Have you ever been suspended

[low-key]

from work ?

I was for 3 weeks, it was a long time ago back when low-key was a wild party animal

 

[sunnyday123]

lol.....was it with pay?? Because I would welcome a 3 week suspension with pay!!!

 

[amg35]

Once!

It was my first job out of college. We were only allowed 5 minutes non-work phone use on the job. I kept going over it. (before cell phones)

So finally the boss (after warnings) gave me a one day suspension and we had a funeral procession as they locked my phone in a cabinet! Everyone stood and saluted my phone!

She was nice about it and let me pick my day!

Obviously, it never happened again.

 

[low-key]

lol.....was it with pay?? Because I would welcome a 3 week suspension with pay!!!

you know I asked the guy, you should of seen his jaw drop before throwing me out of his office

 

[Becky2005]

I guess....I did get 3 days off once way back when but that was because I accidentally hit "yes" for reformatting the hard drive instead of "no" as I was showing a new person how to do something. This was back in the old days when things were a bit more complicated on the computers and windows didn't really exist. It was c:> prompts

I attempted to fix it since it happened one other time & the boss did it, so I saw how it was fixed. I apparently made it worse.

Anyway, not knowing if they were going to end up firing me or not, I went out and put job applications in during those 3 days.

They were shocked when they got a call for a reference...they basically were like "umm..we weren't firing you, why were you putting in applications?" It was a good thing I took the other job as a 2nd job though because after I got out of college (after them telling me many times they would hire me full-time) & this was at least a year if not more after the hard drive crash incident, I told them I could go full-time and they didn't want to do that, so turned around and gave me a 2-week notice....thankfully I had that part-time job or I would have been in big trouble.

 

[tvguy]

I worked graveyard shift for 25+ years. As one of my supervisors put it, if I ever did anything worthy of suspension, they could never suspend me because the only person being punished would be the day shift person who had to cover my shift while I was suspended!

The other issue was, there was no supervisor on duty, so if an issue came up, I either had to make my best decision, or call a supervisor at home at 2 or 3 a.m. Funny, almost every supervisor I ever had preferred I make my best decision, not call them at 2 or 3 a.m, and then tell me the next day if there was a way they would have preferred I handled something.

 

[monkeyboy]

Suspended..no
Downsized...yes

 

[mickeymedic]

No, but I should have been (in my opinion). My ambulance partner and I failed a department of health inspection due to stupidity on our own part (left the ambulance unlocked at the hospital 1 too many times.) We had been warned once earlier in the week to lock our rig at all times. So when we got caught again, I was CERTAIN we were going to get a suspension. In fact, when the boss asked us what we thought a suitable punishment would be, we both said we thought we deserved 3 days off. Somehow the whole incident just "went away" with not so much as a write-up in our employee files. In our case I think working our scheduled shifts was more of a punishment than getting unpaid days off - since we were both moving at the end of the week and could have really used the extra time to pack boxes.

 

[Mama Who]

I was once suspended for 3 days for something I hadn't done. By the third day I called from my new job to tell them I wouldn't be back. Given the circumstances I did not feel obliged to give them 2 weeks notice.

 

[Gigi22]

Nope, never. At my former place of work (retired now), a suspension without pay was a major disciplinary measure that usually came after you received an oral and a written reprimand, depending on the circumstances. They all were noted on your employment record for a year. Lengthy suspensions (three days or more) were kept on the employee's record for a longer period, and were a precursor to being fired for cause.

 

[indimom]

Another never. No reprimands either, although I've given a couple.

 

[momof1princess]

not suspended, but i was "laid off" (a nice way of saying fired) for doing something REALLY, REALLY stupid.
i was just out of college in 1993, stupid 21 year old kid, and i was working as a billing clerk at a law firm. all of the other secretaries had a neat little machine that printed out labels for envelopes from the computer, and i didn't, so, since i was doing billing and sending out tons of mail, i'd been begging for one for a couple of months.

so, the partner who handled the computer work FINALLY bought me a label machine, and his secretary told me about it. i was SO excited, that i walked into his office, picked up the box and took it to my cubicle so i could read up on it. then, i got busy on the phone with a client, and the partner walked by and saw it sitting next to my desk. he was NOT happy (and rightly so), and i was "laid off" the next day. that was the DUMBEST thing i've ever done, and i cringe every time i think about it.

 

[scrapquitler]

I was 17, and a senior in high school. I was a cashier at our local grocery store. One day my drawer came up $40 short in food stamps (way back in the dark ages when food stamps came as tear out coupons in books). I never knew just what had happened and how it was possible that I came out that short, I didn't even remember having a food stamps transaction that day. but I got a two day supension over it. I felt like a total fool and was SO careful after that.

 

[marie1203]

Yes, I was suspended for three days with pay. One day I came in to work and I was told I had to go to HR . No one will tell me anything. So I went there and had a meeting with the head of HR I was so confused. Apparently, some one had accuse me and another co-worker of having an affair with our boss and said that is why we were getting promoted . It was all a lie of course we had been working together for years and became good friends. In fact, we were good friends with our boss fiance. An investigation was done and nothing was found. It did not even made sense the other co-worker was married and I was dating who is now DH.
So we all return to work and the worst part was having to work with the girl that gave the false accusation. She did not last very long after that.

 

[SookieStackhouse]

Nope...but the idea of being suspended with pay sounds like a reward instead of a punishment.