[Nick9075]

Every single job I get fired for vague reasons. I think I am. Doing well then get a call in the evening at 8:00pm saying the job is over. I may have the worst employment history on record in the USA. Always vague reasons or no reason just that the client said they didn't want me back.

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[Captinbipolar]

Sorry to hear your having a hard time. I just lost 3 jobs in a years time all right after one another. I know where you come from. Hopefully you will find a job that works for you. I know it is out there. Just a suggestion if it (God forbid) happens again maybe you could ask for a clearer picture. That and do you keep going into the same field? It took me a while but me working as a chef is a no no for me right now and that's all I went into. I hope I can In the future but definitely not for a while. It always ended up badly so I'm searching for another line of work that can play nice with my disorder maybe that's what you need. Another very helpful member suggested I look into Rehabilitation Services Commission. It's called something different in slot of states but they offer training and vocational help to put you in the right line of work with accommodations that can help you better yourself in the workplace ( or so my understanding of it is) I haven't looked into it much but it seems like it may be a good lookup if your having trouble. Again sorry about your troubled I wish you the best nick9075

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I'm sorry. I got fired from 2 jobs in 10 months and it was not pleasant. The first one they could have fired me for being behind on paperwork and not writing orders in charts on time but instead they kind of chose to torture me and created reasons to fire me. The worst was that they went to one of my patients I was close to and asked her a bunch of questions about me that kept making me sound bad and she'd tell them no, that's NOT what she meant, her husband would back her up and say they loved me, I was greatl, etc. I was told she didn't want me to treat her anymore. So I avoided her one day but she came in and found me to tell me what happened and how upset she was about it. She had written a letter and put on the office door but it disappeared before I ever saw it. Manipulating my patients like that was the most awful thing ever. They also got me for shredding something b/c my supervisor told me to (she didn't get in trouble) and for signing a timesheet with an error (I'm fairly sure it was falsified and left on my desk for me to sign like I'd forgottten to do it the night before.

The next job refused to say why but had a long history of wanting me to do in 32 hours what my PT counter-part did in 40 hours, backing out of agreements about modified start times because I drove a long way and some other things. They had a long history of firing experienced people and replacing them with new graduates though and I was replaced by a new grad so I think that one was only partly bipolar and partly money-saving.

I also had one time that I was working as a contract therapist in 2 nursing homes that were part of a chain. I had been on disability for a few weeks and had been in the ER one night b/c of a reaction to abilify. My assistant turned that information into I was in the psych until for 4 weeks and told everyone I was psychotic. At that point a lot of bad things happened in one nursing home, mostly because the director of nursing kept saying "what does she know? she's crazy" about any suggestion that came from me. It got very ugly so my company moved me out of that building. The next day I was kicked out of the other building because "we don't like her". It later came out that because I had some oral motor issues with geodon and a flat affect a rumor started that I was on drugs. No assurances that I was on medication that had since been stopped due to severe side effects that people had noticed and offers of random drug tests at will mattered. About a year later I found out that they "regretted" what they did to me. Kind of late for that.....I was transferred to another facility and given a raise and later that year a huge 2nd raise, I think for not suing them.

I worked 9 years and had 7 jobs. There were only 3 that people were sad to see me leave and one of those management was glad to be rid of me because I'd been on disability for 4 months and it wasn't very convenient for them.

So I know a little bit about it and it just is so hard to feel like things are great and then be told they aren't.

One thing I did that you may want to try is vocational rehab. In my state it is called Rehabiltation Services commission. They help you find either a job that you can succeed in with modifications they help set up or modifications that will help you succeed in the kind of job you have had. They provide training and equipment at no cost to you. You can self-refer. It takes a while to get into the program but they have lots to offer. For me it came down to being recommended that I go on disability but nobody else agreed with that. however that did probably help me get approved for SSDI when I needed to be, years later.

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. I know how hard it was for me. I felt like I gave 150% and did a good job but there were always things I wasn't as good at that caught up to me even when it wasn't fair.

[Nick9075]

The last one was a temp job. The only reason I got was that 'someone complained about me'... I never had more than 3 words with any of the perm employees and no one ever reviewed my work or gave me any type of warning.. Actually I was told the day before I got fired (at 7:45pm by text message) what a good job I was doing

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I did contract work for a while which is kind of like temp work in my profession. I was there for 3 contracts and they never had a single complaint in my weekly reports to my company. Then they asked me if I'd considering staying, I said that I couldn't do it with their current understaffing and the next thing I know my supervisor is calling and telling me they had all these complaints and did not want me any longer. They wouldn't provide any documentation to back the complaints up so fortunately my company ignored it but I had to work 3 weeks out knowing that they had lied about me and both managers I worked for had said bad things about my work and about me when those things were not true. I have never been so glad to leave a place as I was that job. But it sucks to be turned on like that. "Will you stay?" "You can never work for our company in any capacity again" 24 hours later was very hard to take. But at least it didn't happen via text. That's so cruel.

Do you have any other options available? My brother is a temp and somehow it always seems like there is something. His last job actually disappeared; they showed up for work and the company was gone overnight. This current one I think he hates but is stuck with it because he needs money.

[Nevvy]

Well I have the same thing going on. It's quite a feat if I can keep a job for more than half a year or so. Temp jobs, housekeeper jobs, retail, kitchen jobs, you name it.

I am in a position though that I can work freelance as several things due to my background, and I did that for a while for extra cash, but now I am making a one man business out of it. I figured that if no one wants me or wants to keep me, then I will become my own boss.

It's a bit of a risky option, but I can always stop if it gets too much, and I won't have a hole in my resume.

[BipolaRNurse]

I've struggled with jobs throughout my nursing career, holding 13 jobs in a total of 19 years. Thankfully I was just approved for SSDI after waiting the minimum time, because now I don't have to keep hurling myself against brick walls. That just dropped my stress level to near zero. I can hardly believe I got it the first time---guess my hospitalization and the bipolar 1 diagnosis were enough. Now I don't have to worry anymore about trying to find work or wonder how long it'll take to get fired when a mood episode occurs. What an incredible RELIEF.

[teleea]

While I've never been fired or let go, I've always had a hard time holding down a job.

It is the anxiety that interferes and gets me all the time. It is only with my diagnosis that I have been able to look back and understand why. The pattern is always the same. When the extreme anxiety gets me, I quit and move to another job. I blame everything and everyone except myself; usually, it's blame that the company is poorly run, or a specific incident has caused me hardship. Since 2000, I have held 29 positions (at 12 different firms).

The pattern is the same. I perform well - very well (owing to my fear of failure and doing something wrong) . I start a new job and rapidly fly up the chain to supervisory and ultimately management positions. My anxiety increases with each change and/or promotion to the point that I can't sleep and can't funtion in my life outside of work. Eventually the anxiety is so bad that I am working on maybe 4 hours of sleep. And when I do sleep I dream of every possible disaster that may face me the following day. It is as though I wake up having already done an 8 hour shift. This continues until I can no longer maintain the routine and usually ends in a panic attack.

I blame some significant event - like a customer attacking me (which might be where my schizoid affective comes in) in order to transfer to a position of no responsibility or quit altogether. Then it starts all over again. I perform well, get promoted, panic, self-demotion, perform well, get promoted, panic, self-demotion, etc, etc, etc.

I am fortunate that the province I live on considers bipolar a disability. The assistance barely covers food and rent but I am at least able to manage - and somewhat remain sane.

[BipolaRNurse]

That's what happens to me too! I've only been fired three times; the rest of my jobs I quit when I got successful because it caused so much anxiety. People expected things from me, you see, and after a while I just couldn't deal with it. Even now, I'm at least as afraid of success as failure.

[tipper1492]

Probably not a reason? I did it more before medications. Hear some BP people wonder if they do it too much. What if you, or another just speaks too much, like just goes on and on? Like others get fed up with that, or it interferes with their own work. Could that be happening at times?

[RisuNeko]

I've been fired for no reason or a vague reason too when I was depressed. It's totally unfair and should be illegal. But because of at will employment you can be fired for pretty much any reason.

[RisuNeko]

When I got fired it was the first day I called in sick and I think maybe it was because they suspected I wasn't physically sick. I just needed a mental health day. It was the only time I called in too.

I have also struggled to hold a job. I have had 9 jobs in 5 years. I partially blame this on getting the idea that I should switch career paths, and partially on getting bored of being at the job. It is normally when I am manic I decide that I no longer want to do this. I have worked in food, sales, nursing, and information technology. I have had 5 or 6 different majors that I never finished.