So I'm getting fired

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: BigJ
Welcome to the real world.

What you should've done is gone into work, and once they realized how sick you are, they would've sent you home and all would've been well. You messed up during the probationary period, so you're gone.

..employers hate sickleave..AB109 AB47. it's the kiss of death for promotion.

 

[Pikachu]

Amen CFster. It's a quaint notion unheard of today. Surprised it's even listed in Wikipedia: Work ethic...

 

[mugs]

Sad fact is many people your age call in sick so they won't have to work on a weekend evening. They don't want someone like that working for them. If they have a large staff I'd think they'd give you a second change, but if it's just a small staff they can't afford to have people who'll be calling in sick so they don't have to work.

 

[Vic]

You don't have to put down on a future job applications a job that you worked at for only a week. You never have to put down on job applications that you were fired from a job, unless it was for some serious and/or legal reason. Former employers are forbidden by law from providing negative information about you to potentional future employers (although that doesn't stop future employers from trying to ask, and former employers can answer no to the "would you rehire" question).

 

[bennylong]

You have no work ethnic. So wonder all the jobs are being outsourced to different countries. With young people like you working in the United States, everything is going to be outsourced.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: bennylong
You have no work ethnic. So wonder all the jobs are being outsourced to different countries. With young people like you working in the United States, everything is going to be outsourced.

Outsourced employment is often even worse. Many companies are starting to pull out of India right now because turnover rates are skyrocketing.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: Kyanzes
Interesting, I haven't had a single day off sick since I started to work (almost exactly 10 years now). Not a single day. That doesn't mean I'm ultra resilient or something, it simply means that I would never risk to take days out when I'm sick. It doesn't worth it. Let them send you home if they want (never accepted that though). You are the most vulnerable when you are not near. You would be very surprised how risky it is to be far from your workplace (sickness, holiday etc). People immediately start to talk about you, the quality of the work you do, your relationship to others etc. Ofc if you brake your bones, get cancer etc. that's different stuff. But I doubt anyone would fire you for breaking your leg. Taking days out on probation is a bad omen also. Either don't be sick or be the boss. However it is still unadvised to leave for a long time even when you are the boss, for obvious reasons

lol...you sound like a job-scared little bitch...

Agreed. Paranoia will destroy ya. I work to live, not the other way around. I am confident enough in myself and my abilities as well as in my relationships with co-workers, friends, and outside business contacts to know that even if by some tragedy I lost my job, I would move forward and get a new job. And through it all, I would still enjoy life. F*ck the job.

 

[Triforceofcourage]

****** that job OP, you really shouldn't call in sick in your first week of employment though. It looks bad and I wouldn't do it unless I was really sick which you just might have been. My guess is your employer doesn't give a ****** about you so just do whats best for you and it will all work out.

 

[Pikachu]

Typical advice from one of today's entitled slackers. Here I'll fix it:

My guess is you don't give a ****** about your employer...

 

[Triforceofcourage]

Originally posted by: Pikachu
Typical advice from one of today's entitled slackers. Here I'll fix it:

My guess is you don't give a ****** about your employer...

Actually, my employer has been great to me so far. I enjoy working for the company and the people around me. However, his employer sounds like a real piece of garbage. I wouldn't want to work for such poor management.

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: Number1
You're too sick to go to work but you are healty ennough to complain on ATOT. If you can't put in extra efforts in your first week of employment, how is it going to be in 6 months. You have clearly demonstrated to your boss that you can't be counted on. This is not school, its the real world
Grow up.

QFT. You're too sick to go into work, but you're well enough to post here? Give me a break OP

 

[Baked]

I can't believe you're trying to justify your lazy ass by saying you're a hard worker yet you're calling in sick in the 1st week of work. Ummm yeah, sure you're sick and not having a serious hangover from getting drunk off your ass the previous night.

 

[CTrain]

Originally posted by: Triforceofcourage

Originally posted by: Pikachu
Typical advice from one of today's entitled slackers. Here I'll fix it:

My guess is you don't give a ****** about your employer...

Actually, my employer has been great to me so far. I enjoy working for the company and the people around me. However, his employer sounds like a real piece of garbage. I wouldn't want to work for such poor management.

Wow, just from that little post from the OP, you came to the conclusion that the work place has poor management ???
Thats amazing.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: CFster

Originally posted by: Pikachu
I trained a kid who "worked" with us over the summer. He had been turned down by other places, because it wasn't worth their time to train him, only to have him leave in a few months.

Wish we would have said the same thing. It's bad enough that it was a waste of time to train him, but I never saw anybody take so much time off before. Always a "legitimate" reason, though. :roll:

Kids today just have no concept of what employment is all about. It's not some hobby to bide your time, or keep you busy & off the street. If employers aren't too quick to hire you, it's because your peers made such a bad impression!

Bingo.

I've had so many young people work for me that just had no idea.

If somebody is in their 30 or 60 day probationary period he better show the hell up to work. If he's out sick the first week he better be an outstanding worker. He's still under probation so I can do what ever the hell I want with him, including firing.

I have no mercy for kids these days. I've had too many of them try and pull crap. And none of them want to work either. I have guys in their 60s that work rings around them. They just had a different work ethic back in the day.

What kind of jobs are we talking that these kids are doing? Minimum wage burger flipping and retail crap? Those jobs are a dime a dozen. I'd say kids don't value those jobs because those jobs have no value. Their pay is sh|t. The work is sh|t. And there's a massive over-supply of them, meaning its not really worth worrying about them. Now I'll agree that a lot of people don't even value their halfway decent jobs...but I always find it funny when people get mad that the kid working behind the mcdonalds counter doesn't care. Of course he doesn't.

Anyway, the OP should just go to work anyway and then vomit on his manager.

 

[Pikachu]

Thanks for making my point about our entitled youth and lack of work ethic. :thumbsup:

One of the first things I told him, is that if you can't handle the simplest duties, how can you expect to be given any more responsibilities? Showing up for work ON TIME, is pretty simple duty, no?

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

I've never missed a day of school for being sick ever since like 3rd grade or something. If you've got a runny nose, take it like a man, who says you need to be resting at home? Take some medicine and show up.

Now I've missed school only for stomach flu, but that's because it's not a good idea showing up to school throwing up every 20 minutes and running off to take a dump. Other than that, runny nose, sore throat, coughs? Show up damnit.

 

[Black88GTA]

We have one of those "show-up-to-work-no-matter-what" types at my job. She came in with Strep Throat. A week later, and I sh!t you not, 4 others were out with it. Thankfully, they had the sense (and courtesy) to call in.

"work ethic" ftw?

 

[siameseplease]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
I started work at a store late last week (just a summer job, I'm a college student). Everything's been going fine, no problems that I'm aware of. Last night I got really sick (think a friend of mine gave me a bug), and it's carried over into today, when I was supposed to work. I call in sick. I'm told that because this is my first week that "that's not good" and that I need to call back later and talk to some other person. I call back and he informs me that chances are they're going to let me go if I don't come in today.

I don't even care that much. If these assholes wanna fire a hard-working employee for calling in sick once, then that's fine. Summer's not long from over, I have another (small but adequate) source of income, and summer school's keeping me plenty busy. I guess I can see it from their perspective, but I still think they're being a bit ridiculous. The only thing I'm concerned about is future job applications-I'll have to put it down that I was terminated from my last job. Hope that doesn't affect things too terribly much. I've never been fired from a job before. Oh well.

You pimp hoes too?!?!?!!1one

 

[Kalmah]

I say just go in sick and throw up all over the place. Let them know that they are as$holes... A little dramatizing too add the polish...

 

[SlitheryDee]

If I genuinely got sick to the extent that I couldn't work within a week of getting a new job I would still show up and tell my employer in person so that they can see for themselves.

Buddy if I'm sick enough to miss work it WILL be noticeable and my boss would have little option but to send me home rather than have me pass out in a pool of my own juices about half way through the day.

For the record I've never taken a sick day from any job I've held.

 

[JS80]

go to work and get everyone sick ftw

 

[Pikachu]

Funny how the supposedly "young & healthy" are the ones always calling in sick. Why do you think that is?

 

[Fritzo]

Show up to work and pass out in front of a customer.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Pikachu
Funny how the supposedly "young & healthy" are the ones always calling in sick. Why do you think that is?

Does it matter? When you are sick, you are sick. Rest makes you recover quicker and reduces the chance of infecting others.

Although doing it in the first week certainly doesn't look good. But sometimes you can't help it I guess.

 

[Triforceofcourage]

At my office they don't want you to come in if your sick so you don't spread it around. That is why it is poor management. Why the hell would he want this guy to come in and infect the rest of the employees.