My buddy moved across the country for a job. At the end of his second week he was informed they were going to let him go as part of a large reduction in force. He had moved all of his stuff and signed a year lease of an apartment. When he complained that this really screwed him over and the company had to know this was coming well before he started and should have just told him to not come his now former boss patted him on the back, chuckled, and told him something like "life's not fair."

My buddy ended up getting the last laugh. His dad's best friend was an attorney with all the right connections in that state. His old company settled with him when they were served with a lawsuit, claiming something like fraud and deception. He ended up settling for something that was over double his yearly salary.

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Exact same thing happened to my daughter in law..she worked at a well known coffee chain.

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I made the horrifically naive mistake of telling a co-worker (I thought was a decent person) I was putting out feelers after the clinic I was on probationary period at extended my probationary period for a third time instead of hiring me on. The very next day I was called into the administrators office and was ordered to explain why I would be so disloyal. I explained that I had become concerned when they extended my probationary period for a third time and I was only putting out feelers. The administrator claimed that they had invested a lot of time and money into me and that I had nothing to worry about - I wasn't going anywhere.

So, the next day when I was scheduled to have my weekly meeting with the very same administrator I was feeling quite relaxed and confident. I sat casually in the office and smiled at her when she came in looking all tense. She then proceeded to tell me that I was being let go. When I asked "Why? You said I had nothing to worry about yesterday." She just sighed and said "You just don't seem confident that you're going to get the job." There was a brief moment of me silence and I said "You mean you're firing me because I don't seem confident you're not going to fire me?"

That's when she got flustered - like visible upset, smacked her hands on the table and said while shuffling papers nervously "You know this is a Right To Work State, right?"

"Yes?"

"That means I don't have to give you a reason, they are just letting you go." Then she offered to call security because I guess she thought I was going to be as upset about losing that s**tastic job as she was about having to fire me in such a s****y way. I assured her that security was unnecessary and that I would leave quietly. It was embarrassing, bewildering, and obviously quite unethical, but that's living in a Right To Work State for ya, o and working in a hospital.

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Same sort of c**p that can be done to you in an At Will state like mine, too.

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Our old manager was forced by HER boss to fire a guy who was a bit slower than the other servers because he stood up for himself when someone called him r******d (he has Autism)

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I was a teacher at a Christian private school in Jakarta for about a year before I was removed.

Going into the job I fibbed a bit saying that I was a practicing Christian as the pay was pretty solid and had a buddy working there who did the same. Anyhow, the year goes by relatively smoothly aside from constant headbutting with the head of English, Jimmy.

I was teaching grades 10 and 11 IGCSE and AS English Language, and after the initial transition phase, my students really took a liking to my teaching methodologies. Mr. Jimmy was a very strict, by-the-book, examinations every two weeks type of teacher, and I wasn't. I went in and figured for the kids to do well, they first needed to enjoy it, and so I spent the good part of my first few weeks getting the kids interested in various readings, neat ways of looking at writing etc. Anyhow, this didn't sit well with Mr. Jimmy, and so we would have constant debates in staff meetings over the way I was teaching my courses. He was the head of English, I was new, I get it. But my kids were eating it up, and they were doing better than ever!

Anyhow, between our clashes, and my lack of enthusiasm for going to chapel every Friday afternoon, my time at the school came to a head towards the end of the school year.

As the grade 10s missed chapel one Friday to sit a test, Mr. Jimmy decided that he would give his own to the grade 10s. So one Wednesday morning, myself and the other grade 10 homeroom teacher took our classes to Jimmy's sermon, and boy oh boy was it something.

Now, just to give you an idea of Jimmy, this dude is an ultra-conservative Christian from the sticks of West Virginia. Heavyset, short, and slow-speaking with a thick drawl. He constantly reminded students that "humans couldn't have evolved from monkeys." I'm not much for Abrahamic religion, but it's never really bothered me either, and I find it's more the wingnut members of the religion that tarnish the name--and Jimmy was definitely one of these.

Anyhow, we get to the little session and Jimmy says that this session would be about "defending you faith," which didn't bode well. He started the shindig by talking about being "assaulted, insulted and mocked" by all of the Muslims "running around Indonesia hating Christians." Oh boy.

I had been in Jakarta for two years by that time, and despite the recent unfortunate elections in the city, it's a very moderate place (and country in general). Not once had I heard anyone mock any religion, nor do you see people proselytizing or pushing their faith on others. Sorry, I take that back, everywhere except this Christian school.

Anyhow, I kind of reach my boiling point (I'm against religions of any kind being in schools) and raise my hand, and ask, "Mr. Jimmy, don't you think that we should just do what Jesus did, and turn the other cheek?"

He looks in my direction, keen to my discontent, and responds that "No, we need to give our children of god ammunition with which to fight the people that insult our religion." I mean, that's pretty heavy stuff for 15-year-olds.

After my question, a few other students who had talked to me in private about their lack of faith, questioning of faith, atheism etc began to raise their hands. Jimmy goes nuts. He starts rattling off bible passages, shouting, telling the students that it was no place for questioning (it is a school isn't it?) and generally throwing a temper tantrum.

I had had enough. I got up quietly, and left the room.

Two weeks later while my grade 11 students were sitting their AS exams, and whilst I was invigilating, I was asked by the vice principle to head downstairs to meet the head of the school.

I was told that I "didn't present a uniform front for the school, called into question my own religiosity, caused students to begin questioning religion, and undermined my senior."

I presented my case, explained that had Jimmy heard this same sermon, but in an Islamic school, he'd likely label them terrorists as the subject matter was just too extreme. They didn't hear me out, and gave me two options: 1. Resign with a payout for the rest of my contract (about 2 months) 2. Or be fired and get nothing.

Realizing that it wasn't worth the time and effort, I "resigned."

A few days later all of the teachers and students wore purple ribbons to school as a show of solidarity for me, parents called the school upset, the head of the school ended up resigning and moving countries. Later, I also found out that 90% of my students ended up with A* and A marks--the rest earned Bs, and they were the highest ranked classes in the past few years at that school.

I still keep in contact with some of my students from the school, and life only got better after leaving, so, whilst it makes a fun story, it only impacted my life for the better!

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What a wonderful human you are.

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Got assaulted by someone after work. In defending myself, the guys car took some minor damage e.g. wing mirror broken off, maybe a dent in the wing etc. I thought nothing of it, went home and then police turned up and arrested me on suspicion of criminal damage and ABH. Was released without charge but told my boss in work about it just in case. Police had me on bail for like 2 months whilst they checked cctb evidence putting me well in the clear. Due to form, the cockroach who assaulted me started calling my work trying to get me fired. My boss had my back on it but about a month later, I got called to a meeting about an hour and a halfs drive away on a Friday afternoon. This was whilst my boss was on holiday.

They made me go through the meeting for nearly an hour before suddenly saying they were going to let me go. Apparently the grassing c**t had been writing and phoning in every day. Here is the kicker though - they told me that I was sacked for telling this man to f**k off in the process of defending myself. They allowed that I was entitled to defend myself and that I had not been charged with any offence but said that it was unacceptable to swear in my works uniform under any circumstances. I had to leave my work vehicle there and was then miles from home and had to take a taxi back costing £80. Luckily when my boss was back off holiday, he got them to refund me that.

TL;DR Got assaulted in company uniform and in the process of defending myself told attacked to f**k off. Was released without charge by police but sacked for swearing in works uniform.

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I worked for this woman who owned a bakery business with several locations. She was a class A lunatic, but she paid well and for the most part I loved my job. I was constantly told I was one of her best employees, and one day she wanted me to be a manager at one of the stores. Honestly, I gave my all at that job because she paid me well above minimum wage for someone who had 0 experience in a bakery position prior to hire and I enjoyed making cupcakes for a living.

3 weeks before christmas she came into the store and told me that if the police showed up to give her a call in her office so she could come upstairs to meet them. Weird, but she was always dealing with something crazy like a customer she insulted or the like. Anyways, the cops came and she took them into her office to talk to them and that was that. Well after we closed the store that night she called me aside and accused me of stealing money out of the register.

She has cameras all over her store and told me she had hidden ones even the employees didn't know about. She "caught me doing suspicious things" on camera such as taking an envelope off the counter and coming back into the store after I had already locked up to get something I forgot. Just weird and baseless accusations.

She told me she had called the cops on me to file a police report and they would be wanting to talk to me at some point. She then fired me and took away my keys for the store and I left. I was devastated and for the following week I was a nervous depressed wreck. I had never taken anything from her, ever.

I later found out from a friend who still worked there she told every single employee I stole $3,000+ dollars from her, and probably stole her checkbook as well because it was "missing". (Again this lady was insane and I have no doubt she's the type of person to put her checkbook on top of her car and forget about it while driving away). She also told everyone who still worked there they weren't allowed to talk to me at all. That also really upset me because I really enjoyed my coworkers, but I knew most of them were so afraid of her and losing their jobs if they didn't bend to her every whim they just obeyed. For weeks after being fired she'd randomly call and text me and if I didn't immediately answer she would call and text my girlfriend and threaten to have the police come to our house if I kept "ignoring her". Finally she stopped, until about 2 weeks ago she started harassing me again trying to set up some sort of meeting to talk about why she fired me, but I pretty much told her it can be a phone conversation or she can f**k off and I haven't heard from her since. Honestly, I'm waiting for some crazy letter saying she's trying to sue me for god knows what.

TLDR; Crazy a*s ex-boss wouldn't stop harassing me and lying about me for god knows what reason

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Lawsuit time! Wrongful termination, harassment, and infliction of emotional distress.

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Summoned 17 people (~20% of the entire workforce) to the operations manager's office 8 am Friday. The day before the Company Christmas party, where bonuses are handed out. Usually to the tune of $2k each.

Two weeks before Christmas, no job, no bonus, needing to cancel a date night with their SOs. Morale wasn't too good.

Two months later another wave of firings occurred, one of the guys was partying in LA the night before and called in sick. They forced his supervisor to call him repeatedly at home, telling him it was mandatory he showed up. He lived 35-40 minutes away. HR was waiting in the parking lot. Parked, they handed him a packet and check, turned around and drove 40 minutes back home.

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A former colleague of mine said she had some "big news" to tell me and she'd be in town for a few days and wanted to grab some drinks. We chit-chatted some small-talk about how work was going, and I mentioned that I was about to fire a development company we worked with and had already signed a contract with their replacement. I went on and on for a few minutes about how pathetic the former partner's productivity had been and how it had hit rock bottom over the years.

Then she told me her "big news." She had just accepted a position at the company I was firing the next day, and she was assigned to be my project manager.

Needless to say, the rest of the drink meeting was a bit awkward.

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My boss was an idiot and one of the corporate heads had told him he had to fire somebody, so instead of thinking about who to fire he waited until Halloween to fire someone. He didn't want to make an unpopular decision. It was during our Halloween party and he tried to fire our quality assurance guy, but somehow was talked into firing somone else. So this guy got fired on Halloween because our boss didn't want to look stupid and go back to his first decision and fire the first guy. There was a big argument and our boss even tried to offer him a Chili's coupon.

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"Creepy Masseur"

We had this guy in our dept that got fired within 3 days of starting. On the first day he had emailed all the females - only the females, and wrote an intruduction that resembled an e-harmony profile. Not that bad.

By day 2 he was trying to get "to know" a few select females better. One of them was Lori, who also in my dept and who had a healthy sense of humor. She kinda went with it to see how far this guy would go. He made it known how attracted to Lori he was and that he would like to give her a full body massage. According to him, he was quite good at giving them. I should mention at this time that Lori was 8 months pregnant. We had a good laugh but at that point Lori stopped encouraging the Creepy Masseur as to not get into any trouble for inappropriate use of company property herself.

On day 3, Lori started getting sexually explicit texts. She discreetly let us know that she thought it may be Creepy Massuer (All of our cell #s were on a sheet on our bosses desk which was not hard to get). My coworker, who is not discreet hears this and loudly announces, "I'll f*****g call the # and find out."

Co worker dials and behind us, you here the distinct "Brrr brrrr brrr" of a cell vibrating in someone's pocket. Co worker calls again. Again "Brr brrr brrr". Creepy Masseur's ears turn red and he has a thousand yard stare at his monitor.

Lori was a pretty cool chick and could have laughed it off. It was some of us that gave our manager the heads up. Apparently, women in other departments were more disgusted by him and had already complained.

Edit: On mobile. Much awfulness
Changed massuer from masseuse

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I was one of a group of Thirteen teachers who were laid off from a struggling private school. The decision had been made to get rid of Year 11 and 12 as a cost cutting measure. So therefore shaff had to go.

The way we were told if we were being laid off or not was a letter in placed in our pigeon hole by the school principal. Who ensured he had left for the day and gone home so noone could confront him about it. He also tghen proceeded to hide in his office with the door locked when he did come back to work. We then had to work for another term before we fnished for the school year.

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I was walking into work and saw my coworker/friend being walked out by the cops. He stole money from the store and was caught. A week later, I was at a different store. Turns out, that kid got a job from that store also. HE WAS GETTING WALKED OUT BY THE COPS AGAIN FOR THE SAME THING. It was unreal

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Merry f*****g Christmas!

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The computers in our ambulances are a little particular sometimes, and we always joke that we've been fired when a login doesn't work. Well one day I could not get my login to work. Checked my email, lo and behold, I'd been fired! At the end of the day it was what amounted to be a clerical misunderstanding, but so far it's taken almost a year to get it sorted...

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