The experiences and exploits of a college grad trying to make it in the "real world:" leaving school and friends in New England, moving south, and living with her boyfriend. Watch as I pretend to be an adult.
I essentially work in a sales office. Granted, they sell people and jobs, but still... Anyway, as in most sales offices, there are goals to reach, and incentives if you meet those goals. One of them is a weekly lunch for recruitors who make a certain number of placements of interviews. Well, as I said, this is an incentive for the recruitors, and the office staff (like me) never gets to go. Today, the owner of the business came to me and said, "Libby, the operations supervisor and I can't go to lunch today because we have an errand. We think you should go to lunch- you've been working hard, and it'll give you a chance to get to know the AE's." I thought long and hard (all of about two minutes) before deciding free lunch = good, and accepting. After she left, I turned to my coworker and mentioned how weird it was that I was invited. I was joking about it being a month since I started, and how it was going to be a "month since you started....ps you're fired" lunch. We both laughed, and she agreed it was wierd but told me not to worry about it. So, I went to lunch, had fun, and came back. My coworker was nowhere to be found, and instead, the operations supervisor was at her desk. I had just put away my purse when the owner comes up and asks to speak to me. We go back to her office, and chat for a while about a bunch of random crap, and then she drops the bomb. "I feel like the front work is changing to involve less and less admin and more and more research. Coworker is more an admin girl- she really doesn't like the research you and coworker B do, so shes going to find something else to do." This took a moment to sink in, and when it did, I slowly asked, "So, are you going to hire someone to replace Coworker?" "No, we're just going to split her work between you and coworker B." Ah. Yes, excellent. We wrapped up our talk, and I headed back to my desk expecting to fine Coworker back and ask her what was going on. To my surprise, the operations supervisor was still there. After a few minutes, she left, and I looked at coworker's (old) desk...all of her personal effects were gone. All of them. They fired her, and had her clean out her desk and leave in the same day.
