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Here Are 30 Of The Most Humiliating Ways People Ever Got Fired, As Shared By Folks In This Online Group
To survive, people have to contribute to society, i.e. have to have a job. So losing it might be really scary as your livelihood depends on it. A lot of the times you may think that it was unfair and feel unappreciated for the skills and knowledge you offered to your employer.
Being fired might be expected or come out of the blue, but it’s always unpleasant and redditors shared the worst way to get fired after preshowerpoop asked them, “What is the worst way you or someone you know has been ‘fired’ from a job?”
There were some wild and bizarre stories that showed just how much companies don’t care about their workers or how weird employees can be. Let us know if you have any of your own experiences in the comments!
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#1
I got fired because my boss f****d up and blamed it on me.
I started my own business in the same field and made all key people leave my former employer and work for me instead. A year later they had to file for bankruptcy.
Ah, the malicious delight.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
Posted on Reddit 5 years ago. Stop trying to talk to people on the wrong site.
Load More Replies... MorgothBauglir 3 years ago
Free markets. Bad businesses get punished, and the good ones succeed.
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
Got fired once after co-worker who wanted my job lied about me. ! month after i was fired she got caught lying to a Major customer and still tried to blame it on me. Didn't work. I got rehired a previous salary same day they let her go!
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Should send the old boss a job offer without telling them it's you just to see their face when they show up for the job interview.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It was posted on Reddit 5 years ago. They're not going to see this.
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Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
Might have been poor phrasing for "offered former employer's key people much better opportunities they were pleased to accept", or similar.
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#2
I worked in retail and our manager fired a guy after his 12 hour shift on Black Friday. Could've spent the day after thanksgiving with his family, but instead, the manager made him work in case it was busy, then fired him at the end of his shift. It was a douche move.
karin s. 3 years ago
A former collegue once called me as she had been offered to return to her job. She had been working there for some years. When her project was finished, she was turned out. Then they had a new project and asked her to return on probation for some weeks which was total s**t as they knew that she could do the job perfectly. It sounded fishy to her and she was not suprised at all as I told her that I had the impression they only needed her to finish something and then would let her go again. During my working life, I heard so many lies of employers that I wonder if telling the truth is something only for naifs like me.
#3
My dad told me once about a coworker getting fired on take your daughter to work day. It was before lunch too so they both had to be escorted out of the office carrying their brown paper lunch bags.
TheReader19 3 years ago
I very much doubt that he decided to take his daughter to work on take your daughter to work day without permission
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One capable IT employee was in the hospital due to an unexpected health emergency. They went to the hospital and fired him before his heart surgery. I s**t you not.
Lorena Hamilton 3 years ago
What the F*** was so important to GO TO THE HOSPITAL and stress the guy out before a heart surgery??!!
Puter Prsn 3 years ago
That isn't legal in the US. You can't fire someone who is on sick leave, expected or not.
#5
i was fired from petsmart for reasons i can no longer remember. immediately after the manager delivered the news, she asked me if i would mind staying for two hours to wait until the evening shift relief arrived. unpaid, of course. i laughed in her face and left.
clairelise@pacific.net 3 years ago
I was fired from a small town grocery store because my boss had a rule about women not adressing her husband (he owned the store) and I needed information so I asked him ( he obliged) and she saw and followed me into the walkin cooler, fired me and then continued to scream and cuss at me until she had white foam around her lips and I was crying. Then she said, "stop crying." I couldn't and she said, "leave out the back. I don't want anyone to think I made you cry." So I left out the front, through the whole store, openly crying, and waited, crying, on the steps until my ride showed up a few minutes later.
Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
"Excuse me? You just got done telling me I am not an employee, so you think I'd want to help you out? Also, wonder what company legal would say about you demanding unpaid labor from someone who doesn't even work here, so would not be covered by insurance if something bad happened?"
#6
I worked at a Chiropractic office once. One if the girls found out she was being fired when she was on Craigslist looking for other jobs and found her job posted for another X-ray technician. She came to work pissed and stripped off her scrubs in front everyone and walked out in her undies. My hero.
Larissa Smith 3 years ago
Well then it was a perfect situation, wasn't it? The feelings were mutual.
#7
Not quite fired yet, but today 3 of us publicly confronted our boss over proof of her committing fraud and embezzlement. The organization serves people with mental health conditions and we confronted her during a public meeting in front of those the organization serves.
It was painful, we hated doing it, but the truth needed to come out.
Wandaluzt 3 years ago
It was posted on Reddit 5 years ago. They won't see this.
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Phil Boswell 3 years ago
This was in 2017, two of the whistle-blowers drove evidence to the state capitol to report the problem, last update says they were banned from the premises pending investigation
#8
Was fired 3 days after my kid was born for missing time because I requested the weekend that my ex was in labour off, got the go ahead from my supervisor but I guess that never made it upstairs to the top boss because they got rid of me lol.
Emma Starr 3 years ago
Terrible! My husband was fired three days after his mother died. They waited the three days to be 'nice'.
readingthequibbler 3 years ago (edited)
They fired my dad the day before we were supposed to move. He was already in Georgia, everyone else was in Michigan. We get a call abd sas told us they fired him. Still moved. Left a lot behind at grandmas, who we lived with. Important stuff got stolen by horrible relatives. People are assholes. So sorry for you and your husbands loss. May grieving become a little easier everyday, until you only see happy memories.
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Sue Denham 3 years ago
What country is this where they can seemingly fire people at whim? Where I live certain procedures have to be followed before you can fire someone unless they are on a three month (from beginning employment) trial period.
DC 3 years ago
lol? You nuts? That's not lol, that's awful, and firing people too easily is a sign that the company or managers suck, and the legal environment lacks development. Workers have rights. Join a union, make your voice heard, and ... there IS strength in numbers - use it for you and everyone in your place!
#9
Being the top dog of the FBI and finding out over CNN
Nikki Hilton 3 years ago
And then be expected to pay for his return flight from California because no access to the government transportation since he's not FBI anymore.
#10
I had a friend who worked in an office doing office type s**t. One day, his boss croaked and he was was made interim boss. Anyways, he busted his a*s in order to try and keep his new position. A month later, he interviewed. A week later, his boss called him into the office and said.... *You know, we really wanted to hire you, I was rooting for you, but someone with more experience and qualifications got the job..... do you mind training him?*
They asked him to train his replacement.
VodkaInMySweetTea 3 years ago
My husband had to do this. Got rejected for a top position he was already filling in for, but they expected him to keep doing it until they hired someone else. And then expected him to train his replacement and happily go back to his old job. He did it because he needed the income while he searched for a new job. Finally found a better job and left. New guy ran the place into the ground. It no longer exists. Would love to revel in "I told you so", but it was an amazing non-profit that helped a lot of people. We were both really proud of the work he'd done, and really are just heartbroken.
Maggi Morgan 3 years ago
I would have said hell to the no no no then give them a double back flip of the bird!🖕
#11
Girl I knew was here on work visa. She had been working at a company for several years that treated her well but ended up moving and got a job at a new one. Her boss apparently used her as a scapegoat, set her up with impossible, b******t tasks (like planning the office Christmas party about a week beforehand), then fired her shortly before Christmas. That meant her work visa expired and she was going to be sent back to her home country. Apparently it's the law that the employer in this case pay for the fired employee's plane ride home, and her boss chose to fly her out on Christmas.
#12
I got notice while on holiday. The day before I was supposed to fly back.
I ended up just not getting the plane back and living in holiday city with a new job <2 weeks later, so it didn't all end badly.
Hypoxia Smurf 3 years ago
When my uncle, a mid-level exec with a mid-size phone company, returned from a vacation, he found his name gone from routing slips and his office door. A note on that door told him to see the senior secretary, who handed him a fat envelope and said, "You've been retired. Bye now." Cold, cold...
yellowphantom 3 years ago
I worked for a company that took all the employees on a cruise to the Caribbean. One night, the top execs had a company-wide meeting and told us they were closing down operations in all but their home state and the rest of us were fired. It was a lot of us, which made it less humiliating, but still.
#13
I posted this in an askreddit thread about a week ago, but it fits this thread perfectly:
When I was in my early 20s, I was about 9 months into a job at a retail store and I had been working my a*s off for a chance to be part of a new department that the store was about to open. I aced my review and I got the promotion to the brand new department. It was going to be more challenging work, it came with a pretty hefty pay bump, I would have my own office, and the work would be impactful to the whole company.
The promotion didn't kick in until the start of the next week. I was laid off that Friday. When they were asked to cut payroll, management literally selected the people who were making the most money. My name was listed next to the salary I hadn't yet received. Instead of admitting that they f****d up and keeping their best performing employee at that store, they doubled down and tried to hold my last paycheck ransom until I trained my replacement in the job that I hadn't even done yet.
The store owner just happened to be around that day. Normally he was a very kind man and knew everyone by name. I tried to explain the ridiculous situation to him and he just told me to go home. In a rare moment of frustration, I said something to the effect of "You know, b******t like this kills stores". He coldly replied "Hastings will be around longer than you."
AcrylicMasquerade 3 years ago
If this Hastings is referring to Hastings Entertainment, then they were a company that was founded in Amarillo in 1968. They went defunct in 2016. Depending on when this person was in their 20s, they could have dodged a much larger than they'd thought bullet here.
#14
Not me but a very close friend that was working with me at the time.
His shift started at 11pm, mine started at Midnight, and we were both given transportation from door to door, meaning, pick up at your house, drop off at the very office, every day.
My friend was picked up on time and brought to the office as usual, 15min before his shift started. He was fired on the very spot, for some errors he had made, that in my opinion shouldn't be grounds to fire him but for a warning and coaching, but whatever, they were clauses in our original hiring contract, so, it wasn't appealed. Now comes the bad part.
In my country, the last buses run at 11PM for most areas, and even earlier in some others, and he lived two cities away, and while firing him, they also revoked his access to the building and the business center where the building was located, and was escorted out, with no way to get home.
And of course they wouldn't provide transportation, as he was no longer an employee, and neither could he wait outside for the buses or even his scheduled morning transport, since by firing him, the system automatically removed him from the travel routes.
Couldn't they fire him at the end of his shift, or at least call him and let him know so he would have got to work on his bike? Or at least, not showed up to work that day and come in the next morning, when there are transportation options and then do the paperwork. It was awful.
Kelzbelz79 3 years ago
Shocking, they could of and should of told him before hand, not let him in.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Could've and should've, or could have and should have, never OF in that context...
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Kim Lorton 3 years ago
Cheap and cowardly! Their Karma will meet them With bells on their feet! And they will bo so sorry for being the d***s they were!!
#15
I know someone who went to his company mailbox and found a paycheck. It was stamped "TERM CHECK". He went to his manager and asked about it. She said "Oh. About that. You were fired..."
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
Because their bonus checks are bigger, is how they justify it!
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#16
I was working 20 ft up a ladder on the side of a house. I hear a BB gun fire and the pellet hit the wall a few feet beside me. After a couple more of these I turn around tell the fat kid standing in the yard if he does that s**t again he better be able to out run my hammer. Mom starts screaming about me threatening her kid. 15 minutes later I'm unemployed.
Jp@nda 3 years ago (edited)
I'm sorry but every person on here that says this guy deserves it is an idiot and you deserve to be on a ladder while being shot at with a BB gun, it's not a freaking nerf foam pellet it's a small metal pellet that can kill small animals and take out an eye, pierce skin, and make you fall off of a ladder. That kid, his boss, and the parent are all āssholes. The only thing he did wrong was threaten him with a hammer, i would've given him one warning and then called the cops on the little psycho
Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
Should of just yelled at him to stop but maybe not mentioned the hammer unless he didn’t stop.
Pizzagirl 91 3 years ago
Should've or should have for fox' sake! What's so difficult about that?
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The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
Yes, cursing at a customer in the middle of the store where other customers can hear will generally get you fired, even if you are in the right.
Jp@nda 3 years ago
Pretty sure this guy was working outside on the side of someone's house and a kid in the yard was sitting at him with a BB gun, not in a store
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NerdyMom 3 years ago
You threatened a child with physical violence and are surprised you got fired??? The kids was in the wrong for shooting, but you should've handled this better (i.e. confronting the parent)
Jp@nda 3 years ago
I'm sorry, you really just wrote " the kids was in the wrong for shooting but you should've handled this better"... TF??!! No when I'm being shot at my first thought I'd how should i handle this rationally, not MAKE IT FREAKING STOP. smmfh
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This one resonates to me as I was let go three weeks ago. So story time:
I was hired at a company back in October by a woman whom I consider the ebst boss I ever had. Awesome person, kick as marketer, we are still friends to this day. Anyway, at the end of December before we go on a New Year Break, she tells us she is leaving for a much better company. I don't blame her, the company is awesome.
Now when we get back, I instantly inherit all of her work and basically become a Director of Marketing without the title. I proceed to bust my a*s to pick up all the new duties, make sure everything is attended to, and try to make a case for being the replacement. Well the VP goes ahead and does interviews, we meet with some candidates, ultimately they hire the one who was my last choice of the four. I didn't like her. She was just off...anyway, I take it in stride and just go back to doing my job well.
For the next three weeks I proceed to continue doing all of the work I was doing before she arrived, and then some, while teaching her the business and how we did things. Well three weeks ago today I come into the office, go about my routine, and then get pulled into an office where I see HR. I instantly feel sick to my stomach. She then proceeds to terminate my position due to "budget" and I am let go. No severance, no real explanation, nothing.
So basically I manned a department for nearly four months, trained the new Director, and was then laid off by her three weeks into her tenure. Oh, and I found out she quickly replaced me with a friend she had worked with at four other companies. Needless to say it sucked and I was livid.
Amy S 3 years ago
The more I read these stories and the more I look back on my work life - I'm now retired - I realize that giving most jobs your life is a huge mistake. Granted, some professions such as doctors, nurses, and others - pretty much require that level of dedication. But most office jobs are full of c**p. The bosses and managers are full of c**p. That thing you did that got you some accolades? Nobody will remember it 1 year from now and everyone involved will have moved on to other jobs. Never volunteer for anything at a job. Never "do the right thing" to look good to management. They don't give a c**p. Go...do your job...do it the best you are able for the time you are there, then leave at the end of your shift. And always start looking for your next job.
#18
Told my boss I had a 2 week mandatory training block coming up with my reserves unit. Got told there's no way I'm not working during that 2 weeks. Told him it's not like I have a choice. Got fired.
Milady Blue 3 years ago
That is a VERY nice lawsuit your boss just handed you. It is against Federal Law, I believe, to try to deny an armed services member the time off for their reserve tiem. It is also illegal to fire them for that reason.
Strings 3 years ago
It very much is illegal. Soldiers and Sailors Act: talk to your unit JAG officer
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#19
Friend of mine helped secure a BIG contract for the company he was working for. An incentive for getting contracts is you get a percentage of the profit. He *Just* started working there about 2 months prior and went out own his own several states away to talk to a potential customer from a lead he got at a convention (Basically, "Oh yeah I have a buddy who's looking into that. You should meet him") in person out of his own pocket. He secured the deal, called his supervisor to tell him, was congratulated, then drove 12 hours back home. His payout would have come out to around $40,000 over 5 years Went into work the next day and was fired for "suspicion of theft" and the boss of the division (not the supervisor, that guy is lower) would be taking over all his current stuff. He lawyerd up immediately but since he was still on his probationary period and they could fire him without cause nothing but the finders fee (around $3000) was to be paid to him. Basically his boss tossed him to get some free money.
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
Very foolish - most companies know that a good salesperson is the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
Should of called the client and told him to go with someone else due to your bosses unethical behavior. Im sure the client would of.
#20
It's a long story, but I was early in my career. I wasn't fired for a good reason and I hadn't really stood up for myself yet. I just took abuse from management and did the best I could
It was my GM's birthday, and we all had to pick names out of a hat, and we had to buy them a cake etc for their birthday. Well I had the GM, who wanted to do his birthday in the morning with bagels.
So I picked up 30+ bagels, cream cheese, giant thing of coffee, and we had this stupid bagel birthday thing or whatever
Half hour later I get back to my desk, I'm called to HR and I was fired. Oh and thanks for the bagels
Rick Hoppenbrouwer 3 years ago
Cold day in hell before I would buy my boss Birthday s**t of any kind.
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
Guess he wanted the Frosted Bagels with sprinkles! Sorry for the BS on you part!
#21
Ex Public Accountant Here - In '09 one of the firms in my city laid off about 30 percent of its staff without warning a week after busy season (IE these poor accountants just worked 80-100 hour weeks with no days off for the last 2-3 months for an annual 50k salary).
I would have literally taken off my bosses high heel and tried to stab her in the jugular, Happy Gilmore style, if she would have pulled that s**t on me.
RoseAnne Hutchence 3 years ago
Would make more sense for seasonal accountants to work on a contract basis and bill the company accordingly.
DeoManus Argentem 3 years ago
Illegal in the US, unless a very small firm (fewer than 100 employees) since the 1980's! But I know accounting firms can be both tiny or enormous - if theirs' qualifies could be a great payday! (Need 60 days notice for layoffs over 50 people)
#22
My mom worked for a small medical practice that was fast on its way to bankruptcy. Her boss gave her a promotion without raise and over the course of the next year, made her fire her coworkers one by one. She came to realize the reason she was "promoted" was so her boss could make her do the firing while he avoided everyone. Her coworkers saw what was happening, but still drifted away from their friendships with my mom as they saw her as an accomplice with the boss. The stress of firing her peers and feeling completely isolated at work was really eating away at my mom right up until the day her boss fired her, too.
I'm sure there's worse ways to get canned, but my mom is a sweet woman who hadn't yet learned to speak up for herself and I'm disgusted at the lack of character and integrity her boss had.
Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
Your mom should of not taken the promotion especially since it didn’t pay more. That’s not a real promotion just a shifting of duty.
#23
My first job ever was for Baskin Robbins when I was 15. I went in for my first day of training excited to finally be making pocket money!
The owner made me try to memorize the ice cream flavours in the first 30 seconds of being there. When I was unable to recite them perfectly in their order he did this big hand motion and screamed "training over!"
I laugh now but man that was crushing for a nervous teenager.
Ian Webling 3 years ago
At times like this you shout: 'What! You're firing me for reporting a cockroach infestation!'
#24
I was in a wreck on New Year's Day of 2009. A drunk driver hit me, injuring my leg up really badly. The driver didn't have insurance, their tags were fake, and their license was suspended at the time of the accident, so I was f****d. I couldn't walk and my job was being a soda merchandiser, so I was on my feet all day long. After reporting this to my employer, they told me to concentrate on getting well and to report back to management after seeing the doctor after a week or two of rehab.
My doctor stated I may have to have surgery and wanted to run some tests, so I called my boss after an appointment. While I was being rolled out of the waiting room in a wheelchair, my boss fired me over the phone.
#25
Once when I worked in an office, they told us that we had to visit "corporate" for a presentation about sexual harassment in the office. We were broken in to groups to go on different days. Monday - Thursday, the groups got a video on harassment. The Friday group got fired en mass. The whole thing was a set up.
Rhyme Like A Lime 3 years ago
That is strange, why go through the trouble of arranging everything if it was just to fire people?
Susan Reid Smith 3 years ago
There may have been some required ethics training required, so it was easy to do it this way.
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#26
Headed out with family to celebrate at a Christmas Eve service, phone dinged because I inadvertently got copied on an email from my boss to an office assistant, directing her to draft up a letter terminating me "for cause", starting with the "unsatisfactory" job I did painting the entire new office on my own time when I started the job as an associate attorney one year prior. I immediately called him to ask "WTF?", He responded that he couldn't talk because he was in a church service with his family.
#27
On night shift a coworker comes in and tries to log into the computer system. It doesn't work. She's locked out of everything. She'd also had trouble clocking in. The night shift supervisor is off that night. This lady starts freaking out and crying. She says she knew they were looking for a reason to fire her. When were they planning on telling her? What is she suppose to do now? Despite multiple people reassuring her that if they were going to fire her, this is not the way they would do it and suggesting there might just be a mistake, she is still determined that she's been fired and they forgot to tell her before they cut her access. She goes home and doesn't come in the next night either. She won't answer calls, and is out for the rest of the next week.
Turn's out they hadn't fired her, but they had been looking for a reason to fire her. Not calling and not showing up for work was enough of a reason, so then she really was fired.
#28
I worked at a place that was sold to investors, they brought in a hotshot CEO to bump up the numbers, then sold to our major competitor. During the transition, about 20 people were let go in one day. The head of HR (M) and the other HR employee (F) spent all day at it. It wasn't easy, since a lot of the employees had been there since the early days, 15+ years. There were tears, some shouting, the awkward "Hey Imma just stand here casually while I make sure you don't get weird while you clean out your desk also I'm so sorry this is happening" thing... After a whole day of that, the head of HR turns to the other HR employee and tells her, "Oh BTW we're gonna have to let you go too."
You may ask, how did I know there were tears, shouting, etc.? Because that skeezy b******e head of HR shared all the gory details with my coworker the next day, in our open office workspace. She didn't ask, but he needed to tell someone. To this day I get mad thinking about it.
The Starsong Princess 3 years ago
That’s why you should never take a job firing people - because once all the people are done being fired, there’s nothing for you to do and you get fired. Also, you can be made the scapegoat for all the bad will the remaining employees have. All that just for the privilege of being the last one out the door.
#29
I found out today when I got an email from a client stating. " <employeeX> was suppossed to be here today and won't answer his phone". I make a couple calls only to find out EmployeeX was asked to resign and nobody bothered to inform his accounts. I flew out of state to smooth things over (I'm in the hotel lobby right now, as this happened today).
#30
We were having a departmental meeting, and the head of engineering, Myron, was giving a speech about how all of our customers are happy - and how all of his ideas are f*****g awesome. Both of these were very false, so he was either lying or is disillusion.
Next his boss is giving her presentation, and the little email message popped up at the bottom corner of the screen saying "You need to fire Myron" . Myron was soon fired... and good riddance.
#31
My buddy moved across the country for a job. At the end of his second week he was informed they were going to let him go as part of a large reduction in force. He had moved all of his stuff and signed a year lease of an apartment. When he complained that this really screwed him over and the company had to know this was coming well before he started and should have just told him to not come his now former boss patted him on the back, chuckled, and told him something like "life's not fair."
My buddy ended up getting the last laugh. His dad's best friend was an attorney with all the right connections in that state. His old company settled with him when they were served with a lawsuit, claiming something like fraud and deception. He ended up settling for something that was over double his yearly salary.
Lorena Hamilton 3 years ago
Exact same thing happened to my daughter in law..she worked at a well known coffee chain.
#32
I made the horrifically naive mistake of telling a co-worker (I thought was a decent person) I was putting out feelers after the clinic I was on probationary period at extended my probationary period for a third time instead of hiring me on. The very next day I was called into the administrators office and was ordered to explain why I would be so disloyal. I explained that I had become concerned when they extended my probationary period for a third time and I was only putting out feelers. The administrator claimed that they had invested a lot of time and money into me and that I had nothing to worry about - I wasn't going anywhere.
So, the next day when I was scheduled to have my weekly meeting with the very same administrator I was feeling quite relaxed and confident. I sat casually in the office and smiled at her when she came in looking all tense. She then proceeded to tell me that I was being let go. When I asked "Why? You said I had nothing to worry about yesterday." She just sighed and said "You just don't seem confident that you're going to get the job." There was a brief moment of me silence and I said "You mean you're firing me because I don't seem confident you're not going to fire me?"
That's when she got flustered - like visible upset, smacked her hands on the table and said while shuffling papers nervously "You know this is a Right To Work State, right?"
"Yes?"
"That means I don't have to give you a reason, they are just letting you go." Then she offered to call security because I guess she thought I was going to be as upset about losing that s**tastic job as she was about having to fire me in such a s****y way. I assured her that security was unnecessary and that I would leave quietly. It was embarrassing, bewildering, and obviously quite unethical, but that's living in a Right To Work State for ya, o and working in a hospital.
Milady Blue 3 years ago
Same sort of c**p that can be done to you in an At Will state like mine, too.
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
Can someone explain “At Will” and “Right to Work” states to me like I’m a 5 year old?
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Our old manager was forced by HER boss to fire a guy who was a bit slower than the other servers because he stood up for himself when someone called him r******d (he has Autism)
John L 3 years ago
Too bad "illegal" doesn't mean can't/won't happen.....
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#34
I was a teacher at a Christian private school in Jakarta for about a year before I was removed.
Going into the job I fibbed a bit saying that I was a practicing Christian as the pay was pretty solid and had a buddy working there who did the same. Anyhow, the year goes by relatively smoothly aside from constant headbutting with the head of English, Jimmy.
I was teaching grades 10 and 11 IGCSE and AS English Language, and after the initial transition phase, my students really took a liking to my teaching methodologies. Mr. Jimmy was a very strict, by-the-book, examinations every two weeks type of teacher, and I wasn't. I went in and figured for the kids to do well, they first needed to enjoy it, and so I spent the good part of my first few weeks getting the kids interested in various readings, neat ways of looking at writing etc. Anyhow, this didn't sit well with Mr. Jimmy, and so we would have constant debates in staff meetings over the way I was teaching my courses. He was the head of English, I was new, I get it. But my kids were eating it up, and they were doing better than ever!
Anyhow, between our clashes, and my lack of enthusiasm for going to chapel every Friday afternoon, my time at the school came to a head towards the end of the school year.
As the grade 10s missed chapel one Friday to sit a test, Mr. Jimmy decided that he would give his own to the grade 10s. So one Wednesday morning, myself and the other grade 10 homeroom teacher took our classes to Jimmy's sermon, and boy oh boy was it something.
Now, just to give you an idea of Jimmy, this dude is an ultra-conservative Christian from the sticks of West Virginia. Heavyset, short, and slow-speaking with a thick drawl. He constantly reminded students that "humans couldn't have evolved from monkeys." I'm not much for Abrahamic religion, but it's never really bothered me either, and I find it's more the wingnut members of the religion that tarnish the name--and Jimmy was definitely one of these.
Anyhow, we get to the little session and Jimmy says that this session would be about "defending you faith," which didn't bode well. He started the shindig by talking about being "assaulted, insulted and mocked" by all of the Muslims "running around Indonesia hating Christians." Oh boy.
I had been in Jakarta for two years by that time, and despite the recent unfortunate elections in the city, it's a very moderate place (and country in general). Not once had I heard anyone mock any religion, nor do you see people proselytizing or pushing their faith on others. Sorry, I take that back, everywhere except this Christian school.
Anyhow, I kind of reach my boiling point (I'm against religions of any kind being in schools) and raise my hand, and ask, "Mr. Jimmy, don't you think that we should just do what Jesus did, and turn the other cheek?"
He looks in my direction, keen to my discontent, and responds that "No, we need to give our children of god ammunition with which to fight the people that insult our religion." I mean, that's pretty heavy stuff for 15-year-olds.
After my question, a few other students who had talked to me in private about their lack of faith, questioning of faith, atheism etc began to raise their hands. Jimmy goes nuts. He starts rattling off bible passages, shouting, telling the students that it was no place for questioning (it is a school isn't it?) and generally throwing a temper tantrum.
I had had enough. I got up quietly, and left the room.
Two weeks later while my grade 11 students were sitting their AS exams, and whilst I was invigilating, I was asked by the vice principle to head downstairs to meet the head of the school.
I was told that I "didn't present a uniform front for the school, called into question my own religiosity, caused students to begin questioning religion, and undermined my senior."
I presented my case, explained that had Jimmy heard this same sermon, but in an Islamic school, he'd likely label them terrorists as the subject matter was just too extreme. They didn't hear me out, and gave me two options: 1. Resign with a payout for the rest of my contract (about 2 months) 2. Or be fired and get nothing.
Realizing that it wasn't worth the time and effort, I "resigned."
A few days later all of the teachers and students wore purple ribbons to school as a show of solidarity for me, parents called the school upset, the head of the school ended up resigning and moving countries. Later, I also found out that 90% of my students ended up with A* and A marks--the rest earned Bs, and they were the highest ranked classes in the past few years at that school.
I still keep in contact with some of my students from the school, and life only got better after leaving, so, whilst it makes a fun story, it only impacted my life for the better!
The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Wow.. As always religious zealot always take other faith follower as enemy.
#35
Got assaulted by someone after work. In defending myself, the guys car took some minor damage e.g. wing mirror broken off, maybe a dent in the wing etc. I thought nothing of it, went home and then police turned up and arrested me on suspicion of criminal damage and ABH. Was released without charge but told my boss in work about it just in case. Police had me on bail for like 2 months whilst they checked cctb evidence putting me well in the clear. Due to form, the cockroach who assaulted me started calling my work trying to get me fired. My boss had my back on it but about a month later, I got called to a meeting about an hour and a halfs drive away on a Friday afternoon. This was whilst my boss was on holiday. They made me go through the meeting for nearly an hour before suddenly saying they were going to let me go. Apparently the grassing c**t had been writing and phoning in every day. Here is the kicker though - they told me that I was sacked for telling this man to f**k off in the process of defending myself. They allowed that I was entitled to defend myself and that I had not been charged with any offence but said that it was unacceptable to swear in my works uniform under any circumstances. I had to leave my work vehicle there and was then miles from home and had to take a taxi back costing £80. Luckily when my boss was back off holiday, he got them to refund me that. TL;DR Got assaulted in company uniform and in the process of defending myself told attacked to f**k off. Was released without charge by police but sacked for swearing in works uniform.
#36
I worked for this woman who owned a bakery business with several locations. She was a class A lunatic, but she paid well and for the most part I loved my job. I was constantly told I was one of her best employees, and one day she wanted me to be a manager at one of the stores. Honestly, I gave my all at that job because she paid me well above minimum wage for someone who had 0 experience in a bakery position prior to hire and I enjoyed making cupcakes for a living. 3 weeks before christmas she came into the store and told me that if the police showed up to give her a call in her office so she could come upstairs to meet them. Weird, but she was always dealing with something crazy like a customer she insulted or the like. Anyways, the cops came and she took them into her office to talk to them and that was that. Well after we closed the store that night she called me aside and accused me of stealing money out of the register. She has cameras all over her store and told me she had hidden ones even the employees didn't know about. She "caught me doing suspicious things" on camera such as taking an envelope off the counter and coming back into the store after I had already locked up to get something I forgot. Just weird and baseless accusations. She told me she had called the cops on me to file a police report and they would be wanting to talk to me at some point. She then fired me and took away my keys for the store and I left. I was devastated and for the following week I was a nervous depressed wreck. I had never taken anything from her, ever. I later found out from a friend who still worked there she told every single employee I stole $3,000+ dollars from her, and probably stole her checkbook as well because it was "missing". (Again this lady was insane and I have no doubt she's the type of person to put her checkbook on top of her car and forget about it while driving away). She also told everyone who still worked there they weren't allowed to talk to me at all. That also really upset me because I really enjoyed my coworkers, but I knew most of them were so afraid of her and losing their jobs if they didn't bend to her every whim they just obeyed. For weeks after being fired she'd randomly call and text me and if I didn't immediately answer she would call and text my girlfriend and threaten to have the police come to our house if I kept "ignoring her". Finally she stopped, until about 2 weeks ago she started harassing me again trying to set up some sort of meeting to talk about why she fired me, but I pretty much told her it can be a phone conversation or she can f**k off and I haven't heard from her since. Honestly, I'm waiting for some crazy letter saying she's trying to sue me for god knows what. TLDR; Crazy a*s ex-boss wouldn't stop harassing me and lying about me for god knows what reason
Milady Blue 3 years ago
Lawsuit time! Wrongful termination, harassment, and infliction of emotional distress.
Scott Crowell 3 years ago
Does anyone ever win a Wrongful termination lawsuit? Just curious, I've never heard of a win
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Summoned 17 people (~20% of the entire workforce) to the operations manager's office 8 am Friday. The day before the Company Christmas party, where bonuses are handed out. Usually to the tune of $2k each.
Two weeks before Christmas, no job, no bonus, needing to cancel a date night with their SOs. Morale wasn't too good.
Two months later another wave of firings occurred, one of the guys was partying in LA the night before and called in sick. They forced his supervisor to call him repeatedly at home, telling him it was mandatory he showed up. He lived 35-40 minutes away. HR was waiting in the parking lot. Parked, they handed him a packet and check, turned around and drove 40 minutes back home.
#38
A former colleague of mine said she had some "big news" to tell me and she'd be in town for a few days and wanted to grab some drinks. We chit-chatted some small-talk about how work was going, and I mentioned that I was about to fire a development company we worked with and had already signed a contract with their replacement. I went on and on for a few minutes about how pathetic the former partner's productivity had been and how it had hit rock bottom over the years. Then she told me her "big news." She had just accepted a position at the company I was firing the next day, and she was assigned to be my project manager. Needless to say, the rest of the drink meeting was a bit awkward.
#39
My boss was an idiot and one of the corporate heads had told him he had to fire somebody, so instead of thinking about who to fire he waited until Halloween to fire someone. He didn't want to make an unpopular decision. It was during our Halloween party and he tried to fire our quality assurance guy, but somehow was talked into firing somone else. So this guy got fired on Halloween because our boss didn't want to look stupid and go back to his first decision and fire the first guy. There was a big argument and our boss even tried to offer him a Chili's coupon.
#40
"Creepy Masseur" We had this guy in our dept that got fired within 3 days of starting. On the first day he had emailed all the females - only the females, and wrote an intruduction that resembled an e-harmony profile. Not that bad. By day 2 he was trying to get "to know" a few select females better. One of them was Lori, who also in my dept and who had a healthy sense of humor. She kinda went with it to see how far this guy would go. He made it known how attracted to Lori he was and that he would like to give her a full body massage. According to him, he was quite good at giving them. I should mention at this time that Lori was 8 months pregnant. We had a good laugh but at that point Lori stopped encouraging the Creepy Masseur as to not get into any trouble for inappropriate use of company property herself. On day 3, Lori started getting sexually explicit texts. She discreetly let us know that she thought it may be Creepy Massuer (All of our cell #s were on a sheet on our bosses desk which was not hard to get). My coworker, who is not discreet hears this and loudly announces, "I'll f*****g call the # and find out." Co worker dials and behind us, you here the distinct "Brrr brrrr brrr" of a cell vibrating in someone's pocket. Co worker calls again. Again "Brr brrr brrr". Creepy Masseur's ears turn red and he has a thousand yard stare at his monitor. Lori was a pretty cool chick and could have laughed it off. It was some of us that gave our manager the heads up. Apparently, women in other departments were more disgusted by him and had already complained. Edit: On mobile. Much awfulness Changed massuer from masseuse
#41
I was one of a group of Thirteen teachers who were laid off from a struggling private school. The decision had been made to get rid of Year 11 and 12 as a cost cutting measure. So therefore shaff had to go. The way we were told if we were being laid off or not was a letter in placed in our pigeon hole by the school principal. Who ensured he had left for the day and gone home so noone could confront him about it. He also tghen proceeded to hide in his office with the door locked when he did come back to work. We then had to work for another term before we fnished for the school year.
#42
I was walking into work and saw my coworker/friend being walked out by the cops. He stole money from the store and was caught. A week later, I was at a different store. Turns out, that kid got a job from that store also. HE WAS GETTING WALKED OUT BY THE COPS AGAIN FOR THE SAME THING. It was unreal
#43
Me and four other guys were "layed off" on Christmas Eve...
#44
The computers in our ambulances are a little particular sometimes, and we always joke that we've been fired when a login doesn't work. Well one day I could not get my login to work. Checked my email, lo and behold, I'd been fired! At the end of the day it was what amounted to be a clerical misunderstanding, but so far it's taken almost a year to get it sorted...
#45
The police escorted a teacher out of the classroom while he was teaching.
Suzi Q 3 years ago
Um..yea, police don't escort out teachers who get fired without a crime being committed.
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Suzi Q 3 years ago
Got more context after reading the original Reddit post..."It was high school, he got caught sleeping with a student. His wife went through his phone and saw some inappropriate pictures."
Rhyme Like A Lime 3 years ago
Holy s**t, yeah, that's a pretty bad offense. Why is this post even on here?
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Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
This isn't a new thing either; it happened to me 3 times. (1) 1987: Fired after having to spend 3 days in hospital with a double kidney infection. (2) 1989: Fired while pregnant with my daughter; company president's daughter took my job. (Filed suit with my state's Commission Against Discrimination and won.) (3) 2000: Fired while out on Family Medical Leave for a work injury. (Filed grievance with my union and won.)
Suzi Q 3 years ago
I'm glad you won the suits, those firings aren't right!
Load More Replies... JayCee 3 years ago
Before we met or got married, my now husband's parents owned a construction company. They got screwed on a major project and had to either let people go or go bankrupt. My husband realized that he was one of their top-earning employees, but his parents were going to fire another worker at his same rank. The other worker had a wife and 2 kids. So, my husband went to his parents and convinced them to fire him instead. They agreed, and he used the opportunity to go back to college at almost 30 to finish his degree. He became a teacher, and I'm a teacher also, so that's how we met. His parents' company was able to limp along for 2 more years while they warned everyone to find other jobs as things could never recover. The other employees were all able to find work and no one else was let go until they shut things down completely. But they would never have been able to do that if my husband hadn't stepped down. All I can say is that I married an awesome guy!
Kyndal T 3 years ago
These are so messed up. I'll add one too! My husband worked overnight (some days) armed security for Spirit Aerospace. Pay was c**p. Finances weren't great at the company and they fired tons of people. He had to walk people out when they got fired and he wasn't able to stay distant from that. It was too hard. One night he walked in at 1am for his shift and his sergeant sat him down and fired him. Said they couldn't afford his pay anymore. So husband asks who else got fired? 4 other guys who had been there for years. Know who wasn't fired? The execs alcoholic drug addict son they'd just hired and gave a gun to. Then his sergeant had the nerve to ask if he'd stay for his shift. Not a chance in hell.
YELLING!!! 3 years ago
Half of these examples would be a big deal if we weren't brainwashed into believing that we matter to the bosses.
Joel Hopkins 3 years ago
Let's see..... I was fired because I told the boss that there was no way to make light travel through glass faster than it does. HR lady told me "if your manager tells you to do something, you need to find a way to get it done." I was also fired one time for "insubordination" because idiot new manager told me to break into some customer equipment, and when I said "no, that's a felony", next thing I know HR is telling me I'm being let go because of that. Finally, was told I was fired because I didn't show up. Keep in mind I showed up for two weeks and was on conference calls and did the in office orientation, but because some security guy in an office in a different state didn't see me badging into the building they had on their list, I had 'abandoned' my job and my badge was turned off and I couldn't get into the building. The guy who hired me called me and apologized and said he would try and get me rehired, to which I replied "don't bother".
leah 3 years ago
So back in the early days of our marriage, my husband had some random factory job. On the first day there some guy decided he hated my husband and he was out to get him. This guy had been in the Army and had severe PTSD, but because of the military service, he was untouchable. On his tenth day of work, the guy with PTSD went crazy and started throwing things at my husband. He came home with bruises on his arms and a small cut on his neck. Management decided they couldn't work together and instead of putting my husband on another shift, he was fired ninety minutes after he got there. It worked out because he ended up going back to school, with a loan from my parents, and now works in computer security. If he hadn't been fired that day he probably wouldn't have gone back to school.
Frannie Kaplan 3 years ago
I have never heard of a place that fires you on the spot. You need a few days or weeks of notice
Nikki Sevven 3 years ago
This isn't a new thing either; it happened to me 3 times. (1) 1987: Fired after having to spend 3 days in hospital with a double kidney infection. (2) 1989: Fired while pregnant with my daughter; company president's daughter took my job. (Filed suit with my state's Commission Against Discrimination and won.) (3) 2000: Fired while out on Family Medical Leave for a work injury. (Filed grievance with my union and won.)
Suzi Q 3 years ago
I'm glad you won the suits, those firings aren't right!
Load More Replies... JayCee 3 years ago
Before we met or got married, my now husband's parents owned a construction company. They got screwed on a major project and had to either let people go or go bankrupt. My husband realized that he was one of their top-earning employees, but his parents were going to fire another worker at his same rank. The other worker had a wife and 2 kids. So, my husband went to his parents and convinced them to fire him instead. They agreed, and he used the opportunity to go back to college at almost 30 to finish his degree. He became a teacher, and I'm a teacher also, so that's how we met. His parents' company was able to limp along for 2 more years while they warned everyone to find other jobs as things could never recover. The other employees were all able to find work and no one else was let go until they shut things down completely. But they would never have been able to do that if my husband hadn't stepped down. All I can say is that I married an awesome guy!
Kyndal T 3 years ago
These are so messed up. I'll add one too! My husband worked overnight (some days) armed security for Spirit Aerospace. Pay was c**p. Finances weren't great at the company and they fired tons of people. He had to walk people out when they got fired and he wasn't able to stay distant from that. It was too hard. One night he walked in at 1am for his shift and his sergeant sat him down and fired him. Said they couldn't afford his pay anymore. So husband asks who else got fired? 4 other guys who had been there for years. Know who wasn't fired? The execs alcoholic drug addict son they'd just hired and gave a gun to. Then his sergeant had the nerve to ask if he'd stay for his shift. Not a chance in hell.
YELLING!!! 3 years ago
Half of these examples would be a big deal if we weren't brainwashed into believing that we matter to the bosses.
Joel Hopkins 3 years ago
Let's see..... I was fired because I told the boss that there was no way to make light travel through glass faster than it does. HR lady told me "if your manager tells you to do something, you need to find a way to get it done." I was also fired one time for "insubordination" because idiot new manager told me to break into some customer equipment, and when I said "no, that's a felony", next thing I know HR is telling me I'm being let go because of that. Finally, was told I was fired because I didn't show up. Keep in mind I showed up for two weeks and was on conference calls and did the in office orientation, but because some security guy in an office in a different state didn't see me badging into the building they had on their list, I had 'abandoned' my job and my badge was turned off and I couldn't get into the building. The guy who hired me called me and apologized and said he would try and get me rehired, to which I replied "don't bother".
leah 3 years ago
So back in the early days of our marriage, my husband had some random factory job. On the first day there some guy decided he hated my husband and he was out to get him. This guy had been in the Army and had severe PTSD, but because of the military service, he was untouchable. On his tenth day of work, the guy with PTSD went crazy and started throwing things at my husband. He came home with bruises on his arms and a small cut on his neck. Management decided they couldn't work together and instead of putting my husband on another shift, he was fired ninety minutes after he got there. It worked out because he ended up going back to school, with a loan from my parents, and now works in computer security. If he hadn't been fired that day he probably wouldn't have gone back to school.
Frannie Kaplan 3 years ago
I have never heard of a place that fires you on the spot. You need a few days or weeks of notice
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