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Location: Portland, Oregon
walmart just fired me for buying a camera for the wrong price. i didn't know it was the wrong price, and other people bought the camera too, but i got fired for it. i had nothing to do with pricing it, i didn't even know it was on sale until a customer brought it to me, so i went and grabbed another one and went to buy it, but apparently it was the wrong price, and nobody told me that until later that night when they MADE ME return the camera (as in, i had no choice in the matter). then i come in a few days later and the `loss prevention district manager` hands me my walking papers.
so, i need a job. i can write PHP well and some Perl, know my way around *nix like the back of my hand, and can develop pictures like a madman. my customer service skills are beyond reproach. oh, and of course i spin =]
Lights dancing off my skin as chains wrap round it.
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,899 posts
Location: Austin, Texas, USA
man, what a load of corporate BS! Sorry that happened to you dude.
but unfrtunately I can only console, as I have no job leads for you - at least not i the states...
-v-
Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!
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Location: australia, tasmania
i work for a bank and can understand the utter frustration on corporate bable and unfairness, that sux buddy
i hope something turns up for you soon
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Location: ridgefield, ct, USA
i wish i could help but hence i am 13
I start it, I end it,
I kill and words will defend it.
Got big plans,
blood stained hands
Wanna put my name on the map.
On my way to save the world.
-Missionary, Operation Ivy
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,252 posts
Location: sheffield, United Kingdom
Is there not an option to pursue a claim for unlawful dismissal?
Not sure what it's like in the states, but over here they're not allowed to sack you for something you didn't do, and, if they do then they're open to being sued.
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633 posts
Location: USA, wishing I was in SA
try this ...
well , its a start
i like breaking the Law 
, of Gravity 
!
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136 posts
Location: USA
sorry to hear about that... can you get unemployment?
Maybe there's an independent locally owned mom and pop shop you can work at, unless they all got driven out of business by wal mart!
I AM working.
Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
Just to be different, i'd like to say "Hurrah" and congratulate you for no longer working for Walmart, as they're a bunch of evil corporate b*stards who look upon the tragedy in Iraq as a good money-spinning venture. I know things will be difficult for you until you get a better job, but believe me, you're better off out of there.
I need a job too. I'm always broke.
"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
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