Mojo In The Morning
Meaghan Thought She was Getting Fired
This is the Mojo in the Morning podcast, powered by Michigan Auto Law, auto accident attorneys. Visit autolaw.com. That's autolaw.com. It's Mojo in the Morning Show. Megan thought that she was getting fired. Don't you feel like you're always getting fired? No, because I've never overreacted to anything in my hair. And this was definitely not a case of overreaction if my therapist is listening, because this is something we've been working on for quite a while. But yesterday I was here in the office, and it was like around two o'clock, so there weren't many people around. And all of a sudden, all of my computers stopped working, had to reboot them, and then they wouldn't let me log in. And the first computer, you're like, "Oh, it's this building, everything's broken." I'm sure I should just go to another studio instead of trying to fix this. And I went into another studio, and I couldn't log in. It's like, "That's kind of weird." But again, it's this building. So, all right, I'll try another studio. I go into a third studio, can't log in. And I'm like, "Okay, now things feel suspicious. So I have a laptop here in our studio that I wasn't working in. That is a work laptop." And I try to log into that, not working. I look around, and I realize, "Oh my God, they turned off my access to everything. I've been fired, and they forgot to tell me." 40 minutes trying to get into a workspace to work while avoiding the footsteps of heels that was our boss Colleen. Or every time I heard Tony talking in the hallway, I would just door into a room and just try like, "Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't." Like me running through the building, trying not to be spotted, but I didn't get fired. Wait, so you thought you were getting fired. So you started hiding from them, thinking that if you were getting fired, if they couldn't find you, they couldn't fire you. Correct. Why would you prolong your work? If they fired you, why don't you continue working? You say prolong work. I say prolong paycheck. Well, what if they stop your victim? 40 minutes. It's like your paycheck. Hey, a win is a win, okay? By the way, I feel like I'm being fired all the time. I just have... I don't know this. I have this like nervous, very anxious energy about it, but that's really how I realized I was being fired from my first radio job was I couldn't log into my email. Correct. Yes. That's kind of nice. Somebody I know who works in this industry, when you couldn't unlock the door with your keycard, so they would turn it off the night before and for like, they shouldn't have and you couldn't get into the building in the morning and you're like, "Oh, I'm going to get laid off today." Wow. Has anybody... Everything who, this would be fun to hear this call, knew they were getting fired but hid from their boss long enough that they couldn't fire you or they couldn't get a hold of you. Has anybody ever had that happen? Because that actually... That's a great story. Just to hear you say what you just did, that would be the funniest if that actually legitimately happened to somebody where they hid long enough that they could not get fired. Or how did you know you were getting fired before you actually heard it face to face from your boss? Yeah. What was the story, why did you have issues yesterday thinking you were getting fired? So eventually I had like deadlines coming up and I really needed help figuring it out and I was like, "Well, I should go figure it out." And I started sneaking through, you know, in that one sales area, the cubicle almost backs up to the wall but you can squeeze through to get to engineering. Yes. I crawled through that space. Thank you. I'd go to an engineer because I was like, "He'll tell me." And you apparently nationwide outages yesterday for I heard one of our systems. And it was like, everybody not just me, but nobody told me. Was that that VPN thing that I saw? Yeah. So because of a hurricane affecting Houston, it was, there was issues I guess with our stuff. 844-Mojo live, 844-665-6548, Texas 955-00. What's going on? Selena, hi. Hi. I just could really relate to that because I actually went to log into like my computer stuff a couple of months ago and I couldn't get into anything. So I started calling like our help desk and everything and they didn't like, couldn't figure it out. And then all of a sudden they tell me I was fired by mistake. What? Yeah. Yeah. They fired you by mistake. Yeah. One of the upper, one of like higher up, they were putting in a termination for somebody else and accidentally clicked my name. Oh my God. Nice. Wow. Why do you do that? That's actually interesting because we talked not that long ago about how Shannon got somebody's raised accidentally. Oh, do you know I had to write a personal check back to iHeart to return all that money? It's crazy to think that it was a big companies like this. And then yours, what kind of work are you in? You're like a loyal business. Oh, wow. So yes, these big companies. Wow. That's crazy. Mojo in the morning. What's going on? We will voice disguise initial L. We'll call you. What's up? Oh, I was calling because I'm a registered nurse. So I worked from home, though, and it was my day off and a group that called in on our day off to go home and log in to all get fired. It's literally the most traumatic thing ever. At least they call. They called you to say log in to get fired. What? I'm sorry. Yeah. We were off that day, but we were from home, so they like, they wanted you to log in for a zoom firing or something? Exactly. That's like stupid. That's so crappy. Why do you do it over the phone and say, hey, I'm sorry. They wanted to be face to see your face when they were firing you. I've been fired. Yeah. It was awful. And the worst thing, too, is we all got our job back like a week later. Oh my God. No, I'm going to go back. What's happening? Jennifer. Good morning. Every body. Good morning. What's going on? So I always have, like, the constant fear that I'm going to be fired. And last Friday I had a doctor's appointment, so I snuck out early and I didn't tell my boss. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. I got it. Nicely. I got to dump. I got to dump that for one second. So for those that miss the story. Yeah, you can't say. You can't say spitting bricks. Oh, she's. Yeah. You said the actual word. Yeah. You said the word. If you would have said spitting bricks, that would have been better than shh bricks. Yes. Okay. So again, you're you're at home. Yeah, I just left the doctor appointment and I got an email. My boss thing that he wanted to meet with me on Monday and I thought it was in regards to me leaving early. But it wasn't. Thankfully, it was about like some other stuff that we had going on in the office. But the whole weekend. I was both. Yeah. Interesting. I had to dump or not dump it, but pull it down because I thought she was going to say it again. It's interesting. I don't think they fire on Mondays. I don't think businesses ever fire. Really? They do. I don't know. I think they don't they always do it on a Friday or. Yeah. They fire on birthdays. They fire on holiday. I was fired on a Monday morning. Really? Fired on a Monday morning. Why have you come in on a Monday morning? That just seems so good. So we didn't. They sent us on a cruise with listeners. So we were gone for a week, got home on Sunday night and that's when I tried to log into my email and was like, hmm, I can't log into my email. And then in the morning, we got we got the news saying come in, but it wasn't good basically. You got to love those. They sent you on a cruise. Right. That's kind of nice. Honestly. You're going to send off. What's up, Keith? Hi. How you doing today? Real fast on the Monday thing. Yeah, they do fire on Monday. They bring you back to pick up your last check. Oh, okay. All right. What's going on? I worked for the city of Slovenia a while ago, parks and forestry. I was actually. And I had a. Yeah. Thanks. I had a. Pina for court and I explained to them that I was there what the court proceeding took an extra day. I did call unexplained. It's home. They fired me. The actual city did. Well, I contacted the supervisor. So you can't fire somebody when they're super when they got a subpoena. He says, you're right. Go ahead and come on back tomorrow morning. Morning. He says, guess what? You're fired. Correct. Wow. But he says he goes first with, yeah, you're right. Come on back again. Now I'm going to fire you again. That's like insult to injury. Alexis. That's Pennsylvania for you. What's up? Hey, what's going on? I can't hear you at a fire yourself service. What's up? Well, next call Nick, what's going on? Oh, my gosh. So I work in HR and Megan, let me tell you, last week I had to go to Chicago and I was chasing down a manager to find them. And one of the stores to fire them. Oh, my gosh, that was me, like running around and just popping into any dark room to try to hide. So Megan's story is legit, like the people will hide from you. People will hide from me. I'm like, hey, I need to meet with you. I'm at this store. I'm like, OK, well, I'm not now I'm at this door. Oh, I had to go to the other store. I'm like, OK, can you just stay put? Well, I got a lot of things to do to them. Yeah. You got nothing to do. You're going to be fired. That's that we will always find you. You can run, but you cannot hide. We have your address on file. Has that ever happened? Has anybody ever had them come to your house to fire you? That would be interesting. Reid, what's up? What's up, guys? Hi, I actually worked for a company chain that ended up selling. And we were told we were all going to keep our job. So I had a friend that worked at a different location who got fired. He called me, told me that he just got separate after we were told we weren't. He was really upset, so I took my lunch break and I went to go meet up with him. I get a call from my boss after where I'm at. He's like, hey, I came to your store to see you. Where are you? I was like, oh, crap, I'm next. So I told him I went to lunch, called him about 30 minutes later, told him I wasn't feeling good. He was all three weeks of my sick time. Didn't come here. Yeah. That's for you. That's for you, June, three weeks later, he goes, how do you know? I was like, I just knew he goes, yeah, sorry, we're going to have to sever him to you. So I ended up getting all my personal time and vacation time and stay home for eight months by the day to 80% after all my years. Oh, my God. That is amazing. That is amazing. Geez. Tea. What's up? Last call here. What's going on, T? I was, I had a job once and I was being promoted. I was promised a promotion. They told me what my pay was going to be, what my off days would be, all my roles and responsibilities. And then like a week after, my boss was like, hey, jump on a conference call so we can discuss the next steps of this promotion. And when I got on the call, I was terminated. Wow. What? You were promised all this stuff, but then you're terminated. Why would they do that? He never gave me a reason. And then when he terminated me, he told me he would give me a severance pay and I never got it. That's crazy. So, you're going to get a promotion thinking that you're going to get all this stuff. They fire you. Yep. See, man. Complete surprise. I'd hate to play poker with those guys. I'd be like, man, talk about a poker face being able to like hold that back for you for the longest time. Do you have a job now or are you? Yeah. Okay. Good. Even better one actually. Good. See that source. Well, thank you for the call. Take care of yourself. 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