My manager just casually gave me my resignation papers.

[ceo]

did they know how much company time you were spending on EF?

 

[JumpBallWinner]

FL is a right to work state. They can fire you for the way you comb your hair. But that doesn't protect them from discrimination. Or else every business in the nation would be working here.

When I worked at TeamHealth, I closed the largest deal that the industry - not just my company - had ever seen (at that time), bringing in 3 states plus the two US Virgin Islands.

When my commission was due, the CEO and board of directors brought my boss and myself into a meeting room and handed us our checks and said "we have NEVER written a check that large before for anyone, let alone two people". I knew instantly wtf was going on and in 3 weeks had left the company for my current employer. Sure enough, the next quarterly meeting, all sales people plus my boss were brought in and presented with a contract that established a cap on the amount of commission they could, both overall for the year and for the contract itself. Even if you brought in multiple biz, if you hit that cap in your first couple commissions, you didn't get a dollar more.

My boss refused to sign it, they fired him, he sued for wage discrimnation and won.

Man, does a story like this piss me off. It upset them that they had to pay you commission, a percentage that they orginally agreed on, just for the simple fact that someone was getting alot of money, even though it was just a reflection of the huge amount of money that your work had just made them. If you agree to pay someone x% of every dollar they make you, then what the fuck difference does it make if you're paying that % on $100 or $5,000,000?? That meeting should've been to congratulate you and your boss on a job well done and to inform you both that an extra bonus was being included for the record setting deal, especially since that the fact that it was the most money that they had ever paid someone at once translated to the fact that it was the most money that they had ever made themselves at once!! You just can't make some people happy.

It's like buisness owners get threatened by the fact that someone else might enjoy financial success, especially when they have to write the check for it.... even if that person's work has just made them filthy ass rich 20 times fold!!

I've seen several situations like this myself. Working by the hour and get a shitload of overtime in a pay period, and even though you know that because of the overtime you put in, the person you're working for really cashed in on the job, it still pisses them off to have to cut you that big check. Like, if it was the same amount of money being paid out, just divided over say more people or something, for their same amount of profit being made on whatever work that was done, then it wouldn't bother them one bit.... but having to see someone else be rewarded largely just upsets them.

I swear I've worked for and with people who, if given the option to net 10k a week after payroll the payroll been 5k, or to net 5k a week after payroll but only have to pay their help 1k..... they would choose to make half as much just to save themselves from having to witness others being rewarded with good money!!

I'm glad that your boss didn't sign that stupid, greed laiden fucking contract, and I'm glad he won the lawsuit. If that company didn't decide to do away with those contracts and that entire idea, then I hope they fucking go bankrupt... because that's what assholes with that type of greed and hatred for other's success deserve.

 

[mrplunkey]

Guys, I need help answering one important question when I'm asked to come in for an interview.

To those who have experience with this:

What do I answer when they ask: Why did they let you go at your old job?

All help is appreciated.

Do not say the first negative thing about your previous employer. Don't even try to be coy about it.

Just say something like: Personalities got involved and working there just wasn't the same.

 

[mrplunkey]

I don't think there is any form of discrimintation, and I don't want to get the company in any trouble. I would feel like shit if I got the company in any trouble over nothing. I have all the assets to find a good job and I have the skills neccessary to make it work.

Looking for excuses to why I failed / was laid off is reaching....the decision was unfair and I deserved better....but to say it is discrimination because I'm muslim is asking for preferential treatment...I'm just like anybody else.....and will not stoop down to the level of using the race card to score a few extra bucks....

Thanks for your advice though bro....it is apreciated

Great choice in not playing the race card. Well done!

Here's something people don't get. You may have been discriminated against -- they wanted a previous employee re-hired. But that isn't discrimination based on race, religion, age, gender, veteran status, etc. etc. Those are forms of illegal discrimination. Technically, discriminating is perfectly legal (i.e. I prefer him because of his education, experience, grooming, personal appearance, etc. etc). Discriminating on the basis of something that is explicitly illegal is where people get into trouble.

 

[drsketch]

curb stomp him... haha

 

[ceo]

FL is a right to work state. They can fire you for the way you comb your hair. But that doesn't protect them from discrimination. Or else every business in the nation would be working here.

When I worked at TeamHealth, I closed the largest deal that the industry - not just my company - had ever seen (at that time), bringing in 3 states plus the two US Virgin Islands.

When my commission was due, the CEO and board of directors brought my boss and myself into a meeting room and handed us our checks and said "we have NEVER written a check that large before for anyone, let alone two people". I knew instantly wtf was going on and in 3 weeks had left the company for my current employer. Sure enough, the next quarterly meeting, all sales people plus my boss were brought in and presented with a contract that established a cap on the amount of commission they could, both overall for the year and for the contract itself. Even if you brought in multiple biz, if you hit that cap in your first couple commissions, you didn't get a dollar more.

My boss refused to sign it, they fired him, he sued for wage discrimnation and won.

I had the same thing happen to me once. I set a company record for sales numbers. The VP of the company was pissed and asked me if I knew that I made more money than anyone else in the company that month...including him and the President. He grew angry, red-faced and was shaking when he was talking about it. He was a short, angry little fellow anyway...so I just told him I thought that was great, and I was happy I could bring so much revenue into the company, and I was looking forward to doing it again. He looked at me like I was crazy and made some comment about how a deal I closed was "shakey". Asshole.

The next month they changed the commission structure. I was on track to do better than the previous month, but on the new commission structure I'd only make about a third of what I made last month.

I bitched. They promoted me to a new position (on the wholesale end) and I never made that kind of money again.

Fucked up when people think that way (that the VP did).

 

[wootoom]

Now you can be be a full time elite mentor lol j/k..i hope everything works out man...come work in the oilpatch in alberta..actually its not even that busy right now over here. good luck bro/

 

[the_alcatraz]

Do not say the first negative thing about your previous employer. Don't even try to be coy about it.

Just say something like: Personalities got involved and working there just wasn't the same.

that's good advice bro...i was told not to say anything negative about my last employer

 

[the_alcatraz]

Great choice in not playing the race card. Well done!

Here's something people don't get. You may have been discriminated against -- they wanted a previous employee re-hired. But that isn't discrimination based on race, religion, age, gender, veteran status, etc. etc. Those are forms of illegal discrimination. Technically, discriminating is perfectly legal (i.e. I prefer him because of his education, experience, grooming, personal appearance, etc. etc). Discriminating on the basis of something that is explicitly illegal is where people get into trouble.

I agree with this. I don't want a quick buck if there's no honor in it.

 

[heavy_duty]

I sww it a mile away when he was looking to hire an old employee back and when he gave me the first warning. I'm a little confused, because by virtue of it being a first warning, there should be a second and a third, no?

He casually said: ''we have decided to let you go..."

I saw it coming, and I kinda hoped it would come because I was getting tired of my monotonous job, yet I still feel kinda disappointed and frustrated.

Anyways, back to looking for a job now. meh.

As an employer in Canada, we just say "get the fuck out" buh-bye