I started working at this place as a cashier just a couple weeks ago and then of fucking course this happens. Last Tuesday as I was leaving work my boss told me he’d call me tomorrow with the coming week’s schedule. He didn’t, but the online scheduling app was updated the next day with all my shifts for the next two weeks.

So I figured that was just signifying the end of my training or whatever and that they’d finally slotted me into the schedule. But today when I looked at the schedule again I saw all of my hours were gone.

I called this morning to find out what the fuck was going on and my boss told me he thought I had quit because I didn’t show up to one unscheduled shift he called me in for last Thursday morning. I must’ve missed his calls that day, he says he left two voicemails but my phone must’ve eaten them because I didn’t see those either.

I was profusely apologetic over the phone, but he told me that he’d already hired two new employees. He didn’t outright fire me, he said I’d be “on call” from now on, but this is a shitty seasonal job, I don’t have high hopes I will be hearing back.

This is fucking bullshit. I had to buy the fucking uniform myself. Now I’m back at square one, and I have not the slightest inkling how the hell I’m supposed to go the rest of my life continuously subjecting myself to the dehumanization and humiliation of job searching all to work minimum wage for asshole small business tyrants like this guy and my previous employer.

The cherry on top is that once again I’m pretty sure I didn’t work long enough to qualify for unemployment payments, same thing happened at my last job where I was laid off via ghosting. I can never quite say it enough, but fuck this piece of shit country.