I worked for a small local pizza shop. I just got fired because our customers stopped coming in thanks to the recession. It’s so hard when you see what is happening to mom and pops. I see the larger chains still doing well but people can’t afford to spend 15 on a pie when they are spending 10 at a national chain. It is just so hard. Those places are even cutting back on their employees becasue of the economy. So you’re waiting longer for a cheaper pizza and people are losing their jobs. Think twice when you dial for your next pie.

I was a regional director for a chain of fast food taco companies that serviced the south-east.

My job was to check in with the corporate chiefs and let them know how things were behaving on a local level. Meaning – how much money was being made.

The brass asked me to compile a chart on whom was making the most sales at each of my eateries. I did the graph and it was obvious which employees were making the most of their time.

I was then told to have the local branch chairs fire the employees who were at the bottom of the graph – not taking into account shift times, volume or that someone might be in the back cooking the orders. When I questioned their firing strategies they yelled at me as if I was not loyal to them and threatened to fire me along with them.

I shut my mouth and passed along the orders. I don’t agree with what they did and am sure that if it is just happening in my area it is happening in other areas too. And what scares me even more is that our parent company owns TONS of THOUSANDS of subsidiaries.

Why should conglomerates be allowed to do this kind of thing with no consequences?

I got fired from my job for partaking in a lottery pool. Every week we all put in five dollars to buy tickets. We’d been doing it for at least two years. Then I get called into my bosses office and fired for gambling during work hours. I think they were just looking for an easy way to fire us without paying benefits.

I got laid off last week (age 36) from a job I was good at and one that I loved. I along with my 4 conterparts got laid off. They only retained two of us to help with the reorganization of a new business center model. I thought, what was wrong with me? Why didn’t they keep me? The answer was the two who were employed in the position the least amount of time were the ones they kept and they were paid less than the remaining 4 of us. I have cried every other day.

I just got laid off on Friday. Sucks. Across the board they cut of 20% of my company. I started looking and it looks like there might be some jobs in tech, but I wonder how many of those jobs are “frozen”. I know many companies must be totally overloaded with applicants, but others will likely have their recs locked if things continue like this. Ugh.

Guys, I am so upset. Tonight I got fired! It was all a HUGE misunderstanding and I should NOT have gotten fired! I have been working there about 5 months, and I have NEVER had a guest complaint on me. And my manager has told me time and time again what a great server I am and how good I am with the customers and blah blah blah. And then tonight, I had a couple come in my section, I took their drink order, and then brought their drinks and asked if they were ready to order. They said they needed a few more minutes, so I said “okay” and left the table….I swear, it wasn’t 5 minutes later that my section partner came up to me and handed me thier order. When I asked her why she got it, she said calmly “Because they asked me too”. I didn’t think anything about it, and just went on about my business. Well, at the end of my shift, my manager informed me that those guests came up to him and complained and said that I didn’t ever come back to take their order! Which is crazy! I did! I mean, I have NEVER had a gues complain about me, and then all of a sudden one does and I get fired? I just don’t understand it! I don’t think that’s right.

I was really upset about it because it was totally unexpected. My manager told me that he would talk to our district manager about it and see if he could work something out to where I wouldn’t be fired for it, but I really don’t think it’s going to do any good.

i actually blew up on my psycho fat lard butt boss 2 days ago, shes so stupid and redneck inbred it takes hand movement and fireworks to get her pot head ArSS’s attention, i work for a cleaning company for retail spaces….comon it aint hard….but she makes life hell for some stupid reason, her dirty trash family comes in to visit during the closing hours, NOT to mention its a bank!! derrrrr and the vault is right friggin there! and i get her little stupid sheets of paper about a bug somewhere 40 stories away lol. just stupid people i feel bad for there parents…. anyways im goin back to school so F her!

At my previous job, I was miserable. I was so unhappy the effects of my misery became physical. I threw up every morning because I didn’t want to go to work. At one point I said “Self, all you have to loose is a paycheck. Get the hell out of here.” Then I thought, maybe I didn”t have to loose the “paycheck”….hmmmm….. So I began to deliberately get myself fired so I would be able to collect unemployment. This was the most fun anyone can have. I hated these people, they were mean, archaic (internet was outlawed!) and down right stupid. I got my revenge by doing absolutely nothing all day long, saying inappropriate things around the office and making some really expensive long distance phone calls. Almost a month passed and nothing, not even a verbal warning, I was going to really need to be grossly inappropriate. Enter my boss….a nearing middle age singleton that went out every night as if she were 21. Smelling like leftover vodka tonics, she would sashay around the office in pumps that were too tight her feet would bulge out. Also buldging were her curves out of cheap polyester wrap dresses (she wore these EVERY day). Her eye make up was way too heavy and often all over her face. All of these things combined with her ears that would stick out of her stringy blonde wavy hair earned her the nickname “Miss Piggy” around the office (behind her back, of course). That was it, I began calling her Miss Piggy every chance I got. A week later, I was gone. It was incredibly liberating. I enjoyed the holiday season at home with my family and even took some wine classes during the day to fill up my time until the next best thing came along. You know what? The next best thing ALWAYS comes along, so “f” that pig.

I got laid off in January. What I have learned is that HR people have adopted a tribal mentality. By that I mean they will hire a completely unskilled relative or friend over a highly qualified stranger. Then 5 or 6 weeks later, the job is posted on the boards again! Puting Cousin Zeke in your warehouse does not make him a warehouseman, just a man in a warehouse.

I am put on these menial tasks. We even have an architect who sometimes has to do work that someone making 11.00 an hour should do. My boss gives you a task and then talks himself out of the idea mid convo. I know my time is almost up for this.

I was working as a security guard at a grocery store. They were open all night, and needed someone to escort women to their cars for safety should they come to do shopping late. The cheif clerk for the first four hours thought I was the best security guard he had had. The cheif clerk for the graveyard shift, John C. didn’t. It seems he thought that I was looking at the women who came in in an improper way. I didn’t touch them, or say anything inappropriate to them, but he would watch me, and accuse me of being a pervert. One time, he even claimed he was going to bring charges against me in court! Later, I was talking with some of the other clerks who worked under him, who complained that he didn’t stock as much as they did. I replied, “I know. He stands on the stepladder in that aisle near the door, watching me from the time he gets on at midnight to the time I leave at 4 AM because he thinks I’m going to rape somebody.” It was a job paying a very small wage, and I could’t afford to go without work for long, but I quit. For the record, I am heterosexual, well mannered, with a clean legal record, and no psychiatric record.

I fired a married couple who had just bought a house and were expecting their first child. The husband was simply fired because they (upper management, not just me) figured he’d be mad that his wife was fired…I know I’m the other version of everyone on this site but I just wanted to say people from this side hurt too.

I am one of the few and maybe the only one who was fired from a job for getting divorced and then about 2 years later was fired from a different job for getting married. I was public relations for a large corporation and a woman I was married to at the time was a secretary, well her and I divorced and the president gave me a choice to let her go or fire me . I figured she needed job more then I did so was given large severance and fired.

The next company I went to work for a week later I was hired as director and she was a supervisor. CEO had no idea we were dating and 1 1/2 yrs later announced our wedding plans. CEO flew into town said company didn’t want me to be married as I did a lot of PR work and told me he would put me in charge of the largest company we had if I did not marry. I said thanks for the wedding present and departed. He tried talking wife to into taking job and she stated she had submitted her resignation.

OK, it was a Xmas party a few years ago and I had a few glasses of wine. My boss and I were talking to a table of people and he AGAIN called a person that he wanted to shaft that I was protecting my “boyfriend”. I turned to him and said quietly, “F—k Off, [insert name]” and turned back to the table and continued talking.

I came in on Monday and was escorted out. I hated being teased about multiple things. Hated that my stupid boss was always changing the criteria for decisions, and hated that he was trying to shaft people to avoid unavoidable costs.

It seemed like the right thing at the time. And people always say “Good for You!” but I lost my favorite job. Just not my favorite boss. what do I say in interviews?