🐠 - Have you ever gotten fired (not laid off)? If so, why? Where are you now?

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When I found out I was pregnant with my son, 20 years ago, I went into the employee restroom to take a pregnancy test on my lunch break and went in there with another woman that I worked with. I screamed out over the stall that I was pregnant but when I came out, she was already gone. I was in La La Land trying to absorb the fact that I was holding a positive pregnancy test in my hand. I walked back very happy to my office. I open the door and my boss asked to see me immediately , he fired me on the spotļæ¼. As ridiculous as it seems I was still holding the pregnancy test in my hand when he fired me. I called my husband from the office and told him I had been fired and the only thing that he told me was, don’t let that MF see you cry. I waited until I was in the car to cry. He really ruined the exciting moment of finding out I was pregnant with my first and only child , but I am now a PPMD at Deloitte and I look back on that experience as a way to help other women grow and be nurtured. A lot has changed in 20 years and I’m grateful for thatļæ¼

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Different times 20 years ago, I am sure it was technically illegal but woman didn’t have much say when I was young At least no one listened. And I was more nervous about being pregnant and trying to find a new job than I was about thinking of suing them. I did hear years later he was sued by a class action law suit

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Was fired because of performance and interpersonal issues. Twice. Not doing too bad at a big 4 now.

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The performance issues emanated from me not giving 100% to my job. So made some behavioral adjustments including avoiding procrastination. Miss old golden days when deadlines meant very little to yours truly.

I got fired from S& for calling my managers idiots

I now made 2x what I did at S&

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Actually calling them idiots. The quote was ā€œHow did you make manager and not know this? Freshman at Wharton are expected to know this, you idiot!ā€

Got fired from McDonalds at 15. Gave away to much free food to offset service failures.

I currently work for a publicly traded Fortune 500. Constantly question yourself and your actions. Don’t be afraid to challenge yourself and others

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Good advice, appreciate the response!

Yes from my toxic first job. Simply because I asked to rotate teams. Now in consulting and a much better place.

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My very first job out of college I found a security hole and pointed it out. They said I violated their policy. I’m an architect today making sure companies don’t have these very same security holes on our platform

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Yeah, some industries are so stuck in their old ways and want servants not individuals. I remember in the meeting I said I was happy to help find and discuss approaches to closing other security holes. They said that I didn’t understand that I was wrong to do what I did. A lot of politics come into play when people try to protect their jobs. All good, never compromise creativity and desire for progress.

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First job out of the military. Got sick and took a day off during a 30 day probationary period. I didn’t have a doctor’s excuse so I was let go.

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Was fired from Kmart as a cashier. I made cash counting errors twice; maybe worth $20. Anyway, couple years back I saw my Kmart boss at the client working in the mail room

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Yep, complained about my abusive manager to the owner of the company (it was a small firm). Went on vacation and when I came back got fired on the same day. No regrets though! Landed at Deloitte! Sometimes it’s ok to get fired from a toxic job.

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Laid of during 2008 crisis, today in pipeline to make MD in under 9 years, started as a staff

Was fired from an internship because I needed to take the afternoon off for a family emergency. My communication about it sucked. Hasn’t affected me at all though and I entered consulting out of grad

Got transitioned out of an MBB. A while later ended up getting offers of the other 2 MBBs (and joined one of them). The old one was in an office with an incredibly toxic and non-diverse culture (not referring to ethnicity). Getting transitioned was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Told my story in FB a while ago

Thanks for sharing. Link pls.

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