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- iDp
yup...just happened.
- ********0
whaaaat?! damn man! that sucks!
- ********0
doh, pray tell?
- scarabin0
heh. what happened?
- DutchBoy0
sorry man!
sux.
how come?
- unfittoprint0
I'm sorry.
move on to better things.
- 2cent0
damn... sorry to hear that iDp.
sounds like it came out of nowhere.
- motormel0
Fuck!
sorry idp. did you get into it with boss or was it something else?
- iDp0
*shrug*
Still kind of spinning from the shock but I think I remember the boss saying that the owner wanted all of his designers to be located in L.A. ... Funny since I just moved FROM LA for a job they said they wanted local because it made much more sense.
It just hit me that I seriously have NEVER been fired before. First time in 25 years of life. Well actually the boss said something about they were disolving the position out here...does that count as getting fired?
- airey0
the term is 'retrenched' and it still blows.
sorry to hear it man.
let us all know if we can help!
- me20
article in the NYTIMES today
_________________________there are a remarkable number of people out there who believe that being fired was the best thing that ever happened to them.
"Even though I had to sell everything I ever owned and didn't have any income to support my son, I was suddenly free and happy," Lahne Mattas Curry e-mailed me about the day she lost her job in marketing back in 1999. She moved across the country to be closer to her family on the East Coast, finished her master's degree, found a job with the National Association of Social Workers and eventually tripled her income.
Meanwhile, she says, "the company that fired me is now defunct."
Peter Shankman, too, looks back on being fired as an impetus to change his life for the better. Mr. Shankman, who is in public relations, was one of 300 employees laid off from America Online in two hours in 1996. He "freaked out for about 20 minutes," he recalls, and then decided to move to New York from Virginia. He spent a year as a consultant and, on a whim, bet the rent money one day.
"Around the time 'Titanic' was coming out on video," he said, "I had T-shirts printed up that read, 'It Sank. Get Over It.' " He sold thousands and used the profits to start his own public relations firm, Geek Factory.
A changing world might just be transforming being fired from a humiliation to a rite of passage. "Equate it with divorce," says Harvey Mackay, a best-selling author whose latest book is "We Got Fired! ... And It's the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us" (Ballantine Books, 2004). "In the old days, it was unspeakable. Now, it happens, you cope and you move on."
Mr. Mackay says he has interviewed dozens of celebrities who clearly have not suffered in the long term from being dismissed. "Bob Redford - he likes to be called Bob - told me, 'Harvey, I've been fired from every job I ever had,' " says Mr. Mackay. He describes Robert Redford's job as a "roustabout" at an oil refinery. He was fired for things like falling asleep in an oil tank instead of cleaning it.
Walt Disney, Mr. Mackay goes on to point out, was fired from a newspaper job because he didn't generate ideas. Jeffrey Katzenberg was fired by the Walt Disney Company and went on to create DreamWorks.
J. K. Rowling lost several secretarial jobs because she wrote stories on her office computer, then, while unemployed, completed "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Donald Trump told Mr. Mackay that he was never fired. But he did rebound from a billion-dollar debt, which is similar.
The belief that being fired can eventually lead to happiness clearly won't pay the bills for someone who has just lost their own job. But it might provide some solace. Knowing others were in her same boat certainly helped Cathy Wald, a nonfiction writer who was trying to become a novelist but having a hard time getting going. Rejection letters are the writer's version of pink slips, and Ms. Wald acquired a substantial collection. As they arrived, she found, they paralyzed her, becoming a block to the writing itself.
Fighting back, she began to talk about rejection, eventually posting her rejection letters on an Internet site that she created, rejectioncollection.com.
Writers from around the world have found the site, and the sense of community was cathartic, Ms. Wald says.
The Web site inspired her to propose a book about rejection, "The Resilient Writer: Tales of Rejection and Triumph From 23 Top Authors." It was rejected by several publishers, but eventually, Persea Books bought it and plans to publish it in 2005. Ms. Wald interviewed 26 successful authors about the subject, but as the book went to press, her editor told her that space requirements meant three of those authors had to be cut.
The irony was not lost on her. "I had to write them a letter," she says, "saying, 'You've been rejected from my rejection book.' "
If reality television is any measure, that just might make the dismissed three even more successful.
- airey0
plus, you should be able to recieve a payout as it's not you're fault. does anyone else know?
- toe-knee0
just a little speed bump, dust yourself off, stick two fingers up at life and move on.
- ctrlRmB0
Getting fired was the second best thing that ever happened to me. Quitting a different job 6 months ago was the best.
Good luck man. Just keep your eyes and ears open and your brain tuned... you'll do just fine.
- iDp0
me2...hehe thanks, I read about half of it! Good stuff though.
everyone thanks for the well wishes. I think I'm going to collect un-employment for a month or two and rebuild gallaga and get with Nac to rebuild Infusion Project.
airey its funny you say that about the payout...So while I was sitting there mumbling shit like 'what the fuck am I supposed to fucking do now...?' I also asked, 'well do I get severence or anything?' and my boss said 'well yeah of course, I mean you can work for the next two weeks and atleast you get a paycheck'...I'm thinking the whole time...thats not severence you jerk.
- abizzyman0
hang in there iDp...
... your work is STUNNING... and I think you'll land something soon based on what you're saying (discontinued position, want you in LA etc)... it sounds like it's nothing to do with who you are or what you're capable of doing.
your site is beautiful. :)
- iDp0
hehe thanks bizzy. I appreciate all the kind words. I was actually offered a job on my way home from losing this one so who knows...I think freelance might be my thing for a little while. The last couple years of working inhouse has made me miss working in the buff. So the plan as of two hours from getting the boot is ... un-employment, rebuild my sites, then look for some $$.
Thanks everyone. Only thing I'm really pissed about is having that job on my resume for 4 months. I hate the way I imagine that looking in the future.
- _salisae_0
i am sorry
- T-B-O-A0
Well, I think you might find this interesting
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido…
I watched this a couple of weeks after I got the sack and it got me thinking.
- iDp0
muahahhaa just came into work and burned a few DVDs. The boss said I can stay and work for the next couple weeks but casinos are pretty black and white...if they let someone go, they want them to just go. In my fit of anger I left without the little babies I've created while employed.
now...should I run naked through the halls and take pictures of my nuts on the water cooler for later use??
- ********0
go freelance