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A job is not forever. Whether due to changing career goals, personal mistakes, or lousy management, virtually everyone has to say goodbye to their employer sooner or later. So when Reddit user Sometimes_Cleaver posted the question "Why did you get fired?" on the platform, they received a range of funny and infuriating stories that illustrate the chaotic reality of the modern workforce. One thing’s clear, though: don't underestimate how quickly "I'm just trying to be honest" can turn into "please pack your things."

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Person at a cash register writing a note, representing reasons for being fired in a work setting. The new shop manager was openly racist and the HR manager fired me because she was tired of being informed every time I got called cracker or honkey.
The opening arguments for my suit will be laid out in August- wish me luck.

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    Person wearing work uniform using a hose in a park, potentially unsafe situation related to firing reasons. I was tasked with washing something that would have 100% electrocuted me. I refused. They fired me. Then asked another employee to do it. They were electrocuted. Sued into oblivion and the place is gone now. Missed my chance for a big payout but eh... didnt nearly die.

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    While many of these stories belong to the more extreme end of the spectrum, the phenomenon itself isn't rare. In fact, according to a report by Intoo and the Harris Poll, 40% of Americans have been laid off or terminated from a job at least once in their lives.

    So, perhaps not surprisingly, nearly half of employed Americans (48%) suffer from layoff anxiety. One-third of them say it's because they fear a pending recession (34%), while slightly smaller shares cite rumors around the office (32%) or a recent round of layoffs at their workplace (30%).

    #3

    Person adjusting an IV drip in a hospital setting, related to reasons they’ve been fired. I got fired because I got cancer, and after the chemo I wasn't as sharp.

    America, the land of the free, baby.

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    #4

    Mechanic working on a car engine, using a tool, in a garage setting. Came in to do some mechanic work on my day off. I fixed small engines on go karts, taught by my friends dad. My main job was running the go karts but on my off days I’d come in for OT and to keep up on the maintenance of the cars.

    The manager that day saw me working on go carts and told me to take over for whomever was running the carts that day. I told her I was there to fix some karts and do some regular maintenance as it was my off day. She told me she didn’t have the people to watch karts today and she needed me to do it. I had to explain that wasn’t my problem as I was there on my off day. She escalated and told me to go run the karts or I could leave and not come back. I finished the kart I was working on and left.

    The general manager called me the next day and invited me in for a meeting where I got my job back, got an apology from the manager who fired me, and I got to watch the manager who fired me get fired after apologizing to me. It was wonderful.

    I worked there 2 more years in the highlight of my teen years.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This story confused me. Was the OP on paid overtime or not? If you're getting paid, then you should probably do whatever is a reasonable requirement during the normal hours. If you're not getting paid then, don't do that. Never do that. Never work for a company for free.

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    Career coach Sho Dewan says that after getting fired, it's healthy to take some time and let all your emotions out.

    But then we need to put our energy into bouncing back. "It won’t happen overnight but take little steps towards accepting the situation and understanding that the past is the past," he writes.

    "This predicament is only temporary and you’ll more than likely be able to find a new job (that may even pay better) soon. The key thing is to learn from the experience, and use that lesson to improve upon your skills."

    #6

    Hands typing on a laptop keyboard representing reasons people have been fired, with a smartphone beside it on a desk. My dad was dying and the company didn’t want me spending so much time helping him. I offer to have my dad die at a more conducive time for them but they didn’t take that well so I changed my number in the company directive to a local pizza shop and got things in order.

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    #7

    Nurse working on a computer, looking focused, while holding a clipboard in a hospital setting. Not me, but my favorite nursing assistant was fired because she couldn't figure out how to apply for FMLA so that she could get off work and receive chemo. She was just old and computer stuff really confused her, but she was a phenomenal Aide. They let her work her full shift then fired her. She had just applied to nursing school using our program to pay for it. I quit a month later. The fact that they didn't have someone from HR sit down with her and show her how before it got to that point disgusted me.

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    howdylee
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My SIL's doctor's office is filling out the FMLA paperwork for her husband to help her after her surgery. And nobody lifted a finger for the woman in OP's story, how sad!

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    #8

    Person using a laptop with a wooden desk background, wristwatch visible, related to reasons for being fired. District manager emailed the whole store giving us a (large) list of tasks to complete before Black Friday. Jokingly, I simply typed "No." and showed my co-worker, just to get a cheap laugh. I was obviously not going to send that.

    Before I could react, my co-worker reached over and hit "send". My heart dropped and I got a phone call later that evening saying I wasn't a team player, I was refusing a "direct order from a superior". I tried to explain it was a joke and that I accidentally hit send, then I got berated for "not taking the job seriously".

    Looking back it was a blessing in disguise. It was the last Thanksgiving with my brother before he passed.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and that is why you do not fill in the address line before you are done, even on replies

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    #9

    Person holding neck in discomfort, representing reasons for being fired as shared by people. Got fired because my company hired replacements while I was recovering from Cervical Disc Replacement under workers comp, from an injury that happened while on the job, at that company.

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    #10

    Four blue trash bags on the sidewalk near a gray wall, symbolizing reasons for being fired. I was 16 and working at an Ace Hardware as an after-school/weekend job. One of my responsibilities was taking out the trash at the end of the night. One evening, I was closing with another guy who was a long-time employee. He said he would get the trash and that I could go home.

    Come in the next day to boss waiting for me. Says, "WonManBand, how come trash wasn't taken out last night?"

    I respond that other employee said he'd do it and told me go home. Boss says that's not what other employee is saying, says I was supposed to do it and just left. I disagree, get fired.

    Over 20 years later, still salty. Didn't even like that job but f**k you, John.

    Edit: John is the co-worker, for clarity.

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    Ivo H
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably the reason why he was the long-term employee. Just always frame the new guy for everything.

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    #11

    Person browsing LinkedIn profile on laptop, notebook and pens nearby, related to reasons for being fired. Changed my status to "available for work" inadvertently while job searching on linkedin. Was connected to HR at the firm and they saw it. I realized my mistake a couple hours too late but they saw it and let me go.

    Honestly was the best thing ever. I started my own business after it happened a year ago and am thriving. Thanks, a******s!

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    #12

    Person with glasses pondering during a conversation, related to reasons for being fired. Worked at a gun store for a minute in my 20s. Boss was in his late 50s, and his wife was about 5 years older than I was. As I was bending over to close the floor gun safe, the bosses wife complimented my butt. The bosses office door was open.


    Fired the next morning, and he attempted to deny my unemployment claim. "Fired for cause!" "What cause?". "Because!".

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    #13

    30 Times People Got Fired In Ways They Will Never Forget I worked at a shelter for homeless teens. Admin staff were some of the most incompetent humans I've ever worked for. So incompetent one of our teens got r*ped.

    I started raising hell because there was no accountability for the administration. They kept f*****g up and doing nothing when s**t like this would go down.

    They scheduled a meeting to talk to me about "my concerns" while I was on vacation and then fired me for not showing up

    Still makes my blood boil to think about it.

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    #14

    Gmail inbox on a laptop screen, relevant to stories of being fired. Because I wouldn't let my boss at a new job put my name on a nasty email. I called her out and said I don't speak to people that way. She was awful. I was happy to see that pink slip in her hand a week later.

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    KatSaidWhat
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I Blind copied my boss into a reasonable response to a really nasty personal attack from a client and they doubled down, so my boss got involved and told them that abusing staff is unacceptable and they need not return.

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    #15

    Person writing in a planner, managing tasks, a common reason for getting fired such as missed deadlines. The owner was from India. His son wanted Valentine’s Day off to go to a seven day wedding, but I already requested and had it approved. He crossed my name off the calendar and put his and told me if I wasn’t there I’d be fired. Expected me to pick up all his missing shifts the whole week. I picked up all his shifts, but I wasn’t there on Valentine’s Day. I was fired.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nepotism is alive and well. It’s hard to have fairness and unbiased behavior when families work together.

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    #16

    30 Times People Got Fired In Ways They Will Never Forget I told them in March I’m taking a week off in May. May comes and they tell me they can’t approve it because we’re short staffed. I remind them that we were short staffed when everyone else took their vacations this year and didn’t complain, so come May 15th I’m outta here.

    They acted weird for a week after I got back before dropping the news. Wasn’t even mad, I was part time consistently pulling 32-38 hours. Thinking of reporting them to the department of labor.

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    #17

    30 Times People Got Fired In Ways They Will Never Forget Reporting sexual assault to authorities when I was an exotic dancer and wouldn’t take the bribe offered to keep my mouth shut.

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    #18

    Person working on a laptop with a cup of tea, related to reasons people have been fired. They hired me, didn't give me any work to do, then fired me for not doing any work despite me asking for things to do.

    Addendum: I was a junior PR associate then. Since I had nothing to do, I spent the time monitoring the social media pages of our brands to get insight (this was under my then-superior's advice).

    One of the reasons why they fired me was "you spend too much time on social media while at work".

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    #19

    30 Times People Got Fired In Ways They Will Never Forget Boss apparently didn't know I had a lazy eye(but able to control it consciously)
    I was at this job for 3 years without an incident.(Transporting materials)
    Calls me in and asks me about my vision.
    Tell him I'm legally blind in right eye, but have been driving since I was 10.
    Said we can no longer continue with you being employed here.
    Was so out of my mind, I didn't even think to lawyer up.
    But FU them, their new driver " accidentally" pierced 4 vehicles with the long forks... Within 1 week.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm curious if this was a liability thing and if OP was legally allowed to operate a vehicle/machinery, licensed. It sounds like another employee may have had something against you and said something about your eye/vision, to the boss. Either way it sounds like Karma worked her magic.

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    #20

    People toasting with colorful drinks, a scene linked to reasons for being fired. Back in highschool, I didn’t invite my 30 something year old manager to my underage drinking party. Fired the next shift at work during a rush.

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    #21

    Green and black olives closely packed together. I put too many olives on a sandwich and got fired from Subway. On my first day.

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    Tabitha
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would imagine their training is not only lightning quick as if you’re already trained to make sandwiches their way even though you’re only 16 and have never had a job before, and extremely vague, like “Put a handful of olives on top” which actually means a child’s handful and not an adult’s handful, when they should actually say something more precise and universally understood, like “Put 1/4 cup of olives on top”. Almost like they hire people for no other reason than to set them up to fail. No wonder they’re always hiring but eternally short-handed.

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    Ron Man
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    lol No. Nobody gets fired for putting on too many olives. You're talking about less than $0.02 of product at best. I think there's a lot more to this.

    zak
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The correct amount of olives on a sandwich is zero. 🫤

    Seadog
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    4 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too many in whose eyes? The customer or the manager? Pretty sure the customer gets as many as they want. Why else would you get a made to order sandwich? But then we are talking about Subway so....

    Heras buddy
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No , that's being a petty a*****e. Just tell the person to be more careful next time.

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    #22

    App Store gift cards on display, part of a story on being fired for unexpected incidents. Worked at Rite Aid, some scammers came with stolen gift cards that were actually accepted by the system and they made a huge purchase, obviously I was suspicious and the manager approved the transactions. A month later, I was let go citing stating I wasn’t vigilant enough!

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "In baseball, they say "You can't fire the team, so you fire the manager." In business, it's the other way around.

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    Man in an office environment, smiling while on a phone call, with computer screens in front of him. Because I wouldn't lie to people. Worked for a cell service affiliate in college. Had the worst coverage, price, and customer service of any of the 4 major carriers in my area. Only feather in the cap was cool devices (for the time). Sales expectations were high, only way to get there was lie through your teeth. I refused. Spent most my shifts unfucking accounts other employees had f****d in order to get commission. Was actually relieved to get canned. Was destroying my mental health.

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    Robert Beveridge
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So f*****g is censored but unfucking is okay? Actually I kinda like the poetic justice there, censorbot.

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    #24

    A person in a blue hoodie looking stressed, holding their head. Got fired for quitting.

    See, phones weren't allowed on jobsites. But, we were expected to call into dispatch before 5pm to get our next daily assignment. Buuuuuuut, we worked from 7a to 7p almost every day, so we couldn't call into dispatch. After being reprimanded for not calling in on time, I said "Ya know, this job isn't going to work out and I quit." Dispatcher said "You have no idea how stressful *you people* make things for me. You're fired, and no longer allowed to work for this agency!".

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    Rivka Ostroff
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I also was once "fired" after r quitting. I told my manager I quit and she said no you don't quit I am firing you. Lol like that changes anything.

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    #25

    30 Times People Got Fired In Ways They Will Never Forget It was my third day in a small warehouse that supplied ingredients to local pizza places. I was instructed to get a box that had a bag full of crushed red pepper and fill some shakers. The bottom of the box came apart and the bag fell, hitting the ground and scattering the pepper flakes everywhere and filling the air with dust. My eyes, throat, nose and lungs were almost immediately on fire. A coworker escorted me to the bathroom where I started having a coughing fit and throwing up. I couldn't see, I could barely breathe, and then the bathroom door bursts open and the owner is SCREAMING at me about the pepper flakes and how much money I had just cost him. F**k that guy. His business went under a year later.

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    #26

    Rows of shopping carts lined up in a retail store setting, highlighting reasons people have been fired. I pushed 10 carts at a time at target when the maximum is supposed to be 7. They were the last 10 carts in the lot and I didn’t feel like making 2 trips was necessary. Got fired the next day.

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    #27

    Person using a card reader at a store counter, symbolizing reasons for being fired. Called a customer a witch. And that was being polite. I could have and should have been a lot worse.

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    #28

    A car at a drive-thru order station, illustrating reasons for being fired. I was working at Taco Bell as a teen and forgot to turn off the headset and went on a full insult tirade to my nemesis.

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    Donna Peluda
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Happens to me once over the walkie talkie at a job. My language is colorful on a good day so when I found out just as I was knocking of Friday that someone had forgot to get 300 T Shirtsfor a party at one of the clubs and I had to do a 300km roundtrip to go and pick the up I let rip.with realising that my finger was on the trigger. The whole company heard it. The up side was the owner did to and he made the guy who had forgotten to order the T-shirts go and get them. I also got reprimanded for using foul language, but I Shure I could see a hint of snail on the HR ladies face.

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    #29

    Man with a beard and hand on face wearing an earring, looking stressed about getting fired. After my training and onboarding, I was only getting 2 shifts a week consistently for over a month. Asked for more, was given the "we are unionized, we have to follow seniority, you've only been here 3 months" schpeel.

    So I went and got a second job and started telling the first one which of the 2 or 3 days a week I'd be available to work for them. Got let go for not being available for shifts 7 days a week.

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    Verena
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is not how unions work in the European countries I live and work in. They are a support for all employees, members or not. The benefit for being a member (paying membership fees) is some financial support if you need a work related lawyer, and some little other things.

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    #30

    Person editing video on a laptop at a desk, showcasing reasons people have been fired. I refused to uproot my entire life and move to New Jersey after 17 years of working on the other side of the country (the last two of which were done fully remote rather than in a satellite office).

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    Lila Allen
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    US - hey employees getting illegally fired. Most employment lawyers work contingency so you don't have to pay unless you win. Start fighting back.

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    #31

    Alcoholic Chef here, self explanatory. 1 year sober!

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    #32

    Close-up of smartphone screen showing unread mail notifications. I worked as the setup staff for my colleges sporting events. Sounded cool at first, but it was horrible in reality. Insane micromanaging yet at the same time operationally it was a cluster f**k. I didn’t have an actual set supervisor, and nobody seemed to ever know what the f**k was going on.

    So the minute I got a new job I went to put in my two week notice. I go to the HR office after class one day, and it was open but no one was in there. I go the next day, and same thing. So I left my written notice on the front desk, and made sure to email them too. I didn’t get scheduled for any games during those two weeks and just figured my time there was done.

    I got an email 8 months later saying “you have been terminated for unexcused absences and are no longer eligible to work for (insert higher education system) again in any capacity.” I reach out and they’re like “we recently discovered you haven’t shown up for a game in months.” I told them I submitted my resignation months ago and they insisted I never did.

    What’s funny is now I work at a different school in the same state system in a professional job, and when I was getting screened for my interview I’m not going to lie, I was a little worried it would f**k everything lol. Luckily it didn’t.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you have saved your email, you should have emailed that emailed back to them to show you informed them that you put your two weeks noticed in.

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    #33

    I was a wastewater/drinking water operator in charge of the facilities at a local college. I was fired so that they could give my job to a person to be able to get them a visa to stay in the country. This was around the time of Covid, and they were having issues finding jobs for people they wanted to retain. While this guy had an impressive education, he was not certified to the job(there are several state licenses required). They initially offered for me to stay on as a crew member at less pay(and use my licenses). To the HR rep's shock, I declined and told them I either kept my job or left. They chose to let me go. I called the state governing body on my way home and informed them that I was no longer in charge of that facility. To the university's shock, they discovered it took a fair amount of time, educational courses, and work hours to get the licenses. I think they thought they would just stick their guy in an office for a few years until they could place him somewhere else.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The way I see it, letting OP go only got his old workplace a license to sink...

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    #34

    I stopped doing my managers job and the job I wasn’t getting paid for.

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    #35

    Because the boss's son was a lazy liar.

    When I was in high school, I worked Friday and Saturday nights from midnight to 6am at a 7-11. The worst part of it was dealing with people that wanted to buy beer after 2am on Sunday, but almost as onerous was having to put together the Sunday NY Times. It was delivered in about a dozen sections, each on neatly strapped into a pile. I had to take each section and put them all inside the main section. It was dull and repetitive and took half the night to put together hundreds of them.

    One night, the NY Times was not delivered. I advised my relief (the boss's son) of this when he arrived in the morning and went on my way. Come next Friday I went in to work as usual and found the boss there, which was strange in and of itself. He told me that I was fired for not putting the Times together the previous week. I told him that they were never delivered, and that I told his son about this.

    My brother, who worked the same shift I did, was standing right there, and backed up my account. The guy fired me anyway. At which point my brother quit. Which meant that the boss and his son had to work our shifts until they hired some more people.

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    #36

    Only time I ever got officially fired from a job was from the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. I worked coat check, and was specifically told that on rainy days strollers needed to be folded by the parents before they could be checked in. I told a parent this, and this parent became a Karen (this took place way before the term Karen became a thing). After a pretty long time of complaining about why she shouldn’t have to fold her stroller, I simply told her that in the amount of time she spent complaining, she could’ve folded her stroller, been checked in, and been in the Museum. She complained straight to the top, and I got fired because of it. 

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    #37

    Grocery store aisle filled with products, representing reasons for being fired. I worked in a supermarket. Boss doesn’t want us to work overtime. I finish at 4PM and so I pack up at 15:55 as I need to get clear of the shelves. Boss see me in the reserve at 15:58 and ask me “why you're packing up? You have 2 minutes left.” My contract get terminated the next fortnight.

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    ElfVibratorGlitter
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can't have it both ways management! The job I just left last month, we were supposed to be finished at 10pm, I never got out of there before 1030/1045 every night. It was frustrating but I did just get my overtime payout and that stuff adds up:)

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    #38

    I was a girl.


    Tech company. We were split into teams of 15+ people that reported to one supervisor. The company was primarily male, so some teams didn't have any girls. Those that did only had 1-3. My team had 2 girls on it, me (overweight and ugly)and another girl (who was a conventionally pretty young Asian girl). I was consistently average as a worker. She would take naps in the hallway while on the clock and couldn't tell you anything about the products we were supporting.

    He would give the other girl random excuses or benefits, like not reporting her using incorrect time clock stamps that showed her data into the positive. He'd feed her easy tickets that would buffer her numbers. (He wasn't supposed to hand us tickets to begin with). Whenever she made mistakes, he would say it was because she was new, but she started just a month after me and at this point it had been around a year since we started.

    For me, he'd find everything wrong that he could find. If I fixed an issue he brought up, he'd magically forget he asked me to fix it and just complain about the next thing that came up. He never told me how to fix weak spots. One he literally told me "you are the worst stats on the team, but at least there are 7 people worse than you at our company!" Didn't tell me how to fix it. Never told me anything positive. He'd send me tickets saying "You can handle this one, it looks easy!" And I'd be stuck with them for weeks because they would end up being super complex problems with unresponsive clients. He'd then chastise me for not solving "an easy problem. "

    All the boys had very different experiences. He'd help them (but was bad at it), and they got just average treatment from him. Some of those who had been there longer than i had been had terrible stats but didn't get as much backlash over it. They eventually noticed that my personality was changing (depression) and started noticing the way he treated me. They started trying to help me themselves, and saw first hand some of the tickets he would give me. Not at all easy, which was obvious before he even sent them over to me. They helped significantly, but he kept undoing everything they did (saying I was doing things wrong, saying I was talking to my coworkers too much, etc). As one of my coworkers put it, everytime I got back on my feet he would shove me back into the ground. Upper management ignored us, even though we found out he had a history of teasing other girls this way. Pretty girls got special treatment, others got pushed away until they were off his team. (Either fired or transferred). It got to the point where I would seriously consider calling in such on days I knew I was supposed to meet with him, because I'd leave our meetings in tears.

    Covid came and we went WFH. By this point, I was depressed, stressed, and shutting down. The lenient work from home policies we had because of the sudden shift meant I could get away with slacking off. I went from being a hard worker to barely scraping by. I couldn't even remember how to fix simple problems (like password changes) because he had dragged me so much through the mud that I was questioning every little thing I did. I lost all of the little confidence I had. I'd take tickets and then watch tv for an hour or two while pretending to work, or play games on my phone. I did the bare minimum, and my stats got worse. It didn't help that it was much harder to ask my coworkers for help, because instead of them being next to me they were miles away only reachable by chat.

    At one point, I realized how bad things had gotten and tried to pull myself back up. At this point I was on an improvement plan (your last chance before firing) and I tried to get it together enough to keep my job. I bothered the hell out of my coworkers, started researching weak spots in my freetime, got better about reaching out to customers and closing tickets for my getting answers. My stats improved and I had my first somewhat positive meeting with my supervisor. He still found everything wing, but said if I kept improving then the next week I'd be off the improvement plan.

    I got fired the week after. I got some really nasty tickets that tanked my stats, despite utilizing every resource I could. They were very weird issues that got pushed up to our engineering team, and I had several all at once. It was just your run of the mill bad week, we all have them and you can't avoid them. While it messed up my stats, they were still better than they had been for a while. But I got fired for it. During my meeting with him that week, he had an hr guy with him and they told me I was fired. At this point I had gotten enough confidence back to say that I didn't understand how I could go from "improving enough that I might get off the improvement plan" to getting fired in one week, without ANY warning or instruction during that week that this was a possibility. As far as I was aware, I was still improving and had no indication that this wasn't the case. The hr guy asked if I felt like I had received sufficient support, I said no.

    My supervisor was fired the next week.

    I'm now in a different field where I am very happy, and my confidence is the highest its ever been. I'm constantly receiving praise for how hard of a worker I am, how quick to learn I am and how coachable I am. My current supervisors are always saying I'm super easy to work with because I look for and respond to criticism and ways to improve. The issue with my past job was never me, and I can guarantee you it was because I was a girl.

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    I was trying to report my bosses boss to HR for harassing and bullying me. He was taunting me on a phone call with a client, making childish voices and rude statements about me while pressuring me to work faster than I had been in the moment. He would ask me if something was done while I was working on things throughout the call, demanding updates every 15 seconds or so. I left the call and told my boss I was reporting this guy to HR, and I was told I was fired instead.

    I ended up getting a call from HR the following week, and they hadn't yet been informed I had been fired. They opened a case on my behalf to look into these issues. Unsurprisingly, they investigated themselves, and found themselves guilty of no wrongdoing. They did tell me I had been terminated due to issues with my professionalism. That was painful, hearing he'd completely uno reversed me. I hadn't at any point been unprofessional, as I take great pride in these types of things for some stupid reason. Call me old fashioned, I suppose.

    This was so unexpected that it caused me a great deal of financial issues and completely tanked my credit in the process. Due to the time of year when it happened, it took nearly 4 months to start a new role and begin earning money again. I have so much debt now because of this guy bullying me directly, openly, and then immediately firing me for being "unprofessional".

    Pro tip: if you're going to HR to report your bosses boss, do NOT tell your direct boss first. Corporate America will destroy you if you're a good person at heart.

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    #40

    Using my vacation days as sick days.

    Chronic illness is a b***h. Didnt know my autoimmune disorder was the cause at the time but some days my body just didn't work.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're in the US get FMLA if you have an auto immune disease. Doesn't guarantee you won't get fired, but it does help with time off. I get another bucket for FMLA when I have to miss due to a Crohn's flare up

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    #41

    I worked for a European swine genetics company.

    One of our selection and multiplication nuclei was outsourced to a neighboring country.

    When animals of high genetic value had to be shipped to a customer, I would go to the farm and spend the day grading, sorting and marking the animals to be loaded on the truck.

    Once, a client rightly complained about the poor quality of the animals we had sent them. I went to see them, and their identification numbers did not match the ones I had registered in my notebook. The farm had replaced them with others and, in turn, had sold the ones I had selected on their own.

    After a meeting between my company and the managers of the multiplication farm, it was decided that we would continue to work together and that I would be the "scapegoat" for the customer.

    I was fired.

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    #42

    It's literally just for being a man. I worked at a local bookstore. Me and this other dude got hired to help with the Christmas season rush and because they needed people that could lift more the 50lbs. After 5 weeks me and the only other dude got called in to the owners office and basically got told that we were being let go for performance issues, which was a bunch a bull. Also, the other reason was cause the other employees, which were all women, didn't feel too comfortable around 2 dudes and that we didn't fit into the work culture. From me and that dudes perspective, we worked hard, we're respectful and positive. Honestly, I'm glad they fired me because I got an even better job.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's like if you worked at the women and women first book store from portlandia lol

    #43

    A long time ago I was fired from a massive retailer that's known for the color blue for "time theft."

    Their own asset protection investigation showed I was actually owed hours above what I had clocked.

    A fair number of other heads rolled for that one but they still refused to hire me back.

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    #44

    I was working two jobs at the time. A manager at my part-time job didn't like me. So he changed my schedule so I'd have to work the same days as my main job. He did this after my shifts were over for the week, so I'd not see the change. I came to work on Monday and was informed I " no showed" 3 days in a row and was fired. Honestly, I was relieved. Working 76 hours a week was too much.

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    Jessica SpeLangm
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did the part time boss KNOW your 2nd job schedule? If yes, and it's because you told him, then maybe you shouldn't have said anything to him about your 2nd job schedule.

    #45

    Was working at fedex just part time and i couldn’t come in multiple days in a row because i had such bad back pain that i could barely walk let alone stand up. i explained this to my manager and he told me he agreed with my decision 2 days later all of my shifts were taken off my schedule without any call or text to let me know why. i call my manager to ask why. he said i was fired for not coming into work. these were the only days i ever missed there. but the fact I had to call them for them to tell me i was fired really pissed me off.

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    #46

    Person looking at a phone while sitting on a bed, possibly thinking about being fired. Because I smelled bad.

    They weren't wrong. I had just recently moved out on my own for the first time, nobody was really encouraging me to take care of myself, I was struggling with depression and just.. didn't bother.

    It was pretty f****n embarrassing.

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    6 days ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have worked with people who have terrible body odor. Both were fired for it. One guy was gently spoken to by another older coworker who advised him he needed to shower and use antiperspirant. The guy denied he smelled. Another was a young woman, first job who also smelled like B.O. We begged the male manager to say something. He just did not know how to approach it. Poor girl was only 15 and a part time cashier.

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    #47

    I put 12 chickens in a chicken coop overnight instead of 6. I was just told the chickens had to be in a coop.

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    Immortal Jellyfish
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Company I worked for had a storeman/labourer that was missing one eye and had a massive thick lense for his other. He was also the traffic marshal!

    #48

    I left a 17 hour shift 10 minutes early.

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    #49

    Quality standards kept changing unpredictably while time limits kept crunching tighter and tighter. Eventually my quality slips one too many times and boom, that's all folks.

    The entire program shut down about a year after I fell off. The company had lost their contract. I sure didn't have to wonder why.

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    #50

    First time was from Walmart. I wouldn't kiss the manager's a*s at all because he was a useless f**k stick and he made up reasons to fire me including doctoring the time clock and cameras. A few months after I left he got busted doing it again by the GM and fired.

    Second time was doing door to door frozen food sales and some lady claimed I hit her stupid expensive road bike. She claimed it was sitting across the road behind branches of a downed tree after a storm. When I said so why was a several thousand dollar road bike just left next to the road 300 yards from someone's house? She couldn't answer that but I got blamed anyway.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Years ago I took a day off to go to an interview with Walmart. Show up and it is a group interview. 20 people waiting and a clerk comes out to say the manager is not available and we would have the interview rescheduled. I tell them in person and in an email that I cannot reschedule and thank them for their time. TWO mths later I get an email from Walmart telling me I have been blacklisted from applying to Walmart because I did not show up for the rescheduled interview. That no one contacted me about.

    #51

    I asked too many questions but also did too much on my own without asking for clarification. Then I pointed out that those two things in my review conflicted, and they really didn’t care for that.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These popcorn are way to salty, but also could i get more salt?

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    #52

    Work biotech, was fired from my first job

    I was originally in charge of package receipt at a smaller company where RAs (and even Sci's) were handling a lot of the logistics. We eventually purposefully hired a guy to handle alot of these roles because they effectively were getting in the way of us doing sciencey stuff. Showed the guy the general ropes of where we receive shipments, how to distribute and logging receipts, etc.

    Well three weeks later, I was pulled into the boss' office and was told I was being fired. I wasn't necessarily mad but more so confused so I asked what made them come to that decision. Apparently that douchenozzle just blatantly forgot to check packages one day and voila... a multi-thousand dollar (and several months to manufacture) specimen was left to thaw and die at the receiving area. I was fired so I just protested that wasn't it this guy's job to do all of that. Was told I was still expected to check in on him to make sure he did his job.

    Then just hit em with "The f**k am I supposed to know if he did his job or not if we hired him in the first place for all of this." Got up and went to pack my shiz at my desk and walked out.

    I know its not the most exciting story but that's my only story of being fired. I have been laid off once though.

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    #53

    The first time - I was a 21 year old hostess at a new restaurant. I was in a sorority and you have to take like 2 whole weeks every summer for recruitment - one week for training and practice and another for the actual recruitment. It's incredibly exhausting. Most girls get really sick. I got so terribly horribly sick, I had to skip our bid day activity and it still breaks my heart. I slept for several days. I told the restaurant I was very sick and couldn't come back yet and they said not to worry and to take the rest of the week off. The schedule for the next week comes out and I show up as scheduled. Then about an hour into my shift, I got pulled into the back and fired for not telling them I was coming back. You gave me the week, I took the week, then showed up as scheduled. Wtf. He also told me that they purposely hired too many people anyway.

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    #54

    I caught my boss falsifying an employee's d**g test, so I asked HR what should I do? She said to talk to his boss, so then went to his boss...who called me a liar and told me I must be mistaken. so I went back to HR...where it was never mentioned again. Until the end of that year, in which I could nothing right apparently...and the "undermining" was one the things brought up during my termination meeting. Also, my bosses didn't like me asking too many questions or my disciplining my employees when safety policies were broken.

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    A mutual distaste between my boss any myself.  My firing was the nicest thing he ever did for me.  It got me out of a dead-end and freed me up to discover a job I spent the next twenty years at.

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    #56

    Person typing on a keyboard at a wooden desk, related to reasons for being fired. I openly mocked my supervisors spelling errors and didn't show up to a shift they scheduled me for after I specifically told them I couldn't work that time.

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    Old Sony Ericsson Walkman phone with orange screen, symbolizing workplace mishaps. I accidentally snitched on myself lol. Used to work at radio shack and I tried selling a personal cell phone to a friend (not realizing that the phone wasn’t working properly) so I switched it with a brand new phone from our store. Months later a radio shack internal affairs guy came in and said I can fess up to what I did or basically get in trouble with the police. I told him about the phone thing, welllll as it turns out he was there because the company suspected me of credit card fraud which I did not do so they fired me for the phone incident and made me pay back the full price of the phone. This was back in 2005.

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    arthbach
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This person got off lightly! Switching a personal phone for a brand new phone from the shop is theft. They were very fortunate only to have been fired and made to repay the value of the stolen goods.

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    #58

    Worked second shift for a beverage company as a shuttle driver. For 5 weeks I couldn't get a fuel card and used 2 of the other drivers' fuel card. One day they weren't there and had enough fuel to do 1 run instead of the usual 3-4. I called my supervisor who was at home and told me to figure it out so I packed my bag full of free soda and went home. The next morning he called me and asked why I didn't make the runs I told him to get f'd and hung up.

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    #59

    Owner's granddaughter graduated from college with a degree in accounting. I knew they were going to fire me and bring her in.

    Also, I asked the owner for a private meeting at her house, we needed money. She gave it to me. Said she couldn’t tell anything to her kids (president and vice president) but pretty sure she did.
    I was glad actually, the president (owner's son) liked to splurge on equipment he had no business buying.

    They were so far in the red, and the owner (woman in her 70’s) floated that company for several years.

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    #60

    I just got fired from the job I had been at for over 10 years last Monday. I am 33 years old, so I basically spent my entire adult working life there. I watched as the upper management slowly made the place miserable. It was an office type, state job. I hadn't gotten a raise in 4 years, no one was ever replaced ... the work just fell on the rest of us. I just stopped putting in any effort to meet their constantly changing expectations. Took 4 years, but they finally let me go. I had seen the writing on the wall though and had already lined up something else to start in a few weeks. This has been the best vacation ever.

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    Geoffrey Scott
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Document,document,document. They change expectations, send an email or demand some written proof of expectations. Create a 'CYA' file in your computer for reference.

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    #61

    I failed to successfully interpret: "I need you to stay a little later than your shift officially ends to help close.", "We can't pay you.

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    Lila Allen
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would interpret this as an illegal request to work without pay and immediately call the labor board.

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    #62

    I drained my FMLA because of migraines, and I had thought I had sent in all the necessary paperwork as I had been in communication with HR. I was sleeping off a migraine when I got a missed call that I had to come into the office that day or I would be fired by the afternoon. I naturally did not answer and it was too late when I got the message.

    It sucked how they kind of sprung a termination on me, but at the same time I understand they need people who can actually work to be there. I eventually got approved for disability after a two year fight for it with no pay and almost losing our home.

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    Robert Beveridge
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The amount of time it takes to get disability in this country is horrifying. I had to crowd fund my life for nine months during the application process. Nearly ended up homeless (again) in the process. And I'm one of the lucky ones! Had a relative (way, way worse off than me--no working liver, on dialysis, waiting list for transplant, etc.) die while in his fourth year of waiting for them to clear yet another round of paperwork...

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    #63

    My boss told HR I was behind on all my projects, which was true, I was behind because all designs were waiting on my boss's approval.

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    I was in pharmacy school and working as an intern at Walmart. To be a pharmacy intern you have to register with the state and stay in pharmacy school. I had already had to repeat a semester and was on academic probation. Then I absolutely bombed one of my exams the following semester. I had 3 weeks before the final and needed a really high grade to not fail and get kicked out of pharmacy school. So I called my boss and told them I couldn't come into work because I needed to study. They said they understood and let me off.

    A couple days later I got a call from my boss saying his boss told him that I would not be retained in the intern program that Walmart has. Didn't really matter as I ended up not getting the grade I needed and was kicked out of pharmacy school so I would have been let go anyway.

    I did eventually get back in and was able to graduate but I decided not to seek regular employment so I could focus on school.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait... are you saying that Wal-mart pays its interns? That is very off brand for them!

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    #65

    On my second day at Subway, my boss told me I didn't have "it".

    16 years later I still don't know what that means.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "It" is either something you have or something you don't have, it is not something that one can learn, usually, so not really attainable. At least that's what I've been told throughout my life.

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    #66

    Worked at a start up. And these were their words verbatim:

    "You're too soft on the team"

    "We need someone that can come in everyday at 7AM"

    First off, upper management (business bros) goes over my head and drives my team to the bone. We're talking 10 hour sporadic shifts trying to sell and demo their product to investors every month of so. My team appreciated my efforts to protect them from the b******t.

    Second, no one is in the office until 9.

    Basically I wasn't a yes man and cracking the whip.

    Edit: Also f**k the product management guy. He was trying to get me fired and it worked just because I challenged his ideas on how to do my job. He was good friends with one of the founders.

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    #67

    In high school I had a job at a place called Mr. Fix-It. Just as you would imagine - a one-room mess of a place where he would do everything from simple electrical work on an appliance to welding.

    I was fired for mixing epoxy on a newspaper.

    Clearly there was more going on. But I was 16. F**k ‘em!

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    #68

    I left a USB stick with sensitive files plugged into a computer that was turned off, inside a locked office, which was inside a secure area.

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    arthbach
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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, in certain circumstances, that would be a breach of security standards and would result in immediate termination.

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    #69

    I was making a lot of money working banquets and the restaurant as a busboy way back in 2006-2008. Someone got jealous and made up rumors, and I got fired. I didn't know about my rights back then.

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    #70

    I threw a fit cause i was stuck washing dishes alone when everyone else went out back to drink beers and smoke pot on the clock. Then they came back inside and complained that they couldn't leave until the dishes were done and that I was taking too long.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Should have walked out and as you were walking out should have said If I am to, slow you can do it yourself.

    #71

    I started working at a rough time of my life and had to force myself to cope with personal issues while trying to work. I took a few too many sickies along the way.

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    #72

    Was a supervisor for one department and was sleeping with a supervisor from another department. we would hook up in the car on breaks. Plant manager 1 week before I was fired, did my evaluation, which was the highest in my plant and top 10 for the entire company, received a 6% pay increase. Termination was for not fulfilling my job duties.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well... I don't know what they expected considering the first sentence.

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    #73

    I missed a “busy day” and couldn’t “find someone to cover my shift” because my girlfriend was sick and kept passing out. They told me “can’t she take care of herself?” Yeah they can lick my nuts.

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    #74

    We used the water slide after hours as a beer bong.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's disgusting, imho. The amount of germs and bacteria that are on that water slide, would definitely had deterred me from consuming any of that beer. I'm sure some of them got sick, no thanks.

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    #75

    Pandemic, and most recently the interest rate environment as I pivoted into the mortgage space after getting through COVID.

    I’m really starting to doubt my ability to work, as it’s been 4 years of this really grueling time finding gainful employment. All this, in “the land of opportunity”. I really wish I could find a stable well paying job, where I enjoy the work and people I work with. It’s been my dream since getting to college 13 years ago and I’m writing this as a way to manifest it.

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    #76

    Losing my s**t one day and just trying to get back at the company lol. I was a TL for Target and it's a very stressful job for the s**t pay. Each year Target ASKS their employees to donate money to one of several charities at any amount but really try to push you to do something like $5 but to agree to have it pull from your check once per month for 12 months so $60 or some amount like that. Really saying stuff like "it's only a cup of coffee per month!" They don't hide it or be sneaky about it they're all up front about how it works BUT they make it seem like the employee can write this off during tax season because they give you a receipt to show your donation. But surprise surprise Target claims the donation and takes the tax break so you can't.

    So I decided f**k that and would inform my teams about this and tell them if they want to donate go do it on their own directly. They don't need to donate through Target and give them another tax break just to fire us all later to hit their bottome line.

    Well obviously my prissy sit in office all day SD and HR lead didn't like this so they decided to pull a skeleton out of my closet they kept for a rainy day when I asked a coworker out but they weren't interested and nothing ever went past that. We even had a great work relationship together for almost a year without it ever coming up again. But I guess she told a friend who told a friend that landed on HR's ear and they kept that information for until they needed it and said they "conducted and investigation" into my work ethic and fired me for it saying it counts as harassment.

    I just laughed and said "okay wtf ever helps y'all sleep. Where's my check?"

    Ended up doing me a huge favor doing that because being young at the time I was stupid and was trying to move up in Target but f**k that s**t. I now have a career in a feild I'm actually interested in at a great company making even more money with 20x less stress! Thanks for being a s****y company Target!

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This trope about how companies use employee and customer charitable donations to get a tax write-off for themselves has to stop. It simply isn't true. The benefit to the company is in the PR they get from it. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/06/10/fact-check-false-claim-checkout-charities-offset-corporate-taxes/7622379002/

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    #77

    Supervisor yelled at me, I tossed him off the loading dock. He did get fired for yelling first, but obviously I also got fired.

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    6 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like oh my God, you like, sound soooooo mature. And bragging about it too. My goodness, companies must be like, lining up to hire you.

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    #78

    Because I wasn't very good at the job.

    I was originally declined for a promotion because I *didn't have the experience and knowledge* to do it. A few months later, the senior management team reached out to me. They indicated the position was still vacant as nobody else wanted it. They offered it to me. Only thinking about the $$, I took it.

    I did the best i could, but wasnt effective at getting the desired results. 6 months in, I got called to a meeting with my supervisor. He candidly asked if, given more time, did I think I could get better at the job. I candidly answered him, "NO!" The next day, I was terminated.

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    5 days ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The poster is just as much to blame here as the managers. He should not have taken the promotion when it was offered and at the same time, the company should not have offered it, after having passed him by previously.

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    #79

    I don't speak Spanish and didn't understand what a coworker was telling me.

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