Why should you be fired from your job?I spent three years "working" in the Ministry of Agriculture carefully crafting projectiles out of folded paper and drawing pins that I would then fire at colleagues with an elastic band. On discovering I'd been conducting all-out warfare when I should really have been in a field counting cows, I was asked to "reconsider my career options" outside the service.
Why, then, should you be fired from your job?
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 9 Aug 2007, 13:04)
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A job, long long agoBack in 1988, I was just turned 19 and had managed to move out of the company's datacentre and into a development team. At that time and age it was all very woosome, working on this payroll system on an enormous mainframe. Well ok, it wasn't the games programming that I'd been dreaming of doing two years earlier, but it was something.
But the best bit was discovering that the development environment we used had a sort of instant messenger to it - I could merrily type away, looking like I was working, and chat with friends in other departments. I'd seen the future of shirking, and it was instant messaging!
What I didn't realise was that my boss at the time, one of the nastiest people I ever dealt with in my career, could read my logs. And one day, the inevitable happened - he had a big thick printout, passed it to me, and asked me to explain myself.
I sat, mute, as he then started to flick through and showed how he'd highlighted every insult to him I'd made, culminating in "My bastard of a boss has just moved me from my desk next to the window."
I went from speechless, to certainty that I was about to lose my job. Amazingly, given his total gitness, he just gave me a warning and didn't seem to tell his superiors. Possibly the nicest thing he did, in a way.
Ever since then I've continued to use company e-mail and messaging systems, but I'm careful to only ever praise people who could just be looking in. Does your career wonders....
(, Sun 12 Aug 2007, 11:51, Reply)
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