I got hired as a barista at a local cafe. I went through a week of training and also earned a week of tips for when I worked (9 hours total, part time job, etc). I even got a food handler's card to cement my ability to work there. Unfortunately, being a small business, they can't afford to have a lot of staff, so the next week I wasn't scheduled ( Read more... )

I can't be the only one on Earth who has been terminated for breaking company rules/having customers complain about me, can I? Or the only one to have been called "utterly disrespectful" and "a disgrace to the profession" (yeah, the illustrious profession of movie theater ushers ( Read more... )

So it seems like I'm rejected as soon as employers see that I was terminated from my last job, without their bothering to look at the circumstances.  (Punch-clock error that my supervisor never bothered to point out until HR called me in to fire me, if it matters.)  Is there any kind of weasel-wording I can use...without actually lying, obviously ( Read more... )

I was fired from Sears this morning.  They gave me two or three different ID numbers, and I can never remember which one I'm supposed to punch in at the start of my shift, so they have me listed as coming in late or not at all.  (Though I think missing the bus today was what broke the camel's back for them; apparently the driver did not see me at ( Read more... )

So heres the deal ( Read more... )