30 Times People Lost Their Job In The Most Ridiculous Way And Just Had To Share

At first it sounded bad, but then the boss was looking out for OP. What a nice twist

I've been lucky in this. I left a long term job, partially because they couldn't afford me and it saved them money. The owner approved me for unemployment and I got it extended. My last job, I thought I was going to have to leave due to a degenerative illness and I let them know more than six months in advance I may be leaving. (A couple years earlier, I maxed my longterm disability insurance.) When the issues got worse, I let them know two months in advance when I was going out on short term medical leave and unlikely to return. During leave, I received my diagnosis and told my boss I wouldn't be able to return. He did my longterm disability paperwork and gave me a retroactive raise to a couple weeks before I went on leave. I didn't find out until I received the payment information from my insurance company. I now have a livable guaranteed minimum income until I am 72 thanks to that pay bump.

My son had a supervisor that told him one day to go to another local place and apply, kind of hinted they would be letting everyone go at the end of the month. So son applied and got hired immediately. After supervisor landed at a new place similar to old one, he called my son and had him come apply there.

Unexpectedly good

It’s sad that all the last job I had would make me feel guilty when I would call out sick, to the point that I never called out, to the tune of 800 sick hours I had when I left

That's horrible!

Genuine question. Are there cancer-like situations that require "a whole week to be tested"? I had a cancer event in which the testing took half a day off work. Several days awaiting results, but nothing that made me miss more work. (Until treatment. Fine now.)

Did you reveal ( to an audience of coworkers) that you were being tested in the hospital? You would have shown that Boss publicly as being a 🐴butt!

i would have McSued them. collect all cctv footages from making fries to handover, and confrontation with nephew and owner. McMilk them!

Wow. I am just wondering, what words did he use? Did he really say "you are fired because you kicked out my nephew!!! You just dont kick my nephew, he can come drunk and yell at you if he wants"!!!

Former employee here. It is getting worse. It's the owners sense of entitlement.

Glad no one was killed.

Failed to keep it shiny side up.

"Glad no one was killed." -- AFAYK

I worked for a tableware company, "owner's name" in Seattle. I was the bookkeeper, so I answered to her husband, who was the CFO. He was a sweetheart and she was an absolute f*cking nightmare. One of the most narcissistic women I have ever met (she invented the Cherry Blossom design, dontcha know), on top of being extremely insecure & a pill popper to boot. I'd finally had it after 4 years & quit. He wanted an exit interview. Oh, boy did he get one! I told him every sneaky & underhanded thing she had done since I started: publicly announced we would give x% of sales to the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer research during the month of October, but I never once wrote a check; complained constantly that I couldn't give her "up to date" financials mid month (hard to do without reconciling bank/credit card accounts) like she could understand what they meant anyway; every fall she wanted copies of HIS CC and cell phone bills, etc. He divorced her soon after I left.

“Put him on blast “? ??

An arsehole of a head Chef that I worked with 30 + years ago, thought it would be funny to whack me on the back with a whole Salmon in the kitchen - knocked me off my feet and I ended up with 10 stitches in a head wound and concussion ....... I played sick for weeks then quit having had a nice, work free half a Summer, all paid for by the hotel. He got jailed for the attempted rape of a waitress the following year, like I said, an arsehole.

Best ever quote from an episode of "Dirty Jobs". Family owned a duck farm and duck processing business. All the kids and grandkids were expected to work in the business. One of the grandkids wasn't following grandma's directions. Grandma got in trouble because "and then the government came in and said you can't hit nobody with a dead duck."

I would have paid cash money to see that.

That would've been funnier if it'd been a male chicken

I'd love to know the story behind this (presuming there actually is one).

Then you're an a*****e. Just be a man (or woman), and tell the truth instead of making up fake excuses about being ill.

I do not like to lie. It's one of my faults. Or strengths. So, I will make an appointment, and then take the time off because I have an appointment. I don't clarify what type of appointment, or when. Nine times out of 10, it's some sort of medical appointment. But I might not need a whole day for it or a whole half a day. But I'd rather takeoff as much time as possible, just in case. /sarcasm

That would normally result in retraining, not dismissal, unless they had previously made other lax errors.

I accidentally walked out with two gallons of water under my very full (and paid for) cart. Next time I went back to the store, I had them ring me up for them.

I work as cashier and they're testing us pretty often. I didn't get fired when I missed something, but superior wasn't happy. A lot of people try to hide some small articles in their shopping carts and sneak it through the cash register. I caught quite a few people.

That's BS. People make mistakes. You shouldn't have been fired over that. A simple reminder to be more careful would have sufficed.

I got a call from the bank I was a teller at, day before Thanksgiving, saying my drawer was short $500 and that was an automatic termination. I was hysterical because I was NOT a thief & was worried about my professional reputation. Friday morning, they called to tell me they had taken the $500 in paper cash to fill my station with $500 in quarters & forgot to put the quarters in my drawer. Told me to hurry in because I was "late" They never apologized, and I quit 2 weeks later.

It's always easy to blame a worker when you don't even have a clue how things work. Just because you're the boss, owner or both doesn't mean you know it all. Most of the time, there are employees that can do the bosses job better than he. It's rare the boss can do the workers job better.

F$&kin Rick.

Sounds exactly what happened to me..after being there 5 years. Lost everything and was homeless. But I'm back now baby.

Do bosses, owners, whoever realise how much harm it does to someone’s mental health and self-esteem when told “you’re not a good fit”?

Whenever any business fires a worker in favor of a family member, I always hope that family member drags the company into the pits of bankruptcy along with the owners that hired them.

I am wondering, how come you were not applicable for unemployement benefits after getting laid off by company? You didnt resign yourself

Unless that was your 10th warning, that was a bit heavy handed.

I had a job at Meijers. One of the managers complained to me about my pants being not quite the right color. I looked him straight in the eye and said "I don't make enough money to buy new clothes." And kept direct eye contact during the awkward silence, until he looked away.