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  • JBC77
    SBR MVP
    • 03-23-07
    • 3816

    #1
    How many jobs have you been fired from?
    I saw a girl at work today get sh1t canned. They had to escort her out of the building. Felt a little bad, she was balling like a baby.

    Made me reflect on my own employment history, the early years so to speak. I was never fired.....I would sort of fire myself. You know, just not show up anymore. No two weeks notice.....nada, zip.

    Which type are you? The guy that stays until being escorted out or the quitting type?
  • jjgold
    SBR Aristocracy
    • 07-20-05
    • 388179

    #2
    I just walk out. I got fired about 8 times

    Was framed in 7 of them
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    • Shark79
      SBR Posting Legend
      • 11-19-07
      • 11211

      #3
      Originally posted by jjgold
      I just walk out. I got fired about 8 times

      Was framed in 7 of them
      I call BS
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      • diogee
        SBR Posting Legend
        • 01-11-08
        • 19477

        #4
        I was fired from Culligan water when I was 17 for "joyriding" an old GMC van with my friends. I ended up with a $750 fine and 1 year of unsupervised probation for it.
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        • Willie Bee
          SBR Posting Legend
          • 02-14-06
          • 15726

          #5
          Got laid off twice by the same company and had a contract tech writing job come to a screeching halt when the project itself was canned. Have come to a couple of 'mutual separations,' like you're suggesting I believe. But I've never been fired and fortunately never had to to fire anyone (also have a perfect record as a Little League umpire and have never ejected anyone, proud of that).

          It was much harder though to tell someone they were being let go and to have to make a decision like that when they come tell you to pare your department salary by 15%-25% than it was to be told that I was the one being pared from the parking lot.
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          • Shark79
            SBR Posting Legend
            • 11-19-07
            • 11211

            #6
            I've never been fired ... I guess thats good
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            • Willie Bee
              SBR Posting Legend
              • 02-14-06
              • 15726

              #7
              Originally posted by Shark79
              I call BS
              Me too, JJ. I'd come nearer believing that you were framed on all eight than just being framed on seven on 'em.
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              • Stumpage
                SBR MVP
                • 09-21-05
                • 2906

                #8
                Yeah, I never really thought about it until this thread, but I've never been fired either.....Have walked out of a job mid-day though. One of the co-workers was a real A hole and I just thought "F*** this".....
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                • capitalist pig
                  SBR MVP
                  • 01-25-07
                  • 4998

                  #9
                  I cant remember ever being fired, the last job I had before I went into business for myself I gave a 2 week notice.

                  later
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                  • pavyracer
                    SBR Aristocracy
                    • 04-12-07
                    • 82839

                    #10
                    When you have multiple alter egos you are more likely to be fired multiple times. Aristotle never lies.
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                    • Shark79
                      SBR Posting Legend
                      • 11-19-07
                      • 11211

                      #11
                      In Costa Rica it is actually a good thing to get fired ... You get more money back then simply walking away from the job ... If a company should fire you ... there is a whole process that must be done and at the end you get more $$ for getting the F word than just stepping away.
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                      • charlie64
                        SBR Sharp
                        • 11-22-07
                        • 398

                        #12
                        When I was younger I would tell them to blow me at the drop of a hat.Now that I'm older.and have a really great job I've learned to bite my tongue.For a guy with no college education to have this job,I would probably jump off a bridge.25 more years I can retire.
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                        • rm18
                          SBR Posting Legend
                          • 09-20-05
                          • 22291

                          #13
                          Quit twice, fired twice. Quit the first day once. Fired the second day once. Fired 11th day once.
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                          • BurtRapp
                            SBR MVP
                            • 01-10-08
                            • 2410

                            #14
                            I've been escorted in cuffs twice. Quit once with two weeks. Every other job forced out at some point. My Work history is a mess.
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                            • buztah
                              SBR Hall of Famer
                              • 03-23-07
                              • 7470

                              #15
                              First one. None since..............
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                              • 20Four7
                                SBR Hall of Famer
                                • 04-08-07
                                • 6703

                                #16
                                Never been fired, have quit lots of Jobs. At one point about 15 years ago, I went through 4 jobs in 6 months. At least each new job offered better wages/benefits or something. Now that I"m self employed I'm trying to fire myself.
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                                • thebigguy
                                  SBR Sharp
                                  • 12-12-07
                                  • 279

                                  #17
                                  JJ have you ever been fired for nailing a female co worker?

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                                  • BigBollocks
                                    SBR MVP
                                    • 06-11-06
                                    • 2045

                                    #18
                                    Only one that I can remember. The lowest paying job I have ever had (a temp job in college), and I got fired after my first week. There was this really sexy manager showing me the ropes, and I still to this day can't determine whether I got fired for checking her out too much or not picking up the job fast enough...
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                                    • RageWizard
                                      SBR MVP
                                      • 09-01-06
                                      • 3008

                                      #19
                                      I have never been fired so that must suck. They usuallu only fire people for f'ing up.

                                      I had to fire a guy last year. We sent him to Japan for a month and he ended up in the hospital. We were all feeling bad for him until we found out he had a dissended colon from going to a japanese S&M club and putting it on the corporate slush fund.
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                                      • Sportsgirl
                                        SBR MVP
                                        • 09-10-06
                                        • 4493

                                        #20
                                        I got fired once. My friend and I got jobs at this meat place and we had to cold-call people and try and sell them a half a cow. We were not very successful, so the manager calls us into his office and says, "Ladies, I hate to do this, but I'm going to have to let you go."

                                        I had just turned 16 and my response was"

                                        "Go where?"
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                                        • Shark79
                                          SBR Posting Legend
                                          • 11-19-07
                                          • 11211

                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by Sportsgirl
                                          I got fired once. My friend and I got jobs at this meat place and we had to cold-call people and try and sell them a half a cow. We were not very successful, so the manager calls us into his office and says, "Ladies, I hate to do this, but I'm going to have to let you go."

                                          I had just turned 16 and my response was"

                                          "Go where?"
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                                          • compaqDikk
                                            SBR Hall of Famer
                                            • 10-08-05
                                            • 5699

                                            #22
                                            1999 hired at an online brokerage firm, 2003ish witness software where they logged all my keystrokes escorted out in 2005. said things and gone places i shouldn't have on company time but who the fukk doesn't?. my bad plus i was on the wrong meds. i was an email rep and cherry picked only the easy emails. they didn't like that either. i guess i'm a bad person?
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                                            • 2Pac
                                              SBR MVP
                                              • 12-12-07
                                              • 1474

                                              #23
                                              0.

                                              Quit a few though after a short period of time.

                                              Nursing home kitchen - Quit after 1 day. Fukk that kitchen shit.

                                              Golf course maintenance - Oh shit, allergic to poison ivy and had to get up at 5AM everyday. Quit after 1 week.

                                              Amvets Call Center - Call old person, ask for his junk. Repeat.
                                              2 hours into my first day - Told the supervisor I was going on break..... It's 3 months later and I still haven't returned from that break.
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                                              • 2Pac
                                                SBR MVP
                                                • 12-12-07
                                                • 1474

                                                #24
                                                Originally posted by thebigguy
                                                JJ have you ever been fired for nailing a female co worker?

                                                You have to have a job in order to be fired from one.
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                                                • thezbar
                                                  SBR Hall of Famer
                                                  • 08-29-06
                                                  • 6422

                                                  #25
                                                  Six or seven times. Mostly while I was in my twenties. Once I figured out it was better to be fired than quit because of the unemployment laws I became professional at it. I've also survived a plant closure and layoff due to general business slowdown.Always landed on my feet!
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                                                  • purecarnagge
                                                    SBR MVP
                                                    • 10-05-07
                                                    • 4843

                                                    #26
                                                    Been fired once, quit a bunch of times...

                                                    1. Fired from Sears. Bookie in lawn and garden got busted and narc'd on everyone who bet with him. I got narc'd out over a 10 dollar pick em pool little did i know the other guys were laying 500 a game and stealing from the store to pay the bookie...

                                                    2nd time I got laid off from a asphault crew at 17. I waited 3 months and called for unemployment, the lady handling my case approved me then quit, and I got lost. 3 months after that I got a check for 6 months of unemployment at age 17 while still going to HS... I was actually working another job by then, but auditing never caught it so not my problem.

                                                    3. I was a waiter at lonestar in college for a month. I decided waiting sucked because they let me go first and I really never made money other than 50.00 a night, not good cash if you ask me. So after getting in really good with all the asst managers I was like I'm going to have to quit. But I partied with them all from my new job. (aka party = bang every asst manager which was female for about the next 6 months).

                                                    I got a temp job at a my current employer 300 full time employees got fired and me the temp stayed on for an additional 6 months. Because I asked to stay on, I would only work when needed, turned out they fired too many people and had work backing up but they couldn't rehire anyone till the next quarter, so I was in a win win

                                                    I should have been fired at age 15 from the local skating place or roller rink. I was taking all these chicks home in my car and basically grass/cash or ass for rides home. Its amazing what chicks will do not to have there parents pick them up from a night out.
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                                                    • robmpink
                                                      SBR Posting Legend
                                                      • 01-09-07
                                                      • 13205

                                                      #27
                                                      When I was 18 I got canned from the US Postal Service. It was a summer position that filled in for the carriers on vacation. Anyway, the Post Master caught me a few times not sticking the metal thing behind the rear wheel and other infractions. In the middle of August I somehow lost the master key for the big blue mail deposit boxes in the area. I remember swinging it on my finger and it flew off. I couldn;t find it. They had to call in the postal inspectors to change the locks on all of the boxes. He told me he couldn't "afford" me. I only had 1 week left so it wasn't a big deal.
                                                      In 2000 I got canned from a telecommunication sales position since I got caught gambling at work. Now that is funny. It all worked out for the best. Next job I've been at for 7 years and met my wife there.
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                                                      • Immortality
                                                        Restricted User
                                                        • 12-20-07
                                                        • 4599

                                                        #28
                                                        Knock on wood I have never been fired from a job. Unfortunately I have had to let people go and that sucks. Always bummed me out and lost many of sleepless nights dreading having to do it.
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                                                        • Cee
                                                          SBR MVP
                                                          • 12-24-07
                                                          • 1899

                                                          #29
                                                          Originally posted by JBC77
                                                          I saw a girl at work today get sh1t canned. They had to escort her out of the building. Felt a little bad, she was balling like a baby.

                                                          Made me reflect on my own employment history, the early years so to speak. I was never fired.....I would sort of fire myself. You know, just not show up anymore. No two weeks notice.....nada, zip.

                                                          Which type are you? The guy that stays until being escorted out or the quitting type?
                                                          I was escorted out twice in my lifetime. That was a bit laughable. They wouldn't let me leave without handing in my ID.
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                                                          • supra23
                                                            SBR High Roller
                                                            • 12-25-07
                                                            • 232

                                                            #30
                                                            i got fired for stealing $1 at a carwash
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                                                            • robmpink
                                                              SBR Posting Legend
                                                              • 01-09-07
                                                              • 13205

                                                              #31
                                                              Originally posted by supra23
                                                              i got fired for stealing $1 at a carwash
                                                              Thats like Ice Cube getting fired on his day off for stealing boxes in the movie Friday.
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