April 13, 2006
No cheese please
So I write down my password, "Kristenbell143" for my supervisor in case she needs to get into my computer and search for some files. Flipping burgers seem to agree with me rather swimmingly. Looking back at my short but wonderful career...
April 05 - gets job flipping burgers: everyone is great here especially the girls up front.
July 05 - go to chicago to flip burgers at a trade show: my star starts to rise
Aug 05 - develop not so secret crush on girl up front: other things start to rise
Oct 05 - secret crush goes back to ex: sad day in burger making history
Nov 05 - gets secret reveiw: upper management likes my burgers!
Dec 05 - gets not so secret crush a gift: she likes my style!
Jan 06 - gets calendar year review: star is getting brighter. my supervisor is tops!
Apr 06 - gets terminated for "identity theft". Huh?
So my supervisor calls me into the meeting room where the human resources manager is awaiting. Hmm, this can't be good I say and she says that "no, this is not a pleasant meeting". She says I put a picture of our president on my "myspace" back in september. Of course I did that, it was hi-jinks highlarious. I put it up for a week and left comments for co-workers saying "go back to work" and "good job". Apparently, the humor was lost on the "counsel" (I'm rather flattered that the fate of a lowly burgermaker like me would be determined by a "counsel" I guess my burgers are that damn good) and said that the only recourse was termination. Whoa. My supervisor was in shock when she got news of this - we get along very well and she's helped me through the ranks. The HR says blah blah blah blah and this is actually a criminal offense but they won't press charges. I'm like going o. k? I think I would have been upset if my work was being question but since it wasn't, and its their company, I figure its there perogative to hire and fire who they wish. I'm pretty kwai chang caine pragmatic about this. But the weird thing is "identity theft?" of something I did back in september? Whoa. Actually I believe I would be protected by some kind of "satire law" since it was obvious (at least to me) that my myspace was not the president of our company but me. But hell, its a publically traded company in orange county, they gotta protect their assets. My super and I walked out - she and other people wasn't happy but it was out of their control. I said to her, you know what, people always say they'll miss their co-workers. I don't. Because I keep in contact with my friends. And with that I walked away.
Of course the whole thing was pretty fishy. Of the bits and pieces that were said, there was conversation regarding my personal blog (go here for the career year), having sex with a 14 yo (I have no idea where that came from) and company email. Yes, they check. The event is really more mysterious than upsetting - did someone have a vendetta, did I really have sex with a minor and mysteriously blacked out or was someone eyeing my position. Where the hell is veronica mars when you really need her?