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K so today is my best friends birthday but i cant go because i just got a job and after a week of oreintation im finally working today is the day i get trained which im excited for but my best friend is really pissed because im missing her 16th but its not my fault she didnt tell me 2 weeks ago she just told me a few days ago what she was doing and i tried calling her yesterday to tell her i cant come but she didnt answer so i sent her a msg on facebook and i told her i would call today but she sent me a msg saying "fuk you seriously you cant even call in sick or anything" so ya i dont know what to do should i talk to her again or no because she really hurt my feelings shes only thinking of herself.
If she's 16, chances are she's never had a job, and doesn't know that your first few weeks are sort of a probationary period, where your supervisor determines whether you are capable of learning the skills necessary to complete your tasks, if you are reliable enough to be depended on, and adaptive enough to handle whatever is thrown your way. If you call in sick your first day, you're starting off on the wrong foot, and will likely go nowhere, if you aren't straight up fired. When I was working in a theatre, the majority of the bottom-level employees were 16 year olds. You can imagine the kind of turnover we had. A single sign of unreliabilty in the first week or two warranted an immediate termination. With so many lazy kids, the majority of new employees didn't last a month.
tl, dr version: Your friend doesn't understand the shaky ground associated with a brand new job at a young age. Send a message explaining how you WOULD have, not could have been fired by calling in your first day. Give her time for that to sink in before you reestablish contact again.
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thanks :)
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