So, I was called into the office today, and it was pretty fucking obvious it was bad news when I was greeted by a man I'd not met before who introduced himself as head of HR - at that point it became kinda clear I wasn't getting out of that room with my employment contract intact.
I sat down, my manager - who had spoken to me quite normally that day, though not replied to my emails - sat in the corner, and I was told that my employment contract was being terminated with immediate effect.
So far, so standard being fired procedure. All good.
Then they told me why I was being fired -
because apparently my Facebook showed me to be a racist and that brought disrepute to the company I worked for.
Most of the people that will read this will have access to my Facebook, but in case you don't here's my about me:
Interests:politics. fighting capitalism, misogyny and racism in my own special way [note, this is all one sentence], which basically involves me sitting on my ass and bitching about how unfair, patriarchal and misogynistic everyone apart from me is. history, philosophy, classical civilisation (I'm taking the AS and A2 in the space of TWO FUCKING MONTHS. wish me luck.) philosophy involves nothing more complicated than me sitting on my ass going "Nietzsche? he's a cunt." "Schopenhauer? He's a cunt." "Mill? He's a cunt." "Heidegger? He's a nazi cunt." history is me wondering why the holocaust was allowed to happen and getting very, very sad about it. getting very drunk on very little drink. liver damage is awesome. cigarettes, especially sobranie cocktails.. aah. rainbow coloured cancer. pointless arguments on the internet. singing loudly when noone can hear me, and only when noone can hear me.My groups are one or two about dead babies, about twenty 'Sarah Palin makes me want to.. <something awful>' and the rest are either feminist or anti-fascist groups. So where they've got this racism from I don't know - I have a Berlusconi quote on my quotes section but it's quite obvious that is a quote and I mean christ,
put it in context people.
When I asked for clarification on the racist part I was told it was too vile to discuss and to be honest I was about to collapse in tears because well, my life's a fucking state at present - I'm just about to move out for the first time and I've got rent to pay, not least.
I was asked to pack up my stuff and leave on the spot - not even allowed to finish my shift - and told on asking that they would give me the week's pay and a reference for my next position.
Now, aside from the fact I'm a) upset I've lost a job I genuinely enjoyed and b) am incredibly pissed off I had to tell the guy I was a member of the anti-fascist league and the socialist worker's party before he'd stop calling me 'disgusting' and 'racist', does anyone else think there's something weird going on here?
I was on a temp contract that expired in two weeks, they could have just chosen not to renew it - and that is the official reason for my leaving. I was also, modesty aside, the best of my training group - placed on the Specialist wing and nominated for an award due to high work performance - so work performance wasn't an issue. I was late today and I missed one day through a genuine emergency, which my supervisor authorised - but why not fire me for those things?
Why call me a racist?