I've never been fired. But I've quit twice. The second was more like a "I love this place but I'm not ready for this kind of pressure (teaching kids Tae Kwon Do with parents watching all the time can be nerve-racking...especially when the parents are more than willing to tell you how to do your job. Gah!) The first time..well..I sort of unofficially quit/just never returned at the end of the season. It was a local county park. It was just horrible. Everything I did was somehow wrong. And the worst part was that I knew I was being treated the way I was because I didn't go all buddy-buddy with them and their cigarettes. I was literally the only person there that didn't smoke. Also the only person there that didn't get hired because I had 20 other friends working other sections of the park. I did my best, but I just wasn't cut out for it. I can't stand people that behaved the way they did. They were all so two-faced and irresponsible. I'd have rather jumped into the middle of their lake and never come out than sit through the usual 8 hour days of doing absolutely nothing in the office and getting yelled at for it, despite the lack of anything actually needing to be done.

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Originally Posted by Requiem0fEternity

Ironically, I just got canned today, and I don't even know why. They said it was due to "job performance" but I have done nothing aside from what they asked. I'm pretty sure I've been framed by my lazy team lead. Well, hopefully I can get unemployment..

I had never been fired before this either. Laid off, yes, but fired no.

Excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference between "laid off" and "fired?" I always thought they meant the same...?

Originally Posted by HappyStarr

Excuse my ignorance, but what's the difference between "laid off" and "fired?" I always thought they meant the same...?

Generally laid off means "We just can't afford to keep you on at this time." It might have nothing to do with job performance... when people first started getting laid off at my mother's job they were cutting the newest people first. Being fired means that they have 'proof' that you did something wrong that was so bad that it is past a simple write up and deserves termination.

Originally Posted by Parasite

-Have you ever been fired from a job? Was it your fault?

-What's the worst manager you've ever worked for?

-For those that have been fired repeatedly, what was the most ridiculous reason they let you go?

Simply neglecting your post and going to directly answering your questions...

- I have never been fired from a job. I will never get fired from a job. I always try to do my best and push myself to my manager's expectations. If they're unrealistic, I'll try to get everything I can get done, done.

- I worked for the biggest mortgage servicing company and they hired some branch manager from Wells Fargo for my team. She knew absolute squat and came to me for every question a simple loan processor should have known. When I took time out of my day to coach her, I was written up for performance issues.

- Never been fired, but been laid off three times so far. All mainly lack of work or the most BS reason, "Reduction in Clientele" when the company just took on a work order of 50,000 units.

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Oh yeah, I quit one job. I was hired as a telemarketer. Wholehearted believed in my job until I found out the products we sold were worse than market. We scammed so many companies telling them, "We don't ship COD; We're shipping a test product...etc." Once I found that out, I refused to show up at work; morals got in the way.

I probably should have been fired for being a smart ass but I wasn't. I work at a pet store in the pet care department as a lead and still pretty much run the department. I was up for a management job and some kid from another store got it. At first I was okay with it because I thought it would be a good thing to get someone else from another store in so the department could get new fresh ideas.

Boy was I wrong...not only had the kid never had a management job but he also was a cashier and had no idea how to care for any animals. So about a month after he got hired in I had it with him being lazy and him dumping all of his work on me. He has left me a note to do a bunch of stuff that I could not get done in a day that he expected me to do that night. So I left him a note back saying I did not have time and maybe he should think ahead about things and not expect his associates to complete tasks they can't. Mind you I was not the only one thinking that either.

The store manager, the kid, and I had a meeting and basically the store manager said I was right but next time put it in a more professional way and not where other people can see it.

Tot his day he still does not do his job right and I correct him or make a sarcastic remark and he fixes whatever he did not do. It's pathetic when the manager of a department can't do their job right and it does make work all that much harder to go to.

Another time I almost walked out at the same job because the same manager that doesn't do his job refused to take one of our pets to the vet. Our company policy says that if a pet is suffering they need to go as soon as possible. So I told him that nad he claimed noone can take her to the vet which I knew was a lie he's just lazy. So I handed him the keys to the habitat and the department phone and said I am not dealing with him lying all the time and that I was leaving and was going to just leave until another manager who is above him stopped me.

I honestly would have no problem leaving my job at this point. I have threatened to quit several times and they always tell me not to go and to stay which makes me wonder what they would do if I did quit.

There's more than management problems as far as me having reasons to quit but I won't get into that. Let's just say my exgirlfriend works with me and is still mad even though I had not talked to her in about a year.

I've never had a job, but I'm applying this spring so I can hopefully get one for the rest of my highschool life. But I guess I wouldn't really talk bad about my boss at my workplace. I would probably complain at home, but work is work. No matter how bad, you just have to suck it up. I can't really say, because I haven't actually had a job before, but that's what I think anyway.

I haven't been fired (hope I'm not jinxing myself) but I've actually ended up not showed up ever again. I worked at Aeropostale and was going through register training. There was one trainer to 4-5 people on one register. That made it impossible to concentrate and ask specific question. So I ended up not really catching every detail and couldn't ask many question with the other 4 people jumping in every 10 seconds. So, the next day early in the morning one customer came in. The manager and assistant manager were M.I.A. so I decided it'd be a great time to get my practice in with the register and the long-winded sales approach. So I did almost everything right, except I forgot to mention one thing in my approach and the damn register tape got caught. The assistant manager came out and basically said it was my problem; eventually the store manager got the receipt. When the customer was gone, both of them chewed me out about how I had no business on the register and I didn't know what I was doing (mind you I was also working at Kohl's as well for at least 3 years so I had lots of cashier experience). She screamed at me so horribly I had to escape to the bathroom in fear that I'd punch that b**** in her overly made-up face. Then the next week she had me on register after telling me I shouldn't be on there...dumbass.

At the same job, I had to call in and tell her I was sick. And I rarely get sick, so it was serious that time. She told me to call someone to cover. I called, and no one answered so I called her back. She said I had to come in. I'm like, there's no way I'm coming in with a fever of 103.4 stupid. I had to call my mom and she called the manager and cussed her out. Needless to say I didn't have to come in that day.

Same job...lol. We have to have everything perfect before we leave, which is bs. Anyway, it was the night before Christmas eve and we ended up staying past midnight because all the polos on the front table weren't folded and creased perfectly. And I had to be to work at 6 AM the next day. After that happening numerous times, plus their smart mouths, I had to leave or someone was going to swallow their teeth,

-Have you ever been fired from a job? Was it your fault?

Been fired PLENTY of times. Sometimes my fault, sometimes not.

-What's the worst manager you've ever worked for?

Hrmmmm... That would have to be Dusty. He told me I had 30 seconds to get dressed and get the 'F' out, or he would call the cops. Sheesh, talk about melodrama!

-For those that have been fired repeatedly, what was the most ridiculous reason they let you go?

Yeah, that time Dusty fired me, was because he says he say me kiss another girl *down there* while we were on stage. I didn't even touch her! So stupid.

I've been fired before.
It was stupid.. she asked me to do something, I did it, and then I started on something else I needed to get done before the end of the week..
and she flipped out on me, because "You shouldn't be doing that right now!"
Bahhh..