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Fired From New Job Suddenly (An Update To My Last Post)
  • orozcom
    When I wrote my last post to this site last time, I dreaded my job at the bank, and it was about a week after that post that I was contacted by a company for a new position. The way I had come about on that new job was because I did not qualify for a Staff Accounting position (which was what I had originally applied for), the company was hiring for a new position as an Accounting Clerk. I interviewed for the job and they really liked me; as soon as I was hired for this job, I gave my notice to the bank the following day.

    In hindsight, there might have been a problem with that Accounting Clerk position when that financial department didn't have too many tasks for me to complete. I either had to walk back and forth from my desk and ask for a task every 5-10 minutes, or I asked other people in a different department if there was anything I could do for them. Overall, I was more like an Office Assistant, but I still held on to the premise that I would be trained for something more in my immediate career.

    On Monday of this week, I finally got the opportunity to prove my worth when my HR representative presented me with a training schedule to learn the auditing and accounting functions for their different franchises in California. Everything was great until I got back from my break yesterday afternoon, when my HR representative sat me down and told me that I because their needs have changed and I didn't fit the professional capacity in my department, my position was being terminated immediately. On the surface in those few minutes, I smiled, thanked them for the opportunity and took my last paycheck. After I was well distanced from the office, naturally I cried and I felt angry and hurt (which I still am).

    The company never gave me a chance to prove my worth for the company, never gave me any real responsibilities to begin with, and their decision was a big slap to my face; now I have no job and I have to start over again my job search (which is going to be as long and tedious as last time, only worse because I have no income anymore).

    I don't know what to do because everything is still so fresh, and I don't know if this fiasco will affect my job search. I am wondering if anyone else has been in my situation and how the situation was handled in a tough time like this.
  • geekgirlweb
    I had something very similar happen to me recently and I'm still coping with it. It was about time to leave my job of almost a year on good terms, especially because a great position seemed to have open up for me. It would have meant twice the salary, a great organization, travel, lots of great benefits. I got my hopes very very high. Then all of the sudden while I was waiting to hear back from them, I found out that they were letting the entire department go, this included the guy who would be hiring me!

    I'm now torn between looking for another job to pay off my student loans or to go back to school and finish my degree and make the loans at least worthwhile!

    It's all a learning experience. I've been going to meditation classes and dabbling in Buddhism and it really helps. As well as trying to exercise, cook, keeping a sense of regularity in other areas of my life that I need to improve on.

    I wish you the best of luck, it can be hard to feel like you're in such a tough place, keep your head up.
  • kindaslightly
    I, too, was in a similar position at the start of this summer. I was unhappy at my job and started to sniff around to see what else was out there. I had an interview one day for a part-time position, and although it was no longer 40 hr/wk I was willing to accept, however I had to wait a few weeks before they could decide and speak about salary. The next day [Thursday], I was getting ready for work and was told I could have the rest of the week off as we were slow. I was a little nervous, but figured what the heck, I haven't had a vacation in awhile, so I tried to enjoy myself.

    The following Monday I went in for work and was immediately laid off. I was told it was due to lack of work coming in, and how money was tight. I "took it like a man" until I got to my car and sobbed for over an hour. I know I was unhappy, but all I could think about was how was I going to pay rent next month.

    Eventually, the people I interviewed with hired me on, and I was making more hourly than my previous job, but my hours were decreased significantly. I was desperately grabbing at any other part-time job I could find, as well as full-time, but there wasn't anything else out there at the time. I went two months with only working about 10 hours a week.

    On top of all this, I had filed for unemployment, which was helping me out a lot, but then my previous employer contested it, and later filed for an appeals, stating that I was laid off for job performance [which was never discussed with me or mentioned], thus making me unable to be qualified for unemployment benefits. After 3 months of dealing with this, the department of labor favored for my previous employer and I had to pay back 3 months of payment to the DOL within 30 days, which totaled close to $2,000.

    Needless to say I was, and still am, devastated. Thankfully I went 3 years of living rent free and I was able to save up quite a large amount in a savings account, but I've been hurting ever since I was laid off, and now that I've had to pay back all the DOL benefits, I'm terrified of losing my apartment, or racking up debt that I feel like I'll never be able to pay off.

    I've been keeping my head up though, because otherwise I just feel worthless and makes me think terrible things. I've since found a second part-time job which is helping, and I've picked up a lot of odd jobs, but I'm still searching for that full-time that will hopefully magically appear and want to hire me.

    I'm in the same boat as you. All you can do is just keep trying and try to get help from those few resources that are out there.

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