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I showed up still drunk the day after Halloween with half washed KISS makeup all over my face. My manager asked if I was drunk to which I responded "I'm at work, so obviously yes." Was given a burger in the break room and sent on my merry way.
Rising Star
… maybe call in sick next time?
First job after college at a corporate law firm, hated it. Was coming up on the probationary period end. My boss asked if I could come with her at 4pm on a Friday and we went to an HR woman’s office where they explained that I was being terminated. I started hysterically crying because I felt like a failure/had college loans. Then I went on a three month party binge, left for the peace corps, and the rest is history. Still smile about that sometimes and how grateful I am that they set me free.
"Worked" for my dad for the summer in 9th grade helping him with some audit stuff (had his own small audit and accounting firm).
I screwed up so badly that he fired me on the first day.
Needless to say, he was always surprised that I actually got paid to work ever since.
Eric Foreman, is that you?
As an associate, copied the partner of the firm (this was a boutique with 3 founding partners) when mailing the engagement director laying out how the project had suffered at every stage due to the lack of his financial knowledge, decision paralysis and focus on unnecessary feedback over a 6 month engagement.
Director turns around in 5 days, communicates that he has recommended disciplinary action against me due to my unprofessional conduct.
I get put on 3 months probation. Messaging was loud and clear. So I resign and leave the firm.
Worked out better for me in the long run. I move from Middle East to UK.
Turns out there are more complaints against the Director over time and a few months later he’s asked to leave as well.
The said Partner was also the client partner in this case and there had been certain client escalations. There had been some context for keeping him in copy. Wasn’t out of the blue.
Depends upon what your definition of “right” is -
- that I get you say that I was right - definitely not, I could care less
- that the team has a healthy work environment, doesn’t get thrown under the bus for someone else’s fault - I guess yes. Isn’t that something we would all want?
I was working in distribution center management and we were so understaffed so I was out in the warehouse picking cases. The picking system went down and I completely lost my mind and started kicking boxes and threw my headset. First job out of college
Ooo. Voice based picking..Fancy.
New guy was brought on as COO and I was being micromanaged. I was burnt out, tried to quit, and was instead asked to work remotely 4-hour work week style on the other side of the world because of my performance pre-COO. I was still being micromanaged and was unproductive for 2 months and got fired.
Fast forward to now, love my job and tripled my salary since then
Chief
A new chief of staff came in for the director of our office at the FAA. The new chief of staff didn’t know our roles or even the industry. She looked at all of the tasks and personnel, and since she didn’t know any of us, she assigned tasks based on assumptions. All of the important and high profile tasks ended up with the white kids. She gave all of the brown people the administrative/note talking /grunt tasks. So there were these white kids just out of college taking on extraordinarily complicated industry tasks. There were brown and black people with 20 years of experience and multiple patents doing note taking tasks and roll call etc.
Then she decided the team didn’t need to spend money on things like roll calls. All the black people and brown people were laid off. It all happened on the same day. On Friday the team was diverse, then next Monday the team looked like the rest of the FAA
And that’s how I was fired
Surprised they didn't get sued and publicly called out...
TLDR; Refused to be on call 24/7 as a “supervisor” making sub $50k (20yrs ago).
As supervisor we rotated on call weekends for our field technicians. I was not on call for the weekend in question, so carried on as such and never brought my Nextel with me. Show up on Monday morning and manager asks where I’ve been all weekend and why I didn’t return any calls. Explained that “John” was on call and not me, so no need to carry the Nextel. Also explained that he (the manager) had my personal number, since we hang out on a fairly regular basis, so if it was something that truly needed my attention, he could have called me on my personal phone. GM shows up a bit later, comes into my office and asks me to “explain myself”. I shared with her that “John” was on call this weekend and while he manages our new construction side of the business, the on call supervisor is responsible for both sides of the house on the weekends - including managing the hours of the on-call technician (who was up against his max hours for the week) & re-assigning emergency service calls to the next man up. She responded that my team is my responsibility, to which I told her that - and I quote - “Correct, they are my responsibility. But if you’re telling me that other supervisors cannot handle simple staffing and scheduling dilemmas and that I need to be consulted on every decision, then you don’t pay me remotely close enough to have my time 24/7.” Obviously she did not appreciate my candor and told me I had 3 choices: 1) I could go back to being a tech if I couldn’t “handle the responsibility” (mind you I was nationally recognized at my company and in line for promotion to a new branch); 2) resign, or 3) I would be terminated and to give her my answer by the end of the day. Called a few friends in the industry and made sure I had another opportunity lined up, then called HR to voice my displeasure, then walked into GM’s office and handed in my resignation. She was floored - apparently didn’t think I would call her bluff.
Pro
I didn’t join the clique, didn’t want to be part of the group simply because they gossiped so much. Did everything in my power to get me fired and succeeded.
Pro
I slept with a partner and we were both canned. So goes life I guess
Were either of you married?