What was your ugliest time getting fired/quitting?

[nikimadritista]

My wife was pregnant and I needed a Job... I asked to start working about a month before the hotel opened, and they offered me a painting job and a room at the hotel for the time there were no tourists there....
I moved there, and having worked as an entertainer for that same business three years by than, I felt pretty safe and thought I can Start my outdoors grow in March - On the premises - and moved into the wild once it's old enough to survive...
I started about 15 seeds and had them in a huge pot that I covered with some spider protection net, and placed it into the bushes near the Hotel...
About a week later when my seedings were Just showing, some electricians went up fixing the cables and spotted the Big Red Pot... With my baby plants in it...
They phoned my manager and told him something weird was happening in the bushes next door...
I was the first to be called in.. There were 5 other workers living in the hotel at the time...
He explained the situation and I quickly admitted it was my fault... I didn't want the police involved and knew the others were no suspects...
I had a good ANTI-Drugs speech for about an hour and was told to get rid of the plants right away... The only reason to keep my Job was that my lady was pregnant and they knew me too well to fire me...
I kept my Job and I am still there.. And my Boss hates MJ... But I am still growing... Indoors now.. And away from work...
Didn't get fired but wanted to share...

 

[Ridgerunner]

Kindda find it funny that ex con is a bad word.

 

[Disco94]

..this could be a long one...
Was working on an oil drilling rig back in the late 70's. I'd just hired out on a new rig, new crew, new driller(boss).
We were working morning tower (12 midnite to 8 am). It was 20 below zero and had about a 25 m.p.h. wind with it.
The driller decided that regardless of the conditions, the "A"-legs, which support the derrick, needed scrubbed. Since "I" was the "worm", low man on the crew, it was I that had to be hoisted, via a hoist line and harness, above the protective cover of the wind walls to scrub them.
I mixed 50/50 diesel and soapy water in a 5 gal. bucket and proceeded. But the scrub brush would freeze to the iron. I was making a mess and freezing my keester(sp) off.
I came down, and left the scrub brush hanging, frozen to the legs and went inside to defrost. The driller ask if I was finished. I said "Yes"...
He walked out, looked at the job and came back in to tell me to get my "arse" back in that harness and finish the job, or look for another job.
I went straight to my locker and started packing my clothes. Driller tells me if I don't finish the job, I won't have a ride home come morning. Being "Young 'n dumb", I muttered a "F you" and continued to pack my rags. I was bent over getting things out of the bottom of the locker when the attack came. He grabbed me by the hair(which I had a LOT of at the time) and was holding my head down, trying to kick me in the face, but the space was too tight for him to get a full swing in. Luckily for me, the tool rack was right beside the lockers. I managed to get my hands on a 24 inch pipe wrench, and went to work on his shins and feet. Didn't take him long to release his grip on my hair..
Of course, the other three crew members were his buddies, so I was challenged by all... In the words of Ron White, "I didn't know how many of them it would take to whip me, but I knew how many they were gonna' use."..
I managed to escape by useiing the pipe wrench for persuasion.
It was 3 am and the rig was over 40 miles from town, but I started walking. About a mile down the road sat another rig. I walked up on the floor, carrying my bag of clothes and asked for a ride to town come morning. As it was, they were shorthanded, and I was given a job. Got paid for 3 hours on the previous rig for that night, and the new driller gave me 8 hours for the same night, on the second rig.
That was definately the "ugliest" job termination that I ever endured. In fact, I think it was the "only" time I was ever 'fired'..

After reading this I now KNOW Hick is pretty raw. Anybody think he might have that Sherman fired up and loaded? I never had a bad firing/quitting but a guy I worked with at a Planet Smoothie in my high school days got fired for repeatdly smoking crack, yes... crack, before he came to work. Good ole' Joey.

 

[Puffin Afatty]

Although I didnt have anuthing particularly happen to me, I was at the mine when my Father fired a guy for drinking on the job.

It was UGLY, Dad and a drunk guy were about to start fighting and several other employees jumped in to subdue the guy, The drunk guy then hit 1 worker with a wrench and then the other 4-5 guys beat the tar out of the drunk guy and then took him to the Sheriff.

I knew this guy very well, and had been hunting and fishing with Him since I was 4-5 yrs old

He came back and appologized after He got out of rehab, but He took early retirement not returning to work. He still comes to hunt ducks once in a while, but hasnt drank since that day, 25 yrs ago.

 

[canibanol cannonball]

from one ex-con to another; did anyone feel the pipwrench in thier hands when they read Hick's story?

 

[rasta]

sorry brother,,,good luck,,,p,l,r

 

[dman1234]

About 7 or 8 yrs ago i was working for a printing company, the owner was a great guy, one of his salesman was the biggest jerk ever, the owner was meeting with the jerk to fire him although no one knew it at the time, myself and 3 buddies walk by the office just in time to see the owner standing on his desk his pants around his ankles pointing at his azz screaming " Now do you get it, kiss my azz, we laughed and laughed, i dont wanna see anyone lose their job but some folks just get what they deserve.