So I got fired today. I can’t stop thinking about the way everything happened. I had no warning whatsoever. I worked at a before and after school program. I had already had tons of problems with my boss and so had every one else in the company. She was struggling with her job and everyone hated her for it. One of her biggest things was that no kid could be kicked out of the program. My point was that we didn’t have the training or the people to have some certain special needs kids. There is nothing wrong with them, but they should get the proper care. I’ve been wanting to get a petition or get someone from higher up to listen because NO ONE liked my boss. She would have full staff meetings that were mandatory, that could be summarized in an email, which basically were meetings about her struggling mental health and how we could make her job easier. It got to the point where she was diving up her responsibilities to others, which is fine, but I asked one of my supervisors, (who received one of the many divvied up tasks) what did our boss do. She laughed and said, “That’s a good question” so our boss was causing a lot of drama and struggles for a lot of people. I was the few that spoke out about it and she proceeded to belittle me to my fellow coworkers and tell my supervisors to correct me, and tell me it wasn’t my place. Maybe it wasn’t. I honestly don’t know. Maybe I don’t know the full story.
How I got fired today, was that I got overwhelmed at work yesterday and had my 5th panic attack of the day, and I asked my current supervisor, if I could leave early, she said yes. I told her I was calling out tomorrow morning because I just needed time. She said that was fine. I wanted to leave my key to the school, so the program could be opened on time. So I left it under a cone outside, to have a girl open up on time. I didn’t need to do that, and I wasn’t thinking about leaving a key to a school outside for a night. I didn’t think about how terrible was. And they fired me. Which honestly is kinda fair. And my boss told me that, and I said fair. And then she kept talking. And the shit that came out of her was unbelievable. Like, I took a Polaroid camera to work, and took a few pictures. I didn’t even think about it. If I wasn’t posting then, who cared. I didn’t know there was a policy that if I took a picture there had to be a waver signed by the parents. No one told me that. And I know tons of my coworkers, who have tons of videos and pictures of the kids, so no one told them either. And my boss had the AUDACITY to ask me, “So what are you doing with those Polaroids?” Like I was selling them on the internet or something.
AND THEN, she says she heard that I wanted HRs number and that she had already talked to HR, and I shouldn’t bother. She didn’t even wait for a response and proceeded to accused me, of not listening to my supervisor when she told me not to put the key outside. I quickly and calmly told her none of my coworkers told me that. My supervisor heard my plane and did nothing to stop me. She could have grabbed my key anytime and didn’t. Then my boss looked at me like I was absolutely crazy. I then turned my my other supervisor who was looking at everything very concerned and I reassured her that I already had another job lined up, because I was going to move in with my fiancé in the summer anyway. She looked relieved. I said to both of them, no hard feelings and said it with a smile. Something about manipulators and narcissists is that the best way to piss them off is to pretend that there manipulation went right over your head. So at that point my boss was irritated and tried not to show it. So we walked inside and I told my work bff that I got fired, I walked right passed her and went to the kid that I know would be affected the most by me leaving.
I told her that I had to leave because I got fired. But I loved her, and she is amazing. My boss proceeded to grab my things and told me angrily that I needed to leave. I took my things and did the last thing that I knew would piss my boss. I told that nine year old, that I would be back. Watching that little girls face crumble was one of the hardest things to see.
She also don’t give me money for pto.
I want to make her life a living hell.
Mainly for not letting me say goodbye to all of my kids.
But maybe I should just let it go and move on from the drama.