Poll of the Day > When you get fired do you get terminated immediately?

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Or do they let you finish off you remaining shifts.

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Depends on the job. Most of the time, I think you just leave immediately, though
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Ive never been fired but every time I ever worked with someone who got fired they found out and were terminated on the spot.

Usually for some stupid shit they did.

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I worked a job where they literally heli'd you out in the morning and usually only told you a few hours beforehand lol.

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I think most people that get fired wouldn't even finish their shift if the company told them they could. The awkwardness of that sounds awful

It depends but most of the time, for lower positions, it's immediate. A lot of the reason why you got fired 'on the spot' is things like terrible work ethics, stealing, and the like so they're not going to pay you for sub-par work or have you work KNOWING you have incentive to steal literally everything you can or whatever. Higher-up positions usually get a notification but that's also largely because they have things/responsibilities that need to be put to order so your final shift will be dealing with that before leaving (and they may ask you to leave early if you finish early).

Basically, if you get fired, they want you gone ASAP. But if you have responsibilities that 'possible' may get pushed back a bit.

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The minute you are fired you are expected to start gathering your things and leave.


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Around here, if you were fired with cause you're generally walked off site then and there, no severance pay.

If you're laid off (terminated without cause) they have to give 2 weeks notice or 2 weeks severance pay. Severance pay is by far the more common option but I have heard of people being given 2 weeks notice if the business is shutting down, for example.

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The only person I've ever seen actually fired in any of my jobs was escorted off the premises by security out of nowhere because he was fired for aggression towards another employee

If you're fired you only have time to pack up your stuff and go through the door. Some people that try to make a scene would be escorted by security. A girl got fired once when I worked at the bank. She got called into a meeting in the morning and we had already heard she was getting fired. Less than an hour later she was going out with a big box of all her stuff.

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it depends where you work and the circumstances of your firing. at white-collar jobs you'll probably get put on a 'performance improvement plan' or something like 6 months before they fire you, unless you did something heinous or its a mass layoff

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I got fired once. The owners walked in and told me they would be working my shifts from that point on and were letting me go. And it was right there it happened. I was in the parking lot minutes later.

Zangulus posted...

He was utterly useless anyway. But he was high up in the company.

I mean, how often does that go hand-in-hand?

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Most employers want to remove the employee immediately just to prevent any sort of problem. So 95 times out of 100 this is how it is done, this gets more problematic with firing people in higher positions though.

Most companies fire people on a Friday because it has shown to cause less problems.

EvilMegas posted...

The minute you are fired you are expected to start gathering your things and leave.

Either that or they escort you out and mail you your things

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Depends on the job and the reason for termination.

usually if its a lay off type of situation where the business is closing or moving or whatnot they dont terminate people immediately.

if its someone being fired for cause then only the most desperate or stupidest of employers would keep the person on after giving them notice. Much better to just pay them severance or even for the additional time they are supposed to work to get them out of there so they dont do anything damaging or vindictive.

if its just a general not for cause but not exactly a lay off then it depends but it would be better off for an employer to not keep around a potential viper cause you never know how someone will react.

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immediately. the concern is that you'll snap harm someone

What if you lied on your application about having a misdemeanor of felony?

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Usually you are expected to leave immediately upon notice. Some places do it at the beginning of a shift, others at the end.
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Nah they're paying you the rest of the shift anyways.

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Im sure any company would be fine with you to keep showing up and working for free. Its good business practice to allow the deranged to do unpaid services within a corporation.

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Zangulus posted...

Safety Director. Also, lawl. The idea that simply because a person is high in the hierarchy means they can't be useless...

Oh I know. I joined the safety team at my own work, thinking vague thoughts as to how I might make a difference, or at least upkeep on the better practices, but all it did was give me a frontrow seat on the crummy practices by the upper management. "We have a 10k budget for repairs. No, 11k, No, we just went over every month for the past year, so it doesn't matter." "I don't want to spend the actual price on this simple repair, so I will spend a fraction so many times on complicated workarounds that I've actually spent more money overall by the time the one issue is even halfway resolved." "Here, have more signs that are unhelpful and don't actually give the information customers need."

Gods, my head...

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