I know its been awhile since Ive done a blog but I recently just got fired from my job at Target . I tell you how it happened. I just got back from having a nice 5 days off. I really needed them. I was excited to go back to work. The last 3 months had been really frustrating. I was dealing with getting over losing a really good friend at work. Her name was Jennifer Soucy, but I'll go into that another time. So I go into work on Thursday January 5th. I see well I am painting the pizza's (pizza hut term of preparing the pizza's) i see that my team had panned too much dough. So i saw that I would have to throw away like 45 pans of pizza dough. So I really did have enough money to buy myself anything so I made my self a buffalo and bacon pizza for myself. I go into the break room to eat it and then My STL (Store Team Lead) came in and saw me eating it and he got all mad cause I didn't make him one. So he is like did you pay for that and I kinda panicked and said yea. But he still would not let it be and he was like were is your receipt and was like I throw it away. And he still kept going on about it and was like I think we may have to look at the camera's to see if you really did. I was like Ok go ahead. So i go in the next day thinking everything is cool and stuff. On my way to go upstairs to the food court for lunch the AP Ex. tells me that Don (the STL) wanted to talk to me. So I was like ok. So I follow Hal into Don's office. He wanted to see me about what happened on Thursday about the pizza that I said that I paid for. He said that they looked on the camera and saw that I didn't pay for it. So I finally broke down and said that I didn't and said that I would pay for it. But they said that it was late and that they had to go to their "partners" whatever the hell that meant.He also told me that their was a rumor going around that me and Jennifer were dating. Of course I was still numb to the fact that I was probably going to get fired that I really couldn't denied it. All I said is that I would rather be a Bruins fan then date that stupid bitch. so I got upstairs for my lunch. I know that I'm done for. I didn't eat anything on my lunch. I go back to work after my lunch but I was just totally to numb to really do anything. Around 230ish I tell my team member that I am going to the bathroom. I was really going to go see what the verdict was on my job. On my way to the bathroom Hal meets me and said that a decision has been made. So I walk with him to Don's Office. I walk in and see the envelope on his desk and im like yea Im done. I have been fired before so yea. So I just broke down. I had told myself that i was going to commit suicide if I had lost this job. I really liked it there and I really wanted to retire with Target. So I cool down and left. I just hung out around the mall for like 3 hours. I was just so Numb. I called and texted a few people and told them. The next few days I just was depressed to do anything. I really did want to end it all. I was just so sick and tired of not being able to keep and hold a job. I just felt like such I horrible husband to Melissa. I felt like she could do so much better then me. Give her everything that she deserves that I clearly could not.
So finally I got the strength to go look for a job and I applied at Dave and Busters in Braintree as a line cook. Working in the kitchen has been something I have always wanted to do for a career since I was taking culinary arts in high school. When I tried going into the Marines i was going to go in as a cook but that didn't work out cause of my eye's. Then I worked at Chilies for a few weeks in '98 but that really didn't work out either. So I just work retail for the next 14 years. Toward the tail end of it I was really hating it. I hated dealing with the customers and just the bullshit of retrial in all. So I guess it was a good thing that I got fired. So anyway i spoke with the kitchen manager on Thursday Jan. 12th. I went well. He said that he would get back to me on Tuesday Jan. 17th. Well that past and still no call. I was starting to get really be depressed. I really wanted this job more then anything. So I was like look the only way im going to get this is just by being a pest and keep on calling.So I did. Then I Thursday I was like ok Im just going to go in and talk to him. So I did and he offered me the job. It really didn't hit me right away. But later it did. It was finally good to be going into a career that I have been wanting to do my whole life.
So after 14 years I am FINALLY done with reatail and stupid customers. I am so happy. I can't wait to start my new career.
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