Comments | hannigan_rex: There's always a first time

hannigan_rex

There's always a first time

Jan 18, 2009 00:45

So tonight I was fired for the first time. Ever. It's not so bad, I have something else lined up and was planning on discussing with my (ex)current employer about how to proceed so that I could continue part time as a fallback (the job lined up is "temporary" and also not official yet). But it still sucks getting "let go". They used the term ( Read more... )

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wenamun January 18 2009, 15:54:45 UTC

I'm sorry to hear that comrade. No worries, you've got a higher purpose than whatever that job represented. And also, considering skynet's still not online, there are worse ways to be terminated.
When do we get to see you again? I'm not holding my breath, I just don't want to miss it when it happens.
Peace.

hannigan_rex January 18 2009, 22:13:58 UTC

Oh, don't worry. Everyone will know when I come back to town.

nerdcodegeode January 18 2009, 17:32:32 UTC

Yeah, that blows. Sorry, man.

On an unrelated note, could you message me your mailing address, please? I found something I thought you might enjoy.

josefblind January 18 2009, 18:34:21 UTC

Can I get it as well?

josefblind January 18 2009, 18:35:00 UTC

Dude, that sucks about your current job. I hope everything works out for the other possibility.

hannigan_rex January 18 2009, 22:14:52 UTC

So far so good. Details forthcoming.

indigojones January 18 2009, 18:48:34 UTC

It always sucks getting fired (I still feel the sting of getting fired from the job I had when I was 17). But in this economy there are lots of other people in your situation. I hope the other job works out for you.

conjurdude January 18 2009, 21:11:40 UTC

Like me! I'm in your situation! Welcome, brother! We would have had jackets made, but we're unemployed, so we have no money to pay for them.

We settled on face-painting.

Sorry you got canned, buddy.

hannigan_rex January 18 2009, 22:22:23 UTC

I totally call dibs on a monarch butterfly wing on just the right side of my face!

conjurdude January 18 2009, 22:24:27 UTC

Covering your eye, right? Omigawd, I totally KNEW you were gonna pick that! BFF!

*ahem* I'm better now.

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It isn't you, it's me jpfed January 19 2009, 03:21:10 UTC

Firing people in January is standard operating procedure for your former employer. There's not enough in sales to support all of the holiday help, so there's a bloodletting at the beginning of every year.

Re: It isn't you, it's me hannigan_rex January 19 2009, 10:01:34 UTC

No, I was told I was one of the three people that were kept on. Hours also suggested this. I had work for the next three weeks. Seasonal folks hadn't worked in two. I violated their set-in-stone lunch break policies one too many times.