After just saying last night how things are on an upswing, life has to turn around and bite me in the ass.
As some of you know, I’m planning on moving to NY. Currently, I am on a long term assignment for a with a particular local company through a temp agency. I have been very upfront with both the temp agency and my assignment about my plans. When I made the decision to move, I told them that I was flying to NY to find a job, and that there was a good possibility that I wasn’t coming back. I told them when my flight dates were, kept them updated as things came along, everything. After today, I had three days left to work. BOTH companies were up to date on my plans.
At lunch, the temp agency came to drop of our checks. I was told that they needed to speak to me for a moment. No problem, I waited for him to be free. Then he told me that the company I was assigned to “found out” about my plans and thought it would be best if my assignment ended that day. The more I thought about it, the more bullshit it was. I’d been honest, and now, three days before I was planning on leaving, they decide that my presence is no longer welcome.
I went to lunch, fumed a lot, and decided that I could not continue the rest of the day out. When I got back, I walked up to my supervisor, handed him my badge, and told him I didn’t think it would be a good idea for me to continue through the rest of the day. I then picked up my bags and left. When I got home, I called the temp agency to find out how they were going to handle my last check. (I have it direct deposited, but I still needed to get the stub, and I wasn’t going to be in town to get it.) That’s when I was told that my former supervisor called them and told them that I came in and started throwing things, throwing a fit and left, and they would like it if my pay were docked for the time that I actually left, since the time cards were already turned in. The docking of pay didn’t bother me. I expected that. The fact that they LIED numerous times is what pisses me off. The temp agency believed me (or said they did) and said they would still give me a good recommendation when it came time for potential employers to contact them. This is, so far, the only saving grace of the situation.
I found out later, from one of my coworkers, that my former supervisor went around to everyone and told them the reason I was let go was because “I hadn’t made my situation clear”. What wasn’t clear about it? I told them what was going on as I knew it. If they weren’t comfortable with the fact that I didn’t know if I was coming back, why did they wait a month to come to that conclusion? Why the hell didn’t they come to me before this and talk to me about it? Ask me if something didn’t seem clear? No, it’s easier to let someone go 3 days before they’re supposed to leave anyway, and then act like the injured party. Screw them.
What pisses me off was the numerous lies on the part of my former supervisor. First, that they were unaware of my plans. Then that I threw a fit, throwing things around. Finally the lie to my coworkers that I had made my situation “unclear”. This isn’t the first time he’s done this… I’ve been there when he’s screwed over other coworkers/friends, telling the temp agency one thing, the coworkers something else, and the fired employees something entirely different. He’s in the process of screwing over more people now, which I’ve found out now that I’m gone. He tries to act all so concerned, but instead the prick just does his best to get the ones out that he, personally, has a problem with. There’s a part of me that’s glad I’m gone… I don’t have to deal with it any more. But there’s another part of me that is ashamed by it. I have never been fired from a job, never been let go from a position. I know it’s a part of life, but… AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!
If nothing else, though, this has taught me to never be honest when I see that I have a situation changing. I’m only going to get screwed every damned time.
Virtual eavesdropping equipment set up to monitor your current assignment after you’re gone will be available in the Lounge, and all dartboards are customizable to depict one’s current supervisor. Diet-breaking goodies are in the fridge, identical to the ones your co-workers bring in but look at you funny when you help yourself to.