So, I called out “sick” the other day as a very much NEEDED mental health day (I was on the verge of a breakdown). (A little bit of backstory is that me and my family also were in the process of deep cleaning our house for our yearly walk through since we rent). I get a really snarky message from one of my work “friends” about this, so I ignored it, cause like I said, I was on the verge of a breakdown.
I then come back to work, and everyone is acting really strange around me. I just get on with my job, and then am suddenly called to the HR office, and I thought “you know what? I've been looking for the right time to quit. We'll see if this is the day.”
The HR lady is there as well as the Big Boss.
Big Boss: “OP, we need to talk about your performance. Many of your coworkers have informed us that you weren't actually sick that day, but you were just cleaning your house. What do you have to say for yourself?”
Me: feeling stabbed in the gut that the ppl I thought were my friends had talked about me like this “I genuinely didn't feel good enough to come into work that day”
HR: “Well OP, we can't prove or disprove that, but your performance has been going down in the last couple months, and if you don't do anything about it, maybe retail isn't for you.”
So I told them, that's fair enough, my mental health hasn't been doing well the last couple of months, and the work environment hasn't been helpful, and I've been looking at when I should leave, so this has been a great indicator.
TL;DR my work “friends” stabbed me in the back, and I've essentially been fired. Woo.