Thread: So this guy I work with told me he was fired today...

Ouch. Why was he fired?

damn, that sucks....
kinda shitty they would do that to a guy on april fools day, not to mention telling him on Tuesday, now the rest of the week is like sitting on death row.

Working too much. Where I work they have very specific quotas you have to meet, but you can't work unclaimed overtime. So a fair number of people just work the overtime anyway, its like an unspoken agreement that the supervisors look the other way. As far as I know he is the only one to ever be fired for it.

he got fired for working too much?
now that is seriously fucked up...

You're gonna see a lot more "firings" in the months to come. We just had a whole airline fire itself, this morning I heard Dell is "firing" a bunch of workers....tough times are evident, but neigh neigh says the government......who am I to disagree they just might up and fire me....permanently...

A similar thing happened to my co-worker, my bosses called this kid Mark into the office, but just before that John starts to bug Mark and say he's a goner,history fired.....sure enough he was fired.
Mark thought he was being cruel but John really didn't know.

Originally Posted by maniclion

You're gonna see a lot more "firings" in the months to come. We just had a whole airline fire itself, this morning I heard Dell is "firing" a bunch of workers....tough times are evident, but neigh neigh says the government......who am I to disagree they just might up and fire me....permanently...

This scares us, we just got new good paying career jobs with great benefits.....please no layoffs...

Originally Posted by min0 lee

This scares us, we just got new good paying career jobs with great benefits.....please no layoffs...

now..now....I'm sure the Republicans will make sure we can all find good temp jobs cleaning hotel rooms during the Beijing Olympics. . .

Originally Posted by kbm8795

now..now....I'm sure the Republicans will make sure we can all find good temp jobs cleaning hotel rooms during the Beijing Olympics. . .

I'm sure the Dems will turn it all around by raising taxes and starting more entitlement programs.

Originally Posted by clemson357

I gave him a ton of shit because it was April fools day. Come to find out he was really fired, his last day is Friday.

there really aren't words for just how much that sucks

Self employment!


Nah, that sucks too.

Originally Posted by maniclion

You're gonna see a lot more "firings" in the months to come. We just had a whole airline fire itself, this morning I heard Dell is "firing" a bunch of workers....tough times are evident, but neigh neigh says the government......who am I to disagree they just might up and fire me....permanently...

It's called a "cycle." If you had taken even the most basic economics class you would realize that. We had somewhere around ~49 consecutive months of job growth.

I'm not sure what to make of that last sentence, you trying to imply the govt is gonna kill you ("fire permanently") for criticizing it? Yeah, that's reality alright. I think if they were gonna kill someone theyd start with the nuts harassing our Marine Recruiters in Berkley.

self employment(depending on the job you start) or government jobs are good choices

im still in college believe it or not managing or owning a fitness club is working well

Originally Posted by brogers

It's called a "cycle." If you had taken even the most basic economics class you would realize that. We had somewhere around ~49 consecutive months of job growth.

I'm not sure what to make of that last sentence, you trying to imply the govt is gonna kill you ("fire permanently") for criticizing it? Yeah, that's reality alright. I think if they were gonna kill someone theyd start with the nuts harassing our Marine Recruiters in Berkley.

You have no ability to detect humor do you? Did nobody tell you jokes as a kid? Manic is kidding.

Originally Posted by KelJu

You have no ability to detect humor do you? Did nobody tell you jokes as a kid? Manic is kidding.

I suspected it, but is difficult to tell with some characters here.

Ie: BigDyl still thinks it wasn't the airplanes that brought down the WTC.

I have been trained to accept ridiculousness as some people's true opinions

Originally Posted by clemson357

I'm sure the Dems will turn it all around by raising taxes and starting more entitlement programs.

Oh, I think Americans understand that the one thing conservatives hate the most is the idea of spending American tax money on Americans. . .in America.


Your tax money is safe. . .in Iraq.

Originally Posted by brogers

It's called a "cycle." If you had taken even the most basic economics class you would realize that. We had somewhere around ~49 consecutive months of job growth.

I'm not sure what to make of that last sentence, you trying to imply the govt is gonna kill you ("fire permanently") for criticizing it? Yeah, that's reality alright. I think if they were gonna kill someone theyd start with the nuts harassing our Marine Recruiters in Berkley.

Whatever dude, you and the government can call it a "contraction" but when I wake up every morning to another local company going under I worry. First Molokai Ranch and 120 employees got the axe, then Mobile One lays off 50, then Aloha Airlines Tanks taking 2000 with it and this morning 50 lose jobs with ATA Airlines......really starts up the old cortisol pump...

Originally Posted by kbm8795

Oh, I think Americans understand that the one thing conservatives hate the most is the idea of spending American tax money on Americans. . .in America.


Your tax money is safe. . .in Iraq.

Holy shit that was ownage.

Originally Posted by brogers

I suspected it, but is difficult to tell with some characters here.

Ie: BigDyl still thinks it wasn't the airplanes that brought down the WTC.

I have been trained to accept ridiculousness as some people's true opinions

It wasn't it was a non-dimensional vortex where George Lizzie and Ralph slipped into a real world offset by non-linear lightwaves and went all Rampage on those 2 buildings. The 2 airplanes we saw just got snatched out of the sky by their invisible hands, again they were invisible due to non-linear lightwaves....