this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2025
49 points (98.0% liked)

Ask Lemmy

33572 readers
1260 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either !asklemmyafterdark@lemmy.world or !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email info@lemmy.world. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


6) No US Politics.
Please don't post about current US Politics. If you need to do this, try !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world or !askusa@discuss.online


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Original question by @Justathroughdaway@lemmy.world

And what stopped you from being fired?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 5 points 3 days ago

Probably lots of times that I wasn't aware of.

Once I got a disciplinary and six month "probation" for taking a day off that hadn't been approved. I'm not sure what I expected to happen, but I did it anyway because the a-hole who denied it took such pleasure in the denial that I absolutely had to take the day off anyway just to spite him. Frankly, he's lucky he was 1) bigger than me and 2) I'm not predisposed to violence. That smirk was an open invitation.

There was also the time I remember the boss of the company I was working for at the time coming into the room I was working in, standing there for a bit and then walking out. I'd thought it was weird at the time, but later heard that he'd been planning to fire me but saw me hard at work and chickened out. He later made me redundant, which I don't think was a surprise to anyone but me. He's a millionaire running a large US company now. Funny to think about really.

Sometimes you think you're introspective until you realise there's a whole bunch of things you've totally been missing or not facing. In my case, mental health. Looking back at the way I worked in all the jobs I had before I had to quit, I can see what I was doing in order to continue to function totally rubbed people the wrong way, even when it wasn't the overt, angry nonsense I started doing towards the end.