Have you ever been fired?

[GoreBag]

Let's hear about it.

[Dutch_guy]

no never, not yet at least

I know you have though ~;p ~;)

:balloon2:

[drone]

Not yet, but the time I spend surfing the Org at work might get the job done. ~D

[Meneldil]

I have been fired from my previous school, mostly for being a lazy ***.

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

I gave a foreigner incorrect information.
Oh yes, it was because he was foreign.
Know why? because he didn't speak any language that I can speak (or at least get by in).
Yet the information was almost what he was after.
I should have been given a bonus for dealing with that crap so succesfully.
I was fired instead.

*shakes fist*

[Tribesman]

Once , for failing to keep my workers in order , but they gave me the contract back the same day after I had moved the nutter that caused the problem to another job .

[Geoffrey S]

Once. A couple of years back I was rather rude to a superior at the Albert Heijn after she'd criticised me numerous times for things that weren't my fault, and flat-out refused to be reasonable; she'd been doing so for some time, and I snapped. I really should have kept my temper in check a little better, but it was a lousy job regardless. I found a better one very soon after that, so it all worked out well anyway. Still, it wasn't right to lose my temper over such a petty person.

[Alexanderofmacedon]

Ah, so that's why your title is "Mostly Harmless"


Until you snap...~;)

[Geoffrey S]

I don't bite, y'know.
Mostly.

[Adrian II]

Three or four times. My first was at 16, when I was fired from the lowest of menial jobs at the local post office because I complained about my perv superior grabbing me by the testicles, literally. That's when I reached the firm decision that I would either be well-educated or not be at all. My most spectacular was when I had worked on a bulb packing line for two days and nights as a student and was told I wouldn't get the customary bonus for night time work. Lemme just say I played baseball as a school pupil. There were inviting targets all around for those tulip bulbs in front of me... the rest is medical history.
~D

[Geoffrey S]

Excellent! ~:cheers:

[Marcellus]

I've never been fired. But since I've never been employed either, that's not surprising.

[Beirut]

Well, not so much me as all of us.

I was a security guard at the Sheraton Hotel in Montreal a long, long time ago. Forty floors, eight-hundred rooms, several restaurants and bars. Our company had the contract. A new guy working plainclothes grabbed a woman's boob in the elevator. Turns out she was an important tour director who brought the hotel significant business.

She went to the security office and complained. The director of hotel security said the description fit one of our guys. They called the cops, then called him down to the office on his walkie-talkie. He walked into the office, saw the woman, the cops, the boss, and that was that. Busted. They canned the company on the spot and tore up the contract. I was unemployed the next day.

[Redleg]

LOL - I got fired once when I was in the Army.

Its a rather funny story.

We were sitting on a hill doing fire direction drills because the Battalion Commander was not happy with the state of all the Fire Direction Centers in his battalion. From the Battalion FDC to all the Platoon FDC's. On the third day of the exercise - after have a private pull guard duty and radio watch - all of the rest of us got up after our four hour night nap - and I told the private to go ahead and catch his sleep. About 30 minutes latter the Battalion Commander comes into the area and decides to call NBC attack on all of us loafers who had just finished eating breakfast and were about to get to work.

So we all put on the dreaded MOPP gear and proceeded to act like we knew what we were doing - ie doing dry fire missions using charts and darts - because when the knucklehead of a battalion commander called the NBC strike he said all the computers were taken out and we had to do it the old fashion way.

Well after he made the rounds and discovered that my crew had the firing solution before he thought we should be able to. (He always forgot that I spent 5 years in the Guard doing manual fire missions and that I spent lots of time with my section teaching them manual while one of them taught me the tricks with the computer). Well it kind of pissed him off that a new LT. from the National Guard/Reserve system and the section he deemed the worst before I got there finished before everyone else. (the section chief was a reclassed army band member - knew absolutely nothing about artillery or how to soldier - so his judgement on the crew was harsh but a little accurate.

So in his pissed off state he went looking for errors in the fire mission and when he could not find them, he went looking for errors with the section equipment and the uniforms of the soldiers, and boy did he find one. The private I told to go to sleep had gotten on top of the field bags and had gone to sleep - and we forgot all about him. So the colonel finds him asleep and not in MOPP gear with his protective mask on. Oh my goodness you would of thought he just caught me in bed with his daughter.

He proceded to berate me in front of the section, the Battery Commander, and the Battalion SGM. Well after about 3 minutes of being the polite LT and answering yes sir, no sir to his questions - some of the deserving for forgeting about the private, some of them well just ridiculous. I had to respond to him when he poked his finger in my chest.

Now this LTC was only about 5'7 and I am 6'3" and he thought he could yell at me and stab his finger into my chest. (now the ass chewing I deserved) but the poking well that got my temper up just a touch. I asked permission to speak and he granted it. I then informed the LTC that he needed to step back just a tad because he was hitting me with his finger.

Now the SGM looked at me with disbelief and cringed - the Battery Commander was shocked, but the LTC faced turned even redder but he took a step back and then really began to let me have it. It took him just a few seconds to say your fired after that.

I saluated him sharply, turned on my heal, and went to my track. Pulled my gear out and began to go to the Battery Commander's vehicle. Now everyone was looking at me - because they could not image that I was just going to leave. The Battery Commander and the Battalion Sergeant Major caught me at the vehicle and asked me what I was doing. I looked at them with a straight face and told them - well I am leaving since the commander just fired me and needed a ride to the post so I could go find me another battalion.

Now here comes the funny part as the Battery Commander and the CSM explained to me the drill of the Battalion Commander. It seems he likes to scare LT's into believing that he fired them to teach them a lesson. Out of the 12 LTs that he has done that do - they always immediately ask the LTC not to fire them and give them one more shot. It seems that I distrubted the commanders game because I didn't back down from him while he was poking me in the chest nor did I turn all scared of him while he was chewing my ass off. Hell I deserved the ass chewing because I forgot about one of my soldiers - but damn that pointed little finger in the chest was just a tad to much so when he fired me - I thought great I can get away from this crazy SOB - later on that predition came true during Desert Storm.

So as I after they explained the little game - I said fine and procede to load my bags into the back of the truck. The Battery Commander, a Captain, looked at me in even more confusing and asked me if I understood what they stated. I said nothing looking at them like someone who has only had 4 hours sleep in the last 48 hours (which was where I was at). So he told me that if I wanted to remain with my section all I had to do was go ask for my job back.

At that I started laughing to myself - and I realized it was all a game, so I played along and looked at the Battery Commander and asked what happens if I don't want the job? That made the CSM laugh, in fact he told me afterwards that he got a big hoot out of it because it turns out that the LTC was nervous about me because I did not beg for my job right away.

Well after a few seconds - I told the Battery Commander I would go ask for my job back.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

I left a summer job once, not that that really counts...
It is next to impossible to get fired from there though, one of the guys (a bitter Vietnam Vet) gives everyone a hard time, especially the college administration (incidentally I worked under him my last week and learned to floor buffer from him), anyway he can be quite rude, sarcastic and sometimes vulgar around the students and administration and not get fired, so I was fine. I might go back there next summer.

[UglyandHasty]

wow there's some nice interesting stories !

I have never been fired... :hide:

[Lemur]

Never been fired. There's something wrong with me.

[Divinus Arma]

You all know too much about me to be able to share these stories.

If I was still the harmless 80 post count 2 month member nobody knew about- sure.

But now?

Nah. I'll pass.




But I will tell you about the time I got evicted.~D

So I just moved (got kicked?) out of my parents house when I was 18. My first apartment!

I had been in a week and the place was pretty nice. Low rent, right in Southern California by a local longboarding beach. I could walk to the beach at any time and the place always smelled like a cool Ocean breeze.

So It's my 7th or 8th day there, and me and a buddy decided it was time to get completely smashed. Well we did. And I have no idea what happended. But the landlord lives in the same small rental complex two doors down.

Apparently my buddy and I were singing Depeche Mode songs until all hours of the night with the radio blasting at max and windows open and all. I guess (I don't kow for sure) that they told us to shut the hell up. Apparently, I wasn't having any of that nonsense and decided they could screw themselves. Well, not just screw themselves. I decided I would make that night even worse for them. We got louder and eventually just started banging on the landlord's door telling him and hiw wife how retarded they were at the top of our lungs until 4am.

I discovered who the retarded really was when I ended up on the street at 10am the next day. They threaten to press charges and sue and this and that even against my poor parents. It would all go away if I would skip the California 30 day eviction deal. So out I went.

Yep. Just a dumb kid with a chip on his shoulder who was ready to take on the world. Two miserable years later I was in the Marines. Right where I probably should have been to begin with.

[Just A Girl]

only from almost everyjob i ever had for......

Waking up late, Or not showing up for work
(i dont do routines to well)

Ive walked out of 1 job becous they sacked the 3rd cheff and expected the work load to be managable without him.

[nokhor]

the company i was working for was in financial trouble. 2 years before it had merged with 7 similar companies to go nation wide and had hired some big league upper management from fortune 500 companies. after the merger, nothing was integrated, they still had 7 different accounting systems and lost $25 million during that time period without anyone having a clue as to what was going on. when they finally figured out they were losing money, they got rid of the big boys, who all received healty severance checks. then they began selling the outer markets to various regional companies. and my new job position was to train the regional company on integrating our market into their business structure. but since i would technically be working for the regional during the transition, i was officially terminated with severance and hired by the regional, with the understanding i would go back to my original company after 3 months. so i got my severance, did the transition smoothly, went back to my original company with a 10k raise [that was my precondition for doing it.] but when i went back to my original company, they had no work for me to do now. and every week i'd asking them 'shouldn't you be having me do something?' and they say 'just hold on for now...' after 3 months of that, they decided they didn't have a position for me after all, i was 'let go' again, with severance again. and promptly went back to work for the regional company i had trained [they had liked my work and before i left them, had offered a permanent position if things didn't work out between me and my original company.]

so it was very beneficial to me, as i used my severances as a down payment on a house. but it was very confusing to my accounts and to my tax adviser as well as friends and family to explain how i had been 'fired' from the same company twice in a 3 month span.

[Ser Clegane]

Never been fired - but then in Germany you would really have to make an effort to get yourself fired (not considering layoffs as part of more general cost-cutting efforts).

[miho]

I've never been been fired for one reason only. I was never hired.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Now, the real question is:

Who in their right mind would hire a hairy, mean looking, New-York speaking, 5'10, 250lb Italian who always wears an iron cross ring, t-shirt, leather jacket, and greasy hair?

[Adrian II]

Who in their right mind would hire a hairy, mean looking, New-York speaking, 5'10, 250lb Italian who always wears an iron cross ring, t-shirt, leather jacket, and greasy hair?And who reads books, has a good sense of humor, speaks German, is growing up fast, and does not take himself hotdarn serious like most (undeserving) people?

I would.

Though I'd march you to the barber's first, you greaseball. ~;p

[Papewaio]

Kaiser you could join the SPCA... and go rescue animals... I'd like to see the deadbeats expressions when you say "You can give me the hurt kitten or I'll start making head soup."

Or you could get a job at a Harley Davidson shop...

[Kekvit Irae]

No, but I just quit my job today because I refuse to work at a store (Cracker Barrel) where the managers refuse to do anything about a drug deal that went on in the dishroom.

[Strike For The South]

good for you~:cheers:

[Ja'chyra]

Nope, never, been made redundant once and threatened with the sack once but that's about it.

Was threatened with the sack for removing a grinding wheel from a pedestal grinder that I deemed unsafe, I agreed to put it back in service when threatened with the sack only to accidentally drop the grinding wheel, and then accidentally smash it with my trusty hammer, on the way back to the workshop.

Took 3 days to get a replacement, in which time there were no bloody deaths in the worshop. Never have a non techie in charge of engineers :knight: Added to the fact that I have had 2 promotions since i worked for him and I am now higher up, paybacks a bitch. :bow:

[Fragony]

My brother got fired in the most glorious way. He worked at the macDonalds, and an old lady + grandchildren wanted to eat 'something nice'. My brother replied that she was at the wrong place for that, just when the manager was standing behind him.

Never been fired myselve, but I did come close because I didn't meet my targets. I took the initiative and left, probably would have been dumped that week anyway.

[yesdachi]

Downsized once with the option to work for the company that was getting the business that still needed to be done by an outside contract company. Although I helped nearly double profits in my department the parent company went into bankruptcy and had to reduce salaries even if overall costs went up by hiring said outside contract company. I turned them down, suckers! I could keep my salary but loose all my seniority and vacation etc. it was easier to get another job that was better and paid more closer to home.

A few years later I made the biggest mistake of my life and partnered with 3 others one of which was a woman who was the senior partner and had the vast majority of the company stock. Things were great and I landed several big clients, more than I anticipated in my first year, and was making loads of cash. That was when this woman decided to stop taking her medication and tried to use natural herbs and such to control her ailments. I didn’t know it at the time but she was Bi-Polar, menopausal, had adult ADD and gasteral intestinal problems that caused her to vomit and have diarrhea all the time. She stopped taking her meds, started drinking A LOT and started having an affair with an old lover on the other side of the state plus little hormone swing flings with who knows how many others closer by. She started hiring idiots and firing good people and wasting company money on trips to see her lover and on ridicules business ideas. Most importantly though she started neglecting her clients and almost all of them dropped her, causing the company to loose thousands per month. I confronted her about it and was reassured that everything was going to be ok and that she appreciated my concern and hard work keeping my clients happy and wait a minute, just how many clients did I have and how much did they pay and how much was I being paid? The next week she bought out my shares and sent me packing with all my clients mysteriously signed on as hers. It was right before the holidays and although I was able to retain a few of my clients it was right before the holidays and no one was ready to make any changes or spend any money, so I was basically SOL until the new year. A few legal issues and a year later all is well and I have learned a very valuable lesson. :knight:

[Sjakihata]

was fired after 3 weeks of working at a local McDonalds place. too slow at turning burgers... :)

[KukriKhan]

I've been fired twice as a husband. :)
Apparently I've learnt the job now...working on the 13th continuous year.

[Geoffrey S]

Has anyone here fired anyone else?