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It's pretty much just one weird kind of shitty thing after another. Katie called in to work to say that our cat may have eaten rat poison and needed to be sent to the vet to make sure we weren't going to have a kitty funeral on our hands later that evening* only to be told that Katie had been fired. After a week-point-five, and for no discernable reason that the manager could (or maybe would) provide. The manager rattled off a couple of weak points, like being a little slow in training, and said "it just isn't working out."
It just isn't working out? You're not dating, you're making sub sandwiches. Katie was hired on the recommendation of the district manager, so that's who's getting an email asking what might be going on but, on the other hand, it's a job making sandwiches for minimum wage, part time. How much effort can you put into that before you're better off just looking for another job anywhere else in the entire world? We're betting exactly one email to the DM.
So weird.
I think this is the post where I talk about Burning Wheel a little bit because it's always something I almost do. It's interesting, because we play over Skype across timezones and others have more time available. The sessions end up being about two hours at a time, so once everyone's available it's pretty important to just immediately start. I've really been suffering trying to keep track of information and stay focused in a large part because we're not playing in person - the physical artifacts of 'game time' are sitting on the shelf nearby. I'm using a diceroller program because my cats probably did away with my dice somehow. My character sheet is online. This setup is damaging my gaming discipline and because we could just play anytime, we rarely play at all - we've recently mitigated that by setting a very specific day every month to play.
Not a lot of gaming, in total, gets done. It's a difficult kind of setup for a game that's been on and off life support for a long time. We continue to play this one, I think, because we want to see this story through but I'd really like to actually try to play this game in person again. It's fun, but I'm not sure I'd push this setup to others.
* The cat's fine, much to our relief (the irritating little bugger).
It just isn't working out? You're not dating, you're making sub sandwiches. Katie was hired on the recommendation of the district manager, so that's who's getting an email asking what might be going on but, on the other hand, it's a job making sandwiches for minimum wage, part time. How much effort can you put into that before you're better off just looking for another job anywhere else in the entire world? We're betting exactly one email to the DM.
So weird.
I think this is the post where I talk about Burning Wheel a little bit because it's always something I almost do. It's interesting, because we play over Skype across timezones and others have more time available. The sessions end up being about two hours at a time, so once everyone's available it's pretty important to just immediately start. I've really been suffering trying to keep track of information and stay focused in a large part because we're not playing in person - the physical artifacts of 'game time' are sitting on the shelf nearby. I'm using a diceroller program because my cats probably did away with my dice somehow. My character sheet is online. This setup is damaging my gaming discipline and because we could just play anytime, we rarely play at all - we've recently mitigated that by setting a very specific day every month to play.
Not a lot of gaming, in total, gets done. It's a difficult kind of setup for a game that's been on and off life support for a long time. We continue to play this one, I think, because we want to see this story through but I'd really like to actually try to play this game in person again. It's fun, but I'm not sure I'd push this setup to others.
* The cat's fine, much to our relief (the irritating little bugger).
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No, they don't.
People can't be fired for being the wrong race, or the wrong sex, or the wrong religion, or too old, or disabled. But unless you belong to a protected class, and are fired for being a member of that class, you can be fired pretty much arbitrarily.
Some employees have contracts that protect them, some practices (such as union organizing) are protected, and some companies have corporate policies that prevent arbitrary terminations, but almost anybody anywhere can be fired for any reason (or no reason at all) during a training period.
(This is not legal advice. I am not qualified to advise anyone on how to pursue an employment discrimination complaint.)