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That sinking feeling...

  • 18-06-2012 9:59pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭


    I did something terrible today (I can't/don't want to give details) in work and I might be sacked tomorrow.
    I'm actually dreading going in. Getting called into the office and being told to have a seat, you know how it goes.
    I keep saying to myself, "the worst they can do is sack me", to make it seem less bad in my own head. Because logically thinking, losing a job is not the end of the world.

    It's the wait that's the killer though, I just want it over and done with.
    I hate this feeling. I get it the day before an interview too.

    I'm sure boardsies know what I'm talking about.
    Is there any good ways to lessen it at the very least?

    What other situations do people get it?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    When you get your genitals caught in something, that's the sort of thing that pains me. They get stuck in all sorts of places.

    Ladies, be glad your not a man!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    Start planning all the holidays, trips, fishing etc that you can look forward to if you do get the sack.
    You'll be looking forward to it then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭RoundBox11


    A problem shared is a problem halved! ;)

    If it wasnt too bad you could always admit it to the boss beforehand and hope the o'l honesty policy will save you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    You might just need to have a poo, ya never know OP.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    If we guess what you did, will you tell us?


    This kinda helps me when I feel like that:



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    If we guess what you did, will you tell us?
    It's a real easy one so I better now. It will be one of the first things you think of.

    A run, would that help?

    Few naggins, be grand. :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    Get loaded....it works for me!:D:D:D





    Have a beer and a shower and just try to cool down. Getting fired is the worst that can happen, but once you think the worst, it rarely ends up happening;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,439 ✭✭✭SunnyDub1


    Red Hand wrote: »
    When you get your genitals caught in something, that's the sort of thing that pains me. They get stuck in all sorts of places.

    Ladies, be glad your not a man!

    That's NOTHING !!! We have to spend many hours in labour pushing a baby out of us :rolleyes:


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I told you that printable degree from Harvard Medical school was a bad idea... We have been over this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    They probably don't want to fire you, it all depends how you handle the situation (to an extent, if you took a pop on the boss' desk he'll prob fire you) if you just admit that what you did was stupid, misjudged etc. And offer to take a pay penalty for it that should do it. If this doesn't work just blast them with piss and walk out with your head held high


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    It's a real easy one so I better now. It will be one of the first things you think of.

    Sickie?
    Stole from the job?
    Photocopied your arse?

    That's all I got...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    SunnyDub1 wrote: »
    That's NOTHING !!! We have to spend many hours in labour pushing a baby out of us :rolleyes:

    And then another eighteen years before you can legally kick the fcuker out! :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    Red Hand wrote: »
    When you get your genitals caught in something, that's the sort of thing that pains me. They get stuck in all sorts of places.

    Ladies, be glad your not a man!

    How often do you 'accidentally' get them stuck in all sorts of things?

    Hmm ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    ...I can't/don't want to give details...
    I demand that you tell us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    They probably don't want to fire you, it all depends how you handle the situation (to an extent, if you took a pop on the boss' desk he'll prob fire you) if you just admit that what you did was stupid, misjudged etc. And offer to take a pay penalty for it that should do it. If this doesn't work just blast them with piss and walk out with your head held high
    lol, that made laugh at least.
    The imagery of me throwing to head up in the air and saying, "You can't fire me! I quit!!"

    I won't sleep at all now:mad:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 497 ✭✭akura


    It's a real easy one so I better now. It will be one of the first things you think of......

    Did you photocopy your ass?



    I hope you dont get fired :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Don't wait for the meeting OP, don't wait for them to call you

    You go to the boss and go through it. Would be an idea for you to type up a timeline and bring it into work.

    You will get credit for owning up



    Well unless your slept with your bosses wife and in that case you'll be thrown out the window


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    SunnyDub1 wrote: »
    That's NOTHING !!! We have to spend many hours in labour pushing a baby out of us :rolleyes:

    Hours??? Well didn't you have it handy!!! Try DAYS!! :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,968 ✭✭✭blindside88


    SunnyDub1 wrote: »
    Red Hand wrote: »
    When you get your genitals caught in something, that's the sort of thing that pains me. They get stuck in all sorts of places.

    Ladies, be glad your not a man!

    That's NOTHING !!! We have to spend many hours in labour pushing a baby out of us :rolleyes:


    A couple of years after originally getting genitals caught in your zipper no one has ever said "you know what, that wasn't actually that bad, I think I'll do it again". Therefore it's obviously worse than childbirth :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Teddy we can't give you advice unless you tell us the exact issue. Cause maybe it seems bigger in your head and we can reassure you. Or maybe it is a huge deal and we can console you. So tell us please.

    Plus I'm super nosy.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Go to bed, don't think about it, rest.

    Get up in the morning, eat your breakfast all as normal, then head into work, head held high.

    Get to quitting time tomorrow, and nothing is said/no action taken, let out a sigh of relief and put it behind you, don't do whatever it was you did again, learn from your mistake.

    If however you're called in and given the road, do not take any crap lying down, go down in a blaze of glory Teddy!
    Make your name one that will be remembered for a very long time in the company, make your name be the name they fondly mention at the Christmas parties for years and years as they re-tell how you took a dump on your bosses office floor, or pissed in her handbag!

    The alternative is, that your name will only ever be remembered (if it is at all) add the guy who got sacked, and left the building with his tail between his legs.


    Take one for the team Teddy, I've faith in you kid.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Giselle wrote: »
    How often do you 'accidentally' get them stuck in all sorts of things?

    Hmm ;)

    Trousers, underwear, zips...I can expand if you wish.

    Poor choice of words there...or astoundedly apt, whichever way you look at it.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    I didn't steal anything anyway. I wouldn't do that!

    I wish I could skip tomorrow and go to Wednesday.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    Did you kill a man?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Did you kill a man?
    HAHAAHAHAHAHA:D:D:D:pac::pac::pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,288 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    It's a real easy one so I better now. It will be one of the first things you think of.

    Ah I know, you crossed the beams at the LHC and created a black hole?

    Or just bring the stapler back in Teddy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    Red Hand wrote: »
    Trousers, underwear, zips...I can expand if you wish.

    Poor choice of words there...or astoundedly apt, whichever way you look at it.:pac:

    I hope you never expand while stuck in a zip.


    Apt.:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Teddy,

    Tell us what you did and I will start a thread to nominate you in Legends of the Boards.

    It'd better not be bullshit, though.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Teddy if you didnt steal or kill a fellow employee, I think you're over reacting.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Squ


    Unless you grabed a birds boob, called someone a nagger, or stole something, probably the worst will be a verbal warning..

    But if you did something to warrant getting sacked outright, you shouldn't bother your bollix darkening their door tomorrow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,299 ✭✭✭hairyprincess


    I remember fucking up once, and it was while my bosses dad was dying; so really not the best time. I got a slap on the wrist and I didn't fuck up again.

    It'll work out Ted. And just remember; there's always somebody worse off than you ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    Giselle wrote: »
    I hope you never expand while stuck in a zip.


    Apt.:D

    *Sniff*

    That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said me.:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    He got two silly yellow cards and got sent off against Italy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    He got two silly yellow cards and got sent off against Italy.

    No, that was Keith Andews. A different guy, easy mistake though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    OP trusted a fart...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Teddy,

    Tell us what you did and I will start a thread to nominate you in Legends of the Boards.

    It'd better not be bullshit, though.
    I promise it's not bull****.
    I cannot say though. I might work with some of you lot...*suspicious*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭validusername1


    can you at least tell us what you did after the meeting with your boss? :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    No, that was Keith Andews. A different guy, easy mistake though

    Teddy Tedson's probably not TeddyTedson's real name you know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    Teddy Tedson's probably not TeddyTedson's real name you know.

    You don't say?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭Samich


    He didn't pay his tax the kint!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    We are just going to assume the worst

    So what you did was probably mild compared to what we can imagine

    Come on, get it off your chest :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    You don't say?

    I'd say you're great at parties.

    *moves on*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Teddy Tedson's probably not TeddyTedson's real name you know.
    I am nobody famous.
    Yet:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    can you at least tell us what you did after the meeting with your boss? :cool:

    Of course he will. Its Teddy...he tells us everything :D:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    You don't say?
    I'd say you're great at parties.

    *moves on*
    Can't we all just get along:)


    RIP


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭The Radiator


    I'd say you're great at parties.

    *moves on*

    *moves on in same direction*

    Yes, I am


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    I am nobody famous.
    Yet:D

    So you are Keith Andrews then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,006 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Can you PM me what you did? Obv I won't post it here 'cause I'll be banned if I do.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 892 ✭✭✭Motorist


    Teddy your lack of courage in coming clean on this thread and owning up to your mistake demonstrates to me why exactly you got yourself into this situation in the first place. A coward is much more exposed to quarells than a man of spirit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    *moves on in same direction*

    Yes, I am
    *Steps in. Plants a big fat wet one on the lips like your Aunty Raquel gave you as a kid*


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