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I went into the office at work to get a pen to write something down. I ended up closing the door which locked it. The supervisor was pissed because she had the keys in there to lock up the store at the end of the day. I tried to fix the problem. I didn't have the number of our new boss, so I called my old boss who left a few weeks ago. He have me the number of the assistant manager and she was out of town when I called her and couldn't help
So now I don't know what to do. I'm gonna lose sleep and think about this until my next shift tomorrow evening. I don't know how they dealt with it when they finished and closed up yesterday, as I finished my shift 2 hours earlier. I didn't know about the keys being in there and wasn't really thinking about it when I closed the door. Do you guys think I'll get fired?
Before I got fired it took two incidents of me swearing at the manager (they had an attitude problem and I over-reacted each time) which is a lot more serious so I'll doubt you'd be fired.
Supervisor's keys never should have been sitting in the office unattended. She is lucky that getting the keys locked in the office was the worst thing that happened. She could have come back at the end of the day and found her keys missing....
Of course you can be fired for that if your employment is At-Will. If you're covered by an employment contract or a labor agreement, the terms and conditions of those contracts will rule.
Now, if you’re asking should you be fired for that, the answer depends on if you were authorized to enter that office. If so, the accidental closing of a self-locking door shouldn’t be grounds for termination. If you were not authorized to be in that office, termination is extreme but within the realm of reasonable action.
I went into the office at work to get a pen to write something down. I ended up closing the door which locked it. The supervisor was pissed because she had the keys in there to lock up the store at the end of the day. I tried to fix the problem. I didn't have the number of our new boss, so I called my old boss who left a few weeks ago. He have me the number of the assistant manager and she was out of town when I called her and couldn't help
So now I don't know what to do. I'm gonna lose sleep and think about this until my next shift tomorrow evening. I don't know how they dealt with it when they finished and closed up yesterday, as I finished my shift 2 hours earlier. I didn't know about the keys being in there and wasn't really thinking about it when I closed the door. Do you guys think I'll get fired?
Two things:
1) Unless you knew closing the door would lock it, I would not hold you at fault; and
2) The supervisor should have had the keys on her at all times.
With that said, you might get fired if she had to leave the store unsecured all night and something happened at the store that would not have happened if the store was locked up. Then again, she might get fired if that happened, too.
[nothing you can do about it - go to sleep and worry about it tomorrow]
The supervisor should have called a locksmith to get the door unlocked rather than leave the store open all night.
Having an office door that auto-locks is a real problem. How would you have known. The manager should not be leaving keys unattended.
This is all the manger's problem. However, if the manager likes to throw other people under to bus, then the manager might fire you are tell others that it's your fault. Though in reality, it's just something that happened and the manager should have resolved it with a visit from the locksmith.
as other people have said, no you shouldn't but yes you could be. good luck, i hope things work out in your favor because the manager's mistake was much bigger and more consequential than yours.
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