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Work Story - How I got fired!
18 years ago
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(Stolen from KushrenadaT)
The job: United Parcel Service
I had worked there for just over six months, and I started as a Pre-loader. Pre-loaders load the 'delivery cars' (trucks) so the driver can deliver the stuff. I was never really assigned a route of 4 trucks, instead I was moved around all the time. I never was able to get really fast because of this, and the seemingly clueless supervisors couldn't see that. They moved me to unload, where they unload the big semi-trailers, which is like 5 months after I started.
Not long after working in unload they get a new in-house labeling system installed, which UPS uses to route packages around. There's a computer, barcode scanner, and label printer at each unload door. A person stands there and scans each package as it goes by and slaps the label on the box.
One morning I opened a command prompt on one of these computers and typed NET SEND * BLAH!
I looked and all the computers had the message window and thought "ha ha that was funny" and carried on with what I was doing. About three or four hours later 2 guys wearing suits walked up to me with the local stupidvisor and started asking me if I was working at a specific location at around a time. I knew right away what I was in for, but what I didn't know was that the suits had come from NORTHERN CALIFORNIA to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA to chew my ass out and fire me. They told me that the message window popped up on computers up north, so I can only imagine that it went to at least every computer in the country. They even said stuff about pressing charges or whatever, terrorism, that kind of thing. Fortunately in the end they just said we can fire you or you can quit.
I chose to quit. I was tired of being treated like trash all the time, and working from 1 to 5 in the morning really screws up your life. I was under a lot of stress. Not three weeks later I found a job at Fry's electronics. Even though I was making minimum wage compared to the 10.50 at UPS, I was working full time and was having a lot more fun. I ended up making nearly or more than twice the cash.
The job: United Parcel Service
I had worked there for just over six months, and I started as a Pre-loader. Pre-loaders load the 'delivery cars' (trucks) so the driver can deliver the stuff. I was never really assigned a route of 4 trucks, instead I was moved around all the time. I never was able to get really fast because of this, and the seemingly clueless supervisors couldn't see that. They moved me to unload, where they unload the big semi-trailers, which is like 5 months after I started.
Not long after working in unload they get a new in-house labeling system installed, which UPS uses to route packages around. There's a computer, barcode scanner, and label printer at each unload door. A person stands there and scans each package as it goes by and slaps the label on the box.
One morning I opened a command prompt on one of these computers and typed NET SEND * BLAH!
I looked and all the computers had the message window and thought "ha ha that was funny" and carried on with what I was doing. About three or four hours later 2 guys wearing suits walked up to me with the local stupidvisor and started asking me if I was working at a specific location at around a time. I knew right away what I was in for, but what I didn't know was that the suits had come from NORTHERN CALIFORNIA to SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA to chew my ass out and fire me. They told me that the message window popped up on computers up north, so I can only imagine that it went to at least every computer in the country. They even said stuff about pressing charges or whatever, terrorism, that kind of thing. Fortunately in the end they just said we can fire you or you can quit.
I chose to quit. I was tired of being treated like trash all the time, and working from 1 to 5 in the morning really screws up your life. I was under a lot of stress. Not three weeks later I found a job at Fry's electronics. Even though I was making minimum wage compared to the 10.50 at UPS, I was working full time and was having a lot more fun. I ended up making nearly or more than twice the cash.
I blame lame ITs. Disabling messenger service via DC grouping FTW.