Ever Been Fired?
 

I have. :eek::D:( And the job search begins....

I'm sorry. :(

:( On the plus side, Atlanta is one of the few places that HAS jobs right now ...

About 20 years ago, I lost a job, with many of my peers as a result of a management take-over. I had secured a new, comparable position within 2 weeks, 400 miles away.

Emotionally, it was very tough. But people I knew really rallied to give me leads.

As I look back, it was a good thing that it happened, when it happened. I was at my new job for only 5 months when I decided to move back into my home (I had negotiated 6 months of housing) and go to grad school. Grad School prompted me to leave the industry I was in, and move forward.

Truth be told, I didn't really like the job where we were all replaced anyways.

Do you mean laid off or truly terminated involuntarily? They are two different things. It is not a person's fault that he or she is made redundant. And even if you are terminated without your position being eliminated, it does not always mean that you did something unethical, performed poorly, or were not punctual. It could be the result of a personality conflict. And people sometimes are terminated with or without reason and for any reason under those "at will" or "90 day rule" clauses.

Sadly, other people still judge you even if it were not your fault at all.

This is what happened to me. I was terminated involuntarily. I didn't do anything wrong, it's just that my boss felt like I wasn't a good fit for the job. It didn't take the sting out of being fired though. But it was for the best. I really didn't like that job anyway.

Anyway, sorry that happened to you. PM if you want to talk. Did you apply for unemployment yet?

No, I was fired. They sited tardiness, absenteeism, and poor performance. In my defense, they had come to me with these issues a month ago and I had improved vastly but I guess it wasn't enough to keep my job. From what I heard about the person in my job before me, she did all their work for them and essentially spoiled them, so when I wasn't doing all their work for them, I appeared lazy. :rolleyes: It's ok, I didn't like my job anyway. I just wanted to get out when I was ready and I wish I had had more warning than 2:30 on a Friday afternoon. Truth be told, I had already started looking :o But there's the whole issue of money that's kinda kicking my ass right now... living paycheck to paycheck sucks.

And BTW, I'm not close enough to Atlanta to commute there. Augusta or Aiken anyone...?

That sounds a lot like what happened to me. My boss gave me a review telling me all the things I needed to improve. This was like in june. So in August, I sat down with her and her boss to see if I had made any improvement. She said that it was too early to tell:eek:. Then in September after working the whole day, I was fired. All this happened in 2005,but it seems like it was just yesterday.

Have you applied for unemployment? if you haven't, do so first thing Monday.

Fired: oh yes
I worked in the news media, it can be very political, in terms of favoring a cause/issue. I worked for a small daily paper a few years, excellent reviews, raises. What I didn't know when I was hired is how tight the editor and police chief were. The police department became the target of a state investigation for brutality of prisoners over many years. The paper tried to ignore the story, I'd become a squeaky wheel saying we can't be doing this; kind of like ignoring an elephant in the room. Our nearest competition rarely covered the community, but got wind of the investigation and that the paper I worked for hid it. So, my paper decided to cover the story. By then, my and their credibility was shot. What the paper I worked for first tried to do is go after those who led investigators to be brought in. That's when my resumes started going out in mass.
The management started looking for people to blame because it was hard to get anyone to take the paper seriously, so the staff became targets.
My next review, I went from a valuable asset to a troublemaker. I was given 2 weeks to stop whatever I was doing wrong, with only a vague answer as to what it was.
When I was fired I just laughed at my boss.
I went on to work for a larger company, and later heard I described as one of the paper's "success" stories.
And the management: the paper was bought a few years later by the competition and it fired the management.
Two other papers I worked for closed. I am changing careers.

Gotta love how doing the right thing gets you in trouble!

This has happened to me, but it didn't lead to being fired.

Long story short, I was hired to be a Development person for a job -- basically writing grant proposals, processing donations, etc. I also had some programming work and some administrative work. Well, the first two months were almost entirely administrative and it became apparent that my boss had (essentially) hired me under false pretenses -- he really wanted a receptionist but knew he wouldn't be able to find one that also had proposal writing chops. He also gave me ZERO training, so although I was doing the work, he wasn't teaching me what had greater priority than other things. ALSO, I had to get his personal mail from his PO Box and do other things that weren't directly work related.

Things worked out, but I heard MUCH later that the guy was badmouthing me to my peers and saying he didn't think I would work out. wtf?

I ended up getting a new supervisor who gives me more creative freedom, more opportunities to talk about my progress, and is basically grooming me for management. The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Oh no, I'm still on my current job. I have been in my position for over 2.5 years, and with the company for 3 1/2 now. I am talking about previous positions.

I plan on going down to the office Monday morning, no worries. :D I love how it's the company that fired you that pays it, that still cracks me up! And, as it turns out, I know yet another person (an IT guy where I just got fired from) who worked for this university prior to here and knows all the right people to tell about me :D God, I hope this job works out...Greek Life and Intermurals Advisor... sigh. Pray for me!

Good luck to you. Make sure you have any type of written communication that took place between you and your boss. When I got fired, my company was cool about paying me unemployment. Somewhere along the line, they tried to get out of it and filed an appeal. We had to have a hearing, where my bosses bascially tried to lie on me and say that I was this aweful worker. The unemployment office side with me and that was that:D

I have an evaluation from a few months ago that said I was doing well so if they appeal, I've got that in my pocket, along with several other people who were as shocked as I was about getting fired. I'm not too worried... Plus, the HR lady who fired me told me where the unemployment office was and gave me the separation letter to take down there.