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The first day at a new job can be extremely overwhelming. Remembering names, learning protocol, trying to keep up with a new, fast-paced environment and maintaining your cool while simultaneously convincing your boss and yourself that you’ll be able to juggle all of your new responsibilities is a lot.
But not everyone can handle the pressure of starting a new job, and unfortunately, some people manage to lose their positions just as quickly as they earned them. Redditors have recently been sharing stories of the fastest ways people have ever been fired, so we’ve gathered some of their most shocking and entertaining anecdotes below. Enjoy reading through and feeling grateful that you’ve managed to hold down a job, and be sure to upvote the stories you can’t believe actually happened!
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#1
First day at work he took one look at his would-be boss and declared "I won't work under a woman". So he was shown the door.
MushroomHead22 2 years ago
yes... they just don't want a woman in control cause it scares them.
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Tiny Dynamine 2 years ago
What an insecure little prick. I bet he identifies as an alpha male!
Xenon 2 years ago
You're right! You won't be working under a woman because now you have no job!
nbfresh 2 years ago
and with no job, he has little chance of ever being under a woman in more ways than one
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Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
My worst bosses have all been women, but that doesn't mean all women are bad bosses. That's just statistics for you.
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Just a panda with misophonia 2 years ago
Go through the entire hiring process then say this? Dude get a grip🙄
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#2
I saw a coworker once make a "big boobs" gesture as our boss' wife walked past....with our boss walking right behind her.
He was packing his s**t within 5 minutes.
MushroomHead22 2 years ago
i got my cousin a job at the company i work at. there is a mandatory 2 week training before you can start work, and the training is pretty boring, just a guy standing at the front of the room explaining things on a screen... everyone gets a handbook in a binder with the manual, and some basic notes.... my cousin decided that handbook/binder was the perfect place to write F**K YOU all over the place.... they took a lunch break and was fired during the break LOL
PunchinelloTX 2 years ago
I would like to think he’d have been fired regardless of the comment being directed at the bosses wife, but at the expense of anyone.
Seadog 2 years ago
One place I worked we had a nearly perfect crew. There was this one guy that just didn't fit, he was never going to fit and nothing we or he ever did could get him gone. He even set a customers car on fire, they still didn't fire him. Skip forward a few years, the whole crew has moved on due to internal issues with the company except...you guessed it, HIM. The store gets a manger from another store, a guy we've all known for years. Super nice black guy. He spent a number of years in Spain and he talked about it often. His wife was Spanish, he made it clearly known. She was super nice as well although she didn't come in the store often. You probably see where this is going. She comes in one night and as soon as she leaves this idiot makes a very direct racial remark about her and the manager (husband) hears it. That was it for the guy. He was fired almost on the spot. Would've been except the DM has to do the firing.
#3
Hired a bunch for temp workers for data entry. Friday a young woman (21+yo to work for this agency) no shows to work, so I call temp agency and they send a replacement at noon.
Monday morning the young woman shows up and tells me that Friday her friends were going to the beach and she thought it was unfair that they had day off while she had to work. So she "Skipped". That is a real quote, "Skipped" like ditching school.
Told her she was already fired on Friday, to go home.
Then she says her mom dropped her off and she had not ride till 5pm. (In a city, so there was public transport available)
Told her "Sorry, in the adult world you have to clean up your own messes. bye."
María Hermida 2 years ago
Years ago I had a thirty-year-old flatmate with similar ideas. She had a good job with a good salary, but she decided to resign mid-summer because all her friends were having a good time, going to the beach and the swimming pool every day, so it was not fair she had to work.
dandylilah 2 years ago
So this thirty-year-old has friends that are still in high school who are on summer break?
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R Dennis 2 years ago
My daughter is 16 and working her first job. It was hard to get because no one wants to hire kids, except fast food restaurants. A family friend hired her as a hostess at his restaurant. She now has a hectic schedule due to school starting, girl scouts, and marching band. A friend of hers is having a birthday party on one of the only two nights she can work - which she also might need one off occasionally rue to band. She was going to take it off and I suggested she go after work for an hour... we usually take trips in the summer, but didn't so she could focus on training... and that only being available one day a week was a lot to ask from a job trying to run a business. It isn't permanent, but early on she needs to show dependability.
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
Teach them young. My son was working in a restaurant while in high school. His girlfriend at the time begged him to call in sick and hang out on her dad's boat. 1. My son had his own boat so not too exciting, and 2. HER DAD OWNED THE RESTAURANT.
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Viviane Katz 2 years ago
If the fired temp felt it wasn't fair to work on a Friday, why didn't she take her new colleagues and the boss to the beach with her?
Bryn 2 years ago
Sounds like she was told she had to try to get a job. So she did. She should have been she had to actually do the job...
Viviane Katz 2 years ago (edited)
"Mom, I got a job!!! What - I'm supposed to keep it??? You told me 'Get a job' and that's what I did."
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That One Weird Bi 2 years ago
The fact that she had been out of school for probably a couple years at that point...
#4
I worked IT in a high school. We hired a new HS tech. He came to shadow me for a few days. I told him don't f**k with money or kids and you're golden. Two weeks later he was dating a high school senior. Fired on the spot.
Ranger Kanootsen 2 years ago
Yeah, saying "I worked it" at high school sounds like a stripper being hired for sex ed
Load More Replies... ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
Eww! Sounds like Tyga, Steven Tyler, Chad Michael Murray, Milo Ventimiglia, Anthony Kiedis, Johnny Depp, Don Johnson, Joel Madden, Jimmy Page, Bill Wyman…I bet I could list at least 1000 celebs who dated…I mean groomed… high school girls BEFORE they were 17 or 18.
Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
I agree with that. If you start going after the kids before they're 18, yeah, you're sick. However, a lot of high school seniors are already 18 or 19. We don't know the context here. Dating a student is generally frowned upon and yes it'll get you fired regardless, but I would think if she were under 18 it would get you arrested.
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Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Should have been fired with an egg, a brick shaped egg, made of bricks.
#5
Had a supervisor start selling Amway from his office, hinted at favorable treatment for anyone who would buy. Reported him to HR--and when they asked if it was true, he pulled out a catalog and tried to sell them something. Fired on the spot.
Nonna_SoF 2 years ago
It is. It's actually one of the main reasons MLMs are legal in the US. They have ties to a bunch of politicians.
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Christopher Denney 2 years ago
Too many pyramid schemes interfering with work caused most places to ban that stuff (even GS cookies, sniff) but people are either being told they can't get fired by the next person up in their pyramid or they are just dumb. The last several jobs I had each had yearly mandatory training that specifically called out things like Amway as forbidden.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
I mean, MLM hustle cult members have to keep on selling, be it at work or a funeral.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
Interesting... so if they were selling Avon, or Tupperware - they would still have been fired? Because EVERY company I have ever worked at someone or 3 is selling one of those products.
Fluffy Griffin 2 years ago
I think the biggest flag was that your "treatment" by the management was tied to how much Amway you purchased.
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I fired our receptionist for using our mailing machine to send out her Mary Kay brochures. She couldn't seem to grasp that using $170 in company paid postage was actually stealing (which I deducted from her last paycheck. She called me to protest and I asked her if she'd like me to call the police instead?) Never would have caught her if I hadn't forgotten my sunglasses. The fact she was doing it after hours tells me she knew exactly what she was doing was wrong.
#6
New vice president of HR was introduced to company on Monday's morning meeting. He went to the head of the room, said he was going to tell a little joke to break the ice...and told a racist joke. Jaws were hitting the floor and dead silence followed. He said oh I guess you didn't get it, let me tell it again. Before he was halfway through the second sentence of the 'joke' another VP got up, put his arm around him, and walked him out of the room. Never seen again.
Jane Doe 2 years ago
This moron lacked the finesse for THAT. He decided they didn’t get it? Dude. Ugh.
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Tobias Reaper 2 years ago
i dont care what people think i am gonna talk bad about a race i dont like the tour de france very boring and goes on too way too long for my liking
Lotekguy 2 years ago
Same. Not all racist jokes are equally racist. Was this actual racism or someone's hypersensitive overreaction to a joke most would find more funny than offensive.
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#7
I did the firing. I was sous chef of a large reception hall, meaning serving food to hundreds and hundreds of guests. One party had a big seafood display. Shrimp, oysters, crab legs & vodka, all in a giant decorative box of ice. When that portion of dinner service was finished, two new waiters were tasked with returning the big ice box + leftovers to the kitchen and dish pit. **They dumped the ice back into the ice machine.** The contaminated ice. It even had some discarded shells. I saw it happen. I had to show them the door immediately and have a serious talk with their head waiter. They lasted 2 hours, tops. Those idiots could've killed someone. Imagine you have a severe shellfish allergy and the ice in your glass of water is lethal.
kissmychakram 2 years ago
Holy Hannah! My sister is deathly allergic, that would kill her. We check everything, but would never think of worrying about her gin and tonic!
Alethea Fletcher 2 years ago
Its things like this that explains my random anaphylaxis to simple things like a drink with ice. It would never even occur to me to explain my allergies when ordering alcohol/drinks.
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Bobby 2 years ago
I'll admit I was one of those "people are going overboard on this food allergy stuff" people once. Then I learned more about food allergy and realized it was a big deal. Fast forward a few more years and I develop a deadly sesame allergy (goodbye Chinese take out 😔). Because of stories like this I'm terrified to eat anywhere without my epipen in my pocket
Philly Bobcat 2 years ago (edited)
I have worked in the food industry (sous chef) and although not allergic to any foodstuffs (I am allergic to oak and certain pollens for which I take de-sense shots), I carry epi-pens with me at all times just in case someone would need one, including myself if I ever reacted to the shots. Yes, it has happened to someone, guy had a bee allergy and got stung. Gave him a jab. Kept him until medics arrived. I am also hypoglycemic and carry glucagon (Baqsemi). Thankfully I have never had to use it but did on someone who was type 1 and took their insulin before a meal and meal was delayed. Their blood glucose dropped to 29 mg/Dl. Needless to say she zonked. Glucagon lets your liver release enough sugar to get you consious so you can drink some juice, soda or a few glucose tabs to keep you alive until the medics get there.
CatWoman1014 2 years ago (edited)
How do some people make it as far as they do in life if they’re this stupid?
Filipa Menezes 2 years ago
Last week I went to a restaurant, and ordered a traditional dish that is NOT supported to have seafood. Apparently they decided to add shrimp to the sauce, with no allergen information whatsoever. Thank God for my Epi or I wouldn't be here
Bobby 2 years ago
I'm the same with sesame. If you are in the states they are required to have a document that lists all dishes they serve and indicate if they contain any of the major allergens. This document does not have to be the menu though. I always ask for the allergen list because I don't trust servers(not their responsibility to know that anyway)or menus with my life
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whiterabbit 2 years ago
I was training a surgical tech once, she had finished 2 years of school. She just got done with a surgery, i told her to drop the instruments off in sterilization and clean the operatory. I walk past the OP a few minutes later and shes setting up the new instruments and barriers with bloody gloves. She literally thought it was ok to keep the same used, bloody gloves on from surgery, sterilization area, wiping down the OP, opening drawers/cupboards to grab clean stuff, and finally to setting up for the next surgery. When I asked what the f*ck she was doing she didn't even see anything wrong until I very slowly explained to her how much cross contamination she just caused, and even after I explained I'm not convinced she fully understood.
SuperChicken 2 years ago
What an idiot. Anyway, one note to my fellow Pandas, as I have severe allergies on just about everything is: be careful with cross-contamination. Many (not all) kitchens do not fully understand how cross-contamination can also cause a reaction; worse, anaphylaxis.
#8
First day at work, hired by a temp agency. Me and one other guy, we put stuff in boxes and tape them shut, stack boxes on a pallet. He can't keep up, can barely use a tape gun and decides it's time for a break. Goes to the lunch room and takes a lunch. It was the boss's lunch, he stole the guy's meal his wife prepared for him. The boss man came over 15 mins later and wants to know who ate his BBQ, sticky fingers, and BBQ on his shirt he denies it. I just look at him and the Boss and said well I hope it was good man..
CatWoman1014 2 years ago
I truly don’t understand people who eat others leftovers. You have no idea how clean their kitchen and cooking habits are and seasoning. I often lick the spoon when I cook so if you eat my leftovers you’re also eating my saliva. Bon appetit!
Bryn 2 years ago
Sounds either like a spoiled brat or someone who is really out of touch with societal norms/expectations.
UpupaEpops 2 years ago
To be fair this is the first time in my life I'm hearing the word "tape gun". Even nail guns aren't common where I'm from. No excuse for the other stuff though.
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Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
I don't get that either. Never happened to me so far, but I sure would find a way to stop it if it started. There are so many wondrerful things you can do with hot sauces and/or laxatives...
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Wysteria_Rose 2 years ago
One coworker drank out of my drink and I had to be held back from attacking him...okay, so I wasn't going physically attack him but I mentally LOST it when he just picked up a random drink cup and did that. Manager did have to get between us and told them that they owed me a new drink...he didn't try that (with me) again.
#9
I used to work at a small business. A new hire made a comment in passing that he didn’t support gay marriage. Somehow he failed to realize that the two women who owned the place were a lesbian couple.
CatWoman1014 2 years ago
Sadly the compact wasn’t working so he just popped out somewhere else
Load More Replies... CatWoman1014 2 years ago
Who people marry and sleep with has nothing to do with you. Worry about yourself.
Remi (He/Him) 2 years ago
There are opinions and there is bigotry. Not liking ice cream would be an opinion. Wanting people to be treated unequally because of some trait of theirs is bigotry.
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ADJ 2 years ago
To be fair, that is not a reason to fire someone. Everyone is entitled to his view on gay marriage, one can support it, one can be against, and it should have zero effect on his employment. What if he said he didn't believe in god, and his boss was devout believer? That too is reason to fire someone?
T Lee Mac 2 years ago
It is in many states in the US with the “at will” employment.
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Wat Tyler's Revenge 2 years ago
I think that's illegal. You can't fire someone based on their political or religious views.
Roman Spruce 2 years ago
Welcome to the USA, you can be fired for any reason at anytime. Plus public accomodation laws supercede "political views".
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Dude's first day, on a team next to mine gets an assignment, as soon as the lead leaves the area he leans over to another guy and threatens that if he doesn't do his work for him he's going to "kick his a*s after work".
I got up to the managers, we walked over and escorted him out. He was there all of 2 hours.
On his way out he's knocking over chairs and screaming that he'll be "waiting for us in the parking lot". F****n nuts.
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
Knocking over chairs and screaming? Sounds more like the primary school bully to me 😂
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Lotus Flower in Space 🪷 2 years ago
Side note. I’m loving the David Lynch portrait on the wall.
A B C the Third 2 years ago
Fúckin. It's fúckin nuts. If anybody cares. Censorship is bullshít.
Biana Weatherford 2 years ago
Tell us you Peaked in High School, without saying you Peaked In High School
#11
Had a coworker explain to our supervisor how he found this great loophole for making extra money: if a customer had exact change, he’d just pocket the cash and cancel the order on the register.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Plot twist: Supervisor thinks its brilliant and starts doin' it...
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Lotekguy 2 years ago
It does, but that doesn't guarantee the next step for everyone. Some of us are on the highway; others stuck in a cul de sac.
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Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
I really want to hear that person explain the definition of "loophole".
Chris D'Asta 2 years ago
Fired for known theft. How can you be so stupid? Wait, just remembered I was fired from Washburn Guitars for making a 4 foot alien from bubble wrap and masking tape. It would've been overlooked if I hadn't taken it home. I was stupid.
#12
Working security at a concert venue. Coworker confiscated a mini bottle of Fireball that someone snuck in, and then he drank it in front of everyone. Instantly went from confiscation (part of the job) to stealing and also drinking on the job.
#13
Dude sent out a company-wide email at the start of pride month including bible verses about how all gay people need to be murdered.
Ace 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure that there aren't any bible verses that say all gay people need to be murdered.
R Dennis 2 years ago
Yeah... not a Christian and even I know that, but with all the hate they spew non-Christians can't be blamed for not knowing...
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Tobias Reaper 2 years ago
the bible also mentions about tattoos and adultery and sex before marriage funny how people only pick and choose the bits that suit their own views
Kofi Leeto 2 years ago
that's the issue with bible, it's mostly used to support what we already believe in and justify evil we want to spread. and not the other way round. I can find verses that says a wife must abide, but also those that say opposite. adulterers must be killed and another saying they must be forgiven
Load More Replies... Annymoose 2 years ago
The Bible has zero verses on how all gay people need to be murdered. It does include god getting mad and killing people including children and babies, though.
Billy Harrelson 2 years ago
And that is wrong. The Bible does say that the man who lies with a man shall be stoned, but later, Jesus says "let he who is not a sinner cast the first stone." This was when they were about to stone the adultress. The point of the verse and the ones after is that we're not supposed to kill the sinner for we have all sinned, but we are supposed to love and forgive them and work to lead them away from the sin. Jesus forgave the adultress. We can forgive those who sin.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
I am NOT a scholar, but I have heard that possibly the translation was more about not laying with a child. I always found it odd that there was really nothing against pedophilia in the bible. But my interpretations on many of the fables in the book are not accepted by the "flock".
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Kira Okah 2 years ago
Perhaps Matthew 7:1-3: Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Load More Replies... Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago (edited)
People can have an opinion, sure, but really? At this point it’s no longer an opinion, just homophobia and bigotry.
#14
First day at work for this new dude. We pick him up at 07:00AM... He hops into the car and goes : "Ahhhh, Jeez...when are we finishing work today? I'm beat. Can you guys buy me a pack of cigarettes? Oh, and just so you know, I only eat Meat for lunch..." The boss stopped the car, and told him to get out. It was like 07:03...
#15
A colleague let a middle school kid drive the bus. Buh-bye!
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
Well, who knows, maybe the middle school kid was actually a 30 y/o that got held back /j
#16
I am a former medical professional, I was a manager of two buildings. One a nursing home and the other a high security mental facility. Our place was short staffed as they all are and my job duties consisted of wearing many hats. I trained, did narc count, worked the night shift and day shift on top of being a manager. My trainee, we will call her Nancy, was shadowing me about my monster and coffee fueled day (I was 3/4 through a 24 hr shift) and I was explaining the steps to giving someone insulin (she was fresh out of CMA class) so she decided to grab the needle and stab the patient in the neck without even getting the insulin and stared at me and says “So … um like.. like that?” I was flabbergasted and, I know this is surprising, I fired her.
BenTevye 2 years ago
Or, worse, that super annoying Dr. Pulaski * shudder *
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Carole 2 years ago
That reminds me of a story my high school biology teacher told us once. So she was sick and at the hospital and the nurse came to give her something either through an injection or through the iv drip (I'm a bit fuzzy on the details). My teacher is very sharp and observant so she immediately noticed the big air bubble in the syringe! So she tells the nurse about it and the guy is like "Oh, is that bad?" My poor teacher just reached for the call button in a panic. I can still remember her face as she was acting this part out 😂
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago (edited)
So I know a lot of people think that an air bubble in a syringe or IV is fatal. A bubble which may look big inside a syringe is usually about 0.2 cc of air, but it takes about 100 times that, 20 cc to cause any symptoms and it takes 150cc+ - 300cc to cause fatality. I know it's common knowledge that any amount of air is bad but it really takes a significant amount of air to cause side effects intravenously.
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Kevin Hickey 2 years ago
Why do we put up with medical professionals working insanely long hours? If the person putting new brakes on your car told you that he's been working 16 hours, wouldn't you take your car somewhere else?
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Good on you for explaining the steps. I met a nurse whose job was to supervise insulin injection, and who had no idea how to inject insulin and no interest in learning. She wasn't fired, so far as I know.
A B C the Third 2 years ago
Do you know where the person who posted this (and who is guaranteed not to read your comment directly addressed at them because BP takes stuff from reddit, instagram, twitter etc without telling them) lives, and do you know their local laws? Pretty bold statement you make whilst you know nothing, Jon Snow.
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#17
I was a police instructor. I was driving down a road to deliver some stuff (mid shift) and I saw headlights in the opposite lane not moving toward me. I slowed down, then noticed it was a marked unit. I stopped next to it and the officer was asleep...in the middle of the road, unit in park, mouth open asleep!
Josephine Blogs 2 years ago
He got fired. Clicking through to Reddit (the link under the post), the OP (Chasing_Lisa) said "Believe it or not... No, he lost it all. I think they forced the issue because he thought he was invincible as the VP of the police union".
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EmbersAreOut 2 years ago
This is a really unlikely idea, but what if something happened to him? Like he was drugged or something like that?
Anyone-for-tea? 2 years ago
That would definitely be a storyline in The Rookie.
Load More Replies... Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
So much for the Blue Wall. Kill someone unarmed? Get a medal. Sleep on the job? FIRED.
#18
A guy got fired at my bar for shaving his head in the beer cooler.
Why? His kids had lice. He even sang a song about how he was high and shaving on the boss man's time. There's a video too, you can see the GM staring in wtf shock in the background.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
How does something sound literal? And, since there's a video, it is literally not some random dream events.
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Susan Reid Smith 2 years ago
Because of lice, in a place that sells food and drink?
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#19
Came out from the back and joined us while we were talking about work related stuff, and he had a beer can in his hand. I immediately stopped talking about what I was talking about before and asked him: "Dude. What the f**k are you doing?" Him: "uh...drinking juice? What does it look like?" My boss: "That's not a f*****g juice dude, that's a spiked seltzer. It's alcohol." Him: "pfft, ok so?" *Takes another sip* He was 16. He was fired on the spot and had to be dragged out because he was adamant it wasn't a big deal and threatened to stab me with his pocket knife when I tried taking it from him.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago (edited)
Where are they now? Municipal jail, state penitentiary or federal prison?
#20
I was quality assurance for a place that evaluated operations involving explosives. I was leaving soon, so my replacement was hired (I recommended against his hiring because I'd heard bad things and he seemed shady..... but they hired him anyway). So on his first day, I was tasked with training him on the job. He was already highly qualified on explosives (more qualified than I was, in fact). Anyway, as we're evaluating a couple of guys working on the internals of a live AIM-120 missile. This clown's CELLPHONE goes off in his pocket. To even get into the bay we were in, you have to walk past about 4 signs that say to leave all electronic devices outside because even tiny amounts of EM emissions can set off the explosives, especially when the covers are removed/dissassembled. So I wrote up my replacement with a Direct Safety Violation and he didn't have a job by the time he got back to the office. Quality Assurance's reputation was in the crapper for months. That idiot could have gotten 5 people killed, including himself.
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
Cell phones really need to take a backseat to being tools/devices again instead of an extension of someone's body.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
I hope that true life story spread through your work community and that person never got to work in that field again.
A B C the Third 2 years ago
You have no idea what you're talking about, do you? Your advice is about as good and thought-through as "this vaccine contains mercury, mercury is poisonous, so the vaccine is poisonous".
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Within two weeks a new hire was found sleeping in the middle of a fort of inventory he made. They walked him out immediately.
Igor914624 2 years ago
I work in IT. At one job, one of my teammates brought is military arctic sleeping bag in on the weekend, and stashed it under the raised floor in the computer room. Then he would go in to the computer room to do "maintenance", pull up the floor tile, crawl into the sleeping bag, pull the tile back in above himself, and go to sleep for hours. He got fired when the CEO and some A level execs toured the computer room and heard him snoring loudly.
Tiger Pearl 2 years ago
This is clever and reaction was harsh. I think supervisors should have talked to the employee and maybe looked at productivity. Some people function better with naps, though probably not “hours” long naps.
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Allison Slagle (Randomosity) 2 years ago
How could they have removed him? He was in a heavily protected fort. He should have added a moat.
Seadog 2 years ago (edited)
Some years ago, industry in nearby town had some kind of issue that halted production. Workers could go home or stay and wait. Guy lays down behind a bin of some sort and goes to sleep. Another worker comes along with the forklift carrying the next bin, shoves it against the first and crushes the guy. That was one of 3 fatalities at that plant that week. The other 2 were pulled into some machinery. It's a very dangerous place.
#22
My first job was in a small grocery store and my boss asked a coworker to do the dishes in the bakery (baking pans, etc). She replied: “I only do my own dishes, somebody else put these here so I’m not doing them. I’m serious. Fire me if you want, I won’t do them.” Boss says “Okay then, don’t bother finishing your shift, goodbye!”
Fluffy Griffin 2 years ago
I saw stuff like this happen when I worked retail... but it was people hired to be a cashier told to clean the restrooms. They were NOT fired, because it was literally not in their job description. I wonder if this was a similar instance?
#23
I worked at a movie theater as a teenager. Some suits from corporate office were at the theater doing stuff, including a really beautiful young woman in her early- to mid-twenties, who was in the group wearing a short jacket and a knee-length pencil skirt. We all had radios, and I was taking tickets near where the suits were hanging out talking to my boss when my radio crackled and I hear, "Holy s**t, guys, did you see the a*s on that chick from corporate office?" She blushed very red, my manager went very pale, and my coworker got very fired.
Milady Blue 2 years ago
Alas, you could not reply, "Holy s**t, dude, your timing sucks so bad that with the right attachments, you could probably vacuum the whole theater all by yourself!"
Bobby 2 years ago
I never know what is acceptable to say about someone's looks in a work setting, so I say nothing. But would it have been acceptable if they were say in the break room and the co worker had said something like "wow, that woman from corporate was really pretty"?
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
I think calling somebody pretty or gorgeous is okay (although some people object to commenting on anybody’s looks at all). It’s when people comment on body parts, “look at her a*s / breasts / legs” that it becomes a bit more gross.
Load More Replies... PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Lol that makes a good plural form without the s
Load More Replies... Heather Talma 2 years ago
I misread that as "the suits were doing stuff and what they were doing included the woman"
#24
I was training a new manager at a hotel on the midnight shift almost 20 years ago. She'd literally been working with me for 5 minutes when I decided to show her around. Opened a boardroom door and caught our lead bartender plowing a guest on the granite conference table. He was out the lobby door holding his pants up within 90 seconds. He was immortalized as a legend forever though. 😂
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
Family hotel, here. I cannot even begin to tell you how much sex happens in secluded places. Thing is, they’re never as sly as they think. Cameras will attest to this. Best tho, is the married men who sneak out for Grindr trysts in the bushes. There are a couple of locals who were regulars, sometimes even hooking up on property with more than one guest per night. We’ve had to ban them. Pictures up in security office. Now, had they been sex workers dealing with their transactions behind closed doors, we’d be gentile & accommodating as long as they’re discrete.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
Play your cards right and you've got a nice bit of additional income...
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago
I worked in the hotel industry for a while. In general everyone was an addict, alcoholic, or sneaking away to have sex with someone. Specifically my boss was having an affair with one of his managers. They were both married to other people at the time. After I left I heard the woman's husband caught them together in a hotel room. I was young at the time and it was an exciting place to work - I made lots of friends and had a good time. However you could not pay me enough to ever go back now that I'm too old for shenanigans. :)
#25
Restaurant opening. His first day on the job. Smacked a server’s a*s and said “Thanks toots”.
I think he maybe lasted 2 hours that day max. I can’t think of anyone else I fired faster than that.
Xenon 2 years ago
It's amazing in this day and age that anyone would think that type of conduct would fly.
Norah Reilly 2 years ago
When he's thinking with the little head, he ain't thinkin'.
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ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
I think I'd fire someone just for saying "thanks toots" without the sexual assault.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago (edited)
I worked for the NW hq of a national real estate company. While in the copy room one of the brokers came up behind me a cupped my a*s. I turned around and said, "Kendall, I'm as tall as you are and quite strong. If you EVER touch me again, I will break your arm off at the elbow and shove it so far up your a*s you'll be able to touch your tonsils with your own hand. Is this is any way unclear?" Of course he turned purple and basically ran from the room, as I left & immediately reported him to HR. Unfortunately, this was 1991 and this particular company was just one big boys club. SOB steered well clear of me after that, though.
#26
Hitting on the boss's 13-year-old son.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago (edited)
Y’all hear the news this week about the teacher & the 13yo whom she sexually assaulted, texted with 2200 times (including sending noods) and bought him a Glock semi-automatic for his 14th birthday? At the end of this school year he asked her to get him a second one. When she said no he totally came clean and ratted her out. The sicko had to know this ended with prison. And if she didn’t, how was someone that dumb hired as a teacher.
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
It’s happened a lot - teacher, student (both male and female teachers). It’s so gross.
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Lyoness 2 years ago (edited)
Another case was Mary Kay Letorneau - her student was also 13. She was a married teacher and mom of 3 (I think) when she seduced the kid. She ended up pregnant (twice) while on parole and they stuck her back in prison. Scary twist... They got married (and then divorced).
Norah Reilly 2 years ago
That's just too creepy for words. I hope the perpetrator not only was fired but got some jail time.
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
That would probably be horrifying for a kid. Having an ADULT start hitting on you? Ew, if that was me I would have been traumatized
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Worked at an ISP back in the 90s and had a guy working late shift. Found out quickly he wasn't answering the phone at all, but just playing video games. He was warned. Next day he walks in to work with a Voodoo2 graphics card to install in his work computer to improve the game playing. Fired before he sat down.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
He’s now sitting in his poor mother’s unfinished attic, covered in Cheeto dust & varying pathogens, trolling away in Warfare & LoL.
Jcusack 2 years ago
Seems more of a basement type guy in my view but to each their own! haha
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Milady Blue 2 years ago
But the Council of Village Idiots was down a member...
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Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
I was volunteering at a vets office once and saw an employee there watching Roblox roleplays- maybe he was on lunch break or something but… it was at 10:00 AM?
#28
He filmed from under the door of the women's bathroom. I don't understand how it’s possible to do this.
#29
Annual promotion season. HR rep at my previous employer was sending her boss the salary/raise calcs for everyone in our office. In sending she accidentally Cc’d our offices contact group. No one worked that day, many people left angry, she left as she was no longer employed. But one thing she did do was help a LOT of people negotiate better and fair pay.
Sonja 2 years ago
I wonder how 'accidental' that was. I wonder if ahe might have had another job already lined up
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
What a bad@$$ Robin Hood-type move before walking away! Nice!
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Crescent 3 2 years ago
One of the longest-standing anti-labor myths in the US is that it is wrong for employees to discuss salaries amongst each other. Many companies have it written into HR policy that doing so is a violation. It is actually illegal to punish employees for openly discussing salaries. Folks also say that it's bad for morale; however, studies show that in workplaces where discussing salaries is encouraged, employees make a higher average wage than similar employees in places where such discussions are forbidden. "We don't discuss salaries" is a corporate ploy to artificially depress wages. Many of us were raised with the notion that discussing your salary is bad form. We have to disabuse ourselves of that concept. The HR rep here is a hero.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
this is the reason that bosses tell people not to tell their coworkers their salaries...when it is actually in the emloyees' best interest to share this information
Upstaged75 2 years ago
I did that accidentally, but it was back before we used email (when dinosaurs roamed the Earth) for that type of thing. Instead I put them in everyone's actual mailbox in the mailroom. Fortunately one of the managers realized that he had everyone's salaries instead of just his own and pulled all the documents back out. Otherwise I might have been responsible for the Great Food & Beverage Department Riot of 1998. :)
Joe Standford 1 year ago
And she can sue because it’s Not illegal to share salary of other people
David A Paterson 2 years ago
I fail to see why staff get angry when they see the salaries of other staff. Can't they guess? I've only ever worked in places where everyone knows or can easily find out, exactly what everyone else in the business are paid. Finding out doesn't mean you're paid less, though it can mean that you need to stop slacking off.
LargeMarge 2 years ago
What about the people who do not slack off? Should they work harder, 247 with no days off? If you fail to see this, then you are that boss that does not want the employees to talk about salary.
Load More Replies... LargeMarge 2 years ago
You say that now until it happens to you. Who knows, it might be happening right now and you have no clue.
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Manager introduces new co-worker to us and asks one of my colleagues to train him on the machinery we use, which he accepts. 20 minutes in training the new guy picks up a large, metal piece and the trainer shows him the proper way to handle it. The trainer demonstrates by gently grabbing the piece, to which the new guy reacts by violently grabbing the piece away from the trainer then attempted to back-hand smack the trainer... right in front of the manager. New guy got hauled off faster than an Amazon van driving on same-day shipping, metaphorically. Our manager was really hard on workplace violence.
María Hermida 2 years ago
I guess if you manage a team of strong men in a place full of potential "weapons" you must be very strict about violence. Things can get out of control very quickly if you tolerate the slightest bad attitude.
#31
A co worker came to work drunk, and when his supervisor started reprimanding him ,he (co worker) threw up on him.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
Snap! That's not drunk, that's wasted! (Why "snap"?)
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#32
I fired a woman who showed up late on the first day, in an inappropriate dress, a customer asked her something simple, she replied "how the f**k am I supposed to know that". I gave her a payroll check for 3 hours work and sent her out the door. She was a sweet, intelligent woman when I interviewed her, what happened, I don't know.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
Was told, by someone, she had to get a job or there would be repercussions if she didn't. She got you to hire her, but she didn't really want to have a job, and so she made sure she got fired.
#33
New Guy had a habit of watching YouTube instead of working. Manager walks by his desk and sees this, and says, “hey less YouTube and more work, yeah?” The New Guy messages another colleague, “dipsh*t boss is creeping on me again” Except he sent the message to the manager by mistake.
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
It's not "creeping" if the manager is... you know... MANAGING the productivity of the office!
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
No, creeping is when they stalk the employees' SM pages. Seen it happen pretty often.
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#34
Saw someone in a customer service/intake position gone in about 15 minutes. They had specifically been hired to take Spanish speaking calls, and had told the company she was bilingual im English/Spanish.
She couldn't actually speak any Spanish. Not sure how she faked her way through the interview.
SCamp 2 years ago
That’s on the company. No one asked her a question in Spanish? Serves them right
Scotira 2 years ago (edited)
Correct. I listed "fluid in speaking and writing in 4 languages, passable in 1" in my application. I think they didn't believe me 😅 as I had my job interview with 3 people in 4 different languages 🤣 it was wild and exhausting.
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Hey! 2 years ago
I was getting interviewed for a bilingual position. First in English, then the interviewer called someone for the French interview. We started talking about this and that. Then #1 comes back on the line and #2 responds "she speaks French better than me; hire her". We were both Quebecers and my first language was English. LOL.
Jane Hower 2 years ago
I am a fast typist but didn't do 10-key. At job interview that I really wanted I said YES I can to 10 key. I had to give my current employer 2 wks notice so signed up for 10-key class in evenings for two weeks. Started new job, began totallying sales slips from other stores that reported to home office. The comptroller watched me and said I was faster than last gal. whew
Biana Weatherford 2 years ago
It's important to have someone who speaks Spanish test the applicants. Just saying.
#35
Work for a large big box. We brought on a new hire last week. Three days into the workweek, we noticed either he didn’t have a radio or he just didn’t know how to operate it. He was clocking in for work, out/in for lunches, & clocking out for the day. It turned out he was arriving to clock in, leaving until lunch, clocking out & leaving again, returning to satisfy the clock again, leaving, & then returning yet again to clock out for the day. Three days he did this. A new hire. His lead was also given a meeting as they weren’t doing due diligence & trying to find him.
JCM 2 years ago
Worked in a call centre. Completed 6 weeks paid training. One of the new hires that trained with me lived across the street from the call centre. He would come over to clock in and out. Took the call centre about a week to figure out what was going on. I heard they met him at the time clock and told him not to come back.
Joe Standford 1 year ago (edited)
Walmart, I’m sure I worked over nights years ago and a guy did this except he didn’t bother to clock out for lunch. Clocked in at 10 pm out at 7 am and since their communication sucks got away with it until his 90 day evaluation hr asks night assistant manager about the guys evaluation and the manager says who?
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago (edited)
My husband worked with a guy who clocked in and then went out to the service warehouse and took a nap in an empty bay (pretty sure he was working nights somewhere else). He did this for months. My husband was his supervisor and complained CONSTANTLY about the fact he was getting paid but never actually working. It was a Casino and almost impossible to get fired. It took six months before my husband could talk the VP into going with him to the warehouse and caught the guy red handed. My husband insisted the VP watch the security tapes to prove his allegations. Finally got fired, but was still eligible for unemployment. My husband was PISSED.
#36
In my gym one of my instructors had an argument with a customer. The customer was being a smart*ss but the instructor (quite a muscular man, like a badly built bodybuilder) waited for him outside where there were no cameras and assaulted the guy, breaking an orbit and knocking him out. He then proceeded to go back in, intimidate the receptionist into not calling an ambulance and going around the gym telling everyone that they had "seen nothing" and that he knew where everyone of them lived or worked. I called him and told him to pack his stuff go home Immediately. Next day he received a letter from our lawyer not to show his face again.
Bumble 2 years ago
Rumour has it, he is still on the floor outside the gym.
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#37
Worked in a restaurant and when the table wanted to return their Mai Tai the server chugged it right in front of them and said “it tastes fine.”
Sue Denham 2 years ago
With all the bad behaviour that servers have to put up with I reckon there should be one day a year - no, let's make it a month - when they're allowed to do stuff like this.
Bobby 2 years ago
I think I'd prefer management to stop pandering to AH customers. A requirement to dine here is respect to all staff, violate this and you and your party will immediately be removed from the building without refund. Apply the same to call centers. You're being violent and rude to the tech support guy then you get fired as a customer. Start training customers that this isn't acceptable and the servers and callcenter reps will have better lives
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ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
They were ready to fück off from that job so didn’t give two shíts. Probably rightfully so.
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
The server shouldn't have gotten fired. They should have been given a 15 minute break to congratulate them on this awesomely kick@$$ move. If my server would have done that, I would have smiled, given them a high five, and asked if I could buy them another.
Joshua David 2 years ago
I feel like the only people to order those are freshly 21s and middle aged karens "being bad."
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
I feel like people can order whatever drinks they want and it's none of my business.
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Worked in a sales call center about 10 years ago, real braindead work. New guy starts on a Monday morning, after he gets trained up on the basics (which takes about an hour), he gets assigned a desk and sets off to work. 30 minutes later, it looks like little puffs of steam are rising up from his computer monitor. Turns out he was vaping on one of those disposable ecigarettes, the kind that sort of tried to look like real cigarettes. He gets told by the boss that we can't vape indoors, and if he wants to, he'll have to go outside to do it on a smoke break. We were pretty liberal with those, you could basically just go whenever you wanted. About 30 minutes later again, the same thing happens. He gets caught again, and is told in no uncertain terms that if he wants to keep his job, he'll stop vaping at his desk. An hour later, he gets caught hiding beneath his desk, still vaping, and is promptly fired, all before lunch time. Dude could have just gone outside.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
Commas. Friends. Indicate pauses. "Once again, too many morons!" And once again, that is the point of the whole list.
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I was wondering, was it the sales call center that made you braindead or did you have to be that way, to work there in the first place?
#39
Someone idiot made a racist "joke" about a black lady during orientation. HR immediately kicked him out.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Actually even more disgusting than this are those of a certain stripe who will denounce his firing as "cancel culture" (whatever that means).
#40
I was a manager for a cosmetics store at the mall. On my day off I get a call from one of my long time employees that our new hire had tried to fight a girl who came into our store, because she was the ex GF of the new hire’s fiancé. I had to come in on my day off, pregnant and starving cause I hadn’t had time to eat yet, to deal with this absolute middle school nonsense. When I got there the new hire and her mom were just chilling by the register, like fighting people while you’re working is a totally normal, everyday occurrence. The mom had the audacity to say to me “she didn’t have no business coming in here!” I had to inform her that our store was open to the public, so she had every right to come in, regardless of her motives. Then I had to fire the new hire. The crazy thing was, in her deluded red neck mind, she thought I was coming in to check on her! That I was there cause I had her back! I actually hate that I missed the fight, because my long time employee said she threw the weakest, saddest, little punch. She looked like Mr. Burns trying to fight.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
Commas are your friend. "How old was the hire, twelve?"
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No Clue 2 years ago (edited)
I had to read that several times before I realized it doesn't say, "Then I had to FIGHT the new hire." 😑
#41
I work at a local grocery store and one day we had a new hire in the bakery department. Her first day comes around and she no-called and no-showed for her first day…then a few days later comes in and shops like nothing happened 💀
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Since she was looking for a job, she just may have found a better one. No excuse for not calling, though.
LargeMarge 2 years ago
This happened at a grocery store I worked at. I was thinking to myself, why bother applying?
Blue Chambers 2 years ago
Probably applied to a bunch of places and she ended up getting a different job and didn't bother to contact anyone. It happens a lot where I work.
#42
Was caught stealing money out of the register in the first hour of him even touching the damn thing.
On a related note, had another co-worker get fired for the same thing within the last two hours of his final shift.
$50 in small bills and loose coins really brings out the worst in some people.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago (edited)
Desperation is blind to morality. We hired a (hotel) housekeeper. On her first day, $100 cash tip went missing. Supervisor checked on her & her lead, noting the cash tip in one room. When all tips were accounted for, the $100 bill wasn’t there. Mngr came to me & I cut her final check, brought her into office & terminated her. She broke down in utter remorse. She could have taken other tips but only took the one so I asked her why she stole, but didn’t get a little greedier. She could have gotten away with much more had it not been the only $100 bill. She accepted her termination & explained that the onboarding took so long & she’d been unemployed for so long that she wasn’t even sure she had the gas to make it to nearest station. Also, she had no diapers, no food and her mobile was turned off. She even feared she’d miss us trying to call her prior to her start & lose the job. Had garden team put gas in her car, gave her the $100 back & rehired her. This was 1998. She’s a supe now.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
I hope the hotel has a better system in place now, for letting people know they are hired. Also, does she, the supe now, remember this when she comes across employees in similar situations and treats them with as much kindness, as she was.
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Joshua David 2 years ago
I did this once at McDonald's. My parents were knobs and I was in high-school and drove to work with my gaslight on red. I knew if I didn't at least put 5 in it, I'd never make it home. So I took it. The next day I begged my mom for 5 bucks and she begrudgingly gave it to me and when I got there I said Hey, I found this on the floor in drive thru. Whew.
Susan 2 years ago
Had a similar incident at a retail clothing store I worked at when I was in my teens. The owner had hired a girl that I knew had a tendency to steal (as she had previous been the main suspect of stealing my wallet before). He hired her anyway. On her first shift she got an "urgent" phone call and had to leave suddenly. At the end of the day the register was short hundreds of dollars and she never showed back up. A big fat "I told you so!" for my boss...
ROSESARERED 2 years ago
A girl I worked with in the early 90s, would take money from the register before her break, go and buy some drugs, take them, come back to work high as a kite. I nearly lost my job, security thought I was stealing. She would turn the register key to my code to take the money. Thankfully the managers told security it couldn't be me, look further into it. Sadly, the security lady had it in for me, she was gay, I wasn't and I refused to go on a date with her. So glad when she got fired...for harassment surprise surprise
#43
A mate many years ago started a part time job at pizza hut. First customer he took a pizza out to asked for him to be sacked and he was. To be fair to the customer, my mate had a string of cheese all the way from the pizza dish to his chin. He thought no-one would notice one slice of pepperoni missing. He was wrong.
Xenon 2 years ago
That's kind of comical. I chuckle just picturing him with the long string of cheese thinking no one will notice.
Joshua David 2 years ago
Had to be in the 80s. Everyone knows pizza hut doesn't use cheese on pizza nowadays.
#44
I work with special needs individuals. A coworker of mine who had started 3 days prior got fired for getting into a fistfight…with one of the special needs individuals.
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
I work with special needs adults and this is a real fear of mine. I'm not a carer, just a driver so I've never had any training in this regard. And a lot of the clients are completely able-bodied big grown men, if they went at me I don't know how I would defend myself without fighting back.
Alexandra 2 years ago
That must be very stressful for you! I really think you should receive some training in how to handle dangerous situations. Doesn't your employer have a duty-of-care for your safety? How are the health and safety regulations for your job? Although I understand the fighting back, perhaps running away would be better.
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I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
I have worked in a group home for special needs adults. The initial training period iirc was about 2 weeks, we got certified in first aid and CPR, learned de-escalating techniques as well as how to properly restrain the individuals if needed. The training is great but sometimes doesn't work. I once was almost stabbed in the chest with a fork by a very agitated individual. Myself and a coworker tried using the proper techniques but they weren't working. We got the fork from the guy but he was also a biter and he almost bit my chest and ripped a tear in my shirt and at that point my inner Marine was like eff this and I took him down to the ground gently but I definitely did not use the techniques we were taught. Myself and coworker had to restrain him while he was laying down on the living room floor she had his upper half and I had the bottom, after about 5 minutes like this the guy falls asleep and we left him there, wakes up an hour later and acts like nothing happened.
Joe Standford 1 year ago
But who started it if this “special needs” then it was self defense I was attacked by a “special needs” and most of them are pretty strong.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago (edited)
I was a CNA at a low rent kind of place. ALMOST got fired for punching an old lady in the head. The supervisor saw the whole thing, so I had a "reliable" witness. As I was walking past, this old bird reached out and pinched that tender spot under your inner bicep with those claw-like old lady nails. Like hard enough to draw blood. I just reacted instinctively & it wasn't like a "punch" punch, more like a reflex. Apparently I looked like her dead husband's mistress. I did get written up & made sure to be a little more aware in the future, which was thankfully short lived. I got tired of going home & crying every night after about 2 months.
#45
The guy responsible for opening the shop on Saturday morning went out and got blitzed on Friday night. We showed up to work to find his car in the lot but the doors locked. He didn't answer his phone. Had to call the owner in to get us inside.
Guy was fast asleep, under his desk.
He was gone before you could say hangover.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
The shutter on the right is definitely something to do with Crystal Palace.
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#46
I worked at the head office of a well known retailer. One day we had a temp on the reception desk and no one realised that the bottle of water on her desk was, well...not water.
As the day went on the tannoy announcements got worse, just stumbling through names and slurring. Needless to say everyone thought this was funny, not realising that she was bladdered and not just c**p at the job.
Come the end of the day though, she gets into her car and attempts to drive out of the car park, bouncing off cars and eventually coming to a halt on a grass verge.
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
Why the F did you all let her get behind the wheel? Have you no self-preservation at the least?
Ace 2 years ago
What part of 'not realising she was bladdered' did you not understand?
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Nikole 2 years ago
“P**s drunk”… “Pissed”… I’m guessing the genesis of these terms is that, plus being so drunk you might p**s yourself.
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#47
Got yelled at for being late. Said some insane s**t to the boss over it, got sent to talk with HR, threatened HR with his gun, then the police showed up and I never saw him again. You'll never guess what career he really wanted, but got 'scammed out of'.
#48
I watched a guy at a really high end restraunt bring out a steam ship round roast beef for a huge brunch celebration. He was trying to set it up and dropped it on the floor. We all saw. As did his manager. He set it right back up and started cutting. She ran his a*s outta there in minutes.
René Sauer 2 years ago
"He dropped it on the floor." And got fired for that? Accidents happen! " He picked it up and continued cutting." Oh. Yeah, that´s messed up.
Dan St John 2 years ago
You are supposed to take back to the kitchen and put it on a new plate, so people think you did the right thing. Kids today.
Christopher Denney 2 years ago
I understand at fast food you don't have time to deal with stuff, and you can do the "throw it in the trash if it touches the floor" thing. Things don't become toxic all the way through if they touch the floor, possibly contaminated, depending on general cleanliness etc. There are loads of ways to salvage the situation... but continuing on as if nothing happened, not so much.
#49
Dude showed up to his first day after taking acid. Told the boss his acid kicked in.
ILoveMySon 2 years ago
Don't know why you were downvoted. So silly. Here is an upvote. 🙂
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Valuable advice: Do not drop Acid unless you have at least two days off.
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
This happened sometimes back when I worked in a bar. One of the bartenders got cooked on acid but kept his (stuff) together when his "customer's face melted" while he was getting a drink order. I almost wet myself laughing.
#50
I was told this tale by my boss at the time. A guy is hired as a federal government contractor, and after a lengthy approval process, he is finally cleared to start working. The guy is really excited and shows up to the government building 2-3 hours early. Neither his boss nor his co-workers have arrived yet, so he goes to the cafeteria, grabs a coffee and the day's paper, and sits down to read it while waiting. This early in the day, there are very few contractor staff around, it's mostly government workers. One of them walks into the cafeteria with a colleague, talking about how lazy contractor staff are, and they don't deserve the salaries they are paid. He immediately spots the new guy, seemingly relaxing and reading the paper when he should be working, and completely loses his mind, screaming at the new guy and threatening to have him fired immediately. This wasn't an empty threat, because the government guy actually had the authority to follow through on his threat. The new guy didn't get a chance to explain himself and was immediately ordered to go to security and wait for his boss. The boss finally comes in to meet a very pissed-off customer and a very bewildered new guy. After many calls and emergency meetings, they explained things to the government guy and got him to calm down. However, he refused to back down on having the new guy fired (I guess he didn't want to lose face) and to keep him happy, they had to let the guy go. So, the new guy was fired before he even started.
mandy the capibara 2 years ago
This is just terribly sad, and seems like a violation if workers rights. How come there are no regulations an/or people to defend him?
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Yes, thank you, I was reading this with a heavy heart for the excited guy... this really SUCKS :'-(
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SheamusFanFrom1987 2 years ago (edited)
Sorry, has to be said but this is how companies lose potentially valued employees and later live to regret it. Sometimes, management just needs to get the whole picture and if the new hire is in the right, leave the situation be despite how much you feel against it. You could cutting lose a guy/girl that would have been an asset to your company with your temper.
#51
Co-worker got fired within a week of being hired (I was still helping train him) because he bumped someone else's car in the parking lot and then lied about it. It was barely any damage to either car, but he didn't say anything when it happened and when the other car's owner reported it, he lied, apparently forgetting about the security cameras. Dude could have just gone to the front desk and "Hey, I just bumped someone's car, can we find out whose it is and I'll pay to fix the damages" - and again, it was less than fifty bucks of damage to the other car. Or he could have owned up to it when confronted about it. But instead he got tossed out on his a*s and lost a job that started at $60k, and since he was on an H1-B visa and couldn't find a new job soon enough he had to move back to India. The company was totally in the right, though - in his job role, he'd have the ability to make the sort of mistakes that could be fixed very easily if reported right away, but could cost the company days or weeks of lost productivity if ignored or hidden. And he just demonstrated that he'll not only fail to report his own mistakes, but will lie about them when caught.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
The company's HR should have had a sit down meeting with the gentleman, holding the H1-B Visa, from India and explained the differences between how stuff like this incident is handled in the USA , compared to India. He should have been given a second chance. If you have never visited India (I haven't. Do read and talk to people.), you would never understand the pressure put on children to make good, so they can have a better life than their parents. They have pressure to make money, so they can get married, then have children, help their siblings and maybe some extended family to get educated, to take care of their parents in their old age, and to send money home, on a regular basis. There is a lot of effort and time put in to get an H1-B Visa or any work visa for the USA. The time, work, effort, and money, pput in by the company to get this one individual from India, should also be in consideration, before they kick the guy to the curb. My whole English class had to do a paper about Immigration for our college professor, in the 1990s. I did a lot of research and found enough Information for 3 papers. People do not go through the process of getting a visa for any country without a lot of planning and angst.
JCM 2 years ago
HIs lack of taking responsibility for the accident shows a character flaw. Then to lie about it when given the chance to come clean shows another major character flaw. In a company where taking responsibility for mistakes can actually save money and not taking responsibility can cost exponentially more it seems character flaws like this would be of detriment to the company. If you would fire a citizen of the USA or the country you live in for these character flaws then to not fire someone because of the reasons you point out is showing preferential treatment.
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New hire showed up, it's a physical job and was described as such. I started to show him how to 'rake a floor' in a malthouse, he said it made his back hurt and he wanted to do something else. Proceeded to show him out to empty the kiln and he said he was too hot and wasn't going to do it. This was 1 hour into the 10 hour shift....boss sent him on his way.
Bobby 2 years ago
Yeah I can't do much that requires lower body strength anymore. Not after 3 knee surgeries. I also don't apply for those jobs
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Hired a new dude, he tried to slip a co-worker drugs within 10 minutes of being there. Fired on spot. Genuinely curious if he just goes from job to job to collect unemployment while growing his drug enterprise. Hate the game and the player I guess?
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
Tried to sell them drugs or slip them a roofie? An important piece of information
#54
Worked at a grocery store a few years ago. A new guy was hired and on the second day on the job, he was caught stealing food.
He would grab items off the shelves and walk to the break room and eat them.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
I think someone should have found out why he was stealing food? If there was a legitimate reason, maybe something could have been done for the person, instead of firing.
#55
I've had a lot of guys get fired on the first day. My industry attracts all the wrong people. One guy kept showing twerking videos to his female coworker (who's dad was the manager) then started asking her to try it. Had a guy throw a customers bathroom sink out a 2nd floor window and obliterated the deck below. I've told this one before but one guy came in with a bad attitude so the trainer said "wash this window like your job depends on it." He did very badly so she sent him home. Total of 20 minutes he was clocked in. We had a sub contractor show up to a job with new shirts that said "Don't worry we speak English" and immediately went into a racist rant about how funny he thought they were.
María Hermida 2 years ago
Could somebody please explain what's so racist about the shirts? I don't get it. I'm not saying we Spanish, or European in general, are not racist, but it is perhaps less obvious? I think racism in the USA is everywhere, extreme, or perhaps people are more aware of it. I don't know. I don't understand why some people think there's some "superior value" in whiteness.
Jenn Smith 2 years ago
I agree. But here in the USA, these kind of shirts would seem to reinforce that " superior value" idea. Many workers here, may speak little or no English. And their work is needed, and valued by most. But some a*****e decided to ha e shirts made to devalue non English speakers. If that clarifies anything to those outside the USA
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She fell asleep in the lobby in front of a camera and slept through a code blue.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
A code blue, in a hospital, means someone has gone into respiratory/pulmonary arrest and is no longer breathing. If they have gone into cardiac arrest, their blood flow has stopped, meaning their heart has stopped beating. It means be ready to flatten yourself against a wall and get out of the way of whoever is running to save that life.
Scotira 2 years ago
Let's also add a "Code Blue" is an hospital emergency code in the anglo/american regions. In Switzerland fe this is called a REA Alarm (with very little exceptions).
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Scotira 2 years ago
True. Also why in the lobby? Was she no longer on duty? Here I need more information... 🤷♀️
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I checked the original thread. The personnel was an RT. Now the only meanings for RT in English and in medical I know is Radiologic Technician (we are not called first in code blue situations) or Radiation Therapist (again we are not called in code blue situations). To specify: it's bad she slept through the alarm since the patient would most likely have had to come to her for a CAT-scan MRI or whatever. I am a Radiologic Technician/ Radiation Therapist, we are NOT code blue personnel. I "only" know basic first aid and life support. We are highly specialized medical personnel and would most likely stand in the way of emergency respond personnel. Please let me know if any of you in anglo/ american pandas know another medical meaning for RT, I'm curious.
Koko 2 years ago
Cardiac or Respiratory Arrest so like their heart isn't beating or they aren't breathing aka she slept through someone almost/actually dying
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#57
We had a new guy and he lasted for 2 days. Guy was writing a book about government spending and said he was being watched by the FBI. The manager said he was crazy and they got into a shouting match. Manager put up with him and let it slide. On the second day he called another co-worker a racist for not letting him do things his way when they were just trying to show him how the work is done. So he walked out. Manager was like "Thank god" and fired his a*s.
#58
Onboarding employee fell asleep multiple times over her first week in training sessions that were presented in person by a VP who had flown over to the US from the UK. She must have been fearless.
#59
I was on a new team hired for corporate sales. They trained us as a group. We were given the task of creating a presentation with graphs and charts to show how we present to a group and given pointers on how to improve. One guy shows up an hour late, waltzes in and says he’s tired from the drive in and says he needs a coffee before settling in. We are in suit and tie and he’s wearing a dress shirt with a huge eagle on the front and jeans. He comes back a few minutes later and when asked to present he says he didn’t prepare anything, but he’s happy to answer any questions they may have about presentations. We all looked at each other in disbelief. Fired on the spot by the Manager. I heard that they asked him to return his laptop and he stiffed them for months before they sent a repo man to his door to pick it up.
#60
New IT guy at a (small—20 employees) newspaper I worked at. I showed up early and opened the office. New IT guy showed up next for his first shift. He was totally, utterly drunk off his tits: lurching, stumbling, reeking, giggly and slurring… at 8:15 AM. **Way** beyond a hangover. Confessed that he’d had a “couple of drinks last night” to celebrate his new job. Managing editor came in and paged IT Guy into his office to talk about the job. I hadn’t said a word to anyone about him. “Give him enough rope” and all that. He was finished by 9:15. I walked home through downtown around 5:00 that afternoon. Ran into IT Guy outside one of those old men dive bars (he was maybe 28). He was all f****d up again. Told me he’d had a couple of drinks to mourn the loss of his new job. Don’t remember his proper name: I’d like to find his LinkedIn to see what became of him.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
I know Alcoholism is a disease that people choose to indulge in. My father died of Tuberculosis and should not have. He drank like a fish and smoked unfiltered Camel cigarettes his entire life. If he hadn't drank alcoholic beverages on a very regular basis and smoked like a chimney he would have survived the Tuberculosis. I was hoping to get to know him as I got older and no longer lived with relatives. He died right before my 16th birthday and I will soon be 58. A marriage and 4 children were broken apart for all time, because of alcohol. One of those children died as an adult, the other three are still alive. The repercussions from my father's love of alcohol affected himself, our mother (deceased), my older brother (deceased), my older sister, my younger brother, and myself in ways that will always be in our lives. Alcohol killed the lives we should have lived.
#61
Co worker showed up to work drunk. Was told to go home. She mouthed back and started screaming insults at the President of the company. Fired!!
TheElementalGod️️ 2 years ago
Everything. Makes me glad im a god not a person
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During drop-off hours, our preschool receptionist decided she needed to have coffee asap. Instead of heading down to our staff room and making a pot, she decided to leave our whole school unlocked and left to go down to Biggby Coffee. That was a big no no. She was fired as soon as she came back.
#63
3 of us starting a job where we managed call and email volumes and scheduling in a call centre. We had the ability to flash messages on an LED board to a couple hundred people about call volumes etc. On the second week my genius colleague typed out something to go on the board ending in "f**k faces" with the intention of deleting the last bit before hitting enter. Unfortunately backspace is very close to enter and there was no way of cancelling it. It even beeped loudly to get everyone's attention.
#64
New person got access to medical records system. Week 2 - Looked up our boss and bragged about it. Was Walked out and gone the second week.
Kim 2 years ago
My BIL ex did something like that, checked out familymembers and boyfriends in the municipal hospital reccords, then told a boyfriend about via text, he screendumped and sent to her boss. She was fired and can find work anywhere now.
Julie Schulz 2 years ago
When I worked HR at a clinic, we had to let an employee go who shared someone's very sensitive medical information with a guy. They were apparently in some kind of love triangle drama thing and she thought that since she didn't use the person's name she was safe. Not so, especially if the person you tell it to can immediately figure out who and then texts that person to let them know their medical information is being blabbed. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
#65
At one job I had, within 10 minutes of being hired, a guy was called into the boss' office. Boss held him for a bit. I can hear the boss yelling at the guy about how they discovered that he immediately started searching the internet for C.P. The police show up and the guy is arrested and hauled away. Turned out he didn't want the job, just a place where he could surf the internet for free for CP. Apparently, he could beat the adult blocking software that was standard on most work networks.
#66
I'm an insurance agent. I had a client once, young kid who just graduated college. He and GF and both families went out for a nice meal to celebrate him landing a dream job. He got pulled over on the way home and given a DUI. Lost the job before he even started...and not to mention my insurance company non-renewed him for getting a DUI.
#67
I had a job that used a temp agency for customer service phone reps for awhile. I started at the company when it was very early stage so the department management was essentially just 2 supervisors who had been there for a year or so. There was like a 2 month period where we just kept getting the strangest assortment of people from the temp agency, and they'd only last a day or two. People who smelled so bad you couldn't be in the same room as them, people that were so socially awkward they could barely form a sentence. One guy fell asleep in his chair like 20 minutes after he got there. Another guy got fired on the spot because the supervisor had to ask him like three times to just wait in a room but he kept getting up and wandering around the building and going into people's offices. They found out another guy was just continuously picking up the phone and immediately hanging up. One girl was smoking weed in the bathroom (and this is just a normal office building) on her 2nd or 3rd day -- not even a vape, but just ripping a bubbler pipe... you could smell it throughout the whole floor. There were a couple of good employees that came in through that agency and stayed, but half the time it felt like a prank.
MyMindWanders 2 years ago (edited)
We had a temp let go on his first day out of training for very aggressively demanding the phone numbers of just about any young woman he was in close proximity to. At one point I heard him shout, "GIVE IT TO ME! JUST GIVE ME YOUR NUMBER!" to a very stunned-looking newer hire. By then management had become aware of what was going on and were on their way to his desk to escort him out the door.
#68
I was a concrete truck driver. Some new guy on his first day of work, a couple hours into his shift backed into a water tower and knocked it over. Luckily nobody was hurt. It flooded the jobsite and shut it down for the day. The manager drove to the site to drive him to the clinic for the mandatory drug test we all take when an accident happens. When they got to the clinic the dude just ran. Busted out running and disappeared.
sharyn turnicky 2 years ago
Apparently the results of the drug test arrived before the actual test!
#69
Used to work for a Telco and on day one we took a defensive driving course. During the test towards the end of the day, this idiot (who's old man was in management at the company) said "buckle up" and drove like an absolute maniac, assuming he was untouchable. The following morning he was escorted out.
#70
I had a co-worker who showed up totally high like she made absolutely no sense high. My boss had to drive her home because she was messed up high and this co-worker was never seen again.
#71
At a restaurant, a server had a horrible table that also stiffed her. Anyways, they had started to leave and asked for to go coffees. Soooo she went and got two extra big*ss cups, filled them with coffee, went outside where they had pulled the car up to the entrance, and slung that s**t all over them.
#72
On the guys first day, watching training videos, CEO walks buy and sees him with feet up and on his phone...gone before 8am.
#73
I had a friend who managed a bar. She got caught on camera staying behind with a male customer after closing, drinking bottles of Cristal without paying for them and f*cking him in the bar area. The owner saw it on camera the next morning, went to the bar, found the main door unlocked and open, money still in the till and her asleep in her room upstairs. He banged on the door until she woke up, they had an argument and she walked out and went to her parents house. She never went back, not even to get her clothes etc. She later admitted she didn't go back as she knew he'd find several thousand in pilfered takings under her mattress. I don't hang out with her any more.
#74
I owned a hair salon with my husband. We hired a guy and during his very first shift, he worked for an hour or so then said he had to leave for some reason...an appointment or something like that. A meeting? I don't remember, but when I said he couldn't leave he became indignant and mopey. Then, it turned out that he literally only had one comb with him. For a 6 hour shift. When asked how he expected to work with one comb and meet state sanitation standards (soaking combs in barbecide & water for at least 10 minutes) his response was "I dip it" as he made a dipping and swirling motion with his hand. I showed him the door. He was clearly not acting "right" and was going to be nothing but trouble. That happened over a decade ago, but to this day we still say "dip it" or a word that rhymes with dip to make a joke. He made an impression.
Sonja 2 years ago
Why did he bring even one comb? Why doesn't a hair salon have it's own combs?
R.C. 2 years ago
In some salons you rent the chair/space. You aren't an employee of the salon in the typical sense and as such you need to come in with your own tools. You book as many or as little appts as you want. It's up to you but no appts mean no $. You don't receive a salary from the salon. The salon makes money from the chair rental and in turn provides the building, advertising, big items like wash sinks, etc. That being said, you're still 'hired' by the salon and can still be let go. There's usually a contract that you have to abide by because it's still that salon's name and reputation on the line if the person they rent to is a complete tool.
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#75
I worked at a non profit and they had hired a new admin assistant. The first half of the morning she did some mandatory trainings and then sat with me to do some more in-depth trainings second half of the morning. It was then lunch time and I said we’d continue after lunch. When lunch was coming to an end I saw HR walk her to her desk and walk her out of the building. Turns out she asked our CEO if she could leave early. There was so reason attached just, because. Lasted a total of 4-5 hours
What do you think ?
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
Cook at local pub, Dave. First day Smoked weed on the outdoor dining area. Served chicken wings that were not fully defrosted, when client complained he got into argument and refused to serve him anymore. Drank several pints of beer, got drunk, urinated in the flowerbeds. Did lines on the kitchen counter, got fired. On his way out picked a fight with the guy who had complained about the chicken wigs because “he cost him his job” Got on his electric scooter, lost control, and slammed headfirst into a SUV that was parked in the street. He was so high that he pretended nothing had happened. A few mins later a guy turns up looking for Dave because he hadn’t paid for his “charly” and asked the owner to pay. The dealer leaves as Dave is coming back up the road covered in blood from bashing his head on the SUV. He wanted his pay!!! They both start to fight. Owner called the police.
Bart 2 years ago
Had a guy starting winter season in the ski shop. He got the tour and acces badge on Friday to start on Saturday (we worked weekends). He goes out friday night and gets hammered and, afraid to be late on his first day, goes straight to the shop after his pub crawl. I come in at 7.30am and find him asleep on the carpet in a puddle of vomit. He didn't make to shop opening at 8am...
David Martin 2 years ago
I got hired with a security monitoring firm, which would involve sitting in a call center, monitoring incoming alarm signals, coordinating police/security on issues, etc. Day one of training, they say everyone needs to go to police HQ to be fingerprinted, with assigned appointment times. I don't drive, so I got a lift from another new hire with the same time slot. Halfway there, he asks why we would need to be printed, and I say that because it's a security related job, they want to see about any criminal history. My new friend here goes "Oh *pause* What kind of stuff would show up on that?" I casually put a hand on the door handle of this stranger's car and ask "What kind of stuff have you done?" He says "Oh, nothing much." I never knew what 'nothing much' means, but I do know he wasn't there on day two
Mr.Li 2 years ago
I once had a dude for internship. I tried explain him how the milling machine works. He looked into his smartphone. Told him that he have to put it away, cause phones are prohibited in the workshop. And also told him to pay attention, when i explain him important stuff. His answer:" lol chill dude. I need my phone for my instagram. And also if i really wanna know how this machine works, i just google it. Kay? Chill dude, chill." I go straight into the office and told my boss about this. And he kicks this !d!0t out with the words:"now google what getting fired means."
R.C. 2 years ago
Was training a new employee at a pet supply store. On day one she dropped a bag of treats in between the shelves then turned to me and asked what she should do about it. Um....reach in there and pull it out? Next day I asked her to put soft, very squishy and flexible dog beds in the crates that were on display. She asked me how she was supposed to get the beds in the crates when the beds were bigger than the crate doors. It went on like this for a week. I always believed that line that there were no stupid questions until I ran into her. Thank goodness for probation periods. Byebye!
iAteMelody 2 years ago
he got fired in 5 minutes. World record for flirting/sexually signally towards the bosses wife? Suprised her lasted those 5 minutes
Lace Neil 2 years ago (edited)
Pizza takeaway, new hire, shall we say, Kevin, has only been here for just over a week and has only worked for two days cuz he's called in sick the rest of the time. Kevin finally went too far when he called in sick and the owner, Bob, takes the call. Later, Bob visits his local watering hole and guess who's there? That's right, Kevin. Fired on the spot. It turned out that every time Kevin called off, he was going down the pub.
FABULOUS1 2 years ago
Me and a co-worker just did weeks of training with a new guy. She started off with his training but he was transferred to me to get my opinion on how he was doing. We work in Customer Service but its not a simple answer a call and give general information. We have to know HIPAA guidelines, and so much more in the insurance industry that requires over a month of training. But this guy was so arrogant and would not ask questions and when you corrected him he just brushed it off like no big deal. Before they are on their own their direct supervisor listens in on their calls, and this guy lasted only one more week. Had he been opened to accepting the fact he didnt know everything, and asked questions he would still have a job.
Dan St John 2 years ago
I had a worker who drank Aqua Velva aftershave at work. He was terminated after we found him banging his head on the cement floor before lunch.
Dre Mosley 2 years ago
Had a guy that got caught sitting in his cube watching porn on his work computer.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
Cook at local pub, Dave. First day Smoked weed on the outdoor dining area. Served chicken wings that were not fully defrosted, when client complained he got into argument and refused to serve him anymore. Drank several pints of beer, got drunk, urinated in the flowerbeds. Did lines on the kitchen counter, got fired. On his way out picked a fight with the guy who had complained about the chicken wigs because “he cost him his job” Got on his electric scooter, lost control, and slammed headfirst into a SUV that was parked in the street. He was so high that he pretended nothing had happened. A few mins later a guy turns up looking for Dave because he hadn’t paid for his “charly” and asked the owner to pay. The dealer leaves as Dave is coming back up the road covered in blood from bashing his head on the SUV. He wanted his pay!!! They both start to fight. Owner called the police.
Bart 2 years ago
Had a guy starting winter season in the ski shop. He got the tour and acces badge on Friday to start on Saturday (we worked weekends). He goes out friday night and gets hammered and, afraid to be late on his first day, goes straight to the shop after his pub crawl. I come in at 7.30am and find him asleep on the carpet in a puddle of vomit. He didn't make to shop opening at 8am...
David Martin 2 years ago
I got hired with a security monitoring firm, which would involve sitting in a call center, monitoring incoming alarm signals, coordinating police/security on issues, etc. Day one of training, they say everyone needs to go to police HQ to be fingerprinted, with assigned appointment times. I don't drive, so I got a lift from another new hire with the same time slot. Halfway there, he asks why we would need to be printed, and I say that because it's a security related job, they want to see about any criminal history. My new friend here goes "Oh *pause* What kind of stuff would show up on that?" I casually put a hand on the door handle of this stranger's car and ask "What kind of stuff have you done?" He says "Oh, nothing much." I never knew what 'nothing much' means, but I do know he wasn't there on day two
Mr.Li 2 years ago
I once had a dude for internship. I tried explain him how the milling machine works. He looked into his smartphone. Told him that he have to put it away, cause phones are prohibited in the workshop. And also told him to pay attention, when i explain him important stuff. His answer:" lol chill dude. I need my phone for my instagram. And also if i really wanna know how this machine works, i just google it. Kay? Chill dude, chill." I go straight into the office and told my boss about this. And he kicks this !d!0t out with the words:"now google what getting fired means."
R.C. 2 years ago
Was training a new employee at a pet supply store. On day one she dropped a bag of treats in between the shelves then turned to me and asked what she should do about it. Um....reach in there and pull it out? Next day I asked her to put soft, very squishy and flexible dog beds in the crates that were on display. She asked me how she was supposed to get the beds in the crates when the beds were bigger than the crate doors. It went on like this for a week. I always believed that line that there were no stupid questions until I ran into her. Thank goodness for probation periods. Byebye!
iAteMelody 2 years ago
he got fired in 5 minutes. World record for flirting/sexually signally towards the bosses wife? Suprised her lasted those 5 minutes
Lace Neil 2 years ago (edited)
Pizza takeaway, new hire, shall we say, Kevin, has only been here for just over a week and has only worked for two days cuz he's called in sick the rest of the time. Kevin finally went too far when he called in sick and the owner, Bob, takes the call. Later, Bob visits his local watering hole and guess who's there? That's right, Kevin. Fired on the spot. It turned out that every time Kevin called off, he was going down the pub.
FABULOUS1 2 years ago
Me and a co-worker just did weeks of training with a new guy. She started off with his training but he was transferred to me to get my opinion on how he was doing. We work in Customer Service but its not a simple answer a call and give general information. We have to know HIPAA guidelines, and so much more in the insurance industry that requires over a month of training. But this guy was so arrogant and would not ask questions and when you corrected him he just brushed it off like no big deal. Before they are on their own their direct supervisor listens in on their calls, and this guy lasted only one more week. Had he been opened to accepting the fact he didnt know everything, and asked questions he would still have a job.
Dan St John 2 years ago
I had a worker who drank Aqua Velva aftershave at work. He was terminated after we found him banging his head on the cement floor before lunch.
Dre Mosley 2 years ago
Had a guy that got caught sitting in his cube watching porn on his work computer.
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