best i quit or fired story

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This isnt mine personally.

The administrator pulled the housekeeper in her office to let her go. Apparently when the boss told the housekeeper(slim female) she turned into the terminator and FLIPPED the 50inch(just estimating) desk on the boss. Chile i never seen such jerry springer like behavior on the job in my life.

Now THATS a way to go out with a bang.

any stories?

Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

Sad but unfortunately true story. A nurse I worked with briefly came to work one night sober...sure didn't leave that way. She was drinking on the job all night, to the point of throwing up in a garbage can when she was confronted the next morning. I understand management actually went to her house as a group and fired her. She was turned in the the BON of course, I never did follow the story to find out the outcome of that. I always felt kind of sorry for her, I can't imagine the problem she had with alcohol if she was willing to drink while working and throw her job and very possibly her career away.

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

I once worked with a nurse who had the habit of calling in sick from bars after the shift started. One night she was stumbling around, slurring her speech and then just started screaming at me. (I had asked her if she felt OK.) The supervisor came up and drug tested her. She went home that night, went on administrative leave for a while and was back to work as if the incident had never happened. Then one night she slit her wrists with a scalpel in a patient bathroom (empty room). Thank God she was discovered before she bled out. Last I heard, she was looking for references for a job requiring a security clearance. When I was contacted, I told the truth. I hope that means she didn't get the job.

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I had debilitating cramps ¼ to ⅓ of every month with heavy bleeding before my endometriosis was being treated. When I was young I thought everyone's cycle was like that and I was just a wimp. I had actually passed out in high school from them. To make matters worse, I can't take any NSAIDs. In short, I can totally see calling out for menstruation.

She wasn't calling out for her own cramps, she was calling out for her daughter's cramps.

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I was waiting tables (briefly) while in nursing school. I had worked the dinner-to-close shift on a Friday and had to be back for opening the next day (scheduled 7-3). At 3:30 I asked if I could leave and was told, by the manager, that I couldn't leave until business slowed down some. I asked if I could have a break and he said they're not scheduled but I can buy a meal and grab a bite between tables. I told him I couldn't do that and couldn't stay because someone was watching my son and they were expecting me to have already picked him up by then. He asked if I was quitting, so I said yes. He told me to turn in my apron and order pad and get out. That is the only job I've ever quit with no notice. I went home and cried into my PB&J that my mom made me--I was so tired and frustrated and mad.

I was fired from my first nursing job during my 90-day probation with no real reason given beyond "not able to do the duties required." A coworker had told me the HR manager needed to see me and suggested I take my stethoscope with me, which was odd, but I'm glad I did. When the HR manager told me she was letting me go, our interim clinical supervisor (who had started as the nursing supervisor and was supposed to have been training me) was also in the office. She was pregnant (first trimester) but was hiding it because she didn't want it to ruin her chances of getting the supervisor spot permanently, and she was pregnant by one of the PA's in the practice. As I was leaving the HR manager's office, I turned and told the interim supervisor "good luck to you and PA on your baby!"

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Specializes in Oncology.
She wasn't calling out for her own cramps, she was calling out for her daughter's cramps.

Someone else posted about someone who would call out for their period. Another poster even asked if they were "unclean." I wasn't referring to calling in for your teenaged daughter.

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I got "let go" on vacation once:unsure: It was a long time ago, I was working at a daycare center. Not really sure why I was let go, never was given a reason that I can recall. But really, who gets fired on vacation?!

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I was waiting tables (briefly) while in nursing school. I had worked the dinner-to-close shift on a Friday and had to be back for opening the next day (scheduled 7-3). At 3:30 I asked if I could leave and was told, by the manager, that I couldn't leave until business slowed down some. I asked if I could have a break and he said they're not scheduled but I can buy a meal and grab a bite between tables. I told him I couldn't do that and couldn't stay because someone was watching my son and they were expecting me to have already picked him up by then. He asked if I was quitting, so I said yes. He told me to turn in my apron and order pad and get out. That is the only job I've ever quit with no notice. I went home and cried into my PB&J that my mom made me--I was so tired and frustrated and mad. I was fired from my first nursing job during my 90-day probation with no real reason given beyond "not able to do the duties required." A coworker had told me the HR manager needed to see me and suggested I take my stethoscope with me, which was odd, but I'm glad I did. When the HR manager told me she was letting me go, our interim clinical supervisor (who had started as the nursing supervisor and was supposed to have been training me) was also in the office. She was pregnant (first trimester) but was hiding it because she didn't want it to ruin her chances of getting the supervisor spot permanently, and she was pregnant by one of the PA's in the practice. As I was leaving the HR manager's office, I turned and told the interim supervisor "good luck to you and PA on your baby!"
Probably a dumb question, but what was the point in your co-worker suggesting you take your stethoscope to the meeting with you?
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Specializes in ER, TRAUMA, MED-SURG.
I worked with an RT years ago who was scary. Not only did he take it upon himself to write "verbal orders" for Lasix or packed cells or whatever else HE thought the patient needed, he was once caught (or so the story goes) medicating a patient with some narcotics he found at the bedside. (Used to be you'd check out 10 mg. of morphine and give 2 mg. or 4 mg. or whatever the order was and keep the syringe so you could give more later.) Word was he was going to be fired . . . .

On the news one day, there's a "Breaking News!" story about a shooter perched on a bridge overlooking the highway and threatening to take pot shots at anyone exiting the highway towards the hospital. A helicopter zoomed in to show a picture of the "unidentified man." You guessed it. Our RT. Legend has it that his boss called him into a meeting immediately before the event, but it doesn't say (and the boss won't confirm or deny) whether they RT was fired prior to the event. He never came to work again.

What a NUT!!! You're right - he was scary!

Anne, RNC

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I worked in a billing office and was supposed to be able to work from home when the new manager took over. Got a new desk with all the trimmings, then found out she lied to me about it. I typed " I quit" on the floating screen saver with a note with her name on it, on my computer, so when she came in, she saw it.

When I worked in an AL facility, the director said he wasn't replacing any of the Care associates that left. While talking with the CA for my shift, and the day shift nurse, ( both friends, I thought) I mentioned to them that the director could do something anatomically impossible. The nurse told him and on my next scheduled day to work, I was called into the office. Once I confirmed to him that yes, I did say that to this other person, I was told my services were no longer required.

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Specializes in hospice.
She was pregnant (first trimester) but was hiding it because she didn't want it to ruin her chances of getting the supervisor spot permanently, and she was pregnant by one of the PA's in the practice. As I was leaving the HR manager's office, I turned and told the interim supervisor "good luck to you and PA on your baby!"

Boy, you know how to twist the knife when you want to! I bet the look on her face was worth a million bucks.

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
She was pregnant (first trimester) but was hiding it because she didn't want it to ruin her chances of getting the supervisor spot permanently, and she was pregnant by one of the PA's in the practice. As I was leaving the HR manager's office, I turned and told the interim supervisor "good luck to you and PA on your baby!"

Love it!!! :D

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Not long after being "fired", a person that many of us thought we knew well committed suicide at home.

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