Thank you for firing me without warning after only a month. I had the perfect job working from home, and low and behold, no warning, no coaching, nothing, I discover I cannot login to my systems, so I check my email and there it is – my letter of termination.
I had only just got back on my feet financially, and I mean JUST, and you go ahead and fire me. Well thank you, fuckheads… I can’t even afford to pay my rent now. Thanks for your complete lack of consideration. Fuck you. —Anon
This article appears in Jun 3-9, 2010.
I used to be a manager, and while I agree that this is a shitty situation, a section of the Nova Scotia Labour Standards Code reads:
Other times when notice does not need to be given (prior to termination):
– When an employee works for the employer for less than three months
http://www.gov.ns.ca/lwd/employmentrights/…
It’s on page 16.
A shitty situation that many more people have probably been faced with. While not exactly considerate, the company is still well within their rights.
That’s why stay at home jobs are so sketchy. The boss doesn’t have to face you, which, oddly enough, makes it harder to fire someone.
That’s what you get for letting the drinking-bird toy do your work for you.
check out kijiji, there is all kinds of shit on there, for home workers. i would hire someone, but frankly my business is a one person thing. what with the security systems and all. can’t have anyone else getting those passcodes you know. look around, and if you don’t find anything, there’s always the call centers. they are crying for people in dartmouth, at conversys.
i love that episode ngf, when homer is at home ’cause he’s on disability wearing a mumu
Where’s my tab already?
You should take tips from Homer OP, he was able to triple his productivity.
Focus on the neglected food groups like the congealed group, the whipped group, and the choco-tastic!
What can I do to speed the whole process up doctor?
Be creative; instead of bread, use pop-tarts! Instead of gum, chew bacon.
Hey, you could brush you teeth with milkshakes!
Yeah… hey, did you go to Hollywood upstairs medical college too?
“I call this my reaching stick.”
Call centres…..yack. Gag me. Who would want to work in such a place. Go to school, get a proper education, and then you’ll have the 9-5 Monday to Friday job you love.
Did they attach a “read receipt” to the email they sent to you? And did you click “yes”?
If there was no receipt request or you didn’t click yes then I think you have a good case since I’d argue the notice was never received and put in your hours for the time lost until they get a written notice to you by mail or personal delivery.
The mistake here is acknowledging the email dismissal and posting it on a public website. That hurts your argument big time.
Jesus fucking help us if LS has a job in which he is privy to our alarm passcodes! Wake up the next morning and have trouble sitting? SURPRISE! LS buttsecks while you were sleeping!
This happened to me once after two months. It was basically the shittiest situation ever and it confused the hell out of me. I handled it maturely while it was happening (the woman chose to fire me during my break). But she was sort of a cunt. I just wanted to know why I was being fired — sort of a legitimate question, if you ask me — and her initial response was, “Well, I’m not LEGALLY required to tell you, but…” Fuck that annoyed me. Then she pulled out a bullshit excuse — a lack of motivation/initiation — and claimed it had been going on for “about a month now”. I sure was confused, especially considering the fact that just a month prior to this she had been going on about how well I was doing and all this bullshit.
Sometimes, OP, life just isn’t fair.
not really on the subject but in the same neighbourhood ; I just met a young co-worker who’s going to Nscad which in it’s self is not all that interesting however the island where we’re co-workers has a full-time population of approx. 1500 ; small small world đŸ™‚