[Dargo]

Originally Posted by Skyco

Oh and layed off is very different from being fired in my book. Like Mossroad said fired is what happens when it IS your fault. Layed off can happen to anybody through no fault of their own.

Gee, even when the "lay off" is permanent? You mean to tell me that I made my last boss cry for no reason? I kept asking him to give me one single reason I wouldn't have a job with the company anymore and he just got these odd facial twitches and asked me why I was making it so hard on him. I told him that I thought it was actually much harder on ME since he still had a job and he was taking my company car, telling me that I no longer had a job, and calling me a cab to go back home to my pregnant wife to tell her that I was no longer employed. He would only tell me that my entire division was being eliminated and he was to tell me that I was being "layed off" but would never be called back to work. I just figured that was a polite way of saying "you're fired". I had no intention of ever filing for unemployment, and as I've stated here before I never did, but I wanted to hear someone tell me that I was fired. He wouldn't do it. He just grabbed my company car keys and ran off crying, which was confusing because I was the one left with only COBRA for insurance, no job, a a pregnant wife, no car to drive and a mortgage. Oh well, he actually applied for a job with me about 6 years later. I told him that I'd take his application under consideration. I think I still have it somewhere.