Ever Been Fired?

[Joe the Destroyer]

Never been fired, but I've been written up a couple times.  Once was at Wal-Mart for going over five hours without taking a lunch break.  Yeah, sounds weird, but that's the state standard, and if we don't clock out by that time the company gets dinged.  In the case of someone working on the sales floor, we control our own breaks and lunches, and are therefore responsible for clocking out on time. 

The other time was a few months ago at my current job at the hospital.  I thought I was supposed to work at 1 PM, but was supposed to be in a 9 AM.  I noticed this at 9:45 AM, called the office and told them I was going to be in.  It went down on my record as an "unexcused absence," which automatically nets you a write up. 

[dean]

Haven't specifically been fired, but once the part time job I had just stopped rostering me on, so I suppose it's a technical firing: they didn't tell me to go look elsewhere, they just made it so that I had to get another job.



Basically the shop I worked for got sold to new people and rather than keep the regulars and re-train them in their way of doing things, they figured it'd be easier to 'force' people into leaving by not rostering them on, then they could start a-fresh from the start.

They even had a book where they would write notes for staff members and once used it to have a go at me for not doing some job right, but nobody ever had taught me how to do it right in the first place, and I had to wing it [nobody was around].

Eh...

[InformationGeek]

No, I've never been fired before, mostly because I never had a job before outside of simple babysitting work and dog trainning.  Once I told not to come back for volunteering at one place (Long story, you have to be there to understand) when I was 14.

[Rev. Powell]

I've never been fired before, but I have had to fire people.  It's not as much fun as you might think (but it's still a lot better than being fired). 

[BoyScoutKevin]

No, but I've come close a couple of times. But, I don't have to worry about being fired now that I'm retired. I was in my last job long enough I could retire with a decent pension that paid for all my needs. And as my health has taken a turn for the worst, I may never work again. Thus, no need to worry about ever being fired.

[The Burgomaster]

I have had to terminate (either by firing or lay-offs) several employees over the course of my career.  Some of them were people I considered to be friends outside of work.  It's tough, but often necessary and I wouldn't want to be on the other end of it.

[Dennis]

I've never been fired before, but I have had to fire people.  It's not as much fun as you might think (but it's still a lot better than being fired). 

I've had to do this several times myself, no matter what the reason for the firing is it always leaves a bad taste in my mouth, I just hate to do it to anyone.