LogFAQs > #961581645

Technically yes? But also technically no? It's complicated.

I've told the longer story before, but the short version is that I was the longest-tenured employee at a movie rental place during college. I had outlasted 3 managers, and 2 full rotations of the entire rest of the staff. Money started going missing from the store, and I figured out based on times, schedules, etc. that it was the newest manager who was stealing. So I took that information and went to the district manager. I was fired a week later on some bullshit completely fabricated customer complaint. Got a call about a month or so after from the regional manager telling me that the district manager had been working with several of the store managers in his area to steal a significant amount of cash from the company. They were all fired and, while I'm not 100% certain, I believe they were in the process of filing criminal charges. But the regional manager was trying to re-staff like 20 different positions, and by suggestion from the rest of my store's crew wanted to offer me the manager position for that location.

I was graduating from college and moving back home about 2 months later, and they didn't have a store closer to my home that I could transfer to, so I had to decline. Apparently he had actually heard glowing reviews of me specifically several times from previous managers over the ~2.5 years I'd been working there, and he seemed genuinely sorry about what happened and disappointed that I couldn't stay with them.

So yes, I was fired. But then it was rescinded and they offered me a promotion instead.