For the Old *18+ Chat*

Bold of you to assume I was ever alive.

Pokes head through the door

Hello? Anyone home? I'm kinda new to this "adulting" thing. I was wondering if it was smart to apply to McDonald's after I was just fired from my other job despite the fact that there's only a month left before I go off to college and I get a campus job. Do you think they'll even consider hiring me given the fact that I won't be there long and they'll have to spend time training me?

I think you should. I only worked my summer job for a month and it turned out fine.

I think it's always worth applying. I was hired pretty spontaneously for a 1 month job in a factory my first summer out of highschool even though i had no prior work experience simply because they needed to help covering all the people who left on vacation… So yeah. The worst they can do is say no.

I think the other problem is that I'm leaving in a few days to go down to Cape Cod for the Global Leadership Summit, so I don't think it would be smart to apply this week, even. I don't know at this point, I'm still miffed about being fired from my other job. It sucked and I always thought about quitting, but I figured I needed the paycheck. Wasn't paid much (or on time, for that matter), but I still figured I was pretty valuable given the fact that my boss was never there and it was just me and my mother working our asses off for the longest time.

My mother personally thinks I'm out of luck for now, but I'm already applying for a campus job. If not the one I want, I'll even take being a janitor if I get paid!

You're going to the Global Leadership Summit? That's so cool!
And as @The-Althalosian said, you know best what you can and can't manage schedulewise. In any case, I wish you tons of success in whatever you chose to do, and peace in whatever decision you decide to make.

So, good news! I have since been rehired at my old job because my mother was super pissed at my boss. She told her that had she known her boss was going to pull something like this, I would have been working at McDonald's the entire summer and that I still had four weeks left before I went off to college. My boss thought I only had one week left and was already mad that my family and I went on a two-week vacation, DESPITE the fact that we told her months in advance and put it on the company calendar. She said something along the lines of "When you leave (my mother), you take half of the company with you!"

THEN WHY WOULD YOU FIRE THAT HALF OF THE COMPANY THAT WAS ACTUALLY PRODUCTIVE?! Nearly everyone else she's hired has been completely useless or can't work for more than a couple of hours a week! My sister, my mother, and I have been the reason we've managed to fill out orders and empty barrels of product in a timely manner! Hell, I've managed to make a few innovations of my own to try and streamline the process, why on earth would you get rid of us?!

Oh, right. They haven't been here to see what we've done, they fucked off to Florida for a month in hopes of getting their house sold so they can live near their son when he's off at college! Not only did their house NOT sell (it's quite big and expensive), but they had to come back to "check up on the company." While WE were vacationing and taking a much-needed break, THEY were off in the Florida Keys! So there wasn't any work getting done at all!

This has been a long, dumb rant provided by yours truly. I can't wait to go off to college. At least the Global Leadership Summit was pretty cool, though! Can't say Bear Grylls was worth it, though. Wasn't as entertaining as some of the other speakers, but it was nice to hear him speak at an event like this.

I'm moving in on the 1st. Any tips on how to make it go smoothly?

Sweet! When it comes to transportation and such, my school (UMass Dartmouth) has a shuttle service, and I was planning on getting an Uber account for stuff. I also want to eventually see if I can bring a car on campus. Which do you think would be better in the long run?

Once a week?! Where does it even go?

Guess who was fired? Again!

YAY!

That's going to take a bit of explaining:

First off, I work at a startup devoted to selling organic cleanliness products like shampoo, conditioner, moisturizer, laundry detergent, etc. My supervisor (Mom) was arguing with our boss due to the fact that a set of labels showed up that were incorrect. Mom didn't order these labels, it was the boss's husband and business partner that ordered them. The label company thought it was just a reorder of the same product that was also incorrect, so they did what they were told and sent us the labels. My mother calls our boss and explains the situation, and she immediately blames my mother for the issue. They went arguing back and forth for a few minutes while I and another employee are purposely listening in while they're on speakerphone.

My boss is going OFF on my mother, saying that she screwed everything up and needs to follow "the process." However, there isn't an established process for how things get ordered, as either my mother, my boss, or her husband can place an order with any of our suppliers. Thing is, I mentioned in a previous post how my boss is currently living in Florida. As in, nowhere near the actual operation here in New England. So both of them are arguing, Mom trying to keep a level head while the other employee and I are fuming in the background. Eventually, I hit my breaking point.

"THERE IS NO PROCESS!" I shout.

Suddenly, our boss turns her ire to me, freaking out that she's been on speaker the whole time and tells me to "get out and never come back." I leave the room and take my sister to a previously-scheduled dentist appointment. The entire time, I'm freaking out over the fact that I may have just cost my mother her job. I get back, and my mom still has her job (thank God), but I am fired. Meanwhile, while I was gone, my mother told my boss that if her work was really that unsatisfactory, she would pack up and find another job.

"Oh no, you shouldn't do that! You're my best worker! I love having you here!"

Something to that effect, at least. We know she's crazy, but we're starting to think she might actually be bipolar.