Have You Ever Fired Anyone?

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I just did for the first time! I thought it would be difficult, but it was fine, like a summer-fresh emotional douche. No guilt, in that most ppl have told me it was the obvious decision. Also I don't have 'emotions' anymore. You?

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

you should have fired him/her by e-mail, with attached emoticons.

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I gotta admit, LeCoq, my mental image of you firing someone involves giving a beatdown.

I've fired a couple of people over the moons, others have come very close. Never like doing it, but by gum, if you're not going to actually show up on time and all that...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

Yuo=Fired

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)


dear [name],roflmao u r fir3d lol! ^_^
luv 
le coq 8====D

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

Avri1 Levigne allegedly fired her bass player during a ClearChannel gig in the Twin Cities by giving him a cake that had "So long, motherfucker!" written on it in frosting.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

At least he got cake.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

i doff my cap to thee for including the anime smiley. =^.^=

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

The closest I've ever come is sacking band members. Which I have to admit I have handled fairly badly - usually it gets to the point where things become so difficult that the person I want to sack gets frustrated and ups and quits long before I have to get the boot in.

― Smug and Pious (kate), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

i sacked an old bass player by screaming "give me my money, you cunt" down the phone at him. never saw him again. it was £20. small price to pay, tbh.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

easy way to sack band member - do it in public during a show.

"before we do this next song, I'd like to apologise for the lack of a bassline because our bassist here behind me has just been FIRED!!!!"

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

I've had two bassists quit onstage. At the same venue. There was a journo there to review the show and, having witnessed the first onstage blowup, thought the second was a joke.

― Smug and Pious (kate), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

i've 'evicted' someone before. it wasn't pretty.

― foxy boxer (stevie), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

(in case anyone thinks my wee tale is a little strange, i was very poor, rather hungry and had no food. plus he PROMISED to pay me back, as i had explained these conditions to him the previous day. his shocking lack of respect provoked this outburst. i'm nice really.)

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm not nice.

― Smug and Pious (kate), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

He is, ironically, now my boss.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

i only get the claws out when i haven't been fed.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

I haven't fired anybody, but used to get told about people where were about to be, for some reason. Then I'd pass them in the hall..

"Hi mark, Good weekend"
"Yeah! not bad. Bye then."

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

i've never fired anyone but my boss made me tell our temp that 'this is your last day due to your consistant lateness', i was having a brief fling with her at the time. it ended not long after this.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

I fired 3 or 4 DJs from WUTK 90.3 when I was program director one summer. Fuckin' station manager grad student and the music director hid in the office and I got to have it out with the white funk show idiots. And the 7-year career metal DJ who lost his edge and started playing chart rock. And the former UT football player who taped his party show at his house and was never actually in the studio except to tell the DJs before him which side to start the tape on.

I only know of one person who has actually been fired from this job, because he was getting here at 5:00am every day to rub one out looking at BBW porn or something. Everyone else just gets transferred to some other part of the business.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 12 September 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Never. But I'd love to. Not just anyone. Just someone particular. Actually *love* to is the right expression, because I get nervous just thinking about it. But still...

― nathalie's pocket revolution (stevie nixed), Monday, 12 September 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Update: I feel better about this as time passes! My crew just became a zillion times more efficient since the staff shakeup. Homeboy showed up at our showcase last night and managed to infuriate our best band w sarcastic comments (again) but the show was hot fire hot fire w mad press hella impressed and it must have been painful to watch a bus he just missed. Fuckin wit D? NAAAH

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

what do you do again lecoq?

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I have and it made me think very seriously about the hiring process. The worst has to be laying someone off, though.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I thought you sold weed?

― Aaron A, Thursday, 15 September 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I've had two bassists quit onstage. At the same venue. There was a journo there to review the show and, having witnessed the first onstage blowup, thought the second was a joke

Who are you, Ted Hughes?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

i'm more shocked that le coq hired anyone.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)

I prefer the passive-aggressive approach of "Yeah, we're not really going to have any work for you next week. But I'll call whenever we get something else started."

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

I have fired two people. Both were friends of mine. One I felt bad about. The other kinda had it coming. Not pleasant either time.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Thursday, 15 September 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

He needed firin'

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 15 September 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

I've fired three. Two teenagers who I'm sure have gotten over it and a nice lady approaching retirement age. Her job was to receive and account for money in a municipal office. She wasn't dishonest. She just couldn't manage receipts and numbers. I tried to show her how, but to no avail. There was no other job to place her in, so I had to let her go. Felt pretty bad about that one. Six months later I learned she had been diagnosed with alzheimers.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 16 September 2005 00:40 (twenty years ago)

did ned just say 'by gum'?

― Michael B, Friday, 16 September 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

Many times. Never pleasant but how unpleasant depends on the person and the circumstances.

I once had to tell an entire warehouse full of all the people who I'd been working with for the last 18 months not to bother coming back in the next day. This enviable task fell to me because the Directors were too chicken shit to do it themselves so they rang me and told me to do it for them. Nice.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

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