SpunGirl
08-07-2005, 03:37 PM
Post your true stories of Karma here! Good or bad, coming back to you or someone else. I have one.
When I got hired at the Palms, I was a little apprehensive about telling my boss at Palace Station. He had been juggling the schedule around and we had one guy constantly out sick, so I knew they'd be shorthanded at the end of my two weeks. But when I gave him my notice, he was really cool about it, congratulatory and all.
Then he because an asshole. Four days before my final shift, I stopped into HR because I had a question about benefits. The HR girl, who knew me, was like, "you're quitting? I didn't even know!" I told her I'd given proper notice and everything, and she told me to tell Keith, my boss, that he needed to submit my paperwork to HR so they could have my final check ready for me on my last day, all the stuff I needed to sign, etc.
So I emailed Keith - three times! And asked him to take care of the stuff. After the second email with no response, my third was a little more curt, asking him point-blank what to expect when I walked into HR after my final shift. As I feared, nothing had been submitted and nothing was prepared for me.
To make it worse, Keith did not return either of the messages I left for him on his cell that day. Instead, HR called me thirty minutes before their office closed to tell me the stuff was finally turned in and ready. I had to zoom across town to get there in time.
He also completely ignored my request for a letter of reference from him, even though I'd never had anything but praise and great performance reviews during my year there. I had been warned by other people that Keith became bitter when someone quit working for him for a better opportunity, but I didn't believe it until then.
Despite all this, despite the fact that I could have REAMED his ass in my exit interview, I chose to not schedule one. I figured it was better to say nothing than say the things I wanted to say about his childish behavior.
I found out later that Keith told everyone in the room (some of whom I still keep in touch with) that I "badmouthed everyone" in my exit interview. They knew he was lying, of course, but it pissed me off that he even said it. The Surveillance community is a small one.
The karma bit? Two weeks after I started at the Wynn, I heard that Keith got fired from Station Casions. They just hauled him in, told him they were cutting him loose, and that was it. The funny thing is that I'm not entirely sure he deserved it. He wasn't bad at his job, and he did know what he was doing. But he treated me like shit for no reason, and so he got treated like shit. Ha, ha.
-K
[Edited on 8-7-2005 by SpunGirl]
When I got hired at the Palms, I was a little apprehensive about telling my boss at Palace Station. He had been juggling the schedule around and we had one guy constantly out sick, so I knew they'd be shorthanded at the end of my two weeks. But when I gave him my notice, he was really cool about it, congratulatory and all.
Then he because an asshole. Four days before my final shift, I stopped into HR because I had a question about benefits. The HR girl, who knew me, was like, "you're quitting? I didn't even know!" I told her I'd given proper notice and everything, and she told me to tell Keith, my boss, that he needed to submit my paperwork to HR so they could have my final check ready for me on my last day, all the stuff I needed to sign, etc.
So I emailed Keith - three times! And asked him to take care of the stuff. After the second email with no response, my third was a little more curt, asking him point-blank what to expect when I walked into HR after my final shift. As I feared, nothing had been submitted and nothing was prepared for me.
To make it worse, Keith did not return either of the messages I left for him on his cell that day. Instead, HR called me thirty minutes before their office closed to tell me the stuff was finally turned in and ready. I had to zoom across town to get there in time.
He also completely ignored my request for a letter of reference from him, even though I'd never had anything but praise and great performance reviews during my year there. I had been warned by other people that Keith became bitter when someone quit working for him for a better opportunity, but I didn't believe it until then.
Despite all this, despite the fact that I could have REAMED his ass in my exit interview, I chose to not schedule one. I figured it was better to say nothing than say the things I wanted to say about his childish behavior.
I found out later that Keith told everyone in the room (some of whom I still keep in touch with) that I "badmouthed everyone" in my exit interview. They knew he was lying, of course, but it pissed me off that he even said it. The Surveillance community is a small one.
The karma bit? Two weeks after I started at the Wynn, I heard that Keith got fired from Station Casions. They just hauled him in, told him they were cutting him loose, and that was it. The funny thing is that I'm not entirely sure he deserved it. He wasn't bad at his job, and he did know what he was doing. But he treated me like shit for no reason, and so he got treated like shit. Ha, ha.
-K
[Edited on 8-7-2005 by SpunGirl]