Have you ever been canned?

[Lumière]

Don't ask me why I am starting this poll ..  pure and simple curiosity, I guess! 

Feel free to share some of your funniest/freakiest stories about this .. if you got any! 

[Scott6373]

Never sacked, but walked out on many.

[Lynne]

As a teen, I didn't give notice once to a restaurant after I saw they were re-using open dishes of sour cream, mixing it back in with the big container if much hadn't been used.  Yuck!  Turned those folks in to the health department, but nothing came of it that I know about - they went on operating for years.  I never went back, but there's a good Mexican restaurant there now.

[David In Indy]

I've been fired four or five different times that I can think of. But, I'm sure there's a couple of times I don't remember so it's really more like 6 or 7 times probably.

But I've been working for 28 years, and a few of them weren't my fault IMO.

I'm gonna shut up now while I'm still ahead. 

[Lumière]

Hey, don't shut up David!  We love listening to ya .. 


I have never been fired .. I guess I always quit the jobs I didn't like before THEY figured it out and fired me.. 
At one of the telemarking jobs I've done in the past (please don't shoot me on account of the telemarketing thing, I was desperate ..  ) .. I was summoned by the supervisor one day and basically issued a warning.  Why, you ask?  One of the creeps working at this place went and complained that the sweater I was wearing was too low cut ( I guess it was distracting him ..  ) .. There was nothing wrong with this sweater, it was not revealing in any way .. lol, anyway, the supervisor tried to be nice about it, but the whole thing was so absurd.  I couldn't understand how he noticed my sweater to begin with, we were all sitting infront of computer terminals all day ..lol.
Well, I quit a week after that incident .. that was the last straw, seeing as I didn't like the job from the start ..lol.

[moremojo]

I've yet to be dismissed from a job (knock on wood), but I've been threatened with dismissal once, quite a few years ago...for excessive and consistent tardiness in arriving in the morning. It's a painful and embarrassing subject for me, but I've never mastered the art of greeting the dawn in a prompt and fresh manner (I would make a disastrous ranch hand).

[Lumière]

I've never mastered the art of greeting the dawn in a prompt and fresh manner (I would make a disastrous ranch hand).

Well, you are not alone on this one, Scott.
But when you call it "the art of greeting the dawn" - I feel like I am definitely missing out by not being able to wake up before 8am some days .. 

[opinionista]

I've been fired just one time in my life. My story is not a very nice one, but I'll tell it anyway. I have a hearing disability. I can speak normally but I have lots of trouble understanding if I'm not reading lips. Well, when I was in New York I applied for a job in spanish newspaper. It was a multitasking postition because the newspaper didn't make enough money to hire more people. So I wrote news, translate news pieces, columns and such into Spanish, acted as an asistant to the publisher, prepared the newspapers dummie. The job also required that I answered the phone, but I couldn't. 

At the interview, I explained my hearing disability, showed them medical proof about it and all. They said they were looking for somebody who could answer the phones, so I left thinking I wasn't getting the job. But I did. Before signing the contract I contacted The League the Hard of Hearing, and they contacted the paper. I told them that I could not hear well with amplifier devices but the paper wanted me to try them anyway, so I agreed (I needed a job badly. New York is expensive!). But I couldn't. So, I talked to my bosses ( I had three given the multitasking nature of my position) and offered to switch that part of the job for something else. I suggested I did someone else's job in exchange of not having to answer the goddamned phone. They agreed, but one of the bosses was not happy with it.

After after a month or so, I got a notification that I was being laid off. In the end, I was in fact fired, not laid off and the paper ended up having to pay a fine for firing me for discrimination reasons, and paying me a compensation.

[David]

Lets see....  Twice I think.   

First time is when I was selling cars for National Car Rental.     I ran the office along side the Rental Office.    I went on vacation for two weeks and when I came back I found all my cars forsale had been rented while I was gone.   The lot was empty!   I was furious!    Nothing I could do except start from scratch picking out an inventory as they returned.   Meanwhile, a bigshot from Corporate Headquarters was in and asked how many cars I sold that month.  None was the answer.    He walked over and sacked me on the spot.   I walked into my bosses Office and thanked him for not standing up for me.     By the time I got home there was a message asking me to come back.

The second time was at my previous job in Customer Service.   All of my coworkers and Managers were stuck in the owners office listening to him BS about his evening dinner.  I was suddenly barraged by customers from three different doors plus 4 different phones were ringing.   I knocked on the door and asked if some of the guys could come out and help.   The guys all jumped out of their chairs and ran to help me.    A few minutes later the owner came out and screamed at me for interupting his "meeting".  He screamed obscenities and told me that "he" owned the company and that I should get the hell out.   So I did.   

Apparently the Managers all told him that he was wrong and they called me at home and begged me to come back.   The owner never apologized.      Ironically I outlasted all the managers and eventually became the General Manager of the Company.      Too bad the Owner had no business plan and went out of business.   

[Lumière]

Lets see....  Twice I think.   

I guess the fact that they begged you to come back after that cancels out the firing part, right? 
I think I have been lucky with most of the bosses I've had so far (hope it stays that way..) 
Who needs an uber-demanding, micro-managing type milling around them day in and day out...

[ifyoucantfixit]

    I was fired one time,,from my very first job.  I had found another job that was more
convenient and closer.  I was quitting, and they found out about it..They fired me
in order to not have to pay the finder fee.  I had gotten the job through an agency
and they had to pay half the fee, if i was there over a certain amount of time..so they fired me...Not a Problem.  I have to admit, i have been fired one time .

                                                                                    janice

[Arad-3]

A few years back I was in training once at a privately owned nursing home.  I started out years back as a nurses aid.  The girls that worked the shift each had me work with one them everyday, so by the end of the week I would of worked individually with the 5 of them. At the end of the week they reported to the superviser if you were good enough to work with them.

I had already had training in a hospital before i went there and the hospital had strict rules in regard to their patients. Especially there Nursing facility. I was used to this,  What I experienced at this new Nursing home was a shock to me. The treatment I was witnessing to these elderly patients was appalling.   I felt sorry for the patients and made it clear a few times I thought they were being mean. And the rough house treatment of these poor people. The name calling! I kept telling them how we did it at the hospital, they did'nt like that at all.

 By the end of the week not one of the five girls was talking to me. The owner called me Friday night and told me I was finished. I tried telling him what I was witnessing was going on in his Nursing Home and he just shrugged it off like I was just mad and wanted to start trouble.

Well long story short.  I called my old superviser at the hospital and she helped me to get in touch with the right agencies to submitt my complaint on the treatment. A investigation was launched and they were fined and almost closed. They were also named on a list for abuse cases which ended up on the local news. I am sure they lost a lot of new placements over that. And I really hope they got new aids. Those women had been there for years together.  what a horrible little team!
 
Teach them to mess with me!   Alot of these poor people have no one to look out for them. What a way to end up after working so hard all your life.

[Lumière]

Teach them to mess with me!   Alot of these poor people have no one to look out for them. What a way to end up after working so hard all your life.

Sucks, don't it? .. 

But way to go girl! 

[dot-matrix]

I was "let go" once because the VP wanted to bring his daughter in to take my position.  She was fresh out of college with "fresh ideas" which I later learned meant she worked for less money.  He made the remark to another executive, whose wife I was friends with, that "I'm supporting her anyway might as well make sure I get something back for my investment" .  I walked out of that job on Friday and into a new one on Monday no sweat and the VP and his daughter were history by the end of the year because of his constant favoritism.

[David In Indy]

Good lord. I think I've been fired more than the rest of you put together. 

You all are counting your teenage jobs too, right? I wasn't exactly the "exemplary teenager" back in the 1970's. lol