Well I just moved out of my folk's house, and paid my first month's rent staying with my friend as a roomie. Well Last Saturday I was going to call in for work (was really sick, natious, little throwup) it was only my 3rd time calling in since i been there (1 year and 3 months). We're sopose to call 1 hour before our scheduled time. Well I was sopose to be there at 12 but I seriously thought it was 1 (i usually work 1-10 saturdays) so I end up calling in at 12:45. I talked to the store manager said They suspended 3 people in my department that day and really needed me to make it, I told him i'd TRY(which i tried, didn't happen). I handle alot of produce and touch alot of food at my job so not only was I not physically able to work but it was UNSAFE FOR ME TO HAVE WENT.

Well my department manager calls my a hour later "where you at (store manager) told you to come on." I explained how I just couldn't make it which he replies "well if you dont come today dont come anymore cause your fired thats how it is" and hung up on me. So I was not any more motivated to go and went to sleep.

I woke up that evening called my department head to apologize which he basically said fuck you and hung up again. Well my store manager has my back right he never told me I HAD to go. Wrong. He doesn't end up listening to a word I say and everytime im in the middle of talking I can hear him talk to someone else and either ask me to repeat what I said or not respond to what I say at all... Then at end tells me the department head will call me when they make a decision.

The company I work for the full-time employees are part of a large union (which we pay 10 dollars a week for) to basically protect us from the shithead store managers. Well it's thursday and I still havn't gotten ahold to the union guy I need to talk to and to make me look worse he has returned my call atleast 3 times which my phone has been dead (lost charger during the move for awhile) or simply didn't see the call til I got the voicemail in the hectic of moving so he might think my job's not important to me anyway.. He's at a funeral today so im waKING up early tomorrow to call... But I feel it might be a lost cause now...

I really dont know what to do it is hard to find a job in the shitty south (or anywhere really, right?) and i really dont want to work "just any" job... I've considered joining the military but im not sure since I have a steady relationship with my g/f right now and I really dont want to leave her behind, but I cant be a broke bum forever either.. I can move back with my parents anytime but with them, my brother, sister and her 2 kids, im good right now....

Im really stuck at what to do. Thanks for reading my rant and thanks for any future replies..