GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

greenmm · Post by **greenmm** » 2002-10-10 09:52am

I am so fucking pissed right now.

After spending over 7 fruitless months of sending out countless resumes, going to numerous job fairs, searching for any kind of online job posting, and winding up only with a bunch of snail and e-mail rejections ("We're filling this post internally", "That job offering has been pulled", "We went with another candidate", ad infinitum nauseum), I finally land a temp job through accountemps with a local office. The job was great, I was actually putting into practice some of the accounting skills that I've gone back to college to learn (should get my Certificate this coming June, and planning on taking the CPA exam after that), and I was actually feeling like I was working for the company as opposed to just being another temp.

So what happens? Yesterday, right as I'm getting ready to leave -- time being critical since I have class Monday and Wednesday nights -- the manager comes up to me and says that my assignment is over, that I won't be coming back to work for them, and to clean out anything in the desk that belongs to me. He said things "weren't working out as he'd liked".

It doesn't make any sense. First off, this manager is a straightforward, somewhat blunt type of guy. He has no problem telling you when you're doing something wrong. At the same time, he also has a standard procedure for their employees where you have verbal then written warnings of problems -- and he insists that all temps follow all regular employee procedures (including using the same time cards for the punch clock), so you'd think that would apply to any disciplinary problems. Secondly, accountemps has a standard 3-month timeframe when the company has to choose to either let you go or hire you on, as opposed to the 90-day policy that some other agencies use. Well, today would have been 90 days since I started there, and Saturday would be the 3-month mark, so it throws up a suspicious flag.

What's even worse, though, is that in last week's manager's meeting (he's the general manager, and he has 2 processing managers and 5 store managers under him, plus the other admin and I were required to attend), he flat out said he wanted to spend more time out at the stores and less time in the office, and was going to be turning more responsibilities over to the other admin and myself. Why say that if he was going to let me go -- and if there was some reason for letting me go, why not tell me about it in advance?

I felt like I was shafted when Qwest laid us off last November (right after Thanksgiving, the fuckers). This time was just as bad, though.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2002-10-10 09:56am

ask him

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-10 10:06am

Ouch. That's harsh. The job market today sucks royally. Good luck in finding a new job. Hopefully the temp place will make a point to get you a new assignment right away.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-10 10:10am

Jeez, that's weird. Yeah, talk to the guy. If he's as straightforward as you say, he'll be honest if you convince him.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-10 10:12am

*Remind him your the only one who knows at the passwords to the server and the back-up areas and on cell phone command the entire set-up with low level format itself and even if you stop me I still know the passwords so they are useless to you!

Wait no thats my protection aginst getting fired...(Oh yeah and considering the job they can have me shot rather than arrested

, come to think of it nothing much vauable on those servers either )

Sorry to hear about this, best of luck somthing random will happen

Hopefuly Ironicly random

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-10-10 12:51pm

Man, that sucks. I've heard of companies pulling that cheesy "3 months less a day and you're out" shit before.

Don't bother asking for your job back; they're obviously ruthless, and you're better off in the long run working somewhere else. But if your manager has any shred of decency in him, he might at least be willing to give you a good letter of reference.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-10-10 07:49pm

The same thing happened to me man, i got a job in a small Legal practice in June, on Monday there the fucker calles me into the office says it's not working out ans gives me 5 minutes to clear my desk.

Some ppl are just cunts

I did feel better after i re-programed his fax machine to give out the header "Assholes Anomyous"

greenmm · Post by **greenmm** » 2002-10-10 08:01pm

Something I hadn't thought about until today when my wife and I were discussing it again:

They brought me in because one of their employees left suddenly -- no 2 week notice, no prior talk, just flat out quit and left them in a bind.

Well, a few weeks ago, she called the other admin (who she'd kept in touch with) asking if they had openings.

And guess who happened to come in yesterday, at which point the manager said she'd be working on a special project? You guessed it: the same lady.

Our bet is they decided to go the route of "We can pay her less than we're paying the temp agency for him, and not have to give him additional training, but we need to bad mouth him so that we can get out of the contract"....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » 2002-10-11 03:26pm

Managers, proof anal sex can produce children

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-11 04:07pm

Tell me about it, I just got shorted 20 hours on my pay check this week.