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Just a general question. I know that people get fired from time to time. Due to lay-offs or negligance, but who here as actually been fired before? What's your story and how did it happen?

Mine's not too terribly funny, but I did get fired yesterday. Nice.

I'm (well was, I guess) a receptionist/secretary who had been working there for a year and I got fired yesterday. Not because I'm horrible or anything, but because "it just wasn't working out." Oooookay. I kind of expected this (there were hints and all), but wow talk about being blind sighted.

But the funny part is that technically I was fired yesterday, though I still get to show up for work for the next 2 days because I need the money. After that I'm done. I guess I should be wearing a shirt that says "Dead Man Walking," huh?

Now I need to find a new job for the summer. Hmm...
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Originally posted by: Invader Jenny
Just a general question. I know that people get fired from time to time. Due to lay-offs or negligance, but who here as actually been fired before? What's your story and how did it happen?

Mine's not too terribly funny, but I did get fired yesterday. Nice.

I'm (well was, I guess) a receptionist/secretary who had been working there for a year and I got fired yesterday. Not because I'm horrible or anything, but because "it just wasn't working out." Oooookay. I kind of expected this (there were hints and all), but wow talk about being blind sighted.

But the funny part is that technically I was fired yesterday, though I still get to show up for work for the next 2 days because I need the money. After that I'm done. I guess I should be wearing a shirt that says "Dead Man Walking," huh?

Now I need to find a new job for the summer. Hmm...


Never been fired fired, but I did get laid-off in 03. Made it to the last 3 people of 12 and they canned me the day we returned from Christmas break. Of course I got another job within 5 days and have been there since. You never know. It could be a positive for you. Always keep trying. I know it's hard.
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I had a job in the holiday’s way, way, back printing T-Shirts.
What a shit job. But because I knew it was only for a few weeks, I didn't really care about it.

But I eventually got the sack for spraying glue into my eyes. I was so bored I made a little tube out of stickers that were lying around, and stuck them in the nozzle of the spray glue. Then for some reason I sprayed it into my eyes. Yep, I nearly went blind, and they fired me. Well, I suppose it didn't help that I kept taking the piss out of the mongs who worked there. But man, what a shit job.


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Umm, wow. I think if I'd been your boss, I'd have covered your eyes and mouth with duct tape, sprayed a nice thick layer of glue all over your head, and let the other employees toss sand, feathers, and assorted small trash at your head before kicking you out the door.
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Never been fired, but I was laid off twice in the same year. Dot com crash and all.
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Got fired from a plastics company many, many years ago for telling my boss to fuck off and that if he was going to carry on trying to physically intimidate me and spread lies about my 'appalling behaviour and attitude' to fellow workmates that I'd simply prove him wrong by phoning for ambulance right then to take him to hospital for after I'd finished with him.

Not proud of my actions - but at the time it was the only thing I could think of to end a fairly miserable time working with him. I suppose in the end he was right about my bad attitude - in the end.

Emotionally I was a rollercoster for a couple of weeks after - did knock my confidence a little - but got over it soon after.


Chin up, Invader Jenny - 'tis just a job after all - only a small part of life, and possibly a job you may not even remember in a few weeks...


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Originally posted by: Darth Enzo
Umm, wow. I think if I'd been your boss, I'd have covered your eyes and mouth with duct tape, sprayed a nice thick layer of glue all over your head, and let the other employees toss sand, feathers, and assorted small trash at your head before kicking you out the door.


Good job you weren't my boss then!

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Originally posted by: HotRod
I had a job in the holiday’s way, way, back printing T-Shirts.
What a shit job. But because I knew it was only for a few weeks, I didn't really care about it.

But I eventually got the sack for spraying glue into my eyes. I was so bored I made a little tube out of stickers that were lying around, and stuck them in the nozzle of the spray glue. Then for some reason I sprayed it into my eyes. Yep, I nearly went blind, and they fired me. Well, I suppose it didn't help that I kept taking the piss out of the mongs who worked there. But man, what a shit job.



That's one to save for the grandkids mate...

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Never been fired. I've been with the library for 8 years this coming July (only 1 other staff member at my branch has been there longer than me), since I got out of high school. Not sure they could fire me either. I get plenty of compliments from the people that use the computers, my coworkers enjoy having me around and I think they'd have to get me to train whoever my replacement would be.

If they ever got rid of me, I imagine it would be so they could cut costs. I'm doing essentially the same job I was doing when I started, and my pay has increased by...76%. They could get some high-school fresh kid like I was.

Jenny, if I was in your position, having to come back for a couple days after being fired, I'd be very tempted to...supplement my income...before leaving. Walk out with a box of pens, a ream of paper, something like that.
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Originally posted by: oojason
Originally posted by: HotRod
I had a job in the holiday’s way, way, back printing T-Shirts.
What a shit job. But because I knew it was only for a few weeks, I didn't really care about it.

But I eventually got the sack for spraying glue into my eyes. I was so bored I made a little tube out of stickers that were lying around, and stuck them in the nozzle of the spray glue. Then for some reason I sprayed it into my eyes. Yep, I nearly went blind, and they fired me. Well, I suppose it didn't help that I kept taking the piss out of the mongs who worked there. But man, what a shit job.



That's one to save for the grandkids mate...






Yeah, they'll be so proud!

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I'm not sorry to see my job go. I hated it, and apparently it hated me. My bosses don't have a problem with me personally, I just suck at being an office girl. I can't do it. It conflicts with my personality so badly that I'm honostly not that upset. You can't even crack a joke in that office. There is never any laughing, and when I first started working there I was told on several time that I was being too loud. I quieted up and have been that way for like a year now.

My job was killing me and I'm just now realizing this. I mean, I'm not complaning or anything. I'm not a bad worker (my work ethic is top notch) but there are just some jobs out there that suck, but you have to try anyway. I tried and my boss said "This isn't working, I'm going to have to let you go."

I told her, "whatever. It's not that big of a deal. I was planning on quiting for the fall so I could do an internship. My time table just got bumped up a bit. I'll do my last two shifts and be out of here."

Funny thing is, on Friday when I show up...what am I going to do? I'm probably gonna be all smiles because I can't think of how else to act. It's like this great secret that only I know. None of my other coworkers got the boot but me. I think I'll bring my book and read it.

"Can you make me some copies?"
"No, I'm afraid I can't. You see, I'm just to the good part and I need to see what happens on the next page."

But then they would ask me to just leave and I would loose my 10 hours of extra pay. Not a good idea. Damn, even when I'm fired I still have to be nice! Oh gods of administration! Why do you torment me!?
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Originally posted by: oojason
Got fired from a plastics company many, many years ago for telling my boss to fuck off and that if he was going to carry on trying to physically intimidate me and spread lies about my 'appalling behaviour and attitude' to fellow workmates that I'd simply prove him wrong by phoning for ambulance right then to take him to hospital for after I'd finished with him.

Not proud of my actions - but at the time it was the only thing I could think of to end a fairly miserable time working with him. I suppose in the end he was right about my bad attitude - in the end.

Emotionally I was a rollercoster for a couple of weeks after - did knock my confidence a little - but got over it soon after.


Chin up, Invader Jenny - 'tis just a job after all - only a small part of life, and possibly a job you may not even remember in a few weeks...


I threatened a co-worker in front of our customers at a restaurant I was working in a loooooong time ago. He was constantly baiting me. I apologized to my boss for making him look bad, but I never got in trouble for it because the guy was a moron.
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I was hired as a web designer for a tech magazine. However, like a day after I started, the parent company outsourced the web design to a company that did it for all the magazines they ran. They tried to switch me over to a writer. However, my boss didn't like my writing but would not give me any direction on what he was looking for. Completely aimless writing shit I knew nothing about working for a guy who knew nothing about being a boss. What a tool.

He called me six weeks after I started and said you can either quit or be fired. I took the option that gave me two severance checks and unemployment. I started another job a month later. Been there for almost six years.

If there was one good thing to come of that first job, it was taking the train into Chicago every day. That's awesome. Then walking from the station a little over a mile to where my office was. I lost 25 pounds in those six weeks and wasn't even trying.
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I've never been fired myself, I quit my job twice to move to a better one. But I've seen stuff like Bossk has described happen. Like this one time when they hired about 10 people to work on a project, and were trainning them, and suddenly the project was off due to some reasons not really important now, and they had to fire all those 10 people. After, like, 4 days. I wasn't there when it happened, but I belive it was really a crappy day at the office that day.
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There's a position at my job that has a very high turnover rate. Some people end up quiting, but just as many end up being "let go" as Jenny said. Anyway, the general manager, who is in charge of hiring and firing, just fired a guy a few days ago. Here's the unfortunate part: the wife of the guy who got fired had an aneurysm earlier that morning. So his wife got rushed to the hospital and he got fired both on the same day. OUCH! Needless to say the general manager felt like shit. Although he's also the guy who, if you're being "let go" makes you sign a resignation form so they don't have to pay unemployment.
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Originally posted by: Windexed
There's a position at my job that has a very high turnover rate. Some people end up quiting, but just as many end up being "let go" as Jenny said. Anyway, the general manager, who is in charge of hiring and firing, just fired a guy a few days ago. Here's the unfortunate part: the wife of the guy who got fired had an aneurysm earlier that morning. So his wife got rushed to the hospital and he got fired both on the same day. OUCH! Needless to say the general manager felt like shit. Although he's also the guy who, if you're being "let go" makes you sign a resignation form so they don't have to pay unemployment.


I don't know which angers me more -- his situation, or that his GM won't pay the unemployment! Of course, I'm not really one to talk there. When I was working as an instructor for a summer camp, we (the camp), well, ran out of capital. Rather than let one or two people go, we all agreed to the terms our director laid out -- we all resign two days before the end of the work term and forfeit the two days pay, or we all work the two days, but nobody can claim any overtime for the past month. All twenty of us quit.

Currently, I'm in the jon-search market (way better than saying "unemployed"), and things are going better than I've expected. This week alone, I've had an interview and job offer at a telemarketing firm, a job offer working the lunch shift at a bar, and I have an interview tomorrow with a software firm in town. Take a guess as to which job I'd prefer.
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The one thing my dad always said is to never sign a damn thing they put in front of you if they are letting you go. Take the paperwork with you and mull on it a bit. If they tell you that you cannot take it with you or think about it or anything, you get up and walk away. They cannot make you sign away unemployment benefits, it's illegal. Technically, you don't have to sign non-competes or NDAs, either. Of course, they can try to tie them together saying you sign one, you sign all; you refuse one, you refuse all. Then it's up to you and your "better judgment."
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Originally posted by: Bossk
The one thing my dad always said is to never sign a damn thing they put in front of you if they are letting you go. Take the paperwork with you and mull on it a bit. If they tell you that you cannot take it with you or think about it or anything, you get up and walk away. They cannot make you sign away unemployment benefits, it's illegal. Technically, you don't have to sign non-competes or NDAs, either. Of course, they can try to tie them together saying you sign one, you sign all; you refuse one, you refuse all. Then it's up to you and your "better judgment."


the reason they would try to get you to sign away unemployment is its cheaper for them. their unemployment rates go up for like 3 years (think its three, may be longer like 5 or so) after they fire someone even if the reason is the guys a complete moron and cant do the job.

also, if your in a type of job thats gonna require a NDA i would think they would require that before you started working or before you started the project that requires it. A company would be stupid to say oh, you're fired, by the way, on your way out can you sign ths NDA, thanks.

if that happened to me I'd be like fuck you, im telling the world everything and hope you enjoy you're higher unemployment rates for the next few years. only way i would let them off the unemployment thing is if i personally made out with what they offered me to 'quit'. but still. some of the stuff you guys are saying sounds like it would be a little on the grey side of the law if you ask me.

like the manager having people sign a resignation form when they are fired. that makes it not a fire. i mean once you sign it your pretty much fucked but its def unethical on their part. think about it, they want to get rid of you and it benifits them to have you resign. if your in that situation id say make them 'buy' your resignation.

i've never been in this position myself though, and im sure in the corporate world the resignation thing happens all the time, but i know a good chunk of it is the employee saving face and not being fired for being a bone head.

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I was fired from Regal Cinema because I made fun of the trailers. But it was worth it.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

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I've never actually gotten fired, although one particular incident came close. the only thing that made it not a "Firing" was that i wasn't getting paid in the first place.

It was part of a now defuct vocational training program in which students where sent to Job training sights around the town.
only we weren't really being trained. we were expected to do the job as a pro right from the start. So, apparently i was doing something wrong, but instead of Helping me and pointing me in the right direction, they just went ahead and "Fired" me. I did not find it to be a very plesant experiance.

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Originally posted by: sean wookie
Which trailers?


Troy, King Arthur, Catwoman, Charlie's Angels Full Throttle, etc. You know, the stuff that looked really stupid. Usually all I'd say was "I don't think so" off to the side where the audience couldn't see me; on occasion a "What a piece of crap". For Troy I shouted "Who in their right mind would cast Brad Pitt as Achilles?"
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

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