Find­ing a new job is not a piece of cake, espe­cial­ly in the cur­rent econ­o­my. Besides, when a per­son is job­less for a long time, life becomes even tougher with added respon­si­bil­i­ties. How­ev­er, in such a dif­fi­cult time, what would one do if they were offered a job at such a time and then got fired even before they could start work­ing? A sim­i­lar thing hap­pened with Mari­ah Luciano—who goes by @tyjamiell on Tik­Tok. She got hired at Wendy’s and then got fired even before her first day. Luciano shared the inci­dent through a video.

“You all, I just expe­ri­enced the cra­zi­est thing in my life,” she began. “So I have been with­out a job for sev­en months. Right to the point where I get evict­ed because I can no longer pay my bills,” Luciano said, giv­ing more con­text to her sit­u­a­tion. “Two days after I moved out of my apart­ment, I got a job inter­view at Wendy’s.” She had a job inter­view with the dis­trict man­ag­er on a Sat­ur­day. “I pret­ty much beg this b**** for a job.” She shared how she did­n’t even work for fast food but for a ware­house and on a work-from-home basis. An hour lat­er, she got a call from anoth­er man­ag­er that she had been hired. She was told, “You need to come up here on Sun­day and do your paper­work.”

Luciano did her paper­work for about an hour with anoth­er shift man­ag­er. He said, “Okay, some­body’s going to call you and tell you your start date. She did­n’t hear any­thing on Mon­day. “Tues­day comes around, at 12 pm I get a text mes­sage from the dis­trict man­ag­er telling me I was sup­posed to start at 12 pm.” She checked her texts, calls and voice­mails and had no mes­sages on any­thing. “I explained to her that I haven’t heard from any­body since I did the paper­work on Sun­day.” She got a call from the man­ag­er who told her she could either start today or tomor­row. Luciano chose to start the next day as it was on real­ly short notice. The man­ag­er agreed with that and hung up, but imme­di­ate­ly sent her a text that she was sup­posed to start that day.

The woman explained her sit­u­a­tion again as she shared a screen­shot of a text mes­sage she received. The man­ag­er respond­ed, “Unfor­tu­nate­ly, I don’t think this is going to work out.” The employ­ee expressed, “How is that my fault? Your man­agers lack com­mu­ni­ca­tion between them­selves. Like, what do you want me to do?” She cap­tioned the post, “This is exact­ly why I don’t work in fast food [they are] unpro­fes­sion­al and unor­ga­nized as f***.” Peo­ple sup­port­ed Luciano and shared their bits in the com­ments.

@justbeingcase wrote, “She did that on pur­pose. She was play­ing on your vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty and des­per­a­tion and hon­est­ly, that was the best thing that could’ve hap­pened to you, that rejec­tion is a redi­rec­tion.” @dawnknots com­ment­ed, “I would have asked, ‘Can you let me know who reached out to me with this infor­ma­tion and what day/time they called or texted so I can check with my phone com­pa­ny.’ ” @cocoapuffz20 remarked, “Girl, I just went through this. It was ten months. I applied to every­thing. Just start­ed some­thing new yes­ter­day. They are hir­ing nation­wide if you want the infor­ma­tion.”

You can fol­low Mari­ah Luciano (@tyjamiell) on Tik­Tok for more lifestyle con­tent.