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No easy way for me to say it but it turns out my job at the printing/mailing place didn't work out. I was told to "Not be distracted with anything else while printing", least for this one job I was working on, and I did. I was sooooo effing bored between printing that I sorta surfed the net and worked on smaller jobs in-between. Mostly everything was fine though, till the end of the day I screwed up a small portion of the job. And it wasn't even truly because I was "distracted" but rather, because the machine was printing off-kilter a little bit and I didn't notice it till a bit later.
I was keeping an eye on the machine and was right by it, plus I was thoroughly checking the quality of the prints to make sure they weren't smudging and that they were in aligned correctly. I mostly just flipped thru them and could usually tell. But somehow when I was flipping thru them, I happened to miss a batch of them. But we had enough materials to finish the job so I reprinted all the mess-ups, and I got it done on time and it was sent on time to the customer. So I dunno what the big deal was. Sure I didn't "do what my boss asked" but he said it in a way to me that didn't sound like a warning, per se. And I didn't think it mattered if I was working on something else or web-surfed alittle while it was going, rather than just standing around being bored.
At my last job it was normal to print jobs and be working on other things while doing it, unless it was just SOOO delicate of a job that you literally had to watch it that thoroughly. I messed up numerous times on print jobs and realized my mistake later. Again, sometimes I was "warned" or "advised" things by other ppl about the print job but sometimes I forgot to do exactly what was asked, or didn't understand what they meant, etc. So that when I did mess up the job, I realized it later..."Oh THAT'S what they meant," or "Oh NO WONDER he told me to do that,", etc. Sometimes messing up a little bit is ok, it's how you learn. I wasn't trying to be insubordinate or anything. I just didn't think that that particular job I was working on was so delicate that I had to watch it and do NOTHING else at all.
The other thing is that I wasn't catching on the job in general. It's one of those really small printing places that are disorganized as hell and there literally was shit all OVER the place! It's worse than my bedroom! There were a lot of procedures I wasn't getting down and he wanted me to learn like everything it seemed. A couple of the programs I didn't have much experience in and the stuff he was trying to teach me was like more advanced-level for that program. I could tell he was getting frustrated after the third week, STILL trying to teach me all this crap. I think that truly was the main reason he fired me. This other incident was only the silver lining to the entire thing.
Anyway because I got fired and because I wasn't entirely honest on the form to the Unemployment office as to why I no longer am with this company, now they are trying to deny me benefits. I was let go last month and worked there a little under a month. I didn't want to come out and say, "Oh I was fired". In that sense, I treated it like applying to a job; if at all possible, try to avoid listing jobs you got canned from, or give another reason why you're not working there anymore, that sounds better than being "fired". But unfortunately they found out from the the company that I was dismissed so I had to fill out some stupid questionnaire explaining while I was fired. It's now a waiting game to see if I still qualify, and hopefully they won't consider it fraud where I have to pay them back money.
However I'm not totally counting on getting my benefits. They probably think I'm some con artist or something now cuz I dare "lied" about why I was let go. Fuck them. Gotta do what you gotta do. And I truly did learn my lesson and will be sure to never make that mistake on a job ever again. So with that in mind, been looking EVERYWHERE for a job, hoping to get one soon. Only have so much in savings here.
I was keeping an eye on the machine and was right by it, plus I was thoroughly checking the quality of the prints to make sure they weren't smudging and that they were in aligned correctly. I mostly just flipped thru them and could usually tell. But somehow when I was flipping thru them, I happened to miss a batch of them. But we had enough materials to finish the job so I reprinted all the mess-ups, and I got it done on time and it was sent on time to the customer. So I dunno what the big deal was. Sure I didn't "do what my boss asked" but he said it in a way to me that didn't sound like a warning, per se. And I didn't think it mattered if I was working on something else or web-surfed alittle while it was going, rather than just standing around being bored.
At my last job it was normal to print jobs and be working on other things while doing it, unless it was just SOOO delicate of a job that you literally had to watch it that thoroughly. I messed up numerous times on print jobs and realized my mistake later. Again, sometimes I was "warned" or "advised" things by other ppl about the print job but sometimes I forgot to do exactly what was asked, or didn't understand what they meant, etc. So that when I did mess up the job, I realized it later..."Oh THAT'S what they meant," or "Oh NO WONDER he told me to do that,", etc. Sometimes messing up a little bit is ok, it's how you learn. I wasn't trying to be insubordinate or anything. I just didn't think that that particular job I was working on was so delicate that I had to watch it and do NOTHING else at all.
The other thing is that I wasn't catching on the job in general. It's one of those really small printing places that are disorganized as hell and there literally was shit all OVER the place! It's worse than my bedroom! There were a lot of procedures I wasn't getting down and he wanted me to learn like everything it seemed. A couple of the programs I didn't have much experience in and the stuff he was trying to teach me was like more advanced-level for that program. I could tell he was getting frustrated after the third week, STILL trying to teach me all this crap. I think that truly was the main reason he fired me. This other incident was only the silver lining to the entire thing.
Anyway because I got fired and because I wasn't entirely honest on the form to the Unemployment office as to why I no longer am with this company, now they are trying to deny me benefits. I was let go last month and worked there a little under a month. I didn't want to come out and say, "Oh I was fired". In that sense, I treated it like applying to a job; if at all possible, try to avoid listing jobs you got canned from, or give another reason why you're not working there anymore, that sounds better than being "fired". But unfortunately they found out from the the company that I was dismissed so I had to fill out some stupid questionnaire explaining while I was fired. It's now a waiting game to see if I still qualify, and hopefully they won't consider it fraud where I have to pay them back money.
However I'm not totally counting on getting my benefits. They probably think I'm some con artist or something now cuz I dare "lied" about why I was let go. Fuck them. Gotta do what you gotta do. And I truly did learn my lesson and will be sure to never make that mistake on a job ever again. So with that in mind, been looking EVERYWHERE for a job, hoping to get one soon. Only have so much in savings here.