Ever been fired?

EZ10Miler wrote:

I haven't read any stories of anyone saying they were fired and it was the worst thing that ever happened to them.

That is because those people cannot afford computers or the internet.

Take advantage of this opportunity to try something off the wall. When you are employed, often you think 'I'd like to do this or that, but I can't afford to leave here.." Nows the time! If it works, great. If it doesn't, you've lost nothing for taking the chance.

I was fired once and decided to try making it with a local radio station. The pay sucked and it was only part time while it lasted. Still, I know what it was really like.

Good luck!!

I got fired from my first teaching job about 8 months into the school year...they said "my contract wouldn't be renewed..."

The worst part was that my wife was 6 months pregnant at the time.

Anyway, I took the summer off, then got a job at Target so I would be doing something...then the day my daughter was born, I had an interview and got hired for another job that ended up paying 16k more than the teaching job and let me spend a lot more time with my family.

You could say things worked out.

Glenn Gary wrote:

Being laid off from that company was the best thing that has ever happened to me (career wise) - that was 12 years ago, and my income has at least tripled since then - some years quadrupled.

So chock this one up to experience and hang in there.

Not so good at math are you?

This makes no sense. So if it was 12 years ago, that was 1995. A great salary in '95 was say, $70,000.

So if your income has at least tripled then it would be AT LEAST $210,000 NOW. But it could not quadruple in any single year without AT LEAST quadrupling over the 12 years.

Also, do you expect us to believe that your income quadrupled in any year? How many jobs (making decent money) can you make four times as much the next year?

A broker might have been able to do that in the 90's, but anyone in financial markets now isn't making 4 times what they made in '95, unless they were 12 years old then.

Georgie Castanza wrote:

Did you have sex with the cleaning lady on your desk?

"Was that wrong? I don't remember reading anything about that in the employee handbook."

I've been fired before. Three times I think. Both times were for the better. I think if you look at the positive and learn from your mistakes instead of dwelling on your failures it will be a good experience. There are plenty of jobs... who cares if you don't work there any more?

I've been fired for my mouth, I've been fired for insubordination (and yes, I suck at spelling) and I've been fired because my boss was mormon and I wasn't. I've changed my career field four times, currently make a descent living ($70K) and I'm still in my 20's. Don't sweat it.

Should have mentioned - I'm in corporate sales - hence the handle "Glenn Gary".

Salary was the wrong word to use - total earnings is correct.

And yes, annual total earnings in a GIVEN year can easily exceed $200K.

Also, I don't need to be good in math - I have an accountant for that now.

W2 in 1996 was $75K - 2004 was $310K - that's quadruple in my accountant's book.

You certainly sound like a winner. Look out for those Mormons! I think there's one behind you, just about to take your job!

Also, do you expect us to believe that your income quadrupled in any year? How many jobs (making decent money) can you make four times as much the next year?

Try selling!!!

I don't know whether that job will be important to your future or not, but you def missed the topless girls in the hottub! shit was hot!

Here is an actual letter of my resignation from an employee at Zantex Computers, to my boss, (who apparently resigned very soon afterwards!)

Dear Mr.Baker,

As an employee of this company, I have a few very basic expectations. Chief among these is that my direct superiors have an intellect that ranges above the common ground squirrel. After your consistent and annoying harassment of my co-workers and myself during the commission of our duties, I can only surmise that you are one of the few true genetic wastes of our time.

Asking me, a network administrator, to explain every little nuance of everything I do each time you happen to stroll into my office is not only a waste of time, but also a waste of precious oxygen. I was hired because I know how to network computer systems, and you were apparently hired to provide amusement to myself and other employees, who watch you vainly attempt to understand the concept of "cut and paste" for the hundredth time.

You will never understand computers. Something as incredibly simple as binary still gives you too many options. You will also never understand why people hate you, but I am going to try and explain it to you, even though I am sure this will be just as effective as telling you what an IP is.

Your shiny new iMac has more personality than you ever will. You walk around the building all day, shiftlessly looking for fault in others.

You have a sharp dressed useless look about you that may have worked for your interview, but now that you actually have responsibility, you pawn it off on overworked staff, hoping their talent will cover for your glaring ineptitude. In a world of managerial evolution, you are the blue-green algae that everyone else eats and laughs at. Managers like you are a sad proof of the Dilbert principle. Seeing as this situation is unlikely to change without you getting a full frontal lobotomy reversal, I am forced to tender my resignation, however I have a few parting thoughts.

1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.

2. I have all the passwords to every account on the system, and I know every password you have used for the last five years. If you decide to get cute, I am going to publish your "favorites list", which I conveniently saved when you made me "back up" your useless files. I do believe that terms like "Lolita" are not usually viewed favorably by the administration.

3. When you borrowed the digital camera to "take pictures of your Mother's birthday", you neglected to mention that you were going to take pictures of yourself in the mirror nude. Then you forgot to erase them like the techno-moron you really are. Suffice it to say I have never seen such odd acts with a sauce bottle, but I assure you that those have been copied and kept in safe places pending the authoring of a glowing letter of recommendation. (Try to use a spell check please, I hate having to correct your mistakes.)

Thank you for your time, and I expect the letter of recommendation on my desk by 8:00 am tomorrow. One word of this to anybody, and all of your little twisted repugnant obsessions will be open to the public. Never f*** with your systems administrator. Why? Because they know what you do with all that free time!

Wishing you a grand and glorious day.

Cecelia

4 times wrote:

I've been fired 4 times. Mainly politics. I work in an ambitious field, venture capital. If you take the chance you will sometimes fail, just like Bekele did on Saturday. That's life. Take your licks like a man. You'll be better for it.

After like the 3rd time...Didn't you think you might want to take a look at the man in the mirror...It's like getting remarried after like the 4th time...when you go down to get the marriage license, the person there should just say 'NO, I'm sorry. You suck at this."

What did you move to?? Congrats on it working out btw!

Steeplechase2000 wrote:

I got fired from my first teaching job about 8 months into the school year...they said "my contract wouldn't be renewed..."

The worst part was that my wife was 6 months pregnant at the time.

Anyway, I took the summer off, then got a job at Target so I would be doing something...then the day my daughter was born, I had an interview and got hired for another job that ended up paying 16k more than the teaching job and let me spend a lot more time with my family.

You could say things worked out.

I nominate this for the funniest post of all time.

May I quote this in my next resignation letter?

Simply awesome!!

I got fired for smoking pot out back. I didnt really matter cause I was a dishwasher making 6.50 an hour so i didnt give a shit.

i got fired on my 2nd day working at swensen's ice cream.. it was my first job and i was 16 yr old.. i worked a total of 7 hours at 2.60 an hour... heck that ass hole manager mr. gottlieb let me go an hour early.

this was back in 1980

i think that jack ass manager is dead.. the parlor is long gone

Cecelia wrote:

1. When someone calls you in reference to employment, it is illegal for you to give me a bad recommendation. The most you can say to hurt me is "I prefer not to comment." I will have friends randomly call you over the next couple of years to keep you honest, because I know you would be unable to do it on your own.

Cecelia

Funny, but a stupid thing to do. It's not illegal to give a bad recommendation. Most companies won't do it, fearing a lawsuit. However, if anybody calls for a recommendation, all the guy would have to say is "We wouldn't hire her again. Oh, let me fax over to you her resignation letter."

Also, the bit about the nude pictures? Extortion--and you admitted it in a signed statement. It's illegal. What a moron.

Dennis fired me from my job at Carl Jr's.

I'm actually a pastor now...I went through school to be a pastor, but then was offered a job teaching high school and coaching track and xc. I loved the coaching, didn't so much care for the teaching, but being able to spend time with my wife and daughter trumps coaching any day!

mufafa wrote:

What did you move to?? Congrats on it working out btw!