Well, we all knew it was coming -- THE END -- to George and Joey's temp job.

I texted the operations mgr at 7 am. this morning to let her know I was going to be late. She texted back, "Ok, see you when you arrive."

I didn't think anything of it. The other mgr. was nice to me (these two were the same women who slandered their temps yesterday within ear shot of me b/c well, temps are not people; we're an invisible subhuman species - we don't have feelings or an identity).

So, I asked the one operatins mgr for permission to drive to a local vet clinic over my 1/2 hour lunch. I was 15 minutes late coming back (so, my fault, I admit).

Then, my recruiter texted me to ask me to call her. So, I found an empty, quiet conference room and called her. (FYI: she's only been a recruiter for about a year. Prior to her recruiter job, she was an admin assistant.)

I called her and she proceeded to yell at me (yes, I wrote "yell") that the two catty women emailed her to complain about me taking too long with their (I think, dumb) assessments and onboarding tests. Ironic, since they both told me yesterday when I started the onboarding modules, "That test took me forever to pass!"

So, what's good for the goose ISN'T good for the gander? Is that how this one-way toxic **** show works for these two women? They're allowed to disparage their temps, mock how hard the test was FOR THEM, then turn around and complain about my taking too long with the onboarding assessments (which they both told me to take my time with in my initial interview and again yesterday).

Sense a pattern here?

So, at some point during my conversation with the young recruiter, there was a silent pause, and then she said, "F you!" and hung up on me.

I called her human resources director who was not happy to hear what she said. Here's where I lowered my expectations for the outcome. In the past, I would have expected an email apology from the recruiter at the very least (in hindsight, dumb expectation b/c why would anyone want to admit their guilt via email, since email is forever, even when it's deleted it can be recovered). Or a phone call apology with her supervisor in a 3-way call.

The human resources director and the young recruiter's supervising recruiter both called me to apologize for her behavior (which comes across to me, as their way of protecting her from consequences somehow, via the whole out of sight out of mind philosophy: if she doesn't apologize to me, it didn't really happen and she can keep her job). They did say I could leave the temp job since it was not a good fit and that they would try to find me another temp job when one comes up that fits what their expectations are, for my resume skills and background.

What a shitshow today.

What at first seemed like a great temp to hire job, was in essence, the worst environment to work in. When I was on the phone with the young recruiter, one of the operation mgr's opened the conference room door and yelled at me to get back to work.

No one deserves to be treated that way. No one. Assholes.