Have you ever been fired?

messy tessy · 13-01-2017 10:42AM

In my first job as a waitress (17/18) I got fired on my third day for not being "yuppy" enough. Whatever that means. Pretty appalling looking back as they really didn't give me a fair shot. At the time I was completely crushed though

A few weeks later I got another job in a different hotel which I really liked (free food, young staff, nice bosses) so it probably worked out for the best.

corner of hells · 13-01-2017 11:00AM

I was never fired , got let go a few times over the years always from just a general downturn in work.

Except for one time , I was let go for being " too old " at 25.

That would be fine if I was a pole dancer or stripper , but no I was an alarm engineer.

I lauged in the "gob****es" face that I worked for , walked out the door ,rang a friend on an office phone about a position , started working the following week and stayed working with that employer for 14 years.
I also left the company van outside my house and posted the keys back to him a week later.

brummytom · 13-01-2017 11:03AM

Think I've been sacked from every job I've had.

My proudest achievement is getting sacked from the same job 4 times in 3 years.

fleet_admiral · 13-01-2017 11:38AM

Me no but I know a guy who has been sacked from the same pub 3 times for coming in drunk. They keep taking him back when he promises to go on the dry but it only takes him a few weeks to mess up again

Utah · 13-01-2017 12:06PM

I got fired from a popular Grafton st clothes shop after 4 days.

I hate being asked if I'm ok with sizes in a shop so I tended not to do that to people which didn't go down well. I was also seeing a new girl at the time so was always out the back texting. He called me in and told me that "I wasn't gel-ling well" with the team so I wasn't going to be kept on. I got on great with everyone apart from him!!

Drakares · 13-01-2017 01:11PM

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.

Christy Moore?

Potential-Monke · 13-01-2017 02:03PM

Got fired from 1 job, Burgerking. I was in college circa 2002 towards the end of the academic year, and it was a 10 minute walk to BK. Used to go there all the time, savage burgers for a fast food joint. Anyway, i got a job, had a few weeks under my belt. Everything was going fine, free food, minimum wages which was better than nothing. Anyway, my best friend from school had to repeat the leaving due to failing maths (in fairness, the teacher was so **** that i used to complete the questions for him). So my friend passed the second time round, and i went to the pub for a few with him. Queue 6 hours later, falling out of the pub rat-arsed at 12.30am. Got a lift home but decided to raid the parents drink cabinet and took a full bottle of Jameson. Decided to drink it while walking up the road to meet my then-missus. Met her half way up the road, walked back to mine with the friend and herself, finished the bottle of Jameson and fell asleep with my head in the fireplace (no fire).

Queue being woke up at 07.30 by the mother to bring me into work. I was only asleep a few hours at that stage, so i was still langers. She made me drink coffee (which i detest), made me shower as the soot for the fireplace was all up the right side of my face. I remember just looking into the water for about 15 minutes. Got out and i was still covered in soot. Managed to convince the mother to not let me go to work. Was fired the following day. I was honest, told the manager why i didn't come in as i was unexpectedly drunk. Everything was civil. She asked if i wanted to work the rest of the day, i declined, took about €60 worth of food out to my brother and his family who came in to collect me. Last freebie from Burgerking!

loyatemu · 13-01-2017 02:27PM

messy tessy wrote: »

In my first job as a waitress (17/18) I got fired on my third day for not being "yuppy" enough. Whatever that means.

not enough pieces of flair I'd guess.

jimgoose · 13-01-2017 02:35PM

I was made redundant in 1999 and spent a few weeks on the scratcher. I was just as happy, to be perfectly straight with you. :pac:

messy tessy · 13-01-2017 02:39PM

loyatemu wrote: »

not enough pieces of flair I'd guess.

I had to google what this meant...

I once had a waiter ask me "how are the first few bites" literally after I took my first bite. Like why?! So if that is yuppiness I want no part of it!

The One Doctor · 13-01-2017 03:35PM

Yup I've been fired at least 4 times. Even managed to get fired by the government. Turned out I had bad depression for years and never noticed. Now I swallow a pill a day and I'm fine and earning the most money I've ever had.

chrissb8 · 13-01-2017 04:45PM

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

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

Always work to be done in a garage.

It's a finite space with only a number of jobs. I can't imagine with no customers coming in there would be little more to do.

uch · 13-01-2017 04:54PM

Got the bullet a couple of times, most memorable was when I was working on a large building site for a Well known house Builder, there were 2 foremen, one was a gentleman, the other was an obnoxious príck, anyway after months of fighting with him over the most ridiculous of things, I was working one monday morning, sick as a dog from the gargle and he started at me again, so I lumped him one, he got up and the 2 of us had a bit of a go-to, as you do, the other foreman had to stop us from battering each other, I was then told my aptitude for the job was all wrong and not to come back, got offered a job the next day and had no regrets about anything. Did enjoy thumping him though

davo2001 · 13-01-2017 04:57PM

uch wrote: »

Got the bullet a couple of times, most memorable was when I was working on a large building site for a Well known house Builder, there were 2 foremen, one was a gentleman, the other was an obnoxious príck, anyway after months of fighting with him over the most ridiculous of things, I was working one monday morning, sick as a dog from the gargle and he started at me again, so I lumped him one, he got up and the 2 of us had a bit of a go-to, as you do, the other foreman had to stop us from battering each other, I was then told my aptitude for the job was all wrong and not to come back, got offered a job the next day and had no regrets about anything. Did enjoy thumping him though

Sounds like you 100% deserved it so.

con___manx1 · 14-01-2017 10:03PM

Jawgap wrote: »

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

Haha I can't spell I'll admit it

soups05 · 14-01-2017 10:39PM

many years ago, when i was just 18, I worked in a local fast food place. styled after mcdonalds but nowhere near as big. Started on 3 shifts per week but was a hard worker so went up to 5 pretty quick.
They had a system where you would get one weekend off per month, notified in advance so you could plan a night out etc. This meant no shift friday,saturday or sunday.
For 5 months I did not get my weekend off, each time a particular person would phone in with a stupid excuse to avoid her weekend shift. Finally at the start of march the boss swore to me I would be off the next weekend no matter what. I made my plans, then got a call at 7pm on a saturday to ask could I come in, she had phoned in sick again.
So boss told me I would deffo have the next weekend off, despite it being st patricks weekend. Rota goes up on thursday evening and am working saturday night. What was worse was the other girl was on the shift but tippexed it out and put me in instead. I went to boss and she said I had to work it.
I pointed out the lack of weekend off, the fact that other girl never worked a single weekend shift in 6 months and the fact she had something like 3 aunties,3 grandfathers,2 grandmothers and a cat die in those 6 months.
Was given the choice, show up or be sacked....I went to the pub lol.

The thing is that I was very,very popular with the supervisors, so I got a staff discount everytime I went in there for the next ten years. I see that old boss sometimes working in a local hardware store as a checkout girl. She changed jobs and thought she would climb the ladder in the new place. Shame my aunt works there as her boss....karma's a bitch.

as for the girl who kept ringing in to avoid work, they ended up sacking her a few weeks later.

Truckermal · 14-01-2017 10:48PM

I worked in a phone shop in a dead part of town where you would be lucky to see a customer once a week. The owner arrived unannounced one day and caught me playing solitaire plus I ignored his existence!

P45......:P

He actually died the week after come to think of it!

geeky · 14-01-2017 11:57PM

There are quite a few "needless to say, I had the last laugh" stories in this thread...

Hank Scorpio · 15-01-2017 12:00AM

Yes once, was working in a Restaurant during my school days. I would work Sat/Sun then during the summer usually 4 or 5 days a week. Was there about probably 4 years without any problems, decent working environment, people got along.

A new restaurant opened up the road and it pretty much killed the business, day in and day out there was nothing to do, constantly just cleaning without any busy periods. I made it known I wasn't happy with what I was doing and told the owners straight up there was no work to be done. It was kind of a build up of denial on all our parts.

They told me not to come back and I didn't. My pop went in the next day and had some words, there was often days when it used to be busy I wouldn't get any breaks at all, and the pay was really bad. I was being paid cash in hand.

Couple of months later they closed.

hairyslug · 15-01-2017 12:26AM

Never fired, made redundant twice from the same company that I am back with now, and been let go from a casual job shortly before it went into receivership.
Ive been lucky cause I've caused 1 company I've worked for a hell of a lot down to stupid mistakes but they never really got to bothered by it.

Hector Bellend · 15-01-2017 12:44AM

I've been fired once. It was when I was about 16. I worked in fairyhouse. The boss was a nut job. I was fired for getting my hair cut.

My father worked part time there too and the two of us went in at the end of the day and had a huge argument with him, I was reinstated there and then.

I still work there today.

Surreptitious · 15-01-2017 01:11AM

Hector Bellend wrote: »

I've been fired once. It was when I was about 16. I worked in fairyhouse. The boss was a nut job. I was fired for getting my hair cut.

My father worked part time there too and the two of us went in at the end of the day and had a huge argument with him, I was reinstated there and then.

I still work there today.

How were you fired so? You're still working there. Senseless story makes no sense.

Akrasia · 15-01-2017 10:10PM

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?

yeah, low resolution black and white tv with no sound just wouldn't do wipeout 2097 justice

JupiterKid · 16-01-2017 01:36AM

No, never been fired but walked out of/quit two jobs over a bad working environment. One of them was a very good career job.

wandatowell · 16-01-2017 01:43AM

I got sacked from a job in Supervalu. Needless to say they had the last laugh as I do my weekly shopping there.

Mackman · 16-01-2017 08:12AM

Never sacked, I was made redundant back in 2007 though. I worked for an Architect. They had 25 in the office at the height of the boom, last time I checked they had 2 working there.

I kind of expected it at the time, about 10 were let go before I was. So I took the money and went of to Australia, I'm still here.

DoozerT6 · 16-01-2017 10:01AM

I've never been fired, but I did get precisely ten minutes notice once.

metaoblivia · 16-01-2017 10:17AM

Yes and in retrospect, I should have quit. I wanted to quit every day that I worked there. But I was young and making excuses for feeling trapped. Getting fired was both terrifying and an absolute relief.

I was made redundant a few years back at another job, but with some experience under my belt by then, I saw that one coming. I lined my ducks up well and got a job offer for 3x more salary that same day. Again, I should have quit because I knew the offer was coming, but some times I'm just a bit too cautious for my own good.

Walter H Price · 16-01-2017 10:44AM

Sort of , but not really. I worked irregularly for my uncle, while i was in college (he's owns a chain of fast food franchisees , about 7 in total) I mostly did stock taking and ordering , staff payment , roistering more the kinda admin stuff. The money was great and was very flexible i could do allot of it from home even.

Summer of 2nd year i decided to go to states on a J1 but my uncle had just taken on another two restaurants and asked me to go full time on a very generous salary. My aunt and Uncle had no kids but i new even if i went to work for him full time managing the admin side the chains rules prevented him leaving the stores to me , it wasn't necessarily the career i wanted and i'd have had to pass up the J1, so ultimately i declined and went went to the states. He said he was reluctant for me to stop working for the business so would try and come to an arrangement when i got back from Texas.

Over the summer while i was gone my Aunt retired early from her teaching position and went to do the admin stuff for him full time so when i came home there was no more work for me , nothing was ever said about it and i totally understood.

Riddle101 · 16-01-2017 10:47AM

geeky wrote: »

There are quite a few "needless to say, I had the last laugh" stories in this thread...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxZ5AKDvyfU

Have you ever been fired?

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