Ok, so I don't have a job anymore. I worked on Friday, and had Saturday and Sunday off. I went in today (Sunday) to write down my schedule for this week, and noticed that I wasn't on the schedule at all. When I asked the managers about it, they said they didn't know (which of course they probably did) and that I'd have to call Terry to find out what was going on. I gave him a call and asked him why I wasn't on the schedule. His reply was "I don't have room for you on my schedule anymore, so I'm gonna have to let you go." Stunned, I replied, "Umm... was there something I did wrong?" "No, you did as well as everyone else."
There are so many things wrong with what happened. First, he didn't even have the decency to confront me in person (or even call me) to let me know that he was laying me off. Second, he gave me no notice whatsoever. So now, I'm stuck scrounging around for another job in my second week of classes. Not only will this take up a huge chunk of my time and energy, (and interfere academically) but now that the students are back in town, I'm certain that all the good jobs are already taken.
That being said, I'm not sure what I'm going to do about this. My options are: beg for my job back (which won't work, and will probably make things worse), call Terry up and bitch him out (will probably convince him to formally terminate me), or go over his head to corporate and see if policy can help me. I'm also wondering if I can get unemployment out of him. I mean, I'm sure the government will give it to me, but I don't want it from the government. If employees have to put in their "two weeks" then I'm pretty sure there's a reverse policy too. I should get my unemployment checks from Pizza Hut. Anyone with law experience that can give me some tips?
Someone else that's shady about the whole situation is that they continued to hire new kitchen help even after they'd hired me. I was finally starting to get the hang of things (I had several "C.H.A.M.P.S." cards on file-- those are marks you get from managers saying you're doing well.)
I definitely don't want to be working under shady management anyways. "Good riddance to bad rubbish" as they say.
The icing on the cake was when the towing company came at 1:30am to try and tow my car. In my own lot! I had a permit clearly stuck on my bumper, although it wasn't the new color. I was going to go on Monday to renew it. The towing company said they had already towed 15 other cars with expired stickers tonight. I tried calling Aerostar's night watchman, but he wouldn't intervene. I mean, come on! I live here. Have a little bit of decency. As I said before, it's the first week of classes. They made me fork out $50 just to *not* tow my car. My roommate's car got towed, and my other neighbor had to fork out $50 too. I'm demanding repayment from Aerostar first thing tomorrow.
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5 comments:
Dude it always happens, whenever everything goes well, then shit always happens. Anywho if i were you i would go over his head for a change. i never really liked how he did the fireing anyway. especially since he didnt give you a real reason why. i dont know why you did get fired but i will try to find out. Burge
Hey dude, you are not the only guy. The recent Cleo magazine mentioned that some people got fired through email message. One person said she was fired bcos she was such a chatterbox.
Some people just don't have the gut to tell them in the face. I''m not sure what happened. But ridiculous things happen everyday. Anyway, stay cool. Every cloud has a silver lining. Perhaps, a better job is in store for you.
Maybe I will go over his head. I definitely feel exploited. He hired me at training wage, and let me go before I could be promoted. What sucks even more is now I have these black shoes and three pairs of black pants I bought that I can never use for anything else. Maybe I'll check out the other two locations.
I looked through my information pack, and the information about corporate isn't in there. Any ideas about how to file a formal complaint?
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Hey your boss doesn't know you have a blog rite? I read that in the US, bosses are firing their employees when they found out about their blog like the recent case such as Ms Nadine Haobash, an associate editor. I'm not sure about your country, but in Singapore, I think I would complain to the Ministry of Manpower if the company doesn't redress the problem and if it is serious.
No, I doubt he knows, but even if he had, it wouldn't be grounds for my dismissal. The only mention I've made about Pizza Hut was how great everything was going there.
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