SackedI've never been sacked (yet)... One company I worked for made everyone redundant on Valentine's Day. The boss handed out little envelopes. We all thought he'd bought us cards and were really touched.
...but I've never been sacked. What have you done that led to your dismissal? Are you still bitter, or was it a fair cop?
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chthonic, Thu 23 Feb 2006, 13:23)
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Proper Nerdy Answer this one...I worked at Maplins when i was 15/16... first proper saturday job, got £18 for the day - i was RRIICHH! (bear in mind this was 1990/91 - i could buy ten regal AND 2 bottles of Thunderbirds for the night time drinking binges!)
Anyways, we got this new device in the catlogue one day, a "US Mains tranformer" came in, so dosey people who bought tellies, VCRs, etc in the states and then brought them here could run them on out mains ( History lesson : US=110volts, UK=240volts - why? cock knows), so a chap comes in one day to buy one as he's bought a toaster in Florida and is now desperate to use it. i get him one, he asks how it works, i haven't a clue and proced to tell him to 'stick a plug on that wire'
As it turns out, you actually needed ANOTHER transformer connected to it to run it. He had put a plug on it, plugged it in, plugged his toaster in and WWWOOOOSSSSHHHHHH!
There was only smoke damamge to the majority of the house and he did get a new kitchen out of it so i don't know what his problem was!!
Personal, it wasn't entirely my fault, it's was 1) shit training 2) he was too fucking stupid to listen to me. But, i was 17, part time saturday lad with no proper contract so i got binned. Proper gutted. cnuts.
(, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 11:48, Reply)
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