For those of you wondering what happened – it’s pretty simple really.
I worked in an office with one other person, who just happened to be the boss’ 19 year old, inexperienced daughter. Granted, I had very little experience in accounting myself before taking this job, but I digress. I must also point out that my boss also recently hired his own wife to do some part time work around the office, which she is terrible at and which has to be supplemented by myself and my coworker. We won’t talk about the fact that they have eight children and she brings the youngest ones to the office to run around wreaking havoc which I later have to clean up. But again, I digress.
My boss decided that the company needed to hire a full time certified accountant to handle the books. I do not disagree with this decision, in fact, I fully support it. The company has grown rather significantly in recent months and the books had become a bit overwhelming for two people who had little to no accounting experience.
In order to make room for the accountant, my boss had to let one of us go. I am 27 years old. I show up to work early every day. I have many years experience with many types of jobs, and have very good people skills. I am extremely computer savvy, I am a hard worker, and I am smart.
My coworker is 19 years old. She never arrives less than ten minutes late, and frequently makes excuses to take two hour lunches or to leave early. She has very little work experience, little patience with people, and fairly poor computer skills. She frequently makes very, very stupid mistakes.
Clearly keeping her was the obvious choice.
Tomorrow I find out about filing for unemployment (if only to piss them off), and begin the job search. And life goes on.
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That sucks it, poopie.
I wonder how long it will take your former boss to figure out what a mistake he made? Don’t feel bad about filing for unemployment, that is what it is for! I am glad to see your sense of humor still shining through by your statement “clearly he kept the right person”.
Good Luck to you in your hunt for a new job. Keep posting so we can check in on you!
Oh No! Terrible luck! The accounting stuff looks great on a resume, so I am sure you will find something lickety-split (enjoy the unemployment check until then), but I am so sorry this happened. Talk about the short end of the stick. He really made a mistake on this one.