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A handshake is not a done deal. According to a survey by Jobvite, 30% of those seeking employment have left a job within the first 90 days of starting.
But some new hires also get fired. Last week, Reddit user Pyapio made a post on the platform, asking everyone to share the thing the new worker did that got them terminated immediately.
From coming in under the influence to making ignorant and hurtful remarks, here are some of the most popular answers.
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#1
Week and a half into the job, big box retail. Guy (about mid 20s) started and immediately started gravitating toward 16 year old female cashiers. Constantly having to be coached to do his job and not stand and talk to the cashiers. I guess a few days in, he stole a manager's daily binder basically, which included the entire schedule and full names. The guy ended up finding and messaging a few of the underage cashiers on social media asking them to smoke with him on the clock by the dumpsters. That isn't what got him fired though! One of the cashiers he messaged, took it upon themselves to search him. Found an article dated less than a year prior that he was charged and admitted to two separate r***s on a college campus (mugshot included so it was absolutely him). She brought that to HR and threatened to sue the company for creating a hostile work environment because of their lack of thorough background checks. Turns out they only do a BG check in the county the store is located, the guy's charges were a county over. By far the smartest 16 year old I've encountered. He was gone and she got herself a raise so she'd stay quiet on social media about it.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
So, they hired a predator and didn’t sack him until a teenager proved he was dangerous? What the heck was the company thinking!
Poison Ivy/Boo 1 year ago
And then proceeded to give her a raise (basically bribing her) to keep quiet on social media so the company gets to keep their name from being dragged through the mud....
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Roxy222uk 1 year ago
So less than a year after being charged, and admitting to, two r***s he's out and about working with 16 year olds? What's with that?
David 1 year ago
sometimes DA's work out all sorts of horrible pea deals just to make things easier on them
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Aidan Campbell 1 year ago
Why was the background check not done for the whole state? I assume this was in USA
Happy to be a wallflower 1 year ago
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Justanotherpanda 1 year ago
Should have gotten a raise not stay quiet about it though, companies should be way more aware.
DeoManus Argentem 1 year ago
The sex offender registry is national in the US. If this happened, it wasn't in the US (or HR lied about doing a background check - where I worked for 10+ years everybody had to submit to a background check, and a woman I ended up dating worked there for three years despite having a suspended drivers license way prior to hiring and during employment - and driving was a critically important part of the job, she even had a company car - so it happens!)
Saphyre Fyre 1 year ago
Holy c**p! Rapists, murderers, etc move all the time; this was horrible negligence!!
Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
I flat out do not believe this story. I'm not sure what country this is suppoosed to be from but, wouldn't a criminal record for serious crimes show up on a national database? And the raise part seems highly unlikely. Here's a dollar more an hour to sign a NDA. Ok, whatever you say bub.
Bethy Sullivan 1 year ago
Yeah, it would. BUT if they're ONLY checking the record for the County that the store is in and he hasn't committed any crimes there, nothing will come up. The rain for this is that the state and federal databases are separate. That's how criminals end up committing crimes in multiple counties in a state and don't get caught.
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Ubiquitous 1 year ago
If he got charged for rape less than a year prior why wasn’t he in jail?
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#2
He was flirting with patients and asking for their number.
It was a paediatric hospital.
Yes, police were contacted.
BlackestDawn 1 year ago
I would go so far as saying that's the only acceptable ending.
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#3
Ate all the skins off of all the rotisserie chickens in the gourmet section of the supermarket.
He couldn’t help himself and ate the skin off of one chicken, “because that’s the best part”.
Then to make sure they all “looked the same” he ate the rest of the chicken skins as well.
I personally think he won on some level.
Rizzo 1 year ago
My wife once asked me what I would order if I could order anything. My answer was - a bucket of rotisserie chicken skin. Final Answer. ;)
KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Maybe a half and half with fried chicken skin. And all the parson noses.
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Mike F 1 year ago
Ya know? I was thinking that the first one would be tasty, after that... Till you get to the last one. Jeez.
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#4
Showed up 2 hours late, hungover, in a dirty t-shirt, cutt-offs and dirty sneakers and obviously un bathed. He looked GREAT 3 days ago at his interview...
The walked into the office and the manager met him halfway across the floor.
New Guy: "Oh, hey! I had kind of a wild weekend."
Boss : "Go home. Do not come back. You don't work here."
HelluvaHedgehogAlien 1 year ago
That’s like the updated version of ‘Go home I don’t know you’ when confronted with a drunk and annoying acquaintance.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
We’ve got a feeling you’ll like these [week old articles you've already read], too:
Catlady6000 1 year ago (edited)
Consider ing this is the first time many of us have seen these, thanks BP
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Used to work for a private company that did a lot of work for the government. That’s all I’m saying about it.
This guy decided to post a blow by blow account of his 1st day on his Facebook page. Names of employees, government departments that we worked with, systems we used and what work we did. Even posted the fact that the 1st thing he had to do was sign an NDA.
His pass didn’t work the next morning so he got fired in the building reception instead.
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
It really isn't when you consider how many people support Trump.
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T Smith 1 year ago
Reminds me of the girl you won an internship at NASA tweeted "everyone shut the f**k up, I got an internship at NASA. Homer HIckam responded "Language". Girl responded "Suck my d**k and balls. I'm working at NASA. HIckam responded "I'm on the National Space Council that oversees NASA" OOPS! Homer Hickam is a NASA legend and engineer.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
When I worked for an electronic toll collection agency, there was an employee who was more hindrance than help. Seriously. The entire department was just about done with her. One morning, when I came into the office, I was greeted by a coworker who said, "It wouldn't be a good idea to talk with the supervisor right now." It turns out that the Genius Employee brought her OWN laptop to work and hooked it up to her office desktop. That particular agency was under contract with a company that is owned by an international business solutions company. The security system is intense, allowing no room for slip-ups.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
IT was immediately informed about the security breach. Why they waited for a week to walk her out is beyond me. My supervisor, because of her, used to come to work, close her office door, and cry.
Load More Replies... María Hermida 1 year ago
Some years ago I read about a man in the UK who had to resign his position because his wife published in Facebook everything about the job, and she also had pictures of the kids, the house and everything. I can't remember the details, but I do remember it was a very important and "secret" job, like director of the MI5. They didn't realise how much information on him there was online until after the appointment.
Valek Fermiga 1 year ago
Not quite sure if the guy is one of dumbest people who ever walked the earth, OR one of the smartest....
#6
As it turns out, offering a**l sex to married men in exchange for weed doesn't get you far at some car dealerships.
FranklySpeaking 1 year ago
I've been drilled in the a$$ at a car dealership before, but not like that.
UpQuarkDownQuark (he/him) 1 year ago
Is it more of a truck dealership kind of thing? Asking for a friend.
#7
He wouldn't get off reddit.
I'm serious. He was on his phone all throughout training. Once he got a workstation, not only was there always something non-work related on his computer every time I walked by his desk, his bookmark bar was 100% sites like reddit and digg, 0% work related links like our bug tracker and wiki.
And the thing was, this was a work environment where it was totally okay to spend company time on sites like that, almost everyone did. You just had to also get your work done at some point.
He also would take regular breaks to just walk around the office and ask people what they were working on. Not just a quick "hey, what project are you on" but like, an extended interview of stupid questions. Highschoolers visiting for job shadow opportunities had better questions than this guy who went to a top CS school.
He was assigned to my project, so I got to see the little work that he actually completed. Usually for the first few tasks, the lead programmer would assign the newbie some ridiculously easy tasks to get them oriented to our workflow.
The very first thing this guy was assigned to do was to copy/paste a few lines of code into a specific file. The second task was exactly the same, except he had to write the two lines of code himself. It was still a ridiculously easy task that should have taken 5 minutes. An hour later, he complained to the lead that it was too hard and he didn't understand why he, a person who was hired to write code after going to college to learn how to code, was being asked to write code.
Jane No Dough 1 year ago
Far too many people falsify their CVs/Resumes, and far too many companies don't bother to verify any of the information.
Sunny Day 1 year ago
Far too many schools give passing grades to students who learned absolutely nothing.
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Dirk Daring 1 year ago
I've seen this before. He's actively and purposefully trying to Fail Upward into a management position.
#8
1.5 days into the job, she was watching netflix on her phone with her airpods while she was receiving training from the manager. When we approached her about this, she said “is this not okay?”
M O'Connell 1 year ago
We have a guy in production who is ALWAYS watching a movie on one of multiple phones suction-cupped to his workstation. He's also phenomenally (almost absurdly) productive, so I would definitely not interrupt his flow.
nbfresh 1 year ago
i will say that i am significantly more focused on tasks when i have something playing in the background, whether it's music or video. that goes for at work and at home. i feel like the extra stimulation can be positive for some people.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
These days they fail through it because no one is held back a year anymore.
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AMaureen Dance 1 year ago
During my job training, people were using the cassroom computers to oshop. Never got caught, though.
#9
As an ice breaker question before a staff meeting he said he’d like to go back to the days when men were cowboys and woman stayed home and churned butter. Our staff is 90% women (not that it would excuse the response if it wasn’t). He didn’t last much longer after that.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 1 year ago
How much do you want to bet that the guy never set foot on a ranch?
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
Do you think he's aware that cowboy was a derogatory term (and cow poke even worse!) for a lowly menial job? Of course, I don't think working with horses and cattle is menial, but that is how these people were regarded in the day. Men didn't aspire to be cowboys, LOL.
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Mark 1 year ago
So the days where men travelled on the back of a horse across the desert for days making sure that the cows didn't go anywhere while the women stayed home on the farm doing a superhuman amount of tasks that was essential to the success of the farm?
Leviathan 1 year ago
I hear stuff like this and im like "Why do you want everything to be 100x harder on you cause you're the only man working?" Like if females want to take half the workload and ease it for men too, then go ahead! if it was 3 females and 1 male and only the male is doing 100% hard work, it hurts just him, if you give 25% and spread it, no one is hurt, Why do some people want it just harder on them?
HurlWurk 1 year ago
My niece and her husband run a small ranch. The husband does riding lessons and tours on horses to the local sites, this leaves my niece alone on the ranch in Montana to do most of the daily chores. It also includes killing the bear that wouldn't stop trying to get into the chicken coop, then dressing the thing down and prepping the meat and hide for use.
Flora Porter 1 year ago
The word cowboy used to be derogatory. No ranch hand would have called himself that.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
Not really. The dork was implying that women belonged in the home: cleaning, cooking, making babies, running the household. Supper on the table no later than 6; children bathed, fed, and put to bed. All the while looking drop-dead gorgeous and ready for sex.
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Working at a restaurant years ago. 20 something year old new busboy came in for his first day after his training shift. We couldn’t find him after the first 10 minutes of his shift until one of our cooks found him smoking a cigarette… IN THE WALK IN FREEZER…
I’ll never forgot our manager’s reaction. He was like, “dude, you could’ve just taken a a quick smoke break outside since it’s not busy; actually go do that now”! (Opens the back door out of the kitchen). Bus boy walks out and our manager slammed the door shut behind him.
AMaureen Dance 1 year ago
Did he take the hint, or did he walk in the front door saying "Hey, back door's locked."
Charles McChristy 1 year ago
10 minutes in?! FFS! This sounds like he's part of the anti-work movement.
Garthus Andicus 1 year ago
Had a very similar situation happen to me when I used to work at Taco Bell. We hired a guy and he smoked in the mens restroom. He admitted to doing it and our manager told him he would've let him go to the dumpsters if he needed a quick smoke break. He eventually got fired for taking too many smoke breaks without proper permission.
Eastendbird 1 year ago
So when a restaurant menu says "smoked meat" it's best to check what they mean?
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago
As a side note: always remember to cut them a final check as you’re booting their butt off the premises.
#11
Many years ago, I hired a computer technician to perform on-site repairs for my clients. After sitting down with him in an informal interview, I decided to lob him a softball call to ensure he wasn't a complete f*****t.
He gets to said call half an hour late, but s**t happens right?
15 minutes into this event, I field a call from him. Instead of the usual procedural questions or a report on what's transpiring, I listen to him rambling on about how the malware on the client's system is really easy to deal with and that the client is a complete moron.
I barely have time to process what the hell is going on when...
Seconds later, the other line rings. I place "tech" on hold and answer. It's the client. Absolutely mortified at this sack of s**t I've sent to her and the things she's hearing said about her through her bathroom door.
WTF. There's not enough coffee in the world to deal with this.
I assure the client that I'll take care of it.
Go back to "tech" on line one. Proceed to inquire what in the yellow rubbery f**k he's doing s**t-talking the client to me while phoning from her f*****g bathroom.
Instruct him to end his efforts, collect his s**t, and leave the client's property post-haste.
Before he left, he apparently gave the client the waterworks about how she's cost him his job, and also left his goddamn resume with her.
Fun part? He demanded to be paid for this nonsense. I acquiesce, since frankly I just want him to f**k right off into the wild blue yonder and never darken my door again.
Best part? Years later, I put out an ad to replace a retired technician in the same region. Guess who sent in an application? Guess who phoned repeatedly when I didn't respond to this idiocy?
If the "technician" is reading this... I still stand beside my last remarks to you: *you're a f*****g twit*.
𝖊𝖜𝖔𝛋 1 year ago (edited)
I thought the first censored word was a horrible slur! And wondered why on earth that was relevant or where this story was going. Then realised they meant f-wit. This was confusing to read
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
Me too. I was coming here to make the same comment.
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Donna Peluda 1 year ago
It's important to know you job, but on call outs 90% is dealing with the clients. It's like the dog whisperer , it's not the dogs it the owners, but you can't tell them. I kept getting HHD failures on a windows clients years ago. Disk checks on boot that they would cancel and start again and again till they efed the whole thing. Why? because they weren't turning the PCs off. they left them on then until the power was cut at night. I explained and explained how to shut windows. Nope they just left the all the office suit open, spread sheets word etc. Even if they did shut down it windows would asked them to shut the work they had open. Waste of time. The CEO had a yahoo account because he could work outlook (2010) so all his mail was forwarded back and forth from yahoo. The accounted would print the excel sheets for him and he would get his calculator out and write over them. I wrote a bat file so they could only had to click on one icon to shut the PC down to make it simple.
#12
Hired a guy in our IT department to work the night shift. He watched p**n and chatted with cam girls all night. Didn’t even try and hide it. He sat next to two other people one of which was female. She turned him in and we checked his history. Then he was history.
Fickle_Pickle 1 year ago
Holy cr@p! This just reminded of that one guy from my last job. He was mechanic (we work in a food plant, different dept). He was caught watching porn while on the clock. How, you ask? Bc his phone was on FULL volume. Worst part about it was he had been with the company for 10 or so years.
A. Starhawk Hunt 1 year ago
I worked at one place where a woman was fired for showing people at work porn videos.......of herself in action!
#13
Bank of America new guy decided to look up the balance of NBA stars including Kobe about 15 years ago.
He got fired but not after learning Kobe kept $2mm in cash in some random savings account for a rainy day.
For those that don’t know - this is wildly illegal and against bank policies. You never have the right to look up anyone’s account unless they explicitly give you permission verbally and in writing. Let alone for a celebrity.
Instant fire and never worked in the industry again. Total idiot.
Justanotherpanda 1 year ago
Yet, it is perfectly legal for you to let the whole of the internet know what Kobe's bank balance actually was?
Dani M 1 year ago
Once someone is dead there is no more privacy law acting on them
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KatSaidWhat 1 year ago
Also true of medical. I work for private in Knightsbridge so we have access to some high profile in all industries. I administer the patient software so casually dropped it in an all staff meeting that I can see every single action staff make, including patient records of VIP and family because of nepotism hire. There were some pikachu faces but no more voyeurism.
#14
Within the first week he loudly announced to a group of about 10 employees that he’d like to take the receptionist and bend her over her desk and f**k her hard. Let’s just say the boss wasn’t 100% in-love with the dude’s ambitions.
pineapple87 1 year ago
As someone who's worked as a corporate receptionist, you get hit on by "colleagues" all the time, most of them married men, so she probably wasn't even surprised.
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you have the option to NOT continue reading through it
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I hired a guy once that was no call no show for 3 days after he just started. I terminated his employment and he said he was in jail because his girlfriend called the cops on him. He then filed a complaint with the labor board and I had to go for a hearing. I explained why he was fired to the judge and she asked him for an explanation. His response was “I was in jail for assault but I didn’t do it”. She asked him if he was convicted and he said “Yeah, but I didn’t do it.”
The judge dismissed the case.
Red Reilly 1 year ago (edited)
Worked with a guy who was there for training and then just vanished for two weeks, we all thought he had quit. Nope, he had been hit off his bike cycling around where he lives, East London, and was in hopsital, then just was back like nothing happened. Was the nicest guy and was just loved by everyone.
Quentin ingulfumble 1 year ago
similar happened to me as a teenager. got myself a shiny new job, did all the induction and a couple of days before start date i got clipped by a car and put on my a**e for a week or more. called the new boss from the hospital, and his attitude was amazing. fair enough, it happens, the firm will still be here when you're back on your feet. get yourself sorted and keep me updated. a week or so later, i start the job as if nothing happened. no harm, no foul, everyone was really nice and understanding. spent the first half hour of my first day drinking coffee and showing off bruises! as icebreakers go, showing off bruises isnt a bad one!
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Drinking a giant watermelon Gatorade non stop and slurring.
That Gatorade was half vodka. Employee was 4 years under legal drinking age in a customer facing role swilling vodka all day long
#17
New college hire fed ghost pepper to co worker. Co worker reacted badly. Ambulance called. New hire fired.
Canandelabra 1 year ago
Only use the peppers when someone steals your lunch from the work fridge.
zububonsai 1 year ago
Whoever downvoted your comment🙄🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️ ... Take my upvote, @ Candelabra. To all thieves and thieves' friends: FAFO, play stupid games, win stupid prizes ... and maybe don't steal other people's stuff.
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Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I feel like this is missing some of the story. Like maybe he didn't warn the coworker just how hot a ghost pepper is. I figure if you warned them and they still chose to eat it then it's on their own head not yours.
Squirrelly Panda 1 year ago
The way it was phrased, sounds like new hire did it as a prank. Might have claimed it wasn't spicy at all, or it was in something no one would expect to be spicy. If new hire brought in homemade salsa and chips and said it's spicy, then yeah, it'd be on the eater. But if, for example, he brought in a jar of store bought mild salsa that he added ghost peppers to?
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Agent of Karma 1 year ago
You should really wait a few years before pulling something like that.
#18
Ages ago at a warehouse job. One guy got fired for s******g in the cardboard disposal chutes. The other one I remember had just finished training. We used safety knives to cut open boxes, you extended the blade and then when it finished the cut the blade snapped back into the handle. This genius saw a cute girl who started with him acting really nervous with the knife, so to bolster her confidence he extended his blade and said "See? They can't cut you!" Then he ran the blade up his forearm. The company was as efficient their two day shipping would suggest, he got his final paycheck right before the ambulance doors closed.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
Worked with a real winner once, he was modifying his work bench and drilled a hole in a board that was laid across his knee.
#19
White guy made a joke about lynchings at work, was gone by the end of the day. He was 4 days in the job.
Leslie Martinez 1 year ago
Biden and the Confederate Socialist Democratic Party.
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FranklySpeaking 1 year ago
Seriously? White slave owners lynching black slaves? What color is the sky in your world?
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Hired this young guy to work reception in a fancy office. He showed up looking pretty rough one morning, maybe his second week on the job, and I noticed him staring intently at the desk in front of him. He glances up at me and just says "Spiders. I think they're coming from my hair."
Rusty Lewis 1 year ago
A comma would have worked wonders for this sentence.
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I used to work at a hotel, worked there for over 15 years. But way back when, even when I was still a relative newbie, we had new hire. Within just a couple days she was telling all our guests about her hardships and was begging them for money.
Yeah she didn't last very long. I cringed when I found out what she did, that had to be extremely trashy just to go up to customers and guests that you just met before and do that. There was no shame in her game. No self respect at all
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
I had a cleaning lady offer me "extra service" for a small fee once. She as actually quite pretty, and it wasn't a trashy hotel either.
Hydro Keychain 1 year ago
A 'small fee' for the gift that keeps on giving. Yuck.
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nbfresh 1 year ago
worked at a restaurant with a person who did this constantly. played up ALLL of her woes in life to ANY customer who would listen. she was not fired or even confronted bc she was the owner/GM's niece. later on, she and her bf broke in to rob the place, and the cleaning lady came in the wee hours of morning with her young (7 yo??) son. The bf beat the cleaning lady and locked them both in the basement liquor room, where they weren't discovered for hours, until the bread delivery person arrived and heard yelling.
Nicci McNulty 1 year ago (edited)
This makes me so sad for her. She couldn't have been paid very much for her labors, or she wouldn't have stooped to this level. That was my first thou,ght, but a bunch of others like frivolous spending etc. also caught my mind. But in the end all of those roads originate in the underpaid American employee. The greedy naked emperors who kid themselves into believing it's the employees' part somehow, are disillusioned, disconnect, and devoid of the part of themselves they should be able to call human. Poor woman. I hope she's found a better gig
#22
My kid got fired the first day. They have a 30 minute lunch break. He went home and it took longer than 30 minutes, so he showed up when he was done...like over an hour later.
He's better now.
Quentin ingulfumble 1 year ago
we had a colleague disappear for over an hour for her half hour lunch. she decided to go eat in the park, which was a 15 minute walk away.
Dirk Daring 1 year ago
"He's better now." = "We had a long talk about how he needs a cranio-rectal inversion."
#23
Hired three new laborers to help shovel out some trenches that were already excavated. Only job was to shovel some loose dirt out from the bottom of the hole.
The guys hired were in great shape, had experience and could talk the talk. The job was described as a rush and high paced, pay was substantial.
The first day all they did was chat amongst themselves and literally lean on their shovels.
They were fired before lunch.
#24
Worked at a facility that processed mail for the post office.
There was a specialized sorting machine used only by our postal inspector in the back corner of the factory. We were all told when hired, and constantly after, this machine was stupid expensive, and the one rule was DO NOT USE THE ELECTRIC PALLET JACKS NEAR IT.
There were signs posted, yellow lines painted on the floor as a no go zone. Even cement posts surrounding the area. Mail DID have to be moved there so you could fit between the posts with the normal, non powered jack.
New floor lead is hired, he's come from a similar company and has years of experience. His first night our shift opens with a team meeting with our manager. On the other side of the floor the new lead is moving pallets of mail around.
Suddenly we hear a crash. He has driven the electric jack directly into the expensive machine. Destroyed the computer, two monitors, the loading belt, the cabinet that held a lot of the innards of the machinery. Just smashed it to smithereens.
He was gone the next night.
Donald 1 year ago
Just for reference at my job we moved a mail sorting machine that cost 400k 20 years ago. These cost of those machines is obscene and they're gigantic.
Quentin ingulfumble 1 year ago (edited)
i was part of the team that fitted a whole parcel force plant roughly an age ago. half a mile long, quarter of a mile wide with colour coded conveyer belts and chutes running everywhere. it looked exactly like you would expect it to as a kid!
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René Sauer 1 year ago
Reminds me of my warehouse: at around noon we got a machine installed that automatically wrapped our pallets in foil. We had to drive the pallet up a ramp onto a round plate that spins around. we happily used that machine for the remaining two hours of our shift. Come next morning the machine is out of order. Some fool in the late shift forgot to take out the pallet jack from under the pallet before starting the machine 😑
o.0.moldy strawberries.0.o 1 year ago
how…? i assume the machine was large, but i’ve never been to/worked for something like this
#25
One guy punched the supervisor because he didn't like being told what to do. Which is strange because he worked a total of 1.5 hours so he didn't know what to do. I'm not sure how you're supposed to learn something if nobody tells you how to do it... There was the guy that was 45 minutes late his first day. On time the second day. And on the third day, he called and said he might be a little bit late because of traffic, but he'd try to get here on time. Problem was that this was three hours after his shift was supposed to start. This was the only time I've fired someone without talking to my boss or HR first.
Multa Nocte 1 year ago
How did he punch the manager after working 1.5 hours and then be allowed back to work for 2 more days?
#26
Hired a guy to do crawlspace work. Dude gets to the first job, turns to me and says he has claustrophobia. He was on the job 5 minutes.
Shane S 1 year ago
I’ll give him the benefit of doubt that maybe he didn’t realize his level of claustrophobia. Maybe he really needed the job and thought he could overcome it.
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#27
Awhile back my supervisor was on the bus to work. Some random guy asked him if he wanted to go in on some m**h with him. My sup politely declined. It turns out that guy was from the temp agency, and it was his first day. He got sent home before he even started training.
siedzac niej 1 year ago
I was walking to an interview one day and stopped to pet a dog, but when I got to the interview the interviewer was the dog.
zububonsai 1 year ago
What is m**h (sorry I'm old and dumb and obviously need to have it spelled out)? Thank you in advance.
#28
He didn't even start his first day yet. He just got hired and was suppose to start the following day. Got caught trying to wheel a big Bluetooth speaker right out of the door with the spider wrap still on the box.
Libby Baxter-Williams 1 year ago
Anti-theft device. It's like a long string that you wrap around the item as if you were putting a ribbon on a gift. It has a round plastic case at one end that contains the working parts.
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#29
P**n in the very open very busy cafeteria. He had it on mute but one of the managers didn't think it was funny when they walked up to intorduce himself on the guys first day.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago (edited)
Are they sure the guy hadn’t been a MP in his previous job? (For non brits - a member of parliament was caught watching porn on his phone in the House of Commons. He claimed it was accidental when he was googling tractors!)
#30
The company I was working for (company a) had a contract with another (company b) to provide labor. Company a was laid back/chill/artsy culture. Company b was corporate as can be.
We hired someone (Joe) and told them their first job would be this contract with company b. We also told Joe that company b drug tests so if you need to sit out or do some “on the job training” for a few days - aka detox - let us know. He said not a problem, went to company b job - took a drug test and failed.
“Oh yeah, I smoked some weed, but I thought it wouldn’t show up because it had been a few HOURS since”
Curry on... 1 year ago
Years back, I hired a young man for our department. His first and last day was on a Monday. He got let go because he didn't pass the drug test. When I asked him about it, he said he was so excited about getting hired that he celebrated over the weekend, and he didn't think anything would show up after 24 hrs or more.
#31
Make harassing phonecalls to his ex-wife who had a no-contact order on him during his lunch break from a company phone.
#32
Hired a new it guy. First thing he did was change his email address to bigdaddy@... Fired on the spot.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
He changes if from jsmith@company.com to bigdaddy@company.com, not exactly the actions of a professional.
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Chrissie Anit 1 year ago
unprofessional? Yes. A reason to fire him on the spot without talking to him first? Inappropriate.
Mike F 1 year ago
There are expectations in any job you're hired to perform. If/when you're assigned an email address upon hire you will be expected to use that in the course of your duties. The individual should be sharp enough to realize that the assigned email was not a suggestion but a requirement.
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#33
I used to work at an independent living facility for people with mental (and sometimes physical) disabilities. There was one home that was really more of a nursing home environment than an independent living one.
A new woman was hired, and she was sent to that house to work a double for her first shift. Idiotic move already, but anyway. She then got 12 hours off and worked an overnight shift. This was Saturday night into Sunday morning.
No one told her that on Sundays, the clients go to church, so they have to be up, clothed, and fed by about 8:30. Well, the manager showed up to make sure everyone was ready, and upon seeing they were all still in bed (because it was a weekend, and no one had said the clients were going anywhere that morning), she- the manager- absolutely flipped out at the new girl. I don’t know exactly what was said, but I do know the girl was crying by the end of it.
She wasn’t fired, per se, but as soon as she clocked out, she called our supervisor and quit right then and there. Personally, I don’t blame her.
Mike F 1 year ago
Along with the person responsible for training the new hire.
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#34
I worked at a company where we hired a techie engineering type, and the first day he spent all 8 hours setting up his workspace, his monitors, several keyboards, various equipment etc. We had a small in house get together, he drank too much and spit on one of the founders friends, made some derogatory remarks. Was fired at 8am the next morning and spent the next 4 hours disassembling everything he had just put up. Didn't even work 1 day.
#35
Worked in beer industry, hired a new warehouse kid and he came in wearing a competitors hat. GM told him No biggie it’s just beer here’s a new hat please don’t wear the competitors brand when you’re out in the market. 20 min later he had put his other hat back on while setting up a display with the GM. He was fired immediately.
Fickle_Pickle 1 year ago
Luckily I didn't get fired for drinking coke while working in a friends-with-pepsi company lol
Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
Reminds me of the guy in "The Coca Cola Kid" deliberately wearing a Pepsi T-Shirt
#36
She kept falling asleep during training over successive days, even after being spoken to about it. Tried to use an alarmed emergency exit as a regular exit, twice, because it was closer than the normal way out past the security post.
Gone in a handful of days.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
A friend of mine has narcolepsy. It has never affected his choice of exit doors.
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LargeMarge 1 year ago
This happened to me, but I found out it was sleep apnoea. I was in training, and they talked to me about, I still fell asleep. They did not fire me, though, I did see my doctor and have it taken care of.
#37
Remembered another one. It's this kids first day. He sees his friend come in, and they both go into the bathroom together. The manager just happened to see them on camera. And then they both leave the bathroom together. Manager goes to check the bathroom and finds something that suspiciously looks like c*****e. Of course he gets fired. But it gets better. He's living with a relative because his parents kicked him out. So he tells her (I think it was his aunt) some BS story why he got fired. Naturally she's not happy and comes to talk to us. She finds out the real story, and then kicks him out.
WayoftheStarPrincess 1 year ago
Looks like a what? Calzone? Cyclone? Chemise? (srsly, don't understand what the word is supposed to be, even consulted a list of English words beginning with c and ending with e)
#38
His first day was our Cinco de Mayo blow out extravaganza. He got stupid drunk and then began harassing women by sliding his hand between their thighs. When the female VP told him to quit it, he told her to f**k off. It was his first job out of college. His dad came with him the next day to beg them to forgive him but they did not. One could argue that the business was at fault for serving massive amounts of alcohol.
Cecilia Herrera 1 year ago
One could also argue that one should never get drunk at any work function.
Tamsin Far 1 year ago
...or that you are responsible how you react to alcohol. If you become a sexis a*****e when drinking, you can´t drink. Sorry.
Load More Replies... Roxy222uk 1 year ago
No matter how drunk someone is, if they're sliding their hands between very non-consensual people's thighs, they need to seriously rethink their attitudes. Being drunk doesn't make you do things you firmly believe are very wrong, it just allows you to do things you otherwise know other people don't approve of.
BabaBizzle 1 year ago
And ya wonder why he was drunk as f**k first day on the job and sexually assaulting women. Daddy and Mommy never paid attention to him, indulged him all his life , bailed him out when he did attention seeking behaviors to get their attention. Seem this so many times before , and rarely ends well.
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Saphyre Fyre 1 year ago
That the father actually thought his son had a right to a 2nd chance shows how the son was raised by him.
#39
We have a team of people that go around the country setting up essentially retail spaces, like the shelves you’d see at a cvs or 7-11 for our facilities. Anyway they hire a new guy, on his first outing he misses the flight, then when he finally gets to the location he gets a DUI in the company rental car. So yeah that was pretty much it for him
#40
We all thought he'd shoot us all one day. He talked about guns a lot (he was like 16 years old). He would ask our 30-40 year old manager where he could buy a gun. He would also say women didn't have rights. He was just one of those really weird kids. He also had a short temper, so everyone was scared that he would shoot up the movie theater we all worked at. One of our coworkers became his "friend" just in case he would play the "dont come to work" card. The coworker would show us messages of this kid trying to get him into cultist religious groups and showing off all the weapons he owned. It got worse over time. I barely remember all the details because it happened so long ago. When he did get fired, that's when everyone really started getting scared because this kid started sending a whole bunch of money to all of the male coworkers. This kid was saying he was planning on doing something big and he had no use for living. We all thought he was gonna do something really bad, so police got involved. And he was fired. A week later, he was on the news threatening to k**l the police. Saying God commanded him to.
Canandelabra 1 year ago
5150 guy needs to be committed for help, and so this behavior is in the system and recorded for the future. Scary.
Louis Wright 1 year ago
You should replace all the HR staff for not getting this guy out early. Red flags everywhere.
#41
Recording Secretary here. The job doesn't *sound* demanding at first. Just go in to various City Hall meetings and then type up the summary.
I've met a grand total of four people who have lasted more than a month, including myself. I've seen a lot of fellow secretaries do stuff like set their tape recorders (this was before smart phone recordings were common) on fire but the crown has to be someone who walked in to a meeting then proceeded to whip out her phone during said meeting, chat with her friends on said phone (ignoring the Commission's request for her to stop once), then get involved in a shouting match with a commission member over one of the items. I think it was because it was a zoning approval for a McDonalds and she hated the company and felt they should put a more 'socially concientious' business in the lot, but this was well over a decade ago so I don't remember all the details.
She did not get a second job.
#42
Worked at bob evans the new guy stole a tub of peanut butter ... the delivery guy saw him put it in his car. He was referred to as peanut butter boy after .. (i saw him around town).
Savannah greenleaf 1 year ago
Not the proudest of moments but briefly worked at Bob Evan's. According to their policy food had to be thrown away, mostly items on the daily special. No one was supposed to eat it. It seems almost criminal to throw away whole roasted chickens and racks of ribs. I disagreed with the policy and quite a few trash bound items made it to my vehicle. They also make you pay (not full price) for everything. Broke individual that just found employment may have ran out of funds for food. Also I was not fired for stealing food if curious. I ended up quitting
#43
I was training a guy who was carrying around a large water bottle. He would drink from it pretty often. I didn't think much of it as I was more concerned with how utterly stupid he was. He couldn't understand basic concepts and asked the dumbest questions. I was forming a theory in my head that he was a space alien and it was his first day on Earth. I was going to recommend to my manager the next day that we don't keep him on. I arrived at work the next day and brought up the new guy. Manager and another guy there both said "He won't be back." Why? "The water bottle..." What about it? New guy had arrived at work before me, and was pouring some kind of salt out of a packet into the bottle. They asked him what he was drinking. He said it was the recommendation of his "healer" (whatever that means) and it was "healing salts" and part of his "therapy". He was drinking his own p**s the whole time.
Alyssa Phillips 1 year ago
Oh goodness. I assumed liquor in the beginning. That is so much worse than liquor.
Titian 1 year ago
Why don't those urine-enthusiasts think about anatomy once in a while? Ok, here is a substance that your body has not one, but three organs for ensuring it gets the hell OUT of your body, and they put the exit on the body as far from the mouth as possible. Seems like that might be a clue to not drink it?
SCP 4666 1 year ago
It's easy. The healer was his dealer and the healing salts were bazh salts. And his name was probably Bear Grylls, lol
M O'Connell 1 year ago
I got a tremendously good laugh when he became violently ill after eating week-old sunbaked dead zebra.
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40 something year old showed up the day after his first payday all strung out and bragging how he had spent the whole night before at the skate park riding his BMX, and he was all hyped to get to work. The boss said that he wanted him to take a p**s test before he started work. The last he was seen, he was running away from the workshop with no shirt on and only one shoe. The funny thing is he left his bike at the workshop, and never came back for it.
#45
He was making small talk with a young coworker and when he learned she wasn't married, he acted extremely surprised, and told her "you really need to marry, and have lots of children". He also made an huge order for new office supplies for himself without getting approval from a manager.
#46
Punched a hole in a computer monitor because it was freezing
#47
at my workplace it's really, really hard to get fired even if you are the most incompetent, absentee f**k-up.. but the people who do, it's for being sexually inappropriate, either jokes or touching or both. Keep it in your pants people.
Red Reilly 1 year ago
I do not get this. why people can't keep it in their pants! I went to a big work do, where you all get mixed up on your table with difference departments. this one guy was convinced a girl from my team wanted him, she didn't, he somehow firgures out which hotel she was staying at and when we got back to the hotel after drinks he was there saying him and her should go for a drink in the hotel bar, another co worker shooed him away. and of course he was what? ....... Married, yes.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago
Somebody on here told a story of a man who had convinced himself (somehow) and tried to convince other people that some girl was madly in love with him and was stalking him, when one of his coworkers (friend of the girl) went to the girl's house, they saw him outside her house, peeking into her window. When she confronted him, he did not give up on his victim story.
Load More Replies... Donna Peluda 1 year ago
A boss I had back got caught having a knee trembler with one of the secretaries on the meeting room table.
#48
Not quite right away, but pretty much... On their first solo shift, a cashier walked next door to stand in line and order soup without telling anyone, and then proceeded to eat the soup at the registers. To be clear, this was a small business. They were the only cashier at the moment, and the store was fairly busy.
#49
Barfed on the company president’s shoes at the Christmas party. The same day he got hired.
#50
Slept with the bosses daughter. His boss was his father.
Tim Fawcett 1 year ago
When nepotism really doesn't do it for you any more! I assume it was a family business
What do you think ?
Will Cable 1 year ago (edited)
Can the person that decided to put 'Bored Panda Recommends 'for other articles in the comments section get fired too... it is ruddy annoying and not needed either
SleepyBunny 1 year ago
I have my own story- so I work at a Ice Cream place where we have no Indoor eating, just a drive through and a patio, and one rule is to not talk loudly when a customer is at the window, and especially NEVER JUST DON'T curse or any profanity in front of or near the window. This one new worker was doing really good, he was learning fast, obviously watched the training videos, things were looking goof for him. But soon he would start complaining all the time, being just a little too rude and crass. The final straw was when another coworker was talking to a customer through the window and the new employee was swearing near the window, so I told him to stop it. instead, he went CLOSER to the window and started swearing LOUDER AT the customer.
Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago
New cashier showed up drunk as a skunk. Absolutely reeked of booze. Got fired on the spot, started ranting that the manager was racist for firing her.
David Martin 1 year ago
I was hired onto a security monitoring job, and we all needed to be fingerprinted at police HQ the first day of orientation. I don't drive, so I got a ride with another new hire who asked why we were doing this. I said "Well, since it's a security related job, they want to see our police records." This guy says "Oh..." pauses, then in a flat deadpan says "...what kind of stuff would show up on that?" I got hold of the door handle and ask "What kind of stuff have you done?" He didn't answer...and he wasn't there for day two
Demosthenes 1 year ago
Worked for a company that hosted an annual users meeting over 3 days in Las Vegas. One year a new salesperson was hired and his first day on the job was the first day of the user group meeting. He proceeded to get very drunk at the cocktail reception and made a pass at the head of HR. When she politely refused his advance he proceeded to grope her breast. By morning he was fired. Dude couldn’t have F’ed up faster if he had planned it.
DaveC 1 year ago
Worked at a security job once. New hire comes in, says he needs accommodation for daily prayer. Sure.. Then when assigned to a senior female officer for training, loudly announced he doesn't take instruction from women. Supervisor talked him down but behavior towards the mentor and other women coming through (truck drivers, office people) kept escalating, he was out.
Will Cable 1 year ago (edited)
Can the person that decided to put 'Bored Panda Recommends 'for other articles in the comments section get fired too... it is ruddy annoying and not needed either
SleepyBunny 1 year ago
I have my own story- so I work at a Ice Cream place where we have no Indoor eating, just a drive through and a patio, and one rule is to not talk loudly when a customer is at the window, and especially NEVER JUST DON'T curse or any profanity in front of or near the window. This one new worker was doing really good, he was learning fast, obviously watched the training videos, things were looking goof for him. But soon he would start complaining all the time, being just a little too rude and crass. The final straw was when another coworker was talking to a customer through the window and the new employee was swearing near the window, so I told him to stop it. instead, he went CLOSER to the window and started swearing LOUDER AT the customer.
Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago
New cashier showed up drunk as a skunk. Absolutely reeked of booze. Got fired on the spot, started ranting that the manager was racist for firing her.
David Martin 1 year ago
I was hired onto a security monitoring job, and we all needed to be fingerprinted at police HQ the first day of orientation. I don't drive, so I got a ride with another new hire who asked why we were doing this. I said "Well, since it's a security related job, they want to see our police records." This guy says "Oh..." pauses, then in a flat deadpan says "...what kind of stuff would show up on that?" I got hold of the door handle and ask "What kind of stuff have you done?" He didn't answer...and he wasn't there for day two
Demosthenes 1 year ago
Worked for a company that hosted an annual users meeting over 3 days in Las Vegas. One year a new salesperson was hired and his first day on the job was the first day of the user group meeting. He proceeded to get very drunk at the cocktail reception and made a pass at the head of HR. When she politely refused his advance he proceeded to grope her breast. By morning he was fired. Dude couldn’t have F’ed up faster if he had planned it.
DaveC 1 year ago
Worked at a security job once. New hire comes in, says he needs accommodation for daily prayer. Sure.. Then when assigned to a senior female officer for training, loudly announced he doesn't take instruction from women. Supervisor talked him down but behavior towards the mentor and other women coming through (truck drivers, office people) kept escalating, he was out.
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