What usually causes someone to lose their job?

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What are your beliefs about people who lose their job? Do you think they are completely to blame? Do you think someone(s) caused them to be let go? Do you think it is a combination of both? What do you believe generally causes someone to lose their job?

Yes. They are usually to blame for losing their job. 19
No. I don't believe they are usually to blame when losing a job. 17
I don't know. They might have tried harder to play the game. 18
Whatever. Sometimes these things are out of their control. 44
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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    flipping a customer the bird behind their back and forgetting they are facing a mirror and can see everything. this will get your feet on the sidewalk pretty quick.

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    • catywompus
      12 years ago

      Hahaha I got fired many years ago for flippin both birds to a drunk asshole. Not behing his back though, right up in his face. He was a total piece of crap. Ya, so he went to the manager and I got the boot.

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  • shyguyinla
    13 years ago

    I got fired one time. It wasn't my fault, it was just office politics. One of my co-workers bad mouthed me to one of the senior managers at the company. Was what the guy said true? No. It was a pack of lies.

    I had been working at the place for some years. Sometimes things are within your control and sometimes they are not.

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  • Ldizzy1234
    13 years ago

    It depends, but sometimes I believe that the coworkers sometimes try to throw each other under the bus. But then, other times I just think the person was to blame.

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  • flutterhigh
    12 years ago

    i dunno. this one time my asshole boss asked me to file some documents for him, so i threw my coffee at his crotch and told him his face looks like a diseased gorilla shat on carrot top's steroid-infused face. then i clutched his balls, bitch-slapped him and said "i fucking dare you to fire me."

    then the piece of shit fires me! wtf? i said sorry and everything.

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  • sweetlemon
    13 years ago

    company crisis, bad attitude, hard competition, and bad luck I guess

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  • dappled
    13 years ago

    The only job I lost was because my boss died and the business was wound up. These days, you're more likely to lose your job to financial pressures. We've shed two thousand jobs where I work and they want to get rid of another thousand at least.

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  • wigsplitz
    13 years ago

    Well sometimes it's clearly your own fault and obviously sometimes it's not. If a company downsizes or closes, then it can't be 100% your fault. If you come up hot on a drug test or get caught stealing or not performing then it's completely your fault.

    Sometimes what someone says behind your back can get you fired but it's not necessarily THEIR fault if you get fired. If they tell on you for stealing, for example, it's not their fault if you get fired, it's yours for stealing. If you had never stolen then they'd haev nothing to say.

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  • bichonsrock
    13 years ago

    I almost lost mine last fall. rolling my eyes at the customers,

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    • Ldizzy1234
      13 years ago

      hahaha!

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  • graphic_nature
    12 years ago

    Internal theft

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  • pixie_dust
    12 years ago

    a good percentage of people lose their jobs due to using drugs and trying to go to work strung out or hingover.

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  • lewlew80
    12 years ago

    Company downsized eight months after I got there, so effed up!

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  • Painfulnote
    13 years ago

    Fighting with you're boss because you hate donuts!yea...

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    I find the biased views towards the employer to be interesting.

    In the United States of America, practically anyone can start a business and hire employees. People with various personality disorders and manias often seek positions of absolute power and control. Even someone with the mental challenges of a "Charles Manson".

    Should one of those voices in that employer's head decide that one of his employees is against him and he fires that person, how is it the employee's fault? Just because it is "a company" or "the employer" does not mean that it is a fair dealing or a moral company.

    The above statement is just an addendum to other theories of the employee being to blame (and rightly so), of co-worker sabotage, and of being fired due to economic conditions.

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    • [Old Memory]
      13 years ago

      I work at the C level everyday and I must say that american businesses have some of the worst management in the world. They're arrogant, short-sighted, ignorant and think they have papal infallibility.

      They just refuse to accept the fact that they, or another company, could have made a mistake in terminating an employee. They always believe that the employee in some way bears ultimate responsibility.

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        This is exactly what I mean. Usually, people would rather believe that the fired individual is "solely" to blame. The truth of the matter is that there are employees still working in that company when someone is given a pink slip. But, this sieving of the "chafe" is not done unbeknownst to management. In fact, it is perpetrated "by" management. It is naive to believe that one's coworkers could throw you under the bus IF the company wanted to keep you. The worker that was let go was viewed by the company as a liability, as deadwood, or as a freak, for whatever reason. Furthermore, the firing decision could very well have been based on false information,hostile sources, or just some sociopathic manager's personal feelings and cruel intentions. It could simply be that you frowned at her/him one day without realizing it. Even so, if someone with pull in management makes a decision to target you and to have you gone, regardless if you actually deserve to lose your job or not, they will supplement/find the "acceptable reasons for termination" to give to HR so that they will not be sued and so that you cannot file for unemployment compensation.

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        • [Old Memory]
          13 years ago

          Henry Ford II, when asked why he fired Lee Iacocca, was reported to have said, "Sometimes you just don't like somebody's face."

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          • [Old Memory]
            13 years ago

            lmaooooo

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    • timebobbu
      13 years ago

      no its the absolute power position which spawns the mental disorder

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      • [Old Memory]
        13 years ago

        Your point has merit.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Most people recently losing their jobs do so as a result of financial factors and through no fault of their own.

    That said, prospective employers almost universally believe the employee was terminated for something they did.

    Famously fired at some time in their careers: Bill Gates, Thomas Edison, Lee Iacocca, Henry Ford, Harry Truman. A real slackers gallery.

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  • howaminotmyself
    13 years ago

    I've held a few seasonal jobs where there was no intention of it lasting for more than a few months. Incompetence is rarely the reason I've seen someone lose a job.

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  • [Old Memory]
    13 years ago

    Once, I worked full-time at a company for four years; they went bankrupt and I lost my job.

    I've witnessed several coworkers being fired for different reasons: not showing up or being consistently late; for gossiping; for slacking on the job; and for aggressively defying the boss. Not that it doesn't happen, but I never witnessed someone being fired who didn't deserve it.

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  • ithinki'mnormal
    13 years ago

    poor attendance is what usually gets people

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