Yesterday was a pretty bad day. I went to work like usual and then when I looked at the schedule for next week..I had one day. The schedule after that, I wasn't even on.
Now..I work full time mind you in my position. I do visual merchandising. I've been at my job for 4 years. I've never been written up, had any problems etc...I do my job well. A few months ago, management switched and the new manager for whatever reason did NOT like me. She would ride me for everything, she treated me like shit, she made my work a living hell....she even told people I was stealing. All the employees then looked at me weird. I never felt the same going into work. She even wrote me up for job performance because of something really stupid. I almost quit then but I stuck around because I liked my job and what I did.
Now , there are certain things I can't do ,like lift over a certain poundage etc because of my medical issues. This manager told me I needed to bring in my medical records with a diagnoses on it to prove it. Because I "look fine". And she doesn't believe I'm sick. So I ended up calling hr....which ruffled feathers but also made it so they couldn't fire me just because. Nevada is a right to work state...so literally you can get fired because the manager doesn't like you.
Now, this manager ended up getting transferred out and we were without a store manager for 3 months, but the assistant, who was friends with this manager, ran the store. In the past 3 months my hours went from 5 days, to 4 days to 3 days, to 2 days to 1 day. They brought in a girl and told me she was there for holiday so I trained her up to do my job and then all of a sudden, she's working all my shifts. But then leaving me with tons of work. I'd be off, come in and stuff wasn't done. But i was the one who was getting in trouble.
So yesterday, when I went into to work, I asked what was going on. I called them out and asked why I had no hours. For me to drive all the way to where I worked from where I live (40 minutes) for a 4 hour shift is ridiculous. They told me they didn't know until I kept asking then they said basically said I trained my replacement. So I made the decision then to make yesterday my last day since essentially I was getting slowly fired.
It hurt me very much to leave. On top of that I got into a very big argument with my husband while all that was going on with work (wasn't because of work...he wanted me to quit because the stress wasn't good for me...it was a completely unrelated thing) . Which made yesterday even worse.
But not just that...every time I went to work the last 3 months..I was depressed. I dreaded going in. I didn't talk to anyone, no one talked to me...I literally went in, did my job and left. So I know it's for the better but it's 4 years of my life gone.
Now I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I want to focus more on my art and try to make a living on that but unfortunately a lot of people don't understand the value of art and want something for nothing. But I'm trying to stay positive that maybe this happened for a reason and a new door will present itself.
Anyways..hope you all have a great weekend. Thanks for letting me vent heh
Xoxo
Mara
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