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30 Legit, Wild Or Weird Reasons People Got Fired From Their Jobs, As Shared In This Online Group
Employment – love it or loathe it, it is a necessity that takes over our lives, and it just so happens that sometimes we have no other choice but to endure it.
Not everybody has the luxury of loving their job. Some folks were unfortunate enough to get positions in toxic work environments, where they have to deal with the unethical approaches of their management; others might have learned that the field they chose is not their cup of tea, yet quitting on the spot is not something they can afford to do.
That said, things are not always going to go according to plan, but today we are going to focus on one of the most unpleasant parts of being employed: dismissal.
“What’s the worst reason someone got fired from your job?” – this online user turned to one of Reddit’s most informative communities to find out some of the worst reasons why people have gotten laid off. The post has managed to receive 825 upvotes and 993 comments containing crazy but entertaining stories.
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#1
I used to work with a super nice old man who had been at that company for 30 years, and he was getting to retire at the end of 2016.
He was 5 minutes late one day because he tripped and hurt his shin. He got fired.
The story had a happy ending though. He sued the pants off the company, won a s**t ton of money and got a lot of the corrupt upper management fired, including the CFO.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago (edited)
Fired for being 5 minutes late one day? Sounds like they were just looking for a reason to get rid of him.
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
lots of companies do this, especially if they have a defined benefits retirement plan. Firing him means they can deny him retirement benefits.
Trisha Howson 3 years ago
If you are both to retire some places will look to anything to fire you to keep money or so you can't get your money ect.
Tim Douglass 3 years ago
One of the unnoticed benefits of IRA-type retirement plans instead of company pensions is that they remove the company's incentive to fire workers just before they can claim their pension.
Nikki Angulo 3 years ago
They didn't want to pay for his retirement or pension plan! Good for him for getting what he was owed!
Tammie Braggs 3 years ago
There is a grocery store chain in California who are well known for doing this.
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#2
A husband and wife both worked in the same building. The security guys notice some shenanigans going on in their car in the parking lot of the course of several days.
HR gets a call, reviews the tape, and sure enough, they're having sexy time in the parking lot after lunch.
HR calls them in and basically says, "hey, you guys, this is no big deal, but could you guys not have sex in the parking lot? Somebody might see, and that would be bad."
The husband acts bewildered, and claims he doesn't know what HR is talking about, so they go to the tape. Sure enough, it's the wife and *her supervisor* going to town in the couple's car.
The husband goes nuts, and demands that heads roll. Wife and her supervisor are fired that day.
#3
For having a criminal record. From a crime he committed 30 years ago. He was 50, had a rough childhood and had just managed to get his life back together. He had worked for this company for close to two year and was by far the hardest worker in that factory, he would output at least twice as much product per day as the next best person. He took time off to get married and regional management enacted a blanket rule and the branch management said nothing. I learned a hard lesson that day, companies have no loyalty towards their employees.
He went on to work for their competitors two blocks away and was given a pay rise so at least it worked out ok for him.
Araminta 3 years ago
Yeah, like are we talking wife beating and murder or like stealing bread?
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Lily bloom 3 years ago
I knew a guy that worked for a company for 8 years. His apartment burned down and they offered him assistance through a program for people going through hard times. Apparently this triggered a background check that was not done when he was hired. He had a felony from 20+ years prior that he did his time for and didn't get in trouble since. He was denied help and fired
Al Christensen 3 years ago
Most companies are more loyal to their equipment than to the people who operate it.
Matthew Fox 3 years ago
For having a record. They enacted the rule while he was off on vacation and they didn't bother to tell him.
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#4
Guy was fired for stealing from the register. We were all surprised since he was well liked, and a hard worker. Few months later I was helping the manager clean behind the cash wrap. When we got to the register that employee used most often and popped out the cash drawer we found a handful of 20s behind it. Turned out that bills were getting caught and dragged behind the till.
WordWeaver 3 years ago
And ... did he get an apology? So his reason for dismissal could be straightened out?
Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Probably not. I bet the company just said "oops" and hired someone else.
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ThisIsMe 3 years ago
Something similar happened at a gym I go to. I don't remember exact details, but register was short - a one-time occurrence. No one would confess, so by default it was the shift managers fault and she was fired, even though management said they didn't believe she took the money. She was great and everyone was devastated - a few quit. A short time later the cash tray was removed from the register, and the missing money was discovered. No apology, no offer to return to work, no nothing. More people quit. That woman had worked there for years and had everything running like clockwork - it has never been the same since. Lots of turnover, people who don't care about doing a good job.
Lily bloom 3 years ago
No one thought to remove the drawer entirely to check for this? That is the first thing done when money is missing everywhere I've ever worked
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
When I worked in sales, at our store, you took out the whole drawer in the evening to put it in the safe, so you'd have noticed right away with 20s. Only problem was the mini safe for bigger notes, which worked with a spring that would crumple up the notes when it was too full, so I spend half an hour one evening trying to get at two stuck 50s. They were still using the same thing a year later when I left.
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Microwaved Robot 3 years ago
This happened once at one of my Hotels. Staff in question was not fired until I researched every way possible that the money could have been missing. I believed in them. Found the money under the drawer. Lots of bills come in on a shift, sometimes they, somehow (I do not know how), get under the drawer. I never reported to Corporate. I took care of my Staff and they, in turn, did everything they could to help me. Bless them.
Kitty Jordan 3 years ago
Similar thing happened to me, though I wasn't fired. My till was counted and came up short by quite a bit. I was flummoxed and they genuinely thought I had stolen money, which I hadn't. Come to find out, they had failed to count the till for the cashier before me, and she had shoved some twenties under the tray because the system was down briefly and she meant to enter them in later when it was back up. I was still mad at being accused.
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
I call BS on this one. I've worked as a cashier at multiple stores, and your cash drawer is always popped at the end of your shift so your input and output can be balanced. Had the bills been getting dragged behind the drawer, it would have been discovered at the end of his shift, not months later.
Andrew Wildman 3 years ago
Yeah, your cash drawer is popped, but I've worked places where that's a plastic insert that comes out. If it got stuck behind the physical metal drawer, that's different.
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This guy at my old job had a crush on another one of our coworkers. It was really obvious, and as time went on it got more and more intense and uncomfortable. It got to the point where she started having panic attacks at work whenever they were on shift together, so she approached management and asked if she could not be rostered on with him anymore.
Management agreed and everything was fine for a while. The guy was a little depressed because he mysteriously never got to work with his crush anymore, but we thought it was good for him because he seemed to have dialled it back a bit and wasn't so obsessive. Unfortunately we were wrong, because when it somehow got back to him that she had requested to not work with him anymore he went f*****g crazy.
He made a fake Instagram account in her name, adding all her coworkers and stealing pictures from her Facebook and uploading them with awful captions that contained super racist and f****d up s**t-shaming language. It was so awful. Then he posted a picture of the CEO of the company and wrote a long, insulting, ranting caption, tagged said CEO, as well as a bunch of people from upper and middle management.
Happily, no one ever for one second thought it was a real Instagram account as it was so obviously a revenge driven smear campaign. The main suspect was also pretty obvious. He was very quickly fired, and also banned from ever coming into the building again.
Lizzy Crit 3 years ago
Police can't do a thing until AFTER he's committed a crime. Lobby your representatives to make stalking a crime.
Load More Replies... Deborah 3 years ago
Police!?!?!?? Behaviour like this only escalates. Hea not suddenly going to get well without serious help. You can't let people like this get away with it.
CrunChewy McSandybutt 3 years ago
What law did he break? Police can't do anything about a *potentially* dangerous person, and cyberbullying isn't a crime in a lot of places.
Load More Replies... Meg Curry 3 years ago
This reminds me of something that happened in my town. A 16 year old girl felt uncomfortable working with this 20-something at Walgreens who had a thing for her. Management responded by putting them on different shifts. A year later, still a minor mind you, she asked for more hours and told her "If you want more hours, you're going to have to work with the man that has a gross crush on you and makes you uncomfortable (I'm obviously paraphrasing)." The guy ended up brutally murdering her in the break room at Walgreens after she rejected him again and he learned she had a boyfriend.
Meg Curry 3 years ago
Google "Walgreens Riley Whitelaw" if you guys want to read about it or think I'm overexaggerating.
Load More Replies... Ozymandias73 3 years ago
Good thing she DIDN'T go out with him! YIKES! Imagine had she gotten into a relationship with him and she made him upset. Ugh.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
Gee. Wonder why women don't like him? He probably doesn't wonder that about himself though, because guys like this don't see anything wrong with their behavior.
Terry Tobias 3 years ago
Management should have kept their mouths shut after the woman asked for a change in the schedule.That it was at her request should never have gotten out.
#6
I worked at a phone store. When I was hired they very clearly stated that client privacy is super important. The guy i was hired to replace had been fired on the spot because he had sold a contract to a client, thought the girl was pretty and later that evening called her to ask her out. I'd say that's such a massive breach of privacy he deserved to get fired over it.
#7
A client's wife made a scene that one of our receptionists was sending her husband nudes. She came with printouts. Was fired that day. I've never seen a woman so hell-bent on destroying another.
Sa Ruuu 3 years ago
I mean... she had a good reason to?? Husband is s**t too but like also don't get it on with a married person and not expect any repercussions
Local foodie 3 years ago
It was never stated that the husband was an adulterer, just that a receptionist tried to get with him
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Bubs623 3 years ago
Why do people get mad at the 'other person' and not the person who actually owes them fidelity? Get mad at your SO who is cheating, not the other party. So bizarre
Bubs623 3 years ago
Edit: if it was unsolicited, an understandable reaction. But he should have shut it down immediately or told his boss/ HR right away.
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Dunno if it's the worst, but it's certainly the dumbest.
Small late-stage start-up. Small U.S. staff. Me (account management, tech support), CFO, CEO. CEO is doing sales, but CFO (who is new) recommends we hire someone for that. So we do.
Guy was a trainwreck. Regularly low-key racist. Frequently made comments about "the gay agenda," and how it was okay for him to use homophobic slurs because he had a gay friend. Once laid into me in front of the CEO and CFO when I refused to lie to a prospective client about the viability of our product for their situation, and was shocked when the COs backed me instead of him.
But Sales Guy didn't get fired for any of that. No.
He got fired because, on a trade show trip, he shared a cab back to the hotel with me and the CFO. On the way, a but tipsy from dinner, he suggested we head to a strip club or get some prostitutes. CFO and I decline. So Sales Guy whips out his phone, finds a girl on Craig's List, and calls her up. *Haggles* with her for the rest of the cab ride. Talks her down in price, and gives her the name of the hotel.
Next morning, we're back on the trade show floor with the CEO. And Sales Guy starts openly complaining that the prostitute never showed. Called her all kinds of names, too.
That, he was fired for as soon as we got back to the office.
#9
Many years ago, when I was working at a Wall Street bank...
Dude got drunk at the office Christmas party, and knocked one of his female coworkers out cold. He had no memory of this. Monday AM he calls security because his badge doesn't work. They come down with a box containing his personal items, and hand it to him with a letter from legal stating that he'll be arrested if he ever shows up on their premises again.
WordWeaver 3 years ago
Ruthless move - I doubt that it was because of concern for the female co worker.
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Ozymandias73 3 years ago
I'm wondering what the rest of the story was. Why did he punch her? Was their an altercation beforehand? Like....what provoked him to do so? Investigation at all? So many questions.
Dre Mosley 3 years ago (edited)
This is why I'm really cautious when it comes to company functions that serve alcohol. One or two drinks and I'm done.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
That should be the policy at any company function, and nobody should ever consciously drink until they have a black out. It's disgusting how celebrated binge culture is.
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Our cart dude was a racist a*****e who always tried to provoke (usually random) people into fighting him. He'd accidentally knock displays over and then say "I ain't cleanin' that up." and walk away.
Management tried to fire him several times but, for whatever reason, the Union always stepped in to protect him. He was *finally* fired and escorted off the premises after he threatened to kill the floral manager because she complained that he was bothering her.
WordWeaver 3 years ago
"Bothering her" means what? Is that management speak for sexual harassment?
#11
Okay this is going to sound crazy but it JUST happened to me like an hour or two ago.
I'm training with a work at home call center right now and we use a zoom like program to communicate and like we typically mute our mics when we're not actively talking. So we are in kind of a just back from break lul before we got started and someone forgot to remute thier mic and like we could hear her talking to her husband (which is a nono because you're technically supposed to be in a room alone because credit info)
So we hear them talking and we're like "Yoooo mic check."
And then she said it y'all.
She said the n word. Not with a soft a, it was a hard r. A really hard r.
She was fired by the end of the hour.
#12
Sleeping on the job.
The kicker is, he was doing it every day, but nobody important noticed. But then they talked about his performance and how he needed to get more done, he said that he cant, cause he needed his mid day nap.
Glenn Schroeder 3 years ago
One of my wife's coworkers got fired because she posted an ad for her side business in the local newspaper, and gave her work number for people to call.
Alphabet Soupy 3 years ago
A bully I used to work with ran her side business (party planning) while at work, answered her phone during meetings, all of that, and nothing happened. Depends who you know I’m the company =(
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Igor914624 3 years ago
I work in IT. I had a co-worker that brought his military sleeping bag in on the weekend and stashed it under the raised floor in the computer room. He would then go into the computer room and pull up the floor tile, crawl into the sleeping bag and pull the tile in over top of himself. He got caught because the CIO gave a tour of the computer room to the CFO and CEO, and they heard him snoring.
#13
The person was lying about doing their job. When we go to locations we have to get the signature of the person in charge on logs and submit them daily. Apparently this person was just walking into places, getting the signature of some random employee or just putting fake names, then immediately walked out without doing the job. They would hang out in their vehicle (work cars have GPS trackers) for the amount of time they said they were there on the inspection and repeat. Got away with it for months.
Only way anyone found out was one of the places called called complaining they hadn't gotten an inspection all year. Supervisors pulled logs and went to the places and verified that the person had not done any of their work.
#14
Guy at a big retailer drank a bottle of wine in his car during his break and then returned to work. He got the wine sleepies, and decided it was a good idea to nap in one of the display beds in the furniture dept. that probably would have been bad enough, but the thing is…. Nobody noticed him there. Security locked and armed the building and everyone went home. Fast forward to 3am and the alarms are going off and security was called in for an intruder. He had woken up and started wandering through the store. Security and cops just let him leave. Fast forward again until 8am and I (then the loss prevention manager) get called upstairs because the managers found a pair of shoes at the foot of a slept in bed. Which was also soaked through with urine. $4k in damages and the most awkward conversation later, he denied being drunk and almost got to keep his job on a technicality.
Powerful Katrinka 3 years ago
I hope that he ended getting help for his alcohol abuse disorder.
#15
She had head lice so bad they were laying eggs in her hair and inside her eye sockets. She refused to stay home and get medical attention and eventually had to be terminated because she kept coming to work and causing the rest of the line to be quarantined and tested, disrupting production on 4 different occasions.
WordWeaver 3 years ago
Why? In this day and age of easily accomplished personal hygiene? Sounds like a mental health problem in play there. Hope she got help.
Strings 3 years ago
Lice are not a hygiene problem. They actually prefer clean heads
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mongo 3 years ago
Perhaps poster meant eyelash or eyebrow lice. As in lice somewhere around the eyes.
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LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago (edited)
WHAT?! My head is itchy now and I'm hoping it was a mistake buy EYE SOCKETS?! I'm going to go take a shower now.
Robin Roper 3 years ago
Sadly, head lice is becoming resistant to many of the common treatments - shampoos, etc. It can be very difficult to treat.
Signe Manat Hansen 3 years ago
Why the hell would they be in her eye sockets?😆lice have nothing to do there
#16
We had the new-years party (alcohol involved) and a guy started hitting on a big boss HR, who came to visit our country from the headquarters during that period of time. She tactically rejected him, but he started talking s**t about her and.. wait for it...then he f*****g threatened her lmao
Dre Mosley 3 years ago
If you resort to insults and threats after being turned down, you have a problem.
Donkey boi 3 years ago
I had the opposite before. Back when I worked for a big corporate company. Big Christmas party at our London office, Head of HR (from the office in the Atlanta in the US) tells me to follow her somewhere quiet so I could hear he moan as she [long, detailed description of what she wanted]. I told her I was spoken for and she told me she would have me fired if I didn't. Well, what could I do??? I told her where there was a small meeting room, said to go get ready and I'd follow in a few minutes. I decided that that was probably the best time to ask the head honcho CEO if he'd ever had a tour of the London office, he hadn't, but 'would love to have a private tour while the staff are all in the auditorium'. Now to be fair to her, she did look fantastic in her lingerie as we walked into the room, but the look on her face....
April Stephens 3 years ago
Good story. In case anyone reading this is wondering, I think they may have meant "tactfully" and not "tactically." ☺️
Caroline Starr 3 years ago
My daughter called me from her work at a hotel that the duty manager had fired
Caroline Starr 3 years ago
her for a bit of banter with a guest. The next day HR called her in (I went with her for support, as she was allowed someone-UK) and it transpired that this was a favourite trick of his with young women, and he'd been moved from another hotel in the group for the same thing. 3 weeks later he got drunk at the management Christmas party, slapped the area manager on the butt and tried to kiss her. He was escorted off the premises.
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#17
I'm a Director at a zoo here.
More people than you might think (mostly interns and one or two full-time hires) have been fired for being unable or unwilling to deal with the stench/foulness of the job.
Erik Ivan 3 years ago
No surprise at all. Handling animals is very much a question on how handle the poo. The larger the animal, the more of the brown stuff is comming out the behind.
jburgh 3 years ago
As we dog owners say “Big dog, big log.” I can’t imagine cleaning up after an elephant
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SkekVi 3 years ago
I never understand people who say they wanna work with critters and then get Shocked Pikachu Face at the idea of cleaning up poop and such. Have you never taken care of even a pet before? Like dang son.
foofoofloofy 3 years ago (edited)
I work at a barn. Last summer, this girl who was like 15 got a job there. First thing she said when I was showing her the ropes was "is there something I can do where I, like, don't haul s**t around?" Girl. I think she just saw those TikToks of the kids on ranches and was just like "hey, that sounds fun". She wasn't ready to actually do anything at all.
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WordWeaver 3 years ago
Can confirm. Have seen one poop and it was ... memorable.
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Kim Kermes 3 years ago
Management mistake by not giving a real life behind the scenes tour. I know there are safety and insurance concerns, but there's got to be some way to introduce them to the stench.
Lenka Smetanová 3 years ago
I've heard a lot of workers from zoo... its not th animals or their poo that drived them out.... it was the people above them who felt superior and behave like that because of those new ones, who just 'cleaned poo".
Patti Vance 3 years ago
worked at a zoo during college and, yes, there is poo and pee that has to be cleaned. anyone who works at such a place is an idiot if they thing they will not be doing such things. the only thing i refused to do was to work in the bear enclosure after i consistently discovered the gate that separated me and the bears while cleaning was not being properly closed. because of how a bear can use it's paws it could easily lift that gate. they may be big but they can be stealthy. more than once i turned and saw one looking at me through the gate and didn't realize it was there. wasn't fired for it but there was a meeting regarding safety practices which the keeper displayed graphic photos of bear attacks.
#18
Mechanic of 32 years got fired for disabling the RF entry card readers on the back side of the warehouse, so he could throw parties in it after warehouse hours, nobody batted an eye until they mistakenly invited the plant manager to it.
Microwaved Robot 3 years ago
Not the same but...I lived in a Mobile Home Park and ALWAYS invited the Park Managers to my Parties...LOL
#19
One woman got long covid and a note from her doctor saying she couldn't come into the office for some respiratory sensitivity thing (we have all worked from home for two years and are now coming back full time). Bosses said she had to come in. They can't fire her for being sick, so they wrote her up for insubordination because she was using too much bold font in her emails and it came across as rude. They are now firing her because she has a record of insubordination.
Mrs S 3 years ago
Two sides, don't forget. Watched a completely incompetent assistant bully 5 managers into just putting up with her 3 Morning breaks, extra long lunches and at !east 2 breaks after lunch. That's just the surface. They tried to fire her but she would scream discrimination and the spineless HR dept just caved. The moral of the story is that her side of this tale is very likely to be somewhat different from the reality. People can be very difficult to fire.
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Debra Z 3 years ago
Sounds like an EEOC complaint and then a civil lawsuit for wrongful termination.
Sue User 3 years ago
If she can prove she used bold before she got sick, she may have a case. I say " may" because winning against corporation is so hard.
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dude at work was a known theif, just hadnt been caught by the supervisors. one day hes walking out with some zipties sticking out of his lunch box and an engineer walking by asked if he paid for those, dude said no. then engineer brought it up to his supervisor in a meeting and they fired the theif right then.
it was fantastic. dude lost a damn good $30+ hr welding job, with all the benefits, over $10 worth of zipties.
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
I'm just flabbergasted by this one: he made good money so he didn't need to steal, but regardless, zip ties?! What do you need zip ties for so badly that you can't pay for them?! And then the part I'm completely baffled by, how he didn't even bother being stealthy about it!
Pink kitty 3 years ago
At the supermarket (grocery store) I used to work at a guy who' had been with the company 11 years got fired for stealing a $1.97 (birthday?) card for his mother.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
I get it, but not because of mmorpg's, but because I've watched Star Wars: Rouge One
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#21
Social worker here.....one lady was fired for falsifying case notes.....said she was "pre-documenting" her work.
SkekVi 3 years ago
this is terrifying. I'm so worried are all her clients she was screwing over okay??? The amount of power social workers have and the amount of screwing people over they do by just not giving a $%&* about their clients... and those clients can't get restitution, most times!! Glad she was fired but horrendously scary that she exists.
April Miller 3 years ago
Just as terrifying is that social workers “coach” clients so they’ll qualify for SSDI, even though they’re capable of working like the rest of us. Guy can ride his motorcycle all weekend, but can’t sit/stand a few hours daily to hold a job? Lady can’t wait a block without stopping, but she can smoke and go to Walmart? Screw that. Our system is a joke.
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Had a Physio years ago, who would walk around a nursing unit, and stand at the door of a room, say hi to a patient make them wiggle about in their chair or bed. To top it off would write a long winded assessment on the patients function and strength, then assign the patient to the Assistant Therapist. It was in no way professional or safe and it caused a lot of frustration on our rehab team. She’s been gone for years but we we coined the term “Drive by assessment” after her. Now a days we will often legitimately need to quickly poke our head into a room to to see if a patient is in their hospital room and agreeable to start (Actual) Physio. The PT/OT will often say “Oh hey can the TA’s do a quick drive by to see who’s ready to go for physio on the unit?”
Brandi Delph 3 years ago (edited)
I'm pretty sure a pair of my foster kids had a caseworker like that. She visited my home ONCE in the 6 months they were with me and that was for the mandated, scheduled, every 4 months home walkthrough. Edited for typos that I caught 5 seconds after posting
Robin Roper 3 years ago
Very creative invention of a concept and term to call it. I think I'll turn in a time card with 40 extra "pre-worked" hours.
#22
He was in bad financial straits, and had debt collectors harassing him at work. We had a department-shared phone line, so about five or six of us would randomly get calls intended for him.
He got fired because we couldn't get work done under those circumstances. But you know, he couldn't pay back his debts if he was harassed out of his paycheck.
Tim Granger 3 years ago (edited)
If you inform a debt collector not to call you at work, the next call is harassment and a violation of the FDCPA, which results in fines that can be paid to you.
Memere 3 years ago
Debt collectors can't contact you before 8 a.m. or after 9 p.m., unless you agree to it. They also can't contact you at work if you tell them you're not allowed to get calls there.
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ZeroCapacity 3 years ago
That right there is the whole problem in this country. How can a person get out of debt if you harrass them constantly and they're fired for it? Makes a s**t ton of sense to me.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)
Simple. Because. They. Do. NOT. Give. A. S**t. Pay them. Borrow from family and friends. Find a lab that will pay you to give blood/plasma. Sell/p**n your belongings. Sell a kidney. Sell your body. They don’t care as long as you pay up. It’s f*****g abusive.
Load More Replies... begging for ham 3 years ago (edited)
I hate it when it happened to me. like dude, it's not even my debt, why were you harassing and swearing at me?
Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
I was getting calls for two years on my new phone because the person who had the number before me had some debt collectors after me. Had to do a cease and desist as well as find proof it was nolonger her number before they quit calling me constantly.
Load More Replies... Sue User 3 years ago
Us has that too. If you cant pay court fees / fines then you do time. There is one town where ( iirc ) about 50% of the population have been fined.
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#23
She couldn't count. She was a cashier.
Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago
I remember working with a girl—-a junior in college—-who would routinely count the dimes in her till and get a grand total with a 5 on the end of it.
April Caron 3 years ago (edited)
I worked as a grocery store cashier throughout college, back in the days before cash registers automatically told you how much charge to give back. We routinely had calculators at every register, but I never needed one. I used to calculate a customer’s change by “counting up”… a concept which confused the heck out of one of my coworkers, who depended on her calculator. During slow times, she’d say, “Teach me.” She was determined to learn. And eventually she caught on and was able to abandon her calculator. There is hope for some people. :) (“Counting up” example: A purchase totals $7.08. The customer hands you a $10 bill. You start w/the 8¢. 2 more pennies equals 10¢. Add a dime to get to 20¢. A nickel to get to 25¢. 3 quarters to get to an even $1. Since you started with $7… now you have $8. 2 more $1 bills equals $10. Which is the amount the customer gave you. You’ve just “counted up.” Their change is $2.92 or 2 pennies, 1 nickel, 1 dime, 3 quarters, and two $1 bills.)
Midoribird Aoi 3 years ago
Well, I do this but am never able to explain it concisely. It is automatic, and I never have to do much calculating.
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begging for ham 3 years ago
may be she just nervous. it happened to me if I got nervous, my mind goes blank
Enigma wrapped in a paradox 3 years ago
I was training a new sales associate on closing out the cash register. After she counted the pennies she used her calculator to figure out how much it came to. A couple days later the assistant manager caught her sitting on the floor (against the rules) while on her phone (also against the rules) pretending to fold the clothes on the bottom of the table she was sitting in front of. Had she ever bothered to come back she would have been fired.
Jackie Lulu 3 years ago
Once I had to teach the cashier at a fast food restaurant how to make change.
Manny_Flawz 3 years ago
When I worked in retail, I had customers who were surprised when they saw that I could count change in my head.
#24
My brother was hired at a bakery, as a baker. He got fired his first day cuz he couldn't decorate a cake
Araminta 3 years ago
I mean, shouldn't they teach that? Or did he lie about being a skilled frosting artist?
Rod 3 years ago
A baker's job is to make bread, not cakes. This is the job of a pastry chef.
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#25
Neighbor’s babysitter got fired because she left the kids (3 kids under 10) alone in the house when she was scheduled to leave. Apparently she thought the Dad was still upstairs and she got paid weekly so she didn’t have any reason to talk to him after she had put all the kids to bed. But Dad had left and the Mom was late coming home. The Mom about had a heart attack. I could hear her yelling from my house.
Edit: counts for the prompt because I also babysat for them occasionally
Sa Ruuu 3 years ago
I guess to be fair if the norm when the dad was there was for her to just leave, then it makes sense. But then again, if it was the norm, it's weird the dad wouldn't mention he'd be gone as well
Tony Pott 3 years ago
You don't just leave kids without handing over to someone: if she thought the dad was upstairs, she should have gone up to say 'I'm leaving now' so he knew he was in charge. Had she done that, she'd have found out he was gone.
Load More Replies... John Smith 3 years ago
Honestly not her problem. Parents should have contacted her. Your failure to schedule does not constitute an emergency on my side.
Hugh Crawford 3 years ago
So... They dad couldn't take care of the kids? (I mean in general, not that specific occasion)
Cashme Outside 3 years ago
Could be a work from home situation where he needs to not be bothered during his working hours.
Load More Replies... Gini Sarver 3 years ago
i wonder how many of ppl call & request their final paycheck in the required 24 hour limit companies have ((federal law here in US))
#26
Stole a ton of money from our workplace
We worked at a gas station and he would incorrectly count the money in the till and pocket the rest. Also would delete security footage off the computer. Took a long time for them to figure out it was him. There was a warrant out for his arrest after and I'm not sure what happened after that. What's crazy is he was always super nice and you would never suspect him of it.
Bec 3 years ago
Receptionist at the Dr.'s office my aunt managed was not ringing up people who paid cash and pocketing the $. Even after setting up a 'sting' and recording it, the police said there wasn't enough evidence to press charges. They fired her, then her family was threatening my aunt. This woman had pulled the same at her previous job but for legal reasons you can't say too much when you call for a reference.
Wintermute 3 years ago
Years ago there was a night clerk at a local gas station that would always give us free stuff. He'd say it was overstock, or damaged or something. Roll in one day for beer and the guy is gone. Ask where he was. Got arrested for giving away over $10k worth of stuff. Nobody knows why. I'd like to think of it as a Robin Hood for beer and cigarettes kind of thing, but honestly I think he was just stupid.
Gini Sarver 3 years ago
my first job was a cashier in a convience store, i , myself and a like mom friend of mine were abruptly transferred ne morning ((my 1st day out of training)) because the store manager that morning opened the store, well unlocked it anyway ((left it that way)), then emptied the safe and left…. i mean did she really think no one would notice? 🤦🏻♀️ 🤷🏻♀️ understand some ppl out there
#27
Waked in on a guy chugging from a fifth of Smirnoff in the break room at the movie theater we worked at. He told me he had drank a bit more than half of it. I didn’t rat on him but I didn’t really have to after he vomited in the concession booth…
Doug Buse 3 years ago
I worked new construction in the desert when I was younger. We hired a new laborer one day and after an hour or two no one could find him. We had outdoor porta potties to use as bathrooms, but no one used them because they could get to 150° and weren't not well maintained. At morning break someone went to use one and the new laborer was sitting in there with a needle in his arm. He had overdosed, not to death, but to incoherence and had sat in there for 2 hours passed out. He was immediately fired and kicked off the job site. This was at 10:00 in the morning. At 3:00 when everyone left he was lying just outside the fence under a tree. Someone yelled at him to make sure he was still alive and he lifted up his head so he was. He wasn't there the next morning so he must have got up to the left. It was about as disgusting as anything I have ever seen on a job site.
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She was drinking on the job. Would frequent a local bar/restraunt every day on her lunch. The owner went for lunch one day and saw her belligerent at the bar. Instantly fired, packing her office by the time lunch was over.
#29
scammers called and asked for $2k, she pulled it outta the safe and handed it to them no questions asked
Bi-Polar Express 3 years ago
She pulled it out of the safe and handed it to them through the phone?
Cobalt.spike 3 years ago
In some dialects of British English saying someone "called" can mean they visited in person. It's a bit old fashioned, by my grandmother used to say "x friend called today" meaning they stopped by the house in person. Or it could be nonsense. It's the internet after all.
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Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
After a stroke my stepmother fell for a couple scams. I think they were both computer virus scams? The first one wanted paid in gift cards, which seems to scream red flags, but the second they asked for access to her laptop and told her to put a blanket or towel over the monitor because the repair process makes "dangerous uv rays shoot out of it". -.- seriously.... she believed them....
Pink kitty 3 years ago
Wow! Dangerous uv rays? What a strange thing for them to have told her
Load More Replies... SkekVi 3 years ago
I really gotta wonder how someone like that is raised. Like??? How do you survive walking around without an ounce of critical thinking skills...
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago (edited)
I had a coworker fall for a scam (a guy coming in asking for payment for the window cleaning our franchise store had had a week before, which she didn't know was paid for already). She was one of the most senior workers there, and usually was quite smart and knew all the procedures. However, the guy came in at one of the busiest times of the day, on the busiest day, and she was under pressure because it was only her and me at the time, our coworker being on her break. I'm sure he planned it that way. Walked away with 400€ in cash.
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Back when I was 21, I got fired from the green apron coffee company because I was drinking during the overnight shifts when we were drive thru only. Fair's fair.
From my current company, I've seen two people fired for six-figure overruns on projects. One was due to the person not really understanding any of the technical details of what they were managing, but they'd gotten by for years on having really good technical staff underneath them so they only had to do admin. The other was supposedly a senior subject matter expert but burned through over $100k of project budget to fill in a 3-tab worksheet that should have taken 2 weeks tops... and none of it was even correct.
In both cases there were some obvious issues with higher up leadership as well that let those situations get to that point, but no one came out a winner.
A Thousand Years Wide 3 years ago
Drinking coffee on the overnight shift makes sense to me? Didn't specify if coffee or alcohol...
Taylor Carroll 3 years ago (edited)
Usually "drinking" with no additional terms indicates alcohol, at least in my understanding of the term and local colloquialism. Also, if it *was* booze, damn right he should have been fired. Someone not in full control of themselves could not pay attention and give regular milk to a customer with a severe allergy. He deserved it.
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Benita Valdez 3 years ago
All I got is a waitress was fired for credit card fraud. She would steal card info and use them to buy stuff. Not sure how long she did it or how much she stole but she was very bold and stole enough for the fbi to contact the manage since our restaurant was the common factor with all the credit fraud.
Joshua Moon 3 years ago
Had to walk a guy out at work for going to the bathroom and coming back to the fabrication shop smelling of beer. Talk to the guy about it and he offers me a beer from a six pack he had stashed in the tank of a toilet in the bathroom.
Dippin Dot 3 years ago
“Stealing company time” - I didn’t write down that I took 5 minutes extra for lunch because I came in 5 minutes early but wrote down my scheduled starting time… they refused to pay overtime, even a minute. But it’s also illegal for me to work off the clock, which I did often. I’m pretty sure this was their way of getting rid of the person who, the previous week, uncovered they were knowingly coding things wrong to not pay taxes, which is also illegal. It was not long after the whole company went belly-up because they couldn’t pay their bills. The CFO (owners son) had multiple sets of books he was cooking.
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 3 years ago
Big company where my ex works fired about 10 guys at once for watching porn on company time/computers. They all got called up to the office then walked out of the plant past the glassed in cafeteria , to their cars. Walk of shame with a big audience.
Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
A guy my hubby works with showed a girl porn on his phone during work. She reported him and he got a "red flag" (aka, not even a slap on the wrist). Other sexual harassment issues with him as well, but the investigation board in Alabama decided he gets to keep his job. Currently he just got out of jail, but is on presonal leave. AKA, my hubby and the other team lead are screwed having to do their jobs and his because he can't be fired while on leave. And apperantly he can apply for leave for up to 3 months. All this could have been avoided if they'd fired him when he showed what a sleeze bag he was.
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Pam 3 years ago
There was this guy who worked with me and he was really enjoying his newly single life. So he would leave the office on Friday, go to the pub, sleep in his car in the office garage, do it again on Saturday and Sunday. No problems there. Then we found out he was using the office toilet to clean himself during this time. He was not even supposed to have a key! Then he was fired.
Memere 3 years ago
That's actually very sad. You'd think he could have gotten a gym membership & used the showers there!
Load More Replies... Al Christensen 3 years ago (edited)
I worked at a small successful company and the owner was a nice guy, generous, good boss, but he had a delicate ego. One day, in a meeting, one of my coworkers started insulting the boss, calling him stupid and incompetent and a load of other stuff. He was fired on the spot. I learned afterward the coworker did it because he wanted to get fired. He wanted to start his own business and needed the severance pay he wouldn't have received if he had quit.
Curry on... 3 years ago (edited)
I hired a guy to teach seniors how to use computers. He was so happy, he celebrated all weekend, then couldn't pass the drug test. Never started working. Too bad too, 'cause I really thought he'd be good at the job.
Angeline Shalyn 3 years ago
I got fired from my job at a cleaning company because I got Covid 19, and by the time my 2 weeks was over and told my boss I was able to come back to work she goes "Sorry I already replaced you with someone else"
The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Ever had a coworker that illegally charge a patient for a service that should be free. The amount is same with my monthly wage. That guy only stay with us for a month..
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure they were using any excuse to fire people because they either hired on more than they could afford or just hired many people under the pretense that it was a permanent position just so they had extra labor to set up the store, but my dumbest reason for being fired was while I was handing out samples, they didn't like that my free hand was on my waist while I was holding a tray. They seemed to hire about twice as many people than they needed so I honestly just think they were looking for excuses to fire people after two weeks. Place didn't last long.
Benita Valdez 3 years ago
All I got is a waitress was fired for credit card fraud. She would steal card info and use them to buy stuff. Not sure how long she did it or how much she stole but she was very bold and stole enough for the fbi to contact the manage since our restaurant was the common factor with all the credit fraud.
Joshua Moon 3 years ago
Had to walk a guy out at work for going to the bathroom and coming back to the fabrication shop smelling of beer. Talk to the guy about it and he offers me a beer from a six pack he had stashed in the tank of a toilet in the bathroom.
Dippin Dot 3 years ago
“Stealing company time” - I didn’t write down that I took 5 minutes extra for lunch because I came in 5 minutes early but wrote down my scheduled starting time… they refused to pay overtime, even a minute. But it’s also illegal for me to work off the clock, which I did often. I’m pretty sure this was their way of getting rid of the person who, the previous week, uncovered they were knowingly coding things wrong to not pay taxes, which is also illegal. It was not long after the whole company went belly-up because they couldn’t pay their bills. The CFO (owners son) had multiple sets of books he was cooking.
The Queen Of Upper Butt Crack 3 years ago
Big company where my ex works fired about 10 guys at once for watching porn on company time/computers. They all got called up to the office then walked out of the plant past the glassed in cafeteria , to their cars. Walk of shame with a big audience.
Alicia GriffonLady 3 years ago
A guy my hubby works with showed a girl porn on his phone during work. She reported him and he got a "red flag" (aka, not even a slap on the wrist). Other sexual harassment issues with him as well, but the investigation board in Alabama decided he gets to keep his job. Currently he just got out of jail, but is on presonal leave. AKA, my hubby and the other team lead are screwed having to do their jobs and his because he can't be fired while on leave. And apperantly he can apply for leave for up to 3 months. All this could have been avoided if they'd fired him when he showed what a sleeze bag he was.
Load More Replies... Pam 3 years ago
There was this guy who worked with me and he was really enjoying his newly single life. So he would leave the office on Friday, go to the pub, sleep in his car in the office garage, do it again on Saturday and Sunday. No problems there. Then we found out he was using the office toilet to clean himself during this time. He was not even supposed to have a key! Then he was fired.
Memere 3 years ago
That's actually very sad. You'd think he could have gotten a gym membership & used the showers there!
Load More Replies... Al Christensen 3 years ago (edited)
I worked at a small successful company and the owner was a nice guy, generous, good boss, but he had a delicate ego. One day, in a meeting, one of my coworkers started insulting the boss, calling him stupid and incompetent and a load of other stuff. He was fired on the spot. I learned afterward the coworker did it because he wanted to get fired. He wanted to start his own business and needed the severance pay he wouldn't have received if he had quit.
Curry on... 3 years ago (edited)
I hired a guy to teach seniors how to use computers. He was so happy, he celebrated all weekend, then couldn't pass the drug test. Never started working. Too bad too, 'cause I really thought he'd be good at the job.
Angeline Shalyn 3 years ago
I got fired from my job at a cleaning company because I got Covid 19, and by the time my 2 weeks was over and told my boss I was able to come back to work she goes "Sorry I already replaced you with someone else"
The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Ever had a coworker that illegally charge a patient for a service that should be free. The amount is same with my monthly wage. That guy only stay with us for a month..
LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
I'm pretty sure they were using any excuse to fire people because they either hired on more than they could afford or just hired many people under the pretense that it was a permanent position just so they had extra labor to set up the store, but my dumbest reason for being fired was while I was handing out samples, they didn't like that my free hand was on my waist while I was holding a tray. They seemed to hire about twice as many people than they needed so I honestly just think they were looking for excuses to fire people after two weeks. Place didn't last long.
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