Timeline for How to answer "Have you ever been terminated?"
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| Apr 17, 2019 at 21:28 | history | edited | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2019 at 15:31 | comment | added | bob | It's not a yes/no question: it allows the applicant to enter 400 characters, so it appears to be looking for an explanation of some kind. | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 10:11 | comment | added | Fattie | just as @GeorgeM says, this whole affair of a couple of weeks (from decades ago) is not even on the resume. I have whole careers I don't even mention on a resume for a given field. There has a to be a sense of proportion and realism. | |
| Apr 17, 2019 at 0:00 | comment | added | Nate Eldredge | Incidentally, the use of terminate in the sense of "to dismiss from a job" dates back to at least 1973, according to dictionary.com. | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 23:51 | comment | added | Alex M | @GeorgeM is it common practice to comment on answers without having read the question? | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 22:07 | comment | added | user90842 | More to the point, is there any reason to include this job in your resume if it was 20 years ago? Did you do anything so staggeringly original that you risk not being hired because they don't realize you're the author of the famous ---? Then you should leave the entire job off. There, no more need to worry about that box | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | Fattie | Hey Wes - My God, that's amazing, I was drunk that entire decade :) Well: you can take my advice as general. The short answer then to your question - it can only be one man's opinion - is that it's far too long ago and too minor to mention in the context. (I'd just be annoyed if I had to read something like that - you know?) One man's take! Good luck!!! | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 20:32 | comment | added | Wes Sayeed | The answer to all of your questions is yes. I remember the job, the names of my coworkers, even the address of the building, and I'm sure I still have my termination paperwork in an old box somewhere. It was not a part-time job. It was a 40-hour, full-time position that I basically pissed away. Also, I was 19. | |
| Apr 16, 2019 at 20:08 | history | edited | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2019 at 20:01 | history | answered | Fattie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |