Ever been fired? Canned? Laid off? Pink slipped? Shown the door? Let go? Axed? Terminated? Sent packing? Downsized? Post your experiences here, and vote in the poll.

Yes, three times or more....in the past.....

But grateful with my job now -- it does not appear I am going to get fired.....it is going well.....Thank God....

I have been fired twice in the past. I amazingly have worked for the same company(2 buyouts) for 15years in Jan. I keep thinking I will be fired, but I think it is more of a self esteem issue than reallity.
JIm

You forgot restructured, had ones position be reabsorbed and been given the bum's rush.

I beat them to the punch, I quit before they had a chance to fire me.

I have never been fired, but I have "quit" three different jobs. When I say quit, it was more like I decided to stop going to work. I never gave notice or told anyone my intentions, I just never went back to work. No real solid reason for doing it either. I've been at my current job for almost two years (knock on wood).

Please say you've seen "Office Space!"

LOL, I've done that too, but I just counted the one at which I actually gave notice.

Office Space rocks...

"I see here you've been missing a lot of work lately."
"Well, Bob, I wouldn't exactly say I've been *missing* it."

"Uh... so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh... I don't like my job, and, uh... I don't think I'm gonna go anymore."
Peter Gibbons

In my video collection, of course!

"Can I have my stapler back please?..."

Originally posted by unreal33
Office Space rocks...

"I see here you've been missing a lot of work lately."
"Well, Bob, I wouldn't exactly say I've been *missing* it."


VERY GOOD:D :D :D

My other favorite line...

Drew: "If things go right, I might be showin' her my 'Oh' face... You know... OH, OH, OH, OH..."

Or possibly the best ADD quote from the movie:

Bob: What would you say ya do here?

Tom: Well look, I already told you! I deal with the ******* customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is WRONG with you people?

Peter: "So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life."

Therapist: "What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?"

Peter Gibbons: "Yeah."

Therapist: "Wow, that's messed up!"

I'a laughing here. You guys are sooo funny. I think we are deviating as we so often can do, being ADD people and all. Really good jokes though. Welll, to go back to the subject, I was fired twice. It felt more like ten times becasue I usually left my jobs before I got fired. At one job I was kept from being promoted because of my innatentiveness and lack of assertiveness. I would stand and just remain there with my thoughts and stories. It was extremely difficult to get myself to function. I have had trouble in jobs because of my innatentiveness, my lack of initiative or inability to start me going on projects, my inability to get along with people, etc, etc, etc. I was able to work in the same place for 5 years, all thanks to my therapist and to my boss, who was very tolerant and supportive despite my lack of "initiative", which to me was more a lack of excitement/motivation, and lack of confidence really. After so many years of living with these issues, ADD can take a toll on you. I'm currently getting my master's though and things seem to go well. I still need a lot of support and coaching some times, but that is just what works for me. I do wish all of you the best, and don't lose hope, I did from time to time, and things really have gotten better.

Fired? Tell me about it, I was fired from one job because I was an ineffective supervisor however my technical skills were outstanding. I was fired from the next job because the company went out of business. I was fired from the next job because I procrastinated too much and did not get around to doing some necessary things. I was fired from the next two jobs because I was not productive enough and prone to too many errors, despite my getting along very well with my peers and being intelligent about the technical matters of my profession.

Then I got diagnosed with ADD at age 54 and wonder if my whole career has been a mistake.

I'm searching for a place to land.

my job right now is a work-study through school, i'm in charge of cleaning up the machine shop for the optics dept, (and also ordering things, fixing things, coordinating things... basically everything since i'm the only one who works there)

I'm supposed to go 4-5 hours a week, whenever I can fit it into my schedule. last semester I went every thursday morning, but this semester I never picked a day/time beucase nothign relaly seemed very good. (I actually have MORE time, but it's spread out a lot)

so basically i never went. i just... stopped!! it's horrible. i didn't even say anythign to my boss... i kept telling myself, "ok, this week i'm going to go in and clean up the huge mess athat's probably accumulated" but then i just never did. pretty soon I was so afraid of going in and facing my boss that i just sort of left it.... until finally someone told me that he had indicated I was going to be fired if I didn't get my act together. I finally went on sunday (when i knew the boss wouldn't be there) and got it all back into shape, but i still haven't talked ot my boss.

I can't believe my lack of responsibility!! I did the same thing with a different work study job two years ago - I was supposed to be doing some stuff with a website. I could work on it whenever I wanted to, and then just meet up with eveyrone else at meetings. All I had to do was get my hours in, but somehow it was next to impossible for me to do it!! I guess I just can't handle a lack of structure. I had to quit the job becuase i just couldn't handle the weekly panic of not having done my work. it's not like it was HARD.... it just wasn't my priority and therefore always went to the back of the list.

I can see this being a real problem for me, but I think now that i've figured out the problem I will be alright. I just need to create some structure for myself.

I was fired for my first job at McDonalds after working there for 8 years...but by the time I was fired I pretty much gave up on the job anyway..so I did not care about showing up for work on time.
Bosses did not like me cause I was too emotional and I defied uthority every chance I got.

I used to get fired (or it was suggested my skills would be better used elsewhere) when I was younger & kept getting jobs like being a data analyst (not good for adhd'ers) or accounts clerk. Now I've realised my destiny is to be a big picture person in charge of all the detail oriented people & all is fine :D

I survived 13 years and 3 buyouts....the fourth buyout i was put in a positon in which I was pushed to the breaking quitting point.:mad:

Twice in a very ugly way, at least one other layoff was basically a firing. I generally got along with the coworkers & was respected & tended to get the "your skills would be better elsewhere" line. I'd never leave by choice, thinking everything would be OK and/or I should just work harder or didn't realize how bad I was at at least giving the appearance of being obedient. Or I just couldn't imagine anything better worth heading out for.

Here's a good story: I interviewed for a job & they didn't like me (wanted a shoe kissing slave) but I ended up working there through a temp agency for three times the cost to them. Hmph. Just as well it was temp, I'd have been miserable.

I have a really tough time following the political game.

Well, let's see....I've had over 30 different jobs in my short little existance of 28 years. LOL You can guess that I didn't stay at many of those for long. I've never been fired either, but I was laid off of one job. I quit all the rest, or the job itself ended for whatever reason.

The job that I was laid off of was with our county's property tax appraisal district. I was hired through the Texas Workforce Commission, and it was a 6 month on the job training/probationary thing. If I had never been laid off and would have stuck with it, in 3 years time I would have become a Registered Property Tax Appraiser.

Well, to make a long story short, they were having budget problems out the butt. AND due to "budget cuts" they let me go the DAY AFTER my 6 month program had ended. It's a long crappy story of how I think they secretly didn't like me, and I believe my undxed ADD really reared it's head in this job, but don't feel like getting into all that now heh....maybe later

I clicked once, but that is wrong, was actually 2 times, but I have been layed off quite a few more times then that.


1st was detasseling job, terrible, pulled back in one row 3 times just trying to pick corn - was glad to actually leave that job.

2nd one stressed, I was working 100 plus hours per week, messed up on meds and drinking, sleep depervation did not help, I was very aggitated with the lady - was a relief to finally leave.

3rd I forgot sorry 3rd one, due to not being able to cut leather left handed correctly cause they didn't have anyone to train a left handed person.. back was killing me, was another one I was glad to not stay with.

Quite a few jobs closing their doors, and laying me off.

Now I when I know something is not right, I rather quit then get fired again.

I was fresh out of high school and didn't want to go to college right away (never went, actually). I was enjoying community theater and was sick of working at mcDonald's. So, my Dad encouraged me to get a job as a bank teller. I could work day hours, evenings and weekends free, benefits and perks, paid training. Sounds great, huh? Perfect.

NOT! My Dad didn't know me very well, the training involved sitting still for hours listening to "how to work the *&^&* computer". Within my 2 month intro to bank telling I miscounted people's money to the tune of forgetting to give someone $100, that was the largest mistake, there were more. I misplaced funds, and at the end of the day my drawer was never perfect, I was always off. I was never off when I was shleppin' burgers, but when it comes to losing $900 in two months at a bank where you are expected to have perfect transactions...needless to say, I moved on, with my boss' very high heel all the way up my butt. :D

Being fired is my middle name.

Ever been fired? Canned? Laid off? Pink slipped? Shown the door? Let go? Axed? Terminated? Sent packing? Downsized? Post your experiences here, and vote in the poll.

What is your job, now?

Hmmm. My last five jobs - I worked as a computer tech support phone slave for a bit, finally got fed up and put in my notice. The next job, I only lasted six months, had great difficulty being productive, got fired, though they called it a "layoff". The next job was actually my best job - I was laid off, but on good terms - I used the time to finish my bachelor's degree. The job after that, I couldn't stay productive, I kept getting in trouble, I got burned out due to nasty office politics, and my already lousy productivity dropped to zero, so I quit.

I couldn't find job in my industry since then. I had a brief stint doing phone surveys for elections, that job made me very crazy very quickly, I quit.

I and the world of work hate each other. :(

I was fired from my second job, because at the time, i was taking Zoloft, I had an allergic reaction to it on my first week taking it, it caused me to get severly dehydrated. I ended up in the hospital, and they said it wasn't a valid excuse even with the DR. Note that i provided, and they let me go. I didn't bother fighting it because i had already been looking for another job and found one.

My favorite bit from Office Space: :D

Bob Slydell : Milton Waddams.
Dom Portwood : Who's he?
Bob Porter : You know, squirrely looking guy, mumbles a lot.
Dom Portwood : Oh, yeah.
Bob Slydell : Yeah, we can't actually find a record of him being a current employee here.
Bob Porter : I looked into it more deeply and I found that apparently what happened is that he was laid off five years ago and no one ever told him, but through some kind of glitch in the payroll department, he still gets a paycheck.
Bob Slydell : So we just went a ahead and fixed the glitch.
Bill Lumbergh : Great.
Dom Portwood : So um, Milton has been let go?
Bob Slydell : Well just a second there, professor. We uh, we fixed the *glitch*. So he won't be receiving a paycheck anymore, so it will just work itself out naturally.
Bob Porter : We always like to avoid confrontation, whenever possible. Problem solved from your end.

Fired two weeks ago...it was a copier/printing company(I was a Outside Sales rep) and the manager who didn't like me followed me home and found out I was taking an 'extended lunch break'...that was pretty much it.....

I just lost my job. For the first time in my professional life, my ADD seemed under control thanks to Topamax. I am a computer contractor and the job was fantastic. I had 17 employees and was responsible for a multi-million dollar software implementation that had been bungled by a previous consulting company. I dug in, established a targeted work plan, set the project on course and, with my staff, got things done in record time. Unfortunately, my boss saw my performance as much a threat to his position as an asset to the company since the CIO was tremendously impressed as well. About a month ago, the Topamax began to fail and the ADD became acute. I had trouble focusing, paperwork became a nightmare and getting to meetings on time seemed to be beyond my scope. I meant to call my Dr but lost track of time and just didn't seem to get to it. My contract was up for renewal and my boss took the opportunity to use my recent confusion as grounds to terminate. I had saved the project plus instituted additional programs which realized 1.5 million in savings and in the end, it meant nothing.

I, like many of you, have only been fired once because I never stayed around long enough for them to have the last word. I'd blaze in, do a hell of a job, tick everybody off (people skills certainly lacking), get bored, and leave. I now combine my hobby with work, teaching drumming. Since it's my group, they take me as I am. Artistic license, you could say. ;)

Good for you, I always hung around till they fired me before.

HEH...the title says it all.

The longest real job was active duty Navy for 10 years; got out back in 1997. To paraphrase Jerry Garcia, it's been a long, strange trip since then...

Got a good field service technician job working on anti-shoplifting and surveillance systems in the Bay Area for almost four years straight (!) but quit because of the super-high cost of living and miserable quality of life out there. We moved back here to Michigan in 2001, and it's been quite a challenge.

I tried getting into security system installation and repair. The first job lasted all of six weeks; the boss let me go because of (claimed) economic problems caused by 9/11. Got on with another security company six months later; that one was great for me, but after seven months, the company was going under quickly due to bad management, so I was let go. I was promised a letter of reference, which of course I never received. One week later, I became the service manager for yet another security company. That lasted all of six months; the boss wanted me to have all the responsibility with none of the authority, we clashed repeatedly, he canned me under very questionable circumstances. Got on with yet another security company after four months as just a technician; they used me for nothing more than grunt work involved in moving into a new building, then canned me because I got bored and went online a few times while I was sitting around with nothing to do.

I've been trying to break into IT with some success. A few short-term contracts here and there, with a stint at a small consulting company that lasted four months. And then...Strattera and I got together and began a lovely 40mg/2x daily relationship.

I now hold two part-time/contract jobs; both involve break/fix of client hardware and software. I actually have the focus and clarity to perform my work now, without trying to fix everything else that's wrong around me. (I found that to be a recurring theme in getting fired.) I've even managed to set up a plan for gaining the necessary IT certifications to get into a better-paying-but-still-ADD-friendly position as the "computer guy" for a small- or medium-sized business.

Too bad it's taken 36 years to figure out what I really like doing. I just hope my marriage holds together as I continue to rebuild what's left of my life. The job loss cycle has been sheer hell for my wife.

- Dana

Dogpatch, sounds like you have a very understanding wife! you're lucky! all the women I have ever been with(except ONE, last girlfriend, I have never been married) break up with my almost always because of loosing and not having jobs.

Yes. From my third job. I was a grocery checker. That was when you had to punch in the prices and make change. I was really slow. I also kept forgetting to look and make certain that the checks people gave were correctly written. A couple of customers figured out that they could underpay me. Finally the manager very kindly said that, while I had lots of nice qualities, maybe checking groceries wasn't for me.

No unfortunately they won't fire me because I work very hard. I'm their slave. I wish they'd fire me sometimes. I just despise my supervisors. It's been that way at every job. Actually it's been that way most of my life. My 'rents were slave drivers too.

I have never been fired. I can say that honestly, however, I was layed off (when many others were also being layed off) with the directive "Don't call us, we'll call you" and they never did. That was my first job out of high school 40 years ago--waitressing--and I didn't know what I was doing. I worked all of three days.

Then there have been many jobs that I quit because I felt it was inevitable that I wasn't going to make it if I stayed on. I've taught school five different times and stuck it out to the end of the year each time without asking for a contract to come back. I felt like I was serving a sentence each time.

Once the position I worked in was dissolved by my employer but it wasn't all that long before it was re-created for someone else which was probably his "nice" way of getting rid of me without firing me. I didn't see eye to eye with the person over me. He sugar coated the explanation, but that didn't change much either. All in all, that was a political manuever in my opinion.

I've pushed my job this year to some extremes so that I've wondered if I was risking getting fired. Again, I have a boss that I don't see eye to eye with. I just have a problem with hanging my diploma outside the door (figuratively) rather than bringing it into my workplace and using the intelligence and knowledge that came with it.

:eek: lets just say :

There is a VIBE you get after the 2nd or 3rd time,and I know that VIBE now.
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*so Now I have my own Business and now my Customers are blessed with my People Skills ****A.D.D. version

they either Love Me or

I FIRE them,and they cant beleive it.




It's all in the Vibe :eek:
1.Can I see you in my office?
2.Here is your $$$,:confused: dont come in Monday.

3.@15 yrs old I even got fired from McDonals Cause On a 100*+ Degree day I wouldn't go pick up HOT sticky gum and Cigg- butts out of the bark-beds .
Again.
All in front of all the main street traffic.

semi forced to quit from my point cause I was a cook ,not a land scaper.

Oh and a biggie, 8:00AM has always turned into me flyin into the parking lot at 8:11 AM or so. consistantly thou:D

and some Bosses are so anal on puntuality.

Basicly after 6 hours it's time for me to go home.

So now I do:D .

I really still very much want my B.S.
DEGREE THOU.

But after all this talk maybe I should take some Business College classes.

11 units and counting,whoo hooo.

Yep. Loved the job but just soo unimportant I didn't ever want to get out of bed in the morning. The whole: 'Yes we know you exceed every expectation we have but we have this time-clock thing that says you suck.' thing...

I should be posting on this post very soon - "Yes I have been fired". Last Friday I got a warning to shape up or else you ship out. Not in explicit term, but with her hand swaying outward, If I do, it will be a blessing for me, I hate my job. I hate being boxed in all day. I now look at the clock just waiting for breaks and lunch to come around, knowing once I get my 1st break, comes lunch in 2 hours, and after lunch another 2 hours for my second break, and after my second break...comes "GO HOME". Also, I am not to please with my supervisor, for every mistake you make, she has to announce it to the whole department. :mad:

whatttttttttttt She Didn't ?




******"Inform her to PRAISE you in PUBLIC and to critisise in PRIVATE"******


cause your Lawyer friend said a red Corvett if she doesn't will be in your garage this time next yr,and her compnay paid for it.LOL

Slander is not good for anyone.


(Disclaimer) just wishing we all could do stuff like this
well find a creative way to get the correct info to her.then.:D

happy holidays

Once when I was in HS. I worked at a movie theatre. They told me i was not vocal enough and egar enough to help the customers. i have been threatened as of lately, but nothing offical yet.

I have never been fired, but I have "quit" three different jobs. When I say quit, it was more like I decided to stop going to work. I never gave notice or told anyone my intentions, I just never went back to work. No real solid reason for doing it either. I've been at my current job for almost two years (knock on wood).
I quit one job like that , but for a valid reason. I am ready to quit my current job like that..I don't want to deal with coworkers and management, but I would have wasted two years of my life..no references...

I dont think i was ever fired. Brought to the office , jeez a million trillion times where ever i worked in the past to be reprimand. Me it's my mouth thats the lethal weapon of destruction around me LOL.

Digitl who talks faster then her shadow:D

1st time I was Fired was from my DAD,
I was 14 and Mowing and edging the Lawn,

I supposedly promised by 9AM on sunday morning the lawn would be mowed
and Edged!

So He fired me,
his own son.

To this day NOBODY WILL WORK FOR HIM,

not even kids at the church!

being a PERFECTIONEST get's lonely!!!!!!!

i have gotten fired twice now and didnt understand how it came about and how I let it.. then found I had ADD.. go figure...

this is a funny topic..I would think almost everyone who has ADD has been fired at least once....me? three times or more. Wrong jobs, and low-paying will do that.

Yep. One time in high school (longer ago than I care to admit)...by my Dad!!!!

:D

C'Mon Hi all .
I just got the CALL

" In TWO Weeks ,

You might want to start looking for different employment.
cause I am selling the company cause of my leaking heart valve-."

long story short-I am happy-kinda-

it'll give me more time for my studies .BA Degree here I come/broke yes but on the faster track-now.

Side jobs/or what not.

When the Man upstairs closes 1 door,TWO WILL OPEN UP FOR YOU. If you have faith.

wish me luck. at least spring will be here soon.

Once and it was my favorite Job in the world. I don't know if I can say this but a very well known local telephone provider (deals with running) fired me after I left Florida due to a couple of hurricanes headed our way. We stayed for Charle (which came 20 mile from my home)(and my wife was 9 mnths pregant with my son) and we stayed for Frances that hit the other coast and when Ivan was coming and my 2 mnth old son in a home with no power we desided to head to rachels grandparents in Oostburg, WI. by time we got there the stupid hurricane changed course and went to upper Florida I called my boss to tell her we are heading back she said I had to be there By tomorrow:eek: . I tryed but didn't make it. Their reason for firing me was that I left in a time of need. I say BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS BS. SPR!*T SUCKS. I was one of the top sales person I did 150% of my goal everyday.:mad:

I am getting close to telling my boss off. We had a spat today. He knew that I was off yesterday to attend a funeral. I come back to my desk this morning, and I find a note labeled personnel and confidential. I opened it and it basically indicated that I have to clear up my workload queues or else I will face disciplanary mesasures.

The thing is I leave things on those queues because I have ADHD. I have a system of reminders, but I like redundancy to make sure nothing gets missed. Although they may not look pretty, they help to remind me of things I need to do and enable me to excel at the position. They have nothing to do with my end work product. I told my boss that sure I can do it his way, but I am not going to make any guarantees that my numbers won't decline

He couldn't offer a satisfactory explanation..he just said I had to do it his way. I was ready to tell him to shove it...

I bust my butt every day and he knows it. There are others who blatantly don't do their job, but because of other considerations, he lets them go

I wish I would get fired.

yes more than three times. i knew there was a reason why i kept losing jobs and my mind racing like it was in a nascar race. after i lost my last jod i decided to look for help, i was very angry when the letters add caom out of the doctors mouth. that was five months ago. i learned since then that add is not a disability, it enhances my ability.

yes more than three times. i knew there was a reason why i kept losing jobs and my mind racing like it was in a nascar race. after i lost my last jod i decided to look for help, i was very angry when the letters add caom out of the doctors mouth. that was five months ago. i learned since then that add is not a disability, it enhances my ability. Never let your negatives be your downfall, focus on the positives.

When I first posted o here and answered the poll I had not been fired before. However, that changed last week fri for me. I was fired for some BS reasons. While they didn't outrgiht say it, I belive its bc i am taking a trip to Europe for 3 weeks for a class I am taking. Instead they told me its bc I have a bad attidude, I complain to much, and I dont fit in with the way the chef wants to take the club. Can u say BS?????????? I was so ****ed, but I am getting over it!

I have been fired more times than the machineguns in Scarface. I had no internal voice. Everything came right from my brain to my mouth.I couldn't sit still,I never finished anything and I also have bipolar disorder that makes me mean.The stories I could tell. People think I'm funny but I realize now it was a sad way to waste my talents.

Sure. Once for constantly "misfiling" files. Once for "being too abrupt, unapproachable, unfocused (never mind they also graded me the hardest worker in the company, and superb at my actual job). I will also be fired soon as I found out my boss is advertising for my postion. He's hiring an accountant - I'm NOT an accountant! Told them that in the interviews! Was told they don't need an Accountant. So, now it's my fault?

i was fired from a waitressing job just minutes before i yelled; "i quit!" because they "couldn't" give me the day off even though the day after i was fired they miraculously found someone to take my place (which was why i couldn't have the day off - they had noone they could replace me with for that day!)

the second time i simultaneously quit and got fired (i was temping and just as i told the woman i was not going back there, she said that's ok, they don't want you back anyway - he said you were rude) no, i was not rude. i just refused to be treated like a brainless moron by a brainless moron.....

since then i have managed to find places that appreciate my intelligence and dry humor. :D and i have now lasted 8 years at my current place of employment - but that's because i get my summers off with pay (well, unemployment since it's a seasonal job.)

I KNOW my whole career was a mistake. I left the job i had for 18 years mainly because i had an offer from somebody else AND i couldn't wait to get out. I couldn't stand to work for so many (fill in the blank). The job i went to was a disaster as were the 25 or so before the 18yr. gig. Never have found the right place. Now i work for myself, not happy, but at least no one complains. I was always late, had personality conflicts w/ supervision, you name it.

Never been fired,

almost was twice but I quit instead. good times...even though the unemplyoment check would have been nice I didn't want it on my record of work history. I already have to much stuff on there. :)

yup. It was 15 years ago after breaking up with the love of my life (or so I thought). I couldn't function and just wanted to get drunk so I was staying out all night and showing up late to work..etc etc. They graciously laid me off instead of firing me..therefore I was eligible for a program called the TRA (trade reduction act) in which my company qualified for and this program paid for me to go back to school and get my bachelors degree in business and even paid for my books and mileage to get to school as well as unemployment $$. Best thing that ever happened to me!!!

I have been fired so many times I've lost count. Now for quitting a job...let's see...maybe 10 times, just a rough estimate....since 1998 I've had at least 20 jobs....

I'm also searching for a place to land....also at age 47 !

Here's a new one for me.

I was working in a call center up until Tuesday. Hated the job. Absolutely HATED it!!! I was working in the wireless repair account for a major regional Baby Bell, and in the spirit of Office Space, I describe my job as follows: I sit in a cubicle, I wear a headset, and I talk to angry people all day about why their cell phones aren't working, and why we won't send them a warranty replacement.

Needless to say, this job drove me absolutely insane, and I immediately set about looking for a better job. Tuesday of last week, I finally received a kick-*** offer to join a large computer manufacturer as a software engineer, for QUADRUPLE the pay! Yes, you read that right. Quadruple. Now, while I felt absolutely like telling my old employer to take this job and shove it, I decided to avoid burning bridges and put in a civilized two weeks notice. Amazingly enough, I didn't get fired immediately after putting in my notice.

Now that I knew I only had a few more days left in this hellhole, I felt a lot like Peter Gibbons from Office Space after he had been hypnotized. :cool: My attitude was "It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care." Well, I didn't tear down my cubicle walls or gut fish on the TPS reports, but my calls did get rather sloppy. We had all sorts of bull**** we had to read to the customers from scripts, and I stopped doing that - I went straight from the greeting to actually helping the customer, and got chewed out because this apparently degrades the customer's experience. :rolleyes: On one call last Wednesday, the customer was a real witch, screamed at me for ten minutes and demanded a supervisor, because she got a warranty replacement and sent back her warranty replacement phone by mistake, keeping her old phone, and demanded to know why we wouldn't activate her "new" phone. :mad: I finally lost my temper, muted the call and smacked my monitor before going to get the supervisor. The supervisor took the call and told me to go home, today was my last day.

Gotta watch that temper at work. Oh well, I start my new cool job next Wednesday. :cool: