did you ever get somebody fired?
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85146)
Shingle Springs, California
September 11, 2008 2:39pm CST
Well this is another childhood thing.
I was in 6th grade and our teacher, Mr. Sanderson, was up in the Vice Principal's office covering (he would be promoted to Vice Principal later that year), so there was a substitute teacher. I remember her as being a rather unpleasant woman. Don't recall exactly what happened, just that I was mouthing off to her. (Mouthy? Me?) Anyway she slapped my face.
I didn't say anything to anybody but of course the whole class saw it. The next day there was a different substitute and I was called up to the principal's office. They asked me about it and I told them what had happened. I found out either then or later that the sub had been fired.
Well I'm not defending her slapping a child or anything but at the time I kind of felt like I had deserved it.
Anyway, technically I did not get her fired, she got herself fired. But I am sorry that I said whatever it was to her. It must have been pretty darn rude to get her that angry.
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@thrwbckjay67 (2870)
• United States
11 Sep 08
Well, I guess you can say so, but again you said it best... people reap what they sew.
I was working retail during these past holidays and the manager seemed to be a really nice person; he gave me and my wife a job because he had known my wife for years and they were really good friends. Well, once the holidays were over and my wife found another job, he changed his attitude toward me and other workers. He clearly favored other people, wrote up some people for things but not others for the same thing, gave his "boyfriend/partner" an "under-the-table" job even though he was a foreign exchange student and had no visa to work, abusing his mangerial powers. So I turned him in to HR; he was making work incredibly difficult to be at, for me and my co-workers, so I had to do what I did. I don't regret it.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
11 Sep 08
So not to state the obvious, but I guess they aren't friends any more?
@thrwbckjay67 (2870)
• United States
11 Sep 08
hahaha... nope, and that was actually one of the toughest things about the situation. I didn't want to get in the way of the friendship, but it just was something, as a former retail manager myself, I had to do. I talked to my wife about it first though to make sure she was comfortable with it.
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@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
11 Sep 08
sad, but sometimes you just have to do something that's unpleasant like that.
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
14 Sep 08
A teacher or a sub should be professionally trained and should cope well with such situations. An adult should know better than to slpa a child in her face. If the sub was not abel to deal with such situation than it is evident that teaching is not her job. There are other ways how you can handle an 8 year old but not beating him or her up.
@BriNbai (912)
• United States
11 Sep 08
WOW..Well to tell you the truth she deserves to be fired..as much as you deserved it lol
I have fired many people before I was a manager for a retail store for about 2 years and it seemed thats all I did..lol
I felt bad when I had to fire people but it was because of something they did or did not do.I tried to think that it was their fault so I didnt feel as bad.
IT also made me feel bad because the people I supervised were mostly older than I am.
The only ones I didnt feel bad for where the teenage girls that I caught stealing..lol
@dawnald (85146)
• Shingle Springs, California
11 Sep 08
Yeah you have to sometimes. I can understand stealing if you are starving, not otherwise!
