POLL: Have you ever been fired or laid off?

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Aug 4, 2022
12:05:51pm

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macdizzle

Previous username: mckaya
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Joined: Aug 31, 2010
Last login: Apr 18, 2024
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POLL: Have you ever been fired or laid off?

macdizzle

8/4/22 12:05pm

I was laid off in 2020. The board got rid of my CEO and all the C-level folks

macdizzle

8/4/22 12:09pm

Was the CEO on the board? Those must have been interesting board meetings

Hypnotoad

8/4/22 12:11pm

Yes. The Fall of 2019 when all of it was happening was one of the craziest

macdizzle

8/4/22 12:45pm

My dream for my entire career has been to get laid off (with severance) the day after I receive a good job offer. It has

Clark Addison

8/4/22 12:17pm

Been there/done that...and it is an awesome feeling. I anticipated the layoffs

m0resn0w

8/4/22 12:47pm

There are few things better than getting double paid. I think with mine I

macdizzle

8/4/22 12:50pm

First Job out of college was with Arthur Andersen doing consulting work - no

crack

8/4/22 12:10pm

RE: First Job out of college was with Arthur Andersen doing consulting work - no

CougieMcCougFace

8/4/22 12:22pm

Sorry to be petty on a side point of your OP, but . . .

AingeEraCoug

8/4/22 12:48pm

Thanks. That is a tidbit of info I didn't know.

crack

8/4/22 12:56pm

Not yet, but I'm considering it.

John Doe

8/4/22 12:11pm

deja-blu called and gave me the bad news

Sea Chicken

8/4/22 12:14pm

RE: deja-blu called and gave me the bad news

deja-blu

8/4/22 12:17pm

RE: deja-blu called and gave me the bad news

Sea Chicken

8/4/22 12:19pm

RE: deja-blu called and gave me the bad news

deja-blu

8/4/22 12:20pm

RE: deja-blu called and gave me the bad news

Sea Chicken

8/4/22 12:47pm

RE: deja-blu called and gave me the bad news

deja-blu

8/4/22 6:59pm

I take credit for introducing you to your wife. You would think that would be

deja-blu

8/4/22 12:29pm

Laid off several times, never fired but probably deserved it at least once

Busiturtle

8/4/22 12:17pm

I was laid off in 2001

Belboz

8/4/22 12:27pm

Once when I was 50, once when I was 60, and once when I was 70.

Florwood

8/4/22 12:30pm

Startup, started with AMAZING opportunity of deferring our paycheck for equity,

BYUFootballisBack

8/4/22 12:31pm

My job previous to this one, I left and a month later they laid off like 60-75%

BYUFootballisBack

8/4/22 12:32pm

what a pathetic CEO

NacoCoug

8/4/22 12:36pm

Sahara?

touchdownbyu

8/4/22 1:37pm

BYUFootballisBack

8/4/22 1:38pm

This sounds almost exactly like what happened to me at Sahara Development

touchdownbyu

8/4/22 3:39pm

I got myself fired at ShopKo when I stopped showing up for work

cougarblue

8/4/22 12:32pm

Yes. One week there was a department-wide meeting about our company’s struggles…

DC15

8/4/22 12:38pm

Laid off as part of the post 9/11 slump in mid 2002. I worked for a bank in 2008/2009 and there were weeks where I was

Clark Addison

8/4/22 12:39pm

Does it count as layoff if you leave before they ask you to?

Dr T-bone

8/4/22 12:41pm

As a 16 yo I was fired from Lagoon for stuffing another employee

SJS

8/4/22 12:43pm

I was fired, but the refused to tell me why.

TheHop

8/4/22 12:43pm

Laid off in 2019 - Company was purchased and new CIO was in India

mncstr

8/4/22 12:44pm

My position was "eliminated" along with a few other positions in my department

thewaterboy

8/4/22 12:49pm

Laid off from first job, but not only talked my way out of it...

UCLACoug

8/4/22 12:52pm

Laid off from 2 companies. One time was a restructuring and I was told I could

Jeff Spicoli

8/4/22 1:07pm

Oh...thought of another one (kinda) aside from the one I referenced above.

m0resn0w

8/4/22 1:13pm

My layoff only lasted 4 days before I got recalled.

LaserCoug

8/4/22 1:20pm

I was told I needed to accept a transfer to Chicago and I turned them down and

Fdnman

8/4/22 1:33pm

Worked for a little franchised printshop that went through an ownership change

CougarGM

8/4/22 1:42pm

I once got hired as a dishwasher. In the interview I mentioned I wasn’t avail

downtownchrisbrown

8/4/22 2:45pm

RE: I once got hired as a dishwasher. In the interview I mentioned I

CougarGM

8/4/22 2:52pm

Fired from McDonald's when I was 15; laid off once from a seasonal job.

Pro Logic

8/4/22 2:18pm

Contract not renewed — kind of like being fired. Two women didn't like that I made more than them.

lightmann

8/4/22 2:50pm

I was laid off from a job as a meat cutter at a Meat Packing plant.

85fan

8/4/22 6:10pm

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