February 7th, 1911

Dear diary,

I can’t stop crying. Today I got fired again and I can’t understand why, I don’t know what to do, how I will keep going... The owner told me that a customer had complained about how I worked because I had been rude and disrespectful. I really can´t understand it. I appreciated  this work a lot and it had cost me so much to get it.
 I don’t understand why someone would do this. I had finally found some hope in my life and it has been taken away from me. I’m a very respectful person and I wouldn’t do anything to lose the job. I have an idea of who it might have been.
I had been working for 5 hours one day when a very fussy customer came in. She was very pretty and in her early twenties, she seemed to be from a wealthy family. That girl liked one dress that wouldn’t fit her, and her mother told her not to try it on, but she did, anyway. When she got out of the changing rooms, her mother told her “I told you so” and I felt pity for her. At that moment Miss Francis asked me a very silly question and I laughed a bit. Perhaps she misunderstood why I was laughing, because at that moment she looked at me with hatred.
The day after this, when I went to work in the morning, I couldn’t get in because the owner told me that I was dismissed.
I don’t know how I will go on with my life. I have no money, no home and no work. I am desperate. I didn’t deserve this, this wasn’t my fault. I hope I’ll find something soon, if not, I don’t know what am I going to do!
Eva

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