The number one reason why people have gotten fired?

[biostud]

Budget cuts.

 

[QueBert]

last job I got let go from, the day before my 90 day eval I was doing clean up on a bunch of batch scripts we used to process medical billing. The test system was down so I was told to test them on the production system which only did it's thing at midnight so it was no problem. I changed the system date so I could test process the files, I ended up fixing like 90% of the batch file other morons had borked. But I forgot to change the system date back before I left.

So that night it processed like 10k files and kicked them all out because of the date. OOPS LOL. It was fixable but required a lot of time and effort. So on my 90 day eval I was told bye-bye.

 

[pcgeek11]

I agree Attendance Issues. People just do not have the loyalty to show up when they are supposed to / crappy work ethics. It seems a lot more prevalent now than when I was younger.

Kids. :\

 

[RelaxTheMind]

bad work ethic. which includes punctuality, attendance, good hygiene/health, attitude... etc

a lot of people in this thread are getting confused between "fired" and "laid off".

 

[NetGuySC]

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.

I too have made that possible career ending mistake that costs 100k or more in damage. I worked in a wholesale bakery making buns, the flour company mistakenly delivered 80,000lb of cake flour instead of our usual bread flour. I didn't catch their mistake (which ended up being my mistake) but instead just tried to make it work for about 14 hours, it didn't.

 

[NetWareHead]

I worked for a pc repair company in high school.. They sent me to this one customer's house to fix a computer and this thing was just the most adware ridden piece of shit that badly needed a memory upgrade and more hard drive space. after nearly 45 minutes of trying to remove some programs to get some more working space I called my boss and let him know the situation. IMO it wasnt worth it to the customer to try this, I would be there all day and at the rate they were charging, just get a new computer. The PC would fight back and decide to blue screen alot or slowly grind to a halt. My manager just told me to fix it and after three hours I left and told the customer his computer needed to be put in a museum; too old to fix. I got an angry phone call a few hours later from my manager and he fired me over the phone.

 

[Regs]

I worked for a pc repair company in high school.. They sent me to this one customer's house to fix a computer and this thing was just the most adware ridden piece of shit that badly needed a memory upgrade and more hard drive space. after nearly 45 minutes of trying to remove some programs to get some more working space I called my boss and let him know the situation. IMO it wasnt worth it to the customer to try this, I would be there all day and at the rate they were charging, just get a new computer. The PC would fight back and decide to blue screen alot or slowly grind to a halt. My manager just told me to fix it and after three hours I left and told the customer his computer needed to be put in a museum; too old to fix. I got an angry phone call a few hours later from my manager and he fired me over the phone.

This reminds me of a help desk guy at work who was asked to look at a computer that did not have a working keyboard. Got short with an employee, and took a pair of scissors and cut the wire from the keyboard to the computer after arguing over how it did not work. The requester inadvertently hit a key binding that changed all the letters to alt key symbols like wingdings and refused to think it was his fault.

 

[PenguinPower]

So, I just looked at the past 5 years of data for our company and this is what the top reasons were (n=1225):

1.) Reduction in Force: 34.37%
2.) Attendance/NCNS: 27.51%
3.) Poor Performance: 16.57%
4.) Violation of Company Policy (e.g. Harassment, Drug, etc.): 14.78%
5.) Medically Unable to Work: 6.78%

 

[Midwayman]

Only time I've been fired is for 'performance' immediately after I told them I had to leave at the end of the month to go back to school. Been laid off a couple times, but they were all large lay offs not specifically targeting me. Wife got fired once for 'performance' immediately after having to take a bunch of medical leave.

Performance seems the catch all category for 'We can't legally fire you for what we are really firing you for without risking a suit.'

 

[gorcorps]

Performance seems the catch all category for 'We can't legally fire you for what we are really firing you for without risking a suit.'

That's exactly what the people who have piss poor performance would say.

 

[rudeguy]

This reminds me of a help desk guy at work who was asked to look at a computer that did not have a working keyboard. Got short with an employee, and took a pair of scissors and cut the wire from the keyboard to the computer after arguing over how it did not work. The requester inadvertently hit a key binding that changed all the letters to alt key symbols like wingdings and refused to think it was his fault.

LOL

What did you do to your sig man?

 

[Regs]

LOL

What did you do to your sig man?

I actually just figured it out.Third party extension on Firefox adds a auto search feature when you highlight something. So when I high light something in a text input box it auto inserts code that makes the forum parser go batshit insane.

 

[Midwayman]

That's exactly what the people who have piss poor performance would say.

Except I've seen it happen to numerous people I know. Pattern of excellent performance reviews, suddenly something changes and their getting written up for the exact same stuff that got them rave reviews before. You have to be really naive if you think companies don't falsify documentation before letting people go.

 

[SlitheryDee]

According to them? Boss is an asshole.

According to boss? Shitty employee.

 

[pcgeek11]

Only time I've been fired is for 'performance' immediately after I told them I had to leave at the end of the month to go back to school. Been laid off a couple times, but they were all large lay offs not specifically targeting me. Wife got fired once for 'performance' immediately after having to take a bunch of medical leave.

Performance seems the catch all category for 'We can't legally fire you for what we are really firing you for without risking a suit.'

Or maybe it is a performance issue. a pretty wide category.