Suddenly jobless
Just found out that I will be unemployed in a month. Woah.
Where to start? It’s not like I was fired. But I wasn’t laid off either. And it wasn’t like they ever gave me any indication that I would only be required for this year. It’s all very confusing.
I was thinking over the last couple weeks that I need to know when I’m supposed to come back after the summer. Then I realized I didn’t know if I was coming back. My co-workers treated my like I was but my bosses hadn’t mentioned it. I wasn’t too concerned because yeah they didn’t tell me I’d be coming back, but they didn’t tell me I was returning after winter break either and I did. It’s a job, after my probation period I figured I was good from then on.
I don’t think it has anything to do with my job performance. I finally asked if I was coming back yesterday and my boss was kind of shocked by the question, like she just had absolutely no idea either way and had not even thought about it. She said she’d have to get back to me and her and my other boss had a meeting about it. She sat me down today after work and said they were telling me to move on.
That’s what’s confusing. I’m not sure if they’re saying they don’t want me back or if they just don’t want to hold me back from getting something new in the mean time. They probably don’t understand that my financial situation is such right now that I could wait a few months until they needed me again.
The problem is the fire. Construction on the dorms still hasn’t started so they can’t do the proper amount of bookings and Richie, where we were doing half our classes, has been sold. They’ve been told they’re getting a downtown school but it isn’t for sure and they don’t know when it will be. So they literally don’t have the bookings.
Thing is, I don’t know if they’re telling me that to try to spare my feelings. I talked to Rick and he said they could just be trying to be nice. He’s going to try to find out. Because if they’re doing it for me and just don’t want me to be stuck without a job for a while (Judy kept saying “so instead of a summer job, you should look for a full time job”), they don’t get that I can wait. I sort of mentioned that, but they don’t know that I save a lot of my money and have two other small sources of income. Which by no means make me lots of money, but go right into my savings. I also got a big tax refund and I’m getting paid to be a youth leader at fYrefly BC so I really would be okay waiting until late fall or even November to go back. But maybe they just don’t want me. Or won’t have regular bookings for another year or two even if they did. I don’t know.
This just sucks because I had no idea. I’ve been planning my life in a certain direction for months. I thought things were going to be like this for the next couple years. And now they aren’t and I don’t have a plan. I’m just not really sure what to do now.
Where to start? It’s not like I was fired. But I wasn’t laid off either. And it wasn’t like they ever gave me any indication that I would only be required for this year. It’s all very confusing.
I was thinking over the last couple weeks that I need to know when I’m supposed to come back after the summer. Then I realized I didn’t know if I was coming back. My co-workers treated my like I was but my bosses hadn’t mentioned it. I wasn’t too concerned because yeah they didn’t tell me I’d be coming back, but they didn’t tell me I was returning after winter break either and I did. It’s a job, after my probation period I figured I was good from then on.
I don’t think it has anything to do with my job performance. I finally asked if I was coming back yesterday and my boss was kind of shocked by the question, like she just had absolutely no idea either way and had not even thought about it. She said she’d have to get back to me and her and my other boss had a meeting about it. She sat me down today after work and said they were telling me to move on.
That’s what’s confusing. I’m not sure if they’re saying they don’t want me back or if they just don’t want to hold me back from getting something new in the mean time. They probably don’t understand that my financial situation is such right now that I could wait a few months until they needed me again.
The problem is the fire. Construction on the dorms still hasn’t started so they can’t do the proper amount of bookings and Richie, where we were doing half our classes, has been sold. They’ve been told they’re getting a downtown school but it isn’t for sure and they don’t know when it will be. So they literally don’t have the bookings.
Thing is, I don’t know if they’re telling me that to try to spare my feelings. I talked to Rick and he said they could just be trying to be nice. He’s going to try to find out. Because if they’re doing it for me and just don’t want me to be stuck without a job for a while (Judy kept saying “so instead of a summer job, you should look for a full time job”), they don’t get that I can wait. I sort of mentioned that, but they don’t know that I save a lot of my money and have two other small sources of income. Which by no means make me lots of money, but go right into my savings. I also got a big tax refund and I’m getting paid to be a youth leader at fYrefly BC so I really would be okay waiting until late fall or even November to go back. But maybe they just don’t want me. Or won’t have regular bookings for another year or two even if they did. I don’t know.
This just sucks because I had no idea. I’ve been planning my life in a certain direction for months. I thought things were going to be like this for the next couple years. And now they aren’t and I don’t have a plan. I’m just not really sure what to do now.