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Why did you get fired? (programming.dev)
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[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the many jobs I had in the past involved such gross violations of health and safety codes that my own immediate boss threatened to write me up on the first day because I was "going too slow" and actually following safety procedures. He demonstrated the "correct" way to do the job (blatantly skipping the safety procedures that I had just learned in training all the while) and said I needed to reconsider my priorities or quit.

I quit.

The job was at a hospital. I was working with contact hazard and breathing hazard critical care patients. agony-4horsemen

[-] XLRV@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

This guy should be reported and fired, that's really fucked up.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I was a young, ignorant, and vulnerable college 20something at the time and by the time I knew my rights a lot of windows of (provable) rules violations getting punished had come and gone.

[-] Venus@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I've experienced exactly this situation as well. I didn't quit, though, I just kept being a nuisance by being the only sensible person until they made up a reason to fire me

this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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