McDonalds (High School Days): Quit, joined the Air Force
Air Force: Got medical boarded over asthma (7 years in, no problems. Went off to a hockey scrimmage, had hard time breathing, figured I was sick/out of shape. Cough never went away, got sent to Bethesda. A year later I'm better, but due to the AF being 15,000 over it Congressional limit, I got the boot)
Department of State (Northrop Grumman): Quit, new job out of the Air Force had travel requirement. (I took this job as a second job when the wife was pregnant and could no longer work.)
Missile Defense Agency [Information Assurance Engineer]: Got canned. Really, budget cut hit, and my team was axed. (Made me feel better that pretty much everyone was pissed/confused.)
So, not a bad track record. Every place I quit was in an amiable fashion. My last day at MDA is this Friday. I forgot how draining interviewing can be.
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TonkkaSome one in the club tonightHas stolen my ideas.Registered Userregular
edited January 2008
This is not the first job I've been let go from, but damn, this shit was abrupt.
nevilleThe Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered Userregular
edited January 2008
I got fired/forced out from one job because I hired someone I DIDN'T want to hire and she was a gigantic cunt and got a promotion above me because she "Had more experience." The fact she was mostly a goddamn useless tester and a worthless manager? Apparently irrelevant.
Currently I am: Laughing my ass off because the company is going nowhere and is shedding talent AND I'm in school to become a dev and will soon laugh my ass off at the stupid bitch stuck in QA at a small company because she wouldn't last anywhere else.
Agent VesagoHalf Iago. Half Fu Manchu. All Bastard.Registered Userregular
edited January 2008
I got "involuntarily separated" from a job because I owned up to a mistake instead of trying to move the blame to someone else. The other two people who were also responsible let me take the hit instead of speaking up.
It turned out better for me anyways, I've got a job with growth potential while they will have gone nowhere.
Still, teaches me to never ever own up to my mistakes again.
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IpseDixitTreat me like a pirateAnd give me that bootyRegistered Userregular
edited January 2008
Never been fired. I was let go from my first job though because they hired too many people. Whoops. It was just boring office bitch work anyways (photocopy this, now put those photocopies in these envelopes, take this info and put it into a spreadsheet).
Other than that I worked a temp job as a file clerk at a doctors office. Nice coworkers, but it was an oncology office. Filing medical documents for people with terminal cancer? Not exactly an uplifting job.
Now I'm working at a pizza place in the kitchen, and at a non-profit organization as a marketing intern who never left after school ended. At least I'm getting paid now.
Currently looking for a full time job, hopefully in marketing or financing (preferably international financing because fuck the US markets right now). I'v also applied to the JET Program to teach English in Japan, but who knows if that will work out.
Anyone in need of a young intelligent person with office and marketing experience and a bachelors in Economics?
When I was 17 my friend Elisa got me a job in the deli where she worked. On my second day working Elisa says to me "hey, lets go smoke some pot in the cooler, we do it all the time the fan just takes the smoke away" So we are in the cooler smoking weed and suddenly the door opens. We both just freeze and stare at our supervisor who stares back at us. Elisa somehow talked her into letting us keep our jobs and nothing was said about it ever again. I only told you this story because the reason I got fired was for a much less severe reason. It was was pretty well known fact around the store that if you were an employee we would discount your sandwich or wings or whatever. So one day I discount some potato wedges for my friend Dave. The 60 year old lady who works the same cart sees this and tells the owner. About 10 minutes later he calls both Dave and I into his office and tells us that we are fired, but he expects us to finish our shift. I told him hell no and threw my apron and hat on his desk, Bryce however went back to the bakery. Now I thought he intended to finish his shift but as I am pulling out of my parking spot I see a rack of bread dough in pans about 6 feet tall rolling out the front doors of the store and into the parking lot followed by Dave running from the owner who saw this from the front of the store.
Various crap high school jobs - Working at concession stands, lifting and moving rugs, warehouse work. Not bad. Not good, either.
Target - Overnight Stock. Really nice manager, good overnight pay, got to unload the truck several times which is actually a really nice four-hour workout. Worked from 10pm to 6am or something ungodly like that. Fun job because it was just mindless physical labor and object matching. Windex goes here, plastic wrap goes here, etc. Didn't have to talk to anybody since they all spoke spanish, just did my job, ate my hungry man microwaveable dinner, and went home. Manager also held weekly drawings, winners got to pick a dvd from the electronics section. Pretty cool.
Current position: Contract employee for Microsoft Games. QA Testing. Very laid back most of the time, nice bosses, more mindless tedium, but I'm probably one of the best on my floor at it. Routinely recieve free games and goodies just for showing up. All the soda and juice I can drink. Only problem is I have to take 100 days off every 12 months. However, unemployment pay is almost as much as I make at the job itself, so I don't worry about it too much. Will be entering year four pretty soon.
I've never had an evil manager or a really terrible job. Though I'm sure that will change since I plan to apply at some retail stores for my 100 day break.
I havent held a job for more than 9 months. My work experience is like... 4 months every summer between semesters. Looks good though, using words like Diagnose and Rectify.
You guys remember that picture of me with all the vomit on my hair and face and shit? Well, I slept off the hangover and missed my shift at a tea bar. I was supposed to open that day.
Got fired.
My resume is so damn long, since I include every gig on it, and my longest gigs are maybe one-year things. So for every year I have maybe 8-10 new jobs I can slam on my resume.
The only time I've been fired, my boss openly admitted that she couldn't deny how good a job I had done with my students, and that she was very sorry for having to let me go.
I took this to mean I was being fired because I was too fucking awesome for that shit hole.
Apparently because of the power outage on friday something went crazy with the register and it charged a $276 purchase from friday to saturday instead. (I know for a fact that that is impossible with the double checking and whatnot I did, but hey if my boss wants to remove any blame by using false reasoning, more power to her)
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You guys remember that picture of me with all the vomit on my hair and face and shit? Well, I slept off the hangover and missed my shift at a tea bar. I was supposed to open that day.
Got fired.
Whatever.
what picture is this you speak of?
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The GeekOh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPAregular
edited January 2008
Has anyone mentioned Matthew Lesko in this thread yet?
- First year at MS, the company had finally wrapped litigation over the lawsuit brought on by contract workers and how they were being treated horribly for years. Sounds great, but to appease the courts, MS instituted a "100 day break in service" - basically, after 1 year of contracting, you had to take a lay-off and could not work for any MS-related business for 3+ months. We shipped Windows 2000 and 2 months later, bang - every one on my team save 1 SDET got laid off...some of those guys had been there since the Win95 days
- Riverdeep - The Learning Company: Came on as a QA lead on a 6 month contract, and was hired full-time in less than a month. Moved up to project manager, and Riverdeep purchased The Learning Company from Broderbund...we all thought yay, this is great! More IP, more money, offices in California!
Not so. Within 6 months of the merger, corporate announced that they were horribly in the red and stakeholders were pissed, so they closed the entire Redmond development house (the former Edmark before IBM sold it to the Riverdeep people in Ireland.) Layoff #2, but this time with a severance package.
- Atari N. America: After a couple short-term contract gigs at Real Networks and Microsoft, a poker buddy and at the time, director of IT and Support for all of Atari said he wanted me onboard there. I figured Ok, working for a game publisher could be kind of fun, so I gave it a shot. Worked up to management and tech trainer for the entire group. 2 days short of my one-year anniversary there, we all got our pink slips - Atari was in the red and was "consolidating resources", meaning they were selling off their IP, and moving whatever was left to their New York offices. That 2 days meant that I got shorted 6 weeks' worth of severance and vacation time.
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Air Force: Got medical boarded over asthma (7 years in, no problems. Went off to a hockey scrimmage, had hard time breathing, figured I was sick/out of shape. Cough never went away, got sent to Bethesda. A year later I'm better, but due to the AF being 15,000 over it Congressional limit, I got the boot)
Department of State (Northrop Grumman): Quit, new job out of the Air Force had travel requirement. (I took this job as a second job when the wife was pregnant and could no longer work.)
Missile Defense Agency [Information Assurance Engineer]: Got canned. Really, budget cut hit, and my team was axed. (Made me feel better that pretty much everyone was pissed/confused.)
So, not a bad track record. Every place I quit was in an amiable fashion. My last day at MDA is this Friday. I forgot how draining interviewing can be.
Currently I am: Laughing my ass off because the company is going nowhere and is shedding talent AND I'm in school to become a dev and will soon laugh my ass off at the stupid bitch stuck in QA at a small company because she wouldn't last anywhere else.
Fuck you, Helga.
i am working for american express
would you guys like credit cards
i am your hook-up
I've got enough to manage. :P
It turned out better for me anyways, I've got a job with growth potential while they will have gone nowhere.
Still, teaches me to never ever own up to my mistakes again.
Other than that I worked a temp job as a file clerk at a doctors office. Nice coworkers, but it was an oncology office. Filing medical documents for people with terminal cancer? Not exactly an uplifting job.
Now I'm working at a pizza place in the kitchen, and at a non-profit organization as a marketing intern who never left after school ended. At least I'm getting paid now.
Currently looking for a full time job, hopefully in marketing or financing (preferably international financing because fuck the US markets right now). I'v also applied to the JET Program to teach English in Japan, but who knows if that will work out.
Anyone in need of a young intelligent person with office and marketing experience and a bachelors in Economics?
fuck those high interest rates.
Electronic composer for hire.
Funniest last moments at a job I have ever had.
Various crap high school jobs - Working at concession stands, lifting and moving rugs, warehouse work. Not bad. Not good, either.
Target - Overnight Stock. Really nice manager, good overnight pay, got to unload the truck several times which is actually a really nice four-hour workout. Worked from 10pm to 6am or something ungodly like that. Fun job because it was just mindless physical labor and object matching. Windex goes here, plastic wrap goes here, etc. Didn't have to talk to anybody since they all spoke spanish, just did my job, ate my hungry man microwaveable dinner, and went home. Manager also held weekly drawings, winners got to pick a dvd from the electronics section. Pretty cool.
Current position: Contract employee for Microsoft Games. QA Testing. Very laid back most of the time, nice bosses, more mindless tedium, but I'm probably one of the best on my floor at it. Routinely recieve free games and goodies just for showing up. All the soda and juice I can drink. Only problem is I have to take 100 days off every 12 months. However, unemployment pay is almost as much as I make at the job itself, so I don't worry about it too much. Will be entering year four pretty soon.
I've never had an evil manager or a really terrible job. Though I'm sure that will change since I plan to apply at some retail stores for my 100 day break.
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@TaramoorPlays
Taramoor on Youtube
it's pretty hilarious
i make packin' groceries and workin' a customer service desk into such a big deal
spin is everything
Electronic composer for hire.
I would like to see your resume. I need to learn how to spin my experience into something awesomely glorious.
AIM: Yarrfooey
i am thinking i might just copy it into photoshop and make an image of it and photobucket
y/n?
AIM: Yarrfooey
Photoshop did funky shit to my format
The words are more important.
AIM: Yarrfooey
wording is everything
stuff like not repeating phrases
and fancying up your vocab
You guys remember that picture of me with all the vomit on my hair and face and shit? Well, I slept off the hangover and missed my shift at a tea bar. I was supposed to open that day.
Got fired.
Whatever.
Whoa you have your real name and everything on there.
What's OSSD?
AIM: Yarrfooey
I took this to mean I was being fired because I was too fucking awesome for that shit hole.
I didn't get fired!
Apparently because of the power outage on friday something went crazy with the register and it charged a $276 purchase from friday to saturday instead. (I know for a fact that that is impossible with the double checking and whatnot I did, but hey if my boss wants to remove any blame by using false reasoning, more power to her)
what picture is this you speak of?
Because that's what the title made me think of.
If you sign up for a yahoo account they give you 30 megs of webspace
nothing substantial, but it's been enough for me to keep every kind of paper or writing assignment since the tenth grade.
You might want to take your address off it for the sake of posting it on the internet.
In my illustrious career so far:
- First year at MS, the company had finally wrapped litigation over the lawsuit brought on by contract workers and how they were being treated horribly for years. Sounds great, but to appease the courts, MS instituted a "100 day break in service" - basically, after 1 year of contracting, you had to take a lay-off and could not work for any MS-related business for 3+ months. We shipped Windows 2000 and 2 months later, bang - every one on my team save 1 SDET got laid off...some of those guys had been there since the Win95 days
- Riverdeep - The Learning Company: Came on as a QA lead on a 6 month contract, and was hired full-time in less than a month. Moved up to project manager, and Riverdeep purchased The Learning Company from Broderbund...we all thought yay, this is great! More IP, more money, offices in California!
Not so. Within 6 months of the merger, corporate announced that they were horribly in the red and stakeholders were pissed, so they closed the entire Redmond development house (the former Edmark before IBM sold it to the Riverdeep people in Ireland.) Layoff #2, but this time with a severance package.
- Atari N. America: After a couple short-term contract gigs at Real Networks and Microsoft, a poker buddy and at the time, director of IT and Support for all of Atari said he wanted me onboard there. I figured Ok, working for a game publisher could be kind of fun, so I gave it a shot. Worked up to management and tech trainer for the entire group. 2 days short of my one-year anniversary there, we all got our pink slips - Atari was in the red and was "consolidating resources", meaning they were selling off their IP, and moving whatever was left to their New York offices. That 2 days meant that I got shorted 6 weeks' worth of severance and vacation time.
Electronic composer for hire.
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