True. The whole thing has been so disappointing and humiliating.

I went through orientation at Schnuck’s deli too. Attended a 2-3 hour orientation where I signed a sheet along with about 30 people. We watched a 2 hr long FASCINATING ode to nepotism (family owned business), I was given my uniform and -I'm the only one this happened to) - I was singled out and asked to stay after the "paid orientation " to jump right in and immediately start to do very physical work bc they really were THAT short-staffed. I worked, uniform and hairnet, waiting on customers, took a 10 minute break, a lunch break, broke down equipment and tore down and cleaned and re-assembled very heavy stuff like their meat slicer-I worked my tail off. At the end of this-9 pm-I was told I was needed back at 5 am to do it all over again after maybe 4 hours sleep. Wow. Pre-autoimmune diseases, I'd have been all about it "hey, business needs, I'm there". But I had genuinely significantly struggled physically with a lot of these tasks, yet hung in for that entire shift, actively working, trying my best to make it work . But I knew-this was just not going to be possible-and I HATE admitting limitations. I texted the hiring manager-"I've never done this before in my life and I'm genuinely not that person who job hops or is too good for hard work, but I have to be completely honest, this is not physically sustainable. I'm so sorry, I'm going to have to pursue other opportunities, just the lifting of the meat slicer is an accident waiting to happen. I worked hard, I genuinely tried, but this exceeds my limitations, I'm SO SORRY and THANK you for the opportunity." Do you know that every one of the 29 other people in orientation with me were ALL paid for 2 hours sitting and watching a video-with me. I had attended the same orientation, my signature in multiple places, provided my vaccines card for the onboarded employee $100 bonus, clocked in and out multiple times. Yet, two days later, I was gobsmacked to check their site to find that I had been 1. Terminated for 2. "Low job performance" on a job I supposedly 3. "Never showed up for" that I had 4. clocked in and out of for 7.5 hours with 5. witnesses and 6. a well-used uniform . It was well documented (I clocked in and out multiple times and the deli manager had me rocking a hair net and their red and black uniform), I was shown on the sign in sheet for the training, they made a copy of my vaccine card the same day/time I was training, and 29 other people heard them single me out to start physically working at literally the end of the videos. Despite all of this, I was recorded as a "terminated employee due to being a no-show who performed the job sub-par yet was never there". Huh? I was never paid a dime despite having actively worked 7.5 hours. And I'm officially shown as having been fired in the text directly below the one politely explaining why I regretfully had to QUIT. You might be surprised by how often this actually happens, I never would have believed it. I think they think you're going to be so humiliated, you won't dare to report it. And really, they're not completely wrong.