4 months unemployed in Current Events

Today is my four-month anniversary of when I was let go from my previous place of employment. I had that job for thirteen years. That job was almost my whole life for thirteen years. I spent a lot of time hating that place but not knowing how to just quit it. Then it finally just quit me. I knew that my neck was going to be on the line when I reported my operations manager for being a predator. He ended up getting a lot of support from operators of other stores that felt that employees are okay to fraternize and have marital affairs with. “So long as they are legal then it’s all good.” If you stand in the way of somebody’s career progression then they are vulnerable. Their behaviour was not okay. They ask their employees for compromising selfies and then show them off to each other. They’ve had an employee pick them up from an event topless once. This behaviour is just not okay so I reported it. What they did was transfer the predator to the other end of the city. Let things cool down and then fired me over a nine-year-old write-up. Since then they had fired everybody that was loyal to me. Literally sat them down and said that they would gladly accept their resignation if they did not like their decision to terminate me. The reason they terminated me was to transfer that predator back to his original area. He’s already inviting his employees over for movie nights where he gets them drunk and then God knows what.

I just got off the phone with Erin, she called to let me know that they just terminated her on Friday. She had some questions about the whole process. I’m upset that she was not treated with any dignity whatsoever. Her employer, my old boss, was giddy and said that he had been waiting for a reason to fire her. Like… gross. Karamjeet has been helping the operators find any reasons that could be “just cause” to terminate anybody that was my friend. It’s been four months now and I’m still not as over it as I could be. I want to move on, I have been waiting for my friends to stop talking about work and I suppose that I will no longer to hear about it. Jess is the last one standing. She will be fired next I’m sure.

The restaurants are not unionized so nobody is able to help. No Human Rights commission, Labour Board or Employment Standards can help in any way. So I suppose that I just feel… like there is an injustice for what is happening. That I lost a battle here and I don’t know how to accept defeat. I need to find a way to move on and let go but it’s just hard. I want them to pay, I want to hurt them back. I just don’t have any ammo.

Last updated August 25, 2019