Today, I received an email from a temp agency trying to hire me. Surprisingly, it was the same job I was just laid off from after two years of great employment. They were trying to hire me at half my original salary. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I went to ask my boss for a raise. Turns out they are firing 35 people. I wasn't on the list until I asked for a raise. FML
Today, after getting my dream job and quitting my old one, I was told my position is strictly "experimental" and will only last 2 months. FML
Today, I overheard my boss stressing out over finding a replacement for me. I didn't know I was leaving. FML
Today, it's been two months since I started a three-year contract at a new job. So far, 5 people have resigned. Pretty sure I've joined a sinking ship. FML
Today, I finally started my job as an in-home caregiver. The man I was hired to care for died two hours after I made it to his house. FML
Today, I was fired for having a haircut that was 'inappropriate for the workplace'. I have alopecia. My boss told me to stop making up excuses. FML
Today, my boss sent me a message about a project, via WhatsApp. It's my day off, so I figured it could wait till I was able to give a flying fuck. Literally a minute later, he was spamming me, demanding to know why I'd left him as read and reminding me that he has firing powers. FML
Today, I showed up for my first shift in my new night job; I now work at an apartment complex during the day and at a gas station at night. It turns out that our biggest problem tenant in the former happens to be my boss in the latter. FML
Today, I was told it was inconvenient for me to take lunch breaks, because someone else has to answer the phones and no one else wants to actually do any work. FML
Today, I arrived at work six minutes late due to heavily congested traffic. This is just two days after my boss put out a memo saying that anyone who's late to work from then until the new year will have their holiday bonus pay forfeited. FML
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theswarm666x 1
wouldn't that be a bit illegal? firing you just to pay you less? it is kinda indirect but still.
rp3k99 0
Take your job back, just work half as much and see what you can get away with.
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HunterStockton 0
Definitely illegal in the UK, and I would be very surprised if it were not so in the US. I live in the Channel Islands which has incredibly archaic employment law and is massively in favour of the employer, but this is still illegal over here. Take legal advice on it, you'd probably have a good shot at winning your full paycheque for the period up until they offered you the new job plus damages.
Bucinka 5
They're a bunch of douches. Slimebags. I don't know if Tennessee is a "hire at will" state. Here in Maryland, which is "hire at will," it's legal. That doesn't make it ethical.
starberries 0
It's "employment at will". "Hire at will" would mean you could hire someone whenever you want to, which is pretty much universal. And it's still illegal to lay someone off and then hire someone for the same job.
duan 2
that happens alot