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Comfortable-Figure17 , ArtHouse Studio / Pexels Report

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired School bus driver. First day on job after a month of training she was seen talking on her cell phone while driving a bus full of kids.

Final score:

164points

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DarkViolet 8 months ago

Seriously? Who let HER loose?

49points

AvidHarpy , cottonbro studio / Pexels Report

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired I worked in a hotel where some positions wore an issued uniform and some positions wore their own clothes. The dress code was very strict dressy business attire..everyone had to wear a blazer, men had to wear button down shirts with a tie but the hotel provided free dry cleaning for all of it.

One day I was walking down the hall to the room where you pick up/drop off dry cleaning and can hear a man yelling. Get near the door and a new hire, who was in a position where you wore your own clothes, was demanding that the attendant issue him a uniform (full suit, dress shirt and tie) because he wasn't going to ruin his nice clothes. Of course the attendant cannot issue anything without the paperwork from hr and the new hire would have been told that he will be wearing his own clothes.

Walk into the room, see the attendant in tears and this d******d agressively leaning over the desk yelling at her...I was shocked and basically asked what the hell is going on?!?!!? This guy sees another white person, immediately dials it back and gets all chummy and shmoozy and says something like "Pffft, can you believe this? Clearly doesn't understand English and since you are a manager, tell her to give me a uniform.". I just said that they would have to speak to hr about a uniform, walked him to the hr office and asked him to wait in the hall. Went in the hr office and gave the hr manager a quick run down, that this guy is a racist piece of s**t and he needs to go. Went back to check on the attendant, gave her a big hug and it was just heartbreaking to see another person cry like that.

Never saw him again and this was a time when it was an employees market but hr said that I was so upset and angry, they just terminated him on the spot without any further discussion and walked him off of the property. Like, who the f**k does or says that to another human being?

Final score:

164points

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DarkViolet 8 months ago

Who does that to another human being? Someone who's subhuman, that's who does that.

72points

SmartPriceCola , KXSH MEDIA / Pexels Report

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Basically young girl on her first shift as waitress. Customers order bottle of champagne. She brings it out whilst shaking it and proceeds to do the F1 celebration shooting it over everyone whilst roaring in celebration. That was the only context she had for champagne so she didn’t know that was just for big celebrations.

Final score:

164points

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mandy the capibara 8 months ago

That is a pretty hilarious mistake to make if she genuinly thought that was the way to go. Lacking in common sense perhaps, but hilarious

152points

MerryMelody-Symphony , Mac DeStroir / Pexels Report

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Was an unpaid intern at my mom's campsite for the summer just to get something to do. Mom hires a new guy for a trial period, and as I know practically how everything works, I'm told to shadow him for a few days. (keep in mind this is a small campsite, and a family business first and foremost).

Conversation starts up, and immediately, new guy zeroes in on a worker just doing his job and starts trash-talking him like crazy, while the worker was only doing his job of trimming the hedges, emptying the trash, that sort of stuff. They hadn't even been introduced yet.

End of the day I report to my mom, new guy in tow. Snitch that I am, I tell every unsavory detail that spewed from the little rat's mouth.

The worker he trash-talked all day long for no reason? My dad, mom's husband.

Mom told him his trial period was over, and to get out of her property and never show his face here again.

Final score:

163points

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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago

Karma in action

71points

lilyblains , Emmanuel Cassar / Unsplash Report

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Archaeologist working on a longhouse site with human remains uncovered and First Nations liaisons present.

New girl with no field experience somehow thought she was second in command on site and an osteology expert. Started telling everyone that if they found bones to bring them to her. Someone found raccoon bones and she started saying they were actually human fetal bones and that First Nations used to bury babies inside the walls of their longhouses???

She was removed from site before lunch.

Final score:

156points

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PFD 8 months ago

This sounds just plain weird

82points

jbea456 , Obi - @pixel8propix / Pexels Report

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired New security guard fell asleep in various locations around the school throughout his first day. He was fired around 3pm when the principal found him asleep in the front lobby.

Edit: A few people have mentioned that maybe he has narcolepsy. Just to correct a misconception the public has about narcolepsy: it is not an excuse to fall asleep all day and then scream discrimination when you get fired. I have narcolepsy. I also get treatment for my narcolepsy and am able to work a full-time job without falling asleep all day. I have also made my disability known to my employer and completed all necessary paperwork to get reasonable accommodations through ADA. So yes, maybe he has narcolepsy. In which case, he needs to go see a doctor.

Final score:

142points

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Trillian 8 months ago

Also, with a condition that would make you fall asleep at random, security guard just isn't the job for you.

151points

Anal_bleed , The Lazy Artist Gallery / Pexels Report

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired First day as a kayak coach for an outdoor adventure place he decided to not only get the number of a 14 year old kid but send her nudes! Not seen someone mess up their life as quickly! The police arrested him, now he's a registered s*x offender... Amazes me how many of these people just ruin their lives because they wanted to get laid?? Literally 1 IQ idiots thinking with their d***s...

Final score:

129points

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Libstak 8 months ago

He didn't just "want to get laid". He is a paedophile who attempted to groom a 14 year old child. Don't minimise what he did by having a laugh over how he wrecked his life in a series of bad choices, he is someone who actively ruins the lives of others and he got what he deserved, in fact it should have been much worse.

218points

JimmyBallocks , Negative Space / Pexels Report

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Young lad started in a junior marketing role in the office as part of my team, he was sat at a desk directly in front of the IT dept who had a clear view of his monitor. Within 30 minutes of his induction one of the IT guys calls me over and says 'look at this' - new lad had opened file explorer and was trying to root around the contents of shared drives and servers on the company network. We pulled him to one side and asked him what he thought he was doing, warned him that trying to pry around the systems on your first day was probably not the ideal start. He apologised and promised not to do it again. After he left the room, IT guy and I went back to IT guy's desk and, I s**t you not, in front of our very eyes this lad immediately opened the registry and started trying to access security settings. Two minutes between first warning and firing.

Final score:

128points

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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago

Sadly, he would probably have become, or did become, a very good hacker.

13points

wyoflyboy68 , Kindel Media / Pexels Report

#10

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Boss hired a new woman for help around the office. Her first day she showed up on time and jumped right into helping out. Seemed like a good hire at first, then the police showed up and arrested her for putting her two year old in a home built cage at home that morning and left the kid alone because she didn’t want to pay for day care.

Final score:

126points

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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago

Didn't want to, or couldn't afford to? Let the down votes begin.

125points

Surenu 8 months ago

Honestly, it's an important question. Doesn't excuse what she did, but it does put it into context.

72points

Shelli Aderman 8 months ago

Even if you can’t afford to, which I hear, her choice was STILL child endangerment, and arrest-worthy. 😔

45points

David 8 months ago

They arrested her for DOING it - not for her reasoning of WHY she did it. If someone murd..ers their grandmother, the cops don't care if the reason was because the nursing home was too expensive.

18points

Zedrapazia 8 months ago

When I was a kid around 6, my mother would also leave me alone when she and my father were at work. Of course, I had a lot of toys and got a videogame console later on, putting a kid in a cage is really strange, but is it really that weird to leave your child alone when you work? I'm genuinely asking, please don't be mad with me.

16points

Přemek Marek 8 months ago

She put a TWO year old baby in a CAGE and left it ALONE. Did these details somehow escape you? It does not matter why - this is something you do NOT do. Ever. There is absolutely no explanation that would make it ok. There is absolutely no excuse. While the system may be screwed, that does not make it acceptable.

6points

Keith Lancaster 8 months ago

Either way not acceptable.

6points

Alicia M 8 months ago

I thought the same thing. Was she evil or was she desperate? It was still the wrong decision but it's hard for me to believe someone would do that if they had another choice.

6points

Guess Undheit 8 months ago

To which responses are either decent people admitting the system is screwed up, or sociopaths gleefully using the opportunity to attack someone they don't know.

5points

N H 8 months ago (edited)

Daycare in my area costs $2500 per month, and there is a six month or longer wait-list to get in. Still, at home alone in a cage is not an option.

4points

ZuriLovesYou 7 months ago (edited)

Doesn't excuse leaving her toddler in a freaking cage. Let's not let people off the hook just because they may or may not be broke.

2points

MR 8 months ago

Does it matter?

2points

Charles McChristy 7 months ago

Either way, you don't lock your child in a cage.

1point

Whitefox 8 months ago

In my sociology class, we learnt that people often left toddlers tied to the dining room table with a few bottles within reach because the parents HAD to work and there was no childcare.

1point

MissMePhoenix 8 months ago

Agreed. I also have to wonder where this happened.

0points

Angrykitten 8 months ago

A judge should take that into consideration. But wrong is wrong

0points

tori Ohno 8 months ago

You get an up vote from me.

0points

Corvus 8 months ago

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E.V. 8 months ago

We need better childcare. Daycare fee was probably more than what she was making.

16points

Bewitched One 8 months ago

I know mine was. Luckily I qualified for state help. But when you make minimum wage and daycare is more than minimum wage per hour and you don't get state assistance, there's no way a single parent can do it.

5points

Anna Ekberg 8 months ago

Didn't want to pay or couldnt afford it?

7points

Donna Peluda 8 months ago

I know what she did is wrong but maybe she didn't have money for day care. She might have be been really broke and desperate for a job. Western societies have dangerously low birth rates but raising a child is prohibitively expensive.

6points

Zedrapazia 8 months ago

Switzerland is one of the statistically richest countries. Living here I can see that the difference between being rich enough to literally fly away for holiday 3 times a year and having money problems is having kids. Someone has to do something to take the weight of finances off the parents, not just here but also in other countries. Children are super expensive nowadays, at least in the first world

5points

howdylee 8 months ago

I wanna know how the cops knew. Could NOT have been the first time this happened. Somebody must have called it in, thankfully!

5points

Katie Lutesinger 8 months ago

Good GOD. Have fun sitting in a cage of your own, you horrible, horrible person. It's called a jail cell.

4points

sbj 8 months ago

Such people shouldn't be allowed anywhere around children

4points

BoredPossum 8 months ago

Such people shouldn't be allowed...

1point

Mel Colley 8 months ago

Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Where was the father?

3points

jmdirks 7 months ago (edited)

After reading the comments on this I don't see anyone catching on to a very important issue. She had the cage available to put her child in. The big question is, how often did she consider it necessary to cage her kid. Maybe when she had a date or a night out with the girls. Or maybe when she had a friend over to have s.e.x. Or something as trivial as she just needed a nap and did want to be bothered. Or maybe when she wanted to take a vacation like the "mother" that left her baby with no food or water for ten days and came home to a dead baby. It was just in the news so Google the story. It will make you cry.

1point

ChugChug 8 months ago

Sad. In here daycare is free from age 2 until school. And up until age 2 it's paid maternity leave.

1point

Oskar vanZandt 8 months ago

Surely a responsible (assuming single) parent would have enquired about child care options for her 2yo? Sad that the toddler had to experience that...

1point

Duuuuuuude 7 months ago

A home built cage? As opposed to a store bought cage being more acceptable?

0points

gilded panda 8 months ago

If she was helping as much as she could, it might be a case of not being able to afford it. Well, time for the downvotes

0points

Rosecrucian Roeth 8 months ago

WTF??? No excuse, PERIOD!

0points

TiNaBoNiNa 8 months ago

Wow, that took a left turn.

0points

DarkViolet 8 months ago

😳

0points

WindySwede 8 months ago

Please say that kid got taken care of by a loving home?

0points

Mirolfur Grafarson 6 months ago

How did police find out about the kid, tho? If kid was alone at home, who called them? Seems like a fake story

-1point

UnfinishedThings , Alexander Suhorucov / Pexels Report

#11

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired I started on the same day as another woman. At one point I started cracking a few bad Dad jokes to break the ice a bit. She then said "Oh I've got one" and then proceeded to reel off some of the most racist jokes I've ever heard. She went to lunch and never came back.

Final score:

126points

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Multa Nocte 8 months ago

Ewwwww . . . . . .

49points

Ill-Organization-719 , cottonbro studio / Pexels Report

#12

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Refused to wear proper PPE. The supervisor told him to put it on. He flat out said no, so they fired him.

Didn't even make it to first coffee break. If a guy is that adamant about safety gear on his first day, it isn't a good sign.

Final score:

125points

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Lew k 8 months ago

I tell new hires that PPE is an annoyance every day except the one where it saves you from death or dismemberment.

93points

#13

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Asked the managers daughter if she slept with anyone to get the position she was in and then said how if he was her supervisor he would help her get promoted. I’m sure you could hear a pin drop in that lunch room. We didn’t even know his name. But he never came back from lunch.

nwhiker91 , fauxels / Pexels Report

Final score:

125points

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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago

His name was "Sexual Predator"

112points

#14

Guy was hired contingent on background/credit check. On day three I got a call from HR saying he wasn’t eligible. The store manager who hired him made me fire him. Took him in the office and said… your checks came back negative and ya can’t work here. He started going on about his record had been sealed and the forgery and theft convictions were supposed to be expunged. And then I said… no man, you got bad credit.

Fast forward 3 months. The company dropped the credit check requirement, so the store manager hired him again. Three weeks later they caught him stealing computers.

eshemuta Report

Final score:

118points

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Javelina Poppers 8 months ago

That move was self-inflicted.

60points

#15

I was a warehouse supervisor.

Owner brought in a new forklift driver on Monday.

I asked if he was certified and was told "don't worry about it".

We start loading deliveries and l put my best spotter and inventory guy with the new hire.

First load he clips a post. I give him a verbal warning (standard) and take his spotter aside. Spotter tells me the driver is ignoring instructions. I take driver aside and tell him He Will Listen to his spotter or l will put him on a dolly.

Less than an hour later, I'm standing by the office door, talking to my scheduler, and l hear "no... no stop... STOP NOOO" and a crunch.

Guy backed into a wall.

I walked over and told him to get off the forklift, handed him a dolly, and put him with a stocking team.

I go into my office to do a damage report and a formal write-up. I hear yelling and a huge bang.

Back out onto the dock l go and there's the new guy arguing with four people and one of my forklifts on it's side in the parking lot.

The guy had gotten back on a forklift as soon as my back was turned and had driven it off the dock. (Fortunately at a spot where the dock was only a foot or so off the ground)

I took him to my office and told him to sit his a*s down, called the owner and told him l was firing his new hire with DNR. Owner stated to argue with me until l told him what the damages were going to cost him.

New guy was escorted off the property by two of my semi-pro football players that worked for me.

Never did find out who that clown was related to, there's no way he was certified or qualified for that job.

MicroCat1031 Report

Final score:

117points

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Nicola Mawson 8 months ago

Do not resuscitate? DNR?

28points

crusty54 , Simona Sergi / Unsplash Report

#16

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired They worked in a grocery store and hired a guy to work in the deli. They left him alone for a while, and when they came back, all the rotisserie chickens were missing the skin. The guy said that it looked so good that he ate the skin off of one chicken, and then he pulled it off the rest of them in the hopes that if they all looked the same no one would notice.

Final score:

111points

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Brenda 8 months ago

Not just unhygienic, but plain old dumb! I hope they charged him for every single one since they couldn't sell them!

59points

luckylimper , Kampus Production / Pexels Report

#17

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired I was working in a new restaurant and it was day one where we were going over the menu/wines and we were supposed to show up at 10 am. So we’re all around a table and a guy walks in and the manager stands up, greets the guy, and to my horror it’s my stalker’s brother. Manager walks him out of the room and comes back and tells us he fired him because he was late. I was so relieved and also a little dumbfounded by how random the world can be. I was so afraid that I was going to have to work with someone who would then tell my stalker where I was (had already changed jobs and moved) and it was solved in an instant. The weirdest feeling to be both scared and relieved at the same time.

Final score:

109points

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Nimues Child 8 months ago

You definitely have someone in the Universe looking out for you. Glad it worked out as it did!

37points

Jealous-Network1899 Report

#18

I worked in a small chain retail pharmacy in high school in the 90s. Kid from another school got hired and spent the first 3 hours of his shift telling literally anyone that would listen he didn’t need the job and only got it to steal cologne and cigarettes. We were a pretty tight knit group, and this kid was an a*****e, so someone told the manager, who performed a “random bag check” on all of us at closing time. He found 6 bottles of Fahrenheit and 3 cartons of Parliaments in his backback. He was fired on the spot. Best part is his mom came in the next day screaming at the manager because the kid told her he got fired because the manager told him he didn’t like Indians.

Final score:

109points

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Brenda 8 months ago

Most pharmacies sell/sold cigarettes because they are a high profit item. Many have stopped.

22points

FattusBaccus , cottonbro studio / Pexels Report

#19

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Guy came back from lunch high out of his mind and then we found his instagram video shouting out the company and tagging us while he was smoking out of 3 different devices in his car at the gas station a block away within minutes because it popped up in our social media managers feed.

Final score:

107points

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DarkViolet 8 months ago

Dang!

16points

#20

I work in software development. For new hires, the team will take them out and the available directors will join to make it a joyous experience. So we are walking to the local restaurant together and the new hire starts happily bragging how he’s brought us 100% of his former employer’s code. Application, DevOps, and even from their secretive R&D area. Half the faces are surprised and the others flip from happy-casual to grim-serious. The dir of engineering asks where the code is and the dumbass replies “oh I just loaded it onto my local machine. I’ll have it on the network once I know where to share it”. Dir then whispers something to a lead who heads back to the office. So we order burgers and sit down. 30 minutes later, the director takes a phone call, listens, and hangs up. We walk casually back to the office and the new hire is stopped at the door by security. He’s informed he is being terminated and his theft has been reported to the prior employer. IT boxes up everything and puts red seal tape on all of the boxes. We get interviewed one by one. And poof. By the next morning , it’s like he never existed and was a fever dream.

I don’t know if the other company pressed charges.

winkers Report

Final score:

94points

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Pyla 8 months ago

Oh yeah, they pressed charges.

35points

Impossible-Moose4459 , fauxels / Pexels Report

#21

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired A while ago now (20 years ish) the person who showed up for work was absolutely not the person who was interviewed. Heard a couple different stories for what had happened (either they sent someone else to interview for them or someone stood in their place because they went awol but both to me are far fetched). Never got to the bottom of it and wasn't high enough in the company to learn what happened. But it was definitely weird.

Final score:

92points

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WakandaPanda 8 months ago

I've had a couple of people try to pull this one, when on a Zoom/Teams meeting, their webcam doesn't work, and didn't know what was written in 'their' CV.

20points

stratospaly , Helena Lopes / Pexels Report

#22

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired He lasted 1 day, went for drinks with the team and boss. Commented about the boss's 16 year old daughter then just would not stop. "Is she single" was the last straw. He did not make it to day 2.

This guy was 30 and in an $80k/yr Network Admin job (decent money in 2014).

Final score:

90points

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DarkViolet 8 months ago

Fool.

31points

#23

We hired an office manager. She was the 20-something college graduate daughter of one of our clients. She was professional in demeanor and seemed a perfect fit. All they had to do was sit at the front desk, greet visitors, order office supplies, and just do random, easy office tasks. It was a essentially a receptionist, but we tried to give her a better title, and opportunity to do other things and maybe grow into a better role. The first half of the first day went great. We found out later that afternoon that she was offering to procure one's choice of we*d, e**tasy, or m*th to the staff. At the and of the day, we called her in and asked if she was offering d**gs to the staff, and she fully admitted it, and apologized for not being more discrete. She legit thought we were mad about her lack of discretion, rather than the d**g dealing.

t20six Report

Final score:

87points

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LaserBrain 8 months ago (edited)

Thank God BP censored the word d***s (one time out of two), so that I don't have to know what they're talking about here

57points

CherryManhattan , Shinsuke Ikegame / Flickr Report

#24

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired I can win this. Company hired a new CFO to lead the finance function. Day 1 the FBI raided the building. Apparently the guy was a fraud who was going across the country and sweet talking businesses into his services and swindling them out of all their money. No idea if he used a fake name or how it happened in the background check but that was a wild day. Yes, he was fired.

Final score:

85points

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Brenda 8 months ago

Fired? If the FBI arrested him, getting fired was the least of his worries.

43points

necroticcyst , Scott Webb / Pexels Report

#25

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Dude was asked to change a light bulb in the back and ended up taking down three cameras and taking them home.

Final score:

84points

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Mark 8 months ago

That's true passion for your job!

21points

#26

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Dude I started with during an overnight, locked-in stocking position at Toys R Us went absolutely f*****g mental. He worked about one quarter of the shift, then started talking complete madness, then disappeared entirely. As in, we couldn't find him anywhere. We'd see evidence he was still in the store, but didn't see or hear him at all. After a couple hours of this, he would suddenly leap into whatever aisle we were in and just start SHRIEKING. Or laughing manically. Or literally throwing merchandise at us. Bizarrely, he tried to show up the next day, as if he were unaware of what went down.

The lead guy said that happened A LOT -- dudes just couldn't handle being locked in a silent, empty store all night. "Why'd you think we were hiring three guys at once for a 6-man crew?".

naporeon Report

Final score:

81points

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Michael Vickery 8 months ago

Heck, that would be my dream job. No customers to deal with, a quiet store, and nobody interrupting me while I do my job.

90points

TediousTasks , Andrea Piacquadio / Pexels Report

#27

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired An exec at my company showed up on his first day (not counting orientation) high on opiates and had a 'concealed' firearm that he didn't do a very good job of concealing. Didn't even make it past 11:00 am.

Final score:

81points

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Brenda 8 months ago

WOW! Just... wow!

14points

ClassicVegtableStew Report

#28

We were in a rut and desperately needed people, so my boss told me to lower my standards (commercial driving job and I had disqualified like four candidates, all warranted imo). I said fine, I'll try, and he sends me a student from our driving school (first three days are classroom, last 2 days are for driving.

This man shows up. Late. No uniform (we bought him one). I ask him where his uniform is. Left it at home. I say okay, you can have someone bring it on lunch, let me see your driver's license. He says he also left that at home. I say how do you show up to be a driver on your first day, late, without your uniform and license. He says sorry, he overslept. I fired him on the spot. He cussed me out and walked away.

My boss started to scold me until I told him what happened. He stopped lol.

Final score:

79points

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Brenda 8 months ago

That person obviously didn't want to work

24points

_darkknight_ , Ivan Samkov / Pexels Report

#29

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Stole someone's phone while in the break room putting her stuff away to start her first shift. Right below a security camera, too.

Final score:

77points

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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago

It's unbelievable what some people will try. First day too!

21points

#30

I fired someone on their first day in my department (was dept head) employee came in 30 minutes late. Did not call ahead to say there was a problem etc. I asked what happened, why were they 30 min late? Employee shrugged, sipped her travel mug of tea and said “I just couldn’t get out of bed this morning.” 😳 fired her on the spot.

Onewich Report

Final score:

75points

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Hippopotamuses 8 months ago

Good move.

18points

Colt_kun , Kristina Petrick / Unsplash Report

#31

Trained a guy at a large liquor store, I was a department manager. Nice guy, worked hard, seemed engaged. Sent him home a little early since he was training. Tried to sneak out a handle of vodka on his way out the door, got stopped by security. My only reaction was “really, dude?”.

ornithoid Report

Final score:

73points

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Pyla 8 months ago

Yeet!

14points

#32

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Showed up in pajamas and when walked to the circulation desk, wrinkled her nose and said she thought she wouldn't have to actually talk to people. The position was titled circulation and customer service...

Final score:

72points

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Brenda 8 months ago

Pajamas? And they STILL took her to the desk? Sounds like 2 people should be looking for employment.

35points

#33

Worked at a takeout counter, was training the new guy. Constantly spilled food on his hands and fingers when filling up containers. Decided the best way to clean it off was with his mouth and tongue.. in front of customers.

squatfarts Report

Final score:

72points

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Javelina Poppers 8 months ago

Definitely health department material right there.

26points

#34

Working at a fast food restaurant in my small town and a woman comes in asking for an application. she was well known around not just our town but our whole county and a couple around it for being an addict, but me and the other managers working there at the time decided we’d give her a chance. (two of us are children of addicts and she had kids, so it tugged at a sore spot. we were absolutely not going to judge that woman based on something like that, nor did we think the other businesses were right for not hiring her because of it) she comes in for her first shift and when she showed up, she brought us all food from her other job she worked at another restaurant and we’re all so happy we found such a cool staff member. she’s talkative and kind, you could tell she was definitely just a little off but hey, nobody working a dead end fast food job in a small town is ever all there, right. all is well, until she goes outside to smoke, asks if the smoke breaks are “just for cigarettes”, and then has her son (like mid 20’s) bring her a “goodie bag” so they could sit in her car and smoke. parked right in front of the camera, so we ended up catching her on camera smoking cr*ck with her son, and the real kicker is she didn’t even clock out at all. she sat out there for 20 minutes still clocked in and tried to come back in obviously geeked and didn’t see a problem with that. that was a fun call to make to the store owners to explain why she was being sent home and asked not to come back.

PurpleFlan9554 Report

Final score:

70points

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Javelina Poppers 8 months ago

Addicts are quite adept at playing on your emotions..............speaking from experience of dealing with a severe addict.

42points

#35

He sexually harassed a female colleague who stepped into the HR office immediately. It was on camera, too. He didn't even get to unpack his brand new laptop when he was escorted out.

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Final score:

65points

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Pyla 8 months ago

What on earth crosses men's minds? Is their gland the only driving factor? I think too much free pron on the internet is just giving them testosterone poisoning.

28points

#36

He made it through the work day fine. Then we had a little welcome party for him after work where he proceeded to get completely wasted, walked up to our CEO and started yelling incoherently at him while poking him in the chest with his finger. CEO gently pushed him back asking him to hit out of his personal space but drunk goy staggers backwards until he hit a wall and passed out. He was terminated before he woke up.

ThatScottGuy Report

Final score:

65points

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Javelina Poppers 8 months ago

Hard to read the room when you're blind drunk.

22points

#37

We had a new tech admin start. Around noon he was headed out the back door as the police were coming in the front door. Turns out he didn’t have custody of his kids when he took them from Texas. Termination paperwork was done and approved by 12:30.

ShamusNC Report

Final score:

65points

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Brenda 8 months ago

Yeah, kidnapping is illegal. Take them across state lines and it's a federal offense

25points

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#38

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired New guy was hired as a courier driver. Came in for his first day, and was handed some paperwork to deliver to the nearest city about 20 minutes away. He says “I don’t drive in the city”.

That was literally the job, so he was quickly dismissed.

Final score:

64points

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DarkViolet 8 months ago

What was he expecting to do, fly to the delivery addresses?

32points

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#39

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired He got put on inventory unloading with me and we were getting all sorts of musical equipment in. He started taking all of the drum sticks that we were getting in and sharpening points on them with his knife and then trying to see if he could get one to stick into the wall (it was one of those giant pole barn type warehouses with some sort of plastic lined paper insulation). Eventually someone saw him and walked him out. .

Final score:

61points

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Nimues Child 8 months ago

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12points

#40

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired He tried to hack the company computers and get customers' information.

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Final score:

60points

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Brenda 8 months ago

Hope they prosecuted them!

22points

#41

In Dallas, I saw a new bartender get fired within an hour of starting training. A group of guys paid their tab in cash. She said, "These men are from Spain, they don't tip," then pocketed $5 before giving them their change. She was asked to leave and not come back.

FastOrangeCat Report

Final score:

60points

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gilded panda 8 months ago

I dont know if racist is the right word, but it’s something like racist

13points

#42

Technically it was the second day. I work in a steel foundry and my boss hired a guy last year. First day is orientation and my let this guy and another that was in orientation to leave early to go to Redwing and pick up some required and company paid for boots. The guy shows up the next day wearing sneakers. Says he fell asleep and didn't make it to Redwing. My boss tells him he can't be out in the plant in sneakers. This is 7am so my boss tells him to go home and when Redwing opens at 8:30 get some boots and come back. About noon he isn't back yet and isn't answering his phone. Boss calls Redwing and they say he hasn't been there. Boss tells them not give him boots if he shows up. An hour later he calls my boss saying Redwing wouldn't give him any boots. When my boss asked him why he didn't go at 8:30 like he was told he gave the same I fell asleep excuse. He was crying about how nobody will give him a chance when my boss told him he wasn't wasting anymore time with him. You were given a chance and blew it because you couldn't be bothered to pick up free work boots.

DasGoat Report

Final score:

58points

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Nimues Child 8 months ago

That kind of attitude would be a danger in a steel foundry. Wow!

32points

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#43

Worked as a steward in university for the students union event team. At the end of the year we had an official ball (black tie) and unofficial campus party in our main campus. The nightclub was underground but the party overflowed across the whole area above.

I worked both nights (cash and new to leadership). Night 1 this new guy turns up for his literal first shift drunk. He was stumbling and could have been mistaken for someone suffering from a concussion with how he spoke. Sent him home and said don't come back.

The next day (at the black tie event) he came back for his 2nd shift. He had no idea he had been fired the night before.

Needless to say we had good fun explaining the situation to him.

MobileSeparate398 Report

Final score:

58points

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Ken Beattie 8 months ago

I hope they could actually smell alcohol, and he was genuinely drunk. Diabetic who is too low on sugar can present quite like this.

8points

#44

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Dude interviewed well, showed up on his first Monday at the office... drunk as f**k! Slurring, stumbling, trying to use the coffee machine and just spewing coffee all over the floor. Security walked him out within the first hour.

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Final score:

57points

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Brenda 8 months ago

Some are born ignorant, others practice stupidity like there's a prize for it!

29points

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#45

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Dude started a food fight in the cafeteria on his first break. Custodian found a tuna sandwich stuffed in his locker. Was out before lunch.

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Final score:

57points

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LaserBrain 8 months ago

Well that's a classy way to go.

11points

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#46

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired New driver at a trucking company backed a trailer into the terminal manager's new Mercedes on his first, and last, day.

Also, after delivering his last load for the day but before returning to the yard, a trainee stopped at a truck stop, came out with a case of beer, and tried to get back into the truck with said beer. It's a violation of federal regulations to have alcohol in a commercial vehicle (unless it is the cargo being transported as part of a manifested shipment), so the trainer reported it to management and he was fired on the spot.

Final score:

56points

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Brenda 8 months ago (edited)

Obviously wasn't a good driver. And I have to ask why they didn't stop on the way home?

3points

#47

Turned up to work drunk. Apparently his dad came round before work to celebrate him getting a job, clearly a great role model.

robbob19 Report

Final score:

51points

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jmdirks 7 months ago

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#48

Pretended he didn't have two hit-and-run accidents in the employee parking lot by claimining he didn't even own a car. He called a friend and planned to sneak his car keys out to the friend so it could be driven down the street for him to get to later.

He apparently aroused suspicion that he was up to something when he asked a few of his new co-workers if there was an exit to the building that couldn't be observed from the security desk.

anotherdumbcasualty Report

Final score:

50points

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Brenda 8 months ago

Need more information on this. Was this the first day they worked or before they were hired? A little confused.

4points

#49

Had a photographer not have his camera charged when a celebrity showed up and he had to make them wait while He ran back to get a new battery.

SnooCats1906 Report

Final score:

45points

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Brenda 8 months ago

He should have had at least 1 extra battery on him.

17points

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#50

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing. He was just sitting there doing absolutely nothing for like four hours. While everyone else was working their a**e off.

Final score:

43points

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Briards Are Best 8 months ago

I have to ask - was he inducted? Trained? Did he have access to systems?

13points

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#51

In the industry I work in, there is a rumor that someone got fired before they even showed up on their first day. They were having a party with a free bar... And he apparently got so wasted he started to talk about how he wouldn't respect female leaders. I think he even managed to say to the face of a female boss(who would effectively be his boss), that he would never respect her.

He was told that he didn't have to show up on the first day.

craigularperson Report

Final score:

27points

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David 8 months ago

People who lose their brain with alcohol should not drink alcohol. This is a topic of many of these posts.

6points

#52

Working at a level 2 trauma center. New hire comes in quite giddy and wearing a mini skirt, long chains around her neck and long earrings. Breasts literally falling out of her top. High heels. She was given 3 new pairs if scrubs identifying her position by color. She didn't like them.

CrystalWeim Report

Final score:

25points

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Becca not Becky 8 months ago

Why on earth would you wear that in a hospital? So many risks of injury, infection, etc.

3points

#53

I was a foreman on a residential framing crew. New guy shows up 15 minutes late. Stands at his car and has a snack and a drink. Then he starts slow walking ( really slow!) over to the home we were building. When he finally gets there, I tell him “Just get back in your car, we can’t use you.” No way in hell we are going to carry any worthless slack-a*s on our crew. We had pride in our work.

He didn’t even make a second on the payroll!

kiddestructo Report

Final score:

23points

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Glen Ellyn 8 months ago

Back when I worked in retail, I could tell which new hires were going to last and which were not simply by watching how they moved around the store while doing their job. The slow-walking amblers never lasted more than a few shifts. Those that moved with purpose and "on a mission" were the ones who succeeded. Let's face it - most retail work is very fast-paced and you've got to move!

8points

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#54

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired New hire's first day as an usher at a movie theatre. I was training them and he just vanished. Showed again a few hours later. Turns out he went and watched a whole movie, from beginning to end.
"We were slow and you said there wasn't much more to train on, and you said we can watch stuff on shift" was the excuse.
He severely misunderstood my "when it's slow, you have some free time" comments. Like man, there's more to cover and we don't just watch a whole movie. If there isn't much to do and the right folks are on shift, you can watch a few minutes here and there. As an usher, it's assumed if you're not seen, you're off doing your job somewhere (and we're on radio if needed).

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Final score:

23points

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Ken Beattie 8 months ago

In some ways, I don't think the guy should be fired. This is at least partly on the boss for what he said getting misinterpreted. If the guy apologized and said he misunderstood I'd be inclined to give him a week to see if he is actually ok. But I'd be keeping a better eye on him for that week.

11points

#55

I work at a facility that breeds rodents for use in laboratory testing. The vast majority of our animals are used in medical research, so the biggest concern for us after animal welfare is biosecurity: we *cannot* send our customers animals that may already be infected with any kind of pathogen, because it could throw off their results. This means that the process for entering our work area (referred to as "the barrier") is...different than most places.

To enter the barrier, you must first go into a locker room, strip completely naked, store your stuff in a locker, and then enter a shower stall at the end of the room. The shower stall is an interlock: is has a door into the locker room ("street side") and a door on the opposite side that opens into a dressing room inside the barrier. When you open the street side shower door, the barrier side door locks, the shower automatically turns on, and a timer starts running. The barrier door will not unlock until the timer runs out and the shower turns off. Then you are able to enter the barrier side dressing room and dress in sterile scrubs provided by the company. Other than prescription eyewear and prescription hearing aids, you are not allowed to bring *anything* through the shower with you. No cell phones, no jewelry, nothing. Any items you might need to bring inside (like prescription medication) must be approved by management and then sent inside through a chemical decontamination port.

When you first get hired, you go through three days of onboarding training before you enter the barrier for the first time. The shower system and what you are and aren't allowed to bring inside with you are explained in very clear terms. Also explained in very clear terms: if you are caught bringing something through the showers that isn't eyewear or hearing aids, that is an automatic termination. No warning, no write-up, no second chance.

So anyway. New guy gets hired. Goes through onboarding. Learns the list of things he can bring through the shower (his own body, eyewear, hearing aids) and the things he can't (literally *everything else*). Time for his first day in the barrier! He showers in, gets dressed, and exits the dressing room to meet the supervisor who is going to show him around.

Supervisor sees that new guy is still wearing a gold chain around his neck.

New guy is instructed to turn around, shower back out, and report to the front office, where he is immediately fired. Total time inside the barrier: about five minutes. The supervisor was the only person inside who even got a chance to see him.

Lachwen Report

Final score:

22points

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Upstaged75 8 months ago

Did everyone else miss that he went through THREE DAYS of training about the procedure and that it's explained in very clear terms that there are no exceptions. Quit trying to justify him breaking the rules!

21points

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#56

Had a new dude at the restaurant I work in show up 40 mins late, alright no prob it happens but later in the day when everything seemed fine and dandy my boss was about to complete putting up the new schedule with him on it and i guess in the corner of his eye he sees the new dude swigging some tequila straight from the bottle in the liquor room on our camera feed. confronted him and told him to get the f out.

LonelyHunting Report

Final score:

22points

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#57

He kind of fired himself. Hired as the President of a live entertainment company. The owner threw a big welcome meeting in the enormous lobby. Breakfast served and the whole nine yards. Literally a million dollar salary -easy.
Dude never showed. Was a running joke for years.

funlovefun37 Report

Final score:

21points

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Ken Beattie 8 months ago

Got a better offer in the meantime?

4points

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#58

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired I've been a manager for over a decade in the same company (retail) and I've gotten to fire some people over the years. When they're new, it's usually normal b******t - excessive call-outs, inability to do basic work, weird drama/outbursts. But I once got to fire a gal on their first day for straight-up stealing a customer's credit card and then using it to order pizza to their home address with their real name!!

One of my long-term employees called me a few hours after this new girl's first shift to let me know the owner of a stolen credit card came by the store to tell us the new girl took her credit card but that the owner got it back. Thr customer's card was missing after she visited our store and a few hours later, a order was placed to a local pizza joint, which, after the card owner explained what happened, the people at the resturant gladly gave her the address. Apparently, she went to this girl's home, demanded the card back, and she actually gave it! (The cardholder's boyfriend said she usually gets ghetto and likes to fight and was surprised she didn't whoop this new gal's a*s!) After, the customer came by the store and told us everything. We gave the customer a good gift card on the house to make up for it. Customer wasn't even really mad, just wanted us to know and to get that new hire fired.

I called this new girl and called her out and she starts sobbing on the phone, confessing through sobs, going on about her issues, etc. My favorite was, "I thought it was a gift card!" (lol whut??) I was all, "Yeaaaah, but you're not gonna work here no more." Later, when I watched our security cams, she straight swiped it with no f***s given when I turned away for a second. The WEIRDEST part was she would still come by our store ALL THE TIME after acting like we were cool AF with her LOL.

Final score:

21points

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Sweet Taurus 8 months ago

My husband's ex wife embezzled a couple grand from the gas station she worked at. Not only that she also took gas, food, etc without paying for it. She did this in a town so small that gas station she worked at was THE ONLY gas station for 20 miles. After she got fired she would still go in there several times a week like it was nothing. Personally I don't think it's because she doesn't give AF, I think it's because she is too stupid to know any better.

1point

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#59

Worked at a full-service gas station and the guy pretended the customers ran over his foot multiple times. Not great freaking customers out before they make a purchase.

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Final score:

21points

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Papa 8 months ago

We had a temp who looked at me like I'd told him to do something horrible and disgusting when I asked him to hand me a shovel (he was in the van where the shovels were and I was on the ground). That was his last day.

6points

#60

Working at a burger place outside of Pittsburgh, some lady who had applied for a job at our place came in wondering why the manager wasn't there to do the interview......I informed her that he had an emergency and needed to reschedule, and apologized but she got nasty with me, saying she NEEDED a job and needed to work, and I understood, but when I excused myself to handle a situation with a customer, she got pissed at that. Manager hired her, despite my misgivings.

Day 1, she began hitting up her coworkers for money. She then hit me up and then threatened me. She was immediately fired. Less than an hour in.

SomerHimpson12 Report

Final score:

21points

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Seadog 7 months ago

So often bosses don't listen to workers. One job my wife had would walk prospects past her office. That was all she needed to "know". Every time they hired someone she told them not to, that person would quickly show them they made a mistake.

1point

#61

He was training in a warehouse, and was near a bunch of bubble wrap. He popped a bunch of d**k shapes into the bubble wrap. When the supervisor came back it was a really disappointing conversation and he was walked out.

xTraxis Report

Final score:

20points

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Passerby 8 months ago

This one seems rather tame compared to the other horrors I have read here.

17points

#62

Not terribly exciting but my only one that was one shift and done. Young guy I hired to work in a small retail setting. I trained him (everything seemed promising) and then scheduled him to work with a trusted, reliable employee. After the shift, she told me he hadn't done any actual work the entire shift... He went to his car in the parking lot and in full view of the other employee, thoroughly cleaned it out. Then he came back into the store and took a nap. When I spoke to him about it, he didn't have an explanation. So that was that.

eyes_serene Report

Final score:

20points

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Spittnimage 8 months ago

New hire: What? I supposed to do stuff in the store?

2points

#63

In the time it took me to put up fire drill notices on each landing, he had run down the street with some interns for lunch, crushed a six pack, smashed it all over the garage floor, and slipped back into his office to hide.

Since there are cameras in those areas, it didnt take long for him to just ask my boss to pretend he never showed up.

hotstepper77777 Report

Final score:

20points

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#64

She took a phone call while on the floor and continued the phone call for an hour while still working. We were kind of dumbfounded because she helped customers and kept working and would say “oh hold on” to her phone conversation to do so. But like, we can’t have someone do that, so she had to go. Was a good folder of shirts though.

Aprikoosi_flex Report

Final score:

19points

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kaycee14 8 months ago

Where was the supervisor who had the authority to tell her to put her phone away?

4points

Captain_Coco_Koala Report

#65

Did a minor safety violation 15 minutes after starting; got pointed out by the foreman - told the foreman that NOBODY tells him how to do his job so he stormed off.

Management had a go at us because they were finding it hard to get new staff :(.

Final score:

19points

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David 8 months ago

Even if you own your own business - other people tell you how to do your job. Licenses, permits, health and safety codes, accounting and tax requirements etc.

4points

#66

I was a sandwich artist at a Subway back when we were called "sandwich artists".

The store I had been working at closed and I took whatever job I could find. I did the math down to the hour and knew exactly how many hours I would need to work to make rent plus have $250 for food and maybe a beer.

It was on this last day that it happened. My shift was a closing one, I was scheduled until 10:45PM. My plan was to walk out and quit at 7. I did not feel bad, for the owner was a very condescending and overall bad person.

She had hired this new guy named Eddie. Eddie was supposed to show up after the lunch shift for his first day of training. Eddie, though, was late. The owner called him up and he answered. She asked him where he was, and he said home. She told him he was supposed to be at the Subway. He said he forgot that was today, but he'd be right in, as he lives just a few blocks away.

Fifteen minutes later Eddie walks in. He's got long hair worn long, dirty hippie clothes, and flip flops. But that's not what you noticed about Eddie. What you noticed was his eyes weren't just bloodshot, they appeared to be blood. And the reek of weed was so strong on him one would smell it when he opened the door before he stepped a foot in.

The owner told him to go home, take a shower, and come back with real shoes on. Eddie left.

He came back a half hour later with shoes on, yet somehow smelled even more strongly of weed. It was overpowering. It was, above all, unappetizing. The owner sent him home and told him not to come back. He asked if he was getting paid for the day, and that just made her angry. After that I felt bad and couldn't bring myself to walk out on that shift, leaving her alone in the store.

I finished my shift, told her I was quit, and never went to that Subway ever again. Nor, not surprisingly, did I ever see Eddie again, though it's entirely possible that at times I had smelt him.

SpaceForceAwakens Report

Final score:

18points

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Lew k 8 months ago

Honestly tho. Subway lost the plot when they stopped hiring stoners. You want a good sandwich you let the high guy make it. It is known.

7points

#67

I was working in production at a local TV station, and a new guy told the morning show meteorologist that his wife thought about him when they had sex.

The guy was only there like 2 hours before that happened, and he was immediately shown the door.

zingo-spleen Report

Final score:

18points

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Pheebs 8 months ago

So many of these stories revolve around poor impulse control.

2points

#68

They told the boss who had just hired them and was telling the new hire how they wanted the job done, that the boss was wrong. The new hire then proceeded to tell the boss how they were going to do job. They were there less than 2 hrs.

This was a job for drafting plans.

d_Ubermensch Report

Final score:

18points

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M O'Connell 8 months ago

Even if the way they do things is profoundly caveman-levels of stupid, you do it their way for at least a couple of weeks, then offer a "suggestion for process improvement" and demonstrate the how your way might improve things. When I started at my job our process for obtaining quotes from a particular vendor was to use a courier to deliver hard copy engineering prints to them. After witnessing this full process I called the vendor and asked them if it would be possible to email them a PDF instead of sending a courier, their response was that they would STRONGLY prefer an emailed PDF. Apparently my predecessor felt that emails and faxes were the same, in that quality degraded when you sent a document that way...

8points

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#69

A woman in her 40s and myself in my 20s were hired for a cold calling telephone desk job in an office in Mountain View CA

On our first day we were introduced to the 20 people in the office. We were assigned desks. The owner disappeared (to take a phone call IIRC).

I'm sitting there with no computer, no printed calling list. Just a desk and a phone.

I find and open the yellow pages circa 1995 and begin calling companies to set sales / demonstration and pricing appointments. That's the job. I had done it elsewhere.

The owner eventually enters the room and awakens my co-worker (with her head on her desk) the 2nd time -- and he escorts her out.

He was impressed i had begun without first being issued a calling list.

Final score:

18points

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Pyla 8 months ago

I had to cold call as a banker. It's not fun, but it's not rocket surgery.

6points

#70

He decided to see what would happen if he put a Dykem paint marker into a bearing press. Management frowned upon that.

ryanh666 Report

Final score:

18points

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Javelina Poppers 8 months ago

OMG, Dykem is great for it's intended purpose, absolutely horrible for anything else especially if you get it on your skin or clothes.

7points

VeryCanadianCanadian Report

#71

Worked for a trucking company. New guy...first hour.. didn't secure one of the "legs" of the trucks' shipping containers....while unloading, it tipped over with a giant KABOOM. Broken container and smashed contents.

Well...it was nice working with ya.

Final score:

18points

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#72

Temp wore dress shoes to a demolition site. Steel toes are a requirement. Didn’t even get through orientation. Was sent packing 20 mins after he got there.

FlatLecture Report

Final score:

18points

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Another Panda 8 months ago

Steel toe safety shoes are an interesting conundrum. On the one hand, they can protect your toes. On the other hand, if what hits them is too powerful, heavy, etc, they will literally slice your toes off. Ugh.

3points

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#73

Boss hired a temp. In the first 20 minutes he emptied her candy jar. Like took every single piece. He then asked to take lunch at 10am and she told him not to come back.

boringcranberry Report

Final score:

17points

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#74

50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired First day of training class of about 30 folks , one is a big big guy, training is in an old elementary school with bathroom stalls to size. I see guy struggling with stalls over lunch break. About an hour after lunch he poops his pants. Tries to play it off for like 10 minutes, but like dude you s**t your pants we can smell that. Gets up and leaves without a word after people complaining for a while. Still feel bad for him.

Final score:

17points

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Brenda 8 months ago

They have full size stalls in schools, dude

5points

#75

Boss allowed worker to start desk job while his p**s test was evaluated. Test passed but the sample temperature was room temp not body temp. Obviously used someone else’s sample so he was gone before lunch.

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Final score:

16points

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Javelina Poppers 8 months ago

He coulda been dead for all you know.

4points

#76

She was asked to do a spot sweep of the drive in parking lot. Went outside with a broom and dust pan for two minutes, she then came back inside and walked up to the general manager and held out the broom and dust pan and proclaimed “I don’t sweep”. He reached into his wallet handed her $5 and proceeded to tell her to go home and threw her paperwork in the trash.

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Final score:

16points

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TheElementalGod️️ (He/him) 8 months ago

well, what job was it for? was sweeping in the job's description?

2points

#77

Said they knew InDesign. First day on job, clearly had never even seen InDesign before.

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Final score:

15points

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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 8 months ago (edited)

A lot of places integrate the programs involved in the interview process. You have to prove you know it before they hire you. Clearly this wasn't done here, I bet it was after this though!

2points

#78

Drank during the welcome lunch after the boss questioned if drinking at lunch was a good idea. Dude said sure not a problem.

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Final score:

15points

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Ken Beattie 8 months ago

How much did he drink? One beer? Five, ten?

0points

#79

We build pipelines, it's highly skilled welding, we had a guy Makita cap (grind the ever loving p**s out of) all his finished product. Huge no no because it can effect the integrity of the pipe and brings into question everything we produce, he was fired in his first 6 hours.

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Final score:

11points

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David 8 months ago

I'm not a welder but I've been around pipe welding in both nuclear power plants and oil refineries. For places like that they take it very seriously. Very little grinding needed when done properly. Sometimes they do inspection X-rays after every single pass. I am an okay farm welder fixing things on our farm but that stuff is on a whole other level.

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Two_rolling_black_eyes 8 months ago (edited)

Every time I see this posts I have to share my aunt. She got promoted to manager at a shoe store. First day, she emptied the register and tried to flee to Mexico. Didn't make it. Edit: The take was less than her new weekly salary.

11points

Michael Largey 8 months ago

I had a job where I made a critical mistake immediately on showing up the first day but didn't get fired. The critical mistake was showing up.

8points

Ken Beattie 7 months ago

I've heard of people making critical mistakes early on, like ramming forklifts into the loading dock door, smashing a car, etc. But I don't recall anyone being fired for them. I assume they were all genuine mistakes and the workplaces have some sort of insurance to cover them.

1point

Bec 8 months ago

For some of the more ridiculous ones, you have to show that you are actively looking for employment to stay on unemployment. If you have the misfortune of getting hired, just screw around and get fired ASAP.

5points

Ken Beattie 7 months ago

I was thinking the same thing. Especially for the ones like turning up to work in pajamas or just sitting at the desk not doing anything all day. They seem like deliberate, non-destructive actions that would get them fired but not in serious trouble. Perfect for getting sacked, but still staying on unemployment benefit.

2points

Donna Peluda 8 months ago

cook at local pub on his first day doing a taste test Turns up with a friend to help him. kept pouring himself beer from the tap. Argues with his friend who leaves. Served chicken wings that were still frozen, when the client complains he refused to serve him any more food. Friend returns, they pop out to smoke weed in the back garden. Peed on the flower bed, served all the burgers burnt, did lines in the kitchen, friend askes the owner to pay him directly because cook owes him money for the d***s. owner tells them to leave Cook freaks out and starts picking a fight with the guy who complained about wings saying he made him lose the job. By now the owner and other locals are throwing them out. Cook gets on his electric scooter and loses control and rams into a car smashing his face. D**g dealer friend leaves. We call the ambulance but but the time the ambulance comes he's gone, there's blood everywhere. 2 hours later the d**g dealer comes and askes to be paid....

4points

Michael Vickery 8 months ago

You hear about people who struggle to find a job, then you read about these jokers, and you wonder.

2points

ZGutr 8 months ago (edited)

1: New guy comes in, get a desk and stuff to read with info he needs. Two hours later, "anyone seen the new guy?" he just disappeared. He went home, we never heard of him again. 2: Same company, years later a guy -6 months on the job- does not show up. Not the next day, not the day after. Never answered calls or email (corporate as well as private). We knocked on his home door, nothing. So we blocked his phone and accounts, and filed a missing persons report at the police. Weeks later we heard he was admitted into a closed mental hospital (not by choice). felt weird for a long time.

2points

Sleepy Panda 8 months ago

Can you clean this up to remove all of the duplicates?

2points

David Paterson 8 months ago (edited)

They did. Thanks.

2points

Meagan Glaser 7 months ago

I saw someone put their head under the ice cream machine at DQ and open the tap, trying to chug soft serve. They got fired for "stealing product" but to me the mess was the problem, blech

0points

Danish Susanne 7 months ago

My boss hired a new lawyer and the day after he started he fell off his chair, because he was to drunk to stay seated. Didn't last for more than those two days.

0points

DaveC 7 months ago

A business coach I follow puts it simply, Hire Slowly, Fire Quickly. Take your time with interviews and trainings to make sure that person is the right fit for your business/industry. After that, if there are issues, Was there an Interview Error, Was there a Training Error or does the Applicant Really Not Want a Job? A distribution center I worked at used to say, We don't fire people, we promote them to Customer.

0points

Celtic Pirate Queen 7 months ago

I was hired as the Controller for a manufacturing company. Unbeknownst to me (and without my input) the owner had hired "MY" assistant. She was a f*cking nightmare from day one. I came back from lunch and she had changed the in office stereo to some absolutely foul languaged rap SH*T. I informed her that this was a place of business, not her living room and to please not change the station again (it was set to Smooth Jazz). Day two, I was in the warehouse when the payroll packet arrived - ADDRESSED TO ME, and she took it upon herself to open it and was basically reviewing all the employees salary information. Oh, hell no. I stayed late that night to catch up on some financials and realized one of the forms I needed was stored on her computer. So I go to log in and SHE HAD CHANGED THE PASSWORD ON A COMPANY COMPUTER. The next morning I asked her for the password. This f*cking 21 y/o tells me that she was ALWAYS told to NEVER divulge a password. See next:

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Celtic Pirate Queen 7 months ago (edited)

NEXT: So I explained that only applied to her PERSONAL equipment and that AS HER SUPERVISOR I had every right to the password. She still refused. I called the owner and DEMANDED she come down to the office and fire this idiot. I had already fired her, but she refused to leave. So, the owner fired her. As dumbass was leaving she throws out, "I would never feel comfortable working with Michelle anyway. She's obviously a racist". I immediately countered with "the color of your skin makes absolutely no difference to me whatsoever. The fact you are obviously a complete moron and have no idea how a business is run is my ONLY issue with you". She filed for unemployment, which I declined. In talking with her case worker I laid it all out and she was like "Oh, yeah. You definitely had the right to fire her". And her claim was denied. I think I got an ulcer in just those 3 days.

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Mirolfur Grafarson 7 months ago (edited)

Had a racist and bitter man working with me for a year. We went to annual party ans he was posting on his facebook account how everyone from company sucks and many other xenophonic stuff, how he cant be friends with *** or *** people. Had a public profile. Also, praising loudly attack on Muslims in New Zealand 2019. as something that is good for human race and needs to happen more often. Very clumsy at work also. Plus, bad hygiene. Jesus, sometimes I wonder how did he last for almost a year...

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Ubiquitous 7 months ago

Had someone literally fall asleep during day 1 training. He ended up being there for like a year

0points

ZuriLovesYou 7 months ago

How can literal adults act like this?

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kath morgan 7 months ago

I’ve noticed that a lot of people need to be handheld through any job and can’t/won’t do it independently. Either they do nothing unless directly instructed, or they try but don’t seek information or ask questions so they do strange things. I’ve got one at the moment who never puts things in the right places. She won’t read labels or ask where the right place is? Just puts it somewhere random and calls the job done. She won’t pay attention to pricing policy and prices weird things at random amounts. She accepts donations of things we don’t take, and will give customers wrong information rather than say “I don’t know, let me check with someone else”. It’s really grinding my gears. If you are not sure what to do, ask! Christ!

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John Dilligaf 8 months ago

In the Army. The battalion commander needed a new driver. Friend got the job. His very first day on the job he neglects to fill up the vehicle and runs out of gas as he's driving the commander around.

0points

Olli Hawk 8 months ago

This dude actually wasn’t fired yet, but I’m sure he will be soon because he joked about another employee cheating on girls, in front of his wife, screamed at me and caused a scene because I was holding a cat by its scruff, dropped a hamster, touched my thighs to “brush the dog hair off” and yelled at puppies for chewing on each other

0points

Hakitosama 7 months ago

And where does this lovely charming man work exactly? Just out of curiosity 😑🔪

1point

Olli Hawk 8 months ago

I work at an abuse relief shelter, some lady smacked and screamed at a dog because it accidentally bit her finger while she was feeding him a treat, well then the dog got scared, and ACTUALLY bit her (after she screamed at him) and she got eight stitches and was fired

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Petra Schaap 8 months ago

just after i moved to this town i took all kind of temp jobs. Had to clean a newly build school. Started vacuumcleaning one place. 30 minutes in, the girl that had to vacuumclean the other place comes to me and asked me if i could get her vacuumcleaner started. I pressed the big button and there you go. Next day, she wasnt there. I asked the woman in charge and she said "are you really surprised that i told her not to come in?" yeah not really.

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Two_rolling_black_eyes 8 months ago (edited)

11points

Michael Largey 8 months ago

I had a job where I made a critical mistake immediately on showing up the first day but didn't get fired. The critical mistake was showing up.

8points

Ken Beattie 7 months ago

1point

Bec 8 months ago

5points

Ken Beattie 7 months ago

2points

Donna Peluda 8 months ago

4points

Michael Vickery 8 months ago

You hear about people who struggle to find a job, then you read about these jokers, and you wonder.

2points

ZGutr 8 months ago (edited)

2points

Sleepy Panda 8 months ago

Can you clean this up to remove all of the duplicates?

2points

David Paterson 8 months ago (edited)

They did. Thanks.

2points

Meagan Glaser 7 months ago

I saw someone put their head under the ice cream machine at DQ and open the tap, trying to chug soft serve. They got fired for "stealing product" but to me the mess was the problem, blech

0points

Danish Susanne 7 months ago

My boss hired a new lawyer and the day after he started he fell off his chair, because he was to drunk to stay seated. Didn't last for more than those two days.

0points

DaveC 7 months ago

0points

Celtic Pirate Queen 7 months ago

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Celtic Pirate Queen 7 months ago (edited)

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Mirolfur Grafarson 7 months ago (edited)

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Ubiquitous 7 months ago

Had someone literally fall asleep during day 1 training. He ended up being there for like a year

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ZuriLovesYou 7 months ago

How can literal adults act like this?

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kath morgan 7 months ago

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John Dilligaf 8 months ago

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Olli Hawk 8 months ago

0points

Hakitosama 7 months ago

And where does this lovely charming man work exactly? Just out of curiosity 😑🔪

1point