Fired

[Mr. Smithers]

I suppose this is the right thread?

Well, few months back I was fired. I sold tickets at an amusement park in a booth.

When my shift was almost over, I had an argument with a woman who supposedly said I didn't give her the right change. I even showed her the transaction on the register computer and her receipt still matched. But I knew that my manager was going to believe her more than me. When my shift was over I completely ignored her and told her that my working hours are over and if you still have a problem with this, report it. I just went about my business.

I went on a week long Vacation the next day. When I got back home, I was told to come into work the next day if I could. When I showed up, the woman reported me and she said that I called her hurtful names and all of that, which I never did. She also claimed that I made fun of her clothes which I never did. But side from that, they told me to write down what happened. I did. The next day they told me I was fired. I told my sister first and she said that they should have never done that. I agreed. With no warning or anything.

So my question basically is, did I get fired for a good reason or not?

[ThatCanadianGuy]

No; I think they were just covering their own asses. But good riddance anyways, go find a job that's better than that, I'm sure there are places that don't treat employees like shit; which they did to you here. I'd say don't even try to "argue" with them and get the job back (unless the wages were GREAT, which I doubt) just accept it and get a new job somewhere better.

[Hyper]

No; I think they were just covering their own asses. But good riddance anyways, go find a job that's better than that, I'm sure there are places that don't treat employees like shit; which they did to you here. I'd say don't even try to "argue" with them and get the job back (unless the wages were GREAT, which I doubt) just accept it and get a new job somewhere better.

Yes places like that have no reason or willingness to value their employees so if theres any chance you did something worth firing you for, they won't blink or trouble themselves, they'll just fire you.

[Zephyr]

As said, they're just covering their asses. They don't care about the employee's side of the story, believe me.

One time my friend Mel (who used to work with me), got fired because a customer's debit card payment showed up twice on their bank statement even though it showed up on our visa report as having been ran just once... the lady called the store raging pissed and demanded that Mel be fired or she was never coming back to the store again. So my boss fired her to save the company money so that the customer would return.

My boss was about to fire me before I quit because she scheduled me closing really late one night, then coming in very early to open the next (only 6 or 7 hours between the shifts), as well as there being a fund raiser (which she never taught me how to do), and she got pissed off because of my performance even though I got hardly 5 or 6 hours of sleep so I was a little slow moving and quiet since I was so tired and was never trained to do fund raisers. So the ladies doing the fund raiser complained about me, andmy boss wouldn't stop bitching about that morning to me for a long time, so lo and behold, 2 months later I quit right before I got the ax because she wanted to keep those ladies business.

So as you see, it happens all the time.

A good reason?
For corporate greed.

A bad reason?
Very on all other aspects.

[Mr. Smithers]

I am glad that so many people can relate to that.

But it was so hard telling my Mom that I was fired. We had to go to the movies just to change the mood.

But I have a better job now. Thank you all for your input. :)