Screaming won't help.

The job.

So about 3 weeks ago I accepted a position working in the warehouse for a local Heating and Air Conditioning company. Things were going well and I was enjoying the work. At times it was physically challanging work, but I can't beat the feeling I get when I know I've put in an honest and hard earned day. It's a much more satisfying feeling than what I used to get working for a couple of Fortune 500 companies, sitting in a cubicle.

My job consists of putting received items away, pulling items from inventory for the Installers, delivering materials to various jobsites, and other general warehouse activites. I had one semi minor/major screw up on day 4, where I mistakenly only pulled half of the required items for a job and the error wasn't discovered until the most inconvenient time possible. I received a minor ass-chewing for that screw up, and vowed not to let it happen again. In hindsight, I think I lost the support of my only coworker at this moment, but I didn't yet know it.

Fast forward to today. It's been snowing all day, the roads are horrible, and I've been out in it all day long, dodging crazy drivers and potential accidents. I arrived back at the shop at 2P.M. and walked inside:

Coworker: (with a smile on his face, and an upbeat tone) I've got bad news Mark, we're gonna let you go.

Me: Let me go? What? for the day?

Coworker: No, I mean for good.

Me:

Coworker:

Me:

Coworker:

Me: Um, ok. How come?

Coworker: It's just not working out. The installers are upset that their deliveries have been incomplete and/or getting the wrong items.

Me: This is the first I've heard of this? When did this come about?

Needless to say I was blindsided with this one. I've never heard this complaint about my work, and the only complaint I've ever heard was directily related to my day 4 snafu. If fact, the installers have gone out of their way to compliment my work. It turns out Coworker was actually my Boss, and the one who I thought was my Boss was actually my one step higher on the foodchain. My Boss never made mention of this "offense" before.

Tomorrow I have to turn in some supplies. More answered will be learned, no matter how uncomfortable things end up getting.

Who terminates an employee after 3 weeks who shows devotion to the company by arriving early (usually an hour prior to shift) and stays late, does every task asked of him, as quickly and as accurately as possible? Things aren't adding up in the semi-white north, and I think I've become the designated fall guy for something.

Scratch my snowmobile trip next week. Won't be able to afford it.

Scratch the laptop I was just about to buy.

Christmas is probably going to be pretty lean, from the giving standpoint.