Support Sadie and Her Mom After Job Loss

Hello friends and family, as most of you know I’ve worked for Trader Joe’s the entire time I’ve been a single mom. You’ve watched Sadie have too many surgeries to count, the last being a kidney transplant so I’ve been back at work wearing a mask being any illness could lead to organ rejection. Well we have a lovely anti- masker in town that held a mask protest at work in 2020 endangering my coworkers during the most dangerous time of the pandemic resulting in one of my managers getting death threats and being transferred. It was a scene and she made videos saying she had been banned for life which I was under the impression she was because of the lack of clarity from management. She has been in shopping recently and continued to insult my coworkers. “ are you re*arded” to one, another” you probably don’t speak English anyways” , “ aren’t you too old to work here”.. the list goes on. Very hostile to everyone. She made a beeline for me Wednesday of course,she was on the register behind me and started to mock me for wearing a mask in a baby voice” fake pandemic etc”. I turned around to explain that my daughter had just had a kidney transplant turned back around to help my customer and she continued mocking me. Friends Sadie almost died, her kidneys were working at 7%. In that moment that trauma came back and I reacted . She took it to corporate and they sided with the bully and fired me. Mind you I think I have one write up for clocking into lunch too early 15 years ago. My heart is shattered that A company that I truly loved working for sided with someone who put their employees lives at risk during the pandemic and continue to come in and be hostile with the staff over someone that really cared and worked so hard to make our store the best for almost 17 yrs. I’m a mess. Can’t eat, sleep, keep food down or stop crying. I’m in fear of our future, I’m mad but I’m mostly sad because my crew at Traders has been my family and I’ll miss them so much. I wanted to make a post as well for all my friends that I see at work and will wonder where I am. I don’t think I can bear retelling the story over and over again.