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07-18-2012, 01:54 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Being GLAD to be terminated.
I think I've seen a thread like this before in the lounge. I read the rules just to make sure I'm not screwing anything up terribly. Either I or a mod can delete this thread if it violates any rules outright.
Let me deliver a little backstory... So, I work two jobs. I've been working one job for about four months now, and it's my primary and I enjoy working there. Just about 30 days ago now, I started a second job through a referral my boss offered me. Things were OK, although I was being rather stupid and missed two days without notice, was late a few times, and I missed a week, sort of as an emergency (boiled clutch fluid). The first two weeks, I would work in the morning (which worked perfectly for me). After that, it was all after 5pm. This is considering I also worked in the mornings at my first job. The schedule changed, literally every day, I was given graveyard shifts despite the fact I have a day job my supervisor (who writes the schedule) is aware of, and even change the hours I would work that day DURING the time I would work. Walk up, tell me I'm working three extra hours, then walk away. So yeah, immediately opinions are forming that I was a terrible employee, and I'm just whining and butthurt. In a sense I definitely was a terrible employee, the times I missed work were completely my fault. But it stops there. As a student, I'm given an ID card. The ID card has an embedded RFID chip that I can use to scan/wave through doors. From day one, no matter how many times I asked or went around and tried to find a way to do this, I could not ever access the building where I worked my second job, at a small scale injection molding facility. I asked my boss at my first job, who told me I had to contact the manager of the facility. I emailed the registrar, who handles students and relevant information, who also told me to contact the manager. I emailed the manager and had no response after a week. I managed to find him inspecting the machines at work so I asked him to get me access to the building. Never happened. As a result, I often ran around the building trying to get access, and was often 10-20 minutes late as a result. There have been a few times where I was legitimately late, as in not getting access to the building was not why. I missed a week at both jobs. Job one boss was very accommodating, and this is not the first time I've done something similar, like being late. However, I did take note and fell into a proper rhythm. I am now in very good standing there. Job two boss took that week off as a personal insult. I took the week off because I boiled the clutch fluid. I normally don't drive the Z up to where I work because it would sit in an open parking lot. I am actually driven to and from my workplace and live there, in the dorm, for the weekdays and return via carpool for the weekends. So of course, my supervisor isn't thrilled that I was late to work. I was already late to begin with, so when I ran around and tried to find an open door, naturally no luck. Card doesn't work either. I call my supervisor who then proceeds to grill me on being late. I explain, that I was both legitimately late and also, again, had trouble getting into the building. I didn't make an excuse and noted that it was very poor showing to be late after an unannounced, extended absence. My supervisor then proceeds to tell me that I could have found a way to work during the week without the car (which is actually not possible), that the card reader not working is my responsibility (when I have no control over, despite the fact that I did indeed try), and that my "nonchalant, not-give-a-f***" attitude will get me fired. Not only does my supervisor (who happens to be the same age) completely lose any professional demeanor, she insists that everything is my fault. I am told to leave the workplace. I was planning to hand in my letter of resignation, but I was beat to the punch about ten minutes ago. Kinda makes me sad that I didn't get draw first blood. But, I can definitely say this will be the only time that I will lose a job and feel insanely good about it. I will be replying the termination email with an resignation email. I know, it's petty. I know there are people out there with insane, crazy bosses, who have experienced unjustified grief. I want to see if anyone else has been seriously glad they were fired. I also am just being butthurt too, but I haven't taken the opportunity to tell anyone about it. It makes me giddy and also extremely angry.
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When I was a pup, I worked in an insurance call center. When people were in accidents, they would call the number on their insurance card, and it would go to our call center. So all day, I was dealing with frantic, angry, upset, temporarily insane people. Fuckin terrible already. We had to collect a **** load of information, but were only allowed a couple minutes on each call, and if we went over that time too often, we got lectured by 8 different bosses like goddamn "office space." My calls were always being listened to, and just taking a piss is a production because I had to ask to leave my cube. I fuckin hated my life. What's worse is, I had left a job I loved to go there.
One day some chick calls up from Madison Wisconsin (important for the story). She says her pedals gave her 3rd degree burns on her foot. I was like, uhhh, are they metal?" No. "Were you wearing shoes?" Yes. "Were they normal shoes, or like, some weird biblical sandal made of paper?" Nike Airs. "No way. There is no way that happened. You're lying" Fired the same day ... best thing that ever happened to me. My buddy worked there with me, he's still in the insurance game. I make a lot more than him now, and am probably 3482347 times happier with my job than him. |
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It's just a bit ironic, because I work in Milwaukee. Some people here are just crazy...
I forgot to mention one thing, too, I spoke with my boss about terminating my employment there, and while it came a bit fast, she is well aware that things were not going well at my second job. What's even better is that I actually have yet another job (additional hours, more like, first job limited to 20 hr/wk) lined up. I'm so lucky. I just want to be an engineer! So I can make cars go fast! It's also a bit comforting, I suppose, to know that horrible jobs aren't just a product of fiction.
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I appreciate it! I sure hope so too.
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There are a lot of talented people out there who really need a job and wouldn't take an unannounced week off work for "boiled clutch fluid" and just not show up for a few days, nor be late "a few times". I would have fired you long before she did so I could find someone with a sense of responsibility who would take the job seriously. / Last edited by MacCool; 07-19-2012 at 09:40 AM. |
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Boiled clutch fluid was one of a few problems, and the only one I feel comfortable sharing as a reason for my week-long and notified absence. Again, my missing days were my fault, but after a constant week's pestering to approve access to the building I work at and still being unable to enter the building is completely unjustified.
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i once worked at a top shelf restaurant in my hometown in NC. i enjoy talking to and meeting new people and liked that aspect of the job but i wasn't a very good waiter i'll admit. i did my work, i only got pennies for my time it felt like (i did have a few good tip nights but they were few and far between). i was in college at the same time which made studying and class work hard to deal with. many nights i'd go straight from school to the restaurant (just down the road) and not get home till 1 or 2 AM and have to be back at 8 AM for classes the next morning. well, i probably worked there for two months or so, maybe three, and i go into work one day to take a quick test on a new menu change and my boss just says "don't worry about the test, just take your things and go". i was like no warning, no discussion, no recourse. just fired. like i said, i know i was not perfect but i never heard any complaints and the only "mistakes" i made were typically ones the kitchen made getting orders wrong. i'm pretty sure it was more personal than anything.
now i look back and laugh... i'm less than 1/2 his age and probably make at least 2x what he did at the time. so he can take the closest available large kitchen utensil and shove it up his *** as far as i'm concerned
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Upon rereading, it does sound a lot like that was the single excuse as why I couldn't come in. Which is terrible. This thread is just a rant though. Not even a good one!
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I never expected it to go so far south so fast, but that's over. Since I'm a bit more level headed now, I'll update a bit; boss at first job knew that the night job was screwing with me (she's CC'd on the schedule and noticed on the nights where my shift ended late, that the next day I'd be late to my day job), which surprised me. She also told me she has expedited my training up by a week for another job I was referred to. I hope my luck doesn't all run out this early in my life!
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