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'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

When Sy if fired he's told to "finish out the week".

I've never known that to be done.

When an employee is fired it is effective immediately. And with good reason. A company doesn't want to run the risk of having a fired employee hanging around.




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Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical


Finishing out the week is standard practice for being laid off. Not sure about being fired.
Perhaps manager Bill did this because the company knew they didn't have 'tangible proof' of Sy's wrongdoing, yet enough to fire him.
And wanted to avoid a fight with Sy.



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Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

Being laid off is different than being fired, but I've seen it happen to people who were laid off as well.

I can't see the motivation for someone finishing out the week if they've just been fired. They're probably (understandably) very angry at their boss and company. And it doesn't do the company any good for them to still be there either. In their anger who knows what they might do?

In my experience, they usually wait until the end of the day to tell a person they're being fired, so as to get a full day's work out of them. Firings rarely happen at the beginning of the day.



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I imagine it was a plot device, so we could see Sy's reaction to seeing the Yorkins one last time.
As to anger, Sy being there for the rest of the week wouldn't likely have anything to do with whether he'd throw a fit.
He could come back & do that.

In my experience, I've seen firings happen at the end of the day & at the middle.


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Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

I think they gave him time to finish off the week because he had been a long term employee. I saw that happen to a woman in a place I once worked at. Since she had been with the company for many years, they allowed her to stay on for one final month (to give her time to find another job) after it was announced she was terminated.

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Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

Every place I worked and your were fired. You we gone that second. There as not working the rest of the day or week. You don't want a person that was just fired doing something bad, do you?

When I worked in radio, it was a different world. They would have you work your air shift or finish up your production work. Once you were done, they would pull you into the office and fire you. If you put in your two week notice because you're leaving to work for another station in town. They tossed you out the door. If you were taking a job at another station in a different city. If they liked you, they would keep you for the two weeks pushing papers. If they didn't like you, out the door you went.

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

Yep. I've seen people walked out by HR and security immediately. Any personal items were mailed to them.

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Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical


I've never known that to be done.


It happens in the corporate world. I have personally had to do this (under instruction); in fact, the guy I fired was told to train his replacement before he left that week. I took him to the side and told him that I would never train my own replacement and then be fired. I also told him that I'd give him a good reference for another job. He left that day.

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Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

I worked at one company where if you were going to be fired, you were brought into the boss's office. It was usually on a Friday afternoon before a long weekend. While you were in your boss's office, human resources would come in and pack up your personal stuff and escort you out the door.

And then, when you're out the door, if you were like me, you'd write a nasty letter to EVERYONE in the company along with some of their biggest clients.

Is that so wrong?

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

Fired is one thing. Laid off is something else. I've been both.

Fired usually denoted that you did something you weren't supposed to do.

Being laid off (at least for me) resulted from a slowdown in production meaning fewer workers are needed. You weren't the only one being laid off. Also severance pay, sometimes substantial, is involved. Severance pay is usually given out on last day of your employment. If you decide to be an a*****e for remainder of your time, you might jeopardize pay and chances of being recalled should you desire to come back when things improve.

And so I was there until quitting time of my last scheduled day. Didn't work my last day but I was there.

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

At my current job, we had a situation like that a couple years ago. A guy in my department had been with the company on and off for nearly 20 years and was a good worker, but had fallen into the habit of being chronically late and sometimes never showed up at all. The boss eventually decided enough was enough and let him go, but allowed him to finish out that week (which if I remember correctly, he was only scheduled to work one more day that week at the time he was fired anyway). He didn't really make much of a fuss, though he tried to badmouth the rest of the people in the department, which our boss was having none of.

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical


When Sy if fired he's told to "finish out the week".

I've never known that to be done.


Agree. Where I work security escorts you out, your e-mail account is immediately frozen, you may be allowed to pick up personal belongings from your desk but again with security escort, etc. His former manager even told him not to come the store again to have his pictures developed, so obviously they recognized his potential for trouble. Like someone already said, a plot device, but not a very credible one.

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

This entire film was contrived and not believable. Even though I like Robin Williams a lot, this plot and writing were typical Hollywood BS. The "chilling" music when you see his collection of photos on the wall, OKAY, I GET IT, what a total piece of GARBAGE

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

It's Not Done Normally. I Do Know Personally When I Was 17 Working In A Restaurant The Owner Did ThiS. Twice!!! Once, He Fired A Delivery Driver At Lunch And The Driver Walked Out To His Car Loaded With Bags Of Food And Threw Them All OverThe Parking Lot !!! Then The Second Time He Fired The Cook At Lunch ,Witch Was Our busiest Time. The Cook Smashed Up The Bathroom Sink And Put Smashed porcelain Sink In Peoples Food !!! The Owner Was An *beep* I Ended Up Quitting !!! That's Why You Never Have SomEone Stay On After Being Fired. PEople Are Effing Crazy!!!!


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Yeah, that would never happen in a restaurant. You're fired, u go now, rite now. With the absolute psychos that work in most restaurants, you re just begging for trouble by letting a pizzed off freak hang around. Putting stuff in people's food would only be the beginning.

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

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Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

Exactly , there's usually a reason a middle aged man is bussing tables for pennies! And its not they love the work! There the small minority that have two jobs hard times etc. But the rest are .........................
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"You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week."

I've noticed that different companies have different policies so.....maybe at the SavMart (Not the photo lab which was just a branch of Savmart) it had a policy about someone finishing out their week (sometimes two) before being fired.

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The point of finishing out the week is so you can earn an additional paycheck. If you are working for a weekly paycheck, and you are fired at the beginning of a week or in the middle, finishing out the week means you can attain one final check the week after being fired, which gives you more time to search for another job with further income.

I've lost a couple jobs where the boss told me that I'm allowed to finish out the week after letting me go (like it was a priviledge that he was allowing me and that I should be grateful for it). Those couple times that it happened I didn't finish out the week though, being that I was extremely PO'ed.
So yeah, it is illogical and completely retarded, but it's a real thing that some companies do. Not just a plot device made up for the film.

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

Also someone who was terminated under the circumstances that Sy was would probably be escorted to his vehicle by security. That was one part that did not make sense to me. The Manager felt something was badly wrong with Sy that he did not even want him back in the store as a "customer" but let him stay on for the rest of the week.

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Good point about the manager trying to keep Sy out even as a customer.

But I truly think the reason that Sy was allowed to finish out the week was not Bill the manager's idea to begin with....likely it was Upper Management....but also it was purely to keep Sy calm.

Especially in the light of not only Sy's longtime employment there, but of the very mental state that they were concerned about: Perhaps it would keep Sy calm & avoid an argument.




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Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

Re: 'You're Fired. Now Finish Out the Week.' Completely Illogical

It's rare, but it does happen with "better" employees. At my last job, I got fired, and they said that if I wanted to continue to work there another three weeks to finish out the month. I despised the job, the place, the people, my boss, so I told them, "F@ck no," and walked out.




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