Today, I found out I'm getting laid off. However, they're keeping my coworker who rarely shows up and sleeps all the time when he's there. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I found out I'm being laid off. Because I'm the only person at this company who knows how to process a layoff in our HR system, I get to have the pleasure of laying myself off. FML
Today, I found out that a coworker and I may get laid off soon, all because my boss's niece told him she can do both our jobs all by herself, and for less money. FML
Today, my boss got a promotion and I got laid off. FML
Today, I found out via a voicemail from my boss that my hours are being cut. He said, "They said I can't fire you, so you'll only be getting 20 hours a week. Starting today." Who'd they give my other 20 hours to? The one person that calls off sick almost daily and is never on time. FML
Today, my coworker, who constantly no-shows, ranted to me about his work hours being reduced. He somehow doesn't realize that he's the problem. We're understaffed as of now, so they can't fire him, and I have to be there constantly to make up for him being a lazy ass. My days off have been few and far between. FML
Today, my boss let me know that I'm being laid off, via a text message that ended in "lmao". FML
Today, after finally getting a job offer after months of unemployment, I found out that the person who was going to hire me got fired. Which means I'm not getting the job. FML
Today, after three weeks of my boss telling me how much he appreciates my hard work and has submitted my name up for a promotion, he called me into his office to announce I'm being laid off. FML
Today, after a long couple of months working non-stop, I finally got someone to cover my shift. Turns out she was joking, and when I didn't show up for work, I was fired. FML
Today, I found out my job is trying to get me to quit. FML
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xShannonxSammyx 7
Ouch. I'm sorry, OP. Find a better workplace! Good luck <3
SuperSeriouslyFM 0
Number 6, don't think of it as feeding unemployed assholes. Think of it as working for your country's right to actually have food.
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Comments (39)
Babushka_Homyak 10
Dude, you do know that all workers pay into unemployment insurance from the deductions from weekly/biweekly/etc paychecks, right?
TheDrifter 24
Dude you do know that workers with shitty jobs get it reimbursed at tax time right?
SuperSeriouslyFM 0
...ROFLMAO @ the boner guy. That McDonald's one was actually pretty funny. Let me come up with one about super sizing, lol.
cando707 0
apply for unemployment and find a better job. He's probably going to get fired, they can warn him so many times, then cut him lose and they may find a loop hole with him so he can't get any unemployment-who knows? Maybe they don't know how bad he is- but it will catch up and bite him.
ImaginaryFoe 1
Layoffs are often based on salary, not productivity. It's a rather stupid method since they could've made you done three times the work of a single employee. Well at least he'll be keeping busy now. Good luck on the job hunt.
Allstarr23 1
No you work hard for people on welfare asshole. Anyone with a job pays into unemployment, so op is getting back their own money. Plus you get taxed on it
mike3775 39
The OP never stated whether the other one was employed longer than the OP was. When I had to lay off people, i based it on seniority. The last to hire was the first to go if need be. The Co-Worker may have been at the job longer than the OP.
JINJANINJA 0
So you base lay offs on the length of employment rather than their actual ability to do the job? What if the Op's co-worker had become complacent from being there too long? Sounds like very poor management to me, but its not what you know, its how long you have known the boss.
mike3775 39
Uh ever hear of a union? If its in a contract that everything is seniority based, guess what that means. when it comes time to be laying people off, it will ALWAYS be based on seniority not productivity. It sucks, but thats the way it goes in union shops
AmbrosiaFan 19
Sounds like where I used to work. I got laid off, but they kept several others that are always late and can't do their job right to save their life. My supervisor told me I was the most reliable there, and always comes to me to get stuff done that needs done at a certain time. Now he can't do that. Wonder how they are doing nowadays. FYL for sure. Hate it when bad things happen to good people.
TheSofaKing 7
In a union shop, the least experienced are the ones who go first, unless someone volenteers to ge laid off. Non union shops still look at senority, but they can lay off any one.
randomusername 0
Obviously you must suck a lot if they value him more than you. YDI.