Topic: How many people here have ever
Italy0219's photo
Sun 07/10/11 02:13 PM
Been let go from a job? and will you admit it?

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Sun 07/10/11 05:08 PM
do you mean fired or laid off ? been laid off from 2 jobs because of plant shut downs. got fired once when I was a teenager.

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Sun 07/10/11 05:12 PM

Been let go from a job? and will you admit it?


Yeah, Ohio is an at will state. You can get fired for any or no reason.

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Sun 07/10/11 05:29 PM
Yeah. I was working with my ex when he decided he wanted a divorce.

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Sun 07/10/11 06:12 PM
Been laid off once and have never been fired...whoa

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Sun 07/10/11 06:14 PM
I was fired from my last job.

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Sun 07/10/11 06:18 PM
Yes, I have been fired twice since 2009. Both times it was a manufactured excuse, and my last employer outright lied to the State. (Five co-workers offered to testify on my behalf because of it, including the Chef who was forced to do the firing by the owner.)

Prior to 2009, I had been working since 1987 when I was 15 years old. During those 22 years, I only filed for Unemployment once, and even then I collected for just 2 weeks. In the past 2 years, I have had to collect Unemployment 3 times (the third time was a seasonal lay off). For someone like me, that is very frustrating, especially when the last two times I was let go just before October. Here on the Connecticut shoreline, many businesses slow down from September to March which means there aren't many jobs available even when the economy is good.

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Mon 07/11/11 12:13 PM
Never fired or layed off..

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Tue 07/12/11 12:03 AM

Been let go from a job? and will you admit it?
as a youth,,,MANY,,,l an adult,,,ONE,,,and wouldn't ya know it,,,,because of a woman,,,lol,I took a girlfriend with me in my truck,,and someone rated on me,,,so they refreshed my knowledge of their rules and said goodbye,,,,lol,I was a bad boy,,,,

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Tue 07/12/11 08:38 PM
Yes laid off in May 2010 due to slow business at my company-
still unemployed...

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Tue 07/12/11 08:51 PM
I was fired once when I was 21 or 22. Their reason was because I called off 2 days (I might have called off of work MAYBE 3 or 4 times my whole life). Keep in mind that we got something like 100 feet of snow overnight and the governor declared the whole area in a state of emergency. Work was a 45 minute drive for me and I was driving a Camaro at the time (They don't like snow very well), so I really didn't want to TRY and make it there just to have nothing to do (How many people take a car to a garage in that kind of weather?). I found out later that only 2 customers showed up all day (and there were 3 or 4 other techs there). I thought it was interesting excuse for them because I was training the managers brother for 3-4 weeks before I was fired AND I had a mandatory raise coming in 2-3 weeks....... Do the math......

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Wed 07/13/11 04:54 PM
I have been layed off before. Sometimes it was permanent because of seniority and other times it was temporary for the same reason. I remember on more than one occasion not making it through the employment process.

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Thu 07/14/11 12:24 AM
Was fired Dec 2009 after almost 7 years with the same company.

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Thu 07/14/11 04:16 AM
I was only fired from one job. I was permanently laid off from my last employer in Nov 2010. I loved that job and loved everyone I worked with. Company was sold and the new owners are now in IL. The only people who kept their jobs were the local sales force to sell for them.

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Thu 07/14/11 07:50 PM
I was fired for having bulimia. I'm ok now though.