So get this, I got fired today. Yep, fired. Me. From the newspaper. Fired, for the first time in my entire 15-year working history. And you’ll never believe why! Get this… I got fired because when my boss called me stupid I told him… get ready for it… not to talk to me like that.
Obviously, after so long my tone went from firm to all-out psycho bitch but in my defense, one person can only handle so much. This particular guy calls me dumb on a regular basis and I sit there and take it. But today was different.
My boss started yelling at my over ad copy which I pasted from an advertiser’s email. There were errors in it but I had sent it to both him and the advertiser for corrections. It was by no means ready for publication and I told him that when he started screaming at me. When he called me an idiot, I said, “Don’t talk to me like that.”
So he says, “I’m the boss!”
I flipped out. Literally flipped out. I screamed, “That gives you no right to talk to me like that.”
He told me I was fired. “Fine,” I screamed.
We got into another mini-argument as I hastily grabbed my stuff off my desk and threw it into my bag. Keep in mind, this whole incident occurred in less than five minutes.
Then… now this sent me into hysterics… he threatened to call the cops if I didn’t leave fast enough. The fucking POLICE! FOR ME! He’s 6-foot-oh I don’t know, 5″ and he’s telling me, Miss 5-foot-1, he’s going to call the cops to have me removed from the office. Why did he threaten to call the cops, you ask? Because I was on the phone telling my aunt that I got fired as I packed my stuff.
Don’t worry though, my other boss already UN-fired me because, I mean c’mon, but as I’ve been sitting here all afternoon, I don’t know if I want to go back. Today was the first time I was “fired” but arguments like this with my boss are nothing new. It seems like a six-month thing - I take the belittlement for so long and after awhile, I just can’t take it anymore. A blow out ensues and then a relative calm for another six months. I just can’t live like that.
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I'm Angela - I'm staring down the barrel of my 30s (gah) working as a production editor
(office bitch) for a small newspaper. I'm consumed by my endless devotion to
the New England Patriots and have recenty taken up knitting to keep busy until September. Oh yeah, and I have a really whacky boyfriend to keep me amused.
So, if you got fired, what are you going to do now, some new job opportunities available? Make the boyfriend work for awhile?
But I’m not exactly sure here, one boss fired you the other one un-fired you, so do you have a job or not? I’m confused…but sure glad I don’t have your life!
The head boss un-fired me so I’m officially un-fired but I’d still have to work with the mean one. He called my phone and left me a voice mail lacking an apology but telling me I was un-fired. Direct quote, “you’re unfired.” I’ve been looking all over online since I got home from work.
Geez Ang, that f-ing sucks. I hope you can get out of there. Sound awful.
You should try and become Patriots Football Weekly’s Pats blogger. I love the PFW paper but their blog fully sucks. Now that would be awesome!!
Hey isn’t today, hell day at the paper? Or is that Thurs. I can’t remember. If you have to go back, tell them you need time to think about it and you’ll be back next week.
The great thing is the blogosphere is an admissible form of tracking negative work environments. I would go talk to your HR person or whoever is hte highest up the totem pole.
you should not have to put up with this stuff…
do you have an HR department where you work? this situation (and your other co-workers Firing and not yet unfiring) needs resolution.
I think someone should be fired, and most likely it isn’t you and your co-worker.
You need a mediator and HR representative. Now.
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