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A baffled college graduate claimed she was hired and then fired after just six days at her first full-time job out of school.
Tennessee content creator Sierra Desiray Frederick, 22, said she had been at her graphic design job for five days before she was let go — arguing that her co-workers “didn’t know how to train me.”
The 22-year-old added that the firm does print work for a local grocery chain in Tennessee.
“So, I got a job for this company in Henderson, Tenn., and they do all the print for Aldis. Super excited that I’m going to be doing graphic design stuff — that’s what my major was in,” Frederick said in the TikTok, which has been viewed over 383,000 views.
“I had five days of training at this job, five shifts at this job. In those five shifts I spent [probably 3 or four of those five] days doing nothing,” she continues.
Frederick claimed there were two other people on her team who barely gave the young graphic designer any work to do, and only had her watch training videos.
Sierra Desiray Frederick said she was let go from her first full-time job out of college after having “been there for five days.” TikTok/ @sierra_fred“Every day it was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what to give you to do today, oh, I don’t know what to show you today,’ ” Frederick said in her best impersonation of the two trainers.
“Yesterday, I walked in, and they made me watch videos that I’ve already watched on things they’ve already trained me on for about three hours,” she added.
Frederick, not being trained on anything new, felt totally “useless” after spending most of the day staring at her computer and doing nothing.
At that point, she grew weary and informed her boyfriend she was going to take up the issue and her role with the CEO of the company.
But the next day, Frederick went to work expecting it to be the typical boring shift until she saw the CEO at her desk.
The fired college graduate said her two trainers at the job barely gave her any work to do. Monkey Business – stock.adobe.com“Our CEO is standing there with an envelope in his hand, just a little envelope, and he looks at me — there’s people in this room, a full room of people — hands it to me and says ‘we’re letting you go Sierra.’ “
“I said, umm, okay, I’ve been there for five days, I learned literally nothing!” Frederick screamed in the video.
Frederick claimed the CEO told her “You’re not working out” and said the company was going to continue its search for another candidate.
Sierra Desiray Frederick came in for what she thought would be her sixth day at work, but the CEO had other plans for the employee, handing her an envelope to let her know she was fired. TikTok/ @sierra_fred“Thanks for coming in” were the last words Frederick said she heard from the CEO before he walked away.
Viewers rushed to the comment section to come to Frederick’s defense, telling her she wasn’t in the wrong at all to feel how she felt at a job that practically failed her.
“Not having an onboarding process/schedule is now a red flag for me. If I don’t get a schedule for first week, I know you’re a mismanaged business 🙃,” one replier said.
“Most jobs training today is: Figure it out yourself. It’s amazing. 30 years ago we had trainers,” a commenter wrote.
“Literally every job these days wants you to be pre-trained with 5 years of experience- design jobs particularly. I started a new job 4 months ago,” another viewer vouched.
