When we moved out to the suburbs I started looking for a job so that I could stop commuting into NYC every day. I found one fairly quickly and I should have known better. I was told that I would be building an individual giving program and instead they wanted a planned giving program. That was all fine and good, but you really can't have a planned giving program when you don't already have an individual giving program in place (and there were zero individual donors - only foundation support). The CEO was unhappy that I couldn't wave a magic wand and create pg donors from thin air. On top of it, he would have black outs where he'd tell me to do something then ask why I did it two days later. It was crazy town. I saw the writing on the wall and started applying for jobs four weeks in and got fired at six weeks (I got my first call for an interview the day I was fired and was only out of work for two months). I've seen that job posted at least 7 times since I left (this was four years ago). No one stays in it for long.
I was "laid off" the day I got back from my honeymoon. They hired a temp to cover for me and laid me off when I got back because she would do my job cheaper.
I was told I was fired once. By my now husband. We were 18, I was working at his family bakery on breaks from college, and he told me his mom didn't want me working there anymore.
Fast forward 15 years and I tell my MIL this story and she was shocked. Yeah, he just wanted to break up with me and was easing into it.
(we did break up, and reconnected when we were 27)
Post by MixedBerryJam on Oct 19, 2014 14:58:46 GMT -5
I don't know what "RIF" is, but that's the one I picked because I didn't want to pick "fired for cause." I was fired without cause and without warning (could have sued, I suppose, but didn't and the old boss fought against me receiving UE but I won there). This happened two days before the company Christmas party.
I was fired twice - one for poor performance, and another was really for no reason but the management was terrible so I was glad to go.
I was laid off once, along with most of the company, because business had tanked. Honestly I won't be surprised if I get laid off from my current company within the next year ... we have a new CEO who just laid off a ton of people and outsourced work to Asia, and word is he's looking to eliminate more.
I've held a couple of contract jobs where I had to leave once the contract expired and they didn't have the resources to hire me full time.
I was fired for cause. The terms of my generous settlement prevent me from giving the gory details...but you should be able to read through the lines on that. I was fired for poor performance three weeks after I successfully lead the effort to get the university regionally accredited. I was IN CHARGE OF THE ENTIRE ACCREDITATION PROCESS, by myself. I received many accolades and praise and got a 10% raise. Three weeks later, at my performance review, I was expecting a promotion. Instead, I was fired for cause. A few choice examples - a got a 1/5 for initiative and a 2/5 for organization. Oh really?? I single-handedly organized and successfully completed the huge, complex, detailed process that is regional accreditation, and I LACK initiative?!? And accreditation wasn't even my main job duty! Can you tell I'm still very, very bitter? Anyway, clearly there was an underlying reason my boss didn't want me around and they paid me very well to go away. So, fuck them. That place was toxic anyway.
Post by spunkarella on Oct 20, 2014 7:08:12 GMT -5
I forgot about the smoothie shop in college. Idk what you would call that...laid off I guess?
My paychecks started bouncing and I told the owner I wouldn't be coming back to work until she could pay me. She told me if I didn't show up, I would be fired. I told her I quit. The shop closed a few weeks later.
I chose laid off. Our entire department was let go and they outsourced the work.
I had the same experience. I was offered the chance to move to the new business center but it was several states away and I was not uprooting my life to follow an entry level job.
In college, I worked as a hostess at a restaurant. One day, the manager (who was a total douche) called me in to let me know that they were letting me go. Which was fine because it was close to summer break, and I had gotten a summer job in my hometown that paid twice as much. Suck it, a$$ butt!
About 12 years ago, I worked a second job for a year at the mall to save up money for a new car. I took the summer off to go and do summer stock theatre with the intention of returning, and when I came back, I discovered that the manager had been transferred to a new store, and that the new manager had just conveniently erased me from the system, as if I had never worked there. One of my co-workers told me that he had overheard the new manager saying that I was "too expensive". (I had bothered to take all of the incentive tests that the store offered, so I was earning more than most of the other plebs.) I didn't bother to fight it or even confront the new manager because, frankly, I was thinking about quitting anyway. I took it as a sign.
I was fired from last job. I basically forced the termination and on my terms. It was when we got the girls and I was dealing with DSHS and CPS and caseworkers and foster licensing and accreditation and everything else, DH had foot surgery and was on crutches so was only able to do so much, and I was having health issues including affected vision and heart palpitations. Boss knew all this was going on. Out of four positions, one was promoted (leaving 3) and one went on maternity leave (leaving 2 for the job of 4 people). For me to take leave, it would put one person supporting and in an untenable position which I would not do to a friend and co-worker so I stayed in the office, tried to do the work of 2 people in a 32 hour work-week instead of a 40+ workweek, with blurred vision and headaches and lack of sleep, and mistakes were made. I was put on a management oversight (by a manager who did not like me and thought I was a poor, disorganized employee despite *everyone* in the office thinking otherwise). The gal on maternity leave came back but then the other gal went on leave for foot surgery and *she* was out for three months. They gave me the option of quit in lieu of or terminated in January but I was "nope, not until co-worker gets back in March." So they sent the paperwork and I responded; one short portion of the entire explanation (and it was a wage and hour claim not any of the numerous ADA/FMLA/state law violations) made them nervous enough that they extended my "oversight" for another six weeks while they "investigated" my claims. (which they didn't properly do because they only checked the four month window they though was affected and not the entire length of the potential claim, the idiots). The extension lasted through the time my friend/co-worker returned to the office so there was adequate coverage and she wasn't returning to a total shit-storm. They again offered quit in lieu of or termination. I declined to quit because they would have fought and potentially won a UE claim whereas there was no basis if I let them terminate me. I preferred the ease of getting UE for termination and having a black mark on my resume which may or may not ever get used again.