I’m not even sure if this is the right place to post this since I don’t really think I fucked up, but everything shitty that’s happened is a product of me doing something, so here it goes.
I (17 m) work at a golf course during the summer. I work maintenance: cutting grass, watering the course, and keeping everything looking nice. My boss is cranky at times but I get along with him. While I do get paid a lot, my schedule can be VERY demanding, and more than once a week I have to wake up at three in the morning, as well as a few 12 hour work days. On the days I’m watering, I start at 4:00 am and work until noon, then come back to work at 7:00 and go until midnight. It’s a lot. Sometimes I get stressed and forget to do certain things, or I just don’t want to talk to people.
Anyways: when I water the back half of the course in the morning, it’s not uncommon that golfers will catch up to me and get wet on the later holes. We have “coworkers” called Marshall’s that make sure everyone is moving at the right pace, but they also tell people what to expect. I place sprinkler heads out across fairways and I have to do them in segments; I leave each set out for an hour, and then I have to pick it up. All in all, it takes about 7 or 8 hours. The big rule is that all the sprinkler heads have to be off the course by 11:30. I always am.
We had a new Marshall in today, and he comes up to me at around 6:00 am and says: “I told the golfers that you’ll be done watering by 10.” He didn’t ask me when I’d be done. I told him, “well I can’t put my last set down until 10:30, so these guys might get wet”. He looks at me and says “be done before that” I say that’s not how it works and he drives off. I leave because I had 2 hours of sleep and desperately needed a coffee. I’m in the midst of picking up/putting down my last set and my phone is getting flooded with texts from my boss, telling me about complaints. Apparently some golfers had been out, got wet, complained to the Marshall, and he told not only my boss but some of the higher ups on the board. I told them what happened, and my boss said that he knows I did my job well, but I needed to explain to the new Marshall how my hours work. He said he didn’t want to fire me, but apparently some of the higher ups want me gone now and are mad at me.
I don’t know what the fuck to do. I need money for university next year and because this guy was inconsiderate and I was tired I’m at risk of losing my job.
TL;DR someone I work with at a golf course told golfers I’d be done by 10, I “failed to correct him”, golfers got wet, complained, and now my jobs at risk.