I've been let go from my job and I'm devastated. The company I was working for knew I was having MH issues after suffering a lot of bereavement and upheaval in my life, I lost my lovely Mum in July last year, my horse in October and we moved house that month too following a 10 month conveyancing process. I was out of work for 2 months whilst all this was going on and then found this job in Oct last year, it's a role I really enjoy. Durung this time I finally found another horse to buy which was meant to be my fresh start, but despite all my precautions the horse has turned out to be a huge disappointment because he has health issues I was unaware of, I am waiting to see if I can go down the legal route against the seller for false misrepresentation so have also been trying to sort this out.
Then at work they cut my hours from 5 days to 3 because there wasn't enough work to do, which there wasn't, to be fair because a lot of the design was being held up by the client which meant I couldn't do what I'd been brought in to do through no fault of my own. I've been there over 4.5 months on a freelance basis and loved it, worked really hard and everything is up to date and filed correctly.
I was essentially doing my job but they didn't like the fact that I was feeling overwhelmed, I actually broke down in tears over a team meeting last Friday from the pressure of everything and handed in my notice. I spoke to one of the bosses as I left on Friday and it was left for me to have the weekend and Monday and Tuesday off to decide if i wanted to continue in my role.
So Monday and yesterday I was off and in between taking my horse back and foward from the hospital for a diagnosis of his condition I decided I woukd like to stay and explained by text that I'd been under considerable pressure and apologised that this had spilled into my work and I was willing to start a fresh today. There was a crisis meeting of sorts held on Monday apparently and then I went back in today only to find out I was being let go, presumably through lack of work and the fact I broke down in tears last week. I'm heartbroken. I feel so sad about the way my life has turned out and so desperately sad about the future and angry that I felt so overwhelmed.
I know its the nature of working in this type of industry and especially being freelance but I feel they could have handled it better, apparently the rest of the team were told yesterday before I was even told today.
I've applied for a job already and I have no doubt I'll get one soon but I just feel really down.