I enjoyed my work as a pet care specialist and I feel so lost now. I am admittedly a veteran with some serious pain in my heart and low self-esteem after my mental and physical injuries.
I was so happy. I went to a client's house, the same way I had for 4 months, and the husband that I don’t know very was waiting for me naked and was being gross. I ran out. I felt violated. I asked my boss if I could take the week off from that one client until I could figure this out. He was older and maybe he was off his meds. I felt very upset and at the time I thought my boss supported me.
I covered her while she was sick that week and I completed all of my clients and hers. I was hoping she would talk to the client to ask what happened.
That Monday she promptly fired me. She told me she needed someone reliable and that if it wasn’t for her being sick she would have done the job while I “lost her a client”
That she, “couldn’t have someone like me in her company”.
I loved my job and my clients. I tried so hard to be everything she wanted. She told me she loved me like a daughter. It's been two weeks and I Want to feel better but I can’t help but feel this is all wrong. I feel like I want to open my own company because I never want to be treated like that again.
Angrily I wonder what she’s going to do now. I was her only employee. She paid me dirt, she had me cover her through 2 vacations, holidays, and two weeks of sick in the 4 months I worked for her. I wish none of this ever happened.