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The new shop manager was openly racist and the HR manager fired me because she was tired of being informed every time I got called cracker or honkey.The opening arguments for my suit will be laid out in August- wish me luck.
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I was tasked with washing something that would have 100% electrocuted me. I refused. They fired me. Then asked another employee to do it. They were electrocuted. Sued into oblivion and the place is gone now. Missed my chance for a big payout but eh… didnt nearly die.
According to Heather O’Neill, a career expert fromResume Now—an online platform that provides useful tools and resources to job seekers—if you find yourself facing the challenge of being fired, remember that it’s an opportunity to regroup and move forward stronger than before.
Next, she said, you need torefresh your resumeto highlight your most recent role and, more importantly, your accomplishments. “Employers are looking for more than just a list of job responsibilities—they want to see measurable achievements,” O’Neill added.
“Use bullet points to showcase the impact of your work, such as the number of clients you served, projects you completed, or goals you exceeded. Include any professional successes that demonstrate your value and set you apart.”
Wouldn’t sleep with 2 of the 3 managers. I was 16. They were grown men.
O’Neill believes it’s also a good idea to ping your professional contacts.“Now’s also the time to lean into your professional network. Reach out to former colleagues, mentors, or industry contacts to let them know you’re on the market,” she explained.“Networking can open doors to opportunities you might not find otherwise, and personal referrals can go a long way in securing interviews. Plus, when you land your next role, in some cases these contacts can serve asprofessional references.“And, of course, start preparing yourself for future interviews—especially the inevitable question, “Why did you leave your last job?”Practice a professional, positive response highlighting lessons learned and enthusiasm for new opportunities. If you stay proactive and focused, O’Neill said, you’ll soon advance in your career.
O’Neill believes it’s also a good idea to ping your professional contacts.
“Now’s also the time to lean into your professional network. Reach out to former colleagues, mentors, or industry contacts to let them know you’re on the market,” she explained.
“Networking can open doors to opportunities you might not find otherwise, and personal referrals can go a long way in securing interviews. Plus, when you land your next role, in some cases these contacts can serve asprofessional references.”
And, of course, start preparing yourself for future interviews—especially the inevitable question, “Why did you leave your last job?”
Practice a professional, positive response highlighting lessons learned and enthusiasm for new opportunities. If you stay proactive and focused, O’Neill said, you’ll soon advance in your career.
My dad was dying and the company didn’t want me spending so much time helping him. I offer to have my dad die at a more conducive time for them but they didn’t take that well so I changed my number in the company directive to a local pizza shop and got things in order.
Not me, but my favorite nursing assistant was fired because she couldn’t figure out how to apply for FMLA so that she could get off work and receive chemo. She was just old and computer stuff really confused her, but she was a phenomenal Aide. They let her work her full shift then fired her. She had just applied to nursing school using our program to pay for it. I quit a month later. The fact that they didn’t have someone from HR sit down with her and show her how before it got to that point disgusted me.
District manager emailed the whole store giving us a (large) list of tasks to complete before Black Friday. Jokingly, I simply typed “No.” and showed my co-worker, just to get a cheap laugh. I was obviously not going to send that.Before I could react, my co-worker reached over and hit “send”. My heart dropped and I got a phone call later that evening saying I wasn’t a team player, I was refusing a “direct order from a superior”. I tried to explain it was a joke and that I accidentally hit send, then I got berated for “not taking the job seriously”.Looking back it was a blessing in disguise. It was the last Thanksgiving with my brother before he passed.
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I was 16 and working at an Ace Hardware as an after-school/weekend job. One of my responsibilities was taking out the trash at the end of the night. One evening, I was closing with another guy who was a long-time employee. He said he would get the trash and that I could go home.Come in the next day to boss waiting for me. Says, “WonManBand, how come trash wasn’t taken out last night?“I respond that other employee said he’d do it and told me go home. Boss says that’s not what other employee is saying, says I was supposed to do it and just left. I disagree, get fired.Over 20 years later, still salty. Didn’t even like that job but f**k you, John.Edit: John is the co-worker, for clarity.
Got fired because my company hired replacements while I was recovering from Cervical Disc Replacement under workers comp, from an injury that happened while on the job, at that company.
Changed my status to “available for work” inadvertently while job searching on linkedin. Was connected to HR at the firm and they saw it. I realized my mistake a couple hours too late but they saw it and let me go.Honestly was the best thing ever. I started my own business after it happened a year ago and am thriving. Thanks, a******s!
When you haven’t been told to pack your things, it’s best to focus on what you can control, especially during the first few months of establishing yourself within the company.
“This is your chance to build relationships, learn the ropes, and demonstrate your value,” O’Neill commented about this critical period, providing seven tips for making the most of it:
Understand expectations: The career expert advised to take the time to clearly understand what’s expected of you in your role. “Establish open communication with your supervisor and colleagues, and don’t hesitate to ask questions if something isn’t clear,” she said. “Regularly check in with your manager to ensure your priorities align with their goals and the organization’s objectives.”
Seek feedback: “Make a habit of asking for constructive feedback early and often. This shows that you’re open to improvement and have a growth mindset,” the career expert explained. “If possible, schedule regular check-ins with your manager to discuss your progress, address challenges, and fine-tune your approach to tasks.”
Worked at a gun store for a minute in my 20s. Boss was in his late 50s, and his wife was about 5 years older than I was. As I was bending over to close the floor gun safe, the bosses wife complimented my butt. The bosses office door was open.Fired the next morning, and he attempted to deny my unemployment claim. “Fired for cause!” “What cause?”. “Because!”.
I worked at a shelter for homeless teens. Admin staff were some of the most incompetent humans I’ve ever worked for. So incompetent one of our teens got r*ped.I started raising hell because there was no accountability for the administration. They kept f***g up and doing nothing when st like this would go down.They scheduled a meeting to talk to me about “my concerns” while I was on vacation and then fired me for not showing upStill makes my blood boil to think about it.
Because I wouldn’t let my boss at a new job put my name on a nasty email. I called her out and said I don’t speak to people that way. She was awful. I was happy to see that pink slip in her hand a week later.
The owner was from India. His son wanted Valentine’s Day off to go to a seven day wedding, but I already requested and had it approved. He crossed my name off the calendar and put his and told me if I wasn’t there I’d be fired. Expected me to pick up all his missing shifts the whole week. I picked up all his shifts, but I wasn’t there on Valentine’s Day. I was fired.
Be reliable: According to Resume Now’s career expert Heather O’Neil, “consistency and dependability are critical in the early months[, so] arrive on time, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality work. Being someone your team can count on will help establish your reputation as a reliable and trusted colleague.“Build relationships: Next, she suggests connecting with your team and other colleagues. “Introduce yourself, engage in conversations, and learn about their roles and how they contribute to the organization. Building positive relationships helps create a supportive network and fosters collaboration.“Learn the company culture: As you begin to familiarize yourself with the people around you, “observe how things are done, from communication styles to meeting etiquette,” O’Neil said. “Adapting to the workplace culture will help you integrate seamlessly and demonstrate your understanding of the organization’s values.“Focus on continuous learning: Lastly, take advantage of any training opportunities, tools, or resources that are available to you. “Demonstrating a commitment to personal and professional growth can set you apart early on,” the career expert concluded.As this viral discussion vividly illustrates, we can never be one hundred percent sure that we will retain our jobs for as long as we want to. However, we can improve our chances!
Be reliable: According to Resume Now’s career expert Heather O’Neil, “consistency and dependability are critical in the early months[, so] arrive on time, meet deadlines, and deliver high-quality work. Being someone your team can count on will help establish your reputation as a reliable and trusted colleague.”
Build relationships: Next, she suggests connecting with your team and other colleagues. “Introduce yourself, engage in conversations, and learn about their roles and how they contribute to the organization. Building positive relationships helps create a supportive network and fosters collaboration.”
Learn the company culture: As you begin to familiarize yourself with the people around you, “observe how things are done, from communication styles to meeting etiquette,” O’Neil said. “Adapting to the workplace culture will help you integrate seamlessly and demonstrate your understanding of the organization’s values.”
Focus on continuous learning: Lastly, take advantage of any training opportunities, tools, or resources that are available to you. “Demonstrating a commitment to personal and professional growth can set you apart early on,” the career expert concluded.
As this viral discussion vividly illustrates, we can never be one hundred percent sure that we will retain our jobs for as long as we want to. However, we can improve our chances!
I told them in March I’m taking a week off in May. May comes and they tell me they can’t approve it because we’re short staffed. I remind them that we were short staffed when everyone else took their vacations this year and didn’t complain, so come May 15th I’m outta here.They acted weird for a week after I got back before dropping the news. Wasn’t even mad, I was part time consistently pulling 32-38 hours. Thinking of reporting them to the department of labor.
Reporting sexual assault to authorities when I was an exotic dancer and wouldn’t take the bribe offered to keep my mouth shut.
They hired me, didn’t give me any work to do, then fired me for not doing any work despite me asking for things to do.Addendum: I was a junior PR associate then. Since I had nothing to do, I spent the time monitoring the social media pages of our brands to get insight (this was under my then-superior’s advice).One of the reasons why they fired me was “you spend too much time on social media while at work”.
Boss apparently didn’t know I had a lazy eye(but able to control it consciously)I was at this job for 3 years without an incident.(Transporting materials)Calls me in and asks me about my vision.Tell him I’m legally blind in right eye, but have been driving since I was 10.Said we can no longer continue with you being employed here.Was so out of my mind, I didn’t even think to lawyer up.But FU them, their new driver " accidentally” pierced 4 vehicles with the long forks… Within 1 week.
Back in highschool, I didn’t invite my 30 something year old manager to my underage drinking party. Fired the next shift at work during a rush.
I put too many olives on a sandwich and got fired from Subway. On my first day.
Got fired for quitting.See, phones weren’t allowed on jobsites. But, we were expected to call into dispatch before 5pm to get our next daily assignment. Buuuuuuut, we worked from 7a to 7p almost every day, so we couldn’t call into dispatch. After being reprimanded for not calling in on time, I said “Ya know, this job isn’t going to work out and I quit.” Dispatcher said “You have no idea how stressful you people make things for me. You’re fired, and no longer allowed to work for this agency!”.
Because I wouldn’t lie to people. Worked for a cell service affiliate in college. Had the worst coverage, price, and customer service of any of the 4 major carriers in my area. Only feather in the cap was cool devices (for the time). Sales expectations were high, only way to get there was lie through your teeth. I refused. Spent most my shifts unfucking accounts other employees had f****d in order to get commission. Was actually relieved to get canned. Was destroying my mental health.
It was my third day in a small warehouse that supplied ingredients to local pizza places. I was instructed to get a box that had a bag full of crushed red pepper and fill some shakers. The bottom of the box came apart and the bag fell, hitting the ground and scattering the pepper flakes everywhere and filling the air with dust. My eyes, throat, nose and lungs were almost immediately on fire. A coworker escorted me to the bathroom where I started having a coughing fit and throwing up. I couldn’t see, I could barely breathe, and then the bathroom door bursts open and the owner is SCREAMING at me about the pepper flakes and how much money I had just cost him. F**k that guy. His business went under a year later.
I pushed 10 carts at a time at target when the maximum is supposed to be 7. They were the last 10 carts in the lot and I didn’t feel like making 2 trips was necessary. Got fired the next day.
Called a customer a witch. And that was being polite. I could have and should have been a lot worse.
I was working at Taco Bell as a teen and forgot to turn off the headset and went on a full insult tirade to my nemesis.
After my training and onboarding, I was only getting 2 shifts a week consistently for over a month. Asked for more, was given the “we are unionized, we have to follow seniority, you’ve only been here 3 months” schpeel.So I went and got a second job and started telling the first one which of the 2 or 3 days a week I’d be available to work for them. Got let go for not being available for shifts 7 days a week.
I refused to uproot my entire life and move to New Jersey after 17 years of working on the other side of the country (the last two of which were done fully remote rather than in a satellite office).
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Alcoholic Chef here, self explanatory. 1 year sober!
I worked as the setup staff for my colleges sporting events. Sounded cool at first, but it was horrible in reality. Insane micromanaging yet at the same time operationally it was a cluster fk. I didn’t have an actual set supervisor, and nobody seemed to ever know what the fk was going on.So the minute I got a new job I went to put in my two week notice. I go to the HR office after class one day, and it was open but no one was in there. I go the next day, and same thing. So I left my written notice on the front desk, and made sure to email them too. I didn’t get scheduled for any games during those two weeks and just figured my time there was done.I got an email 8 months later saying “you have been terminated for unexcused absences and are no longer eligible to work for (insert higher education system) again in any capacity.” I reach out and they’re like “we recently discovered you haven’t shown up for a game in months.” I told them I submitted my resignation months ago and they insisted I never did.What’s funny is now I work at a different school in the same state system in a professional job, and when I was getting screened for my interview I’m not going to lie, I was a little worried it would f**k everything lol. Luckily it didn’t.
I was a wastewater/drinking water operator in charge of the facilities at a local college. I was fired so that they could give my job to a person to be able to get them a visa to stay in the country. This was around the time of Covid, and they were having issues finding jobs for people they wanted to retain. While this guy had an impressive education, he was not certified to the job(there are several state licenses required). They initially offered for me to stay on as a crew member at less pay(and use my licenses). To the HR rep’s shock, I declined and told them I either kept my job or left. They chose to let me go. I called the state governing body on my way home and informed them that I was no longer in charge of that facility. To the university’s shock, they discovered it took a fair amount of time, educational courses, and work hours to get the licenses. I think they thought they would just stick their guy in an office for a few years until they could place him somewhere else.
I stopped doing my managers job and the job I wasn’t getting paid for.
Because the boss’s son was a lazy liar.When I was in high school, I worked Friday and Saturday nights from midnight to 6am at a 7-11. The worst part of it was dealing with people that wanted to buy beer after 2am on Sunday, but almost as onerous was having to put together the Sunday NY Times. It was delivered in about a dozen sections, each on neatly strapped into a pile. I had to take each section and put them all inside the main section. It was dull and repetitive and took half the night to put together hundreds of them.One night, the NY Times was not delivered. I advised my relief (the boss’s son) of this when he arrived in the morning and went on my way. Come next Friday I went in to work as usual and found the boss there, which was strange in and of itself. He told me that I was fired for not putting the Times together the previous week. I told him that they were never delivered, and that I told his son about this.My brother, who worked the same shift I did, was standing right there, and backed up my account. The guy fired me anyway. At which point my brother quit. Which meant that the boss and his son had to work our shifts until they hired some more people.
I worked in a supermarket. Boss doesn’t want us to work overtime. I finish at 4PM and so I pack up at 15:55 as I need to get clear of the shelves. Boss see me in the reserve at 15:58 and ask me “why you’re packing up? You have 2 minutes left.” My contract get terminated the next fortnight.
I was trying to report my bosses boss to HR for harassing and bullying me. He was taunting me on a phone call with a client, making childish voices and rude statements about me while pressuring me to work faster than I had been in the moment. He would ask me if something was done while I was working on things throughout the call, demanding updates every 15 seconds or so. I left the call and told my boss I was reporting this guy to HR, and I was told I was fired instead.I ended up getting a call from HR the following week, and they hadn’t yet been informed I had been fired. They opened a case on my behalf to look into these issues. Unsurprisingly, they investigated themselves, and found themselves guilty of no wrongdoing. They did tell me I had been terminated due to issues with my professionalism. That was painful, hearing he’d completely uno reversed me. I hadn’t at any point been unprofessional, as I take great pride in these types of things for some stupid reason. Call me old fashioned, I suppose.This was so unexpected that it caused me a great deal of financial issues and completely tanked my credit in the process. Due to the time of year when it happened, it took nearly 4 months to start a new role and begin earning money again. I have so much debt now because of this guy bullying me directly, openly, and then immediately firing me for being “unprofessional”.Pro tip: if you’re going to HR to report your bosses boss, do NOT tell your direct boss first. Corporate America will destroy you if you’re a good person at heart.
Using my vacation days as sick days.Chronic illness is a b***h. Didnt know my autoimmune disorder was the cause at the time but some days my body just didn’t work.
I worked for a European swine genetics company.One of our selection and multiplication nuclei was outsourced to a neighboring country.When animals of high genetic value had to be shipped to a customer, I would go to the farm and spend the day grading, sorting and marking the animals to be loaded on the truck.Once, a client rightly complained about the poor quality of the animals we had sent them. I went to see them, and their identification numbers did not match the ones I had registered in my notebook. The farm had replaced them with others and, in turn, had sold the ones I had selected on their own.After a meeting between my company and the managers of the multiplication farm, it was decided that we would continue to work together and that I would be the “scapegoat” for the customer.I was fired.
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It’s literally just for being a man. I worked at a local bookstore. Me and this other dude got hired to help with the Christmas season rush and because they needed people that could lift more the 50lbs. After 5 weeks me and the only other dude got called in to the owners office and basically got told that we were being let go for performance issues, which was a bunch a bull. Also, the other reason was cause the other employees, which were all women, didn’t feel too comfortable around 2 dudes and that we didn’t fit into the work culture. From me and that dudes perspective, we worked hard, we’re respectful and positive. Honestly, I’m glad they fired me because I got an even better job.
A long time ago I was fired from a massive retailer that’s known for the color blue for “time theft.“Their own asset protection investigation showed I was actually owed hours above what I had clocked.A fair number of other heads rolled for that one but they still refused to hire me back.
I was working two jobs at the time. A manager at my part-time job didn’t like me. So he changed my schedule so I’d have to work the same days as my main job. He did this after my shifts were over for the week, so I’d not see the change. I came to work on Monday and was informed I " no showed” 3 days in a row and was fired. Honestly, I was relieved. Working 76 hours a week was too much.
Was working at fedex just part time and i couldn’t come in multiple days in a row because i had such bad back pain that i could barely walk let alone stand up. i explained this to my manager and he told me he agreed with my decision 2 days later all of my shifts were taken off my schedule without any call or text to let me know why. i call my manager to ask why. he said i was fired for not coming into work. these were the only days i ever missed there. but the fact I had to call them for them to tell me i was fired really pissed me off.
Because I smelled bad.They weren’t wrong. I had just recently moved out on my own for the first time, nobody was really encouraging me to take care of myself, I was struggling with depression and just.. didn’t bother.It was pretty f****n embarrassing.
I put 12 chickens in a chicken coop overnight instead of 6. I was just told the chickens had to be in a coop.
I left a 17 hour shift 10 minutes early.
Quality standards kept changing unpredictably while time limits kept crunching tighter and tighter. Eventually my quality slips one too many times and boom, that’s all folks.The entire program shut down about a year after I fell off. The company had lost their contract. I sure didn’t have to wonder why.
I asked too many questions but also did too much on my own without asking for clarification. Then I pointed out that those two things in my review conflicted, and they really didn’t care for that.
Work biotech, was fired from my first jobI was originally in charge of package receipt at a smaller company where RAs (and even Sci’s) were handling a lot of the logistics. We eventually purposefully hired a guy to handle alot of these roles because they effectively were getting in the way of us doing sciencey stuff. Showed the guy the general ropes of where we receive shipments, how to distribute and logging receipts, etc.Well three weeks later, I was pulled into the boss' office and was told I was being fired. I wasn’t necessarily mad but more so confused so I asked what made them come to that decision. Apparently that douchenozzle just blatantly forgot to check packages one day and voila… a multi-thousand dollar (and several months to manufacture) specimen was left to thaw and die at the receiving area. I was fired so I just protested that wasn’t it this guy’s job to do all of that. Was told I was still expected to check in on him to make sure he did his job.Then just hit em with “The f**k am I supposed to know if he did his job or not if we hired him in the first place for all of this.” Got up and went to pack my shiz at my desk and walked out.I know its not the most exciting story but that’s my only story of being fired. I have been laid off once though.
The first time - I was a 21 year old hostess at a new restaurant. I was in a sorority and you have to take like 2 whole weeks every summer for recruitment - one week for training and practice and another for the actual recruitment. It’s incredibly exhausting. Most girls get really sick. I got so terribly horribly sick, I had to skip our bid day activity and it still breaks my heart. I slept for several days. I told the restaurant I was very sick and couldn’t come back yet and they said not to worry and to take the rest of the week off. The schedule for the next week comes out and I show up as scheduled. Then about an hour into my shift, I got pulled into the back and fired for not telling them I was coming back. You gave me the week, I took the week, then showed up as scheduled. Wtf. He also told me that they purposely hired too many people anyway.
I caught my boss falsifying an employee’s d**g test, so I asked HR what should I do? She said to talk to his boss, so then went to his boss…who called me a liar and told me I must be mistaken. so I went back to HR…where it was never mentioned again. Until the end of that year, in which I could nothing right apparently…and the “undermining” was one the things brought up during my termination meeting. Also, my bosses didn’t like me asking too many questions or my disciplining my employees when safety policies were broken.
A mutual distaste between my boss any myself. My firing was the nicest thing he ever did for me. It got me out of a dead-end and freed me up to discover a job I spent the next twenty years at.
I openly mocked my supervisors spelling errors and didn’t show up to a shift they scheduled me for after I specifically told them I couldn’t work that time.
I accidentally snitched on myself lol. Used to work at radio shack and I tried selling a personal cell phone to a friend (not realizing that the phone wasn’t working properly) so I switched it with a brand new phone from our store. Months later a radio shack internal affairs guy came in and said I can fess up to what I did or basically get in trouble with the police. I told him about the phone thing, welllll as it turns out he was there because the company suspected me of credit card fraud which I did not do so they fired me for the phone incident and made me pay back the full price of the phone. This was back in 2005.
Worked second shift for a beverage company as a shuttle driver. For 5 weeks I couldn’t get a fuel card and used 2 of the other drivers' fuel card. One day they weren’t there and had enough fuel to do 1 run instead of the usual 3-4. I called my supervisor who was at home and told me to figure it out so I packed my bag full of free soda and went home. The next morning he called me and asked why I didn’t make the runs I told him to get f’d and hung up.
Owner’s granddaughter graduated from college with a degree in accounting. I knew they were going to fire me and bring her in.Also, I asked the owner for a private meeting at her house, we needed money. She gave it to me. Said she couldn’t tell anything to her kids (president and vice president) but pretty sure she did.I was glad actually, the president (owner’s son) liked to splurge on equipment he had no business buying.They were so far in the red, and the owner (woman in her 70’s) floated that company for several years.
I just got fired from the job I had been at for over 10 years last Monday. I am 33 years old, so I basically spent my entire adult working life there. I watched as the upper management slowly made the place miserable. It was an office type, state job. I hadn’t gotten a raise in 4 years, no one was ever replaced … the work just fell on the rest of us. I just stopped putting in any effort to meet their constantly changing expectations. Took 4 years, but they finally let me go. I had seen the writing on the wall though and had already lined up something else to start in a few weeks. This has been the best vacation ever.
I failed to successfully interpret: “I need you to stay a little later than your shift officially ends to help close.”, “We can’t pay you.
My boss told HR I was behind on all my projects, which was true, I was behind because all designs were waiting on my boss’s approval.
I was in pharmacy school and working as an intern at Walmart. To be a pharmacy intern you have to register with the state and stay in pharmacy school. I had already had to repeat a semester and was on academic probation. Then I absolutely bombed one of my exams the following semester. I had 3 weeks before the final and needed a really high grade to not fail and get kicked out of pharmacy school. So I called my boss and told them I couldn’t come into work because I needed to study. They said they understood and let me off.A couple days later I got a call from my boss saying his boss told him that I would not be retained in the intern program that Walmart has. Didn’t really matter as I ended up not getting the grade I needed and was kicked out of pharmacy school so I would have been let go anyway.I did eventually get back in and was able to graduate but I decided not to seek regular employment so I could focus on school.
On my second day at Subway, my boss told me I didn’t have “it”.16 years later I still don’t know what that means.
Worked at a start up. And these were their words verbatim:“You’re too soft on the team"“We need someone that can come in everyday at 7AM"First off, upper management (business bros) goes over my head and drives my team to the bone. We’re talking 10 hour sporadic shifts trying to sell and demo their product to investors every month of so. My team appreciated my efforts to protect them from the b****t.Second, no one is in the office until 9.Basically I wasn’t a yes man and cracking the whip.Edit: Also fk the product management guy. He was trying to get me fired and it worked just because I challenged his ideas on how to do my job. He was good friends with one of the founders.
In high school I had a job at a place called Mr. Fix-It. Just as you would imagine - a one-room mess of a place where he would do everything from simple electrical work on an appliance to welding.I was fired for mixing epoxy on a newspaper.Clearly there was more going on. But I was 16. F**k ‘em!
I left a USB stick with sensitive files plugged into a computer that was turned off, inside a locked office, which was inside a secure area.
I was making a lot of money working banquets and the restaurant as a busboy way back in 2006-2008. Someone got jealous and made up rumors, and I got fired. I didn’t know about my rights back then.
I threw a fit cause i was stuck washing dishes alone when everyone else went out back to drink beers and smoke pot on the clock. Then they came back inside and complained that they couldn’t leave until the dishes were done and that I was taking too long.
I started working at a rough time of my life and had to force myself to cope with personal issues while trying to work. I took a few too many sickies along the way.
Was a supervisor for one department and was sleeping with a supervisor from another department. we would hook up in the car on breaks. Plant manager 1 week before I was fired, did my evaluation, which was the highest in my plant and top 10 for the entire company, received a 6% pay increase. Termination was for not fulfilling my job duties.
I missed a “busy day” and couldn’t “find someone to cover my shift” because my girlfriend was sick and kept passing out. They told me “can’t she take care of herself?” Yeah they can lick my nuts.
We used the water slide after hours as a beer bong.
Pandemic, and most recently the interest rate environment as I pivoted into the mortgage space after getting through COVID.I’m really starting to doubt my ability to work, as it’s been 4 years of this really grueling time finding gainful employment. All this, in “the land of opportunity”. I really wish I could find a stable well paying job, where I enjoy the work and people I work with. It’s been my dream since getting to college 13 years ago and I’m writing this as a way to manifest it.
Losing my st one day and just trying to get back at the company lol. I was a TL for Target and it’s a very stressful job for the st pay. Each year Target ASKS their employees to donate money to one of several charities at any amount but really try to push you to do something like $5 but to agree to have it pull from your check once per month for 12 months so $60 or some amount like that. Really saying stuff like “it’s only a cup of coffee per month!” They don’t hide it or be sneaky about it they’re all up front about how it works BUT they make it seem like the employee can write this off during tax season because they give you a receipt to show your donation. But surprise surprise Target claims the donation and takes the tax break so you can’t.So I decided fk that and would inform my teams about this and tell them if they want to donate go do it on their own directly. They don’t need to donate through Target and give them another tax break just to fire us all later to hit their bottome line.Well obviously my prissy sit in office all day SD and HR lead didn’t like this so they decided to pull a skeleton out of my closet they kept for a rainy day when I asked a coworker out but they weren’t interested and nothing ever went past that. We even had a great work relationship together for almost a year without it ever coming up again. But I guess she told a friend who told a friend that landed on HR’s ear and they kept that information for until they needed it and said they “conducted and investigation” into my work ethic and fired me for it saying it counts as harassment.I just laughed and said “okay wtf ever helps y’all sleep. Where’s my check?“Ended up doing me a huge favor doing that because being young at the time I was stupid and was trying to move up in Target but fk that s**t. I now have a career in a feild I’m actually interested in at a great company making even more money with 20x less stress! Thanks for being a s****y company Target!
Supervisor yelled at me, I tossed him off the loading dock. He did get fired for yelling first, but obviously I also got fired.
Because I wasn’t very good at the job.I was originally declined for a promotion because I didn’t have the experience and knowledge to do it. A few months later, the senior management team reached out to me. They indicated the position was still vacant as nobody else wanted it. They offered it to me. Only thinking about the $$, I took it.I did the best i could, but wasnt effective at getting the desired results. 6 months in, I got called to a meeting with my supervisor. He candidly asked if, given more time, did I think I could get better at the job. I candidly answered him, “NO!” The next day, I was terminated.
I don’t speak Spanish and didn’t understand what a coworker was telling me.
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Gabija Saveiskyte
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