I can't take it any more

[tropicsgoddess]

Irv, been there (unfortunately) done that and still got the T-Shirt. I know exactly how you feel. PM me if you need to talk. Got plenty of cookies and liquor for ya, dude.

[Becks]

*hugs and stuff*

[Jester]

I offer you one of my fantastic Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ales. Great beer that you so richly deserve.

I can't imagine them recommending my firing. Not when other people have said or done worse things and kept their jobs.

While I hope you're right, Irv, you and I both know that logic and rational thought do not always play out the way they are supposed to in these cases. I offer an example that happened to a friend of mine:

Picture if you will a bar/restaurant. Picture also two employees. One employee has worked for the establishment punctually and reliably for years, often filling in and picking up additional shifts when needed. Said employee gets very sick for a few days, so sick that the management sends them home to recuperate, telling them to come back when they are ready. Shortly after said employee does return to work, they oversleep one morning due to a combination of taking a friend to the Emergency Room the night before and a power outage knocking out their alarm clock. They call in only 30 minutes late to explain to the management and are still ready to work.

The second employee has worked for the place not nearly as long. One day at work, said employee bitches and moans about being sick, until finally they are sent home. A couple hours later, said employee returns to the establishment to drink at the bar.

Anyone want to guess which employee was fired? If you guessed the second one, you are thinking far too logically and rationally. Management suspended the first employee (my friend) for two weeks, telling her they would call her back when it was time to return to work. They never put her back on the schedule, they never called her back, and they never took her calls. In effect, they fired her without actually firing her, apparently not having the backbone or even decency to tell her that she no longer was employed.

While the second employee's behavior was tolerated (and they were not alone among employees in bullshit behavior), my friend's major crime was in not sleeping with or kissing the ass of the owners and/or managers. A lot of the slackasses there, including the second employee detailed above, hung out with the managers and owners in a bit of a clique, so of course, they didn't get in trouble for even blatant acts like the one detailed above. But my friend got fired in a very shady way.

"Logic? Reason? A manager craves not these things." --John Yoda, Manager Trainer, Sucktastic Restaurant Management Corporation.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My job isn't quite like that.

SM came in today and had me write out a statement, which he faxed to HR. I think it's up to HR to decide what happens now. SM has kinda made it clear he wouldn't fire me if it was his decision, because I haven't been a problem, but if HR would demand it he'd have no choice.

And I've seen people say and do worse things and get turned in to HR by others, and they still have their jobs.

[blas]

I'm glad you got a chance to make a statement.

It would be simply out of this world if they put you on warning or severely punished you, when people like Numbnuts were never put on warning.

But of course, if it did happen, it would just be more proof that it never pays to be hardworking and diligent and dedicated.

I'm hoping nothing happens to you, Irv. It wasn't your best moment, but it also wasn't hers, either. Anyone who works with you who has half of a functioning brain should realize that after everything they have put you through and done to you, something like this was bound to happen, and ignoring all your idiot coworkers and other problems only made things worse.