Ok so I ate a great big green grasshopper...
I work, well, I DID work as a houseparent... at a group home for youths in crisis. Boys actually... Everyone knows how gross teenage boys are. They have the sickest sense of humor of any other age/sex.
So me, being female, and just over 30, and trying to relate to them? Not going to happen right? Wrong!
There I was outside monitoring the boys with my co worker while they play basketball and such, and suddenly theres this grasshopper flying around. My coworker starts freaking out yelling "kill it kill it!" I don't know what she was carrying on about... It was just a grasshopper. I'm just sitting back laughing at them . One of them starts trying to catch it and when he does another boy dares him to eat it. Disgusting, I know. Of course the boy says no, so they tease him and call him chicken. So I joke, and say "give it me, I'll eat it"
Stupid Stupid me, he called me on it. Said he KNEW I wouldn't eat it. so they all dare me to.. One even offers his play station 2 as a reward... Silly Silly boys. Stupid Stupid me.
I said " Pfffft I'm a country girl, I'll try anything once" So I picked up the grasshopper.... And I popped it in my mouth. PRETENDED to eat it. It was nasty so I turned my head and spit it out. Everyone has a laugh, even my coworker.
Next day I show up for my shift... and was asked if I'd eaten a grasshopper. I said..... " Yes I did" Well..... there I was...FIRED! For eating a grasshopper.
Well, I never knew you could get fired for what you eat... but there you have it.
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I would have fired you as well, those kids need structure and discipline in their lives. Not someone that doesnt know the difference between wrong and right, your an adult. Act like one!
If your kids get or have to get structured ,disciplined, instructed, by other people outside your house then I would fire you... Because you are not doing the job you are supposed to as a mom. where your kids know the difference between wrong and right because you have taught them at home... You are the mom/dad aren't you??? Whose responsability is it???
the.jew: My cousin show me how he eat concrete when I was very young. It not reason for try it after him. You have own brain, use it. Don´t thing that anotherone will do it.
I think there is a lot of over-reaction both with your bosses and with the other comments posted. I don't see what the great harm was.
WTF is with the first person to comment?
That's really stupid, however, employers can get away with a lot these days, and I think it's ridiculous. It's so hard and expensive to sue for discrimination or unlawful termination that it's possible for them to fire for anything.
Well, I never knew you could get fired for what you eat... but there you have it. Yeah i think so.
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