Have You Ever Been Fired From a Job?

[Teddy KGB]

2x yep, both times at the hand of a confused woman.  

 

HFC Bank  worked 8-5 mon/tues/thurs/fri and. 12-9 on weds.    Manager was off on maternity leave my first few months there. She returns and fires me for showing up at 12 on a weds as she was “looking for me” since 8 am.  That was fun explaining to HR.  She was too mad to let it go even though she was wrong.   

 

Geico — fired for asking a guy for his social security number (which is a mandatory question) for underwriting purposes and he got all pissy.  

 

Eventually faced off with managers manager who confused the unemployment judge as to why I was fired for asking a company mandated question 

[Johnny Hammersticks]

I’ve only been fired from a job once, and it was a paper route I had back in middle school.  I had the route for over two years and did fine, but I had just turned 14 so I could get my work permit.  Had a job washing dishes at a restaurant locked down, so the last week of my paper route I threw all the bundles of newspapers in the woods behind my house ?

[Rocket94]

1 hour ago, Augie said:

 

I went into a Wegman’s just to check it out a few weeks ago. Oh, how I wish I had that near me! 

Did you try the subs? Yummy!

[Augie]

1 minute ago, Rocket94 said:

Did you try the subs? Yummy!

 

Several times. I thought the bread was awful, and that’s hard to overcome. I think Jersey Mikes is a thousand times better, but if I keep hearing good reports I’ll give them another shot. It’s SUPER convenient and I’d like another option like that. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

2 hours ago, WhoTom said:

Ever been convicted of a felony?

 

 

I will see you and raise YOU a:

 

 

 

"...Proceeded through, and I finally came to see the very last man. I walked in,
Sat down, after a whole big thing there. I walked up, and I said, "what do
You want?" He said, "kid, we only got one question, have you ever been
Arrested?"

And I proceeded to tell him the story of Alice's Restaurant Massacree with
Full orchestration and five-part harmony and stuff like that, and other phenomenon

He stopped me right there and said, "kid, have you ever been to court?" And
I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty-seven 8 x 10 colored glossy
Pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one

He stopped me right there and said, "kid, I want you to go over and sit down
On that bench that says 'Group W'"...

 

[Rocket94]

1 minute ago, Augie said:

 

Several times. I thought the bread was awful, and that’s hard to overcome. I think Jersey Mikes is a thousand times better, but if I keep hearing good reports I’ll give them another shot. It’s SUPER convenient and I’d like another option like that. 

I moved away a year ago, but if you get the right person making them, it makes a difference. There was one employee who would just load the sub with extras. 

[ExiledInIllinois]

FWIW... The Fed Gov... USACE was Riffing in 1992... That's how I ended up here.

 

If I would have hung aroung... I would have faced a RIF... Reduction In Force.  I was in Hydrographic Survey and @ Black Rock Lock.

[DC Tom]

2 hours ago, Joe in Winslow said:

 

The old saying that no one on their deathbed wishes they'd spent more time at work.

 

I probably will.

 

I was "fired" from a startup in 2002.  The CEO had it in for me (according to others), and the company tried to get me to quit by making my life a living hell.  After I wrote them a letter explaining "constructive dismissal is illegal" they gave me six months' severance to leave.

 

Two weeks later they laid off half the company with a week's severance.  They were pretty serious dipshits.

29 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

I’ve only been fired from a job once, and it was a paper route I had back in middle school.  I had the route for over two years and did fine, but I had just turned 14 so I could get my work permit.  Had a job washing dishes at a restaurant locked down, so the last week of my paper route I threw all the bundles of newspapers in the woods behind my house ?

 

The Courier Express closed the following week.  IT WAS YOU!!!!

[mead107]

Never fired.  
 

3 layoffs at GE. 

[Another Fan]

 

[LewPort71]

Also, I have 239 calendar days until I retire,

but who is counting ?

[Koko78]

6 hours ago, Zaso Art Designs said:

Have you ever been fired from a job before and if so, how come?

 

As for me, I have never been fired before so far. 

 

Yes.

 

Apparently corporate offices get all pissy and ***** when you drive company vehicles into too many things.

[KD in CA]

1 hour ago, LewPort71 said:

Also, I have 239 calendar days until I retire,

but who is counting ?

 

I'll be pretty disappointed if we don't get an 'R Rich home opener' style countdown from you.

[Augie]

31 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

 

Yes.

 

Apparently corporate offices get all pissy and ***** when you drive company vehicles into too many things.

 

Hey, they can be funny that way! Not sure what to tell you......  

 

?

[Koko78]

19 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

Hey, they can be funny that way! Not sure what to tell you......  

 

?

 

My bosses were actually pissed that they were ordered by the corporate office to fire me. I made their numbers look good.

[PromoTheRobot]

I worked in radio. A typical career includes about a dozen firings.

[707BillsFan]

Once, but do your high school years count?

 

Mid-80's, working at a fast food restaurant, something to do w/ a King...burnt orange uniform years. Great place to work. There was me, the only other high school guy and several girls from the local Catholic high school. There was a manager, who kept trying to get the girls to go to the hotel next door w/ him. He always used the line, "I have a Twister game in my car." It was annoyingly disgusting. I started dating one of the girls. I showed up on an off day to pick up my GF after her shift. She told me he tried to get her to go next door to the hotel. I lost it. We had it out (yelling/shouting) right there in the restaurant. He kicked me out. I walked out, immediately drove into the drive thru and when they asked for my order...I yelled, so and so was a pedophile. I guess loud enough for the back end to hear, and possibly the customers that were eating over the speaker. As I pulled around, I was told I was fired.

 

It actually worked out great. A manager that I respected, was fired too a week before me, moved to another BK across town. He got me a job there, where I met my future wife.  33 years later, we're still together. The other girl I had been dating was just looking to get knocked up. I escaped that one!! She did end up being a high school / teenage mom by her next BF. Someone was looking out for me there....

[JoeF]

Yes.  In the situation, I actually should have been fired about 4 years earlier in the role I was in, but the entity would have cratered so the board overlooked it.  Eventually, I was insubordinate to a board member in a board finance committee meeting and then negotiated a severance with the chairman.  We were working on a contract extension at the time that I really didn't want.  Not one of the prouder times for me.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

10 hours ago, 707BillsFan said:

Once, but do your high school years count?

 

Mid-80's, working at a fast food restaurant, something to do w/ a King...burnt orange uniform years. Great place to work. There was me, the only other high school guy and several girls from the local Catholic high school. There was a manager, who kept trying to get the girls to go to the hotel next door w/ him. He always used the line, "I have a Twister game in my car." It was annoyingly disgusting. I started dating one of the girls. I showed up on an off day to pick up my GF after her shift. She told me he tried to get her to go next door to the hotel. I lost it. We had it out (yelling/shouting) right there in the restaurant. He kicked me out. I walked out, immediately drove into the drive thru and when they asked for my order...I yelled, so and so was a pedophile. I guess loud enough for the back end to hear, and possibly the customers that were eating over the speaker. As I pulled around, I was told I was fired.

 

It actually worked out great. A manager that I respected, was fired too a week before me, moved to another BK across town. He got me a job there, where I met my future wife.  33 years later, we're still together. The other girl I had been dating was just looking to get knocked up. I escaped that one!! She did end up being a high school / teenage mom by her next BF. Someone was looking out for me there....

 

Did you name your first born Whopper?

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

10 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I worked in radio. A typical career includes about a dozen firings.

I worked in radio as well. 3 yrs, the turnover is crazy. all about numbers. it still was one of the best experiences/jobs I ever had.

 

 

 

 

Edited October 10, 2019 by DaBillsFanSince1973

[HopsGuy]

Those mentions of sweeping pink-slips reminded me of when our brokerage merged with a market analytics software firm. The made the new office about halfway between the two firms. I moved closer & so did quite a few other people from the other side. About 3 weeks later, they let about 2 dozen people go, all from the other side (mostly software engineers). It couldn’t have been a redundancy elimination thing because these were mostly software engineers. One guy was a Product Manager that worked on the options analytics piece. He had created it himself and sold his company to us. He was kind of a jerk but he knew his stuff. Flash forward 2 years and I’m in charge of the option orders execution and sitting in a seminar a competitor is giving at the CBOE (pretended to be a retail client). We completely copied their user interface. We even got a cease & desist letter. Sorry guys, you can’t patent an idea. Welcome to reverse engineering.

 

I always wonder if it could have been done faster if he had been given that task rather than me. Probably not. Lots of moving parts.

[teef]

14 hours ago, Augie said:

 

This is one of the most important lessons in life! Don’t get too high, or too low. The next thing will happen, and more often than you would think, despite all the fretting, the next thing is even better. The fear of the unknown is hard to turn into the excitement for what’s next, but that is often how it turns out! 

my parents are big fans of the, "things happen for a reason" concept, and it would drive me up a wall.  so far...they've been right.  you just have to keep you head up and work hard.

[PromoTheRobot]

52 minutes ago, DaBillsFanSince1973 said:

I worked in radio as well. 3 yrs, the turnover is crazy. all about numbers. it still was one of the best experiences/jobs I ever had.

 

 

 

 

 

It can be fun especially when your station has their airplay monitored. Lots of perks from record companies.

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

25 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

It can be fun especially when your station has their airplay monitored. Lots of perks from record companies.

I worked for a classic rock station back in the late '90s. did a 2 hr show sat nites, southern fried saturday night, nothing but southern rock for 2 hrs by request it was a blast. also the remotes were cool and I did some production work, spots and promos. it was a short lived career but a lot of fun none the less.

[BuffaloBud]

Left 2 companies on my own decision.  Laid off from 3 companies.  The last one hurt deep.

[Augie]

1 hour ago, teef said:

my parents are big fans of the, "things happen for a reason" concept, and it would drive me up a wall.  so far...they've been right.  you just have to keep you head up and work hard.

 

What other choice do you have, son? 

[row_33]

13 minutes ago, Augie said:

 

What other choice do you have, son? 

 

seems to be a huge lifestyle choice in endless grievance and bitterness and mouthing off against everything

 

social media makes it 10 times worse

 

 

[Sweats]

I was fired from a job once.

 

Me and one of my coworkers many years ago didn’t get along.....we just hated each other. We fought and argued all the time.

Well, one day at lunchtime I had finally had enough, so I went over to his table, grabbed his sandwich outta his hand and rubbed it on my nut sack. I then threw the sandwich back down onto the table.

 

Bonus - 

The best part was listening to the HR lady ask me, “did you rub the guys sandwich on your nut sack cause I highly suspect that this is inappropriate”......and I was promptly let go.

 

i did not care

[Talonz]

This happened just a few years ago --

 

I've been doing IT for most of my life.   I was employed at a local company and I happened across a listing for a local school district hiring near me.   I've worked in a few schools in my life, and I enjoyed it more than working at a private company....

 

 I applied for the job and was subjected to several interviews including various members of the IT team calling my references and grilling them about me.    It was pretty crazy.    In the end I was hired - HOLY *****!!!!     Decent pay, state benefits, and some clout all rolled into one.   I was on cloud 9.   I could work the next 20 years and get a nice retirement, etc.   Add on top of that I just got married for the second time.   Life was looking up like never before.

 

I started the job.  Worked there a couple of days and was invited to an employee only lunch at a local joint.   I went and was witness to my fellow co-workers already starting to complain that they heard they are going to cut the size of the IT department down, and all types of other crazy crap.   I was like WTF is going on.   This place is C R A Z Y!    What I thought would be a stable environment turned out to be chaotic just a few days after starting....

 

When you start a job like this you are in a probation period.   You pay union dues BUT ARE NOT REPRESENTED by the union!! LOL !!!   Anyhow, I just had a feeling the whole time I worked there starting with the employee meeting that something just wasn't right.   My manager NOT ONCE in the 5 months I worked there ever took me aside to talk to me, find out about me, direct me to do anything.   It was bizarre.   Some of the guys never warmed up to me and of course there were a couple of clicks in the department.    This person didn't like this person, watch out for this one, watch out for that one, oh don't talk to him, blah blah blah.    

 

I could go on and on about stuff that happened there, but I will spare you.   It was stressful, depressing, and a horrible job.   One of the worst I ever had in my life.    The job itself wasn't great, but the drama and bull#### made it unbearable....

 

At about the 5 month point I was called on lunch to come see the a couple of the people in charge.   I asked if everything was OK?   Do I have anything to worry about?  "Nah, you're fine, just got to go over paperwork" -- LOL...  I finish my lunch, nervously call my wife, then go see them.    I was fired on the spot but given the opportunity to finish my 6 months if I wanted to come into work instead of unemployment right away.   How generous...

 

I ended up burning my accumulated time off, then working about another 2 weeks.   I had to sit and stare at a wall.   No computer access, no phone use....    It SUCKED.

 

Oh and it turned out I was hired to replace a guy who got caught with child porn and was on his way to jail.    Also it turned out my position was never permanent.   They had to show a cut in the department before the next budget so they hired me only to fire me and protect the guy just above me in seniority who had been there a few years..  Unions !!    Oh and they never refunded me the almost $700.00 in union dues I paid.   You pay the dues but aren't a member for 6 months ... SCAM..

  

  

[DaBillsFanSince1973]

as for being fired. once in my lifetime and it was some years ago, late '80's. I was going through a divorce and had my head up my ass, could not function. messed me up at the time. boss called me in to his office and handed me my walking papers.

 

never again did I allow a relationship mess me up like that. once, was enough.

Edited October 10, 2019 by DaBillsFanSince1973

[WhoTom]

21 minutes ago, Sweats said:

I was fired from a job once.

 

Me and one of my coworkers many years ago didn’t get along.....we just hated each other. We fought and argued all the time.

Well, one day at lunchtime I had finally had enough, so I went over to his table, grabbed his sandwich outta his hand and rubbed it on my nut sack. I then threw the sandwich back down onto the table.

 

Bonus - 

The best part was listening to the HR lady ask me, “did you rub the guys sandwich on your nut sack cause I highly suspect that this is inappropriate”......and I was promptly let go.

 

i did not care

 

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

Tops .... Not sure if I was technically fired, since I just stopped showing up

[Foxx]

life - 5% what happens to you and 95% how you react to those things.

[Chef Jim]

Never.  Keep in mind I've worked for one company for 19 years since I left the kitchen and they love me. 

 

Hard to get fired in the kitchen.  It usually goes like this;

 

Me:  I'm so ***** drunk right now.

Boss:  Me too!

 

Me:  Sorry I'm late, had an issue scoring an 8-ball

Boss:  Awesome.  Let me get the mirror

 

Me: I just ***** your number one investor's wife in the bathroom

Boss:  You lucky SOB.  Got pictures?

 

Me: I just knifed a guy in the back alley

Boss:  You didn't use one of our knives did you?

 

Me:  You're the worst boss ever.  You suck

Boss:  You're right I do and I hired you.  Now get back to work

 

Me:  I'm gonna be late.  I'm in jail

Boss:  That was you in there??  I thought you looked familiar

 

Me:  I have a full set of your china at my house

Boss:  No worries.  I'm never planning on coming over anyway.

Edited October 10, 2019 by Chef Jim

[Johnny Hammersticks]

38 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

Never.  Keep in mind I've worked for one company for 19 years since I left the kitchen and they love me. 

 

Hard to get fired in the kitchen.  It usually goes like this;

 

Me:  I'm so ***** drunk right now.

Boss:  Me too!

 

Me:  Sorry I'm late, had an issue scoring an 8-ball

Boss:  Awesome.  Let me get the mirror

 

Me: I just ***** your number one investor's wife in the bathroom

Boss:  You lucky SOB.  Got pictures?

 

Me: I just knifed a guy in the back alley

Boss:  You didn't use one of our knives did you?

 

Me:  You're the worst boss ever.  You suck

Boss:  You're right I do and I hired you.  Now get back to work

 

Me:  I'm gonna be late.  I'm in jail

Boss:  That was you in there??  I thought you looked familiar

 

Me:  I have a full set of your china at my house

Boss:  No worries.  I'm never planning on coming over anyway.

 

I was working on the line at a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard.  Just lunch shift.  Nothing too crazy.  Anyway, we had a dishwasher who was there for the summer from Serbia on a work visa.

 

He was always talking....never shut up even when we were busy.  The general manager of the place had enough of him, and finally snapped.

 

GM: “Miroslav, shut your ***** mouth and get your ass over there and scrub pots and pans.”

 

Dishwasher: “But Mike, I came to the US to learn to speak English.”

 

GM:  “Oh yeah?  Well, you came to the West Chop Club to wash ***** dishes, so get your ass over there!”

 

We all were dying laughing...

 

 

[Chef Jim]

15 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

I was working on the line at a restaurant in Martha’s Vineyard.  Just lunch shift.  Nothing too crazy.  Anyway, we had a dishwasher who was there for the summer from Serbia on a work visa.

 

He was always talking....never shut up even when we were busy.  The general manager of the place had enough of him, and finally snapped.

 

GM: “Miroslav, shut your ***** mouth and get your ass over there and scrub pots and pans.”

 

Dishwasher: “But Mike, I came to the US to learn to speak English.”

 

GM:  “Oh yeah?  Well, you came to the West Chop Club to wash ***** dishes, so get your ass over there!”

 

We all were dying laughing...

 

 

 

Kind of like one of my favorite stories:

 

Me:  John, you're an actor right (every waiter in LA is an "actor")

John:  Yes I am!!

Me: Then act like a ***** waiter and get this food out of my kitchen. 

[HopsGuy]

1 hour ago, Chef Jim said:

Never.  Keep in mind I've worked for one company for 19 years since I left the kitchen and they love me. 

 

Hard to get fired in the kitchen.  It usually goes like this;

 

Me:  I'm so ***** drunk right now.

Boss:  Me too!

 

Me:  Sorry I'm late, had an issue scoring an 8-ball

Boss:  Awesome.  Let me get the mirror

 

Me: I just ***** your number one investor's wife in the bathroom

Boss:  You lucky SOB.  Got pictures?

 

Me: I just knifed a guy in the back alley

Boss:  You didn't use one of our knives did you?

 

Me:  You're the worst boss ever.  You suck

Boss:  You're right I do and I hired you.  Now get back to work

 

Me:  I'm gonna be late.  I'm in jail

Boss:  That was you in there??  I thought you looked familiar

 

Me:  I have a full set of your china at my house

Boss:  No worries.  I'm never planning on coming over anyway.

I worked at a country club restaurant a few years ago just to make a few dollars while caring for my mom. Can’t really do it now as her memory is failing. I started as a server. I had never done it before. I was adequate if I only had 6-8 guests at a time but got in the weeds fast if any more. The young girls would watch out for me and tell the not-too-bright hostess to give them anything if I had any more than that and the food hadn’t been run yet. Later I tended bar some nights and expedited others. Expediting was cool because the cooks always set me up with a double order of the special to go at the end of shift.

 

The manager had a lot of stories like yours. I think everyone should work as a server for like 6 weeks. It really makes you appreciate people who are really good at it.

 

I eventually started working in the pro shop. That was easy but 11 hour Sundays were long, especially after the regulars were done around 10 AM. Just watched members hone their awful swings on buckets of balls.

 

The club is being sold to new ownership. Might poke around.

[frostbitmic]

I don't think so

 

I've been self employed for 31 years and have trouble remembering last week.

[davefan66]

Tops - caught eating Combo’s.  Young and stupid and was honest.  Showed the door.

 

Kmart - Asked the HR person why my buddy and I were not on the schedule.  Told us we were no longer going to be on the schedule.... wrote “I quit” on a piece of paper and gave it to her.  Technically fired, didn’t matter as I was working a full time job at the time.

 

Local telecom/computer company - was brought in 2 months before the day I was let go.  Told, no matter what happens to the division I was working in, I’d always have a job there.  Fast forward 2 months, told they were deep sixing the division and I was being laid off...  Oddly, it was a few weeks before I was vested (later told that by the HR rep, my seniority at 4 1/2 years would have vested my prior to 5 years). 

 

That worked out great.  Literally 48 hours later I was working for them again as a sub-contractor, started my own company.  Did fairly well with it, lasted 2 years.  Realized then it wasn’t I hated having a boss, I hated the telecom industry.

 

Folded the business, went to school and now work health care.  

 

Wasn’t fired, but found this funny.  Worked at Perkins for a month night shift busting suds after getting fired from Tops.  Got the job at Kmart, and rolled over to Perkins and told the manager I was quitting immediately.  She told me “you’ll never be allowed to work for Perkins again without a 2-weeks notice”.....  uhm, that was the point!

 

 

[LewPort71]

22 hours ago, KD in CA said:

 

I'll be pretty disappointed if we don't get an 'R Rich home opener' style countdown from you.

 

You wont be disappointed.

tick tock  tick  tock