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plasmachaos · 6 years

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Not to intrude but last I heard, you had a good job with good money, what happened?

Long story Anon ;;; Seriously, it’s long, buckle up

Basically I don’t have that job anymore- it was like 16 hours a week for two days at the weekend but now I have one that’s still 16 hours a week but stretched over four days The only problem is because it’s minimum wage (the last job was minimum too but because it was in an airport I got paid a little extra, which really helped) and four days a week, I have to pay a taxi to get there at least one way It’s kinda hard to explain but lemme trySo I work four days, two during the week and two both days of the weekend My mother leaves me down for the beginning of the shifts but since they end at 2am, I need to get a taxi home which costs anywhere between £7 and £10 So just for arguments sake let’s say they all cost £8That’s £32 a week I earn £118 a week, but I have to take that £32 every week for travels (Which leaves me with £86- I’ve checked and there’s no way to get these reimbursed, sadly)

Needless to say I don’t have a car (can’t afford one) and don’t know how to drive (can’t afford lessons lol)I used to be on benefits for caring for my brother, but they limit those- you can only earn £120 max a week (I went off them because the job at the airport was causing me to earn about £140 a week, even though I’m still taking care of him which limits how much I can work) I’m currently appealing to try and get back on them since it would really help, but the system is… Interesting and very complicated. Even if I was earning over £120 and still paying out £32 for travels, that doesn’t affect the benefits- in other words they can still say “No you’re earning more than the limit” Whether or not the fact that I’m juuuust shy of that limit and whether that means I can go back on benefits is literally just up to them, I have no idea at this point It’s a fair system and I completely understand, but damn if it ain’t annoying XDOn to how I lost the job- I see no reason to refrain from sharing this online, I’m just gonna tick that little imaginary box that says “to the best of my understanding, all the above and below information is the complete truth” xD So yeah, I worked in the airport in a Starbucks there- nothing fancy I actually thought the job was going okay- I’ve worked in a Costa before but since it was just a temporary Christmas job I got no training on how to make drinks or anything, so I was literally just washing dishes for 2 months, yay But hey, I got paid! Being in the airport they have a security system- remember this as it’s important later. I got this job through an agency- I was only supposed to cover one shift but a supervisor then offered me a job there permanently which I accepted (after explaining my lack of knowledge in making drinks and my obligations to my brother, being his carer, which he promised was fine) so I started the following week That first day I had a temporary day pass, the following week I received my 60 day pass. During the course of those 60 days you have to find every place you’ve ever been for the past 5 years and get the bosses and such to write a letter saying ‘Yep, this person was here and is a real person and definitely not a terrorist’ Like I said, keep that piece of info for nowSo anyway I did notice some of my fellow employees would get really tetchy when I didn’t know things like the code they use on their cups (Google it) and they were also shocked to find I couldn’t make any drinks despite me,,, telling them that before and after starting the job BUT (Costa did this too why this)But, yeah, I thought the job was going good regardless, I was happy that I had learned every cup code and everything on the till in just over a month, all good I left on holiday leave for 2 weeks and came back for the 3rd week, called my supervisor like “When am I on?” and she’s like “Oh you’re still listed as being on holiday leave?” And I’m like “Well, no I’m not- I only booked 2 weeks off” I didn’t think anything of that at the time, really. She gives me some hours to cover on Saturday and Sunday and I turn up on time, all good. And then the boss, who I’ve met but once, comes on the phone and says, “You can’t come in. Your pass has run out” I’m like “Oh well, I have all the references right here?” (I did, literally in my bag)But she says “No the person who deals with the passes isn’t here on weekend- didn’t she ever send you an email?”“No?”“Oh, she should have.” Well, she didn’t. And actually after this she never did, I had to phone up and get it myself! I sent the email the following Tuesday since miscommunication meant I got the email wrong, and didn’t want to send it before she’d see it on Monday, if she really wasn’t in on weekends Regardless, I heard nothing back Next thing the boss of the agency calls me up and his first words are “I’m just off the phone to the boss [of starbucks]- what’s been happening?”And I’m like “Nothing, to my knowledge?” To cut that short, basically I was told I was fired because I had failed to get the pass references in on time. Now, only thing is I very meticulously counted up the days- even if they counted the temporary day pass (which I was told by one employee they didn’t and by another they did, but by all accounts surely they wouldn’t count the day pass?) the 60 days, exactly, wouldn’t be up until the weekend after I sent the email (and before I got this call) If they didn’t count the day pass, it would be the weekend following Meaning, of course, I was being told a blatant lie, no matter how I looked at it So why was I fired? To this day I have no idea I admit I can be stubborn and not see when I’ve done wrong or assume what I’m doing in the present is fine and then see it was very bad in hindsight, but I’m near-obsessive about doing things right in work (exactly because working in retail you CAN just get fired out of the blue like this, you are indeed expendable) and after scouring through my memories I can’t find anything that I did that was so wrong it would warrant kicking me out, especially as I wasn’t fired directly either- they went to my boss before me (as you can imagine this ticked me off- because if there were problems why not tell me, the person responsible?)It ehh– really affected my confidence with working, but I had to jump right back into the next available job- because of the aforementioned benefits for a few weeks I had literally only what the last job left me with (it was around £160 or something at the beginning?) The new job is a cook for staff of a retail store :3 The boss there is much more understanding and patient, and the best part is for my night shifts I work alone, so I can just do whatever which is a lot more relaxing honestly XD (obviously, I get all my work done though)Last thing I’ll say- why didn’t I dispute it with Starbucks? A few reasons 1) I don’t want to work for someone who fires people for no reason, tbh 2) It’s not like Starbucks is my dream job, I may be expendable to them but they are likewise expendable to me c83) It IS illegal to fire someone without reason, but their reason was ‘the security pass ran out’- so, legally, they have a reason and it’s not like anyone in Starbucks or the airport would have taken my side anyway4) In short, there was no point TL;DR- I lost my old job on unfair grounds and I now have a new one which doesn’t pay as good xP First world problems, eh?

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