Ever been fired?
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- charity_bird
Anyone have an interesting story about when they were fired?
- mrdobolina0
never been fired, I am a model employee.
- OSFA0
I bet 98% have been fired on a friday afternoon...
- charity_bird0
Someone's probably being fired right now.
- mg330
From my first job at 16, when I sacked groceries.
Reason for termination?
"Meowing Like A Cat."
- ribit0
How did they want you to meow?
- OeufOeuf0
Yup. Glad it happened too.
And yes on a Friday afternoon, right before my 2 week vacation.
Found out later that a 2nd person was axed 3 hours later and a 3rd the following week.
- CALLES0
im perfect... never
- mg330
Since you'll want the story:
Me and the guys I worked with would hide behind the double vinyl doors in front of the dairy section all the time and meow at customers. It was great fun, they would come creeping into the back storage area and look around, say things like "Is there a cat back here?"
We'd hide in our wonderful hiding spots, peeking through wooden pallets or looking down from on top of boxes. It was hilarious.
Well, one day I was doing the meowing by myself, and my boss stepped out from behind a cardboard box and says "Who's meowing back here? I just had a customer tell me that she thinks there's cats in here and she's never shopping here again."
I wish I had a copy of my termination slip, because it actually said:
Reason For Termination:
"Was meowing like a cat."That's the only time I have ever been fired. I wised up after that and figure out how to conceal myself better. It's my own fault.
- Complexfruit0
haha that's hilarious mg33
- ethered0
ivebeen fired enough times to where my work ethic is the shit.
- OeufOeuf0
Fucking awesome mg33!
- doesnotexist0
ha!
I quit before i was fired, it was perfect timing.
The head management circle were a bunch of dykes who didn't like other people having opinions about art (like the designer, me) for some reason. So, naturally they all hated me and rejected my application for a full-time position 3 times because of their animosity towards me.
Left for lunch one day and never came back!
- ethered0
if they hated you why did you want to work there?
Did you offer your penis to use as a dildo?
- dirtydesign0
16 years old, fired from a bagel shop, because I was lazy and smoked too much weed.
20 years old, fired from a country club for spilling a mamosa on a member's kid.
- mg330
Glad you guys like. That job was crazy man, the stuff we got away with...
We had to do all sorts of things there, and one of them was stocking the dairy section. Multiple times we would do one of the following:
1) Put out eggs and break every single one in a carton with our thumbnails.
2) Put out eggs and crack the yoke into the egg containers, and throw away the shells so people opened them up to just find yellow yokes.
3) Crack the eggs into the trash and just put the empty shells in there.
We'd be lucky enough to see people's reactions to finding that "lucky" carton, it was hilarious.
I CANNOT BELIEVE WE NEVER GOT CAUGHT, TALKED TO, ANYTHING FOR THAT BECAUSE WE DID IT ALL THE TIME.
The one thing we never did but always wanted to was to take home a carton of eggs and hardboil all dozen eggs, then put that dozen back out on the shelf. We figured that if someone took home hardboiled eggs, we'd sure as shit be hung by our manager because that customer would for sure come storming back down there.
LMAO - and we also wanted to fill an entire carton with chocolate Cadburry eggs at Easter!
- doesnotexist0
i needed the money at the time, now i don't take their shit, or anyone's.
- mg330
LOL dirtydesign at "mamosa"
- harlequino0
Never been fired.
But I basically resigned today.
- charity_bird0
What's the different between quitting and resigning? Is it just that one sounds nicer?