employment
I've lost some jobs pretty well...I'm self employed now.


wrong moment to bellow

I worked as a special need classroom assistant with this kid called Ben, who had some bizarre combo of autism, ADHD and some other stuff. When the school was being inspected by the ofsted inspectors, I was trying to cajole Ben from the classroom to assembly - he was rather late, because he was playing with his shoelaces, and I was getting a bit miffed. I chose the exact moment the Head walked into the room with the inspectors to bellow "come ON Ben...NOW" in my best angry, violent sounding voice which can reduce a normal child to tears...


reluctant redundancy

I was quite good mates with my boss for a job in graphics. However, he took over a company in India, and slowly moved everyones jobs out there. When the UK numbers had gone down from 30 to 7 staff, and I was wandering around the office with no work to do, I took him to one side, and said "you're going to have to lay me off aren't you?" He tried to assure me that he could keep me on, and it was only when I said I didn't really mind that he admitted that he was going to have to let me go...bless.


knoblet boss

I worked as webbie for adnet.co.uk. This guy had just bought the company from a mate, and he hadn't even been on a website for about 4 years. He was however, convinced that he was a better designer than us mere professionals that he took on as soon as he bought the company.

He didn't like me much, because I wouldn't let him push me around. He initially took me on on a 3 month trial at 8k saying he'd double it after the trial. At the end of the 3 months he tried to tell me I had an attitude problem, and as a result the wage would stay the same, and he had no recollection of the promised increase anyway, and I had to be on best behaviour or go.

So I wrote him a nice letter telling him he had no idea about web desing or how to treat staff. He went purple and demanded I leave right away.


didn't see that one coming though

At one point I was desperate for work, and got a job testing electronic components for Nortel. I hated the job for it's mindless tedium, the crap double day shifts and the endless gemini FM, and I prayed for deliverance. Lo and behold, the company suddenly hit the rocks 3 weeks into my job. Along with about 4000 other people I was laid off, and I got the same redundancy package as the rest of them - 4 months pay!




there was also the sandwich board job, which I lost by accidentally smashing a pile of glasses all over the place, andthe youth work job where I couldn't speak youthworkerese, and the record shop job where I only ever played music and didn't serve anyone.....maybe I'm just a total failiure!
(teasus likes tea, Thu 21 Jul 2005, 17:51, Reply)