- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired?
- No.
I'm a really good employee.
Except for right now, cause I, you know,
supposed to be at work right now, but.
(gentle music)
- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired from a job?
- Have I ever been fired?
- Fired? (blows air)
- No, uh, have I?
- Let me think, let me think.
I had over 30 jobs.
- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired?
- Hell yeah.
- Yes.
- Oh yeah.
I got fired on my first day.
I didn't even get a paycheck,
but I still had to pay taxes, I remember.
(Interviewer laughs)
- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired?
(deep sigh)
- Yeah. - Yes.
- Yes. - Yeah, actually.
- [Interviewer] What was the job?
- Data entry. - Hair salon.
- Restaurant.
- McDonald's. - Grocery store.
- I worked for Safeway.
I was making the donuts too big.
Then they were like,
- I was like glued a dime to the end of the register.
People would try to pick it up
and I thought it was so funny.
But it was like vandalism, I guess.
So, they fired me.
- I may have been shotgunning a beer in my car,
and my boss walked by.
But I was convinced that she didn't see it.
And then the next week, I just like,
wasn't on the schedule.
- I wasn't making enough sales.
And then I got fired on my birthday.
And so I walked out like crying with my balloon.
- I was actually let go
so that my boss's best friend could be hired on.
- [Interviewer] Were you upset?
- (laughs) Yeah.
- I was just cussing everybody out.
- I kind of had like a, maybe a psychotic break.
- I had a complete mental breakdown.
- My soul couldn't do it anymore.
- Felt really blindsided by it.
But I did see it coming.
- [Interviewer] Do you think it was deserved?
- Yes, I get it.
I'm not mad about it.
I be wishing I could go back sometimes too.
- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired?
- No, thank God.
- No. - No.
- I've never been fired, 'cause I'm a good employee.
- I'm a good girl.
- I've always moved up, never been fired.
- I'm a pretty hardworking dude.
- When I work, I like,
- Everything I have into this job.
- I try and do things like,
as immaculately by the book as possible.
- [Interviewer] Are you the perfect employee?
- Maybe.
- [Interviewer] Have you ever deserved to be fired?
- Well, we were told before not to take anything.
- And maybe I took one thing.
- [Interviewer] What did you steal?
- I don't know.
It was like an article of clothing.
- Books from teachers' classrooms.
- Lotion. Make up.
- A $3 coffee smoothie.
- Bread, eggs, ice cream.
- [Interviewer] In the end, how many dollars
did you steal from them? - Oh man. (laughs)
400 to 500 dollars.
- I was a sales associate for like a jewelry company.
- [Interviewer] You stole jewelry?
- No, but I didn't stop people if they did.
I wasn't going to get in the middle of that.
(Interviewer laughs)
- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired?
- I've never been fired.
I feel like there's moments, I should have been.
There's been a lot of situations
where I've had awful customers.
I've said a little bit too much.
- I am just mouthy.
- My managers that were like,
"You can't be just you or else you're going to be fired."
(laughs)
- [Interviewer] You ever been fired from a job?
- No.
- No. - I've never been fired.
- [Interviewer] Did you ever do anything
you should have been fired for?
- No. - No.
- No.
- In my old job, I fucked in one of the offices.
- One time I came to work super hungover.
- My supervisor, she said to not get drunk,
and almost fall off a boat at the company event next time.
- I got to work super high.
I was swirling yogurt and I just couldn't do it.
- I smoked a lot of weed on my breaks
and then would come back super high.
I couldn't answer questions about the product.
- [Interviewer] What was the job?
- I was a fragrance girl.
- [Interviewer] That's actually really smart.
'Cause then you can go (spraying sounds)
- Yeah, right?
That's what I thought.
- I got fired before I even started it.
- [Interviewer] Why?
- I slept in.
- I was a no call, no show.
- I just wasn't showing up.
- And I just like never came in.
- I decided that on my lunch,
I was just going to go home and I just never came back.
- I don't even need to be here.
- 'Cause I hated that job.
- I didn't care about the job.
- Who cares?
This job is not the job I want for my career.
- I've definitely did things to be fired so that,
you know, unemployment can come through
rather than quit and just have to look for another job.
- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired?
- I wasn't fired, but I did get laid off.
- [Interviewer] What's the difference?
- Getting fired, usually I feel like
you did something wrong.
Getting laid of could have been out of your control.
- Well our place is closed officially,
so I guess that could be a layoff.
- [Interviewer] Why did it close down?
- COVID, because it's a club
and I don't think clubs are opening any time soon.
- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired from a job?
- Yes. - Yes.
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] What was getting fired like?
- They texted me.
- Like a voicemail.
- They vaguely said performance-related.
- Both of our best interests if we just kind of part ways.
- I was told that I was not a good fit after 18 years.
- Been there for so many, many years
and did so many different things
to make the shop nicer for other people to work.
And it was, oh my God what am I going to do
with the rest of my life?
- I kind of felt betrayed.
I gave this particular company
too much of my time to be treated that way.
- I didn't get a call or anything
from my supervisor, from the group lead.
I feel like they should have been a bit more personal.
At least a conversation.
- [Interviewer] Have you ever been fired?
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] Why?
- I chose other priorities over my work.
- My mother-in-law had lung cancer.
She was terminally ill,
and I wanted to take a leave of absence.
And they said,
"No, I can't have that."
Oh, it sets a precedence.
So I quit.
- [Interviewer] I think that was the right choice.
- I had my brother work with me for a day.
My brother made a mistake
and then the manager the next day was like,
"What is your brother, some fucking idiot?"
And so I just stood up and I was like, fuck you.
You don't care about any of your employees.
And I threw a metal water bottle towards him.
And they were like,
"You need to come sign some paperwork in here."
I'm like yeah. (laughs)
- One of my jobs, my manager was really creepy.
- Took me into the cooler and tried to do things with me.
And I wouldn't, so she fired me.
- Supervisor didn't seem to like me too much.
- One day he just snapped and berated me.
- Like an angry father.
And to say how much I had disappointed him.
- Said like, if you don't fucking like it,
then you can get the fuck out of here.
And I was like, oh.
- [Interviewer] Do you think at the time
you were undervalued?
- Hell yeah.
I don't believe your life is worth
$15 an hour, $20 an hour, I don't.
- [Interviewer] How did you feel when you got fired?
- At the time I was angry,
but it surely led to new opportunities.
- I'm a big believer that everything happens for a reason.
And then if it wasn't for that,
really wouldn't have the job that I have now.
So it all worked out in the end.
- I can focus on my business, my mom's business,
help her, and then I have another business
that's gonna pop off soon.
So timing is everything.
I'm happy.