The number one reason why people have gotten fired?

[kyrax12]

I wonder if it is attendance related?

Most of the firings I have heard of from people have been due to attendance related issues.

Like now showing up to work or being late to work.

What do you guys think?

 

[Smoblikat]

Managment treating everyone like shit.

Oh wait, you mean what they put down on paper? Probobly either attendance or lack of effort.

 

[Ns1]

no call/no show is definitely a quick way to get fired.

 

[rudeguy]

I was only fired from one job and it was because I made a mistake that cost the company a lot of money. Honest mistake, nothing dumb, it just happened.

 

[SamQuint]

The number one reasons I would think would be downsizing, outsourcing, or offshoring.

Most of the time you lose your job because the company thought you were no longer needed.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

In blue collar, no show.

In white collar, internet porn.

 

[IronWing]

My guess is company backrupties or owners pulling the plug prior to bankruptcy leads to more firings than employee conduct.

 

[Fritzo]

Attendance has by far been the #1 reason at my last 3 jobs. Work performance/behavior has been a distant second.

 

[kyrax12]

The number one reasons I would think would be downsizing, outsourcing, or offshoring.

Most of the time you lose your job because the company thought you were no longer needed.

For those three the politically correct term would be "Laid off" right? It is different from getting fired?

 

[Newell Steamer]

The reality: because they don't like you.

Officially: you didn't use the right template for your presentation, you were late, you did/didn't do something that was casually mentioned during a meeting and noted in a 4 word sentence on a e-mail 8 months ago.

 

[purbeast0]

people making stupid youtube videos then their employers finding them.

 

[Regs]

Last time I got fired, and only time, was not showing up to work. Took about two no-shows , no calls though. Came pretty close once at the same job when I threw about 2 dozen eggs in a walk-in freezer out of frustration and stealing about half the stores Entenmann's cakes and cinnamon buns. We were highly motivated responsible adults at those young ages.

 

[DesiPower]

A more generalized form of attendance issue, maybe being present physically but not mentally, lack of seriousness; Immaturity or with age, loosing the ability to give a frell

 

[twinrider1]

Attendance. A person can't talk their way out of it. The union can't defend it. It gives the manager concrete, indisputable cause for dismissal.

 

[mikeford]

Main reason I've seen is that labor requirements change and the company decides not to hold people they don't have work for. In technical fields this is also an easy way to clear the deadwood you don't have grounds to fire. Say you are in a dept with 12 people, and they hire 3 more for a big contract, and when it ends 3 people get layed off, but maybe not the same three that were hired.

I've also worked in places with a lot of seasonable workers that are only hired for a few months, or where everybody is out of work for a month or so a year as the industry almost shuts down.

Firing people without documented cause is messy these legalistic days.

 

[james1701]

FEMLA is your best friend. No questions asked.

 

[Imp]

I'm surprised I never got fired before because I can't show up anywhere on time. I was terrible at my last job, but truth is, the place was mostly cool about it since nothing but meetings were time sensitive -- even then higher ups would come and go whenever they felt like it.

But my guess that "we don't like you" is the main "real" reason. Bossom buddy of boss can probably pull whatever shit he/she likes and still have a job because he/she likes him/her.

 

[Phokus]

I was only fired from one job and it was because I made a mistake that cost the company a lot of money. Honest mistake, nothing dumb, it just happened.

Sounds interesting, why don't you tell us?

 

[Brovane]

I wonder if it is attendance related?

Most of the firings I have heard of from people have been due to attendance related issues.

Like now showing up to work or being late to work.

What do you guys think?

A guy in my department several years ago thought it would be a good idea to pitch pre-paid legal to or customers. He got fired fairly quickly once he was discovered.

 

[maddogchen]

at my level, we rarely see that. I think by the time you get here you probably already work hard and show up every day.

from what i've seen people get fired for:
-for trying to do the right thing but failing spectacularly.
-for digging through people's sensitive data for your own personal reasons

 

[Imp]

at my level, we rarely see that. I think by the time you get here you probably already work hard and show up every day.

from what i've seen people get fired for:
-for trying to do the right thing but failing spectacularly.
-for digging through people's sensitive data for your own personal reasons

That's gotta be a big newer one thanks to computer tracking. Can't sneak a look at a file anymore because it's probably logged. It also leads to a bigger, more general, issue that is "bad PR."

 

[maddogchen]

That's gotta be a big newer one thanks to computer tracking. Can't sneak a look at a file anymore because it's probably logged. It also leads to a bigger, more general, issue that is "bad PR."

Yeah, i have to keep a log of everytime i look into an individual's data in case they audit me. just a log of dates and reasons for looking. But for my job its frequent to see if they do meet my query for them to be in a certain dataset that other departments need.

And looking into data on your coworkers will always get you audited.

 

[Blackjack200]

Sounds interesting, why don't you tell us?

Got caught out with Eliot Spitzer.

 

[ctbaars]

Working at the same place for 25 years. saw five firings.
1. Didn't get a raise, so the person went into a tirade of NSFW stuff on the (jewish) boss. As he's being led out, his girl friend / lover receptionist was asked to join him out the door.
2. Stealing for the fourth time. Buying beer and cigs on the company gas card.
3. Using drugs on the job after repeated attempts offering free company paid help.
4. Selling Amway on company time and resources. There were performance reasons too.
Also a Temp Worker refused to do the job was immediately let go.

 

[Humpy]

When I ran a construction company I'd fire 1 or 2 people every year. There was never one reason, it was a build up of continuing issues but it usually fit within two patterns. The first type was clumsy, dangerous, slow, and sloppy but usually a nice person with a good attitude who showed up on time. The second type was often skilled but had a crappy attitude and would show up late or argue about stuff.

Both types aggravated the hell out of me and wouldn't last long.