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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 7, 2017 - 06:07am PT
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I was recently having a conversation with a friend over a couple of beers and we were discussing different management styles and workplace discipline. Apparently he had never been in trouble at work for anything. His personality pretty much reflects a certain degree of placidity. So I told him about one, of more than one, incident I have had at a workplace. So here it is...
In early 1988 I was working for a large defense contractor. I graduated a couple of years earlier with a BS Electrical Engineering; basically during the Reagan era it was almost impossible to not work for a defense contractor as a BSEE.
Anyway, I broke into a friend's email, early intraoffice email system, just for fun. I knew he had a crush on a girl in tech pubs. So I emailed her out of his account. She got pissed and I got a 3 day unpaid suspension. It was February and being the cocky a55hole I was (am) I asked if I could move the suspension to the summer. Then my boss sternly said, "this action will change your life forever." Anyway, all my work friends took off, including the guy whose email account I hacked and we went for a three day ski trip to Killington VT.
Then I got my resume together and scored a killer job in Silicon Valley which is still paying off to this day. Yeah, my actions definitely changed my life forever.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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My last job as a handbag designer, taken under duress while I tried to stay afloat and not lose my NYC apartment while launching my personal creative ventures....
The company owner was a real jerk, who felt he had me over a barrel when he hired me. He was constantly trying to undermine me, and at one point tried to make me keep records on his product line negotiations, as if I were his secretary.
I self-learned Excel on the job while working on my own things and though there was NOTHING wrong with the spreadsheet, he decided to taunt me about it one day during a showroom meeting. I had had enough....
"I AM NOT A F*#K UP!" I yelled. And yes, there were buyers in the room.
The look of sheer hatred on his face..... If he had been smart, he'd have fired me on the spot, but I guess he knew that if he did he would have nobody to round off the line which was doing so well.His first season ever being more than a two-bit jobber. Taking massive orders from Target, Walmart, JCP and the others was pretty intoxicating for the guy used to selling to people who supply the sidewalk vendors.
He didn't fire me until I got back from a planned vacation (Hawaii!), but when he did fire me, it was very clear that he had not gotten over being screamed at publicly.
That day was the last day I worked in the dysfunctional garment district, and when I walked out, I KNEW, in my soul, that I had done my time, paid the price and was now free.
I walked out of that office, that building, that section of town, with my head held high, a smile on my face, and joy, knowing it was over.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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There is an anecdote that says that if you been fired from a job, one usually ends up with a better job, or opportunity.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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I got in a war with management at Westinghouse over time accounting/billing customers. They told me to go home one day. I think they wanted me to grovel for my job. I went straight to unemployment. They swear I planned it that way, I didn't It was the late 80s, maybe 1990 and you could draw unemployment for a year, which I did. I accelerated my plans to go to law school, never looked back.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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10b4me:
There is an anecdote that says that if you been fired from a job, one usually ends up with a better job, or opportunity.
Yup.
And when you're a bartender, you can take your former employer's customer base with you to your next gig and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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For what it's worth, if you hacked someone's company email today and posted to his girlfriend, you'd likely be fired on the spot. Security would be at your desk within 30 seconds of the company learning you'd done it, and you'd be escorted from the building. And possibly facing criminal charges.
Times change.
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SalNichols
Big Wall climber
Richmond, CA
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Try that email hacking at Sanders/BAe today and your dumb ass would end up in the slammer.
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