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Losing a job unexpectedly is rough. Finding another one almost immediately can make it feel like you’ve dodged a bullet. Having that job disappear three months later? At that point, you’d probably start wondering what exactly the universe has against steady employment.

One construction worker entered the year thinking he had finally landed a stable position. Instead, just three months after starting at a new company in January, he received an email informing him that he’d been terminated without an explanation.

He was especially surprised because he thought he had developed a friendship with the foreman, only to walk away feeling like that relationship had apparently been much more one-sided than he realized.

Still, he recovered quickly. Within days, he found another job and got back to work.

For the next three months, he says he went above and beyond, regularly handling tasks other members of the crew didn’t know how to complete.

Then he was terminated again—this time for allegedly having a “bad attitude.”

After losing two jobs in roughly six months, he’s done giving construction companies the benefit of the doubt.

im so done with everything

I really thought i was gonna have steady employment all throughout this year but 3 months after starting at a new company in January i was terminated without reason and found out through an email..

funny enough i thought i was friends with the Forman on that job but i guess it was another one of those 1 sided friendships that only existed in my mind and not his.

Sure enough I picked up another job within a few days and worked another 3 months only for the same thing to happen and for them to terminate me because “I had a bad attitude.”

Not again!

I don’t think my attitude was good but it def wasn’t bad so it definitely was not a fireable offence but they just came up with that cuz they can say anything they want to fire you if you haven’t passed probation.

I’m sick of this sh*t. I went above and beyond for this last company and got zero credit for any of my hard work.

A lot of the things I was doing the other guys in the crew didn’t know how, so I was the one who got handed those tasks and completed them with no issues.

Well that’s not fair, then.

Being that I did my whole apprenticeship pre coronavirus i can feel the whole construction industry has changed to this toxic snitching fake nice environment where if you’ve been in the company long enough you can say anything you want about anyone new in the company that doesn’t even need to be true and climb your way to the top by being a dishonest twit.

It makes me regret working at all for these greedy people who are so blind to what is actually going on. I don’t know what the future holds in store for me but I pray i never have to deal with anything like the first 6 months of hell i endured at the start of this year.

Good luck to anyone who can relate to this I won’t be trying my luck at another one of these scab companies any time soon.

It’s easy to understand why two unexpected terminations in six months would leave someone angry, especially when this worker believes his actual work was never the problem.

At the second company, he says he was trusted with jobs other crew members couldn’t handle and completed them without issue. From his perspective, that makes being dismissed over his “attitude” feel less like meaningful feedback and more like a convenient justification for getting rid of a probationary employee.

Of course, there’s one piece of this story that’s difficult to judge from the outside. He acknowledges that his attitude “wasn’t good,” even if he doesn’t believe it was bad enough to warrant firing. Two short-lived jobs in a row don’t automatically mean he was the problem, but they might make it worth considering whether there’s any useful feedback buried beneath experiences he understandably sees as unfair.

That doesn’t invalidate his broader frustration. A workplace where new employees feel they can be pushed out based on gossip, personal relationships or vague complaints can make it incredibly difficult to know where they stand.

Whatever happened behind the scenes, six months of repeatedly proving yourself only to start over again would exhaust just about anyone.

This person has quite the suggestion.

This person feels OP to their core.

If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a bank employee who immediately resigns after being denied a bonus.

And this person has some wise words.

Getting through two three-month jobs in six months is one way to make a probationary period feel like a recurring subscription.