i was sacked once, but it's a crap story.
Instead, let me tell you the story of my friend.

Now, she's a lovely lass, and is one of the more intelligent people I know. However, she was on a job trial for six months at this place as a PA. Her boss was a twat. She was given far too much work to do - an almost unbelievable feat for a girl who can type faster than most people can talk (so she stopped taking lunch breaks and always left at half nine at night). Her boss even had her arranging nights out for him and his mistress. Nice.

So anyway, my friend ,being lovely, took all this on her chin and never expected to be fired.

It was around Christmas time, so she went to work feeling pretty happy. Then they asked her to resign (rather than fire her because that would look bad on her CV) because she hadn't reached their expectations - a fucking robot on speed wouldn't have met their expectations, but there you go.

However, just after the boss says this, she smiles, and hands the boss a neatly wrapped, thoughtfully chosen, Christmas present. She said the look on his face was priceless.

Poor thing.
( mrlogic is copying your beard, Mon 27 Feb 2006, 11:54, Reply)