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Searching for change in The Futon of Love
Posted by on April 09, 2008

In all the firing stories, and all the posts, and every bit of silliness and outright stupidity I've commented on, I've always kept an eye on my own clock. Guess what? I'm moving on too, after 444 posts at Simply... read more

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Fired For YouTube Video

Avatar planetchad submitted 108 days ago
I had been working off and on for three years as a sub in the third-largest school district in the state. A couple of months ago, I put a video on Y read more

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Ok so I ate a great big green grasshopper...

Avatar darn_the_luck submitted 137 days ago
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 read more

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Fired for being ON TIME!!!

Avatar Moaneekwa submitted 140 days ago
Okay...so, I had only been on the job 3 weeks. Staying late, coming in early and yatta yatta.

So, one day, the power goes out, my alarm clock is d read more

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Didn't See That Coming

Avatar chewedupandspitout submitted 124 days ago
"Can you come in the office with Tom and I? Please shut the door behind you."
"We've made an offer to hire Tim Smith. He's going to start the read more

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Waiter Fired For Myspace Blog... *Fake "witness"*

Avatar momentsinfrailty submitted 99 days ago
I was recently fired from my job a few weeks ago because of a blog posted on a private account on myspace this was also followed by a conversation r read more

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Wasn't technically fired, but....

Avatar JerryC submitted 127 days ago
I was a Consultant and was told the project ended due to a reorganization (transfer of the division to another department that didn't budget for my r read more

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Don't be a hero

Avatar Disgruntled submitted 108 days ago
The next time your boss tells you to report an employee stealing from the company think about this:
I and several other employees compl read more

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Forced to quit/was told I was to be fired anyway

Avatar kimmers1970 submitted 105 days ago
I am a Christian, I worked for Group Health Cooperative of Southern Wisconsin and was sent an email from a higher up supervisor instructing me that i read more

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Fired for what they say was "Dishonesty"?!?!

Avatar vicky_mosqueda submitted 102 days ago
Ok so I worked part-time with an after school club. One day another co-worker came up to me while we were at work and told me that the summer schedul read more

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Fired for trying to protect co. from lawsuit...or was that the real reason?

Avatar FlamelessCandle submitted 97 days ago
As an HR Generalist at a local behavioral health company I became aware that an employee was physically threatened by another employee. For those of read more

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