Okay so here's the Getting Fired Mutual Support-Comfort Thread

what i'd like to know is: what's the most amount of times anyone here has been sacked? is there a point, when the number gets too high, that you somewhat "correctly" have to start feeling...shameful/ self-loathing?

in other words, when can u successfully start branding yourself an incorrigible l0ser ?

I've only been fired once. Another time though, I quit because I thought I was about to be fired, but I was wrong, I wasn't about to be fired. I'm such a dick.

technically I think I've only been fired twice (once was the coffeeshop job I mentioned on the "straw" thread). The other time made me feel like an incorrigible loser, as did getting laid off last year. Nothing really to do about it, I guess.

this thread has been erected, by the way, to honor the brave spirit of dog latin - despite whatever happenz to him on MONDAY (how fucked up is that, ruining his wkend)

i've only been officially "fired" erm twice (and in one of those cases i was practically asking for it, and was just waiting until Something Happened), but recently went through a passive-aggressive sort of "call us later, when we _might_ need you" letting-go type of things. it's lame, but still seems better to the ego than getting the pink slip directly

The one time I was fired, I was totally asking for it. I hated that place and resented everything about it. Unfortunately, I was also the only competent employee there (it was a sub shop), so it finally took me talking openly about organizing a union for my 17-yr-old shift supervisor to snitch me out.

I got a written warning once, which totally felt like a prelude to them getting rid of me, as it wasn't brought on by one particular event.

In my very first, bright-eyed, naively optimistic job (and a decent one at that) my contract was "not renewed" after my 3 months probation, even though they actually asked me to stay on for a 4th month AND gave me an extra £100.

why woh why oh why oh why did i let sip my real email address on THIS THREAD

*slip

anyway. i think things like "warnings" and all that can be misleading - sometimes that's just ppl in authoroty playing mindgames with you, esp if it's over trivial shit like coming late. other times, the entire job IS trivial shit. and it counts argh

*authority haha this is fun

also: the feeling of relief that comes after being axed from a place you hated anyway: classic isn't it ?

absofuckinglutely, although i usually quit before they have a chance to fire me.

My first waiting job, I was called in by the day manager right before we opened (I'd been trying to figure out why I didn't have a section that day), she told me that the head office had done a ticket audit and noticed that some nights I had voids that the managers didn't remember making. I wasn't fired, but I was off the schedule until the GM came back in later that week and could meet with me. I never went back in.

Only took eight or nine months to figure out I'd learned all the managers' codes (and had been passing them around to the rest of the waitstaff), much love to Corporate America.

Milo, I don't understand - what's a "void"?

Say I rang up an extra dish or something, if I got the kitchen to stop it right away, then the manager would just void it off, as if it never existed. Then it didn't count toward my sales or checkout at the end of the night.

I learned all the managers' codes from watching them do this and would go back at the end of the night to void off a few dishes. This was a good $40+ per night usually, just by erasing two meals. Not so noticeable when my Saturday sales were often $1500+.

(obviously this is unethical and probably illegal if proven, but I didn't nor do I feel bad.)