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30 Of The Fastest Lay-Offs Due To The Insane Things That People Actually Did In A New Workplace
People get sacked for all kinds of reasons: poor performance, lateness, violation of policies, ethical breaches, whatever. But have you ever thought about the record time some folks were shown the door?
"What’s the fastest way you’ve ever seen a new coworker get fired?" – this netizen took to one of Reddit's favorite communities, inviting its members to share instances of new hires getting axed faster than lightning. The thread garnered over 15K upvotes as well as 8.2K comments.
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#1
A coworker sent an email to a female team member that he had a dream the night before that they had gotten married and he "impregnated her".
She sat across from me and I literally saw her face as she read the email. A strange look came across her face, then she walked into the managers office.
She left the office and he got called in and less than a minute later was packing his things.
I believe from start to finish it took less than 5 minutes for him to send the email and get fired.
Donkey boi 2 years ago
I had a dream that my best friend at work (female) revealed to me that she had a penis and I told her that it made me like her more as now we have even more in common. She was so relieved that she started doing the helicopter. Did I tell her? Yes I did. She started cackling like a deranged witch, causing everyone to ask what we were laughing at. Needless to say, it's our private joke now.
Alecto76 2 years ago
I told my boss about a dream I had where we worked on an assembly line. He was supposed to remove heads from people's bodies and send me the heads to fry. But he kept sending me whole bodies. So I yelled I can't fry heads unless you remove them Terry. I didn't get fired. He just sighed and asked what is wrong with me.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Wait, so it was a prophetic dream? If he'd only been working there for five minutes and he had the dream the night before that means he's a freaking clairvoyant! Or a pervert...
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#2
Pizza delivery gig:
New guy on his first shift. Claims he's got previous experience, so doesn't need training.
Clocks-in. Grabs a few pizza orders ready for delivery. Leaves with his car to deliver. An hour later, the calls start coming-in about the status of their order. They haven't been delivered.
The guy just grabbed himself a bunch of free pizzas and left!!!
I secretly admired him!
TruthoftheHeart 2 years ago
Pretty dumb considering at most Pizza jobs you are going to end up with free pizza all the time, without the possibility of jail.
Bec 2 years ago
One night I ordered sandwiches to pick up for dinner on my way home from work. I get there and they have several people ordering in person and I see that they have a pick-up area for online orders near the door. I'm not sure of the protocol, so I just wait, and wait, I finally get annoyed and pop up to the counter and actually ask about my order - give my name...yeah, it's already been picked up...um, no, obviously not. I assume someone just came in and grabbed my order, I wonder how often this happens because I see this setup and they don't check id. I had to wait some more because of the people who had ordered before me while I was waiting.
Adam Belaire 2 years ago
Assuming they got his information for tax purposes; they can at least charge him with theft.
jaredsbanta 2 years ago
Im not sure if this exactly fits. I worked pest control and a lot of Crawlspaceand attic insulation jobs. So this guy was real seedy from the beginning he lasted 2weeks because he hated insulation on him. He threw a fit that I didn’t buy him water and said he was going to get a Gatorade. He never came back. I had three more guys work with me and they all walked off the job with their work trucks and company phones. Each one of them said they were getting gatorades
jaredsbanta 2 years ago
I ended up training two more guys that are still my best friends today, when jobs got rough we would tell mgmt we were going to get a Gatorade if stuff didn’t change.
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#3
Worked for startups the past couple of years before I recently took a new gig but we had to hire about 100 people in the span of 2 weeks which I told my boss was a bad idea but the CEO insisted
Hired a young lady, she had a spotty resume but was very cheerful and friendly in the interview and my boss's instructions were if they are nice and friendly "pass them on to me" we oversaw the customer service relations for this company
On her first day she came in 15 minutes late, got into an argument with a customer on her first training call and took the mic and farted into it as loud as I've ever heard a human being fart
We paid her for the full day
Best hire ever
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
This is the type of stuff that keeps me going, I long to see an employee execute this beautiful scenario...
Upstaged75 2 years ago
"As loud as I've ever heard a human being fart" If you're interested in loud farts you definitely need to meet my dad and brother. LOL!!!
Cyber Returns 2 years ago
If you yell the yell then you smell the smell. Yes you can smell a fart down a phone because if it sounds vile, loud and disgusting enough, your mind psychosomatically provides the smell
#4
We hired a director for our office. About a week later the women in the office were complaining about him, saying he was sexist.
Turns out he was in a meeting and a woman tried speaking and he told her that her opinion didn’t matter.
He was gone within a couple days.
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
"Within a couple of days"?! It took more work days to can this douche?
Comedy Clumbers 2 years ago
Please tell me his direct supervisor was a woman... please tell me....
#5
We hired a woman who turned out to be pretty abrasive. How she got hired, I have no idea. Our secretary was the sweetest lady in the office and never complained until this new hire talked with her for a few minutes. Right after talking to this horrible person she approached the boss and said she would walk off the job if this new worker stayed on with us. By lunch half the office was ready to walk off the job because of this abrasive person. She just had an utterly horrible way of talking to people that made them feel degraded and enraged. She was let go at the end of the day.
Jorge Gonzalez 2 years ago
Do not be optimistic. Surely the boss found her abrasive too
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Little king trash mouth 2 years ago
Some people are surprisingly good interviewees and can act nice really well. It's ridiculous.
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Doodles1983 2 years ago
I had a colleague like that. Tried to get me fired because I dared question her (we were equals). Just been made my direct line manager. I have begun job hunting.
#6
Day 1, delivering pizzas. I was the trainer.
Dude wasn't familiar with the town at all (this was before GPS was a thing).
Second delivery, he gets in the car, and proceeds to floor it in the parking lot, showing off all 80 horsepower for the 30 feet before slamming on the brakes to turn onto the main street, nearly hitting a customer and her young child.
I say whoah, slow down in the Parking lot, you almost hit that kid.
"F**k em" was his response.
That was his last delivery, lasted all of about 90 minutes.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Thank goodness...What a cool guy, putting a mother and child in danger /S
Shannon Hawks 2 years ago (edited)
people like that is why we should reinstate the death penalty. don't give a damn about anyone else, why should we care when your gone
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
Did he think he was playing GTA or something?? Or possibly Carmageddon, where you actually get points for creaming pedestrians.
#7
Worked 2nd shift at a factory. Late in the evening, we would prop open the doors along the side street to try to catch a breeze in the summertime. One night, this drunk guy stumbles in through the side door and just start striking up conversations with everyone like he owns the place. I run over and try to tell him that he can’t be in there, and he starts telling me he’s supposed to start work that night. We kind of argue for about 5 or 10 minutes about the fact that I didn’t have anyone new starting that night, and I finally tell him that he needs to contact someone in the office the next morning.
When I came into work the next day, the first shift supervisor told me that he was supposed to have a new guy start that day but he never showed up. I told him that the guy had actually shown up… 12 hours early and staggering drunk.
In a way, he was fired before his first day on the job.
#8
In high school I worked at a clothing store as a cashier. Guy next to me has his sister come through with a huge pile of merchandise.
He scans one item that was on clearance for like $2 over and over again for everything she had, which was likely hundreds of dollars.
Didn’t realize the manager was standing right behind him.
“Go clock out and give me your name tag, you’re gone.”
He didn’t argue or anything, just put his head down and walked off.
The manager jumps on the register to clear the transaction out and the sister takes out her card, “This is gonna be a credit.”
Manager says “Not for $2 it’s not, get out of here.”
The sister actually tried to complete the purchase like nothing had happened lol
Ross “Sarcastic Dad” 2 years ago
"Can I get a discount? I just found out my brother lost his job."
Seadog 2 years ago
O'Reilly Auto pays $10 per $1000 sold. Associate gets his paycheck and complains to the manager that his incentive wasn't right. Manager pulls sales history for the associate. Turns out he was selling things to his friends (the majority of his sales) using his employee discount. Of course they don't pay incentive on employee purchases. And no they didn't fire him. He transferred to another store and was caught stealing and still didn't get fired. Yet I saw the DM harass several other employees over nothing issues. I hate corporate America.
#9
When I was in college working at Walmart (cashier), I trained a girl on the register one evening. Maybe a week later, she comes through my lane buying groceries. I ask her how she's been, since I haven't seen her since the day after I trained her, and she tells me, unprompted, she's waiting on her court date.
One of her friends went through her checkout lane, but she only actually scanned about a third of the items. About $1,500 of merchandise went out the door free of charge.
My response out loud was, "oh". My response in my head was, "did you seriously not see the camera mounted above *every single register*???"
ScaryThingIntheDryer 2 years ago
That's what I thought too but in some smaller towns Walmart has become the only grocery store in town (because they push out small businesses). There might not be anywhere else to shop.
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Demongrrrrl 2 years ago
I was a cashier at a Walmart. One of the other cashiers who joined at the same time took the entire contents of her drawer with her when she went home that night. She had given a false address, but the company had her phone number. A week later, management called her and said that her paycheck was ready for her to pick up. She showed up and was promptly arrested.
#10
I know someone who was hired as a manager of some retail store Being the manager he thought he could show up whenever he damned well pleased on his fist day since he’s the boss He showed up around noon and found the store closed. Turns out as the boss only he had the keys so the staff couldn’t open the store Big boss man didn’t have to worry about opening the store the next day. He no longer had a job
Captain McSmoot 2 years ago
He didn't exactly have the "keys to success", did he? Eh?... eh?... (I'll show myself out.)
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Man, how could you not show up early on your first day. The excitement to be starting a new job would have me there early for sure. Maybe slack off later on, but not the first day :P
#11
New guy offered to pull a semi trailer to a dock for unloading. Said he did it in the Army all the time. I told him, nah, you gotta get tested out by the safety guy first, someone else will handle it.
5 minutes later, I see him pulling the trailer around anyway. OK, I gotta go tell this dude he's fired 2 hours in.
Before I could advise him of his updated employment status, the damn trailer came loose of the tractor. Slid right off the back.
He *did* know how to drive a semi. He *did not* know how to check the trailer was locked in.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Not quite a semi. Did see a semi-new hire lose a trailer with a boat on top of it down a steep hill and into the lake. It was epic, getting the boat/trailer combo out of the lake, not so much since the trailer somehow turned around and speared itself into the sediment...
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
All I can think of to say is Oh, dear.
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My son was part of a set up crew for a store. Southern States store next door was getting a delivery. It took the driver 3 hours to back his rig onto the lot. I chalk it up to some companies don't allow their drivers to back their rigs into the dock, they only drive forward. So when those drivers get a real driving job, they can't reverse unless they have 40 acres.
#12
Hopped on the forklift with no one else around. "Been doing this for years," he'd told us.
Lift started leaking hydraulic fluid. Dude just goes about his business unloading a truck, handling orders and so on. Told no one. Sprayed that oily mess all over the entire warehouse until there was none left, went to lunch. There was literally a lake of it.
Had to shut down the warehouse for a week to clean it up. Tens if not hundreds of thousands in damaged product and late/cancelled orders. We asked him if he knew it was leaking. "Yes." We asked him why he didn't stop or tell anyone. "I wanted to get my work done so I could go to lunch."
Even after being fired, he still didn't think he had done anything wrong.
Seadog 2 years ago
Certification exists for a reason. One place I worked didn't require it but they did want to see that you knew what you were doing. Young guy jumps on and of course "he's been driving them for years". Picks up 2 pallets of oil (8 drums, so close to 2 tons), lifts and hits the gas. If it hadn't been for the fact that one, he was still close to the drums below that and close to the wall of the building it would've tipped right over. He of course wasn't allowed on the forklift anymore. No concept whatsoever of inertia vs mass
#13
In fast food. A guy who thought he was a real ladies man (21?). Groped a few of the female coworkers butts. Then groped the boss lady’s butt. He was gone. Edit: Forgot to mention, that was his first day.
Seadog 2 years ago
In the early 90's one of my workers (a ladies man) at a bank mistook a trust officer for his GF and smacked her on the butt. She of course spun around to see who did it. He apologized and walked away. Came in and informed me he guesses he's fired and told me why. Not one word was ever said about it. I guess she liked it. Bet if it had been anyone else including yours truly, it would've been a different outcome.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Had a guy (Century 21 NW Regional Office in SeaTac, WA) come up and grab my a*s while I was in the copy room. I literally turned to him and said, "Kendall, I'm as tall as you are and quite strong. If you EVER put your hand on me again, I will break your arm off at the elbow and shove it so far up you azz you'll be able to touch your tonsils with your own f*cking fingers. Is this in any way unclear?". Yeah, he wasn't used to that. He got reprimanded, (big whup) but not fired. He was a top selling broker in a total "boys club" company. Steered the f*ck clear of me though.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I don't understand how anyone can not understand that this sort of thing is just not acceptable behaviour. Even when I started work in the late 80s everyone knew that sort of s**t is not on. It's only become even more frowned upon since then.
HungryPanda 2 years ago
"You grabbed the wrong part!" said some bloated, orange, former reality tv host
#14
How about getting fired *before* you start working?
Our boss hired a new person - as a contractor, and he was available to work immediately, so he was scheduled to start work the day after his interview.
Next morning my boss turns up, very annoyed, and shows me his phone. The new hire had sent several rambling and confused SMSes that could be summarised as "had a few drinks last night, won't be able to come into work today, you know how it is".
My boss told him the contract was cancelled.
Bored Potato 2 years ago
Wow. Fired before starting the job. That's gotta be a new record on this post.
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Yeah, that's not how it works. Contractors don't just get to show up whenever they feel like it. Any contractor who acts like that is the douchebag.
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#15
Worked in a sales call center about 10 years ago, real braindead work. New guy starts on a Monday morning, after he gets trained up on the basics (which takes about an hour), he gets assigned a desk and sets off to work.
30 minutes later, it looks like little puffs of steam are rising up from his computer monitor. Turns out he was vaping on one of those disposable ecigarettes, the kind that sort of tried to look like real cigarettes. He gets told by the boss that we can't vape indoors, and if he wants to, he'll have to go outside to do it on a break.
About 30 minutes later again, the same thing happens. He gets caught again, and is told in no uncertain terms that if he wants to keep his job, he'll stop vaping at his desk.
An hour later, he gets caught hiding under his desk vaping, and is promptly fired, all before lunch time. Dude could have just gone outside.
Red Reilly 2 years ago
Had this girl start when I worked in fashion, seemed to be alright, nearing the end of the day and she sparks up a cigarette in the middle of the open plan office with all the fashion directors a few desks away. After the total shock she was whisked into a room with her things and fired.
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
Personally, I think I'd have being doing crack just to get through an hour in a job like that.
jmdirks 2 years ago
I have worked with a few people who thought that since it is vaping and not smoking it is allowed while working. I worked in the food service industry and these people were preparing food for customers. Also just made me remember this one woman cook who thought that if you hid the cigarette behind your back it didn't count as smoking.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Surely this is a case of a guy who wants to be fired? I can't imagine anyone being so dumb they have a third crack after two warnings in the same morning.
#16
We hired a new guy locally to help us do an audio/video system installation on a Navy base. We were a government contractor located near DC, and this installation was near New Orleans, so hiring some locals was commonplace for us.
The equipment had been delivered to a Navy warehouse downtown. All of it on pallets. We needed to break up the pallets and load everything into a couple of vans that we'd rented, so we could take it to the job site. Because it was the Navy's warehouse, protocol was to wait for one of their guys to drive the forklift.
New guy didn't want to wait, and jumped into the seat of a forklift. Said he had plenty of experience with forklifts. Proceeded to ram one of its forks through a very expensive new 80" diagonal plasma display. Panicked, and backed the forklift into the rear of one of the vans, smashing it in and destroying a taillight. Hopped off the forklift and said "Cool!"
All of this within the first fifteen minutes of his first day.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Plenty of experience, just not positive experience.
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Fair enough. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 2 years ago
Forklifts are not something you should fvck around with. A coworker of mine's father was killed when a forklift turned over on him. He was an extremely experienced operator too - it was a freak accident. She was at work when she got the news. It was awful to watch. :(
Seadog 2 years ago
My son is a truck driver and has military clearance. He constantly comes across either loads that were accepted by a driver and can't get on base to load it or can't get on base to get unloaded because they can't pass the security back ground checks. As for the ones delivering, their only choice is to sit there and wait for a driver willing to drive their rig in and get it unloaded. Of course, most drivers won't touch it
#17
Guy lost his job before he even had it.
Opening in an entry-level position. Nepotism was big in this company. Current worker got his friend a job...all he had to do was go through the motions of the interview and check all the boxes.
Standard interview question: ***"What would you do if you had a disagreement with a coworker that you are unable to resolve"***
Acceptable answer is: ***"I would take it to my manager or HR."***
His answer: ***"I'd take him out back and beat the s**t out of him."***
#18
I was training a new hire for a large online retailer who, at the time, focused on books CDs and DVDs. One of the books we shelved was on Germany's U-boats. He suddenly felt the urge to tell me about all the wonderful and misunderstood ideas der fuhrer had. He never even made it to his lunch break.
Sonja 2 years ago
Oh boy. I have heard so many claims of all the 'good ideas' the Führer had but the truth is, yes, those were good ideas, like building the Autobahn or being an animal lover, but they all don't redeem a mass murderer who attempted genocide! Not to mention that none of those where especially unique ideas that others didn't have. Whoever tries to redeem the Führer is a bad person because he was thoroughly a bad person and none of his few decent qualities can ever redeem THAT. It just doesn't matter how much you cared for chickens if you were directly responsible for atrocities like killing millions of people. Yes it's a fact that no one is entirely evil. But that doesn't mean that a person who commits such atrocities should be defended or judged less harshly. In the end it's the whole picture that counts and some things are so horrible that nothing can redeem that person and if one tries to do so, especially with things who aren't really virtuous but barely decent, they're just as bad.
#19
I worked maintenance on a golf course. The owner hired this really hot girl to be the beverage cart girl. She had no experience, but I guess it doesn't matter when you're really hot. After about an hour of training, she gets sent out on the course in a cart full of booze. Later on that day, we start finding random trash across the golf course, consisting of empty airplane bottles and both full and empty bags of chips. We follow the empty airplane bottles like Hansel and Gretel until we find the beverage cart half submerged in a pond. By time we figured out what had happened, she had jumped in her car and left.
2 years ago
roses are red cacti are prickly jeezy peeps that escalated quickly
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ArodTheHorrible 2 years ago
Don't know why that got downvoted... have an upvote!
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First day, her grandmother died. Understandable. Second day, her car broke down. Bad luck. Third day she had no electricity and couldn’t blow dry her hair. She was told not to bother coming in at all.
LocalLizard3 2 years ago
Reminds me of 9th grade and a kids grandma died 5 times always around the time he was apart of a group project.
#21
New guy came in to work hammered out of his mind and started trying to operate a forklift right in front of the regional safety manager.
A *lot* of forklift certified and "right in front of my osha handbook" memes were shared that day.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Part of my job is hopping into a forklift every once in a while. Forklifts are near the top of machinery you do not want to operate while hammered :)
Fat Harry 2 years ago
Absolutely. You could find yourself totally forked.
Load More Replies... Shannon Hawks 2 years ago
had a guy at my job roll over a brand new forklift. not even on company property. He was next door on empty lot screwing around. Had to call tow truck with company credit card to lift it up . Bent the roll cage all to hell. Before repair company came to pick it up i put a tag on it saying "nascar approved ,left turns only"
Jihana 2 years ago
https://youtu.be/ChOHnSL7ZCg It's in German, but honestly, it's not important what is being said. I can't hear the word forklift without grinning because of this video. An absolute cult classic!
nbfresh 2 years ago
i cannot thank you enough for sharing this absolute GEM!!! i am watching video while also watching warehouse personnel operate a forklift right in front of me :D
Load More Replies... Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
My best friend and her business partner were in prison while I was (friend and I met there). The partner became completely blind while incarcerated. After he got released, he was required by probation to have a job. It's hard for a blind ex-con in his 60's to find a job. His probation officer ended up getting him a job-- driving a forklift in a warehouse! I am not joking. He said he just hoped he didn't end up killing someone.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 2 years ago
I worked at Holdens in Elizabeth, South AUstralia, for 7 years and left 31 years ago. About 5 years into my work there, I worked in one location where the forklift driver was an alcoholic. Everyone knew! But he was allowed to continue his driving around. Everyone was very much aware of where he was, at all times. Called him Cowboy, as he always wore an akrubra. He's probably long gone now.
Seabeast 2 years ago
One of my siblings worked in a big Canadian Pacific rail yard/locomotive shop back in the 70s. There were thousands of employees in this place. Some of the older ones were not only raging alcoholics, but they had been there for at least 30 years. It's a wonder anything ever got done.
#22
A guy at my work was caught playing World of Warcraft for hours each day. Boss called him in and told him that was wholly unacceptable and he had to stop immediately or he'd be canned.
Less than an hour later, IT calls the same boss and says the guy is back in his office playing again. He was let go that day.
Comedy Clumbers 2 years ago (edited)
Coworker/Good friend and I really prepped the ground for a guy we'd been in college with to be hired to our government, well paying, GREAT BENEFITS job with us. He had the saddest story about his wife leaving him, he never got to see his kids, on and on. He just played WoW on his work computer nearly all day, scoffing at our serious warnings, insisting no one would find out, threatened to go to HR to complain about me when I asked him to turn his radio down.... He got caught by our idiot asshat boss because WE WERE THE DEPARTMENT'S IT SECTION and part of our duties included screening government resources for misuse. Which we'd both explained to him repeatedly. Lost a great job being an utter idiot despite knowing better AND being told better. We became more inclined to sympathize with his (ex-) wife's perspective. I don't offer referring people to jobs anymore.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I thought he must have been working and playing at home, right up til that last line. Hard to imagine he was playing in the office.
#23
6 hours. Call center job. She showed up to orientation on day 1 about an hour late. Hey stuff happens. Then we go on a 15 min break. She goes out to take a phone call, comes back in after about 45 min. We go to lunch, it's 30 minutes. She comes back over an hour later. We go on afternoon break, when the 15 min break is up, one of the trainers gets up and steps out in the hall and closes the door behind him. We hear her arrive and argue with him about 20 minutes after that. He comes back in and gets the stuff she left at her desk and we never see her again.
#24
transferred to my pharmacy from another store and acted like she was the best thing that ever happened to that place. bossing everyone around, being condescending and disrespectful to everyone including those with doctorate degrees when she failed out of community college, being loud enough you could hear her outside (even with patient info which is a major hipaa violation) making mistakes constantly, refusing to accept the correction, lying about both important things and irrelevant stuff no one asked her about, you name it she did it. she lasted just under three weeks before she got caught for stealing controlled drugs. she’d take 1-3 bottles in varying quantities of different [medicaments] home with her every couple days and act like the distributor messed up. she’s in federal prison now :)
ॐBoyGanesh 2 years ago
“medicaments” the predicament that comes from stealing controlled medication.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
"In a sense, medicine and medication are synonymous yet they are also two different words depending on how they are used. The term medicine is more commonly used than the term medication (be on medication = take medications/medicines/drugs). Medicament (formal) is a substance used to treat a disease."
AlexJ 2 years ago
The word is "drugs". FFS BP! If you're going to censor that word, could you at least censor it with the same one. Before you used [illegal substances], and now it's [medicaments]. I mean, Kudos to the writer who found the thesaurus... but consistency is also a good thing, you know...
#25
A coworker grabbed my a*s, and when another employee confronted him about it, the first guy called the second a "lying [n-word]."
Actively Lazy Cat 2 years ago (edited)
Jeez, a molester AND a racist.. doesn't have much going for him..
#26
I work in software engineering and a couple of times I've seen people let go after like two weeks because they just couldn't do the job at a all.
Not me personally, but a former coworker told me about an incident at a prior job where the person who showed up to work was *not* the same person they interviewed. Obviously they were immediately let go.
GirlFriday 2 years ago
This happened at my job, too. Accounting hired three new employees, and one of the people who showed up was not the person who was interviewed three times by the department heads. It was explained to me that the person who showed up thought that because the interviews were done via Zoom, the interviewer would not be in the same location as the job. She had her sister was older and more experienced go through the interviews for her.
Seadog 2 years ago
Ever wonder how many times a persons twin was the one interviewed? And how many times did the twin get their sibling hired only for them to get fired because they're not qualified?
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#27
Got a speeding ticket, 20+ mph over, in the company car picking up lunch for the staff. Day 1.
Boo-Urns 2 years ago
Who gives the Day One employee the keys to a company car??? That's just... dumb.
Shannon Hawks 2 years ago (edited)
i think I heard him yelling "GTA M**********r "as i was crossing the street
Seadog 2 years ago
Dm calls me one day and tells me to hold the delivery driver when he gets to the store. OK, just figured he was bringing something for him to carry further up the chain of stores. Nope. DM walks in shortly after driver and fires him on the spot, tells him to wait for another driver to arrive from DC and he'll be carried back to his car. Turns out the delivery driver passe 4 cars abreast and a rescue squad that was running under lights and siren. One of those 4 cars was the DM.
#28
I used to work night audit/front desk at a motel adjacent to major highways. It was a super chill job, I loved my boss, and it was cool by me.
But God, trying to hire and train someone to take over my hours - once for maternity leave, and then when I was moving away - was a nightmare. One lady claimed to be computer literate, and then tried to use the mouse to physically touch the correct spot on the monitor when I asked her to click on a field. Another got extremely confused when I mentioned that sleeping with a guest was completely out of bounds. A guy got arrested (and fired of course) for selling drugs to someone out the night window. It was just an absolute s**t show.
Before I moved, I gave my boss a 2-month notice, because I knew hiring and training was gonna be a nightmare. About a week before my final shift, we finally got someone in place. She was more than a bit strange and could certainly have used a spot of mental health care, but hey, I can't throw stones. She showed up, grasped the basics of the job, etc. About a week after I left, I learned that she had quit because she didn't realize that night audit was a purely overnight job.
Idk.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
That's MY job! *pounces all the mousie toys* Bouche ate the tails off some of them, but they still pounce just fine! *scampers off to commit mousie toy murder*
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#29
I was working as a stable boy, and I was showing the new girl around the stables. As I introduced her to the horses, she was very apprehensive to come near them, refusing to even step into the stall (she signed on to help care for the horses.)
Later that day, she admitted that the horses terrified her, so the boss let her go.
Tim Two tone 2 years ago (edited)
Go straight to the source and ask the horse! He will give you an answer that you’ll endorse!
#30
Day 1 shot up right outside the building. Clocked in, went to work, was found an hour later slumped over a table slowly munching on stolen muffins like an elderly dog Clarification. Shot up, as in they injected [illegal substances] with a needle.
juice 2 years ago
shh, what if the poor fragile advertisers hear you?? they can't handle words like that!
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Seadog 2 years ago (edited)
I know almost nothing about drugs but had a manager get hook on meth. It wasn't pleasant to watch. The DM knew something was up but couldn't prove anything. Told me just to keep an eye on him, not as a narc but because he didn't want to hear he died on the job. Finally one night at a store meeting he lost it and nearly took to fist fighting an elderly delivery driver. That was the final straw. All the employees lost any and all respect for him. Company paid for him to go to rehab and he even walked out of that. Lost his job, wife, kids, blew hos 401K and savings, sold his classic car for a fraction of its value. Finally before he lost the house he got a job with mandatory testing. That got him clean and kept him that way. All because someone gave him something "that'll get rid of your migraine".
#31
Not me, but my husband - they hired a girl for sales, and she immediately interjected herself into every other department, telling them how to run things, and even making marketing decisions behind my husband’s back (he’s director of marketing), calling vendors about marketing, and creating a secret chat room that discussed marketing… without my husband in it lol. She never did any sales duties. She was fired within the week she was hired.
#32
Came 2 hours late, didn't do any actual work and then asked how long he has to keep doing tasks 'below his qualifications'.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Today's your lucky day! You never have to do them or anything ever again in this establishment! 😀
#33
He helped the shift leader, a friend of his, steal the ATM from the lobby. He used his own pickup truck.
Actively Lazy Cat 2 years ago
People do the dumbest things, my ex brother in law robbed a bank...the one he banks at! Obviously he was caught immediately.🤦♀️🤦♀️🤯
#34
Dude showed up for his first night shift, clocked in, walked out, and allegedly drove an hour across the border to a different state and clocked in for another job there. It took Walmart management a month to realize they were missing someone every night he was on the schedule. If anything the dude said was true, I felt for him. Supposedly his mom was terminally ill and he was doing this to try to make more money for her medical bills.
Shannon Hawks 2 years ago
i mean it's Walmart, you don't actually think I should feel bad for Walmart. A+ for effort buddy
#35
Showed up and just instantly dropped her entire life story on the boss, preventing them from doing work and not doing any work her whole first shift. Boss gave her another chance and the next day she just sat in the back in tears over a text she got for the whole day.
Hugh Cookson 2 years ago
Oooohhhh. Flakey. I reckon all of us who've ever hired people has had at least one experience like this - I know I have, sadly my profession involved sharp things, hot stuff, a lot of stress and far too many areas where stuff could go wrong ; I was a professional Chef for 40 + years and, trust me, I've seen more than my fair share of lunatics, many of them in senior positions.
#36
New girl working as a cashier in a small retail shop. I worked there full time and it was just me and the owner, she was literally just hired so I could have weekends.
Owner caught her sleeping in the back, on a nest of store tshirts. He only came in to check after seeing her bf on the camera for over an hour, keeping watch while she napped. She barely made it a week iirc
#37
I work in IT on a proprietary program. We got a new employee a couple of years back that lasted maybe a month. He was very old, which itself isn't a problem, but he constantly fell asleep in our lab where anyone walking by could see him. One of our other colleagues sat with him every day to train him, but he kept doing weird things like deleting interfaces from the software we were working on. My manager at the time had a soft spot for him because he was a nice old man, but when it became clear that he was not only doing damage through his own actions, but using up additional resources by requiring one of us to babysit him while he worked each day, they fired him.
#38
In a restaurant they were fired within a few days. They were constantly sitting down on their phone while their coworker did all the work and would often not get up when asked to work. So weird. Why even get a job? The manager told me they seemed desperate for one.
2 years ago
that's a bit of an overgeneralization. i'm in the older half of gen z, but i love my job and i think that i have a pretty strong work ethic.
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GoGoPDX 2 years ago (edited)
I was a server some nights and weekends on top of my nursing job when I was pregnant to save as much money I could to stay home with my son as long as I could. I was about 6 months along, very visibly pregnant. We hired a new dish washer, who was freaking out from the time we started the lunch rush. Getting annoyed easily, throwing things, just really pissed about every aspect of the job. I knew he was going to get let go after the lunch rush ended, but, when delivering some dishes to the bar, the bartender asked if he could grab the dirty dish tub while he was walking out. I was standing besides the bar entrance, and he turned around in anger for being asked to do his job, stormed over to the bar, and then pushed me while saying "get out of my way". Well, I fell with a tray full of full drinks, back, into the chairs, and then on my butt. One of my managers was close, and was so mad that he chased the guy out of the restaurant right then and there, in the middle of a full dining room of customers, and since some saw what happened, a couple of the customers went after the guy too. The cops were called, and an ambulance because I was bleeding everywhere from a nasty laceration on my arm. Me and my son were ok in the end, but it was a really s****y and scary experience.
Elizabeth Tayler 2 years ago
He should have been criminally charged for that, pos.
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Deanna Crichley 2 years ago
I was an international telephone operator in one of only two centers in the US in the early 80's. Our building was as bomb proof as it could be at that time, and we were advised upon our hiring, that we could be locked into our positions in the case of national emergency, we did military callout telephone trees, and handled high seas traffic. We handled regular international traffic, but it was impressed upon us from day one of training that national security was job one. Stupid kid during first week of training came in, sat down, and threw a hand grenade on the training table. Building security and local cops were there in a heartbeat. He was in cuffs before we even knew what happened. He was crying "it was a joke! It's a toy!". It was a toy. It was obvious though, that this kid's judgement could not be trusted.
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
My ex was a management consultant and an independent contractor. He started a contract with a company who assigned him two members of staff (the company's full time employees) to assist with the programme. After the first morning, my ex went to the director and said he couldn't work with one of the staff that had been assigned-she had no understanding of the project, and he found that frustrating and annoying. He demanded she was sacked and said it was her or him. The director choose him-he was asked to leave after less than a day. He could have just asked if there were other staff that could help, but he had to be all dramatic about it, and it misfired.
Crescent 3 2 years ago
I worked a temp job stocking store shelves and setting up store displays for the leading distributor of cola-based beverages. I was hired along with 5 or six other guys. On day one we were given company logo shirts and hats. Were were told that the dress code was jeans or work pants, sneakers, and the company shirt. We were also told MULTIPLE TIMES that we were not to be seen drinking the major competitor's product while on the premises or in the field on the clock. Day two, two of the new guys, both about 19, show up wearing sweat pants and their own tee shirts - not company-issued. They were reprimanded and sent home to change. They came back dressed properly and continued training. We broke for lunch. Sitting there in the company break room, one of those new guys pulls out the competitor's cola to drink, (I guess he preferred red, white, and blue cans to the solid red ones that were paying him). Boss saw it and five minutes later, he was gone for good.
Adam Zad 2 years ago
Got fired from my job at Pepsi when I tested positive for Coke.
Load More Replies... Red Reilly 2 years ago
Was managing a pub, in early to set the bar up and would chat to the cleaners who were really cool, they needed to hire someone new. Woman shows up, a bit off but ok, she does the cleaning everything seems ok, then the cleaner manager notices she is trying to leave something in the cleaners cupboard. when asked what it was, it was a note threatening some woman who was having an affair with her bf, the more we tried to understand why she would do it the more the facts changed. So yeahhh she was let go.
Pete from Cali. USA 2 years ago
The sad thing is, many of these horror stories sound like things my current coworkers would do. I spotted one standing up on one of those rolling office chairs for no reason just the other day. I can't believe I had to tell a 30 something that it's incredibly dangerous and he couldn't claim workers comp if he gets injured since we have step ladders AND he wasn't doing anything work related. I think some people need to face consequences before they realize there are consequences.
Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago
I used to work in a computer factory, subcontractor for IBM making desktop systems (remember them?). Specifically, I worked in what was called the Secure Cage with all the high value components - processors, memory modules, and Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels. As you'd think, there were CCTV cameras and security guards everywhere. But that didn't stop two geniuses trying to rob the place blind on their first day. In all, including their fifteen minute induction and signing of paperwork etc. they lasted an hour before security firmly escorted them from the building and handed them over to the cops.
Mathieu Duval 2 years ago (edited)
A few years ago, when i used to work in a call center, we had a new batch of workers. During the lunch break, One of them, a old white man, sat with me and my supervisor (we where both the only whit people's in the room at that moment) and told us that we where brave to work with so many monkeys and importeds. Then proceeded to spend 5 minutes talking about the a*s of the trainer, and that it must have been the only reason that she was working there. She was my (then) girlfriend and my supervisor best friend. My supervisor just listened to hin with a smile, then called the security on his phone and had him escorted out. Worse thing is that when i applied to another job in another call center a few years later, i saw his picture on the wall and was told that he was one of their best. Didn't even proceed with the interview and just left.
GoGoPDX 2 years ago (edited)
I was a server some nights and weekends on top of my nursing job when I was pregnant to save as much money I could to stay home with my son as long as I could. I was about 6 months along, very visibly pregnant. We hired a new dish washer, who was freaking out from the time we started the lunch rush. Getting annoyed easily, throwing things, just really pissed about every aspect of the job. I knew he was going to get let go after the lunch rush ended, but, when delivering some dishes to the bar, the bartender asked if he could grab the dirty dish tub while he was walking out. I was standing besides the bar entrance, and he turned around in anger for being asked to do his job, stormed over to the bar, and then pushed me while saying "get out of my way". Well, I fell with a tray full of full drinks, back, into the chairs, and then on my butt. One of my managers was close, and was so mad that he chased the guy out of the restaurant right then and there, in the middle of a full dining room of customers, and since some saw what happened, a couple of the customers went after the guy too. The cops were called, and an ambulance because I was bleeding everywhere from a nasty laceration on my arm. Me and my son were ok in the end, but it was a really s****y and scary experience.
Elizabeth Tayler 2 years ago
He should have been criminally charged for that, pos.
Load More Replies... Deanna Crichley 2 years ago
I was an international telephone operator in one of only two centers in the US in the early 80's. Our building was as bomb proof as it could be at that time, and we were advised upon our hiring, that we could be locked into our positions in the case of national emergency, we did military callout telephone trees, and handled high seas traffic. We handled regular international traffic, but it was impressed upon us from day one of training that national security was job one. Stupid kid during first week of training came in, sat down, and threw a hand grenade on the training table. Building security and local cops were there in a heartbeat. He was in cuffs before we even knew what happened. He was crying "it was a joke! It's a toy!". It was a toy. It was obvious though, that this kid's judgement could not be trusted.
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
My ex was a management consultant and an independent contractor. He started a contract with a company who assigned him two members of staff (the company's full time employees) to assist with the programme. After the first morning, my ex went to the director and said he couldn't work with one of the staff that had been assigned-she had no understanding of the project, and he found that frustrating and annoying. He demanded she was sacked and said it was her or him. The director choose him-he was asked to leave after less than a day. He could have just asked if there were other staff that could help, but he had to be all dramatic about it, and it misfired.
Crescent 3 2 years ago
I worked a temp job stocking store shelves and setting up store displays for the leading distributor of cola-based beverages. I was hired along with 5 or six other guys. On day one we were given company logo shirts and hats. Were were told that the dress code was jeans or work pants, sneakers, and the company shirt. We were also told MULTIPLE TIMES that we were not to be seen drinking the major competitor's product while on the premises or in the field on the clock. Day two, two of the new guys, both about 19, show up wearing sweat pants and their own tee shirts - not company-issued. They were reprimanded and sent home to change. They came back dressed properly and continued training. We broke for lunch. Sitting there in the company break room, one of those new guys pulls out the competitor's cola to drink, (I guess he preferred red, white, and blue cans to the solid red ones that were paying him). Boss saw it and five minutes later, he was gone for good.
Adam Zad 2 years ago
Got fired from my job at Pepsi when I tested positive for Coke.
Load More Replies... Red Reilly 2 years ago
Was managing a pub, in early to set the bar up and would chat to the cleaners who were really cool, they needed to hire someone new. Woman shows up, a bit off but ok, she does the cleaning everything seems ok, then the cleaner manager notices she is trying to leave something in the cleaners cupboard. when asked what it was, it was a note threatening some woman who was having an affair with her bf, the more we tried to understand why she would do it the more the facts changed. So yeahhh she was let go.
Pete from Cali. USA 2 years ago
The sad thing is, many of these horror stories sound like things my current coworkers would do. I spotted one standing up on one of those rolling office chairs for no reason just the other day. I can't believe I had to tell a 30 something that it's incredibly dangerous and he couldn't claim workers comp if he gets injured since we have step ladders AND he wasn't doing anything work related. I think some people need to face consequences before they realize there are consequences.
Ronnie Beaton 2 years ago
I used to work in a computer factory, subcontractor for IBM making desktop systems (remember them?). Specifically, I worked in what was called the Secure Cage with all the high value components - processors, memory modules, and Certificate of Authenticity (COA) labels. As you'd think, there were CCTV cameras and security guards everywhere. But that didn't stop two geniuses trying to rob the place blind on their first day. In all, including their fifteen minute induction and signing of paperwork etc. they lasted an hour before security firmly escorted them from the building and handed them over to the cops.
Mathieu Duval 2 years ago (edited)
A few years ago, when i used to work in a call center, we had a new batch of workers. During the lunch break, One of them, a old white man, sat with me and my supervisor (we where both the only whit people's in the room at that moment) and told us that we where brave to work with so many monkeys and importeds. Then proceeded to spend 5 minutes talking about the a*s of the trainer, and that it must have been the only reason that she was working there. She was my (then) girlfriend and my supervisor best friend. My supervisor just listened to hin with a smile, then called the security on his phone and had him escorted out. Worse thing is that when i applied to another job in another call center a few years later, i saw his picture on the wall and was told that he was one of their best. Didn't even proceed with the interview and just left.
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