Today, I learned companies can legally lie to fire an employee, and unless anything they say is on record, they are legally correct, no matter how unethical the company is. FML
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Wild Nights Out
Last call, bad decisions and 3 a.m. texts you'll regret until noon. Cheers.
Today, I found out that absentmindedly correcting my boss's use of the word "whom" could result in my immediate termination. FML
Today, I overheard my boss talking about me on the phone. Turns out he was drunk off his ass when he gave the go-ahead to hire me, and he's now searching for any excuse to legally fire me. FML
Today, I realized that no one at work actually tells me when there’s a rule change, they just punish me and then try to gaslight me into believing it’s always been a rule. FML
Today, a coworker told me something I didn't realize was confidential, until later when my boss called me, saying someone may have shared something confidential with me, and me, not thinking so, said I don't think anyone did. We hung up, they called back and elaborated, and it dawned on me now they think I'm a liar. FML
Today, my co-workers and I have to fight for our jobs because of a mistake our managers made. They get to keep their jobs. FML
Today, I was hired from an interview after being fired 3 months ago from an "at will" employer by someone who sabotaged me. They called it "misconduct" but it's real lame. I was filling out the paper in the app and they wanted permission to contact HR at my previous employer to get ANY information about misconduct. FML
Today, my boss fired me because I corrected him after he misspoke during a meeting. FML
Today, at work, I accidentally walked into a meeting at which the whole company was there but me. The meeting was about how they could legally fire me while paying as little severance as possible. I'm the CEO and the founder of the company. FML
Today, I got fired from my job. When I asked why, all that was said to me was, "We don't have to disclose that information, but you did nothing wrong. It's just not working out." FML
Today, I was fired from my job because I, in my boss's words, "Abided by company policy to such an extent that customers were starting to hate me." FML
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InnocenceBlue 38
Please elaborate? We're all dying to know what happened.
fakedsincerity 32
No need to be a dick #15. The FML is pretty vague, And has zero specific details so wanting more is pretty logical. Stop being so salty.
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Comments (69)
Manic1 13
I don't think companies even need a reason to let you go, at least in my state they don't. Why should they go through the trouble of making up a lie?
chinaski7628 32
OP could have a contract and the company is making up an accusation that would fulfill a loophole (like a morality clause) in order to fire OP. Or OP could be a whistleblower and the company has made up a spurious accusation in order to fire them/discredit them. Or OP is the victim of discrimination and the company is trying to cover it up. Or the company made up an accusation that OP was fired for stealing so OP can't collect unemployment. Or OP's boss is a dick and is trying to blacklist OP in his/her field/job search. A lot of reasons, really (and sadly). If a company is unethical enough to make up the lie in the first place, there's probably a pretty unethical reason why they're lying.
IzybelK 5
I don't think they lied on the reasoning, so much as lying on what she did on job. Such as, they could have said she was stealing from the company.
RealSuperSand 21
This desperately needs a follow-up.
awesumous 16
If ur a fireman, id start recording everything, and delete it if nothing happened, but show it to the police if someone lies, ect.
cmchappy 25
Please read the fml again
CliffyB03 28
I once was fired for being "too short". Like, put a ******* height limit on the application then!
Mooglefox 24
Didn't you know that? Look at Walmart.
Geckosrock99 33
This sounds a lot like what happened to my sister in law. The local Dollar General as it out for my family. The son of the family who owns the store egged and vandalized our house, so we pressed charges and threatened to sue for the cost of damages. They now refuse to hire anyone of my family, my boyfriend, or any of my best friends. Once they found out they hired my sister in law, they fired her with a bogus excuse. It's lucky they haven't figured out they hired my best friend. They need to grow up and act like the adults they are. We live in a small town, without going to the next town/city, there's already limited employment options as it is.
dreadlocmask 15
It's 100% illegal to do that. Call your labor board
ohSNAPyall 27
Please don't say "jipped." From your spelling, I'm guessing you've only heard it and don't know the origins. But it's spelled "gypped," and it means "to be swindled by a Gypsy." It's a slur against Roma.
Fairyjoshy 13
And before the unpc crowd jumps in and is like "stop being so oversensitive", no, the word gypsy is pretty much a major racial epithet, on the level of the n-word, and while there are some Roma that are trying to reclaim it... it's theirs to reclaim, and most just remember the discrimination they've suffered when the word is used. That being said, it's so commonplace that most people don't know it's a racial epithet, which used to be the case with the n word. So it's mostly used out of ignorance rather than malevolence. Which is why I think spreading awareness about this is important. Because words can and often do hurt people, so we should actually be courteous to our fellow man. That's not being over-sensitive, that's just being a good human being.
Scorpio1691 29
Labour law that doesnt protect the labourers.