Fired from my last job and i can't seem to past by it

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I recently got fired from my last job. I had worked for this company for 4 years, I was a hard worker, rarely called in sick and I was the first person my bosses would call because I was very reliable. I would put my name down for every promotion the company has to offer but tend to pass the promotion to someone else who had less seniority. I tried to ask my boss if it's anyway possible getting promoted but she tends to talk shit out her ass. I notice it was more of a favoritism and politics at work. Unfortunately, I wasn't the favorite group. I made a mistake of hanging out with my co-workers outside at work which brought the drama to work. I stop asking for promotions and started to put in transfers. After 3 years of rejections, I was luckily to get tranfered to a different store. Little did I know that this store had the worst managers out of all the district. I was able to stay a year. We lost our department manager so I had to step up my game and do things a manager would do but without the pay rate (scheduling, inventory, ordering merchandise ect.). We were short staffed and busy. I was overwhelmed with work. Once again I asked for a promotion and the manager was no different than my previous store managers. They were using me. We are a unionized company as well. I spoke with my representative, and I was informed I am not allowed to do half of these thing I was doing at work because I'm not a head department manager. I informed my boss Of the situation which he didn't take kindly of. I refused to do any of the task that a department manager would do. Around August, I was being told that I was investigated about paper work. 2 months later I was fired from my job. I can't get let go of the situation, I spoke with my union rep once again but I didn't think he was much of a help. I am scarred from the amount of bullshit I had to face from work. Do you believe I am taking this way too personal?

I apologize my grammar, I am typing this down while having a mental break down.

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  • wistfulmaiden
    8 years ago

    Sounds like a job I had. It is normal to take it personally but once you find another job you will care a lot less.

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    • 53739
      8 years ago

      I agree

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    • Jazyritz619
      8 years ago

      Thanks yo

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  • fudgebarr
    8 years ago

    I went through this a couple years ago. It was hell. They fired me a week before Christmas in front of a client that had just signed a huge contract with us because he liked my presentation. Then they tried to say I wasn't allowed to say goodbye to any of my work friends or get my stuff out of my office. I did anyway.I was seriously depressed for a while, but my mom and friends got me through it.. I have my own business now and they are losing clients right and left.

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  • thegypsysailor
    8 years ago

    By waiting to get fired from a job you obviously didn't like and weren't appreciated at, you have made it most difficult to use that job for a reference.
    If your union rep won't help you, then there is not much you can do to get satisfaction.
    I think your biggest mistake was repeatedly asking for a promotion. I can only base my assumptions on my own experience, but I gave promotions or pay raises when I thought they were warranted, not when the employee did. Continually being harassed by an employee would be counter productive, and push me away from giving the raise or promotion.

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    • Jazyritz619
      8 years ago

      I've asked to the main store manger 3 times for a promotion after that I stopped asking. There's more to the story, one of the supervisors was the one who didn't like me the most and because of that she's a family/friend with the store manager which is why I feel like maybe I didn't get the promotion? After getting transferred to a new store I did ask my new store manager that I was interested for a certain position since I had experience. He was putting words in my mouth by asking me if I wanted to be a department manager but I felt like it was a little too much. By the way the store has gone through 5 department managers and the store is 4 years old. Already, that's a red flag for me.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    8 years ago

    I can't get past this wall of text.

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  • jethro
    8 years ago

    File a grievance with either your union or the National Labor Relations Board. Even with your union they can't fire you for reason without some disciplinary first. They can fire you without a reason if you live in a state that has "at will" laws. They can fire you for any reason as long as they don't fire you illegally. Like if you are part of a protected group. Gay , old, veteran etc.

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    • Jazyritz619
      8 years ago

      I got fired for falsifying on temperature logs and product weight merchandise paperwork. I was never written up by management/ supervisor or got suspended nor did anyone tell me that by writing down some bullshit would lead me to being terminated. When I sat down to talk to HR about this I didn't know I needed a Union rep beside me to talk this through but little did I know this was gonna fired for this. We were short staffed, no manager, and no body bother doing paper work because we were to focus on making sales. Not just I but my clerks were informed to never turn in documents unwritten/ blank or otherwise we would get suspended. I even showed proof to HR that I wasn't the only one doing this. I still have the photos but the rest of the documents are at work.

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      • Jazyritz619
        8 years ago

        I just received word I am not qualified for unemployment. Unfortunately I don't have enough money to afford a lawyer.

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      • jethro
        8 years ago

        Like I said. File a grievance with the union. If they won't help, file a grievance against the local union with the national headquarters and then file a grievance with the NLRB on the company. On top of that, get an attorney. If you are represented, by a union, you have a contract. In that contract it should clearly state the steps that must be followed in order to fire someone. If the company didn't follow the contract, sue them. However, in the future, if someone tells you to do something that is wrong, tell your boss. If it is the boss that is telling you to do something wrong, tell HR. If HR won't do something about it, tell the owner of the company and always keep a log or journal and never surrender any potential evidence. If they want it for their records, make them copies and you keep the originals.

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  • Jazyritz619
    8 years ago

    Correct, my first boss was a woman then after getting transferred to a new store my recent boss was male but unfortunately the assistant boss was female (She had her crazy weird moments too). The assistant female boss would try to be friendly with you on one day then the next day she'll go after you. It freaked me the fuck out. I preferred to have a straight forward, no favoritism, hard working, honest boss but those are hard to come by.

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  • Jazyritz619
    8 years ago

    I snitched the kid out after I found out I was being investigated. If the company gonna take me down I'll take half the crew with me. I knew what I did was wrong but It's unfair for me. After the amount of time and hard work I've put into and this is how I'm being treated. It's such a cruel world. For now on I'm not gonna repeat the same mistakes when I find a new job.

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  • Jazyritz619
    8 years ago

    Meanwhile, I informed management about one of clerks smoking weed in the cooler yet I'm the one who got fired?! I still keep in touch with a few co-workers, apparently the clerk is still working there and his bad habits hasn't changed.

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