Would you ever work for a company that fired you?

I'm in this situation now. I was fired (not laid off, but plain out fired) back a few years ago by this one company. I work at their competitor and do really well - but of course my job moves off to Chicago without me.

So while job searching I get a call from this company. I let them know all of the circumstances but tell them I'm interested - and strangely enough they're still interested.

What would you do?

So I wouldn't be working for the people who fired me, but it's not a hugehugehuge company, so chances are I would still see them

ALthough I would be working out of a different office.

If they are ok, I dont see much of a problem.

but the only time I've ever been fired involved some really nasty office politics. As I have no reason to believe that the company owners have moved past the gullibility that allowed some of thier employees to manipulate them, I'd not want to work for them again. Anyhow, I really don't want to go back to that field.

I was doing a job that burned me out - and it showed in my work. Literally, I went from a top tech support rep to the worst.

Moral of the story: if you are getting burned out, leave!

that they won't do it again. I'd find out why they're interested in hiring someone that they saw fit to fire before.

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There was a round of layoffs at a company I worked at and I was one of the laid off ones. Yet they wanted to keep me around on a contract basis. Basically they wanted to fire me, and then hire me on a contract to which they could essentially fire me at any time.

I took it. After some back and forth I got them to agree on 2 months additional severance from the job (adding up to 3 months severance plus 1 and 1/2 months payout of vacation time) and then pay me 50% more than I had been making on the contract itself.

I finished the project I was on a month later and left with almost 6 months of extra pay. During that month I job hunted, found another job, and started it the week after I left.