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So what do you do when you get fired for sticking up for a co-worker? Is there a place I can report something like that, or do I just sort of have to take it and try to find another job? Not that I wasn't planning to find another job eventually, but I wasn't really planning to have to go looking so soon after coming back. Ya know? I was more than willing to try to stick it out while I looked for something else.

I just, how do you justify calling someone in when the requested the day off for a family thing and got it? Like how?

So uh yeah thoughts or advice would be helpful.

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[ ...Hanamura, how do you even get yourself in this kind of situation? ]

I think here, you report it to the government. Worst they do I think is take away the right for imPorts to be placed there for employment.

What even happened?

Good to know.

I think I kind of already said what happened.

[It isn't even like it was his fault. He was just trying to help.]

[ Can you manage to sound bland in text? Because Adachi's pretty sure he's managing it right now. ]

Can you say it in something other than vague-teenager-speak?

Should I get an old man translator for you?

I'm not that old.

[ He's also trying to help, dumbass; quit being a pest! ]

Then do your detective thing, what part was vague?

[Could have fooled him. Hey he's the one that wrote the message it looks perfectly clear to him.]

[ As clear as mud. ]

What exactly did you do to get yourself fired? All you said was something about someone that got called in on their day off.

[Not his fault Adachi isn't up on teen.]

I interfered with my boss trying to call the girl in. Mostly tried to talk him out of calling her. She deserves time with her family you know.

[ Look, the only reason he understands Futaba is because they're both nerds. Let him live. ]

Did you offer an alternative?

[ Or did he just give him attitude? ]

Lemme guess, small company? Boss on a power trip?

It's a shitty supervisor that don't respect their own agreements. Same kinda manager who's gonna be wondering why their turnover's so high.

I'm not sure about it being a small company. Never really bothered to look it up. But no not so much power trip. Just the way things are at that place.

It's a shitty company that just doesn't care. Not really.

[ It's difficult to ignore this post. For many, they might scroll by, chalk it up to baseless whining from a teenager who hasn't grown to understand the workforce is hardly "fair".

But not Haru. There's something about it that eats away at her. ]

May I ask what exactly it is you said to your employer on behalf of your coworker?

[Well it's good someone won't chalk it up to a teen whining. Does he ever know that work isn't fair and that people suck.]

A lot of things, but mainly that calling her in was bull and I could stay late if it was really that important to have the body. It didn't go well.

So assistance was offered to recover the work hours, yet your boss declined your offer and, if I am presuming correctly, continued to pressure your coworker?

Pretty much. It's kind of a thing. We're expected to be available if they call. They don't come out and say it but it's been implied a few times that if we don't come in it'll result in termination.

Even when it is your unpaid day off?

Especially then. It's just expected that you drop everything for the place when they call. And you have to pick up when they call. It sounds weird, right?

Call-ins are a practice in other businesses, but not all...
However, it does sound strange. How many times has this happened?

[He gets that call-ins happen. He can clearly remember how many times he had to beg Yu and some of the others to help out at Junes because some employees were less reliable than others around holidays. It's frustrating.]

Yeah I know. Retail is pretty much the norm for call-ins or sudden need of a replacement for a shift. I get that. It was kind of my norm of sorts back home.
But this is ridiculous where it happens more than a couple times a day and several times a week. And there is no respect for those that may have requested time off according to company policy, because apparently time off is something only managers are allowed to have. Or at least that's the attitude my manager had and the way he made it sound when letting me go was that it was one held all the way up to the top.

[ It takes her a while to reply, only because she reads this twice over before deliberating on her response.

This hardly sounds excusable. It also hits a little too close to home. ]

I am sorry that you and your coworkers have had to endure this. It's not acceptable.

[ A beat. ]

What is his name?

His name...why?

[ This is actually kind of nerve wracking to do on her own. She should check in with the others as soon as she can. ]

If there is any more wrongdoing on his end, it can stop.

You aren't gonna like kill him are you? Cause I mean sure he's a jerk but I don't think firing me is grounds for death you know?

[ In her absolute shock she actually drops her communicator. ]

Nmbma

No!1

No. Nothing like that, I assure you! No harm will come to this person in such a manner.

If it was your government-assigned job, you tell the government. If you're in a Porter City outside of Heropa, then also tell your Ambassador.

I'm sorry that happened to you, because it shouldn't have.

Edited (icon fail) 2018-05-21 05:16 (UTC)

Government and Ambassador. Good list of how to go about it since it was my government assigned job.

They were less than awesome so I'm not surprised.

Even so, I'm not impressed.

If you're willing to talk to me more on the record, I could also pitch an article to my bosses at Heropa Daily? See if the media would be interested in picking it up?

I'm not sure there's a chance of it being anything less than unimpressive.

On the record? Like an interview? Would that help anything? Couldn't it hurt those that still work there?

Yeah, exactly like an interview.
I'm not sure yet, since I haven't figured out what angle I'd want to take, but your co-workers are the last people I'd want to hurt.

It's also okay if you say no, btw.
I don't want to pressure you into anything.

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