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MontyBrunswick

Jan 17, 2011 11:00 PM
Belly35;641396 wrote:I have been fired by three companies and each company hired me back at more money and benifits after I was rehired by one of the other two companies that fired me within one or two years after being fired and they all hired me back, two company that fired me twice and hired me back twice.

Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Jan 17, 2011 11:00pm
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rmolin73

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Jan 18, 2011 4:47 AM
dlazz;642122 wrote:Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

I don't know why but I laugh hysterically every time I see this.
Jan 18, 2011 4:47am
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O-Trap

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Jan 18, 2011 7:50 AM
dlazz;642122 wrote:Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Seriously, never gets old!
Jan 18, 2011 7:50am
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Bigdogg

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Jan 18, 2011 11:44 AM
Nope, unfortunately I have been on the other end. Not ever easy but sometimes very necessary.
Jan 18, 2011 11:44am
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fan_from_texas

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Jan 18, 2011 3:11 PM
Not yet. I'm sure I will at some point.
Jan 18, 2011 3:11pm
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Jan 18, 2011 3:43 PM
I have never been fired and hopefully never plan to be. And O-Trap don't feel bad I understood Belly as well. Although the meme Dlazz brought up also came to my mind when reading Belly's quote.
Jan 18, 2011 3:43pm
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Jan 18, 2011 3:53 PM
I have a buddy that got caught donkin his bosses wife in the warehouse. The boss screamed them to get the fuck out of his warehouse.

The next day when he called in to tell the secretary to mail his last check, the boss talked him into having a beer and talking it out.

It ends up with the boss throwing the wife outa the house and divorcing her and the guy buying into a partnership in the business.

He is still gainfully employed at this place making 6 figures a year.
Jan 18, 2011 3:53pm
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Jan 18, 2011 4:53 PM
bullshit
Jan 18, 2011 4:53pm
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Writerbuckeye

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Jan 18, 2011 5:54 PM
Yes. Was fired from my first real job working at a radio station (I did mostly news reporting and copy writing, and some studio work).

The reason I was let go: They wanted to hire someone with a deeper voice for the programming they wanted to do (mostly taped music programs, very laid back, etc.)

I also was laid off from a job I truly loved because the company just wasn't making it in a very volatile market (medical malpractice insurance). That was a terrific job, good salary and benefits, and great people. I would have retired from there if I could have.

The radio station manager who fired me got really torqued when I filed for unemployment benefits. He had a god complex and didn't understand how someone could do such a thing to him. As it turned out, I didn't even have to collect...the newspaper in the same town found out I was let go and hired me immediately because I knew the community and had already done some news work for the radio station.
Jan 18, 2011 5:54pm
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Jan 18, 2011 11:25 PM
friendfromlowry;641884 wrote:They can do that?

Yes they can. I work in a restaurant as well. They can send you home for being sick. They can fire you the next day for not coming in for being sick, even if they know you're sick, if you don't have a doctor's excuse. Almost all restaurants do it. And the kicker is: I'm a server...my restaurant, and MOST restaurants, you can only get health insurance through the company if you average a minimum number of hours per week (usually it's 30-32). However, they won't schedule you enough hours to average that, so you aren't eligible for insurance. BUT, you have to go to the doctor if you're sick, or they'll fire you. So you can't get insurance because of your work, but you have to have it or you'll get fired. Sounds great, doesn't it? So that's why every time I'm sick, I show up at work. That way they have to decide whether to let me stay and cough/sneeze/puke or whatever all over their guests, or send me home sick. If you put it on them to send you home everyday you're sick, they can't fire you. But the first day you don't show up w/o a doctor's note, you're screwed.
Jan 18, 2011 11:25pm
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Jan 18, 2011 11:34 PM
friendfromlowry;641884 wrote:They can do that?

they can do what ever i want. and they kept my hours down in the last year to where i cant get unemployment either
Jan 18, 2011 11:34pm
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Thinthickbigred

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Jan 19, 2011 10:12 PM
Lets see ....First of all I was hoping to hear some good firing stories ........gotta be more knuckleheads than this ... people are fibbing ...some ...lol
I remember getting fired once for not coming in on a saturday .. we normally didnt work on saturdays and it was like a small job "delivery" and i didnt show .. I came in on Monday like nothing started working .. boss said his wife needed me down at the other store ...just down the block .. went in and the boses wife said how many hours you got this week and she gave me a check ,but then gave me a little grief ..she was a little cutie about my age boses wife ... I thought what the hell you giving me grief for .. you just fired me .. I already know I Fdddd up .. a few days later I got a little job with my friend who was doing roll roofing .. when we showed up for the job it was at the place I just got fired from .... funny crap ... well it was the building across the street which we wherehoused all the furniture but none the less .. they seen me up ontop of the roof .. a day later a few more doors were locked that had never been locked before ..... I also knew how to get into the building and rip them off if i wanted .. but i aint that kind of guy .. it was just irony .
Jan 19, 2011 10:12pm
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Thinthickbigred

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Jan 19, 2011 10:17 PM
Iliketurtles;642905 wrote:I have never been fired and hopefully never plan to be. And O-Trap don't feel bad I understood Belly as well. Although the meme Dlazz brought up also came to my mind when reading Belly's quote.

I cant see you being hired in the first place ..Unless the employer gets a heck of a tax break for hiring convicts....
Jan 19, 2011 10:17pm
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Jan 19, 2011 10:19 PM
Nope.....came close once, but talked the GM into giving me another chance, which he did.
Jan 19, 2011 10:19pm
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puffyisback

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Jan 19, 2011 11:30 PM
got fired from a grocery store when I was like 19. I had been working there for 2 years, but took a summer job at a factory to make some more money. I got called to cover a Sunday morning shift, which sucked but said I'd do it. Long story short, get a call Saturday night offering free NASCAR tickets, call of on Sunday....go get my schedule for the next week and I'm not on there...no paperwork no nothing just not on there
Jan 19, 2011 11:30pm
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Thinthickbigred

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Jan 21, 2011 11:33 AM
thats one way of telling you
Jan 21, 2011 11:33am
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Jan 21, 2011 12:14 PM
puffyisback;644909 wrote:got fired from a grocery store when I was like 19. I had been working there for 2 years, but took a summer job at a factory to make some more money. I got called to cover a Sunday morning shift, which sucked but said I'd do it. Long story short, get a call Saturday night offering free NASCAR tickets, call of on Sunday....go get my schedule for the next week and I'm not on there...no paperwork no nothing just not on there

when i worked at fast food in high school, my boss did this to a couple people as well. its more of a "forcing you to quit" tactic.
Jan 21, 2011 12:14pm
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Jan 21, 2011 12:41 PM
Thinthickbigred;644755 wrote:Lets see ....First of all I was hoping to hear some good firing stories ........gotta be more knuckleheads than this ... people are fibbing ...some ...lol
I remember getting fired once for not coming in on a saturday .. we normally didnt work on saturdays and it was like a small job "delivery" and i didnt show .. I came in on Monday like nothing started working .. boss said his wife needed me down at the other store ...just down the block .. went in and the boses wife said how many hours you got this week and she gave me a check ,but then gave me a little grief ..she was a little cutie about my age boses wife ... I thought what the hell you giving me grief for .. you just fired me .. I already know I Fdddd up .. a few days later I got a little job with my friend who was doing roll roofing .. when we showed up for the job it was at the place I just got fired from .... funny crap ... well it was the building across the street which we wherehoused all the furniture but none the less .. they seen me up ontop of the roof .. a day later a few more doors were locked that had never been locked before ..... I also knew how to get into the building and rip them off if i wanted .. but i aint that kind of guy .. it was just irony .


lol wut?
Jan 21, 2011 12:41pm