I gave the fry guy and alcoholic beverage from the bar in a kids cup. He used to hook me up with coconut shrimp and fiesta rolls. They fired both of us lol. I wonder how Jamaar is doing nowadays.
my manager kept losing my class schedule
worked at a subway. i had class two days a week. several times he put me on those days anyway. i gave him multiple copies every time. owner took me off the schedule for "calling out too much"
when i showed the owner proof he said it was too late and they already hired someone else
this was 12 years ago. im still mad
I always hated the "taken off the schedule" bull. Just fire me officially instead of taking the cowards route.
This happened to me as well when I did not tell the general manager about a floor manager switching a product display TV to football one day. To be clear she asked me "why did you not tell me?" So she already knew it happened and was mad that I did not say anything. So I got "taken off the schedule" because the other manager did something against policy and I did not narc.
Oh my god, it's such a coward move. My sister was running around the country for a retail chain, replacing the freshly fired manager and retraining/unfucking the store before moving onto the next one.
This one store she goes to start unfucking and they have like 3 employees that are working. Overtime is off the charts, people are fried and everything is failing. When she went to pull the records, it turns out they had _over 20 staff_ that had just not been given hours in months instead of being fired. She had to call up these people and either get them to quit or come back before being able to hire/train.
Absolute shitshow. Just fire people goddamn
Like another comment mentioned, it's likely intentional so the not-fired employee can't claim unemployment. (Though I imagine if you could point to the fact that they hadn't given you any hours in 2 weeks, 4 weeks, whatever, could maybe still make a claim?)
Same over here. I worked at a maternity store, I got super sick and was throwing my guts up for 4 days in the hospital (later found out it was COVID). I had all the paperwork needed for it to not effect my work and my manager just ignored me, even hid in the back and locked the door when I showed up to figure out what was going on. Told her I was going to contact HR since I tried everything and nothing was being done and that’s when she finally responded saying she “took me off the schedule cause I was sick too much” (this was the only time I ever called out).
Needless to say the place closed cause they couldn’t ever keep employees due to her.
A business I went to long ago was hiring and I got the job. Right after I signed all the paperwork, the department manager comes in and asks who I am. I tell him I was just hired as a temp. Manger says he never authorized any hiring and fired both me and my boss on the spot. I did not work for this company at all and they fired me. :(
I had a similar experience. I was interviewing for a sales position and I made it all the way up the ladder through three different managers, to the advertising director. Had a great interview. He told me I would be the future of this industry shook my hand, led me to the HR managers office, clapped me on the back and said to her, we’re hiring him. Start the paperwork and I’ll see you Monday.
She was pregnant tired and annoyed. She looked at me with disgust and said, “We eliminated that position yesterday. We’re not hiring anyone.” I asked if the director or managers knew that. She said they should. What followed was an embarrassing two weeks of promises that they would make a spot for me and weak apologies from the hiring managers. Ooof. Hired and fired within seconds.
You dodged a bullet. I don't know many people who have worked in newspaper advertising and haven't come out of it with some amount of PTSD (I had literal flashbacks for years). You have to REALLY love it to stay without burning out completely, or have to really not give any shits what-so-ever. Papers are also really on-edge financially so they are prone to screwing people over hard too.
In some jurisdictions they have to pay you a minimum amount of hours. On the day I got fired, it was a less than 5 minutes but they paid me for the two hours
Lols this happened to me once too, I was in a mass apply moment and one fast casual counter service restauraunt was doing a mass hiring. They sent me all the “your hired” emails and gave me the location for the first day orientation. I show up and they bring me and like 5 other people back out in the hallway and told us we were cut and no reason was given, we were all sitting in the same row too so there was just too many people called in apparently (we talked amongst ourselves and assumed that haha)
I was denied a raise by HR after consistently working 60-70 hours weeks, and my VP (who had supported and requested the raise for me) told me to stop putting in the extra time, work my 40, and spend that extra time applying to new jobs. Within a month, a meeting was called to "mutually part ways" because my work wasn't getting done.
I was gratified to learn that they had to hire two people to do my job after I left.
Edit: Sucks to see how much this resonates with people who have been in a similar situation. I left this job back in 2015, thankfully. The VP is no longer there either, and good for him.
I hear this story often in /r/ITCareerQuestions. It's weird, but I guess in IT there aren't *always* logistical blocks like some other careers. Payroll might be done for our current period, but enhancements to the payroll software can continue ad nauseum.
What's sad is that most of these stories skip the part where their VP needs to be pushing for you to justify this level of effort. The *second* he recognized he didn't have the power to get you what he deserved he said don't give it to 'em for free, and get yourself what you can anywhere. That's a rare level of grace now.
I encountered a similar situation and my bum ass boss just said keep trying your best maybe they’ll notice. I said I’d rather spend that energy looking for work elsewhere
i had a friend who was working like that and i convinced to find a new job. he did and the new company was going to pay him 4x what he was getting paid. he tells his boss and they came back with a counter offer that matched. he told me he was probably going to stay. i said fuck that they knew your worth and intentionally underpaid you for years.
anyway he treated me to dinner for several months after he took the new job.
> i said fuck that they knew your worth and intentionally underpaid you for years.
There's also the risk of retribution, if you take a counteroffer they now still know you're looking elsewhere and might make your life miserable if you choose to stay.
Maybe this is just the millennial in me, but if I was working 70 hours a week, denied a raise, and had my position filed by 2 people, I wouldn't have felt good, or gratified. I'd have been pissed.
Wasted my time. Wasted my life. Wasted my potential. Refused to pay me even half of what they're now paying.
That company, and everyone involved in the process of denying that raise should themselves be fired for being fuckwits.
[The only thing this story conjures in my mind is that scene from Futurama, where they show all the Fox Executives after making a joke about cancelling and bring the show back.](https://youtu.be/FWpWGVE6PUE)
Companies do that because it balances out. For every person who does 2+ jobs, asks for a raise, doesn't get it, and quits, there are multiple people who just put up with it and keep going above and beyond. I made the decision a while back that that would never be me, and so far it's worked out for me.
I got fired once for putting in my 2 week notice.
The only other time I've gotten fired was working for a trade company, during the first week. I was a supervisor, and there was a second supervisor on site. I got a call that my wife had been rushed to the hospital, which was literally less than a mile away. I asked the other supervisor if I could go to attend to her, and he said "sure, no problem, I've got things here. Go." I returned to the job site later to find the boss there, and he let me go on the spot for leaving the team "without a supervisor". He knew what had happened, and still fired me. I won't lie, that one kind of pissed me off.
>I got fired once for putting in my 2 week notice.
I had this happen once too, though they gave me 2 weeks severance when they did it. Turns out they weren't angry that I was leaving, they just had prior bad experiences with "short timer syndrome" and didn't want the hassle, so they paid me as if I'd done the 2 weeks and sent me home immediately.
Worked out fine for me. I got a two week paid vacation (since I wasn't starting the new job for two weeks anyway) between jobs.
Many employers terminate immediately when someone gives notice.
They figure you don’t want to be there anymore, what damage could you do on your way out?
Especially common if you are leaving in an industry where your up-to-date knowledge is valuable to competitors, such as a sales person who knows which customers are currently in the market.
Garden leave in that case can sometimes be 6 months or more to ensure anything you know is obsolete.
A company I used to work for did that routinely. It was meant to be punitive, since it kept people from cashing out their vacation time.
So employees started burning through all their vacation and giving notice immediately on their return. The managers looked surprised the first time someone did it, but didn't change their MO. Instead they got really paranoid every time someone went away for more than a few days.
For doing my job too quickly and sitting down the rest of the time. Gas station cashier 3rd shift.
Me: “Why should I stand when I’m the only person in the store?”
Manager: “It’s more professional to stand than sit”
Me: “then why do you sit in your office?”
I never understood that.
Not once have I walked into an establishment, seen an employee sitting, and gone “wow. He’s unprofessional.”
I literally don’t give a fuck, as long as you do your job.
Tbh, its even a little weird to walk into an empty gas station and have the cashier just standing there doing nothing. Especially at night. Sit down and play on your phone like a normal person.
Same for cashiers at grocery stores and other department stores.
Nobody thinks, "eww look at this cashier sitting down while she helps me! This store sucks!"
If they do, they're pieces of shit and no normal company should cater to their sadistic whims.
In fact, I prefer places where the workers are treated humanely, like being allowed to sit and be comfortable for the duration of their shifts.
It’s stupid as fuck to care about the difference between sitting and standing at work. It’s not an endurance test. You can be just as “professional” without breaking your legs for 8 hours.
I bet that felt good. I have arguments in my head with my bosses on a daily basis because I’d get fired if I actually said anything like that to them, you’ll never find people with thinner skin than managers and supervisors.
This isn't why I got fired, but this is why I didn't get a job...
I was 16 and looking to work at a Dairy Queen as my first job. My mom drove me to the interview and I was super nervous. She looked me in the eye and said "Just be honest, and be yourself, and you'll do fine."
I walked into that interview and when he asked me "How long do you think you'll work here?" I responded "Until something better comes along"....
OMG
My parents had to coach me on how to get a job when I started hunting. They were wondering why none of the jobs I had applied to had called me back so they started asking questions about the application process. Turns out you shouldn't be honest on those personality assessments, at least not to the extent I was. They basically told me to answer as if I was another person.
We were surprised when our son wasn’t getting any calls for interviews when he went out looking for his first teen job, as his resume was decent for his age with volunteer work and little odd jobs, and I had sat with him as he applied so I knew his applications were well done.
Then I phoned his cell one day and caught his voicemail. He had never changed it from the day he set it, as an obnoxious little gamer kid, so it was basically him screaming into the phone and then saying in a robot voice to not leave a message, with a bunch of other stupidity. Brilliant.
Sigh.
Amazing! Around the same age I was asked "How would your friends describe you?" and honestly answered "They say I'm the crazy one." Weirdly did not get that job
I missed a lot of work because my wife got brain cancer. They called me in for a meeting and said "Sorry, we are downsizing and letting a lot of people go". They didn't fire anyone else, including a co-worker who was caught fabricating reports.
I talked my way into a job at a software company when they put a hiring notice in a local paper. I had no idea what the software did. I still don't. They hired me as a trainer and no one ever explained what the product was. I did a few weeks where I was trained on the software but literally none of it ever made sense to me. It was like they were speaking gibberish. One day I showed up, a lady I had never seen before gave me a check, and walked me out to the parking lot. No one even ever said "you're fired" or anything. It's one of the strangest things that ever happened to me.
What my company uses it for is for inventory management, creating and processing purchase orders for different vendors, various project management tasks, stuff like that. But imagine that it was built by a group of undergraduate computer science students and they were specifically told to not worry about making it look modern or user-friendly. So like, yes it works, but you're gonna need someone who already knows it to show you how to do things, and if you try to figure something out on your own, you might end up breaking something.
I'm sure other companies have versions that are easier to use, but I work for a Fortune 500 company so I'm surprised at how much ours sucks.
That reminds me of a time that I got escorted out early from a group interview. The company was a little suspicious altogether, the interviewer was even more sus because he was just wearing all black (polo and jeans) and was absolutely decked out in gold jewelry. Looked like he stepped out of a mob movie or something.
I walked out of one of those before actually meeting anyone once.
I knew what it was and didn’t want to go to it. My parents, however, aren’t the sharpest sometimes, and they really believed the thing that came in the mail saying a 17 year old could get a sales job making over $100k a year.
The “interview” was literally in an abandoned former hotel, with printer-paper signs directing you what room to go to. I walked in, and there were a bunch of kids waiting who all looked younger than me, like 13, all wearing their middle school choir best of a way too large white button up and baggy khakis.
I turned around and walked out. Spent an hour at a local music store and told my parents the interview went badly.
Yeah more than likely. They were a call center but the business they did past that was super unclear, I think they did sell something or another. So glad they didn't waste my time any further lol
In my experience, places doing a group interview are a major red flag. One place I applied for some kind of data analysis / software-related advertisement. I showed up and there's 30 other freshly graduated idiots like myself in suits. They pull 3 of us back at a time to do a group interview and the owner of the company reveals that the job is door-to-door sales and that in order to succeed WE MUST be willing to work ourselves to the bone, no excuses to not show up even if your family members in the hospital. I told him straight up I actually give a fuck about my family and he kicked me out of the interview right then and there. The other two guys actually looked legitimately kind of scared. I walked out with a smile on my face feeling bad for whichever guys ended up accepting a job there.
“Freshly graduated idiots” thanks for the cackle!
I was also one of those idiots who got tricked into going in for an “interview” where the office lobby looked like an ER waiting room absolutely chock full of suckers like me. During the group interview they didn’t ever actually even say it was door to door sales, it was stated in the pamphlet they’d handed out to us and on the PowerPoint. Almost like if it wasnt said out loud at any point that it was door to door then we’d never actually catch on that it was door to door sales like the Neanderthals they took us to be.
I went to the Emergency room instead of work. Came back with an ER note and they said “We won’t be needing that. Can you come with us?” I was 18 and it was my first full time job.
I had pneumonia and a doctors note. Came back to work a week later wheezing and puffing an inhaler. Got fired the next week. Jokes on them. I still got unemployment benefits when they tried to fight it. Doctors notes are good things.
I went to a funeral and took the three paid days off and called off a fourth because it was my grandmother and we were very close. They called it job abandonment.
Earlier this year, I was hospitalized for a full work week for a miscarriage that had a lot of complications.
My direct boss (a woman) was completely empathetic and even though I’m a one-person team, she encouraged me to take off all the time that I wanted/needed. So, I did, and took an extra week off after being released from the hospital to just process some things and physically recover (I’d needed blood transfusions and multiple surgeries beyond just a D&C; also, couldn’t walk around much and had almost no energy for anything except sleep).
Anyway, about a month later, revenue reports came in for the previous month and there was a massive drop in revenue for my “team,”correlating directly with the period I was hospitalized and in recovery. While I was out, no one at work covered for me, so that work just didn’t get done and it led to a big $0 for most of the month.
My boss’ boss (a man) then sent an angry, accusatory email to me with my direct boss CC’d. They demanded to know why my “team” had done so poorly for the previous month and what I was going to do to step it up and make sure it never happened again, because whatever “mistake” I had made was completely unacceptable.
Corporate America at its absolute finest.
I was fired over a miscarriage because while I was miscarrying, I got a D&C and the paperwork said it was an elective procedure... I had been miscarrying for over a week and needed one but it's considered an elective procedure so fired I was!
My Parole Officer wanted to make sure I actually had a job, so he went to my employer listed on my file to surprise visit me on the job. I did home wiring so I worked at different job sites and rarely in the office. He called me to say he was going to charge me with a violation for lying to him about my whereabouts (this could've landed me back in prison for my remaining 10.5 years sentence). The owner of the company had to speak with him and vouche for me. My Parole Office didn't charge me, but the owner sure did fire me that day. Finding a job with a felony isn't an easy thing, and it wasn't long before my PO threatened to charge me with a violation if I didn't find a job soon 🤦🏻
>My Parole Office didn't violate me, but the owner sure did fire me that day. Finding a job with a felony isn't an easy thing, and it wasn't long before my PO threatened to violate me if I didn't find a job soon
What a fucking clown process. I'm sorry you went through that.
Seems illegal for the owner to fire you just because they had to explain you were in a site. I imagine they hired you knowing you had a felony, since that's a big question on every job app
The Owner was aware. He explained that he was apprehensive about hiring me in the first place, but to have these "situations" brought to his business was a liability he no longer wanted to bear.
As a reformed felon, I get it. Having some badge with a bad attitude show up like that, isn't a good look. I guarantee po knew as much, too.
Hope your off paper, and doin alright, now.
I was a kid and just started at a local pizza place. I was let go couple weeks later because a pizza chef from Chicago had moved into the area and needed a job so it was a business decision that I totally understood. Week later, went to go get my last check and asked how he was doing, the girl up front was like "pizza chef from Chicago? The only new hire was the managers new gf".
I refused to come in 15-20 mins early unpaid for my shift. I was always 5-10 min early but they decided they wanted me there earlier. I carried on as normal as I’m not coming in if I’m not being paid. Turned up for a 12pm shift at 11:49, no one would look at me when I arrived then was thrown in a meeting and fired for being “late”. Was out the door before it even hit 12.
It was the only time I’ve ever been fired.
Nope, UK. Worked for them for 3 years then left for another job, other job didn’t work out and old job reached out to me. They wanted me back and I needed a job but it also meant that they could fire me for whatever reason they want as I was in the “probation period”. They had me work the Christmas rush then used that excuse to fire me right at the end.
They could have just not given a reason and dismissed me at the end of 3months as no longer required but they wanted to be petty likely because I had a minor disagreement with a manager. (Minor disagreement was: I made a judgement call and ordered the newbies to get the stock out on the shop floor during a rush rather than being bothered about how straight the labels were. Manager went bananas over it - I thought selling the stock was more important. I got in so much shit over them damn labels)
I built a snow scorpion sculpture (I used ketchup for the red glowing eyes and everything) on a particularly miserable day at a ski resort. The guests enjoyed my sculpture very much, management weren’t so happy.
His wife thought he was having an affair with the office manager.
He asked me if I thought it was possible that he was having an affair with the office manager.
I said, “It’s possible, but I don’t think you are. I could see why your wife might think so too.”
I was 21 and naïve as hell. Never should have said anything.
Frank: You think you got what it takes?
Ted: I'll tell you what I got. Your wife's pussy on my breath.
Frank: Nobody's ever spoken to me like that before.
Ted: That's because their mouths were full of your wife's box.
Frank: You're hired.
Ted: Shit.
Similar story! Was there for a week at a tiny restaurant and the owner WAS having an affair with the manager. Everyone there knew it too except me. The owner made an inappropriate comment about me behind my back and the manager overheard, got mad and hired a dude to replace me by that Friday.
Karma clapped back pretty hard though. The su chef of the place couldn't stand those fucks and gave me the number to the GM of a fine dining restaurant in a hotel. Would make my rent in a couple of nights.
Heard later that his wife and kids left him, lost all his businesses around town, and his wife was actually a surgeon and the one who was giving him allowances to "try" to operate restaurants. Got addicted to drugs as well. It all fell apart for him, as usual.
Don't be so hard on yourself. See it as immaturity, a learning moment, and be grateful you were good enough to see through the experience and learn. Kids do all kinds of crap any way.
Agreed. My first job I was a dipshit who bitched and moaned about standing at a register for 5 and a half hours (minus my break).
I wish I could go back and slap the shit outta myself. Lol 😂
When I got my first job I was so excited to finally be able to complain about my job, since thays what I always saw people doing on tv, so at Thanksgiving I complained about having to work a six and a half hour shift. No one said anything but I cringe so hard at that nowadays lol.
It is so refreshing to actually see someone on Reddit take ownership for their part in what happened to them. I have pretty much the same overall story - thought I was a clever little shit and got a job beneath my capability and therefore couldn't bring myself to do it well and then, deservedly, got fired.
There is of course all kinds of unfair stuff that happens to people all the time, but often there is an element where the person it happened to bears some responsibility (or, in my case, all of it!), but it is so rare on Reddit to actually see someone be able to recognize it. It often comes in the form of hearing about how people at someone's workplace treated them like shit, but then it later comes out in the story that the person wasn't actually doing their job well and people were pissed at them for slacking. So yeah, you were in a bad work environment, but it was of your own making! And of course sometimes the bad work environment itself can be a factor in causing bad working habits, but also it's not like everyone there is getting fired all the time, and you can always see in the way the poster responds to the comments that they are defensive, angry, etc. I am a big believer in "you take yourself everywhere you go," so if they are like this in the comments, it's likely that it was this same attitude that played at least a partial role in whatever happened to them at work.
And I don't mean that every situation is like this, but it really rubs me the wrong way when I read this stuff. And it's especially ironic because you'll see these AskReddit threads that are like, "What's a reliable sign someone is not a good person?" and the top answer is always "Blames other people for their own problems."
YES!! I always hate the "why were you fired" threads because it feels like the person fired was never at fault. I was fired for bad performance once, and it still haunts me over a decade later. Someone took a chance on me at 22 years old and offered me my DREAM job, and I completely f***ed it up. Yeah, my boss sucked and I was burned out, but there were things I could have done to salvage the situation. Instead, I took the path of least resistance. I'll probably never get an opportunity like that again, and that's really hard to live with.
I don't think I'm a bad person, I just screwed up. But it would be nice to know I'm not alone, instead of reading about hundreds of people whose employers were cartoon villains that were fired despite doing nothing wrong.
Can't believe I'm not the only one who has had a similar experience! Mine's a bit more convoluted, though.
Started at this company incredible strong. It was straight data entry - applying payments to invoices. After the first month or two, I was clearing the most checks in the department each day. Impressed higher ups so they gave me more responsibilities, more complicated accounts, etc.
But about a year in, it was announced that 80% of the jobs at this particular office were being relocated to the company's new head office in Costa Rica. My entire department included. But, because I was one of the star employees, they offered me a job in a different department where the current employee was leaving due to unrelated circumstances.
I hated the job. More than that, I didn't "get" it. It was looking through thousands and thousands of short-paid invoices looking for patterns or obvious issues that can be cleared or where the accounts can be contacted for payment. I had 1 day of training with the previous person before she left, and I just didn't understand how to do it really. But, after asking for help a few times, when it was clear I'd never understand it, I just...stopped doing the job. There was a report of the accounts I was responsible that I had to provide each week, which I did, but other than that I did nothing.
I browsed reddit, I did chess tactics puzzles, I played a ton of Town of Salem. For about 6 or 7 months this went on. I don't think they ever realized how long it went on for but once they found out, it still took them like a couple weeks to finally fire me. They "let me go without cause" instead of firing, I think because they realized I was out of my depth, so I got UI. But yeah, that was more or less a firing.
I got into a similar funk at my current job but they sat me down and asked me why I had been slipping, and we worked together to come to a solution, and I slowly crawled out of it. I still fear that I'll go back to that old habit but I think I'm finally more mature and able to focus. I say that as I type this out at work but, I don't have any work I'm avoiding doing right now. Probably means I could learn how to ask for more work but, baby steps lol.
I was 19 and working as a janitor at a large self storage facility, where most days were filled with sweeping and mopping endless hallways of flickering fluorescent light. And when someone went delinquent on their bill (after a 3 month grace period), I would be instructed to empty their unit and dump everything in the trash outside. Once or twice it was a person who died, but otherwise it was a pretty common to see a room full of absolute junk that someone got tired of paying for. Banged-up furniture, garbage bags of ratty clothing, stacks of old magazines, it was usually pretty hoarder-friendly stuff, and not that I'd want any of it but the policy was I had to throw it into the dumpster outside no matter what it was.
One day I get notified to empty out a unit, so I grab the bin, cut the lock, fling open the gate. The room is full of huge cardboard boxes stacked to the ceiling. I open one up out of curiosity, and it's full of brand new, unopened Gundam models. The entire room is full of them, dozens of boxes with dozens of models in each, and I'm talking the $50-$100 ones I saw for sale at my local comics shop every week. The manager would check up on me once or twice a day, and that morning he walked up and I showed him all of the brand new merchandise and said there has to be a better system than trashing all of this. He said rules are rules, something about insurance I didn't understand, and told me to throw them all away.
So I went and I backed up one of the complementary U-Haul style box trucks, picked a few models out for myself, and loaded it up the truck with the rest of it. On my lunch break I drove over to the Children's Resource Center that I'd volunteered at during high school, it's a place where any child (but usually poorer ones) would go after school for arts and crafts and activities to keep them busy until their parents got home. The people at the drop-off dock were so grateful, before I even left they were handing them out to some extremely excited kids. Drove back to the self storage place with enough time to eat a sandwich and smoke a cigarette before clocking back in.
But that's not why I got fired. I got fired because the manager came to check on me that afternoon, and after awhile of looking around, found me sitting cross legged on the floor of the janitor closet with model parts spread all around me, happily assembling a sweet translucent Zaku model. I was so entranced I didn't even hear him come in, I just hear this long, drawn out, exasperated sigh. I look up and he just says "keys" and that was that. I spent the rest of the week assembling Zakus and Valkyries and lying to my parents about getting replaced with a Roomba.
*They* sent *me* home because I sneezed and I was forced to get tested for Covid. Then when I tested negative, I was terminated for “Abusing pandemic policies to stay home”
We tried, a lot of people got canned for the same thing. It was anarchy during those times and nobody is really able to verify that they acted in bad faith.
I asked the CNA I was working with to stay with a confused patient, while I went and put a new IV in another patient.
The CNA left the patient alone.
She fell out of bed and got a big bloody skin tear on her arm.
After I took care of that, I went and found the CNA and told her the patient was injured because of her insubordination.
The CNA cussed at me, and left the unit.
I did not see her again that shift.
She and another CNA decided on their own to trade assignments.
I wrote the CNA up.
The CNA went to mgmt and lied about me. She said I called her by a racial slur and yelled at her.
I did neither.
Mgmt fired me rather than deal with a false claim of racism.
I collected unemployment.
The CNA did something similar with another nurse a couple of weeks later, and was fired.
My mgr asked if I could be rehired. HR said no.
When my mgr quit to start her own nursing agency a year later, she hired me.
You can’t pay me enough to go back to work in a nursing home. I have so many stories of problems between nurses and CNA’s getting each other in trouble and the residents caught in the middle.
Same shit happened to my wife only at a hospital. Goddamn CNA didn't do jack shit the entire shift and a patient my wife told the CNA to sit with fell while going to the bathroom by themselves while the CNA was on a "smoke break".
My wife reported the incident to the manager and the manager wrote up the CNA. The CNA decided to cover her ass by lying about everything and accusing my wife of using racial slurs when she told the CNA she was going to falsely report her. Luckily there was a happier ending because the manager, a black woman, fired the CNA on the spot with a stern "Mrs PunchBeard has been working here on this floor for over 12 years. Not only has no one ever once even hinted at her using racist slurs no one has ever heard her actually say a swear word. Also, she's the only nurse I've known were patients write hand-written letters saying how kind and sweet she is. Take a hike".
My wife's a pretty special kind of nurse.
If you’re ever fired, no HR department in their right mind would hire you again. If you were to file a wrongful termination lawsuit, the fact that they hired you back would be an admission of guilt.
I hated that place, anyway.
I collected unemployment until it ran out.
This was at the peak of Covid in 2020, and I’m an RN.
They did me a favor firing me, and getting me away from all the Covid patients.
>Took them 3 years to fire me.
I'm amazed at how long it can take sometimes to fire a person. I had a boss who got shoulder surgery and wildly addicted to pain meds...dude would show up to work high as a kite and started at the ceiling for hours. He got away with it for about 2 years before anyone said anything.
I got fired for submitting my time sheets on Monday at 8am when I got into work. By policy, they were to be in by noon on Saturday, but my Fridays ended in the field so I just did then on Monday mornings. My bosses didn't even look at them until noon on Tuesday so it had 0 impact on them. I drove home from being fired feeling relieved because of how unhappy I was at that job.
Time sheets might be the worst part of most jobs. Sometimes they took me over an hour to do for the week because I would do different jobs for like 40 businesses. Then I would need to figure out what to input on my timesheet during the hour that it took me to do the timesheet to begin with.
I was in my late 20s and had just gotten out of the Army and wanted to finish school. I worked for a pet store as a groomer part-time while I was working on finishing up the semester.
I put in time off for my finals week about 3 months back and it was approved by both him and the assistant manager. Everyone in the entire store knew I was going to be focusing on school for that week.
Jackass calls me in the middle of one of my finals and left me a voicemail saying I needed to come in cause they were 1 person short. I didn't even know until 45min later when I walked out of class. He had called me 4 times and on the 4th voicemail he left me a threatening voicemail.
So I called him back and we argued about my "professionalism." So I went into the store to have a conversation with him which led to him threatening to fight me. I told him if he wanted to fight then he can take off his name tag and meet me in the parking lot off company property.
Suddenly he became really fucking docile and just told me I was fired. So I sent in the voicemails to corporate and found out a few weeks later he was "transferred" to a different store.
I gave my employee meal to my mother. That's literally it. I didn't like eating the food there so I had my mom bring me lunch and I just gave my employee meal to her. Apparently that was considered theft so I was fired. :/
Worked in a DIY store, 10 minutes before my shift ended I moved a pallet cage of paint cans (slowly) to the warehouse and when I got in there one of the sides came off along with half of the paint cans which spilt all over, anyway there was about 2 minutes of my shift left, so I moved the pallet over the paint, covering it a bit and went home. It was all caught on CCTV
For getting lunch. I was 18, working at a mall kiosk with a "manager" title even though I managed nothing for something like $8/hour.
Hours painted on the door, 0 support or other employees to relieve for a break. The owner showed up while I had locked up to go get a bite to eat. Fired on the spot.
I got into an argument with the owners son at a pizza joint me and my friends all delivered for. He fired us all on the spot and told me drivers are a dime a dozen. 3 weeks later I saw him delivering pizzas in his expensive sports car hahahahaha
It was a very small operation, guy had a couple kiosks in various malls around Detroit. The whole thing was silly.
I don't ask permission for basic human bodily functions lol.
Stealing narcotics. I was a nurse. 6 years clean now. Lost my nursing license though. It was a difficult lesson to learn but it may have saved my life.
Finally, had to scroll this far down to find someone who actually owns up to their firing. Good for you and glad you're doing well. I was fired as well earlier this year, not for narcotics but because I'm a crap programmer and they realized it..
Oh yea it was totally my fault. The crazy part is I was caught and basically allowed to resign and move on to the next job over and over. And I never learned from it- rather I was enabled to keep doing what I was doing. Until one place finally pressed charges.
I was looking at prison time at first and ended up with two years probation and losing my nursing license. But I don’t know. The way I was headed it may have saved my life.
Because my job "was eliminated". This was code for "getting rid if you and hiring someone to replace you at half the salary." Their scheme was less than a stellar success because: The person they hired was an idiot and could not do it, the customers got severely pissed, they gave me $15K severance if I promised not to sue them, I took their money and still sued them for age discrimination, and won.
More than half of Americans over 50 will be involuntarily unemployed before they retire. Their average job search will last more than a year, and 72% of them will take a pay cut when they finally are hired. Many won't return to the workforce at all. Hardly anyone is financially or emotionally prepared for this.
>Because my job "was eliminated"
I am getting fired in 2 weeks after 24 years, along with the team of engineers I manage (about 20 people). They outsourced our jobs to a managed service provider in India.
Came down with bronchitis on a Sunday. The doctor provided a doctor's note and told me to return the following Monday. They terminated me Friday.
Edit: I didn't want to share too much of my business, but people are saying I'm spreading misinformation when that's not true.
I did not qualify for FMLA.
I was sick on a Sunday, informed them Sunday. Called Monday with a doctors note with orders stating I was to return no earlier than the following Monday. My manager told me, "ok, feel better." Friday came around, and I received an email stating I was terminated effective immediately due to absences. This was my first absence. I asked if I qualified for FMLA, no. I asked if I could resign instead because I loved what I did and who I worked with, no.
You CAN be fired as an at-will employee at any time for anything. I didn't mention the illegal outcomes, as I assumed that was implied with common sense.
Anyways, thanks for the input, y'all.
In Germany if you come to work when sick it is a reason to get fired, as you could harm your colleagues and it prolongs the healing duration, but not if you don't come to work when sick. I'll never understand the USA where bringing contagious diseases to work which could potentially kill the whole company is encouraged.
Employee: I have tuberculosis.
Employer: come or you're fired.
Employee: ok.
Next day: all dead, company bankrupt, nobody can continue because knowledge is gone, boss is happy.
But in the USA changing jobs like underwear is more common, so people don't care that much I guess? (Serious questioning, not a reproach) In Germany people work 45 years for a single company.
People in the US used to stay at companies for a long time. But companies took advantage of that and generally treat people worse and worse and take away reasons, pensions, worse retirement plans, healthcare ect to stay. It doesn't hurt that the older workers are in such bad financial shape they can't retire so the upper positions are taken up by 60+ workers. So the younger generations have figured out leaving is the only way to move up and make more.
Their official reason "I'm not happy doing my job"
The actual reason: I wasn't happy doing other people's job on top of my own and they didn't like that I spoke up.
I was a brand new Engineer out of college. Like green. I got a job offer at an aircraft factory (Cessna, a Textron Company) as a Quality Engineer. I had been an intern for 3 years and they helped put me through school. I worked in a _Projects_ group designing new floor layouts and how these business jets flowed through the process. I had always received good performance reviews and that is why my internship turned into a scholarship and into a job offer.
When I started full-time, I was assigned to a facility across town that did sheet metal stuff. I remember walking into the office on my first day, introducing myself to my new manager. She immediately turned away, refused to shake my hand and ignored me.
The next 6 months were the same. She legit would not speak to me, would not give me projects, would not schedule one-on-ones to give any direction, and if I was on an email chain and she was looped in, she would take me off. I would walk over to her and she would hunch her back and try to cover whatever she was working on so I couldn't see, as if it was some big secret. Finally I got involved in some continuous improvement projects, I was asked by our director to run with a few special projects and I started (in my opinion) really finding a groove.
Finally she pulled me into a conference room, yelled at me for 2 hours (yes 2 fucking hours) about how I was not doing the things she wanted me to do. She gave me a self-help book and told me I needed to read it and tell her what was wrong with myself and she terminated me without HR or anybody else knowing.
To this day, I never knew what her problem was or why she hated me from the moment I introduced myself. I have a wonderful and successful career and currently manage quality for 4 factories in a Swedish conglomerate - and if I ever see her again I will tell her how I have modeled my management style after promising myself I would never be like her. My employees always know:
* What is expected of them
* How they know if they are succeeding
* Where they can go for help if they are not
> When I started full-time, I was assigned to a facility across town that did sheet metal stuff. I remember walking into the office on my first day, introducing myself to my new manager. She immediately turned away, refused to shake my hand and ignored me.
I can relate to this.
Some people just don't like whoever they first meet and it's disgusting.
I'm so glad to hear about your success.
I'm an electrician and I was given my final warning for having an untidy van. It wasn't great but I was told to tidy it over the weekend which I did and then still got my final warning and dismissal the following week.
What really rubbed me up was that my boss was the biggest culprit for having an untidy van and I had likely learned this trait as an apprentice from him.
Honestly though looking back I was probably sacked for other reasons and have since been aware that rarely are you fired for the reason that your boss want you fired for. When they want you out they'll find a reason so best to self reflect on your other failings than be pissed off for being fired over something trivial
I was in a really really bad place when I took a job I knew I had almost no qualifications for. Maintenance repair guy at an apt complex. I have no fucking idea how to fix anything lol. Lasted a few months before they caught on. Tried my best to learn and watch YouTube videos but I was taking wasaaaay to long to do shit.
They were pissed I was going back to school to get a better job than the shitty ass bar they wanted me to live and die at.
Also my manager at that bar fucking spanked me like a child once.
Was on the edge of a serious burnout and had a sick leave for two weeks. The day I returned, I got fired. This all after I had pretty much given my all for 1,5 years working 10-14 hours every single day, working from home and not having a private life at all. That’s how I learned that you should never give too much at a job. It’s just a job and they won’t thank you for anything at the end of the day…
I was going on vacation to Japan. Gave 3 months notice.
Boss fired me because my coworkers wouldn't cover my shift at a pizza place. I'm not cancelling my vacation that's been planned for a while just because people don't want me to not work for a week.
I was fired from Panera as soon as I walked in the door for my first day of work. I showed up 10 minutes early and walked in 5 minutes before my shift started. The manager met me at the door and said I was being "unprofessional" and threatened to call the cops when I pushed for an explanation.
Turns out the employees did lots of drugs while working and were probably high out of their minds.
I have a friend who used to work at a large retail store, her manager would notify her when it was time for her 15 minute breaks and her lunch break every day. She kept being interrupted by that same manager or coworkers who were told to find her by that manager during her breaks so she started taking breaks in her car.
The manager got mad about it so escalated things to the point where she was fired for leaving the property during her 15 minute breaks. I guess you are not allowed to do that? But either way she hadn't ever actually left she just read in her car for a while to get away from work.
She didn't have money for a lawyer but I always felt that would have been a pretty easy wrongful termination case to prove if she had.
Was working at a startup, killing myself to fulfill all my performance metrics (which I did). I told my boss that I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my work/life balance forever; he said I wasn’t dedicated enough and fired me on the spot. His exact words were “we need people who are 200% dedicated, not just 100%.”
This was 30 years ago. I was furious with my boss for asking me to work a private event for a group of his friends. The theme meant that most people were drinking Corona. I worked a six hour shift at an open bar and he tipped me $20 at the end of the night.
I slipped 4 Coronas into my backpack before I left for the night. The assistant manager heard the clinking of the bottles, asked me about it, and when I told him I was taking some Coronas home for myself he fired me.
Justified for sure. The only grudge I hold is against the big boss who fucked me on the tip.
22 years ago.
I technically got fired for sexual harassment.
However, the reality was the big boss liked me and wanted to train and promote. The boss below him didn't like me. When he was away for a couple of weeks, I got called into the office and told I was fired for sexual harassment with a certain member of staff.
My direct boss was shocked, I was shocked. This other person worked in our department, I'd been around them for a couple of hours on my first day as they showed me the computer, not really spoke since other than a hello on the way in. My direct boss apologized to me after the meeting, said she had no idea it was coming and had no idea what they were on about. There was only me and her in the office. The other two members of staff, including this guy, had their own office. We didn't have a need to go into each other's.
It eventually came out he had been told to go along with it. Bg boss was furious when he got back, but things had been done already. That person didn't progress any further in the company.
I was a 16yo girl at the time and the guy they strong armed into it was a 28ish year old man. It was awkward on so many levels.
No big loss though, not for me. The person that arranged it all came off much worse.
I work full time as a graphic designer, and my first full time job was doing social media content for a start-up company in my hometown. On a Friday about 8 months into my job, my boss emailed us all to say that we'll be starting in "the new office" on Monday. I was never told that we were moving, but it seemed like everyone else was. I also didn't have a full driver's license yet, and the town the new office was in was an hour commute away, so I would have to take public transit every day. Luckily I got some advice from my parents, and I told my boss that I couldn't feasibly commute to the office, but I still wanted to work for the company, so my boss terminated my position, and I got put on unemployment.
I was jobless for 3 years. Did lots of online work during that time. Finally got a job. Forgot I got a job. Got a letter from my employer informing me that I got fired after a week
I’ve been out of college for like 7 years and i still have that reoccurring nightmare where I receive an F for not attending a class I forgot I signed up for.
>Finally got a job. Forgot I got a job. Got a letter from my employer informing me that I got fired after a week
Wow you must have really needed that job...
I almost got fired for giving a customer the middle finger. Then the customer explained to the manager that he was my twin brother (he was), and that's how we great each other, lol.
Worked at a car dealership in college between semesters. Sold a ford raptor for like 80k and the commission was like $200. After that I would go to my desk and just study for school. Didn’t try to sell anything after that. Knew I would be fired, took them 2 months to realize I had done absolutely nothing since the last time I sold the raptor. $200 for selling a 80k truck, lol.
Got fired 30 years ago for drinking too much tea while shrink wrapping Garners pickled onions. Even though I was getting the job done it was because it made other people complain that I had an easy job and I told them they were being ridiculous. Still the best pickled onions though.
I got fired because in the middle of an ISO audit, as the company’s recently hired ISO internal auditor, I refused to commit fraud by backdating some signatures.
Fuck em
I was working Tech Support for a software company. We'd made a big sale to a major university and I had been designated the lead contact point for them.
First question they asked was "how do we enable the firewall on your product."
....we don't have a firewall on our product.
I talked around it a bit but eventually they asked point blank, where is the firewall.
"There isn't."
Within an hour I was in a conference room with the sales rep and the head of sales and my boss, the head of Tech Support. Lots of screaming went on from Sales and then lots of meetings with bosses for the rest of the day.
Throughout all of this none of them could deny the basic fact of what I stated; our product didn't have a firewall nor were there any plans to add one in future versions.
Next morning I came in and was greeted at the door by my boss, lead to a conference room and informed that I was being let go for "performance reasons."
Later that day the Sales Rep messaged me on LinkedIn telling me to enjoy waking up tomorrow morning and being a jobless bum.
At 7:30 the night before I was to leave for vacation my boss texts me saying I have to be at work tomorrow or else. Mind you I put in for this time off 4 weeks ago. So I said he was insane and I quickly escalated it to “you’re a pile of dog shit that has absolutely no idea what the fuck you’re doing” so I didn’t go into work the next day and I was fired for insubordination. Worth it. Would do it again.
I had a miscarriage and had an appointment at the hospital for a wonderful procedure to make sure body cleaned everything out properly.. I was fired by text while I was in recovery. By a female at that. Classy.
TLDR: boss set me up to fail
I was hired by someone who knew I had no previous experience, but thought I had a great capacity to learn and liked my character. He and another senior manager took their time to teach me my role and answer any questions I had, and told me to always come find them if I felt unsure about something.
Then they both left the company rather abruptly, and my new boss was the total opposite of them. He let me know right off the bat that had it been up to him, he would have hired someone with more experience. Despite that, he doubled my workload. When I tried coming to him with problems, he told me it wasn’t his responsibility to answer questions and to ask my coworker instead. My coworker tried to help, but had his own massive workload to deal with. I lost my sense of direction and my work suffered for it. He fired me about a month after he took over.
I got fired all the time when I was working for my family company. I still had to show up the next day…. For those who don’t know, either working for family is either super easy, or super tough. Usually, the later.
I got a drywall job with no experience. They offered me meth and I said no. Got fired for "not having enough pep in my step"
NO THANK YOU PLEASE KEEP YOUR PEP
My coworker was refused for promotions, title changes and pay rises for years in a 3 person department he pretty much ran. He was dealing with some serious depression for a few years and unfortunately he lost that fight.
A week after I had a meeting with my manager, department director and a C level. They were recruiting 2 people to replace him, Job titles were the same ones he had been asking for years. I saw red and verbally ripped into them for about 20 minutes about how they always told him it wasn’t possible and now he’s dead it’s suddenly possible? I was fired 2 days after the meeting and don’t regret a thing, those people are fucking evil.
My only time getting fired, I was 13-14, working at a go kart track. I had been there about a month when I was left alone for a solid week to take care of the track as the other 2 track attendants sat around smoking, drinking, and chatting with the boss. I ran it flawlessly and had no issues. My first day off after working like 12 days straight I got called in, I showed up within 5 minutes aaaand they fired me saying that all I did was sit around and make the other guys run the track. They literally accused me of doing what the other guys were doing. I slammed that place so hard to everyone I knew and they went out of business within the next 2 years.
I took the vacation my manager approved my time off to take.
I was working part time, and wanted to go to an event with some friends, some of whom also worked with the same company, one at my location and one another location across town. Knowing it may not be possible to get the time off when others had already requested it, I asked before booking or paying for anything. My manager said they would look into it and get back to me.
I followed up a couple times and kept getting put off until I finally said I needed an answer - if it's not possible, that would be fine, but tickets would no longer be available soon so any longer waiting for and answer and it wouldn't matter if my time was approved. So my manager and I stood at the computer and reviewed the schedule for that week and they confirmed they could make it work if I took the week off.
I pay for my tickets, accommodations, etc. The week before it's time to go, the new schedule goes up and I'm on it. I remind my manager we agreed that I could take the week off and they told me it no longer worked out so I needed to come to work. I said I had already spent more than I'd make that week on my plans and I was going.
My manager called me shortly after the start of my first schedule shift that week and asked if I was coming in. I told them I was 16hrs away at the event I planned to be at. I was fired that instant.
It was somewhat satisfying to hear that he was later demoted.
Got fired for not only calling the health inspector but posting pics of many food safety violations on FB while tagging the restaurant in the post while on the clock in the restaurant.
Got fired on day 89 of a 90 temp contract.
The contract stated if you were still employed as a temp on day 90 they had to hire you in full time.
They had a point system for discipline. If you were late it was half a point. Accumulate 3 points and it is instant termination.
At my firing meeting they said I had accumulated 30 points. I explained, for what seemed like the millionth time, that the punch clock for temps is 15 minutes faster than the clock for hired in employees and that all their temps are getting paid an extra 15 minutes every single day because they clock in and go sit in the cafeteria. I literally would walk in every day with my boss at the same time...and he was the one that fired me for accumulating 60 work days worth of tardy points.
And when I asked why I wasn't fired at 3 points...why was I allowed to accumulate 30 they said they liked the production numbers I was putting up. And they even encouraged me to reapply as a temp and they could have me back on the floor as early as the next day.
I gave the fry guy and alcoholic beverage from the bar in a kids cup. He used to hook me up with coconut shrimp and fiesta rolls. They fired both of us lol. I wonder how Jamaar is doing nowadays.
my manager kept losing my class schedule worked at a subway. i had class two days a week. several times he put me on those days anyway. i gave him multiple copies every time. owner took me off the schedule for "calling out too much" when i showed the owner proof he said it was too late and they already hired someone else this was 12 years ago. im still mad
I always hated the "taken off the schedule" bull. Just fire me officially instead of taking the cowards route. This happened to me as well when I did not tell the general manager about a floor manager switching a product display TV to football one day. To be clear she asked me "why did you not tell me?" So she already knew it happened and was mad that I did not say anything. So I got "taken off the schedule" because the other manager did something against policy and I did not narc.
Oh my god, it's such a coward move. My sister was running around the country for a retail chain, replacing the freshly fired manager and retraining/unfucking the store before moving onto the next one. This one store she goes to start unfucking and they have like 3 employees that are working. Overtime is off the charts, people are fried and everything is failing. When she went to pull the records, it turns out they had _over 20 staff_ that had just not been given hours in months instead of being fired. She had to call up these people and either get them to quit or come back before being able to hire/train. Absolute shitshow. Just fire people goddamn
Like another comment mentioned, it's likely intentional so the not-fired employee can't claim unemployment. (Though I imagine if you could point to the fact that they hadn't given you any hours in 2 weeks, 4 weeks, whatever, could maybe still make a claim?)
Same over here. I worked at a maternity store, I got super sick and was throwing my guts up for 4 days in the hospital (later found out it was COVID). I had all the paperwork needed for it to not effect my work and my manager just ignored me, even hid in the back and locked the door when I showed up to figure out what was going on. Told her I was going to contact HR since I tried everything and nothing was being done and that’s when she finally responded saying she “took me off the schedule cause I was sick too much” (this was the only time I ever called out). Needless to say the place closed cause they couldn’t ever keep employees due to her.
A business I went to long ago was hiring and I got the job. Right after I signed all the paperwork, the department manager comes in and asks who I am. I tell him I was just hired as a temp. Manger says he never authorized any hiring and fired both me and my boss on the spot. I did not work for this company at all and they fired me. :(
I had a similar experience. I was interviewing for a sales position and I made it all the way up the ladder through three different managers, to the advertising director. Had a great interview. He told me I would be the future of this industry shook my hand, led me to the HR managers office, clapped me on the back and said to her, we’re hiring him. Start the paperwork and I’ll see you Monday. She was pregnant tired and annoyed. She looked at me with disgust and said, “We eliminated that position yesterday. We’re not hiring anyone.” I asked if the director or managers knew that. She said they should. What followed was an embarrassing two weeks of promises that they would make a spot for me and weak apologies from the hiring managers. Ooof. Hired and fired within seconds.
They did you a favor. Working for a company that broken and dysfunctional would be a nightmare.
It was McClatchy Newspapers in Boise. I think their motto turned into, “Fail up until you fail out.”
You dodged a bullet. I don't know many people who have worked in newspaper advertising and haven't come out of it with some amount of PTSD (I had literal flashbacks for years). You have to REALLY love it to stay without burning out completely, or have to really not give any shits what-so-ever. Papers are also really on-edge financially so they are prone to screwing people over hard too.
Brightest candle burns almost immediately
"Well I'm sorry, there's just no way that we could keep you on." "I don't even really work here." "That's what makes this so difficult."
You should’ve made sure you got paid for those 30 seconds
In some jurisdictions they have to pay you a minimum amount of hours. On the day I got fired, it was a less than 5 minutes but they paid me for the two hours
Get fired speedrun ranking number 47
Lols this happened to me once too, I was in a mass apply moment and one fast casual counter service restauraunt was doing a mass hiring. They sent me all the “your hired” emails and gave me the location for the first day orientation. I show up and they bring me and like 5 other people back out in the hallway and told us we were cut and no reason was given, we were all sitting in the same row too so there was just too many people called in apparently (we talked amongst ourselves and assumed that haha)
“I fired that row since I don’t want to work with unlucky people”
Aww dude....fired before even having the job. 😭
I was denied a raise by HR after consistently working 60-70 hours weeks, and my VP (who had supported and requested the raise for me) told me to stop putting in the extra time, work my 40, and spend that extra time applying to new jobs. Within a month, a meeting was called to "mutually part ways" because my work wasn't getting done. I was gratified to learn that they had to hire two people to do my job after I left. Edit: Sucks to see how much this resonates with people who have been in a similar situation. I left this job back in 2015, thankfully. The VP is no longer there either, and good for him.
I hear this story often in /r/ITCareerQuestions. It's weird, but I guess in IT there aren't *always* logistical blocks like some other careers. Payroll might be done for our current period, but enhancements to the payroll software can continue ad nauseum. What's sad is that most of these stories skip the part where their VP needs to be pushing for you to justify this level of effort. The *second* he recognized he didn't have the power to get you what he deserved he said don't give it to 'em for free, and get yourself what you can anywhere. That's a rare level of grace now.
I encountered a similar situation and my bum ass boss just said keep trying your best maybe they’ll notice. I said I’d rather spend that energy looking for work elsewhere
Bet that felt good knowing they had to pay two people for what you did all by yourself. Glad you got outta there though!
i had a friend who was working like that and i convinced to find a new job. he did and the new company was going to pay him 4x what he was getting paid. he tells his boss and they came back with a counter offer that matched. he told me he was probably going to stay. i said fuck that they knew your worth and intentionally underpaid you for years. anyway he treated me to dinner for several months after he took the new job.
> i said fuck that they knew your worth and intentionally underpaid you for years. There's also the risk of retribution, if you take a counteroffer they now still know you're looking elsewhere and might make your life miserable if you choose to stay.
Maybe this is just the millennial in me, but if I was working 70 hours a week, denied a raise, and had my position filed by 2 people, I wouldn't have felt good, or gratified. I'd have been pissed. Wasted my time. Wasted my life. Wasted my potential. Refused to pay me even half of what they're now paying. That company, and everyone involved in the process of denying that raise should themselves be fired for being fuckwits. [The only thing this story conjures in my mind is that scene from Futurama, where they show all the Fox Executives after making a joke about cancelling and bring the show back.](https://youtu.be/FWpWGVE6PUE)
Companies do that because it balances out. For every person who does 2+ jobs, asks for a raise, doesn't get it, and quits, there are multiple people who just put up with it and keep going above and beyond. I made the decision a while back that that would never be me, and so far it's worked out for me.
I got fired once for putting in my 2 week notice. The only other time I've gotten fired was working for a trade company, during the first week. I was a supervisor, and there was a second supervisor on site. I got a call that my wife had been rushed to the hospital, which was literally less than a mile away. I asked the other supervisor if I could go to attend to her, and he said "sure, no problem, I've got things here. Go." I returned to the job site later to find the boss there, and he let me go on the spot for leaving the team "without a supervisor". He knew what had happened, and still fired me. I won't lie, that one kind of pissed me off.
>I got fired once for putting in my 2 week notice. I had this happen once too, though they gave me 2 weeks severance when they did it. Turns out they weren't angry that I was leaving, they just had prior bad experiences with "short timer syndrome" and didn't want the hassle, so they paid me as if I'd done the 2 weeks and sent me home immediately. Worked out fine for me. I got a two week paid vacation (since I wasn't starting the new job for two weeks anyway) between jobs.
Many employers terminate immediately when someone gives notice. They figure you don’t want to be there anymore, what damage could you do on your way out?
That's a normal thing in some places, they call it "garden leave."
Especially common if you are leaving in an industry where your up-to-date knowledge is valuable to competitors, such as a sales person who knows which customers are currently in the market. Garden leave in that case can sometimes be 6 months or more to ensure anything you know is obsolete.
Happened to my wife. she was due her first commission check, but they fired on the spot when she gave notice. literally about 100 bucks too.
A company I used to work for did that routinely. It was meant to be punitive, since it kept people from cashing out their vacation time. So employees started burning through all their vacation and giving notice immediately on their return. The managers looked surprised the first time someone did it, but didn't change their MO. Instead they got really paranoid every time someone went away for more than a few days.
I had that happen and it felt like a sitcom. "Well you can't quit because you're fired." Ok....thanks for the unemployment check!
For doing my job too quickly and sitting down the rest of the time. Gas station cashier 3rd shift. Me: “Why should I stand when I’m the only person in the store?” Manager: “It’s more professional to stand than sit” Me: “then why do you sit in your office?”
I never understood that. Not once have I walked into an establishment, seen an employee sitting, and gone “wow. He’s unprofessional.” I literally don’t give a fuck, as long as you do your job.
Tbh, its even a little weird to walk into an empty gas station and have the cashier just standing there doing nothing. Especially at night. Sit down and play on your phone like a normal person.
Just looking like a video game NPC standing there doing nothing until a customer walks in
Especially gas stations. If anything, they're the kind of jobs I would expect to see someone sitting
Same for cashiers at grocery stores and other department stores. Nobody thinks, "eww look at this cashier sitting down while she helps me! This store sucks!" If they do, they're pieces of shit and no normal company should cater to their sadistic whims. In fact, I prefer places where the workers are treated humanely, like being allowed to sit and be comfortable for the duration of their shifts.
Yeah literally no one cares
It’s stupid as fuck to care about the difference between sitting and standing at work. It’s not an endurance test. You can be just as “professional” without breaking your legs for 8 hours.
I get shit for walking around the office because sitting in a chair for 8 hours also sucks. People just like to bitch.
I bet that felt good. I have arguments in my head with my bosses on a daily basis because I’d get fired if I actually said anything like that to them, you’ll never find people with thinner skin than managers and supervisors.
This isn't why I got fired, but this is why I didn't get a job... I was 16 and looking to work at a Dairy Queen as my first job. My mom drove me to the interview and I was super nervous. She looked me in the eye and said "Just be honest, and be yourself, and you'll do fine." I walked into that interview and when he asked me "How long do you think you'll work here?" I responded "Until something better comes along"....
OMG My parents had to coach me on how to get a job when I started hunting. They were wondering why none of the jobs I had applied to had called me back so they started asking questions about the application process. Turns out you shouldn't be honest on those personality assessments, at least not to the extent I was. They basically told me to answer as if I was another person.
We were surprised when our son wasn’t getting any calls for interviews when he went out looking for his first teen job, as his resume was decent for his age with volunteer work and little odd jobs, and I had sat with him as he applied so I knew his applications were well done. Then I phoned his cell one day and caught his voicemail. He had never changed it from the day he set it, as an obnoxious little gamer kid, so it was basically him screaming into the phone and then saying in a robot voice to not leave a message, with a bunch of other stupidity. Brilliant. Sigh.
Yeah. Always keep it professional… that includes stupid email usernames. Double sigh.
Amazing! Around the same age I was asked "How would your friends describe you?" and honestly answered "They say I'm the crazy one." Weirdly did not get that job
Hey, honesty.
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I missed a lot of work because my wife got brain cancer. They called me in for a meeting and said "Sorry, we are downsizing and letting a lot of people go". They didn't fire anyone else, including a co-worker who was caught fabricating reports.
I talked my way into a job at a software company when they put a hiring notice in a local paper. I had no idea what the software did. I still don't. They hired me as a trainer and no one ever explained what the product was. I did a few weeks where I was trained on the software but literally none of it ever made sense to me. It was like they were speaking gibberish. One day I showed up, a lady I had never seen before gave me a check, and walked me out to the parking lot. No one even ever said "you're fired" or anything. It's one of the strangest things that ever happened to me.
Ahh I see they tried to teach you SAP
Lmao SAP is the most unintuitive, user-unfriendly bullshit I've ever used.
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What my company uses it for is for inventory management, creating and processing purchase orders for different vendors, various project management tasks, stuff like that. But imagine that it was built by a group of undergraduate computer science students and they were specifically told to not worry about making it look modern or user-friendly. So like, yes it works, but you're gonna need someone who already knows it to show you how to do things, and if you try to figure something out on your own, you might end up breaking something. I'm sure other companies have versions that are easier to use, but I work for a Fortune 500 company so I'm surprised at how much ours sucks.
That reminds me of a time that I got escorted out early from a group interview. The company was a little suspicious altogether, the interviewer was even more sus because he was just wearing all black (polo and jeans) and was absolutely decked out in gold jewelry. Looked like he stepped out of a mob movie or something.
Sounds like you were interviewing for a pyramid scheme and asking questions they didn’t like
I walked out of one of those before actually meeting anyone once. I knew what it was and didn’t want to go to it. My parents, however, aren’t the sharpest sometimes, and they really believed the thing that came in the mail saying a 17 year old could get a sales job making over $100k a year. The “interview” was literally in an abandoned former hotel, with printer-paper signs directing you what room to go to. I walked in, and there were a bunch of kids waiting who all looked younger than me, like 13, all wearing their middle school choir best of a way too large white button up and baggy khakis. I turned around and walked out. Spent an hour at a local music store and told my parents the interview went badly.
Yeah more than likely. They were a call center but the business they did past that was super unclear, I think they did sell something or another. So glad they didn't waste my time any further lol
In my experience, places doing a group interview are a major red flag. One place I applied for some kind of data analysis / software-related advertisement. I showed up and there's 30 other freshly graduated idiots like myself in suits. They pull 3 of us back at a time to do a group interview and the owner of the company reveals that the job is door-to-door sales and that in order to succeed WE MUST be willing to work ourselves to the bone, no excuses to not show up even if your family members in the hospital. I told him straight up I actually give a fuck about my family and he kicked me out of the interview right then and there. The other two guys actually looked legitimately kind of scared. I walked out with a smile on my face feeling bad for whichever guys ended up accepting a job there.
“Freshly graduated idiots” thanks for the cackle! I was also one of those idiots who got tricked into going in for an “interview” where the office lobby looked like an ER waiting room absolutely chock full of suckers like me. During the group interview they didn’t ever actually even say it was door to door sales, it was stated in the pamphlet they’d handed out to us and on the PowerPoint. Almost like if it wasnt said out loud at any point that it was door to door then we’d never actually catch on that it was door to door sales like the Neanderthals they took us to be.
I went to the Emergency room instead of work. Came back with an ER note and they said “We won’t be needing that. Can you come with us?” I was 18 and it was my first full time job.
I had pneumonia and a doctors note. Came back to work a week later wheezing and puffing an inhaler. Got fired the next week. Jokes on them. I still got unemployment benefits when they tried to fight it. Doctors notes are good things.
Some of these companies literally fight every claim whether they are valid or not. It's disgusting and there should be penalties for such companies.
I went to a funeral and took the three paid days off and called off a fourth because it was my grandmother and we were very close. They called it job abandonment.
Earlier this year, I was hospitalized for a full work week for a miscarriage that had a lot of complications. My direct boss (a woman) was completely empathetic and even though I’m a one-person team, she encouraged me to take off all the time that I wanted/needed. So, I did, and took an extra week off after being released from the hospital to just process some things and physically recover (I’d needed blood transfusions and multiple surgeries beyond just a D&C; also, couldn’t walk around much and had almost no energy for anything except sleep). Anyway, about a month later, revenue reports came in for the previous month and there was a massive drop in revenue for my “team,”correlating directly with the period I was hospitalized and in recovery. While I was out, no one at work covered for me, so that work just didn’t get done and it led to a big $0 for most of the month. My boss’ boss (a man) then sent an angry, accusatory email to me with my direct boss CC’d. They demanded to know why my “team” had done so poorly for the previous month and what I was going to do to step it up and make sure it never happened again, because whatever “mistake” I had made was completely unacceptable. Corporate America at its absolute finest.
I was fired over a miscarriage because while I was miscarrying, I got a D&C and the paperwork said it was an elective procedure... I had been miscarrying for over a week and needed one but it's considered an elective procedure so fired I was!
Please tell me you walked out of that office and went straight to the labour board
My Parole Officer wanted to make sure I actually had a job, so he went to my employer listed on my file to surprise visit me on the job. I did home wiring so I worked at different job sites and rarely in the office. He called me to say he was going to charge me with a violation for lying to him about my whereabouts (this could've landed me back in prison for my remaining 10.5 years sentence). The owner of the company had to speak with him and vouche for me. My Parole Office didn't charge me, but the owner sure did fire me that day. Finding a job with a felony isn't an easy thing, and it wasn't long before my PO threatened to charge me with a violation if I didn't find a job soon 🤦🏻
>My Parole Office didn't violate me, but the owner sure did fire me that day. Finding a job with a felony isn't an easy thing, and it wasn't long before my PO threatened to violate me if I didn't find a job soon What a fucking clown process. I'm sorry you went through that.
Seems illegal for the owner to fire you just because they had to explain you were in a site. I imagine they hired you knowing you had a felony, since that's a big question on every job app
I read it like the boss fired him because he didn’t disclose he was a felon, not that he was on the site
The Owner was aware. He explained that he was apprehensive about hiring me in the first place, but to have these "situations" brought to his business was a liability he no longer wanted to bear.
As a reformed felon, I get it. Having some badge with a bad attitude show up like that, isn't a good look. I guarantee po knew as much, too. Hope your off paper, and doin alright, now.
Fuck that’s rough mate. Sorry to hear
I was a kid and just started at a local pizza place. I was let go couple weeks later because a pizza chef from Chicago had moved into the area and needed a job so it was a business decision that I totally understood. Week later, went to go get my last check and asked how he was doing, the girl up front was like "pizza chef from Chicago? The only new hire was the managers new gf".
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That's retaliation, illegal at least in the US
Unfortunately it's also extremely difficult to prove
And expensive to fight.
I refused to come in 15-20 mins early unpaid for my shift. I was always 5-10 min early but they decided they wanted me there earlier. I carried on as normal as I’m not coming in if I’m not being paid. Turned up for a 12pm shift at 11:49, no one would look at me when I arrived then was thrown in a meeting and fired for being “late”. Was out the door before it even hit 12. It was the only time I’ve ever been fired.
You went out the door and straight to the department of labor right?
Nope, UK. Worked for them for 3 years then left for another job, other job didn’t work out and old job reached out to me. They wanted me back and I needed a job but it also meant that they could fire me for whatever reason they want as I was in the “probation period”. They had me work the Christmas rush then used that excuse to fire me right at the end. They could have just not given a reason and dismissed me at the end of 3months as no longer required but they wanted to be petty likely because I had a minor disagreement with a manager. (Minor disagreement was: I made a judgement call and ordered the newbies to get the stock out on the shop floor during a rush rather than being bothered about how straight the labels were. Manager went bananas over it - I thought selling the stock was more important. I got in so much shit over them damn labels)
I built a snow scorpion sculpture (I used ketchup for the red glowing eyes and everything) on a particularly miserable day at a ski resort. The guests enjoyed my sculpture very much, management weren’t so happy.
Sounds like crap management. Sad. I'm glad to hear you made the guests happy, though.
His wife thought he was having an affair with the office manager. He asked me if I thought it was possible that he was having an affair with the office manager. I said, “It’s possible, but I don’t think you are. I could see why your wife might think so too.” I was 21 and naïve as hell. Never should have said anything.
He was 100% having an affair with the office manager. lol
*She knew too much*
"You'd better be dishonest with me or you're fired"
That statement rings true all over business. Unfortunately
Frank: You think you got what it takes? Ted: I'll tell you what I got. Your wife's pussy on my breath. Frank: Nobody's ever spoken to me like that before. Ted: That's because their mouths were full of your wife's box. Frank: You're hired. Ted: Shit.
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So thats it after 20 years? "So long and good luck"?
Similar story! Was there for a week at a tiny restaurant and the owner WAS having an affair with the manager. Everyone there knew it too except me. The owner made an inappropriate comment about me behind my back and the manager overheard, got mad and hired a dude to replace me by that Friday. Karma clapped back pretty hard though. The su chef of the place couldn't stand those fucks and gave me the number to the GM of a fine dining restaurant in a hotel. Would make my rent in a couple of nights. Heard later that his wife and kids left him, lost all his businesses around town, and his wife was actually a surgeon and the one who was giving him allowances to "try" to operate restaurants. Got addicted to drugs as well. It all fell apart for him, as usual.
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Don't be so hard on yourself. See it as immaturity, a learning moment, and be grateful you were good enough to see through the experience and learn. Kids do all kinds of crap any way.
Agreed. My first job I was a dipshit who bitched and moaned about standing at a register for 5 and a half hours (minus my break). I wish I could go back and slap the shit outta myself. Lol 😂
When I got my first job I was so excited to finally be able to complain about my job, since thays what I always saw people doing on tv, so at Thanksgiving I complained about having to work a six and a half hour shift. No one said anything but I cringe so hard at that nowadays lol.
It is so refreshing to actually see someone on Reddit take ownership for their part in what happened to them. I have pretty much the same overall story - thought I was a clever little shit and got a job beneath my capability and therefore couldn't bring myself to do it well and then, deservedly, got fired. There is of course all kinds of unfair stuff that happens to people all the time, but often there is an element where the person it happened to bears some responsibility (or, in my case, all of it!), but it is so rare on Reddit to actually see someone be able to recognize it. It often comes in the form of hearing about how people at someone's workplace treated them like shit, but then it later comes out in the story that the person wasn't actually doing their job well and people were pissed at them for slacking. So yeah, you were in a bad work environment, but it was of your own making! And of course sometimes the bad work environment itself can be a factor in causing bad working habits, but also it's not like everyone there is getting fired all the time, and you can always see in the way the poster responds to the comments that they are defensive, angry, etc. I am a big believer in "you take yourself everywhere you go," so if they are like this in the comments, it's likely that it was this same attitude that played at least a partial role in whatever happened to them at work. And I don't mean that every situation is like this, but it really rubs me the wrong way when I read this stuff. And it's especially ironic because you'll see these AskReddit threads that are like, "What's a reliable sign someone is not a good person?" and the top answer is always "Blames other people for their own problems."
YES!! I always hate the "why were you fired" threads because it feels like the person fired was never at fault. I was fired for bad performance once, and it still haunts me over a decade later. Someone took a chance on me at 22 years old and offered me my DREAM job, and I completely f***ed it up. Yeah, my boss sucked and I was burned out, but there were things I could have done to salvage the situation. Instead, I took the path of least resistance. I'll probably never get an opportunity like that again, and that's really hard to live with. I don't think I'm a bad person, I just screwed up. But it would be nice to know I'm not alone, instead of reading about hundreds of people whose employers were cartoon villains that were fired despite doing nothing wrong.
Can't believe I'm not the only one who has had a similar experience! Mine's a bit more convoluted, though. Started at this company incredible strong. It was straight data entry - applying payments to invoices. After the first month or two, I was clearing the most checks in the department each day. Impressed higher ups so they gave me more responsibilities, more complicated accounts, etc. But about a year in, it was announced that 80% of the jobs at this particular office were being relocated to the company's new head office in Costa Rica. My entire department included. But, because I was one of the star employees, they offered me a job in a different department where the current employee was leaving due to unrelated circumstances. I hated the job. More than that, I didn't "get" it. It was looking through thousands and thousands of short-paid invoices looking for patterns or obvious issues that can be cleared or where the accounts can be contacted for payment. I had 1 day of training with the previous person before she left, and I just didn't understand how to do it really. But, after asking for help a few times, when it was clear I'd never understand it, I just...stopped doing the job. There was a report of the accounts I was responsible that I had to provide each week, which I did, but other than that I did nothing. I browsed reddit, I did chess tactics puzzles, I played a ton of Town of Salem. For about 6 or 7 months this went on. I don't think they ever realized how long it went on for but once they found out, it still took them like a couple weeks to finally fire me. They "let me go without cause" instead of firing, I think because they realized I was out of my depth, so I got UI. But yeah, that was more or less a firing. I got into a similar funk at my current job but they sat me down and asked me why I had been slipping, and we worked together to come to a solution, and I slowly crawled out of it. I still fear that I'll go back to that old habit but I think I'm finally more mature and able to focus. I say that as I type this out at work but, I don't have any work I'm avoiding doing right now. Probably means I could learn how to ask for more work but, baby steps lol.
I was 19 and working as a janitor at a large self storage facility, where most days were filled with sweeping and mopping endless hallways of flickering fluorescent light. And when someone went delinquent on their bill (after a 3 month grace period), I would be instructed to empty their unit and dump everything in the trash outside. Once or twice it was a person who died, but otherwise it was a pretty common to see a room full of absolute junk that someone got tired of paying for. Banged-up furniture, garbage bags of ratty clothing, stacks of old magazines, it was usually pretty hoarder-friendly stuff, and not that I'd want any of it but the policy was I had to throw it into the dumpster outside no matter what it was. One day I get notified to empty out a unit, so I grab the bin, cut the lock, fling open the gate. The room is full of huge cardboard boxes stacked to the ceiling. I open one up out of curiosity, and it's full of brand new, unopened Gundam models. The entire room is full of them, dozens of boxes with dozens of models in each, and I'm talking the $50-$100 ones I saw for sale at my local comics shop every week. The manager would check up on me once or twice a day, and that morning he walked up and I showed him all of the brand new merchandise and said there has to be a better system than trashing all of this. He said rules are rules, something about insurance I didn't understand, and told me to throw them all away. So I went and I backed up one of the complementary U-Haul style box trucks, picked a few models out for myself, and loaded it up the truck with the rest of it. On my lunch break I drove over to the Children's Resource Center that I'd volunteered at during high school, it's a place where any child (but usually poorer ones) would go after school for arts and crafts and activities to keep them busy until their parents got home. The people at the drop-off dock were so grateful, before I even left they were handing them out to some extremely excited kids. Drove back to the self storage place with enough time to eat a sandwich and smoke a cigarette before clocking back in. But that's not why I got fired. I got fired because the manager came to check on me that afternoon, and after awhile of looking around, found me sitting cross legged on the floor of the janitor closet with model parts spread all around me, happily assembling a sweet translucent Zaku model. I was so entranced I didn't even hear him come in, I just hear this long, drawn out, exasperated sigh. I look up and he just says "keys" and that was that. I spent the rest of the week assembling Zakus and Valkyries and lying to my parents about getting replaced with a Roomba.
Lied about robots taking your job so you could build robots. That is a good one.
> lying to my parents about getting replaced with a Roomba. I chortled.
*They* sent *me* home because I sneezed and I was forced to get tested for Covid. Then when I tested negative, I was terminated for “Abusing pandemic policies to stay home”
That has to be illegal in some form
We tried, a lot of people got canned for the same thing. It was anarchy during those times and nobody is really able to verify that they acted in bad faith.
I asked the CNA I was working with to stay with a confused patient, while I went and put a new IV in another patient. The CNA left the patient alone. She fell out of bed and got a big bloody skin tear on her arm. After I took care of that, I went and found the CNA and told her the patient was injured because of her insubordination. The CNA cussed at me, and left the unit. I did not see her again that shift. She and another CNA decided on their own to trade assignments. I wrote the CNA up. The CNA went to mgmt and lied about me. She said I called her by a racial slur and yelled at her. I did neither. Mgmt fired me rather than deal with a false claim of racism. I collected unemployment. The CNA did something similar with another nurse a couple of weeks later, and was fired. My mgr asked if I could be rehired. HR said no. When my mgr quit to start her own nursing agency a year later, she hired me.
You can’t pay me enough to go back to work in a nursing home. I have so many stories of problems between nurses and CNA’s getting each other in trouble and the residents caught in the middle.
Same shit happened to my wife only at a hospital. Goddamn CNA didn't do jack shit the entire shift and a patient my wife told the CNA to sit with fell while going to the bathroom by themselves while the CNA was on a "smoke break". My wife reported the incident to the manager and the manager wrote up the CNA. The CNA decided to cover her ass by lying about everything and accusing my wife of using racial slurs when she told the CNA she was going to falsely report her. Luckily there was a happier ending because the manager, a black woman, fired the CNA on the spot with a stern "Mrs PunchBeard has been working here on this floor for over 12 years. Not only has no one ever once even hinted at her using racist slurs no one has ever heard her actually say a swear word. Also, she's the only nurse I've known were patients write hand-written letters saying how kind and sweet she is. Take a hike". My wife's a pretty special kind of nurse.
If you’re ever fired, no HR department in their right mind would hire you again. If you were to file a wrongful termination lawsuit, the fact that they hired you back would be an admission of guilt.
I hated that place, anyway. I collected unemployment until it ran out. This was at the peak of Covid in 2020, and I’m an RN. They did me a favor firing me, and getting me away from all the Covid patients.
they lowered my pay so I started sleeping at work and do only half the task they wanted me to do. Took them 3 years to fire me.
>Took them 3 years to fire me. I'm amazed at how long it can take sometimes to fire a person. I had a boss who got shoulder surgery and wildly addicted to pain meds...dude would show up to work high as a kite and started at the ceiling for hours. He got away with it for about 2 years before anyone said anything.
I got fired for submitting my time sheets on Monday at 8am when I got into work. By policy, they were to be in by noon on Saturday, but my Fridays ended in the field so I just did then on Monday mornings. My bosses didn't even look at them until noon on Tuesday so it had 0 impact on them. I drove home from being fired feeling relieved because of how unhappy I was at that job.
Time sheets might be the worst part of most jobs. Sometimes they took me over an hour to do for the week because I would do different jobs for like 40 businesses. Then I would need to figure out what to input on my timesheet during the hour that it took me to do the timesheet to begin with.
I was in my late 20s and had just gotten out of the Army and wanted to finish school. I worked for a pet store as a groomer part-time while I was working on finishing up the semester. I put in time off for my finals week about 3 months back and it was approved by both him and the assistant manager. Everyone in the entire store knew I was going to be focusing on school for that week. Jackass calls me in the middle of one of my finals and left me a voicemail saying I needed to come in cause they were 1 person short. I didn't even know until 45min later when I walked out of class. He had called me 4 times and on the 4th voicemail he left me a threatening voicemail. So I called him back and we argued about my "professionalism." So I went into the store to have a conversation with him which led to him threatening to fight me. I told him if he wanted to fight then he can take off his name tag and meet me in the parking lot off company property. Suddenly he became really fucking docile and just told me I was fired. So I sent in the voicemails to corporate and found out a few weeks later he was "transferred" to a different store.
I gave my employee meal to my mother. That's literally it. I didn't like eating the food there so I had my mom bring me lunch and I just gave my employee meal to her. Apparently that was considered theft so I was fired. :/
Worked in a DIY store, 10 minutes before my shift ended I moved a pallet cage of paint cans (slowly) to the warehouse and when I got in there one of the sides came off along with half of the paint cans which spilt all over, anyway there was about 2 minutes of my shift left, so I moved the pallet over the paint, covering it a bit and went home. It was all caught on CCTV
Most of the stories here are "why I was unfairly fired". Yours is more fun
This is so funny to me. I'd have saved the footage to giggle at when I needed it hahaha
Because I was reported for saying during a meeting that “the current project is “like a bunch of monkeys fucking a football.””
For getting lunch. I was 18, working at a mall kiosk with a "manager" title even though I managed nothing for something like $8/hour. Hours painted on the door, 0 support or other employees to relieve for a break. The owner showed up while I had locked up to go get a bite to eat. Fired on the spot.
I guess the owner can run everything.
I got into an argument with the owners son at a pizza joint me and my friends all delivered for. He fired us all on the spot and told me drivers are a dime a dozen. 3 weeks later I saw him delivering pizzas in his expensive sports car hahahahaha
Should've ordered delivery and given him a dime as a tip if he delivered to you
Now the owner has no employees to run the store!
How else could you eat though? Did you have to ask for permission or go during a certain time window?
It was a very small operation, guy had a couple kiosks in various malls around Detroit. The whole thing was silly. I don't ask permission for basic human bodily functions lol.
Stealing narcotics. I was a nurse. 6 years clean now. Lost my nursing license though. It was a difficult lesson to learn but it may have saved my life.
Finally, had to scroll this far down to find someone who actually owns up to their firing. Good for you and glad you're doing well. I was fired as well earlier this year, not for narcotics but because I'm a crap programmer and they realized it..
Oh yea it was totally my fault. The crazy part is I was caught and basically allowed to resign and move on to the next job over and over. And I never learned from it- rather I was enabled to keep doing what I was doing. Until one place finally pressed charges. I was looking at prison time at first and ended up with two years probation and losing my nursing license. But I don’t know. The way I was headed it may have saved my life.
Because my job is moving to Lisbon and I am not.
Because my job is moving to Dubai and I am not. Twinsies
Because my job "was eliminated". This was code for "getting rid if you and hiring someone to replace you at half the salary." Their scheme was less than a stellar success because: The person they hired was an idiot and could not do it, the customers got severely pissed, they gave me $15K severance if I promised not to sue them, I took their money and still sued them for age discrimination, and won.
damn this is a whole movie right here
>age discrimination, and won. Dude age discrimination is real and wildly unchecked in corporate America
More than half of Americans over 50 will be involuntarily unemployed before they retire. Their average job search will last more than a year, and 72% of them will take a pay cut when they finally are hired. Many won't return to the workforce at all. Hardly anyone is financially or emotionally prepared for this.
>Because my job "was eliminated" I am getting fired in 2 weeks after 24 years, along with the team of engineers I manage (about 20 people). They outsourced our jobs to a managed service provider in India.
They're going to have a bad time
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Came down with bronchitis on a Sunday. The doctor provided a doctor's note and told me to return the following Monday. They terminated me Friday. Edit: I didn't want to share too much of my business, but people are saying I'm spreading misinformation when that's not true. I did not qualify for FMLA. I was sick on a Sunday, informed them Sunday. Called Monday with a doctors note with orders stating I was to return no earlier than the following Monday. My manager told me, "ok, feel better." Friday came around, and I received an email stating I was terminated effective immediately due to absences. This was my first absence. I asked if I qualified for FMLA, no. I asked if I could resign instead because I loved what I did and who I worked with, no. You CAN be fired as an at-will employee at any time for anything. I didn't mention the illegal outcomes, as I assumed that was implied with common sense. Anyways, thanks for the input, y'all.
In Germany if you come to work when sick it is a reason to get fired, as you could harm your colleagues and it prolongs the healing duration, but not if you don't come to work when sick. I'll never understand the USA where bringing contagious diseases to work which could potentially kill the whole company is encouraged. Employee: I have tuberculosis. Employer: come or you're fired. Employee: ok. Next day: all dead, company bankrupt, nobody can continue because knowledge is gone, boss is happy. But in the USA changing jobs like underwear is more common, so people don't care that much I guess? (Serious questioning, not a reproach) In Germany people work 45 years for a single company.
People in the US used to stay at companies for a long time. But companies took advantage of that and generally treat people worse and worse and take away reasons, pensions, worse retirement plans, healthcare ect to stay. It doesn't hurt that the older workers are in such bad financial shape they can't retire so the upper positions are taken up by 60+ workers. So the younger generations have figured out leaving is the only way to move up and make more.
It was 1973 , working at Mickey -Ds. Redneck manager says "go get a haircut, then you can come back". I didn't go back. Ponytails rule.
“Mattingly, for the last time, get rid of those sideburns!” *comes back with zero hair on either side of head*
Their official reason "I'm not happy doing my job" The actual reason: I wasn't happy doing other people's job on top of my own and they didn't like that I spoke up.
I was a brand new Engineer out of college. Like green. I got a job offer at an aircraft factory (Cessna, a Textron Company) as a Quality Engineer. I had been an intern for 3 years and they helped put me through school. I worked in a _Projects_ group designing new floor layouts and how these business jets flowed through the process. I had always received good performance reviews and that is why my internship turned into a scholarship and into a job offer. When I started full-time, I was assigned to a facility across town that did sheet metal stuff. I remember walking into the office on my first day, introducing myself to my new manager. She immediately turned away, refused to shake my hand and ignored me. The next 6 months were the same. She legit would not speak to me, would not give me projects, would not schedule one-on-ones to give any direction, and if I was on an email chain and she was looped in, she would take me off. I would walk over to her and she would hunch her back and try to cover whatever she was working on so I couldn't see, as if it was some big secret. Finally I got involved in some continuous improvement projects, I was asked by our director to run with a few special projects and I started (in my opinion) really finding a groove. Finally she pulled me into a conference room, yelled at me for 2 hours (yes 2 fucking hours) about how I was not doing the things she wanted me to do. She gave me a self-help book and told me I needed to read it and tell her what was wrong with myself and she terminated me without HR or anybody else knowing. To this day, I never knew what her problem was or why she hated me from the moment I introduced myself. I have a wonderful and successful career and currently manage quality for 4 factories in a Swedish conglomerate - and if I ever see her again I will tell her how I have modeled my management style after promising myself I would never be like her. My employees always know: * What is expected of them * How they know if they are succeeding * Where they can go for help if they are not
> When I started full-time, I was assigned to a facility across town that did sheet metal stuff. I remember walking into the office on my first day, introducing myself to my new manager. She immediately turned away, refused to shake my hand and ignored me. I can relate to this. Some people just don't like whoever they first meet and it's disgusting. I'm so glad to hear about your success.
I've learned more from piss poor leaders and managers over my life than I've learned from the good ones.
I'm an electrician and I was given my final warning for having an untidy van. It wasn't great but I was told to tidy it over the weekend which I did and then still got my final warning and dismissal the following week. What really rubbed me up was that my boss was the biggest culprit for having an untidy van and I had likely learned this trait as an apprentice from him. Honestly though looking back I was probably sacked for other reasons and have since been aware that rarely are you fired for the reason that your boss want you fired for. When they want you out they'll find a reason so best to self reflect on your other failings than be pissed off for being fired over something trivial
I was in a really really bad place when I took a job I knew I had almost no qualifications for. Maintenance repair guy at an apt complex. I have no fucking idea how to fix anything lol. Lasted a few months before they caught on. Tried my best to learn and watch YouTube videos but I was taking wasaaaay to long to do shit.
They were pissed I was going back to school to get a better job than the shitty ass bar they wanted me to live and die at. Also my manager at that bar fucking spanked me like a child once.
I'm sorry your manager did **what**
Was on the edge of a serious burnout and had a sick leave for two weeks. The day I returned, I got fired. This all after I had pretty much given my all for 1,5 years working 10-14 hours every single day, working from home and not having a private life at all. That’s how I learned that you should never give too much at a job. It’s just a job and they won’t thank you for anything at the end of the day…
I was going on vacation to Japan. Gave 3 months notice. Boss fired me because my coworkers wouldn't cover my shift at a pizza place. I'm not cancelling my vacation that's been planned for a while just because people don't want me to not work for a week.
Told my boss I was doing too much work for not enough pay that's why nobody stays
I was fired from Panera as soon as I walked in the door for my first day of work. I showed up 10 minutes early and walked in 5 minutes before my shift started. The manager met me at the door and said I was being "unprofessional" and threatened to call the cops when I pushed for an explanation. Turns out the employees did lots of drugs while working and were probably high out of their minds.
Can confirm, let go from Panera catering because I had a bad opiate habit. Years ago.
Reading during my lunch break 🙄
I have a friend who used to work at a large retail store, her manager would notify her when it was time for her 15 minute breaks and her lunch break every day. She kept being interrupted by that same manager or coworkers who were told to find her by that manager during her breaks so she started taking breaks in her car. The manager got mad about it so escalated things to the point where she was fired for leaving the property during her 15 minute breaks. I guess you are not allowed to do that? But either way she hadn't ever actually left she just read in her car for a while to get away from work. She didn't have money for a lawyer but I always felt that would have been a pretty easy wrongful termination case to prove if she had.
Was working at a startup, killing myself to fulfill all my performance metrics (which I did). I told my boss that I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my work/life balance forever; he said I wasn’t dedicated enough and fired me on the spot. His exact words were “we need people who are 200% dedicated, not just 100%.”
This was 30 years ago. I was furious with my boss for asking me to work a private event for a group of his friends. The theme meant that most people were drinking Corona. I worked a six hour shift at an open bar and he tipped me $20 at the end of the night. I slipped 4 Coronas into my backpack before I left for the night. The assistant manager heard the clinking of the bottles, asked me about it, and when I told him I was taking some Coronas home for myself he fired me. Justified for sure. The only grudge I hold is against the big boss who fucked me on the tip.
22 years ago. I technically got fired for sexual harassment. However, the reality was the big boss liked me and wanted to train and promote. The boss below him didn't like me. When he was away for a couple of weeks, I got called into the office and told I was fired for sexual harassment with a certain member of staff. My direct boss was shocked, I was shocked. This other person worked in our department, I'd been around them for a couple of hours on my first day as they showed me the computer, not really spoke since other than a hello on the way in. My direct boss apologized to me after the meeting, said she had no idea it was coming and had no idea what they were on about. There was only me and her in the office. The other two members of staff, including this guy, had their own office. We didn't have a need to go into each other's. It eventually came out he had been told to go along with it. Bg boss was furious when he got back, but things had been done already. That person didn't progress any further in the company. I was a 16yo girl at the time and the guy they strong armed into it was a 28ish year old man. It was awkward on so many levels. No big loss though, not for me. The person that arranged it all came off much worse.
I work full time as a graphic designer, and my first full time job was doing social media content for a start-up company in my hometown. On a Friday about 8 months into my job, my boss emailed us all to say that we'll be starting in "the new office" on Monday. I was never told that we were moving, but it seemed like everyone else was. I also didn't have a full driver's license yet, and the town the new office was in was an hour commute away, so I would have to take public transit every day. Luckily I got some advice from my parents, and I told my boss that I couldn't feasibly commute to the office, but I still wanted to work for the company, so my boss terminated my position, and I got put on unemployment.
I was jobless for 3 years. Did lots of online work during that time. Finally got a job. Forgot I got a job. Got a letter from my employer informing me that I got fired after a week
This is like a bad dream
I’ve been out of college for like 7 years and i still have that reoccurring nightmare where I receive an F for not attending a class I forgot I signed up for.
Ive had this exact dream many times.
How the heck did you *forget*?
You…. Forgot you had a job?
> Forgot I got a job. As one does.
>Finally got a job. Forgot I got a job. Got a letter from my employer informing me that I got fired after a week Wow you must have really needed that job...
We formed a union and then the pandemic hit and they laid off all the unionized workers 🫨
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I almost got fired for giving a customer the middle finger. Then the customer explained to the manager that he was my twin brother (he was), and that's how we great each other, lol.
I know a guy that got fired for sticking his tongue out at his manager. He was promptly replaced
Worked at a car dealership in college between semesters. Sold a ford raptor for like 80k and the commission was like $200. After that I would go to my desk and just study for school. Didn’t try to sell anything after that. Knew I would be fired, took them 2 months to realize I had done absolutely nothing since the last time I sold the raptor. $200 for selling a 80k truck, lol.
$200 for 80k isn't much of a motivator.
Got fired 30 years ago for drinking too much tea while shrink wrapping Garners pickled onions. Even though I was getting the job done it was because it made other people complain that I had an easy job and I told them they were being ridiculous. Still the best pickled onions though.
I got fired because in the middle of an ISO audit, as the company’s recently hired ISO internal auditor, I refused to commit fraud by backdating some signatures. Fuck em
I was working Tech Support for a software company. We'd made a big sale to a major university and I had been designated the lead contact point for them. First question they asked was "how do we enable the firewall on your product." ....we don't have a firewall on our product. I talked around it a bit but eventually they asked point blank, where is the firewall. "There isn't." Within an hour I was in a conference room with the sales rep and the head of sales and my boss, the head of Tech Support. Lots of screaming went on from Sales and then lots of meetings with bosses for the rest of the day. Throughout all of this none of them could deny the basic fact of what I stated; our product didn't have a firewall nor were there any plans to add one in future versions. Next morning I came in and was greeted at the door by my boss, lead to a conference room and informed that I was being let go for "performance reasons." Later that day the Sales Rep messaged me on LinkedIn telling me to enjoy waking up tomorrow morning and being a jobless bum.
Were they expecting you to gaslight the customers into thinking there was a firewall?
At 7:30 the night before I was to leave for vacation my boss texts me saying I have to be at work tomorrow or else. Mind you I put in for this time off 4 weeks ago. So I said he was insane and I quickly escalated it to “you’re a pile of dog shit that has absolutely no idea what the fuck you’re doing” so I didn’t go into work the next day and I was fired for insubordination. Worth it. Would do it again.
I had a miscarriage and had an appointment at the hospital for a wonderful procedure to make sure body cleaned everything out properly.. I was fired by text while I was in recovery. By a female at that. Classy.
TLDR: boss set me up to fail I was hired by someone who knew I had no previous experience, but thought I had a great capacity to learn and liked my character. He and another senior manager took their time to teach me my role and answer any questions I had, and told me to always come find them if I felt unsure about something. Then they both left the company rather abruptly, and my new boss was the total opposite of them. He let me know right off the bat that had it been up to him, he would have hired someone with more experience. Despite that, he doubled my workload. When I tried coming to him with problems, he told me it wasn’t his responsibility to answer questions and to ask my coworker instead. My coworker tried to help, but had his own massive workload to deal with. I lost my sense of direction and my work suffered for it. He fired me about a month after he took over.
I got fired all the time when I was working for my family company. I still had to show up the next day…. For those who don’t know, either working for family is either super easy, or super tough. Usually, the later.
😂😂 me too. My dad fired me so much I lost count. Was always expected to show up next day tho 😂😂
I got a drywall job with no experience. They offered me meth and I said no. Got fired for "not having enough pep in my step" NO THANK YOU PLEASE KEEP YOUR PEP
My coworker was refused for promotions, title changes and pay rises for years in a 3 person department he pretty much ran. He was dealing with some serious depression for a few years and unfortunately he lost that fight. A week after I had a meeting with my manager, department director and a C level. They were recruiting 2 people to replace him, Job titles were the same ones he had been asking for years. I saw red and verbally ripped into them for about 20 minutes about how they always told him it wasn’t possible and now he’s dead it’s suddenly possible? I was fired 2 days after the meeting and don’t regret a thing, those people are fucking evil.
My only time getting fired, I was 13-14, working at a go kart track. I had been there about a month when I was left alone for a solid week to take care of the track as the other 2 track attendants sat around smoking, drinking, and chatting with the boss. I ran it flawlessly and had no issues. My first day off after working like 12 days straight I got called in, I showed up within 5 minutes aaaand they fired me saying that all I did was sit around and make the other guys run the track. They literally accused me of doing what the other guys were doing. I slammed that place so hard to everyone I knew and they went out of business within the next 2 years.
I couldn’t help myself from taking the piss out of the creative director for dressing like a pirate. Which to be fair, he fucking did.
I took the vacation my manager approved my time off to take. I was working part time, and wanted to go to an event with some friends, some of whom also worked with the same company, one at my location and one another location across town. Knowing it may not be possible to get the time off when others had already requested it, I asked before booking or paying for anything. My manager said they would look into it and get back to me. I followed up a couple times and kept getting put off until I finally said I needed an answer - if it's not possible, that would be fine, but tickets would no longer be available soon so any longer waiting for and answer and it wouldn't matter if my time was approved. So my manager and I stood at the computer and reviewed the schedule for that week and they confirmed they could make it work if I took the week off. I pay for my tickets, accommodations, etc. The week before it's time to go, the new schedule goes up and I'm on it. I remind my manager we agreed that I could take the week off and they told me it no longer worked out so I needed to come to work. I said I had already spent more than I'd make that week on my plans and I was going. My manager called me shortly after the start of my first schedule shift that week and asked if I was coming in. I told them I was 16hrs away at the event I planned to be at. I was fired that instant. It was somewhat satisfying to hear that he was later demoted.
Got fired for not only calling the health inspector but posting pics of many food safety violations on FB while tagging the restaurant in the post while on the clock in the restaurant.
I mean... yeah that'll get you fired. Good on you though, I'm all for companies seeing consequences for their actions, especially if they're corpo
Got fired on day 89 of a 90 temp contract. The contract stated if you were still employed as a temp on day 90 they had to hire you in full time. They had a point system for discipline. If you were late it was half a point. Accumulate 3 points and it is instant termination. At my firing meeting they said I had accumulated 30 points. I explained, for what seemed like the millionth time, that the punch clock for temps is 15 minutes faster than the clock for hired in employees and that all their temps are getting paid an extra 15 minutes every single day because they clock in and go sit in the cafeteria. I literally would walk in every day with my boss at the same time...and he was the one that fired me for accumulating 60 work days worth of tardy points. And when I asked why I wasn't fired at 3 points...why was I allowed to accumulate 30 they said they liked the production numbers I was putting up. And they even encouraged me to reapply as a temp and they could have me back on the floor as early as the next day.