March 25, 2010 - 10:58 am
Tags: broke law, Fired, firefighter, police, stupidity, teacher, terminated, termination, was fired
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Welcome to our next installment of “You did WHAT???” where we discuss the latest news in the world of stupidity that leads to people being fired.
Stupidity is abound today more than ever. And with civil employees non the less. Teachers, cops, and firefighters seem to be getting into more trouble than anyone [...]
March 17, 2010 - 1:52 pm
Tags: bad boss, book, career, Employment, Fired, hate job, job, story, termination, unhappy, workplace
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Vincent was there every morning. A Yale graduate, he was tall and lanky, with round frames mounted on his nose. His hair was straight and black, and fell around his head in a nineties-style mushroom. Vincent, or Vin as I grew to call him, was always one of the first to arrive [...]
March 17, 2010 - 12:50 pm
Tags: bad boss, book, career, Employment, Fired, hate job, job, story, termination, unhappy, workplace
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I’ve been asked what it was that inspired me to write this book in this particular, curious way. After all, this is a sad story that makes absolutely no attempt at showcasing any sort of happiness throughout my entire journey. The answer is quite simple: it is what it is. What’s the [...]
I work in the library universe but not actually a Librarian. At one point I was working 2 different part time library assistant type jobs. I served one of them loyally for more than 1 1/2 years at a junior college library. I was promised a new contract for the summer and we where about [...]
March 2, 2010 - 4:24 pm
Tags: bad boss, book, career, Employment, Fired, hate job, job, story, termination, unhappy, workplace
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As I sat there wasting away minutes at useless calculations, I wondered why everything was bundled into one giant PTO pool. Imagine if baseball didn’t break down hits into singles, doubles, triples, and home runs. You’d be as confused reading the back of the baseball card as the manager trying to set [...]
March 1, 2010 - 7:33 pm
Tags: alcohol, bad boss, Employment, Fired, job, story, termination, was fired, workplace
Posted in Employment, Fired, Reader-submitted | 6 comments
I will try to make this story as brief as I can. It’s so ridiculous. Since November 2009, I have been going out drinking with my boss..We are both female. We have always gotten along well. I have worked for her 3-plus years. Now my boss meets this male bartender through [...]
February 12, 2010 - 11:48 am
Tags: book, Employment, Fired, job, story, unemployment, workplace
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Sometime deep into a closed door meeting it was decided that employees must be kept happy in their workplace. There was much debate about what mechanism would be used in this endeavor, but one fact was undebatable. Any benefits that were to be put in place, they were to come at a [...]
November 13, 2009 - 8:22 am
Tags: Advice, Employment, Fired, hate job, job, Quit, termination
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If I told you that you were being replaced at your current job, what would you say? And I’m not talking about the immediate shock and anger about the pending loss of your job. Once you’ve had a moment to think rationally, you’ll probably be wondering, “should I ride this out, or should I make [...]
November 12, 2009 - 10:15 am
Tags: Employment, facebook privacy, Fired, job loss, privacy, resigned, termination
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Ashley Payne, a teacher from Georgia, claims she was coerced into resignation after school officials received a complaint about content posted on her Facebook page. Payne posted pictures along with some commentary of her recent trip to Europe on Facebook. A student’s mother saw her pictures and complained about one in particular where Payne was [...]
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October 12, 2009 - 5:31 pm
Sounds like your boss was a jerk! Funny, he fired you after you already kind of quit…
October 12, 2009 - 5:33 pm
Did you get severance or unemployment? Sounds like a lot of hoopla for nothing
October 12, 2009 - 5:38 pm
gotta love sticking it to the man LOL