[30F PA] So yeah. I got fired from my job yesterday. It sucks because I truly enjoyed it too.
The company I was working for was recently acquired. My boss [W] now has a boss [S]. W told me that S made a comment that indirectly said I was starting to get on the VP of HRs “bad side” and that it was going to be difficult to come off of it.
I then asked S to clarify what he meant by that, and if he really thought it was okay for VP of HR to discriminate and potentially retaliate against me because I’m on her “bad side”. He smirked and said “here-say”
I said “the EEOC should have a field day with that comment” and he fired me. On the spot. And then recorded me while I packed my things up.
I’m just depressed. I’m ruminating over this. I’m obsessively replaying what happened and how he said it and how he looked as he said it. I just want to stop thinking about it. It was humiliating.
I feel like I’ve cycled through the 5 stages of grief over and over again over the last 24 hours. It’s maddening and sad that losing a job can make you feel like this. I have no health insurance and no income now. I want to crawl in a hole and pretend I don’t exist for a week, but I have to search for a job so that I can keep myself alive instead.
I’m so sad.