'Everyone had to reapply': 20+ Workers share the jobs they were glad to be fired from

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Nov 7, 2023 7:00 AM EST

Certain things in life bring with them a certain finality… Like getting fired, signing up for a mortgage, or having kids. But it's important to note that they also bring with them opportunity... Opportunity for new pathways and new experiences—even if those experiences are more mundane than the ones that came before. The reality is that when one door closes, another one opens, and you'll likely find that you end up in the right place eventually, even if you really wish that that initial door hadn't closed behind you… Leaving you alone in a dark room. In that moment, it's easy to think that the whole world is crashing down and there can't possibly be anything else ahead, but all it takes is a little light peaking under that next door to give you the hope that there is something else out there… And that will lead you to a better place.

These workers shared their experiences with those moments. Those moments where they were fired (or prematurely left) their places of work, only to find themselves better off in the long run.

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    "What is a job that that RED you left/got fired from-but your life is so much better for it?"
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    Posted by u/SolidusSnakeus 7 hours ago What is a Job that that you left/got fired from but your life is so much better for it? Leaving a job So I'll start first. Towards the end of 2016, I was let go from St s after 7 years. It was my fault, and I should have known better. I was a sales manager, and my department was getting more and more pressure to hit a quota to sell a certain product. We were great at first, but as time went on, the goals became ridiculous, hours were getting cut, remaining
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    Long story short, I committed fraud in the system to raise sales of the particular product they wanted to push. Loss prevention caught up to me about a month later, and you can guess what happened. I eventually got a supervisor job at Ho De and started at the beginning of 2017. I learned my lesson from St s, and it was a humbling experience, especially getting paid less. I did everything by the book but realized I needed/wanted to get out of retail. I was there until 2019.
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    Towards the end of 2019, I took a risk and went to a temp agency. They used my experience as a manager in retail and also my experience from the Army (I was in the Reserve) to find me an office job. I knew nothing was guaranteed, but I took a gamble, and I gave my two weeks at De without a safety net.
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    Sure enough, the company liked me so much that after 3 months, they bought out my contract from the temp agency and hired me aboard. So it's been almost 5 years with them come February. Much better pay, weekends off, etc I screwed up royally at St , but I feel if I never made that stupid mistake, I would still be working there to this day. There was a point in my life where I was incredibly loyal to that job, and they almost made me a full general manager. But everything happens for a reason.
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    Beautychaos. 6 hr. ago I got fired from a very toxic work environment, and a manager who frankly shouldn't be in any sort of role. I didn't get any feedback until 9months into my role and he immediately put me on a PIP. He would do things like redo my work after hours, say what he did in a really condescending way and say I need to do better (but didn't tell me what)
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    It's really taught me my worth, and to over-communicate expectations with people who are awful at communicating, and even more so how much I dislike big egos in my industry. I'm still fighting for unemployment back pay which is gonna be soon. Reply Share 21
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    · Desperate Cupcake282 2 hr. ago Information Technology In my case, it was four months. Only it was more like double secret probation. Boss said I was fired for poor performance without specifying what was poor about it. Got unemployment anyway because New York State. I'm sure the company, based in Northern Kentucky, wasn't happy
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    about that, but IDGAF. Anyway, after another three months in the wilderness, I ended up pretty much back where I started, working for a defense company, but at a higher rate of pay. The government people love me, although I don't do all that much. I now see the finish line, and will likely retire next June. 1 Reply Share
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    Ok-One-1741 - 5 hr. ago Left B. Manager was an as se le that eventually got fired for He did worse things. you Nick! 13 KPNDRVS 2 hr. ago Reply Share Nick! 3 That stupid motherfu has got to be suffering by now. Reply Share
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    ToneOptimal2039 - 5 hr. ago I started working at this sushi place and not even 2 weeks in, the boss tells me they don't need me anymore so I'm like ok, no problem. Fast forward, my mom tells me the boss had hired his nephew to do my job and he was caught stealing money from the cash register. I think it was karma but honestly the job was so it was better to leave anyway. 11 Reply Share
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    tanhauser_gates_ . 6 hr. ago Fired from a paralegal job. My next 2 job choices on the table were ediscovery and another paralegal job. I took the edisovery job and it has been the best move I ever made careerwise. Still in the industry 20 years later and looking to take it to the wall all the way to retirement. Reply Share 9
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    Lord OfMorridor 6 hr. ago Im glad things worked out. Im curious, is the staples incident something you have to bring up with every new employer? Or is it like a "only if explicitly asked" type thing? 9 Reply Share
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    SolidusSnakeus OP 6 hr. ago Only if explicitly asked. When I applied for Home Depot, they didn't care. The background check was just to check if I worked there. They saw my experience as a manager and left it at that.
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    The current job I work for is a family owned business, and they could care even less. They judge me on my work now and my customer service. My bosses and the owners know the full story. They just laughed and said, "Good thing you're put of retail I, it. Lol" 4 Reply Share
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    Many_Supermarket850 5 hr. ago My first job out of college was with a federal contractor. Hours were miserable and my commute was nearly 2 hours each way - Northern VA traffic is insane - and I had a fiance. My fiance was diagnosed eventually with BPD, but it was a tumultuous relationship with frequent threats of self harm, etc. She was a grad student, and I was footing the bills. My job laid me off, and she dumped me within a week.
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    Best thing that ever happened to me. It's been over ten years but I'm happily married to someone great who doesn't throw things at me, and with a great career in a city I actually like. Definitely worked out for the best. If I didn't get fired I think the relationship would've drug on for awhile longer and I'd still be in a place I hate. 6 Reply Share
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    LdyCjn-997 5 hr. ago edited 5 hr. ago ● I was fired from a job back in 2013 because the GM had an issue with me being female and actually knowing what I was doing. He was a misogynist to the core. I was fired on my 9th anniversary with the company. After 3 months I found a job in a similar, but more advanced industry specializing in one area only. The companies I have worked
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    since for have allowed me to grow and expand moving me into a Senior role, my salary has doubled and I have some flexibility with my current position. To add, the GM that had me fired was fired about 18 months later due to customer complaints and other issues that were reported to the CEO that was in another state. 4 Reply Share
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    QuitCallingNewsrooms 5 hr. ago My last one. It was a public service/nonprofit job that was sorely underpaid for the number of full time roles I was filling. I was easily working 80-90 hours a week, my rent was a little more that 40% of my net salary, and there was no way to move up. I was doing it because the
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    promise of PSLF for my student loans and I finally just cracked from the workload. I got booted, took a month off to take care of myself, and then found a new job making triple. Nonprofit never again. 3 Reply Share ●●
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    Timmah73 5 hr. ago ● Almost a year ago exactly we were told the company would be reorganizing and everyone had to reapply for the new positions. They told us there would be a pay raise but would not answer how many positions there were vs current employees.
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    The Friday before new years about 1/3 of the office were pulled into meetings and told they did not make the cut and were getting severance. Personally I was thrilled to be one of them casue I wanted no part in the future of that company with how bad management had become.
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    Not even a month later I accepted a new job that was $30k more than the raise they were going to give us. To add to my feeling of winning the lottery, glassdoor reviews from people who continued to work there painted the exact nightmare scenario I was worried would happen. 3 Reply Share
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    Lilliputian0513 5hr. ago I got fired in February because my sister had a stroke and I had to care for her two children. I am so glad they fired me. I had only been there two months but hated it. Also, it was such a gift being there for my nieces. 2 Reply Share ●●●
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    Guest2424 5 hr. ago My first job was with someone who was very toxic. I should have caught the red flags even from the start. But it was my first job, I had no idea. I wasn't even on Reddit back then so I had no one tell me these things were red flags. 1. The lab manager asked for 2 weeks on unpaid training.
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    2. The analysts in the lab had nothing good to say about her, but knew enough to keep quiet about the bad stuff. 3. She blamed me for things that were out of control. Some things, I felt like I had handled correctly, and looking back with experience I know I did handle correctly, but were chewed out for it because there were unexpected consequences.
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    4. She gave me a scathing email that made me cry in the bathroom. Essentially stating things like "you are doing everything in your job description but you need to do more." 5. Would assign tasks whenever she felt like it with no regard for time. 6. Finally, she told me to "quit science" as I'm not cut out for it.
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    I lasted a total of 3 months there. It was the best bridge I've ever burned. 2 Reply Share
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    Temelios 4 hr. ago edited 4 hr. ago ● ● Got let go from a job publishing online billing code material for Medi- Cal. Best thing to ever happen to me. Screw that company and that department. The supervisor was too much of a coward to give proper feedback and avoided any and all difficult scenarios, so instead of telling you
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    that you needed to improve and how, or why you weren't given work, you're just quietly twiddling your thumbs with nothing to do in anxiety. There were 6 new hires. alongside me who all began at the same time. I and 2 others had steady work for the first 6 months. I kid you not when I say that 3 of them literally just sat there and got
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    paid to do nothing, because this clown of a manager was too avoidant to talk to them and train them, let alone fire them. One day they were suddenly told they were let go by some rando. About a month after, my assignments stopped coming in, and I twiddled my thumbs for the next month
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    before the same thing happened to me with some rando telling me by phone that I was let go, and no explanation as to why. If you're a manager, you need to MANAGE people. After, I was unemployed for the next 6 months, but I went from $18/hour and no benefits to $28/hour with full benefits and bonuses with my next job. I struggled so hard just to live
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    on that Medi-Cal job and then the 6 months after that I was crying when I got the official job offer from the next company. Seriously, getting let go from Medi-Cal was one of the best things to happen to me. I'm at a new company now with even better pay and benefits who's fully funding my masters courses. Minus the housing market, life's great. Reply Share 2
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    ALDJ0922 4 hr. ago I worked for a small company where I felt like I was neglected constantly, talked down to and degraded (literally told to shut up I don't know by the manager) and not seeing true growth. I was there for 2 years, and the responses I received from the CEO/manager over that time were so out of pocket, my family was weirded out that I hadn't left. However, the whole time I was there, I was trying to leave.
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    I finally landed a big engineering gig at a big company. Even though it's big, my team and direct leadership is so much better. Better growth, guidance, and management. After I left, the manager from the last company tried to claim he has no evidence I worked for the first half of 2022 and also that I "took too much sick time and personal days"
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    that they "weren't aware of." They had no written and agreed upon policies, etc. They withheld my last pay check. I could have fought it, but it wasn't worth the time and money. The laptop they provided had all of my work. Had he been an involved manager, and not skip my 2021 review, which he delayed to March
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    2022, then June, then July, then never did it cause I left, he'd have known what I did. Pretty sure they're upset I left, because he kept badgering me about that last check for 7 months of 2023. Saying that they won't come after me, but they want me to "admit to not working." 2 Reply Share
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    Scarlet__Highlander 4 hr. ago Used to work for a certain green tea company associated with the color teal, and cherry blossom flowers. The conditions were pretty 1 terrible. 12+ hour days were more than common, they were expected. I was routinely told that I need to put in unpaid overtime (i was salaried) in order to get a "better" raise (3%
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    instead of the 1%). Maggots in the sugar lines. Line operators who have been working there for years only making $16-$17 an hour. Management was out of touch and would rather go on lunch trips than drive meaningful progress. All work that my team did, management took credit.Anything that broke/fell behind, my team was the first to get the blame.
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    When I broke my ankle at work, they refused the script from my podiatrist and told me to see their designated company doctor. The doctor said, despite the grapefruit sized swelling on my ankle, that I am good to return to work. that, dude.
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    Probably one of the worst things that routinely happened was with our intern, this 4'10 girl who was here for an engineering internship. She routinely got harassed (flirting and CONSTANT invitations to lunch/dinner) by management, which made her very uncomfortable. My entire team has moved on since and we're all doing much better. It's 99 cents for a reason, guys. 2 Reply Share
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    Earthling386 6 hr. ago A bank. Imagine having to do everything like it was done in the 1980's and any attempts at process improvement are met with "we can't change anything because we'rE rEguLaTed." Computers exist but they (and all the software running on them) are also from the 1980's (or older). Reply Share 1
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    (( Demonify 5 hr. ago ● Can't say my life is better since being a veteran and trying to find a job in this country are two things that don't work well together. But at least I don't feel like a slave as much anymore. 1 Reply Share SolidusSnakeus OP 5 hr. ago Thank you for your was your MOS? 1 ●●● service. What Reply Share
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    Resident-Somewhere60 5 hr. ago Late 2015 left my first engineering job in MEP industry. The stress relieved was unbelievable. 1 Reply Share ●●●
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    RogueStudio 5 hr. ago edited 5 hr. ago ● Worked for a media company that had very conservative management/values. During the Pandemic it was a CF of employees at the production level outright not caring about any sort of COVID regulations, the managers being apathetic, and ultimately me having to risk my health as someone who could have landed in the hospital before the vaccine was a thing.
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    2 My manager openly sulked and boxed me into the most boring role (editing obituary photos) when I was covered by a state regulation telling employers those with 'high risk' could request to work from home. I persisted, because I needed the money. The final straw was when my parent got injured (unrelated to COVID but
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    was during that time) - my manager refused to change my schedule to let me care for her and the only response was 'well, we all have to make sacrifices'. Family is not one of those sacrifices. Took some very temporary freelance work as a leap of faith and resigned. I realize I could have taken unpaid FMLA, but at that point I was too angry with this so called 'leader' to stay.
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    Doing minorly better now, work in an industry which at least treats me like a human being that might get sick and have family, now that I escaped the retail end of the company into corporate. Could be making more money, but....isn't that a problem for a *lot* of us.....
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    Also thought of another one: Worked QA for a games company. The Lead was insane, having come to this company from a company known to overwork/underpay their workers (Enic A Tiburon). Worked 60 hour weeks and got to see such sights as the lead showing up to work with a swollen mouth (they couldn't get the time off to get
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    a tooth pulled.... ). The person who I was under did nothing to help me along, only complained and eventually made up an excuse that they 'didn't want to give me work'. Got put onto a PIP and....yeah, obviously that ended with my contract ending within six months. Had my cry while dragging my box of things three miles (did not have a car at that time, subway didn't service the area I was working in....), but, ultimately the stress that left after that was immense.
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    The game I was working on was a giant mess of trying to capitalize on trends with a fancy IP and ripping off a more popular game at the time - so a matter of months later, production entirely shut down. ↑ 1 Reply Share
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    sas317 5 hr. ago I had an office job for 3 months that was part dispatch; I don't remember the rest of the job. I was fired and don't remember why anymore, but the feeling of rejection is still there. I had to hand my work to the boss for approval. She changed a lot of what I did, which made me feel stupid; what was the point of me making a decision when she
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    changed it after reviewing it? I hated that I had no freedom and I was being monitored. I'll never forget getting fired, but at least I don't have that uncertainty if I'm doing the job correctly anymore. ↑ 1 Reply Share
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    ileade 5 hr. ago I was fired from my first ever full time job because I was in the hospital a lot so missed a lot of shifts and then I was late for a shift by couple minutes (they had a points system). My mental health was at the time and the job was adding stress onto that and making me suicidal (which is what I went to the hospital for). I discovered through
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    this job I wanted to drop out of school and go to nursing school and was planning on working part time but now that I think about it I would not have managed that with school given my mental health. I was crushed when they fired me but it turned out for the best. 1 Reply Share
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    DontcheckSR 5 hr. ago Banking! After wondering if I hated people, I realized I really do like people and being social. I just don't like when my job performance is numerically scored based on how much people liked me during ONE interaction. And that's not accounting for situations where you really just can't do anything to help
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    and the customer is 1. I try my best and work hard. Being told it's not enough because someone didn't want to upgrade a product or didn't leave happy after being screwed over etc etc was exhausting. And any promotion would've just meant MORE of that. So I was
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    genuinely trapped. Now I don't have to deal with customers at all. And although it can get a little more lonely since I'm hybrid, I love my coworkers and I'd much rather be with my cat at home than being yelled at for I can't control. 1 ↓ Reply Share ●●●
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    20190229 4 hr. ago My first job in the 99s. Was paid $27k a year as an electrical engineer and required to work 24 x 7 shift. I had to calculate overtime to make a living. I had stomach issues due to the weird work schedule. Left for a normal schedule job and was gradually promoted to global head of the org. 1 Reply Share
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    Ogun21 4 hr. ago I got laid off from a mid-size company and recently joined a larger corp raising my salary almost 47% with better benefits. I also didn't feel welcome to my team at my last job and love who are work with now and where I work since there's plenty of growth opportunities. 1 Reply Share
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    AT Not__Trash 4 hr. ago My mom got canned during the '08 recession. She ended up getting a new job only 45 minutes away instead of 2 hours. She was so much happier even with making less money. FF to today she has no commute working from home. 1 Reply Share
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    indicabunny 4 hr. ago I was fired from a property management company after 4 years. I had invested so much time and effort and was absolutely loyal to that company. I had gotten promoted and was trying desperately hard to get promoted again. Then I broke my arm and leg onsite in an accident. When my
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    FMLA was up and I came back to work, I still had trouble with my mobility and I was honestly just in a really bad place. They ended up demoting me and then firing me a month later. I was so devastated. But this company was the most toxic, horrible place to work. The managers and higher level
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    leadership were the meanest, most sadistic people and it just became normal to be treated that way. It was like an abusive relationship. Now I'm at a company that I could never imagine being treated the way I was before. It's night and day. I also got promoted within 6 months of them hiring me and am on track for further growth. If I had never had
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    the accident and left my first company, I'd still be there fighting for crumbs and working tirelessly for no recognition - but too afraid to leave because of all the time I'd invested. Being fired ended up being the best thing that could have happened to me. Reply Share 1
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    Last Rise_1949. 4 hr. ago Yeah got fired from a bartending job my freshman year of college. Place went under 6 months later, someone almost got beat to de in the parking lot. I me off and spurred me to start a small contracting company. Second smartest financial decision I've ever made 1 Reply Share ●●●
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    Hoodie Winchester 4 hr. ago Was helping at a horse farm, 7 days a week, for $100 a week. I stopped working full time but helped out when i could. These people were the most dramatic, , bosses I've ever met. Sadly I fell in love with one of the horses so I couldn't cut them off. It finally came to a head a year ago and I cut contact. Recently I reached out to check on my former horse, he was for sale, so I bought him 1 Reply Share
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    Iusemyhands - 4 hr. ago I worked in a call center for cellphone warranties and had the pleasure of basic troubleshooting that solved nothing, lying about model-wide issues, lying about device quality, lying about new/refurbished equipment, and having to sound sincere the whole time. Hated every minute. Had PTO they'd never let me use. Got to the point where I'd sit for 8 hours every
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    day wondering if I'd get more time off if I gnawed my wrists to bleeding, or gauged my eyes out. Got fired for missing a password on a business account. The rule was to do all troubleshooting and replacement processes and then make them call back with a password to finish the replacement. I did all of it without the password. Oh well. 1 Reply Share
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    Munk451 4 hr. ago A call center who was a subcontractor for a Satelite TV company. I really hated how underhanded the company I worked for was on pushing upgrades 1 ↓ Reply Share
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    JJCookieMonster · 3 hr. ago. edited 3 hr. ago I got fired after being bullied by a toxic manager at a small, struggling nonprofit. They still haven't hired a replacement. They reposted my position for slightly above minimum wage when it has Director level tasks. I left the industry to have better career opportunities and pay.
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    I've been unemployed for 8 months. I'm focused on networking with senior leadership across industries from start-ups to top companies to be able to have a diverse and deep network so I never have to face long-term unemployment again. I've applied for retail and temp agencies, but haven't gotten anything out of it. 41 Reply Share
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    ihadtopickthisname · 3 hr. ago Retail management. Did it most of my working life. Got sucked into staying so long because I was good at it, and it became easy and comfortable to do. I decided one day I needed to stop working nights, weekends and holidays and use my skills to get myself into a 9-5. I did and also took a pay increase. Within a year got a promotion and a large increase. Now I make about 65% more than I did a few years ago and only work M-F. And I can WFH when I want. 1 Reply Share
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    GeneralELucky · 3 hr. ago Selling used cars - commission only. Mentally exhausting, 50+ hour weeks, typically only one day off a week, for (on average) $7/hour (in 2014). Silver lining: Between this and my retail management background, I landed a business development manager role in a large tech company that jettisoned my career! 1 Reply Share
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    Only_Asparagus_9872 · 3 hr. ago One of those predatory loan places. You know the ones that on the inside seem illegal . But are just anyway. People paying off their $250 payday loan and charge them 5% to cash their check. Then convince them to turn around and borrow more. Giving people $500 title loan knowing they couldn't pay. A different dept would repo the car, sell it for $5k. Bonuses all around. It was sleezy and I hated myself. Got fired for using my phone in the building. I was in the bre
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    Vivecs Mangina. 3 hr. ago I was fired from a job that paid me $9/hr and worked me 100hrs/wk with zero overtime, for being late. I immediately got offered a job making several times that in a different field that ultimately led me to where I am today. Not being overly descriptive because both places are very niche. Reply Share 1
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    Internal_Public_9277 · 1 hr. ago Retail corporations are a piece of They always have unrealistic and unattainable metrics. They pay their employees min. Wage and expect them to make all their money. while district managers and corporate lap dogs are making 6 figures. 1 Reply Share
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    Rj_owns 1 hr. ago Architecture & Engineering Got fired from my first job in customer service of almost 5 years, back in 2018. A few jobs later and some more experience under my belt. I finally got into a tech job. It's only been 5 years since I was fired. And I've gone from being naive minimum wage drone. To
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    raking in 6 figures after my first full year of employment. In a career I see myself in for a while, and still has lot's of growth potential. I've learned quick to lookout for yourself. We are all replaceable 95% of the time. Even when its expensive to replace us, they will still find ways to get rid of us for a cheaper hand. Reply Share 1
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    rochvegas5 49 min. ago I got laid off from a job that paid great but I absolutely hated. My new job started at half my salary but I'm working my way back up. Been there since 2017 and have been promoted 5 times. I love what I do and the place I do it for. 1 Reply Share ●●●
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    fuzzywuzzybeer. 44 min. ago Worked at a studio for one week as a freelance artist on a project. They were basically ; to me and before I left, right in front of me, they called the agency I worked for asking for someone younger. Screw that. But the work I did in that week for the client helped me get my next freelance position, which helped me get my next, and next after that. 1 Reply Share ●●●
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