Thursday, April 23, 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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Wholesome Streamer Tries To Return Money To New Subscribers


A funny thing happens when one tells people to not do something; they tend to do the complete opposite. 

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The Guy Who Stayed At the Bar While It was Being Robbed


In 2019, Tony Tovar sat in his chair and lit a cigarette while his favorite bar was being robbed around him. Who knows if he was feeling lucky or if he had already been there a while and was extra confident. Instead of giving the guy anything, he asked him for a beer. Surreal. He quickly picked up the titled of "World's Chillest Man."

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Animal Crossing Player's Home Tour Gets Dark Quick


Yup, that went from 0 to 100 at a moment's notice. What begins as a lovely, warm, and bubbly home tour from an Animal Crossing player takes a dark turn. You just had that strange feeling creeping up your spine, as the tour progressed, almost knowing that things were indeed too good to be true. 

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Cartoon - Just to the right, we have my laundry room. Oh, the cycle's finished. I'll fold that later.

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Text - After a hard day's work, it's best to unwind in a luxurious bathroom. I like to keep it nice and steamy in here. Oh, gosh, we better move on before I doze off from all this coziness!

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Animated cartoon - Next up, my bedroom, perfectly tailored to my *giggles* maybe a little quirky style! Don't let the skulls fool you, it's quite comfy in here!

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Cartoon - Say hi to Baloo! Hi, Baloo!

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Text - Before I go to bed, I like to write a journal about all the fun I had through the day while I play some of my favorite jams on vinyl.

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Cartoon - Oh, silly me, I almost forgot! Last, but not least...

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Text - Remember that, Zucker. Remember that the next time you think about taking peaches from my orchard, or I'll be serving my next guest Tako. 77455 0.

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Absolutely Bonkers Cursed Foods People Ate


Cursed food involves all those strange and seemingly awful food/drink combinations that we'd think no rational human being would consider eating in the first place. But hey, people have all kinds of different tastes. Some folks enjoy dipping burritos in milk, or slapping some peanut butter on a fresh slice of pizza. Yeah, the stomach might've made interesting noises upon thinking about what that could taste like. Check out some visual imagery of cursed food that could've been created in the underworld's kitchen.

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Text - ttbbbpth • 1y The wife dips Oreos in water like a psychopath.

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Text - DWright_5 • 1y When I visited my aunt's family as a kid she served a "purple cow" - milk mixed with grape juice - for breakfast. If you haven't tasted that, take my word for it - it's not a great concoction.

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Text - [deleted] • 1y Friends mom used to eat soy sauce with ice cream

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Text - actorrent • 1y I work at a pub/restaurant waiting tables. This couple walks in who l've never seen but are apparently regulars. The bartender sees them, shoots me a glance, and goes to grab something from the kitchen. Before even taking their order, he's filled the crushed red pepper shaker and told me to take it over to them. The woman orders a small cup of French onion soup and proceeds to unscrew the cap of this shaker and dump the entirety of it onto her soup, an inch high off the top

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Text - TremulousHand • 1y I had a friend who went through a period where cake decorating was her hobby, and she made some amazing looking cakes that all tasted horrible because of the bizarre flavor combinations. It was always a bit funny because people would compliment the look of them and then have to figure out how to throw their pieces away without being rude about it. The worst one was a Christmas cake with an immaculate looking fondant Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer that was an orange spic

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Text - vprice509 A• 1y When I was in grade schoolI went over to this kid's house to play, then ended up staying for dinner. We had spaghetti, some vegetable, maybe salad and something else. His entire family would mix everything together before eating it. His dad seemed to be the ringleader/ mastermind behind this scheme. I remember someone cheerfully saying, "Well, it all goes to the same place!" And then the rest of them agreeing with this truism as if it were some serious folk wisdom. That's

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Text - sunset1214 • 1y 3 1 Award I used to be obsessed with A1. I would put it on everything possible because I loved it so much. One day I put it on jello. I no longer enjoy A1.

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Text - Love_Bunny_22 • ly When I was a server, I had a customer dip her bread in a glass of Coke. She finished her whole bread basket and Coke and asked for another basket and another refill of Coke, and went to town again for round two. She didn't give a crap how she looked and ate that shit like it was the best thing on Earth.

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Text - Tinkliwinks • 1y My wife dips PBJ's into spaghettios.

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Text - HumansAreGarbage2019 • 1y Moms boyfriend. Crushed cheez-it crackers into his coffee. That day he ate waffles covered in spinach and fish sticks drizzled with syrup. All the while LOUDLY smackin his lips sayin "uuuh so goooood." Mom says dont let it bother me. It bothers me.

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Text - Geta-Ve • 1y Mustard on cheesecake ... EDIT: Answering a few comments. It wasn't me it was a friend. It was yellow mustard. Any kind of cheesecake.

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Text - lavidalaluna • 1y 3 2 Awards Dude in my dining hall had a plate of sunny side up eggs. Scooped under an egg with his fork, brought it up to his mouth, and only touched his lips to the yolk. Proceeded to suck all the yolk, and then slurped the rest of the egg in. It was like a car crash, I couldn't look away but I was horrified.

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Text - Shaymiestar • 1y S 2 Awards My sister used to put ketchup on strawberries.

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Text - TheGooge • 1y Dipping Oreos in Orange juice.

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Text - thatonegirlyaknow • 1y My baby sister used to eat pancakes and ranch. My mom just accepted it because she was such a picky eater and this was something she just thoroughly enjoyed. We're pretty sure it's cuz my mom craved both when she was pregnant with her

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Text - maqakyo • 1y Fried eggs with chocolate melted on the yolk

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Text - FunkiePickle • 1y My wife likes crunchy peanut butter and bologna sandwiches with cheese. Her mom also adds mayo. I just can't bring myself to try it - literally start retching at the thought of the flavor.

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Text - aricberg • 1y Went to college with this one girl who would get a chef salad, slice up banana and put it on said chef salad, then use ketchup as dressing. I shit you not this person ate that on a regular basis.

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Text - purudaya • 1y My dad's girlfriend puts cucumber in any hot dish she can. Green chili, chicken soup, taco meat - sky's the limit. She also doesn't believe in draining noodles and will let them sit in hot water until each strand of bloated spaghetti is as thick as a goddamn shoelace. I don't eat there anymore.

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Text - whiterabbittxz • 1y Saw a dude eat spaghetti in milk one time. One very dark time.

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White - Alfa-Dog • 1y Ketchup on sushi. (Shivers...)

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Text - Eucatari • 1y I knew a guy who would bite into hot pockets in the middle, holding each end. Wtf man.

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Text - Kaldus • 1y 3 1 Award A couple of years ago when my best friend and I were still in college, she stayed over at mine a few times. It was then that I learned that she liked dipping cheese into hot chocolate. Like, full on dunking it in, waiting for it to partially melt, swirling it around and then eating it. I love her to bits, she's like my kid sister... but I still haven't entirely recovered.

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Text - Patralex • 1y My roommate's mom eats peanut butter and onion sandwiches.

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Text - discountFleshVessel • 1y This is my own confession. I really love to eat lemons. Not in wedges or squeezed on things, but in the way you would eat an orange or a clementine, by peeling it and eating the whole thing. For some reason sourness is just the best to me. I'm a person of many weird food preferences but this is the one that causes witnesses to cringe the most.

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Text - ZuckerRavioli • 1y Kid I used to know in school used to rip open his milk carton, and dip his burrito into the chocolate milk. Sometimes he'd even goes so far as to rip open the burrito and pour his milk onto the beef and eggs to. (I'm quoting him here.) "Creamify the meat." I don't know man, but the word Creamify is just. ugh. Edit 1: Wow, went to sleep with only 556 Karma to my name. Woke up, and now I have 6.8K?!?! Wow, you guys (and girls) are amazing! Thank you so much everyone! Edit

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Text - LuckOfZ • 1y I live with someone who lives to eat food sins. Do you really think water with cereal is bad? Boy, the thing I would consider the least of eating sins would be when she microwaved a fucking pickle with cheese on it, then dipped in fucking ice cream. I can't stand to sit in the kitchen when shes in there because of the shit she made. If anyone is interested, I'll provide more horrid creations she made and ate, but all you really need to know is that fucking pickle.

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Text - drownb4uburn • 1y In college I would sometimes drain the water out of my Shrimp Cup 'O Noodles and mix in a big spoonful of peanut butter. I honestly don't know what to tell you other than I did it once out of boredom, it wasn't terrible, and it made my life interesting.

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Text - feral_hippie • 1y 1 Award A former friend of mine once poured a can of Coors Light into a bowl of Cheerios. He called it Beerios. 29.6k

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