Curious question here. And if you have, don't front and save you haven't. Just be honest.

No I have not been fired


Turned my 2 weeks notice and quit ~ Yup

Nope.
I have worked for my same employer for 24 years!

Yep. Entirely my fault too. It definitely prodded me to get my "stuff" together.

I've been fired from, and I've quit, jobs. It's always a debate which is better: to quit, or get fired. Do you pull out early, or do you stick it out until the bitter end when they dismiss you? Hmmm.

sho have!

I have quit, been "laid off", and been fired. Guess that's what happens when you work since the age of 14.

what I am finding out is that I need to get myself manuevered into having my own business...I'm tired of dealing with other people's shadiness and bullshit. I want to be able to respect myself!

PaisleyPark5083 said:

that's impressive. never been fired but have been laid off.
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Never and no fronting here.

no, but I've been laid off, which I consider to be the same thing unofficially.

BklynBabe said:

Go for it!!

I got fired from my very first job as a teenager I was a cashier-fucking hated it I've quit some jobs as a nurse fucking hated the bosses-so yeah!

I was sacked from a cafe when i was 16 for not going in on mothers day.
The best dishwasher in ayrshire I was.

muirdo said:

Give it up for dishwashers and cashiers they have very hard jobs and are never appreciated

Imago said:

And I've concluded that camouflage is not proper work attire.

not exactly fired. but they bullied me into a place where i had no
choice but to leave on my own accord. it sucked. not that i had to
leave, but the way they played that sick little game without any
regard for my feelings or well being.

if i'd slacked off or done anything wrong i would have understood.
the problem here though was that the clients liked me too much in
too short a period of time, which made a few old timers angry.

the proverbial straw was when one of our clients told me, in the
presence of long time employees "are you sure you are right for
this job? you seem to nice, to compasionate and real. don't get
me wrong, you're a top bloke, but i don't think the others will
be able to deal with someone nice and honest in the office. but
as long as you're here, i will deal with you and you only from
now on".

next morning they called me into a room for a performance talk
and told me that basically, i was a piece of shit, a worthless
human being and a fucking backstabber who didn't pull his weight.



i had to take the rest of the day off to let it sink in and on
my way home had to pull over and be sick/cry/scream and then
basically fall apart.

later i decided that my own health and sanity were more valuable
to me than winning the argument from people i wouldn't want to
work with anymore anyway.

it took a while but i came through just fine.

so uhm, in a way, i was fired but then i was not

No.

But Chris's ex wife was fired from her job this week, for the third or fourth time since I met him.

Never been fired, thank goodness but way back when I was around 19 I was laid off from a temp job at the end of the term. You know it's coming but you kind of hope they keep you anyway.

i've been fired before, then i experienced a company buy-out, which i guess is like being laid off.

slef-employment is the shyt, but i enjoyed the comeraderie.

no but i SHOULD have been a few times.

(well once I guess I was fired, or at least I would have been if I would have ever gone back after I stopped going to work. The reason I stopped going was they fired my friend when he could not say for a 3rd hour past his scheduled time. He said he had to leave they say 'leave and you're fired' he said 'oh well.' So they called me, but as my friend and I were going to go to a party I said "no I can not come in" and my dad got all mad at me for not going in. So I just never went back. )

i had the fucking time of my life afterwards tho.....

IstenSzek said:

I was too single. I'm confident I was let go because I was the only person on the team who didn't have a family to support, and was known for taking long vacations overseas.

My reviews were always stellar, and my clients were devastated when I was let go.

Nope.

ive quit once.

Fired once in the south because the manager who loved me and promoted me found out I had biracial children. I tried to fight it to no avail. I hate the south.

Laid off twice. From an established company that filed bankruptcy. Worked for them for years. From a temp agency. Quit two. I despise retail.

Never. :knockonwood:

2elijah said:

+1 on that!! There's NOTHING better than self-employment... hard work, really hard but SO, SO rewarding...

Yes! Once it was very dramatic and humiliating. My only defense is that I was still a teenager at the time. Then a couple of other times from very short term temp jobs, where snooty bosses decided I wasn't right for the position after like, one day.

There's been several others where they let me go due to other reasons, but maybe partly because I wasn't a good fit.

I have had LOTS and LOTS of jobs.

I got fired from being casheir at a spa after 2 weeks cause I didn't know how to close anything and do the calculations, it just wasn't coming to me despite having worked at a bank

A temp agency found me an admin assistant job and after a week, I was asked to leave cause I was too slow

The job I'm at right now, I used to be full time there, but was spoken to about mistakes and all. I probably would have gotten fired if I didn't quit and become a casual/relief worker, which I'm so much happier with now. I studied so hard for that type job, that I could not bear getting fired from it, and I really liked management there.

never been fired -3 jobs in 22 yrs...
resigned from the first one (13 yrs) to go to second one.

retrenched from 2nd one (store closure- 9yrs)

9 mths into 3rd job this week