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why I feel like I got fired
🕑 Added 2024-02-05 18:34:48 +0000 UTCahhhhemmmm, here's a novel. settle in :D
feeling better since getting fired, but willing to talk shit about my workplace.
I got a job working in finance, as a financial analyst at a casino. I had 2 interviews and took an excel test. I didn't lie on my resume other than to say that instead of doing book keeping for myself, I did book keeping for a friend's small business, as people tend to not take you seriously when you list how many things you do for your own business for some reason. regardless, I did an excel test and they knew where I was with excel. they knew I had zero experience with high volume data sets and had never worked in an office setting with any kind of formal accounting.
the red flags:
the pay was very low for the industry standard and my state. I figured this was because it would be less responsibilities than other job listings. it was not. they expected me to do too many things and be good at them right away.
I wasn't told there WAS an employee development period or how long it was until more than half way through it. the last traditional job I held was more than 6 years ago and my employee development period was 3 months at that job, this one was only 60 days. I didn't gain access to the programs I needed until 5 days in, 4 of the days were holidays and I was sick with Covid for 2 weeks, my manager then got sick with covid after I returned.
they complained about employee turn over rate for the casino in meetings.
they fired me on day 59 3/4ths out of 60. meaning I was good enough to keep stringing along until the final second that it would have been a problem because they would have had to involve HR in order to fire me on day 60 onwards.
I was reprimanded for swearing by a man who swore all the time. he said he "swore like a sailor" and that I needed to stop swearing, or at least act like it was an accident. to my knowledge, I had never sworn in any context at the job, but if I did, it was super minimal and not ever in emails or in writings or meetings. I spent 95% of my day in my cubical and my only human interactions were to ask my manager questions and to get lunch.
my manager accused me of saying that I thought the job was boring when I said that "it's boring here" in reference to me decorating my cubical as I was actively decorating it.
"You're settling in?" -director noticing me hanging dog photos
"haha, ya, it's a little boring here" -me as I continued to hang artwork. I meant boring as in "Sterile" and he willfully decided to misinterpret my statement. he told me that it sounded like I wasn't interested in the job. I told him that If was looking to leave, I wouldn't have dyed my hair back to pink, as blonde hair interviews better. he told me he didn't give a shit about my hair. after he had just told me to stop swearing.
FUCKING. MATT RIFE. there is a comedian who is playing some shows at the casino and there are like 5 shows. we had historically never had a comedian perform that many shows, or paid a comedian this high of a rate. he had his shows nearly sold out and we were all talking about how good the money would be for the casino. I said that I was interested to see where his career would go, because everyone online seems really mad at him right now, but if he's selling out shows like this, it seems like cancel culture isn't really real. I got reprimanded for "talking about politics" when I questioned "politics?" the director told me to just keep my opinions to myself.
the director emailed me to accuse me of changing my profile photo in Microsoft office. He thought that I removed a photo of myself and placed a flat pink background with my initials. I explained that I didn't have access to change my portrait, that my manager had told me it gets updated through IT, but if it was a problem, I'd be happy to reach out to IT to ask them to update it. he told me that I should feel lucky that my "mugshot" wasn't up yet via email. when i didn't reply, he came over to my desk to repeat the joke. to what.... force me to laugh ? SO WEIRD.
he asked me to pull the L&P for a department from 2019 and gave me 45 seconds to reply, I explained that I hadn't had the chance to even open the program and he seemed disappointed. He then asked me if I wanted him to show me how to do it and I said that I did want to see. He never showed me.
frequently the instructions to perform the tasks I was assigned were bad or incomplete. I was then reprimanded for not knowing how to complete them on my own.
it sucks because a lot of the parts of the job were really cool, I loved the data of it all and knowing things and learning. I liked my coworkers and manager, I loved walking through the casino and I showed up early every day. the director just didn't like me.
Comments
Tony
Sorry to hear that about the job. The manager seems like a real prick. Hopefully things improve for you.
Jusmar
Thanks for sharing with us MK. Stringing you along and not making a development cycle clear is such a horrible thing to do. I know your next job will be better.
