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Originally Posted by golden_eve
(((((((((((((sending massive hugs)))))))))))))))
I am sorry you got fired and that your co-workers are not showing sympathy and are not reaching out. Unfortunately, in many workplaces, it's every man for themselves mentality. I doubt it's personal. I think everyone just does what they need to keep their own jobs and once someone gets fired, it's like out of sight out of mind. Unfortunate, but it does happen. Try not to take it so personally, if you can.
As for the isolation, the job search process can be hard and a lonely task. I am going through it myself! I understand wanting to process your feelings alone. But isolation can tend to lend to greater depression... so perhaps reach out to someone about it so you don't isolate too much?
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I'm sure my loneliness will outweigh my embarrassment and sadness over being unemployed soon, but right now I just want to watch television alone and mull over how to get a new job.
I honestly feel like crying, but I haven't cried in so many years that I cannot summon the tears to cry. I hate the fact that my jerk of an ex-boss is able to make me feel so bad. The terrible thing I realize is that in every job interview from now on when I get asked about this school job, I will have to give some attention to my jerk of an ex-boss, and his terrible memory will be stuck in my mind when I have to repeat this story again and again and again. It's ironic that my ex-colleagues can so easily forget me since I'm out of sight, but I won't be able to get beyond this crappy job for a few years of interviewing yet. I know in the next few years, I will get questions about why I left this job, and I'll be forced to relive the terrible tale again.
I'm sure my ex-colleagues are simply avoiding me in order to not upset the boss in the strange event he might find out. And several of them I didn't know very well or for very long, so they're off the hook. There was one co-worker who should have called, but she's honestly a coward, and probably seeing how the boss squashed me for challenging him a couple times, has made me even more scared and fearful than she was to begin with. She was such a coward, but, ironically, the coward kept her job, while the confident independent thinker got the firing axe.