I was working at a healthcare facility and I had been there the longest (I was helping people and loved doing it)...turnover rate was super high too because my bosses were basically crazy. They would call people on their days off to cover for their manager duties, they would blame us when things broke even though we weren't there, we would get yelled at for forgetting the smallest things like chocolate milk, sometimes we would have to work through our breaks just to meet their goals and we'don't get yelled at for that, sometimes the patients just took a while, they made people miss doctors appointments and funerals, and sometimes we would get yelled at for following food safety and health care precautions or for pointing out when people were breaking them.

Basically it was all about control every single person there wanted to be in control and they wanted to lord that control over others, they were in charge and they could do no wrong and it didn't matter if it was wrong of them to threaten you everyday.

So one day after basically having a really bad morning with some of the cooks and some of the patients upstairs I told the cook that I was working with that I wanted respect. I wanted just as much respect as everyone else and I wanted her to listen to me about what I was telling her because she had been asking me to do something for a patient in an amount of time that would have been impossible and delayed everything else. This is the only time that I ever spoke up to defend myself and to demand respect after being mistreated multiple times by everyone. She walked out after the meal and didn't come back, just like a few of her colleagues had done multiple times.....and yet I somehow got yelled at a few days later.

Ironically it was a night shift on a very busy day, we were already shot staffed, when they pulled me into the office at the start of my shift and it was a very beautiful day outside. They pulled out a copy of the incident report form of me yelling that I demanded respect from my colleagues. They also pulled out four patient review forms and all of the patients were dementia patients, this was used against me. I was also told that I was a racist because I trained our latest new person the same way that I was trained in basically everything because who knows who was going to quit the next day; you had to basically know everyone else's job. A month prior I had gone to a therapist to figure out what I could do to make things better there and because I needed someone to talk to after seeing all the suffering in the hospital.....my employers found out about this and gave me a written warning. A month later and this incident happens and I'm still seeing my therapist and finally they get around to the point that they're firing me. They then tell me that I can stay until the end of my shift and finish out the day.... mind you they told me all of this at the start of my shift after they had told everyone else. Guess what I did?

I got a copy of my personnel file and then I went outside and enjoyed the lovely day. My last words to them were, "Bye!" as I giggled maniacally and almost sprinted down the hallway to my locker to get my stuff. It felt like I was finally getting out of prison but I was still sad because now the patients would have to deal with all of those idiots.