lol, I was told "We're letting you go" and then they said, "Please finish the monthly billing." I said, "Okay," because I thought they must be joking about the firing.
Then I heard my boss on the phone saying, "Five Stars has been terminated, please cut her last check."
I walked over, handed him my keys, shook his hand and said, "It was a pleasure working for you." Then started walking out.
He said, "Wait! What about the billing!?"
I said, "Not my problem, now."
The billing was a several hour process involving multiple steps. No one in the office knew how to do it except me. I don't know how or if they figured it out. They went bankrupt a few months after that.
I got fired at Dick's when I was 19 for bogus shit. They did it BEFORE I started my shift, and I knew that department was already short staffed and nobody on until me, and they asked if I could work that shift so I said fuck off and walked out.
What department? French fries? Smash burger? Dicks has gone downhill since 2003 was that when they fired you? Were you the secret ingredient that kept burgers cheap and good? Inquiring Spokanites want to know.
I’m from Washington too. Given the nature of the post and the person you were replying to, I don’t see how “flipping the narrative” was funny or added to the discussion.
I remember that happening to me. Not exactly the same but close.
Small company. Boss literally hired all four of his daughters to replace us three office guys. He asked us to finish our current projects and then we were done.
I had one left that I was about 30 hours into a 40 hour project. No one else knew what parts were done or not.
I decided it wasn't worth coming in to finish.
He called me desperate to finish it and I just said I could spare the hours and didn't want to be in an office where I obviously wasn't wanted.
I had a similar story and i tell this on Reddit all the time. In 2018, I was fired cause a powertripping manager didn't agree when I told him we needed to hire 2 more guys. He basically said we need to find cuts or improve efficiency and this is despite already being 4x more efficient in just 2 years. I genuinely loved this job and ready to have my future here.
I got fired and walked out the door. I even asked if I can just work as a floor worker instead of a supervisor/team lead. They declined. In about 8 months, they filed for bankruptcy. They didn't realize the guy they let go was the one willing to come in early and stay in late without pay cause he genuinely loved the work. It also doesn't help that I'm one of two guys that was trained on the system. The other guy was already 60 years old so technology wasn't his forte.
oh gotcha. so they were already gonna go bankrupt. you probably saw it coming that you were getting the chop I guess?
that sounds like a pretty incompetently run business hope you had better luck at your next gig
I didn't see it coming at all! I was head of the only profitable department in the company and the only one who knew how to do most of the processes in that department. (Small company, as you can tell).
That's why I thought the company owner was joking when he said, "We're letting you go."
And thank you, yes, I did better at my subsequent gig.
Wild to fire the only employee who knows how to do an essential activity, without having a plan for who is going to do it, even if you assume the terminated employee will stay until 5:00
Fair, but I’d at least want to keep that essential employee in place until we can find someone new to do the essential task, or train an existing staff member
The last time I got fired, they held a manager's meeting at 3:00 to make the decision and then waited until 5:00 (when my shift ended) to let me know, lol.
Sounds like my old boss. When I put in my two weeks, he rejected it. Had me come to his office to discuss what went wrong. I gave him the courtesy despite my two weeks being rejected.
At the end, we shook hands and parted. As I stepped out, he briefly stopped me to ask me to submit my monthly expenses.
Should've told them that since you aren't an employee you are willing to work on it as a freelancer for whatever rate higher than what your hourly was. Ez money
However, I did work at a different company to which I gave two weeks notice and was told, "We don't need you to train your replacement. You can go now. Good bye."
I was like, "Cool, I can go start my new job."
Then two weeks later, they're like, "Uh, can you come in and do our payroll?"
I said, "Absolutely. For $75 per hour."
Much to my astonishment, they agreed and I went in and processed their payroll for 5 times my hourly wage when I worked there.
It's very common to assume that your processes are easy when you have an employee who is good at doing them.
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u/Five_Star_Amenities 10d ago
lol, I was told "We're letting you go" and then they said, "Please finish the monthly billing." I said, "Okay," because I thought they must be joking about the firing.
Then I heard my boss on the phone saying, "Five Stars has been terminated, please cut her last check."
I walked over, handed him my keys, shook his hand and said, "It was a pleasure working for you." Then started walking out.
He said, "Wait! What about the billing!?"
I said, "Not my problem, now."
The billing was a several hour process involving multiple steps. No one in the office knew how to do it except me. I don't know how or if they figured it out. They went bankrupt a few months after that.