Have you ever been Fired?

[Camembert]

I got fired from a library for making too much noise and sitting around playing games all day.

I got banned from working at Reading Festival again for getting plastered on Vodka and orange while working (seriously, I thought that's what you're supposed to do at festivals) - they eventually gave in and let me back the next year though, luckily.

I almost got fired from my DVD rental store job for throwing a pen at the manager.

I got fired from TK Maxx for buggering off to France without telling them (seriously, I hated that job so very much).

There might be more, but I can't remember them right now.

Edit: Oh, how could I forget? I got fired from some internet fannying/phone answering job for going to a posh meal with my boss, his wife and some work colleagues and refusing to a) adopt an African child (sorry, mate, you're paying me a hundred quid a week for working for you full time - you're the one with the Mercedes, you adopt a fucking child), b) speaking to him 'disrespectfully' (i.e. refusing to go and fetch his drinks for him), and c) being a lot more attractive than his dog of his wife, who obviously didn't feel comfortable with her fat, dimple-throated husband working with such a sexpot.

I later suggested he consider taking her to see a vet, which in hindsight probably wasn't too clever.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I would have to acquire one of those job things to be fired from them, although does working briefly -and I mean briefly) after school for a few hours when you were thirteen count? Oh and does working less than a day count? If so, then I have quit both jobs.

 

[Rancid0ffspring]

I worked for a company that was owned by a family that were part of the Religious CULT...erm I mean group The Plymouth Brethren.

Seriously who hires a sales rep that needed a script to read from? WTF? thats right the plymouth brethren. doesn't matter if it fucks up the business as long as they are helping their family. She shouldn't have got the job in the first place. BTW my sales pissed all over hers all the time.

They probably considered me a bit rough around the edges considering they were so bloody polite all the time but I did the work & got good results. But it turns out they didn't really like me much in the end. Funny thing was on my last day when they decided it was time to let me go. They asked me to work the rest of the day. I think my response was something along the lines of

"You are fucking kidding right? You are firing me & you want me to work the rest of the day? Piss off, I need to get a job & speak to a solicitor for unfair dissmissal"

Now take into account these people never swear this was particularly offensive or at least vulgar to them. Not my proudest moment but the job was shit & it's hard to get along with people that look down upon you because you don't share their beliefs.

Also turns out that under a year of employment you don't have a tremendous amount of rights. That sucked :/

EDIT: My current Job is awesome. I may even have spoken to one of you at some point, although you probably didn't enjoy the call >

 

[geddydisciple]

I'm getting fired in a couple weeks. Not my fault though. The board of directors feel there is a conflict of interest between me and my father who just got promoted to senior VP in my company.

 

[SonicKoala]

Nope, never been fired. I've only had one job in my life (for about 3 and a half years now), and I'm awesome at it. So yeah, they'd be pretty stupid to fire me, since I've become a fairly important part of the restaurant in the years I've worked there.

 

[KimberlyGoreHound]

Nope. I've been laid off twice, and that's it. Unfortunately, I lost the best job I could've wanted (a few years ago, when I was 15 or so). I held the sign in front of a pizza place (Little Caesars). Hang out with my MP3 player, sit under a tree for a few hours, collect cash. I got stuff thrown at me, and got to chuckle that if there were an apostrophe in Caesars, it would read 'Little Caesar's Hot and Ready', and I would've been able to pretend I was advertising for a cheap male prostitute.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Once a long time ago, I went into work at HMV to find myself told there was a sum of money missing from a til. It had been decided that I was responsible and that I was being fired immediately, could I remember anything unusual about a day three weeks ago?
No, you don't get to see the til results, no you don't get to ask how or why we decided it's your fault, no there is no cctv evidence, no we don't know which till was down, we just know it was you, no you don't have any legal recourse, don't come back.

The amount that they reckoned I had 'lost' would have gotten the Police involved, they just didn't want to admit store takings were well behind targets and they had to fire someone. This way they didn't have to give me notice.
Never been so angry in my life.

PS, don't shop at HMV.

 

[Kraj]

Yup. After they realized I was the only person there who wasn't stealing alcohol or food from the freezer or back room, didn't enjoy smoking up, and wasn't willing to date the assistant manager girl. >_>

I hated that place.

 

[cuddly_tomato]

Yes. From a warehouse job.

I got the sugar shakes and went to a shop around the corner for a can of coke. I got back and got told I was a fire risk because of that, and was fired that day.

 

[Abbyrose07]

Yes from Walgreens it was the worst place to work, I spent 10 hour days just walking around the store not doing shit. Also from the craft store Michaels because my boss said that I was talking to the customers to much...what the hell, they are horrible at customer service.

 

[Nuke_em_05]

Not yet.

... oh, hi boss! What this? Nothing... it's... it's...

Outta here by four?

*sigh*

Alright.

 

[child of lileth]

Nope. I've always quit for one reason or another. Usually because better job opportunities come along.

I almost got fired once though. I was working at a hospital, and I got injured really bad at work. When I went to see my doctor about it, we called to tell the hospital I needed time off to heal up a bit. The hospital denied I was ever an employee, even though I was working there for over a full year, and eventually it came to the point where I couldn't physically do my job, or even most jobs in general anymore, because working kept aggravating my injury. So if I didn't quit, they would have fired me in about a week or two.

 

[Andantil]

Yes. I was employed at a movie theater, an amazingly shitty movie theater.
It's the only theater in the whole county, and it shows.
I complained about the place non-stop, particularly about having to sweep the carpet, because god forbid we try to be efficient and use vacuums to get popcorn off carpet.
I actively directed customers to other, better theaters.
I'm a generally rude person, and my coworkers were very easily offended.

I would've quit anyway.

 

[Camembert]

Yes. I was employed at a movie theater, an amazingly shitty movie theater.
It's the only theater in the whole county, and it shows.
I complained about the place non-stop, particularly about having to sweep the carpet, because god forbid we try to be efficient and use vacuums to get popcorn off carpet.
I actively directed customers to other, better theaters.
I'm a generally rude person, and my coworkers were very easily offended.

I would've quit anyway.

Your work ethic sounds eerily similar to my own.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

no, nothing further to comment.

 

[Klarinette]

Yep. The first time, it was because I was trained really badly, picked up some bad habits, and learned things the hard way, rather than being taught preventative-ly.

The second time, I didn't answer a phone right away. I'm not kidding. The manager's daughter was like, "What if it was a customer with $5000 in their hand??" and I'm thinking, well... it wasn't; it was you, and I answered it, eventually.

Incidentally, I applied for two jobs today... one as a day camp councilor, and the other as a dish washer at some restaurant on the other side of the city. I hate job hunting.

 

[the_dancy_vagrant]

I got fired from a bagel shop. I decided it was a bad job so I just didn't go in for a couple of days. They finally called me to make sure I was ok and the manager told me "If you don't come in and shape up then I'm afraid there won't be a place here for you anymore". To which I replied "You have my address, mail me my final paycheck".

 

[DividedUnity]

No Ive never been fired. Never had a proper job just summer work and odd jobs.

I do know a girl whos ex-boyfriend was fired from the morgue for having sex with the bodies though.

 

[ffs-dontcare]

I've only ever been laid off. Twice.