gettin' fired

but: do good ppl get good jobs?

Now, I hate temping.

I would so not take it personally that you were sacked by your agency and not the 'employer'; technically, the agency is your employer and the call was theirs to make. And remember, you gained valuable insight and experience of having to engage with people you possibly wouldn't cross the street to piss on, were they on fire. Which is what I said to the last temp agent I worked for in college.

(Hopefully actually, Mr Branson's Entertainment Emporium will employ me)

Nope, bullshitting about which Eric Clapton album to get for someone's dad's brithday is very much my calling.

I did tell the guy that 'rolled me off' (it's not called sacking anymore I think) that I thought he was a cunt, that he could shove his reference where the minions had been licking and that I hope he gets what is coming to him very soon. (Hence my email address.)

Oh, you might want to have a look at http://www.fuckedcompany.com - it's so good I bought the T-shirt and wore it on my last day in that job.

Apparently I was not supposed to do this without asking anyone. Oh, and I'd already accidently chucked a 10 quid record voucher in the bin.

I was quite glad actually since they were cunts who paid peanuts, and a week later I got a much better job.

Dear Livejournal,

Argh. It appears I might be fired this afternoon from my terrible restaurant job.

Asides from being incompetent, I was apparently supposed to work yesterday. This will be my second no call/no show in less than a month. Not because I’m disinterested but because I’m too absent minded to check the schedule.

I think they might keep me since they have a difficult time filling my position. If they do fire me I’m screwed as I have about 20 dollars in my bank account. Yikes!

Dear Mr Goodman,

It is customary, when employed, to show up for work.

Sincerely,

Livejournal

I don't like liars, I don't like cheats. I don't like bullshitters. I don't like schmoozers. I don't like arse-lickers. But I've got a gut feeling and I'm following it.

You're hired.

Love,
Alan S

Owner of AS Restuarants Ltd.

A nice "lol" before I leave work for the weekend. Cheers ken et moonship.

FYI This year I was fired twice by the same pub within two weeks of each other.

That sucked.

my boss got fired yesterday for stealing 2,500 from our store.

it was party ok bcuz he was incompetent and no one liked him, but i think he stole our tips u_u

partly*

did you have a party tho

well everyday from yesterday forward, so in a way, yes.

stop snitchin

Well, I got fired. If anyone knows of a job that’s available in Boston ... let a brother know. Or I suppose I could start panhandling in Harvard Square.

my boss has a habit of sending me emails on friday or so once every three months that basically read "you me and the co-owner need to meet at noon on monday" and then offer no additional info when I ask; so every three months I walk around going "am i fired?" and they generally suggest I start work on something that totally confounds me, I tackle it and then repeat.
But every time I spend three days walking around going "am i fired?" and i always feel like it's gonna be this time. And this is this time.

From across the house, the gf hears me sighing and immediately asks what's wrong now. I should really not look at my email after I get home.

damn, sorry forks

hope shit works out for you quickly

:-( I'm so sorry.

Agh, I'm sorry forks.

But really? You found out by email? That's LOW.

oh, wait hang on!
I am not fired!
I am just perennially worried that I'm gettin' fired!
Do not be sorry for me!

lol u fucker

By "This is this time" I just mean the cycle of getting that email is repeating itself. NOT FIRED! NOT FIRED! CANDYMAN! CANDYMAN! CANDYMAN!

:( sorry Forks

Honestly, i'm sure i'm NOT getting fired (i think), it's just that I get these weird mystery emails and then never get a response as to what they're about, just "we'll talk about it on monday" and then i get charlie brown stomachaches all weekend for no reason.

I AM NOT FIRED
DO NOT BE SORRY FOR ME
IN THIS ECONOMY

God, though now i feel jinxed and you have me positive I'm gonna come back here on Monday and have to be like "i am not crying wolf this time"
oh god charlie brown stomachache is coming and i have tied my peanut butter sandwich in a knot

i really should stop reading newspapers

sorry forks:(

NOT FIRED
DON'T FEEL BAD FOR ME
SO MANY HUNGRY CHILDREN NEED YOUR PITY

awful :(

okay, please paypal whatever u can afford to forksclovet✧✧✧@i✧✧.c✧✧
just until i can get on my feet again

Forks, we are all praying for you.

sorry your boss decided you are a forks in the road:(

:(

as someone unemployed rite now, i feel for you. thanks for sharing your story, it takes guts

Good luck USAForks

Oh no, Forks! I just saw your revive and I'm so sorry for your loss... I'm usually not religious at all, but your horrible misfortune got me praying. I'm trying to find a silver lining here, but sometimes, there just isn't one (maybe you won't be able to afford that girlfriend anymore after this weekend, is that helping?)

Stay strong and hang in there, man. *chokes up*

Sorry to (maybe) hear this, dude

People, forks is PROBABLY NOT FIRED.

You are one cold hearted son of a bitch.

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Forks your bravery on this thread is really impressive but if you feel you need to vent then by all means do so.

sorry forks

sorry you got fired

can someone link the merriweather post pavillion leak for forks, he got fired

we shouldn't be joking, someone has just been fired here.

http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/g_bourke888/hang_in_there_kitty.jpg

Just now read about this awful news Forks, I'm so sorry...

Thinkig about u. :-((((

Don't most companies do staff evaluations every few months or so?

Though it might be nice if they said that was what they were doing, not just leaving you hanging in the SACK PARANOIA.

:-( good luck Forks!

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Okay, so this turned out to be me being grilled about something someone else did that's got them freaked out. I am apparently not under siege.
Really wish they'd just let me know what the problem is rather than keep me uncomfortable for four days. I ate a buncha Tums this morning.

Phew!

gutted for you anyway

congrats on not getting fired

congrats on your teen pregnancy

They'd probably fire you on a Friday instead of a Monday anyway.

sorry you got fired forks, let me know if i can help in any way

don't you get a first disciplinary hearing first?

i guess forks won't be on ilx as much now

Forks, you should maybe say to your boss that everytime he does this it causes you massive stress and could he, like, get better managerial practice going on,please? Then kick him in the dick.

ex-boss now : /

it's a reasonable point.

RIP

forks email me if you need to talk

heaven knows he's miserable now

the day after mothers day too

sending good thoughts to all, let's get thru this together

Forks , tell this to your boss,"my boss has a habit of sending me emails on friday or so once every three months that basically read "you me and the co-owner need to meet at noon on monday" and then offer no additional info when I ask; so every three months I walk around going "am i fired?" then add you're ruining my weekends and i'm messin people about on the net making them feel sorry for me.

you really freaked me out with that "day after mother's day" comment; i was afraid I'd missed it.

jeez me too

I always get caught by this, when US ILXors start saying "hey I got my mom blabh lbah blah blah for Mother's Day" and I'm all WTF!?!? no I've forgotten!

Shall we just come back to this in 3 months?

Sorry, that was mean :(

But appropos!

ax just fell.

seeya later.

Yikes! Sorry about the job.

MORBS. I think this calls for a drink. At least now you have a home computer for us to email you on.

I think i will grab a few gross of toilet paper of the way out like the Office Kathys from TKITH.

youre kidding doc--that really sucks man

You should. There's probably extra dish soap in the kitchen, too.

Yeesh, terrible news.

hey, at least Obama made COBRA cost 35% of standard (temporarily).

sorry to hear that morbs, that stinks

that sucks morbs, sorry to hear it.

still, free time in the springtime!

:(

sorry dude

Sorry to hear it, Morbs -- good luck.

Yipes, sorry Doc. Shout at me.

Are you a cloud?

Condolences Morbz - though as goole hinted it couldn't have come at a better time in the schedule

don't forget to photocopy your resume too, a la TKITH!

and be sure to turn in yr wig

o no morbs. that totally sucks. damn. if we weren't cutting things right and left at our shop i'd tell you to look in about some freelance work, but we just ditched all our freelancers (some of whom had been working several days a week for years).

The Gray Lady has replaced em w/ robots?

Well, I made it home w/out having an Anna Karenina moment on the F train platform.

Of course, they disabled my office email before I'd gotten back to my desk. So cute.

Morbs, you thought of a place for drinking this evening yet? I'll bring the McDonalds salad.

who the fuck fires people on a monday?

aw morbs :( :( i buy u drink soon!

well, at least they didn't do it last Monday when I was on my "last vacation ever."

dunno yet ian, mayb the KY bar if I go out, i'll let you know.

I wonder if the freelancer who filled in for me for 3 days -- they had NEVER paid for that shit before -- convinced them I was dispensable?

The Gray Lady has replaced em w/ robots?

there's no "replace" at all -- just, you know, "doing more with less."

sadly too true

Of course, they disabled my office email before I'd gotten back to my desk. So cute.

Holy shit!

sorry Morbz

Sorry Morbs! Good wishes and hopes for a speedy turnaround. You are in my thoughts.

thanks, NPS.

well, it appears that because I got 3 weeks' severance -- excuse me, SEPARATION -- I can't file for unemployment till I get that check on the 15th. So I just wasted 45 minutes filling out the goddamn online application.

Time to go to the movies.

only 3 weeks?? haven't you worked there for a while?

4-1/2 years. That's pretty typical for US companies.

shitty

so if my job is temporary (not through an agency, just came on as a non-perm employee) and is wrapping up soon, can i get unemployment?

yeah, i got the 'oh we need to start talking about references, prospects, and wrapping up your work for us' bit yesterday and now it's really hit me that i'm going to be unemployed soon :(

don't know how it works outside of Ontario but here you have to have worked a minimum number of hours to qualify, I don't *think* it matters if your job was classified as permanent or not..?? G'luck!! :(

You just have to have had wages in the "look back period" - even if you worked through a temp agency. They generally base your benefits on how much you made in that period.

Aw, tza. hit that linked in action!

ok. so it doesn't matter if i was aware the job would end and haven't found anything else yet?

i think you're ok tza re: unemployment eligibility

also, companies aren't really obligated to give severance but 3 weeks for 4.5 years is super crappy, esp. in this job market. sorry, morbs : (

ask forks for advice. hope you're doing ok, forks

wait, I thought forks didn't get fired.

hey morbs if u get bored of unemployed NY, come see me and anni3 and we'll hit a giants game.

i didn't but i'm told it's lolzy to pretend i did

Aw Morbs, that sucks, I'm wishing you the best.

I dunno about ny, but in texas if your 'fired' (terminated with cause) no unemployment benefits for you! I hope you were laid off instead.

Anyway, if you do get unemployment benefits, Obama is giving you an extra $25 a week. Won't go far in the city, but it's still an Andy and an Abe.

Haha for a moment I'm like 'Andy and Abe? What the hell designer brews are those?'

i posted my woes here even tho i didn't get "fired." I was laid off.

My sympathies, Morbs. It sounds like your employers were chuckleheads.

sorry to hear about that, forks

hang in there bud

well, that's slightly better then.

VERY slightly

God, no unemployment after being terminated at all: sends a message that the employer doing the firing is absolutely "right", even in the moral sense. You were "bad", be punished. It can be a death sentence these days, you lose your health care, lose your home!

btw, i did get fired from that job but it ended up being a good thing.

I got fired once but I never felt so relieved in all of my life. It was like "no disrespect, if you can stand this shithole you're welcome to it!" It didn't hurt that my mom won a settlement right after I left, so I had a year's salary or more to live off of.

either going to get fired or resign, when shitty nazi boss rejoins our team next week. we'll see how we go.

^ same

line manager is ex city worker, small man syndrome, writes extremely aggressive long winded "official" emails asking me to only listen to my headphones during lunch hours and stuff like that. everyone listens to their headphones here.

current concern is my time management, i've been late a couple of days a week for the last few weeks. gf is going thru a horrendous grief process, things are a bit fucked up, tempted to just get signed off work for a couple of weeks.

anyway the annoying thing about all of this, is that i consistantly do about 5 times more work than anyone else. some aspects of the job are fairly mundane and i can kind of switch off and blast through my work at a ridiculous rate. this has saved our team from everyone doing lots of overtime on a number of occasions.

gah, anyway, feeling like you're about to get fired sucks. i'm sure things will sort themselves out.

Don't know if I was on the verge of getting fired today, but I seem to have worked my boss's last nerve. :\

First, he got annoyed when he wanted me to crunch some numbers and compare it against another set he gave me and I returned the results to him in a different order, then he gave me another job where I had to dig through the email to figure out what was being asked for, and when I said that it was as difficult for me to find that info as it was for him to check the numbers, he went off on me. (All this happened over email, so I'm not looking forward to sing him today.)

Seeing, duh.

Hello dere!

8 years, longest I've been anywhere.

My profession is extinct.

Ugh sorry Morbs, best of luck.

fucking hell, sorry Morbs

that sucks....good luck pal

so much for my "the cancer guy has security" theory

Sorry to hear that meeting turned out to confirm what you suspected...

Was it you and an entire department? Reorg?

That sucks man, sorry to hear this.

Ugh, sorry.

sorry to hear that morbs - best of luck for quickly finding better work

Sorry Morbs, good luck.

Yes, "greater efficiency" is what the German guy said, Evan. After training us on the new software for six months or so. Several departments! Fewer humans needed.

Reorgs are nightmares! My clients go through these way too often and it's such a stressful environment.

ugh that sucks morbs, all my best

morbs, goddammit. i'm sorry.

really sorry to hear this, morbius! is there any severance at least??

5.5 months, and 8 months of health coverage

fuck yes

that's awesome :)

good luck dr morbius

yeahhhh, except no one will hire me

xp

what do you do? Could always keep an eye out

proofreading! close to completely dead.

I work for a company that needs proofreaders and copy editors. It's freelance work, but it's something.

Commiserations and g'luck morbs

If I hear of a requirement for a rabblerousing proofreader movie buff over here you'll be my no 1 rec

these ppl have been very good to me over the years:
https://aquent.co.uk/

whoops i guess you don't want the .co.uk link - they have a nyc office and have had one for years - https://aquent.com/contact-us/

oh god I’m sorry morbs
you are welcome join my pity party, i just restocked the booze & the chips

That's terrible. Sorry to hear of it, old chum.

sorry morbs and vg :(

Damn it, Veg and Morbs. I'm sorry!

a few days before my 50th birthday i (and many others- this was not personal) was laid off from the company i had worked 14 years for.

i saw it coming (a year ago the UK based company was take over by some american investment fund - and we all know how thats going to fly !),
but still, having worked with the same crew for most of that time its a strange one when it actually happens.
i am now in a strange position where after 30 or so years doing software support/testing, i may never work again for a software company.
at 50, i am not sure i want to start all over again, learning a whole new software application and chancing my luck.
before this job i had worked for many other places, and hated virtually every single moment of my previous jobs due to the absolute shits i had to pretend to like.
instead i may just get a min wage at the pub to help pay the bills and live the small quiet life that i have always been heading towards.
but before i make that decision, i am going to kick back and enjoy the downtime.
i would suggest you do the same if at all possible Morbs.
3 weeks into my new life, and the house looks good, i have plans re the garden once spring arrives, and i really dont miss the sodding 2 hours a day commuting.

good luck whatever you decide to do Morbs ..

A friend told me on Tuesday he was part of Barnes and Nobles' great purge.

Sorry to hear, all. Good luck on getting something good and sustainable soon.

Sorry to hear, wish you all the best

Ouch, hope everything works out for you Morbs.

feeling like you're about to get fired sucks

This feeling has been creeping into my psyche from time to time over the last six months or so.

Tho partially updating my resume last night did offer some solace.

Because paranoia or more substantial clues?

morbs you can have my job, i'm going to live in the woods

lets all live in the woods

If we all lived in the woods it wouldn’t be the woods anymore

Besides who’d drive

buzzkill

I'll drive

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thx everybody

supervisor (also canned) took us out for tacos & margaritas

sorry to hear, everyone. mark e I hear you re the commute though - really appreciating not driving through this city in rush hour...

my org is currently being reorged and has had some unnerving press recently but fingers crossed all of us are fairly safe.

I swear I posted on this thread? Anyway, that sucks, Dr. Morbius! (Maybe I'll see you next month?)

I might be visiting this thread in a few months

I'm genuinely sorry to hear that VG, mark e and Morbius are all going through uncertain times right now. 3 fucking brilliant posters there - all the best to youse.

saw this. damn it, morbs. I hope some better luck falls your way. You sure could use some.

thanks again, ppl, i'm not desperate (yet)

maybe on March 6 or 18, tokyo ro!

All the best for the future, Dr M.

I'm genuinely sorry to hear that VG, mark e and Morbius are all going through uncertain times right now. 3 fucking brilliant posters there - all the best to youse.

this completely sucks. don't let them win

I would hire all of you just to post on ilx :(

https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/?k=Editor

The Marines need you

You don't want me despoiling the region, big fella, and it sounds like too much work.

Look at all the other locations where an experienced GS-1084 could contribute, though

Sorry 1035. I get all my 10XX series mixed up now

How hilarious is it when you are being canned in 2 weeks, and you are told to go the extra mile (on something you've never had to do before) because "this editor (who you've never heard of before) IS PICKY"? lol, what's my motivation?

filling the time

the warm glow of satisfaction which follows a job well done, presumably

The gall

the spleen

the goin' postal

sorry to hear about this vg, mark and morbs best to you all
my wife's been out of work for 7 months definitely relate to the stress

yeah Morbs, seriously fuck that. don't even go an extra inch. you don't owe them shit.