I have heard alot of doozies. I was a victim of management needing a scapegoat. IMO most middle management are just trying to advance their stalled career and really don't care about their employees. Trying to prove they "can make the big decision" and get that promotion. The ones I have known tend to be miserable bastards.
I had a similar issue at Meijers in Cumberland. I was the only one getting carts from the grocery side on a spring Saturday late morning early afternoon. I went into the office and asked if one of the 3 on the other side of the store could come help me out since they were not as busy. I was told I could handle it. I asked if I could take my break sometime soon and they declined. On my way out of the office I clocked out and went home.I'm pissed for you, dude.
And as for my ridiculous reason:
Meijer of Carmel - rated the worst Meijer to work at due to the shoppers there (no offense. I shop there..... they refer to the rich community there as the difficult ones. i'm poor. =D )
16 months good solid work cashiering and cart gathering (more of the cart gathering than anything else after only 4 months in). Missed 0 days of work, arrived late only once due to a flat tire, which occurred around 12 months into working there.
One day I'm forced to do carts on a day I was already under the weather a little bit as I have annual sinus infections / head colds. Well long story short, I threw up three times that day. After I threw up a third time I went to the Asst. Manager, who was my direct supervisor and told her. She told me "If you go home, don't come back."
Well, I did. And I didn't. At least not as an employee
It was fun, though. I got her old fat ass a write-up when the GM called me asking me why I wasn't in work one day; told him I was fired. He apologized and told me I wasn't - too bad for them I had a job lined up already.
I was let go at a Mortgage Company because I wouldn't over charge people. I was always dead in the middle with my numbers. They said all I had to do was charge another point and I would be one of the top producers. I explained that there was no need to do that and that I was happy with my income and my consistent place in the middle of the pack. I also explained that I would rather be on the top of "the guy I want to deal with list" than the "top producer list" and they decided that due to my soul being intact I would have to find other employment.
My next interview was at another top tier mortgage company. The owner interveiwed me and asked why I had to leave the other company. I told him that "I am not going to compromise my principles for a paycheck and that I am not going to charge anyone more than my time is worth." He hired me on the spot.
LOL! That's a good one.
"I'm giving my notice."
"Oh, yeah? YOU'RE FIRED!"
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Sorry not a job, but I just wanted to addd this.
So in the 6th grade my math teacher just hated me ( She was also science and I think it was because I questioned global warming ) She never missed a beat to demerit me. Well one day she was talking to her favorite student about one of her test grades. The student is very emotional about these things, she was sobbing. The teacher asked ''How about I suspend Daniel and raise your test grade to make you fell better?'' I was standing right there.
(I ended up getting 2 days of ISS)
So yesterday after 4 years of working there I was fired. Earlier that day I had a conversation with another person (one of our venders) whom I have been buddy's with on personal levels, about me looking for another job. I told him that I really wanted to go back into plumbing because it is what I really enjoy doing. He asked me why I was unhappy there, and if it were due to pay. I told him that I didn't think they pay me what I am worth but that wasn't the biggest reason.
I also told him that the main reason was that I didn't like the way things operated there.
Now, my boss already knew that I was looking to get back into plumbing, and had gone for a couple interviews already. No big deal. So about an hour before quitting time yesterday my boss called me into her office. She told me that she thought it was in their best interest that I not work there anymore. And they were letting me go.
Naturally I asked WHY? She replied with " you told a vendor that we don't pay you what you think your worth". And said that was unexceptable. LMAO. I said ok and walked out.
That is absolutely the most redicuolus reason I've ever heard. Now I am aware that she can fire me for no reason at all in IN. but she could have atleast come up with something better then that.
Let's hear some other redicuolus Reasons for being fired.
I think I've said it before, but you really need to get out of that school my man.Sorry not a job, but I just wanted to addd this.
So in the 6th grade my math teacher just hated me ( She was also science and I think it was because I questioned global warming ) She never missed a beat to demerit me. Well one day she was talking to her favorite student about one of her test grades. The student is very emotional about these things, she was sobbing. The teacher asked ''How about I suspend Daniel and raise your test grade to make you fell better?'' I was standing right there.
(I ended up getting 2 days of ISS)
I see you got an early introduction to the fact that some people simply shouldn't be breathing our air.
Good to see you back. It seems to have been a while. I hope all is well with you.
I think I've said it before, but you really need to get out of that school my man.
The end of school was hard. Then there was that incident with a watermelon and a bunch of highschool girls
The end of school was hard. Then there was that incident with a watermelon and a bunch of highschool girls
I had a similar situation! I was a senior, and the history teacher would make me sit in the hall and take tests, as I never brought a book to class, and would usually walk in, and put my head on the desk and go to sleep. I almost always got perfect scores on those tests, and the teacher would be furious that I aced it without ever lifting a finger in class. He insisted I was cheating on the tests, and even stood over my shoulder and watched as I wrote the answers to his silly tests without even thinking much about them. I was always a history buff anyway, and the teacher finally backed off when I informed him that I did a lot of reading on my own, and I didn't need him or the grade he gave me to be knowledgeable in history. Those were different days, when logic and truth ruled.I had a 10th grade American history teacher that would wake me up and give the class a pop quiz because I had fallen asleep.
Aced them all.
The class hated me.
I had a similar situation! I was a senior, and the history teacher would make me sit in the hall and take tests, as I never brought a book to class, and would usually walk in, and put my head on the desk and go to sleep. I almost always got perfect scores on those tests, and the teacher would be furious that I aced it without ever lifting a finger in class. He insisted I was cheating on the tests, and even stood over my shoulder and watched as I wrote the answers to his silly tests without even thinking much about them. I was always a history buff anyway, and the teacher finally backed off when I informed him that I did a lot of reading on my own, and I didn't need him or the grade he gave me to be knowledgeable in history. Those were different days, when logic and truth ruled.
Edit to add: That was 28 years ago, and that teacher allows me to shoot on his property now. And we've had a few humorous discussions about my high school years.
Wish I was as fourtunateI had a similar situation! I was a senior, and the history teacher would make me sit in the hall and take tests, as I never brought a book to class, and would usually walk in, and put my head on the desk and go to sleep. I almost always got perfect scores on those tests, and the teacher would be furious that I aced it without ever lifting a finger in class. He insisted I was cheating on the tests, and even stood over my shoulder and watched as I wrote the answers to his silly tests without even thinking much about them. I was always a history buff anyway, and the teacher finally backed off when I informed him that I did a lot of reading on my own, and I didn't need him or the grade he gave me to be knowledgeable in history. Those were different days, when logic and truth ruled.
Edit to add: That was 28 years ago, and that teacher allows me to shoot on his property now. And we've had a few humorous discussions about my high school years.
You two should go have a smoke and discuss this like adults.
Maybe you can get your job back.