Work: Today, I got fired from my job at a small start-up company....

By Anonymous - 23/05/2011 18:12 - United States

Today, I got fired from my job at a small start-up company. Why? The CEO wanted to give a job to one of his former fraternity brothers who is out of work, and they couldn't afford to keep us both. FML

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By mysterygurll1234567 - 20/01/2010 05:09 - United States

Today, I was fired from my job. The reason? My boss didn't feel comfortable paying his son's girlfriend. FML

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By Anonymous - 18/06/2022 18:00 - United States - Sorrento

Today, I got fired. Not because of anything I did, but because my best friend, who'd I'd gotten hired, stood up for herself when both the owner's wife and daughter became disrespectful professionally. She then quit and got a job with a competitor. They started looking at her LinkedIn. Two weeks later, I get canned. FML

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By Anonymous - 24/06/2018 20:30

Today, I was fired from my job for "lack of work". What that means is that my boss hired his good-for-nothing lazy son, who then got too big of a mortgage, and he had to let me go to pay him a higher salary. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/06/2019 14:03

Today, I got fired from my job. My boss is my brother. His reason being that, "it would create awkward tension between us." I've been working for him for 5 years, and it's like he's only just realised that I was there. FML

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By feistychick - 25/04/2009 13:31 - United States

Today, I was fired from my job of 5 years. I was let go because I couldn't take the company to 'the next level'. My now ex-boss asked me if I could process my severance check because he didn't know how. I had to write myself my last paycheck. FML

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By Anonymous - 25/10/2012 20:13 - United States

Today, I was fired for actively seeking employment with another company. Because of having just been fired, the other company will no longer give me the time of day. FML

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By Anonymous - 17/11/2016 03:39 - Australia - Cardiff

Today, upon applying for a new job to leave my old crappy job I was informed by my new potential employer that he was unable to hire me because he is friends with my current boss. FML

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By fml - 05/02/2009 11:41 - United States

Today, I got fired from my job. I worked for my parents. FML

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By tjm - 23/12/2010 06:05 - United States

Today, after finally getting a job offer after months of unemployment, I found out that the person who was going to hire me got fired. Which means I'm not getting the job. FML

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By David - 02/09/2016 06:01 - United States - London

Today, my boss found out I had applied for a much better paying job. He told me I'd do a better job and make more money there. Then he fired me. FML

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nananabatmannnn 0

Monday 23 May 2011 23:07

You cant compete with a bromance. Don't even try.

hey_its_kristi 0

Monday 23 May 2011 22:55

Networking works out for some people I guess.

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stallion2521 0

Wednesday 25 May 2011 23:51

I guess buying your friends actually does payoff

Jasonf6 0

Wednesday 25 May 2011 23:57

lawsuit

Professor59 2

Thursday 26 May 2011 17:04

Welcome to the real world. I was a fast-tracking star at a company for 6 years until my boss hired his old buddy to be a manager. The guy had never been a manager, and didn't know anything about our business. He immediately selected his favorite drinking and smoking buddies for preferential treatment, and started hiring his own useless friends. After doing the work of all four of them for a year or so, I finally quit when the others got promotions and better raises. Upper management begged me to stay, but since they wouldn't do anything to change any of it, I left. Then it turned out that two of them also left on the same day I did. They had been cheating on their spouses with each other and wanted to leave town to be together somewhere else. Weird.

pacstorm 0

Sunday 29 May 2011 18:22

Well that's grounds for a lawsuit! You might be in a position to be sure that he can't afford ANY employees!

fijisoccer15 4

Saturday 13 August 2011 9:49

Don't listen to these people. If you sue, you're out even more money. You have to prove that's why he officially fired you and even if it was on paper, it's be hard to do. Suck it up and move on. It's how the fraternity world works, brotherhood. Find one of your friends to help you out.

chugs69 5

Tuesday 23 August 2011 15:17

The Greek system and the bonds of brother hood from frats are strong

Quetzal27 12

Friday 16 March 2012 0:54

Well, I think that brothers, if they are more competent should always come first, so you must have been doing a poor job at the office

TinaWinaWoo 5

Friday 17 May 2013 2:04

Brotherhood is eternal !

The_9th_Doctor 18

Friday 4 October 2013 7:23

he can't fire you without real cause. tell HR and have him get thrown out on his ass.

Scynistr 20

Monday 14 April 2014 22:40

Challenge it! If he's not as qualified a worker as you are and your boss only hired him as a friend you may get your job back. Some companies don't allow that sort if behavior.