I Just Got Fired!

[joytron]

Fuck...



what to do next?

[twoapplesplease]

Time to get that dream job in a hookah lounge you always wanted.With so many of them opening up these days its probly the best jobs market in the country

[BBKakes]

May I ask what you do for a living Joy?

File for unemployment immediately.

[NIGHTS OF BAGHDAD]

sucks

[Arcane]

damn....were you stealing boxes on your day off?

i guess what i'd do is....smoke a bit, then go out job-hunting....nothing much else you can do....

and were you fired for legitimate reasons? or laid off?

[delSol_si]

Sorry to hear that man, tough market right now. Might you enlighten us with some more details? May be easier to help you out if we know more of the facts and your history, education, and so forth. I am hoping to get your hose shipped out monday, so hopefully that will bring a little light on your day.

[gaia.plateau]

Come and work for me. I will hire you.

[Rani]

It depends on the grounds they terminated you under. If they claim misconduct in any way shape or form, they might deny you unemployment benefits. You're in California so if you are elegible there's 73 weeks of EDD available to you now, and Congress is probably going to pass another 13 weeks in the next month or so for those states like ours hardest hit. You can file online and if you can live on the benefits then you might look into taking advantage to go back to school or whatever. I'm at maximum benefit level and I'm surviving while continuing to look fior work. There isn't even a dime left over for fun, but I'm hanging in there. I did it by going through my bills and eliminating everything, absolutely everything that I didn't need for survival. Count your cash, see what money is promised, like auto deductions out of your account and go into survival mode immediately. That includes massing things together you could sell on eBay should you meed to bring in more money. I haven't hit eBay yet, but believe me I have a few thousand dollars worth of jewelry I'll sell off if I have to. If you're not a manager in a hard hit industry like mine, you actually have a better chance of landing another job. I was a high paid manager and very few people want to even talk to me because my working wages are high enough that they won't offer me less knowing as soon as the economy cleans up, I'd be gone. So check on the facts surrounding your situation, clamp down immediately on everything you can, and duck for cover to survive. You can do it given half a chance.

'Rani

[ilikemyusername]

you'll be alright, collect your unemployment get some student loans and get some sort of paper saying you can do something, or just become a professional student, its amazing how much money in student loans and you can get as long as you stay actively in scool you don't have to pay them back!
allegedly.

[joytron]

Thanks for the support guys! I was just kinda venting. Anyways i work a pretty shitty job at target, i develop pictures, cashier, and work in guest service. Anyways i got fired because i have issues with showing up on time. just five minutes here seven minutes there and i guess it all added up. The final straw happened sunday, a mix up in my schedule and i wound up a few hours late. so yeah it suck, my parents would kill me if i went on unemployment, still at home.

Come and work for me. I will hire you.

if you are serious let me know. I would love to work for someone like you, right now i am studying environmental science and policy(working towards marine law), I have next to nothing as far as work experience, and my grades are pretty average, but i have a feeling we would get a long (hey thats got to count for something).

[gaia.plateau]

if you are serious let me know. I would love to work for someone like you, right now i am studying environmental science and policy(working towards marine law), I have next to nothing as far as work experience, and my grades are pretty average, but i have a feeling we would get a long (hey thats got to count for something).

Duties would include following me around with a fiddle, playing my theme song wherever I go, as well as mixing my drinks, doing my dishes, BJs and organizing my schedule.



... yeah I was fooling you i has no money. Edited September 23, 2009 by gaia.plateau

[SynysterPhoenix]

if you are serious let me know. I would love to work for someone like you, right now i am studying environmental science and policy(working towards marine law), I have next to nothing as far as work experience, and my grades are pretty average, but i have a feeling we would get a long (hey thats got to count for something).

Duties would include following me around with a fiddle, playing my theme song wherever I go, as well as mixing my drinks, doing my dishes, BJs and organizing my schedule.



... yeah I was fooling you i has no money.

Bitch move....lol

[Dr. B]

damn....were you stealing boxes on your day off?

how you gonna get fired on your day off?

/win

[joytron]

I am hoping to get your hose shipped out monday, so hopefully that will bring a little light on your day.

The best news I have heard all day

[McLovin600]

sucks man. i would stay away from a retail job in your upcoming search if possible. it really doesnt do much for your resume (I know ive worked about 7 and i made photos too! lol)

edit: being on time is very important, you will get fired from every job if you keep being tardy. Edited September 23, 2009 by McLovin600

[indian_villager]

yowza....Well you working toward or have a degree that you can attain?

[delSol_si]

Thanks for the support guys! I was just kinda venting. Anyways i work a pretty shitty job at target, i develop pictures, cashier, and work in guest service. Anyways i got fired because i have issues with showing up on time. just five minutes here seven minutes there and i guess it all added up. The final straw happened sunday, a mix up in my schedule and i wound up a few hours late. so yeah it suck, my parents would kill me if i went on unemployment, still at home.

I completely understand where you are coming from. Punctuality has never been my strong suite either. The only reason I haven't been fired from my previous jobs is because I was such a hard worker it made up for the fact that I was always late. I think I even had one manager that said "you know, anyone else we would have fired by now for being late so many times, but you are too good of a worker to let go, try to start showing up on time alright?" haha, actually, one place I was working at I showed up late everyday, and then one day I decided I didn't feel like coming in anymore so I quit showing up. About a week later, I went in to get my last paycheck and the manager walks up to me and says "hey, do you still work here?" I said "no, don't really feel like it anymore" he said "oh, well dang, well, if you ever need a job again, we would love to have you back!" lol

Honestly, I think 5-10 min here and there kills no one.

I wouldn't worry about getting fired this early in the game. I am going to assume you are between 20 and 25 years old. Last year, I went to a listen to a guest speaker at a seminar on campus. He was a 6 figure+ income earner. One of the things he said was that getting fired early in life is a good thing. Everyone gets fired at some point in their life, might as well make it early on those bullshit, crap-ass jobs instead of the real deal later in life. He even said "hell, I have been fired twice in my life, of course that was earlier in my career when I was in high school and college."

I wouldn't worry about getting fired from Target. Like you even said, it's a shitty, bullshit job. Pays the bills and thats about it. Don't get me wrong, its good to be employed, but that kind of a job is not worth getting stressed over if you are fired. Just take this as a life experience lesson.

[delSol_si]

I am hoping to get your hose shipped out monday, so hopefully that will bring a little light on your day.

The best news I have heard all day

pm sent

[Sapphire]

Yuck. Fired sucks. And now days, people fire you " just because " and then list something stupid for it as a reason.

Anyway, I agree about the unemployment. You should totaly take it until you find something else. That is the entire REASON we have it.
To HELP you out.
You don't need to stay on it, or feel low about it.. USE IT... While you are bettering your self and your situation.

[Scoop]

im currently Funemployed...gonna go back to school before it runs out. nothing else to do, the job market is uber shit in LA

[Arcane]

join the military...i show up to work late nearly everyday, still not fired....haha

[Rani]

join the military...i show up to work late nearly everyday, still not fired....haha

I'm sure you were joking but.......

That is far from the worst idea in the world. It's going to be a solid year before the economy is back to relative normal, so a couple years in the military to ride it out, come out with a fistful of GI Bill college money...... More than one of my younger friends are using that strategy and very successfully too.

'Rani

[Sonthert]

I'm a political pacifist, so I discourage people from joining the military. When I was in my final quarter, several military recruiters asked me to join. offered me promotions, ranks, money, yada yada, yada. I told them all about my political beliefs. Of course, when it came to working on a DoD nerve gas project I was there. Don't ask why its different. It just is. [/hypocrisy]

At the risk of being a wet blanket, you should improve your work skills, notably being on time. Its very important to have people where they are supposed to be at a given moment. If I roll up and need to go and do something and I need to talk to an employee about this or that, they'd better be there. I don't want to be held up from my busy schedule because somebody else is late. Customers rely on me, my coworkers rely on me. I need to be ontime. I worked for a company whose policy was "If you're late, you're fired." Nobody was ever late. Instead of showing up on time, show up a half hour early. You'll get promoted faster that way and fired less.

I do understand where you're coming from, General Atomics was not overjoyed at my showing up to a salaried position wearing shorts and sandals all the time. They thought it lacked a certain dignity. I felt justified since we were on the service building end of the campus, surrounded by highly radioactive waste sites on three sides, I guess. Maybe they were worried that I might get a pushpin in my toe or something. I just didn't give a royal shit. There's also a bullshit hierarchy for engineers, engineers who get in at 6am are brilliant. Engineers who get in at 7am are good. Engineers who get in at 8 am are decent...Engineers who get in at 10am are fired. Lets put it this way, if you get in around the same time as the machinists you're gold. If you get in at the same time the executives do, you're screwed. I liked to come in around 10:30am. I would work until 7:00-8:00pm, but engineers don't give a shit. Secretly, I think they hired me because three months before I was hired, the head of that division was a principal Engineer with the identical name as mine. Spelled the same strange way and everything. Whenever I took I crap, I got to read magazines addressed to me (well the other guy, but who cares?). I liked to play practical jokes. There was this strange, nervous, twitchy kind of guy who was senior engineer, I'd set mouse traps out around his office, leave small nuggets of cheese lying around, and the like (cause he acted like a mouse...get it?). I'd make up little fake snares and such, a tiny loop of rope attacked to a stick, like some sort of cartoon animal snare. It was funnier if you'd been there.

Rule#1 when dealing with engineers:What appears to be a sense of humor in an engineer is 99% of the time social awkwardness. Fortunately I was born without a sense of humor...I had silicone funny implants installed when I was 7.

You wanna talk about serious? Engineers are so serious, hearses drop coffins off thinking they have the right address.

I've had a lot of jobs. Maybe 30. I know what its like to not find any passion in what you're doing. Good luck finding a new job, hope it works out for the best.

[Amn_sinclair]

join the military...i show up to work late nearly everyday, still not fired....haha

u may not get fired but im actually getting an lor right now for being late to many times.... there goes senior airman in feb.

[Arcane]

join the military...i show up to work late nearly everyday, still not fired....haha

u may not get fired but im actually getting an lor right now for being late to many times.... there goes senior airman in feb.

yeah, the whole showing up late doesn't really work when you're still an airman...

but, if you get yourself established and make a name for yourself (kinda like becoming the "go-to guy"), then you create a bit of leeway for yourself...

sorry about the LoR though....shetty...