# How to lose your job just before the Holidays (kinda long)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-your-job-just-before-the-holidays-kinda-long/426562>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 15, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-your-job-just-before-the-holidays-kinda-long/426562 "2007-11-15T17:52:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-your-job-just-before-the-holidays-kinda-long/426562/41 "2007-11-18T22:00:02Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunrazor]  
There was a time when we workers took care of our employers because we wanted to be worthy of the money they were paying us.  
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I think your memory is shaky–but it’s clearly not [Wobbly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World). 😉

Daniel

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**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-your-job-just-before-the-holidays-kinda-long/426562/42 "2007-11-19T04:18:40Z")

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[QUOTE=glee]  
What about us dogsbodys?!  
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I know, I know. Us faceless drones get no love, either.

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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-your-job-just-before-the-holidays-kinda-long/426562/43 "2007-11-20T01:00:07Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunrazor]  
I feel \*\*Labtrash’s \*\* pain – and frustration. I was a manager at a call center for a huge multinational corp. until several years ago. We came to the conclusion that today’s young employee comes to work only when he/she has nothing better to do.  
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Well, having worked in a call center for a huge multinational corp., it’s also just because it’s a call center. I mean, with some exceptions, they’re the sweatshops of the developed world.

Of the employees that quit or were fired, at least half of them were no-shows. We’d simply never hear from them again. While I can understand this to an extent for people in the first couple of weeks, this would happen to people who’d been there for years. People who would tell me, days before, how desperately they needed this job. Excellent employees, too. When one of them who had domestic abuse problems disappeared, and was one of my best employees who was hardly ever absent, I called every number on her application for a week trying to reach someone. She finally called me to tell me to stop calling her family members.

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**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2007, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-lose-your-job-just-before-the-holidays-kinda-long/426562/44 "2007-11-20T01:43:40Z")

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[QUOTE=fluiddruid]  
… I called every number on her application for a week trying to reach someone. She finally called me to tell me to stop calling her family members.  
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Thank you, you’re a good person. If you’ve ever experience DV, you know what it meant to her that you kept calling until you heard from her directly.

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