When you are fired, would you go back to your employer and try to ask for the job back?

[HokieFan]

Originally Posted by handle54321

When you are fired due to not living up to expectations, but the employer misrepresented the job position and not offering the kind of assistance they promised to help you to get up to speed to do the job, would you go back to your employer and negotiate and try to ask for the job back?

Did they meet with you to discuss your job performance and give you a chance to improve before firing you? If they weren't even willing to talk to you about where you needed improvement and give you an opportunity to make changes/improvements, then they just wanted you gone and no amount of negotiating will get you the job back.

So what has changed about you so that can meet their expectations now when you previously couldn't? The job will still be different than you initially believed, and there will still be a lack of training. I'm assuming that you will have to make the adjustments to fit this position.

[KABurke]

Originally Posted by X14Freak

Positions aren't always open so a person can't be just moved to a department as a lot of departments also have a limited budget. If you are a poor fit for the job you are costing the company money so companies often just decide to sack the employee and tell them to reapply for a job that is a better fit. That said, I have seen a coworker who was close to getting fired reassigned and she had a good reason for being sacked as she bungled a contract with a supplier and it cost the company over a few million dollars. She convinced my manager to reassign her to a different department and my manager agreed to help her look for a different department and told other departments she was a bad fit for the current job she was in but had valuable skills regardless.

This is true. Even if an employee doesn't fit the job they were originally hired for, but overall has valuable qualities that the company appreciates, it would seem to me that it would be in everyone's best interests to try and find that employee another position in the company, if one is available.

But, if you were to take a poll on the reasons for someone getting fired, my prediction would be the majority of responses would be because of poor job performance, insubordination, etc.

[marilyn220]

Originally Posted by handle54321

When you are fired due to not living up to expectations, but the employer misrepresented the job position and not offering the kind of assistance they promised to help you to get up to speed to do the job, would you go back to your employer and negotiate and try to ask for the job back?

HELL NO!!!!

Please do not SHAME yourself for this position. They do NOT want you there. The reasons they gave for letting you go was probably something they made up, so you wouldn't come back with an AK47 and blow them away later. If they truly wanted you, they would have given you a different position.

I would NEVER beg a job that FIRED me (for whatever reason) to take me back. The same way I would NEVER beg an ex-boyfriend to take me back (regardless of how we broke up).

I just don't believe in "shaming" myself for anyone. Once they see you "groveling" to come back and if by chance they re-hire you, they then know that they can treat you with impunity, because you've shown them to be desperate and weak.

Let this position die in the dust and focus on something new. It'll probably be better anyhow.