So. I've been at this job for three years. I was one of the very first people she hired. I was going to be going full time this fall. Now, because I've had bronchitis, I've been fired.Nice yes?

Lets' go through this, so I can vent and get my anger out.

I get bronchitis every year, and I always sound like I'm dying. This year is no exception, but this time I have an abominable fever to go along with it, and I can't move without coughing. This makes chasing after infants and toddlers quite impossible.

So I call in sunday night. I sleep all day monday, wake up around 2:30 am, call in and leave a message. I go to the doctor on Tuesday, get some strong antibiotics and codine laced cough syrup that I take 4 times a day. This cough syrup knocks me out and keeps me sleeping. I roll over around 7 pm and call in and leave a message.

I do this thursday as well. Friday night, I have a voice mail on my phone from my boss that apparently came in Wednesday. I listen to it, and for some reason she tells me I'm not following protocal. Okay my bad, she's never complained about it before though. But if that's the case, I'll call in earlier, no biggie. She, however, is out of town until wednesday, and so I'm not scheduled but need to call her wednesday. Wednesday comes and I call. And call, and call. Goes to voicemail every time. Freaking uot, I run up there, on codine, still feverish, and still hacking my lungs up. I'm unable to speak more than three words without hacking, but I manage to explain that I'm sorry I didn't call in like she wanted me to, but that I've been on really heavy drugs that make me sleepy, and had I know that she wanted to talk to me, I would have called in and done so. My bad, like I said.

She says don't worry about it, and to save myself another trip up there, just have my doctor fax her a note BY FRIDAY. Cool, I can do that, no prob. My doctors office closes early on thursdays and his nurses aren't there, so I call friday morning as soon as they open, and they fax it over friday afternoon. I think all is well, right?

Apparently not. I call monday morning and I ask about the schedule, and she says that she didn't get the note until friday afternoon, and the schedule was made thursday. Uh...okay? So once again, I'm not working. She says I still sound sick anyways, so just call her later in the week. Okay, fine.

I call today, 11 am. No answer, voicemail. I leave a message and wait till 1. Call again, am told she's busy, she'll call me later. 3pm rolls around, no answer. Okay. Call again, once again, I get voicemail. I leave a message, saying I'll call in a half hour. Call at 3:30, no answer. Call at 3:40, finally get an answer. Am told that everything works better without me. That now another worker wants to come back full time, another needs to be replaced by may 15, and that since I'm leaving for another job in three weeks, despite her OKAYING it when I asked her about it IN JANUARY, I now have nothing to offer her.

None of this makes any sense to me, and I don't think I've done anything to warrant being fired. At all.