Ugh, I feel all gwiggly.
Ok, so here is the lowdown...
8 months ago started working at the newspaper.
3 months ago new ad manager comes on.
I had been putting the recycling papers in the large trash can instead of the itty bitty cardboard box they use for recycling. i was told to put them in the box "over there" five months earlier. For five months I have been depositing papers in this particular bin and not one person noticed or said a thing.
One day my boss comes to the front as he was leaving and shouts into the ad office, "someone put newspapers in the garbage and they need to go in the recycling box (not marked as such, just a little cardboard box)."
He leaves and I ask my co-worker, "so where are they supposed to go?" She tells me and I am perplexed and kind of astonished that I have not been corrected before then. I verbalize this as the new ad manager comes out of her office and blasts a reprimand at me.
I say (in the same tone she used) I'm sorry but I don't just do things because I feel like it, I do them because I was told and I was told to put them there."
She didn't like that and for 4 days ignored me (while I was my cheery self).
A few months ago I email the publisher and let him know my schedule for next semester. I'll only be available to work Mon, Wed, and Fri. he says we'll talk later in the year (this was late August or early Sept). A month ago I email him and ask if he has thought more about my situation. He says he is still thinking on it.
Last week the ad manager calls me into her office and says, "so I hear you will be leaving us."
I say, I hope not.
She says yes. I need someone who can work 5 days a week (4 hours a day). I've been there 8 months and have bent over backwards and go above and beyond. I am never late, I work extra to make sure ads are run properly. If you ask me to do you a favor I HAPPILY do it.
But she apparently wants me gone (even though there have not been anymore issues and she basically ignores me, even though I say good morning every day).
So anyway, since I have gotten this news, she has also said that if they find the "perfect" person that she will let me go.
This afternoon at about 4 my co-worker calls and asks if she has called me, I say no and ask why. She said that the manager asked for my phone number.
I have this uneasy feeling that she is going to call me tomorrow morning and tell me not to come in.
If she does this, well first off I won't answer the phone, and second I'm going in. If she wants to fire me she can do it in person.
What do you all think?
Nc is a "work at will" state and you can be fired for anything or nothing.
I am eligible for EIB though. I'll get $105 a week for 26 weeks.
Plus I have made sure I have been on time and have been very helpful and cheery.
My stomache is churning.
Ok, so here is the lowdown...
8 months ago started working at the newspaper.
3 months ago new ad manager comes on.
I had been putting the recycling papers in the large trash can instead of the itty bitty cardboard box they use for recycling. i was told to put them in the box "over there" five months earlier. For five months I have been depositing papers in this particular bin and not one person noticed or said a thing.
One day my boss comes to the front as he was leaving and shouts into the ad office, "someone put newspapers in the garbage and they need to go in the recycling box (not marked as such, just a little cardboard box)."
He leaves and I ask my co-worker, "so where are they supposed to go?" She tells me and I am perplexed and kind of astonished that I have not been corrected before then. I verbalize this as the new ad manager comes out of her office and blasts a reprimand at me.
I say (in the same tone she used) I'm sorry but I don't just do things because I feel like it, I do them because I was told and I was told to put them there."
She didn't like that and for 4 days ignored me (while I was my cheery self).
A few months ago I email the publisher and let him know my schedule for next semester. I'll only be available to work Mon, Wed, and Fri. he says we'll talk later in the year (this was late August or early Sept). A month ago I email him and ask if he has thought more about my situation. He says he is still thinking on it.
Last week the ad manager calls me into her office and says, "so I hear you will be leaving us."
I say, I hope not.
She says yes. I need someone who can work 5 days a week (4 hours a day). I've been there 8 months and have bent over backwards and go above and beyond. I am never late, I work extra to make sure ads are run properly. If you ask me to do you a favor I HAPPILY do it.
But she apparently wants me gone (even though there have not been anymore issues and she basically ignores me, even though I say good morning every day).
So anyway, since I have gotten this news, she has also said that if they find the "perfect" person that she will let me go.
This afternoon at about 4 my co-worker calls and asks if she has called me, I say no and ask why. She said that the manager asked for my phone number.
I have this uneasy feeling that she is going to call me tomorrow morning and tell me not to come in.
If she does this, well first off I won't answer the phone, and second I'm going in. If she wants to fire me she can do it in person.
What do you all think?
Nc is a "work at will" state and you can be fired for anything or nothing.
I am eligible for EIB though. I'll get $105 a week for 26 weeks.
Plus I have made sure I have been on time and have been very helpful and cheery.
My stomache is churning.
: I agree with going in, if you're okay with that.
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