From time to time problems arise in any workplace. Sometimes, it’s the colleague on your left, other times it’s the manager getting into trouble, and on some occasions, you’re the one to take the blame. And while we do really mess up and have to take responsibility for our actions here and there (no one was born a perfect employee!), some superiors do seem to really enjoy putting us down, for whatever crazy reasons.
Recently, labor activist Katie Harrington initiated a Twitter thread asking people “what’s the weirdest thing you ever got in trouble at work for?” She also shared how she was “accused of being disrespectful because the six people I CCd on an email weren’t listed in order of seniority.”
Read on for some of the most facepalm-worthy responses down below! They will make you wonder what on earth is going on in employers’ heads, and how we all deserve a medal for putting up with it and showing up with a smile 5 days a week.
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R@pe. The censored word is r@pe. I get blurring out cuss words, BP, but this is taking it too far!
A girl I worked with got me pulled up to HR because I liked to say indubitably. She said I used big words, which made her feel dumb. When asked for an example, she tried to say indubitably, but couldn't.
While making mistakes is only human and your workplace is not an exception, depending on what kind of mistake it is, your employment status can be jeopardized by a single slip. Moreover, if you're a new employee, the company isn't convinced yet that you're indispensable. In that case, building your name all the way from that first good impression to the top is another job to do, but there are some simple things that you can do that may indeed get you into trouble.
If you tend to pat yourself and not others on the back at work, you’re communicating that you don’t care about the success or contributions of others on the team. Of course, self-gratitude and self-motivation are important, but you should also express your appreciation to your boss and fellow employees to show that you care for them.
Wearing your heart on your sleeve, aka too much honesty, should be better left at home. If you’re often vocally stressed or you openly display negative emotions, they will hurt your reputation and will probably have an impact on your team. No employer would be willing to put up with an overly negative attitude.
Those who avoid expressing their views and opinions at all costs may also get into trouble. While it may feel peaceful to you, your manager may get the impression that you’re coasting. If you’re really afraid of getting pushed back, remember that the reason why you were selected for your workplace in this extremely competitive market is because you were promising of your great work contributions, more than other competitors for the position. It’s only fair that they also want to see you in action and not just backing into your safety zone.
It has been brought to our attention you are absent from work only during work hours... very very sus.
She should have reported the creeps to the police for child prostitution. After she phoned her father to tell him that her boss was a pimp. First to get at that place gets to call the shots.
"So where are you located?" "I'm sorry, I can't reveal that information to customers because that's classified information that they could use to rob us."
If male colleagues can't go around without thinking inappropriate about someone eating banana, they need to be trained. Everyone in office should get at least 3 bananas to eat that day in office. I'd definitely do that.
The male colleagues can't help it when the manager is a pervert, though. And "manager" is a gender neutral word.
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That is bullshit. Women are constantly viewed as nothing more then pleasure pods for men and told to not arouse them. How about we change the way men think of women and treat women are normal productive members of society. This make me so angry
"Oddly enough, there was no reaction when I was cutting a carrot into bite-sized chunks with a little guillotine..."
See, this is a ridiculous thing to sexualize. Unless they actually want “it” bitten off! As if “it” was a comparable length to even the smallest banana, to begin with.
I was taken to task for eating a cruller (long, thin donut). My male colleagues who made suggestive (and in a couple cases, outright pornographic) comments were not reprimanded in any way.
If you get aroused around women eating vaguely phallic foods, maaaaaybe you shouldn't be around women?
Had a male colleague who looked at me "like that" and tried to embarrass me while I innocently ate a banana. I have neither time nor patience for this cřap! I also had a cucumber in my veggie stash - should have been for later that day but I ate it directly afterwards. As a whole. Biting heartily into it. Like a velociraptor. All the time making eye contact with him. Message received!
How do you inappropriately eat a banana? Were you not using a fork and knife or what lol?
Usually making lingering eye contact. This may not be limited to bananas. Mr Whippy ice creams are also subject to inappropriate eye contact.
Load More Replies... Yet if a man had eaten the banana…he was the one who sexualized it! He should have been spoken to about sexual harassment.
And of course it's YOUR fault. Not the fault of the male coworker for thinking that way. 🙄
How dare you eat a banana in the presence of your male coworker! How has PTSD over it.
I wonder what the male colleague's imagination would have conjured up if you'd cut the banana in tiny pieces.
Go all innocent 'But why? No, I don't know what it looks like, can you tell me?'. Or, next lunch break, bring a banana, lovingly peel it, then viciously mash it with a fork in front of all your male colleagues.
Its a banana. How does give someone dirty thoughts? Do they want their penis peeled and eaten?
finish eating it, showing lots of teeth with each bite to that perv
The correct way to eat a banana 🍌 in public is to cut it off in slices with a knife.
Head straight to HR and a lawyer, you're a millionaire! You hit the labour lottery!
What!? everyone knows the only appropriate way to eat a banana is to chop it into little discs and then use chopsticks!!!
If it was his banana, there'd be grounds for complaints. Now, also (for discrimination/harassment).
Nothing more satisfying than to be able to humiliate your boss in public. "Yes, I found the solution my bossed claimed, by not looking at the symptoms, but by looking for the cause."
hope you learned :D to be hones at my first job i learned very fast that working efficiently for higher ups means 'more time to do other people's job'
Only severed heads can be weighed accurately. There's not just loss of fluids, but also some of the weight gets carried by the shoulders etc so measurement is incorrect. Or so I'm told.
I love when people are baffled by others do math in their head. Had a teacher just stare at me once when I gave him an answer to fraction subtraction. Wasn’t even a math class, it was photography. He was showing us how to cut print mats, and asked someone what the difference was between two measurements. Not sure why he was so surprised.
For those as confused as I was: "They are the exact same. Clip, but apparently if you put the larger loop to the back and the smaller loop to the front it gives more support and is the correct way to do it."
We had a new start that got a complaint made about him by an older co-worker. They were being trained and following one of my crib sheets, crib sheet said click "return" (easier for non computer using older guy to follow), new start pressed enter instead. Big drama and lots of explaining that they did the same thing.
Been watching video's from US expats working in Europe who are all flabbergasted that people pack up and go home at the end of the day and there's no boss getting furious about it.
Your highness and most esteemed employer, to my indescribable sorrow I am compelled to inform you that it is impossible for me to visit your temple of underpaid labor because of a temporary weakness in my mental health. I will do my best to overcome this barrier in my productivity as quickly as possible in order to be able to serve you optimally again as soon as possible.
On Monday, half the employees shuffle in like zombies, so I'm not sure why the receptionist could be surprised.
Well, actually, with the accent it's pretty racist. So a brief talk about this is not a bad idea.
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I got in trouble for being sexually assaulted by a client who repeatedly grabbed my breasts. Why did I get in trouble? Because we were friends on Facebook and he may have gotten the wrong idea. Wish I was joking.
Karen was shagging the boss & had him wrapped around her finger. One day somebody stole her lunch out of the fridge & she was livid. She went around interrogating every employee & when she asked me I replied in my best sgt. Shultz voice (yes, it was decades ago) “ I know Not-ting!”. She deduced from my flippant reply that I was the guilty party, went to the boss, told him that not only did I steal her lunch but I also disrespected her & demanded that I be fired & I was. I really didn’t give a s**t about the job so I didn’t defend myself. The next day one of the other employees informed the boss that I only lived a block away from the office & went home for lunch every day & didn’t even go into the lunchroom at work. Boss called & left message on my answering machine offering me my job back. I never replied.
I'd been a temp-to-hire at a company for several months before I was told to submit an application for the job they said they were going to offer me. I figured the application was a mere formality, and in the section for "geographical preference" I wrote Earth. A couple of years later I found out the entire HR department was angry at me for that.
I once had to work overtime because I told a really bad joke to my CEO.
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got called in to supervisor and director's office and asked if i thought it was appropriate to look up porn while on my lunch break. was so confused until the showed me what the IT dept had reported as which point i started to laugh. had to explain that i wasn't looking for porn - i was looking for theatres that were showing the then-new movie "XXX" with vin diesel. had to look up the movie on the computer to prove to them it really was a movie and that my husband wanted to do a dinner and movie date.
Yesterday someone called my podiatry clinic and I did not know what she said and did not want to sound dumb-I am new and have no background in podiatry, so I looked up the word I thought it was as she talked. It ended up giving me nothing but porn. Never would have thought and I am pretty savy on terms. LOL at least I was alone and know there is no IT looking at what was searched. I erased history, texted my coworker how funny that was.
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I said f**k that on the dept floor to a coworker (dont even remember why) and apparently a supervisor over heard me. I got called in to the office 3 weeks later and was fired. They asked me to sign my termination papers saying I was insubordinate and I refused . I applied for unemployment and they tried to deny me and I had to go through the appeals process. On the reason for the denial they stated that I was making two many errors in my position and a bunch of other bull crap related to my job performance. The unemployment person asked me what happened, I told them I said a curse word and was never advised that my performance was off and they asked if I was ever offered retraining and confirmed I had not been. I was able to get my unemployment approved. I did go back and work for the same company a year later and eventually they had to close due to so many lawsuits from the owner and all his sexual harassment claims against him.
Had a boss get pissed and tell me "I don't understand this resistance, you're job is to do what I tell you to do." I literally asked what she wanted me to do and that was her response. I never had a conversation alone with her again. If she hadn't transferred, I would have quit.
Worked on a golf course, was told, because I was a girl, I could not wear shorts, in the Texas summers because, "You would distract the players with your legs showing." I wore my hubs shorts that were 5 times too big and long, gathered with a rope around my waist. Did not distract anyone but got some laughs. I was told I could wear a longer version of normal shorts.
As a licensed rn, I got in trouble for reading the patient directions on how to take their medication.
I worked at a high volume spay/neuter clinic. It was January, in Canada, and it was snowing. An owner dropped his dog off for a neuter, and found that his car wouldn't start. He came back into the clinic to ask if anyone had jumper cables. I said I did, and I could pull my car next to his, but he'd have to boost it because I didn't know how. I went to the back to tell the manager I was gonna move my car real quick so an owner could get a boost. She told me I was on the clock and if I went outside to move my car, she'd write me up. For taking 2 minutes to move my car so an owner could get a boost. I told her if she wrote me up, she wasn't just an awful manager, she was an awful human being. I helped the owner and quit a few months later.
I got a verbal warning for adding about five jpegs of stationery items (with no barcodes) to our point of sale system so that staff could click on quick keys on the screen rather than type in the product description. My general manager was outraged, telling me that my unauthorised use of jpegs put the entire system at risk of catastrophic failure. Sum total of the thumbnails I used was something like 186kb. 😳
A lot of these sound like they came from the U.S., which is basically like the Wild West where employment's concerned. Their whole work culture is so effed - I just can't work out why, in a democracy, they don't DO something about it.
Yes, our whole work culture is f****d. The minimum wage has not been adjusted for inflation since the 1960's. Rare to no paid time off for maternity/paternity leave. A disgusting shortage or complete lack of health and retirement benefits. Companies exist to grind through employees so they can make the largest profit possible, at the expense of those same employees. Our democracy is fatally broken. Our "representatives" in government are bought off by wealthy donors who want to keep the status quo.
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The big slob I was working for yelled at me because I'd made a swallow or two more than just a small glass of milkshake for a boy. He had just given spoiled shrimp to be served to the child. Last straw! (there had been many straws) I quit!
I was a manager for a shoe store in a mall. I bought rubber boots and a pale from petty cash. I proceeded to tell my new hire "You know the fountain in the middle of the mall, all the retailers in the mall have an opportunity to use the fountain coins for their social committee throughout the year." Enthusiastically, I said. "It's our turn! So put on these boots and take this pale with you." So there goes my new hire walking down the mall wearing bright yellow rubber boots, squeaking with every step he makes and holding a pink pale. It's a very busy Saturday. He enters the fountain and immediately grabs a handful of coins and throws them in the pale. He proceeds grabbing handful after handful of coins until is pale was almost full. Then two securities run right past me, once they make it to the fountain they grab my new hire by his arms and pull him out of the fountain. He then proceeds to yell out "It's our turn! It's our turn!" Looking back, it was worth the trouble I received ;)
I got into trouble for needing to go to the dentist. Turns out my employers weren't paying health insurance premiums. They actually tried talking me out of going, but that's not how wisdom teeth work. Then after I came back from the dentist, they tried writing me up for not ordering milk for the restaurant, which wasn't even my job. I'm pretty certain the management had a drug problem. In another job, I got snarled at for smiling by a guy who later assaulted a woman in the office but got off scott-free because he was a business owner. Guess what country I'm in.
Got written up for screaming at coworkers after being called a sexually explicit/racist name for months. Then got spoken to when the supervisors decided to then do a team building exercise that included making a short “telanovela” that all employees were forced to watch that parodied our work day. I was the only Latina in my work place and was offended that this was my culture being mocked. Most of those people are still awful.
Got evicted from a place (18yo, bad loud roommates), ran to work to tell my boss I wouldn’t be in that evening as I had to move my stuff immediately. He fired me on the spot.
I once had a security guard chew me out for wearing my ID badge "incorrectly", clipped to my belt rather than on a lanyard. I calmly pointed out that none of his colleagues, his boss *my* boss, or my manager had any issues with it.
It is kind of nice to be a 49 year old accountant. I am at the age and place in life when I can simply tell people to get someone else if they don't like the way I do things. But, on the other hand, I would love to be told that I am not paid to think. That would get expensive for the one doing the telling. Very, very expensive - fast.
I have a feeling that many of these are leaving out several important details. Example, guy that came in drunk every Monday and used up all his sick time to recover from the bar and the boss knew it. Guy asks off for legitimate reason and boss says if you miss don't bother coming back as the boss is tired of it. Guy gets on bored panda and leaves out his drunken mishaps, and just makes the boss look unreasonable. Cmon, I've seen you guys review restaurants, do I really think you'll be fair describing how work did you wrong? I'm not saying all of these are that way, but most.
A supervisor came "roaring" out of a meeting looking for me. Was in a room with key entry and she had to wait til I came out. She confronted me with my disruption of her meeting in her office. What did I do? I was laughing so loud it disrupted her meeting. She turned on her heels and started back to her office, and my coworker started laughing, she was on a phone call. The supervisor sounded around and looked directly at me, then slowly turned her head to my coworker. Supervisor never apologized, never acknowledged the other worker. I heard about ME being disruptive for at least a year after.
I got in trouble at work for offering to make a cup of coffee for a colleague and asking them if they wanted their coffee black or white (a VERY common expression here in Australia). I was told this was politically incorrect and racist and I should have asked if they wanted their coffee with or without milk. No good deed goes unpunished.
I used to work at a bar and I got in trouble for a customer on a "Boys night out" and he grabbed my p*ssy and I decked him and kicked him out. Apparently it was bad publicity for the bar to kick out guys who like to grab.
Back in college, I was fired from a job for being too productive. I worked in an industrial clean room, doing final inspection and assembly of aircraft instruments. Our quota was four units per person per shift. I figured out a technique that went far faster, and was able to complete as many as 123 units on a shift. Not a single one was ever rejected, but the company owner said I was hurting morale by working so fast, and the production line couldn't keep up with me to make the parts, so I was let go. I learned from it that if there's a slow and tedious way to do a job, find it and stick to it.
I had to order wallpaper for a job (worked in construction) but the distributor was closed because of an incoming hurricane. Of course, this was my fault and I got screamed at because clearly I was trying to sabotage the company.
My boss prepared a school trip to Cairo he told me that I will go with them , that day I was at home and I told him that I will travel to the desert road to meet them and accompany me to our distination he said so we will meet at Altahadi I said ok boss then he didn't make the bus driver stop at the certain point but my colleague called me and told the bus driver to go back to accompany me. What a bad boss and real colleague!
I once got fired for not coming into work, nor calling off from my shift, for 30 straight days. Sounds reasonable, I admit. However, this was 30 days into a doctor approved 60 medical leave, which I informed my manager of in person, presented her the paperwork from my doctor, and she told me to "Get well, take care of myself, and she hopes I'll come back in better health," with no mention of the firing policy. However, it was clearly written in the employee manual about the 30 day policy, so she had to let me go from the company. For bonus points, my manager was also my aunt, and well aware of how my health had been affecting my job performance and home life both
I have so many but the first one that comes to mind was when it was World MS Day (the company was owned by MS at the time). I sent an email to all staff in the office at about 2.30pm stating that it was World MS Day. I then got reprimanded about 10 minutes later from HR stating that they were going to send out an email informing everyone about World MS Day and that it wasn’t my job to tell staff of this (my mum died from MS so this is close to my heart). The work day was almost over and they hadn’t sent an email so I figured they weren’t going to, hence why I sent it. I was always angry about that.
I got chewed out on like my third day of the job for telling a customer that the woman at the next cash register can answer her question. In retrospect I understand I should’ve taken the customer with me to find someone who could answer, but that manager really reamed me out. I spent ten minutes crying in the fitting room.
I got in trouble for being sexually assaulted by a client who repeatedly grabbed my breasts. Why did I get in trouble? Because we were friends on Facebook and he may have gotten the wrong idea. Wish I was joking.
Karen was shagging the boss & had him wrapped around her finger. One day somebody stole her lunch out of the fridge & she was livid. She went around interrogating every employee & when she asked me I replied in my best sgt. Shultz voice (yes, it was decades ago) “ I know Not-ting!”. She deduced from my flippant reply that I was the guilty party, went to the boss, told him that not only did I steal her lunch but I also disrespected her & demanded that I be fired & I was. I really didn’t give a s**t about the job so I didn’t defend myself. The next day one of the other employees informed the boss that I only lived a block away from the office & went home for lunch every day & didn’t even go into the lunchroom at work. Boss called & left message on my answering machine offering me my job back. I never replied.
I'd been a temp-to-hire at a company for several months before I was told to submit an application for the job they said they were going to offer me. I figured the application was a mere formality, and in the section for "geographical preference" I wrote Earth. A couple of years later I found out the entire HR department was angry at me for that.
I once had to work overtime because I told a really bad joke to my CEO.
Load More Replies... got called in to supervisor and director's office and asked if i thought it was appropriate to look up porn while on my lunch break. was so confused until the showed me what the IT dept had reported as which point i started to laugh. had to explain that i wasn't looking for porn - i was looking for theatres that were showing the then-new movie "XXX" with vin diesel. had to look up the movie on the computer to prove to them it really was a movie and that my husband wanted to do a dinner and movie date.
Yesterday someone called my podiatry clinic and I did not know what she said and did not want to sound dumb-I am new and have no background in podiatry, so I looked up the word I thought it was as she talked. It ended up giving me nothing but porn. Never would have thought and I am pretty savy on terms. LOL at least I was alone and know there is no IT looking at what was searched. I erased history, texted my coworker how funny that was.
Load More Replies... I said f**k that on the dept floor to a coworker (dont even remember why) and apparently a supervisor over heard me. I got called in to the office 3 weeks later and was fired. They asked me to sign my termination papers saying I was insubordinate and I refused . I applied for unemployment and they tried to deny me and I had to go through the appeals process. On the reason for the denial they stated that I was making two many errors in my position and a bunch of other bull crap related to my job performance. The unemployment person asked me what happened, I told them I said a curse word and was never advised that my performance was off and they asked if I was ever offered retraining and confirmed I had not been. I was able to get my unemployment approved. I did go back and work for the same company a year later and eventually they had to close due to so many lawsuits from the owner and all his sexual harassment claims against him.
Had a boss get pissed and tell me "I don't understand this resistance, you're job is to do what I tell you to do." I literally asked what she wanted me to do and that was her response. I never had a conversation alone with her again. If she hadn't transferred, I would have quit.
Worked on a golf course, was told, because I was a girl, I could not wear shorts, in the Texas summers because, "You would distract the players with your legs showing." I wore my hubs shorts that were 5 times too big and long, gathered with a rope around my waist. Did not distract anyone but got some laughs. I was told I could wear a longer version of normal shorts.
As a licensed rn, I got in trouble for reading the patient directions on how to take their medication.
I worked at a high volume spay/neuter clinic. It was January, in Canada, and it was snowing. An owner dropped his dog off for a neuter, and found that his car wouldn't start. He came back into the clinic to ask if anyone had jumper cables. I said I did, and I could pull my car next to his, but he'd have to boost it because I didn't know how. I went to the back to tell the manager I was gonna move my car real quick so an owner could get a boost. She told me I was on the clock and if I went outside to move my car, she'd write me up. For taking 2 minutes to move my car so an owner could get a boost. I told her if she wrote me up, she wasn't just an awful manager, she was an awful human being. I helped the owner and quit a few months later.
I got a verbal warning for adding about five jpegs of stationery items (with no barcodes) to our point of sale system so that staff could click on quick keys on the screen rather than type in the product description. My general manager was outraged, telling me that my unauthorised use of jpegs put the entire system at risk of catastrophic failure. Sum total of the thumbnails I used was something like 186kb. 😳
A lot of these sound like they came from the U.S., which is basically like the Wild West where employment's concerned. Their whole work culture is so effed - I just can't work out why, in a democracy, they don't DO something about it.
Yes, our whole work culture is f****d. The minimum wage has not been adjusted for inflation since the 1960's. Rare to no paid time off for maternity/paternity leave. A disgusting shortage or complete lack of health and retirement benefits. Companies exist to grind through employees so they can make the largest profit possible, at the expense of those same employees. Our democracy is fatally broken. Our "representatives" in government are bought off by wealthy donors who want to keep the status quo.
Load More Replies... The big slob I was working for yelled at me because I'd made a swallow or two more than just a small glass of milkshake for a boy. He had just given spoiled shrimp to be served to the child. Last straw! (there had been many straws) I quit!
I was a manager for a shoe store in a mall. I bought rubber boots and a pale from petty cash. I proceeded to tell my new hire "You know the fountain in the middle of the mall, all the retailers in the mall have an opportunity to use the fountain coins for their social committee throughout the year." Enthusiastically, I said. "It's our turn! So put on these boots and take this pale with you." So there goes my new hire walking down the mall wearing bright yellow rubber boots, squeaking with every step he makes and holding a pink pale. It's a very busy Saturday. He enters the fountain and immediately grabs a handful of coins and throws them in the pale. He proceeds grabbing handful after handful of coins until is pale was almost full. Then two securities run right past me, once they make it to the fountain they grab my new hire by his arms and pull him out of the fountain. He then proceeds to yell out "It's our turn! It's our turn!" Looking back, it was worth the trouble I received ;)
I got into trouble for needing to go to the dentist. Turns out my employers weren't paying health insurance premiums. They actually tried talking me out of going, but that's not how wisdom teeth work. Then after I came back from the dentist, they tried writing me up for not ordering milk for the restaurant, which wasn't even my job. I'm pretty certain the management had a drug problem. In another job, I got snarled at for smiling by a guy who later assaulted a woman in the office but got off scott-free because he was a business owner. Guess what country I'm in.
Got written up for screaming at coworkers after being called a sexually explicit/racist name for months. Then got spoken to when the supervisors decided to then do a team building exercise that included making a short “telanovela” that all employees were forced to watch that parodied our work day. I was the only Latina in my work place and was offended that this was my culture being mocked. Most of those people are still awful.
Got evicted from a place (18yo, bad loud roommates), ran to work to tell my boss I wouldn’t be in that evening as I had to move my stuff immediately. He fired me on the spot.
I once had a security guard chew me out for wearing my ID badge "incorrectly", clipped to my belt rather than on a lanyard. I calmly pointed out that none of his colleagues, his boss *my* boss, or my manager had any issues with it.
It is kind of nice to be a 49 year old accountant. I am at the age and place in life when I can simply tell people to get someone else if they don't like the way I do things. But, on the other hand, I would love to be told that I am not paid to think. That would get expensive for the one doing the telling. Very, very expensive - fast.
I have a feeling that many of these are leaving out several important details. Example, guy that came in drunk every Monday and used up all his sick time to recover from the bar and the boss knew it. Guy asks off for legitimate reason and boss says if you miss don't bother coming back as the boss is tired of it. Guy gets on bored panda and leaves out his drunken mishaps, and just makes the boss look unreasonable. Cmon, I've seen you guys review restaurants, do I really think you'll be fair describing how work did you wrong? I'm not saying all of these are that way, but most.
A supervisor came "roaring" out of a meeting looking for me. Was in a room with key entry and she had to wait til I came out. She confronted me with my disruption of her meeting in her office. What did I do? I was laughing so loud it disrupted her meeting. She turned on her heels and started back to her office, and my coworker started laughing, she was on a phone call. The supervisor sounded around and looked directly at me, then slowly turned her head to my coworker. Supervisor never apologized, never acknowledged the other worker. I heard about ME being disruptive for at least a year after.
I got in trouble at work for offering to make a cup of coffee for a colleague and asking them if they wanted their coffee black or white (a VERY common expression here in Australia). I was told this was politically incorrect and racist and I should have asked if they wanted their coffee with or without milk. No good deed goes unpunished.
I used to work at a bar and I got in trouble for a customer on a "Boys night out" and he grabbed my p*ssy and I decked him and kicked him out. Apparently it was bad publicity for the bar to kick out guys who like to grab.
Back in college, I was fired from a job for being too productive. I worked in an industrial clean room, doing final inspection and assembly of aircraft instruments. Our quota was four units per person per shift. I figured out a technique that went far faster, and was able to complete as many as 123 units on a shift. Not a single one was ever rejected, but the company owner said I was hurting morale by working so fast, and the production line couldn't keep up with me to make the parts, so I was let go. I learned from it that if there's a slow and tedious way to do a job, find it and stick to it.
I had to order wallpaper for a job (worked in construction) but the distributor was closed because of an incoming hurricane. Of course, this was my fault and I got screamed at because clearly I was trying to sabotage the company.
My boss prepared a school trip to Cairo he told me that I will go with them , that day I was at home and I told him that I will travel to the desert road to meet them and accompany me to our distination he said so we will meet at Altahadi I said ok boss then he didn't make the bus driver stop at the certain point but my colleague called me and told the bus driver to go back to accompany me. What a bad boss and real colleague!
I once got fired for not coming into work, nor calling off from my shift, for 30 straight days. Sounds reasonable, I admit. However, this was 30 days into a doctor approved 60 medical leave, which I informed my manager of in person, presented her the paperwork from my doctor, and she told me to "Get well, take care of myself, and she hopes I'll come back in better health," with no mention of the firing policy. However, it was clearly written in the employee manual about the 30 day policy, so she had to let me go from the company. For bonus points, my manager was also my aunt, and well aware of how my health had been affecting my job performance and home life both
I have so many but the first one that comes to mind was when it was World MS Day (the company was owned by MS at the time). I sent an email to all staff in the office at about 2.30pm stating that it was World MS Day. I then got reprimanded about 10 minutes later from HR stating that they were going to send out an email informing everyone about World MS Day and that it wasn’t my job to tell staff of this (my mum died from MS so this is close to my heart). The work day was almost over and they hadn’t sent an email so I figured they weren’t going to, hence why I sent it. I was always angry about that.
I got chewed out on like my third day of the job for telling a customer that the woman at the next cash register can answer her question. In retrospect I understand I should’ve taken the customer with me to find someone who could answer, but that manager really reamed me out. I spent ten minutes crying in the fitting room.
