Maybe I’m just naive and maybe this is not the way the world works, but you’d think that a company of about 3 people, if one of them was visibly struggling – you’d ask them what’s going on or how can I help and not AS YOU’RE FIRING THEM?!
And then have the gall to do it on labor day.
I received news that a family member had days to live and that I wouldn’t be able to handle the workload and if I could please have some help as I am primary caretaker when I can.
We tried training someone and they noticed that I was struggling with our organizational tool. They took it upon themselves to go through my email and find all the discrepancies and then proceed to take away all access to any document, email, information, etc about the co that I had. Without warning, mind you.
I will take full responsibility that YES, I was not fully utilizing our organizational tool. Why? Because it sucks and when I’m the ONLY one in the business dealing with any of this and it’s much easier for me to utilize something else to stay organized and we were doing fine, what’s it matter? What’s it matter when I organize your entire life, when I handle literally everything of this company.
I worked for a co with 3 people. Myself, my boss, and one other. Each person had very specific roles. I wore hundreds of hats and managed everything. I figuratively wiped their asses; I did so much for them. I cannot stress enough how many roles I played here and because I wasn't on top of ONE thing…disgusting.
I worked an allotted 43 hours a week, but it was really 50-70 depending on the week. It was a WFH position. Looking back now, with all those extra hours, I was working a servers wage at a salary job that dealt with million dollar revenue clients.
For the past year, I’ve been struggling heavily with depression, interpersonal communication issues, sickness, and lots of family turmoil, moreso than I ever have in my life. I’m ok and will be ok, but all of this and the hours with nothing in return – I was definition burnt out.
I have never had a day off that wasn’t for personal use, except for my first week of the job because I had a pre-planned vacation and even then WORKED ON IT. Every day that I took off was for family business, a doctors appointment, or I was extremely sick that even WFH sick wouldn’t cut it.
I know I should have left sooner, but the perks of WFH outweighed the bad and we were growing. Then it didn’t.
I had to pick up the slack for both of those co-workers as well as an outsourced contractor of which he was completely incompetent and having to fix his mistakes took away from time for my tasks. One even got deadly sick and I had to pick up the slack. Thankfully he fully recovered and is fine now, but remember that I was there for them.
I could go on and on and on. 6+ years.
I also gotta say, it’s pretty traumatizing to finally have the courage to ask for help while you’re sobbing to your boss and feeling like you’re letting them down because you know you take care of everything and they fire you. What the fuck.
You don’t know what you’ve just lost.
You’ve destroyed your pillar and now your empire will fall.