I think I am fired after only 4 days!!

[Marrienne 112]

Hey VJers,

So I got a job at a super market chain stocking shelves... they changed my schedule/hours however they wanted without telling me to the point I can't work. I worked 4 days and on Friday my supervisor told me that if I miss 2 days of work, I am fired.

I left work to pick up my toddler from daycare and she was acting funny. Took her to urgent care and she had a broken arm!!!

Daycare then said "oh she fell off a ladder in the playground ".

I was supposed to work this weekend and tomorrow, I called and explained that my baby broke her arm and I must stay with her (we have no help and my husband works 2nd shift and we have no money for extra help). Tomorrow I must take her to a specialist as urgent care were not able to do anything other than put a cast on. I will miss work tomorrow too which means according to their policy I will be fired

I feel like I am drowning the more I find ouy about how jobs work here in the USA.

There are no 9-5 weekday jobs for us immigrants?

Nobody seems to care about my degrees. I have gotten a single interview. Only thing I am "good" for is stocking.

My husband and daughter are ok as Americans. They have righys and Healthcare and I am happy for that.

But I feel worthless here

Please give me a pick me up.

I will go beg tomorrow for my job and see if I can get them to change my hours as I can only work when the kids are at school.

Thanks for listening!!

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Marrienne, that job sucked for you anyway. They lied to you when you got hired. There are plenty of 9-5 normal jobs for immigrants. You got a lot of good advice about getting a job using your expertise in your other thread. Even being a secretary would be a much much better than overnight stocking (no offense meant to any overnight stockers, it's just that OP has a family). Chin up and give that job the finger.

[heyguy 12]

Are you full time? I don't believe they can fire you under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). You should be allowed force majeure when you took your daughter to urgent care. Force majeure is taken if you have an immediate emergency to take care of a family member and you have no one else to take care of it. The best thing is to check with your employer about their policy before assuming they would fire you for taking care of your injured daughter.

[Marrienne 112]

Oh I would LOVE being a secretary!!!

I know I know.. I am trying to keep my chin up. My mother in law keeps mentioning how poor we are and how we can't afford this or that and that I should leave the baby to them so I can go work (note: they are leaving for the winter in a week) and that now she is in a cast she doesn't really need to see anyone else and that she never missed a day of work and how she made her kids go to school hurt or sick regardless...

She made me feel like ####### (sorry).

I keep putting applications in but no takers yet.

Hope my baby is given the ok tomorriw as they suspect a second fracture

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Your daughter will be okay; I broke my arm 5 times when I was a kid (sorry it's happening to her ) She will just need help with bathing and dressing.

MIL sounds a little mean. MIL has you move to a place with high unemployment and tells you you have to find a job fast. That's lame.

But you CAN do it. You'll find something. Get to know people; send in your resume to places that don't advertise that they are hiring but where you would like to work (going the secretary route, for instance, send your resume to offices of all types, dentists, hairdressers, anything you can think of). If your in-laws have ties in that small town they should be putting out the word to their friends that you are in town and want a job.

Good luck!

[p-ana 933]

Try temp agencies as well. Anywhere retail will be sucking the life out of you with Halloween, thanksgiving and holidays coming up. Stores are crazier even now. You will find something, keep trying and stay strong

[aANDg 22]

Try temp agencies.. I got a 8am to 5pm job with weekend dayoff..

[RodDetroit 118]

The problem is not that you are an immigrant, You live in a very isolated part of Michigan, they are mAny jobs avaiable in metro Detroit .

[Jawaree 717]

Try getting something at a legitimate call center, or Mall store

making sure you get & define hrs you work. so you'll have tiome

for your baby, you can try front desk at the hotel too. Sometimes

you have to take a day to job hunt just applying onlime alone

goes slow. I would not let you go back to that job...best wishes

[ss3 1]

Try indeed.com. put in your zipcode and tons of jobs will pop up.

[Ketsuban 1,034]

How far can you drive out? When I moved here I didn't know how to drive and I was majorly sucking at getting interviews and when I did get them I couldn't get hired.

I had an interview for a part time receptionist job at a community college. Back home I was a receptionist at an adult learning centre so I had the experience, plus the interview seemed very much like "you have the job, this is just a formality". What happened? A few days later I got a generic email from HR telling me thanks but no thanks. Really hit my self esteem!

In the end I got my husband to teach me to drive his car and got my license after two months. As soon as I could travel out of my immediate surroundings, I found tons more jobs. I applied for every data entry position I could find. Just over a month later, I got a job that I'm still at over a year later and they've moved me to the IT department. I'm gonna be trained to be a junior developer which is actually what I studied back home.

So yes, do go for the little data entry jobs and whatnot. They will usually be Mon-Fri and you can showcase your skills and education. Work your way up, start from scratch. It's better than $0 every two weeks or settling for a supermarket that won't give you hours you can physically do.

Edited October 3, 2016 by Ketsuban

[N-o-l-a 7,167]

My daughter broke her elbow last year, it sucked! There are jobs available for immigrants, you just have to keep looking and maybe go where there are jobs.

I would suspect that they wouldn't fire you for this, seems like it would be a bit of a PR issue if they did.

[Lezzyme1979 38]

Hello OP,

You will get a good job. You just have to look for it. 11 years ago, I was an immigrant from the Philippines, my first job was at a photography company, a year after, this company moved me to their San Francisco main office, moved up as a senior employee in the department, but I had to quit to move to another city. At the new city, I worked at the newspaper as an account executive for a year and quit but now I work for the federal government that I enjoy.

You are not limited to what you can do when it terms to job. Chin up. You'll be ok. You'll find a great job you'll love.

[RodDetroit 118]

i see you are 40 min from Kalamazoo, its a college town, you should be able to get more oportunities over there, Check out of the local schools and colleges are hiring.

[Ontarkie 14,218]

Not to have you worry about your daughter but that daycare needs to be reported. You noticed she was acting weird when you picked her up, they should have noticed also. Even if they didn't realize she broke her arm they failed to tell you she fell, heck they didn't even say a thing to you until you told them she broke her arm. The daycare should have contacted you or your emergency contact person after a fall.