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I worked at an after school program. I loved this job, it was a real pleasure working with children. Today, my manager told me that I was fired. He said I looked bored, and left my assigned group (you have 2 or 3 assigned groups with children) working at least 3 times. He never gave me a warning before, he just kicked me out on the spot. On Tuesday, I was trying to go to the bathroom and left my spot. The thing is, many coworkers do this regularly and I TOLD HIM he was singling me out. This is true. Also, he told me that since it is an after school program, he is the one responsible for hiring, firing and making all decisions since he is an executive director. I told him that there must be someone else that i can talk to about the issue, but he told me that he does not work for the principal. Noone is above him? Is he right? My head is boiling right now.
Just because everyone else does it, doesn't mean you should. If you really had to use the bathroom, you should have asked first.
Probably some parents got mad at having their kids left unattended, supervisor got in trouble from parent and wanted a scape goat...
Best to just move on, not much you can do in this case anyhow unless you can appeal to the school directly but that shouldn't do much because they don't oversee the program but if you made enough parents feel sorry for you, they might force the school to put pressure on him to rehire you, but you'd be on his bad side and at next chance, you'd still be out of a job
Probably some parents got mad at having their kids left unattended, supervisor got in trouble from parent and wanted a scape goat...
Best to just move on, not much you can do in this case anyhow unless you can appeal to the school directly but that shouldn't do much because they don't oversee the program but if you made enough parents feel sorry for you, they might force the school to put pressure on him to rehire you, but you'd be on his bad side and at next chance, you'd still be out of a job
Could easily be the case. Sounds like corporate America to me.
I read all the posts and I agreed with each one to one degree or another. The OP should have told someone she/he was leaving the room for a brief period of time. You don't have a leg to stand on because, unless you didn't mention something, there wasn't any sort of discrimination based on the laws of where you work (unless I'm missing something).
I'd scream a bit (if need be) but move on and up and chalk it up to another lesson learned.
this just occured to me, i dont know why i did not mention it, all my coworkers are females, i am the only male. Can i file for sexual discrimination? My boss is a male. Then i have a chance, cause as far as I know it is ILLEGAL to discriminate based on SEX
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