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People Are Sharing Stories About How “That One Coworker” Got Fired, And They’re Wild (30 Answers)
Interview
Having a coworker get laid off or fired can be difficult. You wonder how to act and what to say, and you worry about your own job security. If it was a close friend, you may even feel lonely afterwards.
In some cases, however, a coworker getting fired comes as no surprise. You may have suspected it would happen sooner or later, or maybe even inevitably saw it coming due to various reasons. So when someone posed a question “How did that one coworker get fired?”, the stories started rolling in one by one, each better and funnier than the previous one. Below we wrapped up the most interesting ones!
We also reached out to Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, the CEO of Disaster Avoidance Experts and best-selling author of seven books, including a global bestseller Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters. He was happy to share some insights into how getting fired affects employees long term and how to see the positive side of it. Scroll down for the full interview!
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#1
Apparently he had been getting into those pickup artist classes and books b******t and how to be a real man wankery. Some female colleague disrespected his manliness by asking him to clarify a work issue or something that offended him so during a conference meeting he just got up, walked around the desk, and slapped her so hard that her head bounced of the table knocking her out and fracturing her jaw. His ring also gashed her cheek and damaged her eye. He then sat back down and tried to casually continue on with the meeting. He didn't understand why we called the police as well as the ambulance and why we wouldn't let him leave the room. He is in gaol now hopefully being sodomised like the little wankstain b***h he is.
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
"What do you mean I'm under arrest for assault? I'm just following the book!"
FluffyPanda 2 years ago
Woooooow can you say… fragile masculinity? 😐 dude really tried to continue the meeting like he didn’t just draw blood. The audacity is insane
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I'm wondering what his plea at his trial was. "Not guilty due to testosteronic privilege"?
Joshua David 2 years ago
Is this real? What decade or country did this happen? More details please.
Panda Bear 2 years ago
Guessing England based on the wording, coworker could be from a country that has a lot of misogyny
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Scott Rackley 2 years ago
I'm imagining my co workers witnessing that. When Police arrived I'm sure the story would be he "tripped" going back to his chair. Several times.
NoNamePanda 2 years ago
If this happened to a member of my family -male or female- he'd wish the police caught him first...
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I've never read one of those pickup books or watched any videos, but I can't imagine any of them actually recommend hitting a woman to show dominance. And certainly not hard enough to knock her unconscious.
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#2
He had this job for several years. Nobody really liked him. Maybe because he told them he had the highest IQ of any of them. (he also worked the lowest labor grade job). I never talked to him much, but around the pandemic, I mentioned about the shortages. He started telling me he was ready for everything to crash with a bunch of silver coins and some gold. I was okay with our conversation until he started with white supremacy s**t. A few days later, a new guy he was training asked the boss to put him with someone else. He was Hispanic and the dude had started telling my that white people were superior because they were more intelligent. He got called in to speak with HR and he told the (black) HR manager the same thing. That's how he got fired.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago (edited)
You'd think he'd have had the sense to keep a lid on his horrible beliefs if only for the sake of self-preservation, but then racism and extreme dumbassery do go hand in hand.
A P 2 years ago
After a certain carrot colored individual got elected, a lot of these jackasses thought they could say their venomous beliefs out loud and not suffer any consequences for it.
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iBlank 2 years ago
every time I hear someone proclaim they have a superior IQ, I just assume they believe everything their mother tells them
John L. Myers IV 1 year ago
The bad thing is he'll never see the irony of his being so stupid he got himself fired.
Jaybird3939 2 years ago
White Supremacists believe the sh*t they spew is so true that no one (especially inferior beings) should get upset about it, after all, it's the truth! B*tches
April Pickett 2 years ago
I'd be happy that he didn't show back up with a gun. (This is our world.)
BlueEyesWhiteDragon 2 years ago
I'm sure he read that his IQ was in the 1st percentile and took that to mean he was a genius.
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Planned an armed robbery with her boyfriend on the phone. On the work phone. While on the clock. What about the boyfriend, I heard nobody ask? In jail at the time. On a monitored phone call.
Shop S-Mart, folks
Michael Largey 2 years ago
A great way of keeping an unwanted boyfriend in jail. The down-side? Well, ...
Dr. Gleb explained that losing a job can leave you feeling like a ship lost at sea, with waves of psychological effects washing over you. “Some common reactions include feelings of shock, disbelief, anger, and even shame. It's crucial to recognize and address these emotions, lest they fester and become a hindrance to your personal and professional growth.”
To navigate this emotional maelstrom, Dr. Gleb’s advice is to consider seeking support from friends, family, or even a professional counselor. “Remember, even the most accomplished professionals have weathered setbacks and emerged stronger.” So, he argues, it’s best to embrace the resilience within and set sail towards new horizons with confidence and determination.
#4
US military. Guy in my squadron was getting a general discharge for bad behavior like missing appointments, mouthing off, refusing to adhere to uniform standards, that sort of thing. (For anyone not military, anything other than an honorable discharge means you don't qualify for veteran's benefits and there's a little mark on your background check.) Still, a general discharge isn't the end of the world and was the best possible option for this guy. So all his paperwork was signed, bags were packed, and our first sergeant was escorting him to the airport to fly home. You know what he did at the airport? Punched the first sergeant in the face. So instead of flying home with a slap on the wrist, guess who got shipped off to military prison to await a court martial. Moron.
sharyn turnicky 2 years ago
I'd say dumb as a sack of hammers, except hammers are so much smarter
BlackestDawn 2 years ago
Not sure hammers are smarter but they are hundreds of times more useful.
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Zaach 2 years ago (edited)
People often do not understand the various discharges: Honorary - you did good (or never got caught) General - You kinda screwed up but no one got hurt Undesirable - obvious - usually pre- or in-service drugs Bad Conduct - You done f****d up and ended up in the brig then fired Dishonorable - You done f****d up, people got hurt and you will spend even more time in the brig - sometimes, they line you up and shoot you (the last execution I heard of was some poor 18yo grunt who deserted in WWII)
Chris Maxfield 1 year ago
Private Slovik. Martin Sheen played him in a TV movie, "The Execution of Private Slovik", in the early 1970s.
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Justin Thyme 2 years ago
A General under Honorable is upgradable after 5 years-- A Dishonorable remains a permanent federal felony for life
Jennifer Biness 2 years ago
I'm confused: if he was discharged, then he was a civilian right? So why military prison and a court martial, instead of regular prison and a regular court date?
Sara Wilson 2 years ago
Probably thought was already in the clear and could do whatever he wanted at that point
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Not defending the guy but I can't help but wonder whether the Sergeant was goading him and he snapped. Still dumb to respond, but understandable.
#5
She picked up a customer's baby without permission and walked off with her, the customer was beside herself thinking she'd been kidnapped. Co-worker didn't think she had done anything wrong because she's also a mother....
Tee with a Twist 2 years ago
Why on EARTH WOULD THIS BE OK? Never touch anyone's child. Yes I would have fired her to
Kamryn Mall 2 years ago
That makes no sense. I mean, why would someone do that? I hope the baby was fine
Tara L. 1 year ago
Ug unfortunately I've run into a lot of women like this. Actually had to twist some lady's arm painfully to make her let go of my god-daughter, that she just walked over to & picked up out of her stroller! Without asking or even speaking to me first! I would have punched her but didn't want her to drop the baby.
#6
We had an employee cafeteria at a Fortune 500 company. You'd get your food at a counter and bring it, in one of those white foam clamshell containers, to the register where you'd just tell the cashier what you got. This one fellow regularly ordered 3-egg scrambles and told the cashier he had just one egg. He got caught once and told never to do it again. He did it again, and lost a $100k+ job for stealing eggs.
Joshua David 2 years ago
Oh, when the entitled are reminded that they are just like everyone else makes me smile.
Libstak 2 years ago
No doubt company also contributed to subsidise lunch costs and they would have way cheap anyway.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Maybe not, some places sell a license to operate the cafeteria and it goes to whoever made the best bid. They then charge more or less what they want.
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The expression about chickens coming home to roost also applies to their offspring. This guy ended up with more egg on his face than he did in his stomach.
Many people wonder how a person’s further career can be affected by being fired. Dr. Gleb said that embarking on the job hunt after being fired can feel like trying to sell ice cream in Antarctica.
“Nevertheless, there's a right way to broach the subject with prospective employers. Be honest, but focus on the lessons learned and the growth you've experienced as a result. Position the termination as an opportunity for self-improvement and highlight how it has made you a stronger candidate for the new role,” he said.
Dr. Gleb urges people to remember that life is full of setbacks, but it's how we bounce back from them that truly defines our character. “Treat your termination as a trampoline, not an anchor.”
#7
Got fired for "updating his resume using company property".
It was me. The job sucked a*s and I don't regret it.
Full Name 2 years ago
Yes - it is best to use your own PC for updating your resume. But you should still do it.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
"Oh, I was just updating my CV to qualify for that promotion I thought you might be giving me."
D'oh Rae is Me 2 years ago
I googled labour lawyers from a work computer in a really toxic workplace and was walked out with in the week. Jokes on them. They were forced to sell and a bunch of clients followed me to my new company.
Diana Gerrue 2 years ago
Dear Dr. Gleb, I don’t know about Antarctica; however, ice cream sales in Alaska are one of the highest in our nation! I say go for it😆
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
I did EXACTLY this at my last job. When HR won't give you a raise & tells you that you know where the door is, all f**k's disappear. I'll never forget the look on their faces when I gave my 2 week's notice.
#8
My boss hired a new guy to help out on the closing shift (2p-11p) at a convenience store.
He started pissing people off right away; wouldn't stock any of the booze in the cooler because "his religion" forbade so much as touching it. Played fundie-a*s music in the store even after being told not to. Intimidated the manager.
He wasn't there a full week. One afternoon, the assistant manager was at the counter and Dale was in the office. A Sheriff's Deputy came in, looked around, asked of Dale [so & so] was working that day. Ken nodded and pointed toward the office door. "He's back there."
Deputy thanks him and goes back out. Comes back with a second deputy and they head for that door. Didn't take long. They came back out with Dale in cuffs.
Turns out our squeaky-clean preacher boy had warrants out for cocaine possession and for beating the living c**p out of his wife.
A few days after the arrest, the results of the company's background check finally came in and he was fired.
Here endeth the lesson.
SparkleFarts 2 years ago
Not uncommon. A lot of gas stations don't even do a background check, just a drug test which is foolish if you ask me, you can fool the drug test, not the background check
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Seadog 2 years ago
Company hired a kid to work for me once. Comes in with his Holier Than Thou attitude and proceeds to condemn us all to Hell because we listen to rock music. Wasn't long before one of my guys GF told she went to school with HTT and he was the biggest pot head in the school and got fired from (grocery store) for scavenging. -that's eating inventory without paying for it. And what did he scavenge? A pack of house brand cookies.
rose_angel 2 years ago (edited)
I think it means like fundamentalist christian but I'm not sure what that is as a genre of music
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Lacie Doyle 1 year ago
Kinda pointless to do a background check if you're just going to hire them before it was back.
#9
I had a manager at Walmart who used to make snide remarks about my disability and gave me grief anytime I was trying to get an Acommodation. She got arrested for stealing about $40,000 in merchandise.
A P 2 years ago
Should've been fired when it was about harassment and discrimination, but being where we are, it wasn't until it was about the money that it happened. Still, at least it did eventually happen.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
It's possible the OP didn't mention the harassment to HR because they didn't want to rock the boat. So you can't blame the company without knowing whether there were actually complaints.
Load More Replies... Id row 2 years ago
Oooh, this reminds me of the office manager at the bar & grill I bartended for. I lived in the apartment upstairs and I'd wake up to her standing in my bedroom, very creepy. She was awful and one of those 'by the books' karens and would try to get you in trouble for any little thing. Turns out, she was embezzling and got caught. I heard she went to prison for it and I still smile thinking about that.
Tom De Paul 9 months ago
I worked for JCPenney in high school and it was always the security folks that were caught stealing.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
$40,000 of Walmart merch? How do you steal a whole store without being noticed? Yes, I'm including the entire building too.
We also wondered what it takes for an employee to get fired on the spot from their job. Dr. Gleb explained that in the business world, there are indeed certain indisputable reasons that warrant firing an employee on the spot.
“One such reason is the display of gross misconduct. This includes, but is not limited to, acts of theft, physical violence, harassment, or severe breach of company policies. When an employee's actions jeopardize the safety and well-being of colleagues, clients, or the organization as a whole, there's no room for hesitation,” he said.
“Just as a pilot can't afford to ignore a fire in the cockpit, a manager must take swift and decisive action to maintain a healthy work environment,” Dr. Gleb concluded.
#10
Dude would drive to the site, park his work van, then have his GF pick him up and take off for 8 hours, come back and pick up the van, thereby cleverly fooling the GPS tracker in the vehicle...
But not the camera pointing directly at the spot where he parked, got picked up, and dropped off. Cost the company a substantial contract. And himself a job.
Linda Patterson 2 years ago
Had a guy do this at my previous job. Only he dropped everyone off at the job site. Said he needed to go get supplies. He was tracked to a casino 30 miles away. For 3 weeks he gambled while they worked. When he was fired and they cleaned out his company truck they found he was also making meth and selling it from that truck. He’s currently awaiting sentencing 15- life for getting caught with 22 pounds of meth.
iBlank 2 years ago
It's super common for trade workers to have side hustles in their trade. I've heard a number of stories involving folks getting fired because they try to fit their side work in on company time and/or in the company vehicle. Usually doesn't take long for the company to notice their billed time and location doesn't add up
Asher Tye 2 years ago
Had a cart pusher do this at Wal-Mart. Managed to go MONTHS with just clocking in, leaving for the day, then coming back to clock out. They only noticed what he was doing when they started cracking down on people getting too much overtime and realized he never clocked out for lunch.
#11
A temp office worker arrived around 10am.
She was found rifling thru someone’s wallet at noon.
Arrested and taken away by 12:30.
#12
Caught on camera stealing tablets and laptops multiple times.
Caught on camera getting physically violent with a girl.
Threatened violence against two girls half his size when no one else was there. Didn’t deny it when HR got involved. Acted like they were wasting his time by holding a meeting and trying to resolve the situation.
Different people at the same job.
Genericist 2 years ago
"Trying to resolve the situation". You call the cops and you fire them, situation resolved.
NoNamePanda 2 years ago
Well, I'd say the "multiple times" part is entirely the company's fault...
Alecto76 2 years ago
How did he last long enough to do all of this? None of these are minor issues.
#13
He got drunk at the Christmas party, started hitting people's food and drinks out of their hands, kicked a wet floor sign at the CFO, fell and rolled down a flight of stairs on his way out, then ripped license plates of cars in the car parks and threw them like Frisbees as he left. Never saw him again.
Marcos Valencia 2 years ago
I don't understand how did they fire him. This was my normal behaviour at company parties... Now, I'm self-employed and I just receive a Christmas basket (that I have to buy myself).
Hannah Bloomfield 1 year ago
In the UK at least a company party/gathering is considered "work" even if it is out of hours so any behaviour such as what's described by the OP can result in you being sacked
Load More Replies... Joshua David 2 years ago
I use to do corporate executive HR and there was one employee who ruined the parties forever. First of all, the alcohol (beer and wine) only was available for 1.5 so plenty of time to do some damage for some folks. So she gets hammered and proceeds to do a reach around on her boss while biting his neck. Once reprimanded, she ran out the door of the hotel and face planted which causes a head wound. So she looks like she is the victim of a crime from all the blood and then get to her car and is hitting cars all over the lot. Needless to say, she was arrested and fired and I had to be the one to provide the documentation to unemployment so they would deny her benefits.
Carol Emory 2 years ago
Got that beat...Co-worker that got drunk at a Christmas Party. Two execs (husband and wife) were playing Mr and Mrs Claus for pictures. Drunk guy sits on Mrs. Claus' lap and grabs her boobs at which time Mr Claus stands up and says "I don't care who I work for, you get your G**D*** hands off my wife." Drunk guy was kicked out...came to work on Monday and found a pink slip where his ID badge used to be.
Michael Christofield 1 year ago
To be fair, I've long fantasized about slapping food and drinks out of people's hands.
Seadog 2 years ago
80's - one of the last companywide Christmas parties we had. 1 guy drinks too much then starts hitting on another employees wife with hubby standing right there. They get into a knock down drag out where several other guys had to pull them apart and throw the perp out of the country club. After that each department had their own little party. Just wasn't the same.
#14
Our company was in the process of being sold. This guy who was like the assistant manager had been told by the original company that he would get the manager job when the other guy was promoted to regional manager (I'm simplifying it but that's the gist).
Anyway, the manager was kind of a d**k, and we didn't care for him, but this guy was a total douche. If he'd been promoted, it would have been a disaster.
When the time came for us to sign our contracts with the new employer, he went to each and every person in the department and asked us to refuse to sign unless the manager was fired and he was promoted.
He tried to stage a coup.
Nobody agreed with his plan, and one person reported him to the higher-ups. He took the next day off - because it was his birthday - and when he returned to the office HR was waiting for him.
Then he sued for wrongful termination. He lost.
Joshua David 2 years ago
Sued for wrongful termination and lost. Folks that's why companies have HR. They protect the company from people like this.
tullotoe underfoot 2 years ago
Which is ultimately protecting you from people like this. HR is there to protect the company... by getting rid of problems, not by hiding them.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 2 years ago
I was waiting for him to fire a gun into the floor. XD
Load More Replies... brandyy17 2 years ago
this happened at one of my past jobs. both me and another employee got fired. i sued for wrongful termination and won while the other employee did the same and he lost. y did he lose and i win? the reason he was fired was for sexual harassassment of female employees. y was i fired? i was fired bc i tattle tailed on him. i won my case not only bc my boss was just as bad and was allowing harassassment but also bc i happened to b a victim of that other employee. i went to my boyfriend at the time since my boss wasnt there that day. my boyfriend was in a position where he could fired ppl without permission so that scumbag had no protection from my boss. i was fired a few days later wen my boyfriend had the day off. i worked for a hotel in the catering department. my boyfriend was the head chef and owner of the catering service. my boss was hired by him. my boyfriend was planning on leaving that job to open his own restaurant anyways which is y i sued the hotel. he asked the hotel for compensation bc of the incident that happened with me. basically protecting his name. unfortunately we fell apart bc we were no longer working together. in the end i ended up on disability and finding mr.right. the employee that also got fired hes in prison last i heard for about 39 cases of sexual harassment to both female employees and guests at the hotel.
Tom De Paul 9 months ago
This gave me a headache. Have you ever heard of a "shift" key? A cellphone (or other word processor) makes the first character typed after a "period, space" uppercase. They also capitalize a single "i". Do you see how much work it took her to be wrong this many times? Mind boggling. Truly mind boggling.
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He was an arsonist…. I work for a fire department…..
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
This is actually more common than you would think. A lot of folks on volunteer fire departments have a special fascination with fire and that is why they join. Put their obsession to good use.😁
Ash 2 years ago
When I was substitute teaching, a student once told me that he had set some fires and been caught, so now he was doing volunteer hours with the fire station. I've never been able to decide if I thought that was a brilliant idea or an idiotic one.
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zububonsai 2 years ago (edited)
I am from a small town (9000) in Saxony, Germany. Some years ago we had an arson problem. First heaps of old wood garbage, then small garden sheds, little decrepit cabins etc, later abandoned houses. Right after a house burned down with people barely making it out alive, the fire chief boss said to all his fire fighting crew "when I catch this guy red-handed I'll kill him myself with my bare hands." Very shortly after that statement one of the fire fighters moved to the other side if Germany. The fires stopped. Hm, could be totally unrelated(/s). Everyone here knows who the guy is, he wasn't seen here since and everyone sleeps better now.
Vasha 2 years ago
My uncle, a volunteer fireman, was arrested for setting fires (to be the hero when he helped extinguish them). Kicked off the FD of course, and fired from his regular job as a police officer. Ended up working the produce department in a grocery store for the rest of his life.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 2 years ago
omg. that happened here. A guy worked for the fire department. He was caught lighting fires! He'd done quite a few before they caught him.
Rowan Dion 2 years ago
Amusingly enough, I just had this discussion about firefighters joining up and setting fires as arsonists to put them out/save people with my partner over breakfast this morning. We were both thinking of the same CSI episode.
Seamus Crumley 2 years ago
Looks like a good fire sculpture. Why is he holding his/her hand underneath though? Fire causes pain.
#16
She tried to sell drugs to the owner of the company’s young teenage daughter.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Most boss's daughters don't feel the need to be that enterpreneurial.
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#17
She was responsible in handling a shipment of flu vaccines in which sat outside of a refrigerator for five days and cost the company +$30,000.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 2 years ago
Are you sure that didn't happen in Australia? An antivaxer did that with some covid vaccines.
#18
He was stealing Klondie Bars from the company freezer.
One of the managers brought in a hidden camera to catch the thief. We all knew the camera was there so he crawled over to the freezer all ninja style to stay under the camera's field of vision.
It would have worked, except, when he stood back up he tried to do it all fancy, and fell backward back into the camera's view.
AlexJ 2 years ago
Am I reading this wrong? I'm reading it as "We all stole Klondike Bars but only he got caught"
AK to LV 2 years ago
Not necessarily. It could be that others were stealing the bars until the camera was put in. Or others weren't stealing but everybody knew where the camera was so they avoided doing anything awkward/fireable.
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Happened a few years after I left, but a reporter at the TV station I worked for committed a hit and run on her way in to work. Drove right to the station and went to work editing her news package. Police show up, and go back to her edit bay. They say, "Do you know why we're here?" She says yes, and they took her away. I should have clarified. It was a hit and run of a pedestrian.
Nayla Kanaan 2 years ago
omfg the last line was crazy because I can imagine being distracted and clipping a bumper without noticing but A PERSON
The Alchemist 2 years ago
How would you not notice hitting a vehicle weighing several thousand pounds? Even a 'clip would rock both cars
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NoNamePanda 2 years ago
Well, at least she went from news editor to news main character in just a few hours. I'd call it a day....
Seadog 2 years ago
Girl at work borrowed a coworkers car to go to lunch. In less than an hour she got so plowed she H&R a car, parked in the company lot, then passed out with the doors locked. As the restaurant was only 5 blocks from the office and with witness info, it didn't take the police any time to track her down. Security officer goes to coworker and asks if someone borrowed her car? Yes, why? She of course was pissed and all any of them could do was wait for the girl to come to or the locksmith to get there. I think she came to (that was about 40 years ago) and opened the door.
#20
Carried a bag for his own product line, complementary more than competitive to ours. In sales calls (that we sent him on) would make a pitch for both. Apparently had been doing this for over a year. Was caught when a customer called us for a quote on his product. Gone like sh*t through a goose.
Vivian Bush 2 years ago
If his product was something the customers wanted, the company would have been smarter to buy it from him and sell it themselves.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
That's what I was thinking. I think depending on how he was being paid (commission vs salary) there's nothing wrong with selling your own complementary product. Maybe his biggest mistake was making it seem like it was the companies product - so riding on their reputation.
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Ann Coffman 2 years ago
Apparently wasn't too "APPARENT" since he had been doing this for over a year and getting away with it!
#21
He would answer a call, put them on hold, fall asleep and when they hung up and the next person in the queue came through, the ring would wake him up.
iBlank 2 years ago
I also had a coworker who got fired falling asleep at work all the time. He would even fall asleep in big meetings. I felt bad for him, because he was a nice guy. He just had a bad habit of staying up all night playing video games far too often.
Majungasaurus 2 years ago
Sounds like he was creating his own problem :( don’t feel bad
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Lorraine Woollands 2 years ago
I used to work at a toy factory in the spray department. We had a young girl work there for a while that used to fall sleep with her head in the spray booth. She would lay her head on her arms and sleep. She got caught a couple of times before she was fired
#22
She called in sick during the weekend and the boss discovered she was at a rave the whole weekend because she posted the footage on social media. This is why you don't befriend bosses on social media
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago
Or, why you don't lie about being sick so you can go to a rave all weekend. Maybe have some integrity?
iBlank 2 years ago
right, and if you have a public social media account, your boss does not need to be a friend to see your activity
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Sunny Day 2 years ago
We had one who had no PTO left, but put in for a Friday off to attend a concert. Request denied. Friday comes, guess who called in coughcough too sick to work? Manager called her a while later to ask her about something she'd been working on, and she'd changed her voicemail message to "see ya, suckers! We're off to the concert.". Manager left a message "I see you're feeling better. See me first thing when you get here on Monday."
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Or just keep stuff like that off social media. Anybody can go on Facebook and the rest of the sites, including your boss, whether you befriended them or not. Curate your postings, folks. Keep anything that you don’t want your employer to see either strictly for a chosen few people, or completely off social media. Hell, open two accounts; one that you restrict except for the chosen few, and another one you post the way more bland stuff on, like your kids’ birthdays or your pets. Nothing that can be used against you. It’s unfortunate, but there are companies that will cyberstalk you (and I say they can go f**k themselves, and quit nosing into my private life, but not everyone has that privilege), so be really careful what you share online.
Tom De Paul 9 months ago
If you are posting it on social media it's definitionally not private behavior.
Load More Replies... Craig Reynolds 1 year ago
This is why you don't post anything at all on social media when you are supposed to be out sick. You don't post about it in the future either. Also, NEVER friend coworkers on social media. Coworkers are not friends.
Seadog 2 years ago
Don't befriend customers either. Made a comment once about some shoddy work on an office building my wife and I bought. Just so happens a customer had done the same type work where I work and instantly assumed I was bashing his guys. Sorry, but IF your work is up to par, then why take offense to a general comment? Especially since he also knew we had just bought that building and were working on it. His admission of guilt if you ask me.
#23
Accused a coworker of sexually harassing female coworkers but got caught in his own lie when cameras showed he was the one doing it on the date/time he gave the manager to investigate
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Nah, just an a*****e creep who thought he was clever and could get away with it.
Load More Replies... Jude Laskowski 2 years ago
If someone pointed a pencil in my face like this guy, it would have ended up in his eyeball.
#24
She was putting in her own number for rewards points whenever a customer didn’t put theirs in. Racked up tons of points, getting free gift cards and food and drink items from it. Wrote a hilarious bad review for us after she got fired too.
Christopher Gerlach 2 years ago
I had a co-worker who did this exact same thing. Not only that, but this membership system allowed you to claim cash as well. He also got fired.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
The smart thing to do would be to use a card in a friend's name. Much harder to catch.
Nads Whatever 1 year ago (edited)
Why can’t she do that? If people aren’t gonna take the reward points, why can’t she have them?
Tom De Paul 9 months ago
Because when they are deciding whether to start a rewards program they factor into the total cost the fact that a certain percentage of customers will not claim them. So this is theft. BTW, it's simpler than that: taking something that doesn't belong to you is theft. Most people know this.
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Whiskey Tango Delicious 2 years ago
Fast way to get canned. Unfortunately this is very common.
Pheebs 2 years ago
I did something like this in my first job, for about a year. Worked for a certain chain bookstore in the US (not B&N), and at the time we didn’t have a way to look up people’s cards that weren’t signed up in our store. Any one who seemed honest about having gotten a card in the last year (and weren’t interested in paying for another), I just used the card I’d set up for my mom. Fast forward a year or so, and whoops - had turned my mom’s card in to a gold card, which meant it never expired. Didn’t really come with any extra perks other than not having to pay a yearly fee to keep the 10% discount - which was way more of a plus when the stupid member fee went from $5 to $25 4 years later. 20 years later, I still have that stupid card, and it only gets used once a year.
#25
Stabbed a coworker with a fork.
Recyyreth 2 years ago
It reminds me of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 5 :)
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Benita Valdez 2 years ago
Yeah we had to let someone go for going after another employee with a knife.
#26
New associate straight out of law school got drunk on the annual summer river cruise, flirted heavily with the managing partner's husband, leaned in unexpectedly to plant a big ole kiss, fell overboard into the water, had to be fished out.
OhnoI’vebeencensored 2 years ago
There are plenty of people who have done worse and not been fired, and gone on to be executives or something so that their misdemeanours are just amusing anecdotes to tell at Christmas parties. Although those stories might have been from the 70s!
Janet C 2 years ago
Never ever ever get drunk at a company event, not even a company "party" or "outing"
Upstaged75 2 years ago
Exactly. You're just stupid if you do that! Especially if you can't hold your liquor.
Load More Replies... Tom De Paul 11 months ago
This happens a lot to summer law clerks. One girl got drunk and fell into the ornamental fountain at the partner's home.
AMaureen Dance 1 year ago
One company used to have summer cruises on Lake Ontario. One year, about a week before our cruise, somebody fell overboard. Immediately, alcohol on a boat was banned.
meow point1 2 years ago
Reminds me of a story my father told me: when he was a teenager, he was on a double date with a friend of his and two girls at an amusement park, so they went on a ride where you ride in a boat shaped like a log, 'cause they found it romantic. Dad was plucking up the courage to kiss this girl, and ended up bumping his head against hers, because it was at the end, where the boat goes over a steep hill.
#27
She called in sick for an entire week and then went on FB talking about my bridal shower. Tagged me in a bunch of pictures. She didn't realize I was friends on FB with our boss; who had been looking for a reason to fire her. One of the posts suggested she had been playing hooky all week.
Craig Reynolds 1 year ago
She didn't know how social media works. Posting to just "friends" doesn't matter if you are tagging friends. That tag becomes a "friends of friends" post. If you tag someone in a group, and comment, that tag and the comment are public. HR can and does do keyword searches on FB and you will show up if you tagged or were tagged in any post containing that keyword. That tag is guild by association.
Tom De Paul 9 months ago
She doesn't know what "privacy means. A whisper is private. What you do in your bedroom sans cameras is private. Social MEDIA is not private. Because . . . wait for it . . . it's SOCIAL MEDIA. See - it's even in the name.
Load More Replies... #28
Worked in demolition. Pranked my coworker with a fire extinguisher by luring him into a small room an spraying him. We were in full hazmat gear so he wasn't harmed. He thought it was so funny and ended up getting drunk that night and tried to pull the same prank on our co-worker in the hotel we were staying at. Then the fire alarm went off, and he tried to jump off the bed and kick the smoke detector off the ceiling. Dude got canned
#29
Bounty hunters came to get him while he was on shift. I don’t know what for, but I guess it was something minor, because he was out again pretty quickly. He tried to come back to work for a little bit, but then stopped coming in without saying anything, so boss told us to consider him “let go”. The last time I saw him, (a couple months later) he was getting arrested (again) one shopping center over
Vivian Bush 2 years ago
More likely he was caught for something major, got out quickly on bail, quit coming to work again when it was time for his trial, and was arrested again for breaking bail when the trial didn't go well.
#30
He sniffed a lady's hair
Melissa Mayhem 2 years ago
This one could be me. I worked with a man semi obsessed with me. Always stopping by my desk, any excuse to talk to me. Asked for dates (I declined). One day he asks for a hug, I said no. He begged and begged. I shouldn't have said yes, but I let him. He grabbed me and buried his nose in my hair and breathed in deeply. My co worker had to yell at him to let me go, since he had latched on to me. He was gone the next day. That was 18 years ago and still creeps me out.
Redheaded1 2 years ago
Wasn't there a story about some politician doing this a few years back? Weird stuff man.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Sniffing can be perilous. Never tell a woman you don't like the smell of her perfume. She may not be wearing any.
NoNamePanda 2 years ago (edited)
Because she may be offended that someone tells her she smells bad?
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#31
Worked in a semi-clean room, we had to wear full body smocks. No food or liquid is allowed in the work area. I was training a new guy and he kept eating M&Ms out of his smock pocket with tweezers. I asked him to stop. Repeatedly. He didn’t. He didn’t pass training and we let him go.
#32
After what I was told was a very minor dispute over some lab equipment, he (a large man, think Liam Neeson) pushed another coworker (much younger and smaller) up against the wall, held him by the throat and said, "You're f*****g with the wrong guy. I've killed bigger punks than you."
#33
She's been a bartender at the country club for like 5 years. New manager comes in, and has a meeting with all the staff, tells everyone that there is to be no more drinking on the clock PERIOD.
She leaves the meeting, goes to clock in for her shift, and blatantly pours herself a massive Tito's and soda.
She couldn't understand why she got immediately fired.
#34
I was the one who fired him. I was his supervisor and I caught him stealing IV supplies from medical (we were guards at a large car factory). He tried to say the needles for filling up his vape some how but I just couldn't look the other way. My instincts were right considering he was arrested for heroin possession just three weeks later.
#35
He arrived and from the first day was very adamant our comapny switch marketing agencies. He spent hours a day setting up meetings with the comapny in question which led to our company reviewing the call logs.
This idiot was using the company phones to hatch a scheme with his brother-in-law where we'd switch to the BIL's marketing company and the co-worker would get a cut of whatever we paid them.
The best part ... He was fired 6 days into his contract.
#36
Had a relationship with a subordinate employee. When she chose to end it he became verbally threatening and abusive to a ridiculous degree...all via text message. Nice, recorded-for-posterity, easy-to-screenshot, text message. They fired him so fast he might have just vaporized on the spot.
#37
I knew a guy at work who did quality control at my company- I work in financial b******t so QC is done entirely on a computer
For a year and a half he faked all of his reports and he used company time to write a book
Guy never finished the book unfortunately
#38
The assistant manager at a restaurant I worked at would give change back but wouldn't ring up the ticket. At the end of the night, he would do them all at once and apply coupons. I don't know how long this went but they finally caught on. He didn't actually get fired, but quit when the jig was up. Last time I saw him he was a police officer.
#39
I had this one coworker I worked with for years in highschool. Thought she was great. I came back from college to work over break and found out she had stolen $2,000 counting drawers over the years.
Seadog 2 years ago
One store I worked at, managers would put any overages into a kitty which would be used to cover shortages. Everyone wins. Company LP guy found the kitty (which was kept in the store safe). He was cool though. Just handed it to the manager and said "I know what this is, keep it somewhere else."
#40
She stole cash tips off tables as a busser. When we got her on camera and confronted her, she said she never used the cash she stole, just put it in a savings account and let it sit there, as if that would clear her name.
#41
He tried to wash his 3 foot bong in the back sink of our fast food restaurant. Like during work hours.
#42
Rolling joints on the control panel of his machine
#43
I work for a certain purple freight moving company, and I saw a couple of people get fired/arrested for trying to steal something a few weeks ago. I’m not sure what they were trying to steal, but there’s no way it was worth it. For anyone who isn’t aware, any charge like that on federal land (an airport) is an automatic felony.
Seadog 2 years ago
Our account now has a block to restrict any forwarding. We can't even have a package rerouted. And it's all because one of their employees rerouted a package to an address when the address on the label was in fact the correct one. Strange too because there was nothing to trigger that employee to open the package to see what we were shipping and it was a very specific use item. His only hope would be resale. The chance of him being able to use it personally would be one in a million. I'm guessing there must have been other issues because they paid the claim even though the package wasn't insured for the total amount.
#44
Worked at a call center. Someone brought a taser to work and was showing it off. Another person dared them to zap it, and they did. Guess HR caught wind of it because she was swiftly let go.
#45
She taught at an all boys Catholic school. Was dating a fellow teacher and got pregnant. Decided to have the baby but not marry the guy.
She got fired. He got moved to the girl's campus as a "punishment" since the girls' school was seen as less prestigious.
Glengoolie Blue 2 years ago
That's the Catholic Church for you. Take a guy who can't keep his hands to himself and send him to a girls' school as punishment.
Edward Willis 2 years ago
A common conservative Christian viewpoint is that men are unable to control themselves, women have to do that for them. The usual story in this sort of situation is that she was fired for "tempting him", he was merely moved on as "he's a man and so can't be expected to hold himself to high standards". There are literally Bible verses that talk about the importance of self-restraint, but the actual wording of the Bible never seems to bother conservative Christians.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
I went to an all boys Catholic school. My French teacher got pregnant. She wasn't fired, but she wasn't hired back the next year. She was only the second female teacher in the history of the school. The first ran off with and got married to the school's star priest.
#46
Walled out into the lobby naked after pooping himself... Twice. Same guy also called a customer racial slurs. He knew one of the higher ups so he didn't really get fired he just got moved to a different branch
Rostit . 2 years ago
I need more details. This one is one of the shortest but I have the most questions.
Aberration 2 years ago
OP said in a later comment that the guy was on meth. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Load More Replies... #47
Wouldn't stop chewing gum, usually while talking on the phone. It was just the most ridiculous 2 weeks of my life sharing an office with this middle aged guy who was trying to talk to clients and trades with a golf ball sized gum was constantly moving. I raised it with him early and when he didn't see the issue, so the owner rang him a couple times to hear for himself and then he was gone.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I've worked with many people who couldn't function and chew gum at the same time.
#48
He didn't do anything. I mean that, that's why he got fired, because he didn't do anything. Everything was tired of his laziness and total ineptitude
White Paper Tsuru 2 years ago
Thanks for making the picture of a lazy person a plus size one. (Not!)
#49
coworker at CCity. at the tech bench. customer came up to ask questions. after a while he turns to the customer and SCREAMS! "GET AWAY FROM ME OR ILL EAT YOUR FACE!!!!"
#50
Had two jobs. Would click on on one, then go to the other and come back in the evening to clock out.
Katie Lutesinger 2 years ago
I remember reading that one reason why the movie "Cleopatra" went so massively over-budget was that thanks to the incompetently run system for keeping track of extras a lot of local people would sign in on set, then leave for their regular jobs and sneak back in the evening to collect their pay.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
I had an employee get into a vehicle accident in one of my company's cars (car rental industry - at my airport all the agencies' car preparation areas are in the same enormous building, with each agency leasing an area, but everything physically is 100% interconnected) - he was rushing over to a competitor's office to "clock out" while already on our clock. The car he hit was the competitor's. Our HR did nothing, amazingly! They figured he was allowed to drive/handle our vehicle because he was on our clock (though he wasn't authorized to drive on competitor's "land") but COMPLETELY ignored the fact he was also working on the competitor's clock! So wild, I would hope the competitor was at least reasonable/intelligent enough to axe him!
#51
Showed up drunk on the job, passed out on a chair in the lobby, then pissed his pants.
#52
He was taking a nap at his desk because he wasn't feeling well during a slow Saturday shift when the CEO happened to walk through the pit before any of us could wake him up.
What do you think ?
Carol Emory 2 years ago
Wasn't hired by the company yet, but was waiting for an interview at Sears when a guy came out of the office angry and stomped off. I went in for my interview and the manager says "Sorry about that..just had to fire him. He decided to curl up in the cabinet where we keep the cushions for the outdoor furniture and take a nap." I said "Someone found him?" He said "Well it wasn't that hard considering how loudly he was snoring." Oopsie.
Death’s Entropy 2 years ago
Oooh, I have some good ones. 1. I went through Basic Training and part of AIT (where you learn your specific job skills) for the army with S. He made it a point throughout training to mention his daughter, and would show us her picture. We had to wait for a few weeks after graduating to start AIT, no big deal, but once we began training he almost immediately got busted for drinking and smoking (military trainees aren’t allowed to drink or smoke) and got 4 “Army” tattoos. This (the drinking and smoking) got him kicked back into the class after us. After about a month of training, he got word that his “fiancée” had been in an accident and his daughter was in the hospital, so he got sent home to spend time with his daughter. One of our drill sergeants had a soft spot for children and wanted to send the kid flowers, a stuffed animal, and a Get Well card, so he tried to find the hospital that she was in. Well…. Not only was there no child in the hospital, the dude had made her up.
whatever 2 years ago (edited)
Had a new installer for a glass company I worked for get canned their first week. The installers would carpool to a job in the morning and then carpool back to the warehouse at the end of the day. New guy was driving and on the way back to the warehouse thought it was a great idea to stop at 7-Eleven, grab a 12-pack of Busch, and proceeded to guzzle a few cans while not only driving with a few coworker in his car but also while still on company time. One of his passengers secretly recorded him doing so, and as soon a they made it back he immediately went to the owner's office and showed him the video of this dude driving and slamming beers like a frat-boy. Got the ol' heave-ho which worked out for us because the foreman said he sucked anyway.
Rosie 2 years ago
A US transportation company has all new hires go to a 3-day training. They put us up in a small but nice local hotel, where we get free breakfast & lunch, plus an allowance for dinner. It's work time, so for those days you also get paid while you attend training classes. The first day we are all warned that it's official work, you're already an employee & represent the company & you *WILL* get fired for misbehavior or even falling asleep in training. Trainers also mention that in almost every group people get fired for trashing their hotel rooms &/or bringing hookers in. I thought they exaggerated, but it happened in my group too. Morons are morons.
AK to LV 2 years ago
I missed work one day. I came in the next day. ICE had shown up at work and arrested one of the drafters. This was in Alaska. The drafter was Colombian and apparently had a fake green card. He had just bought a house a couple of months before and had talked about the different programs you could apply for to help with your mortgage. I think that's how he got busted. He tried to apply for political asylum but got denied.
Nickie LaRue 1 year ago
My coworker sold these 2 huge cans of Beast alcoholic energy drinks to a woman wearing a chefs jacket.. 4 hours later, she goes down to the employee dining room to get lunch, and sees that woman behind the counter, drunk off her a*s. Practically laying in the food. She texts the head chef to come down, they pull the woman off the line and start asking her if she's been drinking. She slurs that she "might have had a drink or two".. when they tell her to get her things and security would escort her out, she asks why? They tell her there's no drinking on the clock. Her reply? "Wow, you're so much stricter than the hospital!"
Carol Emory 2 years ago
Wasn't hired by the company yet, but was waiting for an interview at Sears when a guy came out of the office angry and stomped off. I went in for my interview and the manager says "Sorry about that..just had to fire him. He decided to curl up in the cabinet where we keep the cushions for the outdoor furniture and take a nap." I said "Someone found him?" He said "Well it wasn't that hard considering how loudly he was snoring." Oopsie.
Death’s Entropy 2 years ago
Oooh, I have some good ones. 1. I went through Basic Training and part of AIT (where you learn your specific job skills) for the army with S. He made it a point throughout training to mention his daughter, and would show us her picture. We had to wait for a few weeks after graduating to start AIT, no big deal, but once we began training he almost immediately got busted for drinking and smoking (military trainees aren’t allowed to drink or smoke) and got 4 “Army” tattoos. This (the drinking and smoking) got him kicked back into the class after us. After about a month of training, he got word that his “fiancée” had been in an accident and his daughter was in the hospital, so he got sent home to spend time with his daughter. One of our drill sergeants had a soft spot for children and wanted to send the kid flowers, a stuffed animal, and a Get Well card, so he tried to find the hospital that she was in. Well…. Not only was there no child in the hospital, the dude had made her up.
whatever 2 years ago (edited)
Had a new installer for a glass company I worked for get canned their first week. The installers would carpool to a job in the morning and then carpool back to the warehouse at the end of the day. New guy was driving and on the way back to the warehouse thought it was a great idea to stop at 7-Eleven, grab a 12-pack of Busch, and proceeded to guzzle a few cans while not only driving with a few coworker in his car but also while still on company time. One of his passengers secretly recorded him doing so, and as soon a they made it back he immediately went to the owner's office and showed him the video of this dude driving and slamming beers like a frat-boy. Got the ol' heave-ho which worked out for us because the foreman said he sucked anyway.
Rosie 2 years ago
A US transportation company has all new hires go to a 3-day training. They put us up in a small but nice local hotel, where we get free breakfast & lunch, plus an allowance for dinner. It's work time, so for those days you also get paid while you attend training classes. The first day we are all warned that it's official work, you're already an employee & represent the company & you *WILL* get fired for misbehavior or even falling asleep in training. Trainers also mention that in almost every group people get fired for trashing their hotel rooms &/or bringing hookers in. I thought they exaggerated, but it happened in my group too. Morons are morons.
AK to LV 2 years ago
I missed work one day. I came in the next day. ICE had shown up at work and arrested one of the drafters. This was in Alaska. The drafter was Colombian and apparently had a fake green card. He had just bought a house a couple of months before and had talked about the different programs you could apply for to help with your mortgage. I think that's how he got busted. He tried to apply for political asylum but got denied.
Nickie LaRue 1 year ago
My coworker sold these 2 huge cans of Beast alcoholic energy drinks to a woman wearing a chefs jacket.. 4 hours later, she goes down to the employee dining room to get lunch, and sees that woman behind the counter, drunk off her a*s. Practically laying in the food. She texts the head chef to come down, they pull the woman off the line and start asking her if she's been drinking. She slurs that she "might have had a drink or two".. when they tell her to get her things and security would escort her out, she asks why? They tell her there's no drinking on the clock. Her reply? "Wow, you're so much stricter than the hospital!"
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