Am I going to be Fired?

Am i going to get fired?

• I've been working at a small, family owned restaurant for about 3 months now. I am a cook, i love cooking, and i really love my job. I'm only 16 and this is my second job but so far i've been doing really well. The other cooks i work with always compliment on my style and technique and say they are really impressed with how i am doing! Within the first month i got really sick and missed a sunday shift, so I called in and they got someone to cover for me. The second month i injured my foot. I hate cuts all up and down it and my whole ankle was swelled up. I got a doctors note yet i, once again, missed a sunday shift. Just last weekend a co-worker asked me if i would be able to cover half of her shift on sunday because she has "back pains"... she asks me to cover her shifts ALL the time and i pretty much always do. I told her i'd take it if i was able to. My family ended up going out of town the next day and i was out of service and couldn't get a hold of her to let her know i couldn't make it. She had written down on the schedule that i was going to take her shift. Apparently she just left when i didn't show up to take her shift and called in and asked one of the head cooks (who really doesn't like me) to come in because i "didn't know show up". I told her i might not be able to and she made it seem like i was going to for sure. I explained what happened and everything... One of my friends told me that they were all talking about me the next morning and how i should be fired and they don't want me working there... What do you know, the next schedule comes out and my hours are cut in half. Usually i work 37 hours in 2 weeks. This week i work 20. I always do my work perfectly and i have only ever been talked to once, and that was when i first started. My hours are being cut back and i'm really nervous about being fired. I love my job so much and i don't want to loose it. I've been working really lately to show them that they shouldn't let go of me... but idk, i just don't know what to think and i'm really stressed out. Do you think i'm going to get fired?

• Answer:

  Do not stress yourself about this situation, cutting your hours may only be a way to allow you more space. If there is always someone asking you to cover their shift, then you will pick up the extra hours if necessary. Fired? That sounds a little far fetched. Your employer may be just sending you a signal and it sounds like you got the message. Continue to keep your work up to par, you will be alright.