January 24, 2008

[erik]

Two of my friends, who I work with, just got shitcanned.

QOTD: What's the most awesomest thing that someone ever did after you lost a job? Or, what's the most awesomest thing you ever did for someone after they lost a job?

Bonus Question: Talk about losing jobs and stuff.

[fluffy]

drc: I'm not going to Japan for this trip after all (the meeting I was to be a part of turns out to just be a 30-minute overview, not a major deep-dive thing). Oh well.

qotd: I've never gotten fired from a job I wasn't working up the nerve to quit anyway. So I've never been down in the dumps about it. And being a social leper I don't really have any experience with Being There for someone else who needed it, either.

[Hoblit]

Slow day and half of the billing department is out sick and nobody from sales is here today. (Thats 1 person in the billing department and 5 MIA from sales...but Sales usually only has one person here at a time anyways)

Hungry.

QOTD: While I've been fired a few times (I got fired from my first job!) nobody has really stepped up for me. I haven't been fired in a LONG time and the last couple of times it has been from a SECOND job so it wasn't really attention grabbing anyways.

I took a an employee who was under me out for beers during our lunch hour once. I took a girlfriend out for dinner (and later sex! does that count?) when she got fired from a shoe store.

MY DAD (THE best dad on earth I might add) cashed a friend of mine's check when he got fired on Christmas Day. (for stealing)

Off topic: I had a friend who bought me Taco Bell Chilitos (chili cheese burritos) every other day when I was first living on my own, going to school, and working daily just to get by. I'll never forget that and I will always be grateful.

[Billy's Little Trip]

QOTD: There was this really cute girl that worked at Marshal's department store. I worked there part time when I was around 19 while I was building up my Swimming Pool service business at the time. I always talked to her, and one day, she, along with a few other people got fired for slacking off too much. But she never did. Even when she was talking to me, she was working. She was a bit upset, so I went to the store manager and tried to explain to him that she shouldn't get fired, because she was a really good employee. He became a prick and got in my face. I then got in his face and told him I could never work for a company that treats their hard working employees the way he did. He followed it by telling me I can't quit, because I'm fired. This went back and forth for about 15 minutes until he called security. Security escorted me out of the store, but not without a few antics first. IE: pulling anything loose off of shelves as I walked by, kicked over a sunglasses display, and yelled a few choice speeches to my fellow employees that all hated the boss. The security guards were trying to hold back their laughs and when I was out of the store, they both agreed that he is a huge asshole to everyone.

By the way, that girl would later become my wife and still is.

[anti-m]

By the way, that girl would later become my wife and still is.

That is one awesome "how I met your mother" story!!

[fluffy]

Haven't you already posted a bunch of different stories which ended in "By the way, that girl would later become my wife and still is?" I'm going to have to go back and cross-check them for consistency.

[Hoblit]

QOTD: <i>awesome story ending in "By the way, that girl would later become my wife and still is. " </i>

That IS a good story. Nobody would ever kick over a sunglasses display for me.

[anti-m]

Haven't you already posted a bunch of different stories which ended in "By the way, that girl would later become my wife and still is?" I'm going to have to go back and cross-check them for consistency.

I think so, but I don't recall any sunglass-case-tipping-over histrionics in the previous versions.

[Billy's Little Trip]

HaHa, I'll have more versions in the future too.

She used to leave notes on my car when we were in high school. We went to different schools. This was after Marshal's, or towards the end. She never signed the letters and I didn't find out it was her until a party when we officially hooked up.

By the way, that secret admirer would later be the mother of my children.

[Albatross]

DRC: Just got back from having my car towed to a shop. During my commute yesterday, on an unlit rural road, some pissant ratfucker decides to allow at least three 5 gallon buckets of paint to fall out of his truck, and I went full bore into one of them. The bucket got caught underneath and dragged for several hundred feet, and now my car won't start, and I think there's transmission damage. Lost part of the bumper, too. And of course, the whole kit and kaboodle is covered with paint. Towed it home at significant expense (my commute is well over 30 miles).

QotD (my meager job termination story): While I was walking outside my apartment after having just gotten booted from a shitty job at Texaco, some guy drove up and stopped right next to me - it was one of my regular customers. I told him I had just gotten let go and he seemed taken aback, because I had such a good rapport with this guy.

By the way, the woman that fired me would later become my wife and still is. (no that's not really true)

[Billy's Little Trip]

What color was the paint?

[blue]

DRC: Just got back from having my car towed to a shop. During my commute yesterday, on an unlit rural road, some pissant ratfucker decides to allow at least three 5 gallon buckets of paint to fall out of his truck, and I went full bore into one of them. The bucket got caught underneath and dragged for several hundred feet, and now my car won't start, and I think there's transmission damage. Lost part of the bumper, too. And of course, the whole kit and kaboodle is covered with paint. Towed it home at significant expense (my commute is well over 30 miles).

QotD (my meager job termination story): While I was walking outside my apartment after having just gotten booted from a shitty job at Texaco, some guy drove up and stopped right next to me - it was one of my regular customers. I told him I had just gotten let go and he seemed taken aback, because I had such a good rapport with this guy.

By the way, the woman that fired me would later become my wife and still is. (no that's not really true)

well that _sucks_. the good news is the no starty is probably just wire damage to the starter. still sucks, tho.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Yeay, I'm guessing a wire too.
But, he mentioned a possible tranny problem. Depending on the make and year, it could have snagged the linkage and tweaked it. If the tranny doesn't go fully into park, it won't let the car start.

[sausage boy]

Just finished up an entry for Purple Reign. Remember that thing? Yeah.

QOTD: I don't think I have ever been fired, in the traditional sense. I have worked for a company that ceased operation, I have been offered a starting deal of six weeks no pay and quit, I have had my role 'diminished' before, but I have never been outright fired.

I feel like I am missing an important life experience.

[Albatross]

I know little about cars, but I'm sure it's more than a starter wire. While the engine was still running after hitting the bucket, shifting and accelerating were problematic. I managed to make it into town and pull into a station, but then the car wouldn't start again.

Oh, the paint was white, as is the car. Still looks bad, though. And it's all over the tires. I really didn't want to get whitewalls that way.

[Billy's Little Trip]

Well, good luck with it. Is the paint guys insurance going to cover it?

[Caravan Ray]

But, he mentioned a possible tranny problem.

Yeah - I've had tranny problems. But that man dressed as a woman - would later become the mother of my children.

[Billy's Little Trip]

But, he mentioned a possible tranny problem.

Yeah - I've had tranny problems. But that man dressed as a woman - would later become the mother of my children.

<< Paco

[roymond]

I don't have a hard luck job story. I did sort of get asked not to come back after working in a racket club in high school, because they never fixed the big tennis fuzz vacuum machine so I had to sweep up fuzz by hand, which is not very effective. I kept calling the guy, but it would not happen. So I got pretty fed up with it and skipped a night entirely. When I came in the next time mr boss said I should just stay home. Didn't feel like getting fired. Was more like he was giving me the night off. Forever.

I got to hang out with my girlfriend more, who is still a close friend, but she did not become my wife and mother of my children.

[jack]

i've been laid off a few times and it always sucks. one good story stands out. back in the 90's, i was working for one of the largest and most successful biotech companies in the world. so successful in fact that once they hired stevie wonder (and his band of about 25) to play a private party for the employees on the back of a flat bed semi-truck in the middle of a parking lot on their "campus". 2 weeks after that, they laid off most of our department. my direct boss at the time felt pretty bad for everyone affected and basically told us for the last 2 weeks of work, we could job surf as much as we wanted. he also bought me some new software (flash) and some cool music CDs. the company basically gave me nothing (but a good name on my resume, which would lead to more work down the road...)

i got laid off again at the height of the dot bomb, and got a nice severance package there, but nobody there did anything nice for me (although they paid us for another 2 months and i didn't even have to go back to work, in addition to my stock options vesting immediately).

getting laid off sucks serious ass folks. plan ahead and accordingly.

[Lord of Oats]

Roll Call: I bought some alcohol today. The first of it, I bought at Publix. This girl I went to high school with was the cashier.

"Are you 21?"
"Yes."
"Can I see your ID?"
"Here you go."
"I'm not going to sell it to you."
"WTF are you talking about? I'm legit..."

She didn't believe it was me, apparently. She initially thought it was my mother's, I guess, because she said I looked like a girl. My hair is a bit long in the license photo. My last cut was in late 2004. I buzzed it off sometime around History of my Broken Heart. I tried to tell her,

1. That's actually my hair.
2. My mother was born way before 1987.
3. My mother's name is not James.
4. No, really, I totally had long hair.

"No, you've always had short hair."

I'm not sure how I convinced her, but whatever. She found the whole thing quite funny, and said that it had brightened her otherwise terrible day. Great. What a traumatic experience for me, though. What kind of shit is that? What a great story for the kids...hey, especially if I were to marry this girl..."the first time I bought alcohol, your mother thought I was trying to use your grandmother's ID."

No, that would never work.

Question: I've never been fired. I've never worked with anyone I would have considered marrying.

Hoblit: They don't have chili-cheese burritos anymore. Doesn't life suck?

BLT: I REALLY REALLY REALLY want to quit that way someday. Why do I have to be so non-confrontational and my life so free of drama? What am I doing to myself by scouting for good workplaces before I look for crappy jobs?

Albatross: I've had paint dropped in front of me, but thankfully not to that extent. Back when my new car was still somewhat new, it got nice white paint all over one side of its lovely teal. Luckily, I freaked out, drove home immediately, and washed it off. Also, I had a job in a convenience store from perhaps May to October of 2006. I, too, was pretty amazed at how people reacted when they found out I was quitting. "What's going on?!" "Uh, I'm getting a different job..."

MAN. NO MORE DRUNK POSTING FOR ME. EVER.

[Hoblit]

Hoblit: They don't have chili-cheese burritos anymore. Doesn't life suck?

Not true do0d. Not true at all, these days you just have to do your homework to get one. But YES, life does generally suck.