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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goresplattered 0

"Collect" you? Are you in more than one piece? That's pretty metal.

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RandomlyGenerate 0

This is fake, if you were '20' minutes into the job, then your father would be 20 minutes away from you. Just saying.

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Chocolate_Chunk 2

Wow, your dad has to drive you? YDI for not using public transport or getting a car on your own. Also, the times are suspect in two places.. the first one, that he would've had either 20min or 1h40min to return, not 1 h, was allready mentioned, but.. No dad, no matter how nice, would drive 4 hours daily to get his child to work.

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zebrapattern 6

1. if you're not old enough to drive yourself places, don't have a job. 2. what the **** is wrong with you, working an hour away from home? 3. "collect me"?

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EliteWhitey 6

To those people saying that the dad was only 20 mins away, that means it will take him 20 mins to get back therefore 40 mins, and having to be with your ex-coworkers, it would feel like hours. So please stop giving this person a hard time about their math skills and try to be supportive on this horrible experience.

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