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  • #1

    What a Christmas

    So, in keeping with the whole "2020 can bite me" theme, I was fucking fired today.

    I just started this job last month. I thought I was doing well. Good atmosphere, friendly coworkers and management.

    Today, I learned that the company's client - the one who calls the shots - decided I just wasn't doing well enough for them. I'm sure that the manager has had to fire a lot of other people, too.

    Three fucking days before fucking Christmas. This ranks right up with the first Christmas after my mother died.
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    Well . . . fuck. I'm sorry that happened x.x
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    • #3
      Oh god. Is there anything we can do?
      Customers should always be served . . . to the nearest great white.

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      • #4
        Nothing I can think of, Kristev, but thanks. Holiday season and pandemic notwithstanding (and those are both HUGE considerations), it's so goddamned demoralizing to have an organization decide they can do very well without my services, when I've been doing my best to learn and use what I've learned.

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        • #5
          That sucks big time. *gives hugs* I wish there was something I could do for you.
          Eh, one day I'll have something useful here. Until then, have a cookie or two.

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          • #6
            It's their loss, Eireann, not yours.

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            • #7
              ^^ This. This is the first thing my mom said when I found out I'd been terminated by ExJob. Some people just can't recognize talent (or don't know what to do with it when they find it). I've learned that "not doing well enough for us" is often code for "not doing what/how we think should be done."

              *hugs* I wish I could do something or had more constructive advice...I was able to land on my feet, and you will too.
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              • #8
                I haven't had steady work in more than four years. I've been freelancing, and making enough to just barely get by, on a good month. I still owe credit card debt. I thought that this job would dig me out of the financial hole and increase my bank account. I thought I might have opportunities to work up the ladder and have a better job at the company, with more money and better benefits.

                No.

                I was fired from the company where I worked until four years ago. I've just been fired from this one. I'm positive that others were fired this week, too. (And I've heard some tales about the management that have led me to believe that the management is not to be trusted.) The company blames the client - stating that the client made the decision to terminate employment, because I wasn't accurate enough. Yet the managers have all admitted that one of the client's people, the one who judges the employees, is wildly inconsistent; this person says that A is wrong one week, then says it's right the next week. So you just can't win.

                I'm just so tired of being the wrong one, in all areas of my life.

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