Anyone Sacked And Deserved It?

Carlos77

Not sacked, but almost got a written warning! Id booked a couple of days holiday,and was told i couldn't take it. I had a lovely 2 days away, and a job interview (that i got!) so as my manager was taking me in ready to give me the written warning, i got in there first, and handed in my resignation letter. He took my letter, the look on his face was priceless, and he ripped up the warning he was going to give me, and told me to go back to work, and i went on to work my weeks notice in peace! Luckily i didn't need a reference from him!!

ohreally

Uncertain wrote: »

No, not always at all. There are generally two sides to every story.

Then theres the truth.

RuthnJasper

Uncertain wrote: »

Perhaps she was! It would be an appropriate description for some bank managers!

More seriously though, not too tactful really!

He would have been better playing the long game and seeing if he could give her enough rope to hang herself!

Hahaha, maybe! No idea; I don't know the lady in question. Certainly not language I'd use to ANYONE though (well - OK - perhaps in my head, but not out loud ).

Knowing the chap though, I suspect that the manageress probably wasn't that bad. He was (and probably still is) a nut-job. The type that cannot fund his transport, decent clothing, independent-from-parent living, but still has a bucket o' cash for drugs and alcohol...

Thankfully, there are sites like this one and the CAB, among others, who can offer salient and impartial advice in a wide variety of situations so that interested parties can investigate for themselves as opposed to having to rely on company-funded HR departments (who may have their own, non-employee-welfare-based, agendas).

clivejohnson

Carlos77 wrote: »

Not sacked, but almost got a written warning! Id booked a couple of days holiday,and was told i couldn't take it. I had a lovely 2 days away, and a job interview (that i got!) so as my manager was taking me in ready to give me the written warning, i got in there first, and handed in my resignation letter. He took my letter, the look on his face was priceless, and he ripped up the warning he was going to give me, and told me to go back to work, and i went on to work my weeks notice in peace! Luckily i didn't need a reference from him!!

Fantastic!

I just wish I had dont that when i was made redundant last may! They hated me, and I hated them!

Dangermac

Uncertain wrote: »

Given that anybody off sick for more than a week will have a doctor's certificate, it always amazes me why some HR people feel themselves better qualified to judge somebody's state of heath.

Completely agree. In exactly the same way that doctors are also very accurately able to assess whiplash injuries by the information provided by their patients.

'everyone in here is innocent - you're gonna fit right in'

DM

Paddles

I was sacked from a job within a recruitment company once. I was in my late teens and was temping through the agency and they asked me to work within the agency. Anyway they then sacked me for losing some paperwork. It wasn't true and I'm pretty sure they knew that because they soon offered me other positions but to be fair I deserved to be sacked for being generally late, generally hungover and generally not really havin
g a clue what I was doing

SJ32116

I've only ever been sacked once and it was totally deserved. I worked in a local pub in quite a rough area where the customers were prone to kicking off if you told them they'd had too much and to leave although it was never more than shouting/swearing usually.

I told one guy to leave one evening and he punched me in the face, I punched him back and threw him out. Manager called me into the backroom straight after and said he'd have to let me go.

At the time I was only 18 and felt massively aggrieved but now I'm older I can see that looking back I shouldn't have punched him and that the sacking was deserved.

colleensims

I got sacked when I was around 15-16. I was working in a bingo hall (although now looking back it was probably illegal at that age) I worked some evenings until around 9pm. I worked with my best friend and just used to mess around and not take it seriously!! One day my friend didnt turn up for work and I got called into the managers office and said he doesnt think we are suitable anymore! He was very nice about it and I didnt realise he was actually sacking me at the time. I was nervous about telling my mum as I thought she would be angry but she was actually very happy, as it was a bit of a dive and she hated me getting the bus home late in the evening. Did I deserve it??? I think I probably did !!!!

whitelabel

SJ32116 wrote: »

I've only ever been sacked once and it was totally deserved. I worked in a local pub in quite a rough area where the customers were prone to kicking off if you told them they'd had too much and to leave although it was never more than shouting/swearing usually.

I told one guy to leave one evening and he punched me in the face, I punched him back and threw him out. Manager called me into the backroom straight after and said he'd have to let me go.

At the time I was only 18 and felt massively aggrieved but now I'm older I can see that looking back I shouldn't have punched him and that the sacking was deserved.

I actually disagree, and youd have grounds for unfair dismissal, you acted in reasonable self defense, having been assaulted at work, as long as you didnt use unreasonable force.
the manager should have supported you

JDC14

whitelabel wrote: »

I actually disagree, and youd have grounds for unfair dismissal, you acted in reasonable self defense, having been assaulted at work, as long as you didnt use unreasonable force.
the manager should have supported you

Agreed.

When I was working behind a bar last year, there was some trouble one night (I wasn't working, but came up in a staff meeting a few days later). And some staff got threatened by a very drunk customer.

In the training session the 3 managers asked - what should/would we do in that situation.

I was first to pipe up and said 'If I got someone like that, and they hit me, I'd jump the bar and hit them back'.

And the manager went through the law of it, and basically said in laymans terms "tit for tat". e.g. the suggestions of getting slapped by a customer then cracking her over the head with a full bottle of JD was definitely getting you sacked. But we were told we were well within our rights to defend ourselves at work and we'd be supported to the full providing we stayed within the bounds of the law.