sorry to hear that morbs, that stinks
― s1ocki, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
that sucks morbs, sorry to hear it.
still, free time in the springtime!
― laying | (goole), Monday, 6 April 2009 14:29 (fifteen years ago) link
:(
― prostitutes all over the place (k3vin k.), Monday, 6 April 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry dude
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry to hear it, Morbs -- good luck.
― WmC, Monday, 6 April 2009 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Yipes, sorry Doc. Shout at me.
― i'm warning you with peace and love but i have too much to do (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 April 2009 15:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Are you a cloud?
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 April 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Condolences Morbz - though as goole hinted it couldn't have come at a better time in the schedule
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 6 April 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
don't forget to photocopy your resume too, a la TKITH!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 6 April 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
and be sure to turn in yr wig
― the pains of being melissa joan hart (donna rouge), Monday, 6 April 2009 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
o no morbs. that totally sucks. damn. if we weren't cutting things right and left at our shop i'd tell you to look in about some freelance work, but we just ditched all our freelancers (some of whom had been working several days a week for years).
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, 6 April 2009 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
The Gray Lady has replaced em w/ robots?
Well, I made it home w/out having an Anna Karenina moment on the F train platform.
Of course, they disabled my office email before I'd gotten back to my desk. So cute.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Morbs, you thought of a place for drinking this evening yet? I'll bring the McDonalds salad.
― ian, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
who the fuck fires people on a monday?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 6 April 2009 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
aw morbs :( :( i buy u drink soon!
― tehresa, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
well, at least they didn't do it last Monday when I was on my "last vacation ever."
dunno yet ian, mayb the KY bar if I go out, i'll let you know.
I wonder if the freelancer who filled in for me for 3 days -- they had NEVER paid for that shit before -- convinced them I was dispensable?
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 6 April 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
there's no "replace" at all -- just, you know, "doing more with less."
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, 6 April 2009 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
sadly too true
― i'm warning you with peace and love but i have too much to do (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 April 2009 21:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Holy shit!
― too many misters not enough sisters (milo z), Monday, 6 April 2009 22:04 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry Morbz
― This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 April 2009 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry Morbs! Good wishes and hopes for a speedy turnaround. You are in my thoughts.
― Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Monday, 6 April 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
thanks, NPS.
well, it appears that because I got 3 weeks' severance -- excuse me, SEPARATION -- I can't file for unemployment till I get that check on the 15th. So I just wasted 45 minutes filling out the goddamn online application.
Time to go to the movies.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
only 3 weeks?? haven't you worked there for a while?
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 16:15 (fifteen years ago) link
4-1/2 years. That's pretty typical for US companies.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
shitty
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
so if my job is temporary (not through an agency, just came on as a non-perm employee) and is wrapping up soon, can i get unemployment?
yeah, i got the 'oh we need to start talking about references, prospects, and wrapping up your work for us' bit yesterday and now it's really hit me that i'm going to be unemployed soon :(
― tehresa, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
don't know how it works outside of Ontario but here you have to have worked a minimum number of hours to qualify, I don't *think* it matters if your job was classified as permanent or not..?? G'luck!! :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
You just have to have had wages in the "look back period" - even if you worked through a temp agency. They generally base your benefits on how much you made in that period.
― hormone mice in bikini paradise (sarahel), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw, tza. hit that linked in action!
― i'm warning you with peace and love but i have too much to do (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
ok. so it doesn't matter if i was aware the job would end and haven't found anything else yet?
― tehresa, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i think you're ok tza re: unemployment eligibility
also, companies aren't really obligated to give severance but 3 weeks for 4.5 years is super crappy, esp. in this job market. sorry, morbs : (
― velko, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
ask forks for advice. hope you're doing ok, forks
― prostitutes all over the place (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
wait, I thought forks didn't get fired.
― hormone mice in bikini paradise (sarahel), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
hey morbs if u get bored of unemployed NY, come see me and anni3 and we'll hit a giants game.
― 69, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i didn't but i'm told it's lolzy to pretend i did
― i'm warning you with peace and love but i have too much to do (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Aw Morbs, that sucks, I'm wishing you the best.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno about ny, but in texas if your 'fired' (terminated with cause) no unemployment benefits for you! I hope you were laid off instead.
Anyway, if you do get unemployment benefits, Obama is giving you an extra $25 a week. Won't go far in the city, but it's still an Andy and an Abe.
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Haha for a moment I'm like 'Andy and Abe? What the hell designer brews are those?'
― i'm shy (Abbott), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 18:55 (fifteen years ago) link
i posted my woes here even tho i didn't get "fired." I was laid off.
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:18 (fifteen years ago) link
My sympathies, Morbs. It sounds like your employers were chuckleheads.
― Event Horizon (Nicole), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:22 (fifteen years ago) link
sorry to hear about that, forks
hang in there bud
― brocktune (jeff), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
well, that's slightly better then.
― Zero Transfats Waller (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 7 April 2009 23:22 (fifteen years ago) link
VERY slightly
God, no unemployment after being terminated at all: sends a message that the employer doing the firing is absolutely "right", even in the moral sense. You were "bad", be punished. It can be a death sentence these days, you lose your health care, lose your home!
― Fog Fucking Hat (u s steel), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:13 (twelve years ago) link
btw, i did get fired from that job but it ended up being a good thing.
― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 11:58 (twelve years ago) link
I got fired once but I never felt so relieved in all of my life. It was like "no disrespect, if you can stand this shithole you're welcome to it!" It didn't hurt that my mom won a settlement right after I left, so I had a year's salary or more to live off of.
― Warner Bothers (u s steel), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:37 (twelve years ago) link
either going to get fired or resign, when shitty nazi boss rejoins our team next week. we'll see how we go.
― Ste, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link
^ same
line manager is ex city worker, small man syndrome, writes extremely aggressive long winded "official" emails asking me to only listen to my headphones during lunch hours and stuff like that. everyone listens to their headphones here.
current concern is my time management, i've been late a couple of days a week for the last few weeks. gf is going thru a horrendous grief process, things are a bit fucked up, tempted to just get signed off work for a couple of weeks.
anyway the annoying thing about all of this, is that i consistantly do about 5 times more work than anyone else. some aspects of the job are fairly mundane and i can kind of switch off and blast through my work at a ridiculous rate. this has saved our team from everyone doing lots of overtime on a number of occasions.
gah, anyway, feeling like you're about to get fired sucks. i'm sure things will sort themselves out.
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 21 June 2011 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know if I was on the verge of getting fired today, but I seem to have worked my boss's last nerve. :\
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Friday, 29 March 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
First, he got annoyed when he wanted me to crunch some numbers and compare it against another set he gave me and I returned the results to him in a different order, then he gave me another job where I had to dig through the email to figure out what was being asked for, and when I said that it was as difficult for me to find that info as it was for him to check the numbers, he went off on me. (All this happened over email, so I'm not looking forward to sing him today.)
― Leeena Dunham (Leee), Friday, 29 March 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link