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How do you handle being fired in a dignified manner?

Posted - June 13, 2018
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  • 13071
    Clog up the company toilet then order 15 supreme pizzas billed to your boss.
      June 13, 2018 7:24 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    No doubt there’s some unseen dignity in making a mess for a janitor who had nothing to do with your dismissal. Darned if I can discern what it is. 
      June 13, 2018 7:50 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Ok, I recant my answer and replace it with this one.
    Clog up my bosses toilet then order 15 supreme pizzas and bill it to his home address.
      June 13, 2018 7:53 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    ...and have those pizzas delivered to the employees lunchroom. 
      June 13, 2018 7:58 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    With little invitations taped on the boxes to join the boss at his house for drinks and cake afterwards.
      June 13, 2018 8:01 PM MDT
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  • 53503

      (employees employees')

    Plural possessive noun. 
      June 13, 2018 8:16 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    That isn’t what the sign on the lunchroom would say
      June 13, 2018 8:19 PM MDT
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  • 53503

      I'm only referring to the correct way it should be written, not the way it can be found written.

      June 14, 2018 9:47 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    Gee, Randy. I sure hope you got more out of the comment than that. 
      June 15, 2018 4:07 AM MDT
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  • 53503

      You should know me by now: grammar before yammer. 
      June 15, 2018 6:15 AM MDT
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  • 5391
    I’ve never been fired from any job, but I’d say calmly collecting your belongings and exiting the site to go off to an even better job seems the MOST dignified way to go about it. Inciting destruction, or risking imprisonment or litigation are poor examples of dignity.

    They don’t want you, so why give the (plural expletive here) the satisfaction? 

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at June 13, 2018 8:21 PM MDT
      June 13, 2018 7:44 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    So, after being sexually harassed for six months, I quit my job.  For the first time, ever, I did not leave like a lady.  I told my boss that I thought he was an unmitigated pr!ck.  I burned that bridge because I knew I would never use that brief employment for a reference.  In all other cases, I left for better positions and left on good terms and with my head held high.  
      June 13, 2018 8:24 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    ..and it certainly sounds like he was, too.

    Hey, nobody said dignity was imperative. Surely some firings warrant a measure of retaliation, even a zesty verbal beatdown. I mean you’re out anyway, so why not, right? 
      June 13, 2018 8:36 PM MDT
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  • Accept it.
    Say something like, "Thank you. This is probably the push I needed to find a job that suits me better."

    It may or may not be the truth, but it is dignified. This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at June 14, 2018 10:29 AM MDT
      June 13, 2018 7:56 PM MDT
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  • 53503

      I couldn't tell you because I've never been fired in a dignified manner. 


    ~
      June 13, 2018 8:00 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    i would just leave
      June 14, 2018 3:51 PM MDT
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  • 16763
    Last time I was fired, I threatened an unfair dismissal lawsuit. Didn't go through with it, I found a better job before it came up for hearing so I withdrew the complaint.
      June 15, 2018 4:33 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    You tell them you understand and then thank them, pack up your stuff, and get on with your life.  No one "owes" you a job. 
      June 15, 2018 4:53 AM MDT
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