# I'm firing one of my employees this morning

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-firing-one-of-my-employees-this-morning/709631>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 12, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-firing-one-of-my-employees-this-morning/709631 "2015-01-12T16:10:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-firing-one-of-my-employees-this-morning/709631/41 "2015-01-13T02:12:54Z")

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If you can’t show up by 11AM, screw you. Get on disability or something, but don’t fuck with my business.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-firing-one-of-my-employees-this-morning/709631/42 "2015-01-13T02:30:19Z")

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> [@Glazer](#):
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> How do you get fired on your day off?

This happened to me once. The boss was an absolute Cunt. It was a shit job anyway.

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**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-firing-one-of-my-employees-this-morning/709631/43 "2015-01-13T04:06:30Z")

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> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#):
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> It’s too bad you weren’t the OP for this thread, then the employee could have come back with the obvious rejoinder: “You can’t fire me, Ike Witt!”

[“Placet Is A Crazy Place” 1946](http://www.douban.com/group/topic/2074620/)

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-firing-one-of-my-employees-this-morning/709631/44 "2015-01-13T04:47:36Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> I knew I’d catch some slack…hence the footnote. .

To be frank I read your post after writing what I did but I can understand why you took it personally. Just remember that because a post is under yours, it doesn’t make it a reply.

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**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-firing-one-of-my-employees-this-morning/709631/45 "2015-01-13T15:25:30Z")

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A developer I knew at a previous job got a call on his cell phone in his car on his way home from work on a Friday from his boss, who told him he was being let go and to pick his stuff up at the front door on Monday. His boss told the rest of the team he had been let go for tardiness, which was 100% bullplop and everyone knew it. After talking about it for a while we realized that he was two weeks from his one year anniversary, and consequent good sized bonus.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-firing-one-of-my-employees-this-morning/709631/46 "2015-01-13T19:44:31Z")

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So this guy was late for his own firing, will he also be late for his own funeral? 😃

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