03-01-2008, 10:19 PM
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pixie of the wood
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Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 10,575
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never from a "career" type job but i was fired as a waitress once. it was a summer job but i'd been waiting table for a while by then (i was a great waitress. seriously). anyway, i had an attitude with the chef and a few other local girls who worked there. one of those girls fired me at the end of my shift on a shitty tuesday-lunch where i made 50 bucks at best, for wearing the wrong color gap shirt. i went to the bar and asked for my shift drink to go, smoked a roach in the parking lot and waited for hubby (then live-in-sin-at-your-rents-summer-house-boyfriend) to pick me up. pppffftttthhh
it's like a brat pack movie. 
i was also fired from another summer job once that i felt really awful about. i had to get up at 5:30am monday to saturday and ride my bike about 30 blocks to a hotel pool to give swimming lessons to kids by 6. i was 17 and renting a house for the summer with friends, working two jobs, and there were too many late nights of partying and too many times my roomie turned off the alarm on me. i got fired on the phone and threw up after. i really liked the kids and felt bad about fucking up so much. i finished out the summer painting t-shirts for seiks and they sold them for 30 bucks a pop.
i don't work now, but if i were the breadwinner, losing my job would be a worry. i don't think it's unhealthy unless it is consuming you. |