Unemployed and Depressed.

[fenderlove]

Guess who no longer has a job? That's right! Me! Got fired this afternoon, but do you want to know what really grates me? They waited until 5PM today to do it just as I was walking out the door. Just had to put my soul through one last full day of torment, didn't they? It was so nonchalant that it really pissed me off. Apparently, I wasn't a good "fit" with the company. And to top it off, due to the way in which they have classified my termination, I will not be able to collect unemployment. Way to be true winners at life right there. They have the audacity to say that my performance was "unsatisfactory" when I worked my ass off for them, changed things over and over again on every little fucking whim they had. I worked over 200 bloody hours of unpaid overtime in six months! WTF?! I'm totally going to bundle up the ugly company shirts in a bag and stuff them in the mailbox outside the office. Screw them to the rafters, I say. I'm less angry now and more disappointed than I was earlier. At least I'll get to sleep in later tomorrow, but somehow I doubt I'll be sleeping at all tonight.

Comments

[emac66.livejournal.com]

Oh sweetie....that's terrible! Well, you are most likely better off and I'm sure something better will come your way. I don't get how that termination doesn't allow for unemployment, adn is there some way of tracking your overtime hours. . If you have records of that, the very least you can do is complain to the BBB. Let other out there know how they work and what they do to their employees. If you have those OT records and non payment, surely you can do something about that?
I have a friend in Germany going through much the same thing. things will look up for you I know it. In the meantime, have a good sleep in today, and terrific cup of coffee and gain a new perspective.

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

I don't get how that termination doesn't allow for unemployment,
It's because my termination was classified as "unsatisfactory performance" which means they are accusing me of not performing my job at all, which means that the unemployment office is unlikely to want to give me my rightful money. However, I was on the phone today with the unemployment office and they told me that I could appeal and that if it was well-written then I could get unemployment benefits. However again, they are not currently paying unemployment for the time I was working (they are only paying for January through March 2009, and won't be paying for the time I have worked for at least four more months).

is there some way of tracking your overtime hours.
I kept track of my overtime hours, but the company kept no official records of overtime because they don't want to pay it. They actually got very angry when they found out I was keeping track of my time.

*hugs* I feel freer and somewhat happier not being there definitely, but I just don't want the reason they are claiming for my termination to keep me from getting another job.

[anyagotr.livejournal.com]

Another problem with that termination is that they have to PROVE that your work was unsatisfactuary for the company, ad as far as unpaid overtime... that's agenst the law. They can NOT do that. Its probably why they got upset at you for doing it, and probably another reason you were let go.

*hugs* Keep up on the unemployment office. :)

[fenderlove.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, they can make it look anyway they want. They've got a few ditzy cows who work there who have taken credit for my work in the past and, if it meant keeping their jobs, they'd tell everyone who'd listen that they'd done everything even if they don't know how to use any of the programs or anything. I can always appeal but as I said in response to your other comment, by the time they actually start paying for the period I was working, I'll already have another job and won't see a dime of unemployment.

[anyagotr.livejournal.com]

So pretty much, you were screwed over like I was. I'm really REALLY sorry about that. I know how that is. Had it done to me twice. I actully got fired from one of my jobs because my manager didn't believe that women should work, and I was the only woman there. I couldn't apply for unemployment at all because I was only there 2 months and 29 days, not the full 3 months that the state required at the time. My other one... that's a screwed up mess, but I know how it is to be screwed over at a job like that.

Congrats on the new job though! You're doing better then me. lol.