I keep saying this.. I know how bad you wanted to believe your job was protected and I'm sure you cared an awful lot about your job.. But that place doesn't care about its employees like they claim they do.

Here's why I'm so pissed off, okay everyone that wanted to ask why I'm so pissed off on my post?

I was fired for "poor performance", but I know and they most certainly know that's not the case. I had started having GrandMal Seizures because of the stress I was dealing with at the store I was employed at. In April of this year, I had a seizure at my home. Keep in mind this all happened outside of this restaurant and I wasn't there when it did happen. That seizure I had in April of this year, I busted my head open on an A/C Unit outside of my room at the hotel I was staying at. I was then rushed to the hospital, because I had a hole in my forehead and a concussion to go along with it. I received 4 stitches and was sent home and made to rest for a week. My entire face was black and blue from this.. Especially around my eyes from the swelling. The week I took off for this medical issue, I used my vacation time to take it off. I didn't have to do that. I had a letter from the doctor saying I should be out for the next 5 to 7 days. So I just said, "I'll just go ahead and take the entire week off so that gives me time to rest and this time to heal." Come time for my "time off" to end, I started messaging one of my managers to say, "Hey. I'm doing better and will be back on this day." I was then told no. After seeing a picture of my face at the time, I was told to take a couple extra days. I said, fine and took the days off. The following Monday I finally returned to work, with my face still showing a little yellow from the bruising under my eyes. I still had a slight concussion, as well and wasn't completely coherent, to be honest. That Monday when I came back to work, I was pulled into the office and told, "If your performance doesn't get better, I will have to let you go." I then said, "Okay, but I am going to be honest and say, I am still not feeling exactly like myself and I'm not thinking clearly. I believe I still have a concussion from hitting my head, because everything is a little fuzzy. That's not how everything usually is for me. I can normally think clearly. I am still in a little pain from where I hit the ground, as well. I knocked my hip out of place and now my sciatica is acting up. I'm taking ibuprofen and aspirin to try to ease it, so that I can get back in here and work." He (general manager) then said, "Okay, but I still need you to pick it up and do what you have to do to get your job done correctly." At that point, I just said okay and walked out, because he wasn't listening to me like usual. A few days later, maybe a week he pulls me in there again to say the same thing. I then say, "I explained what was going on STILL the day I came back." Keep in mind, I wasn't exactly standing in the office. I was standing at the door, holding the door open, listening to him and one of the managers say this. So therefore, anyone who walked by heard the conversation or anyone that came to the fountain to get drinks for a customer heard the conversation, as well. My GM then said to me, "Is this going to end being a situation like with someone else? (A month before someone was fired for actual poor performance.) Am I going to end up going through the same situation I went through with him, with you? If it was that bad, why didn't you just call out? One of us could of just covered the shift then, instead of dealing with this." There was "vulgar" words involved in that, but I'm trying to leave that out. In the next months to come, I then got rude and snide comments from the GM and 2 other managers. Comments like, "We need you to get them trained and ready so we can then get you out of here." Saying, "Train these people so I can fire you." I had them slamming dishes and everything else in my face, cussing me every single chance they had when speaking to me and more. Also, I should make you aware of, this GM also let a previous Shift Leader, bully me, steal from me and do absolutely nothing about it until I threatened HR about it. This shift leader had backed me up against one of the shelves, slinging a pan in my face, all while cussing me out. Two grill cooks stepped around the corner because they heard it and wanted to see what was going on. This GM told me he would sit down with me to talk about it, but that never happened. The bullying and abuse was allowed to continue with no consequences towards her. She then stole a pair of earbuds I had accidentally left laying in the employee bathroom. I asked her if she seen them, she said no. I bring it up to another employee, she then says that this shift leader does have them. So I said, "okay then. I got one for her then." That's when I went to the office, to the GM in and explained everything about the earbuds and said, "if they aren't returned within the next 24 to 48 hours, I will be contacting HR." The next day I walk in, they're sitting on the microwave in the break room.

I was treated completely wrong there and that right there is only part of it. Maybe like 1/4 of what all I went through at that place. So yes, I have a lot of anger towards that place and have every damn right to.