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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

i have a sack full of assorted crystals and ancient stuff OP
thats looting and it's not cool. go put that ancient stuff back where you found it

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Beefeater
May 17, 2003

I'm hungry.
Hair Elf
I've never been fired, but I was undoubtedly close to it at my first job. It was at a video store run by an excedingly paranoid east indian fellow. He had cameras everywhere, and would legit sit at home and watch us work (he would phone several times a day to give people poo poo for stuff he noticed them doing on the camera). The only spot that didn't have a camera was the porno movie room, so that's where I'd hide when I would show up to work hungover.

RobattoJesus
Aug 13, 2002

dad gay. so what posted:

what should I post?

recipes

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
And IMO the sack is kind of an overrated statistic. The single season sack leader is a complete charlatan too.

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

good idea

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

What if recipes was pronounced "re-kipes"?? :tinfoil:

bag em and tag em
Nov 4, 2008
I got fired from a job doing janitorial work at my college because I started clocking in and going back to my dorm room until it was time to clock out.

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I had some assembly line job making log splitters and I would just go hide out in the back of the factory until they found me and fired me

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ

a hole-y ghost posted:

thats looting and it's not cool. go put that ancient stuff back where you found it

its archaeology mostly

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

in my last couple of jobs for a company i hated i spent something like 1/3 of every shift on the john. i expected them to sack me but they never even noticed.

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

i have a sack full of assorted crystals and ancient stuff OP

if you have any gems i'll take a look

garfield hentai
Feb 29, 2004
I got fired from CompUSA a few weeks in. I asked my boss if we had a CPU in stock since the inventory system was down or something, he got mad and said he couldn't be bothered to keep track of every little thing (this was when quad core processors first came out so it wasn't really "little" but eh) and to just check the god drat website and see if it said it was in stock. I did, it said it was in stock, I told the guy asking me on the phone it was in stock, he came in and it wasn't in stock, he started making a big fuss "I HAD A BUDGET PUT TOGETHER. I NEED TO STICK TO MY BUDGET. THIS PROCESSOR WAS IN MY BUDGET YOU DON'T GET IT I HAD A BUDGET" and that evening boss called us to the meeting room and asked which of us morons told him we had it stock. I told him it was me and he got really pissed off at my blasé attitude and how I just admitted it without fretting about and pointing the finger at other people or otherwise trying to defend myself which apparently showed I didn't care about the job and then I didn't work there anymore.

CISMALES DID 9-11
Jun 5, 2002

chaotic good STEM major; INTJ

Jerry Mumphrey posted:

if you have any gems i'll take a look

classic gem thief opener line

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

i need emeralds to fuel the device

down n out
Sep 16, 2008

Nap Ghost
I was working a retail job and my supervisor was condescending and a total prick. I purposely hosed up every task until they put me out of sight in the back folding boxes. They fired me when they found me sleeping on a storage shelf next to a pile of hosed up boxes.

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I've basically stopped answering the phone at my current job. When it's a boss or someone I will, but outside calls I just don't loving answer. And then I'll figure out what timezone they came from and call back when I know they aren't there, lol. So far no one seems to notice or care. Well, actually one guy did, but when he complained it went up the line to my boss, my boss told me that that guy was an rear end in a top hat, and was being a baby.

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

CISMALES DID 9-11 posted:

classic gem thief opener line

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

OctoberBlues posted:

I've basically stopped answering the phone at my current job. When it's a boss or someone I will, but outside calls I just don't loving answer. And then I'll figure out what timezone they came from and call back when I know they aren't there, lol. So far no one seems to notice or care. Well, actually one guy did, but when he complained it went up the line to my boss, my boss told me that that guy was an rear end in a top hat, and was being a baby.

I made them take me to benny's holy gently caress

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

dad gay. so what posted:

I made them take me to benny's holy gently caress

lol

psychokitty
Jun 29, 2010

=9.9=
MEOW
BITCHES

i think i quit or maybe got fired from a job at whole foods one time but i don't remember there were drugs and vacations involved and i wasn't a "team member" anyway so i really wasn't that invested if you know what i mean

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

psychokitty posted:

i think i quit or maybe got fired from a job at whole foods one time but i don't remember there were drugs and vacations involved and i wasn't a "team member" anyway so i really wasn't that invested if you know what i mean
Getting arrested for selling benzos in the backroom doesn't count as being fired as you weren't technically hired in the first place.

DiHK
Feb 4, 2013

by Azathoth
I got fired from a pizza resturant after about 2 weeks, because in the 10 years between cook jobs I had totally lost my ability to work in a kitchen. I cut myself, I burned poo poo. Manager(younger than me) thought I was hi all the time. I wasn't.

I walked off my first grocery store job because they kept us on for 12 hours one day because of some visiting manager gently caress.

I got fired from Blockbuster after they found out I, uh, "rented to own" some playstation games from another store.

I got fired from a Subway for skipping work to go to see a ska band.

My first job was at a music/video rental store. When we found out it was closing me and 3 others looted that place.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
Got fired from Sears after two hellish months where all my co-workers hated me because they already had meager hours and blamed me for losing even more.

I was paid 6/ hr plus commission and lived thirty minutes away when gas was 4$ a gallon

I blew off a "team meeting" one Sunday cause I wasn't scheduled that day and gently caress eating the fuel price and that's why I was let go I guess

Good riddance.

clone on the phone
Aug 5, 2003

I woulda been thirteen or fourteen working my first job at DEKA (like 25 years ago) in housewares. I used to sleep half my shift behind some boxes in the warehouse and the other half sitting on the shitter. Got called into the managers office one day because they were paging me over the intercom but I was asleep. Didn't get fired for it but I stopped coming in because I just didn't care.

Pimpcasso
Mar 13, 2002

VOLS BITCH
i have never been fired because i am not a total idiot and can do job good :shrug:

Strategic Tea
Sep 1, 2012

sounds like OP is not so good... in the sack!

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

vols bitch posted:

i have never been fired because i am not a total idiot and can do job good :shrug:

I have also never been fired, but I'm not sure that is a good thing. There is something to be said for knowing just how little of a poo poo you can give before getting axed.

simple
Apr 11, 2007
Not sure if this counts but the summer after I got my drivers license I started looking for work. After searching for about a week I eventually found a job at a pizza joint. The manager tells me to show up next Wednesday at 10 am to begin training. So I show up the following Wednesday and he is like "What the hell are you doing here?" I tell him I am there to get training and he tells me I was supposed to show up on Monday. I argue with him for a minute about what he said, until he finally tells me to get lost. On the way out I decide it was probably best I didn't work for someone who couldn't keep his days straight. That was the only time I ever had trouble keeping a job.

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum

Kuato posted:

And IMO the sack is kind of an overrated statistic. The single season sack leader is a complete charlatan too.

it's a good overall defense stat bc it covers (lol) your secondary too but individual sacks I agree

the great deceiver
Sep 23, 2003

why the feds worried bout me clockin on this corner/
when there's politicians out here gettin popped in arizona
i got fired from my job as a social worker because i was arrested by the DEA for selling heroin lol

Real Mean Queen
Jun 2, 2004

Zesty.


The only job I've ever been fired from was being a "line cook" in a glorified bowling alley. This was not line cooking. We had some good regulars though and it was a very open kitchen so I'd interact with them and do fun stuff to make the boring rear end menu a little more interesting, I try to do a good job whatever it is I'm doing. Basically I ended up getting fired because the owner wanted me to serve some two week old pumpkin-smelling chicken wings to a bunch of kids and I'm all "uh you can go ahead and cook and serve those if you want them cooked and served in your establishment, I'm not getting involved." Suddenly I was getting written up a lot, and then fired for some small thing I don't remember. The manager had on several occasions dropped food on the floor, tossed it in the deep fryer, and served it because something something food costs something something heat kills bacteria, so I didn't really feel like I let anyone down there.

The restaurant portion of that place folded so hard they ended up firing everyone, tearing out the hood and flattop and fryers and everything (why you would do this I'll never understand) and leasing the space to a local pizza place a month or two after I got sacked. I can't imagine that's going much better.

trash person
Apr 5, 2006

Baby Executive is pleased with your performance!
I've never been fired from a job but I have been moved positions within a company.

I used to be a mini bar attendant for a resort/hotel in town. During the off season most of the rooms were empty so we were supposed to assist other parts of the resort after the little work we had. I instead sat in hotel rooms and watched TV all day.

They moved me to the phones after that.

I did get to meet Tiger Woods, Diane Lane, and former president George W Bush at that job tho.

DiHK
Feb 4, 2013

by Azathoth

the great deceiver posted:

i got fired from my job as a social worker because i was arrested by the DEA for selling heroin lol

Pfft. I got fired from my social worker position because i was getting all the girls with downs syndrome pregnant.

Friginator
May 13, 2014

by zen death robot
Which one of you little boys wants to know why Daddy doesn't work at the dildo factory anymore?

kazr
Jan 28, 2005

i was fired from a restaurant as a busser/host when i was teenager because i was a really lovely employee and did nothing above the barest minimum. they scheduled me one day then changed it on my day off and said i missed a shift and got fired

one of the best jobs ive ever had, don't regret a thing

Indy
Mar 30, 2005

Hey guys, what's up?

monkey posted:

Oh, that reminds me there was a third time I got fired that I forgot about. The reason I got fired was for attendance records. My manager didn't give a poo poo what hours I worked as long as the work was done, and I'd automated most of my job so I would rock up at 2pm, click a few buttons, play a bit of quake and leave at 5pm most days, occasionally pulling an allnighter when it was needed. But then he left and the new manager looked at my timesheets and fired me but didn't realise that I did almost all the work in the department. 6 months later production had gone from 2 per month to 1 in 6 months, and I got the call from the big boss telling me that manager had been removed and asking what it would take for me to come back.

What kind of industry was this?

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax

Friginator posted:

Which one of you little boys wants to know why Daddy doesn't work at the dildo factory anymore?
me

Monday_
Feb 18, 2006

Worked-up silent dork without sex ability seeks oblivion and demise.
The Great Twist
I got fired from a job once cause I kept forgetting to go to work.

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monkey
Jan 20, 2004

by zen death robot
Yams Fan

Indy posted:

What kind of industry was this?

8 bit graphics and game design for slots / poker machines in the mid 90s.

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