30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It

Normally, getting fired is not something you’d picture as your best day. With dreams, hopes and credit balance shattered, for many, it would feel like things are getting out of hand and hey, saying it that it wouldn’t be the most pleasant feeling would be an understatement.

Unless you’re one of a bunch of ex-employees who say that getting fired was “totally worth it.” So in order to find out in what exact scenarios getting expelled from your workplace is a happy ending, we are going to look at the answers people posted in response to “What's your 'got fired, but was totally worth it' story” on r/AskReddit.

The got-happily-fired stories are to remind everyone that context is everything, and if your job is a toxic rat hole in disguise, you are better off without it.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Worked at a tire shop and just by a fluke of pertfect timing I caught the Asst. Mgr take an upskirt picture of a customer who was bent over looking in her trunk for a lug key. I broke his nose. They fired me and it was absolutely appropriate to do so, and I don't even feel bad about it cause they fired him too.

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Missy Moo Moo 3 years ago

OMG I love you!!!

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It The woman I loved was dying in hospital. I asked for time off to be with her. Since I was still in my probation period they cancelled my contract.

We're engaged.

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Got your priorities straight! (No, this is not sarcasm!)

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Reported coworker for sexually harassing a minor.

Manager fired me for making the accusation against her friend.

She got fired, the district manager got fired, he got fired after he was caught in a bathroom with a minor.

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Sue Lynn Chan 3 years ago

Everybody gets fired

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Bored Panda reached out to Dawn Moss, the founder of “Your Interview Coach” who has been helping both candidates and hiring managers through the recruitment and selection process since 2013.

When asked what are some of the most common reasons employers may fire their employees, Dawn said that there are three main reasons: poor performance, misconduct, and sickness absence.

“One of the most common reasons is poor performance,” the recruitment coach told us. “Typically, most jobs will have a probation period. This is a set period hiring managers get to assess the new employee’s performance. Hiring managers will have certain expectations depending on the job.” Dawn said that if an employee doesn’t meet those expectations, then it’s time to have a serious conversation.

30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I got fired once in college for giving a burnt fried shrimp dinner to a homeless dude. I was a floor manager. The burnt food just sat in the window for like three hours. He came in, said he was hungry and would take anything. I bagged up the dinner and gave him a togo cup with water. I was fired for "feeding those f*cking stray dogs."

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

That guy who said "feeding those f*****g stray dogs" can rot in hell

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I worked in a bar with an awful boss. He would always flirt with the young female bar staff making us all uncomfortable, even though he was 50 y/o. We all knew his wife and two young children but about 6 months into me working there he began to ‘date’ a 22 year old customer. By date, I mean he used to go downstairs to his office and sleep with her ...while he was on shift. No one was allowed to talk about it but we all knew. Quite quickly he knocked her up and ended up breaking up with his wife, but he still flirted with his staff relentlessly even when his new baby was born. He once told a male employee that he liked asking female bar staff to pick up things from low shelfs so we would bend over and he could check out our ass. EW.

So anyway, he always used to break health and safety rules if he could get out of doing a task he didn’t want to. He was prolific for asking bar staff to clean human waste (vomit/poop customers had done on the floor) even though legally anyone cleaning that stuff needed to have passed a certain health and safety qualification. I spoke to my assistant manager about this and she confirmed that only management can do it, and I should refuse next time.

One day he demanded I cleaned up vomit in the male toilets, and I refused, repeating what the assistant manager told me. My boss went absolutely mad (he wasn’t used to people standing up to him) he told me to come downstairs to his office to speak about it. At that moment I knew I wanted to quit, so I told him I won’t be going downstairs with him. He asked me why, and I replied: “The last girl who went down their with you ended up getting pregnant so that’s gonna be a nope from me”

Lost my job but worth it

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A B C 3 years ago

That dude deserves way worse than one staff member quitting on him. I'm talking both "kick in the groin" worse as well as "calling the health service on him" worse.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Was working at Little Caesars at the time, was probably my 2nd month or so. About an hour before my shift starts, my mom calls and says my grandma fell down the stairs and is at the hospital, and I need to go right away since she works farther away and I can get to her first. I call LC to tell them I can't come in, and my boss said if I don't come in, I'll be fired. I say ok and hang up. A few hours later I get a voicemail saying I've been let go from LC. Totally worth it to make it to my grandma to check on her.

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161points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

The lack of empathy always amazes me.

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Another reason the employee may be expelled from their job is misconduct. “There are several behaviors that would be unacceptable in the workplace. It could be anything from swearing, bullying, harassment, discrimination, stealing, industrial espionage, disputes about Intellectual Property (IP), and the list goes on…”

And when it comes to sickness absence, most companies will have an absence management policy in place. “If too much time is taken off due to ill-health this may result in dismissal, or medical retirement,” Dawn said.

30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Was an assistant store manager at Lowe's and decided to go back to school to become a teacher and drop down to an hourly position for three months and then I was going to leave the company after that to study full time. The day before the transfer they fired me which saved them from paying me half of my saved up vacation time which was worth about $300.

As I am being led out of the store my buddy in HR says you can get unemployment and slides me a note with the phone number. I get 6 months of unemployment at $300 a week.

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Final score:

135points

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

In the Netherlands you get all the money that your employer owes you, when you're fired. No way they can get out of paying you all your extra hours and vacation money that you saved up.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Went into a business meeting for the ice cream shop I managed Bold Stone I was told that the girl that was 7 months pregnant need to be written up as much as possible so they could have a legal reason to fire her. Told them it wasn’t going to happen and they suggested that I put in my two weeks and find other work. So I did, then I was told that I was going to be gone in two weeks and might as well just fire her. Was no way in hell I would do that.I walked into that meeting with a 50 hour a week decent paying job and left with nothing but my integrity. I then preceded to drive to my store and pull the girl aside and let her know what was going on. Last I checked I believe she manages the store now.

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

Would be illegal in the Netherlands and if they fired the woman during her pregnancy, the judge would order the employer to hire the woman again or pay her a hefty compensation. Judges over here don't buy that women who never had any warning, suddenly become incompetent when they are pregnant.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Worked at a "big" supermarket chain. Did cashier job, placed out products and some behind the scenes management. One day i get called to the back. It was the regional manager, said my deficit after my shifts as cashier is getting out of control, about 10-50 bucks every shift. Threatened me with cops saying that they surveillance videos showing me stealing the money. I said sure, get the cops here, i'll just wait. After 30 minutes cops arrived. When we started watching the footage there was nothing showing that i stole the money, cops said there is no evidence against me, and took off. I still got fired on the spot and they even banned me from entering their stores all over the country.

Few weeks later i get a call from the girl that was working there with me, covering me for smoke breaks when i was cashier. Teared up, choking from crying. It was her stealing the money all the time while i used my breaks. Got charges pressed against her, did 120 hours community service and paid a huge fine.

Few days after that i get a call from regional manager apologizing for the inconvenience and asking me if i want to return. Told him to f**k off and hung up.

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116points

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Nor 3 years ago

Big ups to her for comin forward and being honet. As for your manager, yeah i fully agree in what you did, evidance was there anf he was just being a jacka$$

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We also asked if you should hide the fact that you were fired from your previous job. “This is going to be a tricky situation,” Dawn said and added. “No one wants to admit to being fired. However, I’ve always said, honesty is the best policy.”

“If you don’t admit you’ve been fired and the new employer finds out later, then you may be dismissed anyway. It’s not worth the risk,” she said. Dawn also suggested thinking carefully about how you are going to handle this question; “Why did you leave your previous job? If you got fired, admit it, and take responsibility, and talk about the lessons you’ve learned.”

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Had this English works supervisor in Ireland once who was really nasty to Polish migrants. I had been asked to help out on the project and this as**ole who had been used to pushing around Polish immigrants got a shock when I hauled him up in front of everyone for workplace infringements. He tried to accuse me of being racist against English people but all the Polish got behind me and compiled a catalogue of outstanding grievances which got his a*s kicked off the project. Last I heard he'd gone back to England.

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Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

But, did you get fired, like this post is about?

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I was working in a small accounting firm making less than minimum wage $30000 (minimum wage in Australia is $38,000). The boss was exploiting the fact that people like me were desperate to get their foot into the door of accounting as it is very competitive in Australia.

One day i was stupidly posting on a forum about my situation and looking for advice. The boss found out and fired me on the spot.

Feeling pretty spiteful about the whole thing, i reported my situation to fair work ombudsman Australia. A month later i got payment for the amount i should have been making at minimum wage for the 6 months i was there.

About a month after that i landed a much better role at large company making almost double what i was making previously.

The icing on the cake is the firm ended up getting investigated by fair work and i can only assume they received a hefty fine because they are no longer in business.

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95points

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rx_7 3 years ago

Dam who gets fired for looking for advice?

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I worked at a place in Grand Bend Ontario. I was the chef.

The year before I was hired; they'd left the place a mess and violated health code to the point where they had been cited, I was working up hill against that and a crazy owner who would rather act like she was 21 than run her f**king business.

On a July evening, someone stuck a hot, dirty, sautee pan into my stack of cool clean pans. I wrapped my hand around it and...man. That was an intense level of pain. Literally had to peel the pan from my hand.

Crazy owner wouldn't let me call an ambulance because it would be bad for business. Insisted I run service from the other side of the line.

I took a few days medical leave after that, all the while fielding harassing phone calls saying how I was letting them down.

This place was awful and I'd had no staff for weeks because, again, ownership ran them off. I handed in my notice and was promptly escorted off the property.

It was gratifying to watch their reviews sink after that. Food going out cold. Moldy mushroom burgers. Etc.

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Final score:

87points

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

Never stick around crazy employers for long. On the first sign of crazy, you start looking for another job. There wil be a moment in the very near future where either the employer fires you on the spot, or the craziness gets so out of hand that you quit on the spot.

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Moreover, it’s probably best to “not go into lots of details and try not to waffle on and on. Keep it short, concise, and factual.” Dawn also reminded that bad-mouthing the previous employer or your previous manager is also a bad idea since “that’s only going to reflect badly on you.”

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It My ex-manager here at the cinema. I cant fully tell his story because i wasnt directly involved but did have to stand at trial for claims etc as a witness.

He got fired over "budgetary reasons", in other words "We dont like your face because you wont bend over when we tell you to, wage-slave" just after he got cancer and had to take days off for treatment. Happened right around Christmas, so Jan 1rst we come in and he's officially off the roster etc. Thing is, he never really took vacations, or days off even as well as never claiming the extra hours he'd work here (fixing cameras, projectors, computers and databases etc. Everything here is semi-autonomous) so over the past 30 or so years, he tallied up a fair bag of extra unpaid hours. Thing in Switzerland is, you can only claim the past 5 years as far as policy goes, so he did just that. It damn near bankrupt the company (they owe him around 60k atm), and they still havent paid up fully because of it.

I see him now and then, he looks way better, less stressed out and happier. Works with helping old people now in his free time and coaching kids play volleyball.

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81points

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fu yu 3 years ago

Good for him!

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I worked at a cafe chain know for soups, sandwiches, and salads throughout high school. I was good friends with exactly three people, but whenever our group got to close the store it was always a fun time. We ended up taking the headsets (for the drive thru) after that had closed and we were just messing around chatting while cleaning up. There was a particularly attractive new manager that had been hired recently and she was a bit of a hot topic between a group of high school guys.

We were unaware that the store mics and cameras ran to an app on the manager’s phone. We all got called in the next day. They didn’t fire us ... oh no it was much worse.

The manager had a good sense of humor. She made printouts of our conversation and made us repeat it verbatim to the new hot manager, who was in tears laughing at how terrible we felt.

Taught us a good lesson. Good managing right there.

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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago

Awesome!

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I got fired from a restaurant job that I hated. The unemployment I got was more than the restaurant had been paying me.

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74points

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Nor 3 years ago

Blessing always comes i different forms

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I kept avoiding calls at the company I worked at because we sold cable and every single customer that walked in and every single call was someone screaming at me and telling me what a piece of sh!t I was cause they were angry about something on their bill.

I got told by an old woman she hoped my mom died in a fire over two dollars. So they call me in and tell me I'm fired for call avoidance and I just shrugged, said okay and left. Didn't feel bad. Didn't wallow in it. Felt a giant weight come off my shoulders.

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Final score:

72points

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

Hoping your mother would die in a fire oVER TWO DOLLARS? People are crazy

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Several years ago I worked for a veterinarian. He was such an *sshole. Verbally abusive to all us tech and office staff on almost a daily basis. I cant remember why, but he called me a dumb b*tch. After the day, on my way home I always dropped his mail off at the post office. That day I tore up his house payment check and didn't send it. F*ck that guy. That was the last day I showed up at work.

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72points

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

Excellent passive aggressive skills!

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Worked in a govenment office where it's typical to wring hands, deny responsibility, and shift the burden onto citizens even if it's the state that made the mistake.

I had a county prosecutor calling repeatedly trying to obtain some documents. It was a drunk driver case, the guy was facing down some serious charges and they were trying to build their case and determine the extent of charges against him. Absolutely someone who needed to be put away.

Everything in policy said they were entitled to it, but the person who normally furnishes it was constantly out with all manner of excuses. I finally got sick of putting it off, stalling them, making excuses for her. I pulled the info myself and sent it. That didn't break any laws or policy, but they decided to sack me for it because I'd overstepped. But I'd do it again.

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71points

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Lovin' Life 3 years ago

Good for you❤

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#19

The treasurer of a club I was working at accused me of stealing beer from the cooler (I don't drink). He said "we need to talk when I finish my round."

He heads out and the phone rings. It was the father of kids I coached for several years. He offered me a job paying several times what I was making. Something he had done several times in the past, but I liked the job I had.

I just retired at 53 from the new job he offered. No regrets, and for those interested - I never stole a penny, or a beer. The treasurer admitted later he had forgotten to count inventory. Too late. He's actually a nice guy, but I never appreciated being accused of something I didn't do.

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70points

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Shelli Aderman 3 years ago

Retired at 53?! Way to go! I’ll be working until I’m in the grave, I’m sure… 😳

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Was working in dialysis when another competing company came to town effectively eliminating the monopoly my current company had on treating kidney failure. The company I worked for had already lost their physician group and was so afraid of losing staff (and the patients that would follow them) to the new company they gave out huge retention bonuses. After receiving my bonus I was fired for a manufactured problem beyond my control. I was hired by the new company, got a $10,000 signing bonus and took a couple dozens patients with me to the new company. Got my picture in the new company's brochure they mailed out to all the dialysis patients so they knew where I ended up. Just having a new company come to town to provide competition was also amazing for the patients. They got new heated massage chairs and new TVs with more channels and better/more staff to take care of them. The old company's dialysis centers across town that did not get competing dialysis units put nearby didn't give those patients anything.

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64points

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Robert T 3 years ago

Still struggling to get my head round competing dialysis centres.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I was working a full time job and three part time jobs. I worked everyday and on the weekends I would work nights. I rarely slept and this went on for 6 months. One of the jobs was for the well known lotion and scents store. The pay and hours really didn’t make a difference but I enjoyed working there. My manager was going out of town and was leaving a new supervisor in charge I hadn’t gotten to know all to well and he did not like me for some reason. Well, the stars aligned and I got a weekend off except for a morning shift with them. My manager before she left offered me the day off but me knowing it would leave her short handed I declined. She told me that if I overslept or was late it was ok due to how much I’ve been working. So I go home that night and crash out hard. The feeling of my bed was the greatest thing. I set my alarms and out I went. I woke up over 30 hrs later not realizing I had slept through my shift until I saw the voicemail on my phone. The new supervisor had “fired” me and put me down as a no call no show which was rightfully so. I called the store and he refused to talk to me. So I called the manager and told her what happened. She said it was fine and would take care of it and to come for my next scheduled shift. Well long story short this little a*s of a supervisor submitted my termination files to corporate and classified me as a no rehire. My manager was pissed and fired him shortly afterwards. The sleep was the best I had had in years and still on my top 10 sleeps. Totally worth getting labeled as a no rehire.

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Final score:

61points

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Scarface's Mom 3 years ago

You really need to focus on more self care, less part time jobs in my opinion. You sound like an asset to companies but what about being there for yourself?

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I was let go because I refused to put pressure on the kids on my team and would let them go as soon as their shift ended.

Thing is, the middle manager liked when the guys left 30 minutes after their exit hour so his boss would think they were working hard. After 5pm, we were there sitting idly because all of our customers had already left.

So, I was let go because I refused to suck up to the higher ups. Got let go one day before my birthday, but got paid for 2 whole months, which was when my contract ended. F*ck them.

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57points

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Hated my corporate job, was going to wait one more week before I turned in my two weeks, so I could get paid for Xmas and New Years. Finally lost it on my boss, told her "If you spent one-third the time actually doing your job that you spent covering up for not doing your job, you could pretty much sit in your office and listen to talk radio for the rest of the day and nobody would have a problem with you."

CEO was standing on the other side of the door. He was like "I'm real sorry, but..." and off I went. I could tell he didn't disagree with me. I had another job in seven hours.

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55points

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Caro Caro 3 years ago

CEO is spineless

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#24

Sure thing. I worked at a liquor store for 2 and a half years owned by this guy and his family. Got to learn alot about alcohol, meet lots of people in my neighborhood, formed a great bond with customers and coworkers alike. I tell my boss when i begin work i have lupus and i may end up with a flare sometime in the future. Fast forward 2 and a half years i end up with some obscure infection in my esophagus and stomach where i lose roughly 70 or so pounds, have fevers, night sweats, and awful arthritic pain.

My coworkers see this and support me every step of the way, giving me register work instead of lifting boxes and things while i waited for my doc to give me my results. I got called into hospital to stay a few nights and told my boss that i needed a week to get pumped full of steroids, id be back to work better than ever. I get back and they move my schedule from 5 days to 1 day because I was "unreliable".

I throw a fit because i feel pretty betrayed and it was just not at all how our discourse went/would lead to. He told me he would have to look for someone new soon. I got the message). So I helped one of my coworkers look for an accounting position at a nice place while he was getting his accounting degree and my other coworker we helped file and manage to help him do his CDL license application and test (english second language). Both coworkers find fantastic jobs compared to the store and we all call out for the week at the same time and after a freakout from management just quit. They sold the store shortly afterwards and I consulted the new owners who hooked me up with a nice lifetime discount.

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48points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Hope you got well, found a terrific job, are really happy, and hardly ever even think about your old boss—-the best revenge of all is their total failure to stay in your head and f**k up the rest of your life.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It My mom worked at a sh**ty retail place, I was 16 so she got me a job there. One of the co-workers basically bullied my mom daily, she'd cry and eventually quit. Week or so later, girl who bullied my mom's fiance gets hired and I proceeded to talk about how nasty of a woman and how ugly she is-- pretending I wasn't aware they were engaged.

Got fired that day. Not even mad, that place was a soul sucker.

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46points

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

There are better ways to take revenge. Like reporting them to management for stealing and having sexual relations during work.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I was assistant manager at a popular no longer in business electronics store (lets call it Shortwave Shanty) and never got along with my regional manager. Basically half of every team meeting was all the other managers kissing his *ss and talking about how awesome a sales guy he was, something I never participated in.

But because I was an excellent assistant manager who basically trained up half the actual managers in the district he never had an excuse to can me. We were opening up a new store and he picked me as full manager of it.

It wasn't open yet, so he pulled me out of my current store and told me I would get a call when the new store was ready.

Meanwhile I got to wait around at home unpaid until then. After weeks of hearing nothing, and not having my calls returned I figured out what was up and found another job. Months after that I get a call from him, the new store is ready, I start on Monday. I just laugh and tell him to f*ck off. He angrily replies that if I don't show up I'M FIRED! I just laugh more.

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45points

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Vic 3 years ago

Shortwave Shanty!! Brilliant!!

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I worked at a radio station in the late 80s. Part time.

The way up the ladder was that you got hired part time, then as the full time people moved up and out, you were slotted in for promotion based on how long you'd worked there.

I'd worked my way up to the top of the part-time heap. The next full time slot that opened was mine by virtue of seniority.

But the next job that opened up was the mid-day show. That show had always been hosted by a female, and while I was next on the list, the job was given to a woman who'd worked for the station for a grand total of 2 weeks. She was terrible. It was unfair. And I expressed this in a letter to the program director.

I got fired for having "an attitude."

It was the best career move I ever made. I walked out of that place with my head held high, and within a year was working at a much larger station on my way to a career in major markets. Last I heard, my old boss is still there in charge of that little station.

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42points

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Vivian Orr 3 years ago

Good thing smart people don’t think like you Joe Blow. We’d have no radio shows or hosts.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I was livid and already contemplating walking out and while I went to go take a water break I looked at my phone for the time. I'm never the person to sit on my phone at work every chance I get. I like to try and be a good employee. Well the Manager saw and straight up told me to get out and leave and to call her before my next shift. I wasn't even sh*tty, I got to leave and get drunk with friends instead of working until close.

I texted her next morning, said that there won't be a next shift for me and I'll be there next Friday to pick up my last paycheck.

I ended getting a nice job with great management and coworkers, they pay me $14.75/hr in Indiana as a college student and they always worked around my schedule. Getting fired was the best thing for me. I'm still there as a senior and I never looked back.

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40points

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Clouds and silver linings ?

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Unreasonable sales targets and in the middle of a 1:1 with my boss, who was asking me how I planned to make up for the deficit. I said, "find Jesus." She responded she'd given it a lot of thought and admitted not being able to think of anything on which I could be doing better, but used the, "find Jesus," comment to later get me fired. In such a better role now, not only was the sarcasm worth it, where I am now is!

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Sounds like you were sacked because of your religious beliefs?

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I waited tables at a restaurant/bar and this drunk chick tried to chuck a hot fajitas skillet at me with no success. I then threw her drink right back at her and the guy she was next to. I kinda felt bad because the guy seemed nice, but sometimes there are casualties in war.

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NsG 3 years ago

Unlike many of the others in this list, I would have fired you as well. Yes, the patron attempted assault - you actually committed assault. Not painting yourself in a good light here.

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30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I was a roofer in NJ the summer after I graduated college. August rolls around and my crew said it was too hot to work. It was easily 105 with a heat index of 115. The roofing co. owner rolls up and I tell him we think we should stop at noon and pick up again early the next day. He looks at them, then me, then them again. They're all working again at this point. Left me hanging. So the owner told me to go home and not bother coming in the next day. I went home to my air conditioning and laughed as the state got hit by a 20-day heatwave.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Hope the boss got hit with an OSHA investigation for hazardous working conditions, and either closed down or given hefty fines. People can die from heatstroke, ffs.

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#32

30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It Worked as a telemarketer. Local calls to subscribers of a service. Boss was abusive as hell, taking out his frustrations on employees by angrily berating them. After he did this to a nice girl that worked there I was mad and knew I was gonna quit, so I called my mom who was in Japan at the time and just had a long casual conversation until he stormed out of his office and fired me.

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Eva the Egg 3 years ago

You should've reported him for abuse

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#33

Not my story, but definitely belongs here.

Worked as an admin assistant in an office, run by the regional supervisor Rick (known as "Rick with a silent P" behind his back). His management style included heavy doses of screaming at people in the middle of the open-office floor plan, and eventually one of the other admins interrupted his yelling at her by saying "Rick, kiss me."

"What? Why should I kiss you?"

"Well, I figure if I'm getting f**ked by you, I should get a kiss out of it."

"I think you're done working here."

"Yeah, I think so too." And she packed her things and left.

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Mazer 3 years ago

Copied line from the movie Blood Diamond.

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#34

I was the hardware & software development person and the only one that knew the Linux and applications side. My newly promoted boss had run off about 6 other employees before they were placed over me and about 6 other engineers. After a few weeks of micro managing me and telling me how to do my job, something they knew absolutely nothing about, I called her an *sshole.

Was suspended and terminated 4 days later. Within a few months they had to lay off 65% of the company and within a couple of years the parent company sold them off. There are maybe 3 to 5 of the original 100 employees still there but the company will never recover. I landed a new position within a week and almost doubled my income. To this day my ex-boss still has my accomplishments listed on her Indeed resume.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

I cannot stand a micromanager. As long as I am adequately trained for my job, I do so much better without someone looking over my shoulder and making me f**k up by second-guessing every move I make. Give me my pile of work for the day, then leave me the f**k alone! Don’t keep interrupting me by calling me, popping your head into my office, or asking for email updates. Believe me, you can trust that I’m not goofing off. I just need that uninterrupted “head down” time to concentrate. 8 hours later, I will send you that same pile of work back, completely, and accurately, finished. You can count on it. But you have to back the f**k out of my face to get it.

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#35

30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It I got fired from Walmart because I went 5 minutes over without clocking out to take a lunch break.

I had gotten in trouble for being rude to a customer. I worked electronics; a customer asked me a question and I pointed her in the right direction, but because she couldn't find what she was looking for (I was tied to a register so I couldn't really walk around). The customer said some negative things as she left and in return, I wished her a good goodbye.

I got transferred to Furniture, across the aisle from electronics.

So one day, I'm building some desk or something. I get called to run a register upfront as I'm trained. When I get leave from the register, I have near zero time to clean up my mess made building such desk. I come in on my next shift and get fired.

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Peter Liddle 3 years ago

How was this worth it?

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#36

Kinda quit/kinda fired.

While I was backpacking I got a part time job at a chain restaurant, I had management experience back home but I wasn't looking for a management role there.

I just wanted to carry food from one place to another place.

Maybe drinks as well.

Somehow the current 'restaurant manager' (aka chief plate carrier) heard that someone with more plate carrying experience was on the scene and was after her job.

She made my introductory shift a living f**king hell, she gave me half the floor to run (I didn't even know the table number lay out), with 3 staff whoe's names I didn't even know.

As you can image the entire shift was a cluster f**k not only for me but the poor patrons just trying to eat their dinner.

As last orders where called I tried to make sure all our customers were happy. Then I ripped off my apron (yeah it was the kinda place where the waitresses wear aprons) and name tag and threw it at the s**t stain 'restaurant manager'.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Hope you found a job somewhere better, and definitely less cutthroat.

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#37

I worked at Einstein’s Bagels. I had been there since 4:30 am and this lady, during our morning rush, got angry about one of the bagels in her order and threw it at me hard, hit me and got me covered in cream cheese.

I picked it up, threw it back at her, and nailed her in the face. All of this before 7 am.

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g90814 3 years ago

Good Aim.

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#38

Boss took me into his office and chewed me out for half an hour for being late to work by 3 minutes (I had an early morning hypo but he didn't want to know).

Was totally condescending, called me an idiot, and said 'I'm the boss I can do whatever I f**king want' when I said he can't expect employees to never be late ever.

I told him if it's time he's worried about then why am I wasting it listening to him?

Went on holiday and came back to him firing me because I 'didn't fit in' (I'd been working there for over a year).

Escorted me off the premises like I was a terrorist and had the audacity to say 'good luck'.

I told him to go suck a d*ck.

100% worth standing up to him. F*ck inconsiderate business men.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

How have we bred so many narcissists and/or sociopaths who can’t treat other people like human beings? And how can we cull their herd?

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#39

I was once working casually for a phone kiosk shop, and the manager sold the shop to another owner who cut back my shifts AND dropped my wage! After the end of one shift I said to the assistant manager who was an absolute troll that im not coming back, he proceeded to Facebook message me telling me I have no work ethic etc and I proceeded to tell him that was rich coming from a bloke who apparently came to work drunk one time (or something to that effect). The real kicker was I still got paid for that shift and later joined a telco as a customer service rep where I met my now husband

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Blessing in disguise, though it may not have felt like it at the time.

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#40

I worked at a store that offered a 10% discount on large orders to non-profit organizations but didn't advertise that fact. I found out about it and would occasionally use it as a selling point to close a large potential sale. I was working one such deal that would have grossed the store about $500,000 with a net merchandise profit of 27% even after the 10% was applied, and I'd personally seen that discount applied on larger sales than that so I knew it didn't exceed the maximum.

My department manager took over the sale since he needed to approve the discount and informed me that the customer decided to walk. I reached out to them on my own time to see if there was anything we could do to get them back and my contact informed me that the manager had told her, in no uncertain terms, that they weren't wiling to work with her and she should go elsewhere.

After digging for a bit I found that the department manager had been actively seeking out customers for whom the corporate 10% off policy applied and selling them packages at full retail, then re-rolling the sales with the 10% discount and pocketing the difference, to the tune of about $400,000 just that year.

I reached out to the compliance hotline and was given the runaround, so I went to the loss prevention manager for the district, who was also the regional HR liaison. It turned out that not only were he and several of the general managers aware of the issue, they were in on it and it had apparently netted them several million dollars district wide.

I wasn't immediately fired but was removed from the schedule or would have my schedule changed at the last minute so that I eventually was let go for attendance related issues. I finally heard back from the compliance hotline a month or two after getting fired and denied unemployment, and decided I might as well share what I'd found. I had also by that time reached out to local law enforcement.

I wasn't given the specific details but the last I heard several of those managers did time in jail for racketeering, money laundering, fraud and a number of other charges. I also won out because I haven't had to work in retail since then.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Hope it means you got a good settlement package to boot!

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#41

I worked at TigerDirect. I got fired 30 minutes after the store closed as soon as the "investigation" ended.

Someone stole a laptop. They blamed me. Not for stealing it, but for "aiding" the thief.

This was false. I gave the laptop to the cashier and told her it was for that guy. The guy slipped out of line and said "I forgot 1 other thing". Came back with a monitor box and placed it beside the laptop to hide it away from the cashier's PoV. While she was cashing other people out, he swiped the laptop, walked up the greeter at the door and said "this is my laptop, I was just getting it repaired". The greeter let him go and off he went on his merry way.

TigerDirect does not have barcode door detectors. The greeter also got fired at the end of the shift, and he was rehired 5~ months later because he has down-syndrome and was going to sue the store...

...That was my first "infraction" and was there for 2 years as a Service Technician. Selling laptops wasnt even my job, I was doing the salesman a favor. The same thing would have happened to anyone. But because I TOUCHED THE LAPTOP, I was automatically labelled as an aid in theft.

Unemployment insurance saw through my boss' bullsh-t reasoning and compensated me for 9 months of same-wage pay. Win.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Good for you. (Not sarcasm.)

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#42

Delivered pizza for a few years during college.

Came in one day. Several managers were working and they are all dragging *ss. Turns out that the Regional Manager had made them all work overnight to deep clean the ovens.....while off the clock. The GM was a young guy that just wanted to look good for his bosses and avoided confrontation at all costs, so he didn't say anything.

I brought it up and was 'quit or be fired' immediately.....so I called the owner and corporate. The RM panicked and tried to rehire me. During our conversation I may or may not have mentioned the labor board after refusing her job offer. (There was no way in hell I was going to work for a GM or RM that fire people for 'causing contention' and a 'hostile work environment' (for, you know, telling then that they could lose their jobs for making people work for free)

Everyone got paid for that night, and I never had to work another day in that hellhole.

I do realize that I could have had some sort of court case due to the whistleblowing laws, but I was a poor college student and couldn't afford a lawyer. I refused the job offer and technically quit. It would have probably just cost a ton of cash and I probably wouldn't have gotten anything out of it.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Hope you quickly found something better someplace better.

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#43

I was fired a week and a half before Christmas. It was my first "adult" job out of college and I'd only worked there for about a month. I was hired to be their technical writer, in a temporary position that had the potential to go full time. I was to update all their procedures. I finished that project in that within the first month. I was supposed to be there for three months before it was determined if my position would be made permanent.

My boss fired me because I'm shy and didn't go out of my way to talk to everyone (as in go to every single person's office every day for a chat). Even though no one else went out of their way to chat and were often in their offices all day. She also said I never came up with any new ideas or offered anything to the company, which was flat out untrue. It's just that everything I suggested, she brushed off.

She told me I wasn't built to work in an office and should go back to the big box store I'd worked at previously. What's more, up until that point I'd received nothing but positive feedback. This came out of nowhere.* (My dad thinks they really fired me because I finished their procedures a lot faster than they thought I would.)

A few months later, I found a job that was closer and paid more. My new bosses value the skills I bring to this job. I've really come out of my shell and excelled here. Even though I still don't love it, this job is a far better fit for me than that one was.

*While this is true, I did have a dream the night before that I got fired. My boss even used the same words she'd used in real life the next day ("It's not working out.") And it was an eerily realistic dream, in that my office looked exactly like it did in real life. I'm not suggesting anything by mentioning this. I just thought it was weird and interesting.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

1) Sometimes you can tell when stuff like this is coming down the pike. I worked at a company where the owners retired and sold it to a national company. New company promises—-PROMISES—-the old owners that none of the old company’s employees will be let go. Well, that was true until the ink was dry on the contract. Two years later, the handoff was finally completed, and the new company took full possession. That’s when the firings of a majority of the old company’s employees started. I saw what was going on, and started looking for another job. The timing of the offer from my new employer couldn’t have been more perfect. The very day I took my two weeks notice letter with me to give to my boss, I arrive at work and am called into her office. HR was there too. That’s when they told me I was being laid off, as the merger meant that there were twice as many people in the department than was necessary—-which was cover for “we’re firing everyone but our own people”. Anyway, as it was not a “right to work” state (continued below)…

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#44

I was working as a CNA (Certified Nurses Aide) back in the early 90’s & I liked to have fun with the residents. On day my administrator found me in a hall—- Wheelchair racing with several other elderly participants who were intent on kicking my a*s! I was fired on the spot. Citing safety issues. Phhhfff. Whatever dude.

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Jo Johannsen 3 years ago

You should have been promoted to Chief Morale Officer.

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#45

I worked at a place I hated so got myself fired on purpose by being rude to a customer that had abused the sh*t out of every member of staff.

I'd got another job lined up first, enjoyed a week of paid suspension followed by dismissal with two weeks pay.

That with the pay from my new job made a very good pay day at the end of the month.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Good job—-on many levels!

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#46

I was "strongly reprimanded" from a school that I worked at because I made a Facebook post standing up for human rights.

A classroom of five year olds were made to decorate and wear "head dresses" with feathers at a makeshift Thanksgiving dinner at school during school hours.

Since I was a helper in the class, I also had to participate which I voiced that I wasn't comfortable doing because I felt it was racist and morally wrong.

I decorated my "head dress" with #NODAPL #StandWithStandingRock #WaterIsLife, took a picture of it and posted it on my personal FB page after school hours. I was called into the principals office after break got back to have a meeting.

This meeting consisted of the principal, her boss, and her bosses boss. I was written up because of a violation of FERPA (which I was not in violation of) for having vulgar pictures on my FB, and how I wasn't allowed to post on social media about how I corrupt kids and to stick to the "facts" about Native Americans rights that are in the history books.

I left that job real quick and flip them the bird whenever I drive past the building on my way to a different school that has diverse ethnicity and embraces different cultures.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Hope you also reported them to the local school board and state Board of Education.

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#47

I worked at a gaming store and got fired for not being enough of a suck up to the owner's son. The problem was that the actual staff still liked me so I basically got all the perks of working there except a sad and tiny paycheck without dealing with customers.

Good times.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

I hate nepotism, and I do not brown nose anybody. I don’t care whose kid he is; if sonny boy is a prick, I will—-diplomatically—-treat him like he’s a prick (basically by using words he doesn’t understand, so he will agree with me, without realizing he’s admitting he’s a prick), and—-equally diplomatically—-tell mommy and daddy exactly why. To be fair, sometimes the next generation are as good as their parents, and the handover turns out well. But that’s the rare exception. Most of the time, either the kids are totally incompetent and the parents never took the time to make them work their way through all levels of the company to really learn from the bottom up so they eventually go out of business solely because of their incompetence, or the kids come in with all kinds of unreasonable expectations and ideas for “improvement” they learned about in college that just do not apply to the company, the customers, or the area where it does business. They end up inheriting a healthy business that ran smoothly and profitably and was a great place to work, and turning it into a shithole sweatshop, chasing off good long time customers and good long time employees while they’re at it, and finally running the company into the ground.

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#48

I used to work at a cinema about 14 years ago, and there was this guy who the manager hated. She (let's call her Judy) was just looking for a reason to fire him. One day he came in and he told us he knew he was getting fired for something that had happened the night before. He went straight into the security room instead of the manager's office, got on the tannoy and was like, "Attention, Judy is a massive b**ch." (Or something along those lines. It was so long ago.) All I remember is him running out of the cinema with Judy in hot pursuit. Left me f**king dumbstruck. Funny though.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Glad he made a fool of the boss. You can’t just hate a particular employee with no good reason, and decide to fire them for no good reason. Unless there’s more to this story, and the employee deserved to be fired, Judy is probably no longer a manager of anything but her own tiny studio apartment.

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#49

Worked at A/V integrator, sales gave me a new project plus some "service work" left over from a PM's botched cutover the previous year. After four days of install, the new PM said, "all work must be completed today!". I told them it would take at least 100 more hours to fix the botched work, sent home and fired the following Monday.

My brother-in-law worked there too, he said the other techs/new PM spent 180 hours fixing it. The branch's engineer was so pissed he walked off the job and did not return to the site.

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M O'Connell 3 years ago

I do not know what a PM is in this context.

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#50

Worked at a Payless Shoesource for like 2 months. When I got hired, I requested off a day because my band had a gig that night. When the schedule came out, I was scheduled to work that day. Tried to get it covered, but the manager refused to even try since "your career is more important". Called in sick that day, and her response was "your last shift will be Monday after that you're fired". No I didn't show up for that shift.

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Seabeast 3 years ago

"Career"? Selling shoes for a discount cheap shoe store is a "career"?

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#51

Walmart hired me as a Customer Service Manager (CSM) on Black Friday 2017. The store was 50% short of employees, including CSMs. There should be two or three CSMs working the Christmas rush. It was just me and I was shown how to do each task once. I somehow did my job well, which included staying a hour of overtime to count cash drawers. I accumulated too many demerit points and they fired me. I was relieved as I said goodbye to everyone.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

If you’re doing a good job, how TF can they hand out demerit points to you? FFS, are you a grown adult at work, or a six year old in first grade? Walmart is one f****d us company.

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#52

Out of high school I got a summer job at a large catering company, cleaning toilets and washing dishes. There was always either one or the other needing attending to. The pay was bad, people were overworked, and management was mean and heartless. I hated it. Six weeks in I was fired for inciting and encouraging employees to organize and rebel against the company. Two days later almost everybody that wasn't management threatened to resign and leave collectively and at once if they were not provided better pay and conditions. The owners could't afford not servicing the customers and deals they had. They wouldn't recover from something like that. They weren't too happy but they quickly agreed.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Ah, a budding union organizer. I love it! Keep fighting the good fight.

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#53

Startup bought by gigantic company; evilcorp proceeds to f**k all of my employees. Got all of them (who wanted it) into better places, then stopped working almost entirely

2yrs of bloated evilcorp pay to basically show up sometimes, eventually pissed off evilboss enough to get a PIP and then leveraged that for a 'pay me to quit' package.

TL;DR: 2yrs of getting paid to do nothing, healthy bonus, didn't actually get 'fired'

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Well played, my dear. Well played, indeed.

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#54

I went to United States with lots of hopes and dreams. I was good in academics and worked hard to enroll in Ivy league (Brown) and then got a good job. Then got fired.

Left the country came back home (India) was home sick, even though had a visa extension.

Now I make a lot less than what I made in U.S (started my own company). But I feel so good in my heart. I get to see my parents, sister and friends a lot more.

Losing that job made me the person who I am today. I would have been a miserable working a 9 to 5 with the immigration breathing down my neck. Trying to fit in society as a outsider. I am so happy I am not that person.

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WilvanderHeijden 3 years ago

Not everyone is cut out to be an expat. Has got nothing to do with the country or the society in that country. If you aren't flexible enough to adjust to your new place of work and living, you should go back home and be happy there.

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#55

I got fired from a convenience store eons ago, where I was the third shift guy. I always wore batting or paintball gloves when dealing with money, because cash dries my hands out. Someone complained about it, and when I refused to comply, I was fired.

While I didn't do anything personally, the manager realized that no one liked working third, to the point she had 4 different people doing it over the course of 5 months, eventually having to shut down at 11pm for a year because no one would take the job. Then the manager herself got fired shortly after. Still makes me smile.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Karma usually serves the just desserts. You only have to be patient.

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#56

I landed a job that I was extremely happy for as it brought me into the field I was always chasing after. I was already working there for a while and my supervisor approached me mentioning that our company allows visitors to come during an employee's break or during the company's lunch time and suggested I bring my girlfriend over to have lunch with me and my coworkers.

After getting my lead's approval, my girlfriend at the time came to visit me, signed an NDA, and then had lunch with me. I was notified later that day that I'd have to turn in my badge and at end of that week no longer show up to work.

From what I was told, the company was bought out within the week prior and before they notified us, the parent company had enforced their own strict visitor's policy on us and couldn't allow me another chance.

My girlfriend at the time and I are no longer together now and she still doesn't know the real reason why I no longer work there. I don't think I'll ever tell her the truth about what happened. It's the only lie I've ever made between us and I hate myself for doing that, but I don't ever want her to feel a shred of guilt. I cherish her more than anything and I loved the day that she came to visit me, I'll always remember it.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

So why didn’t anyone pass that important piece of information down, so you could’ve told your girlfriend why the lunch date had to be cancelled? Wait a minute. Oh yeah. Now I know. It’s a corporate “gotcha”. Some companies play these sadistic little reindeer games. Assholes!

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#57

Worked at Walmart as lead hand unloader. Worked 28 days straight without a day off leading up to Christmas. On Xmas eve, we finished early and I got permission to leave early by the Assistant Manager, in front of my whole team.

Came back to work on boxing day and was fired for "Job abandonment" Assistant Manager lied and said I did not have permission to go home.

Not surprised, the new head Manager introduced himself to us a couple months earlier and literally said we'd all be fired. He also assumed I was stealing from the company. I wasn't, but it turns out a couple other unloaders were.

Turns out I got a way higher paying job with way less stress shortly after, so I guess it was good to get out of that s**t hole when I did.

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

That cloud ended up having a silver lining after all.

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#58

My brother and I started working from a very early age. We both started delivering papers at the age of 12, when kids in our area still did that. However, my first real job was working in a local grocery store. Initially the manager seemed to like me quite a bit. I was hardworking and had a good attention to detail. One day a friend who also worked for the grocery store begged me to ask the manager to switch positions for the day. For whatever reason, this made the manager hate me. He tormented me for the next two months. I basically was the only person performing two jobs (I inherited my friends and kept my original responsibilities).

This sucked but I was young and indestructible so it didn't bother me too much. The straw that broke the camel's back was when he chewed me over some BS out in front of perhaps 100 customers. To exact my revenge, I used a box cutter to slice up an entire pallet of freeze dried coffee. Seeing him utterly freak out trying to figure out who did it made it tough not to incriminate myself, but I didn't get caught. Ultimately I just stopped showing up for for (quit without telling anyone) and I was fired. I never regretted my actions in the least.

funky_shmoo Report

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

That manager broke the golden rule that you never—-NEVER—-irrationally chew anyone out in front of other people, no matter how well deserved it is. It makes you look even worse than the person you’re chewing out. Movies and TV have it completely wrong when they depict managers publicly firing bad employees and getting a standing ovation from customers for it. That’s totally improper in real life, and can get the manager in a world of s**t.

1point

#59

Worked as a bartender one summer for some side money at a very high volume outdoor recreation facility. Full of craft beer, concerts, and outdoorsy stuff. One girl hops in front of me and goes, "Hey, you look super familiar." Of course, I have no clue who she is and tbh, I straight up told her that.

She starts flirting, I was totally feeling it. She's hot, I tell her that I'll take care of her beer. Queue brand new manager, hard-charging his way into a super laid back workplace.

He calls me over not 5 minutes later and said I was harassing a customer (see: hot girl) and giving away free beer. I'll give him half of that. Offered to do the sh*tty side-work to make it up, he wasn't having. Hard charger, remember? Fires me on the spot. No prior issues, just making an example of me.

I take it on the chin, tell him that it's cool. Go change my work shirt in the bathroom, and who do I bump into as I walk out? Hot girl. We start chatting, I tell her what just happened, she feels awful. Now I feel awful for turning it on her. Offer to hang out and grab our next round to not be an a**hole.

Long story short, we hooked up.

Sal_Sharpington Report

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2points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Win-win. You got released from a s**t side job, and ended up dating a hottie to boot. Seeing you walk out with her probably just chapped that manager’s ass.

1point

#60

Worked at a local restaurant as a dishwasher. One of the waitresses told our boss that she was going to “Tie you to a chair and burn down your restaurant with you in it.” She was promptly fired, but apparently hired back because she came back to tell the tale (this happened before i worked there)

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Did the owner agree with her, and ask her to come back?

1point

#61

Was working one full time job and one part time job on the weekends for a little extra money. I would do 11pm to 8am at job A, 10am to 6pm at job B, go home and sleep from 6:30pm to 10pm. Rinse and repeat for three days. It was harrowing.

A month after starting at the part time gig I got pulled into the office and let go because I "wasn't a good fit." The boss was super sweet about it and gave me a good reference. I honestly think she just saw how much of a burnt out husk of humanity I was by that third day every week.

RhiannonSarentan Report

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Sometimes, if the manager of your moonlighting gig is perceptive (a rarity, as most are tunnel-visioned), and realizes you’re burning the candle at both ends, they’ll cut your hours or let you go, and tell you it’s better if you work less so you can sleep more than three and a half hours a night.

1point

#62

My first ever job. Went around neighborhoods and dropped flyers for a pizza store (individually owned, not a franchise or anything) to the doorsteps of houses.

Me and my buddy's strategy was to drop 2-3 flyers per house and a whole stack at any apartment buildings, this way we'd be done far faster than the boss expected us to.

We'd spend time at the community centre while we wait for a realistic time that we'd be done if we handed out the flyers honestly. I didn't feel too bad as we were fairly underpaid considering the summer heat.

One day, the boss commended us and offered us free pizza. But as we were feasting on this gift, she received numerous complaints from home owners having received multiple flyers... I guess it was a tight knit neighborhood who all notice the same thing. So the boss scolded us and fired us while we were having here free pizza ;)

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Francesa Miller 3 years ago

You were dishonest employees. That was not an unfair firing.

7points

#63

I told a classroom full of freshmen to "Shut the hell up." One of them narced on me, and I bi**hed out the administrator who came to fire me about how sh**tily they run the school. It was worth it.

Dowdicus Report

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-2points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Though I’m sure the freshmen deserved to be told to shut the hell up, letting loose on the administrator too was not a good move. Hope you’re more in control of your emotions now.

1point

#64

I graduated college in 2009 and there were no jobs in my field and I needed to pay the bills. I got a job working 35 hours a week at Walmart as a cashier, it was fine and I have no complaints. I finally got offered a job in a different state and I updated my mailing address with HR, and the just quit showing up to work. Party because it was Walmart so who cares, and partly I wasn't even sure who I was supposed to resign too.

About 2 months later I got a letter in the mail. It was a letter from Walmart saying that I had been terminated for missing too many shifts.

luckyhunterdude Report

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-3points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

It took them two months? Some contributors here were let go immediately. Said it before, and I’ll say it again: Walmart really is one f****d up company.

2points

#65

30 People Who Got Fired Explain Why It Was Totally Worth It My brothers friend worked for a big IT company while he went through a divorce. He basically wanted to maintain a party lifestyle while his wife decided to opt out and that was basically the situation. So my brother yelled me that his friend is dating a super gnarly drug lords little sister and my brother is worried for his friends life at this point. My brother partied a lot and I've gone to concerts with the two of them so when my brother told me he was worried for his friends life, I believe him.

So apparently after a binge with this girl he doesn't show up for an important meeting with his company and its not the first time. He gets a text while he's lying on the couch wit girlfriend and his boss explains that everyone is at the meeting except him and wants to know if there's a reason he isn't there. My brother told me his friend responds with a picture of his naked girl on the couch. Not sure where the guy is now, but he was a pretty shifty guy with little or no morals whatsoever. In this country, I'm sure he's a great success somewhere, probably politics. I'll have to ask my brother.

kauaiboydm , pexels (not the actual photo) Report

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-3points

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

Ooooh, do tell! Who is he? Or should I say, which one is he?

1point

#66

I got fired from this car wash I used to work at. All my co-workers were scumbags that went to this alternative school or didn't even go to high school but we all smoked daily on the job so I can't complain.

The money in the register was constantly off at the end of the day because these morons couldn't count. Then one day my manager said something hinting at the fact that they thought it was me. So for the next two weeks I didn't even touch the register, all I did was wash cars.

After two weeks I got fired. This kid and his friends were stealing money from the register and blaming it on me so I got one of my friends to jump him. Needless to say it was a bloody mess.

dkleinman22 Report

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Embezzlement, drug use, and violence. Immature behavior all around.

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#67

A coworker of mine used to have a lawn care business. He had a customer whose yard he took care of. Customer and my buddy get to talking and the customer mentions that his wife's name is Frank. My buddy asks if that was short for like Francine or something. Guy says no, her name is Frank. So my buddy says, "so, when you guys are in bed it's like, 'give it to me Frank!'" The customer fired him and told him not to come back. My buddy says it was worth it to have the story.

FireDonut Report

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

Well, it was an inappropriate joke, especially when you don’t know someone well enough to know they don’t have a sense of humor like your own—-and they’re not paying you for your very blue stand up comedy.

2points

#68

I got taken off the schedule at Orange Julius for an incident involving an ice fight and a secret shopper...we had an ice fight, my coworker threw a cup of ice at me, I ducked it hit a shopper who just happened to be a secret shopper...I hated that job any how my mom forced me to get a job when I was 15 for 6 months ...then I got to be a "counselor in training" at the YMCA day camp-which meant me-unpaid untrained watching 40plus kids while the paid/trained people screwed around...lasted about a month and then said f**k it never went back

mtbat222 Report

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago

So, just immature.

2points

#69

Not me but one in my confectionersclass(but he left before I started, so maybe a urban legend) . He wanted out of his apprenticeship so he got in to one of the giant coolers(the one with like 5 °C temperature) sat down and began to eat a fully finished, fully paid, expensive wedding cake, waiting for someone else to enter the cooler.

Nec-ora_nec-labora Report

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Lindsey Turner 3 years ago

That's a shitty thing to do. Ruining someone's wedding cake

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#70

When I was 16 I got a busing job at this sh*tty diner. Didn't need the money because I had no bills and hated the job. Called in sick all the time. One time I tried calling in sick because I "had diarrhea". Manager basically said "Look, you can either come in for your shift today, or come in Friday and pick up your final check". I thought about it for a few seconds then replied "OK, I'll just come by Friday then" and hung up the phone. I was such a little sh*t head when I was a teenager, but I got to go get messy with my friends that evening so it was totally worth it.

l3ane Report

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Francesa Miller 3 years ago

I hope you have improved your entitled outlook on life since then.

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#71

Was 16 working my first job as a bagger in a grocery store. Told one of my coworkers that the store manager was an *sshole to which he replied, "I'm gonna tell him you said that," to which I replied, "Go ahead!" Twenty minutes later I got called in his office, and he fired me for calling him an *sshole. The funny thing is I got away with so many other things that deserved getting fired over like smoking in the customer bathrooms and breaking glass bottles in the parking lot when I was supposed to be rounding up shopping carts.

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Karl Baxter 3 years ago

No one likes a snitch

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#72

I was working in a warehouse with a woman who was normally very cheerful. One week she was looking a bit down so as a light-hearted joke, I took a box roughly 10"x10"x15", and wrote "CAUTION: HUMAN HEAD" on it, with some red marker for blood drips and such- and put it on her desk. Wasn't a great joke, but thought it'd at least raise a smile. Now from context I imagine you're thinking "no-this is a bad idea" and you'd be right. Woman came in, saw the box, and ran to the toilet crying.

Turned out it was the anniversary of her brother's death. Decapitated in a motorcycle accident. Everyone else knew, so they assumed that I did. No amount of arguing would convince them otherwise and it wasn't worth dragging it out, so i left. But I'm ok with at least trying to be nice, even if it wasn't the right way of going about it at the time.

happystamps Report

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Kathryn Baylis 3 years ago (edited)

“Light-hearted joke”? FFS, are you 12? So basically, your gross, inappropriate, unfunny, and puerile joke deeply distressed a fellow employee. Just admit it; you weren’t “trying to be nice”, you were being purposely offensive. At least you were too ashamed to keep working there. Hope you learned a lesson about understanding context and what constitutes an appropriate joke at work. And did some growing up, to boot.

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#73

Worked at Lowe's Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday was always a 4 hour day. So one day I just stopped going to see how long i could get away with it. In the end my boss called me to his office. Head about to explode cause I had accumulated 37 missed days of work on just Friday's plus call-ins so I Got away with Not going to work one of my 3 days for more then half a year.

When someone got fired a few weeks before this for having 6 missed days. and the best part: I didn't get fired. I ended up quitting that Sunday, after spending my last paycheck on gatorades and candy for my co workers. 'Twas a good last day.

Weinertotheface Report

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-12points

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Devil's Advocate 3 years ago

This is nothing to be proud of

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Uncommon Boston Premium 3 years ago (edited)

Awful job. Making the company a lot of money. I wasn't paid as well as other programmers, but the company billed the customer as if I was. The customers loved my work. The company moved into a bigger building, I was given the absolute smallest cubical in the building. The new assistant project manager wanted my office furniture. I traded furniture for 3 years to get a matched set. A temp programmer told me, "I don't like people and I don't like you, but what the other programmers are doing isn't right. I am disgusted by their plans. Quit soon." Slowly I took all my private belongs home, except one plant. At the perfect moment, I picked my plant and quit. They were unable to the do most of the work on the contract, lost the opportunity to bill for my hours and were forced to hired a more expensive programmer. The project managers job was to maximize profits, opps. The contract was not renewed. I was the only woman programmer and office furniture was too nice. In 1993 it was a problem.

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

My sis died. Hubby took so much time off to be with me (and we weren't yet married, just dating) that he lost his job, but said he said he'd get another job, didn't want to not be there with me. Got a good one, thank goodness.

Colin L 3 years ago

In the early 2000s I was working in a bank as a secondary marketing manager (basically selling our loan contracts to other agencies so we didn't have to service them). Then word comes down: our bank is being bought out! People started abandoning ship almost immediately. My boss hands off another job assignment essentially tripling my workload without paying me any more. Then the new HR department asked us to sign their ethics statement. It literally stated "I promise to uphold the highest standard" and I asked them to define their terms. They said, "you know what we mean." I asked "so... does this mean if I eat meat on Friday I'll get fired?" Without answering they told me to sign it or else. I signed, and they fired me after saying that the process wasn't open to comment. Holy crap that place was toxic!

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