This will be long.
A little while ago I mentioned on here that I work in sales and my commission has been cut due to circumstances outside of my control. Now, I’ve been dismissed and I believe it is extremely unfair and would love some opinion.
Warning 1 – a few months ago I was working the counter at reception and had a chat with this girl about her training, my training etc which somehow went into mental health, hobbies, her dating life etc. it was a good chat and we talked about training together which I was hoping to could lead to a friendship. (note: strictly platonic) this was before a long weekend and I was busy when she was leaving and couldn’t exchange socials/numbers etc. At this point I did something stupid and messaged her off of the system giving her my personal number if she wanted to train over the weekend together. Dumb move, yes, I just didn’t want to use company information to find her number and message her from my personal device as that seemed creepy. Again, very dumb. At first I didn’t hear anything and that was fine then on my day off I reached out to another regions regional manager for training on something that I hadn’t been taught and agreed to go and do training at one of his clubs on my RDO. I get there and am ambushed by the owner of the company that asks to see me in his office. Turns out that they have seen this message on the system and it is rights for termination, fair enough. I pleaded my case that it was about making new friends, not anything else and although they didn’t believe me, they decided after a day of waiting to keep me on. From there, this girl and I have become friends and that situation was water under the bridge.
Warning 2 – Now, this is in relation to the commission cuts. I was told by my regional manager to my face that the commission will not be cut and we will not be affected because we had not gone down in this survey score that month. I was lied to and my commission for that month was cut in half. The day I found out this would be happening, I was furious. I told my manager that I was extremely angry and don’t want to do or say anything that I could later regret so I needed the rest of the day off. A month + later I received a warning letter for this.
I have to preface warning 3 by saying when I started I became friends with my regional manager and his partner at the time but as time went on his partner and I grew a stronger friendship than he and I did. For months she was talking to me about how she feels disrespected and wants to leave him but I kept telling her to give it time if she loves him and they will work it out. They did not and after they broke up he hated that we were friends and got her to block me on socials etc because it was hurting him among other controlling bullshit. Needless to say, he didn’t like me anymore.
Warning 3 – recently I went away for 3 weeks using annual leave which was all fine and agreed in advance. While I’m gone the regional manager comes in and tells the sales team to take all of my active leads and put them in their own name. I get back and only one member of my sales team is really speaking to me at all. My productivity is at an all time high even while I’m working at reception and everyone else is upstairs barely working. Although I’ve made it clear that I do not earn enough and will be looking for other positions I have not put in my official notice and have been doing my job effectively. Yesterday, my manager and the regional manager call me into the office for a meeting and tell me they are letting me go. They say I’ve had 3 warnings, to which I reply I’ve had 2 and believe only one of those was legitimate and they tell me this is my third. I ask what grounds they have for dismissal and they tell me that since I’ve been back both staff members and gym members have been asking what’s wrong with me and they can’t have that. That there have been complaints made about my attitude but they can’t show me any proof of these complaints. They said they want me to finish up today but will pay me for the next week.
I believe this is personal and would love some advice.