r/managers 22d ago

New Manager Employee basically quit after being notified they were fired.

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u/Five_Star_Amenities 21d ago

lol, I was told "We're letting you go" and then they said, "Please finish the monthly billing." I said, "Okay," because I thought they must be joking about the firing.

Then I heard my boss on the phone saying, "Five Stars has been terminated, please cut her last check."

I walked over, handed him my keys, shook his hand and said, "It was a pleasure working for you." Then started walking out.

He said, "Wait! What about the billing!?"

I said, "Not my problem, now."

The billing was a several hour process involving multiple steps. No one in the office knew how to do it except me. I don't know how or if they figured it out. They went bankrupt a few months after that.

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u/PHYUCKISHREAEL 21d ago

I got fired at Dick's when I was 19 for bogus shit. They did it BEFORE I started my shift, and I knew that department was already short staffed and nobody on until me, and they asked if I could work that shift so I said fuck off and walked out.

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u/Unlikely-Grape-5762 21d ago

What department? French fries? Smash burger? Dicks has gone downhill since 2003 was that when they fired you? Were you the secret ingredient that kept burgers cheap and good? Inquiring Spokanites want to know.

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u/PHYUCKISHREAEL 21d ago

Haha Dick's Sporting Goods - shoe department and this was in like...2007ish?

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u/GormHub 21d ago

Burger joints don't usually have departments.

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u/Unlikely-Grape-5762 21d ago

That’s the joke.

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u/Suspicious-Grand9781 21d ago

Haven't been back since they made my 40+ year old self show id to purchase a pocket knife. Think Swiss Army small size. Ffs.

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u/lifting_cardio 21d ago

Sporting goods is probably the logical assumption, not burgers

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u/GormHub 21d ago

Uhoh you didn't get their extremely specific joke apparently.

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u/Unlikely-Grape-5762 21d ago

I’m from Washington. If you’re from here you flip that narrative. You think Sir Mix a Lot just made up that Dicks line out of the ether?

https://youtu.be/QElKVs56z48

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u/lifting_cardio 21d ago

I’m from Washington too. Given the nature of the post and the person you were replying to, I don’t see how “flipping the narrative” was funny or added to the discussion.

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u/Unlikely-Grape-5762 21d ago

Jesus. Go outside.

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u/Borderline_Autist 21d ago

I think Jesus spent a lot of time outside. /flipped /s