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Starting a new job can be nerve-racking. You’ll be bombarded with lots of new information, many names to remember and the pressure of trying to look cool, calm and collected regardless of the chaos that’s going on in your mind. But it’s important not to panic. What’s the worst thing that could happen on your first day?
Well, apparently, some employees manage to get fired during their very first days on a new job. Redditors have recently been sharing some of the most shocking stories of how they’ve seen workers be terminated before ever receiving a paycheck, so you’ll find their juiciest stories below. Enjoy reading through and feeling like a star employee in comparison, and be sure to upvote the tales that you can’t believe weren’t written for a sitcom!
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#1
Working in a sheet metal shop in the 90's. Standing at one of the work benches going over some blueprints with the owner of the shop while new guy was standing there. New guy had been on the clock for only about 2 hours. A lady comes out of the office and mentions something to the owner and then goes back into the office. New guy says "Holy s**t did you see the [breasts] on her?" Owner says "Yeah... that's my wife. Here let's go get your things." Never saw new guy again.
Ripley 1 year ago
Wow . . . just . . . wow. I'm struggling to imagine how such a giant intellect managed to get dressed in the morning.
Nimues Child 1 year ago
Paging situational awareness. Situational awareness to the brain, please.
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Not a cool thing to say even if it wasn't the boss's wife lol
howdylee 1 year ago
I'd like to think he learned his lesson to hold his tongue, but i doubt it :(
David 1 year ago
"Cringe men" make life harder for the rest of us men. At one traveling industrial job I had, they once sent a salesman on the road with us for a week so he could get some hands on of what we do / what he was selling. His response to almost every conversation was to insert the "That's what she said" joke. We worked in oil refineries and other industrial sites. We were pretty relaxed. But that guy was so cringe we gritted our teeth tolerating him for a week. I'm not sure but I don't think he lasted too long in sales either.
Shina Kohana 1 year ago
I had a situation like that… I worked at a printing company with my dad. I went to go talk to him and dudes were making all kinds of comments. My dad turned red, pissed. “She’s my daughter, àsshole.” They never did it again. Maybe skip the awkward step and just keep your thoughts inside your own head. These situations would never happen if they did.
Warrior Mama 1 year ago
Oof. I hope that situations like that happen less in general, and also that if/when they do, that people will shut it down even if they don't have a personal connection to the person getting ogled.
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#2
School bus driver. First day on job after a month of training she was seen talking on her cell phone while driving a bus full of kids.
Petra 1 year ago
It's her fault/responsibility and hers alone. No one else is responsible for her actions.
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Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
"Hey, honey, so guess what? I just started my new job and- ohshit my supervisor is looking at me."
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I saw a video clip of a bus driver being arrested because he was massively drunk. And driving a bus full of kids!
David 1 year ago
Oh in Elementary School we had a driver fired after a few days. 1) Drove reckless and random drivers called the bus company to complain 2) rear ended a car on his third day (he hit the brakes late and only lightly tapped it, but still) and side clipped the next day after that a parked car and knocked its mirror off (all of us students told the school about both incidents). There was so much more. It took the company 7 days of him driving to fire him, all of us kids were scared. The guy had his bus license less than a month, and lost his job, and from what I heard, got blacklisted locally because all the companies talk (worse for him, the boss of the company that fired him and got him blacklisted was his own uncle who sent a letter to each parent appologizing for their childs safety)
Pandamanda 1 year ago
Not just stupid, but criminal. There should be serious consequences for endangering the lives of so many--and children at that!
TheNewJenBrady 1 year ago
Years ago my then 1st grader starts coming home from school smelling strongly of cigarette smoke. I ask him about it and he says his new bus driver always has a lit cigarette in a ashtray on the floor when she's driving them. I don't feel bad about reporting her. She got herself fired for that
#3
I worked in a hotel where some positions wore an issued uniform and some positions wore their own clothes. The dress code was very strict dressy business attire..everyone had to wear a blazer, men had to wear button down shirts with a tie but the hotel provided free dry cleaning for all of it.
One day I was walking down the hall to the room where you pick up/drop off dry cleaning and can hear a man yelling. Get near the door and a new hire, who was in a position where you wore your own clothes, was demanding that the attendant issue him a uniform (full suit, dress shirt and tie) because he wasn't going to ruin his nice clothes. Of course the attendant cannot issue anything without the paperwork from hr and the new hire would have been told that he will be wearing his own clothes.
Walk into the room, see the attendant in tears and this d******d agressively leaning over the desk yelling at her...I was shocked and basically asked what the hell is going on?!?!!? This guy sees another white person, immediately dials it back and gets all chummy and shmoozy and says something like "Pffft, can you believe this? Clearly doesn't understand English and since you are a manager, tell her to give me a uniform.". I just said that they would have to speak to hr about a uniform, walked him to the hr office and asked him to wait in the hall. Went in the hr office and gave the hr manager a quick run down, that this guy is a racist piece of s**t and he needs to go. Went back to check on the attendant, gave her a big hug and it was just heartbreaking to see another person cry like that.
Never saw him again and this was a time when it was an employees market but hr said that I was so upset and angry, they just terminated him on the spot without any further discussion and walked him off of the property. Like, who the f**k does or says that to another human being?
DarkViolet 1 year ago
Who does that to another human being? Someone who's subhuman, that's who does that.
Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
Ironic considering a racist pig like that thinks the victim is the one who's subhuman. *eyeroll*
Load More Replies... Pandamanda 1 year ago
Sounds like HR handled that appropriately. That kind of behavior is unacceptable in any setting, and especially unacceptable at work.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Glad op stood up for the employee. So many managers don't nowadays.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
Too many a@@holes, sad to say, and usually the KING of A@@HOLES" followers!
Dawnieangel76 1 year ago
A LOT of people, unfortunately...especially those known to wear red hats.
#4
Basically young girl on her first shift as waitress. Customers order bottle of champagne. She brings it out whilst shaking it and proceeds to do the F1 celebration shooting it over everyone whilst roaring in celebration. That was the only context she had for champagne so she didn’t know that was just for big celebrations.
mandy the capibara 1 year ago
That is a pretty hilarious mistake to make if she genuinly thought that was the way to go. Lacking in common sense perhaps, but hilarious
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Until the cleaning bills start coming in and she has to pay for the bottle not the customers :P
Load More Replies... Marcellus II 1 year ago
That champagne wasting from motorsports (cars, bikes, later cycling) feels very 70s to me --- like smashing up electric guitars (maybe started by Jimi Hendrix who had one he kept breaking & reglueing daily? see the John Hiatt song, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_diKw9F6t3U )... equally disgusting displays of conspicuous consumption.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
One thing my dad taught me is how to open a bottle of champagne almost silently. He learns this while working at council office during 80's, they were celebrating birthdays, but to keep it down they need to learn how to open champagne without bang.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
The best method of opening champagne is sabrage.
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Was an unpaid intern at my mom's campsite for the summer just to get something to do. Mom hires a new guy for a trial period, and as I know practically how everything works, I'm told to shadow him for a few days. (keep in mind this is a small campsite, and a family business first and foremost).
Conversation starts up, and immediately, new guy zeroes in on a worker just doing his job and starts trash-talking him like crazy, while the worker was only doing his job of trimming the hedges, emptying the trash, that sort of stuff. They hadn't even been introduced yet.
End of the day I report to my mom, new guy in tow. Snitch that I am, I tell every unsavory detail that spewed from the little rat's mouth.
The worker he trash-talked all day long for no reason? My dad, mom's husband.
Mom told him his trial period was over, and to get out of her property and never show his face here again.
Marnie 1 year ago
Seems it was OP and OP's Mom in action. How does karma come into this?
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 1 year ago (edited)
I cannot stand people that do this! What? You think I'm going to think you're a real cool person for making fun of someone??
AMaureen Dance 1 year ago
But I hope she would have done the same if the worker wasn't related.
Chris Simon 1 year ago
A newly hired contract engineer started trash-talking the company. It was an old family-owned business. I couldn't believe he lasted two weeks. I've worked for much worse companies.
#6
Archaeologist working on a longhouse site with human remains uncovered and First Nations liaisons present.
New girl with no field experience somehow thought she was second in command on site and an osteology expert. Started telling everyone that if they found bones to bring them to her. Someone found raccoon bones and she started saying they were actually human fetal bones and that First Nations used to bury babies inside the walls of their longhouses???
She was removed from site before lunch.
Persephone hates Pomegranate ️ 1 year ago
It did say she had no prior field experience.
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Olli Hawk 1 year ago
The raccoon probably died in the walls and the people didn’t know it was there
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Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
The scary thing is that she could have damaged items with her stupidity!
#7
New security guard fell asleep in various locations around the school throughout his first day. He was fired around 3pm when the principal found him asleep in the front lobby.
Edit: A few people have mentioned that maybe he has narcolepsy. Just to correct a misconception the public has about narcolepsy: it is not an excuse to fall asleep all day and then scream discrimination when you get fired. I have narcolepsy. I also get treatment for my narcolepsy and am able to work a full-time job without falling asleep all day. I have also made my disability known to my employer and completed all necessary paperwork to get reasonable accommodations through ADA. So yes, maybe he has narcolepsy. In which case, he needs to go see a doctor.
Trillian 1 year ago
Also, with a condition that would make you fall asleep at random, security guard just isn't the job for you.
rorschach-penguin 1 year ago
It's called "reasonable accomodation", not "accommodation". If it inherently interferes with job duties, it doesn't count.
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The.Butterfly.Effect.530 1 year ago
Hmm how interesting that the person who posted this happens to have the exact same illness that ppl are suggesting. It's giving *then everyone clapped and told me how awesome* vibe.
Strawberry Pizza 1 year ago
That's what I was thinking...very convenient. OP probably got a lot of backlash and was like "hmm well if I tell them I have narcolepsy and can still function then people will believe me that this guy was s****y at his job lol"
Load More Replies... Brenda 1 year ago
There are certain jobs that CANNOT be held by people with specific conditions (think truck driver & narcolepsy or surgeon & Parkinsons [I made those up as examples, BTW]) for safety reasons. I would think having narcolepsy would preclude doing security in most, if not all, cases. And not every medical condition is treatable to the extent that it never interferes with having a job. So if you are being treated and still can't stay awake? Then security isn't the career choice for you.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Well, truck driver & legally blind seems more common/obvious.
Load More Replies... JenniB 1 year ago
We have an employee at my work that would fall asleep at his desk several times everyday. I mentioned to him that he should be tested for sleep apnea. His test showed he stopped breathing almost 100 times. A life saving CPAP machine later he has never fallen asleep at work again...
ॐBoyGanesh 1 year ago (edited)
I don’t think most people here understand how narcolepsy actually works. All y’all need to wiki it if you think it’s uncontrollably falling asleep at random times.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Whenever I came half an hour earlier to my office, I found a cleaner sleeping there. Can't really fault somebody that's underpaid and having to hold down several jobs. (Security or safety staff of course has to be alert and active.) Very strongly preferred her to the pair that several times smoked in my office, the last time being VERY annoyed with me for arriving and stopping their 'break'.
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
An Army buddy of mine got a job as a security guard at a psych facility. Zero training. His first night a lady goes off the rails. She is holding a needle, threatening everybody. Everybody was yelling at him to do something. He did not want to get stuck. At the nearby nurses station was an unopened can of soda. The lady is still very agitated & standing int he middle of the hallway. He spoofs her into believing someone is walking up behind her. When she turned around, he whipped the soda can at her. Like a ball pitcher yet. Nailed her right in the middle of the back, knocking her down, & the needle out of her hand. He was so proud of himself. Everybody there was giving him shocked looks. He was fired on the spot.
#8
First day as a kayak coach for an outdoor adventure place he decided to not only get the number of a 14 year old kid but send her nudes! Not seen someone mess up their life as quickly! The police arrested him, now he's a registered s*x offender... Amazes me how many of these people just ruin their lives because they wanted to get laid?? Literally 1 IQ idiots thinking with their d***s...
Libstak 1 year ago
He didn't just "want to get laid". He is a paedophile who attempted to groom a 14 year old child. Don't minimise what he did by having a laugh over how he wrecked his life in a series of bad choices, he is someone who actively ruins the lives of others and he got what he deserved, in fact it should have been much worse.
Hippopotamuses 1 year ago
Good that the police got him. This is paedophilia, plain and simple.
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
During our one flood, the National Guard was putting up barricades. One of them starts hitting on the one shop owner. She rejected his advances. He then turned to her 14 year old daughter. She called 911. Cops & MPs showed up in like 2 minutes. Just grabbed him, cuffed him, & hauled him off.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
That's why, in order to work with children or vulnerable adults in The UK, you need to undergo an enhanced criminal record check... Not that current and future child exploiters/abusers/rap1sts would have any sexual offences on their record.
Aline Vargas 1 year ago
A lifeguard decided to do that with my cousin when we were kids, she was 12.
#9
Young lad started in a junior marketing role in the office as part of my team, he was sat at a desk directly in front of the IT dept who had a clear view of his monitor. Within 30 minutes of his induction one of the IT guys calls me over and says 'look at this' - new lad had opened file explorer and was trying to root around the contents of shared drives and servers on the company network. We pulled him to one side and asked him what he thought he was doing, warned him that trying to pry around the systems on your first day was probably not the ideal start. He apologised and promised not to do it again. After he left the room, IT guy and I went back to IT guy's desk and, I s**t you not, in front of our very eyes this lad immediately opened the registry and started trying to access security settings. Two minutes between first warning and firing.
Hippopotamuses 1 year ago
Sadly, he would probably have become, or did become, a very good hacker.
Lew k 1 year ago
Being about to open Regedit and file explorer aren’t really hacker qualifications. That said IT department obviously needs some work if new guy has access rights to things they don’t think he should.
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Shina Kohana 1 year ago
Probably one of those dudes that spent too much time on Reddit. “If I can show them how easy it is to hack through their stuff, I’ll get promoted to security and be a hero!”
gilded panda 1 year ago
He could make money off hacking skills, some companies pay hackers to find flaws in their systems and fix them
#10
Boss hired a new woman for help around the office. Her first day she showed up on time and jumped right into helping out. Seemed like a good hire at first, then the police showed up and arrested her for putting her two year old in a home built cage at home that morning and left the kid alone because she didn’t want to pay for day care.
E.V. 1 year ago
We need better childcare. Daycare fee was probably more than what she was making.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
I know what she did is wrong but maybe she didn't have money for day care. She might have be been really broke and desperate for a job. Western societies have dangerously low birth rates but raising a child is prohibitively expensive.
Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
Good GOD. Have fun sitting in a cage of your own, you horrible, horrible person. It's called a jail cell.
Mel Colley 1 year ago
Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Where was the father?
jmdirks 1 year ago (edited)
After reading the comments on this I don't see anyone catching on to a very important issue. She had the cage available to put her child in. The big question is, how often did she consider it necessary to cage her kid. Maybe when she had a date or a night out with the girls. Or maybe when she had a friend over to have s.e.x. Or something as trivial as she just needed a nap and did want to be bothered. Or maybe when she wanted to take a vacation like the "mother" that left her baby with no food or water for ten days and came home to a dead baby. It was just in the news so Google the story. It will make you cry.
#11
I started on the same day as another woman. At one point I started cracking a few bad Dad jokes to break the ice a bit. She then said "Oh I've got one" and then proceeded to reel off some of the most racist jokes I've ever heard. She went to lunch and never came back.
gilded panda 1 year ago
Let me guess, the word which shall never be utttered slur was included?
CK 1 year ago
Racists tend to lack the social awareness to take cues from others and stop talking.
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#12
Refused to wear proper PPE. The supervisor told him to put it on. He flat out said no, so they fired him.
Didn't even make it to first coffee break. If a guy is that adamant about safety gear on his first day, it isn't a good sign.
Lew k 1 year ago
I tell new hires that PPE is an annoyance every day except the one where it saves you from death or dismemberment.
Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
Like insurance, you don't need it until you do.
Load More Replies... David 1 year ago
PPE became a household term with covid but on many jobs it protects you from much worse than covid. One time we were fixing a white liquor (caustic and sodium sulfide) leak at a pulp/paper mill. It is an acid used to break down the wood fiber. We had on full 'rain gear' and face shield. Somehow a TINY drop of the stuff got past the side of the shield and hit the back side of my cheek. Instant burn. Nothing serious because it was much less volume than a a drop of water. But it made it very clear I would never want a face full of the stuff.
Shark Lady 1 year ago
I used to work in a dna clean lab and the rigmarole of getting into all the PPE was seriously tedious, getting out of it took just as long, but I liked having a job so......
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
So much anti-PPE hysteria since the pandemic. One has to wonder if his job required him to go into a space with the full get up including air tanks, if he would still think he could be fine without that protection.
Farnzy 1 year ago
I work for a safety company and I help people get new PPE every day. It's usually the old timers and management that don't want to wear it. There was just a rule change about helmets so now they have to have a chin strap and oh my glob...the complaining from old guys has been non-stop!
TiNaBoNiNa 1 year ago (edited)
Steel toed shoes, cut resistant gloves, and a hard hat are considered PPE. It's anything that protects your body from harm. Dismemberment covers fingers and toes, too.
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#13
Asked the managers daughter if she slept with anyone to get the position she was in and then said how if he was her supervisor he would help her get promoted. I’m sure you could hear a pin drop in that lunch room. We didn’t even know his name. But he never came back from lunch.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
She might have replied truthfully "Actually, it was who my mother slept with that got me this position" and watched him try to process that.
#14
Guy was hired contingent on background/credit check. On day three I got a call from HR saying he wasn’t eligible. The store manager who hired him made me fire him. Took him in the office and said… your checks came back negative and ya can’t work here. He started going on about his record had been sealed and the forgery and theft convictions were supposed to be expunged. And then I said… no man, you got bad credit. Fast forward 3 months. The company dropped the credit check requirement, so the store manager hired him again. Three weeks later they caught him stealing computers.
Limey 1 year ago
Interesting story but I have a real problem with good credit being needed for a job. Discriminates against people who may be trying to work their way out of hard times.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Criminal record check is normal in The UK: "forgery and theft convictions" should have been MAJOR red flags. Manager is an idiot.
Hippopotamuses 1 year ago (edited)
"Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it" - George Santayana 1905
Michael Largey 1 year ago
And those who can remember the past are doomed to watch other people repeating it.
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#15
I was a warehouse supervisor. Owner brought in a new forklift driver on Monday. I asked if he was certified and was told "don't worry about it". We start loading deliveries and l put my best spotter and inventory guy with the new hire. First load he clips a post. I give him a verbal warning (standard) and take his spotter aside. Spotter tells me the driver is ignoring instructions. I take driver aside and tell him He Will Listen to his spotter or l will put him on a dolly. Less than an hour later, I'm standing by the office door, talking to my scheduler, and l hear "no... no stop... STOP NOOO" and a crunch. Guy backed into a wall. I walked over and told him to get off the forklift, handed him a dolly, and put him with a stocking team. I go into my office to do a damage report and a formal write-up. I hear yelling and a huge bang. Back out onto the dock l go and there's the new guy arguing with four people and one of my forklifts on it's side in the parking lot. The guy had gotten back on a forklift as soon as my back was turned and had driven it off the dock. (Fortunately at a spot where the dock was only a foot or so off the ground) I took him to my office and told him to sit his a*s down, called the owner and told him l was firing his new hire with DNR. Owner stated to argue with me until l told him what the damages were going to cost him. New guy was escorted off the property by two of my semi-pro football players that worked for me. Never did find out who that clown was related to, there's no way he was certified or qualified for that job.
Brenda 1 year ago (edited)
I used to work for a company that made you do some kind of test for machines, like forklifts, because people lied about experience or were out of practice. Out of practice meant a few hours/days training to re-familarize themselves (usually for updated/newer machines). Lying was obvious right away and they were fired for incompetence.
Lew k 1 year ago
I used to work at a heavy equipment yard and could operate, at least in some capacity, every piece of heavy equipment you could think of. Fast forward 20 years and I rented a small excavator to do work at my house. I ended up hitting my own truck (lightly but still) with it and my wife could operate it better with no experience. It is a perishable skill for sure.
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 1 year ago (edited)
"Don't worry about it" It's my job to buddy, here's a dolly for you...That should've been a massive flag.
Strings 1 year ago
When I was a material lead, they wanted me to certify a young lady (around 22yo). After multiple incidents of her almost hitting me, racking, and other forklifts, I told her "it isn't THAT much different from driving a car!". Her response? "I don't have a license. I'm epileptic". They wanted me to train an epileptic to drive the industrial jousting machine...
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
No matter how well managed her condition is, if she can't meet medical standards for a driver's license, putting her on heavy machinery seems unwise.
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Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
YIKES! I remember my Warehouse Training and we were shown videos of what can happen to forklifts if you do not handle them properly! We were even told a story about a forklift driver telling a manager about the faulty brakes on a forklift. The manager just yelled at the driver to do his job. The forklift wound up going off the dock. Luckily, the driver was able to jump clear and get out of the water. The manager fired the driver, but the driver was back when it was discovered that that forklift was not to be used until its brakes were fixed. The manager was fired and the driver was rehired. When they sent divers down to attach cables to pull up that forklift, they found that second forklift was down there. It turned out to be the same idiot manager had drove it off the dock because its brakes failed and he did not report it.
Kenneth Smith 1 year ago
I don't think people appreciate how much forklifts weigh. Mine is much smaller than a car and weights 5 tons.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I know how to drive a sit down forklift. I am going to say no matter how much experience you have, you can have a accident with one. I worked for a factory maby years ago. The person that supposed to train people how to operate a forklift, I can't recall what he did but he did something wrong on a forklift and had to be retrain for a forklift.
#16
They worked in a grocery store and hired a guy to work in the deli. They left him alone for a while, and when they came back, all the rotisserie chickens were missing the skin. The guy said that it looked so good that he ate the skin off of one chicken, and then he pulled it off the rest of them in the hopes that if they all looked the same no one would notice.
Brenda 1 year ago
Not just unhygienic, but plain old dumb! I hope they charged him for every single one since they couldn't sell them!
Craig Reynolds 1 year ago
Couldn't sell them but, I wonder if all those chickens became a week's worth of chicken salad, chicken stew, chicken tacos, chicken soup, chicken tenders, and anything else chicken-related...
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Marcellus II 1 year ago
That, or eat only half the skin off all except one bird (the half not visible from front), the last bird you transplant half the skin to the first & bob's your uncle.
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tori Ohno 1 year ago
Or high. He sounds like he had the munchies. He should've waited until after work to indulge in the herb.
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Griffy 1 year ago
I worked in a grocery store on 3rd shift, which I loved. They hired one guy who ended up stealing the Robitussin cough syrup and leaving empty boxes around. He got fired quick. Another one they hired pulled a case cutter on me and put it to my throat. My friend who saw it and I wrote up a report to the store manager. Answer I got? Guy was just joking. You do NOT put a razor sharp box cutter to someone's neck and demand they do something! About a year earlier, when the store was under another name, one guy on the stock crew got mad at his ex girlfriend who worked in the baker and took a case cutter to her, cutting her from shoulder across to her pelvis. She was pregnant at the time.
#17
I was working in a new restaurant and it was day one where we were going over the menu/wines and we were supposed to show up at 10 am. So we’re all around a table and a guy walks in and the manager stands up, greets the guy, and to my horror it’s my stalker’s brother. Manager walks him out of the room and comes back and tells us he fired him because he was late. I was so relieved and also a little dumbfounded by how random the world can be. I was so afraid that I was going to have to work with someone who would then tell my stalker where I was (had already changed jobs and moved) and it was solved in an instant. The weirdest feeling to be both scared and relieved at the same time.
Nimues Child 1 year ago
You definitely have someone in the Universe looking out for you. Glad it worked out as it did!
Mirolfur Grafarson 1 year ago
Why some many of you americans have "my stalker"? Getting impression its as coomon as having a dog or cat for you guys hahah
Nimues Child 1 year ago
Tragically, it is quite common and really not a joke. Being stalked is terrifying.
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Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
If he had showed up that would not have been a good situation for you.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Anyone else have a feeling the manager knew and took care of things?
Sunny Day 1 year ago
If the manager knew he wouldn't have hired him in the first place.
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Astro 1 year ago
….what does this even mean? So what if it was? And it’s spelled “woman,” by the way.
Load More Replies... #18
I worked in a small chain retail pharmacy in high school in the 90s. Kid from another school got hired and spent the first 3 hours of his shift telling literally anyone that would listen he didn’t need the job and only got it to steal cologne and cigarettes. We were a pretty tight knit group, and this kid was an a*****e, so someone told the manager, who performed a “random bag check” on all of us at closing time. He found 6 bottles of Fahrenheit and 3 cartons of Parliaments in his backback. He was fired on the spot. Best part is his mom came in the next day screaming at the manager because the kid told her he got fired because the manager told him he didn’t like Indians.
Brenda 1 year ago
Most pharmacies sell/sold cigarettes because they are a high profit item. Many have stopped.
David 1 year ago
And many have not. In the USA anyway. Walgreens comes to mind. Lots of smokes and liquor near the front register. The irony has crossed my mind.
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les 1 year ago
some american pharmacies are more like stores everywhere else, think along the lines of superdrug rather than boots
Load More Replies... Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Cologne and other high value items are now usually kept behind the counter or in locked display cabinets here... Many items are security tagged (like bottles of booze, razors and batteries).
𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 1 year ago (edited)
Um... he was working there. Even if they were locked up or had tags, as an employee he had access so he could sell those items to customers. Cabinets and security tags only work if you can't open cabinets and remove tags. That's why some stores (like those who sell electronics) limit key access to senior employees. But for a d**g store, that could be inconvenient and slow, and cost you a sale. So keys are just kept behind the counter.
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Guy came back from lunch high out of his mind and then we found his instagram video shouting out the company and tagging us while he was smoking out of 3 different devices in his car at the gas station a block away within minutes because it popped up in our social media managers feed.
Marcellus II 1 year ago
Hey he was an influencer giving you exposure! Company should be glad and give a payrise!
DC 1 year ago
Oh my .. high on the job isn't exactly what being high is meant to be. It's a waste of quality time, and also, it may compromise your performance, or simply be prohibited, with or without reason - not the point, that is, but usually, you sign a contract that states that you're not to be under any influence on the job. This may be different if medical issues require pain meds or so, but still, that usually grants you a sick day rather than a messed up day at work. I'm in no way feeling entitled to judge any type of seeking any high, as this just isn't an ethically relevant thing to begin with, but on the job ... that's a different book's pages, and they're still valid regardless ... you know, cuddling with cats for hours isn't wrong, but on my desk at work, I wouldn't. Most offices lack a cat to begin with ... and Gina has a strong disagreeary habit about travel.
Lew k 1 year ago
Had a new guy get fired after taking videos of him smoking out with customers on his company phone and posting them to a company chat. Then proceeded to get in his company vehicle and drive to another job site. I felt bad when he got fired because he was a nice kid but when I found out why all sympathy dried up. What a maroon.
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
Our local discount hardware store had a new hired that was all too happy to go back & do the inventory. He went right to the canned air supply & was found passed out from huffing. He was only on the job a few hours.
JP Doyle 1 year ago
We had a new guy who used the company van, emblazoned with the company name and logo, for his lunch break. He came back 3 hours late. Boss got a call that night from the local Sheriff. Seems new guy took his lunch at a methamphetamine dealer's house that was under surveillance. He was also caught with a couple days supply when the Sheriff visited him at home.
#20
I work in software development. For new hires, the team will take them out and the available directors will join to make it a joyous experience. So we are walking to the local restaurant together and the new hire starts happily bragging how he’s brought us 100% of his former employer’s code. Application, DevOps, and even from their secretive R&D area. Half the faces are surprised and the others flip from happy-casual to grim-serious. The dir of engineering asks where the code is and the dumbass replies “oh I just loaded it onto my local machine. I’ll have it on the network once I know where to share it”. Dir then whispers something to a lead who heads back to the office. So we order burgers and sit down. 30 minutes later, the director takes a phone call, listens, and hangs up. We walk casually back to the office and the new hire is stopped at the door by security. He’s informed he is being terminated and his theft has been reported to the prior employer. IT boxes up everything and puts red seal tape on all of the boxes. We get interviewed one by one. And poof. By the next morning , it’s like he never existed and was a fever dream. I don’t know if the other company pressed charges.
David 1 year ago
Not only honorable (of the company), if he did that to his previous employer he would do it to them if/when he moved on. It's like the IT version of the friend who talks trash about their ex / other friends to you. They will definitely do the same thing to you when you are not around.
Dave Platt 1 year ago
Common sense, too. If they'd kept any of that proprietary material, they could well have been the target of a very expensive lawsuit by the thief's prior employer when the truth came out (which would have been soon, based on the thief being a blabbermouth). Firing and reporting the thief was both the right thing to do (ethically and legally) and was also very much in their own self-interest. Win-win, except for the thief.
Load More Replies... Chris Simon 1 year ago
I applied for a good job I wanted but didn't get any reply. After a few months, I forgot about it and didn't see it come up again. A few more months passed and they wanted me to come in for an interview that would last all day. I thought that was a lot of time mid-tech job. I met with different pairs of engineers and managers all day. Near the end, I asked why all the scrutiny for a mid-tech job. They said they had to up the job level because of the poor interviews they had been getting. One of them the guy hit on a woman he passed in the hall. I got the job and passed with flying colors.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
I hope the job's been as good as you thought, or better.
Load More Replies... Danish Susanne 1 year ago
So he bragged about stealing from his employer. Not all the intelligent it seems.
bbfa 1 year ago (edited)
This reminds me of when I worked for a leading globally known financial services firm. They started direct hiring Partners from offshore instead of them working their way up - big mistake, and most were from a country where stealing data was ok and accepted as a cultural norm. He was truly dumbfounded when I refused to change 55 documents from another company in No Cal to the name of our totally unrelated company in So Cal. I flat out told him hell no, it's illegal, I'm not touching those, and my manager backed me up. We finally sent the request to our graphics department, and let them refuse without the previous company approval. He claimed since he produced them, they were his. Nope.
Jeffrey Diehl 1 year ago
Much better than the company that was building an autonomous electric city taxi and purposely hired people away from a competitor in an attempt to steal corporate secrets. That company was caught and had to pay millions. That same cheating company was later bought by Amazon. Still don't have much of a car yet.
#21
A while ago now (20 years ish) the person who showed up for work was absolutely not the person who was interviewed. Heard a couple different stories for what had happened (either they sent someone else to interview for them or someone stood in their place because they went awol but both to me are far fetched). Never got to the bottom of it and wasn't high enough in the company to learn what happened. But it was definitely weird.
WakandaPanda 1 year ago
I've had a couple of people try to pull this one, when on a Zoom/Teams meeting, their webcam doesn't work, and didn't know what was written in 'their' CV.
David 1 year ago
most companies, if your webcam doesnt work they reschedule or cancel outright
Load More Replies... Marcellus II 1 year ago
I imagine someone during the pandemic in their underpants, holding a finger puppet in front of their bad webcam... and That's Why they didn't recognize me from the job interview, m'lord.
#22
He lasted 1 day, went for drinks with the team and boss. Commented about the boss's 16 year old daughter then just would not stop. "Is she single" was the last straw. He did not make it to day 2.
This guy was 30 and in an $80k/yr Network Admin job (decent money in 2014).
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
I would have gone with sexual predator…
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 1 year ago
Just as well. You really don't want adults who express that type of interest in teenagers around.
DarkViolet 1 year ago
Back out of the door, so it can hit you where the dog should have bit you! 🤣
Load More Replies... Craig Reynolds 1 year ago
As a man, I find behavior like that from other men disgusting. He was probably a predator.
Blue Bunny of Happiness 1 year ago
You can have thoughts, but not act on them, but sometimes it’s helpful when people reveal their true colours so quickly.
Load More Replies... Rosecrucian Roeth 1 year ago
Some people should be checked for intelligence before being hired!
#23
We hired an office manager. She was the 20-something college graduate daughter of one of our clients. She was professional in demeanor and seemed a perfect fit. All they had to do was sit at the front desk, greet visitors, order office supplies, and just do random, easy office tasks. It was a essentially a receptionist, but we tried to give her a better title, and opportunity to do other things and maybe grow into a better role. The first half of the first day went great. We found out later that afternoon that she was offering to procure one's choice of we*d, e**tasy, or m*th to the staff. At the and of the day, we called her in and asked if she was offering d**gs to the staff, and she fully admitted it, and apologized for not being more discrete. She legit thought we were mad about her lack of discretion, rather than the d**g dealing.
Guigsy Gwiggins 1 year ago
So if this site is censoring words now and everybody knows what they are, what’s the feckin point? Ridiculous
Lew k 1 year ago
After a company team build most of our team and our boss went out to a bar for a few drinks. One guy got three sheets wasted and tried to sell everyone d***s. Bragged extensively about his d**g use and even explained how he goes home at lunch to smoke. At one point was yelling out ice cold molly for sale in the bar. Lucky for him that manager was pretty cool so he’s still employed but man I’ve never watched someone work so hard at getting fired and failing.
#24
I can win this. Company hired a new CFO to lead the finance function. Day 1 the FBI raided the building. Apparently the guy was a fraud who was going across the country and sweet talking businesses into his services and swindling them out of all their money. No idea if he used a fake name or how it happened in the background check but that was a wild day. Yes, he was fired.
Seadog 1 year ago
Reminds me of a customer I had a few years back. He was spending stupid loads of cash on merchandise, always paid less than 10k on his bill. One day home office gets a call from the feds about (customer). I wasn't privy to the details of the call but we never heard from customer again.
Mikey Kliss 1 year ago
See Corporations can steal all they want but one person stealing from corporations is punishable by the FBI
#25
Dude was asked to change a light bulb in the back and ended up taking down three cameras and taking them home.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
My grandparents used to own a mountain cabin with a private road (quite annoying, everyone had to pay to get to their own houses or buy a permanence card because some asshat managed to find a loophole in the system). People noticed quickly that you could just let several people use the same card so you wouldn't need to make your guests pay the pest who set up the barrier. Barrier guy put up a surveillance camera to see who was doing it. Camera got stolen within a month. So he got two cameras, one facing the previously stolen one. Both cameras got stolen again. I have no idea how many cameras he's lost by now, and I can't say he wouldn't deserve it.
tiffhoepp 1 year ago
They had to pay to access their property? I'd be annoyed too
Load More Replies... Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
There's a joke in there somewhere... How many camera thefts does it take to change a light bulb...
Marcellus II 1 year ago
People taking their work home is usually encouraged by management, free labour!
Load More Replies... Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
We had the ATM machine in the lobby of our hospital stolen. Admin was furious that something like that could happen. They were made at our police for missing this heist. They ran the security camera footage. Now admin was really upset. Two of our police officers assisted the two thieves to load it on to their truck. They thieves said they were with the ATM company but have no uniform, ID, or logo on their truck.
#26
Dude I started with during an overnight, locked-in stocking position at Toys R Us went absolutely f*****g mental. He worked about one quarter of the shift, then started talking complete madness, then disappeared entirely. As in, we couldn't find him anywhere. We'd see evidence he was still in the store, but didn't see or hear him at all. After a couple hours of this, he would suddenly leap into whatever aisle we were in and just start SHRIEKING. Or laughing manically. Or literally throwing merchandise at us. Bizarrely, he tried to show up the next day, as if he were unaware of what went down.
The lead guy said that happened A LOT -- dudes just couldn't handle being locked in a silent, empty store all night. "Why'd you think we were hiring three guys at once for a 6-man crew?".
Michael Vickery 1 year ago
Heck, that would be my dream job. No customers to deal with, a quiet store, and nobody interrupting me while I do my job.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
When I worked retail, a couple of us were picked to do an overnight once a year (night before Black Friday). It was pretty cool, peaceful, we had fun until one night we saw a ghost 😁👻
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David 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah... I say no way that was just because of being locked in a large building overnight. And I assume they are not REALLY locked in . Probably more like - if they exit, alarms will sound. Seems like that would be a requirement for fire safety / medical emergency. This story screams d***s and/or preexisting mental health issues. EDIT: Thank you BP for keeping us safe from the word D-rugs. /S
JP Doyle 1 year ago
I'm glad I am fair;y stable and somewhat agoraphobic over crowds. I work midnight shift in stores and am almost always alone for an entire shift in an empty, cavernous store cleaning.I listen to a ton of unabridged audiobooks, or my own music. Let's me get a lot of singing practice in without an audience :)
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
I believe that is illegal, to lock workers in a workplace. It is a fire hazard, for one thing! I would refuse to do that.
ColdSteelRonin 1 year ago
Liminal is an adjective that’s used to describe things that exist at the threshold (or border) between one thing and another. A store is not a liminal space. A hallway is an example of a liminal space, serving as a transitory location between one destination and the next.
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#27
An exec at my company showed up on his first day (not counting orientation) high on opiates and had a 'concealed' firearm that he didn't do a very good job of concealing. Didn't even make it past 11:00 am.
DC 1 year ago
Yes, seems so. Seems stupid, too, although that wasn't explicitely mentioned, ...
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Dragon mama 1 year ago (edited)
I hope these stories finally disabuse people of the notion that the c-suite is full of men who are "better, smarter, more competent, hard-working" and all that c**p when really it's chock-o-block full of some of the smarmiest, shadiest, criminals out there. Edit: spelling. Thanks autocorrect!
DC 1 year ago
Oh my ... why does one take a firearm to work? I somewhat get why being ... calmed and happied may be understandable ... may also involve actual pain, which is, given it is chronic, pretty similar to a depression stemming from other reasons ... and also, I never want to judge people over being high at all, because that is, in and for itself, not wrong. But then again - why there? Why then?
#28
We were in a rut and desperately needed people, so my boss told me to lower my standards (commercial driving job and I had disqualified like four candidates, all warranted imo). I said fine, I'll try, and he sends me a student from our driving school (first three days are classroom, last 2 days are for driving. This man shows up. Late. No uniform (we bought him one). I ask him where his uniform is. Left it at home. I say okay, you can have someone bring it on lunch, let me see your driver's license. He says he also left that at home. I say how do you show up to be a driver on your first day, late, without your uniform and license. He says sorry, he overslept. I fired him on the spot. He cussed me out and walked away. My boss started to scold me until I told him what happened. He stopped lol.
Teresa Spanics 1 year ago
Yeah and then complains that they can't get a job.
Load More Replies... Nimues Child 1 year ago
Good call. That truck is a mobile billboard for the business and you'd have a menace behind the wheel.
Seadog 1 year ago
Boss sounds like he might've been in charge of a trucking company my son encountered....in a bad way. Another driver rear ended him. Completely destroyed the truck the idiot was driving, if it hadn't been for the fuel tanks, I wouldn't have known what I was looking at. Impact was so severe it also totaled the trailer and brand new cab my son was driving. The company at fault had just been reissued their operations permits by the state. Lost them due to excessive wrecks.
#29
Stole someone's phone while in the break room putting her stuff away to start her first shift. Right below a security camera, too.
#30
I fired someone on their first day in my department (was dept head) employee came in 30 minutes late. Did not call ahead to say there was a problem etc. I asked what happened, why were they 30 min late? Employee shrugged, sipped her travel mug of tea and said “I just couldn’t get out of bed this morning.” 😳 fired her on the spot.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
"I got good news - you do not need to bother getting our of bed tomorrow!"
#31
Trained a guy at a large liquor store, I was a department manager. Nice guy, worked hard, seemed engaged. Sent him home a little early since he was training. Tried to sneak out a handle of vodka on his way out the door, got stopped by security. My only reaction was “really, dude?”.
#32
Showed up in pajamas and when walked to the circulation desk, wrinkled her nose and said she thought she wouldn't have to actually talk to people. The position was titled circulation and customer service...
Brenda 1 year ago
Pajamas? And they STILL took her to the desk? Sounds like 2 people should be looking for employment.
TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
I'm wondering what she was wearing. Was it a night gown with a hat? Or was it sweat pants and shirt?
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
I have heard of instances when someone *has* to get a job, any job, in order to retain their state benefits. I have also heard some stories of egregious behaviour in the first week, in order to be sacked (rather than resign) so that the benefits restart.
David 1 year ago
The first part is true - been there. At one point I was on unemployment and they make you apply for X number of jobs a week and you can't turn down an offer. There were not X number of jobs in my field available to apply for each week so I had to apply to unskilled jobs as well. In my case, I took a janitorial job for a few months until I got a good IT job. As for the second part - "cheaters" would have to be careful. You can be disqualified for unemployment benefits if the reason you are unemployed is being fired for cause. I assume a more common tactic would be apply for X number of jobs - but applying for jobs you know you don't qualify for or filling out the application so badly you know they won't hire you. I didn't try to 'cheat' so I'm not sure.
Load More Replies... Hippopotamuses 1 year ago (edited)
It's hard to find any more to say in response a comment that begins with "Showed up in pyjamas"
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
"Since you don't like to talk to people, just confine yourself to "Goodbye.' "
#33
Worked at a takeout counter, was training the new guy. Constantly spilled food on his hands and fingers when filling up containers. Decided the best way to clean it off was with his mouth and tongue.. in front of customers.
Seadog 1 year ago
I dated a health inspector. Nice woman but she would've tore that idiot a new one.
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#34
Working at a fast food restaurant in my small town and a woman comes in asking for an application. she was well known around not just our town but our whole county and a couple around it for being an addict, but me and the other managers working there at the time decided we’d give her a chance. (two of us are children of addicts and she had kids, so it tugged at a sore spot. we were absolutely not going to judge that woman based on something like that, nor did we think the other businesses were right for not hiring her because of it) she comes in for her first shift and when she showed up, she brought us all food from her other job she worked at another restaurant and we’re all so happy we found such a cool staff member. she’s talkative and kind, you could tell she was definitely just a little off but hey, nobody working a dead end fast food job in a small town is ever all there, right. all is well, until she goes outside to smoke, asks if the smoke breaks are “just for cigarettes”, and then has her son (like mid 20’s) bring her a “goodie bag” so they could sit in her car and smoke. parked right in front of the camera, so we ended up catching her on camera smoking cr*ck with her son, and the real kicker is she didn’t even clock out at all. she sat out there for 20 minutes still clocked in and tried to come back in obviously geeked and didn’t see a problem with that. that was a fun call to make to the store owners to explain why she was being sent home and asked not to come back.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
Addicts are quite adept at playing on your emotions..............speaking from experience of dealing with a severe addict.
Red Reilly 1 year ago
As somone who had a bit of an issue with d***s and alchol, let me tell you, the brain can work so fast to justify and put together an excuse to anyone who raises a concern over it. It's terrfying, even to yourself. Thank you AA.
#35
He sexually harassed a female colleague who stepped into the HR office immediately. It was on camera, too. He didn't even get to unpack his brand new laptop when he was escorted out.
Pyla 1 year ago
What on earth crosses men's minds? Is their gland the only driving factor? I think too much free pron on the internet is just giving them testosterone poisoning.
David 1 year ago
It isn't "free pron". That's like saying watching Fast and the Furious and Die Hard makes men drive 100 MPH and blow up a building. The vast majority of men (and all human beings) watch whatever they want but don't run out and commit crimes IRL.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago (edited)
Hahaha! I was in charge of the print buying for the entire US operation of a well known auto glass company (think Quick): 100+ retail facilities & 37 wholesale facilities. My boss had a frat brother who had bought a local printing company & wanted to solicit our business - which was over 200k easy per year. I told boss that I had developed a great relationship with our current vendor & wasn't interested in changing. Okay, he says - just please take the meeting. Okay. Guy shows up. I was professionally dressed, but hiding a pair of DDs isn't all that easy. So we're shaking hands & saying hello & this MORON is staring at my boobs the whole time. Finally, I just cocked my head, made eye contact and said, "They don't speak, Ed". He turned purple, my boss almost laughed himself out of his chair & I terminated the meeting. We joked about THAT for years!
#36
He made it through the work day fine. Then we had a little welcome party for him after work where he proceeded to get completely wasted, walked up to our CEO and started yelling incoherently at him while poking him in the chest with his finger. CEO gently pushed him back asking him to hit out of his personal space but drunk goy staggers backwards until he hit a wall and passed out. He was terminated before he woke up.
TheOGpandaHavana 1 year ago
Right!?! Alcohol and work should NEVER go together Even after work hours. It's different if a few coworkers decide to go out together but it should not be the entire office together, including management.
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TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
I wish businesses where I live would do this. This would be very entertaining to watch
#37
We had a new tech admin start. Around noon he was headed out the back door as the police were coming in the front door. Turns out he didn’t have custody of his kids when he took them from Texas. Termination paperwork was done and approved by 12:30.
Brenda 1 year ago
Yeah, kidnapping is illegal. Take them across state lines and it's a federal offense
White Sauce Hot Sauce 1 year ago
Thank you for informing us that kidnapping is illegal.
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David Hopkins 1 year ago
It's not kidnapping. It's interference with custody. Forget the federal offense.
Debbie 1 year ago
I'm wondering, what is everyones first reaction to reading this? (I'll give two possible answers to upvote)
Debbie 1 year ago (edited)
He did so because their mother is a bad person for the kids
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New guy was hired as a courier driver. Came in for his first day, and was handed some paperwork to deliver to the nearest city about 20 minutes away. He says “I don’t drive in the city”.
That was literally the job, so he was quickly dismissed.
Pat Curran 1 year ago
Depending on the city, driving (and parking) can be a serious hassle, but damn, driving in the city is pretty much what couriers do. He didn't know that before he accepted the job?
Seadog 1 year ago
When I worked for O'Reilly Auto, our store had a counter person who was just begging to run deliveries. Sow e sent her on one. When she comes back just over an hour later from a 25 minute run we ask where she's been? Turns out she thought the only way to get from A to B and back was to go the main roads intersection. She passed 5 roads that would've shortened the drive. The worst part? She's on the rescue squad. How do you run on the squad and not know there are multiple way to get from one side of town to the other. She didn't last long. She wasn't happy in her marriage and decided working in retail would allow her to meet guys, so she was literally hitting on every guy that walked in the door. Didn't take long for the customers to start complaining about her.
#39
He got put on inventory unloading with me and we were getting all sorts of musical equipment in. He started taking all of the drum sticks that we were getting in and sharpening points on them with his knife and then trying to see if he could get one to stick into the wall (it was one of those giant pole barn type warehouses with some sort of plastic lined paper insulation). Eventually someone saw him and walked him out. .
Brenda 1 year ago
You didn't report him immediately!?! He could have seriously hurt, or killed, someone!
daking 1 year ago
He is clearly not being smart, and should be fired, but he is not killing anyone throwing a stick into a wall.
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He tried to hack the company computers and get customers' information.
Seadog 1 year ago
Employee at another store used the warranty system to get the number of a woman he assisted. When he called it never occurred to him the man answering was her husband and yes, he did ask for her and when asked what it was concerning the employee told man that he was calling to ask her out. Employee didn't last the rest of his shift as those people immediately called corporate who of course called the RM who called the DM and like a snowball rolling down hill, it hit hard when it made it to the bottom (the store).
#41
In Dallas, I saw a new bartender get fired within an hour of starting training. A group of guys paid their tab in cash. She said, "These men are from Spain, they don't tip," then pocketed $5 before giving them their change. She was asked to leave and not come back.
gilded panda 1 year ago
I dont know if racist is the right word, but it’s something like racist
Bewarethere@gmail.com 1 year ago
Actually it's not. Stop being so looking 4 things 2 be upset about. Also European countries do tip. So get a grip
#42
Technically it was the second day. I work in a steel foundry and my boss hired a guy last year. First day is orientation and my let this guy and another that was in orientation to leave early to go to Redwing and pick up some required and company paid for boots. The guy shows up the next day wearing sneakers. Says he fell asleep and didn't make it to Redwing. My boss tells him he can't be out in the plant in sneakers. This is 7am so my boss tells him to go home and when Redwing opens at 8:30 get some boots and come back. About noon he isn't back yet and isn't answering his phone. Boss calls Redwing and they say he hasn't been there. Boss tells them not give him boots if he shows up. An hour later he calls my boss saying Redwing wouldn't give him any boots. When my boss asked him why he didn't go at 8:30 like he was told he gave the same I fell asleep excuse. He was crying about how nobody will give him a chance when my boss told him he wasn't wasting anymore time with him. You were given a chance and blew it because you couldn't be bothered to pick up free work boots.
gilded panda 1 year ago
Lucky he didn’t die! Some of the machines in those factories are deadly as hell
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
I wore Red Wing shoes when I was in elementary school. Red-Wing-6...f39c26.jpg 
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
Amazing the excuses these folks come up with. And somehow they think should still have the job??
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Worked as a steward in university for the students union event team. At the end of the year we had an official ball (black tie) and unofficial campus party in our main campus. The nightclub was underground but the party overflowed across the whole area above. I worked both nights (cash and new to leadership). Night 1 this new guy turns up for his literal first shift drunk. He was stumbling and could have been mistaken for someone suffering from a concussion with how he spoke. Sent him home and said don't come back. The next day (at the black tie event) he came back for his 2nd shift. He had no idea he had been fired the night before. Needless to say we had good fun explaining the situation to him.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I hope they could actually smell alcohol, and he was genuinely drunk. Diabetic who is too low on sugar can present quite like this.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
If someone is diabetic (particularly type 1) they would be covered by disability laws in most countries, and therefore they advise the managers at hiring, because if you don't you can' hardly claim at a later date - just before being fired, for instance, as the manager can't know what he's not been told, and therefore is not expected to make reasonable adjustment.
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Duuuuuuude 1 year ago
What is a literal first shift? Is there some kind of figurative first shift?
BarkingSpider 1 year ago
I worked with a hard core drunk at a fast food job. He got sent home multiple times for being intoxicated, but the day he started yelling incoherently at the manager and hitting stuff while stumbling around was the day was asked not to come back.
#44
Dude interviewed well, showed up on his first Monday at the office... drunk as f**k! Slurring, stumbling, trying to use the coffee machine and just spewing coffee all over the floor. Security walked him out within the first hour.
Brenda 1 year ago
Some are born ignorant, others practice stupidity like there's a prize for it!
Russell Rieckenberg 1 year ago
Some are born ignorant, some achieve ignorance, some have ignorance thrust upon them.
Load More Replies... TheGoodBoi 1 year ago
Show up drunk, not able to do your job, nice. Not to mention the hangover as the day goes on...
#45
Dude started a food fight in the cafeteria on his first break. Custodian found a tuna sandwich stuffed in his locker. Was out before lunch.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
The sandwich was in the Janitor's locker? Good grief.... The janitor is not someone you want to píss off!!
Mirolfur Grafarson 1 year ago
This one is a bit too harsh. Most of the companies in country where I leave allow stuff to eat food they make at work
#46
New driver at a trucking company backed a trailer into the terminal manager's new Mercedes on his first, and last, day.
Also, after delivering his last load for the day but before returning to the yard, a trainee stopped at a truck stop, came out with a case of beer, and tried to get back into the truck with said beer. It's a violation of federal regulations to have alcohol in a commercial vehicle (unless it is the cargo being transported as part of a manifested shipment), so the trainer reported it to management and he was fired on the spot.
Brenda 1 year ago (edited)
Obviously wasn't a good driver. And I have to ask why they didn't stop on the way home?
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Convenience I suppose. I am curious whether the trainee was expected to know that it was against rules at that point. I assume so since they fired him.
Load More Replies... Seadog 1 year ago
My son got into it with a state trooper over a case of Cheerwine. Trooper insisted it was wine even though it clearly says soda on the can. Eventually the captain was summoned to the scene. He got excited when he saw the soda, he said he'd heard of it but never seen it, so my son gave him some. Offered the trooper some too but he still insisted it was wine and declined because he's on duty. The captain never could get him to understand it's soda. even while standing on the side of the highway drinking one.
#47
Turned up to work drunk. Apparently his dad came round before work to celebrate him getting a job, clearly a great role model.
Dragon mama 1 year ago
Because it costs us all so much to even consider an alternate explanation. We'd all rather hate on these total strangers like we never made seriously terrible choices in our own lives.
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Pretended he didn't have two hit-and-run accidents in the employee parking lot by claimining he didn't even own a car. He called a friend and planned to sneak his car keys out to the friend so it could be driven down the street for him to get to later. He apparently aroused suspicion that he was up to something when he asked a few of his new co-workers if there was an exit to the building that couldn't be observed from the security desk.
#49
Had a photographer not have his camera charged when a celebrity showed up and he had to make them wait while He ran back to get a new battery.
David 1 year ago
Yes, but those go hand in hand. Even for hobby photography, if the situation has me thinking about taking an extra battery, it also has me thinking about checking the charge on the battery in the camera.
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PandaGoPanda 1 year ago
Eek! I worked with a videographer who was hired to accompany a celeb on an international trip at a few hours' notice. He basically grabbed his passport and a rucksack and got on the flight. He brought underwear and one shirt, no cash, so we had to sort him out for a toothbrush, tie, money and other stuff when he arrived BUT he brought two cameras, a mike boom and 13 batteries in that rucksack. Got his priorities right for doing the job.
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
My husband is a photo hobbyist and never goes ANYWHERE without a back up. What a dumbass.
#50
Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing. He was just sitting there doing absolutely nothing for like four hours. While everyone else was working their a**e off.
Violet Radar 1 year ago
I have hours with nothing to do because my lazy coworker doesn't want to put the effort in to train me. Been here 1.5 years and still not trained on about 50% of my tasks. She finds endless excuses to "work from home" so I just keep waiting. She spends about 8-12 hours on her phone when in the office, then works OT to get her work done. I spoke with supervisor and HR and their answer was to move me to a different office. I'm happier but would still like to work instead of watching YT for hours. At least I don't have to hear her eating all the time though.
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
Waiting for training? I've seen jobs where no training is provided for skilled positions, and nothing CAN be done.
Seadog 1 year ago
Boss recently said it was my fault (former employee) didn't make it. Said employee could never be found when he was supposed to be at his desk for training. He was really good at looking busy and a pro at being unable to be found when needed. Somehow, that's my fault. Keep in mind, he was transferred from another area where he pretty much ruined everything he touched. Guess that's my fault too.
#51
In the industry I work in, there is a rumor that someone got fired before they even showed up on their first day. They were having a party with a free bar... And he apparently got so wasted he started to talk about how he wouldn't respect female leaders. I think he even managed to say to the face of a female boss(who would effectively be his boss), that he would never respect her. He was told that he didn't have to show up on the first day.
David 1 year ago
People who lose their brain with alcohol should not drink alcohol. This is a topic of many of these posts.
Tim Douglass 1 year ago
Most of the time the problem is people who think they don't lose their brains when they drink.
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#52
Working at a level 2 trauma center. New hire comes in quite giddy and wearing a mini skirt, long chains around her neck and long earrings. Breasts literally falling out of her top. High heels. She was given 3 new pairs if scrubs identifying her position by color. She didn't like them.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
Why on earth would you wear that in a hospital? So many risks of injury, infection, etc.
eric riggs 1 year ago
the way she's described, it sounds like she must have come to work directly from a night out. That sounds like clubbing attire. "giddy" might be a polite way of saying " a bit drunk" ...
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I was a foreman on a residential framing crew. New guy shows up 15 minutes late. Stands at his car and has a snack and a drink. Then he starts slow walking ( really slow!) over to the home we were building. When he finally gets there, I tell him “Just get back in your car, we can’t use you.” No way in hell we are going to carry any worthless slack-a*s on our crew. We had pride in our work. He didn’t even make a second on the payroll!
Glen Ellyn 1 year ago
Back when I worked in retail, I could tell which new hires were going to last and which were not simply by watching how they moved around the store while doing their job. The slow-walking amblers never lasted more than a few shifts. Those that moved with purpose and "on a mission" were the ones who succeeded. Let's face it - most retail work is very fast-paced and you've got to move!
Seadog 1 year ago
I've worked retail for 50+ years. People often talk about bad customers but in reality, it's often Upper management and coworkers that are the biggest problem causers.
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New hire's first day as an usher at a movie theatre. I was training them and he just vanished. Showed again a few hours later. Turns out he went and watched a whole movie, from beginning to end.
"We were slow and you said there wasn't much more to train on, and you said we can watch stuff on shift" was the excuse.
He severely misunderstood my "when it's slow, you have some free time" comments. Like man, there's more to cover and we don't just watch a whole movie. If there isn't much to do and the right folks are on shift, you can watch a few minutes here and there. As an usher, it's assumed if you're not seen, you're off doing your job somewhere (and we're on radio if needed).
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
In some ways, I don't think the guy should be fired. This is at least partly on the boss for what he said getting misinterpreted. If the guy apologized and said he misunderstood I'd be inclined to give him a week to see if he is actually ok. But I'd be keeping a better eye on him for that week.
Kiss Army 1 year ago
Agreed. I honestly don't think that some of these "unspoken perks" should be brought up until a person is trained and fully understands what their jobs actually entails.
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I work at a facility that breeds rodents for use in laboratory testing. The vast majority of our animals are used in medical research, so the biggest concern for us after animal welfare is biosecurity: we *cannot* send our customers animals that may already be infected with any kind of pathogen, because it could throw off their results. This means that the process for entering our work area (referred to as "the barrier") is...different than most places. To enter the barrier, you must first go into a locker room, strip completely naked, store your stuff in a locker, and then enter a shower stall at the end of the room. The shower stall is an interlock: is has a door into the locker room ("street side") and a door on the opposite side that opens into a dressing room inside the barrier. When you open the street side shower door, the barrier side door locks, the shower automatically turns on, and a timer starts running. The barrier door will not unlock until the timer runs out and the shower turns off. Then you are able to enter the barrier side dressing room and dress in sterile scrubs provided by the company. Other than prescription eyewear and prescription hearing aids, you are not allowed to bring *anything* through the shower with you. No cell phones, no jewelry, nothing. Any items you might need to bring inside (like prescription medication) must be approved by management and then sent inside through a chemical decontamination port. When you first get hired, you go through three days of onboarding training before you enter the barrier for the first time. The shower system and what you are and aren't allowed to bring inside with you are explained in very clear terms. Also explained in very clear terms: if you are caught bringing something through the showers that isn't eyewear or hearing aids, that is an automatic termination. No warning, no write-up, no second chance. So anyway. New guy gets hired. Goes through onboarding. Learns the list of things he can bring through the shower (his own body, eyewear, hearing aids) and the things he can't (literally *everything else*). Time for his first day in the barrier! He showers in, gets dressed, and exits the dressing room to meet the supervisor who is going to show him around. Supervisor sees that new guy is still wearing a gold chain around his neck. New guy is instructed to turn around, shower back out, and report to the front office, where he is immediately fired. Total time inside the barrier: about five minutes. The supervisor was the only person inside who even got a chance to see him.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Did everyone else miss that he went through THREE DAYS of training about the procedure and that it's explained in very clear terms that there are no exceptions. Quit trying to justify him breaking the rules!
Purple Sprinkles 1 year ago
Attention to detail is extremely important in a lab, if you can't follow basic instructions than it's not the job for you.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
In a place like that, one would think that multiple pairs of glasses would be the norm, those used inside never leaving. I would. It doesn't say contact lenses, but it's a safe guess those are also a no-go.
MaximumKarmaSaint 1 year ago (edited)
What I'm worried about is how much privacy do you get in the locker room? Surely some people can't be comfortable with just stripping down in a room, which possibly is open to all. I'm guessing not much, since they were able to see the chain.
Debbie 1 year ago
Dirt can build up between the links. I'm wondering much more if a menstrual cup or tampon would be ok to bring. Or just in general how to deal with it when on your period. (taking of clothes and getting into the shower at some days must be done almost simultaneously). Or are you not allowed in while on your period? Does the clothing on the other side include underwear? Sorry for all these mental images, I'm just trying to visualize the process. Also, would you need to wash your hair? That would be very bad for your hair to wash it that much.
Load More Replies... Purple Sprinkles 1 year ago
Jewelry is ornamental, you start allowing jewelry people start asking to leave in hair accessories, etc.
Load More Replies... #56
Had a new dude at the restaurant I work in show up 40 mins late, alright no prob it happens but later in the day when everything seemed fine and dandy my boss was about to complete putting up the new schedule with him on it and i guess in the corner of his eye he sees the new dude swigging some tequila straight from the bottle in the liquor room on our camera feed. confronted him and told him to get the f out.
#57
He kind of fired himself. Hired as the President of a live entertainment company. The owner threw a big welcome meeting in the enormous lobby. Breakfast served and the whole nine yards. Literally a million dollar salary -easy. Dude never showed. Was a running joke for years.
eric riggs 1 year ago
or died... people die all the time from random unexpected stuff... I remember seeing a news article about a google earth satellite photo revealing a car submerged in a retaining pond. Turned out that the car belonged to a woman who had "disappeared" ten years earlier. What had actually happened is that she accidentally drove off the road late at night and no one ever found her or her car because from the ground, the submerged car was completely not visible in the retaining pond. Only from directly above, could the white body of the car be seen against the darker water. Everyone had assumed that she must have run off with someone she was cheating with, or something. Nope.
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#58
I've been a manager for over a decade in the same company (retail) and I've gotten to fire some people over the years. When they're new, it's usually normal b******t - excessive call-outs, inability to do basic work, weird drama/outbursts. But I once got to fire a gal on their first day for straight-up stealing a customer's credit card and then using it to order pizza to their home address with their real name!!
One of my long-term employees called me a few hours after this new girl's first shift to let me know the owner of a stolen credit card came by the store to tell us the new girl took her credit card but that the owner got it back. Thr customer's card was missing after she visited our store and a few hours later, a order was placed to a local pizza joint, which, after the card owner explained what happened, the people at the resturant gladly gave her the address. Apparently, she went to this girl's home, demanded the card back, and she actually gave it! (The cardholder's boyfriend said she usually gets ghetto and likes to fight and was surprised she didn't whoop this new gal's a*s!) After, the customer came by the store and told us everything. We gave the customer a good gift card on the house to make up for it. Customer wasn't even really mad, just wanted us to know and to get that new hire fired.
I called this new girl and called her out and she starts sobbing on the phone, confessing through sobs, going on about her issues, etc. My favorite was, "I thought it was a gift card!" (lol whut??) I was all, "Yeaaaah, but you're not gonna work here no more." Later, when I watched our security cams, she straight swiped it with no f***s given when I turned away for a second. The WEIRDEST part was she would still come by our store ALL THE TIME after acting like we were cool AF with her LOL.
Sweet Taurus 1 year ago
My husband's ex wife embezzled a couple grand from the gas station she worked at. Not only that she also took gas, food, etc without paying for it. She did this in a town so small that gas station she worked at was THE ONLY gas station for 20 miles. After she got fired she would still go in there several times a week like it was nothing. Personally I don't think it's because she doesn't give AF, I think it's because she is too stupid to know any better.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Perhaps she continued going into that gas station because, as you said, it was the only one for 20 miles.
Load More Replies... Red Reilly 1 year ago
When I worked in retail I saw some wild reasons people got fired, the saddest was this guy who obviously had had a rubbish life, he got in an arguement with another staff member so he thought at the staff party he would bring a knife and threaten this guy. Just so stupid, he was actually a really nice guy, just made stupid decisions.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Somehow, I just can't bring myself to think someone who threatens another person with a knife is actually a really nice guy.
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PattyK 1 year ago
Got confused about who did what. Maybe more clarity next time? And what does “she usually gets ghetto” mean?
DarkViolet 1 year ago
I believe that "getting ghetto" means that the person gets very defensive and aggressive, sometimes to the point of becoming violent. Sometimes, the race card is played.
Load More Replies... Seadog 1 year ago
Knew this really cool LPA with AutoZone (auditor for those who don't know). Now as anyone who's ever been in a Zone knows, anyone of authority has their title/position on their name tag so it's no secret that (friend) was an auditor. He told us of this restaurant he'd aways visit when in the area. One month as he's reviewing his company card purchases, he sees a charge from (favorite restaurant). He checked his calendar and realized he was 4 states away on that day. Turns out the restaurant manager wrote down friends card number and had lunch on the Zone thinking they'd never notice. Seriously, he stole the CC# of an auditor and didn't think he'd notice. If anyone is going to notice, it's an auditor. If they don't then they suck at being an auditor.
Allen Scherr 1 year ago
You "got" to fire someone? Had to fire would be a better term. "Got to" sounds like you thought it was fun to fire someone.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
"Got to" is an imperative, but does not actually say the why part. There is a difference between - I've got to do X because my manager says so, and I gotta do Y because it will be the most fun in my life. But 'had to' is better grammar.
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Bear in mind, it's a quote from her boyfriend. Not the OP.
Load More Replies... #59
Worked at a full-service gas station and the guy pretended the customers ran over his foot multiple times. Not great freaking customers out before they make a purchase.
#60
Working at a burger place outside of Pittsburgh, some lady who had applied for a job at our place came in wondering why the manager wasn't there to do the interview......I informed her that he had an emergency and needed to reschedule, and apologized but she got nasty with me, saying she NEEDED a job and needed to work, and I understood, but when I excused myself to handle a situation with a customer, she got pissed at that. Manager hired her, despite my misgivings. Day 1, she began hitting up her coworkers for money. She then hit me up and then threatened me. She was immediately fired. Less than an hour in.
#61
He was training in a warehouse, and was near a bunch of bubble wrap. He popped a bunch of d**k shapes into the bubble wrap. When the supervisor came back it was a really disappointing conversation and he was walked out.
Passerby 1 year ago
This one seems rather tame compared to the other horrors I have read here.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Yeah, that seems like a reprimand and "don't do it again" would have been sufficient.
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#62
Not terribly exciting but my only one that was one shift and done. Young guy I hired to work in a small retail setting. I trained him (everything seemed promising) and then scheduled him to work with a trusted, reliable employee. After the shift, she told me he hadn't done any actual work the entire shift... He went to his car in the parking lot and in full view of the other employee, thoroughly cleaned it out. Then he came back into the store and took a nap. When I spoke to him about it, he didn't have an explanation. So that was that.
#63
In the time it took me to put up fire drill notices on each landing, he had run down the street with some interns for lunch, crushed a six pack, smashed it all over the garage floor, and slipped back into his office to hide. Since there are cameras in those areas, it didnt take long for him to just ask my boss to pretend he never showed up.
#64
She took a phone call while on the floor and continued the phone call for an hour while still working. We were kind of dumbfounded because she helped customers and kept working and would say “oh hold on” to her phone conversation to do so. But like, we can’t have someone do that, so she had to go. Was a good folder of shirts though.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
I don't think I would have fired her the first day. I would hadca talk with her that it is not appropriate to receive or make personal calls when working. Warn her if she did it again then she would be fired.
TheOGpandaHavana 1 year ago
You don't think that's obviously not okay at work, especially in a customer service job???
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Did a minor safety violation 15 minutes after starting; got pointed out by the foreman - told the foreman that NOBODY tells him how to do his job so he stormed off. Management had a go at us because they were finding it hard to get new staff :(.
#66
I was a sandwich artist at a Subway back when we were called "sandwich artists". The store I had been working at closed and I took whatever job I could find. I did the math down to the hour and knew exactly how many hours I would need to work to make rent plus have $250 for food and maybe a beer. It was on this last day that it happened. My shift was a closing one, I was scheduled until 10:45PM. My plan was to walk out and quit at 7. I did not feel bad, for the owner was a very condescending and overall bad person. She had hired this new guy named Eddie. Eddie was supposed to show up after the lunch shift for his first day of training. Eddie, though, was late. The owner called him up and he answered. She asked him where he was, and he said home. She told him he was supposed to be at the Subway. He said he forgot that was today, but he'd be right in, as he lives just a few blocks away. Fifteen minutes later Eddie walks in. He's got long hair worn long, dirty hippie clothes, and flip flops. But that's not what you noticed about Eddie. What you noticed was his eyes weren't just bloodshot, they appeared to be blood. And the reek of weed was so strong on him one would smell it when he opened the door before he stepped a foot in. The owner told him to go home, take a shower, and come back with real shoes on. Eddie left. He came back a half hour later with shoes on, yet somehow smelled even more strongly of weed. It was overpowering. It was, above all, unappetizing. The owner sent him home and told him not to come back. He asked if he was getting paid for the day, and that just made her angry. After that I felt bad and couldn't bring myself to walk out on that shift, leaving her alone in the store. I finished my shift, told her I was quit, and never went to that Subway ever again. Nor, not surprisingly, did I ever see Eddie again, though it's entirely possible that at times I had smelt him.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
This. I don't care if you smoke it, but I shouldn't be able to smell you coming a mile away. Shower before going out in public or at least use some Fabreeze! 😁
Seadog 1 year ago
I stopped eating Subway altogether when I had one of my drivers pick up a sandwich and they were out of every topping except beef, they didn't even have any mayo. But still charged full price for the sandwich. So i got some steak-um on a bun for $10. I called Subway and they said they'd have the owner call me. i told them good, I know him and he knows me. That was 2010 and I have yet to hear from him or anyone else at Subway.
David 1 year ago
Eddie deserved to be fired. But I'm not impressed with OP either. If you commit to a job, do the job. Walking off shift early with no notice is just a crappy thing to do unless there is a major reason like fear for your health / safety. I've had c**p jobs I didn't like that I quit - but I still gave proper notice because I respect myself even if I didn't respect the boss or the job.
#67
I was working in production at a local TV station, and a new guy told the morning show meteorologist that his wife thought about him when they had sex. The guy was only there like 2 hours before that happened, and he was immediately shown the door.
#68
They told the boss who had just hired them and was telling the new hire how they wanted the job done, that the boss was wrong. The new hire then proceeded to tell the boss how they were going to do job. They were there less than 2 hrs. This was a job for drafting plans.
M O'Connell 1 year ago
Even if the way they do things is profoundly caveman-levels of stupid, you do it their way for at least a couple of weeks, then offer a "suggestion for process improvement" and demonstrate the how your way might improve things. When I started at my job our process for obtaining quotes from a particular vendor was to use a courier to deliver hard copy engineering prints to them. After witnessing this full process I called the vendor and asked them if it would be possible to email them a PDF instead of sending a courier, their response was that they would STRONGLY prefer an emailed PDF. Apparently my predecessor felt that emails and faxes were the same, in that quality degraded when you sent a document that way...
Kelly Scott 1 year ago
I still remember someone who transferred in from another bank and she never wanted to follow out protocols. She was constantly saying, "Well, we did it THIS way at...". Turns out, she came from an F-audit branch. They were doing everything wrong.
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
I preferred hiring those with no experience who I could train properly. Oftentimes those with experience present this exact scenario.
Load More Replies... Lew k 1 year ago
It doesn’t matter 2 hours into any job you don’t know enough about how why they do things to decide what’s better. You might know a better way to do things but until you know why they do things the way they do just shut up and do the job. Later after you’ve proven yourself a bit you can start trying to change processes.
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Pheebs 1 year ago
Had a coworker I had to train do this. He was training to do my job (web dev, but a specific subgroup at the company) so I could focus on the new job I was transitioning to. The entire day of training, I apparently did everything wrong and he was going to show me how to do it right. He was a complete n00b - no work experience in web dev, still doing his degree. Didn’t get fired, sadly, because our manager was a d**k and we’d been butting heads for years. I was so happy to leave that job a few months later. That new hire was one of the last straws. From what I’ve been told, he never got better.
#69
A woman in her 40s and myself in my 20s were hired for a cold calling telephone desk job in an office in Mountain View CA On our first day we were introduced to the 20 people in the office. We were assigned desks. The owner disappeared (to take a phone call IIRC). I'm sitting there with no computer, no printed calling list. Just a desk and a phone. I find and open the yellow pages circa 1995 and begin calling companies to set sales / demonstration and pricing appointments. That's the job. I had done it elsewhere. The owner eventually enters the room and awakens my co-worker (with her head on her desk) the 2nd time -- and he escorts her out. He was impressed i had begun without first being issued a calling list.
Oskar vanZandt 1 year ago
Rocket surgery sounds dangerous! Certainly worse than brain science...
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He decided to see what would happen if he put a Dykem paint marker into a bearing press. Management frowned upon that.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
OMG, Dykem is great for it's intended purpose, absolutely horrible for anything else especially if you get it on your skin or clothes.
Brian Droste 1 year ago
Really my second job was at a factory that made fiberglass car parts. They had steam operated presses. I don't recall how manynthe largest press was. They had what they called stop blocks on them. But it was pretty big. I was curious what it would do to a penny. So one night I snuck a penny on one of the stop blocks. It squished the penny pretty good but not to the extent that you couldn't tell it wasn't a penny. This was after many years working there though.
#71
Worked for a trucking company. New guy...first hour.. didn't secure one of the "legs" of the trucks' shipping containers....while unloading, it tipped over with a giant KABOOM. Broken container and smashed contents. Well...it was nice working with ya.
#72
Temp wore dress shoes to a demolition site. Steel toes are a requirement. Didn’t even get through orientation. Was sent packing 20 mins after he got there.
Another Panda 1 year ago
Steel toe safety shoes are an interesting conundrum. On the one hand, they can protect your toes. On the other hand, if what hits them is too powerful, heavy, etc, they will literally slice your toes off. Ugh.
Lew k 1 year ago
If something heavy enough to crush steel toes land on your foot you were going to lose those toes anyhow. Boots are my no exception safety equipment. I’d never go on a construction site without them. They save my feet from so many small hurts I can’t even quantify it. It’s like foot armor.
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Biofish23 1 year ago
Required safety gear should really be provided by the company. A new temp might not have the money for new boots before even getting paid.
Aelin Wildfire 1 year ago
But they had money for dress shoes? 🤔 There were no other shoes (boots, sneakers, etc) that they could've worn? They didn't think to say anything when it was brought up as a job requirement?
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Boss hired a temp. In the first 20 minutes he emptied her candy jar. Like took every single piece. He then asked to take lunch at 10am and she told him not to come back.
#74
First day of training class of about 30 folks , one is a big big guy, training is in an old elementary school with bathroom stalls to size. I see guy struggling with stalls over lunch break. About an hour after lunch he poops his pants. Tries to play it off for like 10 minutes, but like dude you s**t your pants we can smell that. Gets up and leaves without a word after people complaining for a while. Still feel bad for him.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
Maybe they meant small size toilets rather than the actual cubicles?
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#75
Boss allowed worker to start desk job while his p**s test was evaluated. Test passed but the sample temperature was room temp not body temp. Obviously used someone else’s sample so he was gone before lunch.
Aelin Wildfire 1 year ago
But how do they accurately temp the sample? It cools off so fast in a little cup.... That difference could be accounted for by just a few minutes of it sitting on a counter (like maybe if the tech was new and forgot to check it right away).
#76
She was asked to do a spot sweep of the drive in parking lot. Went outside with a broom and dust pan for two minutes, she then came back inside and walked up to the general manager and held out the broom and dust pan and proclaimed “I don’t sweep”. He reached into his wallet handed her $5 and proceeded to tell her to go home and threw her paperwork in the trash.
TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 1 year ago
well, what job was it for? was sweeping in the job's description?
ILoveMySon 1 year ago
Depends on the situation. I worked at McDonald's serving customers when I was 15. The janitor didn't show up one day and I performed his duties including cleaning the restrooms and outside garbage area. We got busy and they wanted me to serve food! I quit on principle alone.
#77
Said they knew InDesign. First day on job, clearly had never even seen InDesign before.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago (edited)
A lot of places integrate the programs involved in the interview process. You have to prove you know it before they hire you. Clearly this wasn't done here, I bet it was after this though!
#78
Drank during the welcome lunch after the boss questioned if drinking at lunch was a good idea. Dude said sure not a problem.
#79
We build pipelines, it's highly skilled welding, we had a guy Makita cap (grind the ever loving p**s out of) all his finished product. Huge no no because it can effect the integrity of the pipe and brings into question everything we produce, he was fired in his first 6 hours.
David 1 year ago
I'm not a welder but I've been around pipe welding in both nuclear power plants and oil refineries. For places like that they take it very seriously. Very little grinding needed when done properly. Sometimes they do inspection X-rays after every single pass. I am an okay farm welder fixing things on our farm but that stuff is on a whole other level.
What do you think ?
Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago (edited)
Every time I see this posts I have to share my aunt. She got promoted to manager at a shoe store. First day, she emptied the register and tried to flee to Mexico. Didn't make it. Edit: The take was less than her new weekly salary.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I had a job where I made a critical mistake immediately on showing up the first day but didn't get fired. The critical mistake was showing up.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I've heard of people making critical mistakes early on, like ramming forklifts into the loading dock door, smashing a car, etc. But I don't recall anyone being fired for them. I assume they were all genuine mistakes and the workplaces have some sort of insurance to cover them.
Load More Replies... Bec 1 year ago
For some of the more ridiculous ones, you have to show that you are actively looking for employment to stay on unemployment. If you have the misfortune of getting hired, just screw around and get fired ASAP.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I was thinking the same thing. Especially for the ones like turning up to work in pajamas or just sitting at the desk not doing anything all day. They seem like deliberate, non-destructive actions that would get them fired but not in serious trouble. Perfect for getting sacked, but still staying on unemployment benefit.
Load More Replies... Donna Peluda 1 year ago
cook at local pub on his first day doing a taste test Turns up with a friend to help him. kept pouring himself beer from the tap. Argues with his friend who leaves. Served chicken wings that were still frozen, when the client complains he refused to serve him any more food. Friend returns, they pop out to smoke weed in the back garden. Peed on the flower bed, served all the burgers burnt, did lines in the kitchen, friend askes the owner to pay him directly because cook owes him money for the d***s. owner tells them to leave Cook freaks out and starts picking a fight with the guy who complained about wings saying he made him lose the job. By now the owner and other locals are throwing them out. Cook gets on his electric scooter and loses control and rams into a car smashing his face. D**g dealer friend leaves. We call the ambulance but but the time the ambulance comes he's gone, there's blood everywhere. 2 hours later the d**g dealer comes and askes to be paid....
Michael Vickery 1 year ago
You hear about people who struggle to find a job, then you read about these jokers, and you wonder.
ZGutr 1 year ago (edited)
1: New guy comes in, get a desk and stuff to read with info he needs. Two hours later, "anyone seen the new guy?" he just disappeared. He went home, we never heard of him again. 2: Same company, years later a guy -6 months on the job- does not show up. Not the next day, not the day after. Never answered calls or email (corporate as well as private). We knocked on his home door, nothing. So we blocked his phone and accounts, and filed a missing persons report at the police. Weeks later we heard he was admitted into a closed mental hospital (not by choice). felt weird for a long time.
Meagan Glaser 1 year ago
I saw someone put their head under the ice cream machine at DQ and open the tap, trying to chug soft serve. They got fired for "stealing product" but to me the mess was the problem, blech
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
My boss hired a new lawyer and the day after he started he fell off his chair, because he was to drunk to stay seated. Didn't last for more than those two days.
DaveC 1 year ago
A business coach I follow puts it simply, Hire Slowly, Fire Quickly. Take your time with interviews and trainings to make sure that person is the right fit for your business/industry. After that, if there are issues, Was there an Interview Error, Was there a Training Error or does the Applicant Really Not Want a Job? A distribution center I worked at used to say, We don't fire people, we promote them to Customer.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 1 year ago (edited)
Every time I see this posts I have to share my aunt. She got promoted to manager at a shoe store. First day, she emptied the register and tried to flee to Mexico. Didn't make it. Edit: The take was less than her new weekly salary.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I had a job where I made a critical mistake immediately on showing up the first day but didn't get fired. The critical mistake was showing up.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I've heard of people making critical mistakes early on, like ramming forklifts into the loading dock door, smashing a car, etc. But I don't recall anyone being fired for them. I assume they were all genuine mistakes and the workplaces have some sort of insurance to cover them.
Load More Replies... Bec 1 year ago
For some of the more ridiculous ones, you have to show that you are actively looking for employment to stay on unemployment. If you have the misfortune of getting hired, just screw around and get fired ASAP.
Ken Beattie 1 year ago
I was thinking the same thing. Especially for the ones like turning up to work in pajamas or just sitting at the desk not doing anything all day. They seem like deliberate, non-destructive actions that would get them fired but not in serious trouble. Perfect for getting sacked, but still staying on unemployment benefit.
Load More Replies... Donna Peluda 1 year ago
cook at local pub on his first day doing a taste test Turns up with a friend to help him. kept pouring himself beer from the tap. Argues with his friend who leaves. Served chicken wings that were still frozen, when the client complains he refused to serve him any more food. Friend returns, they pop out to smoke weed in the back garden. Peed on the flower bed, served all the burgers burnt, did lines in the kitchen, friend askes the owner to pay him directly because cook owes him money for the d***s. owner tells them to leave Cook freaks out and starts picking a fight with the guy who complained about wings saying he made him lose the job. By now the owner and other locals are throwing them out. Cook gets on his electric scooter and loses control and rams into a car smashing his face. D**g dealer friend leaves. We call the ambulance but but the time the ambulance comes he's gone, there's blood everywhere. 2 hours later the d**g dealer comes and askes to be paid....
Michael Vickery 1 year ago
You hear about people who struggle to find a job, then you read about these jokers, and you wonder.
ZGutr 1 year ago (edited)
1: New guy comes in, get a desk and stuff to read with info he needs. Two hours later, "anyone seen the new guy?" he just disappeared. He went home, we never heard of him again. 2: Same company, years later a guy -6 months on the job- does not show up. Not the next day, not the day after. Never answered calls or email (corporate as well as private). We knocked on his home door, nothing. So we blocked his phone and accounts, and filed a missing persons report at the police. Weeks later we heard he was admitted into a closed mental hospital (not by choice). felt weird for a long time.
Meagan Glaser 1 year ago
I saw someone put their head under the ice cream machine at DQ and open the tap, trying to chug soft serve. They got fired for "stealing product" but to me the mess was the problem, blech
Danish Susanne 1 year ago
My boss hired a new lawyer and the day after he started he fell off his chair, because he was to drunk to stay seated. Didn't last for more than those two days.
DaveC 1 year ago
A business coach I follow puts it simply, Hire Slowly, Fire Quickly. Take your time with interviews and trainings to make sure that person is the right fit for your business/industry. After that, if there are issues, Was there an Interview Error, Was there a Training Error or does the Applicant Really Not Want a Job? A distribution center I worked at used to say, We don't fire people, we promote them to Customer.
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