Monday morning, I was calling in my work hours. Which I have to do through an account over a phone line, which involves punching in a lot of codes and numbers. Anyway, after putting in my employee number, the computer tells me it’s an invalid ID.

I try my employ number four more times, but it still is invalid. I head to work and talk to my boss about it, assuming I got fired by the evil corporation, without her authority, or knowledge. She assures me I wasn’t fired, and that she would call the headquarters after work.

After work she calls the company and tells them the problem. And apparently, I was fired on 9/11/2007.

The guy on the phone said they had just updated their system the night before. So it’s possible that there was a glitch, and the records got messed up, or I was actually fired on that date, but the system was still allowing me to call in hours for five months without any detectable error.
Which means if I were the dishonest sort, I could have been able to call in 15 hour days every day of the week and made thousands of dollars, and move to Mexico before they were the wiser.

On the bright side, I supposedly have my job back, though I wont know till Friday.

Since the company is owned by Jews, and the date I was fired was 9/11, my suspicions that Jews did WTC still stands strong.

Heh, I got employed because of a similar cock-up. I was applying for pretty much any temp job I could find at the time and so I rang the number in this advert and I ended up speaking to an agency. It became pretty clear that I wasn't suitable to that particular job. I asked if they'd at least look into placing me on their lists and emailed them my CV. I got a call back a day or two later:

Agency worker: Hi Rob, I'm afraid we won't be able to take you on because of your prior convictions.
*At this point I've been woken up by the phone call because I was an unemployed bum and slept in a lot so I didn't really register the word "conviction" and assumed she meant my conviction to get a job*
Recusant: Uh, okay, I'm a bit confused my conviction about what.
Her: Theft
Me: What?
Her: You came in yesterday to ask if we could help you find work despite your conviction
Me: *fully awake now* I don't have a criminal conviction!
Her: This is Robert Wallace, right?
Me: Yes
Her: At <someone elses personal details>
Me: No
Her: OMG, I'm so sorry. Another guy with the same name as you came in yesterday, you're sharing the same record on the database! ......would you like an interview?
Me: Sure.

Several apologies later and I got my interview the next day. I was working in a little over a week

Excuse me but... I believe you have my stapler

HAHAH!

First the towers... now Phantom-Seraph's job.... will the terror never end?

This thread is pretty much exactly out of Office Space.

Getting fired but not told? Check.
Someone being mistaken for someone else? Check.
Burning down the place where you work? Not yet...

I swear he must have had the biggest headaches after wearing those glasses during filming.

Made me think of combine hobos

At this point, the fire thing could happen

When I was around 18 I went for a job at a new supermarket that was opening in town. Sure enough I got that shelf-stacking position I'd always dreamed of, but due to some cock-up they didn't call me in for training and didn't put me on the roster. I sort of just forgot about it and went on to other things.

Two years later I got a letter telling me I was fired.

Oh yeah Phantom, well my mom is your boss.

Oh wait...

When you put it that way it makes me sound like I'm her *****.

Though, if you say shes my employer, that makes me sound like a whore :S

Anyway. It seems I got my job back.