I got fired ("let go", "laid off") for the 2nd time this year. How do I recover?

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Re: I got fired ("let go", "laid off") for the 2nd time this year. How do I recover?

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Post by iTrollFreely » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 12:48 PM UTC

instaheat wrote: post #5

paperclips wrote: post #3

There is no easy answer to this, but to keep trying. Buy outs stink when it comes to layoffs... it's always in the best interest of the investors - whatever that is - not the employees. At your second job though, they do have a point. It's a company computer and you should not be using your own hardware without permission (to be safe) to browse things against company policy (even as blocked on their main network). Ev…

"A point." What a sad pathetic little point they have. In fact, they said if I had done it our on issued laptops it would have been OK. But this - no - this is a crime. It's non sense. Their network wasn't at risk - it's impossible to access the internal domain from the guest network. This should have been a discussion. Not a firing.

it's clear to me by reading each one of your retorts that you have a rather poor personality, unfit for a workplace.

perhaps they used the usb dongle as a convenient excuse to get rid of you.

Re: I got fired ("let go", "laid off") for the 2nd time this year. How do I recover?

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Post by notqualified » Sat, Nov 02, 2013, 4:47 PM UTC

That you are surprised at being let go for your actions in the second job makes me question your suitability at the first.

An Information Technology management role is a management role. As a former manager, you shouldn't need to be reminded that you can't be compentent in that role without knowing your organizations's rules and working with them.

Obviously I don't know your situation, but one question immediately comes to mind: as an IT manager did you ever find yourself in a situation where you had to recommend terminating someone because they committed a serious violation of the organization's rules when they should have known better?

Any good manager will tell you it sucks for everyone to be in that situation but if the rules are to mean anything they have to be enforced.

You paid a high price in this case, but if you learn the right lesson from it you'll become a better manager in the future and at the very least you should have some good real-world experience to relate in your future interviews.

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