Have you ever been fired?

Bone Cancer · 13-01-2017 12:21AM #1

In my late teens, I did the overnight shift at a 24hr garage. It was fairly dead most nights so used to hook up the PS2 to the tv behind the till for cctv. Boss caught me one evening and fecked ye out the door.
Anyone else?

fryup · 13-01-2017 12:23AM

^^^^^^^^^^^

mean boss, no sense of fun

learn_more · 13-01-2017 12:26AM

I got the overnight shift once and was kicked out at 5 am in the morning, and it was snowing. You always remember the one's that didn't go well.

13-01-2017 12:31AM

Bone Cancer wrote: »

In my late teens, I did the overnight shift at a 24hr garage. It was fairly dead most nights so used to hook up the PS2 to the tv behind the till for cctv. Boss caught me one evening and fecked ye out the door.
Anyone else?

I hate people (bosses) like that. What was the harm.

Why would you be expected to stare at an empty shop for hours on end. :rolleyes:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 13-01-2017 12:36AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I hate people (bosses) like that. What was the harm.

Why would you be expected to stare at an empty shop for hours on end. :rolleyes:

"If you're leaning you should be cleaning."

Always work to be done in a garage.

Permabear · 13-01-2017 12:38AM

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OxfordColours · 13-01-2017 12:49AM

Worked as a cleaner for an airline. I used to get pissed off with lads throwing left-behind passports in the bin, or taking cash from a wallet (and then binned). Or people smoking in the planes even though they were airside. Reported it twice, day after the second time I was told that maybe I'd find something more suitable elsewhere.

Peregrine · 13-01-2017 12:54AM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I hate people (bosses) like that. What was the harm.

Why would you be expected to stare at an empty shop for hours on end. :rolleyes:

He used the CCTV monitor to play PS2. Do you really not see how a boss might not be too happy about that?

Junkyard Tom · 13-01-2017 01:08AM

Got fired from a high class Bureau De Change in London back in the 90's. Everyone got fired though because Mr Hennerty was a bastard.

Red Kev · 13-01-2017 01:12AM

I was a human cannonball in a circus. Got fired from that more than once.

BBDBB · 13-01-2017 01:14AM

Red Kev wrote: »

I was a human cannonball in a circus. Got fired from that more than once.

Boom boom!

Jimbob1977 · 13-01-2017 01:16AM

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Got fired from a high class Bureau De Change in London back in the 90's. Everyone got fired though because Mr Hennerty was a bastard.

You were treating the place like some two-bit nipple peep show in Rio de Janiero

wistfuleyes · 13-01-2017 01:22AM

Yes I have. Worked in retail and made a huge error on an order. Got me fired.

endacl · 13-01-2017 01:25AM

Got fired from my first two part time jobs as a teenager.

Job 1. Lounge boy. Dress code was the same as the barmen. Black slacks, white shirt. Only difference was that they wore a black tie. Lounge staff had to wear a dickie bow. Endacl ain't wearin' no dickie bow no way for nobody! Got away with it for the first two or three shifts. Wasn't rostered in after that...

Job 2. Kitchen porter in a (at the time) fairly well-regarded restaurant. Threw a frying pan at a chef, and then got into a fight with him. No score draw. In fairness, he was a fully grown man, and I was a skinny 16 year old. Context: As anybody who's ever worked in kitchens will confirm, there's always one cnut. Right, the story.... A main function of a KP is to keep the pots pans and utensils washed and ready to go for the chefs. As a courtesy, if a hot pan, right off the gas, is being fired down for washing, the chef will shout 'hot'. Just to let the KP know. Common courtesy, right? You can can use a cloth to pick it up, etc. Avoid unnecessary burns an' all that... Our KC (kitchen cnut) would sometimes shout 'hot'. Sometimes not. Irrespective of whether the pan was hot or not. And stand there with a big cheesy grin to see the reaction. Sometime during my second week I picked up a scalding hot frying pan, burned the hand off myself, saw red, and flung it at him catching the side of his head.

I wasn't asked back. Not sure what happened the KC. T'was a long time ago. He's probably retired.

SmartinMartin · 13-01-2017 01:29AM

Ive been working since I was 10 years old. I'm 54 now. Ive never been fired. Ive always tried to do the best I can.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 13-01-2017 01:47AM

15/16 years ago a very young and silly me was working for a family run business. Millionaires but absolutely tight beyond belief with their money... I had a job where I would be out helping a truck driver from 6am until 10-12pm at night so i couldn't clock in like regular workers so I was paid a basic 8 hours min wage for my 16 hour days...Sometimes not even getting paid for Saturday's. The weeks were VERY long and the pay was basic.

I brought it up with the owner a few times and was assured I'd be back payed. I just wasn't getting paid because I couldnt physically clock in and out when the factory was closed but he was making a note of how much I was owed.

After many months and multiple visits to the owner I wanted to know where my money was and asked owner again ...And he denied I was owed anything and basically piss off. He told me the clock in machine says 8 hours so that's what I'm getting...

Owed thousands and being young and stupid I decided the only way I was getting my money was by being a bollocks back to the owner so I plonked myself in his seat and refused to leave. After a few hours of awkwardness I ended up getting a few hundred off the owner in petty cash and on the way out he lost two of his doors which suddenly and without explanation got smashed and fell from where they were hanging in his office.

P45 two weeks later.

13-01-2017 02:29AM

Peregrine wrote: »

He used the CCTV monitor to play PS2. Do you really not see how a boss might not be too happy about that?

Not really. If the CCTV is still recording, but he just can't view it, then so what?

Be a different story if he completely killed the CCTV system just to play Crash Bandicoot, but it doesnt sound like that is what he was at?

Adyx · 13-01-2017 04:47AM

Never been fired unless you count being made redundant. Never quit a job either. Literally every place I've ever worked has closed down.

B.A._Baracus · 13-01-2017 05:27AM

When I was 17 I got fired from a retail job. I was put working on the till and at the time I was an extremely shy teenager who had zero confidence. The fear and overthinking of interacting with random people and not messing up on the till caused me to mess up on the till! They had to fire me and even at the time I knew it was well deserved.

The only thing I will say tho is the main manager of the store was a right rude dick to staff members. But he got another manager to fire me as I asked "this is coming from XXXX, right?" and they said yes.

con___manx1 · 13-01-2017 07:26AM

I worked in a Delhi in a supermarket years ago. One night after cleaning the whole place I left one of the fridges open with all the meat inside.
I got a phone call not to come back as they had to throw everything out as a precaution. I hated the job anyway

tomwaterford · 13-01-2017 08:22AM

Never fired....though did storm outta a job after a massive bust up

Never came againest me luckily enough as they were well known to be dicks to work for (found this out after) and at an interview....the boss in my next job all he said was im suprised you lasted so long there

Jawgap · 13-01-2017 08:59AM

Made redundant once - it was in the US. All very clinical, like a mafia hit!!!

I arrived into the office one morning and security had a message for me to go see my boss who was in one of the ground floor meeting rooms. Walked in thinking it was some on-the-fly, last minute client meeting to be met with him and a couple of other suits.

Got the spiel about the organisation making changes, different direction, my skillset not optimal.....blah, blah blah, then handed a cheque (which was, to be fair, for a generous amount), a letter reminding me of the "no discussion" and "non-compete" clauses in my contract and box of my personal stuff cleared from my desk.

15 minutes after walking into the building and wondering whose turn it was for the coffee run I was back outside with a box, a letter, a cheque and no job!

Helpfully, the security guard told me which bar everyone else had gone to!

The other mad thing was the boss was also getting canned, he knew it but he still had to go through and fire everyone else first before getting turfed out himself!

Jawgap · 13-01-2017 09:01AM

con___manx1 wrote: »

I worked in a Delhi in a supermarket years ago. One night after cleaning the whole place I left one of the fridges open with all the meat inside.
I got a phone call not to come back as they had to throw everything out as a precaution. I hated the job anyway

Probably a good move - that would have been some commute for you

El_Duderino 09 · 13-01-2017 09:03AM

I worked for a cowboy in uni. The kind of fella who would be late with pay and hope you'd get desperate enough to accept less than your owed. Everyone was on minimum wage and He switched from weekly to monthly payment for exactly that reason.

He and the manager were on holiday so I stepped up and did a load of work that had been piling up, spent loads of time getting things right -getting people on the system, making them do their e training and did a stock take and itinerary of what was needed to do the job properly.

He came back with a story about how the business was in trouble and he was being taken over. He must have forgotten that he had been bragging about this deal to me for months in the lead up.

So he delayed our month's payment for 3 weeks, so everyone was waiting 7 weeks since last payday, always promising he would be in tomorrow, tomorrow. When he arrived, he called everyone into his office one by one and asked how much we thought we were owed, and how much would we settle for. Most people said somewhere from 60-80%.

One of the lads called me from the other shop to tell me what he was doing. So when it was my turn I greeted him with a big smile before he got to give his speech about how the business was failing and said I was delighted that he had come to pay me the agreed rate for all the hours worked. I told him the amount and he went mental! Called me every name under the sun, told me I wouldn't be invited back if I wasn't a team player, willing to chip in to save the business.

I just told him the amount that I would accept and he took out a wad of cash and put my pay on the table and told me that if I took it I'd be finished. I took it, counted it in front of him and said "thanks" and offered a handshake. He went spare and ranted a bit.

I left knowing I was finishing in uni in a little over a month so I had to concentrate on finishing uni work anyway.

The best bit was that on the way home I found 20 quid on the ground!

seamus · 13-01-2017 10:08AM

Funnily enough the only time I nearly got fired wasn't even my fault. Crazy supervisor woman when training me in, told me that I shouldn't do a specific task because it was a bit complicated. A few weeks later I get chewed up because it hadn't been done one day and it put the company at risk of thousands of quid worth of fines. Crazy supervisor asked for me to be let go, but the management told her to cop on. And then I still had to work with her for another year. She was some bitch.

In my younger years though I did plenty of things in part-time jobs that would have gotten me fired if anyone found out. Brought a pile of mates back to the office to continue drinking one night after all the pubs had closed. Which moved to the roof in the end before we left. Spent most of the employment breaking/guessing admin passwords so that I could get internet access and download stuff through the "huge" (in 2002) 2mb line that the company used for mission-critical services. I also snooped on my bosses' emails in that job because I could.

Somehow though I didn't get fired. Some of the stuff other staff were getting up to was worse

I'm a much more straight-laced employee nowadays, luckily never been fired.

Tec Diver · 13-01-2017 10:17AM

I got made redundant in September 2015, does that count?
After three plus years on the IT Security team I had trained in a few new hires located in the far east. Once they were trained up, and two weeks short of 10 years with the company I was let go, by phone call too.
The good news, is that I started my own company and ended up being offered a better full time job, which I'm still in today (so far). :-)

boardsuser1 · 13-01-2017 10:19AM

All bar 3 jobs I've ever had I was fired.

Started Working for the first time in 2001.

I've worked in 2001,2003 to 2008 & 2012 to 2016

In 2016 I was fired from 2 jobs,quit 2 jobs.

Longest job I've ever held down was 21 months and was only spared the sack on multiple occasions by the trade union.

Not proud of it but I've been described as "not being a people person"

Have a job offer on the table now as of yesterday, only thing alarming the potential new employer is "you don't tend to stay very long in jobs"

The flying mouse · 13-01-2017 10:24AM

Have been let go in my early years, but for the most part of my life I worked for myself, And as I did **** that up I kinda fired myself.

Me to Me , your fired get your lazy drunken ass outa here, Me, what did I do....

Butters1979 · 13-01-2017 10:29AM

SmartinMartin wrote: »

Ive been working since I was 10 years old. I'm 54 now. Ive never been fired. Ive always tried to do the best I can.

Working at what? Professional arse kisser?

endagibson · 13-01-2017 10:31AM

Back in '94 I quit a job, breaking two office windows on the way out by flinging stuff through them. If I'd come back, I would definitely have been fired.

Was made redundant 14 years ago, along with almost everyone else who worked at that location. Was treated well at the time, with a good payout.

Nine years ago I was in a job that I hated with a boss that I despised. Was looking to move, but I wasn't putting enough effort in and nothing was happening. So I decided to take the piss. Screwed up things for clients, slacked off big time.

Nothing happened. So I upped my game, falsifying records, submitting false sales leads (I didn't work in Sales, so I didn't make any money out of them), closing customer cases and sending emails with pictures around to people. I eventually got a verbal warning and I was working out what to do next when they found the false stuff and then there was an investigation. I admitted to the whole lot and they fired me. Took almost a month though.

So I got to go home to the missus with a story that was better than saying I quit and I wasn't disqualified from claiming the dole. It was the best that I could do.

Have done lots of other stuff when I was younger that should have resulted in some form of action, but apologised and got on with it. I've always been good at what I'm doing, as long as I'm able to tolerate it. There was never any malice, just stupidity. I've grown up a bit since then.

Hana98 · 13-01-2017 10:41AM

I was fired by a reputable place because I asked for the employee's tax number so I wouldn't be put on emergency tax. They wouldn't give it to me and I was fired for persisting with getting it. I know it wasn't cash in hand because another employee said he was on emergency tax for ages. I got a better job anyway. So I'm sort of glad.

Have you ever been fired?

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