I got fired Monday
Things were going well, I had been helping families with their arrangements and, yeah, I forgot a form or two sometimes and had to go back to it a week later, but no one had told me how to make arrangements anyways and just threw me in to swim... but I was handling things well. I had been to my therapist that morning (yes, I go to a therapist, don't even act surprised) and talked to her about how good some things were going.
Then at the end of the day, I was called into my manager's office, told there was a discrepancy between the time I entered on my time sheet and the time someone else said I left on one of the previous days. That's considered stealing from the company and I was terminated.
I'm not gonna lie, I've moved 30 mins from lunch to the end of the day or even leaving early on Sunday. But if I put down that I worked 7 hours or 8 hours or whatever, I worked said hours. Regardless, he said that this was not the first time such a discrepancy came up, so I was terminated.
I finished the last 15 minutes of work, turned in my key, and left. I was incredibly pissed off but didn't make a spectacle as I was leaving... so I guess that's something. Elizabeth was furious as well. But, after two days of thinking about it, I see this as an opportunity.
I'm a god damned good funeral director. I care about the families I help. I get frustrated with the public just as much as any care giver or retail worker because I have to do both. But now, I can go to any funeral home in any city in any state... any one that'll have me. I don't have to stay here in Birmingham. I could go back to Tuscaloosa or Tennessee or Colorado or whatever. I dread having to go somewhere and take another state's law exam, but this is my career.
I'm gonna take a week or two off, though. We have Christmas to pay for and other bills, but I need to explore all my options. After looking around and making a new resume, I'll start calling funeral homes.
Then at the end of the day, I was called into my manager's office, told there was a discrepancy between the time I entered on my time sheet and the time someone else said I left on one of the previous days. That's considered stealing from the company and I was terminated.
I'm not gonna lie, I've moved 30 mins from lunch to the end of the day or even leaving early on Sunday. But if I put down that I worked 7 hours or 8 hours or whatever, I worked said hours. Regardless, he said that this was not the first time such a discrepancy came up, so I was terminated.
I finished the last 15 minutes of work, turned in my key, and left. I was incredibly pissed off but didn't make a spectacle as I was leaving... so I guess that's something. Elizabeth was furious as well. But, after two days of thinking about it, I see this as an opportunity.
I'm a god damned good funeral director. I care about the families I help. I get frustrated with the public just as much as any care giver or retail worker because I have to do both. But now, I can go to any funeral home in any city in any state... any one that'll have me. I don't have to stay here in Birmingham. I could go back to Tuscaloosa or Tennessee or Colorado or whatever. I dread having to go somewhere and take another state's law exam, but this is my career.
I'm gonna take a week or two off, though. We have Christmas to pay for and other bills, but I need to explore all my options. After looking around and making a new resume, I'll start calling funeral homes.