Signs You're getting fired and reasons for being fired

I wont get into too much

by Mezz (King Kong, 1026 Points) on 3/9/10 at 11:29am

I wont get into too much detail, but once a conversation had gone down like this between someone that had been recently hired (2nd week) and my boss

After looking at some of the person's work
Boss: Why would you even do that?!?
Employee: I was trying to...well, its not my specialty
**Some hardcore grilling continues for a few minutes**
Boss: Here, we work hard... its sink or swim
Employee: I understand
Boss: Do you, really?!
**Long pause**
Employee: Do you want me to come in tomorrow?
**Silence**

Was packed up and out within 10 minutes. No more words were exchanged. Guess thats the best sign you can get. There was also some crying involved. BTW, this was at an HF.

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Mezz wrote: There was also

by adapt or die (Orangutan, 282 Points) on 3/9/10 at 11:44am

yikes,... I'm wondering what the work involved specifically

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If the person bombed out that

by Anthony . (Neanderthal, 2961 Points) on 3/9/10 at 11:51am

If the person bombed out that fast it is more of a reflection on the management for hiring someone who wasn't right for the job than anything negative about the person.

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Rumors start floating that

by MezzKet (Gorilla, 590 Points) on 3/9/10 at 12:10pm

Rumors start floating that you're "leaving" (unbeknownst to you) and some idiot decides to call and wish you good luck on your departure and asks where you're going... clearly you answer in amazement and get the idea that the rumor was improperly passed, you're actually getting canned...

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I got fired from the same

by Edmundo Braverman (Neanderthal, 3984 Points) on 3/9/10 at 12:15pm

I got fired from the same firm a number of times. I'd get a call a couple days later and my boss would scream at me for not being at work. It became a sort of running joke.

The time I knew it was for real was when I showed up to work one day and two security guards were waiting at my office.

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AnthonyD1982 wrote: If the

by Mezz (King Kong, 1026 Points) on 3/9/10 at 12:23pm

Ya, the employee just wasn't ready for the pressure.

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Trader (while on phone with

by rooster (Orangutan, 337 Points) on 3/9/10 at 12:29pm

Trader (while on phone with client): “My wife is on line 3 I’m jammed tell her I’ll call her back”
TA: “That’s not what I was hired to do”
Trader: “Pick the fuckin phone up and tell her I will call her back”
TA: “You can call her back when you’re done”
Trader (to client on the phone): “Can you hold”
Trader (to wife): “Sorry honey, I was busy making arrangements for us to go out to dinner tonight…yeah…our new intern is having his last day and he got me a gift card with all the money he made selling porn videos of him fucking himself in the ass…mhm…I’ll tell you later…ok bye bye”
Trader (to TA): “Go get me a sandwich and never come back.”

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Beef wrote: Edmundo, that is

by Edmundo Braverman (Neanderthal, 3984 Points) on 3/9/10 at 1:20pm

The earlier times were for things I would chalk up to excessive ridiculousness (coming in drunk from the night before, looking like I dove on a wrinkle grenade to save the whole office because I'd slept in my clothes, being a horse's ass during IPO dog and pony shows, etc...).

What got me fired for good was something really bad that I did. I'm not willing to go into it. Suffice it to say I was lucky that getting fired was all that happened. (Come to think of it, they sued me for $14 million - the suit was later dismissed - so getting fired wasn't all that happened.)

Good times.

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i would fire u too for that..

by awp (Baboon, 133 Points) on 3/9/10 at 1:37pm

i would fire u too for that.. unprofessional and and a waste of time for everybody else.. as an intern you highest aim should be to make things easier for everybody around you ( and if u fail in that, try at least not to make things more complicated)

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rooster wrote: Trader (while

by Virginia Tech 4ever (Orangutan, 279 Points) on 3/9/10 at 4:53pm

Yeah, this would have infuriated me beyond that which I could handle. I think I would have had security not just escort this punk kid out, I would have had security beat him in the back alley, too. Damn, pissed me off just reading this.

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Edmundo Braverman

by Beef (Baboon, 155 Points) on 3/9/10 at 10:13pm

Haha I am really curious now, but fair enough.

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rooster wrote: Trader (while

by Mezz (King Kong, 1026 Points) on 3/9/10 at 11:37pm

its obvious that the TA was sleeping with the guy's wife and was too uncomfortable talking to her over the phone.

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You get a call from HR to

by tandaradei (Senior Baboon, 195 Points) on 3/10/10 at 5:45am

You get a call from HR to schedule an exit interview. Surprise!

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the other time i knew someone

by wintonheights (Orangutan, 332 Points) on 3/10/10 at 7:30am

the other time i knew someone was getting the boot was was uncanny.

im sitting there on a random weekday morning next to my prick of a boss (who would threaten to fire me and hire from the mcdonalds around the block all day every day). so anyway, lets call him bullwinkle. i know something is up b/c a few minutes before the numbers come out our MD calls and asks if i could tell bullwinkle hes needed back in "the office". k. so nb: whenever the guys in the office call for you somethings always up. technically it could be good, but to do it like this, i had a bad feeling about this one. i fantasize that maybe hes getting the shaft. i laugh at myself.

but then im sitting there and this dude is gone for like a whole freaking hour. no call. no check in. nothing. im bewildered now. no ones EVER off the desk that long. i start to think, wait a second maybe this tosser really is getting bounced??!! but i stop myself cause i figure its just wishful thinking for all the berating i get, and i keep my wits about me cause i figure im gonna get creamed if i fk something up before he comes back.

finally a couple minutes beyond an hour, i look up and i see him walking back to the desk with the best poker face ive ever seen (in hindsight). he doesnt say a word to me when he gets back. keep in mind i sit six inches away from his elbow on a daily basis. instead he goes over the the garbage bin, lifts up the plastic bag in there and takes one of the spare ones the cleaner left (how the fk he knew that is beyond me) and starts to go through his draws. im sitting there dazed and confused. but i wont dare look at him. my MD comes out and calls him back to the office again. im thinking, wtf is going on???

meanwhile nobody else is noticing this chain of events but me. so i cant even look at someone else for some kind of knowing or speculating glance. i stay focused on not letting the book crash. ten minutes later my MD comes back out with bullwinkle. watches as bullwinkle puts his family photos and other personal stuff into this clear plastic garbage bag and then escorts him straight off the floor and out of the office. at this point people are starting to notice. the minute the two are gone my bloomberg starts blowing up and people are leaning over asking me what the heck just happened. im thinking now theyre asking? i knew this from the minute he went back there!

anyway it was good riddance for that one too. i guess their lesson from my career was "dont fk w/ wintonH, hes protected from on high". but seriously, those were the two worst people i worked with and they both happened to get fired. and no i had nothing to do with either case.

ive prolly totally given myself away here, but the story had to be told.

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beastly214 wrote: From my job

by Mezz (King Kong, 1026 Points) on 3/10/10 at 8:51am

ouch!

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You get a call from

by GoVolckYourself (Senior Monkey, 78 Points) on 3/10/10 at 9:38am

You get a call from "Conference Room xx"

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Pretty hard to get fired as

by GoVolckYourself (Senior Monkey, 78 Points) on 3/10/10 at 9:44am

Pretty hard to get fired as an analyst ... i've NEVER seen an analyst get fired for making mistakes (and this includes fucking up apresentation and putting the wrong clients name)

but usually shit like

1) being directly responsible for fucking up a mandate
2) sexually harassing / offending a coworker
3) doing something illegal (i.e insider trading, dealing drugs)

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Jimmy Cayne wake-and-bake,

by Edmundo Braverman (Neanderthal, 3984 Points) on 3/10/10 at 10:31am

Jimmy Cayne wake-and-bake, baby!

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I guess getting laid off is

by Virginia Tech 4ever (Orangutan, 279 Points) on 3/10/10 at 12:19pm

I guess getting laid off is different. I was called into my boss' office via our instant messaging system (internal). No big deal. And then was let go. I was pretty surprised. This was in 2008 though. Life is good now.

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#1 sign: You stop getting

by IBD4PE (Monkey, 33 Points) on 3/10/10 at 1:47pm

#1 sign: You stop getting work to do. Any interaction either positive or negative is better than no interaction IMO

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A guy that I worked with got

by Aussie Banker (Monkey, 32 Points) on 3/10/10 at 11:55pm

A guy that I worked with got told by his PC. He tried to log on in the morning and his PC told him all his rights had been revoked because yesterday was his last day in the organisation. He thought this admin screw-up was hilarious, but his day quickly went down hill from there.

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Virginia Tech 4ever

by BigFatPanda (Senior Baboon, 214 Points) on 3/11/10 at 1:43pm

Have security pick him up and open the door with his head, like a battering ram. Remember Casino?

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nm

by Virginia Tech 4ever (Orangutan, 279 Points) on 3/11/10 at 3:05pm

nm

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