People Are Sharing 50 Wild, Funny, And Absurd Reasons They’ve Gotten In Trouble At Work

Cheers! That's marvelous!

Good Job! Gossips and liars need to be accountable for the damage they cause!

You were STILL fired? What is that?

good on yer ... bullies like a scapegoat

Hope they had to pay costs too.!!

A woman collapsed at work clutching her stomach. I had previously been the floor first aider and decided she required an ambulance. She was taken away and it subsequently transpired she had appendicitis. Next morning I got a call to see my boss, who proceeded to bawl me out for not contacting the named first aider. I tried to explain that it was just after office hours, I didn't know if they were in the building, I was a fully trained first aider and the obvious thing was to call an ambulance. I was told I'd over stepped the mark and the aider was upset not to be able to use her training! I apologised and said I'm sorry I thought the woman's life was a bit more important and walked out.

The mind boggles

I hope after she was back she gave you the credit you deserved for saving a life!

Only 'cos the school wanted their No in the news so they could say it was their quick thinking that saved her.. Scum bag of a school.

You should always use the proper phone line when saving a life!

More than 20 years ago I worked for a chain of bakeries in the UK. It was very unsociable hours but as a perk I also lived in a property above the shop. As I was the last to leave one of my tasks was bin the out of date breads. cakes, pastries etc and record the waste, (I'm sure there was another name for it but can't quite remember). It was a very clear rule and condition of employment that everything that should be binned. The reason for this policy was to prevent theft. I'll leave it to your imagination if I ever bought a loaf of bread when I lived there. I mentioned how long ago it was because I'm pretty sure many of these establishments donate to hunger/poverty charities now because of the absurdity of people starving and throwing away food.

Something similar happened to me. I worked at Subway. When we worked a full shift, we got a footlong. We could eat it, take it home, or whatever. One day, I planned to eat half and take half home. It was a hot sub so I only put veggies on the side I was gonna eat right away. Then I put some lettuce and olives in a cookie bag for the other half. I was fired for "stealing a bag of vegetables." Then the owner screwed around with my last check by not having it with everyone else's. He said I had to meet and get it from him. He no showed on me three times!!! I had to threaten to get the state involved. I ended up getting my check more than a week late and wasted gas driving out there repeatedly.

How is it theft if it was garbage?

Paying not even livable wages while sucking up billions I bet. This company sounds awful

Wow, sounds about right! Lets fire this extremely poor employee instead of maybe offering them a raise after seeing the lengths they will go to have some food.

How dare you not plan your aneurism properly and with such a lack of consideration for your colleagues(!).

Currently happening to me right now. The last two months I've been taking all of my PTO because I had to take my 1 year old to doctor to find out what was going on with him. He kept getting worse and worse so my performance dropped. I get a call from HR to meet with my boss and he assured me it was nothing bad. We have out meeting 2 hours later and my boss informed me that I was terminated because my situation at home was dropping my performance. So boss leaves and HR stays to tell me the HR portion of the termination. He actually says listen it is a good thing that you are terminated because now you can focus on your son all the time, but also proceed to tell me that all the PTO I took was for the rest of the year and that it would be discounted from my last paycheck, when rent is due. I received $500 from my $2700 check, and that I was lucky I was getting paid that money at all. So same day I found out my son has a brain tumor. So now I am in the brink of being homeless without a job

Hope u left that toxic place!!

Had a pulmonary embolism. Lucky to be alive. It happened at work, so they knew how serious it was. Was told no work, no NOTHING for three weeks (dr wanted four). I was "forced" back to work in 10 days. Had a second PE. This time I insisted on staying out a month, per doctor's orders. Was fired the day I returned. They caused the second PE, as far as I am concerned. I was so very sick though. I didn't have the energy to fight them. I keep hoping I'll see the company go bankrupt. They won't. Evil effers.

me: asking for the day of my best friend's funeral off! she was hit by a drunk driver and beheaded while laying in the back seat of the car

Even back then, they would have been in hot water if you had reported them for it.

"You're the boss! Be a good example and show us how to find it the way you want! "

If management at McDonalds in the UK don't they know how to call The Army Bomb Squad? 999 for Police who can relay detaiils, they stupid. Fire all of them Preferably from a canon, they may understand a tad more then!

Night shift in a nursing home. I saw smoke coming from the ceiling. Called 911. Firemen said it was a gear or something going bad in an ac fan. Maintenance supervisor said that I should have just gotten a ladder and looked in the ceiling to see what was going on since it wasn't a real emergency. My husband, the electrician, "DON'T YOU EVER GET A LADDER AND LOOK INTO ANYTHING!! YOU CALL 911!!" I love him. Maintenance supervisor was fired shortly after.

Let the "managers" get re-gruntled going in to look for it!! FFS!!!

original sin - stealing apples

Forbidden fruit and angry nuns. Best apples ever, I bet!

When I was small (I was, I really was!*), I was walking home from school cutting across St Margaret's School parking lot, and a phalanx of nuns in the full habit advanced on me like tanks. Small me fled hastily in terror. * Not small now: 6'6" - 198 cm.

OP, you’re my new hero.

3 Hail Mary's for each apple.

Next time his kid is around get within ear shot of him, get on your phone and pretend to talk to a buddy how the $10,000 computer u custom built just arrived and you can't wait to get on. Cost your double bag boss some real momey.

"Boss, if I really had that much control of your parental decisions, I would never have let you have children in the first place."

Was he mad cuz yo made his brain look small too?

This is one of many reasons I do not like rich people. I not talking about well.off, but rich. I don't understand why people look up to these twatwaffles, and how society acts like they are so amazing. The vast majority got wealthy by exploiting the poor, screwing over people, giving the bare minimum, and treating people and employees like garbage. They are not good people. And don't come at me with a list of multimillionaire and billionaires that 'do all sorts of philanthropic work'. That is complete BS. They only do it for the tax write offs. I am sorry, not sorry, but if you could single handedly end world hunger, and you instead make penis rockets to space to compete with other horrible people making their own penis rockets to space, and you don't pay your employees a livable wage, decent benefits and God forbide actual bathroom breaks, you are a horrible human being and what I would picture Satan would be like. F**k you!

Was told to park my car far away from the entrance because ‘it’s old and creates a bad company image’. I’m disabled and was basically told not to use the disabled parking bays until I got a better looking car.