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30 Times Superiors Had To Lay Off Their Best Employee For The Most Unexpected Reasons, As Shared In This Online Group
Finding people to work for you isn’t as easy as it looks because they may excel at their interview and write a convincing resume, but when it comes to doing the actual job, they might not have what it takes, which is disappointing.
Other times, managers and bosses might think that they've found the one, because the employee shows up on time, reaches the goals, performs well under pressure, but is a nasty person or makes an unforgivable mistake and they have to be fired.
People on Reddit shared the valid, the absurd and sometimes funny reasons they had to fire someone or they saw someone being fired, despite that person being considered the best employee when machewwy asked, “Employers And Managers Who Had To Fire Their Best Employee - What Happened?”
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#1
We hire a lot of people in recovery who are a part of the [illegal substances] court program under the condition that they will be terminated if they go back to jail for [illegal substances]/alcohol charges.
This coworker was our hardest worker and always picked up shifts and got tons of compliments, so it really sucked when she relapsed and failed her pee test with drug court, she got sent to jail for a week and we had to fire her.
I still kept in touch with her, and when I found out she was pregnant, I convinced my boss to hire her back. One last chance.
I'm so happy I wasn't wrong because she's about to celebrate her 4th year of sobriety and she's now management.
Francis 3 years ago
why is BP changing ".. a part of the drug court programm..."? wtf? in an other post in this list they changed "f*cked" to "slept with" wtf?!
Memere 3 years ago (edited)
It's probably due to the advertisers kicking up a fuss. And there are so many people who are "triggered" by so many common words/phrases in our "Woke/Cancel Culture", they have the algorithm set up to change AAALLLL the trigger words/phrases. It's tiresome.
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Jeff Lum 3 years ago
It's not BP, it's the snowflakes who complain because they need something to be offended by.
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Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
As a recovery fellow, I thank your bpss for giving her another chance.
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#2
I used to work for Dell back in 1998-2000 in their sales department. This is juuuuuust right before people ordered online so it was still a call center. To make a REALLY long story short, I was one of their best sales reps. Top 3 every month, I was making about $5,000 a week as a 23 year old. They decided to replace me (and most of my team) with "temps" making $11 an hour an no commissions-- only I didn't know this. I was given a "great opportunity" to train a new class of incoming sales people. Little did I know I was training our replacements. Once they hit the floor and were running, they fired me and about 200 other sales people. F**k Dell. Oh, then a few years later even the temps got fired so they could move all those jobs to a call center in India.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
Remember Dell's stoner TV spokesperson? ("Dude, you're getting a Dell!") Yeah, they fired him too. Not because he was exposed as being different in real life from what he appeared on the screen. But because he was exactly the same.
Quinn Hofmann 3 years ago
I remember the second I heard about that, my dad said " Dude, you're getting a cell'. I laughed my ∆ss off
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Nancy Howard 3 years ago
More people need to know this corporation behavior is prevalent in our country. When I learn a company has moved overseas or south of the border they will not get another cent from me Why we as citizen consumers didn't revolt when companies started doing this is on us.
ShareMusic 3 years ago
I've owned almost all Dell computers beginning in 1995. They had absolutely wonderful customer service back then. Till they went cheap.
Jose Antonio 3 years ago
Well just another reason added that i hate Dell and will not give them my business.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
This happened to me and a colleague, we worked for a Newspaper that got sold to a huge American Company ( Newsquest) we were asked to build up retail areas for advertising then pass them onto new staff, after we had both done this for over a year we got made redundant and 8 new people were employed for less pay and in our places. After we left that Newspaper lasted a few months and has since dissolved into nothing, showing that they got rid of the wrong workers :D
Sali Seydel Mounce 3 years ago
😡 Typical big company that started out as a little company using grass roots people.
#3
Obligatory not me but... Coworker.
I had joined the company a few months prior, was still getting to know the various details of my job and this guy was the star of the company. I spent as much time working with him as i could honestly.
I mean, he was the f*****g star. He was a solid programmer, great project manager, awesome account and customer management skills and he had a knack for thinking outside the box on creative solutions.
He loved working there, had rejected offers from google, Facebook and pinterest (that i know of!).
...and then he [slept with] the directors 16 year old daughter (Age of consent is 16 here) he was 31.
Welp.
Tamra 3 years ago
Even though this states the age of consent is 16, I find a 31 year old man wanting to have sex with a 16 year old GIRL to be utterly disgusting.
Michael Largey 3 years ago
A 31-year-old man wanting to have sex with a 16-year-old is indeed utterly disgusting. But then going ahead and actually doing it deserves an even stronger adjective.
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WonderWoman 3 years ago
Even if he walked on water, he is a pedophile and has no business being employed.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
There should be caveats about age of consent laws, like you can only have sex with a partner your own age until you are 18. None of this just-barely-not-pedo b******t.
Memere 3 years ago
Seriously icky, but to be honest, I've met 15-16 year old girls who are the pursuers. I'm not giving the 31 year old dude a pass, but there's always 2 sides to the story!
Biofish23 3 years ago
When I was 15 I had a massive crush on a 30ish year old man. I didn't directly hit on him, but I'm sure I wasn't nearly as subtle as I thought I was. Eventually he noticed my intrest. Do you know what he did then? He behaved like a decent responsible adult. He was polite, but not overly friendly, and avoided being alone with me. Teens developing infatuation of certain adults is normal. Adults taking advantage of those children is not!
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#4
Obligatory 'Happened to a coworker'
Working at a bank, my branch had the Biggest superstar in the STATE, always crushing sales numbers, he generated more revenue than the rest of the branch COMBINED.
He set up a really big business account presentation, but his mother died literally on the day he was supposed to give the talk. Branch manager stepped in, held the presentation.
The guy had built everything up, it was essentially a done deal, branch manager just had to get a signature on the paperwork. Obviously feeling bad for him, thinking he deserved the credit, they booked the deal under his name the next day (technically to get credit for a deal you HAVE to be there at signing).
BOTH were fired within a week for sales manipulation.
Daffodil 3 years ago
Basically an employee who worked at a bank worked his a*s off to make a good presentation, but when it came to the day of the presentation he couldn't be there cause his mom died. His manager stepped in and presented it for him, and when it was time to sign the deal he put it under the employees name because he thought the employee deserved credit. But you have to be there on that day to get credit so both the employee and the manager were fired for sales manipulation. Basically manager tried to rightfully give star, hard-working employee credit for his work but some stupid rule got in his way and they were both fired for "Manipulation"
Load More Replies... Elizabeth Molloy 3 years ago
Just ... wow! I hope the client then took their custom elsewhere!
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
To all the folks castigating the bank as the bad guy in this scenario; I would be willing to bet that what the branch manager did ran afoul of some government banking regulation. Reading this it sounds to me that somebody's signature was forged on a financial document.
Power Builders 3 years ago
yup, manager must have "signed" the document on behalf of the star perfomer. Serious breach in banking. I got into a career damaging trouble trying to help a colleague's recently widowed mother to withdraw money belonging to the deceased. They were poor. Widow was present in person.
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Sue User 3 years ago
Name a bank that isnt horrid. Twice now i have opened accounts at smaller local banks, only for them to be bought out.
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Super talkative girl, really annoying, but was great on the phones. She caught on faster than anyone else at the job, the trainers were pretty impressed, and there was a lot of a*s-kissing on their end. By the first month she's been there, she was already in the top five for sales.
The problem was that she was a giant racist. She would've been totally fine if she kept her Neo-Nazi lifestyle quiet but she got in the mindset of "they won't fire me, I'm the best they have at sales". So she got comfortable and let the causal and not so causal racism flow.
It didn't help that the guy who sat next to her was a black guy from Spain and the girl behind her was Mexican.
S Mi 3 years ago (edited)
I often wonder, do people Iike this genuinely believe most white people are actually racist and agree with them? (Assuming based on 'neo nazi' she is Caucasian)
Karma Black 3 years ago
They really do. I can't tell you how many times total strangers have looked at my skin tone, made sickeningly racist comments, and expected me to laugh and agree with them. I'm multiracial. I'm just pale.
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DumYum 3 years ago
The sad part is, she probably learned nothing from the experience of being fired and will blame the woke culture. I was relaxing by a swimming pool when an elderly man decided to talk loudly into his cell phone and made racist comments about a “black” stealing his job in the 70s. He went full GQP. He will never get that maybe his own behavior has something to do with his life’s outcomes.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
We had an old lady at a call center I worked at that was like this. She managed to keep her racism to herself most of the time but one day she went off on a rant and made the mistake of going off on a brown skin girl and saying you people are the problem. She actually got really offended when I had to fire her. She said you can't agree with this and I said yes of course I do that was a rude thing to say and neither different times than the ones you grew up in if you have that much hate keep it to yourself.
#6
Top manager for retail job I worked at "lost" her keys to the store that also had the keys to all the registers on the key ring. The registers started going short or would be empty aside from the change and dollar bills in the drawer. This went on for months. Corporate found out after installing a new set of security cameras overnight without her knowledge. She enlisted a group of sales associates to do most of the dirty work but they found out she was the ringleader when they found out all the sales associates would bring her the stolen money and she would dole it out after taking her cut.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
I think you meant to say "should have", since it goes well above petty theft.
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Randy Volz 3 years ago
I spent 40+ years in Service Industry management, and I couldn't even begin to estimate the number of people I fired for skimming the till. But I never encountered an organized group.
Jo L. 3 years ago
I'm confused as to why you'd leave money in the till to begin with and not properly locked up and hidden. When I worked in retail, we always had a $200 float at the beginning of a shift, but it was always locked up in a lockbox at night, within another locked cabinet. How hard is it to make things more inconvenient to steal? I appreciate in the current situation it wouldn't have mattered - except for the fact that it would have been obvious immediately that the thieves were staff instead of it being months down the line.
#7
As the employee, with a manager who clearly didn't want to fire me, it was because I was not going to join the owner's Scientology activities.
At the firing interview, the owner's stooge, fellow Scientologist, and son-in-law, tried for 20 minutes to come up with reasons I was personally responsible for getting "fired". Every reason he floated for my "bad performance" was shot down by my own direct manager, whom I'd invited into the meeting as I suspected what it was. And get that - they WEREN'T going to invite him to a meeting where his own direct managee was being dismissed. It was all shady af.
Stuff like:
Stooge "CEO": "well, I see here that you have a lot of unfinished tasks."
Direct manager: "No, actually, everything on his to do list is complete."
(which, by the way, is why I thought I might be getting fired - I'd never had a clear to-do list).
It went on like that, until McStooge ran out of ideas.
After all that, the stooge then said, "well, the industry is on a down-turn, so we're downsizing and laying you off."
Upside: left in excellent financial condition, took a year off to complete a major goal in the martial art I'd been studying, went to Japan and achieved the goal, and now am being courted by terrific companies with interesting and challenging work. None of which are owned by Scientologists.
See, when you complain that a tiny company gives the entirety of its operational and expansion budget (about $1 million at the time) to Scientology, and thus suddenly can't pay people, it appears that that is called an "industry downturn".
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Don't get me started on owners of companies who cannot separate the business from their personal crusades. If the business goes down, you are affecting Other. People's. Lives! C'mon!
Ruth Hempsey 3 years ago
Created by an SF author on a bet that he could. That info was freely available when I was young until recent years when you cannot find it anywhere any longer. Live long enough and you can see manipulation in action plus the results. Scary.
Atreïdes 3 years ago (edited)
I’m pretty sure the bet was he could create a new false religion but with the ultimate goal in mind to generate wealth, to be more specific.
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I didn't have to do the firing, but for whatever reason, my colleague had it in for this mid-level supervisor. She was a great trainer, did everything she was asked, took initiative, and then some. She was always worth well more than what she earned, and had an absolute passion for the work (we worked with kids with autism).
After a few months of having some vendetta against her, my colleague wrote her up, literally for "being away from her desk too often".
Her uncle had recently been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and she was the only relative in town who could care for him. So the times she was away from her desk, she was stepping out to cry when she felt overwhelmed and didn't want people do see her cry.
I found out after she was let go for this that she had informed the supervisors of this when her uncle was diagnosed and that she was feeling very emotional about it and may need to take days off/take more frequent breaks to gather herself again and remain productive. Instead of showing compassion, my colleague used this as an opportunity to terminate her despite having no other red flags, feedback, or performance issues. There was simply a personality difference and she didn't gossip with the other supervisors. And this was all done with our other colleagues and supervisors' blessings.
I don't work for this company after I found out about this.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
We had an a*****e of a Manager that made a sales rep come into explain his work two days after his Mother died ... God how we hated that man
LoudMansLover 3 years ago
I was in a union in my old job, so I had protection, but I did this. I went to the bathroom frequently to have panic attacks and cry (often so bad I got nosebleeds). Why? Because the crew and management bullied me. I'm bipolar, and they thought I was "lazy" and "not doing enough work". I couldn't go as fast as the nuerotypical employees! So I started sitting up front in direct view of the cameras every time I got a nosebleed. I'd go through sooooo many tissues it was disgusting, but obvious I wasn't "faking" anything. Eventually I worked myself into an injury (lifetime physical one) and left. I hate that store so much.
Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
It sounds like she has a case for unfair dismissal? When my mum had cancer, my supervisor said I was trying to use the sympathy card when I travelled back home to care for her on my days off. I haven’t worked for them for over a decade now.
Julianne Hannes 3 years ago
I fear this is going to happen to me, my coworkers are gossiping right wing backstabbers who shun me and don't want me there
#9
Had a great waiter, Robert, f****r could run circles around the entire staff. He knew the kitchen as well, could jump in at prep and assist if we got backed up AND STILL tend to his tables.
Dumba*s put a $3 bottle of White Zinfandel in his backpack, right in front of a security camera AND while the owner was sitting at the bar eating. He was a student and working part time he had to be bringing in $300-500 in cash a week.
Francis 3 years ago
like my granny always said: you don't sh*t where you, so you don't steal where you work...
Disgruntled Panda 3 years ago
Or maybe, maybe just don't steal... radical opinion
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Wow, I wonder why he did it though, maybe just ask the boss for it. I mean that doesn't sound feasible I know...but its better than stealing it.
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
The thing is, when you catch someone stealing, it’s usually not the first time they stole, it’s the first time you caught them.
Atreïdes 3 years ago
Still does not justify it either way (underage drinking and theft)
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#10
Corporate set a trap, and baited him into stealing.
He was a great guy, fun and interesting. Easy to get along with. He would volunteer to take the early shifts and open the store. He'd receive the new inventory and stock the shelves himself. His cash was always correct and he never did anything wrong, until he did.
One morning he opened the new stock shipment, and loaded the shelves. There was an extra item in the box that wasn't listed on the manifest. The correct procedure was to add it to inventory, and put it on the shelf. He instead opted to claim it wasn't there, and took it home. The perfect crime, right?
I had to fire him the next day. And it sucked.
JB 3 years ago
“Corporate set a trap”. Did they? Do you know that for sure? How? Because in my experience wherever humans are involved in scanning inventory for tracking mistakes are made. If it was a trap, we must deduce there were reasons for setting it up that may have been specific to the individual (which means there were already concerns) or simply a random check for honesty that could have caught whoever was working when the shipment came through. Regardless of the reason, he had a choice. He chose wrong.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Always choose wisely when you have to pick the chalice....!
Load More Replies... DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
He made the wrong choice, I agree...but why set a trap though? Was he doing something wrong before? Was he stealing? I feel like this was just a way to fire him.
Kill-Bunny 3 years ago
I once worked as a replacement in a shop, it was my first job, I worked all alone as all other employees went for prolonged vacations. A new stock came. Every box had from 2 to 5 extra items than stated in documentation. I was confused. Called the original employee that I was covering. She was "just sell it without receipt and you can take the money for yourself as extra pay, we always do that". It was too weird and obviously against the law, but the owners were abroad and I couldn't reach them. So was just packing extra items separately. Every week twice a week new stock came and it had extra items. At the end of the month I had extra items worth about 2k (in a very small shop). Finally reached the owners. They said it was impossible and probably I count smthng wrong so for next few weeks they came to check new stock together. I was right. Apparently, other employees where scamming and stealing from the owners for years. What the owners did? Started scamming together with them.
#11
Work in retail. One of the staff from checkouts was amazing and would come up and help in our cafe constantly. She was fast, friendly with customers and we would get so many compliments and we asked if we could have her up here permanently.
She stole a pen. Security had her on camera, fired immediately.
EDIT: pen was a fancy pen, packaged on shelf to be sold. She was right under the security camera stealing it, security saw, told higher management and I don't really think stealing, regardless what of, can just be ignored. I believe they probably did it to scare employees like "this is what happens if you steal"
Hill Branda 3 years ago
Theft is theft, whether it's 5 dollars or 50. It's solid proof that the person can't be trusted---period.
LittleWombat 3 years ago
Blanket statements are ridiculous. There are desperate people who steal to eat. They aren't untrustworthy, just starving.
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#12
Worked in a restaurant at hotel chain; management regularly found meaningless reasons too suspend various employees or cut hours. This one guy had been there almost 13 years, clients loved him, staff appreciated his presence and he often came to the rescue of anyone requiring help. Everyone could depend on him and he supported everyone. He had, like everyone in a restaurant, bumped heads with management now and again, like EVERYONE. On one particular season they decided they were going to "groom him" in the eventuality to take on more responsibility. His position would eliminate his right to tips but it came with insurance, a retirement plan and steady pay. He had kids, was in his mid 40's, it all made sense why someone would take that job. He would however no longer be in the union.
Fast forward to the day after his training is complete. The guy comes in with his management uniform and all. Some waiter calls in sick, and instead of him calling in another employee he decides he was going to handle a few tables and the management responsibilities.
At the end of the shift the hotel manager "summons" the guy into his office (like the boss of his boss). They fired him straight away. He was escorted out of the building and our boss said there was strict rules and management working tables "harmed" the hotels image. It was complete B/S. He had maybe taken 2 tables and split the rest amongst the rest of the staff. Everyone basically agreed they promoted him just to get him out of the union to be able to fire him.
A number of employees left shortly after for other various reasons. It was a sort of shaking up the coup and anyone who wouldn't fall in line would be shown the door.
Today, that restaurant no longer exists, they closed down maybe 2 years later, rebranded the restaurant from American Steakhouse to Italian/French dining. New cooks, new waiters, new management... It was just sort of the catalyst or the first domino.
sofacushionfort 3 years ago
They set him up to fail. Management does this to assert authority while maintaining their delusion of “we’re good people.”
DeoManus Argentem 3 years ago
Precisely! I worked 2 separate jobs managing unionized employees, and the golden rule is, "don't help - not your job!" The union in this case probably could have claimed every single member not on duty at the time was owed four hours pay for every action the new manager performed (unless they were called in and refused.) Obviously depends on the contract, but it gets pretty wild (FL, US).
Load More Replies... Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
That sucks. As a customer, I've always appreciated when the restaurant managers or supervisors were involved with the tables.
martin734 3 years ago
Do employment laws only apply to union members? Do people not have the right to join a union regardless of their job? I am so glad to work in a country where you don't need to be a union member to be protected by the law and that if you do want to join a union, you can. I am not in a union but some of my colleagues are and we all have the same employment rights.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
Insurance, a retirement plan and steady pay should be the bedrock of any business.
Christina Macias 3 years ago
Worked as a regular employee then as a lead, the management was told to never work an area, as we always needed to be free. I hated that as both lead and employee since it overworked the regular employees
#13
Managed a grocery store in the midwest in the early 2000's.
Had a great night stock guy we'll call Juan. Because that was his name. I got to know him a little bit since I'd occasionally have to stay and help the night crew stock since they were frequently understaffed. Juan was from Mexico, lived in a tiny apartment with his extended family (parents, siblings, an aunt & uncle, few cousins, and a baby nephew and niece), and he worked two jobs full time. So for 8 hours a night he'd throw stock for me, then go work at a restaurant as a cook for 8 hours afterward, then go home and nap for as long as possible before repeating all over again.
I had nothing but respect for Juan, he was my 2nd best worker on night stock, always showed up on time, his output was quick and steady, and the man was scrupulously honest. One night he wanted a soda, but we had already closed the store/registers, so I told him to just get one out of the display case and pay for it later. He kept the receipt for 3 weeks until I saw him again and made sure he showed it to me because he wanted me to know he did, in fact, pay for it.
Anyway, after a few months on night stock, he asks me if we have any positions available during our open hours because he missed being able to see his family and wanted a more "normal" schedule. We needed an extra person in the meat department, so I asked him if he would be interested in that. He said he would, so I had him sit down with the butcher for an interview. The butcher liked him so we transferred Juan to the Meat Department. He did very well there and the hours allowed him some more freedom so it seemed like a great arrangement.
Here's where it goes bad: This was about a year after 9/11 so the new Homeland Security & Patriot Act laws were being enacted fast and furious. One side effect of this was background checks and the like were being conducted by EVERYONE so there was a backlog of requests. I get a notice from SSA that Juan's SS# wasn't valid. No big deal, someone probably put a number in wrong somewhere. I call our HR and read the number he put on his application, no errors. I go and find Juan and double check it. As I thought, one number was off. I send it back to HR. A week later I get a call from the HR director, she conferences in the regional AP guy. Apparently Juan is not a citizen of our country, we need to terminate him immediately.
I call Juan up to the office and let him know he's being let go. He's upset, but nods his head and leaves. He comes in a week later to pick up his last check but there's no check for him. I call HR and find out that since he's not a legal citizen, we're withholding his pay until we hear back from INS. I have to tell him this as well.
I don't know what happened to him after that. We DID eventually pay him for his last week of work, but we ended up not paying out any of his vacation time (of which he had a fair amount) because of reasons I'm not very clear on.
Tl;dr - Best employee was undocumented, had to let him go once corporate & HR found out.
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
One of the huge reasons why we need immigration reform in the US is that so many people who are here illegally are still paying taxes, paying into social security, etc.
over it already 3 years ago
And unable to reap any benefits of said systems
Load More Replies... martin734 3 years ago
This is similar in most countries. If you have no legal right to be in the country you cannot expect to have the same rights as legal citizens. Whether or not you agree with them, almost all countries have immigration laws that everyone has to abide by. The problem with may situations is employers exploiting illegal immigrants. Here in the UK employers are required to carry out checks to ensure that all employees have the right to work here. Any employer that hires illegal immigrants faces harsh punishments.
May light defeat the darkness 3 years ago (edited)
If help is really needed in the US, is there a way to hire migrant workers on a contractual basis like some wealthy Asian countries do for skilled workers from their neighbour developing countries? Singapore, Taiwan, KSA, South Korea does this. The need for labour will be filled, the workers can be taxed and they will also have a steady source of income.
Nicola Mawson 3 years ago
A friend of mine was fired without notice in South Africa for not having a work permit. We took the case to a lower labor court and she won six month's salary. Law is that everyone has rights. The irony is that the company that appointed her was the one who needed to sort out the visa
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 3 years ago
Withholding pay is actually illegal in Australia. Doesn't matter the reason.
#14
Lots of not-great stories here. I wanna share a good one. I worked at a call center, and this guy was an awesome customer service rep. We provided support for Android devices. We had a non-compete clause with the client that stipulated any current employees and former employees had to wait two years before working for the client. When we lost the project, we moved to a different client and we were a sales team. I found out that the client was hiring in-house support at twice the pay, and that if he was not rehirable, he would be exempt from the non-compete. So, I talked to him about it, and started fiddling with the performance report. In just three weeks, I was able to progress through our discipline steps to termination. He was fired, and then he contacted me on Hangouts to let me know he got his new job with the former client. It felt really good to help somebody promote out of a fairly poor call center into a better role. Also, since more than three years has passed, he's now rehirable at the old place. Win win!
Gwyn 3 years ago
This sounds really weird? Why he would the client how him if he had performance issues with the employer?
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago (edited)
Non compete clause. He can't quit to go work for the client. But if he's fired, he's free to seek employment wherever he wants. So you manufacture some performance issues...
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He'd been at the company for 8 years before I became his manager. All of his reviews were 5 star. He was f*****g awesome. So, I wanted to see what his deal was because it was odd to have the one stand out person. I shadowed him for ~5 days. He was 100% on the level with his work. He did it all correctly and quickly. Satisfied, I just let it be. 2 weeks later he's arrested and fired. He'd hidden several cameras in the ladies bathrooms.
EpicWolfandSparrow 3 years ago
Well... girl, female, whatever. I wouldn't really call myself a woman I'm not ladylike enough 😅
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#16
Was working for a rental company and the top seller got fired after getting into it with the regional GM. I was good friends with him (the seller, not the GM) and so the GM was out for my blood. I kept records and was careful but sure enough, I got hauled into the Managers office with the GM there to fire me. I asked for cause and he gave a bunch of flimsy c**p about my work and how I didn't complete the sales reports properly. I responded calmly each time, showed him the paperwork. His response? "I don't care that you have an answer for everything. You are friends with (ex employee). so you are fired." My manager, after the GM left, came to my desk and apologized. Gave me a great reference letter. So now their top two salespeople were gone. Had a job that afternoon.
SheamusFan1987 3 years ago (edited)
Good karma for you, hopefully the crappiest juju for that bum-a*s GM.
Joshua Selbitschka 3 years ago
It technically is. But unfortunately, odds can be very heavily weighted in the employer's favor and the employee has to demonstrate that the reasons the employer gave aren't valid. In this case, we don't know what that jerk put down for the official reason. And that can also make things really difficult to fight.
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Scott was my riding buddy. We rode together everywhere on our motorcycles. I managed a small restaurant of a small chain, only 2 shops but it was growing. When a night manager position opened I gave it to him. He worked hard and was enthusiastic.
A couple years passed, now five locations. I was general manager and Scott managed the original location.We still rode everywhere, swapped girlfriends, played pool... Life was good. Scott began to miss rides we had planned because he was working. He really was a hard worker, tireless energy.
I soon noticed he was working so hard because he was understaffed. His employee turnover rate was high. i initially thought it was because of the young employees that typically applied at that location but there was more to it. I started spending more time around him and noticed he was, when he thought I wasn't looking, a tyrant boss to the kids that worked there. Kids left and he covered it up by working more himself. Overworked he became exhausted and an even worse boss.
I gave him some time off, sent in experienced employees worked with him on training and communication. I thought he was absorbing it but I got reports back that he was worse than ever.
I sat and talked with him, a serious job threatening talk.He argued, said it was under control. I took his keys and handed him a box of his belongings.
This is long ago, early '80s. As the recession wound down I was able to find a better gig more suited to my skills and education. I heard from him a couple times, usually looking for something, a fake recent reference, cosign for a loan, etc. I don't do that for anybody. Last year I got a sad call from him, saying he wished we had stayed in touch. We both still rode. Actually he didn't still ride. he was calling from his deathbed as cancer ate the last of him away.
I have always felt that it was my hiring him to a position he wasn't really ready for that started him down the road from being an enthusiastic bright-eyed kid full of hope and integrity to the sad narcissistic bill collector he became.
TLDR: wrecked my friends life
EDIT: OK, I don't actually blame myself for the arc of his life. We each are responsible for our own choices. It's just that I can't help but feel that I missed something, some opportunity to steer him in a happier direction.
Reinaldo Fuentes 3 years ago
Girlfriend swapping aside (How did he just insert that SO casually??? Gross!), this is an excellent example of the best worker bee not necessarily making a good queen bee.
Elizabeth Molloy 3 years ago
You did everything you could, as a friend and as a boss and co-worker. Some people are just really bad at communicating.
#18
I wasn't the manager, but we had a supervisor who was a rising star in the company, turned a struggling operation into one that was running well under budget and was generally easy to work with. We also had a mechanic who was a lazy sack of s**t and nobody could every find him. So one day the operations manager was looking at the security footage trying to figure out what the mechanic was doing so day and caught him selling pills out of his truck in the parking lot, so he called the police. When the police showed up, the mechanic was in his truck, in the middle of selling [illegal substances] to the supervisor. They were both fired. The operation went from under budget to being $50,000 - $100,000 over for the next few months
Jonie 3 years ago
I worked for the US Federal govt. There was one guy who tried for ten years to get hired. Every job opening we had, which were few, he submitted an application. Finally, he was selected. First day he shows up late, making a loud entrance atop his Harley. Second month he is in travel status and gets drunk and destroys the hotel room. Month number four he passes out cold at work. As he tips out of his chair to the floor, his stash of meth falls out of his jacket pocket. Federal agents hauled him out. The guy tried for ten years and pissed it all away within the first six months.
Sweetpotato314 3 years ago
The smallest things can trigger an addict to relapse. It sounds like that's what happened to that guy. Maybe getting his dream job triggered him to celebrate and he fell back into those habits.
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Call center who's client was an insurance carrier. Rules are, no cellphones on the call floor. We dealt with HIPAA and SSNs so was a total no brainer, and not that hard a rule. Best rep on my team by far. Her call stats were awesome, she handled tough customers professionally but that's the rule and it's there for a reason. I look over one day and she's got a phone in her lap. I had to pull her from the call floor and issue a "First and Final" warning. I let her know she's actually doing awesome and while I get she's not stealing personal info - the rule is there and we all follow it - myself included. Two weeks later.. I look down the row at something and I see her with her phone in her lap again. *sigh* Had to sit down, review that she had already received a first and final, and we had to part ways. She did burst into tears. I felt bad about it, and letting her go did nothing good for my team stats - but that is one rule that's gotta stand, and it shouldn't be that hard to put your phone away and do your job. I do hope she found a good job after that, truly I do. Was a good kid.
martin734 3 years ago
We have the same rule where I work. Phones are to be kept in your locker when not on a break. If there is a very good reason that means you need to have your phone with you then the person can discuss it with me and if appropriate, they can have their phone with them.
foxgirl158 3 years ago
My sister will always need her phone with her, as it's a medical device that she needs to have nearby in order to be able to check her blood sugar. Would that be an ok reason? Genuinely curious, I'm not sure how a lot of people would react to that :)
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BJames 3 years ago
I find this sort of rule hilarious, as if a pen and paper couldn't copy down all that personal data. Also because I also work with HIPAA protected information myself and I literally couldn't do my job without my cellphone. Just hold people accountable for their productivity and stop with the highschool rules already. Probably have better retention...
Lornablue 3 years ago
Someone I used to work with screen shot the info, emailed out to themselves then deleted the email. Took months before it was discovered
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Diana Gerwolls 3 years ago (edited)
My mom worked at a absolutely horrible place (Texans are familiar with the beaver mascoted business) I have several horror stories but the one that’s relevant is this. They banned cell phones period. Must be turned off and in the locker or kept in your car at all times. Can’t even look at it on your “break”. And since you aren’t allowed to leave the building on “break” you can’t even use your car as a cover. One employee’s elderly mom was in the hospital and on her “break” she snuck a peak at her phone for any text updates while keeping the phone tucked in the back of the locker. Another employee saw and ratted her out. Manager didn’t want to fire her but since there was a witness he has no choice. He actually called corporate and practically begged them to let him not fire her because she was a good employee and had good reason to peak at her phone on her “break” but they made him do it anyway
AliJanx 3 years ago
Every call center I've worked in had this exact rule for the exact reason mentioned. I was the HR person who sat in on a lot of terminations of people for downloading confidential information into personal cell phones. In some cases those same people had to then answer to law enforcement depending on the severity.
Upstaged75 3 years ago
I once had to fire a lady because she called out of work so often. She was good at her job, but I suspect she had a drinking problem - because other people told me they smelled alcohol on her breath at work. And her reasons for missing work became more and more ridiculous. I told her that I wasn't going to have a choice but to fire her if she kept doing it, and that she was out of chances. Unfortunately that didn't sink in because she kept doing it. And she was actually surprised when she was fired. She cried and begged for another chance but unfortunately it wasn't up to me. I felt bad, but I was also angry that she put me in that position - I literally told her it was going to happen and she didn't take me seriously. I had to go cry in private for a while.
#20
He was our fastest fork lift operator. Guy could get a truck loaded in 7-15 minutes. But he started developing a sh**ty attitude and we just couldn't work with him. The new operators we have take 30-45 minutes to get a truck loaded and they're legitimately a little dumb and have a hard time reading.
I don't know if it was worth it.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
I'd want to know ~why~he got a bad attitude. Was it his ego because he was faster than the other loaders or was it because he was taking up the slack of the other loaders and not compensated for it?
Diana Gerwolls 3 years ago
The latter is exactly why I have an attitude at work. Currently looking for new work that doesn’t involve picking up everyone else’s slack
Load More Replies... DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
Had a similar experience with a fellow manager....excellent manager but treated everyone else as his subordinates and an ego the size of Texas.
kathryn stretton 3 years ago
Yes it was worth it in the long term. Maybe he learned something important too.
#21
Few years back, working in returns. One girl always worked the morning shift because she knew no one else wanted to get up and be there by 7AM. Always on time, never called in sick, etc. Quick description to set the scene: Our returns department didn't handle cash. We would give vouchers that could be cashed out or used as credit or did returns right to cards. Each return required the password of a security personnel to ensure the items being returned were in fact being returned. Returns over 90 days old could only be returned as a gift certificate, and required a managers password. Well one day I come in and ask where she's at (it was busy, we needed another body for returns) and my manager tells me she's been in the GM's office for two hours. Thought to myself, "That's weird. Maybe they're promoting her?" Nope. Turns out she was returning items off of 3+ month old receipts paid with cash, then walking down to the cashiers and having them put the money on a gift card. She watched the managers and the security people put in their passwords and while no one was around in the mornings she would find high dollar items and return them this way. She got over $25,000 in gift cards over the course of 2 years. Corporate was monitoring her doing it for a year before they called the cops. Last I heard she didn't do any jail time but she had to return all of the merchandise she purchased that way and is never allowed to set foot in the store again.
AmAndA_Panda 3 years ago
They don't say "Now you bring that stuff back!". Once she's taken the stuff, it's no longer worth what it WOULD have been sold for. I'm fairly certain she had to pay back the value of what she essentially stole.
#22
I work at a store where we have to ask for donations for the charity we support at every transaction. We're in competition with the other stores in the chain, and whichever store has the highest percentage of donations after 3 months get a bonus. Every employee, cashier or not, gets $100. Well one of my assistant managers was awesome, always had the highest percent of donations per transactions, and highest dollar amount. She always did a great job in all other aspects of the job as well. Well, it turns out she was offering every customer her employee discount if they donated. So if someone spent ~$500 and she gave them 30% off, they wouldn't at all mind donating $10-$20 per transaction. Welllllll it came back from corporate what she was doing and we had to let her go.
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
You can do an audit and see everything that was purchased with that employee's ID attached. Would be obviously more than personal use
Load More Replies... Shelli Aderman 3 years ago
But is it illegal? I mean, not cool, but not terribly wrong? If the donations were for a good cause? I’m. Torn on this one!
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
At my last place of work, it was strictly prohibited to ring up your own shopping with your employee discount. So if you wanted to buy sth., someone else had to be logged in. And you both had to sign on a list of purchases that was sent to LP at the end of the year. And there was a legal limit how much you could buy from your own store per year. The employee in the story basically tricked her own employer out of income.
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 3 years ago
The "donations" at stores are all a scam. You give them free money. They give that money to a charity. Company claims rebate for charity donation on their taxes, a donation you provided free of charge.
Jill Bussey 3 years ago
Being asked for a charity donation every time I visited the store would guarantee I would never go there again.
#23
Was one of my best. Was being "Reclassified" into a salary position (with raise). HR reviewed his original application and it said he had completed college. HR verbally asked him (no research done) and he said "No, I haven't". Wasn't required for role, nbd. Writing it down? Big deal.
Gave him (almost to the point of coaching him to say it) every chance to say "Whoops, made a mistake". He didn't. He cowboyed up and said "I lied on my application". I am fully sure they would have let him go back to work with just a note in his file (totally survivable)
Super big (Fortune 10) company. No option. Fired him immediately for falsifying his application.
HR person was in tears. I did my best to help him find his next job.
Paul Neff 3 years ago
This exemplifies the difference between an education, and credentialing. A degree implies the education, but is proving only the credential. The demonstrated ability to do a job proves the education. We don't apparently care if the education is present, just the certificate.
MiriPanda 3 years ago
This isn't about a certificate but about lying. It clearly states that they didn't give a toss about a degree but they did give a toss about his lying and falsifying an application and rightly so imo.
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Ellen Midgley 3 years ago
Somehow, a person I know got away with this. He was in his final semester of uni, so said on his application he had completed his degree. Proceeded to fail a single unit, three times, and by the time he left the company nearly two years later, he STILL hadn't finished uni and somehow got ANOTHER job with the same line. (He did finish eventually, just three years later than he should've)
Mateo Buysse 3 years ago
I'd kept him, since i feel he did try to be as honest as possible in the end.
Gwyn 3 years ago
If you went college but didn't graduate, you can put it in your resume but you must say "no degree". It can be taken as if you got a degree otherwise. And if they research it then it looks like you lied on your application. I have a friend who did this hoping they'd assume he has a four year degree. As a manager I would always be aware of this and ask people if it looked like they were pulling this trick and HR would confirm the degree if we wanted to make an offer. I was happy to give credit for schooling even if the degree was not completed but lying by omission on the application is a deal breaker.
Sel 3 years ago
Just say degree pending...aka you don't have it yet but will get it eventually
Load More Replies... The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Instead of faking credentials, better if you take online courses and use its certificate. It is not a big effort to finish such training if you have the basic knowledge. I do this, and suggesting this to all my junior. It is not a fake credentials, albeit easy to do.
#24
Hardest working guy I knew. He would Always come in early and pick up a shift if someone called in, and willing to learn everything. Turns out he stops in on his day off to get a slice of pizza but he's drunk as s**t. Not a big deal in and of itself, but we were really busy and his work ethic took over. This guy, again drunk as f**k, gets behind the counter, in a wife beater, and starts trying to help customers. We asked him politely to leave but he just wanted to help so bad that he got really upset and caused a scene. Had to let him go for that. Super sad because it turns out he has a bad drinking problem.
#25
Amazing worker but he just couldn't help fishing off the company pier.
He had a relationship with a girl from accounting, but then they broke it off and she got bitter and started complaining about him daily claiming sexual harassment, unsafe work place, yada yada.
They let him go because of the threats of possible legal actions.
Do not use your work place to find girls. It doesn't work out well.
DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
I'm a bit confused...so he did sexually harass her? (from the title)
Alicia Kessinger Bader 3 years ago
Do not use your work place to find lovers, period! It never works out!
#26
Out of highschool I got a job at Arby's, and there was a guy who pretty efficient at drive thru and could run it by himself during lunch rush if he had to. Turns out during slow hours he was skimming money by deleting orders after taking the money instead of completing the transaction. Manager's estimated he did it for 3-6 months without getting caught and took upwards of $2,000-$3,000. They never pressed charges cause he confessed.
edit: almost forgot, he signed for the package and stole our team's christmas "bonus" walmart gift cards that were $25 each.
Hill Branda 3 years ago
I hate it when people say "skimming." It's stealing. Just call it that.
EpicWolfandSparrow 3 years ago
I mean it's just a term for the type of stealing...
Load More Replies... Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
I've heard that stores that have a guarantee that you'll get a receipt or else you'll get a reward are doing that largely to stop skimming. If you get your receipt, the cashier can't skim.
#27
I had an employee that was, by a very large margin, doing more work than everyone. Unfortunately, the amount of grief and anger he left in his wake was extraordinary. He was short with our customers, rude to his peers, homophobic, and slightly racist, but never quite enough to do anything concrete. In the end, I let him go because the damage to the team wasn't worth his additional output. So "best employee" is maybe a misnomer, but there ya go.
BannedFromABoatShow 3 years ago
Just racist enough to be noticed by white people, but not enough for them to act on it. Oh wait, it bothers the people being targeted regardless of “level of racism”? Huh. How bout that. For the record I’m white.
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IDK_Something 3 years ago
Taken June 25th, 2016. Clicking "Ian Livesey" under the picture takes you to it's source on Flickr.
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Part of my job is to process expense reports from the sales department. I noticed one month that the top salesman had claimed a plane ticket expense twice, once when he booked it and then again when he took the flight months later. I reviewed his past expenses and noticed he was doing this regularly. When he booked the flight originally he would claim the full amount of the ticket. Then when he used the flight he would claim each leg of the trip as a separate daily expense so that the receipt amounts wouldn't match so as to avoid detection. This is how I figured out he was doing it intentionally. I showed the evidence to the CFO and he was gone the next week. I only went back three years but he stole about $10,000 over those three years.
Nimues Child 3 years ago
I'm kinda mystified how they got away with this. Where I work, the receipts have to match the expenses exactly. You cannot get away with double-dipping like this.
Babsywabs 3 years ago (edited)
Where I work, flights are not reimbursed until after the trip has taken place. (Edited to add: I work at a university with it's own travel agent, so most trips are charged internally with no out-of-pocket expenses for the traveler.) And... if an accounting department is not sharp enough to have caught this when it started, THAT'S a huge red flag about how this company operates.
#29
Not me, but a story from when I worked at Disneyland a long time ago in Attractions (rides).
The area manager loved this one particular Cast Member (employee). Like, this was the son he never had. This CM was promoted to lead on one of the roller coasters fairly quickly in his regime. One night he was the lead on the closing crew, and the crew decided to ride after hours. Idiots that they are, they went without the lap bars down, and on one turn the ride is visible from the walkway. Even though the park was closed to guests, security was still in the park, and a security guard saw the train go by with the CMs standing up through the turn. Security gets a hold of Theme Park One (the manager in charge of the park for the night), who calls Attractions One to find out what's going on.
Not surprisingly, every CM who was on the closing crew that night was fired. Unfortunately, so was the prodigal son, because he was the one who dispatched the train without the lap bars down.
#30
over 20 years of mgmt experience. I've had to fire several great employees & the main reason is because they 'upset the herd'. they show up & most other employees are negatively affected by their presence... they complain too much, exceed boundaries, gossip, instigate c**p, or whatever. they know they're good & act bulletproof. I'll usually pull them aside & give them a warning. you know they're good & they care, but if they don't quit 'upsetting the herd' they will soon be gone.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
Maybe because they saw how badly your herd was being manipulated they had to speak up -.-
DumYum 3 years ago (edited)
Had a friend who complained about the rest of slacker staff all the time, including complaining to the boss about the “herd.” After listening to her stories for several months it dawned on me that she was the problem employee. Sure enough, she was fired a week later. The boss didn’t want the drama.
#31
Not me, but co-worker and I eventually, after he was fired, got promoted to what would have been his boss...but anyway.
I worked overnight shifts for a server room at a University, outside our supervisors, we were all student workers. This guy was...pretty much THE definition of overachieving kiss a*s. Not really a d**k, just did whatever he could to look good to whoever he could. He was also very good at his job. Was pretty much on a definite path to full time employment, had he not f****d up supremely.
One weekend, started Saturday morning, we had a cooling crisis, the AC units malfunctioned, server room got super hot, and we turned off all redundant equipment to keep the temperatures as low as we could until we got the AC back to full capacity. These servers were intended to stay off until we knew we were in the clear.
Under no one's authority but his own, on Sunday night, he went into the room and started turning things back on. Ultimately, this caused no real problems, but he ended up being made an example of because this was a massive violation of policy, and if the cooling hadn't held up, he may have damaged equipment or even worse.
My boss tried to find an out for him, but ultimately, they let him go because he pissed off both our server teams.
#32
I managed a coffe shop/bakery. My best employee was this kid named Alexis. He was sharp, and was quick to pick up on all the skills required to work in our fast paced environment, but he was also someone who would stay out really late at night partying, and it would affect his attendance.
One night in particular he calls me up and tells me he's stuck in Baltimore, (we live in dc) and won't be able to make it in for his shift the following morning. He called me at 7pm, the last marc commuter train leaves at 9:30 or so, and there's a free circulator that runs throughout the city. I used to visit Baltimore pretty regularly at the time because there was a girl I was seeing from up there.
Anyways, I only had 1 day off a week, and was working 14 hour days. It was the last straw in a series of no call/no show situations where he had left me hanging for our busiest days.
I called his phone that same night, and told him that if he didn't show up for his shift on time the following morning, he was fired.
He didn't show up, and I never saw him again.
This was a few years ago, but I sometimes wonder what happened to him. He was a really sharp kid, but he did way too many drugs, and wasn't as clever as he thought he was, so would often get into trouble with police.
#33
Best Buy manager. Had a guy in Geek Squad who was a great sales person. Probably top 10 in the district. He had an incident during a data transfer where he accidentally transferred another clients information to the external drive. The customer flipped out, and unfortunately due to company policy, we had to let him go. Fortunately, he knew it was going to happen, but it was just a matter of time.
#34
We had a field tech that was awesome, probably the best I've ever seen or heard of. He was knowledgeable, skilled, and personable. He was always early, worked great under stress when things went south, and often finished jobs early. If we had off hour issues, he was always available and it seemed like he was in his truck and ready to get going right away.
Well it turns out that he was always in his truck and ready to go. He had been living in his company truck for sometime and just pulled off the side of the road each night at a utility pole, climbed up, stole some cable TV and set up shop for the night. We found that out, and had to let him go.
#35
Not me, but I happened to someone I worked with, very sweet lady, very nice, couple of young kids. Always a good/hard worker, and very motivated for a cashier. Well we had a POS system that printed coupons for people based on what they bought after the tranaction, to be given with the receipt. She would ask people if the wanted them, and if they said no, she would pocket the ones she knew she would use. Loss prevention made and example of her. I mean, I get why they didn't want people doing that, but it was a new system at the time, they didn't have rules against it.
Deborah Harris 3 years ago
I dont see a problem with this .. if people didn't want them, I know nothing about how fanatic the coupon system is though being a Brit :D
Amy S 3 years ago
It's standard practice to not allow employees to benefit from customers unwanted rewards, for example if a cashier works in sainsburys they cannot have a customers unwanted nectar card points.
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This happened to me. I was told by the owner that I was the best salesperson. Then I texted a friend calling the owner a d**k (he was very rude to my fiance). General manager who hated My guts asked the friend what happened. She then went and whined to the owner "ErwinAckerman said you're a d**k!!1! You should fire her!"
So he did.
TL;DR I got fired for calling the owner a d**k via text.
AmAndA_Panda 3 years ago
I got fired because my husband told his friends in an online chat that my manager was a bad manager.
What do you think ?
Mad McQueen 3 years ago
Worked at a video music chain store in a mall. Did great during fall. Holidays come and they bought out some smaller stores an were bringing those mgrs in to train in our ways. They wanted us to sell a store discount card for $25 so when a customer rang up we would ask if they had one or sell them one (for them or their kids etc) to get a % off that and following sales. Well this new girl is like oh just ring it as a discount and sell them the card for free. It will show we are pushing the card and making the sales. I didn't want to be part of this but she would ring on my computer. So holidays come we busting a*s. I get called to the office that there is like $600 of these unpaid for discount cards on my till. I said wasn't me Sharon rings out on my til. Even on days I wasn't there she would use my number. They finally went back and saw my days off coincided with this c**p an I saved my job but she got canned. I quit next day. F**k you FYI.
Jknbt 3 years ago (edited)
I was fired by a gung-ho young turk manager who was sure he was destined to make corp v.p. by age 35. The two slackers I left behind refused to step up and do any extra "added" work to make up for my departure. The super-manager then fired the shop supervisor since he said he "was not motivating them". The vindication is the company finally had to come to terms with the loss of my substantial contribution by pulling in workers from other projects to carry the load. The vice president transferred to an unimportant position mr. super-manager and eventually laid him off. He was stunned. He did not work in industry for two years since nobody would hire him after that. Funny how the wheels of justice turn like that, irony can be too sweet when someone else is drinking the full dregs of the cup of consequences/karma... too funny...
Daniel O'Neal 3 years ago
Years ago I worked with a guy who seemed really good at his job and was very popular with both management and customers. He got fired for stealing from the cash reserve to pay off his gambling debts. A good union job with a pension and everything, where he had been for nearly 30 years. All gone.
AnonymousApple 3 years ago
Used to work for a boss who really liked me. It was a great job with, at the time, great pay. He was known as a "difficult" person to work for, but I'm great at getting along with difficult people, and I was willing to do any ridiculous thing he asked of me. His wife made him fire me because she was convinced we were having an affair. We absolutely were not. He actually cried when he fired me (not, like, sobbing, but a few tears). Hands down the dumbest and most insulting reason I've ever been let go. But I did get a nice severence package out of it.
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
One of my ex coworkers was forced to quit when the company changed ownership and new owners would honor previous owner's promises. My ex coworker was one of the best workers at the IT company; he was who would work on problems that were escalated to the top, he was incredibly knowledgeable, one of the original employees (so he knew tons of customer history and relations), etc. He was also one of the few doing project architecture too. Unfortunately, the previous owner promised to let his keep tons more pto than was allowed in the employee handbook and even his expense reports were put on hold because the company wasn't doing too well at the time. He was promised that everything would be repaid by the company owner ( who was a super nice guy too) but when the company was sold, new owners just brushed off everything that they weren't legally responsible for and my coworker (2 yrs of PTO and like 3 months of expenses). After that guy quit, the other top workers at that branch quit soon
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
That company basically lost an entire branch of workers because no one trusted new owners anymore. That was about 1/3 of the company. This left them with almost all their eggs in one basket. When the biggest customer left a couple of years later, the company collapsed to almost nothing. They probably could have survived if they didn't lose 1/3 of the company early on. My ex coworker had a new, better job within a few weeks. He had tons of great references and all the customers knew he would be valuable to have.
Load More Replies... The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Once working for a 5 star hotel. This guy has worked 5 years and archive level of captain. That year he is selected as the best employee of the year. His picture is shown on canteen door for all to admire. Then one day he grope a trainee chest. This incident witnessed by 2 other trainee. Then HR knows. The guy pack his belongings next day. I am sure he should be black listed for working on hotels in my country.
Mad McQueen 3 years ago
Worked at a video music chain store in a mall. Did great during fall. Holidays come and they bought out some smaller stores an were bringing those mgrs in to train in our ways. They wanted us to sell a store discount card for $25 so when a customer rang up we would ask if they had one or sell them one (for them or their kids etc) to get a % off that and following sales. Well this new girl is like oh just ring it as a discount and sell them the card for free. It will show we are pushing the card and making the sales. I didn't want to be part of this but she would ring on my computer. So holidays come we busting a*s. I get called to the office that there is like $600 of these unpaid for discount cards on my till. I said wasn't me Sharon rings out on my til. Even on days I wasn't there she would use my number. They finally went back and saw my days off coincided with this c**p an I saved my job but she got canned. I quit next day. F**k you FYI.
Jknbt 3 years ago (edited)
I was fired by a gung-ho young turk manager who was sure he was destined to make corp v.p. by age 35. The two slackers I left behind refused to step up and do any extra "added" work to make up for my departure. The super-manager then fired the shop supervisor since he said he "was not motivating them". The vindication is the company finally had to come to terms with the loss of my substantial contribution by pulling in workers from other projects to carry the load. The vice president transferred to an unimportant position mr. super-manager and eventually laid him off. He was stunned. He did not work in industry for two years since nobody would hire him after that. Funny how the wheels of justice turn like that, irony can be too sweet when someone else is drinking the full dregs of the cup of consequences/karma... too funny...
Daniel O'Neal 3 years ago
Years ago I worked with a guy who seemed really good at his job and was very popular with both management and customers. He got fired for stealing from the cash reserve to pay off his gambling debts. A good union job with a pension and everything, where he had been for nearly 30 years. All gone.
AnonymousApple 3 years ago
Used to work for a boss who really liked me. It was a great job with, at the time, great pay. He was known as a "difficult" person to work for, but I'm great at getting along with difficult people, and I was willing to do any ridiculous thing he asked of me. His wife made him fire me because she was convinced we were having an affair. We absolutely were not. He actually cried when he fired me (not, like, sobbing, but a few tears). Hands down the dumbest and most insulting reason I've ever been let go. But I did get a nice severence package out of it.
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
One of my ex coworkers was forced to quit when the company changed ownership and new owners would honor previous owner's promises. My ex coworker was one of the best workers at the IT company; he was who would work on problems that were escalated to the top, he was incredibly knowledgeable, one of the original employees (so he knew tons of customer history and relations), etc. He was also one of the few doing project architecture too. Unfortunately, the previous owner promised to let his keep tons more pto than was allowed in the employee handbook and even his expense reports were put on hold because the company wasn't doing too well at the time. He was promised that everything would be repaid by the company owner ( who was a super nice guy too) but when the company was sold, new owners just brushed off everything that they weren't legally responsible for and my coworker (2 yrs of PTO and like 3 months of expenses). After that guy quit, the other top workers at that branch quit soon
Pete from Cali. USA 3 years ago
That company basically lost an entire branch of workers because no one trusted new owners anymore. That was about 1/3 of the company. This left them with almost all their eggs in one basket. When the biggest customer left a couple of years later, the company collapsed to almost nothing. They probably could have survived if they didn't lose 1/3 of the company early on. My ex coworker had a new, better job within a few weeks. He had tons of great references and all the customers knew he would be valuable to have.
Load More Replies... The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Once working for a 5 star hotel. This guy has worked 5 years and archive level of captain. That year he is selected as the best employee of the year. His picture is shown on canteen door for all to admire. Then one day he grope a trainee chest. This incident witnessed by 2 other trainee. Then HR knows. The guy pack his belongings next day. I am sure he should be black listed for working on hotels in my country.
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