I was going to make a service announcement that I can’t do active moderation no more, because I got a job. Good news! I no longer have a job. Got fired on the third day for getting myself injured. Not sure if that’s legal, but the guy who owns the company has ties to the local mafia, so it’s not like I can do anything.
So, yeah, that sucks, but at least I can continue being the sole moderator of this 4 person strong community.
Cheers everyone!
Just for fun, has anyone had a similar experience? Just curious. What did you do?
Oh, yeah. When I was 17, I scored a job at a local Jewish delicatessen. On my first day, I got a couple minutes of training on the meat slicer and was set to work slicing a huge bag of pastrami.
Sliced the tip of my left thumb off, just down to the very furthest tip of the artery, and through the nail bed. I started hollering and squirting blood all over the place, probably ruined a lot of product as some blood was going into the display cases. The boss took me to the ER and drove me home. I ended up in a wrist brace to immobilise the wound until it’d healed. I wish I recalled how they worded it, but it was gently made clear that I would not be coming back. For over a decade though I could feel the nerve in there.
Dang, that sucks. In my case, they didn’t even word it nicely. They didn’t word it at all. My supervisor told me to go home, and 15 minutes later I was presented with a termination of contract for me to sign. Now, I can only use one hand for a while AND I don’t have a job. Love the logic behind that, “Oh, something bad happened to you on the job? You’re fired.” The job market sucks so much right now, and so many bosses expect the employee to go above and beyond for minimum wage. It’s not like it’s the fault of the employee for getting injured. And in your case it sucks even more, because that’s permanent damage. Technically, you should be compensated for that
This was twenty years ago, and there are no traces of it left. I could have been less ill used perhaps, but I don’t bear any grudges now.
Well, yeah, twenty years will do that. Good for you. Cheers. I just wanted to complain a bit.
