Work: Today, I was fired for "customer dissatisfaction." I work in...

By beat10 - 30/03/2009 04:13 - United States

Today, I was fired for "customer dissatisfaction." I work in IT and have never met one of my company's customers. FML

I agree, your life sucks 64 607

You deserved it 4 174

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By Anonymous - 10/09/2019 02:02

Today, despite filling all the parameters for a model employee and being praised by multiple people over the time I was working, I was fired because a client complained to my manager that I didn't seem to know what I was doing. FML

I agree, your life sucks 1 739

You deserved it 139

By trollbot13 - 24/10/2016 09:39 - India - Hyderabad

Today, I was fired from my job because I, in my boss's words, "Abided by company policy to such an extent that customers were starting to hate me." FML

I agree, your life sucks 13 034

You deserved it 1 296

By Lexiebear27 - 19/09/2011 15:56 - United States

Today, I was fired for being a very happy and perky employee. According to my boss, it freaks both the customers and my co-workers out. FML

I agree, your life sucks 30 017

You deserved it 6 818

By ShayanFCB - 20/10/2009 19:35 - United States

Today, my boss was angry at me because I had filed a complaint about him refusing to change our phone service to something more reliable. Later, a customer called him and said I had hung up on him. I got fired. I didn't hang up on the customer, the phone service just dropped the call. FML

I agree, your life sucks 42 057

You deserved it 2 742

By anonymous - 30/09/2012 05:32 - Canada - Edmonton

Today, I got yelled at for providing horrible customer service, in a store I don't even work for. FML

I agree, your life sucks 27 654

You deserved it 2 015

Unionize!

By worksux - 05/01/2011 20:25 - United States

Today, at work, my computer started acting up. I told my boss I could fix it, but he told me to call the IT department instead. Neither the IT technician or his supervisor could figure it out, so I showed them what was wrong and how to fix it. I was promptly fired for wasting 2 hours of company time. FML

I agree, your life sucks 41 135

You deserved it 4 147

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By Obviously works everywhere - 20/09/2017 23:15

Today, a customer filed a formal complaint with corporate about me, because I wouldn't help her find things she wanted while I was off the clock. We were in a completely different store than the one where I actually work. FML

I agree, your life sucks 3 935

You deserved it 219

By anonymous - 24/04/2013 04:55 - Germany

Today, I was fired on my second day of work after a year and a half of unemployment. Apparently, my "tendency to solve problems instead of just accepting them made the other workers uneasy". FML

I agree, your life sucks 54 657

You deserved it 3 636

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

I agree, your life sucks 24 195

You deserved it 4 579

By Anonymous - 30/11/2010 03:08 - United States

Today, I won employee of the month. I was then fired for being late. FML

I agree, your life sucks 28 816

You deserved it 7 010

ArmoredSandwich 0

Monday 30 March 2009 12:48

How can people vote "you deserved that one" on this :/

Jimboom 11

Monday 30 March 2009 12:49

You sure about that? Even via e-mail? Or a phone call that you may have been a little rude to the person because you had never met them? Because I.T guys are well known for their temperament and patience when it comes to speaking with plebs on the phone/e-mail. For the record I am in IT. So I get how it happened. You just got to be more careful about that. Even if you think you were joking or being funny. the wrong person reading it could take it another way and get you outta there very quickly. But on the off chance you actually didn't do or say anything wrong to this person, well then **** them. I hope you gave them a nice virus or at least reset all their passwords/encyrpted all their e-mails before you left.

Comments

hehe2535 0

Tuesday 31 March 2009 2:16

They prob fired you because of the economy And that was just the first excuse they came up with

linacool15 0

Tuesday 31 March 2009 4:35

Recession's a bitch.

Krunk 0

Tuesday 31 March 2009 5:59

When you say you're in IT, I presume you mean your company's IT dept which usually means tech support. Your "customers" are the people you service (i.e. your co-workers, boss, managers, etc.) Customer dissatisfaction here would mean your co-workers must've complained about you. Not sure if you deserved it or not, your FML story was rather short.

Coolie_fml 0

Tuesday 31 March 2009 7:08

What Krunk said... I have kicked people out for that before.

oval_office 0

Tuesday 31 March 2009 9:10

Customers can be internal too you know.

ohhlala_fml 0

Tuesday 31 March 2009 10:02

People are dissecting this too much hahah it sucks, its funny. That's it

poopoopants 0

Wednesday 1 April 2009 0:25

you've never met any of your customers. no wonder they're dissatisfied. where the **** is my it guy??

p89hg69 0

Wednesday 1 April 2009 2:54

well, the fact that you never met them doesn't mean they couldn't get dissatisfied with your service... dunno... i still voted *that sucks*...

7_______7_______ 0

Thursday 2 April 2009 5:09

prolly just the economy, man. Any excuse to get a few more people off the payroll

Kyuuketsuki_ai 0

Thursday 16 April 2009 2:05

Wow, that is awful. There was an IT guy fired from my place of employment not-to-long ago. I'm not sure what reason they gave him, but apparently someone complained about something stupid because she was jealous of his girlfriend who also works there. What has come to the world?...