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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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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SadWorker00000 3
OP here, and let me begin by saying THANK YOU to the OPTIMISTIC souls who took the time to try and cheer me up. You are the reason we aren't all miserable scrooges in this world, so I hope you have a fantastic day and even better weekend. :) Now, I'm about to rant. Yes, it is an at-will state. No, it wasn't for retail or food-related job. I'm not actually the one who this happened to, so I don't want to say all the details, but let's call the victim "A." I can tell you this: they worked 5+ years at that job, over 15+ years in the industry (after years in trade school), and had never been fired like this, and by 'this,' I mean lying in order to be pressure A into signing papers A never could have understood (just a tip, never assume English is a person's first language or that technology is understood by all people). The whole situation is just mind-blowingly anger-inducing because it doesn't matter that a previous judge found the employer's witness about as reliable as a wet noodle propping up a rock, that we suspect they've been investigated by the government and forced to pay back wages before (history of playing fast and loose), or the company basically goes through inexperienced employees like tissue paper and forces the experienced ones to shoulder double the workload then reams all of them for doing a bad job. The company has basically stolen thousands and thousands of dollars with these shenanigans and we little people can't even be let in the door to be heard by a judge unless we have evidence to prove they broke a contract in order to even talk about this stuff because an honest man's word is not enough to do battle with a liar's ill-begotten penned words... Ugh, and now they've stalled so long, many alternative options to seek justice are not open anymore (time limits for EEOC and such). If anyone has any legal ideas, I'm open to them, but honestly, I've lost hope on finding justice for poor A.
SadWorker00000 3
And to anyone upset by the word I used in the original nickname, I'm so sorry! I had no idea it could be considered so rude. Fairyjoshy's comment is enough to make me never use that word ever again. I'll make sure others don't use it lightly ever again either. Seriously, I really am sorry about that, though I know that doesn't help much. :(
MaterMortis 6
What do you care? How is that your fml unless you were the one wrongly fired. Just saying
yeldarb12 8
happened to me a year and a half ago... a week before Christmas too
messymessiah 11
I think you're better off not working for a company like that. Unethical and liars. Not good people to work for.
devans00 14
Yep. I've lived this FML too. Companies and managers can tell any lie and their version will stick as the official one. Don't be so shocked when someone shoots up their job. Looking to kill management first. There may be a good reason.
VgForce_fml 3
One door close and new doors open. Maybe you will find good and ethical coworkers on your next job.
JKPwnage 27
Hopefully it's somewhere you can leave a bad Yelp review on
LadyTyger51ne 8
That's what we call an "at-will" termination. I've been there. Hope you find something much better!!!
delaneyseal 15
Does this happen to be about a director at a college....?
WingedLovely27 20
Demand a trial by combat!