I just want to cry for that first woman. How devastating for her! She was obviously blindsided and held her composure through it all.

The fact that you’re expected to give a two weeks notice as a professional courtesy but can be fired effective immediately for no apparent reason other than greed with no severance package less than a year after moving your entire life where you know no one, is just mind blowing to me!

"Nobody wants to work" = "Nobody wants to get treated like trash for pennies."

I was almost 8 months pregnant when a supervisor came to me and said she noticed that I had been going to the bathroom more often and sometimes taking longer than usual. I wish I was joking🤬

They couldn’t even say “fire” or “let go”, they said “relieve you of your job responsibilities”. Like they’re doing you a favor. “Let me lift that burden of a job off your shoulders”

I worked at a company for 14 yrs. One day I was called into the CFO's office and told that my dept was being dismantled. I was in FINANCE! I was the ONLY person who managed contracts, orders, and invoicing. After the shock and confusion wore off, I stood up to go and was told that, if I wanted, I could finish out my day. I left.

The kicker came 3 hours later when my former manager called and asked if I was taking a long lunch. I was confused and told her "no, I was let go". The execs never bothered to tell the department managers about the layoffs! She was let go that afternoon.

Within a week, we were all called and asked if we would come back. I said yes for a raise and the ability to set my own schedule due to school. They agreed, I graduated a year later with my BA, and quit 1 month after for a better job.

Corporate executives “ no one wants to work any more”.  Also corporate executives “we are letting you go because we are cheap SOBs”.

4:32 in Ireland if your job is made redundant they cannot advertise your job. They can be brought to court

I just wanna hug that poor girl. She’s so young and damn, she uprooted her life for a job. She’s very professional and poised. I’m sure she landed on her feet. Hope she’s making a f@ck ton more  money now too.

The first girl was INCREDIBLY professional in how she handled that. Great example of professionalism. The asking for performance and skill set feedback was a great move.

That first clip is why im scared of applying to jobs that require that you're able to move across the country or to another country.

01:00 bro chatgpted that firing speech

So my husband and I are Aussie. He's a software developer and he worked remotely for about 3 months for an American company and then got fired on the spot for no real reason.

EXCEPT you can't just do that in Australia unless you are a casual worker. Cause it's a shitty way to treat people. Basically someone in Aus was like "lol nah you can't just do that" to the company. They had to pay him an extra two months that he didn't have to work.

You can fire someone, but there has to be a good damn reason and reasonable notice. America is absolutely wild with the way they treat employees.

"How do you forget your shoes?"
Drugs, darling. Lots of drugs.

Man, my company did that whole "we changed our mind after having an employee move across the country" thing. This lady relocated 12 hours with her boyfriend, signed a year-long lease on an apartment, and the company let her go within 4 months. She was doing a fantastic job, but the company decided they didn't want that position anymore and it was a 'waste of company resources'. The next year they 'changed their minds' and reopened the position, just to do the same thing again (minus the relocating of someone). That position is now notorious around the water cooler. When we hear they're hiring for that role, everyone gets anxious because we know they're about to ruin someone's year. If we could warn the potential applicants, we would.

If you need to hire someone to remember shoes for you, that's not a PA, that's a babysitter

I got fired from a cleaning company once, and then asked to return. I was hired as a trainee, on a trainee rate, and told I would be trained and given a raise in 6 weeks. 4 months in I asked about my raise and was told I wasn't fully trained yet. 6 months in, same thing--my boss just hasn't had time to train me! Meanwhile my trainee butt was being sent to clients' houses alone, AND if anything went wrong with a clean I was the one the boss would call to ask what happened; I was asked to inspect the other cleaners' work and fix it, and I'd get yelled at if things weren't done properly. This was stuff the supervisor was supposed to do (who made a whole lot more than I did).

9 months, I asked about my raise again. Nope, still not fully trained. The following week a clean went wrong (an employee sat on her phone rather than clean the kitchen and the client complained) and I was reprimanded and told I needed to stay late to fix it, and make sure the other employees did their jobs right, which included 2 non-trainees and 1 supervisor. I had plans (helping plan a friend's funeral) and told her I could not stay and left, 2 hours after my original end time. Both the boss and the supervisor called me to yell and call me names; I'd finally had enough and submitted my notice. The boss was so mad about my resigning that she fired me on the spot. The next month she called, sweet as pie, telling me the clients wanted me back, and she would do me a favor and pay me a whole dollar more an hour!! It was still not as much as a regular employee made. I didn't respond.

Sorry for the long post, but getting that out was cathartic :P

I was on my third year working for a small company.  I had found that my absolute FAVORITE jazz singer was going to be in town, but a major car repair had left me with nothing to buy tickets with.  My manager knew i loved her singing and asked if I was going to the concert.  Told him no, and why, and went back to work.
The owner comes in the next day and gives me two fifth row seats.  I was stunned.  I doubt I could have ever said 'thank you' in a more genuine way.
She would be performing an afternoon concert at the nearby fairgrounds.  The schedule came out and I was on it for that Saturday.  I reminded the manager that I had tickets that day.  He told me the owner had told her to schedule me that day because a client had requested me to do some personal work for her........
So, kind of heartbroken, I said I would be there to do the work for her.  My wife and son would go.  Then, the owner said that, since i could not go, he would like the tickets back to give to someone else on the crew..........  I told him I did not have the tickets on me, and that I would bring them in the next day.  I cleaned out my company locker as I left that day.  And I did not bring the tickets back.
I contacted the customer and told her what had happened.  She told me she would fix it.  A friend of hers called me three hours later, told me the job they had open, and said (---------) had told them I was available.  I would make $3 less per hour for the first month, but would re-evaluate after I got through their onboarding.  I wasn't even through the onboarding and they brought me up to my former level.  My former boss sued my new employer for stealing 'his' employee.  It didn't go anywhere.  And two of the other nine employees quit over how I was treated saying that, if he treated me, a person that was not late even once to work, and the ONLY day I had missed in years, I had an allergic reaction to a new medication and my wife called from the hospital to say I would not be in... and I was there the next day.
It took him nearly two years for his business to recover.  I am still in that second job, and have a 22% raise in total over the last three years.. and my new boss apologizes for not being able to pay me more.....

The reason they read from scripts when they for people is because, if they're not very careful with their wording, they can open the company up to big lawsuits, especially when on video calls that can be recorded

I moved across my country for a job once. When they fired me after 2 months because they decided to put a hold on their expansion plans. I told them I wanted the cost of moving up and then back paid to me. I didn't expect them to say yes. They gave me 10k in a redundancy package which I thought legally they had no obligation to do. They handed it over with zero fight though, so I feel like there might have been some legal recourse to ask for more, who knows. I was pleased as I was actually about to quit the next day and wouldn't have got that money. I had a job ready and everything.