2 and a half weeks ago I got a job as a political canvasser. On Sunday I got a call from my boss saying not to show up to work the next day, that I was not being fired but that I couldn’t work until HR did a performance review for me. She gave me an email for HR saying they’d answer any questions I had, and proceeded to stop replying to all further messages. That was 2 days ago and I’ve received no response from HR towards any of my questions (including whether or not I’m still employed). Upon further messaging my boss I’ve had no response whatsoever.
We had a discord for everyone working in my city and I realized immediately after the call that the discord was taken down. The next day a coworker messaged in a group text “For anyone who just got let go and blocked after we walked all day for these people I just would like to say thank you because god knows you aren't gonna hear it from them. We sat here and believed in the vision that they fed us because a lot of us genuinely believe in change but damn do they act like every other company.” I decided to ask him what happened Monday, as I was told not to come in.
He said 5 people showed up and they were all fired on the spot without reason, just 2 weeks into working (everyone that was fired got on the same time as me). Coincidentally the organization i work for is called black top (top stands for Texas organizing party) and is dedicated towards getting black voters to vote. Every person let go but one was white, and other than me there’d now only be one other white person working with something like a dozen black men and women and no one else.
I feel like something about this has to be illegal, or could at least get me on unemployment if I am fired, which once again I do not know as no one from management will respond to my messages or calls.
I need advice on where to go from here, I also just wanted to share this because it’s exactly the reason I hate capitalism, we were misled and clearly taken advantage of. We were all told we’d still have jobs after election season if we kept meeting our quotas (which we exceeded in doing every day).
If you see a job posting for New Canvassing Experience, avoid it.