I get most of the way through the day and my manager comes and finds me and says to come to her office at the end of the day. I'm like sure no problem. I head to her office at 5 minutes until I'm supposed to punch out. I'll take this time to say that not long after I was hired I found out the position above me had put their notice in to leave so I figured, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take so I told my manager I'd be interested if they were looking for someone and made an informal inquiry into the position. Back to Tuesday. She says, ” do you know how many days you have worked here?” I replied with about 2 months? She says, ” 41 days and you have taken and requested 14 off and now you want a few more at the end of the month, I cant make a schedule or promote you if you arent reliable” I explain to her that the time I requested off was approved when I was hired and the week off for my aunt dying and having covid really can't be held against me. She looked me dead in the eye and days ” Yes I can hold those against you.”
I saw red and my ears started ringing. I went from 0 to 100000 in an instant. “Then I quit” was all I could manage. Took off my name tag, walked out of her office, punched out and left.
How can someone be so completely heartless and say I'm unreliable from a completely unexpected death in the family and following covid rules??? And to look me in the eye and basically say it's an inconvenience for them that I had a family member die suddenly…