Have you ever been fired? ( not counting layoffs )

[Papa Deuce]

Well, have you?

I was fired 2x.... One was on the first day. The other was a PT job where the owner asked me a personal question that I thought was none of her business and I told her so. I was fired the next day.... by her husband.

 

[lindakmonty]

I've never been fired or laid off.

 

[Aidensmom]

Nope.

However, I did once get a bad kidney infection right after getting a new job where during your 30 day probationary period you could only miss 1 day or you'd be fired. On the second day I couldn't get out of bed, instead of calling in sick, I called in and quit to pre-empt the termination.

 

[NMAmy]

No, I haven't. I have had to fire other people--I'd almost rather get fired myself. ALMOST.

 

[Miss Jasmine]

I have not been fired.

 

[Papa Deuce]

No, I haven't. I have had to fire other people--I'd almost rather get fired myself. ALMOST.

I agree. I have fired 3 people... I hated it!

 

[azgal81]

Nope!

 

[mrsltg]

I was fired from a temp position. To this day I swear it was the boss' fault. She handed me two mailings. Paperclipped to each was a set of mailing lables. The wrong mailing went to the wrong list. I didn't unclip the second mailing until the first was done leading me to believe she made the mistake. At any rate, I was let go. It's ok, she was a total *BEAST* anyway!

 

[Hedy]

Got fired by a temp job because I "didn't look people in the eye"-AKA didn't go to their little booze party after hours (I had an interview) and didn't fit in their clique.

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

Twice..once by the school dist. I used to work for and once by a daycare. But in the daycare situation, if she hadn't fired me I was going to quit soon anyway. I was just about ready to hand in my two weeks notice when the director fired me.


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[wdw4life]

I was fired once. My very first job as a matter of fact.

I worked in a corn dog place at the mall when I was 16. I had only been there 2 weeks when I started a Saturday shift. I went into work feeling really dizzy and nauseated. After an hour or two I started feeling like I was going to pass out so I asked to go home. My best friend was in the mall that day to hang out with me after I was off work. She suggested I eat something to see if that would help. There was a pizza place next door so I had a slice and while I was sitting there one of my co-workers saw me. I'm assuming she told my manager that I faked being sick so I could leave early and hang out with my friends. When I went to pick up my paycheck a couple of days later there was a note in it that said I had been fired. I was pretty mad that she didn't have the decency to tell me to my face so I could defend myself.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Twice, I think.

 

[AprilShowers]

Nope, well.....unless you count the countless times DH has fired me. OR the countless times I have tried to quit on him. Nothing beats working for/with your spouse!

 

[WhatATreat]

I was fired once. It was my first job too. I was fired at the end of my week long training period because the owner thought I wasn't a good fit. The other 2 teens who worked there were brother and sister and were the children of the owner's friends. They didn't like me and I'm sure they had something to do with it.

 

[ducklite]

I've been fired twice. Both time were the same basic story. I was working for someone who was a raging alcoholic, and they were blottoed drunk and fired me. Then called me a few days later asking why I wasn't at work. Both times I said "Because you fired me." and both times they had no recollection of it and begged me to come back. Both times I declined.

Anne

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Nope, well.....unless you count the countless times DH has fired me. OR the countless times I have tried to quit on him. Nothing beats working for/with your spouse!

That sounds like me!!!

In my previous HR life I've had to pass on the bad news to someone that they were were being let go. It's not a fun thing to have to do.

Bonny

 

[TheOtherVillainess]

I was going to say three times, but I don't think that the last time really counts.

After getting fired by the daycare, I interviewed and was hired as a 'front desk personnell' at a local drycleaner. The owner told me all I would be doing was retrieving clothes from the racks and taking money at the register. She told me on the first (and last!) day I was there she didn't expect me to have 20 years of dry-cleaning knowledge in one day.

The person who was supposed to be training me told me I couldn't use my notes when taking care of customers, even though it was only my first day and I didn't quite have the hang of their system.

She also didn't properly explain to me how we were supposed to use the press-iron to iron tags into people's shirts so we'd know who they belonged to. I put tags in the wrong place on three shirts, which she got really upset over.

I knew something fishy was up when I walked in and they didn't even ask me to fill out the normal paperwork (I-9, etc) you'd fill out when starting a new job.

When I finally got home that evening, I had only been home about an hour or so when the owner calls. DH picks up the phone and she asks to speak to me. She starts to say something about my not working out, I'm not the right fit, etc etc. Most of what she said I blocked out because I became so upset I started crying and hyperventilating. DH takes the phone from me and asks her what the problem is. She tells him the problem is between her and I. DH raises an eyebrow and says something like "Oh really? Well it was between the two of you until you made her cry. NOW it's my problem." She told him to stay out of it and hung up. We never heard from her again and a week later, I recieved a check in the mail compensating me for the one shift I'd worked.

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[lyzziesmom]

I've been fired from various jobs for some of the stupidest reasons I've ever heard:

As an "elf" at the mall during Xmas time - I wasn't friendly enough with the kids (I had just gotten over the flu so kept physical contact to a minimum).

As a high school summer intern at a local tv station - I didn't wear shoelaces (which was the style in the early 90s) so was obviously too poor to trust around all the expensive equipment.

At a catalog print shop - every mistake made in the three months I'd been there was made by me. Never mind that our work went to 2 proofreaders, and some of the jobs were ones I'd never worked on, as evidenced by the job envelopes we signed off on.

At an advertising agency - I was an average of 2 minutes late to work over 2 years of employment. Never mind that I was on salary and worked until 8 or 9pm almost every day.

At a retail store's advertising department - I faxed my resume to apply for my own job. Because I found out thru the grapevine that they were planning on replacing me anyway, but did not know that the fax number they published went to the warehouse (so I wouldn't know I was being let go). The "real" reason they were letting me go: the company hired me to give them a youthful, edgy feel. My ads were "too out there." Make up your minds, people!

At a convenience store: I refused to clean the hot dog machine. Which had not been cleaned in 8 months. 'Nuff said.

At a retail store: I caught the manager making out with her boyfriend in the supply closet.

I'm sure there are more if I dig way waaaaaay back to those awful high school/college jobs I'd rather forget. And I'm sure some of those I quit before I had the chance to be fired. Rest assured that my job history is much more stable now.

 

[mrsdon]

I was let go from a fast food place a loooonnnnggggg time ago.
I accidently used a co-workers drawer and told management that eveing.
I was let go a few days later because the drawer was off by $3.
From then on I cleaned up my act and everytime Ive left a job since then, all my employeeres have asked me to stay on or called me and asked me to return.

 

[barkley]

yup, at a ice cream parlour/cafe place. owned by a husband and wife-the wife hired me and when i got my first paycheck i noticed it was at a rate of $2 per hour less than i had been told would be my pay rate. i complained and i got issued a new one (by the wife). before the next pay day the wife out of the blue ran off with the husband's best friend (leaving her 2 very young kids behind ). apparantly hiring me at a wage MUCH HIGHER than the norm was an additional dig at her husband.

husband fired me ('its not working out)-and while i could have fought it i had already decided it was a nut-case place to work at. on the up side-the husband did'nt follow the rule about providing a final paycheck upon termination, so the labor board made him pay me 7 days of pay (at the previously agreed upon rate) which took me up to the day the original paycheck arrived in my mail box.