Sunday, April 12, 2020

Craziest Reasons People Got Fired


This wild AskReddit thread got people to share the craziest reasons they've seen people fired, or had to let someone go. Some folks show up on that first day, and it's as if they've never worked a job in their life. 

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Text - MonkeyMeex • 21h I was a bartender/bar manager. This guy came in one night and said he was an aspiring DJ and asked if we would consider hiring him to come in just on Sunday nights to DJ for us. He said we wouldn't have to pay him at first, he would just take tips and we could renegotiate after he helped to build up our Sunday night crowd. He lasted less than 3 months. He drove away so much business and I got SO many complaints. He played the same songs every week and when people made req

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Text - tolae01010 • 21h At a retail job, we had a kid come in and punch in for the day then go home. Would come back at quittin' time and punch out.

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Text - asleeppam • 22h 1 Award I worked retail, and we had an employee that would hide and take naps inside racks of clothes. Somehow that wasn't the reason we fired her. We fired her for stealing clothes and then wearing them to work.

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Text - momoispeachy • 21h Fired a high schooler because his girlfriend kept showing up and they would disappear behind the racks. I told him his girlfriend was banned trying to not fire him and she kept sneaking back. Worked in an office and they hired a girl from a temp agency to help me. She wouldn't do anything unless I walked her through each step after telling her she had to do it. Hey an estimate just arrived on the fax RIGHT NEXT TO YOU, complete the quote and send it back. Come to find o

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Text - skdubbs • 22h 1 Award Once a had a guy call in sick to his restaurant/bar shift right before his shift and then proceeded to show up shit faced drunk for happy hour during the time he was supposed to be working. He was not a bright man.

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Text - carbusinesslady234 · 21h 3 9 2 Awards My coworker at a coffee shop. 1. Told a customer she didn't feel like making x drink and she should go elsewhere. 2. Wore cookie monster PJ pants while we had a very strict "black or khaki pants, no jeans, no leggings" policy at the time. 3. couldn't figure out the concept of milk?? This still baffles me to this day. Like I was trying to show her how to steam milk properly, she was off in la la land and when she snapped back into the conversation aski

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Text - USPSA-Addict • 22h 2 Awards Dumbass stole a $100 bill out of the register at the end of his FIRST shift alone on register.

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Text - DonkeyTron42 • 21h CEO ordered me to fire one of my interns because he was trying to hit on one of the other interns the CEO had the hots for.

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Text - CactusPearl21 • 22h 4 Awards We had someone fall asleep at his desk with a lit cigarette in his hand. In a office full of cubicles like maybe... 6-7 years ago? Smoking wasn't legal anywhere indoors let alone in an office building Imao And the first time he wasn't even fired. He was fired when it happened again!

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Text - ENEBZILE • 21h 1 Award I work at an art studio where we teach classes and sell pottery that our artists make for others to paint. I'm one of the artists and the manager. I started getting a funny feeling about one of my employees.. she wasn't doing anything blatently wrong, just seemed to work really slowly sometimes, request insignificant but kinda odd schedule changes, and have different break habits from the other staff. I started feeling like she was stealing but this is a really smal

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Text - CanineRezQ • 22h They stole a $3 bottle of wine that could have easily put on the "house" check for employees. Prep cook stole a 25lb bag of onions.

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Text - rivanko • 21h 21 Award Fired a guy for looking to pay someone to cast black magic on the owner and the owner's family to bewitch them into giving him a raise and, ironically, never firing him. Only reason I found out was because he asked someone else in the office for help in finding a witch doctor to cast the spells and word got round. No one wanted to be in the same room as him after that. When I confronted him he said the devil made him do it so it wasn't his fault. I live in the Middl

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Text - drumandbass01 • 21h Had an employee that was going to get fired for simply showing up late constantly with no legit reason. During the term meeting she tells me another employee cut the brake lines in her car - it's obvious this was to save her from being fired. She didn't realize that something like that gets cops involved. She was termed, and then detectives showed up to her house to get statements. Of course, no evidence of lines being cut and now she's dealing with police for making f

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Text - formerPhillyguy • 21h I was a florist and had a 40-something woman delivering for me. I received a call from the building manager of a brand new office building, with only one tenant, telling me my driver wrote on the elevator wall with a sharpie. They had video showing that she was the only person to use the elevator during the time the vandalism took place. The worst part for me was, this happened a few days before Valentine's Day.

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Text - PomegranatePlanet • 22h The guy had somehow hung on by the skin of his teeth when caught making plastic model funny cars at his desk (pro tip: throwing a newspaper over the model doesn't hide the smell of the glue), but when a client called complaining about our hero trying to sell him golf clubs out of the trunk of his car, he was gone.

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Text - ConvertibleBurt1 • 21h I am a chef at an upscale restaurant, the sauté cook has a lobster dish on his station that involves a technique called deglazing that involves alcohol so in turn the pan catches on fire briefly and flames up. When you do it correctly (hard to do it incorrect) the alcohol is cooked off and the flame goes out. Every time he made this dish he would deglaze the pan, catch it on fire and then blow it out, blowing his own germs and nastiness all over someone's food and e

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Text - Yeahlprobablydidit • 22h In the early 2000's I managed a coffee shop that required the customers' names to be put on the cup. One guy looked like he was doing it but upon closer inspection on some cups he was writing an IP address. Turns out he was running an illegal sports book out of the shop. He did quit before I had to technically fire him because he found out I knew.

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Text - When I was working at Burger King, our restaurant manager was away on maternity leave, so we had someone from another store come in over that time to fill the role. He ended up hiring someone who had worked there 5-6 years previously (high turnover, so a lot of hiring/ leaving), the few staff that had known her before she'd left hated her, but had no idea why she left. She even passed all the checks from head office before she was hired. Restaurant manager comes back about a month after s

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Text - Zenmedic • 22h Profanity filled road rage rant through and Ambulance PA system at a crowded intersection. I had complaints coming in for well over a month.

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Text - vishumittal80•21h plumber my helper and I went to do a punch list at a new home. when the very attractive 20 something year old answered the door I ask what the problem was, and she said, "when I take a shower, the shower head makes a whistling noise." my helper said, "Hell if I saw you naked, l'd whistle too" she complained to the super.l had no choice but to fire him.

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Text - milesthafivethree • 18h When I was a bank teller, a fellow teller got fired for stuffing her purse with a strap of $100s every day ($10,000). Here's the interesting part.. she always put the strap back into her teller drawer at the end of the day. She did this for months and months apparently without anyone noticing, but when the camera auditors finally did catch it, she was confronted and fired. When they asked her why she put a strap of money in her purse each day but always put it back

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Text - GneissCleavage88• 21h Dude I worked with badly photoshoped the face of a 40s something single mom that also worked there onto the body of some online porn photo. He then proceeded to show it around to the other female workers like look what Woman#1 sent me you should send me stuff too. This was while he would continually brag about the girlfriend he had at home. He got fired, then dumped by his girlfriend and kicked out of their apartment.

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Text - DaughterEarth • 22h She didn't show up for her first shift, then tried to blame us for it, then refused to turn in her uniform and key. FIRST SHIFT. What the hell lady? Okay first solo shift, she showed up for the 2 training shifts before that, but still I can't believe it |

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Text - ClintoniousRexus • 21h The one that always boggled my mind was the guy who wore a hat to his shift that had a large logo from a competing brand. I told him to take it off and he complied while whining "but my hair is awful today". I told him he could buy one of ours or he could go home. A few minutes later, he was wearing it again. I had the handbook at the ready and pointed out that he was violating policy and I would be writing him up (HR would've been proud). He huffed and went back to

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Text - jerkythejerk • 18h I fired our "web guru" after he copied our entire product, supplier, customer, and order history database onto an AWS server and tried to sell the data to our competitors. We found out after we stumbled across a copy of our website registered in his name with godaddy.com while doing market research. We screencapped all his activity and he's currently in prison.

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