Even if you sent it, it won't even get read. I've gotten mail at work from people I've fired before. Goes right in the trash.
No offense, but everyone's got a job to do, and firing people is part of some peoples jobs. Fun? No. But we all gotta eat. Remorse is bad enough when you have to look a person in the eye and tell them they are now unemployed...reminders aren't really needed.
If I may...this is two years old...what were the circumstances around your term?
After your "departure" were you a known security threat to the company and it's employees?
Did they have to take legal action to keep you at bay? Restraining orders and the like?
Were you forcefully removed from the premises?
Were police ever involved due to your behavior and actions towards the company and it's employees?
Do they fear you to this day?
I'll answer your question in more depth later. I have been working 17 years. I have only been written up four times. All four times were within a 45 day period and with the same employer. :shrug: I have been working at the same place for 29 months since I left that job. I still haven't been written up or even threatened with it. :shrug:
These people were trigger happy. :gunsmilie I was too trusting in my abilities. I never even attempted to defend myself. If I would have known they loved to fire people I could have survived several more years. I supposed I was over confident and too trusting. My life was very good in all aspects up until that point. I have lead a very sheltered life. My childhood was amazing. Every employer I ever worked for treated me like a king. Ever organization I was a part of treated me like a hero. This was my first bout of real life. It was severely traumatic. The emotional trauma that it caused me exceeded the tragedy of death or break-ups that I had been through in the past.
I'll elaborate more later.
Stay on good terms....
I was fired.
It's better to have friends than enemies.
Do not send that card or attempt to contact them. They might conclude that your behavior is atypical and they might have their lawyer respond to you with a threat of a restraining order.
I think you are trying to resolve a possibly subconscious feeling you have of "Unfinished Business" with that company or individuals.
With all respect, it sounds like you've developed some obsession over this issue and need professional help sorting out your emotions. Get that help now so that you can get over this and move on without that incident as part of your daily consciousness.
Beyond the professional help, the absolute best thing you could do for your feelings is to be successful and surpass them in every way. They don't deserve your good wishes and you deserve to be happy. Take affirmative steps to make that happen. You deserve just as much goodness and happiness in your life as anyone else. Don't let their BS be your defining moment, it is not.
Ceasar thought differently on that point and in the long run....
At first I was hired on through a temp agency. I worked there for 4 months as a temp. I knew the company sucked gigantic emerald-colored equestrian male genitalia but I was willing to deal with it if I was offered $13 an hour. I knew what I was worth and I knew what the job was worth.
My manager treated me like God all of the time. The HR Manager and my manager offered me the job at $10.25 an hour. I told them that I wanted to stay on as a temp and wasn't interested in coming on permanently. The HR manager said, "We'll, every once in a while the District Manager gets rid of all the temps." I politely told them that I had to think about it. This was on Friday. I thought they were joking. These bastards were serious. They tracked me down and made the same offer on Tuesday. My gut said, "Smile, lay down your time card, leave the building, say thank you and then leave very quickly." That's not what I did.
I accepted the job and my manager acted like she just one the lottery. I felt like I just got smacked hard across the face.
That regret just built. They started firing people like crazy all around me. The workload just got bigger and bigger. My resentment just got bigger and bigger. It was a disaster waiting to happen. And the worse thing? I knew it was a filthy, disgusting and horrible company to work for a long time beforehand.
I'll never work for a disgusting company like that ever again. I'll see to it that my wife, children and me all die of starvation before I'll ever take a job that sucks.
So relax. You won't have to fire me. I'll never allow myself to be abused. I currently have a job that pays $8.00 an hour. The amount of work I do is probably worth about $2.00 an hour. I'm not getting screwed. I've been there since July 2011 and it's working out perfect.
Nobody knows what I went through at that place except for people that have worked for that company. They would believe me and understand my situation but they don't dare talk to me. They don't won't their head taken off.
Try to be fair MaggieD. I'm not as bad as you are making me out to be.
Even if you sent it, it won't even get read. I've gotten mail at work from people I've fired before. Goes right in the trash.
No offense, but everyone's got a job to do, and firing people is part of some peoples jobs. Fun? No. But we all gotta eat. Remorse is bad enough when you have to look a person in the eye and tell them they are now unemployed...reminders aren't really needed.
If I may...this is two years old...what were the circumstances around your term?
I am not a history buff. Can you fill me in on this reference?