Fired?

[simplydamon]

While I don't recall being fired, I have been let go of by a company (many years ago) for simply not showing up to work. My reason for not showing up to work, however, was one that I felt pretty comfortable with (I'd only been at the company for two weeks when I made my decision).

Why did I stop showing up to work?
*The work environment at this telecommunications company was not friendly at all. Management was far more likely to chastise employees than to give them praise.
*There were issues with racism present in the company. The day I decided to stop going was when someone had placed a bunch of KKK stuff in the office (this was not in an area where you would expect this to happen).

While I am sure that I have been close to getting fired in other jobs, my employers (generally speaking) have probably been pretty happy with my work performance.

[George]

That telcom company is this, so I can be sure not to use them. Them me it's not Verizon.

[simplydamon]

Not Verizon. I wouldn't mention the company by name simply because of the potential for liability. I think it was an issue just at the local office (company has a pretty solid reputation outside of this one incident).

[lifesab-andthenyoudie]

I was fired for refusing to relocate. I'd worked for the company 6 years and had been moved 8 times. Many of my counterparts were married and I was single and didn't own a house, so do the math on relocation costs.

Finally, I just got fed up. I was told to relo from Portland, OR to Los Angeles. I had just purchased my first house. I was being offered a token raise for my troubles. I couldn't afford a garage in LA for what I paid for my house in Portland.

It was October when I found out I had to relocate. My territory (PNW, Alaska, Hawaii and Montana) was going to stay the same. For the life of me, I couldn't get behind the rationale of this move. I was going to move 1000 miles south and then spend most of my time on airplanes riding back to Portland or Seattle?

Anyway, I told my boss, yeah, I'd go, with no intention of moving of course. It took them until February of the following year to figure this out and then they let me go.

I got a years' severance out of it, so it wasn't a bad deal.

[Anarinda]

Yes, there was a badly managed project at the company I was working for, and I got shuffled very awkwardly between two crappy managers as the company tried to reorganize folks for a new project and handoff the old work to the people who were going to sustain it. At any rate, I was never able to get what I needed to to done for either manager, and ended up getting the axe.

It was painful, but I learned a couple of lessons from it and I was happier to be done with the whole situation.

[Parklane64]

I got fired once for, ah, entertaining myself on company time. :D




It really ired my female boss that I was, er, utilizing product. :eek:




Plenty of room here to read between the lines. :p

[simplydamon]

YIKES! Is that really a true story? How did the supervisor respond initially (outside of terminating you?)?

[George]

OMG...thats crazy.

I got fired once for, ah, entertaining myself on company time. :D




It really ired my female boss that I was, er, utilizing product. :eek:




Plenty of room here to read between the lines. :p

[Parklane64]

True story.

The manager was a real witch (not that I was a prize employee).

Prior to her holding this position she and her (now ex)husband were moving to Texas. As they left her husband leaned out of the U-Haul and told her, "You're not going." and took off down the road. All of her personal items were in the car, which had no gas in it.

She claimed that the other employee was her best friend. When I asked the other employee how a person as nice as her could only get the manager as a best friend her reply was, "As long as she's my boss, she's my best friend. Got that?"

We worked for a prosthetics company. :rolleyes:

My bad.

[Parklane64]

Ooops, didn't answer the question.

That was her initial response. I returned from the 'warehouse' to be handed a brief letter that said, "You're fired, get your personal items and get out." To which she added verbally, ".... don't come back, don't call me, and don't file for unemployment." I did note a bit of anger. :confused:

Live and learn. Does this qualify as dating on the job? :p

[simplydamon]

Wow...sorry for the delay in reading this. One of the more unusual stories I have heard!

"It really ired my female boss that I was, er, utilizing product. "

The visual here is, errr, interesting:)