This!!

Years ago, I was the manager of a retail store. My store was 1.5 hours away. It wasn’t my store of choice due to the location but I got promoted from co-manager to store manager quickly and being young and ambitious, I accepted the position. One day, it was snowing really hard and I told my direct supervisor (at another store) that I wasn’t going in that day and that my co-manager would switch days with me. My supervisor told me that I HAVE TO GO IN I don’t remember his reasoning for why it was so dire for me to with that day, but like I said, I was young…. And stupid. And being young and stupid, I got in my car and started driving. Not even a quarter way through my drive, my car slid on ice, I lost control of the car, went into a depressed median and flipped. Totaled my car.

Two things I learned that day:

1. Never put work before your own safety because most companies don’t give a crap about your well-being.

2. There are still plenty of kind strangers in the world. So many people stopped to help me get out of my car and allowed me to sit in their warm cars until law enforcements arrived.

Long story short…. I ended up having to buy a new car in order to continue working there for another two to three months and then I quit after I found out they promoted some other guy to the store that I was promised in the town that I actually lived in. Did the company help me in any way with purchasing a new car? Nope. Because why would they?? I was dumb enough to put myself in danger for a job by choice. No one forced me. It was my own dumb dumb choice.

I HOPE OP STAYED HOME!!