Oh hey that's me! The recruiter that recommended me for the position was third party, and I honestly thought it was a joke when they sent the email. I had been there a few years but I didn't spend much time at the office, so the only people I really interacted with were my direct co-workers. I think the hiring manager was just a new face in HR and just taking care of the basics when I got in. The old boss (guy who interviewed me second) was the one that let me go. And yes, I kept the snacks. :P
That's awesome! I read about this on your reddit and your twitter yesterday. The whole scenario was hilarious. I bet if you went in with a beard, you would've hired and no one would be the wiser.
Mate... About 12 years ago I was fired from a job on a Thursday afternoon, only to be sent back to that same exact job and position with a temp agency the next monday morning, with a 40% higher salary. The reason for my termination? I asked for a pay rise.
@@zannahmartell9813 - I didn't. I asked for a 15% pay increase as the people around me received a 20% increase, due to an unqualified successful project completion. I asked for the increase because I had documented proof, along with the project lead's recommendation, that I was the reason they were able to complete the project ahead of schedule.
In the 90s I got called for a 2 week job assignment switching the company over from one OS to the next upgrade. The gig started in the middle of April but ended Christmas Eve. The longest 2 weeks EVAH....but a good time was had at better wages by 90% than my previous job due to going from employee to temp!
Several years ago, I worked for a horrible jackass of a boss. He was a screamer, he played favorites and just was not qualified for his position at all. He eventually fired me. However, that turned out to be a good thing, because I eventually wound up getting a better job and even worked my way up into management at my next position. One day while going through resumes, I came across a familiar name. The candidate seemed qualified enough for the opening we had, so I set up an interview with him. You can imagine the look on my former boss' face when he found himself sitting across the table from me interviewing for a job. I didn't hire him. Revenge is sweet.
When I got fired from an internationally sized company because I refused to participate in illegal practices, and when they were offering to settle out of court, one of the conditions they explicitly wrote in was that I do not apply for employment with them ever again. Apparently, one hand doesn't know what the other is doing. I didn't agree to their terms and we went to court where I beat them. I am still eligible to be hired again! :D
@@carochan86 I guess the thing was that since they were doing something illegal and settling out of court would probably mean lower payout, it would have been best not to add conditions if the poster had a good chance of winning the case.
I love the way this guy decided to go all along with the interwiew process, not many people would go back to the company that just fired him, even if It's to prank them.
You left out the best part, but it seems to have been buried in all of the replies: firr talks about the last thing he says to the engineer as he's being led out of the building. firr: "I have just one question for you. (dramatically rips off moustache) How did you know it was me?" engineer: "Get out."
I heard this story from a guy (who knows if its really true) that he was fired from his company for poor performance and he applied for the same job at the same company, but for a different department and he got hired. A couple years later, he was promoted for his stellar performance and he said that he didn't do anything different. This story is completely true, my neighbor is a nurse at our local hospital only 5 minutes away, she asked for a raise and they fired her. She went to work for a temp agency as a nurse for much higher pay and where did they send her? That's right, she got sent to fill a vacancy at her old job at the same hospital and co-workers. 😁
Not surprising sadly, similar situation for me. Started working for my local humane society, became the most senior after a year and a half, got a promotion, got demoted back within 2 months and put "on notice" for performing 2 blood tests the exact way I was taught (the same way they still have techs perform it that I trained....). Asked for a raise as the yearly reviews were put on hold due to the previous manager quitting, and was threatened with losing my job due to being late 15 minutes one day despite other coworkers routinely calling out without excuses or notice. Ended up talking with a former coworker at a separate location and I was instantly approved to move there at a higher rate as it is our surgery center instead of the adoption center. Been at new location for 6 months now, with only glowing reviews from my new manager to HR, and they have continued to have a high turnover rate at the adoption center. They called me up one off day to ask if I could cover for someone calling out and I told them to never ask me to return unless I was getting hazard pay for the toxic environment at that location. Oh, and the way I did those 2 blood tests? The exact same way I was shown when I asked for clarification at the new location. The new manager at old location just didnt like me and was looking for any reason to get rid of me, and then was mad when I told her "no, im not going to help you after what you did to me". Jokes on them though, she got fired 2 weeks later when we were all talking about her mugshot for aggravated child abuse in the break room and HR wasnt happy.
I used to get a call from the same company, same PERSON three years in a row with the question if I would like to interview. When answering "yes", they went radio silent. The 4th year, I contacted them stating it was about time for them to ask me again... and they did!
I'm not even surprised honestly. Companies are so disorganized, disjointed, and generally chaotic, especially when it comes to the hiring process, that I'm sure this kind of thing happens all the time.
My husband applied and got hired in a lower position ( for temporary income) after being ghosted for the upper management position. After 2 days on the job, the hiring manager wanted him to apply to the upper management position not realizing they had already rejected him!!
I hope he did reapply for the job! I do think sometimes people don't realize what someone's capable until they are on the job. I've had that happen quite a few times where I end up in entry level positions after not hearing back on higher level positions, just to have my managers tell me they think I have potential to move up. But in your husband's case, it's just hilarious they didn't realize he DID apply previously for that higher level job. Oh silly companies
No! He did not apply! He was accepted at another company for the same upper management position. He is much happier working for this company and they are moving us to a better state. My husband was inspiring to me because never stopped until he got the job he wanted. Thank you for the encouragement of this channel as we went through this process.
Wait wait wait... why did they accept his resume with no jobs listed on it, and just the job description for this position?? And then they're mad at HIM? LOL The incompetence at this place is off the charts. What fun this guy had, this is priceless. 😂😂
In banking I've heard it's what you *have* to do. Even after you leave, but you apply for the same role in another bank, the exact name is redacted because all the banks are fighting for the same big commercial clients, so the candidate can have knowledge on the interviewer's competitors that he is not allowed to disclose. In the higher level jobs, they are not allowed to work in the sector at all due to this confidentiality. The old company that they are leaving pays them 'gardening leave' for this period, of sometimes, months, for the details of the deals to become superceded.
Had a similar experience. A company that fired me 3 years ago, cold called me recently and we did a first round phone interview. As such, I find out the company’s name during the interview. About halfway through the interview, there are some red flags. I google the company and their corporate website says my old company changed their name last year for marketing reasons. I then stopped the interview and said, this is Company X. They tell me it is a new company and not Company X. I asked for the leadership team and was able to list them out. The interviewer became very embarrassed and I politely said I wasn’t interested.
I worked for a company that got acquired/bought out 4 times over 7 years-then again a year after I left. The same terrible management stayed and the workers were somewhat trapped by the bad economy.
Didn't have this happen, but I did have a recruiter aggressively reach out after they had already interviewed and rejected me. They didn't realize that I had interviewed with them 6 months prior. I ignored the emails until they became excessive, and then told them they had already rejected me and I had no desire to repeat the process. Their oops email later was hilarious.
They're generally not receptive. I had someone reach out to me while I was prepping for an interview rather than wait a few hours after their email. Of course I declined them as my interview went well. It helps not to be desperate and not believe someone who is clearly entitled.
@@Michael-vf2mw you dont think mine nor Joel's stories indicate aggressive recruiters who think last? Aggressive as in controlling or carry on without inhibitions.
I've been working for a company as a territory sales rep the last two years. I saw a job posting last week for a territory sales rep; SAME COMPANY, SAME TERRITORY, just a different team and about a 20% raise in pay. I followed the internal application process to a T, met every basic and every preferred qualification, and they STILL hired externally..
Fortunately, I worked for a honest Manager who gave his current employees a pay raise when he found out the new hires were going to be offered a starting salary more than what we were making.
That happened to me, except I never even got a chance to interview. The CFO told them, “we don’t want to start the process over.” When no one from the team kept me updated on the process! I put in my two weeks, because I was friends with the VP of the hiring department and he told me the reason, right after that bull!
I worked at a company a few years back and had a buddy that was called in the middle of a work day to interview for his own job position for about $5k more a year. 🤣😂 We're supposed to be dedicated to companies, but they can't even pretend to care enough to even know our names...
Oh, and this happened a couple weeks after the company said profits were too low for bonuses and raises, but plenty enough for the CEO to get a $10m bonus.
@@serpent77 same shit 2 years later mate :) for employeess "the results are not sustainable due to favorable macro conditions, so dont expect huge payouts" and for CEO + top management huge bonues for amazing performance and turnaround :)
Love how the interviewer knew nothing about the position he was interviewing the guy for. It would be hilarious if I hadn't encountered so many interviewers like that before.
Yup I worked for a staffing company and I conducted interviews to hire people in industries I knew nothing about. I had a lot of funny stories, but safe to say I’m glad it’s all over.
This happened to me, back in 1995. I was fired from a Motorola factory in Arizona, and 2 weeks later I was hired again by a different recruiter to work in a different department. Everything worked out until I dropped by the old department to say hi to an old co-worker, and I was recognized... but at least I got about 3 good weeks out of them on the second job! Lol..
I once got fired from a job, called back 2 weeks later bc they were desperate and I covered several of the branches in addition to the original one I was fired from, and then got fired again about 8 months later from the original branch, but not from the other branches, but in response I quit the other branches bc I was pissed about how I got treated by the first one doing it to me twice, as neither time was for any good cause.
I'm the engineer in this situation. Had a guy interview. Really awkward interview, really didn't know anything. He took two bathroom breaks, asked for a sandwich. He applied again 2 years later, thought the resume and name looked familiar. I could tell he recognized me right away and got super nervous. Still didn't know anything.
This was a perfect textbook case of what many people already recognize about many companies -- that a lot of them are just like this one, a company who sees their employees as FACE-less and NAME-less too, the fact that a whole team wouldn't even recognize a person they'd fired only 2 weeks before...
Similar happened to me years ago. Worked for a temp agency, got injured due to a freak muscle spasm in my neck that cost me 1 day of work, was legally fired (had my "contract ended") soon after putting in for a "real" job, and a couple weeks later, they called me asking for an interview.
I’ve applied to multiple similar positions at a global company before, and I was hired there but for many months after I was still being contacted by other recruiters of that company for those other positions I had applied to, I almost wanted to respond saying that I already was employed by the company, that’s when I realized how disconnected the company was and was reflective of my experience there
I’ve been recruited by a 3rd party recruiter and internal HR staff for the same company. My wife got a interview and was turned down. Then 3 weeks later, the owner of the company reached out to her Indeed and asked for an interview saying she is a good candidate. She replied back that she did apply but they turned her down to move on with other candidates. The owner didn’t respond to her email, lol. Apparently they don’t have a lot of candidates if my wife was reached out again. I told my wife that I’m not surprised since this is the same company that talked about hiring her during her internship, but then mysteriously didn’t give her an offer at the end of her internship after my wife told her supervisor that she is 3 month pregnant.
This is hilarious! Too many companies (IMO) bank on the fact that candidates are in need of income, so they seem to think that candidates are willing to put up with their poorly managed processes.
I’ve been given some generous goody bags when I’ve interviewed with food companies. As awkward as this interview is, it reminds me of the many times I’ve sensed during an interview that the hiring manager was actually looking for the person who just left. Maybe not the person who was fired, but the person who already knew the job and wouldn’t require any training or supervision.
This has happened to me! I sat thru the interview waiting for her to see my most recent job. Either she didnt see or ignored it. When they offered me the position i simply said 'no thanks, the job wasn't a good fit the first time you hired me.'
*You ever get a little excited to hear that the job you quit started to get a whole lot worse afterwards? I had a recruiter reach out to me about a job I quit (I couldn’t deal with micromanagement of the new boss) The one person that stayed behind said they are still struggling, a year later, to make up for the lost of knowledge of all the people that left because of the new boss mismanagement.
I kept up with old coworkers at a company I was terminated from. It went from 20 Million profit a year to just over 100K in a year. They are circling the drain, big time! Schadenfreude!
Yup, I had that feeling about a job I was let go from years ago. It was my first "big boy" job, the job was a godsend at first. But pay was very low, benefits weren't affordable, work culture was toxic, you got browbeaten for working overtime, work-life balance was impossible, pretty much everyone there hated their jobs, and I worked for a boss who micromanaged me at every turn, but never bothered to actually train me despite knowing I'd NEVER worked in the industry before! Turned out that I was the fourth or fifth person in only a few years to occupy that job. After I was let go, the boss turned on my senior coworker, who quit just a few weeks later and was never replaced. Within a few years, my replacement came and went, two long-timers at another branch quit on the same day, the boss quit the industry altogether, and a major long-timer at my old branch quit. The parent company got bought out, and now what remains of my old employer is clearly on borrowed time.
While working at my last company, I got a recruiter email asking if I wanted to interview at my company, for the job I was already doing (we were hiring more engineers). I should've said yes, my boss would have found it hilarious.
I worked at an insurance agency for about a week before I quit because I didn't like it. A couple of times in the months following the manager of that agency emailed me saying he liked my resume and wanted to talk. This was a small agency where I handed in my resignation to this guy by hand.
I took a position thru a staffing agency a couple weeks ago, and that agency calls me every few days to pitch the position to me that i'm already working in. How much of the agency's time are they wasting trying to fill a closed position.
I was fired by a payroll processing company and my relationship with my manager was horrible but not so bad that she reached out to me about a position via LinkedIn. She even apologized for letting me go😒
Not surprising in this modern day corporate bureaucracy, and the incompetent recruiters. People are just letters and numbers to them, "discovered" by keyword searches and algorytyhms. I live in Pennsylvania and get LinkedIn messages from recruiters asking me if I want to interview with companies in Florida and Tennessee, for positions that don't even match my background or experience.
This whole thing sounds about right where i work! No names but they are the largest retailer in the world. They hire any body that has a heart beat or can breathe. Most are young kids who don't care and with in 2 weeks or less get fired. Then like 2 or 3 months later they reapply and get the JOB...Duh! And what happens.....the same thing!
I didnt take it that far but there have been 2 times in my life that I voluntarily left a company for a better one, and a couple weeks later I got recruiting phone calls or emails for the same position I just left. I figured this was pretty common nowadays, as companies outsource recruiting, so the recruiters don't know who you are, and your resume contents naturally fit into what they look for in their sorting algorithms
I actually had a really weird scenario before the pandemic where I kept getting calls offering me my same position, on a monthly basis, for around a year. which really said something about their hiring process.
Not only did this happen to me, but they re-hired me as a contractor and I ended up working at the company that had previously fired me for 4+ years. One manager’s trash is another man’s treasure. Had a good experience in the second role, wish I negotiated for better salary, would probably still be there if they paid a living wage.
I’ve been told during a phone interview by the CIO that he had no intention of hiring me but he wanted dirt on a company we both worked at but at different times. Five months later I’m there as a consultant and I lasted six months before I became over the 5th or 6th person to walk because of his abuse. They paid well because they had to.
Kind of happened to me. I resigned from a large multi-national. 2 weeks later a company recruiter from the one I resigned from called me to say that they were trying to fill a newly open position and thought that I would be a perfect fit given my industry experience. Apparently HR and HR recruiting don't talk to each other.
This almost happened to us. A guy that was terminated applied for a job with a different team. Luckily I remembered him because he had a very bad attitude when he was there. He purposefully left out of his resume that part of his CV. I put an end to it before he was even called in for an interview. I know this seems funny but there are some people out there with zero self awareness.
I guess it isn't that surprising that he had a new interview. I had a interview at a different site for the same corporation through a recruiter. My termination was a confusing situation though. I was wrongfully terminated from the original site. I had been defending the new corporation (Medtronic) against a major agency problem that could have resulted in many lawsuits against the corporation. The original site (Covidien) had a gang of cluster B personality disorders mobbing and smearing many of the leaders who built the original site in order to replace them with their corporate gang members. We were confused by why the great leaders were being let go under mysterious circumstances. Then I got targeted because I was trying to get a promotion and had started talking about several of the innovations that I had come up with, valuations in the millions and 2 had billion dollar valuations. This got the attention of the gang because they were writing my innovations down as their accomplishments which was supposed to be a terminatable offense. I found out about them stealing my ideas from a manager who was threatening me if I didn't shut up, but it didn't matter if they took credit for my stuff because they could have easily provided me with an opportunity since I was targeting lower level positions and didn't want their jobs. So when I got the call from the other site (a traditional Medtronic facility) I thought maybe they had finally done an investigation, found out what I reported to the other site's HR department / the Board of Directors was true, and wanted to make things right. Reporting an agency problems to the board of Directors is what is supposed to happen per US Corporate Governance Laws, they actually paid for me to attend that class???? Since then many of the managers that were mobbing the leaders and top performers with false smear campaigns have been let go, per present employees I have run into. I am wondering why the buying corporation (Medtronic) hasn't done anything for the victims of the workplace gang? Some companies see being let go by a corporation like Medtronic as a bad thing and will not give the person an opportunity. At this point, I don't care if they are catapulting babies into a wall in a backroom. It isn't worth it to try to defend one of these companies.
Once many years ago I applied for a summer job at a grocery store during summer vacation. (they had a sign out "help needed urgently" etc) I was invited to the interview 6 months later. I guess they though they were giving me a nice christmas present? That was when I learned that there is no limit to how incompetent a company can be at any level.
That's not that weird, companies often keep resumes and applications around for a while and check what they already have when opening a new position. They may have just never gotten that far down the stack before making enough hires the first time
Awww, you missed the best part - the "HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS ME??" flourish at the end (which did, to be fair, get kind of buried - there's a secret "show more" button that kinda hides on Twitter I guess?) That thread was so good I went back and re-read it at least three times! :D
Also my question is: don’t the recruiters see a resume with the name of their own company on it? At that point, they should start looking into it before calling the person (who just got fired from that company) back in.
I had something similar happen. I was working for a company, and after a year, I was misdiagnosed with a medical condition. The company started a modified work plan. After a month, I was called into the Manager’s office, and laid-off for shortness of work. I filed with the Human Rights Tribunal, and we settled. A few years later, I was called by that same companies HR, stating they found my resume online, and wanted to know if I wanted to come in for an interview.
I had similar happen to me. I was fired from a position at the asphalt company I worked at, and about 3mos later, a recruiter calls me up out of the blue at my new job to offer me my old job back. Here's the best part: or $4/HR MORE THAN THEY PAID ME. Let's just say I was probably ruder than I should have been in response. I guess they felt they should pay more after they had that truck driver all off the loading rack and die.
This is like a Seinfeld episode. Remember when Kramer started hanging out in an office for no reason and all of a sudden they need his input on things? He's contributing, when he gets called into the office and the boss asks "it's like you have no training (in this job)". Yes, Kramer left. It shows how employers have so many filters and so many people that don't talk to each other that no one knows what's going on.
This kind of reminds me of an interview I once did where on the way I grabbed the newspaper and read that the employer I was to interview with was actually laying people off. I asked in the interview, and they asked what I was talking about. I showed them the article. They didn't know what to say. I didn't get the job then, but after interviewing with them a year later, I did get the job eventually.
This sort of happened to me too. I worked at a place that I had to quit. Tried to get rehired company told me I can't come back cause I quit, and broke the rules. Then would not stop calling me after to come back and work for them.
I had something similar happen to me. The difference was it was a subsidiary of the company that owned the company that let me go. I wondered why I never got a call back, and when I found out the new company was owned by the same company as my old company, I put 2 and 2 together.
Hey Brian… any comments on the new phenomenon of “Returnships”… basically it’s companies trying to sucker people back into the job market after a prolonged employment gap (such as early retirees, caregivers, etc) ?
I feel like a lot of the people I've interviewed with recently have't even read through my resume or looked at my portfolio. They've been asking me questions and seeming surprised when I clarify, yet examples are all over my portfolio. It's just one click 💀
This has happened to me as well! My job relocated to another city and the recruiter called me up within days of leaving offering me more $$$ and asking me to relocate
I took an early retirement package and started looking for another job immediately. A recruiter tried to place me into my old position. I told the recruiter that I could not be rehired by my old employer.
Not surprising to me. I’ve been contacted by internal recruiters from companies I’ve separated from. I think they realize they shot themselves in the foot and needed my expertise back though some time has lapsed.
Shows that this management team is incompetent. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen in management or promoted to management that should have never been even considered for the position.
That seriously happened to me last year! Granted the recruiter seemed like one of those bulk quantity over quality ones, but it was for 30% less. I didn't keep going with it. Had it not been a relatively amicable separation, maybe I would have!
Something similar to this happened to me a recruiter sent my up to date resume to my current job.Smh I then got called into the office and asked why I no longer wanted to be there... After my boss said I didn't do my job to my coworker for months. All while giving me every new project that came in the door I made them millions. He even asked if there was something better they could do so I wouldn't leave. Needless to say I work for myself now. Took 4 entry level people together to do my one job when I left.
This really shows the real disconnect that some companies have with the people that work there, you're just a number to make them numbers , sad , entertaining but actually sad ....
We had a temp agency send over a resume of an employee that my boss was forced to lay off last march. He was actually going to reach out as everyone loved them, but they ultimately decided it wouldn't be the best idea.
@@DriveandThrive yeah. its never forced or sudden. only for the employee its sudden. the bosses know weeks if not months in advance who they laying off.
@@asadb1990 I work for a large corporation, so upper management decided who got to be let go, but it definitely wasn't sudden. They knew for weeks. When I interviewed for this team, I had no idea I was going to be hired as their replacement. Had I known that, I wouldn't have accepted the position. It's not a great position .
@@Nelphoto exactly the only person that knows in advance are the bosses. sure the employee can see writing on the wall but most of the time, you have no idea until its too late.
Its called corporate hell. Lots of companies out there like this. Basically, a lot of highly educated people with not brains, or common sense. This actually happened to me. I scheduled the interview, not knowing who or what the company was. The day before was told where to go. I played along, but canceled one minute before I was suppose to be there.
Ah, strange things happen! One company that laid me off ... very nice departure package and severance, etc. ... though it wasn't a mere two weeks, they rehired me ... and not only that, they rehired me at a much higher compensation rate ... much higher than the max they could've increased me to if they'd not laid me off.
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Oh hey that's me!
The recruiter that recommended me for the position was third party, and I honestly thought it was a joke when they sent the email.
I had been there a few years but I didn't spend much time at the office, so the only people I really interacted with were my direct co-workers.
I think the hiring manager was just a new face in HR and just taking care of the basics when I got in. The old boss (guy who interviewed me second) was the one that let me go.
And yes, I kept the snacks. :P
Thanks for the laugh!
That's awesome! I read about this on your reddit and your twitter yesterday. The whole scenario was hilarious. I bet if you went in with a beard, you would've hired and no one would be the wiser.
Did you get your job back??
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Free snacks = winning!
Mate... About 12 years ago I was fired from a job on a Thursday afternoon, only to be sent back to that same exact job and position with a temp agency the next monday morning, with a 40% higher salary. The reason for my termination? I asked for a pay rise.
Lmao...madness! Bet you didnt ask for a 40% increase either. Gotta love how the universe works 😊
@@zannahmartell9813 - I didn't. I asked for a 15% pay increase as the people around me received a 20% increase, due to an unqualified successful project completion. I asked for the increase because I had documented proof, along with the project lead's recommendation, that I was the reason they were able to complete the project ahead of schedule.
In the 90s I got called for a 2 week job assignment switching the company over from one OS to the next upgrade.
The gig started in the middle of April but ended Christmas Eve.
The longest 2 weeks EVAH....but a good time was had at better wages by 90% than my previous job due to going from employee to temp!
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Lololol
Several years ago, I worked for a horrible jackass of a boss. He was a screamer, he played favorites and just was not qualified for his position at all. He eventually fired me.
However, that turned out to be a good thing, because I eventually wound up getting a better job and even worked my way up into management at my next position. One day while going through resumes, I came across a familiar name. The candidate seemed qualified enough for the opening we had, so I set up an interview with him. You can imagine the look on my former boss' face when he found himself sitting across the table from me interviewing for a job.
I didn't hire him. Revenge is sweet.
Haha, awesome! Karma is a b*tch! And as we say in Germany: "You'll always meet twice in life." Means: be careful how you're treating others.
Did you reject him because he wasn’t the best candidate or just for revenge? Or both lol?
Savage!
@@ABC13573 to be honest, even if he was the ideal candidate on paper, he saw what kind of person he was... I wouldn't employ him either
this is a small world..
When I got fired from an internationally sized company because I refused to participate in illegal practices, and when they were offering to settle out of court, one of the conditions they explicitly wrote in was that I do not apply for employment with them ever again. Apparently, one hand doesn't know what the other is doing. I didn't agree to their terms and we went to court where I beat them. I am still eligible to be hired again! :D
Hahahaha. You have to tell me in details .
are you so desparate that you want to last employer that fired you?
@@asadb1990 he trolled the employer . Goof ball.
So they thought you agreed to the terms and you didnt ? How did one hand not know what the other was doing?
@@carochan86 I guess the thing was that since they were doing something illegal and settling out of court would probably mean lower payout, it would have been best not to add conditions if the poster had a good chance of winning the case.
I love the way this guy decided to go all along with the interwiew process, not many people would go back to the company that just fired him, even if It's to prank them.
Yee, i got too much anger to tolerate incompetent company...
Yeah I like his sense of humor. Life is short to be down for a lost position. Wish him the best rest of his life.
Honestly I'd do it knowing my sense of humor
@@tercial loool
That’s husband material right there!🤣
You left out the best part, but it seems to have been buried in all of the replies: firr talks about the last thing he says to the engineer as he's being led out of the building.
firr: "I have just one question for you. (dramatically rips off moustache) How did you know it was me?"
engineer: "Get out."
😂😂😂😂
I heard this story from a guy (who knows if its really true) that he was fired from his company for poor performance and he applied for the same job at the same company, but for a different department and he got hired. A couple years later, he was promoted for his stellar performance and he said that he didn't do anything different.
This story is completely true, my neighbor is a nurse at our local hospital only 5 minutes away, she asked for a raise and they fired her. She went to work for a temp agency as a nurse for much higher pay and where did they send her? That's right, she got sent to fill a vacancy at her old job at the same hospital and co-workers. 😁
Not surprising sadly, similar situation for me. Started working for my local humane society, became the most senior after a year and a half, got a promotion, got demoted back within 2 months and put "on notice" for performing 2 blood tests the exact way I was taught (the same way they still have techs perform it that I trained....). Asked for a raise as the yearly reviews were put on hold due to the previous manager quitting, and was threatened with losing my job due to being late 15 minutes one day despite other coworkers routinely calling out without excuses or notice. Ended up talking with a former coworker at a separate location and I was instantly approved to move there at a higher rate as it is our surgery center instead of the adoption center. Been at new location for 6 months now, with only glowing reviews from my new manager to HR, and they have continued to have a high turnover rate at the adoption center. They called me up one off day to ask if I could cover for someone calling out and I told them to never ask me to return unless I was getting hazard pay for the toxic environment at that location. Oh, and the way I did those 2 blood tests? The exact same way I was shown when I asked for clarification at the new location. The new manager at old location just didnt like me and was looking for any reason to get rid of me, and then was mad when I told her "no, im not going to help you after what you did to me". Jokes on them though, she got fired 2 weeks later when we were all talking about her mugshot for aggravated child abuse in the break room and HR wasnt happy.
@@xHTxRaptorF22 Just proof that people don't leave bad jobs, just bad bosses.
I used to get a call from the same company, same PERSON three years in a row with the question if I would like to interview. When answering "yes", they went radio silent. The 4th year, I contacted them stating it was about time for them to ask me again... and they did!
lmao
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I'm not even surprised honestly. Companies are so disorganized, disjointed, and generally chaotic, especially when it comes to the hiring process, that I'm sure this kind of thing happens all the time.
To the corporate world we are all pawns for their goals. I'm not surprised at all, that they took a while to realize this was the guy they just fired.
I'm guessing the majority of the time people don't even respond to any interest out of embarrassment or not even wanting to get their old job back.
Yet they expect candidates to have perfect interviews 🙄
Imagine if they hired him again
That HR guy didn't bring snacks, he brought groceries. LOL
My husband applied and got hired in a lower position ( for temporary income) after being ghosted for the upper management position. After 2 days on the job, the hiring manager wanted him to apply to the upper management position not realizing they had already rejected him!!
Well, did he? C'mon, share them deets!
I hope he did reapply for the job! I do think sometimes people don't realize what someone's capable until they are on the job. I've had that happen quite a few times where I end up in entry level positions after not hearing back on higher level positions, just to have my managers tell me they think I have potential to move up. But in your husband's case, it's just hilarious they didn't realize he DID apply previously for that higher level job. Oh silly companies
No! He did not apply! He was accepted at another company for the same upper management position. He is much happier working for this company and they are moving us to a better state. My husband was inspiring to me because never stopped until he got the job he wanted. Thank you for the encouragement of this channel as we went through this process.
Wait wait wait... why did they accept his resume with no jobs listed on it, and just the job description for this position?? And then they're mad at HIM? LOL The incompetence at this place is off the charts. What fun this guy had, this is priceless. 😂😂
So many clueless HR and even hiring mgrs nowadays
TBH this happens alot. If u dont put any job references on your resume they just negotiate your salary down or ask you for a full resume.
They are referring to the recruiter resume which would not list the companies that the candidate worked for.
It's to hire overqualified people for half the salary, killing two birds with one stone.
In banking I've heard it's what you *have* to do. Even after you leave, but you apply for the same role in another bank, the exact name is redacted because all the banks are fighting for the same big commercial clients, so the candidate can have knowledge on the interviewer's competitors that he is not allowed to disclose. In the higher level jobs, they are not allowed to work in the sector at all due to this confidentiality. The old company that they are leaving pays them 'gardening leave' for this period, of sometimes, months, for the details of the deals to become superceded.
Had a similar experience. A company that fired me 3 years ago, cold called me recently and we did a first round phone interview. As such, I find out the company’s name during the interview. About halfway through the interview, there are some red flags. I google the company and their corporate website says my old company changed their name last year for marketing reasons. I then stopped the interview and said, this is Company X. They tell me it is a new company and not Company X. I asked for the leadership team and was able to list them out. The interviewer became very embarrassed and I politely said I wasn’t interested.
I worked for a company that got acquired/bought out 4 times over 7 years-then again a year after I left. The same terrible management stayed and the workers were somewhat trapped by the bad economy.
wow
Didn't have this happen, but I did have a recruiter aggressively reach out after they had already interviewed and rejected me. They didn't realize that I had interviewed with them 6 months prior. I ignored the emails until they became excessive, and then told them they had already rejected me and I had no desire to repeat the process. Their oops email later was hilarious.
They're generally not receptive. I had someone reach out to me while I was prepping for an interview rather than wait a few hours after their email. Of course I declined them as my interview went well. It helps not to be desperate and not believe someone who is clearly entitled.
What do you mean by "aggressively"?
@@Michael-vf2mw you dont think mine nor Joel's stories indicate aggressive recruiters who think last? Aggressive as in controlling or carry on without inhibitions.
@@Michael-vf2mw I mean they kept sending me messages every day while I was ignoring them. After about a week of this I finally told them off.
lmao
I've been working for a company as a territory sales rep the last two years. I saw a job posting last week for a territory sales rep; SAME COMPANY, SAME TERRITORY, just a different team and about a 20% raise in pay. I followed the internal application process to a T, met every basic and every preferred qualification, and they STILL hired externally..
Fortunately, I worked for a honest Manager who gave his current employees a pay raise when he found out the new hires were going to be offered a starting salary more than what we were making.
That happened to me, except I never even got a chance to interview. The CFO told them, “we don’t want to start the process over.” When no one from the team kept me updated on the process! I put in my two weeks, because I was friends with the VP of the hiring department and he told me the reason, right after that bull!
@@jimkoney4200 that is very fortunate!
@@kenjiPhoenix61 I don’t blame you!
That's some BS. Are your sales skills transferable, so you can move to a different company?
I worked at a company a few years back and had a buddy that was called in the middle of a work day to interview for his own job position for about $5k more a year. 🤣😂
We're supposed to be dedicated to companies, but they can't even pretend to care enough to even know our names...
Oh, and this happened a couple weeks after the company said profits were too low for bonuses and raises, but plenty enough for the CEO to get a $10m bonus.
@@serpent77 same shit 2 years later mate :) for employeess "the results are not sustainable due to favorable macro conditions, so dont expect huge payouts" and for CEO + top management huge bonues for amazing performance and turnaround :)
Love how the interviewer knew nothing about the position he was interviewing the guy for. It would be hilarious if I hadn't encountered so many interviewers like that before.
Yup I worked for a staffing company and I conducted interviews to hire people in industries I knew nothing about. I had a lot of funny stories, but safe to say I’m glad it’s all over.
This happened to me, back in 1995. I was fired from a Motorola factory in Arizona, and 2 weeks later I was hired again by a different recruiter to work in a different department. Everything worked out until I dropped by the old department to say hi to an old co-worker, and I was recognized... but at least I got about 3 good weeks out of them on the second job! Lol..
I once got fired from a job, called back 2 weeks later bc they were desperate and I covered several of the branches in addition to the original one I was fired from, and then got fired again about 8 months later from the original branch, but not from the other branches, but in response I quit the other branches bc I was pissed about how I got treated by the first one doing it to me twice, as neither time was for any good cause.
I'm the engineer in this situation. Had a guy interview. Really awkward interview, really didn't know anything. He took two bathroom breaks, asked for a sandwich.
He applied again 2 years later, thought the resume and name looked familiar. I could tell he recognized me right away and got super nervous. Still didn't know anything.
This was a perfect textbook case of what many people already recognize about many companies -- that a lot of them are just like this one, a company who sees their employees as FACE-less and NAME-less too, the fact that a whole team wouldn't even recognize a person they'd fired only 2 weeks before...
This tells you just how broken the corporate promotion and management system is. It's not a meritocracy.
What's the opposite of meritocracy? That's what it is.
@@anarcho-communist11 nepotism usually
Similar happened to me years ago. Worked for a temp agency, got injured due to a freak muscle spasm in my neck that cost me 1 day of work, was legally fired (had my "contract ended") soon after putting in for a "real" job, and a couple weeks later, they called me asking for an interview.
Sign of a great employer, fire so many people you don't remember their names two weeks latter.
I’ve applied to multiple similar positions at a global company before, and I was hired there but for many months after I was still being contacted by other recruiters of that company for those other positions I had applied to, I almost wanted to respond saying that I already was employed by the company, that’s when I realized how disconnected the company was and was reflective of my experience there
I’ve been recruited by a 3rd party recruiter and internal HR staff for the same company.
My wife got a interview and was turned down. Then 3 weeks later, the owner of the company reached out to her Indeed and asked for an interview saying she is a good candidate. She replied back that she did apply but they turned her down to move on with other candidates. The owner didn’t respond to her email, lol. Apparently they don’t have a lot of candidates if my wife was reached out again. I told my wife that I’m not surprised since this is the same company that talked about hiring her during her internship, but then mysteriously didn’t give her an offer at the end of her internship after my wife told her supervisor that she is 3 month pregnant.
Well.. I think we know the reason your wife wasn't hired
unfortunate lesson: never ever tell an employer you're pregnant. Just let a baby mysteriously appear about 8 months in when you're already there :)
This is hilarious! Too many companies (IMO) bank on the fact that candidates are in need of income, so they seem to think that candidates are willing to put up with their poorly managed processes.
I’ve been given some generous goody bags when I’ve interviewed with food companies.
As awkward as this interview is, it reminds me of the many times I’ve sensed during an interview that the hiring manager was actually looking for the person who just left. Maybe not the person who was fired, but the person who already knew the job and wouldn’t require any training or supervision.
This has happened to me!
I sat thru the interview waiting for her to see my most recent job.
Either she didnt see or ignored it.
When they offered me the position i simply said 'no thanks, the job wasn't a good fit the first time you hired me.'
tthere u go kids. they can replace you just like this and dont even remember you LMFAO
*You ever get a little excited to hear that the job you quit started to get a whole lot worse afterwards?
I had a recruiter reach out to me about a job I quit (I couldn’t deal with micromanagement of the new boss) The one person that stayed behind said they are still struggling, a year later, to make up for the lost of knowledge of all the people that left because of the new boss mismanagement.
I kept up with old coworkers at a company I was terminated from. It went from 20 Million profit a year to just over 100K in a year. They are circling the drain, big time! Schadenfreude!
Yup, I had that feeling about a job I was let go from years ago. It was my first "big boy" job, the job was a godsend at first. But pay was very low, benefits weren't affordable, work culture was toxic, you got browbeaten for working overtime, work-life balance was impossible, pretty much everyone there hated their jobs, and I worked for a boss who micromanaged me at every turn, but never bothered to actually train me despite knowing I'd NEVER worked in the industry before! Turned out that I was the fourth or fifth person in only a few years to occupy that job. After I was let go, the boss turned on my senior coworker, who quit just a few weeks later and was never replaced. Within a few years, my replacement came and went, two long-timers at another branch quit on the same day, the boss quit the industry altogether, and a major long-timer at my old branch quit. The parent company got bought out, and now what remains of my old employer is clearly on borrowed time.
While working at my last company, I got a recruiter email asking if I wanted to interview at my company, for the job I was already doing (we were hiring more engineers). I should've said yes, my boss would have found it hilarious.
This happend to me and actually. Its very common. This is very common on big companies and I got rehired with better benefits.
I worked at an insurance agency for about a week before I quit because I didn't like it. A couple of times in the months following the manager of that agency emailed me saying he liked my resume and wanted to talk. This was a small agency where I handed in my resignation to this guy by hand.
I took a position thru a staffing agency a couple weeks ago, and that agency calls me every few days to pitch the position to me that i'm already working in. How much of the agency's time are they wasting trying to fill a closed position.
Brian is honestly becoming a second Joshua Fluke. This is the type of video I can see Josh uploading! 😂
Also, I really like the shirt.
I'd love for them to have a collaboration one day.
Amazing!!!
I was fired by a payroll processing company and my relationship with my manager was horrible but not so bad that she reached out to me about a position via LinkedIn. She even apologized for letting me go😒
Not surprising in this modern day corporate bureaucracy, and the incompetent recruiters. People are just letters and numbers to them, "discovered" by keyword searches and algorytyhms. I live in Pennsylvania and get LinkedIn messages from recruiters asking me if I want to interview with companies in Florida and Tennessee, for positions that don't even match my background or experience.
I enjoyed this so much. Definitely exposes the issues with the interview process at some companies.
This whole thing sounds about right where i work! No names but they are the largest retailer in the world. They hire any body that has a heart beat or can breathe. Most are young kids who don't care and with in 2 weeks or less get fired. Then like 2 or 3 months later they reapply and get the JOB...Duh! And what happens.....the same thing!
Walmart?
Is your job hiring? I want something that doesn’t have a long interview process
As you were reading this, I played the theme song to The Benny Hill Show, Yakkety Sax by Boots Randolph, in my head.
He should totally show up and laugh at them.
I didnt take it that far but there have been 2 times in my life that I voluntarily left a company for a better one, and a couple weeks later I got recruiting phone calls or emails for the same position I just left. I figured this was pretty common nowadays, as companies outsource recruiting, so the recruiters don't know who you are, and your resume contents naturally fit into what they look for in their sorting algorithms
Brian, keep doing what your doing. This example is a perfect illustration of what you talk about sir.
They’re probably mad about all the snacks. 🤣
I loved your chuckles! They made me laugh 😂
I actually had a really weird scenario before the pandemic where I kept getting calls offering me my same position, on a monthly basis, for around a year.
which really said something about their hiring process.
It makes me think that he might not even have deserved to be fired in the first place. That place seems like a mess!
Not only did this happen to me, but they re-hired me as a contractor and I ended up working at the company that had previously fired me for 4+ years. One manager’s trash is another man’s treasure. Had a good experience in the second role, wish I negotiated for better salary, would probably still be there if they paid a living wage.
Your laugh is great man.. that alone is cracking me up lol
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I’ve been told during a phone interview by the CIO that he had no intention of hiring me but he wanted dirt on a company we both worked at but at different times. Five months later I’m there as a consultant and I lasted six months before I became over the 5th or 6th person to walk because of his abuse. They paid well because they had to.
Honestly I'd do it knowing my sense of humor. This is hilarious thanks for sharing.
I got an offer at a bank after I got fired from it. (Back when I worked in finance) Companies don’t care and/or know who you are.
Kind of happened to me. I resigned from a large multi-national. 2 weeks later a company recruiter from the one I resigned from called me to say that they were trying to fill a newly open position and thought that I would be a perfect fit given my industry experience. Apparently HR and HR recruiting don't talk to each other.
This can't be real.
This almost happened to us. A guy that was terminated applied for a job with a different team. Luckily I remembered him because he had a very bad attitude when he was there. He purposefully left out of his resume that part of his CV. I put an end to it before he was even called in for an interview. I know this seems funny but there are some people out there with zero self awareness.
I guess it isn't that surprising that he had a new interview. I had a interview at a different site for the same corporation through a recruiter. My termination was a confusing situation though. I was wrongfully terminated from the original site. I had been defending the new corporation (Medtronic) against a major agency problem that could have resulted in many lawsuits against the corporation. The original site (Covidien) had a gang of cluster B personality disorders mobbing and smearing many of the leaders who built the original site in order to replace them with their corporate gang members. We were confused by why the great leaders were being let go under mysterious circumstances. Then I got targeted because I was trying to get a promotion and had started talking about several of the innovations that I had come up with, valuations in the millions and 2 had billion dollar valuations. This got the attention of the gang because they were writing my innovations down as their accomplishments which was supposed to be a terminatable offense. I found out about them stealing my ideas from a manager who was threatening me if I didn't shut up, but it didn't matter if they took credit for my stuff because they could have easily provided me with an opportunity since I was targeting lower level positions and didn't want their jobs. So when I got the call from the other site (a traditional Medtronic facility) I thought maybe they had finally done an investigation, found out what I reported to the other site's HR department / the Board of Directors was true, and wanted to make things right. Reporting an agency problems to the board of Directors is what is supposed to happen per US Corporate Governance Laws, they actually paid for me to attend that class???? Since then many of the managers that were mobbing the leaders and top performers with false smear campaigns have been let go, per present employees I have run into. I am wondering why the buying corporation (Medtronic) hasn't done anything for the victims of the workplace gang? Some companies see being let go by a corporation like Medtronic as a bad thing and will not give the person an opportunity. At this point, I don't care if they are catapulting babies into a wall in a backroom. It isn't worth it to try to defend one of these companies.
Once many years ago I applied for a summer job at a grocery store during summer vacation. (they had a sign out "help needed urgently" etc)
I was invited to the interview 6 months later.
I guess they though they were giving me a nice christmas present?
That was when I learned that there is no limit to how incompetent a company can be at any level.
That's not that weird, companies often keep resumes and applications around for a while and check what they already have when opening a new position. They may have just never gotten that far down the stack before making enough hires the first time
Just like the hiring manager you seem to have missed "summer job"@@dirtywhitellama
Same here yet it was a year after applying. I'm like I don't even live in that state anymore.
Awww, you missed the best part - the "HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS ME??" flourish at the end (which did, to be fair, get kind of buried - there's a secret "show more" button that kinda hides on Twitter I guess?)
That thread was so good I went back and re-read it at least three times! :D
Also my question is: don’t the recruiters see a resume with the name of their own company on it? At that point, they should start looking into it before calling the person (who just got fired from that company) back in.
So people at the company are totally disconnected
This sounds like it could be a Simpsons plot. Homer gets fired only to interview for his job as another person.
I had something similar happen. I was working for a company, and after a year, I was misdiagnosed with a medical condition. The company started a modified work plan. After a month, I was called into the Manager’s office, and laid-off for shortness of work. I filed with the Human Rights Tribunal, and we settled. A few years later, I was called by that same companies HR, stating they found my resume online, and wanted to know if I wanted to come in for an interview.
I saw this thread on reddit and it was pretty hilarious. I'm not sure I would have had the balls to go back to the place that just fired me.
Little chuckle. Brian I almost lost my breath from laughing 😂 that was awesome!
Who is Brian? 🙄
This is so much like the comic strip “Dilbert”. Life imitates art. 🤷🏻♂️
I had similar happen to me. I was fired from a position at the asphalt company I worked at, and about 3mos later, a recruiter calls me up out of the blue at my new job to offer me my old job back. Here's the best part: or $4/HR MORE THAN THEY PAID ME. Let's just say I was probably ruder than I should have been in response.
I guess they felt they should pay more after they had that truck driver all off the loading rack and die.
A similar situation happened to me too! People are so disconnected companies have no idea what's going on.
This is like a Seinfeld episode. Remember when Kramer started hanging out in an office for no reason and all of a sudden they need his input on things? He's contributing, when he gets called into the office and the boss asks "it's like you have no training (in this job)". Yes, Kramer left. It shows how employers have so many filters and so many people that don't talk to each other that no one knows what's going on.
This kind of reminds me of an interview I once did where on the way I grabbed the newspaper and read that the employer I was to interview with was actually laying people off. I asked in the interview, and they asked what I was talking about. I showed them the article. They didn't know what to say. I didn't get the job then, but after interviewing with them a year later, I did get the job eventually.
One of the greatest stories I've ever heard
This sort of happened to me too. I worked at a place that I had to quit. Tried to get rehired company told me I can't come back cause I quit, and broke the rules. Then would not stop calling me after to come back and work for them.
I had something similar happen to me. The difference was it was a subsidiary of the company that owned the company that let me go. I wondered why I never got a call back, and when I found out the new company was owned by the same company as my old company, I put 2 and 2 together.
😅😄😃😂 Your laughter makes this story even funnier Thanks for the story 😄
😂thanks for bringing this story to light
This literally made my day. So good in so many ways. Your reaction to everything was actually the best part.
I'm not even remotely shocked.
Great laugh..the circus music was appropriate for the clown show at the company.
I love the Snidely Whiplash-style mustache!
Hey Brian… any comments on the new phenomenon of “Returnships”… basically it’s companies trying to sucker people back into the job market after a prolonged employment gap (such as early retirees, caregivers, etc) ?
I feel like a lot of the people I've interviewed with recently have't even read through my resume or looked at my portfolio. They've been asking me questions and seeming surprised when I clarify, yet examples are all over my portfolio. It's just one click 💀
Ha! This could be easily avoided if the recruiter had the chance, within "12 seconds", to read the candidate's resume...
This has happened to me as well! My job relocated to another city and the recruiter called me up within days of leaving offering me more $$$ and asking me to relocate
I took an early retirement package and started looking for another job immediately. A recruiter tried to place me into my old position. I told the recruiter that I could not be rehired by my old employer.
You could've trolled them just like the fella in this video did lol
Your content is very informative and it helps a lot. But, this one made my day! Thank you for the laughs!
Music was a bit too loud
Way too loud, missed half the story
Not surprising to me. I’ve been contacted by internal recruiters from companies I’ve separated from. I think they realize they shot themselves in the foot and needed my expertise back though some time has lapsed.
Dude!!! We are laughing right along with you 😄 🤣 😀
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Hats off for your t-shirt, man!!
Incredibly funny! This @Firr guy has a great sense of humor.
Seems like they should have a "do not hire" database to check against if nothing else...
Shows that this management team is incompetent. I can’t tell you how many people I’ve seen in management or promoted to management that should have never been even considered for the position.
That seriously happened to me last year!
Granted the recruiter seemed like one of those bulk quantity over quality ones, but it was for 30% less. I didn't keep going with it. Had it not been a relatively amicable separation, maybe I would have!
Something similar to this happened to me a recruiter sent my up to date resume to my current job.Smh I then got called into the office and asked why I no longer wanted to be there... After my boss said I didn't do my job to my coworker for months. All while giving me every new project that came in the door I made them millions. He even asked if there was something better they could do so I wouldn't leave. Needless to say I work for myself now. Took 4 entry level people together to do my one job when I left.
This really shows the real disconnect that some companies have with the people that work there, you're just a number to make them numbers , sad , entertaining but actually sad ....
Closest I ever got to this was getting a message from a recruiter from the company I worked for.
I love these kind of videos… so funny!
We had a temp agency send over a resume of an employee that my boss was forced to lay off last march. He was actually going to reach out as everyone loved them, but they ultimately decided it wouldn't be the best idea.
"forced to lay off" what euphemism
@@DriveandThrive yeah. its never forced or sudden. only for the employee its sudden. the bosses know weeks if not months in advance who they laying off.
@@asadb1990 I work for a large corporation, so upper management decided who got to be let go, but it definitely wasn't sudden. They knew for weeks. When I interviewed for this team, I had no idea I was going to be hired as their replacement. Had I known that, I wouldn't have accepted the position. It's not a great position .
@@Nelphoto exactly the only person that knows in advance are the bosses. sure the employee can see writing on the wall but most of the time, you have no idea until its too late.
@@asadb1990 Yep!
Its called corporate hell. Lots of companies out there like this. Basically, a lot of highly educated people with not brains, or common sense.
This actually happened to me. I scheduled the interview, not knowing who or what the company was. The day before was told where to go. I played along, but canceled one minute before I was suppose to be there.
Ah, strange things happen! One company that laid me off ... very nice departure package and severance, etc. ... though it wasn't a mere two weeks, they rehired me ... and not only that, they rehired me at a much higher compensation rate ... much higher than the max they could've increased me to if they'd not laid me off.