Fired already, ha!

mrhtbd

mrhtbd

Well, spoke too soon I guess. Got sick as hell after the first week on the job inspecting the work done in basements filled with toxic mold, then I got a growth on my calf. Still don't know what that is but dealing with it. My boss is 31 and is GM because he married the owner's daughter. Suffice to say I will remember him especially by my last day where he came in 20 minutes late (he lived next door) then tried to bum a cigarette from 2 different people before commenting, "I looked in the ashtray this morning for chinks but couldn't find one I could smoke!" That did it for me. I thought, "How is it possible for me to maintain a shred of self-respect working for this person?" I couldn't. Aside from that, the guy was just like my ex-wife, very emotional; up one day then down the next, said this then said that, told me he was dyslexic then insisted he read a concrete book (he gave me to read) "three times!" (Lol, I had been doing concrete on bridge crews for 5 years before he was born, but I didn't say that.) On top of it all, he really didn't want me inspecting for quality, he wanted me to look for discrepancies of contractors in the field, then to report back to him and rat them out so he could fine them and chince their contracts. Well, I may be old and may need a job but there are lines a true man does not cross, so I acted like my true self, an complete ass who doesn't give a fuck. Three days of this was all it took for his fragile ego to endure and he fired me. Thank God, for who knows how long it will take for my lungs to become normal again. On a positive note, now I know I can drive all day without issue. Maybe that's something!
Maybe the truth be told I really am just an asshole who doesn't like people and they don't like me. The saying, "Know thyself and all else be true," comes to mind. Vistas...
 
Bummer. I hope that you will find another job soon. Being jobless sucks, I'm sorry for you. That GM loses a good guy. He made a bad decision by firing you.
 
I went through that sort of thing in the 90s after I retired and tried to get a real job which is usually working for unqualified and less than competent people.
I now realize that most businesses run very inefficiently in this country but fortunately there are a couple of choices frontal lobotomies help if you have insurance to cover it or you may have to start doing some sort of contracting on your own most contractors are also borderline competent. In any case it will be necessary to stop taking things so seriously and learn to accept more bs.
 
Starman said:
I went through that sort of thing in the 90s after I retired and tried to get a real job which is usually working for unqualified and less than competent people.
I now realize that most businesses run very inefficiently in this country but fortunately there are a couple of choices frontal lobotomies help if you have insurance to cover it or you may have to start doing some sort of contracting on your own most contractors are also borderline competent. In any case it will be necessary to stop taking things so seriously and learn to accept more bs.
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I'm not quite so pessimistic but yes, there is plenty of incompetence in the workforce but it's not just this country. I run a small group and there is always some battle with management incompetence or I happen to let one through and have to deal with removing it.
 
I eventually compensated by taking a job with pay that was a fraction of what i was used to but has decent benefits and low stress level and being very good at what I do. Also stopped borrowing money a couple decades ago helps a great deal.I came to understand that how much you make is less important than how much you spend and that affects the stress level of the job you have to deal with. All around me the businesses and contractors that we deal with are so incompetent that it keeps me laughing and wondering how long it can keep going in this direction without breaking down entirely.
 
Sucks to get canned but it will be for the better in the end. Keep searching for the job that fits you better and go from there.

I have had my share of shitty jobs as well and I kept my mouth shut till I found a new job. Right now working as a federal contractor doing systems administration work for a VA hospital...low stress work.
 
Go be a truck driver ,Do coast to coast trips ,,,buy a dog to travel with you .then being the asshole you state you are you will be confined to the inside of a semi and you wont have to deal with anyone,nor will they have to deal with you .
In that role you can pick up "Lot Lizards" who will satisfy your desires for a little bit of chump change..then go on there way .
 
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ozzy69 said:
Are you wealthy?
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I used to be but not anymore. Lost over $400,000 in the divorce 2 years ago and basically everything I worked for the past 15 years. I get a small retirement from teaching but its not much. I don't need a lot and have no expensive habits, but my two girls are ones I most wish to provide for, as, even though their mother is well off now and they live in a big house I left them, (that I spent over 5 years remodeling), she doesn't buy them much and makes them practically beg for anything they may want. Besides, her boyfriend makes them feel like second class citizens, even told them to "get jobs!" (They are 15 and 10 now, what a douche!)

I need to downsize, get tight, and get my power back!
I like the truck and dog idea.
 
400000 isn't wealthy but that's beside the point....I would've kept my mouth shut and head down and just did what was asked of me especially if your intentions are for your kids and for providing for them.....can't buy them anything from a welfare or unemployment line....
 
Yeah personally I would have shut my mouth and kept my job......I know it's not easy sometimes but we gotta work bro
 
Its funny I used to think my old man was a pain in the ass but now I look back at realize that either he was a hell of a lot smarter than I gave him credit for or I am now the very same pain in the ass he was!
Anyway to this situation. I had a job when I was in my late teens working for a real asshole, I quit the job. Came home, told my old man i quit and why. He listened and looked at me when I was done basically saying how bad a guy my boss was and how wrong he treated people and how wrong he did things and how it just wasnt right.
Pops looked at me and said , "Well I hope you are happy and you can now be the most principled man in the unemployment line". He proceeded to follow it up with advising that in the future I never quit a ob without having another to go to.
You do whats right for you but some 20+ years later I think my Dad gave me some pretty damn solid advice. It has obviously stuck with me. Ultimately I hope this works out for you in the long haul.
 
Jimmyinkedup said:
Its funny I used to think my old man was a pain in the ass but now I look back at realize ...
Anyway to this situation. I had a job when I was in my late teens working for a real asshole, I quit the job. Came home, told my old man i quit and why. He listened and looked at me when I was done basically saying how bad a guy my boss was and how wrong he treated people and how wrong he did things and how it just wasnt right.
Pops looked at me and said , "Well I hope you are happy and you can now be the most principled man in the unemployment line". He proceeded to follow it up with advising that in the future I never quit a ob without having another to go to.
You do whats right for you but some 20+ years later I think my Dad gave me some pretty damn solid advice. It has obviously stuck with me. Ultimately I hope this works out for you in the long haul.
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My father must've known yours because I was told the same thing back in the 1970's!

On a positive note I went to an employment service today and they gave me a choice of two jobs: one doing metalworking and spray painting for $14/hr, and the other for a medical products leadership position with a salary of $74,000 a year and up to 60% air travel. Hmmm, dream job comes to mind. I left my resume and will find out whether or not I get an interview tomorrow. Never know...
 
mrhtbd said:
My father must've known yours because I was told the same thing back in the 1970's!

On a positive note I went to an employment service today and they gave me a choice of two jobs: one doing metalworking and spray painting for $14/hr, and the other for a medical products leadership position with a salary of $74,000 a year and up to 60% air travel. Hmmm, dream job comes to mind. I left my resume and will find out whether or not I get an interview tomorrow. Never know...
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Yeah they all said the same things didnt they? LOL
Best of luck to you!
 
If you get that job for 74K a year please just keep your mouth shut there. That's not s great living but it's decent in most areas. If it's broken down its only 37/hr in a 2000 hour work year but my best guess is that's it's somewhere between 2400-2700 hours a year with air travel and what nots...

2400 hours 30.83 an hour
2700 hours 27.40 an hour

So watch the hours worked to your salary that's important. People see 74000 a year and think wow but if your working 60 hours a week it's like 24/hr.....
 
i bet only a couple out of a hundred would go to the effort to follow the math but it does look totally different with perspective.
It is amazing how many jump to salaried jobs and eventually realize they are making far less an hour than their lower stress minions.
 
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