I Was Fired

That Saturday morning, I got to work and said something that wasn’t right for me to say as an employee. But let it be known that I was given permission from a manager on shift at the time. I used no profanity or harsh words that would anyway were aimed at disrespecting my employers. I was simply putting in to perspective (as someone who started as hostess, the bottom, who worked hard to become a server) that it is a privilege. I was trying to show that being a server does not give you/us the authority to treat others lower than our ranking as your/our slaves. These were words that were told to me the night before from a manager.

Some of you think I am blowing this out of proportion. In my defense, it was blown out of proportion that what I had said was illegal in the workplace and I was fired for it. What I said was apparently too bold for some.I thanked them for firing me. My stubbornness would have probably lead me to continue to work there. But thank God, I was fired.

I ask that my past employers forgive me for lashing out and stepping out of line. For I am young and still learning how behave appropriately in the workplace. I know that serving job was only temporary and there is greater things in my future.

What I am not sorry for is standing up for myself. I never meant to dishonor my bosses, but I will not stand to be harassed and discriminated against. It is a hostile environment and I will no longer be working in a place where I do not feel safe. I am not speaking not only for myself, but for other employees in any workplace; women AND men.  This is an ongoing problem not only in Bozeman Montana, but in this country and in this world. Now, I know can only speak on behalf of the laws that enabled me as a citizen of these United States of America. But, as child of God I also want to speak on behalf of God. And when I say world, I mean mankind; women and men.  I will continue to speak what is true, true in the eyes of God.  If he is for me, who can be against me?