You're fired!

[ms_ann_thrope]

Have you ever been fired? Let go? Downsized? Eliminated?

I once got fired on my last day of a two week's notice. I've also been downsized.

I keep telling the place I work to just fire me. It's a love/hate relationship- love the money/hate the job. They know they'd have to hire two people to do the same amount of work. It gives me a little leeway.

It's those little things, like assigning me 80 hours of work in a four day week and then complaining when it doesn't all get done.

How come this isn't done?
Because I'm working the job you told me to work on. ((asshole))

Fuck, I'm tired.

 

[Noor]

Did they fire you, lay you off or terminate you?
If you are in the US, it could mean the difference between getting unemployment or not.

I have never been fired. Laid off once, gave notice several times, and had a company fold on me once.

 

[Lancecastor]

I once got downsized out of a gig that paid 210k a year two months after being hired.

The upside was i wrote a 1 year severance into my employment contract, which they honored.

So after 2 months on the job i walked out with a big fat cheque , jumped on a plane to europe and took 8 months off.

 

[Adre]

Doesn't anybody leave for good?

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Doesn't anybody leave for good?

Miss me? Started a thread yet? Looks like all the smart air leaked out of the balloon while I was gone.

 

[nowisthetime]

I thought you said you were leaving this board?

 

[remy_lebeau8]

Ive been fired once but it was more like a lay off. The company fired me and told me to reapply in 3 months. It was a downsize. Laid off once but brought back as a part time employee before being hired on again. Overall seems Ive been pretty lucky. I rolled the dice for a better job and hope it was a good choice. More room to grow but being a temp for possibly 3 years could be rough.

 

[Amberchgo]

I once got fired on my last day of a two week's notice. I've also been downsized.

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That makes no sense. If they fire you, they pay unemployment. If you quit, they don't.

 

[RjThoughts]

I was fired from a sandwich place due to my "attitude": I told the owner's lazy, spoiled son who was the "manager" to fucking work.

I was laid off from a commercial insurance company in a cost-cutting effort. I was hired by the corporate HR as a temp, reassigned to their healthcare division for 4 months, until my son was born.

I've been "Fired" by my cousin and her spouse at least 3 times a year from their technology temp agency LOL

 

[jomar]

Once. In high school. I blame the training, not the execution.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

That makes no sense. If they fire you, they pay unemployment. If you quit, they don't.

I think I pissed them off. I was going to make a hell of a lot more money at the next job anyway.

 

[thør]

Have you ever been fired? Let go? Downsized? Eliminated?

Not really. Once, when working for a state agency, they had to let me go because I was a temp hire and they could only keep temp hires for a few months. They needed me, so I was back in my same seat, working as a contractor for three times the money within a week.

Otherwise, no.

But, I have fired clients. And, of course, I've fired employees for cause.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Not really. Once, when working for a state agency, they had to let me go because I was a temp hire and they could only keep temp hires for a few months. They needed me, so I was back in my same seat, working as a contractor for three times the money within a week.

Otherwise, no.

But, I have fired clients. And, of course, I've fired employees for cause.

I had to fire a guy for stealing. He was a pathological liar and I told them not to hire him in the first place. I caught him in a lie in his interview and he came in wearing a visitor's pass from our competition. He asked me why and I told him, rule no.1, cut in the boss.

 

[doowdniw]

I am very lucky that throughout my entire working career I was never fired, laid off or downsized. I think the Brits call downsizing/being laid off "being made redundant".

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I am very lucky that throughout my entire working career I was never fired, laid off or downsized. I think the Brits call downsizing/being laid off "being made redundant".

They Brits put their luggage in the boot. Let's never use them as an example ever again.

 

[RobDownSouth]

I am very lucky that throughout my entire working career I was never fired, laid off or downsized. I think the Brits call downsizing/being laid off "being made redundant".

Was working with a British guy on a client site once. He seemed upset, I asked what was wrong. "I just found out my wife was made redundant". I wasn't sure how to react, since I had no idea what that meant.

 

[CandiCame]

I failed my student teaching because I got high instead of going. So that's kind of like being fired. But with good reason.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I failed my student teaching because I got high instead of going. So that's kind of like being fired. But with good reason.

Teaching someone to roll a nice and tight blunt is a useful life skill.

 

[CandiCame]

Teaching someone to roll a nice and tight blunt is a useful life skill.

Especially if you can do it with one hand.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Especially if you can do it with one hand.

It's ok to let go of your cock from time to time...

 

[CandiCame]

It's ok to let go of your cock from time to time...

Not /my/ cock.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Not /my/ cock.

Or making a preemptive sandwich.

 

[Not Normal]

I was once fired from a steel band, because I A) challenged the leader to not program stupid cheesy songs like Margaritaville in favor of more calypso and B) because I played Margaritaville like a fusion tune to try to get it removed from the set. The real irony is that I was the only member of the group who had any steel band experience,

I almost got fired from a summer job at a wallpaper warehouse. I got the talk and was told to up my production, so I did. I've left every other job I had.

 

[MNGuy]

I fired one employer, and am working on firing my current employer.

 

[glynndah]

The only time I was fired, it was two days before Christmas. I was fired as an example to the rest of the employees that even popular people weren't safe from being fired if they transgressed.

Oh, and the manager who fired me was told by his boss that "someone" would be fired that night, no matter what. I was just the lucky one who was.