Ever been fired?

[jakesmith]

geeks said:

Fired a couple of times..

First time I was working for a car parts place, a mail order type warehouse, my face didn't fit and the work was drying up, was a victim of last in first out. To be fair to them I gave zero fks about the job so not a great loss.

Second time from a pub, supposedly had my hand in the till, I didn't it was actually the landlords son, but clearly I wasn't going to win that argument. I did eventually get an apology some time after I was binned as the money kept disappearing and he found out the truth one evening when he caught him.

Everyone should be sacked at least once, it is character building!

That's an interesting one, how did you get the apology, presumably you were still going there as a punter, if so wasn't that a bit awkward? What happened to the son? He sounds like a man of integrity, steeling from his own dad & allowing someone else to get fired for it!

[plasticpig]

Got sacked under quite unusual circumstances. I did some work for a company as self employed software developer and they then offered me a permanent position with really good benefits.

3 months into my employment and it turns out my manager was shagging the MD's wife! My manager was sacked and me and another IT bod got caught in the cross fire and were also sacked. 2 weeks later I was back on 3 times the money as a contractor once again as the bespoke software which ran the stock, manufacturing and shipping process had stopped working....

[bennyboydurham]

You boys should try working as a freelancer in the media industry. It's not 'if' you get fired but when. Of course you don't actually get fired as you never technically worked there in the first place so it gets dressed up as lots of different things:

- taking a new direction
- refreshing the output
- bringing in fresh faces

Which basically means thanks for your time, bye bye now.

[Jaroon]

Not fired but when we got a new chief pilot that I didn't see eye to eye with I was top of the list come redundancy time only to be inform six weeks later that said chief pilots best mate had been taken on in a very similar role to mine. Started tribunal procedures and got a decent payout on top of my redundancy money and the company broke up within a year how I wept.

I had a mid life crisis, much younger girlfriend between proper relationships years back. She rang me from her first day in an office temp. job asking if I could collect her as she'd been caught sleeping behind a cupboard she'd moved a bit thinking no one would notice

Edited by Jaroon on Monday 7th November 20:19

[talksthetorque]

Jaroon said:

Not fired but when we got a new chief pilot that I didn't see eye to eye with I was top of the list come redundancy time only to be inform six weeks later that said chief pilots best mate had been taken on in a very similar role to mine. Started tribunal procedures and got a decent payout on top of my redundancy money and the company broke up within a year how I wept.

I had a mid life crisis, much younger girlfriend between proper relationships years back. She rang me from her first day in an office temp. job asking if I could collect her as she'd been caught sleeping behind a cupboard she'd moved a bit thinking no one would notice

Edited by Jaroon on Monday 7th November 20:19

I tried to go to sleep once at work on nights.
Found the comfyest thing I could to settle down on - Didn't get much sleep.
Don't bother trying to sleep on bubble wrap.

[Dr Jekyll]

talksthetorque said:

I tried to go to sleep once at work on nights.
Found the comfyest thing I could to settle down on - Didn't get much sleep.
Don't bother trying to sleep on bubble wrap.

The trick if you have your own office is (so I'm told) to sleep with your feet against the door and with an upturned container of paper clips under your desk. If someone comes in the door hitting your feet wakes you up and you explain you are picking up the paperclips. But that's only what I'm told.

[Jefferson Steelflex]

I was due to be sacked, but having been kept waiting for months I found another job before it reached the final act. I was on the verge of getting offered VR and a nice pay-off but the right job came along and I couldn't risk it.

What kicked it all of was I uncovered something about the MD (I was the internal auditor) that amounted to either payroll fraud or a monumental fk up by Payroll/HR. Being a good company man and general nice guy I tried to get it sorted through unofficial channels, just pay it back and no one will worry etc.

Found myself getting under more and more scrutiny, my performance being questioned, next appraisal rating was through the floor despite me being at the top of my game (and being told so in writing), then I got moved out of my office into the middle of the accounting team and made to report to the Financial Director who was a . To cut a long story short, I found out they were trying to get me to leave or would manage me out of the business (one of the junior HR bods was a good friend and kept me informed).

When I gave my notice, they just asked me to go the same day and put me on gardening leave for 3 months. Had the best summer of my life.

I still have the evidence file at home just in case, but the MD was sacked 6 months later anyway and the company has now shut down.