Week Long Weirdness

When I was 20, I was hired as a undercover security guard at a book store. Once I was hired, I was given a training schedule, which was to report to the book store and train for a day with the security guard for all the duties, which included locking up the store.  At the first training shift I went in at the scheduled time and spoke with the store manager only to find out that there was no one there to train me. I was told to go home and come back tomorrow. So I went in to train the next day. This time however, the security boss was there, he trained me for 30 minutes, sent me home told me to come back the next day to learn the closing duties.  So I go back again, but it’s the same story; Friday rolls around same thing happens again again.

Now at this point I was expected to work Monday with no training, no keys to lock up the store and no codes to arm the security system. I figured since I didn’t have the security boss’s phone number he would call me over the weekend to sort out new training times, but this never happened.  So on Monday, I decided to go down to the head office and get the security boss to take me through closing procedures so I can at least close up that night.  Of course he was not there; I was told by the store manager to head home and my boss would contact me later. He calls me that night at home and fired me. Two years later my friend applied for the same job that I had at this bookstore and he was scheduled for an interview which the boss forgot about.

Comments (4)

EutieMarch 17th, 2010 at 9:27 am

God that sounds terrible…

tronnerMarch 17th, 2010 at 10:34 am

Sounds like you dodged a bullet – but did he give you a reason for firing you?

AndrewMarch 17th, 2010 at 3:02 pm

And did you get paid for the little time you trained?

SikaMarch 17th, 2010 at 8:36 pm

I got fired from a job like that once. The manager was never there so I just had to make due. Then after two weeks of fumbling, he comes up to me and tells me it’s just not going to work out. The worst part was he told me this the very next day after I put in notice at my other job. fml.

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