Have you or known someone who was fired over a menial task?

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: loki8481
one of my friends was written up for being ~5 minutes late twice in a week.

personally, if I'm ~5 minutes late, I consider myself to be early

If you worked for me, you'd get bitched at the 2nd time it happened, and fired the 3rd. (granted, shit happens, and if it's not a frequent thing, then that'd be different, but given the bolded text above...it sounds like he's late all the time.
I realize that with some jobs, punctuality isn't as important as with the work I did...but if you're SUPPOSED to be there at a certain time...FFS, BE THERE ON TIME or EARLY.

I am late all the time. usually in the 20-30 minute mark.

punctuality isn't especially important at my company, since basically everyone works through lunch, stays late, is on-call 24/7, etc... it more than evens out in the end, as long as someone doesn't take it to a ridiculous extreme (like coming in an hour late every day and leaving on-time). in fact, here it is 3:53 am and I was actually just at my office like 15 minutes ago couldn't sleep and I called out tomorrow, so I went in for a few to take care of some stuff.

only time punctuality is stressed is when there's another shift waiting to be relieved, which only applies to me one day a week (standard shifts are 12-8, 8-4, 4-12... I work 8-4 1 day/week but 10-6 the rest)

All the time 20-30 minutes late?

Why?

Can't you just leave 30 minutes earlier? What's so friggin hard about that?

I might be late once and awhile - but like a minute or two because of some traffic.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Greyd

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I got fired from an IT contract for a CC company when they relocated their offices from Manhattan. Apparently, I went above and beyond my call of duty. I did what was in the contract, and their network engineering staff were complete idiots so I stepped in, saved the day, and their manager was embarrassed as hell because one single contracted person knew more about their network system than the entire in-house staff. So he let me go. I had fullfilled my contract and the help I gave his engineering group was gratis. He was a total idiot. So I took about 20 SoundBlaster cards (worth about 100 a pop back then) from their inventory when I left.

!??

Exactly...WTF??? You're proud about stealing??

Was sarcasm. Soundcards have nothing to do with networking. Sheesh.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: winr
I got fired from TG&Y warehouse.

EDIT:
I was 18 years old.

I was working as a receiver unloading trucks.

Each door had 2 unloaders except for me, I had a door to myself as I am super hyper and no one wanted to work with me.

I was riding my pallet jack down an aisle and a junior supervisor was chasing me, I was unaware of him chasing me until I stopped.

He started hollering at me and told me to come to the office which I did.

All of the big bosses gathered around me and the head boss told me if I didnt apologize for riding the pallet jack and also apologize to the junior supervisor they would fire me.

I said I was sorry I was riding the pallet jack and it wouldnt happen again as I was wrong but I didnt do anything to the junior supervisor to apologize for.

The head boss said if I didnt apologize to the junior supervisor I was fired.

I said tell you what, I quit...thanks for the job and see ya...

The head boss said you are still going to apologize to the junior supervisor.

I told the head boss I wasnt apologizing, I was leaving and if anyone wanted to stop me to go for it.

No one said anything and I walked out and was glad I quit that place.

I didnt graduate from high school and do not have a college diploma but I work as hard as 2 people in every job I have had.

Half of my life I have worked for a business, the other half I have either owned my own business or contracted myself out.

My first job paid $1.25 an hour, the most I have earned was $7000.00 a month.


When I was in charge I treated my people like I would a family member...with tolerance...


I wonder if the hard nose bosses that rule with an iron fist at work go home and treat there Family the same way ???

Was this a regular pallet jack? The manual ones? Or was it one of those which is powered and you're supposed to ride on? That seems like pertinent info.

I would guess manual since you aren't really supposed to ride those. If not manual, why would someone be chasing you about it?

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I got fired from an IT contract for a CC company when they relocated their offices from Manhattan. Apparently, I went above and beyond my call of duty. I did what was in the contract, and their network engineering staff were complete idiots so I stepped in, saved the day, and their manager was embarrassed as hell because one single contracted person knew more about their network system than the entire in-house staff. So he let me go. I had fullfilled my contract and the help I gave his engineering group was gratis. He was a total idiot. So I took about 20 SoundBlaster cards (worth about 100 a pop back then) from their inventory when I left.

Grand Larceny.

NICE!

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: Greyd

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I got fired from an IT contract for a CC company when they relocated their offices from Manhattan. Apparently, I went above and beyond my call of duty. I did what was in the contract, and their network engineering staff were complete idiots so I stepped in, saved the day, and their manager was embarrassed as hell because one single contracted person knew more about their network system than the entire in-house staff. So he let me go. I had fullfilled my contract and the help I gave his engineering group was gratis. He was a total idiot. So I took about 20 SoundBlaster cards (worth about 100 a pop back then) from their inventory when I left.

!??

Exactly...WTF??? You're proud about stealing??

Was sarcasm. Soundcards have nothing to do with networking. Sheesh.

ROFL :laugh:

Yeah...RIGHT.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Originally posted by: Perknose

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
i was fired because i sent my supervisor an email, which was pretty heated, asking for a bit more respect becuase its not like we work at mcDonalds. He had chewed me out in front of my entire helpdesk staff because I used the word "stuff" in an email to a client, of whom I already had good repoir with.

I think I see your problem here. "Repoir" is not even close to the spelling of "rapport", and the phrase itself, in the English language, would be, "with whom I had a good rapport."

You can't have a good rapport of with someone.

For client e-mails, you simply didn't have the right, errrrrrrrr, stuff.

Well I stand corrected. I've seen it written as Repoir, Repoire, and Rapport. As some words in the english language have different spellings due to geographical and cultural differences, I took this as the same thing. If you google it, you'll find threads discussing the word and its spellings.

anywoo, the client I was talking to was cussing casually, saying things like "weeeeeeee the install is done" etc and have even thanked me for not being a "suit" doucebag.

 

[compuwiz1]

Back in HS, I worked at a gas station. One day the boss tried to call me in on my day off and threatened to fire me if I didn't show up. I simply told him to fsck his beard and that was the last I ever saw of that job. :shocked:

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I quit a job once after the boss laughed at me. I was working for a small software firm. I was the only IT person in the company (We had one programer who worked from home, and one support rep). I revolutionized their setup over my first year. Brought them into the future, wrote my own CRM and billing software, discovered a billing error in their favor with sprint, and recovered 30,000 in cash due to it. Used that money to bring in our own T1, switch to voip long distance for the sales group, and bring all servers in house, saving almost 6000.00 in month payments to salesforce, the phone company, the hosting companies etc. At the time I had no work experience in the IT field, fresh out of highschool. I was making 9.00 an hour. I asked for a raise to 10.50. I was told no. I told her that I was sorry, but I was going to start looking for a new job, and she should probably know that to find someone to run all this stuff I had just setup was going to cost a lot more then what I was asking. She laughed and told me "I'm sure you will have no problem finding a job, with all your education." (I had not been to college). I sent my resume out to a few companys, was brought in for an interview and hired for a job at about 17.00 an hour. I quit with 1 week notice. Last I knew, they almost went out of business because nobody knew how to maintain the servers, how to admin the network, their programmer quit due to the strain they tried to put on him to do my job, same with their support guy. They had to pay someone to come in and migrate their system to windows and re-engineer or replace the software I wrote (the server side of it was ment to run on linux). Last I've checked their website, their software has not been updated in at least 6 years. That's what a 1.50 an hour cost them.

That's just stupid silly. Considering how much you were saving them on a monthly basis, they should have jumped on your minimal request before you got smart and asked for much more.

 

[TehMac]

Originally posted by: sourceninja
I quit a job once after the boss laughed at me. I was working for a small software firm. I was the only IT person in the company (We had one programer who worked from home, and one support rep). I revolutionized their setup over my first year. Brought them into the future, wrote my own CRM and billing software, discovered a billing error in their favor with sprint, and recovered 30,000 in cash due to it. Used that money to bring in our own T1, switch to voip long distance for the sales group, and bring all servers in house, saving almost 6000.00 in month payments to salesforce, the phone company, the hosting companies etc. At the time I had no work experience in the IT field, fresh out of highschool. I was making 9.00 an hour. I asked for a raise to 10.50. I was told no. I told her that I was sorry, but I was going to start looking for a new job, and she should probably know that to find someone to run all this stuff I had just setup was going to cost a lot more then what I was asking. She laughed and told me "I'm sure you will have no problem finding a job, with all your education." (I had not been to college). I sent my resume out to a few companys, was brought in for an interview and hired for a job at about 17.00 an hour. I quit with 1 week notice. Last I knew, they almost went out of business because nobody knew how to maintain the servers, how to admin the network, their programmer quit due to the strain they tried to put on him to do my job, same with their support guy. They had to pay someone to come in and migrate their system to windows and re-engineer or replace the software I wrote (the server side of it was ment to run on linux). Last I've checked their website, their software has not been updated in at least 6 years. That's what a 1.50 an hour cost them.

You seem to have a lot of interesting jobs and experience. Interesting overall.

 

[cmv]

I never got fired. The only time I felt like my employer might be out for me was when the front desk lady hinted I might be walking out with too much stuff. I was trying to figure out WTF that meant and then I realized that that it was probably them thinking I was stealing something. I'm not sure what... Maybe computer parts? I've never stolen anything from a job and I worked there for a couple more years but I was careful to make sure I wasn't bringing in stuff from home and carrying it out again just in case someone got the wrong idea from video tapes.

One of my coworkers was fired but it took about 6-10 months of him not doing his job to get canned. When he finally got fired everyone was happy to see the boss had got around to it in the end as he had way too many "fourth chances." Apparently, he was still surprised he got fired and didn't see it coming even though everyone else did.

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I got fired from an IT contract for a CC company when they relocated their offices from Manhattan. Apparently, I went above and beyond my call of duty. I did what was in the contract, and their network engineering staff were complete idiots so I stepped in, saved the day, and their manager was embarrassed as hell because one single contracted person knew more about their network system than the entire in-house staff. So he let me go. I had fullfilled my contract and the help I gave his engineering group was gratis. He was a total idiot. So I took about 20 SoundBlaster cards (worth about 100 a pop back then) from their inventory when I left.

!??

I agree. WTF?