Did Peter deserve to be fired from his job?

[Neutronman67]

Their is an episode i think it's from the 4th season and peter wants to desperately find a part time job after school, so he gets the job at a bicycle shop he is doing an ok job but the manager wants to fire him because he is working too slow so he fires peter for no reason, do you think peter deserved to be fired from the bike shop ???

[*ROGER*]

Peter wasn't fired for no reason. He was fired because he worked too slow and he made too many mistakes. He was costing the owner money. He needed to be fired.

[rcbrad]

Mr. Martinelli spoke to Peter about his work habits. Peter was unable to live up to the bike shop owners expectations, so Peter was dismissed. It was not an unjust firing.

Come to think of it, Peter was fired a year later by his own Sister, when he was working at Haskles Ice Cream Hut, for poor work habits.

[robyrob]

peter was a hack - i wouldn't have been surprised if one of those bikes he was working on spontaneously burst into flames.

[Neutronman67]

I think peter was working too slow on purpose just to pass the time at his boring job lol

[biffbronson]

After the firing, they should have had a scene with Pete cussing his boss out in Italian (lol). Jay Novello always played a character of Italian or Spanish background.

[Hughsgirl]

Originally Posted by Neutronman67

I think peter was working too slow on purpose just to pass the time at his boring job lol

Judging from your comment, I wouldn't be a bit surprised that you have the same poor work habits.

[Coffeecup]

When he worked with Marcia at the ice cream parlor, I truely felt he deserved to be let go. He didn't try to do the job. Marcia had to holler at him to not sit at tables, talk on the phone, etc.
The bike shop, I know that feeling, Many jobs I had I would hear, You're a nice girl, but you're not working out. I was crushed. Peter at least tried with Mr Martinelli, but as I know, if you aren't doing a good job, goodbye. Yeah I would feel like a failure. Peter looked sad being fired but as least he didn't cry like me.

[Jack1000]

Originally Posted by Coffeecup

When he worked with Marcia at the ice cream parlor, I truely felt he deserved to be let go. He didn't try to do the job. Marcia had to holler at him to not sit at tables, talk on the phone, etc.
The bike shop, I know that feeling, Many jobs I had I would hear, You're a nice girl, but you're not working out. I was crushed. Peter at least tried with Mr Martinelli, but as I know, if you aren't doing a good job, goodbye. Yeah I would feel like a failure. Peter looked sad being fired but as least he didn't cry like me.

However,

In Mr. Martinelli's defense, he was very gentle and sympathetic because as he said, Peter was kind to people, looked busy, never goofed off and tried. However, he didn't have the mechanical aptitude needed to repair bikes. Mr. Martnelli had no choice but to fire Peter.

Now at the Ice Cream Shop, Peter WAS a jerk. But he KNEW that. He was just trying to get away with anything, thinking that Marcia would let him do what he wanted. Than he goes home and lies telling Bobby he did everything well and for no reason, she fired him!

A huge continuity problem is that Carol says that Peter took advantage of Marcia because she's "your relative." Step-families have no blood lines making them related to other step-families. In fact, the only time in Brady Bunch that there is any reference to Carol and Mike's Children as being from Step Families is in "Every Boy Does it Once." (Bobby thinks of leaving home feeling unloved after watching Cinderella, and a series of miscommunications make him feel unwanted.)

Sherwood really did not want audiences to identify with the Brady kids as step children. After the marriage, the stories were formed through the family's love and care for each other, they would have a nuclear family "feel." Showing that parents and kids from step-families could bond and love each other as if they had always been nuclear.

Jack

[Tweety]

Originally Posted by Jack1000

However,

In Mr. Martinelli's defense, he was very gentle and sympathetic because as he said, Peter was kind to people, looked busy, never goofed off and tried. However, he didn't have the mechanical aptitude needed to repair bikes. Mr. Martnelli had no choice but to fire Peter.

Now at the Ice Cream Shop, Peter WAS a jerk. But he KNEW that. He was just trying to get away with anything, thinking that Marcia would let him do what he wanted. Than he goes home and lies telling Bobby he did everything well and for no reason, she fired him!

A huge continuity problem is that Carol says that Peter took advantage of Marcia because she's "your relative." Step-families have no blood lines making them related to other step-families. In fact, the only time in Brady Bunch that there is any reference to Carol and Mike's Children as being from Step Families is in "Every Boy Does it Once." (Bobby thinks of leaving home feeling unloved after watching Cinderella, and a series of miscommunications make him feel unwanted.)

Sherwood really did not want audiences to identify with the Brady kids as step children. After the marriage, the stories were formed through the family's love and care for each other, they would have a nuclear family "feel." Showing that parents and kids from step-families could bond and love each other as if they had always been nuclear.

Jack

I agree, Peter deserved to be let go...not because he goofed off (in fact, he didn't)...but because he wasn't mechanically inclined, and was too slow to meet demand.

And true, after the first few episodes, there weren't really any references to the Bradys not being a nuclear family.

In fact, in the episode where Greg is singing in his room ("Clowns never laughed before"), doesn't Carol make some comment about Greg getting his talent from "her side of the family"?

Also, in the later movies, they acted as though Mike and Carol were both the grandparents of the Brady siblings' kids (in reality, they were not. Greg's son is Mike's grandson, not Carol's, for example)

[Neutronman67]

I dont think Peter deserved to be let go from the bicycle repair job, i think the only reason peter was slacking off in the job and daydreaming was because he did not take the job as a working job but mostly a job where he can relax and take his time to think about things, now peter was smart he took advantage of his manager if peter was moving and working faster the manager would have kept him as an employee and maybe up his raise, then again peter was not even old enough to work he was just a kid at 14 or 15 lol.

[Schmoopie]

I think the firing was fair, but his boss didn't do it in a hurtful way. True, there's no easy way to fire someone but Peter worked hard when he was at the bicycle shop and he seemed to want to succeed. I have had jobs like that where I just didn't fit. Fixing bicycles is hard work (or it looks like it would be), but his hard work was admirable. I'm glad his parents understood.

[stevea]

At the bike shop Peter was trying (he was very trying!). Martinelli gave him several chances to improve, IIRC. I don't think he gave Peter a warning he'd HAVE to improve or lose his job, though.

At the ice cream parlor (mentioned by other posters) he was a total jerk and really deserved to be fired. He did anything to avoid work. It was kind of uncharacteristic of him, I think--but teen-agers are unpredictable.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by robyrob

peter was a hack - i wouldn't have been surprised if one of those bikes he was working on spontaneously burst into flames.

[magellan333]

I think Mr. Martinelli should have at least performed the repair and let Peter observe how the job should be laid out and completed. Peter was just left to his own devices with little instruction.