Current Events > I got fired yesterday cause of likely incorrect paper work.

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not to say work is degrading or anything. Cause thats not my view, I typically enjoy my job and Im very good at it.

But so many people leave money on the table or dont take advantage of every opportunity given to you by your employer.

people have a habit of giving 110% to their job and being okay with only getting 80% back.

I wouldn't say that leveraging a grace period to fuck around and watch some shows or stuff your face is an opportunity worth taking advantage of. You spent all your time asking if you could but you didn't spend any time asking if you should.

A few minutes late doesn't kill anyone. Management is always the enemy.

Stand with the workers always or you are never standing with them.

Showing up on time *IS* standing with the workers.

Your coworkers are the ones who have to take on your work when you decide to fuck around.

Showing up on time *IS* standing with the workers.

Your coworkers are the ones who have to take on your work when you decide to fuck around.

Another anecdotal story just prove that managements miscommunication has consistently been an issue and they dont put paper work in correctly.

if I win my appeal, Ill be the fourth person to win an appeal in this store in the last 3 years, second in the last 6 months or so.

with one management sent a job abandonment letter to someone without checking that they were on a leave of absence. (to be exact. his leave of absence got denied, and thus expired early but no one actually got in contact with him to tell it expired or got denied he only found out when he came home to a letter.)

No, 3 minutes doesn't destroy your co-workers.

And this is propaganda from the billion-dollar corporations who would rather see us fight one another than the true enemies that is them.

1. If youre scheduled to unlock the store for customers and are late, now someone else has to be pulled from their job to do yours, and get back to their own work.
2. If youre scheduled to give a presentation to an international client whose culture values promptness and can damage your relationship, but you show up late, now someone has to fill in for you.
3. If you have clients who made an appointment, and youre late, someone else has to take time from their client to greet your and get them situated.

1. I waited outside of a Target for 10 minutes until someone who was doing inventory finally opened the door. The poor guy bitched the whole way because the jerk didnt just disappeared and he had to take time from his own work.
2. We had to brief a Japanese colonel on how we were planning to maneuver our aircraft for a large air show that was coming in. The superintendent was late coming in so I had to do a crash on the slides and pretty much stall until he came walking in.
3. My wife makes her hair appointments months in advance. If she is late or a no-show, she would have to pay a fee. The girl she went to would regularly show up 15-20 minutes late. Another girl from one of the other studios would have to stop with her client, get my wife situated and then tend back to her own client. My wife finally moved on when she decided to loc her hair.

I don't think TC showing up late is what makes him a good or bad employee. I fuck around with my attendance too. It's more like the fact that TC is having several conversations with his managers over his attendance, and despite all that he's not learning his lesson and showing up to work on time. He's on his bosses radar and he's not wise enough to shape up for long enough to get off it. Instead of digging through the rulebook or cross referencing statements from his bosses so he could look for ways to sidestep his issues, he should have been trying to make the efforts to improve his attendance long enough for his bosses to overlook him. TC fucked around and he found out. Hopefully everything he's saying is true and he actually does have another job lined up though. It's still shitty he got fired, but the warning signs were there and TC ignored them.

And why I was late has nothing to do

1. If youre scheduled to unlock the store for customers and are late, now someone else has to be pulled from their job to do yours, and get back to their own work.
2. If youre scheduled to give a presentation to an international client whose culture values promptness and can damage your relationship, but you show up late, now someone has to fill in for you.
3. If you have clients who made an appointment, and youre late, someone else has to take time from their client to greet your and get them situated.

1. I waited outside of a Target for 10 minutes until someone who was doing inventory finally opened the door. The poor guy bitched the whole way because the jerk didnt just disappeared and he had to take time from his own work.
2. We had to brief a Japanese colonel on how we were planning to maneuver our aircraft for a large air show that was coming in. The superintendent was late coming in so I had to do a crash on the slides and pretty much stall until he came walking in.
3. My wife makes her hair appointments months in advance. If she is late or a no-show, she would have to pay a fee. The girl she went to would regularly show up 15-20 minutes late. Another girl from one of the other studios would have to stop with her client, get my wife situated and then tend back to her own client. My wife finally moved on when she decided to loc her hair.

You being late affects your boss less than it does your clients/customers and the people who have to pick up your slack.

This job doesn't seem like it's worth it. Management is horrible there.

Why you were late has everything to do with it, because it fills in details about what kind of worker you are, that we normally wouldn't have.

If you admit to being late atleast two times a month just to finish a TV show, then it leaves us to question what other silly reasons you may have been late for. It shows you don't truly value work, and shows that you're willing to try to cut corners for small things (such as "I want to finish this TV show), no matter what.

So, yes. Fair, next.

Holy rube goldberg. Why are you working for a billionaire that is stealing from you when you could be using that creativity to create some very interesting stories?

Long story short i work for a billion dollar business that has out of state HR. I was pulled in the office and fired yesterday for an attendance infraction. This came directly from HR. Basically my employee log states ive had multiple conversations about my attendance in the last 6 months.

But the actual conversations centered around my attendance have all either been good, or centered around a miscommunication that came from store level management. Which my direct mangers have all co-signed.

So now Im basically on standby for at least the next week while the appeal process goes through.

Holy rube goldberg. Why are you working for a billionaire that is stealing from you when you could be using that creativity to create some very interesting stories?

that really sucks Ive always believed certain companies try to fire people so they could keep the company profits.

I bet youre one of those smokers who sees nothing wrong with smoking half the shift while everyone else does your work.

I bet youre one of those smokers who sees nothing wrong with smoking half the shift while everyone else does your work.

and youre the employee no one actually likes to be around.

Ehhh its not really the company as much as it is most management is split 50/50 about if they have youre best interest in mind, and not even on some you vs the company shit, but actively choosing not to do little things they can and should be doing.

I wouldnt take the metrics of an organization where they dont care if you show up for work seriously.

They dont have clear policy or records. Who knows what your actual metrics were.

Why be stupid? Does it make you happy to be stupid?

lol

The amount of shilling people in this thread people do for companies is hilarious. If store leadership says there is a 5 minute grace period, you dont need to punch in on time. As long as its within 5 minutes, its fine. if anything, Id say people in this thread are jealous their workplace might not offer that.

I guess it depends on what your job entails. For my work, one employee being late directly impacts everyone else.

How many of the people mocking TC for supposedly not taking their job seriously enough were earlier in the topic mocking them because they assumed they worked at McDonald's or Wal-Mart?

The dude literally admitted he's late atleast twice a month because "I want to finish a TV show sometimes."

I mean, c'mon. That deserves atleast SOME scrutiny.

Why would it? Store management said there is a grace period so hes not late.

Why would it? Store management said there is a grace period so hes not late.

Boy hes been arguing me down about that whole situation and is still being disingenuous about it.

Store Mgmt don't know their ass from their mouth. All that's important is what the Corporate Policy is. A billion dollar company will have an attendance policy.

Id say people in this thread are jealous their workplace might not offer that.

So you think the store manager is the one who should be fired, right?

So you think the store manager is the one who should be fired, right?

And TC.

How many of the people mocking TC for supposedly not taking their job seriously enough were earlier in the topic mocking them because they assumed they worked at McDonald's or Wal-Mart?