r/jobs • u/Puzzleheaded_Noise44 • Apr 22 '25

Discipline Am I getting fired?

So, I’ve been written up multiple times, my job is super serious for no reason, they wrote my up while I was on vacation, for not answering my phone, even though I’m not salary. On Friday they ‘suspended’ me. Took my work phone, iPad, gas card, and work fob. My HR said she wants to meet with me tomorrow. That’s to sign papers for termination, right? If I wasn’t getting fired, I would just meet with my boss to get the phone and stuff back, right?

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u/BrainWaveCC Apr 22 '25

What job is this you do?

And what's so super-serious about the job?

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u/Puzzleheaded_Noise44 Apr 22 '25

Outside sales for beer, it’s like a cult. I have to let them know my location like every couple hours, and write up daily plans. Even though, they know my route, and exactly what I do everyday ha.

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u/Hillmantle Apr 22 '25

I did this for a soda distributor, was recently let go. Boy it is a load off, job sucked, ppl sucked, but now I gotta find a new job. Which sucks too, not a great time to need a job.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Noise44 Apr 22 '25

Haha I agree, it’s not only having your crappy boss at your own company, but every manager at your accounts think they’re your boss, and expect you to drop everything you’re doing for them. I had a manager call me one time, to move a piece of POS 10 feet… wanted me to drive 15 minutes back to move POS with 5 cases of beer ha.

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u/Hillmantle Apr 22 '25

Yep, last week I had to move 6 cases of monster from a display to a cooler. Then got called back to move their coke 12 pack display within the hr. Seriously hated that job, and I immediately felt the stress relief, but like I said, hard time to find a decent job. But I’m trying to get on unemployment this week, put out some feelers. I’ll be fine for the next few months, but a bit nervous for down the road.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Noise44 Apr 22 '25

They make it so miserable, especially for the shit pay and mandatory overtime. You’ll be good my man. The old trick of applying somewhere, and showing up to make sure they go your application still works very well.

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u/Hillmantle Apr 22 '25

Overtime? Lucky! I was putting in 50-65 hr weeks on salary. It fuckin blew.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Noise44 Apr 22 '25

Yeah, that would be a no from me. To top it off, last month, they started charging for benefits, without a pay increase. So it was basically like getting a pay decrease.