Today, I am now sans job due to burnout. My supervisors recognized I was overworked, and I'd told them I was not able to keep up with all the roles loaded on. I guess firing me was the best business solution. 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 was fired without warning from my job because I was not consulting my boss about things like washing dishes and throwing away garbage. Basically, I was fired for being too good at my job. FML
Today, I got fired from my volunteer job. FML
Today, I was fired from my job for "lack of work". What that means is that my boss hired his good-for-nothing lazy son, who then got too big of a mortgage, and he had to let me go to pay him a higher salary. 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 told my supervisor how awful my coworker was at her job. I then got fired. FML
Today, I was fired on my second day of work after a year and a half of unemployment. Apparently, my "tendency to solve problems instead of just accepting them made the other workers uneasy". FML
Today, after I was feeling overwhelmed and in the middle of a big burnout thanks to my job, my doctor told me to use anxiolytics for only three days. In those three days I lost focus, I was sleepy all the time, and I made some big mistakes, so in the end I got fired. FML
Today, I was fired from my job of 5 years. I was let go because I couldn't take the company to 'the next level'. My now ex-boss asked me if I could process my severance check because he didn't know how. I had to write myself my last paycheck. FML
Today, I got fired from my job. I worked for my parents. FML
Today I was fired from my job. They fired me because they couldn't work around my college schedule. The only reason they hired me was because they were looking for college students and without a job I can't go back to school. FML
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Chazzster 32
Usually when hired, if the boss is an effective supervisor, you will be told what is expected of you either directly by boss or your designated trainer. OP, if you feel overloaded doing what you were told was your job responsibility then the job is a bad fit and the blame is on you and your supervisor - You for taking job you cannot perform and boss for hiring someone who cannot perform the job… On the other hand, sometimes an ineffective supervisor faced with not being able to hire all the help they need starts overloading their employees with additional work - Which can reduce the quality of the work done and burn out the employees. Both of these things will ultimately impact the business. OP if the problem was you misunderstood the job expectations and were unable to perform them, then while regrettable; what the supervisor did is not unexpected. On the other hand, if boss is just layering on more and more work than the job you were hired to do because they think they can get away with it; or for business reasons, they are not able to pay for more help then you have good reason to complain. And if that was the case you would have been wise to have been looking for another job… Ultimately in a free enterprise system, economics makes the important calls. A business owner or manager who drives away workers or fires good workers will not survive in the long term. Unfortunately that reckoning comes not as fast as you would like.
WardenWolf 26
That sounds like constructive dismissal. Contact an employment lawyer.
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Chazzster 32
Usually when hired, if the boss is an effective supervisor, you will be told what is expected of you either directly by boss or your designated trainer. OP, if you feel overloaded doing what you were told was your job responsibility then the job is a bad fit and the blame is on you and your supervisor - You for taking job you cannot perform and boss for hiring someone who cannot perform the job… On the other hand, sometimes an ineffective supervisor faced with not being able to hire all the help they need starts overloading their employees with additional work - Which can reduce the quality of the work done and burn out the employees. Both of these things will ultimately impact the business. OP if the problem was you misunderstood the job expectations and were unable to perform them, then while regrettable; what the supervisor did is not unexpected. On the other hand, if boss is just layering on more and more work than the job you were hired to do because they think they can get away with it; or for business reasons, they are not able to pay for more help then you have good reason to complain. And if that was the case you would have been wise to have been looking for another job… Ultimately in a free enterprise system, economics makes the important calls. A business owner or manager who drives away workers or fires good workers will not survive in the long term. Unfortunately that reckoning comes not as fast as you would like.
WardenWolf 26
That sounds like constructive dismissal. Contact an employment lawyer.