Have you been fired?

Yup, although it was kinda a mutual parting...

It resulted from my first hunt in Colorado circa late 1960s -- a DIY horseback elk/deer venture in the San Juans near Vallecito Lake.

I was selling major appliances at a Sear's outlet store at the time. There were three of us that worked the floor from 9 to 9 each day, switching off one in early & two in late each day. We worked on straight commission. One guy quit to go elsewhere after I had already bought a Colo. NR license & paid a deposit for renting the horse.

Even though the other salesman gladly agreed to cover the floor 12 hrs. ea. day while I was gone, the store manager told me if I went I wouldn't have a job when I returned. I told him I didn't have a job when I got that one so I'd just go find another one the way I had found that one.

Sure enough, when I returned I went into the store to pick up a check owed to me from my last week and was told I no longer worked there. It was kind of a blessing, so to speak. That's what launched my career into the firearms/sporting goods sales decade-long segment of my early life when I actually worked. After another two segments of work, I became an outdoor writer. :rolleyes:
 
No, but it was close one time. My supervisor asked if I would work Saturday pulling green chain at the plywood mill? I said I would if I had a decent crew to work with. He assured me he had a good crew coming in. I got there and it was a bunch of dead beats. 6 of us total. I was busting my butt pulling all the wood they missed, sweating like a race horse and getting madder by the minute.

I told the acting supervisor I was going home at lunch time, I'm done. He said he'd have to send everyone else home if I left. I told him to do whatever he had to do, I'm out of here at lunch time. I'll earn my money but I ain't earning theirs.

When I came in Monday morning my time card was gone. My supervisor told me I was suspended and if he had his way I'd be fired. I sat home for 3 days when they called and said I had a meeting with the plant manager. The manager asked me what happened and I told him his POS supervisor lied to me and if that's the kind of supervisor he wanted to hire I don't want to work here anyway. He told me that supervisor transferred to another department and asked me to come back to work the next morning and they would pay me for the days I missed. He said just do it, trust him, so I did.

The ironic thing was the manager and my wife were friends and within a month the plywood mill closed for good and since I worked there I ended up getting a $22,000 pay off. This was 1978. Since I knew what happened I gave my wife $11,000 to do with as she pleased. She still has it in a IRA account. She's weird.
 
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She's a real risk taker. It's almost tripled.... :rolleyes:
I expected more than that. The 401K El had when she retired about 15 yrs ago was less than $15K. I put it in a IRA fund that was heavy on high-tech stocks. In May 2020, it was up to $50K+. Today, even with the bad week we just went thru, it's nearly $85K.
 
Wrecked a garbage truck I was too young to be driving in the first place. I was 17 and they put me in a truck to do a route. Wrecked it, and pretty sure I was fired before my name made it any incident report so the guy that put me in it wouldn’t get fired.
 
She's a real risk taker. It's almost tripled.... :rolleyes:
I forgot to mention the last reply that the total of the IRA is that even with the funds I have to withdraw each year by IRS rules. And I have been taking out about $5K each time for that. Also, El she corrected me. She retired in 2011, so only 10 years ago.
 
I forgot to mention the last reply that the total of the IRA is that even with the funds I have to withdraw each year by IRS rules. And I have been taking out about $5K each time for that. Also, El she corrected me. She retired in 2011, so only 10 years ago.
Yeah, we get stuck with the RMD too. (required minimum distribution).
 
Yep. No big deal. The job wasn't a good fit for me. Got another job a week later. 27 years later I'm still doing it. Thank you Lord for blessing me with what I needed instead of all the stuff I wanted.
 
1973. Hired to sell relocatable camps for far north oil/mining/dam construction projects

Human Resourses hires me on Friday to start work on Monday. House phone rang Sunday night. It was the HR Manager. He said “the Marketing Manager said he would not allow me to come to work. So I’m sorry but you won’t be coming to work here on Monday.

I said, why? He said, the Marketing Manager say he wouldn’t allow a Mormon to sell his products because they won’t get drunk with the client and you can’t close these deals unless you get the client drunk first. That means this guy can’t do the job.”

End of job.

It was a different time in a different place.
 
1973. Hired to sell relocatable camps for far north oil/mining/dam construction projects

Human Resourses hires me on Friday to start work on Monday. House phone rang Sunday night. It was the HR Manager. He said “the Marketing Manager said he would not allow me to come to work. So I’m sorry but you won’t be coming to work here on Monday.

I said, why? He said, the Marketing Manager say he wouldn’t allow a Mormon to sell his products because they won’t get drunk with the client and you can’t close these deals unless you get the client drunk first. That means this guy can’t do the job.”

End of job.

It was a different time in a different place.
You wouldn’t have wanted to work for a dummy like that.

Never underestimate the value of a designated driver with an expense account.;)
 
13 years ago, I was working for a large, national sales organization.

They were always hiring firing promoting and demoting people.

I got wind that they were promoting a guy named Jim to sales manager.

Jim was an idiot, so I went to upper management and ask that he not be my manager.

Too late, I was assigned to Jim’s district.

Jim screwed up everything he touched and managed to blame his failures on me and everyone else.

This happened during the market crash, and I was out preforming the company as a whole by a wide margin

At one point, he wanted a meeting with me and demanded to know why my sales weren’t growing 20% a year like they used to.

I told him the truth, that he was an idiot, and his interference was costing me money and sales.

Sure enough, a few weeks later he called me into the office and let me go.

I got a job with a competitor, and took millions of profitable business away from them.

Jim got demoted, and then Jim got fired.
 
You gotta fire someone SS?
We rarely have to. The problem we’re facing is all of our customers are requiring vaccination thus making us require it. So we have a couple guys leaving. At least hunting season is over hahaha

I was just curious if anyone’s been fired. Some great stories so far!
 

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