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Post by DD on Aug 30, 2018 1:44:52 GMT
Ok; I want to have the main love interest be new to the company the heroine works at, and she does something right away that pisses him off and he fires her, only to find out gradually over the next several weeks what a great employee she was and how she'd made it a better place and get a bad case of the guilts. I want the offense to be something that could legitimately be a firing reason, but to the reader of course it will seem like he's being a big meanie, so I guess it should be an innocent sort of mistake. More of an oops thing as opposed to she's incompetent. He's just having a bad day and decided to make an example of her. But I don't know much about the way office politics goes, so I don't know what would get somebody the axe as opposed to just some HR counseling. Anybody ever work in sales, marketing, accounts payable, etc? What sort of thing would have gotten you fired? Like right now at my work there is nobody else who knows how to do all of my different jobs, so unless I actually murdered somebody on the floor in front of witnesses who could not be bribed to not recall what happened, I doubt they would fire me for anything. And if I did murder someone and get locked up, they'd try to get me on work release. (Seriously, they had me staying late with a guy I later found out had pulled 12 years for kidnapping, assault and battery, and aggravated rape. Did they give me any warnings? Nooooo...he was a really hard worker though, so there's that.) So I don't think my current place of employment is an accurate reflection of what will get someone a pink slip.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Aug 30, 2018 4:35:49 GMT
What sort of office job does she have? If she works in sales she could have inadvertently offended a really sensitive big-money client and lost the company the account. Like say this client is someone who is deeply offended by having someone offer their hand to shake. No one warns her about this, and so after a really productive meeting, she offers her hand to say goodbye, and the client leaves in an uproar. If she's in data entry/any kind of computer processing, maybe her boss was on a tight deadline, something had to be sent through right away, she sends it, but accidentally transposes some numbers, fills out a form with a red pen instead of a black one, or is about to hit send and gets a phone call, angry customer in her place and forgets to press send. So the very important paper/report/etc doesn't go through. Or maybe she didn't even do it. Perhaps someone else used her login/account to do something against the rules while your character was at lunch/busy in another area. If your character lives in a right to work state she can be fired for any reason, and doesn't even have to be given one. Hope one of these helps.  |
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Post by agnes on Sept 5, 2018 4:12:21 GMT
Wow, that's pretty scary that you could get fired for some of those!
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Sept 5, 2018 4:26:23 GMT
Wow, that's pretty scary that you could get fired for some of those! Welcome to the forum, agnes! Congrats on making your first post. Yeah, it can be scary sometimes. Employment is fickle. If you live in a blue state or work for a company that has tons of regulations that make firing people difficult, then usually, you end up with people who should be fired who just keep having a job, even though everyone they work with hates them and wishes they would go away. But if you live in a red state and work for a company that doesn't have such strict hiring/firing regulations, you could be fired for being gay or trans or for clocking in five minutes late, one time, after getting stuck in traffic. It all depends on your boss. This is a fun forum where people talk about their work experiences with various companies, as well as sharing tips on getting hired, etc. It's a real eye-opener to what goes on out there behind the scenes of workplaces that we don't know about. www.indeed.com/forum |
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Post by DD on Sept 21, 2018 23:45:00 GMT
Those are all good ideas. The lateness aspect could be what drives him to use whatever little oopsie she commits as the last straw that leads him to make an example of her. Like maybe she grabs the wrong files for a meeting, mixing up two similar clients (Johnson and Johnstone, for example) and he thinks she's a habitually tardy slacker AND careless. I just don't know whether to make it a Christmas romance. I think they are supposed to sell pretty well, but I'm not sure I can get it finished and edited in time to cash in for the holiday season.
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Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Sept 21, 2018 23:55:17 GMT
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Post by DD on Sept 22, 2018 0:06:19 GMT
Ooohh, yeah, I can probably do a novella. A Christmas Carol is one of my favorite stories ever. I collect the different film versions, so every Christmas I get to watch it a bunch of times. I can probably do something that short. Oh man; now I want to make the hero a little more Scroogelike so he can find love AND his humanity at Christmas.
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Post by dormouse on Sept 24, 2018 12:38:02 GMT
Bullying, racism etc
All adequate reasons, all could be a misunderstanding
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