The joys of being rehired

[KLin]

I dunno. I've never gone back to work for the same company after leaving.

 

[sdifox]

Wait until you get re-fired

 

[nakedfrog]

This time... from a cannon!

 

[IBMJunkman]

Wait until you get re-fired

Better than being refried

 

[BoomerD]

Working out of the union hall, there were several times I’d work for a company, get laid off, then a while later, get re-dispatched to them…sometimes the same job, sometimes a different one.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I left my county position one time to work for a small city and was so freakin bored I asked the county to rehire me after 3 months. Well when the small town hired me, they hired me at a higher class, so when the county offered me my position, I told them I'd take it if they matched the salary. The county matched and I stayed with the county for another 15 years!

 

[KLin]

I worked for the government once. IRS service center in Fresno as a data transcriber for the 1997 tax season. I only did it for one season. It sucked.

 

[Charmonium]

When I was in grad school, I worked the 1980 US Census. The thing that surprised me is how paranoid people were.

There were also racial overtones. Spanish-language people always wanted to be put down as "white" not Hispanic. It's not too hard to guess why - if the census showed white people in the neighborhood, that area might get better treatment.

I went along with it since they were probably right and I sort of considered it a distinction with only a de minimis difference. Most of the people I spoke with had fairly fair pigmentation.

My mom's family is Italian but they're from northern Italy so they're very fair - mom had auburn hair and freckles. She could easily pass for Irish.

But once you get down into southern Italy and Sicily, significant pigmentation is more the rule.

BTW, did you know that light-skinned humans only appeared about 3000 years ago?

from live science

 

[pcgeek11]

Never been fired or laid off.....

I have however quit a couple of shitty jobs...

15 years old working the back of a diner.
17 years old working as a mechanic assistant in an auto body shop and garage.

 

[Greenman]

I kind of got fired from San Jose State University. I'm guessing thrown off the campus and bared from returning counts? A month or so later they asked me to come back.

 

[fralexandr]

I've been rehired 3 times. Am I winning or losing? I can't tell?

 

[sdifox]

I kind of got fired from San Jose State University. I'm guessing thrown off the campus and bared from returning counts? A month or so later they asked me to come back.

You heard it from the horse's mouth! Greenman was a DEI hire!

 

[brianmanahan]

i did it with a couple internships and then came back as a full-time hire, and it was pretty nice already knowing how stuff worked there

unfortunately after 6 or 7 years i was sick of 60 hour weeks so i went somewhere else

those seem to follow me wherever i go though

 

[Greenman]

You heard it from the horse's mouth! Greenman was a DEI hire!

I'm not sure how you got DEI out of that story, but I'm OK with it if it makes you happy.

 

[sdifox]

I'm not sure how you got DEI out of that story, but I'm OK with it if it makes you happy.

It's a joke. Probably too oblique.

 

[Greenman]

It's a joke. Probably too oblique.

I had thought humor might be the point, but I couldn't crack the code.

 

[sdifox]

I had thought humor might be the point, but I couldn't crack the code.

The only reason you got rehired is because they needed a number of white employees.