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52 Times People Witnessed Their New Co-Worker Getting Fired So Fast, They Shared It Online
Most of us still remember the first day at work like it happened yesterday. With your heart beating like you just ran a sprint and your mind rolling "what if?" scenarios one by one, you were ready to do every little thing just to make it work. In that sense, "just hired!" is both a blessing and somewhat a curse.
But it turns out, not everyone is putting their best foot forward on the first day at work. On the contrary, when one Reddit user posted the question “What is the fastest you have ever seen a new co-worker get fired?” it all became clear: people are no saints in keeping their new job under control.
24.6k redditors replied and shared their stories, and below you’ll find the most "wut da hell"-inducing bits that will seriously get us thinking about things we thought we took for granted. And no, a crumpled shirt you forgot to iron the night before will not get you fired.
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#1
One and a half hours into shift as an animal care worker, I was showing my trainee how to clean the kitten rooms and started him on the easiest cage. We’re talking neonatal, six day old bottle feeder kittens. I explained how to set up the kennel, clean them up, etc. I turned around to grab some towels and a fresh hot water bottle when I heard a thump. And then another thump. Turned around and he was tossing the kittens to the other side of the kennel to move them. Like, underhand lobbing a softball, just tossed three kittens out of his way. I freaked out and yanked his ass down to the supervisor’s office. His excuse was the kittens were ‘attacking’ him, and he felt threatened? So he threw them!!
No warnings, fired on the spot. (The kittens all were fine and got adopted out a few months later. :) )
Monika Rhodes 5 years ago
That's a sign of an abuser or worse. Keep him away from any living thing.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
No empathy whatsoever. Pathological? Probably. To all of you whose comments are variations on violent physical retaliations: No, that is not right. We have laws and police to deal with people who do not follow the laws, and medical professionals to deal with the people who need their attention. If your gut reaction is to do the same, then you are no better. Two wrongs never make one right.
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Purr·maid 5 years ago
This one just seriously pissed me off! Six days old & they were attacking him?!! Their eyes weren't even open I'm sure. I'd have killed that guy. Sorry but anyone who harms defenseless animals deserve nothing less.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
I’m thinking “to the pain” from princess bride
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KombatBunni 5 years ago
I would have thrown him across the room and then given him a lecture on how not to handle kittens like that! What an a$$..anyone who is abusive or violent towards an animal needs their head read
Nagawa (Cofa) Kishiki 5 years ago
You guys should felt threatened and throw him out and across the packing lot.
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#2
"You don't tell me what to do, you're a woman." To his trainer. Lasted until management came in that morning and heard about it.
Jonathan Wheeler 5 years ago
🤣 the whole thing is people being fired so of course they let him go....when management came in as it says
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 5 years ago
Did this guy accidently time travel from 2000 B.C. to modern day times?
Kevin Donegan 5 years ago
Let's hope he director was a woman ... just rubbing salt into the wound.
David K 5 years ago
That´s gross. Will be hard for that person to find a job with that attitude.
Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
Maybe not that hard --- he did find this job after all? If he shuts up and is just normal employee level of obstructive, he'll do fine sadly.
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#3
He didn't show up the first day, second day, or third day.
I had to work a double shift for three days straight. Not fun. I answered the phone when he finally 'called in' on the fourth day.
He said, "I'm going to be honest with you, I've been in Orlando. My parents paid for a small vacation as a reward for getting the job. Would it be okay to start next week instead of this week?"
Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago
I went out of my way to try and get a job for my friend only for her to never show up to 2 shifts. She never called and when I tried calling her countless times she never answered. She was sacked and she also lost a friend.
The straight way to getting fired is making one of the big no-nos as listed in the post. But in a world full of more or less rational, polite, and understanding human beings, these cases happen very rarely.
Other times, fortune is not on our side and little things in the workplace don’t go unnoticed. For example, engaging in office gossip, especially when one complains about their work, can surely turn backs against you.
A similar case happened in New Hampshire in 2007 when four co-workers were fired "in part for gossiping and discussing rumors of an improper relationship between the town administrator and another employee that residents now agree were not true."
#4
During their onboarding training, they stole my bosses wallet on camera.... 1 hour in..
IlovemydogShilo 5 years ago
I reckon that wallet was planted there. Nobody leaves their wallet where it can be stolen and the fact it was near a camera?? I happens a lot apparently. Here in Ireland I was working for a supermarket. They had this thing where they would leave money lying on the floor during times when it was really quiet usually around opening or closing time to see if employees were honest enough to hand it in. Seriously every member of staff knew what the store managers were doing when these €5 or €10 notes appeared. We got our own back by picking up the money and running after the nearest customer and saying "Sir/ madam I think you dropped this". They would always take this as they were usually in a rush as it was first thing in the morning and they were off to work or last thing at night and they were wanting to get home. The managers must have lost a small fortune doing this but they still did, God knows why. You didn't have to be stupid to run that place but it helped.
#5
Four or so hours. When I was 18 I got a job at a grocery store, along with three others. We all started training together. On the first day we were training in the evening, and one girl asked to go home, she said her head hurt. They said fine, she clocked out, went to grab a grocery cart and started filling it with beer and liquor. The store manager walked over, and asked her if she was having a party. She said yes. Didn't even try to come up with an excuse. Just, "yeah, I am, so I needed to leave early on my first day." basically. He fired her.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
You underestimate the powers of some people who are perfectly capable of spending the money they don't have but expect to be earning in the next week.
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Louloubelle 5 years ago
I know, right? You almost think it can't be true. I've honestly never met anyone quite this stupid.
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#6
About 35 minutes
I hired a guy to work for me as quality inspector for merchandise headed to Walmart & Target. He bragged about everything he stole from his last job during training and how they paid him more than I did. Well, I'm not holding him back from all that money so I had some big guys escort him off the property
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
Dumbass for stealing from the hand that feeds you.... Then bragging about it.
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Vanta Black 5 years ago
Who better to brag to than your new boss? Of course they want to here about the stuff you stole from your last job. It's the real reason they hired you.
Falling asleep while on duty may happen if you’re drained and have been under a lot of stress and sleepless nights lately. Usually, it’s totally forgivable as long as it doesn’t interfere with your work performance. But in some cases, like if you’re an air traffic controller, falling asleep can cost your job in an instant.
Another quite common occurrence in an office is poor timekeeping. People slack for various reasons; sometimes they just don’t feel like working, other days they’re too tired or have other things to do. However, your absenteeism can become intolerable and you can get fired, like a banker that spent too much time in the bathroom.
#7
Had a co-worker get fired halfway through his first day. Was a well-qualified rep, plenty of industry experience and seemed cordial enough.. He got fired on his lunch break when management and HR took him to lunch and he made racist jokes about several ethnicities. He was going to be the rep for our El Paso market, which is incredibly diverse, so he was told not to even bother coming back from his lunch break.
David K 5 years ago
That escalated quickly. And it´s alright...dumbasses like this one should never get a job.
Jasmine Donald 5 years ago
yeah.. no one should have to deal with people like him....
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Roxy Eastland 5 years ago
I hope he'd have got fired even if he worked in the whitest of white areas
#8
Day one, he hit a parked car in the parking lot, with the person still inside. When he was confronted he lost his mind and even used threats. The man he hit walked up to security and said "don't let that man into my building. People like that don't work for me" He hit the directors Porsche..
Enamelcamel 5 years ago
Boss's son-in-law borrowed his classic E-type Jag while son-in-law's car was in the shop. Returned it to his father-in-law with three half-smoked roaches in the ashtray. I believe said son-in-law is currently in prison for a road-rage related incident some months later ...
#9
A 19 year old kid got hired to work the seafood counter. See him twice and then never again. Asked a coworker what happened.
He had closed seafood one night and was walking out of the store and the 5 pounds of crab legs he'd stuffed down the back of his pants fell out in front of the closing manager.
Bobert Robertson 5 years ago
In news: Man caught trying to pinch some pinchers after it was discovered he had crabs in his pants
Our jobs, like our lives, are full of ups and downs and it’s totally fine. One day, we’re getting promoted, the next, we're told about pay cuts and there’s little that can be done about it. Be sure you focus on your daily, monthly, and yearly performance, and as long as you do the assignments as well as you can, you can feel safe that your place at work is not going anywhere.
#10
A man was hired to do stock at a tea store that sold lots of delicate China. Manager walked into the back on his like third day and saw him just throwing boxes of tea cups and teapots. Instantly fired.
Ace 5 years ago
Not Ferdinand the bull tho. Lol it's a reference to a movie for those who don't understand
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#11
Heard this from a manager I worked with when I worked in fast food. There was this one kid who didn’t show up for work. He ditched work often, so the manager called around, couldn’t get anyone to fill in his shift, so she had to fill it for him.
A few hours into his shift, the dude ditching SHOWS UP, with his friends, and orders food from that manager. She fired him on the spot.
Nomadus Aureus 5 years ago
Nah. Had some classmates in uni who had the work ethic of a four year old.
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#12
I work construction. We had 2 new hires that were friends starting the same day. Boss told one take a coffee order and come back. Took everyone's money and said he needed his friend to go with him cause it was a big order. They never came back.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Don't know where this is but in the US before you start work you are required to give your name and Social Security number. Not only a thief but an exceptionally stupid one.
wandile dludlu 5 years ago
I think this is how they should test the trustworthiness of every new hire. Each individual doesn't lose that much money
Martha Meyer 5 years ago
It's more of an intelligence test. If you are SO dumb you'll give up a full time job for the chance of stealing a bit of coffee money, you should be in an institution.
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
They probably decided that they would quit after the first day because the work sucked and they rationalized the theft as making sure they got paid. A great recipe for failure in life.
#13
At first he looked normal. Then sometime around lunch time he suddenly screamed on top of his lungs (if the office). When people run to him to see what's going on he told them -"I was trying to see how loud i can scream". He was gone before his screams echos stopped.
#14
Worked in a grocery store for awhile: new guy took a lobster out of the tank and removed the elastic bands on its claws, then proceeded to put it back in the tank. The thing murdered all the other lobsters in the tank.
H Edwards 5 years ago
No more cruel than any other animal being kept and then eaten.
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TheExtremeSmell 5 years ago
You have to take the bands off all of them so it’s fair. Or take two out at a time until only one remains. Then breed that one to make a lobster army.
glowworm2 5 years ago
I'll be perfectly honest here. I've always wanted to take off all the elastic bands off the lobsters' claws, take them out of the tank and set them loose in the store. Cuing frantic people running for their lives and "Cleanup in Aisle 6" over the loudspeaker. No, I'm not actually going to do it, but it's a pretty funny scenario to imagine.
Alex Hamilton 5 years ago
Bloody good job too. Keeping any creatures in this manner is disgraceful, and so are the people who buy and and eat them!!
Call Me Mars 5 years ago
Thats what those plastic things around the claws are for! I thought it was for branding, like making sure they know where they are or something. Now I know the real reason!
#15
Didn't like the boss and on the first day took a piss in the gas tank of his jeep.
Bragged about it and It was recorded too.
Katherine Boag 5 years ago
Racism, sexism, ableism, anti-semitism, homophobia, transphobia, a bully...
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#16
As a teenager, I worked at a bowling alley. Within an hour, a new girl was fired on the spot for dropping a ball on the foot of a complaining patron.
A Cat Named Dragon 5 years ago
When you realize early on that you are not destined for a career in customer service...
Toujin C'Thlu 5 years ago (edited)
They wish they could, but know actually doing it is *not* a good idea.
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#17
I work IT for the Federal courts. We've had a few fired before their start dates for lying about having felonies. However, the best one was the one fired after 5 minutes - the person who showed up was not the person who was interviewed via Skype.
Petra Schaap 5 years ago
when I started a new cleaning job in Amsterdam they asked me if I had jailtime waiting for me in the near future. Apparently a few ex co workers recently called in to ask to "take all their days off starting tomorrow" or something simular....
#18
CoWorker. Smoked like every 40min for like 10min.
Then asked the Boss if he could leave an hour early because he didnt take his Lunch Break.
As my Boss said: "Sure you can, but you dont need to come back."
Gon Freecss 5 years ago (edited)
I like that reply, probably thought, "yes i get to lea- wait what?!" lmao
PotatoNinja5000 5 years ago
And what about the smokers who don't take smoke breaks?
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Grace Marraffa 5 years ago
I have smoked once in my life, took 5 mins if that, never doing it again
#19
guy got hired, while going through orientation realized that his ex gf worked there too, turned around and walked right out the front door.
Purr·maid 5 years ago
Who knows? That may have been a smart move on his part. Probably prevented a lot of awkward drama.
Jasmine Donald 5 years ago
yeah, I don't blame that guy for just walking out b/c of his ex.
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Daeris 5 years ago
When I was on my job interview I spotted my emotionally abusive ex. I barely hold the panic attack. I asked if he works here. (Un)fortunatelly, just the company next door. I got the job, still have it. After some time of passing him in corridor my panic attacks just stopped (we never talked).
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
I don't think this was a bad move AT ALL. In fact, I admire the guy's integrity.
#20
corporate chain restaurant
new server, aged mid 30s.
third day he was working we had to fire him mid shift. why? dude went in to the public rest rooms, with other guests clearly in there using the urinal, and started doing lines of blow off on the edge of the sink.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Dumbass. Everyone in restaurants knows that's what storerooms are for. (Walk-ins are better for pot smoking since they vent to the outside)
ChickyChicky 5 years ago
Everyone can smell the pot. It's not venting anywhere.
Load More Replies... Clearly sunny 5 years ago
Disgusting! Children there and me thinking this is supposed to be kid friendly???????? Pissed off with druggo's.
Clearly sunny 5 years ago
Apparently people like to shoot up at our local Macca's bathrooms here in Oz? Dreadful behaviour.
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5 days. My boss hired an "Executive Chef".. dude didn't even know how to make a quesadilla...
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
If you are changing places as a chef, you normally study the menu of the new place and make sure you know how to cook everything on it. Bad preparation for the new job = bad chef in the kitchen.
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Sherrie Dawn 5 years ago
Isn't a quesadilla literally just cheese, tortilla (or whatever the floppy bread things are, and also usually meat.
NMN 5 years ago
Yep, a child could make it if they ever saw it once in their lives.
Load More Replies... Perfumista Perfumista 5 years ago
My late brother was a chef at the Waldorf, don't think he ever made a quesadilla in his life.
JessG 5 years ago
Surely he knows how though? All you have to do is look at them to know
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Ruth Mayfly 5 years ago
I had to look up what a quesadilla was, since I'm nowhere near its place of origin. Could this not be a case of coming from somewhere this isn't commonly served?
NMN 5 years ago
It was probably in US, quesadilla exist all over here. So, unless he was a foreigner that was not the issue
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Rose the Cook 5 years ago
By the time you get to be executive chef you rarely cook anything. You prepare menus, budgets etc and supervise the smooth running of the kitchen.
Clearly sunny 5 years ago
He can maybe cook it, but perhaps never heard of the name depicting it?? We all don't come from America's!
#22
Guy slept through two meetings on his first day. The second meeting he started snoring.
kjorn 5 years ago
i have sleep apnea and ofter in the afternood i have to fight to stay awake at one point it hurt so much. but sometime i even fall asleep on my keyboard right on my chair sitting up
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
Sounds like you are Narcoleptic. Sleep apnea, while contributing to significant daytime sleepiness and fatigue, is much less likely to to cause you to drop off to sleep unexpectedly than narcolepsy. I would suggest being tested as soon as possible. Especially if you drive, live alone, travel solo etc. You might be in the beginning stages of something that might become worse without warning.
Load More Replies... David K 5 years ago
Narcolepsia maybe? Or more likely bored with all the corporate bullshit, but anyways...not the best way how to start the new job.
Marnie 5 years ago
I fell asleep in a meeting in my first day at one job. The only time I've ever done it. Well, I had put in a 72 hour week the week before, and had bought my first house the previous weekend. I was very nervous about the new job and had gotten about two hours sleep. Then I was in a team meeting and I couldn't understand word due to all the unknown acronyms. So, I got drowsy and my head kept dropping. It was utterly embarassing. I think I started digging my nails into my palms or something. They never said a word. I worked at that place for 3 1/2 years.
VeryDarkMatter 5 years ago (edited)
That also says a lot about how interesting the meetings were.. ;)
#23
This was a while ago at my old job. New guy gets hired as a bus boy. He was super annoying and tried to insert himself into everyone's conversation whether they wanted him there or not. It only took a couple of hours for the whole restaurant to hate him. I was working the bar and he kept eating the bar fruit. I personally didn't care but the manager did. Manager comes over and tells him to stop eating the fruit. He looks the manager in the eye and eats another piece of fruit. Manager says "Really?" followed by "Come with me to the office". New guy promptly replies with "Alright man, calm down. I can tell you got that big dick energy for a good reason" followed with cliche wink and nudge from his elbow. In front of me and like 4 other employees. I wanted to slam my face into the ice bin, it was so cringey to witness.
He promptly walked out the front door 10 minutes later without his uniform on anymore. The worst thing about it was the manager was an insanely laid back guy. Hell, the whole restaurant was insanely laid back. You really had to try hard to get fired from this place. Had he not thrown in that big dick line, I'm almost positive he would have just gotten a slap on the wrist and kept the job.
Jasmine Donald 5 years ago
yeah, some people are just attention whores...
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New guy drove a forklift into a fire hydrant, in front of a safety rep for the company. His supervisor was called over, and he immediately tells the supervisor that he won’t pass a piss test, as he used his only bottle of clean piss earlier that day when he hired in.
Everybody standing there immediately burst into laughter, which continued as security (also laughing) escorted him off site. Even the supervisor was all smiles...just gave him a pat on the back and wished him the best of luck. It was wild.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Well, he didn't waste their time testing him at least....he certainly didn't piss around
#25
Guy got hired, went through training and all that jazz. First day on the floor, he disappeared for 3 hours and then came back high as f**k on like meth or something. A manager found him in the bathroom aisle, staring at himself in the mirror. Said manager looked at the cameras after firing him, the guy was there staring at himself for at least 30+ minutes.
Remus-Alexandru Simion 5 years ago
Sad, but not something you'd wanna handle, as a manager. What if he became violent instead of catatonic? You have other employees to worry about... This is why facilities specialized in getting you sober exist. It's almost impossible to do on your own, without specialized help. It's sad but there's people relapsing even with the specialized help.
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Guy had been working a few days at a barn. Decided to smoke right by bales of hay. Manager saw him and fired him right on the spot. At farms, you don’t f**k around with fire.
KatHat 5 years ago
There was no Mrs O'Leary and the story was made up by racists to blame immigrants for the catastrophe.
Load More Replies... Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
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#27
First day of work, he walks in, says "what the f**k is up dumbass" to the guy that parked next to (didn't touch) his new Camaro he bought since he got hired. The guy was the CEO of the company I used to work for, on visit to our branch. Literally ten minutes into his shift he was signing release papers.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
"I have a new job and I'll be making some money, so let's buy a new car. " That's how you start your career in the debt-collectors business. As a debtor .
#28
Bookkeeper: The guy was hired as a "Senior Auditor" for the international subsidiaries of our group. Refferred to Credit and Debit as "Left and Right". Maybe bringing a machete into the office on day two (to slice a watermelon) wasn't advantageous either...
Brandi VanSteenwyk 5 years ago
If he was a "Senior" Auditor, it's possible he was also a SENIOR (older in age). And perhaps when he was trained, different terms were tossed around less strictly than they are now.
Susan Stead 5 years ago
Debit and Credit do mean Left and Right. That's the order of those columns in a ledger. Machete? Nah, I got nothing.
#29
Ten-ish years ago working at a well known italian chain restaurant in the states, new hire server was only a couple weeks in. Regional manager had come for a surprise visit and as he walked into the kitchen this server proceeded to loudly exclaim "n*gga! Come on!!!" to the line cook. Regional manager was African American, server was white, server clocked out immediately.
andate him 5 years ago
Why not? It's just slang for "black person" in another language. Just because it has become a slur... Should nobody ever be named Karen, should we rename snowflakes, does gay no longer mean happy?
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
@Remus-Alexandru Simion, it is obvious that you are stating a sincere question and that should not be a reason for downvoting. (IMHO, every person who downvoted your comment ought to have tried to provide an answer.) Slavery ended a long time ago in the US, but racism certainly did not. Slave owners who had to free their slaves were compensated for their 'loss of property' but slaves were 'freed' without any kind of compensation. Please read the following article: https://theundefeated.com/features/if-you-truly-knew-what-the-n-word-meant-to-our-ancestors-youd-never-use-it/
Call Me Mars 5 years ago
I am also african american. If I was the regional manager... I would be marching to whoever hired him.
PotatoNinja5000 5 years ago
Being fired for shouting a racial expletive? Even if you've been given 'permission' by your black friend, you still have to be aware of your surroundings.
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#30
Coworker quit his job, great job, great pay, great benefits to work in a radio repair place. I mean, gotta do what you love and he was also a big radio enthusiast. Got fired the first day on the job for stealing parts for his own radios at home. Took him over a year to get back with us. Surprised they rehired him. He then got fired for being a security risk about a year or so later.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Definitely the wrong frequency. He was short on something and it wasn't a wavelength.
#31
My sister was fired one day one. My dad had his own small medical practice and would hire me and my sisters as our "first job" to be his receptionist and file insurance claims, so we could get some workplace experience before we went job hunting in the larger world. My older sister worked for him in high school for a year. I worked for him for 2 years, then it came time for my younger sister to take over. I brought her to work to start training and said the number one rule in the office was, "At work he's not dad, he's the doctor and the boss."
She sassed him in front of a patient her first day, with all the venom and sarcasm a teenage girl can muster when dealing with a parent asking her to do something. He fired her on the spot and I had drag her out of there. Mom told her at least she'd get paid for the couple of hours she managed to be employed.
Marko Jovanovic 5 years ago
Throughout the history whole family working together was completely normal thing, whether it was some kind of family business or a farm
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Dippin Dot 5 years ago
We had a father/daughter combo in our office. Different department, but same thing - he wanted her to get experience before going out in the real world. Because she was in high school and thought the world revolved around her, and that her dad was in a high up position she thought she ran the place... and still does even though dad quit.
miten sasmita 5 years ago
I bet they're white family. In asian or latino families if a parent orders you to do something you'd better move your ass soon for your own safety.
#32
New guy started at work (a bar). Seemed pretty cool. Three days later we were all sitting around having an end of shift drink when the manager calls the new guy into the office and fires him. New guy isn't 21 yet. Why would you drink at work when the manager damn well knows your age!?
ADHORTATOR 5 years ago
You can work at a Bar when you are under 21 but you can't have a beer.... America
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
You can kill and die for America when you're under 21 but still can't have that beer.
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btaglln 5 years ago
That's stupid, You could talk to him but firing him on the spot is too much
Teresa Thomas 5 years ago
No its not, because the owner could be fined hundreds of dollars and face charges for selling alcohol to a minor
Load More Replies... స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 5 years ago
A drinking age of 21 makes no sense. Why not just fall into line with the rest of the world?
Bubble Gum Bandit 5 years ago
When I was 16 I got caught as well doing the exact same thing, however, when the boss said he was going to fire me, all the waitresses got together and said if he fired me they would quit. Got to drink at work there on, drinking age was 18 at the time. I was in HS and all the waitresses were college students.
#33
Couldn’t pass the simple tests given at the end of new hire orientation. Yelled at test facilitator when she wouldn’t just take the test for him.
Khadeja 5 years ago
What are you talking about? The president is an absolute genius, he named an elephant, man, woman, camera, and a tv on /his/ test...
Load More Replies... Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
Maybe he had dyslexia and ended up shouting out of frustration. The son of a friend was openly mocked by a teacher in high school after bringing proof of his diagnosis...
Enamelcamel 5 years ago
It's not a sure thing, but possibly dyslexic... or even illiterate. We don't think of that as a possibility in America, but you might be surprised. Had a friend whose dad couldn't read or write, but ran a successful service business for years, thanks to his wife ... the bookkeeper.
#34
I worked at a Doggie Day Care. For group play dogs were put in rooms according to size and we would rotate through the rooms during our shifts. They hired a new girl and on her first day she went into the big dog room and cried hysterically because she was afraid of them. I don’t think she made it two hours.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Who would figure that a job at "Doggie Day Care" actually would involve working with dogs? Next you'll be telling me that working at Burgerking involves flipping burgers...
S. 5 years ago
Oh boy, I sure hope I won't have to deal with ANY pizza at Pizza Hut.
Load More Replies... Grace Marraffa 5 years ago
My cousin was fired for accidentally killing a dog at a day care center, she was cleaning and your not allowed t use chemicals around dogs no matter what, the dog ate a chemical, died and she got fired, serves that bitch right, she ran into my car 2 days later, and the human is they bitch, not the dog
DogMatic 5 years ago
She should have been arrested/charged with cruelty to animals too, not just fired. Needs banning from keeping/working with animals.
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Toujin C'Thlu 5 years ago
I can imagine the poor dogs just staring at the girl while she cries, wondering what they did wrong.
#35
Spent my summers in college working as a laborer for a construction company. Anyway, we were doing a bunch of renovation in an active hospital, so noise and dust were a huge concern. We were a small crew and just starting renovations on an area with a super tight schedule, so the company hired a subcontractor for some of the work. Enter these two clowns who show up to do some demolition work. Foreman gives them the talk about how they may be used to doing things a certain way, but this is an active hospital so he'd rather the work take longer than for them to make a huge mess or a lot of noise. An hour later, we apparently got multiple complaints about the noise and the mess, so the foreman calls me up and says to go over there and clean up NOW, and that he'd be by shortly to see what the hell was going on. These dudes had dust and broken wall everywhere. I could hear them half way down the hall, just smashing away without a care in the world. The foreman shows up and we walk into the room to witness this dude standing on a pile of rubble swinging a sledgehammer over his head at a brick wall that he's removed the bottom from. Somehow the rest of this wall is still hanging from the ceiling, I have no idea how. Guy wasn't even wearing a hard hat, apparently oblivious that at any moment that wall might give way and crush him. The foreman lost his fucking mind on these guys. Kicked them out immediately, and got on the phone with their company and told them he didn't want to see these guys on site again. Lots of choice four letter words were used, even threatened to fire the subcontractor entirely and get someone else to do the work.
btaglln 5 years ago
The company should definitively be blacklisted. If you do not respect the procedure and safety protocols you are out
andate him 5 years ago (edited)
Who says it's the company's fault. Maybe the workers were just dumb/high/uncaring/etc Everybody is so quick to judge everyone else nowadays
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Podunkus 5 years ago
But if the wall had come down, at least they’d have had a very short trip to the ER.
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
He wouldn't go to the ER. He would be going to the morgue with no hard hat to protect that single braincell from the falling wall.
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Gabriel Lediscret 5 years ago
At least, if something goes wrong, they are already in a hospital
#36
I called a temp agency to get someone to help me count inventory. They sent a guy over with a cast on his arm.... That was my first wtf but I went with it because we were just counting parts. Then I came back from lunch and this dude was in my office chair zoned out and drooling on himself with a can of air duster in his lap. I kicked him awake and escorted him out of my warehouse. Never used that temp agency again.
Anne Reid 5 years ago
To be fair, I have never met anyone from either of my temp agencies in person. Everything is done online. They wouldn’t know if I showed up in a cast, either.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
Random question that I've always wondered, when you work as a temp do you get to select what types of jobs you are submitted for, or is it done by the agency? Like, I know they would work within your skill sets, but e.g. would they send like an IT worker to temp as a bank teller, or a builder to temp as a till operator?
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#37
I worked at a hotel. A good housekeeper got her cousin hired so they had a party. Cousin was found asleep in a bed on her first day, fired instantly
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
Stupidest thing you can do is bringing friends and family into your place of work. If they don't embarrass you, they'll try to take your job. Just don't do it.
Jessica 5 years ago (edited)
Iv worked with my sisters... went well nothing happened we love and support each other.... it's not always bad
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#38
3 hours into the first shift. Guy lost it serving an annoying customer in a grocery shop, throw a cabbage at her. The manager came and told him to go home cause he finished there. He wasn't surprised. I was standing next to him, it was an entertaining day.
Katherine Heasley 5 years ago
Can't say I never ran into a customer I wanted to chuck a cabbage at in my retail days.
kevin 5 years ago
If a customer is so bad that they get cabbages thrown at them, they manager should just allow this
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
U Never had to work in area where customers bring direct business did u. He was just a server, he isn't high up the ladder to offend a customer,even if she deserved to get banned. Life ain't fair
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#39
I worked for a small city in LA for many years. I was on the board that interviewed for a new intern for the recreation department. We went through the process, made our choice, made the job offer to a nice, smart girl fresh out of college, she was a little bit of a hippy, casual, relatable, it was fine, all accepted.
The girl showed up with her gigantic pet (anaconda) edited: PYTHON wrapped around her neck on the first day.
She took 'casual' to a whole new level, right back out the door. We hired candidate #2 instead.
#40
Oh, I've got one for this! I was hired to do tech support in a call center. On our first day of training there were about 30 of us in a room and we each had our own computer. The instructor said it was okay to use the computer for personal stuff during down time but the only rules were no games and no porn. One guy got fired before lunchtime, because he just couldn't resist the porn.
HarperTheCentaur (they/them) 5 years ago
I think kjorn meant it as a joke. Not great, but probably not a big enough deal to warrant 36 downvotes (that's the amount currently)
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago (edited)
So I walk through the open door into the key account manager's office on the morning of Valentine's Day.. His desk was towards the wall and he had his back to the door and as he realized that someone was in the room, he raised both arms in an effort to cover the screen even as he tried to shut it down. It took me a sec to register what I had seen because the camera must have been strapped around the waist of the man... It took months before he was eventually fired. Creep.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
He would have used the word 'pop corn' then, don't you think.
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Both were at a restaurant....
They hired a doorman. Came to work the first day with a gunbelt locked and loaded. This was a tiny little New England seafood restaurant and he just needed to check IDs of folks going into the bar. He didn't even get to punch in.
On the line we had Penne ala Vodka on the menu. I don't want to ruin the magic that is cookery, but that dish had vodka in it. Bossman go suspicious when he noticed when the level of the vodka dropped the odder the behavior or our new saute guy became
Katherine Boag 5 years ago
Bet the security guy was going to cause problems if he brought a gun to an ID checking job
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
It sounds like he was hoping to be Mr big shot (no pun intended), the new sheriff in town. Some people love exercising power over others, and really those are hardly ever the people who should be given that power.
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Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
pasta sauce with vodka is actually quite common. Most of the alcohol cooks off anyway. i can't honestly say it tastes much different from regular sauce
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#42
Day 1 of training. Within the 6th hour of a 8 hour shift. Worked in a old crank handle service elevator at a private residential condominium ( for very very very wealthy people ). We told him just shut up and stare straight ahead. Don't speak unless spoken to. Cause old rich people are mean and dont care about you. Well what's the new guy do? Starts a conversation right away and asks the resident, " how much money do you make ".
Jaded Queen 5 years ago
Ya but u should see the wealthy. Being talked or looked by mere commoners can set them off so soon .... like a wild fire
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Kristin Ingersoll 5 years ago (edited)
They might have been a$$holes, but he should NEVER have asked that question!!!
Load More Replies... #43
This happened last week. New girl is hired and right off the bat starts telling me that she regrets taking this job (despite being unemployed for 4 months) because there are so many new people so it must be a bad job because high turnover. (Not really true. We just got bought by a large company and they are hiring more people because we have more business). She tells us all about how its her birthday and shes going drinking after work. Does a no call no show the next day which is her third day. We all assume she quit. But the next day she comes in and starts just trying to work like nothing happened. The supervisor asked what happened and she said she got in a minor car accident. He asked why she didnt call and she said she doesn't have a cell phone. Despite being on her cell phone constantly in the office. He decided to give ger one more chance but gave her a lecture about how she needs to communicate properly about missing work, and one more incident will be an automatic firing. Next day no call no show.
#44
On the first day, he showed up absolutely REEKING of pot and asked a bunch of people if they would buy him a burger. Later he started acting like we'd been best friends his whole life and told me to call him "snowman" said he could get me anything I wanted and asked if I did heroin smh, the hr lady was walking by and asked to see him in her office. Didn't see him again
Curry on... 5 years ago
I hired a guy for a job. He was so excited that he partied the night before his first day --- and day of the drug test.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Yeah, I want to buy all my illegal stuff from someone with that lack of security awareness. What could possibly go wrong?
#45
New guy started on Monday and was gone by Friday.
The guy hit some racking in the warehouse with the forklift, boss saw him do it, and the guy decided to lie about it when asked if he knew what happened.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
It's always the cover-up. You'd think politicians would have figured that out by now.
#46
This was just a summer job at a fast food place. We had a new girl start and within two days it was apparent she was an idiot and everyone knew that. You could already see the manager questioning his decision.
Then on her third day of work she said she couldn't come in because her mom was in a car accident and in the hospital. Turns out that's an easy thing to disprove in a relatively small town.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Lying doesn't bother me as much as the assumption that I'm dumb enough to be fooled by a stupid one.
#47
New director starts, at lunchtime goes to cafeteria, pays for the first salad plate (by weight), then goes back twice for refills without paying. Cafeteria has cameras, cafeteria manager talks to the Partner in charge. New Director fired before the end of day.
స్టీఫెన్ ఆండ్రూ 5 years ago
This seems like it could have been an honest mistake... simply confronting him about the issue could have resolved everything.
NMN 5 years ago
but still shows how dumb he is. If he can't understand the concept of pay per weight (considering he has just done that, put his plate on a scale and looked at the numbers change with the weight), then he might not be suited for a more complex position. But still, yeah, could be a bad case of brain fart, they should have talked to him
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
A friend of mine worked in a big DIY-store where the new manager got fired for stealing a box of sanding paper worth about 8 Euros. He did it right in front of the security camera that was installed on his orders just 1 day ago. He even lied about it when they showed him the video.
#48
Not the funniest story but a few months before we all started working from home a new guy started and was fired within 1 day as we found out he has past convictions and had actually served part of his sentence in the prison he would be working in. Didn’t find out until he started and someone recognised him. One of the vetting ladies was fired due to this as well, since she didn’t bother to do his checks properly before he started
A Cat Named Dragon 5 years ago
Maybe missing a few details here... why would someone who served out his sentence be ineligible for the job?
Bill 5 years ago
Because he knows the layout of the prison. It comes down to security and closing avenues for smuggling. He probably still has friends
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#49
I worked with that only showed up for half a day and tried walking out the back without getting noticed. I'll admit it's a mind numbing office job where all you need to do is fill out forms for 8+ hours a day, but it's not that bad.
Purr·maid 5 years ago
I like filling out forms. Seriously. Can I take their place? Some people would kill for that job. Any job for that matter.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
That's the Klingon style of corporate advancement.
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#50
Guy showed up to work on his first day with the smell of alcohol on his breath. (7am) when questioned he admitted to taking a couple swigs on the ways in to calm his first day nerves. Yeah, fired on the spot. Worked here less tha 20 minutes.
Stannous Flouride 5 years ago
Hey, piloting an aircraft full of passengers would make anyone nervous.
Aragorn II Elessar 5 years ago
“I became a pilot to overcome my greatest fear: dying alone”
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#51
We had a recent college grad that would use his corporate card for personal purchases. He figured that the company would just keep deducting from his payroll until it was paid off. He was fired after three months of constant reminders to stop doing it. I don’t think it qualifies as the fastest, because he lasted three months, but it was so idiotic.
Aki Copley 5 years ago
Have a story similar... I had a part time receptionist job at a company where I sometimes interacted with the director's personal assistant. She had worked for them for a while but decided out of the blue to use her corporate credit card to go on a massive shopping spree. To say the least she was fired asap... and more...
#52
A week. I worked in a bar and a new girl started. At work, she seemed a little rough but was fine. One day she finished a shift, sat at the bar and ordered a red wine with lemonade and ice in it (not really relevant to the story; just shows she is clearly insane). Her boyfriend came in, they had a huge domestic in front of my manager and several customers and she threw her drink over her bf and dramatically stormed out.
Gabriel Lediscret 5 years ago
Wine with lemonade and ice😳, as a french guy this is more than enough to fired her 😁
Fernando 5 years ago
Red wine, soda and ice is what we call "Tinto de verano" (summer red wine) in Spain but hey, here wine is quite cheap.
Lauren Caswell 5 years ago
My sister accidentally made powdered wine once: we had mulled wine and when she turned off the burner it was ever so slightly still on, and the wine must have simmered all night as when I woke up I could smell a funny smell, and the pot wasn't burning yet (otherwise the smoke alarm would have gone off) but getting close, and inside was cloves and cinnamon, dehydrated citrus slices, and pale red powder. I had no idea you could powder wine! The alcohol would have evaporated of course but still
What do you think ?
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Fastest someone ever got fired: Dude showed up on my dad's worksite, said he wouldn't wear a hard hat. Dad said "OK, go home." Dude said, "I'm the engineer!" Dad said, "Don't care, go home." One phone call to the bosses later, the engineer is fired... took about, oh, ten minutes? Maybe?
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
What? Engineer wouldn't abide by OSHA, the bosses fired him, my dad was right to not let him on-site.
Load More Replies... Rose the Cook 5 years ago
Young girl had applied for a casual job at a high class hotel. Extra waitresses were needed for a formal wedding so the manager called her in after asking if she had appropriate attire. She showed up in torn jeans and a tshirt with a very explicit message. Okay, could anyone lend her a black skirt and white blouse? She flatly refused to wear such "frumpy" clothes and wondered why she was shown the door.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
I don't know why you were downvoted, my upvote is free of charge. signed: Sirius B91198. Are you satisfied by our customer service? LOL, i know that in social work robots will not and can't take it over. Even real fleshy people are total assholes with it. Robots would never have a heart, and a lot of humans are not able to have a heart too, that's the one i wouldn't mind if they are replaced by robots. Grew a heart, be human, then claim to be a human and beeing more valuable than a robot...if you don't have have a heart, you are a robot, no more, no less.
Load More Replies... cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
(sorry for my english)A new colleague were fired in less than a week. I worked at an homeless men shelter. * the guy bullied the homeless people, verbally abused them, treated them like s**t. * he was hitting on every young woman, hiding himself and staring at us, even touched us in a weird way (touching the nurse's hair, grabbing my hips while passing by...) * he managed to got into a fight with a male coworker, wanted to beat him, death threats and all. * Someone died under his care, he was alone with some people and it's another coworker who discovered the body when taking his shift. Maybe it was not the brightest idea from the management to hire him as a social worker, he was applying for a cleaning job. He was totally nuts! The icing on the cake: he was always dressed like he was a badass rapper in a videoclip, huge sunglasses and all.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
So please if you have a heart, and considering a job, don't be afraid to work in an homeless shelter, i'm a 1,50m (less than 5 feet) woman with multiple degrees and i did it. The less frightening people were the homeless people. I managed to be alone with them (40) most of the times, without any trouble. Be kind, be understanding, be firm, because when you will be firm, even the most "high" will understand that he crossed the line, and will avoid an eviction because you were never like your coworkers. I never had to yell, just saying "be kind you know this coworker, please don't answer". Most of my work was calming down people before abusive coworkers send them alone to the streets. Just because they dislike a look. It's not a f*****g nightclub! SHELTER!
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Will Cable 5 years ago
It is the same with qualifications to do a job, my partner has seen so many people come and go because they had the 'qualification' but had the intelligence of a dead slug.
JessG 5 years ago
That’s because you’ve got to live and learn. Young people are still learning
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Chris Hardtke 5 years ago
In August I was in training to be a Census enumerator. We were told to bring a copy of our drivers license to training. We were NOT told to copy the back of our DL, and in FL it has almost no info on the back, so of course no one copied the back. Our training was at a church, and they wouldn’t let us use their copier so 5 of us got into our cars to drive a mile to a Pack n Send that had a copier. One girl left and never came back, but didn’t tell the instructors she wasn’t coming back. The trainers were afraid maybe she got lost or worse in an accident, so they held the ENTIRE class up for almost 20 minutes, waiting and hoping she’d return. Bear in mind just to qualify for training you had to pass a background check and get fingerprinted, so as pre-trainees we were already invested a bit, and the trainers just couldn’t believe she walked off. Finally a trainer was able to reach her on her cell, and fired her for not returning. So, technically fired BEFORE TRAINING EVEN STARTED.
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 5 years ago
This was all fun & games reading this the other day & now I am in a similar boat. After I left a job for mental health issues and wanting to start a home business (and boom, covid hits! And there goes the business) Husband got laid off, and given like 5 months to work, unrelated to COVID, and got a job about 2 weeks before his last day, & started the Monday after his last day. It was for about $45k more. It was for a very well-off international company. Stocks, 401k. He did software engineering for them. We decided to move to a really nice home-found one in the best location 3 doors from the school I used to work for & want to go back to. We sold our house first day on the market. Everything was perfect. We are in the middle of getting this house and moving out. Husband got fired. Apparently, unlike other jobs, trying to access his gmail (unsuccessfully, it is blocked) and encrypting our bills & sending it to another server-mine (who knows why he did not email them) isnt ok. Fired!
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 5 years ago
It cut me off. He did this on the company computer. He didn't know he couldn't-.any jobs allow this, including the ones he has had. We cannot afford the house on anything much less and we cannot even afford this house unemployed with no unemployment. With covid, I cannot just go out and work, especially not in my field. F**k.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
Fastest someone ever got fired: Dude showed up on my dad's worksite, said he wouldn't wear a hard hat. Dad said "OK, go home." Dude said, "I'm the engineer!" Dad said, "Don't care, go home." One phone call to the bosses later, the engineer is fired... took about, oh, ten minutes? Maybe?
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
What? Engineer wouldn't abide by OSHA, the bosses fired him, my dad was right to not let him on-site.
Load More Replies... Rose the Cook 5 years ago
Young girl had applied for a casual job at a high class hotel. Extra waitresses were needed for a formal wedding so the manager called her in after asking if she had appropriate attire. She showed up in torn jeans and a tshirt with a very explicit message. Okay, could anyone lend her a black skirt and white blouse? She flatly refused to wear such "frumpy" clothes and wondered why she was shown the door.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
I don't know why you were downvoted, my upvote is free of charge. signed: Sirius B91198. Are you satisfied by our customer service? LOL, i know that in social work robots will not and can't take it over. Even real fleshy people are total assholes with it. Robots would never have a heart, and a lot of humans are not able to have a heart too, that's the one i wouldn't mind if they are replaced by robots. Grew a heart, be human, then claim to be a human and beeing more valuable than a robot...if you don't have have a heart, you are a robot, no more, no less.
Load More Replies... cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
(sorry for my english)A new colleague were fired in less than a week. I worked at an homeless men shelter. * the guy bullied the homeless people, verbally abused them, treated them like s**t. * he was hitting on every young woman, hiding himself and staring at us, even touched us in a weird way (touching the nurse's hair, grabbing my hips while passing by...) * he managed to got into a fight with a male coworker, wanted to beat him, death threats and all. * Someone died under his care, he was alone with some people and it's another coworker who discovered the body when taking his shift. Maybe it was not the brightest idea from the management to hire him as a social worker, he was applying for a cleaning job. He was totally nuts! The icing on the cake: he was always dressed like he was a badass rapper in a videoclip, huge sunglasses and all.
cassiushumanmother 5 years ago
So please if you have a heart, and considering a job, don't be afraid to work in an homeless shelter, i'm a 1,50m (less than 5 feet) woman with multiple degrees and i did it. The less frightening people were the homeless people. I managed to be alone with them (40) most of the times, without any trouble. Be kind, be understanding, be firm, because when you will be firm, even the most "high" will understand that he crossed the line, and will avoid an eviction because you were never like your coworkers. I never had to yell, just saying "be kind you know this coworker, please don't answer". Most of my work was calming down people before abusive coworkers send them alone to the streets. Just because they dislike a look. It's not a f*****g nightclub! SHELTER!
Load More Replies... Will Cable 5 years ago
It is the same with qualifications to do a job, my partner has seen so many people come and go because they had the 'qualification' but had the intelligence of a dead slug.
JessG 5 years ago
That’s because you’ve got to live and learn. Young people are still learning
Load More Replies... Chris Hardtke 5 years ago
In August I was in training to be a Census enumerator. We were told to bring a copy of our drivers license to training. We were NOT told to copy the back of our DL, and in FL it has almost no info on the back, so of course no one copied the back. Our training was at a church, and they wouldn’t let us use their copier so 5 of us got into our cars to drive a mile to a Pack n Send that had a copier. One girl left and never came back, but didn’t tell the instructors she wasn’t coming back. The trainers were afraid maybe she got lost or worse in an accident, so they held the ENTIRE class up for almost 20 minutes, waiting and hoping she’d return. Bear in mind just to qualify for training you had to pass a background check and get fingerprinted, so as pre-trainees we were already invested a bit, and the trainers just couldn’t believe she walked off. Finally a trainer was able to reach her on her cell, and fired her for not returning. So, technically fired BEFORE TRAINING EVEN STARTED.
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 5 years ago
This was all fun & games reading this the other day & now I am in a similar boat. After I left a job for mental health issues and wanting to start a home business (and boom, covid hits! And there goes the business) Husband got laid off, and given like 5 months to work, unrelated to COVID, and got a job about 2 weeks before his last day, & started the Monday after his last day. It was for about $45k more. It was for a very well-off international company. Stocks, 401k. He did software engineering for them. We decided to move to a really nice home-found one in the best location 3 doors from the school I used to work for & want to go back to. We sold our house first day on the market. Everything was perfect. We are in the middle of getting this house and moving out. Husband got fired. Apparently, unlike other jobs, trying to access his gmail (unsuccessfully, it is blocked) and encrypting our bills & sending it to another server-mine (who knows why he did not email them) isnt ok. Fired!
Colin Mochrie At Its Finest 5 years ago
It cut me off. He did this on the company computer. He didn't know he couldn't-.any jobs allow this, including the ones he has had. We cannot afford the house on anything much less and we cannot even afford this house unemployed with no unemployment. With covid, I cannot just go out and work, especially not in my field. F**k.
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