Career Changes Support Group
This community is dedicated to the difficult challenges of transitioning from one career or job to a new one. Especially as we grow older, it can be very difficult to acquire the skills and relationships and take the financial risk to make the switch.
In September 2001, one week following the terrorist attacks, I was fired from my job at Aradiant Corporation in San Diego, California.
I had refused to allow a stranger to enter the employee entrance of the building where I worked, and I told him he would have to enter through the receptionist's area at the front of the building. The next day when I returned to work, not knowing that I had been fired, I was met by three Mexican citizens who worked for the company and told to leave the premises. I later received a letter in the mail from the company stating that they had a zero tolerance for violence. Yet I did not touch the man who attempted to enter the building, did not threaten him or swear at him or mistreat him in any way. I simply closed the door without letting him in because I felt he was a potential security risk to myself and other employees. Again, I did tell him he should enter by the receptionist area at the front of the building.
I now suspect this was just an excuse to get rid of one the few white Americans still working for the company. The company had become nearly all Mexican citizens gradually over the time I worked there, except for the company executives, who were mostly white and who worked in the upper floors of the building. White Americans had been disappearing from the company, but I did not have the foresight to understand what was happening or I would have left as well. Spanish had become the language of the workplace, and many of the employees had tiny Mexican flags on poles in their cubicles. Perhaps I should have sued the company, but I am not the suing type.
Because I was suffering from severe depression, I went on disability and have not worked since my September 2001 firing. It has been over ten years, and I want to return to working. I am still embarrassed and humiliated over having been fired, and the only thing I can think of to do is to leave the job off my resume and off job applications and just say I did not work during the period I was employed by Aradiant Corporation. Does this seem reasonable?
I had refused to allow a stranger to enter the employee entrance of the building where I worked, and I told him he would have to enter through the receptionist's area at the front of the building. The next day when I returned to work, not knowing that I had been fired, I was met by three Mexican citizens who worked for the company and told to leave the premises. I later received a letter in the mail from the company stating that they had a zero tolerance for violence. Yet I did not touch the man who attempted to enter the building, did not threaten him or swear at him or mistreat him in any way. I simply closed the door without letting him in because I felt he was a potential security risk to myself and other employees. Again, I did tell him he should enter by the receptionist area at the front of the building.
I now suspect this was just an excuse to get rid of one the few white Americans still working for the company. The company had become nearly all Mexican citizens gradually over the time I worked there, except for the company executives, who were mostly white and who worked in the upper floors of the building. White Americans had been disappearing from the company, but I did not have the foresight to understand what was happening or I would have left as well. Spanish had become the language of the workplace, and many of the employees had tiny Mexican flags on poles in their cubicles. Perhaps I should have sued the company, but I am not the suing type.
Because I was suffering from severe depression, I went on disability and have not worked since my September 2001 firing. It has been over ten years, and I want to return to working. I am still embarrassed and humiliated over having been fired, and the only thing I can think of to do is to leave the job off my resume and off job applications and just say I did not work during the period I was employed by Aradiant Corporation. Does this seem reasonable?
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I invited Bill to have dinner with me last Sunday. He wasn't willing to drive 7 hours to mid Michigan and teased me with his beautiful ribs!!! So, of course I ate alone and had cedar salmon
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check out that smoke ring. It tasted really good. I smothered it with Maulls BBQ sauce which is Local to St. Louis and one of the best I ever had.....
my problem is bunch of short term jobs...over several years I have held like 10 positions...maybe 4yrs....that sucks on resume...what I do is fill it in with my self employment since 2008 which shows entrepreneurial skills and steady work history even though it was very part time and needed to be filled in with extra jobs either part time or full time just to get by....
but it depends on how long you were employed there...what type of work it is in what type of work you want to do now...sounded like you might have been security guard or something there....if you want to show skills in security work and were there two years or more show that job and the skills you used and say nothing of why you left until they ask and if asked tell you were terminated....do not give details of that...just terminated....
Being fired is always humiliating and a blow to one's ego. It leaves a person trying to explain why they are not employed and trying to put a positive spin on it.