Found out today I got fired from one of my jobs.

[GoingUp]

So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks in Nepal for part of March and April. I went to punch in at work last Saturday and couldn't. When I went to punch in today as well, I also couldn't. At least my new boss was around, so I let her know that I couldn't punch in. She brought me up in the computer and found out that I was fired. Evidently, if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you. Pretty lame in my opinion, especially since I had given at least 3 months notice that I would be gone on an extended vacation.

Now the job was just a couple of hours a month workin at a gym, but it made the membership free instead of $80 and I enjoyed the work. They're going to see if they can send me through the rehire process so I can get my job back, but since they've been making cuts, I'm less than hopefull. It's not the end of the world, but the whole thing just pisses me off on principle, especially since I'm the one that's been there the longest and no one mentioned anything to me before I left for the trip.

/weak rant

 

[Atomic Playboy]

It's always nice to discover that you were automatically fired by a computer.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

why would you work if you couldn't punch in? wasn't there somebody else doing your job?

 

[Chaotic42]

And the wallpaper-sized pics that you took of Nepal are... where?

 

[Baked]

3.5 weeks vacation? Where do you think you are, Europe?

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy
It's always nice to discover that you were automatically fired by a computer.

 

[Jester22]

Suxx to hear that happened, I hope everything works out. Damn computers have too much control over our lives.

Gotta cut this short though, computers beeping at me.

 

[Fern]

So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks .....if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you

So where you work, 3.5 weeks is considered more than month? Hmmm...

Might be one reason no one mentioned it to you. They may have been under the (erroneous?) assumption that 3.5 weeks is less than a month.

Anyhoo, good luck with the rehire thing.

Fern

 

[Fritzo]

Employee: "Excuse me...my card isn't working."

Boss: "That's not all that's no longer working..."

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: Fern
So where you work, 3.5 weeks is considered more than month? Hmmm...

Might be one reason no one mentioned it to you. They may have been under the (erroneous?) assumption that 3.5 weeks is less than a month.

maybe they use the metric month.

 

[pyonir]

At least you didn't get fired for stealing boxes.

I mean really...why would some steal boxes for? Were they makin' a clubhouse?

 

[mugs]

Wow. Better hope none of their employees ever have to take medical leave for more than a month, or they'll get sued.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: Baked
3.5 weeks vacation? Where do you think you are, Europe?

Haha.

 

[SirStev0]

Originally posted by: Baked
3.5 weeks vacation? Where do you think you are, Europe?

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks in Nepal for part of March and April. I went to punch in at work last Saturday and couldn't. When I went to punch in today as well, I also couldn't. At least my new boss was around, so I let her know that I couldn't punch in. She brought me up in the computer and found out that I was fired. Evidently, if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you. Pretty lame in my opinion, especially since I had given at least 3 months notice that I would be gone on an extended vacation.

Now the job was just a couple of hours a month workin at a gym, but it made the membership free instead of $80 and I enjoyed the work. They're going to see if they can send me through the rehire process so I can get my job back, but since they've been making cuts, I'm less than hopefull. It's not the end of the world, but the whole thing just pisses me off on principle, especially since I'm the one that's been there the longest and no one mentioned anything to me before I left for the trip.

/weak rant

So, why were you really fired?

 

[smack Down]

Wow you guys sure owned the OP. I'm sure while making up his lie and forgot how many weeks are in a month. Or it could be that he only works a couple of hours a month like his post reads and didn't work the day before and the day after his vacation so the time away from that job was greater then 1 month.

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks in Nepal for part of March and April. I went to punch in at work last Saturday and couldn't. When I went to punch in today as well, I also couldn't. At least my new boss was around, so I let her know that I couldn't punch in. She brought me up in the computer and found out that I was fired. Evidently, if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you. Pretty lame in my opinion, especially since I had given at least 3 months notice that I would be gone on an extended vacation.

Now the job was just a couple of hours a month workin at a gym, but it made the membership free instead of $80 and I enjoyed the work. They're going to see if they can send me through the rehire process so I can get my job back, but since they've been making cuts, I'm less than hopefull. It's not the end of the world, but the whole thing just pisses me off on principle, especially since I'm the one that's been there the longest and no one mentioned anything to me before I left for the trip.

/weak rant

So, why were you really fired?

Sexually harassing the personal trainers would be my guess.

 

[The Stigenator]

Oh man, my mom had that with her workplace. She was on paid family leave for 4 months or so and when she got back she was not an employee, lost her health insurance (which we continued to pay for the premium) and whole lot more..

basically we were screwed until we started going up the union rep. Freaking CVS.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks in Nepal for part of March and April. I went to punch in at work last Saturday and couldn't. When I went to punch in today as well, I also couldn't. At least my new boss was around, so I let her know that I couldn't punch in. She brought me up in the computer and found out that I was fired. Evidently, if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you. Pretty lame in my opinion, especially since I had given at least 3 months notice that I would be gone on an extended vacation.

Now the job was just a couple of hours a month workin at a gym, but it made the membership free instead of $80 and I enjoyed the work. They're going to see if they can send me through the rehire process so I can get my job back, but since they've been making cuts, I'm less than hopefull. It's not the end of the world, but the whole thing just pisses me off on principle, especially since I'm the one that's been there the longest and no one mentioned anything to me before I left for the trip.

/weak rant

So, why were you really fired?

He only works a couple of hours a month, so it's not like he's there every day. He probably only works weekends. So depending on when the 3.5 weeks started and ended they could have covered 4 weekends. If we're talking about a Friday to Tuesday vacation, it'd be 33 days between the last Sunday he could have worked and the first Saturday he could have worked.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: TheGoodGuy
Oh man, my mom had that with her workplace. She was on paid family leave for 4 months or so and when she got back she was not an employee, lost her health insurance (which we continued to pay for the premium) and whole lot more..

basically we were screwed until we started going up the union rep. Freaking CVS.

They're only required to give her 12 weeks of family leave per 12 months.

 

[ObiDon]

Originally posted by: venkman

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks in Nepal for part of March and April. I went to punch in at work last Saturday and couldn't. When I went to punch in today as well, I also couldn't. At least my new boss was around, so I let her know that I couldn't punch in. She brought me up in the computer and found out that I was fired. Evidently, if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you. Pretty lame in my opinion, especially since I had given at least 3 months notice that I would be gone on an extended vacation.

Now the job was just a couple of hours a month workin at a gym, but it made the membership free instead of $80 and I enjoyed the work. They're going to see if they can send me through the rehire process so I can get my job back, but since they've been making cuts, I'm less than hopefull. It's not the end of the world, but the whole thing just pisses me off on principle, especially since I'm the one that's been there the longest and no one mentioned anything to me before I left for the trip.

/weak rant

So, why were you really fired?

Sexually harassing the personal trainers would be my guess.

i was going to guess that someone snapped some pictures of him wearing a bikini on a fishing boat.

 

[Nutdotnet]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks in Nepal for part of March and April. I went to punch in at work last Saturday and couldn't. When I went to punch in today as well, I also couldn't. At least my new boss was around, so I let her know that I couldn't punch in. She brought me up in the computer and found out that I was fired. Evidently, if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you. Pretty lame in my opinion, especially since I had given at least 3 months notice that I would be gone on an extended vacation.

Now the job was just a couple of hours a month workin at a gym, but it made the membership free instead of $80 and I enjoyed the work. They're going to see if they can send me through the rehire process so I can get my job back, but since they've been making cuts, I'm less than hopefull. It's not the end of the world, but the whole thing just pisses me off on principle, especially since I'm the one that's been there the longest and no one mentioned anything to me before I left for the trip.

/weak rant

Was your 3.5 weeks of leave approved prior to leaving?

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: biggestmuff

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks in Nepal for part of March and April. I went to punch in at work last Saturday and couldn't. When I went to punch in today as well, I also couldn't. At least my new boss was around, so I let her know that I couldn't punch in. She brought me up in the computer and found out that I was fired. Evidently, if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you. Pretty lame in my opinion, especially since I had given at least 3 months notice that I would be gone on an extended vacation.

Now the job was just a couple of hours a month workin at a gym, but it made the membership free instead of $80 and I enjoyed the work. They're going to see if they can send me through the rehire process so I can get my job back, but since they've been making cuts, I'm less than hopefull. It's not the end of the world, but the whole thing just pisses me off on principle, especially since I'm the one that's been there the longest and no one mentioned anything to me before I left for the trip.

/weak rant

So, why were you really fired?

He only works a couple of hours a month, so it's not like he's there every day. He probably only works weekends. So depending on when the 3.5 weeks started and ended they could have covered 4 weekends. If we're talking about a Friday to Tuesday vacation, it'd be 33 days between the last Sunday he could have worked and the first Saturday he could have worked.

Yep, thats it. I didn't work the weekend before I left and the weekend after I got back to to getting ready for the trip and getting over food poisoning and the time difference when I got back.

And for those of you who wanted a pic, here are a couple of previews.

http://www.cheddarcheesemedia.com/nepal/pictures
http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/g...nnapurna3Panosmall.jpg

 

[GoingUp]

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
So I was on vacation for 3.5 weeks in Nepal for part of March and April. I went to punch in at work last Saturday and couldn't. When I went to punch in today as well, I also couldn't. At least my new boss was around, so I let her know that I couldn't punch in. She brought me up in the computer and found out that I was fired. Evidently, if you don't work for more than a month, corporate automatically fires you. Pretty lame in my opinion, especially since I had given at least 3 months notice that I would be gone on an extended vacation.

Now the job was just a couple of hours a month workin at a gym, but it made the membership free instead of $80 and I enjoyed the work. They're going to see if they can send me through the rehire process so I can get my job back, but since they've been making cuts, I'm less than hopefull. It's not the end of the world, but the whole thing just pisses me off on principle, especially since I'm the one that's been there the longest and no one mentioned anything to me before I left for the trip.

/weak rant

Was your 3.5 weeks of leave approved prior to leaving?

Yea. The knew back in Jan that I was leaving on Vacation.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

That sucks. It also reminds me that I need to put in for my vacation time ASAP, since I am taking five or six weeks off.