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I got fired from my job today - here's a long-ass post/release of steam

PhillyB

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i don't know anything about the food and beverage industry but does your insanely successful run in that line of work mean anything in terms of getting another job somewhere else?  how do references and networking and that kind of thing work?

as a layman if someone told me they had a $6000 night in anything remotely related to selling something i'd be all over it.

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6 hours ago, Doc Holiday said:

If it makes you feel better, I'm currently considering if I want to quit my current job and and say financial consequences be damned. been working in a jail and towards a promotion for 2 years that I wanted only to find out last week that due to Agency Politics I was basically wasting my time. so yay on 2 years wasted.

 

You know Andrey the Armenian? :)

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Sorry to hear it, Phil.

My ex-wife had a friend whose husband was like that guy.  Anywhere they went he'd try and find something to complain about, always trying to get a free meal.  Embarrassed the daylights out of me when we were with them.  Happily I don't have to deal with that anymore.

As others have said, sometimes it can lead to better things.  Hope that's the case for you.

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As someone who was also recently fired, you should view this as a blessing. I mentioned to you in a PM that I was seriously considering going to back to school this fall full time to get a BA in Computer Science with a concentration in Finance. This is a life move that I feel will set me up to have a much better quality of life in the long term than if I had stayed with my previous employment. I liked many parts of my job (like it seems you did yours) but also like you, I hated the management. Not local management, but corporate shitdicks that don't know anything about how things were going at the store level of business. I would have continued to work this dead end job until I died, probably. But then they fired me. Yes, it sucks. Yeah, it's scary when you don't know where you're going to get that next paycheck from (If you didn't already, this will ensure that next time you keep a rainy day fund saved up.)

You could easily move on from this and make this firing a good thing for your long-term goals. But if you have a negative mindset, it's going to take you a lot longer and be a lot harder on you. (IF it even works out that way at all.) Do you have your two Masters degrees, or are you still working on them? If you have one or the other, I'd be looking at opportunities within those fields, unless you feel you could get a similar job making similar money faster. I would assume those customer relationships can take a while to build, though, and the money wouldn't be what it was for a substantial amount of time with you starting fresh in a new location.

Also, while your boss will likely never say so, if you go back there in a few months, you'll likely hear from your customers, if no one else, how much the place blows with you not around, and that's always good to hear, because that means at least your time spent there was noticed by the people who really matter. I constantly hear from my customers and the employees I supervised how bad it sucks there now without me, and how big of an incompetent idiot my replacement is, so that tells me all I need to know about who was in the right when it comes to the decision to fire me, and it's something I enjoy sarcastically throwing in managements' face whenever I have the chance. ("I hear that your employees are confused about whether they're supposed go by their paper schedule or electronic schedule, gee if only you had a competent supervisor who made schedules for all 15 people in the department even though it wasn't his job!) So, at the very least, from a purely immature and "I told you so" perspective, you'll have some gloating to look forward to in the near future.

 

Basically, you're an extremely intelligent and motivated dude, and that kind of person doesn't go backwards after something like this, they go upwards and onward to bigger and better things. Although you may not be able to fathom it right now and in the moment, you will likely end up marking this date as "One of the best days of my life" in about five years' time. Don't sweat it and poo bruh.

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Come by the house brother and we'll pound a few.  Been there too and it sucks but I always fall back to this mantra...It Always Works Out.  No matter how bad it is or gets...It Always Works Out.  When we're in our 70s, 80s, or 90s, laying on our death beds there will times and circumstances we look back on and think...that sucked and laugh (and mumble under our breaths what an asshole our bosses were, hope they're burning in hell).

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