I admittedly don’t know all of the details, but my workplace fired a friend of mine who’d been there for nearly two decades. I am confident that…
Posted by
Qale
Jul 9 '23, 09:51
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…it wasn’t something nefarious like theft or physical/sexual attacks. It wasn’t time and attendance. And it probably wasn’t cash handling or anything. They were in middle-management between myself and my department manager and had a LOT of interaction with us and customers.
I have to think it was a vengeful customer that made it their life to try and get him gone. I think back to that instacart person who tried to do that to me recently. Thankfully my friend intervened. This friend was someone I nominated for a company-wide award last year due to how much they helped fellow employees above and beyond. He’d stock OTC medications, condiments, and lotion/moisturizer. He’d find ways to work with you on break schedules if you had something important. He facilitated the group chat.
And now he’s gone.
I’m very angry. As you know, I also got let go a few years ago from this company. May 2020 the ever changing rules of COVID caught me in their trap. I was fortunate that I still had some friends in management at my old store (where I started and where I am now). I got rehired as soon as eligible more or less. But now, my home store has the stink that all corporations of this size get. That we’re just cogs and we’re only employed here until they decide otherwise. Loyalty and working relationships don’t matter. Years of services don’t matter. Even quality of work doesn’t actually matter.
Go in. Do your hours. Get paid. That’s all that’s left at the end of the day when you work for such a place.
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