Thursday Randoms

MrsJenE

queenofhearts1728 said:

Geekywife said:

Thank you everyone for your kind words. I was not looking for all the love you have shown me and I am grateful for it.  I have never been in this spot before. Every other time I left a job I had a plan of what was next.

it's definitely a horrible feeling to not have a plan... i've been fired before (a lot, actually, which i hate to admit lol I had been fired from every job I ever held until the job prior to the one i'm in currently) and I always took a few days to just mope in it. spend the weekend on some "you" time and start planning on monday


I don't even know what to think about that information.

Hoycie

Geekywife said:

I was fired yesterday and I am still numb. I don't know what to do since I have never left a job before with out having an other plan already.

I'm a little nosy.  What did you get fired for?

booneybear

queenofhearts1728 said:

Geekywife said:

Thank you everyone for your kind words. I was not looking for all the love you have shown me and I am grateful for it.  I have never been in this spot before. Every other time I left a job I had a plan of what was next.

it's definitely a horrible feeling to not have a plan... i've been fired before (a lot, actually, which i hate to admit lol I had been fired from every job I ever held until the job prior to the one i'm in currently) and I always took a few days to just mope in it. spend the weekend on some "you" time and start planning on monday

@queenofhearts1728  How many jobs did you have?  Hopefully it was just one.  Or else....????

queenofhearts1728

MrsJenE said:

it's definitely a horrible feeling to not have a plan... i've been fired before (a lot, actually, which i hate to admit lol I had been fired from every job I ever held until the job prior to the one i'm in currently) and I always took a few days to just mope in it. spend the weekend on some "you" time and start planning on monday

I don't even know what to think about that information.

haha yeah. thats why I don't like to admit it. but I'm willing to make myself look horrible if it makes someone marginally feel better about themselves.

It sounds worse than it is though. I've only actually been fired 3 times. I was fired from my very first job in 2004, and fired from my second in 2005... and a retail job in 2010.

booneybear

ONLY fired three times.  Your right, that doesn't sound bad at all.  ::insert sarcasm here::

queenofhearts1728

booneybear said:

ONLY fired three times.  Your right, that doesn't sound bad at all.  ::insert sarcasm here::

getting fired at 16/17 isn't all that uncommon, and i don't feel bad about it at all. 

i did at the time, because it always sucks to get fired, but i'm not really concerned about being let go from shitty part time jobs almost 10 years later.

RevJen

I've been laid off or downsized from a few jobs but never outright fired for something I did wrong.

Hoycie

I was fired once when I was 18.  I worked at a Potterybarn and was goofing off with the guy I was dating/working with too much.  Junewhatevs

queenofhearts1728

I don't consider any of my firings for anything I did wrong, except my second job. I failed to show up for a shift because I looked at the schedule incorrectly. 

My first job I was let go over a scheduling conflict. I worked at my second job concurrently with my first, and refused to call-in at my second job to accommodate an extra shift for the first. The first job let me go, and had me sign something saying I quit. 

My third job, the one in 2010, I was let go for accepting a gift card from my BF to help buy something from the store I worked at. they considered it "selling my discount" even though what I was buying was for me.

pinkybooklover09

@queenofhearts1728 - Dude...shizz happens. No worries. 

I was fired from Taco Bell when I was 16 because of a difference of opinion with the shift manager. He thought it was appropriate to attempt to feel me up in the walk-in refrigerator, but I thought it was more appropriate to knee him in the balls. Junewhatevs.

queenofhearts1728

@pinkybooklove09 that's an appropriate response, if you ask me!

sassypants527

Geekywife said:

Thank you everyone for your kind words. I was not looking for all the love you have shown me and I am grateful for it.  I have never been in this spot before. Every other time I left a job I had a plan of what was next.

Oh dear, I am so sorry!  It's a horrible feeling to not know what to do next. 

I had it happen to me once.  While I was initially hired (re-hired, since I was returning to a former company to take on a leadership role) as an interim director of subscriptions, I knew it would be for a year but a year came and went and they didn't say anything to me about finding someone else, and a couple of months beyond that year had passed.  I had interviewed for a job in my field but was waiting to hear back when the former director of subscriptions emailed me to say he didn't realize I was leaving and btw my job was posted on the website.  I was all WTF!? because they didn't tell me they were going to post the position and since it had been 3 months I thought I was cool.  Well, I called the place I applied for to follow up, learned they were going to offer me the job, and when the VP called me into his office I was all smug and told him I had just found something else, so ha!  (OK, minus the ha part). 

The only other "firing" I've had was when I turned in my 2 month notice that they required by contract for me to give and the turned around and told me I was out that day.  I was planning on using those 2 months to find something else.  D'oh!

Something will turn up.  It WILL!!  *sending positive job vibes*

Geekywife

Hoycie said:

Geekywife said:

I was fired yesterday and I am still numb. I don't know what to do since I have never left a job before with out having an other plan already.

I'm a little nosy.  What did you get fired for?

While I was on vacation someone went through the stuff on my desk. They found something miss filed that I had been working on but not fast enough. I was never train right for the job I was doing and even though I said multiple times that I was over booked and that I needed help, I never got it and more and more was put on the desk. Thinking back on it they were looking for something because the new people in the office who were working with me didn't like me. I even told my manager before I went away that I was scared and she said that she would be too. There is a lot of drama in that office now that was not there last year. This will be a good thing I hope.

Hoycie

Geekywife said:

Hoycie said:

Geekywife said:

I was fired yesterday and I am still numb. I don't know what to do since I have never left a job before with out having an other plan already.

I'm a little nosy.  What did you get fired for?

While I was on vacation someone went through the stuff on my desk. They found something miss filed that I had been working on but not fast enough. I was never train right for the job I was doing and even though I said multiple times that I was over booked and that I needed help, I never got it and more and more was put on the desk. Thinking back on it they were looking for something because the new people in the office who were working with me didn't like me. I even told my manager before I went away that I was scared and she said that she would be too. There is a lot of drama in that office now that was not there last year. This will be a good thing I hope.

Who would want to stay in that kind of work environment anyway! I'm sure something better will come along.

SnShne322

Geekywife said:

Hoycie said:

Geekywife said:

I was fired yesterday and I am still numb. I don't know what to do since I have never left a job before with out having an other plan already.

I'm a little nosy.  What did you get fired for?

While I was on vacation someone went through the stuff on my desk. They found something miss filed that I had been working on but not fast enough. I was never train right for the job I was doing and even though I said multiple times that I was over booked and that I needed help, I never got it and more and more was put on the desk. Thinking back on it they were looking for something because the new people in the office who were working with me didn't like me. I even told my manager before I went away that I was scared and she said that she would be too. There is a lot of drama in that office now that was not there last year. This will be a good thing I hope.

It sounds like it might be for the best. It fees like a toxic work environment to me. I hope you find something soon @Geekywife

RiverPlate

sassypants527 said:

Geekywife said:

Thank you everyone for your kind words. I was not looking for all the love you have shown me and I am grateful for it.  I have never been in this spot before. Every other time I left a job I had a plan of what was next.

Oh dear, I am so sorry!  It's a horrible feeling to not know what to do next. 

I had it happen to me once.  While I was initially hired (re-hired, since I was returning to a former company to take on a leadership role) as an interim director of subscriptions, I knew it would be for a year but a year came and went and they didn't say anything to me about finding someone else, and a couple of months beyond that year had passed.  I had interviewed for a job in my field but was waiting to hear back when the former director of subscriptions emailed me to say he didn't realize I was leaving and btw my job was posted on the website.  I was all WTF!? because they didn't tell me they were going to post the position and since it had been 3 months I thought I was cool.  Well, I called the place I applied for to follow up, learned they were going to offer me the job, and when the VP called me into his office I was all smug and told him I had just found something else, so ha!  (OK, minus the ha part). 

The only other "firing" I've had was when I turned in my 2 month notice that they required by contract for me to give and the turned around and told me I was out that day.  I was planning on using those 2 months to find something else.  D'oh!

Something will turn up.  It WILL!!  *sending positive job vibes*

I gave my two weeks at a job once (I was a waitress in college), and the owner told me no thanks, I was fired.  And then accused me of stealing money from the cash register.  I was STUNNED.  Needless to say, I never stole a dime.

My SIL's boyfriend was just fired on his last day of work (he got a new job and gave his 2 weeks) for being 5 minutes late for his shift (front desk/check in for outpatients at a hospital).  That was pretty astounding.  Why bother?  All they did was stress out all of the other front desk people had to work extra since they were understaffed.