In what situation could you say, "I got fired, but it was worth it"?

[Bertha Venation]

You cussed out a customer, or threw a punch at an asshole boss, or something - anything - that would make you get fired yet you wouldn't regret the loss of your job.

Hmm?

[XemaSab]

1. It would really depend on the job

If it was a jobby-job, and not a career, I could see getting fired and not giving a crap.

If it was a career, then it might not be so cool to get fired.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. Personally, I get more satisfaction from saying, "I quit!"

Take this job and shove it
I ain't working here no more.

[alphafemale]

14. Yep. nt

[Auggie]

3. If I was 100% vested in the profit sharing plan...

Which I was when I got laid off. Not "fired" technically -- more like "asked to leave" with no chance of keeping my job.

[NJmaverick]

4. I stood up to my aweful supervisor who wanted to fire my coworker

I made such a compelling case to the owner that he actually undid his firing (they had even hired his replacement). Considering that this a-hole boss had threatened to "crush me" if I ever crossed him, I knew I had sealed my own fate.

I would do it all over again though. My coworker was one of the hardest working and honest employees in the company. He also had a wife and small kid to support. I took used my time off to get more certifications (they laid me off so I got unemployment) and I eventually ended up with a much much better job.

[EndersDame]

11. My coworker had a note from the doc they still wanted her to work I made threats about calling

The Health Department and the Labor Department. About two weeks later I was having trouble getting my car started and was 5 minutes late (i called ahead) and was fired. What really pissed me off is she had pink eye (an infectious disease) and they still wanted her to serve food (we were both waiters)

[alphafemale]

13. Pink eye? Food service? That is bad.

That's very contagious.

[tigereye]

18. good for you - that took guts!

:thumbsup:

[astral]

5. I did that once

I worked for an office that was treating its workers like Sh!+ and they asked me to sign a new worker policy that I didn't agree with and I refused to sign it. It was created on account of some B.S. they had put another co-worker through. I knew for several days the standoff was coming and I was going to be backed into a wall, so I quietly packed up my belongings at my desk so the day the face-off came, when they CERTAINLY assumed I'd sign when cornered, I cheerfully gave them my office keys, walked to my desk and picked up my purse and teeny desk-plant and waltzed out the door.

It was scary, but MAN, did it feel good to get out of there, and to kind of think I got their goat besides.

Could I afford to do that now? Nuh-uh!

THOSE were the days, when you could quit a job you didn't like if you wanted to, before you even had another job lined up . . .

Ah, to be young and reckless again . . . (but my job now's not too bad except for the pay, and I can live with the pay.)

[noamnety]

6. My dad had that pleasure once

They hired a new supervisor who my dad knew - and didn't respect.

That guy put out a directive that everyone had to come do an initial one-on-one with him, so he could get to know them. My dad went in carrying a box, said "My name is _______, these are my things, and that's all you need to know about me."

[DarkTirade]

7. At my current job, sneaking into the office and replacing the shitty elevator music

with german heavy metal. And then throwing in a repeating loop of 'the song that never ends' in the middle of the german heavy metal. Just to confuse people.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. Love it....

DU HAST....DU HAST........


My kid used to inflict Rammstein on me....:rofl:

[tigereye]

19. ha ha!

that's hilarious!

[rug]

9. Ask Elliot Richardson.

:patriot:

[CreekDog]

10. I was asked to decorate the office for Halloween

I was temping there for the County of San Francisco.

I came upon an life size skeleton and sat it in the chair outside the director's office.

i said to myself, "i'll probably get fired for this, but who cares, it's worth it!"

(i didn't get fired for it, they actually offered me a permanent position)

[alphafemale]

16. My high school biology lab had one of those.

And I am talking a REAL skeleton. Damn if we didn't ever have fun with that thing. I sometimes wonder though, if that particular guy would have hesitated in his decision to donate his body to science if he realized all the ignoble situations he would be subjected to.

[alphafemale]

12. I got fired from my first job after three days.

I was an aide at an "extended care facility" and the way the people were treated there was shocking. The memory of one gentleman in particular will stay with me for the rest of my life.

He wasn't that old at all late forties/early fifties maybe and I could pretty much tell immediately that he had Cerebral Palsy as I knew a couple of people with that condition. His CP was severe and he was being treated as if he were profoundly mentally deficient. That nearly broke my heart, as I knew this was very likely not the case. And with spending just a little bit of time with him I found my suspicions were correct. It took great effort on his part to speak, and his speech was difficult to understand, but his mental ability was unaffected. His name was Salvador. I came to learn that he had been placed there quite recently after being cared for by his parents all his life because they had both passed away.

I learned quickly enough that the expectations of this job was to minimally meet only the guests/inmates basic needs. We are talking Feed/Bathe/Dress/Repeat and to do that in a strictly regimented way as "efficiently" as possible. I chafed at that. These were people who being treated like used-up, worthless, inanimate objects.

My third and last day there, I was feeding Salvador. Spoon feeding him a pureed something or other. He lacked the motor ability to do this for himself. It was taking awhile, but I figured I was within the guidelines because it really couldn't be done any faster.

At one point Salvador looked up at me, and with great effort said, "You're an Angel."

Well...the head Matron or whatever she was, an absolute horror of a woman, this I know for sure, burst into the room shortly after this. "Just what do you think you're doing?!" she demanded.

"I'm feeding, Salvador."

"That's not how we feed "that one," she pushed me aside and produced some sort of huge syringe/plunger type thing from somewhere. She sucked the food into it and expressed it all at once down Salvador's throat. I honest to g-d thought he was going to choke to death right before my eyes.

Then she glared at me. "He doesn't know any better. Just look at him!" she sneered. "I doubt he really even knows we're here."

I was called into the office and "let go" that afternoon. Actually, they didn't even have the decency to come out and tell me I was fired. They said they were going to be over-staffed tomorrow and to not bother coming in, but they said please call the following day to see if I was needed. At this point I must add that I was expected to be at work at 6AM...so calling in to see if I was going to be needed meant getting up at 4:30 at the latest. But, I did that for three days before finally telling them...nevermind. (Well...probably that was not my exact words.) But, by that time, I'd found my second job anyway.

A few weeks after this, I saw Salvador's obituary in the paper. And my heart was broken again. :cry:

Salvador, your spirit was one of the great ones. I knew you for only a couple of days and I'll carry the memory of you in my heart forever. I hope you had safe passage.

[tigereye]

21. oh that is heart-breaking!

many people with CP have perfectly good faculties, and all people with any type of cognitive or physical iimitations deserve to be treated kindly, compassionately and humanely as possible. They are all human beings and so deserving, after all!

[Orsino]

15. After a lotto win. n/t

[tigereye]

17. when it's not cleaning motel rooms fast enough?

well, I was only a teen, and I didn't really relish cleaning toilets... (no offense intended to those who make their living this way)

[Inspired]

20. If I got another job at similar pay, I wouldn't regret the loss of one that causes me so much grief

[Crazy Dave]

22. I worked for an idiot jerk, got sick of him one day and walked out with no notice

When I went for my 1st interview with a different company a few days later the boss there asked me why I had just quit my last job, when I said who the supervisor was and why I quit I was told, "say no more, we know all about him" and was given $1.25 more an hour.

[cherish44]

23. Well the scenario goes like this...

I put Turbo Lax into the coffee of the asshole/bitch boss that has been making my life a living hell. He/she drinks said coffee and and runs to the bathroom and takes a shit so loud the whole office can hear. After about a half hour, boss emerges from bathroom covered in sweat. The odor from the bathroom is so vile that people start puking at their desks. I meanwhile don my gas mask and stand in the corner trying to supress my evil laughter. Boss asks "Who is responsible for this?!!!!!!" I boldly step forward. "Tis I, I thought if I put enough laxative in your coffee, it would hopefully cleanse you of your vile shitheadedness." "YOU'RE FIRED!" I leave saying, "Why would I want to work in an office that smells like your asshole?!" I go to H.R. collect my severance with a satisfied grin on my face knowing that SWEET JUSTICE has won.

[Forkboy]

24. I was screenprinting right after 9/11...

..and we had a guy come in and order 20 shirts with a mushroom cloud and the words "Nuke Afghanistan" on them. I told my boss I wasn't doing them, which led to a big argument, him calling me unAmerican (because real Americans love nuking people, apparently), and I ended up telling him to fuck off. So much for that job, and no regrets.