i got sacked for asking for a career break to look after my wife who'd just become wheelchair bound thanks to a simple operation gone wrong, plus i had a 2 year old to look after as well.
S##### F###s in corby northants.......this site supplys tescos, morrisons and sainsburys salad pots and sandwiches, if you knew how dirty the place was and how easy it is with little security to stop someone tampering with the warehouse stock of 90% of the ingredients you would never buy the items again.
I’m lucky enough to have never been sacked but was told a story about my granddad.
A bit low on details but the general gist of it was. Many years ago he was working at a factory that had a pretty awful safety record. There was an accident and he got electrocuted, he was the 10th person to get electrocuted there and only the 2nd to survive.
Understandably he needed a bit of time off to recover from this but as he wasn’t able to work he was given the sack and due to the employment laws back then there was nothing he could do about it.
Never been sacked but have walked out of two jobs.
The first was a cleaning position at a large store, they were showing me around the place so I knew where I would be cleaning, on the way around the store we went up an aisle and for some unknown reason there were three dead birds on the floor, (food and drink ailse) we then went into the staff canteen and there was a dead rat on one of the tables and more on the floor, nobody seemed to mind, I went for morning break and walked out.
Another was applying for a job as a cleaner, the description said I would be cleaning office buildings on a building site, fair enough. I got there and was sent to what I can only describe as a temporary wooden hut type thing, I sat down at this lage table full of work men all in hard hats etc
it was just a building site (they were building a factory at the time) and when I asked where and what I would be cleaning the foreman said there had been a mistake in the job description and handed me a hard hat and asked me if I was ok with heights pointing out the window of the hut over to an unfinished part of the factory three stories up.
Been sacked once, been "terminated" the second time.
The first was when I was 19 working for a well known cheap clothes company. I was contracted to work every Sat/Sun but she never actually told me that at my interview, so the Supervisor swapped my shifts a few times as she never knew either, so that went against me. Then I asked for a Sunday off when there was 14 other members of staff in so she sacked me. I then wrote a letter to the head office, they discovered the one that sacked me was in the wrong, so got offered my job back, but turned it down.
Second time was in 2009, and I used to work constantly 6 days a week, only ever had my holidays off, never phoned in sick etc, worked to the letter. Then there was a problem with the phones, I got blamed, stood up for myself then they terminated my contract on the Friday. But that manager there was an evil git, if anyone disagreed with him he fought tooth and nail to get rid of you. My husband worked there as well, and this manager had him in a disciplinary meeting the day before our wedding for no reason. He has now been "moved on" to another workplace, which is the last step before they get rid of him completely.
Companies these days won't give references beyond "Person X worked for us between date1 and date2". Because they don't want to be open to any litigation once someone has left a company, they won't make any subjective judgements ("they were very good/bad at the job") or why they left the company.
I was told by my company when they sacked me that they would not disclose the reason for leaving in any reference.
These days when people are working on contracts, temporary or fixed etc the whole concept of letting people go is different to where you are on a full-time contract.
At my company we only have a handful of people employed full time and actually on the companies books. The rest are all now contract staff employed by an independent agency. The advantage from the companies side is that as our business can be seasonal they can let staff go during the quiet seasons.
And when they do let those staff go, there is no obligation to give a reason, or to even give any notice.
There have been occasions where we have had to let staff go for other reasons...maybe they were just not up to scratch, maybe they had come from another branch and had problems, and head office had decided they should not be working for us as a result. But it was fairly common for those people to be either told at the end of the day on a Friday they were not required to come back, or for them to be contacted by the agency on Friday afternoon and told they were no longer required.
I know it's not really fair, but part of it is because our business involves not just cash handling, but also passports, and it is usually best not to tell people in advance that they will be let go and let them work notice.
And techhnically you are not firing them anyway, they are employed by an agency, and they are just being told they are no longer required by our company, but then it's up to the agency to re place them.
One was on a Christmas temp job at a well known video games retail store. I was getting on really well with all the staff, going on nights out etc, socialising with management and I was actually top seller in the 3 weeks before Christmas. The job was supposed to be till mid January but I'd be pretty much told that I was being kept on. However, unknown to me, but a lot of theft was going on that co-incided with the Christmas temps starting date. All the Christmas temps were called in on Christmas Eve and told by the area manager that we were all being let go because they couldn't determine who was actually stealing from the shop and we were asked to avoid the store for a few weeks while investigation was going on. We were then escorted to our stuff, had everything searched including our clothing and then we were escorted out of the store. It felt horrible and I was absolutely gutted because I loved working there.
I kept in touch with a lot of the staff there and it turned out it was actually the assistant manager stealing and he was caught a few months later. When they found out, the manager rang me up and asked me whether I'd be interested in going for a permanent position there but I already had another job.
The second time was working for a local travel company. I wasn't technically sacked from this job, but it felt like I was. I was originally hired as Maternity Cover and once again, when it was coming up to my leaving date, I was told I was being given a permanent post. However, I fell pregnant 2 months before my finish date, kept it quiet and then a week before I was due to sign my permanent contract, I fell ill with bad morning sickness (to the point of hospitalisation) and when I returned to work the following week they withdrew their offer of a permanent post and said my services would no longer be required and asked me to work 3 weeks notice. Then they filled my place with the bosses sister in law who had recently been made redundant from another company. I don't blame them really, they were a small company and I knew when I started they were very resentful of paying my predecessor maternity pay and they've given me good references since, but it still was hard for me to take at the time.
I was going to be sacked from my 2nd YTS placement when I was 17...but I handed in my resignation before they got to say it They tried to say it after, but there was an atmosphere of 'whatever' emanating from me that day
Not been sacked, but I almost walked out on a cashiers job at a well known supermarket. I was off-sick 4 weeks with a genuine illness with doctors notes and everything, then 4 months later, I was given a written warning for that. To top it all, the very next day, I was accused of losing £50 from a till from a few weeks before, when I fact I was the other side of the world at the time, on holiday (I even offered to show my passport with the exit/entry immigration stamps). Then they had the cheek to ask me why I was leaving at the exit interview, and even offered me a full-time job in a different department. Haha bloody idiots. Now happily working for another supermarket, 4 years and counting.
Yeah. I was in therapy and chronically shy and depressed so as part of getting some life expereicne I got a job in a pub so I could talk to my thereapist about how I was coping. I wasn't talking to customers very much and was just being v.awkard and then a drug dealer I'd met once or twice came in and gave me a note made out of velvet or something. I took it and soon after the landlord told me i wasn't coming upto scratch.
I got sacked last year, it didn't bother me. I was starting to fall out with the job anyway. They're a very big firm but I refused to fall in with the company ethos of believe in better because with out me there'd have been no better! I was just happy to turn up, do a good job and go home. But due to having the ability of free thought and questioning stupid decisions I got fired. Didn't bother me, I went freelance and now I only have to do a 2 day week to earn the same money. Daft thing is, this is as a sub contractor for said firm! :cool:
It all comes down to what's in their contract. If their contract states they can be searched then they would have been sacked for failing to obey a reasonable order. If their contract doesn't state it then they were right to refuse.
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You weren't Jabba the Hut in the bottom left here, were you?
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My boss called me selfish because I refused to work my day off.
I had worked whenever she wanted me to before. I had covered any shifts where people phoned in sick.
THis one time I said no. I had not had a day off in 14 days and I felt a cold coming on.
The head of dept at my uni had said to me the week before if I wanted to return he would happily sign the papers.
So I sorted that out and handed in my notice.
I was fired on my last day of notice for not turning up and they accused me of stealing(the day before) which wasn't true.
I tried so hard and felt like I was just slapped in the face in return.
The ****** didn't even have the balls to tell me face to face.
A bit low on details but the general gist of it was. Many years ago he was working at a factory that had a pretty awful safety record. There was an accident and he got electrocuted, he was the 10th person to get electrocuted there and only the 2nd to survive.
Understandably he needed a bit of time off to recover from this but as he wasn’t able to work he was given the sack and due to the employment laws back then there was nothing he could do about it.
The first was a cleaning position at a large store, they were showing me around the place so I knew where I would be cleaning, on the way around the store we went up an aisle and for some unknown reason there were three dead birds on the floor, (food and drink ailse) we then went into the staff canteen and there was a dead rat on one of the tables and more on the floor, nobody seemed to mind, I went for morning break and walked out.
Another was applying for a job as a cleaner, the description said I would be cleaning office buildings on a building site, fair enough. I got there and was sent to what I can only describe as a temporary wooden hut type thing, I sat down at this lage table full of work men all in hard hats etc
it was just a building site (they were building a factory at the time) and when I asked where and what I would be cleaning the foreman said there had been a mistake in the job description and handed me a hard hat and asked me if I was ok with heights pointing out the window of the hut over to an unfinished part of the factory three stories up.
The first was when I was 19 working for a well known cheap clothes company. I was contracted to work every Sat/Sun but she never actually told me that at my interview, so the Supervisor swapped my shifts a few times as she never knew either, so that went against me. Then I asked for a Sunday off when there was 14 other members of staff in so she sacked me. I then wrote a letter to the head office, they discovered the one that sacked me was in the wrong, so got offered my job back, but turned it down.
Second time was in 2009, and I used to work constantly 6 days a week, only ever had my holidays off, never phoned in sick etc, worked to the letter. Then there was a problem with the phones, I got blamed, stood up for myself then they terminated my contract on the Friday. But that manager there was an evil git, if anyone disagreed with him he fought tooth and nail to get rid of you. My husband worked there as well, and this manager had him in a disciplinary meeting the day before our wedding for no reason. He has now been "moved on" to another workplace, which is the last step before they get rid of him completely.
And yes she was a c**t.
I was told by my company when they sacked me that they would not disclose the reason for leaving in any reference.
At my company we only have a handful of people employed full time and actually on the companies books. The rest are all now contract staff employed by an independent agency. The advantage from the companies side is that as our business can be seasonal they can let staff go during the quiet seasons.
And when they do let those staff go, there is no obligation to give a reason, or to even give any notice.
There have been occasions where we have had to let staff go for other reasons...maybe they were just not up to scratch, maybe they had come from another branch and had problems, and head office had decided they should not be working for us as a result. But it was fairly common for those people to be either told at the end of the day on a Friday they were not required to come back, or for them to be contacted by the agency on Friday afternoon and told they were no longer required.
I know it's not really fair, but part of it is because our business involves not just cash handling, but also passports, and it is usually best not to tell people in advance that they will be let go and let them work notice.
And techhnically you are not firing them anyway, they are employed by an agency, and they are just being told they are no longer required by our company, but then it's up to the agency to re place them.
lol, no not me.
horrible place with no rules or regulations. there hr team stuck in the 1890's
Depends if it is in their contract that they have to submit to security checks.
One was on a Christmas temp job at a well known video games retail store. I was getting on really well with all the staff, going on nights out etc, socialising with management and I was actually top seller in the 3 weeks before Christmas. The job was supposed to be till mid January but I'd be pretty much told that I was being kept on. However, unknown to me, but a lot of theft was going on that co-incided with the Christmas temps starting date. All the Christmas temps were called in on Christmas Eve and told by the area manager that we were all being let go because they couldn't determine who was actually stealing from the shop and we were asked to avoid the store for a few weeks while investigation was going on. We were then escorted to our stuff, had everything searched including our clothing and then we were escorted out of the store. It felt horrible and I was absolutely gutted because I loved working there.
I kept in touch with a lot of the staff there and it turned out it was actually the assistant manager stealing and he was caught a few months later. When they found out, the manager rang me up and asked me whether I'd be interested in going for a permanent position there but I already had another job.
The second time was working for a local travel company. I wasn't technically sacked from this job, but it felt like I was. I was originally hired as Maternity Cover and once again, when it was coming up to my leaving date, I was told I was being given a permanent post. However, I fell pregnant 2 months before my finish date, kept it quiet and then a week before I was due to sign my permanent contract, I fell ill with bad morning sickness (to the point of hospitalisation) and when I returned to work the following week they withdrew their offer of a permanent post and said my services would no longer be required and asked me to work 3 weeks notice. Then they filled my place with the bosses sister in law who had recently been made redundant from another company. I don't blame them really, they were a small company and I knew when I started they were very resentful of paying my predecessor maternity pay and they've given me good references since, but it still was hard for me to take at the time.
why did you do that?
Once for computer hacking.
Once for LYING to get another job by saying I had never been sacked before.
Once for being on internet when should have been working (this was when internet was all new and shiny) I just couldn't keep off it!
Once for being lippy to a customer whilst working at a supermarket but I was only 16 at the time - although absolutely no excuse!
Not something I am particularly proud of.
It all comes down to what's in their contract. If their contract states they can be searched then they would have been sacked for failing to obey a reasonable order. If their contract doesn't state it then they were right to refuse.