Mr. Fired

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Workaholics go to meetings
Chapter 2: Nice and Easy (part 2)

December 2, 2009 - 4:24 pm

Tags: bad boss, book, career, Employment, Fired, hate job, job, story, termination, unhappy, workplace
Posted in Employment, Fired, Workaholics Go To Meetings | No comments

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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 [...]

Happy Thanksgiving

November 26, 2009 - 11:13 am

Tags: holiday, job, thanksgiving, turkey, work
Posted in Daily Tidbit | No comments

Congrats, everybody; Turkey day’s upon us!
We wait for this holiday like a kid for Christmas. Thanksgiving for us, adults, represents not the simple “give thanks” holiday that it’s meant to be. Thanksgiving is not just the start of the holiday season, a season of warmth though it’s in the winter, a season of family and [...]

Fired! blog presents: You did WHAT???

November 19, 2009 - 11:00 am

Tags: assault, deragatory comments, Fired, police, politics, radio, robbery
Posted in Daily Tidbit, Employment, Fired, News | 1 comment

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.
First today, a New Hanover County deputy has been fired after allegations of assault on his estranged wife. Authorities say that Nicholas Dillon went to his estranged wife’s house [...]

Would you rather quit or be fired?

November 13, 2009 - 8:22 am

Tags: Advice, Employment, Fired, hate job, job, Quit, termination
Posted in Advice, Employment, Fired, Laid off, Quit | 5 comments

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 [...]

Workaholics go to meetings
Chapter 2: Nice and Easy (part 1)

November 12, 2009 - 11:48 am

Tags: book, Employment, Fired, job, story, unemployment, workplace
Posted in Employment, Fired, Quit, Workaholics Go To Meetings | No comments

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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 [...]

Another facebook firing

November 12, 2009 - 10:15 am

Tags: Employment, facebook privacy, Fired, job loss, privacy, resigned, termination
Posted in Advice, Employment, Fired, News, Social networking or blog involved | No comments

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 [...]