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i got a job at subway when i was 17 and lost it after 45 minutes including orientation because i couldn't cut bread. they put me straight onto the front desk and the first guy ordered a perfectly normal simple kind of sub, i don't remember what kind, and the manager gave me the nod so i got underway. i tried to cut the bread into a neat hinge to fit subway quality standards and my blade was wobbling and going all over the place and crumbs were spraying out and pouring onto my apron, the ingredients, even the new employee next to me and after about ten minutes of murdering this bread i burst into tears and ran away. the manager tracked me down in the cool room, told me she didn't think i was suited for this job and i agreed with her. at the bus stop on the way home a nerdy guy was trying to chat with me and i kind of sounded off about my "poor fine motor skills" on which i blamed the disaster. anyway he was by pure coincidence or possibly stalking ahead of me in line for indian takeaway later that evening and he greeted me with "hey, how are your, uh, fine motor skills tonight?" and i said "oh they're much better now". it was a shame because it was my first job not working for my family and i was legit pumped to be the best i could be and become a qualified sandwich artist. this was almost ten years ago and i've never entered a subway since please tell me about jobs you have lost through your own incompetence and inability to survive in the world
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oh and i lost a retail job once because my fingers were too long, my manager was chinese and she explained to me that back in china people with very long fingers like mine aren't allowed to do any heavy lifting (like boxes full of the stuff i had to sell) or manual labour in case their hands get damaged, instead they become professional violinists or whatever. for years i thought she was just looking for an excuse to sack me because i was terrible but then i found out it's actually a thing and she probably thought she was doing me a favour
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I only ever got fired from two jobs, one because some guy told the boss i was a pot head, even though i quit drugs about a year before I started working there, and the other because I did not suck the gay owner's dick.
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monkey posted:I only ever got fired from two jobs, one because some guy told the boss i was a pot head, even though i quit drugs about a year before I started working there, and the other because I did not suck the gay owner's dick. So you worked from home?
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i got fired for having a black eye while working in accounting as a temp and smelling like booze lol op is british, "sack" hey op im in london lets hook up monkey posted:I only ever got fired from two jobs, one because some guy told the boss i was a pot head, even though i quit drugs about a year before I started working there, and the other because I did not suck the gay owner's dick. you could have at least sucked the dick and then left
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i got sacked from a grocery bagging job after an altercation with a canadian air hostess. she'd ordered pitted olives and the deli staff had given her unpitted olives and by the time she found out what had happened the deli department was closed, so instead she marched up to my register and started throwing the olives at me. i know she was an air hostess because once i'd convinced her to calm down and stop throwing olives at me and tell me what the gently caress was wrong she started her rant with "i'm an air hostess and every time i'm in the country i come to this supermarket". anyway she kept demanding that i do something and i said all i could do was talk to the deli staff members the next day (as they'd all gone home) and that wasn't good enough so she tracked down the night manager and hauled him over to my register and demanded that i be fired. he told me to keep serving customers, so i was trying to work through this crowd of delighted drunk friday latenight shoppers while the air hostess raged in my ear trying to convince my manager to fire me for twenty five minutes (i timed it) and eventually i said "lady you are a loving lunatic" and she got her wish
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Drunk & Ugly posted:lol op is british, "sack"
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Avshalom posted:i'm in extremely rural australia oh gross edit get in the sack with isaac, he's out there somewhere Drunk & Ugly fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Aug 3, 2016 |
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Avshalom posted:i'm in extremely rural australia
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Avshalom posted:i'm in extremely rural australia how rural we talking? I used to live in Tennant Creek i hosed up my first job delivering pizzas when i was 17 because i couldn't drive. I had a provisional licence but my parents wouldn't let me own a car or drive theirs while I was living at home. basically i just did my driving lessons through this easy-rear end log book thing and didn't even sit a test at the end so i pretty much forgot how to drive after six months of not getting behind the wheel . anyway got this job driving pizzas around and lost it a couple hours into the first night because i was grinding the poo poo out of the delivery vehicle's clutch, stalled in the driveway twice and took ages to get any place.
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Well why didn't you practice cutting subway bread before you started the job? Failure is no excuse, just go get on welfare and do some drugs.
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Post those hands
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I worked in a hardware store in the door department, I was supposed to use a staple gun to attach cardboard "boxes" to the doors. My hand slipped and I fired a staple into my hand, the manager pulled out the staple with some pliers. A few months later I was about to go on vacation but then the manager told me that he had conveniently lost my "I'm going on vacation" request and so I had to work instead. The first thought that popped into my head was that I should injure myself in order to get off work, but I couldn't injure myself severely enough to ruin my vacation (e.g. a broken foot), and then I remembered that I'd already shown that I was incompetent with a staple gun, so I shot a staple into my wrist which pinned a tendon to the bone which hurt a lot and locked my hand in a weird position. The company sent me to the ER where they transferred me to a hospital with a hand specialist, and the hand specialist used a pair of sterilized vice grip pliers to remove the staple. Anyway, I got to go on vacation, but was fired after I got back from vacation for being a really lovely employee who couldn't even use a staple gun properly.
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Also I thought this thread was about American football and I was prepared to brag about the time in high school that I sacked the (other team's) quarterback.
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when i was 16 i slipped on a pierogi across the floor and into a stack of powdered sugar bags. i didn't quit or get fired but that's just something that's stuck with me.
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I have never been fired op. Once I went to work at the college bookstore really drunk. I guess I thought since I had worked high many times that it would be easy. It was not easy at all, it was terrifying. I couldn't remember poo poo people had said to me five seconds earlier and I had to really concentrate to not slur my words. I had plenty of interaction with my bosses as well, and there's no way they didn't notice, but they never said anything.
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I thought this thread was going to be about shakespearean drinks
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I got fired from my first job at McDonald's because I would leave the register open and my coworkers would steal from it.
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remember when subway used to cut a little u-shape out of the bread instead of slicing it??
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damnit wheres the description of scrotums I'm very disappointed to have read all of that
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wheres fandyien I want to make fun of him again for being given only 1 meatball in a subway footlong and then saying nothing, eating it and then making a passive aggressive thread about it.
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a hole-y ghost posted:wheres fandyien I want to make fun of him again for being given only 1 meatball in a subway footlong and then saying nothing, eating it and then making a passive aggressive thread about it.  realtalk what the gently caress
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ive only been awake for like 2 hours and ive already gone through a can of air lol
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dad gay. so what posted:ive only been awake for like 2 hours and ive already gone through a can of air lol and u wanna be my latex salesman. smdh
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dad gay. so what posted:ive only been awake for like 2 hours and ive already gone through a can of air lol
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dgsw's picked up a nasty canned air dependency since they laid him off at the cocksucking factory
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a hole-y ghost posted:welcome to the chilly cookoff that sounds good. or a chimichanga
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Every time I walk past the ace hardware i think of our fallen comrade dgsw, may he rest in peace.
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OctoberBlues posted:Every time I walk past the ace hardware i think of our fallen comrade dgsw, may he rest in peace. I was really gonna get a benny's chicken chimi today and then I saw I have a gay lunch meeting with homosexuals
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dad gay. so what posted:I was really gonna get a benny's chicken chimi today and then I saw I have a gay lunch meeting with homosexuals I walked past there last night and it smelled so good. I think I will go get the mediterranean food this weekend and maybe bennys next weekend.
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dad gay. so what posted:I was really gonna get a benny's chicken chimi today and then I saw I have a gay lunch meeting with homosexuals order the rainbow trout
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never been fired, only quit. it'll happen someday but being competent has its perks. twice asked to return as well
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:never been fired, only quit. it'll happen someday but being competent has its perks. twice asked to return as well I got fired from my first job as a busboy for huffing nitrous out of all the whipped cream things in the walk in freezer. the Italian boss guy said he was going to break a plate over my head if I didn't get out of his sight
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:never been fired, only quit. it'll happen someday but being competent has its perks. twice asked to return as well Oh, that reminds me there was a third time I got fired that I forgot about. The reason I got fired was for attendance records. My manager didn't give a poo poo what hours I worked as long as the work was done, and I'd automated most of my job so I would rock up at 2pm, click a few buttons, play a bit of quake and leave at 5pm most days, occasionally pulling an allnighter when it was needed. But then he left and the new manager looked at my timesheets and fired me but didn't realise that I did almost all the work in the department. 6 months later production had gone from 2 per month to 1 in 6 months, and I got the call from the big boss telling me that manager had been removed and asking what it would take for me to come back.
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dad gay. so what posted:I got fired from my first job as a busboy for huffing nitrous out of all the whipped cream things in the walk in freezer. the Italian boss guy said he was going to break a plate over my head if I didn't get out of his sight I'm getting tired of your boring lovely posts.
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notZaar posted:I'm getting tired of your boring lovely posts. what should I post?
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I quit doing anything but kept showing up when the higher ups hired a literal schizophrenic to oversee my department. After a year of this not only did they not fire me, they promoted me to run my own department!
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Kuato posted:I quit doing anything but kept showing up when the higher ups hired a literal schizophrenic to oversee my department. After a year of this not only did they not fire me, they promoted me to run my own department!
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