HELP - I got Let Go (Fired) - Need Advice

I just got let go at 2 PM due to the fact of a management decision and the fact the last guy that was the webmaster screwed up the system so bad I never got a chance to learn the system in place. I do not know what to do ... I am still in shock about the whole thing ...

You got let go as in you were fired, or they put you on a much appreciated long weekend?

If you get a long weekend, then awesome! But if you got fired, bummer.... I half understand about the screwed up system thing. The guy here before me was a .net junkie, but not very good at it, so whenever stuff gets screwed up we have to call him and he charges our office $100 an hour for something he technically should be doing for no more than he was getting paid when he quit. But I guess the guy has to make a living.

Fired, 2 weeks paid severence, and less than great job market in the area, and JUST got a NEW apt .. I get checks up till week ending 3/7/08

I am fighting the urge to get completely trashed ... but I can't think straight.

Don't let it get you down. Getting fired sucks, but there are tons of jobs out there, and this is your chance to find an even better one than the one you had........ just take it easy for the weekend, do something you really enjoy, meet with some friends.... and on monday start a systematic job search. it'll be ok. you'll see.

i serously don't think you can still enjoy over the weekends. i think i were you, i would start prospecting new jobs now, and write down my plans of what i'm to do ...

i've never gotten fired before, i kinda left my previous part-time job in a slow manner, it's a consultancy services we provide. I'd suggest that you look for smaller companies that have great opportunites to grow, join em, start from ,not too low salary, but it's ok if you knew that company can grow. See , the manager needed me more than I needed him. this put you in a stronger position. You can always turn things around if you plan ahead. Dun search for haughty bosses, . They must respect you at the first place...

Tried that George ... but the last guy *peach* up the system so I could not learn the server side of anything and they hired the system guy back .... I am gunna start looking tomorrow.

Sorry to hear about this. Try not to let it get to you too much, there will be plenty of people out there looking for someone with your knowledge base, you've just got to take this experience and use it to inspire you to further yourself.

You'll probably look back on this in a few months time and think this was the best thing that could have happened to you.

True dat. Last time (only time in fact) that I got fired, I was in such shock - the man had treated me so unfairly, even refused to pay my last salary (got it off him in the end - coolest showdown I ever had!) and generally left me shaking with rage. but it turns out that if I hadn't got fired that very day, I'd have missed the opportunity I got a few weeks after that - for a job I'm still at, and a salary four times higher than what I was making with the bozo.

things work out. don't worry about it.

There's no such thing as "the last guy...".

Ultimately it was your own inability to adapt to the system you were given to work with that lead to your being let go.
You can fool yourself into believing otherwise as long as you want, but that's the way it is.

I was not ALLOWED to touch the system anything. I was not even permitted to forward email ... I asked and asked and asked to learn / do but always got no's ...

The last webmaster messed up the server, email and compromised the computer I was on ... so they didn't want me to do anything but make webpages... I wanted to learn and got the short end of the stick.

Like I said, inability to adapt to the system you were given to work with.
The faster you're able to realize what that means, the faster you can learn to prevent it from happening again.

Sure, I guess. Even if/what I knew how to do, I was not even allowed to do it. I did all they asked and more and tried to take on more respondsibility and they would not let me. So I suppose to you that is not being able to adapt.

At this point it's pretty moot to dwell on what could or should have been. Things like this happen. It's just how life works. You have to take what you have and make the best of it.

I'm with Celandine on this one. For whatever reason, you should look at this as an opportunity to do something different, land a better job, etc.

I know it seems like a terrible situation, but take a moment, step back, assess the situation like over a weekend; and when the week comes approach it all with a new perspective and vigor.

It'll work out in the end.

Thanks Merlyn and Celandine ... I have a pile of 6 openings in front of me and going through them. Going to hand deliver the closer of the ones and hope for the best.

I guess the three weeks off will be nice, but uneasy as I JUST signed a new lease and was about to move in two week.

I am sure it'll work out just not what I want to be doing (resume, applications, cover letters, etc ...)

Atleast they will need to foot my unemployment bill if it comes to it so in reality they won't be saving all the money they wanted by their management decision

So in other words you don't actually want advice, you want someone to play mommy and tell you everything's going to be ok, right ?

You have responded unfavorably to anything in this thread that even hints at the fact that you were at all at fault. That's not looking for advice, that's looking for comfort.

You should probably go out and "get trashed" as you suggested, that sounds like the best option for you given your attitude.

Sorry I couldn't give you the advice you wanted.