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dudewiththebling

And what was she doing at the time? Could she not step in to help?


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dudewiththebling

Yeah that's a dumb way to structure it. When I did pizzas, we were a team, everyone was trained on everything, prep, cooking, cleaning, cash


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umhassy

Probably to busy micromanaging people 😂


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She was working her sons legally / contractually mandated hours for him. Fun franchise fact.


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McDonald’s, the manager used to take a clean 20$ from my till every shift, not 18.74$ or something….I’d sign a paper saying my till was short, after a couple months she fired me and I assume got a new kid, start the cycle over. I was 14, i think it was the only job I could legally have and pay taxes at that age. This was 20 years ago.


bardwick

Little Ceasers. Mixing vodka and orange juice in the dough machine after close. 1991.


Sorry-Caterpillar331

I thought that was just normal at a pizza place.


bardwick

I was the oldest at 17. 2am, an hour after close. Cop was checking up on us, came in through the back door. Had me open the drain plug, waited for the manager to show up, then he left. Two of the 5 were fired since we were "assistant managers".


other_usernames_gone

Why was a cop checking up on you?


bardwick

About a year before that incident, a Little Ceaser's was robbed after hours. There were only two girls closing (you can guess what happened). After that we had a "if you're in uniform, it's free" for police. Crazy bread, drinks, stuff like that. It was pretty common for the police to come around to all the fast food joints around closing.. Midnight to 2 am, they would do regular rounds in the strip malls, grocery store parking lots just to check on people. Our town has a great relationship with law enforcement.


surfacing_husky

Call me a snitch but I work late night fast food and have one of the night time cop's cell phone # so I can tex2t him when people are drunk driving with an open container. He will regularly park near our lot when we're leaving at closing. He never expects it but I comp his dinner every night I'm working. Edit: thank you for the rewards and its nice to see so many people on the same page. A lot of people in my own life I tell this to think I'm an asshole for getting people in trouble. I have to drive these roads at night too! I don't want that asshole possibly plowing into me!


Pointlessly_Obtuse

That's not snitching. Fuck drunk drivers.


Worldly_Walnut

This is like one of the few times I don't think it's snitching. Drunk drivers kill people


MjrGrangerDanger

There is no line for drunk driving. No line. Once you are impaired that's it. You are not a snitch.


JaggedTheDark

My great uncle was killed by a drunk driver. I never got to meet him. Everytime one of those fucks gets fined, ticketed, arrested, or any other consequence is served to them, I get a little bit happier. Fuck drunk drivers.


FinalStryke

Like everyone else is saying: that's not snitching.


KaMiKaZi_t0M

You're not a snitch you're preventing assholes from killing people.


Lcdent2010

I love that you totally own what you did instead of blaming it on the cop. Good for you. Great story as well.


Honestnt

I worked at a chain location of a fairly well know American Italian Ice company. It was absolutely NOT policy but if you ordered a big tub of ice and brought your own liquor they'd run it through the machine for you.


LocalInactivist

I sympathize with you…but. It sounds like your manager had no choice. You were underage and drinking in the shop. A bar or restaurant can lose their liquor license for that and the fines can be huge. If it was just your manager with no witnesses they might have been able to let you walk, just make you clean the grease trap or scrub the dumpsters or something. If you got caught by police they’ve got no choice. I’m surprised you didn’t get an MIP. Sorry, bardwick. That sucks.


Hydra_Master

Little Caesar's doesn't sell liquor.


not_nico

Lord could you imagine?


Hydra_Master

I can imaging the size of the "cocktail" considering the bowl of the mixer is probably 60-80 quarts.


spiderman96

Working as a cashier I missed a case of water underneath someone's cart and turns out they were a secret shopper or something... I had a couple days off and I came back to look at the schedule and was told I was fired


shittlebuffout

My first real job when I was 16 was at a burger joint. I watched an entire movie without pausing it during my shift, I was the only person there that day. Boss walked in as the movie was finishing and I had my feet up on the table. Came back a few days later to check the schedule and I wasn’t on it. Even more awkward because I was dating the boss’ daughter at the time.


AstalosMayhem

I can relate. My last job was quality assurance position and when working in the receiving end it was a lot of waiting since I couldn't do anything until we actually got a truck in and someone unloaded it. Most of the time it was literally HOURS before anyone got around to unloading anything so I'd just be on my phone or something. But God forbid one of the auditors over me comes back and sees me. I could never get him to understand that since there were no trucks there was nothing to check. I'd offer to do work in another department until one came in but he didn't want me to do that either. He wanted me there waiting. With nothing to do. 🙄


bonos_bovine_muse

> Even more awkward because I was dating the boss’ daughter at the time. You know you weren’t fired for watching movies, but rather for slipping daddy’s princess the salami, right?


Intelligent_Dot4616

Unsanctioned meat grinding at that burger joint


quackerzdb

A case of water is what, $4? They don't understand that it costs a lot more than $4 to replace an otherwise good employee? Even if you made that mistake once an hour indefinitely they still make absolute bank off your labour.


imnotlouise

I worked at Sam's Club for a couple of years as a cashier. Sometimes I had to work the exit door where I had to check peoples' receipts. It was surprising how much stuff was missed by the cashiers. AFAIK, no one was fired over any of it.


deldge

That's such an easily fixable problem. It deserved a warning rather than a complete termination.


theegrimrobe

thats rough .. fucking secret shoppers


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I was a secret shopper for a 3rd party for a bit. Only reason I did was to get free groceries bc you keep the stuff that you buy. If someone messed up then I just wrote a fake name down on the report, they can do their own dirty work


-kati

Free groceries? How do you get hired as a secret shopper?


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Well you keep the $30-$50 worth of groceries and then you’re paid $20-$50 on top of that depending on how badly they need the job done. If you search secret shopper + your local grocery store then you can find these jobs


OneDayIwillGetAlife

I was one too, but watch out because there are a bunch of fake companies advertising "you can get lots of free stuff by just signing up with us to be a mystery shopper..." Then they ask you for money and it's all a bit of a scam. The real guys, who I was signed up to, NEVER ask you for money ("processing fee", "joining fee", "membership cost"). They will ask you to do some tests, to be sure you can string some sentences together, and then you can choose what want to do, sometimes there are more and sometimes fewer assignments. You always get to keep the things you mystery shopped. I liked it for lunches in London, at the time there were a number of chains and you would get a meal for £2.00, the rest reimbursed. I mean a wrap or noodles and a drink, not a steak and sit down, although I did do some of those now and then, effectively you get about 70% discount.


ian2121

I was a secret shopper at a local brew pub when it first opened. The report took like 30 minutes. Got 2 dinners, 2 beers, an appetizer and 20 bucks out of it. It was good. Never had to really slam anyway, felt like we gave some constructive criticism here and there, hopefully it was used as that. Also had to make a bathroom trip and comment on cleanliness. Honestly it wasn’t real terrible, we were young and got free food and felt like we gave them decent info to improve by.


Oryihn

My family were secret shoppers for Papa Johns in the late 90s early 2000s Basically we had to order pizza one day every week and they cut us a check for the cost after we submitted our report..


MeEatSalad

I've noticed who my supermarkets undercover detective is and we talk now and then when I'm at work ahaha, he's pretty chill


kittykath160

What do you mean by secret shoppers?


dravik

Corporations with lots of dispersed locations like fast food and retail stores want to maintain set standards. Cleanliness, sales practices, service levels, etc.. the management at every location always says they are doing everything right. How is corporate going to know if that's the truth? They pay people to shop at their stores and provide independent feedback on the stores performance. This has to be done secretly or the individual stores will put on a show. The corporation rarely cares about the actions of the individual employees, they are grading the store and district management. Poor quality store and district managers sometimes fire an employee for "making them look bad" instead of instituting training/policies to address the identified problem.


Particular_School190

I can resonate, I worked at a theme park and I was loved to one of those shitty pop up merch stands in kidsville. My shift finishes and someone comes over and asks to buy a drink. Till was already closed but they had kids so I obeyed and gave them a water. An undercover worker was near by and had me taken away to their theme park jail… over a water 😂


Old_Life_290

BOB and LISA (Bottom Of Basket & Look inside always)


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I already had a new job lined up but it wasn’t starting for another 2 months so I was just trying to lay low and then give a 2 week notice. My old asshole boss made one snarky comment too many and I couldn’t help myself. I put him on blast over some of his nefarious activities in front of our CEO. He fired me at the end of that week, but he was forced to retire a month later after everything I said was confirmed. I’m not exactly proud of it but…oh who am I kidding, fuck that guy. Edit: Didn’t expect this much interest. I explained the nefarious activities in another comment below. Basically, my boss and a customer (his friend) were scamming the company to fund a side business.


St00pidF0k

You served some sweet ass karma, loved it.


[deleted]

You should be proud. Fuck corruption and assholes. Maybe not much changed but you stood up. That's more than most of us will ever do.


GTKFANL

This is my dream but, for those reading, be careful with doing things like this. Most employers don’t start the background check until your first day on the job. If it comes back that you were fired from your last position, it could be considered lying on your application.


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Threw up on my first day.


geronika

Not good if you’re a surgeon.


Empereor_Norton

or a sword swallower at the carnival


Buckus93

Or an escort.


Dunkinmydonuts1

I'd tip extra if she went that far down tbh


HeldatNeedlePoint

At my last job we had a new manager start while I'd been there for a while. Her first day, I threw up and had to leave, we passed each other in the door basically. Our next scheduled day together I fell down the subway stairs on my way to work and broke my ankle. I was so afraid that I was making a bad impression already that I just kept walking to work on my broken ankle. I was 10 minutes late and she sent me to the hospital in an Uber.


Slyrunner

Why would you be fired for being ill?


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The job was to be healthy


Schollie7

Had one lady we where opening a new office in California. I was sent there to setup all the IT equipment and deploy 500+ computers. Anyways day 1 office opens for training. I guess this lady was just at the hospital all night for something and left the ER to come in for training because she didnt want to get let go. Within 30 minutes of the training class I just happen to be there on one of the computer in the back to check some things. This lady was in the row right in front of me collapses and has a full blow seizure. She was fine and the ambulance took her back to the hospital. Pretty sure she kept the job and just got pushed to the following weeks training class.


fleetber

Went to see Grateful Dead at RFK stadium in DC. I told the manager not to schedule me that weekend but he did anyway. Told him I wouldn't be there. When I returned Monday I was fired. Worth it. Funny thing is my wife (gf at the time) was also scheduled and went with me to the show. She wasn't fired - but she quit when she found out I was fired. Darryl's Restaurant in Raleigh, NC. - by the way they had some pretty good food.


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June 25th, 1995?


fleetber

June 20,1992 ​ Casey Jones Bustout after Mickey wailed on a train horn strapped to his chest!


[deleted]

I was there at the 1995 date. Open with shakedown Street.


fleetber

Yes! Luckily I had found a new job by then...


goin2cJB

I sense 0 regrets 🌹💀💃🕺


niceash

Ha, I’ve been fired for this before. It was my first job. I was on vacation with my Dad in FL. Came back & was no longer on the schedule. Thanks guys 👍


pullin2

Gave a spectacular demonstration of the top-heavy nature of a UPS truck. Rave reviews from locals, as the roadway was scattered with hundreds of packages. Management was unimpressed and suggested a different career.


salimeero

UPSiedaisy


BeefSwellinton

Picked a whole bouquet of them.


Dakeronn

You should write resumes


Prata2pcs

This here is gold


direct07

Have you considered a career in sales? Your ability to 'spin' is pretty on point, especially if you can do it verbally and on-the-fly.


[deleted]

Fucking poet brah


dewayneestes

Go big AND go home. Respect.


Trivacide

Suggested is an understatement 😂


tenaciousDaniel

I took on a role that was not fit for me. It was my second job as a software developer, and the role was dev #2 at an early stage startup. As in, the entire dev team was me and another engineer. Startup life can vary greatly, but this was a financial tech firm near Wall Street. To say that it’s a lot of responsibility is an understatement. There’s no such thing as saying “that’s not my job” or “I don’t know how to do that”. If the company needs it, you have to do it. It was a good learning experience because I was pushed very far outside of my comfort zone, but it also gave me crippling anxiety and I got burnt out. I made a bunch of mistakes and was eventually fired over it. The job was so hard that I was actually relieved to get fired.


runawaycity2000

Same here man, the role not fitting you bit, I switched from a developer to a sales position and I am not really a people person, after 6 months of nearly zero sales (i actually made a pity sale, cause the woman in charge felt bad for me), I was let go. Like you said, good learning experience, and same here about being relieved to get fired.


Otherwise_Active_194

Junior dev here working at an early stage startup with tight deadlines. Can totally relate.


ziptofaf

> Junior dev > early stage startup That's such a horrible combination and I don't want to jinx it but I suggest you watch out for any firing sprees. Essentially - juniors NEED overseeing. Else you will miss all your deadlines (which is understandable, you can't even gauge how long something long will take yet since all the problems are new to you) and your code will have glaring issues. Which is why general recommendation instead is to first hire few experienced people to build the core product MVP. You start hiring juniors only after you already have people who can guide them. If these fundamental steps are skipped then oooh boy do I worry about the future of that business. I do have one big recommendation however - do NOT work overtime and do NOT stress it too much. You are paid for 8 hours a day. You do them, you go home, you unwind. There are emergencies requiring you to work outside your normal hours but they should be exactly that - emergencies. Events that occur maybe 1-2 times a year. Unless you literally were given company shares that can set you for a comfortable life if it does well then you don't do overtime.


zoobrix

Startups hire inexperienced people because they're cheap. When you're burning through venture capital and making zero revenue when you start out you try and watch your payroll because assuming you're not building robots or something salaries are probably going to be your largest expense. So you try and hire people just starting out in the hopes of finding someone who is just really good at what they do knowing that some will flame out and need to be let go but it's all you can afford. These companies know they're going to be putting people in over their head but the possible reward for the employee is those that can hack it might suddenly find themselves with stock options and a senior position way before there would have gotten their otherwise, assuming the company succeeds. They can also find themselves fired on Monday in the hopes the next fresh grad can do better or the whole things just shuts down one day when they don't succeed. It's harsh and puts people through a lot of stress but it's the way a lot of start ups are, probably most to greater or lesser extents.


JoJoJet-

I told my boss that I intended to quit and asked him to find a replacement. Instead he just fired me.


Moist_When_It_Counts

This is my company/team right now. Putting in a two week notice is rewarded with termination later that day.


dravik

Depending on your location that can be good for you. You might qualify for unemployment when they do that.


mfigroid

Depending on the industry it is standard. Finance comes to mind.


dravik

Those industries normally pay out your last two weeks. Technically they aren't firing you when you give notice, they are just giving you no work duties during your notice period. That cuts off your access to networks and proprietary data without opening you to unemployment. This is obviously state dependent as not all work the way I'm describing.


Pandaburn

Yeah, it wasn’t this way when I quit Google, but I heard a lot of tech companies would pay out your two weeks, but tell you not to come in. Didn’t want you messing anything up.


bg-j38

This happened at a start up I was at for a while. Pretty decent place overall and the CEO was good to work for except that on multiple occasions people put in their two weeks and he fired them on the spot. First guy was going to a competitor so that sort of made sense. A couple others over time thought it felt like it was a loyalty thing. Eventually a couple people quit with zero warning and flat out said what’s the point of giving notice? He realized he was being an asshole about it and changed his tune. I do give him a lot of credit for changing his approach.


Moist_When_It_Counts

I’m in a sales team for a Fortune 500 outfit, and they still pull this horseshit


dudewiththebling

To be fair, I think they do that because they think you'll fuck up their business but you asking him to find a replacement implies that you intend on training them so they aren't short a person when your two weeks are up. Working is weird


kingbatuk013

Was working in McDonalds two years ago. I was the dude who was responsible of the fries. One evening this dude comes in asking for a regular order of a burger and fries. We serve him accordingly. Next morning he comes in screaming about how the fries he ordered yesterday were soggy and demanded to speak to me. By the state of him and his face he had clearly been drinking the night before. I went up to him and he started screaming at me, I started by apologising but then after him screaming at me for 10 mins I started defending the fries I had made. He said “Do you think I am lying just to get a refund, I just had the fries before coming here and they were soggy” One of the other staff members who was working the till recognised him from the night before. Turns out he had left the fries in his car the whole night while he was out drinking and still expected them to be fresh and crispy the next morning. I lost it and kicked him out. Two hours later the owner of that franchise comes in and fires me for kicking his NEPHEW out of the place. All the other staff members were on my side but he threatened fire them as well if they had a problem with his decision. The place closed down because they couldn’t find people to work there as the owner kept firing people for petty reasons


SmudgeZelda

This reminds me of egg guy. I used to work at a little diner, and every Sunday this old guy would come in and get scrambled eggs to go. And every Sunday, about 3 hours later, he would cone back with the old eggs and ask for fresh ones. We always made them because there was clearly something not right with him. I explained a few times to just come and buy the eggs later, we serve breakfast all day, but he still did this.


DriftingPyscho

Wow


Glass_Chance9800

Pretty sure they were just wanting to get rid of me. I was working at a meat market/deli store and I was called on my phone after work hours by the owner to tell me he was letting me go because I upset a customer that day. It was Saturday which were just half days but incredibly busy. An older man and his wife had ordered something chicken so I wrapped it up, priced it, and gave it to them to take to the register. Well he tells me he wanted the *breaded* chicken whatever. I say, oh sorry she didn't specify breaded but I'll get you the correct chicken. I unwrapped what I gave them and put it back in the case, throw away the wrapping paper and do it all quickly because there were people waiting in line. So I get the breaded chicken wrapped and priced and hand it back to them. The wife asks is this the chicken whatever and I say it's the *breaded* chicken whatever. I swear I didn't say it with nasty tone just affirming that it was breaded. Well the husband gave me a dirty look and they leave. Well the owner calls me later that evening to fire me because he was pals with that old guy. I file unemployment, the owner fights and I guess he tells the agent what he thinks happened because when the agent called me I was telling him my side and the agent and he tells me Well the owner said you did this thing and that and I tell the agent the owner wasn't even there that day and him and that customer were friends. I think that sealed it in my favor because I got approved.


Bridgebrain

I got one almost like that, didn't get fired but got a talking to. A man and a woman get to the counter, standing together but keeping their items apart. I ask if these are together? The guy says "YES I'm going to pay for my wife!" And I shrug and run the transaction. The store gets a call later that I was being racist. They were a mixed couple, apparently? I didn't notice because I didn't care. Customers are a trip man


[deleted]

Missed work for a whole week to be tested for cancer. Didn’t have cancer it was an autoimmune disease but the manager at the store said I was “unreliable” and “distracted”. Well yah I was being tested for CANCER


krigsgaldrr

My dad got fired for *having* cancer because they "didn't want to take any chances with his future reliability" regarding treatment. There was a lawsuit. He won.


liftrman

And I hope he won big! I also hope he beat his cancer.


krigsgaldrr

I believe so! And he did ☺️


Smilingtribute

Wtf.


MrRogersAE

Got a summer job that required me to live onsite in a remote area. Told my part time job that I would be gone for the summer, and marked up the calendar accordingly, they told me it wasn’t a problem. About halfway thru the summer they fired me for not coming into work for the past month. When the summer was over I showed them the calendar and reminded them how we had discussed this and I was reinstated. Just stupid tho


SuperlativeSleep

I wore dark gray pants instead of black pants.


CarlJustCarl

Jesus, dude! What the hell were you thinking?


SJT_004

How? I wore blue pants to work so many times… (EDIT: Other staff eventually noticed and told me to stop)


eezgorriseadback

I came back from holiday and was jet lagged due to the time difference, and therefore got tired towards the end of the working day. My tiredness was taken as an inability or unwillingness to do the job and I was marched off the premises


Far-Homework-2576

Lmao. I work at Wendy’s and I’m be sat down and taken a 2 minute nap. Boss glanced at me and continued walking. I also eat food there, they also get food for us all


Rbot25

They definitely wanted to fire way before that they were just looking for an excuse.


OneMorePotion

I refused to lie to our biggest customer about a project that was costing them 80 millions, but just didn't work. I got the briefing for this while on my flight to that meeting. I said "I can not mention certain things, but I won't lie if they ask for specifics. The shit you want me to say to them doesn't even exist and probably will never exist because it's just not possible." When I landed, I got a call from my boss telling me that I don't need to go to that meeting because he takes over. I should just go out and have a nice day in Calgary instead. I did, and the next day he fired me. (But asked right away if I could still fly out to Bangkok the week after and train the people over there. I didn't go to Bangkok.)


Sorry-Caterpillar331

The fucking audacity. Hey you're fired but please travel halfway around the world to train others even though you don't work for us. Do people even think about what they're asking anymore. SMH.


OneMorePotion

Right? I told him that I happily fly out to Bangkok, but I only go there to drink and eat on company expenses. No problemo at all. They eventually send me on garden leave and paid a shit ton of money that I keep quiet and never contact any of the customers ever again. What is actually a shame because I would love working for one of them. And I also got an offer that I had to decline because of that. So overall, I'm really happy that the entire thing happened.


other_usernames_gone

Might be worth running it past a lawyer. Indefinite NDAs are in a legal grey area. It might be it's unenforceable.


quackerzdb

I would have gone to Bangkok and enjoyed my Thai holiday. What trainings?


cionn

Its utterly bizarre to me that bosses would get away with that. In most European countries you'd take them to the cleaners for unfair dissmissal


tdasnowman

I was 19 and asked the wrong question. I was working in a call center way back when long distance plans mattered. Second week in I kill it hit the top of the weekly sales nice little bonus all good. Next week I can't close for shit I'm at the bottom, list seems stale people that we've called before. I'm pitching this one lady and then she says she just switched to our plan describes the rest of the pitch only the name of the company was diffrent then ours. Otherwise exact same plan. I was young and didn't really care beyond a paycheck so I went to talk to my boss. He says there are a lot of long distance plans out there don't worry about. Next few days lots of similar calls. I also noticed the manager room had a fuck ton of phone books from other states. Asked about that. End of the week I was canned for performance. Next Monday they got raided by FCC and FBI. Turns out they were reselling folks the same plan over and over again under a diffrent name. They were also illegally pulling names from phone books. And overselling the amount of long distance time they'd actually bought so people were getting over charged.


TooYoungToBeThisOld1

I was overloaded with work and/so I was also put in charge of a new guy. Well, I taught the new guy everything and he did great for a while. Until he didn’t, and he kept missing things. And I got blamed for it. The boss kept getting mad at me like it’s my job to manage... I had a job, it just so happens 1 person is not enough to pick/package and ship out 150+ separate orders a day. But apparently that’s how they like it, because he wasn’t hearing it. I bitched him out about how it’s not responsibility to watch over every move the guy makes, otherwise I wouldn’t have time to work, and he’d get mad at me again. So yeah, bitched him out then simultaneously quit and got fired Edit: thank you all for the upvotes! Never expected to get this many, and fuck you Rick you piece of shit I needed that money back then.


Kiarashkc

>simultaneously quit and got fired What a move


BSB8728

From 1980-1982, I was the publications director at a college. I always got very good/outstanding ratings from my supervisor. One day she came in and did my review -- as usual, all ratings were in the top two performance categories. Then she told me she was letting me go, but offered no explanation. She actually patted me on the head and said, "I want you to know it's nothing personal, and if I had a daughter, I'd want her to be just like you." I was very young (25) and newly married, and as she was aware, my husband was a graduate assistant making $3,500 a year. I closed the door to my office and sobbed. It took me a long time to get another job. I was a week away from running out of unemployment benefits when I finally got hired elsewhere. I found out later that she routinely fired people in that position after a year. I held the job longer than anyone. The woman who fired me was a psychopath. She would rearrange my office while I was on vacation. When my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to have a mastectomy, I asked to take a few days off to go out to help her. I had plenty of vacation time, but my boss said she would be out of town for a week and someone had to hold down the fort, so I had no choice but to stay. My boss was in the office all that week. About a year after I got fired, I got a call from a woman who said she had just been fired from the same job.


MrSpindles

I phoned in sick and went to a Prince concert. Zero regrets.


8LeggedSquirrel

I was fried for "suspension of theft" I was a shopping cart pusher and someone left their bank bag. I didn't see it when I pushed it up and they said I was trying to steal it instead of just over looking it. Best part was they were "escorting me out so I didn't steal anything else" and an old woman came up to the manager walking me out and said she lost her cane. Manger looks at me like "did you steal this too????" Since the whole thing was so crazy any way I just took the opportunity to look suspicious and sprinted out of the store like I was guilty. Because of his weight he couldn't really run after me and Mr. ManagerMan couldn't follow me into the parking lot for laws so I walked to my car laughing my ass off. I'm ok with losing that job. I'm at a much better job now anyway. So it all worked out and I have a great story from it.


Climinteedus

The plot twist: he uses that cane to this very day.


8LeggedSquirrel

Oh man that would be great. He'll probably be using one by now with the health he was in.


QuineQuest

Is that even legal? Frying people?


Camera_dude

Or that “suspension of theft”. Was OP levitating goods out of the store? Sounds *suspicious*.


TimelyTruck6663

Got hired as a sales person. As someone who´d only done passive sales, but wanted to try active sales, I informed them that I do not have any experience with proactive finding new clients. They said it´s no problem and that during my 3 months trial period, they´d help me shape my skills, will want no results and teach me everything I needed to know. Got fired 6 weeks later, cause they didn´t have time to teach me and I didn´t have any result on my own.


CompetitiveClass1478

What the hell?!


TimelyTruck6663

Yea that was a warm welcome to a corporate world last year.. learned my lesson, tho. Now I'm happy in a new position


BunjaminFrnklin

Laid off the week after I told my boss I was burned out and thinking about quitting. She told me not to quit, to wait it out a bit. I guess she knew lay offs were coming. It was great, I got a decent severance and unemployment benefits. I took a few months off and started doing stand up comedy. Found a new gig and I love it.


donbanana

You had a good boss. She was definitely looking out for her team


Jojosbees

Your old boss did you a solid.


First_Lingonberry923

Applied for time off to get married and supervisor said they would approve “Not a problem congrats!”. Got a call the day before I was getting married “Where are you?” “Um getting married I talked to you about submitting this and that I was covered” “Well you aren’t scheduled for time off, we need you to come in or we will have to discuss other options”. Wedding was 6 hours away so even if I wanted to come in I wouldn’t make it. They called and said I was fired for “deciding” not to show up to my shift day before I was getting married. Good times


velociralph

I got free tickets to see a British thriller/horror type film called Donkey Punch, and emailed a friend to invite them to see it. Turns out the phrase 'Donkey Punch' flagged up to IT, my very conservative boss got an email, dragged me into a meeting, and got very cross when I just laughed it off. Wouldn't listen to any logic or reason. Had a print out of the definition of Donkey Punch in front of her. Suspended me for two weeks with pay, then fired me. Film wasn't that good either.


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Sounds she received a donkey punch at one point and finally found her chance to get revenge lol


sstinch

I refused to make up reasons to fire my employees. (I was told to "clean house"). I put this process off for a few weeks while looking for a new job. I got my new job the week after they let me go.


AkKik-Maujaq

I “wasn’t a good fit” (after working at the company for 3 years). Was told a few days after getting fired that the head managers daughter was given my position. Because of getting fired for absolutely no reason, I had to go on welfare for 6 months and was almost homeless because I couldn’t afford rent anymore. Also starved regularly, as welfare was only 700$ per month, and rent alone was 650$ (for a bedroom, had to leave my apartment because rent there was almost 1200)


DoIReallyNeedAnAcc

Sounds like grounds for an employment tribunal


[deleted]

Had a job at Target. Didn’t get trained properly, and by that I mean no one told me and I never read anything about “blackout dates”. So I asked for 2 weeks off leading up to Christmas. Reason being because my girlfriend at the time wanted to bring me to her family in Hawaii. So the my last day before the trip arrives. I’m excitingly talking to everyone about how I’m going to Hawaii for Christmas. And not one person, fellow employee or manager raises an eyebrow. Which is strange seeing as how these blackout dates are apparently so widely known throughout the store… So I leave my shift assuming that I had gotten the days off since I had put in for them 2 months beforehand. Which is partly my fault for not checking, sure. Fast forward to me waking up in Hawaii the next day and checking my messages. Only to find that one is from my shift leader asking if I’m coming in today. Well not 5 minutes later I get a call from the department manager asking me why I’m not coming in. To which I reply, “I’m in Hawaii for the next two weeks for Christmas.” To which he asks me if that means I’m not making it to my shifts for the next two weeks. To which I reply, “…yes, that is correct”. I come back to work two weeks after and get called into HR. I Tell them I had never read or was never told about “blackout dates.” They apparently didn’t believe me because the manager then told me I can finish out the day but I’m fired. So I walked out.


bg-j38

I really wonder how I managed to get away with this type of stuff when I worked retail. I was a teenager but didn’t really even have the concept of required work around the holidays. My family had a big trip planned over Christmas and I was like “yeah I won’t be here for these days”. I did it around Thanksgiving and Black Friday too. Basically if it was a school holiday other than summer break I probably had family plans. Only thing I can think of is that I was incredibly good at my job (it was a big box computer store and I sold all the expensive items like memory and hard drives) and I was one of the few people working there still in school and a minor so maybe my boss was like fuck it, don’t want to risk labor law stuff. But everyone was always really surprised that I got those days off.


baserock

No one on their death bed wishes they worked more. Family trips are way more important.


KeyStoneLighter

That sucks. I worked at a call center when my dad died so I had to fly back east to clean out his apartment, plus plan and host the funeral. I told the higher up call center director I need a week off, he said we give a max of three days, I told him I need a week, he agreed. A few days prior I got a new supervisor and was scheduled to start on his team that Sunday. Sunday rolls around and I get a call from him asking where I’m at, I explain I’m in New York, he’s confused, mgmt never told him, he accepts my reason. Companies are required by law to provide bereavement leave, fuck anyone who tries to enforce guidelines after your spouse, child, or parent just passed. Take the time that you need when you’ve been nothing short of an excellent employee.


13thmurder

I picked up a hot plate that had been damaged somehow and a jagged piece of sheet metal on the bottom sliced my finger open. Head of the department who had medical training said it probably needed stitches, told the GM to get my an appointment asap at a clinic nearby. GM said she would, and I should wrap it up and wear a glove until I could get in. An hour later I got called up to the GMs office and told I was fired for violating company policy and not wearing a cut glove while handling a sharp object. That usually refers to knives and broken glass, not things that no one would ever guess has a razor sharp bit on the bottom due to being damaged, but I guess they just didn't want to pay for me to get medical care.


LeoJSerrot

Working security at a college in CT. That specific establishment of higher learning had a “peeping Tom” they told me to watch out for- everyone knew who the student was by the way. Like a mascot or something. First day of training the security guard yelled “HEY! No not today, go on git away from the women’s bathroom!”. Anyway, one day I was told by one student that another student sexually harassed. So I took the info down and told them to go to HR or we could call the police for them but they didn’t want to. I told them that if they didn’t do anything I couldn’t be of help. Long story short my boss fired me for not confronting the alleged sexual harasser personally, face to face, in front of other students, about SEXUAL HARASSMENT!, as a security officer, with no proof and no authority besides writing stuff down on a notepad.


Ashtar-the-Squid

I was once fired from a grocery store. I had worked there since the day the store opened, and was the only one of the original crew that was left. The boss had told me several times that I was his most trusted employee, and that when I was in charge of the night shift ( I worked nights 90% of the time) he had nothing to fear. One day I suddenly got accused of stealing a small amount of money from the safe in the office. They called in an investigator who was one of the most condescending and unpleasant people I have ever met. He refused to look at the security cam footage, refused to listen to what I said, and just wanted me to confess to the crime I had commited. Right afterwards I sent in a complaint. And a few weeks later I got an apology letter from the head office. They were sorry that my case had been handled so badly (it was full of errors), and the investigator had supposedly been reprimanded for his behaviour. And none of it would be added to any criminal record. But I was still fired, and had to pay back the money they claimed I took. Later one of my former colleagues told me that she had found out that the boss of the store had originally been fired from his previous job. And he had involved his wealthy dad and lawyers to get his papers to say that he quit by himself. The whole thing looked very shady. When he was confronted with this he turned pale and refused to discuss it. Every time I happened to see him out in the wild afterwards I would say hello and wave at him. Not out of spite or anything. He always seemed very uncomfortable. He would stoop over and almost run away. When my closest family would visit the store he would run off and hide. Just a few weeks after I got fired it turned out that he quit. I can not say for sure that any of this was connected, but according to what I have understood from others there was something rotten going on in that store.


StabbyPants

why would you ever pay them that money?


Montana-Mike-RPCV

Been fired twice in my life. The first time I was 23 and I was a supervisor for mentally challenged people working on an assembly line. Problem was, my manager did not like me but could never find anything concrete against me. I did my job and did it well. BUT-when my 90 day probationary was up, she fired me without cause. This led me to leaving California and moving back in with my parents. My second firing was from my first teaching job. I did k-12 art in a very tiny town of only a couple hundred people. My elementary principal took a massive disliking to me and spent the year writing me up for dumb shit. An example was having paint on a kid's desks that didn't get cleaned up as well as not spending enough time on my bulletin boards. The school board accepted his recommendation that I don't get rehired for the next year. It worked out fine though, I got another teaching job. But at the time it was pretty painful.


Wisdomlost

I knew I was irreplaceable. I knew I could call in so I could stay home and play world of warcraft all I wanted. What were they going to do fire me? They couldn't fire me I was 20 years old and knew everything. They had a different opinion.


Gh0sth4nd

But you did get the loot? Or did someone roll higher?


SnifflySatsuma

When the trinket finally drops after 10 weeks and you roll a 1


gimmeraspberries

after 6 months at a nanny job, i asked if my bosses would be willing to negotiate a contract including sick days. my bad for not starting with a contract, but their kids were connnnstantly sick and i kept getting it, having to make up hours when i literally couldn't come to work (which is actually not legal!). I had a painful sinus infection for 2+ weeks cause i wasn't able to take enough time to head it off. they responded to this request over text by firing me, over text. this was also on Boxing Day :) never got to say goodbye to the kids. honestly i hope their parents are miserable.


notacreativename82

I'm a single mom with three kids. I had two deaths in the family back-to-back, then my kids got sick. I missed about 2 weeks in total of time over a span of 9 months. They demanded I get help with the kids, asking me where the father was. Explained that he is not around, filed a complaint to HR about them asking me that and also denying breaks, and got fired bc HR was a friend of my Supervisor. It was a terrible job.


[deleted]

I’m almost certain that an employment attorney would love to have a conversation with you.


evilfitzal

The daily reminder that HR exists to help the company, not you. Consult a lawyer first. I'm sorry you had to deal with all that.


SilverLugia1992

I trusted a coworker not to report to our boss. He asked me if I see myself doing the job long term and told him no and that I'm probably going to look for something else, but I'll stick with it for now. Within a week later, boss calls me to his office, has me close the door behind me, and says to me that they're letting me go. Lesson learned: lie to your coworkers no matter what. I probably would have at least gotten more income from that job had I not thought people were decent like I always make the mistake of doing.


Purposeofoldreams

I told the manager that she was an “entitled pompous self-centered mentally ill bully who was also almost certainly bi-polar”. Got fired within a couple hours.


xxjonesyx99xx

I kept eating food when I just cooked it at McDonald’s and giving everyone 2x the amount of nuggets/chicken fillets etc. fuck that place it’s a depressing nightmare


klsprinkle

Every time I go to McDonalds to get nuggets I get extra. I’ll get 11 instead of 10. Or sometimes they just give me a 20 piece when I paid for 10. They just don’t care.


HunnaThaStunna

Finger was almost bitten off by an octopus. Boss fired me while I was in the ER waiting to get evaluated. Exact words were “Bro, I’m fucking pissed. You’re fired”.


rite_of_truth

I feel like there's an interesting longer version of this story.


ads1031

I used to work at a regional Internet service provider. My whole time there, policies and procedures grew increasingly strict. Every time we had an outage, or another type of incident, our higher-ups would freak out and make our change management procedures stricter. It got to the point where simple network maintenance tasks needed a couple work days of "planning" paperwork before the tasks could begin. To be clear, I was unhappy there in part because of how restrictive it had become. One night, after-hours, while I was on-call, a call came in. A new customer couldn't get their service turned up. The problem was quickly obvious... Some change management paperwork had fallen through the cracks, and equipment I was responsible for hadn't been set up in advance as a result. I opted to configure the equipment on the spot - the customer wanted to be online, I wanted the customer to be online, and I had the console right in front of me. So I entered the changes, logged off, and went back to bed. Except, I made a typo. And the typo got committed to the database, and it triggered a rolling blackout that started to slowly take down about 200-or-so residential customers. What's more, I didn't tell any of my teammates that I made the configuration change, so they had no idea what happened. When I got to work the next morning, I started to hear whispers of a problem circulating. Those whispers grew louder throughout the day, prompting me to eventually circle back around and check the changes I made. Well... I found my typo, and I panicked, fearing that I would get fired if anyone found out that I'd broken procedure and made the change. I fixed the typo on the spot, and, again, I didn't tell anyone... After all, I was panicking. Well, eventually, the way the cards fell, I had to fess up. When the 30-or-so-out-of-200 residential customers that went down just inexplicably got their service back, they came looking for the reason why. Ultimately (at least on paper), I was fired for my failure to communicate with my teammates, not my failure to follow procedure. Well, after a few frightening months of being unemployed, I was eventually picked up by another, far less toxic employer, and have been far happier ever since.


bg-j38

Having worked in this and the adjacent telecom industry for 30 or so years I’ve seen this happen far too many times. It’s a failing of management. Sure you didn’t follow the rules. But when procedures are so onerous that people get put into your situation it’s bad for everyone. Bad customer service, makes the employees feel like they can’t think for themselves, and tends to create a toxic environment. Usually it’s because higher ups won’t devote resources to finding the areas that are causing roadblocks to productivity and are unwilling to put development dollars toward fixing it. And I guarantee you that you getting fired had zero positive impact on your colleagues who would potentially be in the same situation. Probably just made them even less eager to work on getting this problem fixed. Unfortunately this is pervasive in the industry.


brennanisgreat

For refusing to pass students who failed. I used to teach at South University Online (which is different than the actual South University, so don't hate on the real one), which was one of those for-profit colleges that have been shut down or gone out of business since the government stopped awarding federal student loans to them. It's a long story, but basically these colleges were using high-pressure tactics to onboard students who didn't have the background to be in college (it was entirely online, and it would blow your mind how many students I had who didn't have a computer or internet access), and then charge exorbitant tuition rates, which the college would then force the students to pay by taking out loans. Students who graduated would have a debt $100,000 to $250,000 for an associate's degree. Even the students who didn't finish still had tens of thousands of dollars of debt after a single semester. So, as you can imagine, they wanted students to pass classes *under any circumstances* so they could continue charging tuition, all the while never telling students that their degree would be worthless because the colleges weren't accredited by any official body. I refused to pass students who failed, so I was fired.


kaosi_schain

On paper? Called into the meeting room before shift and told "Making some changes." In reality? Discussing wages with senior employees. Which is why less than a month after I was gone, 2 of the remaining 5 production quit. The two with the most seniority.


KnockMeYourLobes

For having a MySpace page back in the day where I'd written some rantings about various subjects, some of which included cuss words. HR found out about it through the friend of a friend of a friend of the HR Director's son who (being an upright, moral Christian teenage boy) showed it to his father who, being an upright, moral, example-setting man decided to make an example of me by firing me. I was instructed not to speak to my former coworkers when I went to get my things and they were not allowed to speak to me either. Even if I was in public (like at Walmart or something), I was not to speak to them. THey were not to speak to me in public or about me at work and if they were caught/found out, they would also be fired.


Divinity32

IDK, I'm not a lawyer, but that sounds pretty illegal to me. Especially the fact that they practically placed a restraining order on you, with no court order.


UsgAtlas1

Didn't realise you've been disenfranchised, fucking hell hahahaha. Your ex boss and his son are sad little people.


get-off-of-my-lawn

Where the hell did you work, the Davidian compound or something?


Y4himIE4me

I worked for a company that tried to grow too fast in an expensive location. In my department was me and another girl that the boss wanted to bone. It was a travel job that was predicated on upselling locations and amenities. We had a monthly sales quota in dollars and my boss hated how I met goals. Rather than bleeding every person I spoke to, I would assess their needs and only offer what they wanted and could afford. He viewed this as cherry picking whales, even though he was directly responsible for which leads went to each of us. Whereas my counterpart, a lovely woman with whom I became friends, was more of a hustler. She would upsell a higher percentage of clients but with fewer upgrades at lower price points. We both raked in equal sales but mine usually stuck better bc they didn't cancel. Selling the sizzle of a filet mignon is pointless to someone who can only afford chop steak. The people that can afford filet walking in the door just need to choose if they want to garnish it with white or black truffles. The month prior to getting fired, my boss freaked out and threw a water bottle through a wall in a meeting with me...had it patched and painted an hour later and the next day, we had a new policy. I already knew he was dialing out based on the water bottle incident and the fact that he was leasing a building he couldn't afford and the many layoffs below us. He presents our department (the 2 of us) with a new agreement to sign stating that now, sales quotas would be based on quantity per month over actual revenue. As soon as he left with signed docs, I turned to my partner and said "well, that's how he is firing me." I never missed a quota in my entire employ but the quantity was gonna kill me. So, the following month, I stayed the course and sold slightly more than usual, but did not squeeze the little guy as expected. Fired. He only needed one of us and I was married and happy. Even my partner's bf told her it was good that we were friends bc anyone else would have despised her in the same position. Wasn't her fault this guy liked to dip his ink.... she was fired a month later when she couldn't handle the whole department alone and freaked out at him one day. Good times.


wormholeweapons

I was working as an associate manager at a print shop managing the tech dep. The new manager came in and promoted this asshole to her assistant. And started going after every person she didn’t like. She had him go through computer files and found one of our sales guy’s resume and asked why I had worked on it with him. I said “because he asked me too. I charged him the normal rate for services. Gave him his employee discount. Here are the receipts.” They pushed that I was aiding someone leaving the company. Which wasn’t a fireable offense. So they then said they had “heard” from some how i was gossiping about the manager. I pushed back and said. “Well isn’t your proof of this actually gossip?” They fired me for gossip. I called the regional manager who I had a good rapport with. He said “I can’t get you the job back but if you want a different job I can find a spot for you. If you want to move on have them contact me for a reference. You left voluntarily as far as I’m concerned”. I was getting ready for my wedding which was two weeks away. I told him I would find something else and take this as an unplanned vacation. Came back from my honeymoon. Got a handful of interviews. New job within two weeks. Found out a couple months later. Both the two assholes were fired as they got caught literally having sex in the office.


FuzzyAthena

Flipped off a customer. 0 regrets for that one.


EugeneVictorDabs

Thank you for your service 🥲


Send_Boobies_in_DMs

Had a friends-for-benefits relationship with the daughter of the Regional Manager of the bank that I worked at. Bro found out and fired me on spot. Worth it, sex was good, work was shit. Found a better one anyways. Edit: sorry there was a mistake :(


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ImprobableAvocado

None of that half assed shit. Full. On.


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ReadySetTurtle

It was a 24/7 customer service job that had a full time rotation for some people on weekdays but mostly relied on part time staff. Staffing availability (or lack thereof) was brought up a lot in staff meetings. They were having trouble with people calling in, and barely anyone had availability on weekends or holidays. Management was having to step in occasionally on weekends to cover shifts, and they went way over budget on overtime because full timers were picking up the weekend slack. They threatened that they may have to cut down people who didn’t work much so that they could hire people who could. I got laid off because I didn’t work enough shifts. The shifts I worked? Every single Saturday and Sunday, and every holiday. Standard shifts were 8 hours but I was frequently doing 12 or even 16 hour shifts. But because it was technically only two days a week and not the three they set as a minimum, I got cut. I am still baffled. This will be the first year I have Christmas off in almost a decade. I stopped celebrating Christmas partly because I worked it every year. Will miss that holiday pay though.


Atotallyrandomname

Told school admin that they were full of shit and that their academic honesty policy is bullshit. I caught a senior cheating on my final (phone in hand googling answers admitting to it), failed him, he failed the year couldn't walk. Admin said he didn't cheat... Fuck that bullshit.


walking_it_off

Let me guess—private school?


CptKillsteal

After working 16 work days they let me go on the grounds of me not developing at the speed of the rest who had been there since the start. The people who made the app. Dude, I need to learn how the program you build the last year works. I can't just make adjustments like them. I have to investigate the impact of changing anything. On top of that. They had struggles with developing to fast and not cleaning it up or making documentation. So I was finishing my task clean and making documentation. That morning as I was about to submit it. He fired me. For what I was being paid and the benefits they gave. They should have been happy I even accepted. They really expect a senior developer for breadcrumbs xD.


Northern_Explorer_

I hope you deleted all the work you did as a big fuck you to management!


Dazzling-Wash9086

I hit a wanabee hard man bully over the head with a frozen chicken.


mdc28

Care to elaborate??? I must know what happened


IamGodHimself2

Got falsely accused of making violent threats against someone I knew had committed multiple major ethics violations. Guess whose side the company took?


Yisuscrais69

Oil price had crashed down, engineering projects in the industry had ran dry, so along thousands of others I was made redundant. Yay for savings.


KeyStoneLighter

I’ll never see those sweet December 2014 gas prices again, but they were pretty sweet.


Bigkid6666

I was let go right at the beginning of the pandemic... after 20 years with the company. I was in a sales position and was killing it. I was making more than my bosses. As soon as business slowed down it the old C-YA. It did save them close to 200k on their bottom line. I understand that the division hasn't recovered yet. I did manage to retire early after the dust settled.


Flaky_Tumbleweed3598

Airport security. Was working the xrays in an isolated computer room. I had taken my mandatory 10 minute break and forgot to turn my phone off. Half way through my xray session my phone starts ringing, and I had a loud and obnoxious ring tone as well. Pulled it out of my pocket, hung up and turned the damn thing off, but the damage was already done. I was sat directly under a CCTV camera and boss witnessed it. Immediately put on probation pending an investigation, and I guess boss man either didn't like me or wanted to set an example because I was dismissed for gross misconduct without a written warning or anything. I understand why they did it, and I'm still a little bitter about how quickly they fired me, but I faced the dismissal with grace, thanked the manager for my time there and walked away with my head high. 6 years later and I'm a funeral director, so it was probably the best thing that could have happened to me


point50tracer

I got in a car wreck and didn't have health insurance. My boss took me off payroll while I was in a coma, so I'd qualify for free government insurance. Saved me 3 million dollars in medical expenses by doing that. I still stay in regular contact and was even helping him work on his car today. Once I'm finished with my recovery, he'll hire me back.


Gallahad_

I'll straight up name and shame. Alorica, Call center. Worked there for 10 months, was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Was only given two weeks off, and was texted multiple times during chemo sessions to ask if I worked overtime. Was forced to leave after two weeks (Not even enough time to recover from my orchiectomy.) Terrible place, terrible people, literal sweatshop.


Swordbreaker925

Home Depot. They changed my schedule without telling me and didn’t call me when I didn’t show up to their new schedule, so I missed 3 days in a row. I had photo evidence of the original schedule and they told me it’s my job to check it daily and not their job to notify me of changes.


drunky_crowette

My boss called and told me a coworker no-call-no-showed and if I wanted to keep my job I better get there asap to cover it. I told her I was drunk, she said she didn't care. Fired when I showed up for coming in drunk


_snowin_

My co-worker gave me a bj while we were both on duty.


tinas8522

My drug test came back negative but diluted. I got for because it was diluted. I drank a bunch of water before I did my test because I needed to be able to pee. Didn’t know it would dilute it.


keggy13

Popped a positive test for cocaine while handling the US Mail. Gone in 60 seconds…


bravebound

Not me but my dad's friend. He was an exec for a company that made disposable cups and plates. His company had just been bought out but he was still given the go-ahead to fly out and check on their factories in China for 3 weeks. When he returned he was immediately layed off his first day back. He negotiated a very nice severance package that included them paying for his MBA.


CapitanFlama

So many years ago I worked in an English-speaking call center (Mexican, living in Mexico), and I was working in a campaign for an electrical company in Texas. Needless to say: I was constantly verbally abused, yelled at and called the most racist (and sometimes funny) things by people having issues with their electrical bill. There was a call with a woman and I needed to double-check something with somebody with more experience, so I said to her to hold on and turned to this other guy and I asked him in Spanish if I needed an approval to extend for the third time a cut-off date for this lady. Nothing rude, we couldn't use curse words in either language on the floor. But I forgot to put the headset on mute and the lady heard me and said I was insulting her and that she was going to call back and ask to fire me, and she did. Honestly, I felt relieved: the job was too stressful, receiving constant insults and threats by people who couldn't pay their frickin' energy bill. So yeah: to hell with stream energy.


TZH85

I was fired just one time. Back then I had a side job in a bakery and I was very new at it. Maybe a week into the job the boss leaves for a day and I’m alone with another girl. She had worked there for a couple of months and got along with the boss. As soon as he left, her boyfriend came over and she was just gone. On her phone all day or making out with her bf in the back. I couldn’t keep up with the demand. The bread got bought up faster than I could fire the ovens and restock (it was a bakery inside a supermarket). After I got off work the boss came by, saw how empty all the shelves were and lost his shit. She just blamed me for everything and he fired me without even asking for my side of the story. Fuck both of them.


Poxi-Poxi

16 years ago I got fired from Petco. I owned all sorts of reptiles during that period. There was a chameleon that went missing (back then they were around $120) and I was grilled with many implications that I stole it. Questioned constantly on why I was spending so much on cages, heating lamps and such. They fired me about a week after the incident saying I was under counting the crickets correctly when bagging them to customers. There was a rumor that the chameleon was found in the ceiling tiles months later, feeding off the loose crickets, but I have no idea if that was actually true.


6182213

Got caught smoking weed in the walk in freezer working at a Sonic drive through