Not yet, but only worked for one company so far not counting student jobs while I was in school. Started off at help desk.. pretty hard to screw up at that job. Even had a guy rage out and smash his keyboard and he was not fired (think he got written up though).
Then I moved to L3 server tech at the local hospital. My real boss was nice but the IT manager there, technically my second boss, was an asshole, and I'm sure he tried to get me fired on many occasions, he's just that type of person, a backstabber. Everything was always our fault. Even stuff that was a complete outside factor, like someone forgetting their password and causing a patient to die since they can't get in the system. At least 1 hour per day he'd come in the office and soap box us on how everything we did is wrong and how we should have done it. Had weekly meetings too that was basically the same thing.
A few years of dealing with that BS I was looking for a way out, but wanted to try staying for the same company given I've been accumulating a pension, seniority etc... don't want to start over. A NOC position came out, it sounded interested but lot of the telco side stuff was over my head, but decided to apply anyway. Been over a year now and I don't regret it one bit. The shift work is nice too, this is like a retirement job. :biggrin: Nice boss too. Would have to screw up pretty badly to get written up, let alone fired.
Never fired. I'm really good with people, honest, and hard working. I've managed asshole bosses before with tact.
You don't understand! I'm good with people! The engineers aren't good with people!
I take the specs from the engineers to the people, I fax the specs to the customer! I'm good with people! What the hell is wrong with you people!
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You don't understand! I'm good with people! The engineers aren't good with people!
I take the specs from the engineers to the people, I fax the specs to the customer! I'm good with people! What the hell is wrong with you people!
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When I was 17 was working for a Food Processing facility. Just Googled them and they are still a huge Corporation.
My parents came to work to pick me up because my Grandfather had just died.
The Manager was a woman and she said that unless it was my own Funeral if I left I was fired.
I've been fired once. Sent a work email to a couple of co-workers that I hung out with outside of work, the email contained a lot of sex jokes, non-work appropriate type of stuff. They laughed, good time was had, we went on with our lives.
About a month later, one of the two whom I had sent the email accidentally left her computer unlocked before she went home. One of the older ladies came in early the next morning, noticed it unlocked and went through her email. She found the one I had sent a month prior and forwarded it on to a boss a couple of levels up.
I was immediately suspended without pay for a week. They let me come back after that week and scheduled a meeting with me that following Friday. Completely shocked me when they walked me out the door. They then spoke with the two others who had received the email and asked if they knew I was sending them the email. They didn't know I had been walked out and thought they were protecting me by saying yes. They were given 2 or 3 chances to say no, but they didn't know any better. They were both walked out as well.
Really, really shitty day. Was also a shitty job, so it makes for a good story now over a decade later.