# I may have contributed to someone getting fired. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2014, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-contributed-to-someone-getting-fired/688634 "2014-05-17T15:06:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-contributed-to-someone-getting-fired/688634/41 "2014-05-19T17:47:43Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Change your phone number immediately! You should probably move, too, just to be on the safe side. > > And since she knows what your vehicle looks like, you’re gonna need a new car. 😃 Man, this is starting to get expensive- a bunch of cigarettes, twenty bucks, some gas, and now a phone, car and house! So far my phone has only rung once today and that was work calling to see if I could come in and help out today. Fortunately, my stitches don’t come out until later in the week, so no. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-contributed-to-someone-getting-fired/688634/42 "2014-05-19T17:57:53Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > My first real job was as a mail & supply clerk in a tiny Federal agency. 'Bout a month after they hired me, they hired a recent high school grad. Unlike I, this kid had basically no work ethic and spent pretty much all his time on the phone with his girlfriend(s). Don’t think he even lasted a month. I got someone fired from a temp job once - we were both supposed to be going through a list of customers and calling all of them. Our boss was away for a couple of days, and while she was away, my co-worker spent hours each day on personal calls rather than what we were getting paid to do (we sat next to each other, so I could hear what she was doing). When the boss came back, she came over to me and mentioned how she got reports that we had done a great job while she was gone, and it was out of my mouth before I realized it - I said, “_Both_ of us?!?”, and then of course she wanted to know what that meant. The other temp was gone by the end of the day. Again, I technically didn’t get her fired - her poor work ethic was what did her in. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-contributed-to-someone-getting-fired/688634/43 "2014-05-20T00:06:18Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > Man, this is starting to get expensive- a bunch of cigarettes, twenty bucks, some gas, and now a phone, car and house! Not to mention the cosmetic surgery, how soon can you get over the border? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-contributed-to-someone-getting-fired/688634/44 "2014-05-20T01:13:47Z")
I didn’t exactly get someone fired, but I declined to grant clemency. Basically the dude was able to dazzle HR with a puffed-up resume, but he turned out to be absolutely useless on my team. HR decided he maybe he “wasn’t a good fit” and moved him to another team. He wasn’t a good fit there either nor on the subsequent team. Eventually they called me again and asked “do you want him back? If not, we’re gonna lay him off”. Hey, no guilt trip there :smack: I declined and he was gone. > [@Not\_Carlson](#): > > As others have said, she brought this on herself, but I doubt she sees it that way. Nope, she doesn’t. Sounds like my ex-girlfriend, who borrowed $3000 from her best friend to pay off her car loan and instead gave the money to her new boyfriend to help pay for drugs. And yet, in her mind, it’s my fault they aren’t friends anymore. (I complained that the lien holder was still calling me looking for the ex after she moved out, which inadvertently revealed the car hadn’t been paid off. I hadn’t known anything about the “loan”) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-have-contributed-to-someone-getting-fired/688634.md?page=2)