QOTD: You're Fired!

[atlasien]

Have you ever been fired in a job, or had a dramatic "TAKE THIS JOB AND SHOVE IT" moment? What was it?

[vsoy]

The closest I've come to with "take this job and shove it" was when I was leaving San Diego to come to KC for a new job. I hated my boss and the work atmosphere. It made me mildly depressed and I felt helpless to quit and find another job because I felt no one would hire me for a short period of time.

The last week I was working there, my boss asked where I wanted to go for my going away party. At the last going away party for another person, he made an ugly scene over the bill in the Japanese restaurant in front of everybody and it was really uncomfortable and awkward. I didn't want to go through that again plus I had a ton of things to do in preparation for the move and I didn't want to waste any more of my time or my co-workers' with the boss.

So I just said I really didn't want a going away party and when he came to Kansas City, I'd take him out. This is in full understanding that he'd most likely never come to my area. He looked a little hurt because I was with him for 4 years and ran everything in the lab but I didn't care. On my last day, the big refrigerator for reagents broke down. It totally fucked up my day, the things I was going to wrap up went to crap. I took care of moving everything to another location, got someone to come and fix the fridge, paid the huge repair bill, told my coworkers where everything was and just walked out at 5pm that day, never looking back. I was packing for the next few days and I could have come in the next day to check on things, move stuff back but it wasn't my problem anymore. See ya!!

[silkie]

Funny this question came up Atlasien.
I have already handed in my resignation notice, but before I leave I must finish up a construction document (for a bio-tech building of all things. Vsoy, your story reminds me: make sure there is enough emergency electrical outlets...).

I am currently suffering a bit of senior-itis, and might be getting fired before my time here is up...

[averagejoette]

I had one job: to tutor students who needed help with the English portion of their High School Exit Exam. The contract already had that I would be fired after 6 hours of tutoring/ office work since the kid didn't show up. So yeah, I have been fired, in a rather pitiful way. I need a job, seriously. I'm totally bumming off my parents.

vsoy- thats a perfect way to end things.

[atlasien]

I was fired for...

1. telling a cook a customer was an asshole and being overheard by the customer
2. stealing tips from a hairdresser (false accusation)
3. time-clocking someone out hours after they had officially left (lying cook told me to do it because he said he was off buying fish for the restaurant)
4. a cafe owner's wife deciding she didn't like the way I looked

I stormed out of...

1. Dennys (after working there for a year)
2. Bennigan's (after working there for 10 days)
3. a couple other cafes

I haven't been fired or stormed out in the last 10 years though.

[aelward]

I've never been fired, but I once saw a second interview wasn't going well and made an ass of myself because I knew I wouldn't get the job anyway.

I had basically applied for a non-profit local organization that organizes leadership training seminars for local business and community leaders. My interview with the Executive Director went exceptionally well-- since I had worked for a non-profit (Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco) before, I was at ease and saying all the right things: she basically was hanging on my ever word-- how to juggle many different responsibilities, organizing volunteers, etc. I figured it went so well that went I got to round 2 (I was told there were three people chosen for a second interview out of the 20 some that had applied), I figured it would be cake.

Bzzzt! Wrong Answer!

The second interview was with one of the Board members of the organization. She was basically a Stepford Wife who had probably never worked in her life and had the typical worldview of that type. I was totally off guard, and I could tell I screwed up from the get-go. So when she asked me what was important to me and how that related to my previous non-profit work, I said Asian empowerment was one of the most important things in my life. Educating Asian youth about stereotypes and the history of oppression in America; trying to build bridges between different ethnic groups. Man, she was in shock. So even though I didn't get the job (it would have paid $2000 a month for 20 hours a week!), I took great pleasure in making her squirm.

[Ike]

The second interview was with one of the Board members of the organization. She was basically a Stepford Wife who had probably never worked in her life and had the typical worldview of that type.

What did she expect you to say?