Once,
three years ago, and I'm still fucking bitter about it.

I was the senior detailer for a certain auto manufacturer, worked there for 5 years. Then one day after a long and shitty shift I get called into the service writer's office. The shop supervisor didn't even have the balls to sack me himself, so he got his lackey to do it.

The problem? They claimed it was because 'my work wasn't up to par, a customer complained'. Bullshit. I really do wish they'd have told me the real reason why. If 'customer complaints' were grounds for dismissal, then every employee and mechanic would be sacked.

The odd thing though, is that I really should have been sacked about 6 months prior, when I had a really bad month. I had an incident at work that left me with 17 sutures and a half-day off work, then a week later I mangled my foot during a football match, resulting in two weeks leave. The day I got back to work I backed the owner's SUV into a pole, causing quite a bit of damage (however, this wasn't as bad a problem as I had anticipated - that week there were 5 other lot vehicles damaged by employees, and one client's vehicle damaged - mine was just the icing on the cake. But it's not my fault, the pole should've been painted in a high visiblity colour, instead of the same fucking colour as the garage.)
( Hosehead, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 18:21, Reply)