Once, and only once, the owner called me in to the office for a recommendation on whether or not to fire someone.
I weighed in with my opinion 'Pete' needed to go. The few times he had showed up to work in the previous week he was blotto, couldn't do the work, left early and was disruptive.
And that was it for 'Pete'.
I quit some months later when I realized the owner was an alcoholic. The self-realization I was one too was still a few years in the future . . .
I have been fired once (boy did they have cause*), laid off once, and have quit twice. I don't think I can fuck up what I'm doing now.
*long story, there was some management pathology too
I weighed in with my opinion 'Pete' needed to go. The few times he had showed up to work in the previous week he was blotto, couldn't do the work, left early and was disruptive.
And that was it for 'Pete'.
I quit some months later when I realized the owner was an alcoholic. The self-realization I was one too was still a few years in the future . . .
I have been fired once (boy did they have cause*), laid off once, and have quit twice. I don't think I can fuck up what I'm doing now.
*long story, there was some management pathology too
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
