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    So I've been working for a temp agency the past few months, and they've had me assigned just to one place, a small production facility making fancy book covers. Not bad work, although it gets hot in there.

    Well a little over a week ago the boss comes to talk to us temps, and says we're all being laid off next week cuz they don't need us anymore. Slow season and whatnot. then she pulls me aside and says they want to keep ME on full time, and are giving me a raise, all because I'm awesome.

    I don't like to toot my own horn very much, but in some ways I am kinda awesome, in that I produce good numbers. I've been told by more than one boss that I do the work of three people, and I've witnessed this first hand whenever I see new people doing one of my old jobs. I've even seen it take six people to keep up with me. They were new and shitty people, but still.

    Working against me, however, are a lot of little things, like I have some minor health problems that mean I'm going to bathroom about every hour. Yeah, that looks bad, but no one ever stops and says "well, he's pissing a lot, but jesus look at all the work he got done!" Or my minor problem with authority. Which is really minor, I believe. Like I've always believed, at work my boss's name is Mr. Smith. At the bar, or at wal-mart, or in my home, his name is John.

    But back to my current job, they love me. I'm polite, I'm pleasant, it's all yes sir and no sir and I don't argue with anyone and I'm nice to everyone and they're a REALLY "different" group of people and I treat everyone with respect and I've been feeling like they really like me and I really fit in here and could essentially "go places". So all was well up until thing week.

    Monday morning, i get into my car and discover the cat his shit in it. I'm already like halfway to work, and there is cat shit all over the floor of my car, all over my shoes, and oh god no this is horrible. But I have two choices: Be late, and clean it off, and just hope for the best.

    So I clean off my shoes in the grass as best I can, and go to work. I even explain to a few people about what's up and I apologize for the smell. It's really not that bad. I am assured there's no problem.

    The next day, I receieve a call from the temp agency saying there's a "Hygiene issue", regarding my "BO". I point out what was up with the cat, and she's like "oh no it wasn't that this has been going on for a while."

    I immediately call bullshit. If it's been going on for a while, why did they just now call me? Coincidentally immediately after the catshit incident? Obvious to me it's a crock of shit. They just don't want to admit they made a mistake and misunderstood something they're changing the story to appear less stupid.

    Yeah maybe I took it a little too personally, but the worst part was anyone could've easily pulled me aside and said "Hey dude you gotta do something about this", rather than call my boss and get my record marred yet again.

    I even asked my supervisor at the factory if I was in trouble when they said I had to call the agency. I said "Don't make me call her and get ambushed with some stupid shit, tell me whats up." Boss shrugs. "No idea, don't worry it's fine!"

    Yep. Well whatever. I was REALLY pissed. Maybe more than I shouldve been, but theyve been doing this a lot at the factory. Another thing they do that sucks:

    "Hey boss can I have tuesday off?"

    "OF course no problem! You've earned it."

    next day, boss at temp agency calls

    "Mr. Grey I'm we need to talk about your attendance you can't miss days like that".

    But anyway, so now it's Wednesday morning, and I'm still pissed, and I decide not to go to work. Yep, stupid of me. My story is my car broke down on the way in. This is BS, but I still feel like hey, you can't prove it, so my story stands. You don't KNOW my car wasn't really broke down, and for you to punish me as such, and affect my livelihood, when you're essentially LYING about me, makes it wrong.

    Or I just suck at work. Apparently no one cares that you do the work of three people. They just want someone who gives good blowjobs at the end of the day.

  • #2
    Looks like someone upstairs may not want you to stay on as a real employee -- after all, temps are cheaper -- possibly even in favor of a pet employee coming on for real. They're generating a bull catshit paper trail so that they can terminate at a moment's notice. As for the Tuesday off -- If the boss approved it, why, exactly, is it an issue? >_<
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    • #3
      Temp agencies serve the companies that contract with them for employees. Not people looking for work. Always remember this.
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      • #4
        Speaking of temp agencies, is it normal that whenever you're not up to standard, rather than the boss at the jobsite telling you, they have to fill out a form and tell the temp agency and then like a week later you get a call from the agency about it?

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        • #5
          Quoth deysongrey View Post
          Speaking of temp agencies, is it normal that whenever you're not up to standard, rather than the boss at the jobsite telling you, they have to fill out a form and tell the temp agency and then like a week later you get a call from the agency about it?
          Yes, and I hate that it's true. You feel like you've been backstabbed.
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          • #6
            Temp agencies... oh, how I hate them. I've had more then one pull the rug out from under me. On FOUR separate occasions, I've worked through temp agencies in a temp-to-hire kind of arrangement, only to be yanked off the job BY THE AGENCY within two weeks of my conversion date. Yes, many agencies will slip a shiv between your ribs rather than let you convert to regular employee, because your conversion means they lose a revenue stream.

            Never again.

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            • #7
              My mother has been suggesting that I leave the swamp and sign up with a temp agency to do factory work. That way I'll be more likely to get that kind of work in the future.

              Yeah no. Working at the swamp sucks, but it's full-time with benefits and I am not giving those up for temp-to-hire. I am not going to end up out of a job and begging the swamp to take me back, because then it will be part-time and no benefits, take it or leave it.

              Then again, on many things my mom and reality aren't on speaking terms.
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