So I'm a male in my late 20's, and two years ago I began working at WF in Whole Body.it was great, until about one year later myself and another coworker were moved into the Grocery department because that's where hours were needed.The manager there was definitely the complete opposite of the woman that managed Whole Body... this guy was my age (late 20's), and was insensitive, never showed appreciation or encouragement, literally always serious with me, never said hello to anyone... clearly an emotionally unhealthy person. I'm the opposite of all that, so you can imagine we clashed a lot.So my time in Whole Body, one full year, I was never written up and never had any conflict with management...I was in Grocery for 8 months and written up 4 times, and fired...This Grocery manager, let's call him Shawn, would micromanage and constantly get on me for the most minor of things...I would politely tell him via email how much this stresses me out since I'm a sensitive person...His response to that would be to be calm and sensitive for one day, and then revert back to his harsh intense demeanor...he actually amped up his intensity and would be even more overbearing on me, and before I knew it I was called in for a writeup...didn't organize the aisles perfectly...I didn't clean the shelf strips how he wanted... I thought he meant sanitize them, when apparently he meant to clean off the sticker residue and to him it's a "black and white issue"He also loosely manages health/beauty and wrote me up for not fully working backstock, like excess product we keep in the warehouse. The assistant manager never said it was wrong to work backstock this way.After two months of adapting once again, being completely focused and working with all my heart, he wrote me up for missing literally two items in backstock... this was a week where I was tasked with working like five literal times more backstock than usual because we were short-handed... i remember it being like 100 degrees back there and climbing up in these bays and i just missed two items in the back.And then about two weeks later, I decided to take one extra 15 minute break because somebody called off and I had twice the work to do, and didn't see me getting out on my scheduled time... that was apparently the straw that broke the camels back, because the next day i was fired... this was an issue one year ago, but not this year.*** The crazy part about me taking a second 15 minute break is that my department manager was closing shift manager this night, and when he found out I took an extra break, he rushed me out of there before my work was even complete!I 99% of the time only do closing shifts and no other closing managers have rushed me out before my work is done... it's always the opposite, you stay until you're done, within reason. There's many times I've had to stay an hour later to work.If you work an 8 hour shift you get two 15 minute breaks, otherwise it's just one break.This particular night where I had twice the amount of work to do, I was under 8 hours and just needed 30 more minutes and it would've been "legal" for me to take that second break.I pleaded in tears at the end of that night to my manager, and how I didn't want to get fired... he went through with it anyways.The greatest injustice is that ALL of these writeups were during times where I was very distraught, stressed out due to Shawn being so intense with me...he made me feel like I was always walking on eggshells. He doesn't see that he could be an efficient manager and still be gentle hearted and uplifting and encouraging.I told Shawn numerous times all year long how it's a very tough time outside of work. I cried at work numerous times due to Shawn's intense behavior... even aside from that, his write ups were not fair.Around my second writeup I had a strong feeling that Shawn was already planning to fire me through these unjust writeups...I told HR and emailed regional HR a very thorough detailed statement to undo these writeups, and she told me she was unbiased yet did not remove any of them.I built such a strong case for myself and store management and local HR, even Shawn told me that they are not wanting to fire me, but they did...They gave me such a stronger level of scrutinization, and anybody would be fired if they received my level of scrutiny... yet nobody did.I corrected myself every time after each writeup, and they found something else to write me up for that was so minor.It felt like no matter how hard I worked, it was never good enough and they were going to fire me eventually no matter how hard I work. I believe they all conspired to fire me.I believe Shawn wanted me out. I was the odd guy out who was a gentle-hearted person. They want the opposite, like a military mindset. I was outstanding with customer service and progressed by leaps and bounds after each writeup and it was always overlooked how much stress Shawn put me through, how much unfair intense scrutiny he gave me.It was always so obvious to me that Shawn was looking for excuses to write me up. Nobody else received the level of scrutiny that I did. He was much not laid back with my other coworkers.Why does it seem I was fired? Does this seem unfair?All the store managers and HR think my writeups and termination are justified, while everyone I talk to outside of that sees it as totally unfair.I was not only fired, but also banned from working at any Whole Foods ever again. via /r/hsp https://ift.tt/3nc9dVM
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