<p>My business administration teacher told me this today.
He's not exactly qualified, so I was wondering if there was any truth/merit in his words...?</p>
<p>I like how a high school student has the audacity to call out his business administration teacher as “not exactly qualified.” Why do you believe he’s unqualified?</p>
<p>And yes, it’s pretty likely that, in your lifetime, you’ll get fired at some point or another. I certainly have been. You suck it up and move on.</p>
<p>There are many possible reasons, not all of which are within your control, for getting fired, so yes, probably true — unless you work for the government.</p>
<p>Nonsense. Plenty of government employees get fired.</p>
<p>Have you ever worked in government, or are you just spouting stereotypical right-wing platitudes?</p>
<p>I’m sure plenty of people who are government employees have been fired. I’ve never heard of one personally, though (parents both work for the government 20+ years). I’ve heard people being “laid off”.</p>
<p>If I ever end up working for the government, I hope I don’t screw up. Lol.</p>
<p>Hey, Polarscribe. He’s a once-has-been history teacher who got dropped down to introductory business (a “throwaway class,” my counselors nicknamed it) because he had so many students pass with flying colors, but fail the AP and a hefty amount fail the statewide standardized test.</p>
<p>I volunteered at the counseling office in my spare time. I hear their idle gossip with the school administration, and I happened to be sorting away the new students’ homeroom classes when they were discussing it. He also almost failed me because he lost my entire grade sheet and screwed up my file in the system, so I sort of despise his very being. He’s not the best of the best of the best.</p>
<p>But thanks for answering my question! I appreciate it.</p>
<p>I’ve been in the workforce for almost 30 years, and of course know many others with long-time employment records. If you count being laid off in addition to being fired, then I can’t think of one person I know at this point that hasn’t been laid off or fired at least once. And I know some pretty qualified people. Ironically, my company just had a re-org yesterday. They laid off some excellent people for pretty stupid reasons. I’ve survived a lot of re-orgs … and didn’t survive one or two of them. </p>
<p>The same thing will happen to you eventually. It’s the corporate culture these days. A lot of companies do significant layoffs every few years, and minor layofs more frequently. Stupid but definitely true.</p>
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<p>I’m surprised you’re even challenging my statement, but I suppose if “right-wing” is an insult to you, you must be a liberal? The government employs people for reasons other than to just do a job. </p>
<p>I have not been employed by the government, but my parents, as well as several of my relatives, work for the (federal) government in various capacities from paper pushing to professional roles. Not one of them has been fired in decades of working for the government. What are the odds that similarly employed people in the private sector could claim the same? I doubt my family is somehow special.</p>