Have you ever been fired ??

KeithM89_old · 24-10-2010 06:22PM #1

I was in a shop earlier today and heard an argument over on the other aisle.
Me being my usual nosey nosey self wandered over to what was happening.

The store manager was arguing with an employee. Next thing the manager told him to pack his stuff and leave. The employee flicked the bird to the manager, told him to go screw himself and said "your wifes' a dirty ****in slut". Brilliant

Have you ever been fired or quit in a funny way????

Keptic · 24-10-2010 06:24PM

Nope.

Gillington · 24-10-2010 06:26PM

Yup

alwaysadub · 24-10-2010 06:26PM

Nope, never.
I could've been over something they thought i did, but they had no proof so they were screwed.

Biggins · 24-10-2010 06:31PM

Yes - one time for giving away a free box of matches I kid you not.

Miss Fluff · 24-10-2010 06:33PM

Biggins wrote: »

Yes - one time for giving away a free box of matches I kid you not.

To an arsonist or a randomer?

Berty · 24-10-2010 06:35PM

Once for being a piss head when I was younger and more recently(covered up as redundancy) but still fired as far as I could tell. :mad:

MickShamrock · 24-10-2010 06:42PM

Never.

RolandIRL · 24-10-2010 06:44PM

That would require me to get a job first

starbelgrade · 24-10-2010 06:47PM

Once. From a canon.

I left the circus the day after.

Biggins · 24-10-2010 06:58PM

Miss Fluff wrote: »

To an arsonist or a randomer?

To a very regular customer.
She returned seconds later after doing her shopping, to say she forgot about matches. I passed her a box that at the time was around five pence and said "you can give it to me again" and thought no more about it.
Long story short, the owner of the newsagents sacked me for giving it away.

stovelid · 24-10-2010 07:18PM

From college jobs only: McDonalds and KFC. Well I kinda walked out of the former before I could get fired. Both times for a combination of labour aversion and cheek to managers.

Oranage2 · 24-10-2010 07:22PM

stovelid wrote: »

From college jobs only: McDonalds and KFC. Well I kinda walked out of the former before I could get fired. Both times for a combination of labour aversion and cheek to managers.

How can you get fired from these jobs? are you employed now?

IvySlayer · 24-10-2010 07:22PM

What is it with you and shops?

If it's not chasing after robbers, you're witnessing people getting the sack.

Sticky_Fingers · 24-10-2010 07:28PM

Biggins wrote: »

To a very regular customer.
She returned seconds later after doing her shopping, to say she forgot about matches. I passed her a box that at the time was around five pence and said "you can give it to me again" and thought no more about it.
Long story short, the owner of the newsagents sacked me for giving it away.

Doesn't this fly in the face of the thread you started about how people who rob from work should be sacked? I know that you didn't gain personally anything but your boss is still down a box of matches, just sayin'...

stovelid · 24-10-2010 07:28PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

How can you get fired from these jobs?

You prove undesirable as a worker and a termination of employment scenario kind of proceeds from there.

Oranage2 wrote: »

are you employed now?

Yes.

Mr. Manager · 24-10-2010 07:41PM

Yes. Several times in fact.

My first "job" was working for my aunty delivering eggs to some elderly folk.
- She fired me for smashing too many eggs.

My second "job" was delivering the northside people.
- Fired for dumping the papers in a bin.

My first "real" job working in Spar on the northside.
- Fired for stealing cigarettes.

My second "real" job was working in a family run shopping centre on the northside as a trolley boy.
- Fired for not collecting the trolleys properly. (Apparently pushing them forward and jumping on is unacceptable)

Skip forward a few years to working in SuperValu as a shelf stacker.
- Fired for "forgetting" I was in that day.

Movies at Swords
- Fired for See above ^^

And last but by no means least, my all time favourite... A little shop in Howth.

I worked there with 2 mates and we were always in charge of getting orders in and basically all the roles of a manager but without the somewhat decent money.

So the story goes, we were working away when a friend popped in telling us of a drinks promo in the Bloody Stream that night. We figured, we'll wrap up here and be in the pub for 22:15 ready for a night on the razz.
All was going well, shop was quiet leading to the closure which meant we could top the newspapers and mop the floor without hassle. 22:00 rolls on and we've got the shutter down and the alarm set. We head on to the Bloody Stream for to meet our friends and have a few pints. A few pints turns into many,many pints. The drinks promo was offering a shot of your choice with each pint until midnight. We made the absolute most of this!

Anywho, the pub closes up and we get kicked out ....but we want to keep drinking. At this point all offo's are closed. My friend who had the keys to the shop said, we can nip in an grab a bottle of wine or 2, leave a note for "Mr. X" in the morning and we'll be all good. Plan is set and we're ready to go in. One friend waits outside while me and the other pop in to grab some supplies. 2 bottles of Wine turns into about 3/4 a couple boxes of cigarettes and a tonne of food. A list was compiled and left at the til documenting our takings. We shout outside to our friend on the other side of the shutter "is it clear?!" to which he replies "yea lads, c'mon".

We whip up the shutter to find my friend standing beside two Garda. Busted.

They called our boss on the spot and the Garda politely informed us we were fired once he hung up.

Had to pop to the shop the next day (horribly hungover) to pay our tab.

TL;DR - Don't go into your place of work drunk!

Oranage2 · 24-10-2010 07:42PM

stovelid wrote: »

You prove undesirable as a worker and a termination of employment scenario kind of proceeds from there.

Yes.

I've worked in a similar job in college and never seen anyone actually getting fired no mather how bad they where. Thats a lie i seen one employee fired for stealing 100s of euro of meat

stovelid · 24-10-2010 07:45PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

I've worked in a similar job in college and never seen anyone actually getting fired no mather how bad they where. Thats a lie i seen one employee fired for stealing 100s of euro of meat

Both times involved "colourful colloquial exchanges" of varying degree with my superior - similar to the OP.

I eventually found a more suitable part-time job where I could work shifts alone with no Petit-Hitlers around.

trixie_belle12 · 24-10-2010 07:47PM

Yep, unfairly dismissed though never went to court, fairly put paid to my established career path....

Darksaga87 · 24-10-2010 07:50PM

I worked in tesco when i 17. got fired as follows, anyone who has worked in a shopping market knows what "facing off" is. Its a pain in the hole, pointless and i hated it.

Manager: Face off that isle.

I face off some shít and condsider a job well done

Manager: That looks crap, do it again.

Me: I am in my bollix doing it again, you do it.

Manager: I think you dont care about this job, am i correct?

Me: You think I dont care about working in a tesco for feck all money? doing crap like facing off and packing tampons on shelves? you are right, i hate it...

Manager: do you want to leave.

I then grabbed me coat and left smiling.

I fúcking hate tesco. My heart goes out to those of you that work there (and hate it).

Rebel021 · 24-10-2010 07:54PM

Yes
Gave my manager a slap
He deserved it the stuttery ****

Biggins · 24-10-2010 07:54PM

Sticky_Fingers wrote: »

Doesn't this fly in the face of the thread you started about how people who rob from work should be sacked? I know that you didn't gain personally anything but your boss is still down a box of matches, just sayin'...

How does it fly in the face of me starting a thread?

I didn't say in that thread, it was right or wrong for all in all occasions - but how does it fly in the face of me actually starting a thread?

Mr. Manager · 24-10-2010 07:57PM

Darksaga87 wrote: »

anyone who has worked in a shopping market knows what "facing off" is. Its a pain in the hole, pointless and i hated it.

I face off food in my house, no joke. I hate it when I open a press and can't see the label of the product!

aDeener · 24-10-2010 08:12PM

Biggins wrote: »

Yes - one time for giving away a free box of matches I kid you not.

any chance you would be able to give us a list of things that hasn't happened to you?

Minstrel27 · 24-10-2010 08:13PM

I was fired and they came crawling back 3 days later. I told them I would be back at the end of the week. This happened twice. Manager was an absolute ****.

Darksaga87 · 24-10-2010 08:20PM

Cereal Rapist wrote: »

I face off food in my house, no joke. I hate it when I open a press and can't see the label of the product!

You have issues my friend.

Dudess · 24-10-2010 08:25PM

Yup - from a music retailer when I was 20. Manager was an absolute and utter sociopathic nut-job. That sounds like I'm abdicating responsibility, but I'm not - he really needed help.

In contrast, I refused to do a stock-take when working in Tesco because I couldn't be arsed (in fairness, it was with a pen and paper ffs) which deserved a sacking, or at least a disciplinary, but instead, they made me clean the meat fridges. Grand by me.

starbelgrade · 24-10-2010 08:33PM

I've only been fired once (apart from the canon one, of course).

Was working one summer in a plastics factory & slipped on some oil that had leaked from one of the machines... I went arse over tit & landed really badly, so I had a really badly bruised back & could barely move the next day, so I rang in & told them that I wouldn't be in that day.

My back was still buggered for two weeks & I stayed out sick. At the end of the 2nd week, I was told not to bother coming back.

On of the union reps was a neighbour of mine & told me that he'd contact a solicitor on my behalf for unfair dismissal & non-payment of wages - after all, the accident was their fault and they should have, at the very least, arranged for me to go to hospital or see a doctor to make sure I hadn't been badly injured.

I just said OK, then I forgot about the whole issue & went back to college.

A few months later, I got a call from the solicitor to say that the company had decided that it was better to settle the issue with a payment to me & would £10,000 cover it?

Easiest £10k I ever made.

Notorious · 24-10-2010 08:52PM

stovelid wrote: »

I eventually found a more suitable part-time job where I could work shifts alone with no Petit-Hitlers around.

Such a part-time job exists?

CorkMan · 24-10-2010 09:32PM

starbelgrade wrote: »

Once. From a canon.

I left the circus the day after.

You stole my joke.

Have you ever been fired ??

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