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When was the last time you were involuntary separated (fired, laid off, made redundant, etc.)?  

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  1. 1. When was the last time you were involuntarily separated?

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Remarkableriots

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34 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I got laid off from my last staff gig going on four years ago. I've been a freelancer/independent contractor ever since.

 

 

I split my time between New York and LA primarily for editorial work but I've been thinking about adding Atlanta to the mix.

That sounds like a job they should let you do at home. 

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On 5/22/2019 at 7:10 PM, TheLeon said:

I got fired from Radio Shack about 8 years ago. I was there for 2 months, and I didn’t sell enough contract cell phone plans. That was literally the only thing they cared about. 

 

 

oh shit I got fired from Radio Shack like ten plus years ago. So on top of the cellphone bs, they also pushed their store credit card. We’d get $5 for everyone that got approved. Problem is you needed to get a social security number to run someone’s credit. Most people didn’t want to give out their number to the register monkey at Radio Shack so one time I put 123456789 thinking it would get rejected because you it still looked good if you attempted it. Well it went through. So every time someone wouldn’t give me the number I put in that number and it worked almost every single time. After like 2 months some guy came from loss prevention came and fired me.

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Biggie

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54 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said:

I have two shifts left and after that i will be laid off Wendsday because the company i work for lost the contract for the location i work at. I just found out today that this was happening.

So you get one day notice? That’s fucked up. 

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Spawn_of_Apathy

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16 hours ago, Biggie said:

So you get one day notice? That’s fucked up. 

More than many get. My last lay off I found out the day of when I had a meeting in HR and was notified. Good news was it was a Monday, I was salaried, so I got paid for the whole week. Also got 4 weeks of severance, and 4 weeks of accumulated vacation time paid out. 

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40 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

More than many get. My last lay off I found out the day of when I had a meeting in HR and was notified. Good news was it was a Monday, I was salaried, so I got paid for the whole week. Also got 4 weeks of severance, and 4 weeks of accumulated vacation time paid out. 

Ok I can understand getting a short notice with all that coming to you. Pretty sure @Remarkableriots ain’t getting shit. So there’s really no comparison. 

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Spawn_of_Apathy

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2 minutes ago, Biggie said:

Ok I can understand getting a short notice with all that coming to you. Pretty sure @Remarkableriots ain’t getting shit. So there’s really no comparison. 

As a retail store manager of Blockbuster I had over two months notice, and was getting vacation paid out and a bonus. So that’s not really it. Often severance and bonuses are used to prevent people leaving before their termination date after notice of lay-off is given in advance. Kind of a “leave early get nothing”, deal. 

 

A lack of notice is usually done to reduce risk to the company of “retribution”. Confronting coworkers, customers, stealing, etc. 

 

my last one was done when I first entered the building, and my things were boxed up by another Supervisor. I was then escorted out a side exit by security. 

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Spawn_of_Apathy

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22 minutes ago, Biggie said:

So you’re saying you cray cray

It’s just common practice by companies during layoffs. My last company laid off 112 employees in that way. Some did act up, yell and throw things, from what I heard, but most did not. It’s a “why open the company up to the risk” kind of thing. 

 

I wasn't surprised the lay off happened. The company had been bleeding money for a while, and their attempt to rebrand a year prior fell completely flat. I felt I was a better performer with better qualifications and skills than some of my peers that were not laid off. But I did not know the criteria used. My manager had to choose, so he could have used it as a chance to let me go. We clashed a bit, but he could never fire me. But I’m my group I also had the least seniority. So it could have been a “Last in, first out”. Which is very common. All in all the 9 weeks of pay I was getting definitely softened the blow. I was more worried for my team/subordinates. Not that they were at risk of a layoff, but whether or not they would be taken care of with a good, qualified Supervisor. 

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Keyser_Soze

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5 hours ago, Biggie said:

Ok I can understand getting a short notice with all that coming to you. Pretty sure @Remarkableriots ain’t getting shit. So there’s really no comparison. 

 

When I got laid off at Callaway it was basically a Friday at the end of the day and they said yadda yadda yadda this is your last day and I got no severance either.

 

Of course I still was technically a temp but had worked there for 4 years. Good times.

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Picked a 2nd job with my sister at a paint store. The boss was super bipolar and a lady I hired along side with left within 2 weeks because of it. Didn’t have a scanner for the register and had to know the codes by heart. Some were on the product but weren’t the code in his system. Right before I was let go in my 3 probation period, he asked what could be done to improve the store. I mentioned the scanner and he goes off on a angry tangent that there were too many products to enter into the system to make it valuable for him. Said he had 10k different items that would need to be entered. I said there wasn’t nearly that many and was lucky to be near 1000 tops. So he said laughing to himself “Well if you have so much time to do nothing, then write them down and count them yourself” So I did and got near 650 items with serial numbers and item product numbers written down in a book. He asked what the hell I was doing on my 2nd day of doing this and I told him. He told me to stop cause I would be doing it for weeks. I had 90% of the store done when I reached the 650 or so products. I handed him the book and told him I would finish it next time I was in, the following week. I went to pick up the book to finish and called me into his office. He said this wasn’t working out because I wasn’t listening to him and handed me my firing paper. I was told about 5-7 months later he did bring in a scanning gun for sales.

 

 

so fuck him 

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AbsolutSurgen

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18 hours ago, Remarkableriots said:

As far as i know i'll only get paid 1 extra shift on my final check tomorrow. 

That sucks.

18 hours ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

It’s just common practice by companies during layoffs. My last company laid off 112 employees in that way. Some did act up, yell and throw things, from what I heard, but most did not. It’s a “why open the company up to the risk” kind of thing. 

 

I wasn't surprised the lay off happened. The company had been bleeding money for a while, and their attempt to rebrand a year prior fell completely flat. I felt I was a better performer with better qualifications and skills than some of my peers that were not laid off. But I did not know the criteria used. My manager had to choose, so he could have used it as a chance to let me go. We clashed a bit, but he could never fire me. But I’m my group I also had the least seniority. So it could have been a “Last in, first out”. Which is very common. All in all the 9 weeks of pay I was getting definitely softened the blow. I was more worried for my team/subordinates. Not that they were at risk of a layoff, but whether or not they would be taken care of with a good, qualified Supervisor. 

They'll never share the reasons for it -- for legal reasons.  It frequently has nothing to do with performance.

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Remarkableriots

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So far i've put applications out but haven't heard back. I put in for unemployment but haven't received it yet. I paid off two months rent with most of my final check because i know unemployment will barely cover my rent. Last time i was laid off i was lucky because they let us take home the frozen food that would have went bad being transported to a different location. Hopefully i find something soon because i ran out of food money last week.

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Bloodporne

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In 2007.

 

I was running a private business' entire mailorder warehouse for them, including two employees. I had gone back to Germany to see my family for the first time in a decade that summer, a really big thing for me, and I had told my boss about this over a year prior. I was off for three weeks without pay which I had been saving for as well. When I came back I called him up to see how everything was going and he said everything fine. I get a call a day later and he informed me that indeed nothing was fine and he's laying me off effective immediately, including both of the other warehouse employees. 

 

So not only did he lie, then shitcan me right after, but he also did it strategically after I had taken a 3 weeks unpaid "vacation". There's a way to handle if you absolutely have to do it, this was not it. I wish I could say I wasn't happy to see his entire fucking business fail approximately two years later but...

 

:badass:

 

Dude even tried to reconnect with me on Facebook many years later like we were pals so he could lament what a trainwreck his life is. Cool story bro. Also, it turned out he ruined his own business blowing literally all his savings on being a sugar daddy to some lady with several kids he was bankrolling. 

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