I work a Monday – Friday job and have a meeting once a month. We’ve had Saturday trainings before but I made up an excuse of why I couldn’t go. We recently had one sometime in June and I told my boss I wasn’t going to be able to attend and she then proceeded to tell me that I would have to go to a different location out of our region. I decided to go as the whole thing was just giving me anxiety. But today I see where they have another Saturday training this month. These trainings are around five to six hours.
This job is not a career, I’m still in college. But I have been working here for almost a year and I feel like I’ve just put up with it for so long I don’t won’t to risk getting fired or having to quit because I don’t want to be in the position of finding a new job. And every other job I have quit I start to think to myself “it wasn’t that bad I shouldn’t have done that”.
What should I do? I’m pretty shy so when I am put in a position like this I don’t know how to speak up without getting so angry. If I go to my boss and tell her that I am not going to attend this she will just tell me I have to go to a different location and then what? Tell her I am not willing to go to any of them? Will I get fired?