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- Amicus0
I got laid off ten days before xmas once... got about 8 weeks pay for the trouble though. This was despite the fact that every client I had worked with had more than doubled their business with us since I started with them.
4 or 5 other staff members quit over the next 3 months or so (partly in protest) which made me feel much better.
- Fanco0
i never got fired but i did fire some clients a few time. once it was one of my university teachers (this happened while i was still in school)
i remember once in high school when i worked at a grocery store. i quit and left a letter. the letter was copied and pasted from the internet. the manager started crying. she said it was the most sincere and lovely letter she ever read...
- UKV0
On my first day working as a valet many years ago, I wrecked a car racing another valet down thru the parking garage. I hit a pillar and creased the entire passenger side tip to tail just before I pulled up to the customer who was horrified (she heard the squealing tires). I had just moved back from Europe and claimed "lane ignorance". My manager laughed so hard he farted, and then gave me another chance. I still admire that dude.
- dnoobie0
I was fired for creating a "unhealthy" work environment. I was caught threatening co-workers with swift violence whenever they asked me a stupid question.
- gramme0
I've been laid off and fired. Got laid off at my first design job, but it was all on good terms. They let me use the company printer for 2 weeks while putting together my portfolio and resume. They even threw a going away party for me.
The first time I got fired was in college. I totally deserved it. I got caught "fixing" a tip. I had already received one warning. I think I got off easy, considering that credit fraud is a felony. This was back when I was not quite so scrupulous, i.e. before I became a Christian.
The second time I got fired, I told my boss in veiled language that I considered his boss to be an idiot. Beyond that I'm not quite sure why he fired me, unless he could actually see in my body language that I didn't think very highly of him either.
Overall I think these experiences have made me a much better employee, and have given me a stiff dose of reality. There is nothing in this life that is firmly anchored.
- Didn't you get fired for taking shit about your employer here?MarleyMarl
- Dancer0
I was "employed" to be a caddy at an amateur golf tournament. I was late and dropped the guys clubs as soon as he gave them to me... I never made it onto the fairway.
- b_electro0
I got fired from a restaurant job about 12 years ago, for ordering myself a Heineken and subsequently drinking said Heineken, while on my shift. Thing is I wasn't fiending for booze as much as I was just bored (slow season). I got escorted out by a gay security guard who had a crush on me, which was awkward to say the least. A week later I got propositioned over the phone by my old manager, who was totally hot (and a woman). Ah, the good 'ol days ;-)
- epic_rim0
fired for smoking outside when I should have been inside working. It happened like 20 umpteen times, though, so the last time was pretty obvious. I was asked to take a 5 day suspension and so I never came back. Didn't like working at Red Lobster anyway.
- kona0
got fired once because of my asshole roommate. we were roommates and worked at the same company, i was in design he was in dev. he started his own design company on the side and asked me to design his logo and give him some samples of work for his site to get up and running. then the dumbass turns around and bids against some of the clients of the company i was still working for. they of course see my work and are like wtf!?! my boss calls me into his office during my 4pm tuna/brown rice meal and starts cussing at me and i honestly had no idea what he was talking about. after 5 min of him swearing at me i said "FUCK YOU" and threw my tuna into his bookshelf.
some of the other employees told me that it stunk like tuna in his office for months after. lol.
only time i've been fired.
- digdre0
I always say: If you don't get a job, you can't get fired!
Positive thinking!
- ukit0
Whatever happened to Llyod/uberdesigner?
- SoulFly0
Only time I got fired, it was a 3 people operation. President, secretary and designer (myself). For some reason I dont think that counts. But i got fired for being too expensive, by not being able to finish a logo in less than an hour.
- good thing they had a secretary to handle all that business.monNom
- kalkal0
Yeah, for a summer job in a disgusting factory years ago. It was my first day and I had to stack stuff on pallets, the floor manager showed me how he wanted it to be laid. He did the whole first row. I did the rest and when a fork lift truck came to move it, it all collapsed and I got blamed for not laying it properly, despite simply stacking stuff on top based on what was already done.
I wasn't going to come back the next day anyway it was absolutely the most disgusting place I have ever been, they make floor coatings.
- akrok0
nope, never.
- CygnusZero40
My first job, fired from Shop Rite. I think I was 16. I was a cashier that day, and an old man came through with a ton of groceries. I rung it all up and at the end he gave me a pile of coupons.
You're supposed to check each one, but I didnt and rung them all through. 4 bags of groceries and he only ended up paying like $12 and I let him go. The manager stopped him immediately and checked his receipt.
Normally they would have just yelled at me, but not fire me for a first time offense like this, but for some unknown reason when they asked him about it, he said he knew me and I was doing him a favor. Fucking scumbag. All these years later why he said he knew me is still one of the great mysteries of my life.
- scarabin0
2000. my second job doing digital retouching for a photo studio. (first was roller coaster operator at an amusement park)
got fired for coming in at noon and leaving around 3-4pm to do awful things with a girl i had just started seeing (my now girlfriend). it was a pretty shit job run by a bunch of wankers so i just quit caring
- Ambushstudio0
I used to work at this fancy hotel in NYC, and found the manager was stealing from out tips, fucking coke head bitch, so i did numbers from when she started working and it came up to around $400, I waited until she went into the managers office, walked in, locked the door behind me and told her I was either walking out of there with my $400, or I was going to jail, she started crying and tried to guilt trip me , and told me she had a problem BLAH BLAH BLAH, I didn't care, stood up for myself, went to get another manager and told on her. She got fired, and then I did too for threatening her, they were scared she was going to get legal on their ass... fucking coke head...
- I was a waiter... forgot to explain thatAmbushstudio
- Cold man. Poor girl was an addict, she needed help!CygnusZero4
- Yup, bitch needed help, I did too! fucking paying my bills!Ambushstudio