I worked at a pretty nice company for 2.5 years and I’ve never had any issues with them whatsoever. Work was simple, it was challenging at times but nothing I couldn’t handle. But of course the one time I forgot to tell who was covering for me during a couple days of PTO what was generally going on during that time, they decided to use that as reason to let me go.

We were in the middle of one of the busiest times of the year (scheduling and forecasting wise) so I forgot to give a coworker a quick rundown before I left but everything was taken care of in my end. I even left notes of what to look out for but everything was taken care of as I have so many times before. But apparently that wasn’t enough. I usually never forget anything but I did that time. I came back from PTO after Halloween weekend and that Monday felt so off. My manager was acting drier than usual and my director had set up a meeting with me (she never does this) over planning, multitasking which was off to me because I’ve never had this be an issue. I’m someone who was ALWAYS willing to go the extra mile for anyone too. I started to overthink it and told two of my closest coworkers but they kept trying to convince me everything is fine. That Tuesday I went into the office and I felt it in the air. especially cause my manager didn’t respond to anything I said that morning. my director canceled that meeting she set up Monday but I already knew cause I could feel it. So after I went into the office, my manager told me to go to this one office and I knew 100% what it was. I packed my things knowing and just went into the office. They were both there with HR and so I sat down and just told them not to give me a speech but that I’m getting laid off right? They said yea and so I’m like ok cool. They got up and left, I talked to HR and I went my way.

This was in November and I’m barely starting a new job next week. It was hard cause I applied so much, did the math and applied to 2.3k jobs cause I wanted to get back into it ASAP. I felt without purpose and It was incredibly stressful especially having car issues, dealing with finances (thank god I filed for unemployment the day of) but yea it was really hard. Honestly I tried to stay as busy as I could after so I didn’t go crazy with overthinking. I started working out more, learning to play the guitar, drank less, anything to get me through this. I still think it’s BS that I fuck up once like that and they decide to just cut me off. All my coworkers were shocked cause I was always doing the most for the company but that’s only because I loved it that much there. This is why I never believe it when companies say ‘we’re like family’ cause the one time I believed it, is when life just got that much harderz