Halx

I have two really awesome stories.

1) I was working in the computer services dept at Kinko's for like 6 months. Recently, we had this new guy come on who made out like he was totally straight-laced, but he'd brag to me about all of his computer hacking adventures. He really didn't sit right with me at all. He was a bastard. Well, he managed to get his friend hired, too. His friend was cool, so that was alright. Well, one day this really fuckin hot girl came in with a CD full of pictures that she wanted printed out. An assistant manager jumped in to help her before I could, but I sat back. looking at the screen as he helped her.

Well, the pictures were topless shots of this girl, so evidently she was a model... and a really fucking hot one at that. I could see the AM copying the files to the hard drive of the computer as he was looking at them with the customer, too. After he was done with helping her, he walked past me with a grin on his face. Now it was my turn to mess with the files. I quickly e-mailed them to the cool people in the store (including the bastard's friend).

Well, the next day, I got an email from the bastard. It basicly said that he told the store manager about what I did. Ouch. So, instead of getting fired, I called up the store and quit over the phone right then and there.

2) I had been working at this company for about 20 months. It was a VOIP telecom company, but I had been hired back when it was an ISP. I had gone from tech support to network operations while it was still an ISP, so the switch to telecom left me at a disadvantage. IT and Telecom are two different monsters - you've can't be a technician for one, then just switch over to the other without a little learning period. Well, the company switched over and hired people to fill the new needs. My friend Shawn and I were there only two IT guys left in the dept.

Shawn was just an awesome employee and an awesome guy... if he worked for me, he would be invalueable. Now, I'm neither of those, but I do know how to program shit, so I designed, built and ran the entire work site that the deptartment used to manage their daily tasks. All the while, I had been promised for over a year that I'd get a transfer to the development department as soon as there was an opening. In fact, I was promoted to the network operations center on the grounds that I would be moved to devel at a later date.

Oh yeah, 20 months of work and only one raise. I had gotten the raise only a month beforehand too. I was bugging and bugging and bugging. A year and a half of loyal work under crappy conditions, a promotion, extra work to increase productivity, and I'm still working for tech support wages? Fucked up. When I finally DID get *a* raise, the HR lady looked at my face and asked, "Aren't you happy?" It wasn't even a poker face that I gave her.. I just stared.....

Well, one fine day, the entire dept was called in at 4pm to a meeting. I had already worked the entire day, so i just watched as the swing and graveyard shift slowly walked in. About 5 minutes before the meeting was to start, Jason, the manager, called one of the guys into an office. 5 minutes later, Jason and the HR lady were raiding his desk.

"Woah," we all said to eachother. A few of the guys and I whispered to eachother a few expressions of surprise for the departure of our coworker. He didn't seem like he was having trouble at all. Well, one of the things out of my mouth was, "Well, I've been busting my ass lately, and I'm the only one in here who knows how to program the worksite, so i think I'm safe today."

I shouldn't have said that.

The next minute, Jason walks in and asks to see me in the office. Gulp. I look back at my friends as I walk toward the door, give them a big grin and a shrug. "Nice knowin' ya!"

So, I was sacked. No explanation given. They actually had to walk me back into the NOC room so I could disconnect my computer because I used MY OWN computer to work - the ones they gave us were crap. Everyone stared as I made my lil' death march. Man, I was crushed.

I actually left my jacket there on accident, so later that night, one of my friends from the dept came to drop it off at my house. He told me Shawn got the boot too. Ahh well. That made me feel better... it made me realize how stupid this company was. They've since fired the CEO, changed locations, filed chapter 11 and cleared the roster. Meanwhile i have the best job in the entire world now. They used the work site I created until the bitter end. Heh.

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