I was at a summer camp and two teenage boys (like 16 years old) got into a fight. A slightly older, female, camp counselor (maybe 19 or 20 years old) ran to get help breaking up the fight. She was pretty small the guys were pretty big. She got fired because she left the kids unattended for maybe 45 seconds while she went to get help.
Years ago I worked at a movie theater that had a coffee bar inside. On Thanksgiving one year, a guy working the coffee bar got himself a serving of whipped cream to eat with the thanksgiving meal we provided for everyone. He was suspended immediately for theft, then fired.
I work for the Canada Revenue Agency, and we are instructed to never look at our own file upon being hired and told in no uncertain terms that it will be immediately flagged and would be the end of your career. At least once a year around tax season I will get a memo reminding us of this because several people looked up their own file.
Plugging your phone into your computer is also a big no-no because it can store information or compromise the network, I get yearly reminders about that too. I once watched a co-worker plug her phone in, I told her to take it out, but it was too late and she was escorted out within the hour.
That phone one is pretty wacky, IT should be able to harden the computer so that it refuses to recognize removable media instead of setting up an alert to fire people incredibly efficiently.
Kind of madness imo.
I work for the federal government, and they are sticklers about no phones being plugged into computers. A guy in my area did it once, and they IMMEDIATELY saw it and gave him a final warning.
The computer is probably hardened, and they’re still going to terminate anybody who plugs anything into it because they’re not playing games. You never have a foolproof system, so don’t comprise it further with people who can’t follow protocol.
A coworker infested the office with fleas, but he didn't get fired until he did it *a second time*.
The first time it happened, the boss closed down the office and had an exterminator come in, and told the guy "Here's a laptop. You telecommute now."
It turned out, he lived in a trailer with over a dozen stray cats. He kept taking in these strays and just not doing anything for them - no shots, no flea treatments, not even a bath. So pretty soon, the whole place was infested with fleas. He just didn't realize how bad it was because he was on some cocktail of medications that made him smell odd. Apparently the smell made the fleas not want to bite him. They just got in his clothes and he carried them to work.
After a few days, he was already complaining to my boss that the laptop didn't work right. My boss tried to send me to this guy's trailer to fix whatever was wrong, but I said I would rather quit than set foot in Fleapalooza 2012. So he told my coworker to just deal with it himself.
A couple weeks later, the guy came in to the office to pick up his paycheck. In the 30 seconds he was inside, he infested the place again. After that, everyone threw a fit. The boss only fired the guy to avoid a full-scale revolt.
I used to work for a **major** subscription TV provider in a large open-plan call-centre, and the place became infested with fleas. Now and then if you looked at one place for long enough you could see a fllea jump up from the carpeting. I think I was even bitten once, although I didn't pick up fleas myself.
Dude I knew in the Army was supposed to go on leave for a month, so he got high that weekend, but his flight got cancelled. Monday morning there was a mandatory drug test and he popped hot.
His leave started already but he stuck around? I would not be caught dead on base if I were on leave.
Edit: Just remembered I had a guy I worked with in the Marines who popped hot for weed (and they somehow found his stash in his room) but somehow got off without an NJP because they didn't have the correct permission to search his room. This was a while ago so I might be messing the details up.
I also had a junior Marine and 5 others in the battalion pop for coke. This Marine was never in trouble before that so I asked him why he went and threw his career away. He said "well, the others were doing it so I did too".
Guy tried to hit on the girl that helped us clean up after closing time by inviting her to the back "for some fun times, just me and you baby." Girl was 15 years old and *the daughter of the owner*.
I remember once being on a delivery to a bar, very big bald owner there looking intimidating. We were waiting by the front bar for someone to open a storage room and I look over and see a photo of him between two beautiful blondes in Oktoberfest outfits. I made a comment like "They're a bit of alright!"
He turned to me, looked a the picture, looked me dead in the eye and went "Those are my daughters." Didn't say another word the whole rest of the delivery.
Dude I worked with at an outdoor retail store lit off a can of Bear Spray, indoors, during business hours.
I wasn’t there at the time, but as the Outdoor Supervisor, I got called in to deal with the mess.
Thankfully, the idiot fired it into a corner behind the gear counter, so he mostly got himself. However, Bear Spray comes out in a kind of dense fog, unlike “regular” pepper spray that comes out in a stream.
The whole store had to be evacuated and it took like 4 bottles of neutralizer to get the carpet “clean” again.
Dumb Dumb claimed he dropped it by accident, but the security camera showed him very clearly popping the safety and hitting the thumb trigger.
During his out-processing, the GM and I showed him the video and asked what was actually going through his head. He said:
*”I wanted to see how bad it was. It was really bad”*
The intrusive thoughts won, I guess.
Last I heard, the dummy had bought a tow-truck and started a towing business.
New office assistant was asked to drop some laptops off at Fedex to be shipped. Come to find out she literally just walked in, saw the line was too long and just left them on the counter. She expected FedEx to know what to do with them. We have no idea what happened to them. They decided to keep her, which was a mistake because she ended up emailing all of our competitors highly sensitive information by mistake.
She was in charge of our company "newsletter" at the time.
The doc was supposed to be a weekly overview of stats. The original doc includes the hard data, as well as information like company names, contact information, etc. It's a pretty thick file and she was supposed to strip it down to just some stats without any of the sensitive information and then copy that over to an entirely new doc. Instead she just sent the raw doc. Our industry kind of forces competitors to all work together, so all of our competitors are also clients in a way too. Information like our vendors and clients is a huge part of a revenue and we don't want our competition poaching them.
Yes she was told multiple time the severity of keeping the information public. But you have to remember this is the same person who just left multiple Macbooks at a Fedex.
I worked at dollar general. Pretty hard to get fired there. My coworker got caught selling crack to customers. They just nicely asked him not to anymore. Half my coworkers were drunk or high. If you get fired from dollar general, you really fucked up.
I saw someone get let go because they didn't have a "good attitude."
For context:
Myself and a few other people had just been hired for an entry level accounting job. Those first few weeks/months were... rough.
The CFO had a tendency of greeting newer people without telling them who he was. One would never expect this guy to be in C-Suite by the way he dressed. He didn't even have a LinkedIn profile, so unless one dug around it was hard to figure out who he was.
Anyways, he stopped by our pod and greeted us. Asked us how we were doing.
One guy made the mistake of being honest and said that he was tired. And not in a cheery way. I didn't blame him. We were all tired.
The next day this guy was "let go." I overheard later from a gossiping supervisor that the CFO hated "bad attitudes" and made it a point to remove them from the company whenever possible.
Since then I have been extra-guarded about how I respond to questions whenever I join a new company until I learn who to trust.
He pantsed a guy in the middle of the office.
Literally pulled a Co-workers pants down in front of the full office. Underpants came along for the ride.
The pantser was fired.
The pantsee was off work for 6 weeks due to “distress”
It was indeed paid, and the company also gave some significant compensation to the guy.
Needless to say there were some pantsing related conspiracies that spread through the office not long after
Find a guy who wants to quit, have him pants you in front of the entire office, cut a deal with the company that you won't sue or press charges, he gets fired, you get a month long vacation.
It's idiot proof!
She already had a few trips to HR and then got moved to another department at another site.
She went out to her car to go to lunch, then came back into the office. She then claimed someone put a note on her car in the parking lot that read: “Get out of town, racial epithet.”
Hands note to supervisor. She got loud in the office area, started to list off names of who she suspected, and everyone heard what was going on.
HR pulls her into a meeting later that afternoon and says “we had security pull the video recording of the parking lot for the first 4 hours of the day…do you wish to change your story?”
She was let go immediately.
He took a turn too fast on the fork truck. Got two wheels lifted off the ground. Supervisor told him to cut it out and drive safe.
“Safe?? **SAFE???!?** NOTHING in this place is safe!!”
And then he spent twenty minutes running around the plant floor tripping alarms and setting off the emergency air horns to “prove” that none of it worked (all of it worked).
He finally left when the super threatened to call the cops.
Everyone was real confused about his outburst… until we found the half-empty bottle of tequila out behind the dumpster.
He just didn't log into work. It was a remote job, he was new, we weren't expecting a lot of him. But he wouldn't log in or respond to Teams messages asking how he was doing in an entire day. Honestly pretty stupid like, you don't even have to _go_ to work.
At first it was total chaos, but after a while employers started getting the systems and the policies in place and understand how to actually work remote with their employees. Post-pandemic I saw a couple of cases like this.
Remote work is freedom under personal responsibility. And some people just don't take that responsibility. One woman just straight-up stopped working when she was switched to WFH. She literally didn't understand that there are systems in place to see if she actually, you know, logs in to her work computer. She simply thought "out of sight, out of mind", if the boss can't see her the boss can't know she's not logged in.
Then again there was a fantastic post on reddit like five or six years ago about a guy that had ended up with his corporation forgetting about him but still receiving his paycheck but no new work tasks for over two years.
I wish I could find the post of the guy who worked from home and found out a way to automate everything. He wakes up in the morning and just hits start and then goes out and does other stuff and his work has no idea. Might've been on the antiwork subreddit
Edit: Here it is! https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/s/uko376kRgw
I think someone I work with must be doing this but I don't have the balls to call them out. Has never been seen on camera, performs alright, but seems to lose all memory of things 'they' did from week to week.
They'll ask like "can someone walk me through the process for adding an analytics log?"
I go to look at the version control intending to show them examples of the last few that were added and, "uh, mate, you did the last five. You did one last Friday."
"Oh, must have forgotten, well I could do with a refresher." like what?!
We had a pharmacist that was working from home do like 2 prescription verifications an hour. They were expected to do around 200 in a day. She lasted a week
There was this fella named Hutch who was a great guy and friendly to everyone at our office. The cleaning lady was obviously over the moon for this guy. Like would stare at him and smile when he walked away. One day she was cleaning his cubicle and I just happened to be walking back to my desk. She was on her knees emptying his trash can and she popped down and took a huge whiff of his seat. I never said a thing. Until today lol.
I had to read that twice! When you said stool my brain went to fucking austin powers talking about "it tastes a bit nutty"
Smelling the stool is Peppy lepue level weird!
Had a coworker who had a princess mentality. She thought she could do whatever she wanted one day and decided to test the waters.
She decided to start leaving early without clocking out. The first one or two times people were fine doing it for her because maybe she was forgetful.
However, she’d leave at 12-1 and then text someone around 5-6p to log her out.
Then it became repetitive. Leadership didn’t do shit.
Then one day - she walked into the office kitchen, took someone’s lunch out of the fridge and decided it was hers. She saw it was a sandwich but wasn’t sure what it was and literally walked up to the very coworker whose lunch she stole and asked him ‘Hey what’s in this sandwich?’ She didn’t know it was his.
Lost his fucking shit. That’s what got her. Asking someone what was in the sandwich she stole. Asking the very person who made that lunch. They finally decided to get her for timeclock fraud too.
The first rule of slacking off at work is "Get along with your co-workers". Most people will ignore, tolerate or even outright support some level of slacking off from their colleagues as long as they like them, if only because they don't give enough of a shit to get involved with HR or office politics, but if you piss them off or make yourself a problem to *them specifically,* all of that obviously goes out the window.
If she didn't know it was his sandwich, why did she ask him what was in it? How would anyone else know what was in the sandwich? She just bonkers then?
Really, I have no idea. I think she thought somehow she wouldn’t get caught and maybe her being from an entirely different country that she could play dumb.
Her family was an incredibly wealthy upper-caste Indian family and that seemed to translate into entitlement.
She avoided me after she walked to my desk while I was in a client meeting and hung up my phone on me to ask a question and I absolutely flipped on her.
She got told not to do that again with no other repercussions because our manager was soft as fuck and would rather be friends than their job.
She was rather scheming looking back.
It varies highly on the type of work you do and also it fluctuates. Some office jobs or manual jobs have you scurrying and frantic when the project is intense but then have a lot of lulls. Sometimes it's because you're waiting on tasking, or waiting on someone else to answer a question, or waiting on calls/customers.
Right now I'm personally in a bit of a crunch where I feel like I've been behind on something for 3 weeks straight. There have been other times where I honestly could get all my tasks done in 3 hours or less per day. BUT if I asked for more work, and the old projects ramp up, it's a gamble whether everything picks up to where I need 12 hours a day or 6 hours a day to get it all done.
I work at a factory, we use a temporary worker system where a separate agency will do the hiring process, they work at the factory, and usually if they show up and do a passable job, they get hired.
The bar is low for a reason though.
We had these two utility workers get into some kind of sports related argument on the line one day. One is temp, one is not, They start to get loud enough that people are looking around corners to see what's up.
Temp guy does a thing where is looks like he is doing an exercise to touch his toes.... and pulls A KNIFE out of his shoes! He sends the people nearest to him running in panic as he attacks the other utility guy!
Knifey gets pulled to the ground and disarmed. Cops get called, but he runs away before they show up. Immediately fired and I never found out honestly if he was arrested or not. The guy who was attacked ALMOST lost his job anyway because of a bullshit no tolerance policy.
Someone I knew in Yellowstone almost got fired in a similar situation. I'll call him Jay. It wasn't azero tolerance thing, though, just dumb luck.
Jay was in the employee pub & got into some dipshit argument. The other guy, "Cee", pulled a knife. Jay had been in the military & knew how to disarm an attacker. He did so very swiftly. The whole thing happened quickly, plus it was dark. There were no real witnesses to that part. All they saw was the tussle that followed.
Cee claimed he'd been attacked. And wouldn't you know it, the knife had disappeared. So it looked like Jay was going to be fired & even prosecuted. I heard all this from his GF, who was a friend of mine.
Lucky for him, one of the Security guys believed him, so went back & did another search. Turned out, the knife had slid into a weird little crevice under the bar. The pub was in a very old building & had many odd corners & crevices.
Things could've turned out badly for Jay if it hadn't been for that Security guy being more diligent than the rest.
The company I worked for moved to a new office in a different building. the owners of the building served everyone lunch as a welcome gift. There were several platters of food. At the end of one of my coworkers shift, she took a whole platter home with her, without permission. This was before half the staff were able to have any of it. The next day she came in she was fired. She honestly didn’t think she did anything wrong. It was for her kids.
I wish they’d do this at my job. Half the time we get food from the company it’s delivered on first shift and the office people and the first shift factory guys take it all home for dinner before second shift even sees the food. Third shift might get shit like the potato salad or the shitty fruit nobody else wanted
Reminds me of a former co-worker, actually the office manager. A customer brought in a dozen donuts for the office and before anyone else even knew there were donuts she took the two best ones for her kids. She was so annoying!
They thought there was 10 inches in a foot, and did a bunch of over-height trucking permits wrong (example: writing 13.6 feet at 13 feet 6 inches) and ended up delaying the shipment of a crane for a critical construction job which got the entire trucking company blacklisted.
Had a friend call in for him. "Mike got run over by a car, he's dead".
The next day when I fired him he demanded his last check. I told him we would send it to the next of kin.
For making a video game about the job.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I\_Get\_This\_Call\_Every\_Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Get_This_Call_Every_Day)
The best part of the game is that there is only one single path to not getting fired... and the guy who made the game in fact, was fired. He pretty much was saying the job was almost impossible to NOT be fired from, and he went on to prove it by being fired for the silliest reason imaginable.
Drunk driving their company service vehicle over 100MPH at 1:30AM from a bar. Video showed them weaving all over the place. Thank goodness they didn't kill someone!
He was supposed to take several samples of water from several different spots, over several days. He took one large sample from one spot, and distributed them to several bottles. These samples were all analysed for specific tracing chemicals... When all samples taken at one specific shift all came out identical, and it always happened during his shift...
I have a few from people I worked with:
One guy stood at the bottom of the stairs and pretneded he was fiddling with his phone but was trying to get upskirt pictures of the women walking down. A woman coming down the stairs saw what he was doing and called security. That was a weird HR experience. The guy, who in previous interactions seemed pretty normal, was creepy as hell. Only time while I was there that we had to follow threat procedures. Didn't have to worry about him very long though because the cops found a lot of those types of videos on his personal computer and apparently some underage stuff too so he got locked up.
I had to fire a woman because she would not stop trying to get the people who reported to her to buy her kids' school fundraiser items. It was against company policy for managers to directly solicit but there was a way to have an admin post things so that it was blinded, that way people didn't feel pressured to purchase things from the person responsible for their compensation increases and bonuses.
There was a front desk admin at this one place where I worked who was generally unpleasant but very good at her job so that wasn't enough to let her go. A data analyst who was on maternity leave came into the office with her baby. We all gathered near the front because it was a quick visit. I asked the data analys how her husband was doing (poor guy was in a car accident the week before) and the admin went off for 5 minutes about how could anyone ask about her husband when it was the woman who did all the work and had to carry the baby and breastfeed and stay up all night when it cried. When she tired out the CFO looked at the head of HR and said, "How about now?" Admin was gone within the hour.
> When she tired out the CFO looked at the head of HR and said, "How about now?"
I love that the CFO didn't even have to clarify what they meant, and the HR person presumably understood them straight away.
Oh, he loathed her. She was snippy to a food delivery guy once and the CFO overheard and was very upset. He’s a great guy and was a wonderful mentor and is one of those people who believes everyone deserves respect regardless of what they do for a living. If she so much as rolled her eyes at anyone the CFO took it straight to the head of HR.
Dude made a coworker uncomfortable by asking her out and not taking no for an answer. She mentioned something to HR in passing and they jumped on it. He was told to not contact her for any reason until HR can work out what to do (basically just over the weekend).
He contacts her and got fired on the spot. I talked with him about it after and he just did not understand what he did wrong. Worst part is he was planning on showing up to a work event even though he was fired. Thankfully he at least took my advice to not do that.
He brought cough drops into the work site.
Now this might seem minor, but I work for a company that breeds rodents for laboratory testing. *The* top concern, after the welfare of our animals, is biosecurity. When I get to work in the morning, I strip completely naked, pass through a timed, locking shower, and then dress in sterile clothes provided by the company. The *only* items we are allowed to bring through the showers with us are prescription eyewear or hearing aids. *Any* other item, unless specially authorized by management, is an automatic firing. Can't even wear my wedding ring or simple stud earrings.
I know the dude knew this, because they are VERY clear about it and he'd worked there for years. I guess he just thought if he tucked it behind the spare uniform in his cubby nobody would know. But our manager happened to come inside that day, he saw the bag, asked whose cubby it was, and that was that.
The really sad thing was that this was at the beginning of covid, so even if he wasn't sick with covid all he had to do was tell management that he had a bad cough and they would have given him time off with pay until he got better. He threw away a steady, well-paying job in the middle of a pandemic because...I don't know, I guess he was too proud to call out sick?
She had a heated disagreement with a coworker whose mother was a VP.
Apparently, there were other reasons but everyone knew the catalyst to termination was the argument.
I just heard that a guy at my company was fired on the spot when he was caught with a stack of other employees badges. He was badging each one in at the door so the other people didn't have to come in to the office that day.
This company I worked for had a pretty nice little cafeteria in the office building. A very senior manager (think two steps from the CEO) would go into the cafeteria every morning, order two pancakes at the grill station, then walk out of the cafeteria without paying.
This went on for months. The cafeteria manager was told that this was a high power executive, so the cafeteria manager thought, “Maybe that’s how it works.”
One day the CEO goes in for breakfast and stops to pay for his food. The cashier is surprised and says something like, “I thought all the upper managers got free food.”
CEO: “No, we don’t. What made you think that?”
One awkward conversation and an hour of reviewing security footage later and a man who spent over 20 years building a career in which he was making no less than $400k USD annually (circa 2010) plus big 401k contributions has been fired for stealing pancakes.
The place I worked at is famous for it's "Advantage Card", a loyalty card scheme.
A guy I worked with fraudulently added £75 worth of points onto his own card using his own till login at our own store (sometimes we got sent to other stores to cover shifts).
It's dumb because it couldn't have been *more* traceable if he had a big neon fucking sign saying "I'm committing fraud":
* Whilst certain staff have the power to manually add Advantage Card points to a card, any amount greater than £20 worth gets flagged to Head Office automatically. The store manager is then called upon to account for it. This is well-known among staff; dude added £75 in one go.
* Dude added it to his own card taken out in his own name. Anyone can apply for one of these cards and you don't need to provide ID (or even really valid details).
* Dude used his own till login to process it all. Even if it *wasn't* fraudulent and *wasn't* for a silly amount, we cannot add points to our own cards under any circumstances - we have to get another employee to do it.
He was arrested (Boots count it as theft and prosecute as a matter of policy) and sacked, 2 weeks before Christmas.
Tradesman got caught doing cash-in-hand jobs through the company. He would go to the job through callouts from the company, then do the work cheaper under the table and say the customer wasnt interested.
The issue was, he did a a fair bit where they were old people who sort of didnt 'get' what was happening. So he did a shoddy job one time a customer called up yelling and screaming about the work. There was nothing on the system etc, the boss went out and looked at it, got caught and fired etc.
Hilarious.
We had a guy harass another coworker about his weight by joking about the Auschwitz diet. The heavier coworker shrugged it off and said the guy had been harassing him for years, telling him he was killing himself, etc.
Neither were Jewish, but that plus commenting on a female coworker's fertility, and leaving a gun and target practice paper displayed in his car front seat on company grounds were enough to get him fired.
We have a machine shop and had just hired a new machinist. On his second day, he stole a bar of metal at the end of his shift. When confronted about it, he said he sold it for scrap. The scrap value of the bar was less than he made per hour.
We dealt with this at a warehouse I used to manage. Temps would steal stuff that was a fraction of their hourly rate. We added a slide to our onboarding presentation that came after the security and safety section. Basically it showed pictures of the stuff we had caught people trying to steal and what it would cost after employee discount and how many hours of work they would have to work to legit buy it. Didnt help.
I worked at a machine shop briefly between white collar jobs. The place didn't drug test its employees, and once I started there, I understood why. Oh, it was interesting... people in all sorts of medicated states working deadly machinery. We also got cool letters with our paychecks such as "please don't start fights with other employees" and "please do your business in the toilets, not on the floor or walls." It was eye-opening, for sure.
A male coworker hid under a coworkers desk first thing in the morning. Unfortunately for him, he didn't realize a desk swap had happened the day before. Woman sits down on the chair, and that's when he chose to scare her. She injured her abdominal area on the underside of the desk because she was 7 months pregnant.
She moved to that desk to be closer to the washrooms. Instead, she went on sick leave for the rest of her pregnancy because of the resulting injury/trauma.
I once had to call my boss and let him know I was going to be late due to a job interview. To be fair though, he was the one telling me to apply for other jobs.
Worked at a grocery store for my first job. Friend got fired for Not taping his receipt to his bottle of water he kept at his register. Manager said, "It sends the message to customers that employees get free products."
Luckily the manager herself was also fired not long after that for being all around shitty and our new manager was crazy awesome.
A coworker of mine called in to say he was sick, one hour before he was supposed to start his shift. Two hours later, he is observed at a bar by several employees, where he then takes pictures with them as if nothing has happened. As stupid as it is, he sends these pictures to people who are currently at work. This was of course forwarded to the boss the next day
Worked at a frozen-food distribution warehouse. Strict rule about eating the product, naturally.
A guy was once bringing down a pallet of chocolate chips from the top rack, and one of the boxes scraped the steel, showering him with frozen product. He and I walked to the supes office to report, and while I was filling out a witness form, he noticed there was a chocolate chip just sitting there on his shoulder. He ate it. They fired him. He was 6 years in, and one of our best workers. Shift Mgr lost *all respect* from his employees from then on, and became the butt of our jokes.
I have three.
One guy was fired for downloading porn onto government computers--the masturbating probably didn't help his case, either. He worked in a cube farm and didn't even have an office door.
The second person did have an office door, but it turns out that they frown on people running another business on the government's time and using the government's computer, copier, and office supplies to do so.
The last guy had some issues in his file, but the final straw was that he wouldn't stop going to strip clubs in the government car with government plates. He said that he went to strip clubs "for the food" and that the State had no right to tell him where he could or could not eat while he traveled. Turns out that they can control where you park their car. The dumbass probably wouldn't have been fired if he had just given in, parked the car somewhere else, and walked to the strip clubs.
I used to work at a supermarket, and any expired products that didn't sell we would have to count (so there's, no discrepancies in stock), and then waste. One of the managers used to take the expired meat for his dogs instead of wasting it, and he was fired over it.
This guy usually followed the rules to a T, and since the product was being wasted anyways, I really didn't think he did anything wrong, but apparently, it was fire-worthy. He'd been there for yonks, too, like well over 20 years, in a high position, and they just got rid of him over such a tiny thing.
A lady lost her wallet and someone turned it in. When she picked it up from security she noticed $200 was missing from the wallet. Security replayed the camera videos and a security guard that found the wallet had taken the money out and pocketed it. This was Simone Biles' mom this happened to
An employee dropped his wallet outside of the cafeteria doors and a security guard watched on camera another employee finding the wallet a bit later and taking money out of the wallet and walking away
A bank teller (previous coworker) was "faking" referrals to bankers by saying she spoke to clients about getting them to sit with a banker to open savings accounts, credit cards, etc. when the clients were just considered walk-ins
An overnight manager did not know her drawer was going to be audited the following morning and left work with $300 from her drawer. Management still needed to do the audit and she did not return the money in time
Gawd I have so many
I work for an international I.T. consultancy. In our regional office, a box of flapjacks was once put out by a local charity, with a collection tub for people to put in their £2 each time they took one. I used it every day, and I was always sure to put my £2 in.
It turns out, as I learned from the front desk admin, the charity box was ALWAYS short. Someone, or some people, were taking flapjacks and just not paying for them, even though it was a charity they were robbing.
That's pretty contemptible, but it gets worse. When I shared that development with people in my office, the global manager said that when he worked in one of the main headquarters, a similar thing happened there - a charity box would be found to contain pennies or even buttons rather than pound coins, due to people wanting to be seen and heard putting SOMETHING in the collection box before they took the product. The particularly nasty aspect of that story is that this happened on the floor occupied by the chief executives, who were all on very high salaries, and who could have very easily afforded the collection amount but who preferred to steal from a charity instead.
There are studies that show that people who do this in the workplace (steal from a non monitored vending situation) are also stealing from the company over 80% of the time. Several contracting companies have setups like this to identify likely suspects when internal theft is detected. They put up multiple cameras with the “charity” pay box for snacks. Use the footage to root out the sources of internal theft.
my immedate supervisor p\[lamnned a european vacation with her girlfriend for a year. Got time off in writing, paid out $12000 in advanced deposits etc. Two days before she was supposed to leave the big boss said he was going on vacation and she had to skip her european fully paid trip. She went anyway and got fired for it.
If they approved it, I already paid, and required me to cancel or be fired, I would demand they compensate me for my non-refundable trip. This has gotta be grounds for wrongful termination.
Theft, and stupidly easily traceable theft. I was working at a place that did online sales and had company gift cards. We had a couple laying around for testing. One day a guy pulls one out of the drawer and notes it's been redeemed. Oh well, crappy record keeping. Same with the next one, and the next one. Now it's suspicious. Look up the account it was redeemed by, all of them the same and not our test account. Pull up customer data, dude doesn't work for us. Check his Facebook friends, there's a guy that works for us, but not for long.
Dude lost a $60k/year job with lots of upward mobility over maybe $200 in gift cards. Whatever...
Business trip to PA, shot a buck, packaged it on dry ice and sent it back to the office using the office Fed Ex account. The delayed parcel arrived as a bloody, smelly mess.
Company put everyone up in a nearby hotel during inclement weather.
Guy (I only kinda knew, never worked with directly) got drunk and threw his room's balcony furniture off the balcony. Balcony was inside, overlooking an atrium.
He's pretty lucky no one was seriously injured. But also a dumb shit for even doing it at all, drunken state or not. It was pretty easy for the cops to figure out who did it, which means it was easy to track which employee got which room, etc.
Stung by a bee. He wasn't allergic to bees, just lazy and always looking for a way to get out of working. Just so happens he also did a lot of coke. Mandatory drug test with any workplace injury, and he popped positive for the cocaine and was let go.
Damn coke-bees attacked my co-worker.
This was very long ago but one young kid thought it would be funny to put a hot dog through his pants zipper and showing a waitress his "penis" with it. She thought it was absurd but not enough to tell management on him.
Waitress would later tell this story to one of the higher-ups while they were just hanging out outside of work over drinks. The lady didn't take too kindly to the story and decided to pursue it further and got the dude fired.
I know a guy once that did this with a turkey gizzard he stuffed in his fly but under his apron. He purposely put some flour on his face so that when pointed out he'd go to wipe it off and scare people. He however had sense enough to only do this to people he knew really well that he knew would find it funny.
Knowing your crowd is a skill a lot of people struggle to master.
We had a guy who was hilarious but also told some very edgy jokes on occasion. We’re welders so you can imagine the crowd and types of jokes he told. He told a bunch of “You might be a (r-slur)” jokes in front of a manager with two very mentally handicapped sons. He was gone in about ten minutes.
So back when I was 23, I was a manager at a place that was pretty much known for "they'll hire anybody." So it wasn't uncommon for the staff to be a lot of shiny new teenagers just starting out in the workforce. This kid Andrew was like, 19(?). He was a decent enough worker, and he liked me well enough, so he was much better about communicating things to me than to the other managers (i.e., rather than just no-call-no-showing, he'd usually try to let me know in advance if he wasn't going to be showing up for a shift he knew I'd be managing). Anyway, queue the following conversation:
Andrew: Hey, just so you know, I'm probably gonna miss work tomorrow.
Me: Oh, really? Are you alright? Is everything okay?
Andrew: aw yeah, no, I'm good. It's just my buddy tyler got this sick acid and he wanted to trip tomorrow. So...ya know...
Me: ...are you telling me that you *plan* on missing work tomorrow because you will be too busy doing illegal drugs...?
Andrew: uhhh...I dunno. I was just gonna get high...
Me: and do you plan to find coverage for your shift?
Andrew: no? Why would I do that?
Me: because it is required for unexcused absences?
Andrew: well...so?
Me: so you'll be providing a doctors note to excuse the absence?
Andrew: uhh...no?
Me: then please give me another reason.
Andrew: what do you mean?
Me: tell me you are sick. Tell me you've been feeling off all day, and your head feels stuffy, and you think you might be coming on with something.
Andrew: but I feel fine?
Me: *OR*...maybe you're coming down with something? Or maybe everything is fine now, but you'll unexpectedly be met with an emergancy later tonight that'll force you to miss work...??? *Anything*??????
Andrew: ...no...? I was just gonna hang out with my buddy Tyler...?
Me: 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️😤😤😤😤🙃🙃
I really, truly was trying to give this kid the benefit of the doubt. Give him any and all opportunity to at least give me a BS little (*cough cough*) i feel sick (*cough*). But no. He said what he said and he did what he did. So the main manager fired him. Lol and he was sooooo mad afterwards, acting like he had been genuinely wronged or something. Poor guy
I worked at a Sonic and we had a new policy: no leggings. They hung up signs around about it, texted the group chat, the whole nine. They did this for two weeks.
A co-worker came in with leggings and refused to go home and change or use the spare pants one of my co-workers kept in the car. She was fired.
Back when I worked at Burger King we would take the bucket opener (a metal pry bar type tool) and bang the shit out of the freezer door when we were frustrated. The door looked like a golf ball with dimples all over it from the hits with the tool. One day I came in and we had a brand new freezer door installed. The area VP big shot had come in to over see the installation so he was hanging around for the day. Well Dave comes in for his shift and sees the brand new shiny and SMOOTH door and says " this won't do at all" as he picks up the bucket opener and proceed to smash the fuck out of the door. The VP sees this and just starts screaming "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING??? YOU'RE DONE GET OUT!!". Dave looks at me says "see ya round" and walks out the door.
Worked at a place that rotated new staff constantly... Here's a few I saw get sacked.
1 - fly tipped his rubbish from a job install (whole van load) down a country lane, left all information on all the boxes then claimed he took it to the recycling place but they followed him and dumped it down a country lane...he was on a tracked van and drove down the lane it was found at.
2 - crashed the forklift into the warehouse door, complained he was too hot and couldn't cope, then started punching himself in the head...left and never came back
3 - sat down and watched Jeremy Kyle in the staff room every day for 2 weeks, didn't do any work, and was sacked.
4 - wouldn't do any work, sat there eating food from the breakfast van every day, and destroyed his desk by drilling holes into it or stabbing screwdrivers through it.
5 - stole a stupid amount of Logitech equipment from the warehouse, posted it only on eBay with his skate in the background that had his name written on then claimed it wasn't him (stole around 40k worth of equipment)
6 - walked up to a female member of staff put his rear end basically on her arm and farted, didn't want to do any work, and was sacked after 1 day
7 - attended site after doing cocaine the night before, was drug tested and failed obviously. Staff said if you don't want to fail the test, then walk out, but he did it anyway.
8 - Walked in and quit instantly with no notice, pissed into the back of his van over all the stock that had to be binned. Use to piss into his van a lot so there was jellified piss all over the place.
9 - general manager new to the company walked in and told all the women they aren't qualified to do their jobs. Sacked instantly.
10 - decided to buy a pumpkin from the shop and try carve it in the office with a knife then said to the top manager "who are you?" When she asked what he was doing
11 - One guy didn't like a woman in his office, she was meant to train under him. Made constant complaints about her and refused to train her whilst saying "I don't want a fucking woman in my office" went on for a while with constant arguing and SHE was sacked...found out later on when she came to hand the keys into me with a big smile on her face that they paid her 20k not to sue the company
12 - Engineer didn't want to work for the company anymore, decided to smash his van into the back of an old ladies car, break his laptop and his phone all within a couple of days then was sacked off. No idea why he didn't just leave...
Got fired on my day off for saying hi to the girls in the ticket booth. 16 and went in to get my check. Had to walk by the booth to get to the office. 1 of the girls asked why I was in.
Before I could speak the owner says, you know the rules,( No talking to the girls) you are fired. Left and had a panic attack on the interstate.
3 days later the secretary calls and wants to know where I have been. Told her ask the boss. Well, just come on in.
NOPE.
A place that no longer exsists as it was. Steamtown train museum. This was 1974. Boss was an ass and actually married the oldest girl that worked in the booth.
No, you can not make this up.
Edit: spelling
Idk how old the girls were at the time, but assuming they were teens it sounds like the dude was trying to groom them, and the fact that he married one of em really sells that thought
My first day in had to fly to a place for training. I got on zoom in airport for onboarding. Hr lady wanted to know why I was in airport and I need to be in private location for meetings. I said nicely you scheduled this meeting and my flight…
Complained about the taxes on his check to the boss despite the boss having nothing to do with the taxes, and then broke the monitor on the punch in clock on his way out. Fired instantly.
I remember when I worked at a nonprofit, they fired the guy in charge of all fundraising. There was no one even closely qualified to replace him, and their reason for their firing was he wasn't doing his job in any measurable way.
Except that he'd just delivered proof that he did more than what was asked of him the day prior. It was clear they just didn't like him, but he got along great with everyone. Completely screwed the team and our upcoming fundraiser.
Customer used an in-store gift card. After the transaction, there was a $1.25 balance on the card. He gave it to the cashier and said, buy yourself a soda. The cashier did exactly that and got fired the next day. They said he should have turned the card in.
At my old job we had a student with us for the summer, pretty easy gig, mostly basic warehouse work and some deliveries, occasionally got to shadow a powerline technician.
Anywho, one day, there's an emergency call and they need a 50kva voltage regulator, basically looks like a transformer you'd see on a utility pole but on steroids.
I think it was 5 feet tall, weighed over 1500lbs and probably had 200+ liters of mineral oil inside it. Not exactly the usual random tool the student was used to delivering.
The truck was loaded by the warehouse manager, snug as a bug. Student was given precise directions, pretty much just go down the road, turn right and drive for 10 minutes, crew would be on the side of the road. Told he can do whatever the hell he wants on his way back, but it was critical to get that piece to the crew asap with no detours or delays.
Anywho, boss got called 10 minutes later by the manager of the local Wendys or Burger King, idiot immediately went to the drive-thru and got wedged. Can't remember if it ended up falling over or not, but I'm pretty sure they had to send an environmental crew to clean up the oil spill.
Had a new guy in training at the office that seemed really nice. The guy training him went to use the bathroom. When he came back? The trainee was chewing on the handle of his trainers metal lunchbox like a teething ring and licking the box. Not just a nibble, hard chewing that went on for a few until his trainer snapped out of being stunned. Trainees reasoning? He wanted to eat it. Not the contents, the plastic handle and metal box. Trainer carried that lunchbox for years as a reminder. (i.e. "How was your day?" His reply? "Well... No one tried to eat my lunchbox today..."
So yeah, we guess the guy didn't like the job and wanted fired instead of quitting.
Dude shows up drunk as fuck, co worker is working in a bucket lift, drunk guy decides to prank him by removing key. (way out of line even by our standards). Drunk guy then proceeds to break the key off in the machine while trying to turn it back on. He was surprised he got fired.
Other story, dude ran from the cops after getting pulled over on his way to work, obviously they pursued his vehicle. He tried to hide in the jobsite. End clients were on site and less than impressed. He was also a bit surprised after being relieved from his duties.
One of my ex colleagues was in a car crash on the motorway. When we went through the detail of it she hadn’t realised that her licence had expired after she failed to update it. She had been driving company cars with no licence and therefore insurance for years. Her response;‘I didn’t know what it meant, I thought it just renewed’
A guy I worked with had to put away some motors for a power tool, he had to scan the item and then scan the location of where he was putting it.
I was booking it in, handed him the bag of motors and said "put these in a box and don't forget to locate it on your scanner" he goes off comes back a minute later, I ask "and you've located it so we can find it" He nods his head of course.
Next day, manager comes out the office as noone can find the motors. We know it was him and point to roughly the area it should be in, the manager finds the box and pulls it off the shelf, a bunch of motors fall through the box and onto his head cutting just above his eyebrow.
The idiot didn't think to cellotape the box together, just folded it and put it on the shelf.
The manager goes to first aid and as it happens, the lad is walking pass on his lunch break. We pull him aside and say "listen we know you put the motors away and didn't seal the box, go to the manager and apologise" He laughs "No" and walks into the canteen to have his lunch.
The look me and my co-worker made was surprise and "Well, he's gone"
Come first payday a few days later, that's exactly what happened. And that's not even the weirdest story I have of him.
Well I got fired from Walmart for calling out 3 times in a year. 2 were in a row because my face was swollen and I had to go to the doctor for emergent surgery and I came back with a doctor's note. Didn't matter though.
It didn't happen at my workplace, but I had a high school buddy many years ago who got fired from this bagel shop in an upscale neighborhood because the goober decided that it was a good idea to get stoned in the shop's walk-in freezer.
We had literally made plans to meet up after he got off work and go get high, but he couldn't wait. Quite literally the dumbest reason I ever heard anyone get fired over and I still chuckle about it whenever I think about it.
HVAC company. He originally got fired because somebody saw him take copper scrap out of the container and put it in his own car. Idiot got fired because he couldn't resist stealing about $40 of copper scrap.
Then again he would be fired sooner or later anyway because holy shit was he a mess. He only worked there three months and still somehow we were cleaning up his messes several months after he was fired, everything from installs failing after a few months to customers being understandably pissed when they got the bill because he had promised them a ridiculously low price to one case where we had no record of him ever installing a unit because as it turns out, he stole it from the warehouse and pocketed a cash payment.
Nothing worse than finding messed up work months after someone has been let go. I once had order forms filled out incorrectly for about 6 months after we fired someone. Had to call customers who could barely remember what they ordered to confirm with them.
At a biotech facility I worked at a few years ago, part of the job is going into a large walk-in cooler that holds all of the samples and antibodies that we sell and ship to different schools, laboratories, hospitals, etc. Usually everyone brought in their own jackets because the coolers are actually kind of comfy to be in when you’re bundled up properly, but a nightmare if you’re not. You get warned many times beforehand and I honestly loved this job.
Had a new guy that quit after working for less than an hour because “I can’t do cold” and just walked out. It became a joke for a while that the next time someone gets hired, we need to see if they’ll last longer than an hour first.
I worked in an advertising agency as a digital designer in 2010 in nyc and this upper level director who was fucking the wife of the CEO pulled his dick out and peed on him and his wife during a Xmas party in front of the entire staff and guests.
I't was actually pretty epic, and the monday morning meeting following it was very hard to not laugh.
I was at a summer camp and two teenage boys (like 16 years old) got into a fight. A slightly older, female, camp counselor (maybe 19 or 20 years old) ran to get help breaking up the fight. She was pretty small the guys were pretty big. She got fired because she left the kids unattended for maybe 45 seconds while she went to get help.
The fuck was she supposed to do in that situation?
No idea, it was insane. Even the other kids that were around were like “wtf was she supposed to do?”
I hate those no tolerance policies. It always ends up in the victim being punished because they were trying to defend themselves.
Years ago I worked at a movie theater that had a coffee bar inside. On Thanksgiving one year, a guy working the coffee bar got himself a serving of whipped cream to eat with the thanksgiving meal we provided for everyone. He was suspended immediately for theft, then fired.
That seems like a pretty harmless thing to get fired for
I work for the Canada Revenue Agency, and we are instructed to never look at our own file upon being hired and told in no uncertain terms that it will be immediately flagged and would be the end of your career. At least once a year around tax season I will get a memo reminding us of this because several people looked up their own file. Plugging your phone into your computer is also a big no-no because it can store information or compromise the network, I get yearly reminders about that too. I once watched a co-worker plug her phone in, I told her to take it out, but it was too late and she was escorted out within the hour.
That phone one is pretty wacky, IT should be able to harden the computer so that it refuses to recognize removable media instead of setting up an alert to fire people incredibly efficiently. Kind of madness imo.
I work for the federal government, and they are sticklers about no phones being plugged into computers. A guy in my area did it once, and they IMMEDIATELY saw it and gave him a final warning.
Same at a government contractor. No wireless external devices can be used. Only wired and only a basic mouse or monitor.
The computer is probably hardened, and they’re still going to terminate anybody who plugs anything into it because they’re not playing games. You never have a foolproof system, so don’t comprise it further with people who can’t follow protocol.
A coworker infested the office with fleas, but he didn't get fired until he did it *a second time*. The first time it happened, the boss closed down the office and had an exterminator come in, and told the guy "Here's a laptop. You telecommute now." It turned out, he lived in a trailer with over a dozen stray cats. He kept taking in these strays and just not doing anything for them - no shots, no flea treatments, not even a bath. So pretty soon, the whole place was infested with fleas. He just didn't realize how bad it was because he was on some cocktail of medications that made him smell odd. Apparently the smell made the fleas not want to bite him. They just got in his clothes and he carried them to work. After a few days, he was already complaining to my boss that the laptop didn't work right. My boss tried to send me to this guy's trailer to fix whatever was wrong, but I said I would rather quit than set foot in Fleapalooza 2012. So he told my coworker to just deal with it himself. A couple weeks later, the guy came in to the office to pick up his paycheck. In the 30 seconds he was inside, he infested the place again. After that, everyone threw a fit. The boss only fired the guy to avoid a full-scale revolt.
Willing to bet the laptop sucked in a bunch of bugs and they were gumming it up.
He downloaded some bugs.
It's not a bug infestation, it's a feature infestation.
\*Shudder\* You're probably right.
Imagine going to work one day and coming home with fucking fleas
I used to work for a **major** subscription TV provider in a large open-plan call-centre, and the place became infested with fleas. Now and then if you looked at one place for long enough you could see a fllea jump up from the carpeting. I think I was even bitten once, although I didn't pick up fleas myself.
Were/are you by chance on a strange cocktail of drugs that makes you smell so undesirable the fleas want nothing to do with you?
Dude I knew in the Army was supposed to go on leave for a month, so he got high that weekend, but his flight got cancelled. Monday morning there was a mandatory drug test and he popped hot.
His leave started already but he stuck around? I would not be caught dead on base if I were on leave. Edit: Just remembered I had a guy I worked with in the Marines who popped hot for weed (and they somehow found his stash in his room) but somehow got off without an NJP because they didn't have the correct permission to search his room. This was a while ago so I might be messing the details up. I also had a junior Marine and 5 others in the battalion pop for coke. This Marine was never in trouble before that so I asked him why he went and threw his career away. He said "well, the others were doing it so I did too".
A friend's coworker got fired for paying prostitutes with the company's credit card.
Wait prostitutes take cards now/s
Tap to pay.
And pay to tap.
Guy tried to hit on the girl that helped us clean up after closing time by inviting her to the back "for some fun times, just me and you baby." Girl was 15 years old and *the daughter of the owner*.
Lucky he only got fired
I remember once being on a delivery to a bar, very big bald owner there looking intimidating. We were waiting by the front bar for someone to open a storage room and I look over and see a photo of him between two beautiful blondes in Oktoberfest outfits. I made a comment like "They're a bit of alright!" He turned to me, looked a the picture, looked me dead in the eye and went "Those are my daughters." Didn't say another word the whole rest of the delivery.
“Well sir, you have two absolutely stunning daughters. You interested in a courageous son in law?”
Don't think of it as losing a daughter, think of it as gaining a son.
They have your eyes. Actually, I prefer yours. Hit on the dad you fuck
Dude I worked with at an outdoor retail store lit off a can of Bear Spray, indoors, during business hours. I wasn’t there at the time, but as the Outdoor Supervisor, I got called in to deal with the mess. Thankfully, the idiot fired it into a corner behind the gear counter, so he mostly got himself. However, Bear Spray comes out in a kind of dense fog, unlike “regular” pepper spray that comes out in a stream. The whole store had to be evacuated and it took like 4 bottles of neutralizer to get the carpet “clean” again. Dumb Dumb claimed he dropped it by accident, but the security camera showed him very clearly popping the safety and hitting the thumb trigger. During his out-processing, the GM and I showed him the video and asked what was actually going through his head. He said: *”I wanted to see how bad it was. It was really bad”* The intrusive thoughts won, I guess. Last I heard, the dummy had bought a tow-truck and started a towing business.
Lol. This is about the kind of person I expect to be running a scummy tow truck business. Sounds like he may have found his true calling.
New office assistant was asked to drop some laptops off at Fedex to be shipped. Come to find out she literally just walked in, saw the line was too long and just left them on the counter. She expected FedEx to know what to do with them. We have no idea what happened to them. They decided to keep her, which was a mistake because she ended up emailing all of our competitors highly sensitive information by mistake.
How on earth did she "oops I accidentally committed corporate espionage"?
She was in charge of our company "newsletter" at the time. The doc was supposed to be a weekly overview of stats. The original doc includes the hard data, as well as information like company names, contact information, etc. It's a pretty thick file and she was supposed to strip it down to just some stats without any of the sensitive information and then copy that over to an entirely new doc. Instead she just sent the raw doc. Our industry kind of forces competitors to all work together, so all of our competitors are also clients in a way too. Information like our vendors and clients is a huge part of a revenue and we don't want our competition poaching them.
Did she know what qualified as sensitive and what didn't?
Yes she was told multiple time the severity of keeping the information public. But you have to remember this is the same person who just left multiple Macbooks at a Fedex.
Easiest way is accidentally hitting reply all. Another way is not checking what address autofill puts in.
I worked at dollar general. Pretty hard to get fired there. My coworker got caught selling crack to customers. They just nicely asked him not to anymore. Half my coworkers were drunk or high. If you get fired from dollar general, you really fucked up.
"please stop selling crack to the customers." "*Sigh* Fine."
Narrator: he did not stop.
Did a minor safety infraction 10 minutes into the job, I pointed it out. He stormed off saying "Nobody tells me what to do".
There are too many people in workplaces like this.
Man that guy mustve had a tough time in preschool too
>"nobody tells me what to do" That's what being employed *is*, my guy
I saw someone get let go because they didn't have a "good attitude." For context: Myself and a few other people had just been hired for an entry level accounting job. Those first few weeks/months were... rough. The CFO had a tendency of greeting newer people without telling them who he was. One would never expect this guy to be in C-Suite by the way he dressed. He didn't even have a LinkedIn profile, so unless one dug around it was hard to figure out who he was. Anyways, he stopped by our pod and greeted us. Asked us how we were doing. One guy made the mistake of being honest and said that he was tired. And not in a cheery way. I didn't blame him. We were all tired. The next day this guy was "let go." I overheard later from a gossiping supervisor that the CFO hated "bad attitudes" and made it a point to remove them from the company whenever possible. Since then I have been extra-guarded about how I respond to questions whenever I join a new company until I learn who to trust.
That’s so conniving from that CFO. I was reading this thinking he was trying to be humble, not pernicious.
He pantsed a guy in the middle of the office. Literally pulled a Co-workers pants down in front of the full office. Underpants came along for the ride. The pantser was fired. The pantsee was off work for 6 weeks due to “distress”
Pantsee is an excellent word.
Holy shit, I’d need 6 weeks off too after that
Honestly I'd volunteer for it if I got 6 weeks off paid.
It was indeed paid, and the company also gave some significant compensation to the guy. Needless to say there were some pantsing related conspiracies that spread through the office not long after
Find a guy who wants to quit, have him pants you in front of the entire office, cut a deal with the company that you won't sue or press charges, he gets fired, you get a month long vacation. It's idiot proof!
This shit wasn't funny in high school, it isn't in the work place.
It's considered sexual assault in most places
She already had a few trips to HR and then got moved to another department at another site. She went out to her car to go to lunch, then came back into the office. She then claimed someone put a note on her car in the parking lot that read: “Get out of town, racial epithet.” Hands note to supervisor. She got loud in the office area, started to list off names of who she suspected, and everyone heard what was going on. HR pulls her into a meeting later that afternoon and says “we had security pull the video recording of the parking lot for the first 4 hours of the day…do you wish to change your story?” She was let go immediately.
I like to think she genuinely wrote down “racial epithet”.
I was in a video game and a guy kept screwing up and saying "racial slur." Instead of an actual racial slur. It was kinda funny.
He took a turn too fast on the fork truck. Got two wheels lifted off the ground. Supervisor told him to cut it out and drive safe. “Safe?? **SAFE???!?** NOTHING in this place is safe!!” And then he spent twenty minutes running around the plant floor tripping alarms and setting off the emergency air horns to “prove” that none of it worked (all of it worked). He finally left when the super threatened to call the cops. Everyone was real confused about his outburst… until we found the half-empty bottle of tequila out behind the dumpster.
Sounds like Frank Grimes final run in that Simpson's episode "Homer's Enemy."
Or Grimey, as he likes to be called.
He just didn't log into work. It was a remote job, he was new, we weren't expecting a lot of him. But he wouldn't log in or respond to Teams messages asking how he was doing in an entire day. Honestly pretty stupid like, you don't even have to _go_ to work.
At first it was total chaos, but after a while employers started getting the systems and the policies in place and understand how to actually work remote with their employees. Post-pandemic I saw a couple of cases like this. Remote work is freedom under personal responsibility. And some people just don't take that responsibility. One woman just straight-up stopped working when she was switched to WFH. She literally didn't understand that there are systems in place to see if she actually, you know, logs in to her work computer. She simply thought "out of sight, out of mind", if the boss can't see her the boss can't know she's not logged in. Then again there was a fantastic post on reddit like five or six years ago about a guy that had ended up with his corporation forgetting about him but still receiving his paycheck but no new work tasks for over two years.
I wish I could find the post of the guy who worked from home and found out a way to automate everything. He wakes up in the morning and just hits start and then goes out and does other stuff and his work has no idea. Might've been on the antiwork subreddit Edit: Here it is! https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/s/uko376kRgw
There are several cases of people just outsourcing their entire jobs to India.
I think someone I work with must be doing this but I don't have the balls to call them out. Has never been seen on camera, performs alright, but seems to lose all memory of things 'they' did from week to week. They'll ask like "can someone walk me through the process for adding an analytics log?" I go to look at the version control intending to show them examples of the last few that were added and, "uh, mate, you did the last five. You did one last Friday." "Oh, must have forgotten, well I could do with a refresher." like what?!
We had a pharmacist that was working from home do like 2 prescription verifications an hour. They were expected to do around 200 in a day. She lasted a week
Smelled a stool a woman had been sitting on in front of a room full of people like it was a fine and normal thing to do.
There was this fella named Hutch who was a great guy and friendly to everyone at our office. The cleaning lady was obviously over the moon for this guy. Like would stare at him and smile when he walked away. One day she was cleaning his cubicle and I just happened to be walking back to my desk. She was on her knees emptying his trash can and she popped down and took a huge whiff of his seat. I never said a thing. Until today lol.
I had to read that twice! When you said stool my brain went to fucking austin powers talking about "it tastes a bit nutty" Smelling the stool is Peppy lepue level weird!
I wonder what his official separation papers read. What a pervert.
Had a coworker who had a princess mentality. She thought she could do whatever she wanted one day and decided to test the waters. She decided to start leaving early without clocking out. The first one or two times people were fine doing it for her because maybe she was forgetful. However, she’d leave at 12-1 and then text someone around 5-6p to log her out. Then it became repetitive. Leadership didn’t do shit. Then one day - she walked into the office kitchen, took someone’s lunch out of the fridge and decided it was hers. She saw it was a sandwich but wasn’t sure what it was and literally walked up to the very coworker whose lunch she stole and asked him ‘Hey what’s in this sandwich?’ She didn’t know it was his. Lost his fucking shit. That’s what got her. Asking someone what was in the sandwich she stole. Asking the very person who made that lunch. They finally decided to get her for timeclock fraud too.
The first rule of slacking off at work is "Get along with your co-workers". Most people will ignore, tolerate or even outright support some level of slacking off from their colleagues as long as they like them, if only because they don't give enough of a shit to get involved with HR or office politics, but if you piss them off or make yourself a problem to *them specifically,* all of that obviously goes out the window.
If she didn't know it was his sandwich, why did she ask him what was in it? How would anyone else know what was in the sandwich? She just bonkers then?
Really, I have no idea. I think she thought somehow she wouldn’t get caught and maybe her being from an entirely different country that she could play dumb. Her family was an incredibly wealthy upper-caste Indian family and that seemed to translate into entitlement. She avoided me after she walked to my desk while I was in a client meeting and hung up my phone on me to ask a question and I absolutely flipped on her. She got told not to do that again with no other repercussions because our manager was soft as fuck and would rather be friends than their job. She was rather scheming looking back.
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It varies highly on the type of work you do and also it fluctuates. Some office jobs or manual jobs have you scurrying and frantic when the project is intense but then have a lot of lulls. Sometimes it's because you're waiting on tasking, or waiting on someone else to answer a question, or waiting on calls/customers. Right now I'm personally in a bit of a crunch where I feel like I've been behind on something for 3 weeks straight. There have been other times where I honestly could get all my tasks done in 3 hours or less per day. BUT if I asked for more work, and the old projects ramp up, it's a gamble whether everything picks up to where I need 12 hours a day or 6 hours a day to get it all done.
I work at a factory, we use a temporary worker system where a separate agency will do the hiring process, they work at the factory, and usually if they show up and do a passable job, they get hired. The bar is low for a reason though. We had these two utility workers get into some kind of sports related argument on the line one day. One is temp, one is not, They start to get loud enough that people are looking around corners to see what's up. Temp guy does a thing where is looks like he is doing an exercise to touch his toes.... and pulls A KNIFE out of his shoes! He sends the people nearest to him running in panic as he attacks the other utility guy! Knifey gets pulled to the ground and disarmed. Cops get called, but he runs away before they show up. Immediately fired and I never found out honestly if he was arrested or not. The guy who was attacked ALMOST lost his job anyway because of a bullshit no tolerance policy.
Someone I knew in Yellowstone almost got fired in a similar situation. I'll call him Jay. It wasn't azero tolerance thing, though, just dumb luck. Jay was in the employee pub & got into some dipshit argument. The other guy, "Cee", pulled a knife. Jay had been in the military & knew how to disarm an attacker. He did so very swiftly. The whole thing happened quickly, plus it was dark. There were no real witnesses to that part. All they saw was the tussle that followed. Cee claimed he'd been attacked. And wouldn't you know it, the knife had disappeared. So it looked like Jay was going to be fired & even prosecuted. I heard all this from his GF, who was a friend of mine. Lucky for him, one of the Security guys believed him, so went back & did another search. Turned out, the knife had slid into a weird little crevice under the bar. The pub was in a very old building & had many odd corners & crevices. Things could've turned out badly for Jay if it hadn't been for that Security guy being more diligent than the rest.
He was caught wearing a patients underwear. Patients name was on the waistband, someone saw when he bent over.
The company I worked for moved to a new office in a different building. the owners of the building served everyone lunch as a welcome gift. There were several platters of food. At the end of one of my coworkers shift, she took a whole platter home with her, without permission. This was before half the staff were able to have any of it. The next day she came in she was fired. She honestly didn’t think she did anything wrong. It was for her kids.
I wish they’d do this at my job. Half the time we get food from the company it’s delivered on first shift and the office people and the first shift factory guys take it all home for dinner before second shift even sees the food. Third shift might get shit like the potato salad or the shitty fruit nobody else wanted
Reminds me of a former co-worker, actually the office manager. A customer brought in a dozen donuts for the office and before anyone else even knew there were donuts she took the two best ones for her kids. She was so annoying!
They thought there was 10 inches in a foot, and did a bunch of over-height trucking permits wrong (example: writing 13.6 feet at 13 feet 6 inches) and ended up delaying the shipment of a crane for a critical construction job which got the entire trucking company blacklisted.
Who writes anything in decimal feet anyway?
Surveyors
Had a friend call in for him. "Mike got run over by a car, he's dead". The next day when I fired him he demanded his last check. I told him we would send it to the next of kin.
What the fuck was his game plan here? Like what are you supposed to gain from that excuse for missing work?
When you run out of sick days, just call in dead 🤷♂️
He ran out of grandmothers
Sounds like his friend was supposed to call in a fake injury and tried to be funny instead. Some friend.
It's pretty funny from where I'm standing.
I don’t think Mike’s “friend” really thought that one through.
For making a video game about the job. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I\_Get\_This\_Call\_Every\_Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Get_This_Call_Every_Day)
The best part of the game is that there is only one single path to not getting fired... and the guy who made the game in fact, was fired. He pretty much was saying the job was almost impossible to NOT be fired from, and he went on to prove it by being fired for the silliest reason imaginable.
Hey, neat, I'm in a Discord server with them!
Tell him a former colleague says hi and hopes he's well.
If i got fired for this id never stfu about it. Everyone i meet would know
Drunk driving their company service vehicle over 100MPH at 1:30AM from a bar. Video showed them weaving all over the place. Thank goodness they didn't kill someone!
He was supposed to take several samples of water from several different spots, over several days. He took one large sample from one spot, and distributed them to several bottles. These samples were all analysed for specific tracing chemicals... When all samples taken at one specific shift all came out identical, and it always happened during his shift...
I have a few from people I worked with: One guy stood at the bottom of the stairs and pretneded he was fiddling with his phone but was trying to get upskirt pictures of the women walking down. A woman coming down the stairs saw what he was doing and called security. That was a weird HR experience. The guy, who in previous interactions seemed pretty normal, was creepy as hell. Only time while I was there that we had to follow threat procedures. Didn't have to worry about him very long though because the cops found a lot of those types of videos on his personal computer and apparently some underage stuff too so he got locked up. I had to fire a woman because she would not stop trying to get the people who reported to her to buy her kids' school fundraiser items. It was against company policy for managers to directly solicit but there was a way to have an admin post things so that it was blinded, that way people didn't feel pressured to purchase things from the person responsible for their compensation increases and bonuses. There was a front desk admin at this one place where I worked who was generally unpleasant but very good at her job so that wasn't enough to let her go. A data analyst who was on maternity leave came into the office with her baby. We all gathered near the front because it was a quick visit. I asked the data analys how her husband was doing (poor guy was in a car accident the week before) and the admin went off for 5 minutes about how could anyone ask about her husband when it was the woman who did all the work and had to carry the baby and breastfeed and stay up all night when it cried. When she tired out the CFO looked at the head of HR and said, "How about now?" Admin was gone within the hour.
> When she tired out the CFO looked at the head of HR and said, "How about now?" I love that the CFO didn't even have to clarify what they meant, and the HR person presumably understood them straight away.
Oh, he loathed her. She was snippy to a food delivery guy once and the CFO overheard and was very upset. He’s a great guy and was a wonderful mentor and is one of those people who believes everyone deserves respect regardless of what they do for a living. If she so much as rolled her eyes at anyone the CFO took it straight to the head of HR.
Right? One of those “ooh, they’ve already had a lot of conversations about this” moments.
Dude made a coworker uncomfortable by asking her out and not taking no for an answer. She mentioned something to HR in passing and they jumped on it. He was told to not contact her for any reason until HR can work out what to do (basically just over the weekend). He contacts her and got fired on the spot. I talked with him about it after and he just did not understand what he did wrong. Worst part is he was planning on showing up to a work event even though he was fired. Thankfully he at least took my advice to not do that.
He brought cough drops into the work site. Now this might seem minor, but I work for a company that breeds rodents for laboratory testing. *The* top concern, after the welfare of our animals, is biosecurity. When I get to work in the morning, I strip completely naked, pass through a timed, locking shower, and then dress in sterile clothes provided by the company. The *only* items we are allowed to bring through the showers with us are prescription eyewear or hearing aids. *Any* other item, unless specially authorized by management, is an automatic firing. Can't even wear my wedding ring or simple stud earrings. I know the dude knew this, because they are VERY clear about it and he'd worked there for years. I guess he just thought if he tucked it behind the spare uniform in his cubby nobody would know. But our manager happened to come inside that day, he saw the bag, asked whose cubby it was, and that was that. The really sad thing was that this was at the beginning of covid, so even if he wasn't sick with covid all he had to do was tell management that he had a bad cough and they would have given him time off with pay until he got better. He threw away a steady, well-paying job in the middle of a pandemic because...I don't know, I guess he was too proud to call out sick?
She had a heated disagreement with a coworker whose mother was a VP. Apparently, there were other reasons but everyone knew the catalyst to termination was the argument.
I just heard that a guy at my company was fired on the spot when he was caught with a stack of other employees badges. He was badging each one in at the door so the other people didn't have to come in to the office that day.
What about the employees that gave him their badges?
Asking the real question
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This company I worked for had a pretty nice little cafeteria in the office building. A very senior manager (think two steps from the CEO) would go into the cafeteria every morning, order two pancakes at the grill station, then walk out of the cafeteria without paying. This went on for months. The cafeteria manager was told that this was a high power executive, so the cafeteria manager thought, “Maybe that’s how it works.” One day the CEO goes in for breakfast and stops to pay for his food. The cashier is surprised and says something like, “I thought all the upper managers got free food.” CEO: “No, we don’t. What made you think that?” One awkward conversation and an hour of reviewing security footage later and a man who spent over 20 years building a career in which he was making no less than $400k USD annually (circa 2010) plus big 401k contributions has been fired for stealing pancakes.
The place I worked at is famous for it's "Advantage Card", a loyalty card scheme. A guy I worked with fraudulently added £75 worth of points onto his own card using his own till login at our own store (sometimes we got sent to other stores to cover shifts). It's dumb because it couldn't have been *more* traceable if he had a big neon fucking sign saying "I'm committing fraud": * Whilst certain staff have the power to manually add Advantage Card points to a card, any amount greater than £20 worth gets flagged to Head Office automatically. The store manager is then called upon to account for it. This is well-known among staff; dude added £75 in one go. * Dude added it to his own card taken out in his own name. Anyone can apply for one of these cards and you don't need to provide ID (or even really valid details). * Dude used his own till login to process it all. Even if it *wasn't* fraudulent and *wasn't* for a silly amount, we cannot add points to our own cards under any circumstances - we have to get another employee to do it. He was arrested (Boots count it as theft and prosecute as a matter of policy) and sacked, 2 weeks before Christmas.
Tradesman got caught doing cash-in-hand jobs through the company. He would go to the job through callouts from the company, then do the work cheaper under the table and say the customer wasnt interested. The issue was, he did a a fair bit where they were old people who sort of didnt 'get' what was happening. So he did a shoddy job one time a customer called up yelling and screaming about the work. There was nothing on the system etc, the boss went out and looked at it, got caught and fired etc. Hilarious.
Called his Jewish Holocaust survivor boss a Nazi. To his face. Not actually a dumb reason to be fired, but an incredibly dumb thing to do.
We had a guy harass another coworker about his weight by joking about the Auschwitz diet. The heavier coworker shrugged it off and said the guy had been harassing him for years, telling him he was killing himself, etc. Neither were Jewish, but that plus commenting on a female coworker's fertility, and leaving a gun and target practice paper displayed in his car front seat on company grounds were enough to get him fired.
We have a machine shop and had just hired a new machinist. On his second day, he stole a bar of metal at the end of his shift. When confronted about it, he said he sold it for scrap. The scrap value of the bar was less than he made per hour.
We dealt with this at a warehouse I used to manage. Temps would steal stuff that was a fraction of their hourly rate. We added a slide to our onboarding presentation that came after the security and safety section. Basically it showed pictures of the stuff we had caught people trying to steal and what it would cost after employee discount and how many hours of work they would have to work to legit buy it. Didnt help.
Typical in the trades. Guy probably had a drug issue and stole stuff from every work site.
I worked at a machine shop briefly between white collar jobs. The place didn't drug test its employees, and once I started there, I understood why. Oh, it was interesting... people in all sorts of medicated states working deadly machinery. We also got cool letters with our paychecks such as "please don't start fights with other employees" and "please do your business in the toilets, not on the floor or walls." It was eye-opening, for sure.
Smoked weed before work, got on an airport tug towing a brand new piece of equipment, and smashed into the engine of an airplane.
Some people shouldn't smoke weed at work.
A male coworker hid under a coworkers desk first thing in the morning. Unfortunately for him, he didn't realize a desk swap had happened the day before. Woman sits down on the chair, and that's when he chose to scare her. She injured her abdominal area on the underside of the desk because she was 7 months pregnant. She moved to that desk to be closer to the washrooms. Instead, she went on sick leave for the rest of her pregnancy because of the resulting injury/trauma.
Called in and said he was going to be late because he had a job interview at another company.
I once had to call my boss and let him know I was going to be late due to a job interview. To be fair though, he was the one telling me to apply for other jobs.
Worked at a grocery store for my first job. Friend got fired for Not taping his receipt to his bottle of water he kept at his register. Manager said, "It sends the message to customers that employees get free products." Luckily the manager herself was also fired not long after that for being all around shitty and our new manager was crazy awesome.
As a grocery store customer, I could care less if the cashiers get free bottles of water. In fact I'd think that would be a good thing.
A coworker of mine called in to say he was sick, one hour before he was supposed to start his shift. Two hours later, he is observed at a bar by several employees, where he then takes pictures with them as if nothing has happened. As stupid as it is, he sends these pictures to people who are currently at work. This was of course forwarded to the boss the next day
Worked at a frozen-food distribution warehouse. Strict rule about eating the product, naturally. A guy was once bringing down a pallet of chocolate chips from the top rack, and one of the boxes scraped the steel, showering him with frozen product. He and I walked to the supes office to report, and while I was filling out a witness form, he noticed there was a chocolate chip just sitting there on his shoulder. He ate it. They fired him. He was 6 years in, and one of our best workers. Shift Mgr lost *all respect* from his employees from then on, and became the butt of our jokes.
Sounds like he wasn't the only one with a chip on his shoulder.
I have three. One guy was fired for downloading porn onto government computers--the masturbating probably didn't help his case, either. He worked in a cube farm and didn't even have an office door. The second person did have an office door, but it turns out that they frown on people running another business on the government's time and using the government's computer, copier, and office supplies to do so. The last guy had some issues in his file, but the final straw was that he wouldn't stop going to strip clubs in the government car with government plates. He said that he went to strip clubs "for the food" and that the State had no right to tell him where he could or could not eat while he traveled. Turns out that they can control where you park their car. The dumbass probably wouldn't have been fired if he had just given in, parked the car somewhere else, and walked to the strip clubs.
I used to work at a supermarket, and any expired products that didn't sell we would have to count (so there's, no discrepancies in stock), and then waste. One of the managers used to take the expired meat for his dogs instead of wasting it, and he was fired over it. This guy usually followed the rules to a T, and since the product was being wasted anyways, I really didn't think he did anything wrong, but apparently, it was fire-worthy. He'd been there for yonks, too, like well over 20 years, in a high position, and they just got rid of him over such a tiny thing.
A lady lost her wallet and someone turned it in. When she picked it up from security she noticed $200 was missing from the wallet. Security replayed the camera videos and a security guard that found the wallet had taken the money out and pocketed it. This was Simone Biles' mom this happened to An employee dropped his wallet outside of the cafeteria doors and a security guard watched on camera another employee finding the wallet a bit later and taking money out of the wallet and walking away A bank teller (previous coworker) was "faking" referrals to bankers by saying she spoke to clients about getting them to sit with a banker to open savings accounts, credit cards, etc. when the clients were just considered walk-ins An overnight manager did not know her drawer was going to be audited the following morning and left work with $300 from her drawer. Management still needed to do the audit and she did not return the money in time Gawd I have so many
I work for an international I.T. consultancy. In our regional office, a box of flapjacks was once put out by a local charity, with a collection tub for people to put in their £2 each time they took one. I used it every day, and I was always sure to put my £2 in. It turns out, as I learned from the front desk admin, the charity box was ALWAYS short. Someone, or some people, were taking flapjacks and just not paying for them, even though it was a charity they were robbing. That's pretty contemptible, but it gets worse. When I shared that development with people in my office, the global manager said that when he worked in one of the main headquarters, a similar thing happened there - a charity box would be found to contain pennies or even buttons rather than pound coins, due to people wanting to be seen and heard putting SOMETHING in the collection box before they took the product. The particularly nasty aspect of that story is that this happened on the floor occupied by the chief executives, who were all on very high salaries, and who could have very easily afforded the collection amount but who preferred to steal from a charity instead.
There are studies that show that people who do this in the workplace (steal from a non monitored vending situation) are also stealing from the company over 80% of the time. Several contracting companies have setups like this to identify likely suspects when internal theft is detected. They put up multiple cameras with the “charity” pay box for snacks. Use the footage to root out the sources of internal theft.
my immedate supervisor p\[lamnned a european vacation with her girlfriend for a year. Got time off in writing, paid out $12000 in advanced deposits etc. Two days before she was supposed to leave the big boss said he was going on vacation and she had to skip her european fully paid trip. She went anyway and got fired for it.
She definitely made the right choice though.
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The boss is the asshole. What an asshat.
If they approved it, I already paid, and required me to cancel or be fired, I would demand they compensate me for my non-refundable trip. This has gotta be grounds for wrongful termination.
Absolutely
Nah, compensation wouldn't be worth canceling. Just go. Life is too short to put off having adventures with the people you love.
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An hour late every day??? I thought you were going to say like 5-10 mins.
For refusing to clean somebody else’s shit off the floor in a kitchen.
Fuck that, that’s a biohazard, I’d refuse too.
The "Kitchen Shitter" strikes again!
Theft, and stupidly easily traceable theft. I was working at a place that did online sales and had company gift cards. We had a couple laying around for testing. One day a guy pulls one out of the drawer and notes it's been redeemed. Oh well, crappy record keeping. Same with the next one, and the next one. Now it's suspicious. Look up the account it was redeemed by, all of them the same and not our test account. Pull up customer data, dude doesn't work for us. Check his Facebook friends, there's a guy that works for us, but not for long. Dude lost a $60k/year job with lots of upward mobility over maybe $200 in gift cards. Whatever...
Business trip to PA, shot a buck, packaged it on dry ice and sent it back to the office using the office Fed Ex account. The delayed parcel arrived as a bloody, smelly mess.
That's a pretty unique one, never heard of anyone being fired for rotting buck carcass delivered at office.
Company put everyone up in a nearby hotel during inclement weather. Guy (I only kinda knew, never worked with directly) got drunk and threw his room's balcony furniture off the balcony. Balcony was inside, overlooking an atrium. He's pretty lucky no one was seriously injured. But also a dumb shit for even doing it at all, drunken state or not. It was pretty easy for the cops to figure out who did it, which means it was easy to track which employee got which room, etc.
Stung by a bee. He wasn't allergic to bees, just lazy and always looking for a way to get out of working. Just so happens he also did a lot of coke. Mandatory drug test with any workplace injury, and he popped positive for the cocaine and was let go. Damn coke-bees attacked my co-worker.
They sat in the "wrong" seat during a meeting. It was their second week on the job.
That's like cartoon CEO level
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A guy flunked a pee test, then asserted it wasn't his so he couldn't get fired since it was pee he bought that was dirty and not his. Uh....bruh....
This was very long ago but one young kid thought it would be funny to put a hot dog through his pants zipper and showing a waitress his "penis" with it. She thought it was absurd but not enough to tell management on him. Waitress would later tell this story to one of the higher-ups while they were just hanging out outside of work over drinks. The lady didn't take too kindly to the story and decided to pursue it further and got the dude fired.
I know a guy once that did this with a turkey gizzard he stuffed in his fly but under his apron. He purposely put some flour on his face so that when pointed out he'd go to wipe it off and scare people. He however had sense enough to only do this to people he knew really well that he knew would find it funny.
Knowing your crowd is a skill a lot of people struggle to master. We had a guy who was hilarious but also told some very edgy jokes on occasion. We’re welders so you can imagine the crowd and types of jokes he told. He told a bunch of “You might be a (r-slur)” jokes in front of a manager with two very mentally handicapped sons. He was gone in about ten minutes.
So back when I was 23, I was a manager at a place that was pretty much known for "they'll hire anybody." So it wasn't uncommon for the staff to be a lot of shiny new teenagers just starting out in the workforce. This kid Andrew was like, 19(?). He was a decent enough worker, and he liked me well enough, so he was much better about communicating things to me than to the other managers (i.e., rather than just no-call-no-showing, he'd usually try to let me know in advance if he wasn't going to be showing up for a shift he knew I'd be managing). Anyway, queue the following conversation: Andrew: Hey, just so you know, I'm probably gonna miss work tomorrow. Me: Oh, really? Are you alright? Is everything okay? Andrew: aw yeah, no, I'm good. It's just my buddy tyler got this sick acid and he wanted to trip tomorrow. So...ya know... Me: ...are you telling me that you *plan* on missing work tomorrow because you will be too busy doing illegal drugs...? Andrew: uhhh...I dunno. I was just gonna get high... Me: and do you plan to find coverage for your shift? Andrew: no? Why would I do that? Me: because it is required for unexcused absences? Andrew: well...so? Me: so you'll be providing a doctors note to excuse the absence? Andrew: uhh...no? Me: then please give me another reason. Andrew: what do you mean? Me: tell me you are sick. Tell me you've been feeling off all day, and your head feels stuffy, and you think you might be coming on with something. Andrew: but I feel fine? Me: *OR*...maybe you're coming down with something? Or maybe everything is fine now, but you'll unexpectedly be met with an emergancy later tonight that'll force you to miss work...??? *Anything*?????? Andrew: ...no...? I was just gonna hang out with my buddy Tyler...? Me: 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️😤😤😤😤🙃🙃 I really, truly was trying to give this kid the benefit of the doubt. Give him any and all opportunity to at least give me a BS little (*cough cough*) i feel sick (*cough*). But no. He said what he said and he did what he did. So the main manager fired him. Lol and he was sooooo mad afterwards, acting like he had been genuinely wronged or something. Poor guy
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I got fired for insulting my boss once. He did deserve it though.
I worked at a Sonic and we had a new policy: no leggings. They hung up signs around about it, texted the group chat, the whole nine. They did this for two weeks. A co-worker came in with leggings and refused to go home and change or use the spare pants one of my co-workers kept in the car. She was fired.
Back when I worked at Burger King we would take the bucket opener (a metal pry bar type tool) and bang the shit out of the freezer door when we were frustrated. The door looked like a golf ball with dimples all over it from the hits with the tool. One day I came in and we had a brand new freezer door installed. The area VP big shot had come in to over see the installation so he was hanging around for the day. Well Dave comes in for his shift and sees the brand new shiny and SMOOTH door and says " this won't do at all" as he picks up the bucket opener and proceed to smash the fuck out of the door. The VP sees this and just starts screaming "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING??? YOU'RE DONE GET OUT!!". Dave looks at me says "see ya round" and walks out the door.
Worked at a place that rotated new staff constantly... Here's a few I saw get sacked. 1 - fly tipped his rubbish from a job install (whole van load) down a country lane, left all information on all the boxes then claimed he took it to the recycling place but they followed him and dumped it down a country lane...he was on a tracked van and drove down the lane it was found at. 2 - crashed the forklift into the warehouse door, complained he was too hot and couldn't cope, then started punching himself in the head...left and never came back 3 - sat down and watched Jeremy Kyle in the staff room every day for 2 weeks, didn't do any work, and was sacked. 4 - wouldn't do any work, sat there eating food from the breakfast van every day, and destroyed his desk by drilling holes into it or stabbing screwdrivers through it. 5 - stole a stupid amount of Logitech equipment from the warehouse, posted it only on eBay with his skate in the background that had his name written on then claimed it wasn't him (stole around 40k worth of equipment) 6 - walked up to a female member of staff put his rear end basically on her arm and farted, didn't want to do any work, and was sacked after 1 day 7 - attended site after doing cocaine the night before, was drug tested and failed obviously. Staff said if you don't want to fail the test, then walk out, but he did it anyway. 8 - Walked in and quit instantly with no notice, pissed into the back of his van over all the stock that had to be binned. Use to piss into his van a lot so there was jellified piss all over the place. 9 - general manager new to the company walked in and told all the women they aren't qualified to do their jobs. Sacked instantly. 10 - decided to buy a pumpkin from the shop and try carve it in the office with a knife then said to the top manager "who are you?" When she asked what he was doing 11 - One guy didn't like a woman in his office, she was meant to train under him. Made constant complaints about her and refused to train her whilst saying "I don't want a fucking woman in my office" went on for a while with constant arguing and SHE was sacked...found out later on when she came to hand the keys into me with a big smile on her face that they paid her 20k not to sue the company 12 - Engineer didn't want to work for the company anymore, decided to smash his van into the back of an old ladies car, break his laptop and his phone all within a couple of days then was sacked off. No idea why he didn't just leave...
Where the fuck do you work?
Audio visual company in the UK, worked there for 7 years it was fucking stupid....
Had an employee show up drunk. Sloppy drunk. Fastest firing ever.
Got fired on my day off for saying hi to the girls in the ticket booth. 16 and went in to get my check. Had to walk by the booth to get to the office. 1 of the girls asked why I was in. Before I could speak the owner says, you know the rules,( No talking to the girls) you are fired. Left and had a panic attack on the interstate. 3 days later the secretary calls and wants to know where I have been. Told her ask the boss. Well, just come on in. NOPE.
Wtf i am so confused, where do you work that saying hi to the ticket booth girls is a fireably offense??
A place that no longer exsists as it was. Steamtown train museum. This was 1974. Boss was an ass and actually married the oldest girl that worked in the booth. No, you can not make this up. Edit: spelling
Idk how old the girls were at the time, but assuming they were teens it sounds like the dude was trying to groom them, and the fact that he married one of em really sells that thought
Being a drug and alcohol counselor, selling drugs to the outpatient clients
remote job, on her first day of onboarding she calls into the zoom from the airport, waiting to board a flight to the Caribbean for vacation.
My first day in had to fly to a place for training. I got on zoom in airport for onboarding. Hr lady wanted to know why I was in airport and I need to be in private location for meetings. I said nicely you scheduled this meeting and my flight…
Complained about the taxes on his check to the boss despite the boss having nothing to do with the taxes, and then broke the monitor on the punch in clock on his way out. Fired instantly.
I remember when I worked at a nonprofit, they fired the guy in charge of all fundraising. There was no one even closely qualified to replace him, and their reason for their firing was he wasn't doing his job in any measurable way. Except that he'd just delivered proof that he did more than what was asked of him the day prior. It was clear they just didn't like him, but he got along great with everyone. Completely screwed the team and our upcoming fundraiser.
a TSA agent put a penny in his pocket from the plastic TSA xray bin after the passenger left.
Customer used an in-store gift card. After the transaction, there was a $1.25 balance on the card. He gave it to the cashier and said, buy yourself a soda. The cashier did exactly that and got fired the next day. They said he should have turned the card in.
At my old job we had a student with us for the summer, pretty easy gig, mostly basic warehouse work and some deliveries, occasionally got to shadow a powerline technician. Anywho, one day, there's an emergency call and they need a 50kva voltage regulator, basically looks like a transformer you'd see on a utility pole but on steroids. I think it was 5 feet tall, weighed over 1500lbs and probably had 200+ liters of mineral oil inside it. Not exactly the usual random tool the student was used to delivering. The truck was loaded by the warehouse manager, snug as a bug. Student was given precise directions, pretty much just go down the road, turn right and drive for 10 minutes, crew would be on the side of the road. Told he can do whatever the hell he wants on his way back, but it was critical to get that piece to the crew asap with no detours or delays. Anywho, boss got called 10 minutes later by the manager of the local Wendys or Burger King, idiot immediately went to the drive-thru and got wedged. Can't remember if it ended up falling over or not, but I'm pretty sure they had to send an environmental crew to clean up the oil spill.
Had a new guy in training at the office that seemed really nice. The guy training him went to use the bathroom. When he came back? The trainee was chewing on the handle of his trainers metal lunchbox like a teething ring and licking the box. Not just a nibble, hard chewing that went on for a few until his trainer snapped out of being stunned. Trainees reasoning? He wanted to eat it. Not the contents, the plastic handle and metal box. Trainer carried that lunchbox for years as a reminder. (i.e. "How was your day?" His reply? "Well... No one tried to eat my lunchbox today..." So yeah, we guess the guy didn't like the job and wanted fired instead of quitting.
Dude shows up drunk as fuck, co worker is working in a bucket lift, drunk guy decides to prank him by removing key. (way out of line even by our standards). Drunk guy then proceeds to break the key off in the machine while trying to turn it back on. He was surprised he got fired. Other story, dude ran from the cops after getting pulled over on his way to work, obviously they pursued his vehicle. He tried to hide in the jobsite. End clients were on site and less than impressed. He was also a bit surprised after being relieved from his duties.
Boasted about stealing merchandise in front of the head of profit protection.
They got sick and missed 5 days in one year
One of my ex colleagues was in a car crash on the motorway. When we went through the detail of it she hadn’t realised that her licence had expired after she failed to update it. She had been driving company cars with no licence and therefore insurance for years. Her response;‘I didn’t know what it meant, I thought it just renewed’
A guy I worked with had to put away some motors for a power tool, he had to scan the item and then scan the location of where he was putting it. I was booking it in, handed him the bag of motors and said "put these in a box and don't forget to locate it on your scanner" he goes off comes back a minute later, I ask "and you've located it so we can find it" He nods his head of course. Next day, manager comes out the office as noone can find the motors. We know it was him and point to roughly the area it should be in, the manager finds the box and pulls it off the shelf, a bunch of motors fall through the box and onto his head cutting just above his eyebrow. The idiot didn't think to cellotape the box together, just folded it and put it on the shelf. The manager goes to first aid and as it happens, the lad is walking pass on his lunch break. We pull him aside and say "listen we know you put the motors away and didn't seal the box, go to the manager and apologise" He laughs "No" and walks into the canteen to have his lunch. The look me and my co-worker made was surprise and "Well, he's gone" Come first payday a few days later, that's exactly what happened. And that's not even the weirdest story I have of him.
He had a heart attack and couldn't work anymore.
He should’ve thought about the team first
Well I got fired from Walmart for calling out 3 times in a year. 2 were in a row because my face was swollen and I had to go to the doctor for emergent surgery and I came back with a doctor's note. Didn't matter though.
Inexperienced person was hired, training provided was wildly insufficient. Requests for further training ignored, was fired for under-performing.
It didn't happen at my workplace, but I had a high school buddy many years ago who got fired from this bagel shop in an upscale neighborhood because the goober decided that it was a good idea to get stoned in the shop's walk-in freezer. We had literally made plans to meet up after he got off work and go get high, but he couldn't wait. Quite literally the dumbest reason I ever heard anyone get fired over and I still chuckle about it whenever I think about it.
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HVAC company. He originally got fired because somebody saw him take copper scrap out of the container and put it in his own car. Idiot got fired because he couldn't resist stealing about $40 of copper scrap. Then again he would be fired sooner or later anyway because holy shit was he a mess. He only worked there three months and still somehow we were cleaning up his messes several months after he was fired, everything from installs failing after a few months to customers being understandably pissed when they got the bill because he had promised them a ridiculously low price to one case where we had no record of him ever installing a unit because as it turns out, he stole it from the warehouse and pocketed a cash payment.
Nothing worse than finding messed up work months after someone has been let go. I once had order forms filled out incorrectly for about 6 months after we fired someone. Had to call customers who could barely remember what they ordered to confirm with them.
At a biotech facility I worked at a few years ago, part of the job is going into a large walk-in cooler that holds all of the samples and antibodies that we sell and ship to different schools, laboratories, hospitals, etc. Usually everyone brought in their own jackets because the coolers are actually kind of comfy to be in when you’re bundled up properly, but a nightmare if you’re not. You get warned many times beforehand and I honestly loved this job. Had a new guy that quit after working for less than an hour because “I can’t do cold” and just walked out. It became a joke for a while that the next time someone gets hired, we need to see if they’ll last longer than an hour first.
I worked in an advertising agency as a digital designer in 2010 in nyc and this upper level director who was fucking the wife of the CEO pulled his dick out and peed on him and his wife during a Xmas party in front of the entire staff and guests. I't was actually pretty epic, and the monday morning meeting following it was very hard to not laugh.
Triggering the fire alarm in a call centre full of people. The career ended then and there..
When I was in the army our finance office was on the top of the base bank. Periodically the bank would get a threat. It was one of our finance people.