Reasons for loosing your last job

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What where they? And especially, where some of them due to any sort of external interference - meaning not your fault but someone acting deliberately to get you out of your job?

I lost it because of my lack of attention to details. Just got swamped and did a whole bunch of mistakes. This might seem out of place given the purpose of this forum, but I don't consider myself an Aspie despite the many things I seem to have in common with the condition.

for me; i lost my last job becouse i didn't hold the serving plate 'correctly', even though i took more glasses and faster rounds then the other servers...

I only had two jobs in my life and I lost both because I couldn't stand doing them any more and quit.

most recently i was laid off my uncivil service job by shrub, Reduction-In-Force. previous to this job, the army wasn't really interested in having me reenlist, and neither was i! before that, i was laid off because i underperformed in various ways related to being too damned slow/dull-witted/clumsy/poor [social] handling of customers.

From my experience, it seems most of the time (apart from economic difficulties) employers do not reveal the real reasons why they discharge employees from their positions of employment.

Because I was a Christmas temp.

Both my last jobs: stress, which manifested as stomac problems, lots of sickdays and lots of time on the toilet while at work.

1. They abruptly changed the schedule from 8 hours to 12 hours. This unnerved me.
2. A lot of us, myself included, were unfairly written up for punching out late. We actually had no choice because we couldn't leave our work undone.
3. The new employees which I was training were being paid more than me. I'd been doing the job for years and most of them had just graduated from school!
You can't win.

My last job? Because the economy caught up to me so most of us didn't work for while and then when things picked up, they decided they wanted to save money so they used less workers for the floors for getting trash and linen and recycling and dirty cups. Because I had lower priority, I rarely worked and it be about once a month or sometimes twice a month. I quit that job when I got put into training for another job because I would be working nights and I didn't want to come home and then have to go to work and be tired during the day.


Before that, it wasn't a real job so I don't use it as my employment but I did used to work with my ex putting ads together at the newspaper shack before they go out to delivery and my ex then told me his boss thought I was too slow so he didn't want me. I was supposed to get paid but my ex never gave me the check and he always handed people their paychecks because he supervised there. I worked there every Sunday.

Last job - was laid off with the rest of the remaining staff when they ran out of work.

Prior to that, there was a reorganization at the top. Unbeknownst to me at that time the new regional head wanted to know each of us better with one-on-one talks. So was nervous with an authority figure i did not know. So I was soon "laid off" and saw that I was just being interviewed for my own job under that pretense.

Because I'm too slow and the boss thought I seemed 'mental'...I found out from my dads side of the family I was staying with. I was pretty offended he told other people that is why I got fired and told me the job had ended(it was a temporary job so I thought nothing of it) but I was the last to hear the real reason and that is basically what it was. I guess he did not want to tell me 'you're too mental and slow, get out freak.' but was ok telling other people that was his opinion.

last time I ever let my family hook me up with a 'job', if i ever have a job......for now it will be SSI if I can get on it.

i was thrown out of my last job.

Reason was that my senior played politics with me....i wasn't clever enough to handle her
ultimately she went and said rubbish about me to everyone
i was thrown out....

I left just because I was going back to school for another year until graduation.

Officially I lost my job for gross misconduct; call avoidance in a call centre.
I didn't avoid calls, where as plenty of other people there did!

Unofficially two major contributing factors;

1. The company was about to lose it's contract.
My headset was faulty so I had to end calls, I kept asking daily for a new headset and borrowing other people's (I suspect as they were losing the contract they didn't want to buy new headsets) - one supervisor had a particular issue with me so claimed that my headset was working and I was just making excuses, he lied to management by saying I was avoiding calls rather than that my headset was faulty - all the managers stuck together claiming I had never even mentioned a fault with my headset.

2. I was dating the wrong person.
I was dating a guy who was very chummy with management - office staff all viewed me as some ignorant cold-hearted b***h (I'm not, it's just how I can come across due to the AS) they all decided I was leading him on and so I was going to hurt him. Things ended with this guy due to pressure from people at work and pressure he was putting on me by trying to make the relationship serious - he told everyone in the office that I had cheated on him, thus all the management hated me even more than they had before.

Basically...it was office politics, not being chummy with management meant I was an easy target.

I actually have a part-time job now, but was let go at my previous job for "fit issues." It was basically a constructive layoff--they hired way too many people as was their habit and there wasn't enough work for everyone once the recession hit. They really should not have hired me at all, since it was obvious I didn't fit in there, but I think they wanted to be able to meet some kind of goal about hiring more people than any other firm even though they didn't need a lot of the people they hired. I was paid well, but didn't get any good experience at all.

Glad to be working part-time now at a nonprofit, but I'm looking for a better job. I'm hoping that now that I'm employed my resume will be taken seriously again. But I am very lucky to have found this position, I had been out of work nearly three years prior and I was starting to think I would never find anything again.

One job was a holiday temp position, so as soon as the after Christmas sales started, I got my pink slip along with everyone else hired for the season.

Another one was a case of over-hiring as the store that I would have worked at managed to get most of their older employees back, so most of the people I trained with were laid off.

My current job is one where I haven't been scheduled since the end of March, yet they still haven't given me the layoff notice. I call every week or show up so they can never accuse me of not showing up and fire me as a result. I refuse to give them an excuse to fire me, and if they really want to get rid of me, they're going to have to lay me off. Until I get that official notice, I'm not changing my resume to where the end date is "present" as it's going to help me in the long run as I've started looking for another job. Before then, I had my hours cut to 3 hours/1 day a week.