Top 10 reasons people say they are fired (wrote in to Working America's "Ask a Lawyer" service)

[Omaha Steve]

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Top 10 reasons people say they are fired

By PATRICIA KITCHEN | [e-mail]
July 12, 2007

Conventional wisdom holds that when people get fired, it's generally because they're not doing a good job. But that doesn't square with the reasons cited by people who have been fired. Here are some of the causes they cite when they wrote in to Working America's "Ask a Lawyer" service.

(Working America is an affiliate of the AFL-CIO that anyone can join, in return for a small donation. Among other benefits, it allows you to send workplace questions in to "Ask a Lawyer." See www.workingamerica.org/askalawyer/)

Here is their "Top Ten Strange but True Reasons Used to Fire Someone":

1. Working too many hours
2. Blogging
3. Smoking
4. Holding a second job
5. Not asking the boss for permission to go on a date
6. Being hospitalized
7. Working fewer than 7 days a week
8. Working fewer than 100 hours a week
9. Taking a 5 minute break in the middle of a 10-hour shift
10. Not doing someone else's job along with your own.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Not in the Top Ten, but here are some reasons why I've been fired.

1. (Constructive discharge). My boss screamed and yelled at me, and then hit me on the arm (hard).

2. I called a judge to confirm he received my boss's fax.

3. I fell off a chair at work, tore my knee, yet came in the next two days. When I had to take off a week to see doctors, I was replaced.