Have you ever been let go because of bad service, attitude or behaviour?

[SunshineCake]

Inspired by a thread on a mean GPs receptionist.

I was let go from a childcare job because I hadn't lived with my parents. I only post this as someone is bound to ask sarcastically if I have as has happened on other threads.

But how did anyone know whether you'd lived with your parents or not?

We were talking about something in the news and I made the mistake of sharing this.

Why would someone sack you for not living with you parents?

I don't understand how your experience links with your title?

Was living with your parents some weird condition of keeping the job?

WHat

I’m so confused 😐

Do you mean you were let go because you were looked after by Children’s services as a child?

This hasn't gone as I expected so I think I'll leave it there. I read about people complaining about a mean receptionist and thought I wonder if she was on here or some that had been sacked were and if anyone had been sacked for being rude to a patient.

Did you start this thread because the cat drank the milk and you thought we might know of someone who likes cabbage?

I’m sorry op, but you derailed your own thread, I don’t understand why living with your parents was a prerequisite of a child care job?

Damn the thread title promised so much.

This makes zero sense. Can you explain OP?

Nah, I think you’d have to really fuck up (or have senior colleagues that dislike you) to get fired.

I have been complained about when I used to work in customer service (retail). They genuinely were vexatious complaints and my management didn’t take them seriously as I was known for having great customer service and was very good at my job (I was a supervisor in a busy London flagship). I had a significant amount of positive feedback too, so the complaints were just considered outliers/unfounded.

Eg a woman complained about me because carrier bags cost 5p and she didn’t want to break her £10 note, claiming I was rude for not providing it free of charge. She “knew her rights” apparently. So happy I no longer work with the public!

I received a verbal warning once for a shitty attitude towards a customer. Fully deserved warning too. In any sort of customer service role (whether that’s GP receptionist or shop assistant) you need to be able to separate your personal and professional life.

In case anyone wonders, I was having a miscarriage I’d not been allowed time off work for and took it out on a customer that came in demanding money off an item. Their attitude was shitty, my attitude was shittier, they complained.

But what does your childhood have to do with being rude to clients/customers, or your childcare job? Are you saying you somehow got the sack because you’d been a looked after child, or because you were rude to someone?

I got a verbal warning as a patient turned up and apparently I ‘refused to see him’
He was 30 minutes late and I was testing someone else - the guy actually wanted me to turf my current patient out of my room to see him.
I was furious and wrote to the MD? Who then gave my manager a verbal warning.