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I never lost a job in high school, however when I entered media things changed. As an unpaid intern at the Kitchener Waterloo Record Newspaper, I was let go for having drinks with a reporter at one of the radio stations, which hires me as a non paid intern.
In Radio I changed jobs after a year plus, was fired from that one, the 'reason' being I made a lot of mistakes, but it was a matter of personality, the DJ and I hated each other. I got a new job right away and left that after four months to move again at a new job, where they made me News Director after 6 weeks as they had fired my boss. I lasted another four months and was canned; I was 22 years old I and was no where near mature enough. From there I moved to Montreal and stayed five years.
That turn over in early media is not unusual however I kind of got a reputation...each time I had to move I did so in a 1972 Ford Pinto with a growing record collection which took up all the space in the floor of the backseat. [By the time I left Montreal I had 4,700 albums
Wal-Mart did not put in a company-wide hiring freeze because Obama got reelected, nor did the DJIA drop on the election news.What part of "company wide hiring freeze" aren't you getting here, genius? :roll:
Again, the reasons why it was put in place aren't exactly hard to see if one pulls their head out of their ass long enough to actually look around and see what was happening at the time.
Take your ignorant trolling somewhere else.
Having to lay someone off sucks but I've never felt bad about the ones I fired. If you don't show up for work, don't do the work that's assigned to you or piss off my clients because you somehow or other got it into your head that they work for you I won't miss you a bit.
Never laid off. I consider myself very lucky.
Never fired. Every job I've ever quit I was told that if I ever needed a job they'd hire me back in a heart-beat.
Just hit 20 years with my current employer.
Wal-Mart did not put in a company-wide hiring freeze because Obama got reelected, nor did the DJIA drop on the election news.
A sitting President's expected re-election in a historical bullish market doesn't do that. Markets trade on outlook and newly, but unexpected acquired information; whereas in 2012 we walked into the re-election with a strong net positive in the polls for the sitting President. The market can't negatively react to something it already knew was going to happen.
Now if you remember the DJIA's slide those 3 weeks, that was ended after Greece's passage of the 7th austerity package and its 2013 budget.
Yes, they did put a hiring freeze in place. Whether company wide or simply on a regional basis, I don't know. However, I do know from a first hand source that it did happen. Yes, the markets, and some employers, did (initially at least) react negatively to Obama's re-election (largely out of fear regarding things like Obamacare).
Hell! My brother's actually working at Walmart now. Their idea of "full time" is now only 32 hours a week, instead of 40. Who's policies do you think are responsible for that change?
These are all facts, not speculation.
It was always 32 hours a week for walmart. Even during the bush years. Can't blame obama for that one. .
How many times have you mean fired, "let go", laid off for any reason?
Having to lay someone off sucks but I've never felt bad about the ones I fired. If you don't show up for work, don't do the work that's assigned to you or piss off my clients because you somehow or other got it into your head that they work for you I won't miss you a bit.
I agree though in the single case where I fired someone I still felt crappy cause the guy had a family. Not my fault that they had a loser for a dad but still.........
There have been a couple I fired just because they couldn't handle the job. I can't say I was happy about doing it but after so many hours training, explaining, assisting , reviewing, critiquing, re-reviewing.....it was really better for both of us that they went.I mean, seriously, if after a year on the job you still can't figure out how to not "accidentally" give client A's stuff to client B I really don't think it's my lack of training skill that's jamming you up.
What I dont understand about youth these days is that so many act like they want to get fired, that they are happy about being fired, because then they can go cry to mom and dad and get supported for a lot of months. I hated getting fired even though it was not my fault and even though I did not need to worry about being destitute. There is a lack of pride that is hard for a guy of my generation to understand.
In was fired once unjustly, laid off of a union job because of lack of work the layoff being done by hire date, and I had one messy ending to a job that was almost a firing but we both knew that the situation was not working and I would be the one to leave.
What I dont understand about youth these days is that so many act like they want to get fired, that they are happy about being fired, because then they can go cry to mom and dad and get supported for a lot of months. I hated getting fired even though it was not my fault and even though I did not need to worry about being destitute. There is a lack of pride that is hard for a guy of my generation to understand.
Technically, that's theft.I intentionally 'got fired' from a ****ty movie theater summer job in high school because i hated the manager and wanted the 'experience' of being fired once. I even joked about it ahead of time with some customers, which was apparently overheard upstairs by the assistant manager. She asked me to do it quietly and since i liked her, i just handed out too many extra dollar bills in change. I think i was like $70 under that day
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