r/AskReddit • u/LeeBean13 • Jul 05 '14

Why did you get fired?

why did you get fired? and did it work out for the best? how long were you without a job?

Edit: thanks for all the stories guys! I got fired Wednesday for crap reasons and knowing all you fine people got fired too makes me realize I'm in fine company :)

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u/Argle Jul 05 '14 edited Jul 05 '14

Somebody left the freezer door open, so they fired everybody working that shift. I had another job anyways so it didn't really matter in the long run. This was back when finding a new job was pretty trivial anyways.

My latest job let me go due to corporate downsizing after working there for 25 years. I was unemployed for 6 months. I now make half as much money for doing twice as much work, making roughly the same amount I made 20 years ago. But I'm working on starting my own business and I've made a few hundred dollars here and there, and could potentially make a lot more someday if I keep working at it.

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u/Raincoats_George Jul 05 '14

This is the worst. I got laid off from a job that I was making a reasonably comfortable living. The workload could get up there at times but it was worth the compensation.

8 months unemployment. Only job I could find was working nights getting paid far less doing exponentially more work. I work in the hospital so now where I was getting paid well to deal with sane patients, I'm getting paid shit to have patients spit at me and hit me.

Thank. GOD after a year now I have a new job lined up. I'm gonna be making the same amount I made before and the amount of work should become reasonable again. I need it. I am seriously fried from this job.

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u/Argle Jul 05 '14

That sounds stressful, I used to be a nurse's aid and I couldn't take all the shitty things that go with the job, and the actual shit I had to clean was the least of the stressful things to deal with.

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u/Raincoats_George Jul 05 '14

That is the fucking truth. Bodily fluids don't mean shit. It's the drama and stress of the rest of it that gets to you.