Fired from volunteer work

[Guest5643]

Its still so raw with me it only feels like yesterday. But i see a realy big funny side to it that only me and my dog could get fired from volunteer work😅. About 7ish yrs ago i joined a volunteer organization which starts off paintings for nursing homes, mental health units ect to finish them. I don't know if im allowed to say the organizations name? For 1yr i put my absolute all into that place. They had become a family to me. I TRUSTED them. I was a very hard worker. Always arrived on time. Very corteous. I took my dog with me. My dog never got in the way. The boss lady became nasty the day i told her i was offered a housing commision place which i accepted. The boss lady said how selfish i was to accept a place when technicaly i had a roof over my head and i was taking it away from familys living in cars. She knew my abusive living situation i was in. She came to my house and fired me. This is why i will NEVER EVER do volunteer work again. Im telling this story in the very small chance someone else has been fired from volunteer work that there not alone.

[Matches]

Hi Helium,

Thanks for sharing!

I think you ex-boss is extremely ignorant, I don't know if she was aware of the illness you suffer, or the periodic nature of many mental illnesses. I suppose you could tell us the name of the organisation, but no point in shaming I guess. It's sad that many scarce services such as housing go to people with bogus asylum claims or drug addictions, while people with mental illness go without.

[white knight]

Hi, welcome

Can I ask you a few questions?

Because this happened at a volunteer organisation, does that, in your mind, mean it can happen at every other group?

Do you think it can happen in a paid place of work?

When we are treated unfairly we can take thing to extremes. We often lose our sense of being realistic and it isnt so abnormal for those that are sensitive.

For that event to be still in the forefront of your mind 7 years later tells me you are not unlike myself.

It might mean therapy would be beneficial to you.

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Beyondblue Topic who cries over spilt milk?

All the best

TonyWK

[Nick202]

Very insightful. Sad about your situation which makes me quite mad. You appear to be mistreated.

[Guest5643]

Hi white knight and Matches I'll look at that topic. Ive had therapy over this and i tried believe you me i tried to find somewhere else but it cut deep inside too much. I even made her and the other higher up lady a handmade card only a few weeks earlier with a short note saying how much i appreciated and needed this and how everyone there had become a family to me. Because of my daily sexual abuse from my dad from very little and all the flow on affects from that i felt so deep inside i found a safe happy place where i was actualy wanted and needed well so i thought anyway, that my heart was ripped in 💔 and i still have my protective wall up. I do not feel lazy anymore by not working or volunteering as sometimes mental illness is a full time job in itself. Nor do i feel guilty for living in government housing. I was living with my alcoholic sister and narcissistic brother in law when this happened. Your so right Matches there are way too many people who don't deserve government housing.

[DannyG]

Helium you are still doing better than me - I cannot even GET any volunteer work. So I say good for you and also your boss sounds unfeeling and not understanding.

[Curleee]

I would speak to the Board about it