Communication breakdown

By FML - 08/11/2009 10:07 - United Kingdom

Today, my dad drove me to work which is an hour away. Twenty minutes into the job, I was told, "Didn't we tell you last week? We let you go." Clearly, no, they didn't. I had to wait one awkward hour, with my colleagues who knew I was fired before I did, for my dad to collect me. FML
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perdix 29

Wouldn't "dad" only be 20 minutes away at that point? I guess he decided to let you stew in the crap for an hour because you are as significant and important to him as you are, scratch that, were to your ex-employer.

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ForestFire0 1

Yeah, so after 20 minutes, she knew she was let go. So her father was 20 minutes from where she works and forty minutes from home. If he had a cell phone, she calls him and he returns in 20 minutes. If he doesn't have a cell phone, she waits the 40 minutes until her father arrives at home and then calls him and it takes him an hour to get back to her former place of employment. So, it either takes 20 minutes for her father to return, or one hour and forty minutes. There is no way for the time between her finding out she lost her job and the time until her father gets there to be one hour. Unless she waiting twenty minutes before calling her father (20 minutes to find out her job is gone, 40 minutes to return), this makes no sense time-wise

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jane99 0

Maybe she had to wait a little bit before actually starting to work, just enjoy the fml.

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rikkirocker 0

Maybe the OP exaggerated a little on the time. Oh well. Sucks to be you. Shouldn't have sucked at your job. YDI

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Yapanesedidwhat 0

AWWW! :(... I'm actually going to take this as a real story.. I mean.. I wouldn't be surprised if my work place did that!

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ColdGold 6

YDI for not paying attention. Maybe that's why they let you go.

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TheIrishJaneDoe 8

I read "one hour" as the initial 20 minutes of work, plus another 40 for dad to make the u turn and get back. The coworkers knew she shouldn't be there, so they were probably acting strange from the time she stepped in the door. Maybe she noticed that things felt weird, but only understood why once the "announcement" was made. The previous 20, plus latter 40, would total one hour of (though I'm loathe to contribute to this word's overusage) awkwardness.

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srak 0

collect me? are u from Russia?

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StudBoiAyeEm 0

this happened to me i kno how u feel... someone called me in for their shift... the manager comes in says hi to me and goes to the back, comes back up fornt and asks what im doin at work and im like wtf u mean

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bortfeld 0

Or, maybe she got dropped off 40 (or more) minutes early before she started work.

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lesab734 0

maybe you got fired because of your poor math skills

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martic835 2

That happened to me, but the place I worked was only 10 minutes away from my house. They hadn't scheduled me for 2 weeks and when I went in I was still on the schedule so I showed up. The guy from the meat department pulled me aside to tell me. He kept saying over and over again tha the didn't know why my name was in the system. That was my first job. Horrible, horrible experience.

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