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[christopher575]

This is the first time in Seattle I've ever left a job voluntarily. I was laid off from the company that moved me here, and fired from my last job. It's such a weird feeling to be done and getting ready to start something new. It feels great.

I'll really miss a lot of the people I worked with. A lot of the goodbyes today were really sad. But leaving on good terms makes it so much easier to think of them as friends and want to see them again. I'm used to feeling like old coworkers are avoiding me.

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[poppychirpy.livejournal.com]

So, when you got fired from the previous job, how did you explain it at the interview for this job you are leaving?

[christopher575.livejournal.com]

I got my last two jobs (the one I was fired from and the one that ended last night) via temping. The temp service and the employer I'm starting with were both curious about why I was fired, but I'm always honest about what happened and people usually agree it was pretty unfair.

When I started the job I was fired from, I had a territory of five states and did an extremely good job. Certain states were harder than others, and one coworker had a very hard time of his, and two others were falling behind. They started a hiring freeze in my department and fired one of the two who fell behind. The other quit. The third was dealt a better shuffle of states, and I got all the hard ones. My territory went from five to 10. I was eventually fired, and everyone who didn't leave was moved slowly into a different role. The job we all did while I was there ended up becoming an $8.00/hr job (we had made twice as much) so what I realized is that they had to get rid of all of us one way or another.

It's really telling that I was one of the ones who was fired since my numbers weren't the highest but my category accuracy was the highest of all. Their priorities were obviously quantity rather than quality, which always bothered me because a mis-categorized "job" was worse than one that wasn't even done at all.