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Yesterday I was fired and given my pay until the end of the week and the vacation I had accumulated so far with the company. I had been working there since September of last year so I was over 3 months and had no warnings that my job was on the line. The last review I had gotten from my supervisor was 2 weeks ago and it was a positive review, saying that there was a little room for improvement but that I was doing really well. I had begun the job as a dispatcher and convinced them into a higher wage then they had originally offered me... then due to space restrictions I was switched to customer service temporarily (until we moved to the new office that is being built) but that project turned to be taking longer then expected and I'm assuming they realized they had someone doing customer service getting paid more then everyone else in that department when they could replace me for someone for minimum wage. I honestly think that I was fired to save money. I have some odd problems with my case though... I never signed an employment contract and have email evidence where I had asked for one and never got one. I also did not sign anything when they fired me. I asked another customer service worker and she said she had been working there for years and was making $40 less per week then I was but had signed an employment contract... it seems a little odd to me so I'm not sure how to proceed. I feel like the company has stopped following legal requirements with their recent employees and does not give any credit to long existing ones
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