I don't know if it was really getting fired or not...
But I worked at Red Lobster in college. I worked there for a semester, and then it was time to go home for Christmas break. I told my manager I'd probably be picking up some shifts at the Olive Garden back home (same parent company), and wanted to make sure that wouldn't mess anything up. She then informs me that they require everyone to come back over break and work at least one shift each week. Um, what? You want me to drive 2.5 hours back here for one shift at like $3/hour? When you know the restaurant is going to be dead because this is a college town and everyone is gone for break? Nope. I told her that wouldn't work for me, I'd be back January 3rd, oh, and Merry Christmas! I came back and I wasn't on the schedule anymore. So I just assumed I was done and never went back.
Oh I have a retail related one. I had a second job at GAP kids when C was 2. I got sick and had to call into both my regular job and that job. Regular job was all "feel better X can cover that important meeting for you" GAP was all "when do you think you will be better? This puts us in a very tight position"
It was like a Tuesday or something so not even busy.
Was still sick the next day and tried to call all day and talk to one of the managers and they were busy and you weren't allowed to leave call in messages with other employees.
So I never went back.
This reminds me of the bar I worked at right after I graduated and didn't make much at my regular job. I was a cocktail waitress and it was hard to tell if tables were really clean at 2 am in bar lighting. So they called me once at 10 am the morning after my shift and demanded that I come in immediately to finish my side work from the night before.
Um, hi, no that's not happening. I didn't get fired though.
I also worked at J. Crew in college. I loved it, I'm pretty sure I didn't make any actual money but spent it all on the required stuff. From what I remember, you couldn't wear the casual line to work, they had a workwear, classics, and casual line and you could tell by the color of the tag which line stuff was in. So you got a pretty extreme discount on the other two lines so they could pay you nothing but still have you in the clothes. I did end up having a bunch of nice stuff to wear a few years later to that job that paid me so little that I also had to work at a bar. So there's that.
I made my mom call and quit a job for me. I was 19.
On the Loss Prevention side, I was questioned about a weird purchase and return that an assistant manager did under my name. Which was STUPID, since associates weren't authorized to do returns without a manager punching in their code. The people doing the "returning" got like, $500 cash. Pretty sure that AM did it on purpose, she was fired shortly after.
I loved working at the mall though in high school. It was like a mini high school, everyone knew everyone and we all partied together.
My lame confession is that I can't stop listening to Hamilton, and also that I have since been reading a ton about Alexander Hamilton, and read a story about him having an affair he was blackmailed for, but for some reason the illicitness of an affair plus the way it was dramatized in the musical made me need to go have some alone time.
I...got down to a historical affair. I judge myself.
Are you reading Ron Chernow's book? Hamilton was such an interesting guy. I hope the production of Hamilton eventually tours so I can see it.
Post by jeaniebueller on Dec 22, 2015 17:19:21 GMT -5
Ds and I were listening to the pandora disney station and Circle of life (the movies version, not the stupid Elton John version) came on and I always tear up about that song, thinking of baby simba being held up in front of all the animals and them bowing. #dork
I was 'let go', told the position was no longer needed. But it was like 3 weeks after I started, so, no.
In university I was hired to answer the phones at this place because I spoke French. I only worked a few hours a day, just to give the FT person some time off I guess.
I was told I could do my readings for class. Problem was, my readings were so fucking boring. I would often nod off. The phone would ring like, twice a shift. It was so boring.
Post by scribellesam on Dec 22, 2015 18:54:55 GMT -5
I got "fired" from running the toddler room at church a couple weeks ago because I ate breakfast in front of the kids, lol. The children's director asked if I might be happier running the check-in desk instead.
I was a little insulted by my demotion but chatting with my friends is way better than corralling 2yos all morning so whatever.
Post by winecheery on Dec 22, 2015 18:59:39 GMT -5
Sorry to break the trend, but my confession is not job-related. I'm sure someone will flame me, but oh well.
I confess I wish we didn't have cats anymore. If I could re-home them with assurance they'd be happy and safe, I think I just might. They are just annoying to me, and they have destroyed furniture and rugs by puking on them. We have all hardwood floors. I swear they actively seek out the stainable surfaces in my home to purge on. I once caught my cat right before he puked on my dining rug and held his ass on the hardwood floor so he could do it there. He kept trying to escape me to puke on the rug. I had to really latch on to him. While he puked.
I have switched their diet with some decent success, and we are making an effort to brush them a ton more (they have long hair), and so there are mini improvements, but right now they are just one more chore, one more thing that needs me. If it doesn't help long term, I'll probably take them to the vet to rule out serious stuff, which also annoys me, even though, you know, they could be sick. The worst part of this?? I am not as bothered by one cat as I am by the other, and think if we only had him, I wouldn't be so sick of them collectively. Bah.
Anyways yeah. My cats and me…we're not such chums anymore. I know this feeling of "omg leave me alone, I'm only one person" can only escalate when baby #2 comes, so I hope the dietary changes continue to be helpful with at least the puke/hairballs/whatever.
Ds and I were listening to the pandora disney station and Circle of life (the movies version, not the stupid Elton John version) came on and I always tear up about that song, thinking of baby simba being held up in front of all the animals and them bowing. #dork
Post by gibbinator on Dec 22, 2015 19:07:23 GMT -5
I've never been fired, but I'm sure I would have been had I not quit this one first.
My friend who worked there as a server got the manager to hire me. I had tons of customer service experience so I figured I'd be good at this pretty quickly too. WRONG. I am a terrible waitress.
Anyway, my friend was in charge of training me, and after I pissed off some customers because their order was all screwed up and slow, the manager yelled at my friend instead of me, for like 30 mins. I felt so bad for her. Manager never said a word to me. That was my last shift for the week and I called the next day and told them I wasn't coming back.
My mom quit a job for me once. I wore an outfit to work that then they told me I couldn't wear and sent me home to change. I had worn it earlier in the week. It was jeans and a tshirt and there was no dress code. Anyway my mom picks me up and I am crying and she goes in in a blaze of glory in front of customers and yells that they are ridiculous and she is going to tell all her friends not to shop there and that I quit. It was a local pool supply store. I'm glad I stopped working there.
Also I got fired from my first engineering job. It was during college and the owner was pregnant. The hormones combined with my carelessness and being alone to do work most of the day wasn't a good combination. I'm actually embarrassed because she was like family. She just couldn't work with me because of her priorities and I wasn't as careful as I could have been.
I can never think of a confession when there is a thread but the college job talk reminded me of one. When I was 19 I worked as an EMT in an ambulance. One of the rules was that whenever you backed the ambulance up you had to have a spotter. My partner and I had been up all night so when we got back to the station he didn't get out to help me back up. I ran into a concrete wall. The bumper was literally hanging off the ambulance but we obviously couldn't tell anyone or we would get fired. A few days later one of our coworkers got fired because he failed his drug test. When the supervisor came to our station to let us know he noticed the bumper so we told him we first noticed it after the recently fired coworkers last shift.
Post by imojoebunny on Dec 22, 2015 19:55:19 GMT -5
This thread is hilarious.
I was fired once from an accounting firm, where I was assistant. The person who fired me was like, "You scored really well on our test, so we thought you would be great. You got a 10 out of 10 in problem solving, mathematics, and organization" My job was filing, sending bills to client, washing dishes, and answering the phone. How do those skills translate? My brain was literally falling asleep, with the tingle feeling you get when you sleep wrong.
I did work retail for a few holidays at Christmas, and the best was by far and away at Macy's when everyone was still paid on commission, so some of the people made a really good wage.. Those people knew how to have some serious fun, with parties and happy hours, and I was underage, but still invited. I was the only seasonal person, and I loved working with them.
My big fail was the Victoria Secret Scent shop. I lasted a week. I have a bad reaction to most of their scents, and my eyes swell up. I got another job on my lunch break that I applied for 4 hours after starting.
Post by jeaniebueller on Dec 22, 2015 19:55:22 GMT -5
Are we still confessing? I bought my nephew (sisters baby) a sleeper that looked like an elf outfit from Gymbo a few months ago. I don't think she ever had him wear it. I think they returned it. Nbd. But I really wanted to see how cute he would look in it. Why wouldn't you want your baby to look like an elf? Lol. But I am bummed out.
I quit a job the summer after senior year of HS because we weren't allowed to have Saturdays off (which is when everyone's grad parties were). So I skipped my waitressing shift and when they called me, my friend grabbed my phone and pretended to be my mom and told them I couldnt work that day because I had diarrhea.
I quit a job for my sister because she was too anxious to do it herself. Except she has a super raspy voice, and it was comical trying to imitate her. We were 22 and 19 at the time and our parents were not impressed.
I quit a job the summer after senior year of HS because we weren't allowed to have Saturdays off (which is when everyone's grad parties were). So I skipped my waitressing shift and when they called me, my friend grabbed my phone and pretended to be my mom and told them I couldnt work that day because I had diarrhea.
I quit a job for my sister because she was too anxious to do it herself. Except she has a super raspy voice, and it was comical trying to imitate her. We were 22 and 19 at the time and our parents were not impressed.
In high school I didn't want to go to work so my friend called and pretended to be the school nurse. She said I fell down some stairs and hurt my arm - that had actually happened a week prior and the nurse offered me a work note but I had the day off. So it wasn't a total lie lol.