As a contractor, you get used to assignments ending. Sometimes you know in advance, sometimes you find out abruptly. Typically, because of key cards and stuff, I’ve had to be walked out so I could actually leave the building or the parking lot. I’ve only had one assignment end on a bad note, but my agency rep thought it was BS and so she came over to do the walk out herself and then took me for lunch afterwards.
(I’d been let go for sexual harassment because I invited a co-worker to a catalog lingerie party using her company email address and it made her feel uncomfortable. The agency rep had gotten the same email and had thought nothing of it.)
My last four jobs all escorted me off. And three of them I quit. On my last day they escorted me out. The other job I gave notice and they said, since I gave notice, I could leave immediately. That one I didn’t like 'cause security watched over me as I went piece by piece to make sure I didn’t “steal” anything.
After that I learned, to clean out my desk and stuff FIRST then give notice. Just in case they pulled the “get them off the property ASAP.”
Funny enough in my IT job I thought for sure, as soon as I gave notice I’d be escorted off the property as soon as I gave my two week notice, 'cause every other manager got treated that way. And I figured that being in IT they’d want me out ASAP. But they let me work off the two week notice and then escorted me off property.
When I quit Disneyland, one of the managers escorted me out the back. It was an amicable split and they knew about it, but I guess they didn’t want me to go spend the rest of the day in the park having fun. I assume the process is less rigorous if you worked at, say, a mini-golf place
*Firing *someone over that may be a bit extreme, but I’m a little perplexed how you could have possibly thought it was a good idea. Clearly you didn’t know her well enough to invite her to a lingerie party, if she had this reaction without you anticipating it.
It was an error in judgment, indeed. It was a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation. There were only 10 women at our location, the other 9 were all coming including her best friend - I didn’t want her to feel excluded.
I can only plead that I was not of completely sound mind at the time - my younger sister had dropped dead suddenly less than 2 months before and I had just come off a pretty deep depression about it. I was trying to claw my way back to happy and had been talked in to hosting the party by some of my co-workers who thought it would give me the pick-me-up I needed.
When I worked at UBS, I had to be let out of the building by a cow-orker from the company we took over because by badge no longer worked. I was a little close to losing it then as it was the first time I’d been whacked in a professional job. UBS (Swiss Bank at the time) had taken over Warburgs, and 2 weeks later fired 95% of the Swiss Bank people in the overlapping-ish roles. I was ok with the hammer being dropped, had the day to send out goodbye emails, make international calls, etc, and when I tried to leave it was in the area where the Warburg assholes were all sitting. I remember clearly shouting “could one of you Warburg motherfuckers let me outta here.”
One guy was pretty cool and said “ya, I can do that.”
One I wish to god we had escorted off the property… (nothing bad happened, BUT)
Allegedly former drug dealer (don’t believe the “former” part for a second) and neighbor to our site supervisor is given a job at our site because he’s “trying to turn his life around” (a straight out lie). Kid is a mess. Plays profane music at the front desk, won’t tuck in his uniform shirt, sits with his feet up on the desk (at the reception desk), burped into the phone while taking a call for the HR manager, loudly crunched pretzels and talked with his mouth full on a call meant for the General Manager of the place, ignored most of his duties, etc. When I tried to straighten these things out one or two major flaws at a time, I was accused of picking on him. Would have loved to just run his ass off the property as grossly incompetent, willfully disobedient to policy and totally unfit for the job.
Then one day the main office calls and tells me (day shift supervisor) to send him to the office, but not to tell him why. They’re firing him because he lied on his application and claimed to have graduated college when he actually quit a couple of weeks into it. So off he goes, and we all rejoice. There was abundance in the land and all was right with the world.
Two hours later he’s back, pissed off, demanding to come in while I’m desperately trying to keep his sorry ass out of the building and get ahold of the main office to know why the fuck this guy is coming back or to let them know that he did come back, angry, and that I will be calling the police if they tell me they actually fired the guy like they said. Turns out our site supervisor intervened and they gave the kid several days to prove that he wasn’t lying.
Obviously he couldn’t, and was fired for good a few days later.
But oh so not cool when I thought we were finally rid of this guy and then someone I expected was fired comes back acting all pissed off and demanding back in the building. Damn stupid people at the main office should have had the intelligence to call and notify me that he was coming back.
I’ve been escorted out by management on 2 layoffs. The first company was rather dickish about it and you needed a documented list of items before leaving. That may not sound harsh but I watched someone wait at the door because their family photo wasn’t on the list. :rolleyes:
The last one I was allowed to download files I wanted and they even forwarded some that I missed upon request.
