I want to hear your (preferably real) reasons you got fired.
Took 6 days vacation instead of 5 I had “accrued”. I didn’t get paid for vacation in any case. I was working in construction. Company folded a year later; I can’t think why.
The other reason was “insubordination”. Can’t get into that with out sharing too much, but Texans are a special type of ignorant.
Not following new RTO for a cloud based software company with no onprem infrastructure to manage, as the IT support after covid was deemed over.
Not the same, but as a consultant, used to fire clients all the time. Very satisfying.
Hell yeah living my dream. What would you fire them for? Any patterns?
Most often because management wouldn’t hold up their end of the deal. They wanted to stick to a hard timeline, but wouldn’t approve a milestone or sit on a decision for days and weeks. That would cascade down and stress everyone out later. Deadlines work both ways.
Another one was not making people who had special knowledge available. Or those people would drag their feet because they were busy elsewhere.
Best solution was to have someone in upper management as a ‘sponsor.’ If things didn’t happen on time you told them about the schedule impact without throwing anyone under the bus. Funny how things would start happening.
I’ve never been fired. I honestly don’t know how people do it. Boss says “do X”, you do X with a smile, whether you like it or not. If you don’t like it, you start applying to other jobs while keeping your paycheck. Then leave, shake your boss’s hand and say it was great working with them (even if they were a POS), and forget about the whole mess with your new, higher paycheck.
I feel like these are kindergarden level skills. Follow instructions. Hide your emotions. Don’t let authority figures know you hate them as long as they have power over you. It’s not that complicated.
This reads like you’ve only ever had to deal with mid-tier bosses, so your reference for a “bad” boss is pretty skewed.
I know one dude whose boss demanded he climb through a full dumpster to retrieve something the boss had thrown away earlier that day. The boss also required him to be clocked out for it, because he was already capped on hours for the week. The dumpster was shared by a seafood restaurant and a frozen yogurt place, so it was full of rotting fish and spoiled dairy.
Boss said he was fired if he refused. He refused, and was fired. Every single sentence in the previous paragraph violated existing labor laws. But sure, “just do as you’re told with a smile, whether you like it or not.”
This doesn’t sound like a post an adult with actual life experience would make. What grade are you in?
Sounds like a person who’s most professional work experience is assembling pizzas
Not trying to brag here, but I’ve never been fired. I did come close though.
At Burger King, I had a habit of forgetting to take the grate out of the oil filtration system when I cleaned out the fryers. This lead to me throwing it away on two occasions. The third time I did it they were going to fire me. Luckily one of my co-workers jumped into the trash and dug around until she found it.
Also, the co-worker was my girlfriend of about a few months at the time. We are married now.
One of my first jobs, I wanted to take off for my birthday (I was young and cared about birthdays then). I did it well in advance and followed proper procedure, but my manager told me last minute that I couldn’t have it off because he was going on vacation. I told him that I wasn’t coming in and he said that if I didn’t that I would be out of a job. So I didn’t go in, and guess who ended up having to cover for my shift anyway? 🙃
The district manager called me personally the next week to hire me back because my numbers were quite good, and they put me in a different location.
I mostly got fired for being a bad employee but my employers were no angels either. One of my first jobs was repairing computers and the money was garbage. Eventually learned that I was the lowest paid in the dept so put a sign on my desk with my salary. It was embarrassing for the manager when clients came to visit so they gave me more money.
Wait, isn’t this a story about how you got a raise?
Not organizing the t-shirts even though no one told me to organize the t-shirts.
Mid 1970s, I was 18 years old and driving a Pepsi delivery truck, fully loaded. Three-on-the-tree transmission and tarps over the truck’s loading bays.
Made a left turn too quickly and too sharply, and dumped 200 cases of cans all over the road.
That was it for my pop delivery career.Looked like it popped off quickly but fizzed out in the end.
And hence, canned.
Because I made the mistake of saying over IM that my team lead at the call center was going to make me have a breakdown.
Apparently, the last guy who that team lead pushed to the edge made some actionable threats, and because I expressed how his harassment was effecting me I was fired.
The team lead was a loyal slave. He used to be a bouncer so he thanked boss and god for his new job, and doesn’t even realize he’s still at the bottom of the pyramid. -_-
Was in the hospital for two months with mono. In ICU on a respirator for 4 weeks of that.
Was fired from my job, evicted from my apartment, and my girlfriend at the time decided to cheat on me while I was in there.
Good times.
Man, hope you’re doing fine now
Much better, aside from some residual health issues from the visit.
I created a satirical Employee Handbook that, among other things, mocked the entire management chain and codified some of the unwritten rules among employees.
It was a crappy retail job so no real loss.
Once, punching my boss in the solar plexus after he shoved and threatened me. There were witnesses, so no charges, but I still got the sack.
Second time, I was in a QA job and wouldn’t wave defective units through. I came back a few days later and sandpapered the front window of the car of the lying shit who fired me. I also called the responsible federal regulator to report the fraud but they took no action.
Once, punching my boss in the solar plexus after he shoved and threatened me. There were witnesses, so no charges, but I still got the sack.
Would you have stuck around if you could have?
No, he would have found a way to retaliate. Anyway I had planned to give notice in another couple of weeks to return to college.
I work in events, last act was on the stage, so I started breaking down the equipment at the control booth that the last act wasn’t using. Pretty standard affair.
Apparently because I could be seen by the audience it was disrespectful to the act on stage and I was fired. I have continued to break down equipment that isn’t being used in every job since, and no one has batted an eye. He was a dick employer so I guess that makes sense.
Having a chronic life threatening illness. Multiple times.
