<p>I just got a delayed email from 3 days ago from my paper delivery boss that I've been doing a bad job because I've been throwing the papers on the driveways and lawns, and not on the porches like some of the customers like it. I just started this job, and it didn't occur to me how picky these chumps were. Anyways, boss doesn't sound happy, and I got a bad feeling that I might get fired. I've been paranoid about rejections ever since I got rejected by every private school's engineering program, along with a few other things. Is getting fired the same kind of feeling of failure and worthlessness?</p>
<p>Jeez, I have to walk 2 miles to pick up my supposedly “hand-delivered” paper each morning. I would be thrilled to have it somewhere on my property, even if it only got to my driveway. Lazy bums.</p>
<p>It depends on you, but I don’t think you should feel the same amount of failure as you did with school [if any at all]. This job was probably meant to be temporary. It’s very low-skill. You can do better. You got some experience in having a job, maybe learned to budget and control your money, and now you’re prepared to do it somewhere else. Most people – if not everyone – gets fired at some point. You’re going to have to get another job eventually. Would you rather sit around and cry about the fact that you’re no longer delivering newspapers, or would you rather buckle up and start looking for something better?</p>
<p>I used to be a paper boy, so I can TOTALLY relate. Your job is safe for now, its only your first mistake of many. The most finicky customers are the oldest ones. You’ll soon learn who your problem customers are, and who just don’t care. In my experience, the easiest customers are the ones who don’t have time to nit-pick over where the paper is. That’s the families and younger people. The retired people are the ones who have the time to call and complain about where the paper was left. </p>
<p>Anyway, back to your question. Yeah, if you felt like a failure when you got denied you’d probably feel like a failure from getting fired. You’re not going to get fired for something as little as this though! Just apologize to your boss and assure him it won’t happen again. As for feeling worthless after rejection, just try to put a positive spin on it! You said private engineering program, and your location says Iowa state. So i assume that’s where you’re going. Iowa state is an excellent school with an outstanding rep. You’re saving money and getting the same or better quality of education. Life is all about how you look at things!</p>
<p>Good job reviews are all about making sure the customer is happy. That requires effort. </p>
<p>Push a little harder and see how well you can do this simple job. It’s about exceeding expectations, not just barely meeting them. It’s not rocket science, but if you start with the mindset that if a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well, that will stand you in good stead in all of your future endeavors.</p>
<p>yea you know, it’s because the job is so simple that it’s tempting to not take it very seriously. It’s side cash, aside from my other jobs. I just don’t think it’s any use trying to excel as a paperboy. Letters of reference come from professors anyway.</p>
<p>If you don’t think it’s any use trying to excel at a job that you are being PAID to do, quit and give that job to someone who deserves it. You have a terrible attitude.</p>
<p>what’s wrong with my attitude. Are you serious?</p>
<p>^ I think Emaheevul07 is talking about this:</p>
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<p>I kind of have to agree with him/her. Sorry. =</p>
<p>That was what I was talking about, and yes, I am serious. Also female, mushaboom. :P</p>
<p>It increases because it signals their jealousy of my brilliance.</p>
<p>what kind of a question is this??? Why does this site attract so many people that can’t seem to answer their own personal questions that are practically unanswerable by anyone else…</p>
<p>Is getting fired the same magnitude of failure as not getting into some engineering school thing? Hell, am I you? Then I don’t know… You tell me when you get fired, okay?</p>
<p>About the newspaper job. In my neighborhood we have this lady who walks around with a wagon full of newspapers. She walks right up to the front door and hangs the newspaper on the door handle on every house. Even after the couple really bad snow storms we had this year. The snow was at least a couple feet deep and we shoveled the driveway and sidewalk but left the front door blocked because we mainly use the sidedoor. But still she trudged through our unshoveled front door walk and hanged the newspaper on the front door as usual. We were really surprised by this and felt kind of bad we assumed she would hang it on the side door until we cleared up the snow. We’ve had this same newspaper lady for years and years so reading your story I can see it from the customers point of view. Just thought I’d share that.</p>
<p>You have to remember the lazy americans don’t want to walk very far to get the paper so you better be putting it on all of their porches.</p>
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<p>I hear that some personal computers manufactured in the late 90s produce dangerous amounts of gamma radiation or something. Might be worth checking into, could explain a lot of things…</p>
<p>It sucks getting fired from a dead end, easy, minimum wage job that anyone can do because you don’t care about it. I started up with a store I worked for in HS, and the day after my 2 week assessment was released I was “let go” because I requested 9 days between mid May and mid August, 6 of which were weekends and 1 of which was for jury duty. I told them in the interview that I was available for 3 hours Sat and none on Sunday, and they were fine with it. Needless to say the person who made this decision never talked to me about it, never gave me feedback on my performance and was too much of a coward to fire me herself. Basically now I have to hit the job market again and the local HS’s just let out, meaning more competition. It sucks when you lose a job that anyone can do, even if you don’t care about it. Luckily the world is filled with these types of mindless jobs, and you only need these crappy jobs to make money over the summer/breaks when you’re out of school and not in an internship. I have received negative feedback at some point at every job I’ve had, except for my work study job. It happens to everyone, don’t take it personal. Managers have bad days when customers are unhappy, and unfortunately they take it out on their employees a lot of times. If you get fired, just apply to other places. craigslist is great. I think you should only care about getting fired if it’s your career or career related, otherwise the jobs really don’t matter. It’s just a means to pay rent and living expenses when you don’t have loans/scholarships to pay for it. Brush it off, and if you get fired, who cares. It’s just a job that is completely unrelated to what you want to do for a career. Keep things in perspective.</p>
<p>I just have to shake my head at people who say that a job doesn’t matter. It has been three years since I’ve been able to find work, any work at all. I have been doing volunteer work to beef up my resume and to entertain myself this whole time because there is literally NOTHING here. I have years of work experience, have NEVER gotten negative feedback at work, never been fired, love working, and take every task seriously because I have enough respect for the person writing out my paychecks to do as they’ve asked me-- and there is nothing for me to do while idiot kids waste opportunities because apparently a job doesn’t matter… You guys are really taking your opportunities for granted.</p>
<p>If you can’t find a job after 3 years, move. Stop complaining about it and acting like you are holier than thou. Jobs don’t matter if they don’t give you satisfaction, because if they don’t make you happy than why do them other than the money? Doing something you hate for extended periods of time wears you down and makes you cynical. Jobs completely unrelated to your field are meaningless. If you need to work hard to feel good about yourself, go for a run. I have a hard time believing that you can’t find work in three years despite being so qualified and an ideal worker. As bad as the job market is here, I have always found a min. wage/slightly above min wage job, as well as a second, under the table job. If something doesn’t make you happy, it is not worth your time. So who are you to condescend people who don’t want to do things that make them unhappy? If working a dead end min wage job truly makes you happy, then don’t go to school. I hate when people come on here and act like they are enlightened or try and get sympathy from others. If you can’t find a job, do something about it. Considering you say that you have been unemployed for 3 years and just volunteering, I guess you have no bills to pay. Maybe if you had rent to pay every month you would find something. Living with your parents and having them pay for everything isn’t motivation to find work.</p>
<p>If your self esteem is dependent on your job, you’ve got an identity problem.</p>
<p>You are not your job.</p>
<p>Don’t call me an idiot. And I’m not wasting my opportunities. As you can clearly see, I’m taking advantages of them. We don’t really see eye to eye on the fact that certain jobs don’t require the same amount of focus as other jobs. Newspaper deliver, for example, doesn’t require a lot of skill. You get the job done and that’s it. That’s what I mean when I said that I don’t take this job very seriously. I still care about it enough that if old people complain, I meet their needs. Do you understand that I’m not a brat who needs attitude adjustment?</p>
<p>Your attitude is fine ISUClub. It’s not your fault that some customers are demanding, it sounds like your manager knows this, he is just letting you know about the complaints. I think you are too vested in whether you are fired from this job or not. Would it really be that bad if you were? There has to be something else that you would like to do as much as you enjoy delivering newpapers. Also, you are letting posters who tell you that you have a bad attitude get under your skin and that tells me that you give other people’s assessments too much weight.</p>
<p>In my experience the worst managers come along with the lowest paying jobs. As tiff90’s story pointed out you can’t ask them for anything because they’ll just fire you. You’re easy to replace and they’re too short sited to try to hang on to good employees. Your manager at least rises above this level. If you really want to keep this job then just try your best, that’s all you can do anyway.</p>
<p>In answer to your original question of how bad does it feel to get fired, I’ve never been fired but I think I might have come close a few times. The younger I was the harder it would have been to take. Now that I’m older I don’t think it would bother me as much.</p>