#fired

[ruigiraccoon]

[stealth-science]

Not only did are the seasonal jobs being reinstated, they are increasing the number of positions by like 2000? Again putting the lie to the statement in the termination letters for probationary rangers that they:

The department needs us desperately. Some of us are going to be hired back in EXACTLY the same position and park but as a seasonal ranger instead of permanent.

I saw an article from the LA Times saying that the Trump administration is backtracking on eliminating seasonal national park employees. I hope this helps you!

I'm...tentatively glad about that.

But at this point, the issue isn't so much the actual firings, it's the CHAOS. And this is just more of it. The constant back and forth is the most exhausting part. We're being fucking toyed with and it's infuriating. Maybe everyone who was fired does get their jobs back, but then whose to say another shoe won't drop and they'll end up fired again in another month?

Also, me personally, I'm in an even WEIRDER position than most. But I don't want to talk about it too much and risk jinxing it. Basically, though, I've got no fucking clue if I have a job or not. And no one else seems to know either, including my boss.

[foldingfittedsheets]

I’ve been fired exactly once in my life. In my early twenties I was working at a pizza place. The pizzas were artisanal, thin crust and personal. They’re a huge chain now but when I first started the company was in its infancy. It was the wild west of management, and the core investors would frequently stop by to check on things. One of these people was this round little man with rage issues. A knock off Danny Devito with no charisma at all.

His favorite thing to do was to come in on a Friday or Saturday night. We'd be at our stations: taking orders, making pizza, manning the oven, finishing orders off, running the cash register. He'd shove his way onto the line and start rearranging people. "You, get off orders and work the cash register, you come over and make the pizzas!" With a line of customers snaking out the door he'd throw off all our grooves and rattle us.

Then, inevitably, a mistake would happen.

When it did he'd call the person over and say, "Hey c'mere. You're fired." Just like that. No inflection, just a flat "You're fired." It was absolutely a power kink, and because of his involvement the average turn over was three months. You were a veteran at five months.

One night there was only three of us manning the front. I took an order than went to the cash register to ring them out before I made the pizza. This horrible man watched that then called me into the back. I didn't know if I was about to be fired. But I wasn't. In fact, he had one other move besides firing people. He yelled.

In the back he absolutely lost his mind screaming at me for being on the cash register. I'm talking veins popping, spit flying, red with rage, this man just started bellowing nonsensically about where I should be and how I was just such a failure. It was truly like his brain had shut off, nothing he was saying even made sense. I stood there in the face of this tirade for a minute and then set a record for being the first person to ever cut him short by bursting into tears.

He instantly stopped yelling and it was like Jekyll and Hyde. He was remorseful and consoling, deeply embarrassed by my display of emotion. All my male coworkers just took the abuse but faced with my weeping he about faced and instantly backed off. I went outside to cry and when I came back in he pretended it had never happened.

That was the state of things. The investors knew they desperately needed to keep this man out of the stores, but they couldn't just give him the boot. They needed to move him aside and fill his position with someone. The store manager was this lovely woman who had hired me on the spot at my interview. The entire staff adored her. She was the best fit to get this roided out investor out of the stores for good.

Her replacement was this man called Anthony. He was instantly loathed by the entire staff. Condescending, critical, and lazy he started off his reign by letting go a core lead who "back talked." He spent a whole morning berating the opening crew because the closing crew (who had sold 100 more pizzas than we were even supposed to have on hand) had forgotten to windex the doors. He left the entire crew to close without him while he flirted with a girl who wasn't his pregnant girlfriend. He hired his roommate to replace the lead he fired and even that guy hated his guts.

Our antipathy toward him made him paranoid and resentful and one by one he started finding excuses to fire the whole staff, certain that if he could clean house he'd be able to do the job. My time came, and he sat me down with his boss, my former manager. She cried as he announced I wasn't personable enough and used too many pepperonis.

I looked at her, the woman who had trained me on how many pepperoni to use, but she said nothing. What could she say? He was the boss now and had determined I was going to be let go regardless. Too many in this case was seven. Seven pepperonis on a personal pizza. The correct number was five according to him, which is one pepperoni per slice, and one in the middle.

I sat there for a moment, taking it in. I smiled at my old manager, obviously miserable. I looked back at him and said, "You're a terrible manager, you're doing the worst imaginable job." I outlined some of the things he'd done so she could hear them, then I stood up and left. I made it to the back room before I started crying.

I found out later through a bus boy that he replaced the whole staff with college kids who had such limited availability that the store couldn't run, then quit three months later leaving the whole place in shambles. Most of the old staff returned, but I'd moved onto the sex shop already and was enjoying a job with significantly less risk of being fired on a whim.

However I do have to disclose on job applications if I've ever been fired. I always says yes and list the reason as, "Excessive use of pepperoni." It has never failed to get a laugh from my interviewer.

[savagechickens]

Hey Corporations!

And more corporate stuff.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I got a job at IKEA despite never applying, and I found out when I got an email asking me why I hadn’t shown up for my Monday shift. I called in sick, but they told me that being sick was no excuse and that I still had to show up. I then sent them an email handing in my notice.

[saywhat-politics]

The White House on Saturday fired the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra — one of the final regulators held over from the Biden administration.

Why it matters: Trump is the first president to fire a leader of the CFPB. The Supreme Court in 2020 ruled the agency's structure was unconstitutional and said presidents could fire directors at will.

The future of the agency in the Trump era is up in the air. Chopra's term was not supposed to end until next year.

Catch up quick: Under Chopra, the consumer protection agency took aggressive action against banks, often putting him at odds with the financial industry.

Days before Trump took office last month, the CFPB sued Capital One for allegedly "cheating customers" out of billions in interest on consumer savings accounts.

Chopra cracked down on junk fees and signaled support for a proposal that would cap credit card interest rates, something Trump has openly supported.

[dstriple]

And here's Spyglass Media Group explaining why they fired Melissa Barrera: 👇

"FALSE REFERENCES TO GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING"

Let's be clear here... she wasn't fired for making an antisemite comment.

Mel Gibson was even more obvious with the whole "Jews control the media" narrative. And yet he has had no problem getting work in Hollywood.

No, Barrera was fired for accusing Israel of commiting genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Which Spyglass considers to be completely false.

Last October, Maha Dakhil, a prominent CAA talent agency agent, was forced to step down from leadership roles after she dared to criticize Israel's war crimes in Gaza.

Guess who was among the powerful Hollywood big-wigs leading the charge to get her to resign from CAA? Gary Barber, the CEO of Spyglass Media Group.

Even more proof that this has nothing to do with antisemitism is that Hollywood big wheels are now trying to go after writer/director Boots Riley, for voicing similar views as Melissa's. Boots Riley is Jewish.

BTW, Jenna Ortega is Pro-Palestine as well...

As a result of that Tweet, Ortega was quickly tagged as an antisemite & a HAMAS supporter by The Times of Israel.

It REALLY becomes harder to combat actual antisemitism when people who dare to criticize Israel's war crimes get quickly branded as antisemites for doing so.

So you have a ridiculous situation where celebs who openly hate Israel's government are tagged as antisemites. Placing their careers in peril.

While people who openly spread antisemitism, such as Elon Musk, they rarely face any consequences - see attached Tweets below where Musk promotes the White Supremacist "great replacement theory" that claims that Jews want to destroy the white race/Western Civilization. His dog whistles are not subtle at all.

Despite his antisemitic tweets, Musk received praise by the Anti-Defamation League because the so-called champion of "free speech" threatened to ban anyone that called for the decolonization of Palestine.

So apparently, the real antisemites are the people that dare to criticize Israel. Not the people who actually hate jews. It's f*cked up.

Anyway, Spyglass has made their move. Let's see if it pays off.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Look who made the top of Trump's termination list: Jose Andres, Mark Milley, Brian Hook, Keisha Lance Bottoms

[akayna]

I made these!! My first pots glazed and fired :3

The back right one with the straight sides is the very first one I threw on the wheel 💚💚

[democracyunderground]

[stuckinapatriarchalbullshitland]

That Melissa was fired for something as honest as supporting the genocide happening in the Middle East is the most unfair thing I have ever seen. Melissa has grown on me as an actress from one of my favorite franchises so I won't be watching Scream 7 without her, even if Jenna is still a part of the franchise.

It's fucked up how they can censor and punish those who advocate for justice and I say this without diminishing the suffering of any of the parties because between Israel and Palestine there is an enemy and that is the extremist group that is causing all this conflict.

[missing-username]

NOT TO GET POLITICAL OR ANYTHING, ID NEVER DO THAT

[stealth-science]

I got fired today.

For me, the most fucked up part of this shit going on with the White House is that the fees positions that got fired are saving the US taxpayers ZERO dollars.

Recreation fee technicians are paid by the money you give to the recreation area (park, monument, forest, lake) to get in. They are not paid by congressional funds. 

200,000 federal employees were fired today. We’re all a part of this political theater and somebody else gets to laugh at us.

[awsugar]

i've been on a social media break. but i'm sorry for thinking frank going off on security for not catching crowdsurfers is my main impact on society.

[savagechickens]

Affected.

And more corporate shenanigans.