Well never fucking mind then.

So not more than an hour and a half after I made my previous post, the fella who hired me called me into his office to tell me that they had hired someone else for the same job, someone with "perfect" qualifications for the position and who did not have the coding training I went to, he was extremely apologetic(ish) and swore to "personally help you find a better, higher paying job".

So after about a day and a half in my new position, I am back in Job Placement looking for work.

I have only been this furious a couple times in my life. I have been treated poorly and jerked around by employers but this is the first time something like this has happened to me, and honestly I don't even hear about it happening that often.

I was polite, made the right noises, and left, intending to take a couple of days off while I considered what to do next, and if I am honest, to mope. The other employees I spoke to about it on my way out were pretty incredulous too, which only served to heighten the feeling that my bullshit alarm had been giving me since the conversation about me being fired started.

What actually happened I may never know, perhaps he decided he didn't like me, perhaps he was being forced from on high to hire this person, perhaps in hiring me so quickly he overstepped and was making up for it, perhaps something else, hell perhaps he was being perfectly truthful. Either way it was a goddamn shitty thing to do to someone.

I am not gonna lie, I was, and am, pretty bummed. I take things personally maybe more than I should, but this directly impacts my quality of life both financially and mentally neither of which are terribly solid at the best of times, so I feel like maybe taking it personally is alright in this case.

At this point I am not sure what to do, oh I had my depressive thoughts and got over them for the moment, I am not talking about that, I will keep looking for work and get something eventually, what I am not sure of is if I want to remain associated with the Tech Academy at all at this point, I won't be making a decision tonight or probably even tomorrow, but I honestly am not sure what I would be giving up if I severed at this point, I graduated the coursework, they can't take that back, the promise I mentioned above that I will get some personal help finding a job is 1. Probably bullshit, I suspect he will have forgotten my name by now, and 2. unlikely to help as he isn't part of the job placement course and that isn't his area of knowledge or training.

At this point I am perfectly capable of going to networking events, talking to recruiters, and making job applications myself, so what I would be losing is the environment that encourages doing work and access to some staff who are fairly helpful, at this point I don't know if the environment will help me, seeing as I was fired out of hand in it. Similar issues arise with the staff, even though they weren't directly responsible for what happened(I hope).

Right now I am leaning towards quitting, emailing the founders and laying out exactly what happened and why, then leaving a shitty review on Glassdoor and washing my hands of the place. I wouldn't expect it to do much, they already have my money and they seem to have no trouble getting the ideal staff they want, but it's all I pretty much have and I don't know how I feel about remaining associated with someone who treats their employees that way, particularly when that employee was me.

I'll sleep on it... eventually.