Exhausted mum needing to rant!
This last week has been absolute hell. With my DD having threadworms and me becoming sick with Covid the exact same day and now I have been let go at my job!
I have been working at this job for 2 years and it was absolutely perfect for me and my situation. I'm a single mum and my daughter goes to school and with this job I was able to work whilst she was at school, still do drop off and pick ups and it's the same as all of the employees. We all worked around our children's school.
Ever since I have started she has never been nice to me, she'd talk to me for nosiness but most times she'd get on at me, shout at me, she had once indirectly called me stupid as well I have always bit my tongue and done my job because the money and work frame was to hard to get. Well, one day as I was putting my coat on to leave and to rush to go pick up my DD she had asked me to do something and I said that I've clocked out I'm about to leave to do the school run and she said no do this and when I said no we went back and fourth but after I said no she kept repeatedly saying I won't have a job to come back to if I don't do this, she said to three times in a kitchen full of all the staff who all froze and was watching it happen. Now we all know how she is, the other staff get it to but not as bad as I have. I did what she asked with tears in my eyes and I was crying before I even left the door. I had messaged her that I want a meeting with the owner which is her husband because I think it was out of order and you aren't allowed to threaten someone's job especially in front of other staff. It was humiliating. My boss has always been on a power trip. It's a family run business.
Well I had the meeting with the husband and he was lovely. He said he completely understood and he watched the cameras back, everything was fine. For the next two weeks she didn't utter a word to me at all and I actually started waking up not being worried seeing her at work.
Well I've been off for the summer now as I am term time and I've been waiting for my start date to go back to work. Yesterday she said she did not have any hours around the times I need for my DD. I responded that I could work the close shift 3 days out of the week as my DD has started after school clubs and she said no we will be fine.
To me, it feels very personal and I think she was waiting to do this for a long time. Everyone else's shifts are the same, not a problem. I came across a job ad today, she is looking for two more people with morning hours advertised. Literally what I did.
I'm not unemployed not knowing what to do going forward.
I've started the job hunt journey and hopefully I can find something.
I'm just mentally over this week already.