I lost another friend

Last month, I was a hotel clerk for three days. It seemed to be going OK. I picked up most parts of the job pretty well and while I struggled with some other parts, the manager didn't seem concerned and as best I could tell, he was confident I would get better at those things.

On the fourth day I was scheduled he sent me a text saying "After careful consideration I decided to take you off the schedule permanently." He didn't give a reason. I asked for one and I never got one.

While I know I was at-will and could be let go at any time for any reason or no reason and I realize they don't owe me a reason, it just seems to me that if I was doing that badly, it should not have been a surprise to me. Either I'm the least self-aware person who ever lived or the guy's a shitty manager.

If it's something that could cause me trouble at other jobs, I'd like to learn from it if I could.

I'm not buying the excuse that it's better for them to say nothing than something that could be used against them in court.

Oh, I found a group and I'm going Wednesday.

 

Burying the lede.

Great news to start my Sunday. Keep moving forward, man.

 

Sounds like the guy was a shitty manager. I would be furious if I was let go without a reason.

 

No. That would be Oop.

 

Look count your blessings; would you want to work for someone like that anyways?

 

Are employers really that worried about lawsuits?

 

For $500 per hour; answer is YES.

 

And it's better not to give a reason because any good lawyer can make a case out of any reason they could give me?

 

I would just be glad you're not working for that guy anymore. What a terrible, cowardly manager. Just move on, and, if you felt pretty good about the hotel clerk work, perhaps you could look for another, similar job.

If you went into one now, you'd probably even feel like you have a little "experience" at it, and not be going into it totally blind. It does seem like it could be a good direction that could, potentially, lead to other opportunities in the hotel industry/hospitality industries.

As DanielSimpsonDay wrote, keep moving forward. It's great that you've found a group that might work for you. Give it a try and a good amount of time to see if it does help you. But I think you'll be relying more on your own strength before too long, and I really believe something good is going to happen for you, also before too long. Maybe it'll occur in an unexpected way, or come from an unexpected or unintended, direction, but I think it's going to happen.

 

That depends. Are you thinking about suing?

 

Isn't "I was fired without cause or explanation" another thing you could sue for?

 

On what grounds?

In an at-will state, you can be fired because your boss doesn't like your eyebrows. Cause is irrelevant. And to sue because you didn't get an explanation? Yeah, no.