Have you ever been fired, was it hard getting another job?

[Hassaniscool]

[BCRanger10]

Yes. A previous employer many years ago lied to me during my interview and hire. They lied again to get me fired. I didn't have trouble finding a new job. Even if I did though, I had the option to go back to the job I had before then, which I eventually did, but not until several months later.

[exitseven]

Yes, I applied for an engineering job for an IT service provider. The owner called me and said he wanted me to interview for a position where I would be in charge of their technical staff. I told him i had applied for an engineering position and had never done what he wanted me to do. He insisted that I had all the qualifications so I took the job. It looked to me that the department was a mess, work was not getting done and everyone seemed to be just doing what they wanted to do. I tried to get peo0ple to take responsibility for their jobs. Naturally everyone complained. I really hated working there. After about 7 weeks I got fired. I found a better job in about two weeks.

[itsclearlynicholas]

Sympathies man. Not many appreciate the harder burdens of those who didn't have it as easy as others or as others claimed. "Aka friends of friends" got me the job. Grrr growls lol 🐻

[itsclearlynicholas]

@exitseven and like my own answer, ups and downs were sometimes my fault, sometimes not my fault. External factors. Versus it was all me me me or for whatever reason I was dealt the hand hand hand dice dice dice 🎲 time and time again. Things oddly enough got better once the Democrats got the white house back and once in 2022 Albo became PM here. Anyways. At least things aren't as rough for me as they were under Republicans and Liberals (not the American definition of liberal)

[itsclearlynicholas]

And that was only 2021, things sure were tough for "ol Nic" here from 2014 to 2021. Finally 2022 to so far 2024 I've at least been given a good fortune, 🔮 however long this lasts or lasts or I can keep maintaining and gratefully. Otherwise I'm just back on the job market again like any other working person.

[itsclearlynicholas]

"cause that's the beauty of economic capitalism @exitseven eve though I'm a socialist and a democratic socialist voter: I for one don't give two hoots or two toots of the horn for capitalism, however, I for one am expected to work as per capitalism since socialism means sitting on my backside lol 😆 in a perfect bliss of a world. So that means, everyone has to do a job and has to get a job. So the beauty of capitalism is, I have to be employed eventually. You know? Like I try to be good at my jobs yet I'm always a realist and that is, well, even if life is ups and downs, im expected to work. I'm, like most, expected to work. Emphasis 🤣😋

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[itsclearlynicholas]

And yes. And yes. More than once. Other times I quit. I'm not a bad worker, I just either had issues with coworkers, managers, or I was lumped into a job I didn't think through or wasn't for me.
I had to take whatever work came along
Are things in a happier place now in 2024? They are for now and I have to say that to be touch-wood grateful for my lucky stars 🤩 after all, life's unpredictable as much as they say about business or the way stock markets crash one day recover another. and so I'm just grateful I eventually found another job.
Now that said, I always like to remark to myself, "it could easily be sunny one day, fired the next" and that could just be restructuring or a economic issues. Ah well. I just have to take life as it rolls with me with the waves 🌊

[itsclearlynicholas]

Ever since the 2010s I'd been in and out of work, unemployed, underemployed (stuck in a casual position, stuck in a role with few prospects) or barely clinging to forces beyond my control like stock crashes, Covid, geopolitics, politics domestic, etc.
Business conditions etc. so yeah. Being an employee lol feels sometimes as eye opening as running the darn show hahaha film 📽️🎥

[Chazmatazz269]

I’ve been fired but i’ve never had difficulty finding wort.

[itsclearlynicholas]

In most countries like UK, Europe, USA and elsewhere, "under capitalism, you're (people) are expected to work. We're expected to work. Or study. And then work and work some more lol until pension age hahaha, that's the reward of capitalism ahahaha. Sigh. I am a socialist and even when I'm an old old man someday pensioner then, I'll still say I'm a socialist. I'm a socialist. After all, to think people 'have to work' sigh. I rather the ending of Margin Call where even John admits "money is just made up" and that's the capitalist talking to another capitalist his coworker. Anyways 🧐.*

[Hassaniscool]

H9w to pass the interview when asked about it

[Nikki1989]

No, never.