Ever been fired | ADHD Information

OOPS Sorry, I did not read the Poll question carefully and awnswered how many jobs in total I've been fired from.  I think instead of 5 my answer should be 1 . ghead

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[QUOTE=gearhead] ps how come my posts always end with  < ="">?[/QUOTE]

LOL!!! I thought they were some kind of weird smileys, like :o)

bcgirl, I can relate to you, I was working in this office for a securities company, and the office manager was a single mom, and British.

Well I came in, single mom and guess what? also British.  well after 3 months, one Friday afternoon, the big boss came around with envelopes, I was given one and when I opened it to my surprise it was a bonus cheque for 500.00, I was so happy and he thanked my for all my hard work during the rrsp season.

Monday morning, I was called into my managers office, and told I wasnt working out and that they had to let me go!!!!! I was devastated.  Later that day, a co worker called me and told me that I got fired cuz the guys (brokers) were paying more attention to me than to her!

I then got a job in a call centre and had been there for 8 years, always stepping in for the managers, each time i applied for a managers position, I was always turned down.  Told I need to work more on my "attention to detail"  that was crap as my "attention to detail" didn't bother them when I stood in for managers.

I left as I found i wasn't going anywhere.  That was last November.  I got a job working for a private jet company, and after 6 weeks was told, I wasn't paying attention, and even though I had been told many many times about what I had to do I just wasn't getting it!  They fired me!

That is when I realized that it was hard for me to get a job without computer programs, and how hard it is for me to learn, for years I had hidden my ADD and relied on repetition.  I visited my doctor and he agreed that I had a good chance of ADD as, as a kid I couldn't understand any concepts at all, and it all went in one ear and out the other without touching the sides!  I am still waiting to be diagnosed, and in the mean time am on different doses of Dexedrine to find the best one.  still not really working.

Anyway I am so sorry if this is long and boring, but that is my story and I had to tell someone!

Oh and I start my Microcomupter Business Administration course tomorrow!

 

Momma Jo38440.7405787037

Got fired from my first job in a supermarket for wearing purple boots to work, but it was either get to work on time after school, or go home and get black shoes and be late. Of course it didn't occur to me to take the correct shoes to school.

Most other jobs I would get bored after a while and not pay attention. The jobs were so dull I would just read magazines or talk to people the whole time. The bosses must have thought I had a bad attitude for being so lazy, but I was just bored having nothing to do. Wish I could go back and tell them I wasn't lazy on purpose.

bcgirl, I've also been fired by a manager who was threatened by me. It was a bar job and she felt threatened that I was young and attractive and educated and she was 35 with 2 children. She quit a corporate job to work in a bar.

I had been working there during uni for 4 years and brought in lots of money to the owner by being chatty and friendly to the regular customers. But she was so nasty to me all the time I started to get slack. I don't act very well around pushy authority, so they stopped giving me shifts.

I spent so long thinking I had a really bad attitude to work, but now I can see I just couldn't handle being bored. The owner loved me because I used to scrub out the fridges during boring shifts, as something to do, but the manager saw that as being a tryhard.

Good luck with the course Momma Jo! I reckon it will give you heaps of confidence!

 

Ever been fired? 

The firast time I was ever fired was in 2001. I was workign a stressful office job where I was required to do more tasks than I could keep under control with my wandering mind. Basically it got to the point where I became careless and moody and they showed me the door.

I have been fired a couple times but usually I wind up leaving on my own. personally I've never worked for one specific employer longer than 4 years.

I'm working for a school system now and just finished my probation so I'm here for the duration now.

I've also noticed that I have more problems when I'm put in a supervisory role..... Probably due to being "too nice".  I do have a problem delegating, and find it easier to do it myself, usually overloading my plate making my chances of actually completeing anything in a reasonable amount of time even less likely. 

[QUOTE=Mark Goode]I would estimate that I've been fired at least 20 times, and about half the remaining 20-odd times I've quit before they had the chance to fire me.
It's not all down to ADD - I have a bad attitude too.

Mark -[/QUOTE]
Mark...sure you're not my 'twin' brother?   You took my reply!    Except, I think my bad attitude has definitely been related to having ADHD, the frustration and the depression arising from not being medicated.     And you...well, Mark, you're just a dude with an attitude!
GypsyWomyn38438.5296527778I'm 36 and have had 19 jobs that I got bored with and quit. I'm a jack of all trades (I'm sure like most of you)

I would estimate that I've been fired at least 20 times, and about half the remaining 20-odd times I've quit before they had the chance to fire me.

It's not all down to ADD - I have a bad attitude too.

Mark -

I have never been fired. For some reason, maybe they feel sorry for me. I am a scrawny, 5'2, innatentive, passive girl.

 

 

I usually quit first.  The one time I was fired was when I stayed around long enough to complain that I was really doing twice the work I was paid for, and a great job at that, and should get a promotion!

[QUOTE=boggled]I usually quit first.  The one time I was fired was when I stayed around long enough to complain that I was really doing twice the work I was paid for, and a great job at that, and should get a promotion![/QUOTE]

That might be because the work we do TAKES us twice as long to finish it. lol. Because I have tried time and time again to explain to my bosses or co-workers that I do more work than I am paid for and they brush it off saying that what I do is actually a normal amount. It just requires a ton of mental work for me to accomplish the simplest tasks. 8(

I've never been fired but I'm pretty young so I could see it happening in the future. Unfortunately, I've been kind of demoted at my current job which is almost as bad as being fired.  I've only been actually fired once. I was working in a retail store, and my manager gave me a written warning one day, that said I wasn't helping customers enough. She said I needed to ask people if they needed help more. I was quite taken aback, considering I was one of the hardest working people in that store. The others spent most of their time gossiping and slacking off, while I was the one tidying up, dusting, filling the shelves, and well, I thought I WAS helping customers. Two weeks later she told me I hadn't improved at that she was going to have to let me go. Rather than defend myself, I cried and walked out the door with my tail between my legs. I was only 21 at the time and still very much lacking in the self-esteem department.

A while later, I went out for lunch with one of my ex-coworkers, and he told me that everyone was shocked that I had been let go. They theorized that the manager felt threatened by me because I had a university education, and because I was smart, and a hard worker. She was only a year older than me, and it's sad, but women really can be that way towards other women in the workplace, especially if they are very close in age.
I actually did do twice the work of others, because I usually loved what I was doing, and they kept giving me more, because they knew I could handle it. What I couldn't handle was the office environment {noise} and the co-workers who preferred to sit and gossip all day. They disliked me and made it perfectly clear. (jealousy perhaps or I made them look bad?) Enough so that either I lost my cool and was fired or was made so unhappy I was forced to quit. And even if I loved what I was doing, if the working conditions don't contribute to my happiness, I couldn't endure it. GypsyWomyn38439.4267592593