I finally have a story to tell this subreddit and I think I finally calm down enough to properly explain the situation.
I used to work for a large culinary company that worked contracts with the venues and corporate office spaces to provide food. They have contracts all over the world and thousands of offices. this is important to mention because I ended up leaving the company because they were unwilling to transfer me due to a scheduling conflict.
I was originally hired to be a cook in a corporate office working afternoon. The company expanded their needs and a breakfast Cafe was opened and I was tasked with running it. This meant a different and much earlier working time. But I felt like it was a good opportunity and I felt like the schedule change would not be too harsh so I accepted the position.
After working this new position for over 2 months I knew that this would not be a long-term position that I would be able to hold down. The early mornings we're not working around my outside of work commitments. It was affecting my sleep schedule which was affecting my mental health which was affecting my performance at work.
Over the course of a month I was written up twice. During both disciplinary write ups I voice the concern that I would be unable to continue to perform the tasks necessary to continue to run the breakfast Cafe. I did not want to quit and I was requesting a transfer back to my original position or a different office where I could work at a more appropriate time that would work for me.
Silly that I think a culinary company that is actively hiring and has plenty of positions available and could have easily transferred me to literally hundreds of offices locally they kept me at The breakfast Cafe position because they knew that that early our time slot would be harder to fill than the other time slots and positions that they had available. So rather than transfer me to one of those available positions leaving opened a position harder to fill they basically denied my transfer. Because they said they would transfer me as soon as they found my replacement. I stuck it out for another month and a half before I finally quit.
But quitting is where this story gets interesting. Because something I left out of this story is this corporate kitchen as well as many other culinary positions due to the stress of the pandemic have resorted to using temp workers to fill necessary needs. My company was one of these companies. So as I waited for my replacement to be hired I saw how the temp agency worked with my company and realized that it would give me the flexibility in my schedule that I desired. So I made the decision to quit and move over to the temp agency. I put in my two week notice and served out my two weeks and told my manager of my intentions of leaving the temp agency and that I would if welcomed come back to work shifts at their office or any other office for this company. My in-office manager gave me his word that I put in my two weeks and I was leaving on good terms and I was a good employee and they would have no reason to blacklist me.
But apparently people corporate think that there's a good reason to blacklist me. Now a few of the offices that I have worked at through the temp agency have blacklisted me. I texted my old boss to see if my quitting was the cause of me being blacklisted on the app and he confirmed that was the reasoning.
The worst part about this is technically I do not think I employer is doing anything illegal. What they are doing is highly unethical especially since they are an employer that is worldwide and definitely are part of the pushing narrative of nobody wants to work yet there are stories like mine where they are literally denying people from working for petty reasons.