Why Did You Lose Your Job ?

[G-Lexington]

Then along came Beavis and Butt-Head, aka, the bosses kids. Two fat lazy kids. The kiss of death. The were left to run things and knew nothing about what we did. Our customer base dwindled, benefits and hours were cut so, I decided to move on. The guy who hired me acted like I got him pregnant and was leaving him for another woman.

Years ago, I was the bookkeeper for a corporate-run warehouse. They sent some wunderkind out to take over the place and "turn it around". (It was always profitable, just never impressively so.) The first two months the new guy was in charge, the warehouse in fact showed an exceptionally high profit. Reason? He refused to issue any credits, or pay any bills. In other words, for two months, we had money coming in and nothing going out, so hey - check out that great bottom line! Of course, all of our suppliers cut us off, we were stuck on "cash only" for everything, and several of our best accounts left us because we refused to process the things they returned. But boy, those two months sure looked nifty!

I actually went over the boss's head and called the district manager at corporate. I told him, "This guy is running the place into the ground. He's not paying any bills or issuing any credits." His response was that I had no idea how bookkeeping worked, that "floating" was a common practice (it was, but "floating" isn't "not paying any bills ever"), and to just sit tight and watch how things would sort themselves out. I gave notice just about the time we were told the power was getting turned off at the warehouse. The new guy loved the idea that I was leaving - because then he could take over doing the books himself. The first thing he did was buy himself a pair of snowmobiles...on company dime.

Two months later, I got a panicked call from the district manager. He had to temporarily move out to Denver to try to fix the huge mess the warehouse was in. I helped out with the paperwork a few times, but it was past redemption. The place shut down within a year, and to this day, this national corporation has no footprint in Denver.

Don't know what happened to that new guy. My guess is they hired him to work in corporate.

Lex

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

Any man that is not for his country first is a traitor in my opinion, so yes, I am for America first.

Just wanted to say that saying some is a “traitor” for this is a bit dramatic. I personally wouldn’t have a problem with someone not being “for” their Country that spouts off about freedoms but doesn’t extend those freedoms to certain groups of people.
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Apologize, back to topic.

 

[peeonme]

Just wanted to say that saying some is a “traitor” for this is a bit dramatic. I personally wouldn’t have a problem with someone not being “for” their Country that spouts off about freedoms but doesn’t extend those freedoms to certain groups of people.
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Apologize, back to topic.

If you put your country first then you work to change injustice and correct wrongs, neither being a lemming that says "my country right or wrong" or a hater and victim that only will be happy when their nation finally sees a state of demise reflects an attitude of patriotism.

 

[Falcon16]

Never lost a job. Working in healthcare has its advantages

 

[Daximus]

I’ve lost quite a few jobs because of my mouth. I don’t sugar coat nuthin.

 

[mikey3000]

some white guy with a chip on his shoulder

Bwaa haa haa haaaaaaaa!!! And you call me a racist.

 

[Keljuki]

How did you lose your job ?

I'm currently employed, but had four previous jobs there were quite short-lived.

#01 - Probation period was unsuccessful.
#02 - Employer only needed someone for three months. The job wasn't meant to last longer than that.
#03 - Casual employment. The company owners turned out to be committing fraud and were imprisoned.
#04 - Employment fell through since I was offered employment a week before Jury Service.

 

[peeonme]

In my early 20's I was always on the lookout for a better pay check, this lead me to working in iron foundries, on assembly lines, managing restaurants, being an armed guard the list is long. I found that on each job that I learned a new skill set, acquired some new out look on life and met interesting people.
My extended family would go nuts when I quit a job and went to a new line of work, when I decided not to stay in an auto plant and be a UAW worker some quit speaking to me. I didn't loose any jobs, they just couldn't keep me.

I would never have learned had I not put myself in a place where I had to learn, I studied trig. at home, because I had to learn it.
A person needs a challenge in life, easy work does not provide that challenge.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

I actually neglected to answer the question.

I never lost a job, I either gave notice of my leave or walked out. I only walked out once, since the company is going out of business and this was like 15 years ago, it was from Toys R Us, Manager was a real cunt that treated me unfairly, other staff made fun of me, etc. I purposely left them within a month of Christmas too.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

I've never been sacked but I've had contracts not renewed (but it was always known that at some point the contract would end) and last time round we were all made redundant

 

[RhyRhy]

One manager made up a lie about me since she was insecure about the fact that I started out as part time 2 shifts a week and in less then 9 months they had promoted me to full time, I had become on a first name basis with the owners of the property, I had the highest QA or whatever they were with Marriott (this was almost 20 years ago), and had a better personal & working relationship with the main owner then she did to the point that he told her to give me a raise (something he had never done to anyone at any of his multiple properties). Anyway she calls me on my birthday about 2 hours before my shift and lets me know that I am fired. Well I go over her head and call the owner who says he’s sorry but he can’t do anything this time but to file for unemployment and he wishes me the best. So I am young (19/20?) and clueless and love my job and don’t realize at this point that she is behind me getting fired, so I try to plead my case prove I didn’t do what I was accused of and what a hard worker I was working all 3 shifts blah blah blah. Well she is playing me like a guitar. I eventually catch on what happened and catch her and 2 other staff members in on the lie that got me fired. I played nice at the first unemployment meeting, but brought out everything at the second meeting. The state told her she had wrongly terminated me and either had to reinstate me with back wages or they would grant my unemployment with back pay. I said there was no way I would go back to that property as I couldn’t trust her as a GM or as a person. I got unemployment for less then a month because of the glowing recommendation she gave me to another property who hired me on the spot.

Another time laid off because the company went bankrupt and moved our jobs to Costa Rica. I was extended on as an employee because I had some of the highest QA, and was also offered to go train the new employees but declined.

Another time I was fired when the police department I was hired at was rapidly expanding and updating due to a large new economic boom in the town due to a large new attraction built in this very small town. This town had not had their own 24 hour dispatch before, had basically just used this one woman who had worked there forever and a couple of part time people and relied on the county for their dispatching needs for the rest of the time. Well I was hired because I had experience with the new computer systems they were installing, dispatch experience, jail experience, etc. This place was so backwards they still had their own “10 codes” that they used for city use only. So when you talked to the city a 10-15 could mean one thing but when you talked to the county and state it meant something completely different. I kept mentioning how inefficient this was and everyone agreed with me (including cops) except the old lady original dispatcher who I think originally came up with her own 10 codes. Well by the next city meeting who was called in and fired for “not being a team player” “not fitting in with other employees” “not following orders from superiors” and “no longer needed” not the old lady, but me! The Chief straight up told me if it was up to him that he would be firing her, but she had went to the council and they made the final decision. He called and offered me the lead dispatch job about 90 days later but I told him my days of worrying about my job depending on politics were done.

The last time I was working a shit job as a van driver and porter for an economy motel. But it paid the bills. I worked about 48 hours straight due to a record breaking snow storm and other employees couldn’t get into work to guarantee my days off that weekend. I even worked the front desk, and laundry, which I had no experience at with this property. Well I go out of town on my days off as planned and the heater in my car breaks and it’s a very toasty warm -10 with windchills in -20’s outside and I’m at least 6 hours away. So I call the boss to let her know I can’t make it back for my shift on Monday (this is Saturday morning) but I should be there Tuesday. She’s okay fine. Well shop calls me back says part didn’t get out on truck today earliest it will get here is Tuesday. So I immediately call boss and explain and she wasn’t happy but asked if I had another way to get back. I explained that all the other cars I had access to were vintage restored show cars that don’t get driven in the winter or farm trucks that I probably wouldn’t trust to make the drive there and back plus if I did I would have to take off additional days to drive back up here to get my car and drive back to the city and she said ok fine I guess. She called me 2 hours later “Don’t worry about coming back I already hired someone off Craigslist to start tomorrow.” I knew she was savage and all but... After she fired me she went on a firing spree over the next month. Come to find out we had all made full time hours for so long they were going to have to start paying us benefits and replaced us all with part timers with no hope of ever going full time.