Seriously, work is the VERY LAST thing I need to worry about just about now. WTF.

So here is the situation as it went down.

Dateline YMCA. Last Saturday I was scheduled to work my normal 8-4:30 shift at West Bay. Now, due to a rehersal conflict I was unable to work after 12. I had put this shift on the board and called several people. My calls were not returned. The two people who would normally have been able to work the shift were working for Krystina. Lovely. So I set myself to endevor to both get the pool covered and get to rehersal somewhat on time. (Keep in mind, the saturday before this, the same thing happened, and I simply stayed at the Y.) On duty with me were two other guards/instructors/birthday hosts, Gianna and Bethany. Another guard was working at the front desk. The main problem would be from 12-12:30 when Bethany and Gianna taught lessons at the same time. So I asked the girl at the front desk to cover from 12-12:30, she agreed. I then confered with Bethany and Gianna about the rest of the day. We wrote out the shift and when both of them needed to be either in the pool or at their respective birthday parties. That done, I thought, incorrectly apparently, that I was set to leave. I joked about quitting WB, as I do every week, and left.

Fast forward to tuesday. I get an angry voice mail from my boss at West Bay. Amanda. She was essentially telling me she was getting me fired from both of my jobs, and I needed to call her back. Obviously I called her back and set up an appointment to figure out the situation.

I'm left sitting here thinking, where did I err? When was there any danger of the pool not being covered? Why was it that Bethany saw fit to panick and call her supervisors, whom she says she distains? Was it not the ideal situation? Obviously not, it was a mickey mouse coverage to be sure, but it should have been enough.

After four years this is the kind of respect I get? My job threatened for at worst, inconviencing coworkers. I won't stand by and take that. It would be ridiculous if this report stays in my record. I cannot stand for it. Not after covering for screw up after screw up at that place. Mistakes happen. Errors occur, people are late, events come up. But guess what? I didn't abandon my post in some fit of anger, I never would leave a pool uncovered for a shift intentionally. I don't know who to be angry at. While I want to be angry at both Amanda and Krystina, that doesn't make sense, they were not there to witness the situation, and therefore their reactions, and anger at me could be easily explained by how the situation was explained to them.

I'd be pissed too if an employee said screw you, and walked out, leaving a shift uncovered. Duh. But thats not what happened.

I find myself blaming Bethany. I wonder why?