Work Woes
Let me just start with being sick is not fun. So thank you, toddler at Montessori for sneezing all over me yesterday and giving me a cold. Because I really needed that.
Anyway...
I got fired from my job last month. It's been a rather awkward time for me lately, and thus part of the reason I haven't been around online much recently. I've been floating around, dropping comments here and there, but haven't posted anything of substance in what seem like forever-and I am sorry about that. I've missed all of you guys, and while I may or may not have commented, I have been reading your posts and keeping up on you all.
But yeah, my old job. The Car Insurance Company. I don't know what to say other than I'm not so much sad and upset as I am annoyed. I interviewed well, gave a one week notice instead of a two week notice, I did my job well and was friendly with everyone in the office...and yet it wasn't enough. There I was, just coming off break when the HR Director called me into her office. "You know, I just don't feel like you're the right fit for HR," she said. "I wish you the best of luck, but things just aren't working for us. The HR assistants said that while the other HR Director and I were on vacation that they gave you projects to do and you didn't do them. And, well, it was only a temporary position anyway. So we are going to go ahead and terminate you, effective today. You can get your things and leave now. Did you need a box?"
Needless to say, I was shocked. I did everything they ever told me to do, and never left a project unfinished. And no, it wasn't a temporary position, they hired me full-time. But it was asking me if I needed a box, as the HR Director walked me back to my desk, that was like salk on an open wound-I actually was able to carry all of my belongings out in my hands. And yet, I didn't cry. Didn't scream, or shout. Just walked to my car and sat there for a few minutes, trying to left everything sink in. Fired. That's never happened to me, and the first time it did, I didn't even have a good reason for why.
But I'm not mad. I'm not sad, either. I'm just annoyed. For treating me the way they did when I did nothing wrong? Why would I want to work for them anyway? So lately I've been job searching and working at Montessori on the side when they need a substitute teacher. It hasn't been easy, and while I keep sending out applications, I haven't been getting any call backs. Please, keep your fingers crossed for me!
Hopefully I'll be around more, seeing as how I've been job searching online. I won't be such a ghost. And I'll actually post something fun. I know I have those questions to answer via video...maybe I'll start working on those again when my voice doesn't sound all funny.
*huggles*
I've missed you guys!
Be around later!