I applied for a warehouse job and the interviewer loved me and my resume and said I was hired, I just had to fill out a basic literacy test. I was studying at university so it was a silly thing to ask but he said it’s just a formality; they have to do it.
One question said “describe yourself in three sentences”. I wrote something like “I am very punctual. I enjoy stacking boxes. I’m a self starter. I always do more than asked.” Get it? It’s four sentences but they asked for three. The fourth one being about doing more than asked. Funny right?? Yeah the interviewer called me back saying head office didn’t find it funny and I was disqualified for failing the literacy test.
I figured I dodged a bullet because it must suck to work for a bunch of people without a sense of humour!
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There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery.
Martin Fowler has a pretty good collection of these.
You failed the order following test.
That’s exactly what happened.
Reminds me of the places that make you take a “can you recognize basic employee norms and sufficiently lie about your personal life to your manager?” tests
You mean fill in the wrong bubbles so you sound like you don’t have what personality defect you have tests?
That’s the one!
Come on, that’s objectively funny, and if someone was properly manager-brained they’d just think “Ah, squeeze some more outta that one”. Lame behavior on every front
I think they wanted people who follow orders to the dot, not people who have a sense of humor. Sounds like a terrible place to work, but I still understand their reasoning.
Those people would have also fired you for failing the question because you weren’t fired, you just weren’t hired. I wouldn’t necessarily expect them to have a sense of humor but they’re basically saying you’re illiterate because you can write 4 sentences instead of 3, instead of just being honest about the fact that they’re gonna micromanage you and they can already see it won’t work out because you don’t follow stupid rules to the letter.
Maybe writing two sentences would have been more than asked, since it would have been more concise. Who knows. I’m sorry that happened to you.
It’s hard for me to imagine this not being Amazon. That’s ridiculous.
They simply decided that intelligent person will get super bored in this position and will not perform well.
I refused to return to office.
I might be about to get fired for that one too lol
You’re my hero.
If return-to-office announced at an all-company at my work, I’m putting in my two weeks in the chat and on our all-company slack channel.
My place isn’t shitty enough to do that (I hope) but I’ve got a lil write-up in the works to copypaste immediately in the event they are. I’m curious as to if it would inspire anyone else to leave, too.
I hope you don’t have to go back to the office, but you’re exceptionally based if you refuse.
A hero
lol
Not actually fired, but I just resigned from a relatively high paying career position without something lined up.
I work in tech, and some parts of that market are very much in flux due to AI disruption. For this company it led to a shuffle and, in my opinion, a lot of people ending up in roles they shouldn’t be in.
A few things happened during that shuffle. First, I was overlooked for a promotion that otherwise seemed in the bag (to the point where others were equally confused). Ultimately the person who ended up as my boss really should not be where they are. They don’t understand the business and started making other bad decisions without even consulting the team of experts on hand. In fact, they apologized to me for “starting off on the wrong foot”, but the damage was largely done, and they kept making really bad calls anyway – calls which put the team constantly at risk and kept things very inefficient.
And yes, of course they are good friends with the new CEO.
That exacerbated a lot of issues we already had with constantly juggling tasks and chronic understaffing. After that promotion snub, plus being one of the few really holding things together anyway, I realized that the stress of the position entirely outweighed the stress of finding another job. Obviously I also felt like upward mobility was no longer a thing. I was dreading work every morning. I started to get really bad anxiety. I wanted to find something else, but my mental state was such that I didn’t have the drive to seek alternatives or interview while also working at this place. I asked to reduce my weekly workload for a while, and when it wasn’t working too well, I asked to go on leave to try and combat the burnout. New boss was instantly waffling on approval, so I felt I had no other realistic option but resignation.
My wife and I are in a pretty secure financial position, and she’s got her own job that is going well. It is the first time in my life I have resigned from a position without anything lined up, which admittedly does feel weird. Taking some time for better mental health, then to hone a few skills, then will be returning to market.
Took too much unlimited PTO. All of it approved too. Idk.
The unwritten rule of unlimited PTO is like 2 weeks max but you’re gonna get the side eye if you even take that much. It’s just a scam because most people use less when it’s ‘unlimited’ and because depending on local laws they may have to pay you out for it in the event of separation of employment if it’s accrued.
I have a company that truly does mean unlimited PTO (with some rules of like okay come on don’t take 2 months off in a row or something crazy regularly), but I admit that is not the norm
Sounds like you work for a unicorn!
Oh I do, and it’s failing! Because of course it is! I expect them to be out of business within the year. (Currently job hunting and no matter what it’s going to be a step backwards back into corpo America)
Sorry to hear that. The biggest downside of unlimited PTO is that you aren’t owed any PTO. So if you quit or they go out of business, you don’t get anything paid out like you normally would.
Tbf if they go out of business youre probably not seeing any of that anyway
You mind sharing what they do? It’s a bummer they’re failing, there need to be more companies that try new things like unlimited pto. I’d love to just go on a hike spontaneously without having to feel bad
I would have liked it to be written! I may have dodged a bullet.
Bug in the new point-of-sale software that the managers couldn’t fix caused a small (under $200) sale to not process correctly. Was terminated for money mismanagement. Mgmt was so incompetent that they lost one of their best sellers, and ended up paying me unemployment through the lockdown because they couldn’t defend the termination to the unemployment office.
Sounds like an issue with the testing team really…
Bold to assume that important software gets tested…
All software gets tested. Some is just tested before release.
I can’t even begin to justify that even if you were the one to write the bug in the first place.
If it wasn’t clear, we were the retail users of the software. I was the one making the sale and taking the payment.
Which makes it even more absurd
I had a panic attack at work and a coworker heard me cursing through tears.
In fairness, I’m sure hearing variations on “fuck damn ass piss shit fuck fuck” over and over was annoying.
Man, fuck that coworker. I’m sorry that happened to you.
🥰 I got a better paying job after that - only downside is the commute.
How trash of a person must you be to
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see someone at work having an obvious panic attack and instead of helping, “giving them out” (if it can even be called that in this case) to your boss
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fire someone after the previous cunt told you about a coworkers panic attack
I hope both of them learn what it feels like to be human someday and they won’t be able to sleep for it
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Now we need to see the pic
No can do Elon. I mean, random Internet person.
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Send me the fucking jail for the paperwork I signed saying I wouldn’t do it again. Lol.
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Lol that said I’m deleting this shit.
I started a job at a regional bank on a team that was responsible for integrating the data from newly acquired banks into their systems. The team was overworked and definitely needed more hands on deck, but they didn’t have time to train anybody new on the process. Aside from that, the organization of the team was pretty poor.
When I started, they seemed unaware that I was supposed to be starting that day, so they didn’t have a desk or anything ready for me. So that first day was a bit of a wash. The second day, they put me at a desk on the floor above the rest of my team. That was also the only time that I met the manager who hired me. It seemed like people mostly forgot about me because I didn’t really get any work assigned until a couple weeks in.
They wanted me to make one of their mapping documents (which appeared to be a SQL statement copied into a Word document with every detail meticulously documented across twenty pages). I didn’t have any idea where to start with it. The next day, they said that there is no way I could do that without training, so they took the assignment away. Over the next couple of months, I’d bring up that I didn’t have anything to work on at every morning meeting. But other than that, I just spent my day editing Wikipedia articles.
Eventually they keyed in on the fact that they were paying me $90k per year to do nothing, so they fired me. They said it was probably their fault for hiring somebody without banking experience. I don’t think banking experience would have helped.
Oh yeah, and the meeting where I was fired was also where I found out that the person firing me was my team lead.
I once was working as an apartment maintenance guy for a property in Colorado. During the interview I made it clear that I wasn’t looking to move into a high responsibility role immediately and that I wanted to spend some time familiarizing myself with some more specific types of repair before going into any sort of management track. The interviewer seemed to like that answer given my previous experience and resume and I was hired.
A few months later, I made a mistake because I was asked to take a tech from the local utility around to every single unit on the property. Originally the property manager told me I’d have three days to do the work, but I was pressured to do it faster so that the tech could make a flight to his next job. We were installing batteries in water meters, which required the unlocking and opening of water heater closets on resident balconies. The residents did not have a key to their closet and were not allowed access. The closets did not use doorknobs either. They were held shut by the deadbolt locks. That night a storm rolled in. The resident called the on call service complaining that the wind was blowing the door open, but the on-call tech told them to put something in front of the door to keep it shut and that we would be by in the morning to lock the deadbolt. They didn’t do as they were asked and their pipes froze, causing a flood in the unit below them.
Later that day, I was asked to hand over my keys. As I was getting them detached from my personal keys, the property manager told me that she felt that she was “sold a bill of goods” that I hadn’t lived up to and that she had hired me because i had looked like “management track material.” I told her that in the interview with the maintenance manager I said that I wanted a learning experience and that I wasn’t ready for management. I told them I had never lied to them and left the property.
A week later I had applied for and was interviewing for a new job at another property. My phone rang during the interview. I silenced it and apologized to the interviewer but carried on. After the interview I listened to the voicemail that my old boss had left. “When we offered you the job I had you mixed up with someone else. We hired the wrong person.”
My phone rang during the interview. I silenced it and apologized to the interviewer but carried on. After the interview I listened to the voicemail that my old boss had left. “When we offered you the job I had you mixed up with someone else. We hired the wrong person.”
They called you and said that because they were being blamed for something on their end and it was going to make them feel better to say you should never have been hired. They didn’t make a mistake, they’re just trying to make themselves feel better. You did fine and you got a good learning experience while you were at it!
Oh for sure. I no longer work in that industry and am much happier. I fix wheelchairs for a living now.
I finally made a vague comment pushing back against my boss’s fucking unhinged conspiracy theories and shitty beliefs after being forced to hear him spout it for nearly a year.
“Wow, Wayne. I thought you were against the government regulating what people should do with their bodies. Huh… but okay.”
He turned purple, didn’t talk to me for the rest of the day, and never put me on the schedule after that.
Their entire business closed down a few months ago. I feel bad for were the ladies working there & my one co-worker. They were all part of the same church/religion, and they all basically cowered before Wayne. Wayne was an asshole who treated them all terribly. He was just mad that I didn’t let him treat me the same way.
They also didn’t want to give me more than 18 hours per week or raise my pay up from 12$ an hour for the highly specialized job I was doing.
Good riddance, Wayne.
Must… maintain… illogical… cognitive dissonance… 🤯
“Rules for thee, but not for me!”
Oh man this the thing that pisses me off so much. It became so abundantly clear during covid. “Stay inside and maintain social distance everyone, while I have my cocktail party chortle chortle”
Worst part of this too is when they get COVID and its the most mild case ever, cementing their shitting attitude about it being a “cold at worst.”
Nah. This dude literally had a “mysterious heart attack” during the pandemic and never connected the dots. He survived. Literally blamed it on people who were “vaccine shedding”.
Him and his wife also lamented on how many friends of theirs had died during covid, but always found an excuse to blame literally anything else but the pandemic.
Guy went so far as to make fun of a man who came into the shop wearing a mask. The man’s wife was battling cancer at home.
The owner was an alcoholic. Her husband sent her to rehab. She came back hating men (both me and her husband). My wife worked for them at the time and we were getting a divorce. She fired me and kept my wife on the payroll
Refused to turn up to an unpaid yet compulsory training session while on my probation period. I think I dodged a bullet.
I once was fired for being a top performer but being a contractor. Me and another guy were doing 45% of all the IT help desk work for a top American insurance company. Then one day th company that employed us had their contract terminated. This means that we were asked to leave. In the exit interview I asked if it was performance based, because I felt we did most of the work, they complemented my performance and even noticed that I was the best at making coffee but they had to start making better financial choices and we were welcome to apply for full time work with the company.
Funny how it worked out because the next job was the one that really put me into the career position.
So I have to say that sometimes bad things happen when it’s not your fault but it can be a blessing in disguise. You might be opening a door to something better.
Feel like I’m about to end up in the same position myself. Luckily I can back myself as I really wouldn’t like to be an employee at this place I’m contracting for.
A decade ago working at a retail store. My manager told me in a private meeting that i was expendable and he would fire me for any excuse. It’s not like i even did anything, it was just pure, spiteful power tripping. Later on i was bitching about what an asshole he is to some coworkers, and mimed him sucking the owner’s dick. I think one of my coworkers was sleeping with him, and i guess she told him. He was crying when he fired me. I feel a little bad, but also fuck that guy.
Imitation is often the best form of flattery
Technically, I was laid off and not fired, but here’s what happened: I intended to take five weeks of unpaid COVID leave in 2020 so that I could handle childcare until my wife’s Summer break started, but they laid me off two weeks in. I guess I just made myself an easy target. Fortunately, a previous employer hired me back within a few weeks, fully remote.