So I worked for a company that has made more billionaires than any other company in the world. I was at this job for 9 months. I got trained my first week, my second week I was training someone, and my third week I was training two people. I am a chemist and I was hired sight unseen to work at this job after a 15 minute phone interview. Boss didn't do anything to upkeep the lab and got fired around 3 months into me working there. It was also a 24 hour facility so testing needed to get done at all hours. I am a relatively hardworking and accommodating person so when I was asked to do do some random shifts I agreed to it.
Here is where the real problems started, since the lab was so significantly understaffed and the other people they had in the lab were so burnt out I ended up working every day. The legal loophole they used was giving me Mondays “off”. So I would work a 12 hour shift starting at 7PM Sunday to 7AM Monday, then I was scheduled 7AM Tuesday. Then I would cycle down through the week for each next shift, so Tuesday first shift, Wednesday and Thursday Second shift, and Friday 3rd, with Saturday and Sundays being that 7P to 7A.
After a month of this and barely getting any sleep because who could ever mentally handle that type of sleep abuse I was working alone in the lab on a Thursday night, running several different tests on a bunch of different samples that I had gotten. One test was the flash point test (you heat up oil and run a flame over it until the oil flashes with fire twice) and while I was running 3 other tests the oil caught on fire. Now this wasn't a big deal because we also ran fire point and the oil was essentially expected to catch on fire. The problem was that once that happened I realized how mentally exhausted I really was. The next day I told my boss I didn't feel mentally healthy enough to work alone in the lab another night. She says that's fine and she will make some calls to get someone to cover. The first call she made was to my contracting company to terminate my contract.
Here's the kicker, I was testing 100 more samples a month than the next three employees.