Ask Lemmy

Because I made the mistake of saying over IM that my team lead at the call center was going to make me have a breakdown.

Apparently, the last guy who that team lead pushed to the edge made some actionable threats, and because I expressed how his harassment was effecting me I was fired.

The team lead was a loyal slave. He used to be a bouncer so he thanked boss and god for his new job, and doesn't even realize he's still at the bottom of the pyramid. -_-

Never been fired fired as I haven't had that many jobs and jobs in academia usually don't officially fire someone... the closest one I had was pretty wild though

I was taking a summer job in college on a clinical research project; part-time job, we got assigned working hours at the beginning of each week. I was one of the few students who did not have clearance for clinical/counseling work so I could only do lab work. My performance wasn't the best and I couldn't do anything besides processing samples, so after 2-3 weeks they stopped issuing me work schedules and I was "fired"... or at least that's what I thought. Later it turned out the lead professor and the entire project got into a massive scandal (sexual harassment, bullying, etc... got on local news) that eventually got the professor fired (tenured btw so they can't be officially fired, uni "convinced" them to leave), so every student worker was essentially laid off at that moment. Probably likely that the entire research team got something akin to a stop-work order earlier so that's why I never got work assigned for those weeks...

So yeah, the answer was a combination of 1) I wasn't that good of a worker and more importantly 2) the entire project we were on got into a scandal and was terminated

Took 6 days vacation instead of 5 I had “accrued”. I didn’t get paid for vacation in any case. I was working in construction. Company folded a year later; I can’t think why.

The other reason was “insubordination”. Can’t get into that with out sharing too much, but Texans are a special type of ignorant.

Technically fired for absences. Really just walked off and didnt come back for 3 weeks after my manager assaulted me a little bit.

A dumb one when I was younger.

Get a whatever job and go to training, get the uniform, they tell me they'll let me know what day I start when they get the schedule.

Two weeks pass and I ask about it again. They get bothered but insist they'll reach out to me when I get scheduled.

A monthish goes by and I run into a co-worker I saw at training. I chuckled and said they still haven't reached out to me. She says what are you talking about, I've been scheduled every week for the past month, and that I should have checked the schedule book in the managers office.

At that point I was already looking at other work so I didn't ever follow up again. I'd assume they fired me at some point.

I mostly got fired for being a bad employee but my employers were no angels either. One of my first jobs was repairing computers and the money was garbage. Eventually learned that I was the lowest paid in the dept so put a sign on my desk with my salary. It was embarrassing for the manager when clients came to visit so they gave me more money.

Not being enthusiastic enough.

I did a good job preparing for Y2K. So good that they outsourced all IT once it was clear that we were successful.

Another time I made the mistake of getting paid what I was worth. They found a new guy to do the same for much less. He left within 6 months for a job that paid a reasonable amount.

One summer break, I came home from college and needed a job. Previously, I had worked a very cushy job at a video store, but we all know what happened to those. My dad had been working odd jobs at the local race track and said they could use my help. I figured why not, it would certainly be different than the other food service jobs I had in the past. Well let me tell you, it ended up being the absolute worst version of food service I would ever experience. For starters, the company in charge of managing the food stands didn't train me properly before the first race of the season. They would just sort of put me on various tasks that had nothing to do with what would be required on race day like cleaning the booths and inventorying product. So when the first race came, I tried my best but I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't know there was a special procedure for keeping track of ice bags. I didn't know who to go to to get into the coolers to stock drinks when we ran out. Etc etc etc. They weren't happy, but it was the first race, so this time they had me shadow someone for a few small races before the next big one. Well it turns out that the rules are different for small races vs big races. And also there were 3 different tracks to learn where everything is. So shadowing for small races means I was only learning the layout and rules for all races. While all of this was happening, it was summer and things were getting hotter and hotter every day. And of course, big races mean longer hours to boot! So by the time the first big race came around, I still wasn't properly trained, they were getting 130F readings on the racetrack, and I had to work a 13 hour shift. Oh and this was a 3 day event, so all of that back-to-back. I did the first day, I somehow made it out alive and didn't make any major mistakes. I got home, I passed out, I woke up again the next morning to do it again. I got all the way through security and into the stands to start my shift... And then I passed out. Turns out I had heat exhaustion. After that weekend, they gave me my next shift. I was supposed to start next day, but also, I needed a doctor's note to return to work. They knew damn well I couldn't get one that quick. So I said fuck it and just didn't get one and didn't show up. I decided I wasn't going to work that hard for hardly any pay and make myself sick to boot. Only time I've ever been fired, but I suppose it was a mutual firing.

Once, punching my boss in the solar plexus after he shoved and threatened me. There were witnesses, so no charges, but I still got the sack.

Second time, I was in a QA job and wouldn't wave defective units through. I came back a few days later and sandpapered the front window of the car of the lying shit who fired me. I also called the responsible federal regulator to report the fraud but they took no action.

Not organizing the t-shirts even though no one told me to organize the t-shirts.

I received a formal warning for leaning back on my chair (didn't get fired though)

Not following new RTO for a cloud based software company with no onprem infrastructure to manage, as the IT support after covid was deemed over.

A pattern of tardiness. Every time.

Last time, asking for more responsibilities.