One of the reasons sited for termination was:
"Rick falls behind in responding to customer e-mails because he spends too much time watching youtube videos"
I was very offended so I made myself clear.
I said: "Scott (my boss), I haven't gone to youtube even once since I started working here. Go ahead and check the log."
Didn't want to work for them anyway. Pricks...
"Rick falls behind in responding to customer e-mails because he spends too much time watching youtube videos"
I was very offended so I made myself clear.
I said: "Scott (my boss), I haven't gone to youtube even once since I started working here. Go ahead and check the log."
Didn't want to work for them anyway. Pricks...
This should make you feel less like a time wasting dumb ass....
I worked at a Xmas store back in 87 for a friend of my mother's from the hippie days...seasonal-retail...On break one day OI bought a copy of the collected "Life In Hell" Series from Matt Groening...while reading it at work, I realized that Bongo and his co-workers, represented perfectly in my own experience, just how much my life was like their hell.
I quickly and enthusiastically xeroxed a copy of my favorite workplace escapade, labeled each character with co-worker's names, esp the boss, and proudly pinned it up for all to see the next day.(You see I closed, and the boss opened, and I thought her recovering alcoholics Excedrine-addicted crazy bitch-ass would have a sense of humor!!...
She greeted me the next day with a smile, a coffee and caffeine jag from the asprinz addiction, and a piece of paper in her hand she smiled and described as my last check, my ass at the door...(she could have called, I was fucking late anyhow)
I wrote Matt.
I sent him a copy of his doctored cartoon strip and an explanation attempting to evoke some sympathy as well as tickle him because I had had enough of that place anyway ...he replied with a postcard with a "You know what they say, work is hell." and a signature on the back, and a cool autographed in marker production print glossy of him next to a marina holding a duck with a cartoon bubble for the duck quacking, "Halp, Halp! HALP!"
This was the year the Simpsons first appeared on the Tracey Ullman Show-Still got that gear, baby.....On f'sale on Ebay..... Item# 90824655..?
...We are all dumb asses brother, it happens to the rest of us. Been fired so many times(who would have guessed, huh??!!)
I'm happy about getting fired. I already didn't like the company I was working for but I don't want to work for ANYONE (especially a software company) that would have the audacity to call VIDEOSIFT youtube.
Screw those guys, they should know better.
Hope you land on your feet. When Jesus closes a door ...
Thanks for making a stand, how dare they equate us with youtube. It's like calling cream "milk". ;-)
Hope you land on your feet. When Jesus closes a door ...
... Satan fires up a chainsaw?
But, YEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHH how dare they compare VS to YT??!???!? DEY TOOK UR JEBS!
a) I wouldn't drink margaritas with them on Fridays at work then go pick my kids up from daycare.
b) I fixed a problem, which wasn't in my job description. Threatened the ego of a guy above me...
So I get into work the next day and the secretary tells me they're all sitting in the "conference room" waiting for me. Did I do such-n-such rephrased to sound bad even though I fixed a problem? Yes. Was that my job? No. Please leave, we'll send you your last check.
I celebrated with Margaritas.
Hmm...
Got fired because... they couldn't tell me why. When I asked why I was being fired, they told me "the fact that you don't know is why."
Hmm...
Self-generating excuses are the best.
-What are we going to do about <blank>?
-Don't you worry about <blank>. Let me worry about <blank>.
That would have been awesome.
I have had companies beg/ask me politely to stay after I quit though. (can't understand why)
Got fired because... they couldn't tell me why. When I asked why I was being fired, they told me "the fact that you don't know is why."
Is that legal over there? Were you on a trial period or something? At least over here, once you're past the two-month (or thereabouts) trial period where either party can terminate the employment contract without advance notice or a reason, they have to give a valid reason for firing you. Or did you just not feel like pressing the matter?
Nope, never been fired, Sorry, I got no stories on that one.
I have had companies beg/ask me politely to stay after I quit though. (can't understand why)
^the fact that you don't know why, IS why sagemind.
Jose opens a window.
-Viggo the Carpathian
>> ^KnivesOut:
Got fired because... they couldn't tell me why. When I asked why I was being fired, they told me "the fact that you don't know is why."
Is that legal over there? Were you on a trial period or something? At least over here, once you're past the two-month (or thereabouts) trial period where either party can terminate the employment contract without advance notice or a reason, they have to give a valid reason for firing you. Or did you just not feel like pressing the matter?
I think it depends on the state. In my state they don't have to give a reason, they can fire you at anytime for any reason, unless that reason is racial or gender based, in which case they make something up.
The fact that you didn't care says you were ready to move on anyway, so they helped you out. I suggest buying a lottery ticket (and winning) - that would be the best way to throw it back in their face.
>> ^KnivesOut:
Got fired because... they couldn't tell me why. When I asked why I was being fired, they told me "the fact that you don't know is why."
Is that legal over there? Were you on a trial period or something? At least over here, once you're past the two-month (or thereabouts) trial period where either party can terminate the employment contract without advance notice or a reason, they have to give a valid reason for firing you. Or did you just not feel like pressing the matter?
North Carolina is an "At Will" to work state, meaning they can terminate you without cause.
I did get a nice severance, and technically I "resigned" so my resume doesn't look bad, but in return had to sign a 1 year no-compete so I wouldn't run off and start coding for their competitor. Fuck 'em, who needs 14-hour days anyway?
I got fired for calling a customer a stupid cunt.
god I love that fucking word! If you wanna go out in a way that nobody will EVER fucking forget what you said. You call them a fucking "cunt".
Waiter: here's your white wine, maam.
Woman: Oh, actually I ordered red wine.
Waiter: No, you ordered white wine.
Woman: No, I ordered a red wine.
Waiter: You ordered a fucking white wine, now fucking drink it!
He then slammed it down on the table, calmly walked out the back of the restaurant, clocked off, and never came back.
Admittedly, he was the worst waiter I've known, but a most memorable exit!
Me: "Yeah, I'm not coming in..."
Asst. manager: "Hold on." (covers the phone, someone yelling in the background)
Asst. manager: "Did you hear that?"
Me: "Hear what?"
AM: "Joel said if you're not coming in, then don't come in again."
Me: "Does that mean I'm fired?"
AM: "Well, if you don't come in..."
Me: "Okay!" (hung up on her)
We then got baked and went and got Pizza Hut.