[vandal_at_your]

Worked for them in the Herndon DC. Forget the name of their lovecraftian ticketing/control interface (which was always breaking) but it was hands down the worst interface I've ever worked with. Their remote SA team was not very good either. The supply/parts folks serving DC techs earned bonuses on having bad parts recycled into production and the parts delivery was not managed properly. One xmas I saw the same motherboard 5 times after returning it as defective each time. I resigned and was then fired. Only place that ever happened. Was so happy to leave I didn't care but it has come back to haunt me once or twice.

[jasongill]

You quit and then you were fired? How did they manage to do that - Virginia is a right to work state, you can quit any time. They can't fire you for.... quitting first?

[peterangular]

Eh - this has happened to me. Literally word-for-word: "You can't quit! You're fired!"

I know it seems like it could be right out of a Simpsons episode or w/e but managers can have some pretty backwards egos. The same manager tried telling my colleagues that I had been fired and like 2-3 people were like, "Nope - actually he quit. Thanks for screwing us out of 2 weeks of project hand-off..."

[breu]

The 4 letter word you are looking for is “core”