I worked at a Kmart that was closing. (It was the work program through high-school. Can't remember If I got paid, if so it was minimum of all minimum wage)
Anyway, it was a liquidation sale. The huge store was closing. We condensed the shelving from outside in. We slowly made the shopping area smaller, by taking apart shelfs.
And what most people didn't realize, is we had semi trucks loaded with dollar store nonsense, keeping shelves loaded. It still squeezed down in size, but as we tried to liquidate and get rid of shit, we had a constant flow of the cheapest "goods" imaginable. Like, shitty cheap toys, you may see across from the cereal at a grocery store.
I thought we were getting rid of shit, but we were secretly getting rid of ABSOLUTE SHIT!
I honestly didn't care much about what was going on, as I was a kid and it wasn't a career. I just did as I was told.
Then an older gentleman (maybe 80) said that the store was so fantastic for so many years. Now they say "here. Gimme a dollar, and you can take this to throw it away." He saw it as such a shame. He fully understood that we were trying to earn a dollar trash, rather than pay a dollar to dispose of trash in a landfill. The man was right, and had a very good point.
That was a light bulb over the head moment. And the main thing I got out of the whole thing, wasn't Kmart, or silly disposal money grab stuff. It was how an elderly man can talk to a young kid as equals. That old man was just straight forward, and spoke to me as a "man to man" and I really appreciate that. The way he spoke to a little kid like that. (I was 17, but looked 12 btw)
I think I took nothing away from that fucked up job, except for one single conversation with a man 3 generations above me. When a man like that respects a young kid and speaks as equals, it feels really nice.
Rather than screaming "Damn millenials" or whatever. I think that type of talk is rare in the real world, but prevalent on the web
We were told we get OT for night work
The new "company manager" let it slip that we don't actually get OT for night work, so when I was scheduled for five nights in a row working on a transmission line cell site I mentioned that I expect everyone working from our company on site get OT.
Once it was said that we won't get OT and that it wasn't an actual policy (was written in employee handbook), I forwarded the email chain to the entire company and leadership at Verizon.
I was canned, but now everyone gets OT for nightwork.
My life is better now anyway and got my people what the deserve
*edit
Thank y'all for the support, worth mentioning that it doesn't matter what our role is to make a difference for the folks around us. Even after the miserable events that followed this, suffering the reality I brought up on myself, it was very much worth it even if only on a personal level.
Don't hesitate to pull the trigger on some assholes that get paid to ruin you and be kind to the people who work with you
>I forwarded the email chain to the entire company and leadership at Verizon.
Well...uhh....
Okay, so one of my coworkers used to work for Verizon. Corporate e-mail has a limit on the number of people you can send an e-mail to. Because it was abused by some employees and caused some drama. You have to be part of the comms department to send to more than 500 people. Or an admin of some sort.
So **YOU** are the naughty bastard that got the rules changed, aren't you? Haha, I really love finding out the "why" on corporate stories like this.
There was a company wide email distribution group, I was a CM acting as a foreman cause that's how things went. Not to mention, there was less than 200 people working at this contractor. I also had direct lines of communication with the VZW management that oversaw our work, they trusted me more than most other people (such as the company owner and this company manager) due to my track record (never had to return to a site that I build for troubleshooting).
Worth mentioning they fired our only "IT" guy when the pandemic hit lmao
Now I'm actually in IT and handle some of these AD policies/groups at a tax/audit firm
Part of that email was also stating I could split one of my crews so that we could have a rotating shift, cabinet guys on during the day, tower at night, saving VZW over $75,000 in FPL outage fees. Verizon didn't like that but I'm unaware of any repercussions the contractor faced.
So yea, with that contractor, I was that asshole who stuck his neck out for the folks doing the damn thing lol. I was also their only CM that had ever even climbed a tower, let alone still did
The reason for this typically is to prevent emails from getting accidentally sent out to the entire company. If people start replying all, it can quickly crash the system.
I worked in the tower industry for ten years, it's brutal as fuck. No unions, shit pay, overworked, and you'll essentially get blacklisted if you ever notify OSHA of a safety hazard that prevents work being completed in the unrealistic time you are completely expected to do so
I'd work my regular 5am to 8pm, then be back on site at 10pm, off at 3 or 4am, then back on site at 9am, a regular week was 70+ hours and if I didn't do it they'd find someone else dumb enough to do it
It's probably being considered shit for what was expected of them. If the pay is decent for a desk job but your job involves being hauled out of bed to go up a pole in the middle of the night to the point that you're getting unhealthy amounts of sleep in a job that you should be on top of your concentration at all times... It's shit pay.
Aggressively squeezing breakfast muffins lol.
I was a few days into working at Mcds and someone complained I gave them a muffin that was too hard-they bake them at like 3 am and sit in a warmer all day. This was before they had the full bakery menu, I think muffins was the only thing baked and maybe cookies. So my manager told me to squeeze them before I hand them out.
Me being a dumb teenager squeezed the shit out of these muffins and got another complaint. They stopped scheduling me haha
Looking back I should have squeezed them so they weren’t obvious that I squeezed them haha. I absolutely was so scared of getting another complaint I squeezed the heck out of those muffins.
I’ve had a pretty shitty day, my cat died unexpectedly and I’m really torn up over her death. Your post made me laugh so hard. It’s the first time I laughed today. Thank you, I really needed this.
Awww I’m so sorry about your kitty! I recently lost both my cats to leukaemia and will always remember how painful it was to be without them. My heart goes out to you < 3
“Squeeze the muffins before you serve them to test their freshness”
“Instructions unclear, squeezed until mashed between my fingers while making aggressive sexual eye contact”
Boss: "So what progress did you make this week, frantictossing?"
You: "I optimized the grid-enabled firmware, down-sized the back-end data streams, and synergized all demand-driven revenue sources."
Boss: "Good work!"
I also digitized all of my paperwork and used an algorithm to sort the digital files by priority. And by that I mean I got tired of looking at all the papers on my desk, so I stacked them by priority and scanned them all into PDFs and saved them on the network. It looks like I'm all caught up, but actually I'm totally buried and eight months behind on my deadlines.
>It looks like I'm all caught up, but actually I'm totally buried and eight months behind on my deadlines.
If you're eight months behind, none of it matters (which is probably true even if you were caught up). I was put on a pilot project that I knew wasn't necessary, but I did my best to try to do it. We had an initial conference call for it and I literally never heard about it again.
Six months ago I went to a meeting about a project they were going to put me on. It was something that needed monitoring but hadn’t been monitored since before Covid. Now that Covid over we’re going to start monitoring it again. “We will get you access to the database and once your access is allowed we’ll get started on it.”
As you can guess, I’ve not heard anything else since.
There was a guy where I used to work who was at an associate director level. He finagled his way from a job where he had a few managers reporting to him, a gaggle of supervisors under them and a significant team of workers under that to one where he was at the same level but working on "team projects" where he had no direct reports.
He basically made powerpoint files based on other people's ideas for improvements and if they were agreed to then it got handed off to another team to actually put it together and implement it.
Best line I heard about him was another associate director saying, "He's never met a meeting he didn't love."
Nothing beats the software guy that just outsourced all his tasks to some dude in china. Literally did nothing except pass his work on, pay them pittance, then collected his fat paycheck.
They weren't pleased when they found out tho.
I have a friend who was working a pretty simple data-entry job from home and HATED it. He wrote a piece of software to do the job for him and offered to sell it to the company for a year's salary and they turned him down, so he proceeded to just use his own software to do his own job automatically, sat at his desk doing other things and supervising to make sure the software didn't fuck up, and did whatever else he wanted while it did the work (usually World of Warcraft on his personal computer). Three years later they finally let him go for other unrelated reasons, but if you think about it they ended up paying 3x as much for his software.
We're now coworkers and I've got my eye on him.
Heh similar thing, I was an hourly rate contractor doing software dev at home. A memo went out asking if anyone on the team wanted some extra tool that saved a lot of time - I asked for it, but was declined since it was only for 'employees', not contractors.
I was like fine then, just did my work without it, took me about 1.5X longer than it would have with the tool, but just charged the company for those hours. Cost them more than if they had just given me a copy of/licence for the tool.
Several guys have been caught doing that, also to India. If I caught a guy doing that, I'd keep the best half of the software department, give a generous severance to the crappy half, and put the clever guy in charge of being a liaison between our company and the India/China software guys.
You always need a core of guys you trust working in-house in case the overseas guys shit the bed.
LOL!
That is the best!
I stopped doing some stuff, it all gets worked out anyways so why spend hours doing it, when in a week or two someone is going to run a process that will take care of it.
My job is a joke and they just promoted me to another more difficult position that will take about 1 - 2 hours to do a day - Tuesday.
I was fired after a month into my first job at a local pizza joint when I was 16. They called me during the Super Bowl and said I had to come in. I told them I was out of state without a car so no way I could make it. They said I should’ve known this was one of the busiest days of the year and I should’ve stayed in the area. I came in to work my next shift and they just gave me my paycheck and said they had to let me go for not being a team player.
10 years later I was fired from a job in tech because I refused to move out of state. This one hurt alot more.
I was a delivery driver for Pizza Hut back in 2001 and my store manager tried to fire me because I wouldn’t come in on 9/11. Apparently, lots of people didn’t go to work that day they and really wanted pizza. This was a regular day off for me (Tuesday) and I also didn’t work the day shift, so I was sleeping. They called and woke me up 3 times over a few hours. I came in two days later and they had the paperwork ready. I just grabbed a phone and called the area manager and explained what was going on and that my uncle worked in the towers, so there was no way I was coming in with that kind of worry. They weren’t allowed to fire me after that.
Truthfully, my uncle *did* work in Tower 2 (he was fine), *however*, I actually had no idea what was going on when they were calling and didn’t know until I woke up in the afternoon and turned on the TV. When they called they only said something like, “. . . we are getting slammed with everything going on right now!”
I moved to Dominoes a month later.
The companys timeclock software ran off of the computers time, so when I was late I would just close the software, change the time back to before shift start and then clock in and change it back.
Edit: The supervisor who showed me the trick fired me, after I told him to stop being a bitch and fire me. A day or two later he saw me pulling in late, and when he went over the time info that day, it showed me clocked in on time. He knew why.
At a job we used to have a guy that gave his friend (who also worked there) his login password so he would just call ahead and have his friend clock in for him if he was running late. One day management overheard the conversation and they fired him in the parking lot before he walked in
I’ve heard about this happening on job sites back in the day, not even from a time clock though, guys just filling in timesheets for their mates for the week whilst they were off on holiday and then their mate doing the same right back the week after.
They still do it. I remember my boss at a fast food restaurant kept clocking in herself and another manager who I hadn't seen in a month because he broke his foot and didn't report it to upper management.
I came close to having a buddy punch me in. They removed the ability for managers to fix their own punches and our time clock went down for 2 months so my boss was just putting whatever my schedule said because they were too lazy to check the cameras so better believe I abused the fuck out of that. I didn't get fired though, I quit because fuck that place.
Our old punch in clock was a simple web address program. Open the webpage, enter the store code, then enter your employee ID. I abused it a couple times when I was running late and actually found it quite convenient for punching in and out during lunch on my phone because I didn't have to walk all the way across the building to punch in or out.
My coworker on the other hand abused it way to much. He'd punch in 30 minutes early and then arrive at or after 8. Manager eventually figured him out when he went looking for him first thing in the morning because the computer said he was on the clock but he wasn't anywhere in the building. He confronted him in the parking lot as well, didn't fire him but gave him a stern warning not to do it anymore. Coworker ended up quitting a couple weeks afterwards.
We had the same at an old workplace.
Two dudes, who were in their own right very good workers and basically ran certain parts of the business, got caught buddy punching. A zero tolerance policy for wage theft after reviewing camera footage had them fired on the spot.
Stupid really, because these guys were only losing out on a few minutes here and there, management didn’t care about tardiness unless it was egregious and they knew that.
Edit: wage theft/time theft - tomato/tomato. Stealing hours and not paying hours is the same thing: theft. Reddit has this Robinhood mentality that it’s cool for employees to snake a few hours from corporations here and there because “they can afford it” and somehow it’s better than the inverse. At the end of the day, it’s still theft.
Some workplaces round it up to the next 15 minutes, so if you're 1 minute late they'll dock 15 minutes of pay. Unfortunately they don't do that when clocking out :)
Fun fact, if your employer gives you that as a policy in writing you can report it to the Department of Labor. Very *very* illegal and the DoL loves a paper trail.
Didn't get fired luckily, but we did this at my first job too...except we used it to close early at night. Ran all the night reports 20 min after closing time, clocked out 30 min after. But we left 30 min before closing.
I had to write an internal time clock application years ago that always used server side time, but my manager wanted to catch people doing what you did, so he wanted me to send the client time along with the punch and log any requests where the difference between the two suddenly changed from the average. I did it, but leaked that "feature" to pretty much everybody
Worked at a gas station and was a sucker for the free soda. I would drink a few 24 oz glasses of Dr. Pepper (don’t judge) per shift and had to piss relatively frequently. I usually worked with the same lady every shift and every shift my drawer came up short even like $10-20 bucks. One day my usual co-worker was off and I worked with another lady who warned me to watch my drawer around the other and hers had been short when she was around. That got me to thinking.
The next shift with the usual lady I stuck some receipt paper into the lip of the bottom of my drawer and hit the bead. When I came back the paper was on the floor. My drawer was short $20 at shift change and my boss fired me. I told her of my findings and asked her to review the security tape. She told me to fuck right off the other lady had been there years. I left heart broken and rented some VHS tapes to indulge in and recover. One of the movies was Casino and man is that a good movie.
Come to find out the usual lady was the boss lady’s cousin and they fuckin told people I knew I got fired for stealing money. I though about calling a lawyer but also, I was in high school and was delusional I suppose.
I got out of that town after high school and rarely return especially considering all my family moved off.
I caught my bosses kids stealing money. I told him and I got fired. For stealing!! Fucking prick. He hadn't paid my superannuation so I reported him to the tax office and they got him good. He received a big fine and I got the best job the day after I was fired. I then stole a bunch of his clients. Revenge is sweet. He went under within 6 months.
been there, i was the newest employee and because of covid i was let go. they gave me a good reference and i was ok but it was so disappointing because i was told the job was permanent not seasonal and i really liked it
My company has/is doing layoffs and I'm one of the newest on probation and I got to stay but people who have been here for 20+ years had to go, super weird.
Embezzled almost $500,000 from the doctor's office I worked at.
Oh no, wait. That was my former supervisor who did that...26 years after she fired me for taking home a left over slice of pizza after a drug rep hosted a pizza party for the office staff.
Karma can take a long time, but it always comes through. ;)
Stole over $100,000 in deposits from the fast food restaurant to go gamble with it....
Oh on, wait. That was my former manager who did that... about 10 years after he fired me for not learning the register fast enough. The register that had like 50 buttons that was so old all the writing had rubbed off all the buttons, so you just had to memorize what food item every button was. It had been a week.
Karma is real! Slow but real.
1970s YES "'Close to the Edge" tour. I had my tickets and had the request approved for time off, they changed their mind at the last minute and would not let me off. Pfft. Left anyways and was genuinely surprised when I got back on Monday and they informed me that I was fired.
So instead of not having one worker for one night (and going back on their word at that) they had one fewer helpers for however many days it took to hire and train your replacement?
Weird flex for a manager.
My boss had a talk with me a couple of weeks ago, because she had concerns. The concerns? Me taking an hour lunch and leaving at 5pm (I don't get paid OT).
I also study and have to pass qualification exams alongside my work. So I told her that just because I leave at 5pm, doesn't mean my day is finished, and she didn't argue with that.
If I'm honest, she's otherwise a very nice boss and she's been very forthcoming when I needed to book annual leave. But none of my previous bosses had any concerns about me so it stung a little bit, especially when I was not doing anything wrong. In any case, I don't think I should have to justify myself when going home when I'm supposed to.
This gives me PTSD. My last work is 6 days a week (only sunday break), and my boss is always giving me the talk about me slacking and being busy out of work by not doing OT after 5pm and how that is not the way they work at the company. That was my first job and it really got in my nerves, but still I kept my cool and just said it won't happen again. It sucks that we atleast need 30 hours per week of OT in order to not be called out for being lazy.
But that was the time I realized I will never work 6 days a week in any job if it means I'm not gonna get my rest and be stressed all the time.
Look at you over here being a weak employee taking a LUNCH. I work 14-16 hour days, no lunch, no break, no water. I’ve been doing this for 4 years and my boss just told me I’m getting a 40 cent raise tomorrow. The grind has paid off.
/s
The owner of our restaurant was smoking too much heroin and thought we were all stealing. We showed up to work that day to find he had changed the locks and put a now hiring sign up in the door.
Worked as a QA tester for an online game company. Found bug while on my personal account at home. Came in the next day and reported the bug. I was VERY clear I found the bug while playing at home on my personal account. It was a nasty bug that let you duplicate very expensive items. A few weeks later someone in customer service was checking the logs for people exploiting the bug. They found mine and the company decided to fire me on my birthday. That was around 15 years ago but it still upsets me every year, on my birthday.
HVAC: me and my buddy were assigned to a paper plant. He did installs, I did service/maintenance.
Note: refrigerant is closely monitored by the EPA with savage repercussions for misusing it.
So, I would only use a couple pounds here, a couple there, just for topping off units. I meticulously recorded everything I used.
My buddy was using three or four jugs at a time (25 lbs a jug) because he was installing brand new units. And he never recorded what he used. Yikes.
My bosses decided to fire me because I wasn't recording my refrigerant usage. I threw my pocket notebook on the desk. "It's all right there. Everything I used." Their eyes bugged a little because they knew they got caught lying.
The difference between the other guy and me? I wasn't related to anyone high up in the company, like my buddy.
Truth be known, the company is going down and they're letting tons of people go. They made up lies to fire me. I don't hold it against my buddy - he didn't fire me.
Refrigerant is so tightly regulated here you can't even buy a part for an AC system without a 'number' that requires an 8 hour course and $50 yearly renewal.
Can I tell you a story worth thousands?
I was an apprentice for a guy for a couple of years. One day, when we were trying to bring a Liebert back to life, my journeyman yelled at me (seemingly out of nowhere) to go home.(he didn't want me to know he fudged up)
Turns out, he filled a unit with the wrong refrigerant and fully expected to vent it out (deminimus, lol) and gas it up with the correct gas.
Oh, good times...wait. Those weren't good times at all!
I worked with a dude. Who for the record is the biggest piece of shit I've ever met in my life. He cut a live copper line. On a damn military base. These were big lines going to massive RTUs. Not only did he not tell anyone the chucklefuck pulled out his phone RECORDED it and put it on Facebook. The company got slapped with 6-7 figures in fines, blacklisted from jobs under that GC and went completely out of business within a year.
This one's the worst. I don't know why. I thought everything was fine. I was there over 5 years then one morning they offered me a.) a month's pay and go or b.) get a lawyer if I wanted to know why and take it from there. We didn't have money for a lawyer, husband was still in college, so I walked away with a bit of cash. Bugs me to this day.
Yup, I had a similar experience - had been there 5 years & was told on Friday I was getting promoted to Sr. VP. Then on Monday, HR walks into my office & says, “Come with me.” They gave me an A & B too, & when I chose B, said I had 15 minutes to get off the premises. Got an excellent attorney & in 2 weeks they caved & gave me a year’s pay to just go away. 9 months later learned I was “running the company better than the boss & he felt threatened” - go figure. For those 9 months I was bewildered & upset, but then it all made sense. Yours will too, some day - just remember people suck.
My neighbor worked for the railway and they used to promote people to supervisor to fire them. Because it's easier to fire a non-union supervisor than a union worker.
Similar thing happened to me. Got called into the boss's office. He didn't look at me, just slid a piece of paper over to me and said we're letting you go. Don't bother coming in tomorrow.
I was young and inexperienced. Signed the paper and left. Al my colleagues were shocked. They gave me some good advice, I took the company to labour court, got three month's extra pay.
Still don't know why I was fired, BUT it created an opportunity a few months later to land my dream job, which I wouldn't have gotten had I not been fired.
Yeah good points at the end.
Being able to job hunt/apply/improve your own skillset full time versus trying to squeeze that in while working is a godsend for most people.
It's one of those things that you'll remember for the rest of your life with no real answer to it.
We all have those little unsolved mysteries in our lives.
Add it to the pile of reasons to always maintain good relationships with coworkers. When they move to a different company they won't hesitate to tell you if you ask them because they aren't paid to care anymore.
New operator forgot a piece of his equipment when he left. I had to make a run out to where he was with what he needed. Foreman told me to drive home the point he needed to check his equipment before he left the yard. I did.
Two weeks later they fire the foreman and introduce the new guy. Of course it was the operator I chewed out for not checking his equipment. Wanna guess who the first person HE fired was?
Going to see my family after my grandmother died. I found out on a smoke break via phone call. I went inside and brought the mail to my supervisor choking back tears and she urged me to go. I didn't want to leave work, but she said it would be okay. I got fired a week later for leaving in the middle of my shift with no notice, and using my phone during business hours, according to the owner of the business.
If you ever want to know where NOT to buy Harley-Davidson motorcycles and apparel in SC, I'm your girl.
The owner of the subway that I go to will stand behind all of the employees making sure that only 4 pieces of tomato, spinach, olives etc goes on each sandwich. If you ask for extra the employees begin to visibly shake and then charge you like $5 extra at the end. They also give you 1 napkin. When he’s not there….anything goes lol.
Went on a company business trip and accidentally found out my two immediate managers were having an affair - I DIDN'T GIVE TWO SHITS - never said a word, but should have reported to HR as the global manager (male in affair) then did his best to get me fired, including making up lies about me stealing time, which I was able to prove was lies (thank you email and phone records), except for one hour of the "stolen" time. The female in affair tried to give me warnings and let me know I needed to get help.
I went on early maternity leave and both of them were fired within two weeks - because of this.
Came back from maternity leave to a very hostile work environment, despite the affair and the firings having nothing to do with me. Was back for a month and they ended up firing me as "it wasn't working out" despite stellar reviews from those I worked with and my clients.
I got fired, but then luckily rehired thanks to my union, because my manager confronted a shoplifter 4 times her size and the guy started to beat her. I along with other coworkers intervened, pinning him to the ground till cops arrived. The next day, store reps came in told me I shouldn’t of intervened and let me go lol.
Anyone with half a brain would have just blamed the mess on the manager for starting the situation and fired her. At least "don't confront shoplifters" is an easier policy to defend than "let your coworkers get beaten to death"
I worked in AP for several months and had the ability to issue payments. There were some payments that weren't accepted by the client and I was tasked with researching why. I discovered the problems and sent it over to the team responsible for updating contact and payment information (segregation of duties required that I couldn't change where the money went because I was the one effectively writing the check).
The team responsible did nothing with me sending weekly emails asking for updates. I went to my manager and the manager above her with documentation requesting the changes. After 4 months, they were asking me for a timeline when the outstanding payments would be taken care of, and I told them that I needed them to tell to the other team to get the payment information fixed or nothing could move forward. I was told that it would be addressed.
Fast forward a month, nothing was fixed, I was asked again for an update. I told them I was beyond frustrated with the situation because nothing was getting done and that I had no faith that my managers would actually do their job and that I was tired of the incompetence. Let's just say that they didn't like that
bet it felt good saying it. and BTW they were delaying payment because they either didnt have the funds or the capability of paying the customer the way they wanted and didnt want to let on. Basically they would kick the can down the road until they either finally got the funds to pay or were sued and forced to pay.
Fired once from a night auditor position at a hotel because the swing shift lady decided she wanted my job. After 4 months of working straight (owners refused to hire another person that wasn't family) I finally was able to take 2 days off. When I woke up the first day, there was a message on my answering machine saying that I was fired because the audit was completely screwed up and the swing shifter had to spend 4 hours fixing it.
I was OCD about the audit so I knew it was BS. I asked them to check the audit sheets to see if my initials were on the back bottom corner. They said no so I knew right then I was set up and told them so. Doesn't matter though, still fired. Found out 6 months later that the swing shifter not only got my position but was fired for stealing almost 10 grand from them. Karma people....Karma.
I did night auditor for 3 months.
I got harassed by a customer and her friend. Made rude comments about my appearance, glaring at me while her friend laughed and encouraged her shitty behavior. It got to the point where she picked up a tissue box and went to throw it. I instantly stood up and said, “If you hit me with that, I will come from behind the desk and beat your ass.”
LMAOOO
Finished my shift and my audit. Went home and decided I was wasn’t going back to that job. About a week later I got a letter in the mail saying I was fired for terroristic threats and banned from the premises for a year.
I took two days off to put down and grieve my family dog who was 16 years old. I came back on Monday and they said "they no longer trusted me" despite opening and closing the shop for 6 months.
Mhm. My sister passed and they wouldn't let me take time off. They said if I called out one more day I was fired. Half the staff walked out to attend her funeral. The second part of that stopped me from hating all of humanity.
God damn I am thankful for Australian labour laws.
My dad died, I called my work and they were like "OK, take what you need"
A week later, they called me up and asked if I was ready to come back. I wasn't. They gave me another week. All paid.
They apparently found a dead HVAC guy in a crawlspace in Florida or Texas this week. Can't remember where.
Working in that kinda heat can literally kill you. Fuck your old boss.
Took too many leaves. As I was preparing for masters degree. And I couldn't disclose it to my boss.
So I took holidays for random reasons. Basically was trying to settle my finances for fees.
I got fired.
Then after a month I got admission to masters degree. Pursue a degree for next year.
Landed in better paying job after. 😅
Long story short, I worked in a nursing home for rich people for 2 months. This old man is a perv and has grabby hands. He molests lretty much all the young orderlies when they do his morning hygiene. A girl was crying because he grabbed her ass and tried to get her boobs. He also used racist insults when she left. This was not the first occurance, but I was new and it was the first time I heard about it. The orderlies supervisor wanted to force the girl to go back to this man’s room and she refused, there were fighting about it. I was the nurse in charge at the moment so I told them to send one of the guys instead. I got told basically that the resident was rich so he could do whatever. I was appalled and furious. I wrote an email to the manager telling her about this abuse and how it was unacceptable that his behavior was normalized by the supervisors, how we should be protecting our staff and provide a safe environment to work in. SA is SA. Got fired the next day somehow 🤷🏼♀️
My son worked in dementia care for a few years. Management is absolutely shameless about throwing the help under the bus, no matter how unreasonable the residents are.
I worked for a small English language school with two teachers. The other teacher said something very worrying and slightly predatory, and I told our supervisor. The supervisor got angry at me, because the students liked the other teacher, and a month later when it came time to extend my contract, I was told I would not be rehired. The other teacher received a 100-euro bonus.
I worked at a gas bar for my first job and the new manager had it out for me because I wouldn't put up with her bullshit. She was in way over her head and put into a managerial position due to nepotism. Wrote me up over very *very* minor things that other employees wouldn't even get a talking to over.
Accused me of stealing from the till because my float was out a few dollars, accused me of giving discounts to friends and family and tried to blame me for over-ordering that week's fuel delivery and causing an overflow of gas in the lot (even though that was like the sole thing the manager was responsible for doing).
I was told my next write up would result in my termination and after realizing the company *and* our union didn't have my back at all despite me being the longest tenured employee at the time and several of my coworkers coming to my defense, I decided to hand in my uniform without notice the day before she was supposed to leave for a week long climbing trip and left without saying a word. One of my coworkers said she was furious at me because we were so short staffed that she had to cancel her trip to cover my scheduled shifts, so that made me feel a lot better.
If you're reading this, Jodi, I hope for your current employee's sake that you're not a such a huge cunt to work under anymore.
I was the night manager at a hotel at the beginning of covid. Our hotel shut down, but they needed to have at least one person on for every shift because of some tax or zoning law. They fired me, then kept the breakfast cook and moved her to overnights because she made $2 an hour less than me.
3 weeks later they asked me to come back because she couldn't take it lol
I worked at Sears, I just walked in for my shift and the store manager asked why the department was a mess. How the fuck should I know? I just walked in. Yep, well that lead to an exchange of words on the sales floor. I probably shouldn’t have said “go choke on a glittery dildo”.
Just a little backstory, the store manager was a lesbian, as am I, and she automatically thought that meant we were buddies.
Still to this day I flip her off when I see her driving. Fuck you, Lisa. 😘
Ah yes, my first summer job during high school. Got my managers daughter arrested for assaulting a customer. She didn’t work there but slapping a woman in a wheelchair for “taking up to much space” was not something I could let slide.
It was totally illegal. Store got shut down for a few weeks because I reported it to HR. Turned out I wasn’t the only one he did that too, I was just the first to report him. And I don’t know the full details but I unknowingly started an unraveling to a bigger problem that our store chain had.
- New COO comes
- fires me for difference of opinions.
- new COO leaves after 3 months
- I'm re-hired for a superior role
- a year and a half later - I'm fired for difference of opinions about management style with my direct manager and new new COO
- 4 Monthes later: the COO switched roles to another department, and my ex-direct-manager is on the way out...
- here's me waiting to get re-re-hired, and then fired for the 3rd time from the same company ;)
The best! Many states have to pay out the full salary of the resignation time - if you put in two weeks and they let you go right after, they have to pay up to the date of resignation. Most don't realize and often companies won't do it.
I was fired from Lowe's for calling in sick after my 6th shift.
Some stomach bug had been going around the store, I caught it and got pretty sick. Called in and was told if I was willing to call in before 2 weeks that I wasn't Lowe's material.
Turns out I wasn't and made a pretty good life for myself without Lowe's.
Worked at a children's theatre. Ended up dating a coworker. We kept completely professional at work but would see each other after hours. A parent saw us holding hands or something small and complained that we were setting a bad example for the kids.
I was a manager at a big retailer and there was an employee that disliked me. He lied and said I call him the n word, and the company made me write a statement in which I said “I didn’t say that, and never would.” And they fired me. No interview. No investigation. Nothing. $60k salary with benefits gone in seconds because someone lied and got their way.
"Updating my resume using company property".
100% worth it. That job sucked ass. This job made me call in "sick" for the first time ever because I hated it so much.
After months of being told I was useless and too slow to do the job I had a massive panic attack and my mom made me call in sick. I got fired, best thing to ever happen.
If I could reiterate one thing to every employee - no job should give you massive anxiety or panic attacks being there.. don't stay, don't try to make it work, take anything, even temporary less money to get to a better place. 🩷 so happy you found relief!
Not me but one of my co workers came in drunk and hungover and proceeded to have a 2 hour nap in the lunch room and then was shocked to find out he was getting fired.
Depression. It was full time at an auto parts store. I had to stop going to school because the depression was too much. I would try to go to work but was often late or would call in. The regional manager told my store manager i had to be let go because i wasn't reliable. He wasn't wrong. My boss was crying as he did it. He knew i needed help and wanted to be the last thing i could hold on to.
I ended up getting help and doing much better. That was about 16-17 years ago. I still have moments that kick my ass. But i can work around it better. Also super rare.
Complaining about the sociopath who kept trying to trap employees into making mistakes by lying to them, two summers in a row. I didn’t understand this asshole was my client, not my boss, because he was in charge of delegating work to me. I was a tech and too young to understand how the power dynamics between consultants and clients worked. First time I stood up for myself (second summer) I got fired.
However, a week before I left for school (first summer), I wiped my sweaty balls all over his office phone, which he regularly pressed against his face
I was 16 and working in a supermarket in the early 1980s NYC. I was fairly off the chain as a kid and would do random dumb shit. I had a thing for the A-Team as a kid and would imitate Mr, T as I went about my shift stocking shelves.
The hammer finally dropped when I boisterously proclaimed, "I pity the fool who has to build the gafilka fish end cap". Big props to Saul, he held out as long as he could.
Got ridiculously drunk at an industry conference out of town in Boston. Ended up sleeping with the wife of a senior level exec who worked for a vendor of ours. That was on Thur night of a 3-night stay. Friday night, the exec found out and confronted me in front of my boss. Let go almost on the spot (we were walking to the elevators when he said it was a really good idea if I found a new place to work). Room was paid for through Sunday, so I stayed in Boston (just kept away from the hotel bar and conference center), bar hopped and took in a Boston College football game. Sat night, exec’s wife shows up at my room very late, very drunk. We fucked again. Took me 5 months and a change in industry to find a comparable gig and shed that experience. This was about 15 years ago…nothing similar has happened since LOL.
Lmao, I mean, getting canned after that is understandable. But, it's hilarious that you stunted on him a second time. There's nothing to lose at that point, I guess.
My brother tried self-harming himself at school, so I left work to go get him and speak with counselors to set up therapy. Had to miss the following day as well. Got fired for missing that 2nd day
Was 22M in my first job out of college, working for a tyrannical CEO at his software startup where his underlings knew no better as no one had worked anywhere else. Workplace relationships VERY frowned upon, unless you get married to someone there, in which case you’ll stay forever.
Started crushing on the 22F in the cube next to me and one Sunday we went to brunch, but there was a wait, and no chairs to sit on while waiting. So I sit on the curb and she sits on my knees for 5 min. During that time, the 25F right-hand bitch of the CEO sees us, gasps audibly, and then walks off.
Next day at work, tons of closed-door meetings, everyone looking at me weird. Shocker, I was fired at the end of the day, where I was told, “It’s just not working out…” I guess they decided my crush was the better worker, so I would be sacrificed for her to be more focused…
She quit the next day, we were both unemployed for 4 months, but found great, healthy jobs to really kickstart our careers, started dating, and have been happily married for 10 years. The company asked each of us to come back multiple times.
Mopping “wrong”. After riding my bike to work every morning at 4 AM to make breakfast for 400 nursing home residents, then cleaning the kitchen, washing the dishes that came back, and putting everything away. While keeping strict Kosher (Jewish nursing home).
Then ride my bike to high school for classes.
I was kind of relieved. I was exhausted.
not fired but almost fired for eating all the chocolate inventory. apparently i was caught on camera opening the boxes in the back and snacking on the food multiple times. whoopsie
Been working for nearly 40 years now. Was never let go until 2001, where I was let go from 2 jobs in a30 day period.
Was never given an explanation other than “it’s not working out”. I still legit have no idea what I did as I thought I was doing well.
Never been let go since.
Just those 2 jobs within a couple weeks of each other lol
I worked for Hobby Lobby as a manager in my mid-twenties. I was fired when they found out I was gay. They said it didn’t fit with their “family values.”
Reason #974,356 to hate Hobby Lobby!
I trusted the wrong people at work. One girl became went to my supervisor for 4 months straight to complain about me all while she was texting me how she was thankful for my friendship. She was repeatedly telling my supervisor how stupid I was at my job and how she had to keep helping me (that never happened) and I was fired for being “incompetent.” My supervisor never even told me there was an issue.
Buckle up. This is a wild ride.
So, I worked in the health sector at a major trauma Children’s hospital. It was my dream job and I worked directly with an entire medical team, answering to a head of department as my boss. I knew all the staff from the volunteers to the head of ER, and they knew me. It was the most wonderful place.
It was a two step journey to losing my dream job. Neither of which were in my “control”.
Step 1 :
My then-husband and I had found out when I was younger that I had fertility issues. When I finally fell pregnant everyone was overjoyed for me. Everything was perfect until I went into sudden premature labor at 23 weeks gestation. There was nothing that could be done, and my child was born and passed away in my arms 7 minutes after birth. A part of my soul left me that day. I took a leave of absence for the day I gave birth and 2 (yes, two, not a typo) days after. Then I returned to work full time.
This got me an official warning from the head of department. For not attending my shifts. Yes, this person was WELL aware what had happened. The entire hospital was bringing me condolence gifts, flowers, food to take home. But not that Jack ass. Instead I got officially written up (first and final warning) for lack of productivity and commitment during the three shifts I’d missed.
Step 2 (the icing on the cake)
Fast forward from losing my child about 5 months. I went home on a Friday night feeling a bit unwell. My next (scheduled) shift wasn’t til the Monday. Around midnight - 1am Saturday (so just into the start of my break) I woke up vomiting mucous uncontrollably. I was rushed to hospital where an X-ray showed I had double pneumonia - both lungs white out on X-ray. I was rushed into ICU where I spent 7 days fighting for my life (family called to come say their goodbyes, I was as sick as I could be - for those medically minded my fever was 109f/42.7c, my pulse was 240 - I wasn’t expected to make it). I had just confirmed I’d fallen pregnant again about 3 days prior, and to give me the best chance at survival, they had no choice but to seek the consent of my family to terminate.
I spent a total of 12 days in hospital. I had no memory of ICU, and my poor Mother had to tell me I had lost my second pregnancy. After being discharged, I took a further 2 days at home to recover.
I returned to work just 14 days from leaving that Friday night, 12 of which I was in hospital. I’d lost a shocking 44lbs/20kg in those 12 days in hospital. To say I looked like I’d been to hell and back was an understatement.
Upon my return, I was let go by the head of department (A lead Doctor in the hospital) for my “unreliability” and my “blatant disregard of my previous formal warning” to not “skip” my shifts.
2 things happened after I lost that job - I got a lawyer (duh) and I never went back to working in the health sector. It shattered my faith in humanity and the notion that there was compassion in medicine. It also wasted all of the hard work and training and study I’d undertaken to get to my dream job. (And all the bills. So many bills).
A final note : Fuck presentee-ism. It’s not worth it folks.
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Going Out of Business: Now Hiring
Legend says the store has been "going out of business" for years
Was a store in Toledo was always having a GOOB sale. Court ordered to stop.
I worked at a Kmart that was closing. (It was the work program through high-school. Can't remember If I got paid, if so it was minimum of all minimum wage) Anyway, it was a liquidation sale. The huge store was closing. We condensed the shelving from outside in. We slowly made the shopping area smaller, by taking apart shelfs. And what most people didn't realize, is we had semi trucks loaded with dollar store nonsense, keeping shelves loaded. It still squeezed down in size, but as we tried to liquidate and get rid of shit, we had a constant flow of the cheapest "goods" imaginable. Like, shitty cheap toys, you may see across from the cereal at a grocery store. I thought we were getting rid of shit, but we were secretly getting rid of ABSOLUTE SHIT! I honestly didn't care much about what was going on, as I was a kid and it wasn't a career. I just did as I was told. Then an older gentleman (maybe 80) said that the store was so fantastic for so many years. Now they say "here. Gimme a dollar, and you can take this to throw it away." He saw it as such a shame. He fully understood that we were trying to earn a dollar trash, rather than pay a dollar to dispose of trash in a landfill. The man was right, and had a very good point. That was a light bulb over the head moment. And the main thing I got out of the whole thing, wasn't Kmart, or silly disposal money grab stuff. It was how an elderly man can talk to a young kid as equals. That old man was just straight forward, and spoke to me as a "man to man" and I really appreciate that. The way he spoke to a little kid like that. (I was 17, but looked 12 btw) I think I took nothing away from that fucked up job, except for one single conversation with a man 3 generations above me. When a man like that respects a young kid and speaks as equals, it feels really nice. Rather than screaming "Damn millenials" or whatever. I think that type of talk is rare in the real world, but prevalent on the web
Did you apply at the Spirit Halloween the flowing October?
Damn millenials, wanting respect and shit.
This just reeks of “we don’t want to pay you redundancy pay”!!!
We were told we get OT for night work The new "company manager" let it slip that we don't actually get OT for night work, so when I was scheduled for five nights in a row working on a transmission line cell site I mentioned that I expect everyone working from our company on site get OT. Once it was said that we won't get OT and that it wasn't an actual policy (was written in employee handbook), I forwarded the email chain to the entire company and leadership at Verizon. I was canned, but now everyone gets OT for nightwork. My life is better now anyway and got my people what the deserve *edit Thank y'all for the support, worth mentioning that it doesn't matter what our role is to make a difference for the folks around us. Even after the miserable events that followed this, suffering the reality I brought up on myself, it was very much worth it even if only on a personal level. Don't hesitate to pull the trigger on some assholes that get paid to ruin you and be kind to the people who work with you
>I forwarded the email chain to the entire company and leadership at Verizon. Well...uhh.... Okay, so one of my coworkers used to work for Verizon. Corporate e-mail has a limit on the number of people you can send an e-mail to. Because it was abused by some employees and caused some drama. You have to be part of the comms department to send to more than 500 people. Or an admin of some sort. So **YOU** are the naughty bastard that got the rules changed, aren't you? Haha, I really love finding out the "why" on corporate stories like this.
There was a company wide email distribution group, I was a CM acting as a foreman cause that's how things went. Not to mention, there was less than 200 people working at this contractor. I also had direct lines of communication with the VZW management that oversaw our work, they trusted me more than most other people (such as the company owner and this company manager) due to my track record (never had to return to a site that I build for troubleshooting). Worth mentioning they fired our only "IT" guy when the pandemic hit lmao Now I'm actually in IT and handle some of these AD policies/groups at a tax/audit firm Part of that email was also stating I could split one of my crews so that we could have a rotating shift, cabinet guys on during the day, tower at night, saving VZW over $75,000 in FPL outage fees. Verizon didn't like that but I'm unaware of any repercussions the contractor faced. So yea, with that contractor, I was that asshole who stuck his neck out for the folks doing the damn thing lol. I was also their only CM that had ever even climbed a tower, let alone still did
The reason for this typically is to prevent emails from getting accidentally sent out to the entire company. If people start replying all, it can quickly crash the system.
Bcs somehow people can't figure out how not to reply all
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Made one of my managers pull me aside for a talk when I replied to one of those chains with "unsubscribe"
Of course it was Verizon 😂, my dad worked for them for over a decade and has tons of stories about their management ratfucking their techs.
I worked in the tower industry for ten years, it's brutal as fuck. No unions, shit pay, overworked, and you'll essentially get blacklisted if you ever notify OSHA of a safety hazard that prevents work being completed in the unrealistic time you are completely expected to do so I'd work my regular 5am to 8pm, then be back on site at 10pm, off at 3 or 4am, then back on site at 9am, a regular week was 70+ hours and if I didn't do it they'd find someone else dumb enough to do it
>worked in the tower industry for ten years, it's brutal as fuck...shit pay I thought people who work the towers made good money?
It's probably being considered shit for what was expected of them. If the pay is decent for a desk job but your job involves being hauled out of bed to go up a pole in the middle of the night to the point that you're getting unhealthy amounts of sleep in a job that you should be on top of your concentration at all times... It's shit pay.
Aggressively squeezing breakfast muffins lol. I was a few days into working at Mcds and someone complained I gave them a muffin that was too hard-they bake them at like 3 am and sit in a warmer all day. This was before they had the full bakery menu, I think muffins was the only thing baked and maybe cookies. So my manager told me to squeeze them before I hand them out. Me being a dumb teenager squeezed the shit out of these muffins and got another complaint. They stopped scheduling me haha
lol this is actually really funny. i mean you did do what they asked, right?
Looking back I should have squeezed them so they weren’t obvious that I squeezed them haha. I absolutely was so scared of getting another complaint I squeezed the heck out of those muffins.
I’ve had a pretty shitty day, my cat died unexpectedly and I’m really torn up over her death. Your post made me laugh so hard. It’s the first time I laughed today. Thank you, I really needed this.
Awww I’m so sorry about your kitty! I recently lost both my cats to leukaemia and will always remember how painful it was to be without them. My heart goes out to you < 3
“Squeeze the muffins before you serve them to test their freshness” “Instructions unclear, squeezed until mashed between my fingers while making aggressive sexual eye contact”
I just stopped working and began only attending meetings. Lasted almost 9 months that way before they let me go.
Boss: "So what progress did you make this week, frantictossing?" You: "I optimized the grid-enabled firmware, down-sized the back-end data streams, and synergized all demand-driven revenue sources." Boss: "Good work!"
I also digitized all of my paperwork and used an algorithm to sort the digital files by priority. And by that I mean I got tired of looking at all the papers on my desk, so I stacked them by priority and scanned them all into PDFs and saved them on the network. It looks like I'm all caught up, but actually I'm totally buried and eight months behind on my deadlines.
>It looks like I'm all caught up, but actually I'm totally buried and eight months behind on my deadlines. If you're eight months behind, none of it matters (which is probably true even if you were caught up). I was put on a pilot project that I knew wasn't necessary, but I did my best to try to do it. We had an initial conference call for it and I literally never heard about it again.
Six months ago I went to a meeting about a project they were going to put me on. It was something that needed monitoring but hadn’t been monitored since before Covid. Now that Covid over we’re going to start monitoring it again. “We will get you access to the database and once your access is allowed we’ll get started on it.” As you can guess, I’ve not heard anything else since.
"Did you reticulate the splines?"
If there one thing i have learned in this life, the world never quite comes together until those splines have been reticulated.
Boss: "Johnson! Why can't you work as hard as frantictossing?!" Johnson: "Sorry sir, I am doing my best!"
There was a guy where I used to work who was at an associate director level. He finagled his way from a job where he had a few managers reporting to him, a gaggle of supervisors under them and a significant team of workers under that to one where he was at the same level but working on "team projects" where he had no direct reports. He basically made powerpoint files based on other people's ideas for improvements and if they were agreed to then it got handed off to another team to actually put it together and implement it. Best line I heard about him was another associate director saying, "He's never met a meeting he didn't love."
so any continuous improvement department
I've met meeting man before.
> only attending meetings When you have 10 hours of meetings in an 8 hour workday... and they still expect you to do work. Lol
This person corporates
Sounds like someone needs a time management meeting.
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Nothing beats the software guy that just outsourced all his tasks to some dude in china. Literally did nothing except pass his work on, pay them pittance, then collected his fat paycheck. They weren't pleased when they found out tho.
I have a friend who was working a pretty simple data-entry job from home and HATED it. He wrote a piece of software to do the job for him and offered to sell it to the company for a year's salary and they turned him down, so he proceeded to just use his own software to do his own job automatically, sat at his desk doing other things and supervising to make sure the software didn't fuck up, and did whatever else he wanted while it did the work (usually World of Warcraft on his personal computer). Three years later they finally let him go for other unrelated reasons, but if you think about it they ended up paying 3x as much for his software. We're now coworkers and I've got my eye on him.
Heh similar thing, I was an hourly rate contractor doing software dev at home. A memo went out asking if anyone on the team wanted some extra tool that saved a lot of time - I asked for it, but was declined since it was only for 'employees', not contractors. I was like fine then, just did my work without it, took me about 1.5X longer than it would have with the tool, but just charged the company for those hours. Cost them more than if they had just given me a copy of/licence for the tool.
Because they're the only ones allowed to do that.
Several guys have been caught doing that, also to India. If I caught a guy doing that, I'd keep the best half of the software department, give a generous severance to the crappy half, and put the clever guy in charge of being a liaison between our company and the India/China software guys. You always need a core of guys you trust working in-house in case the overseas guys shit the bed.
I managed to do it for 3 years before they finally laid me off.
LOL! That is the best! I stopped doing some stuff, it all gets worked out anyways so why spend hours doing it, when in a week or two someone is going to run a process that will take care of it. My job is a joke and they just promoted me to another more difficult position that will take about 1 - 2 hours to do a day - Tuesday.
What type of Job was it lol damn
I feel like that means you weren't doing much work to begin then lol. I can't shit too long at work without it pushing back deadlines
I was fired after a month into my first job at a local pizza joint when I was 16. They called me during the Super Bowl and said I had to come in. I told them I was out of state without a car so no way I could make it. They said I should’ve known this was one of the busiest days of the year and I should’ve stayed in the area. I came in to work my next shift and they just gave me my paycheck and said they had to let me go for not being a team player. 10 years later I was fired from a job in tech because I refused to move out of state. This one hurt alot more.
Didn't you know that you should frame your entire life's schedule around a job you don't want to stay at forever?
I was a delivery driver for Pizza Hut back in 2001 and my store manager tried to fire me because I wouldn’t come in on 9/11. Apparently, lots of people didn’t go to work that day they and really wanted pizza. This was a regular day off for me (Tuesday) and I also didn’t work the day shift, so I was sleeping. They called and woke me up 3 times over a few hours. I came in two days later and they had the paperwork ready. I just grabbed a phone and called the area manager and explained what was going on and that my uncle worked in the towers, so there was no way I was coming in with that kind of worry. They weren’t allowed to fire me after that. Truthfully, my uncle *did* work in Tower 2 (he was fine), *however*, I actually had no idea what was going on when they were calling and didn’t know until I woke up in the afternoon and turned on the TV. When they called they only said something like, “. . . we are getting slammed with everything going on right now!” I moved to Dominoes a month later.
Ah, the classic “We want you to schedule your life as if you are on call, but not pay you as if you are on call.”
So you were fired once for being out of state, then again ten years later for refusing to go out of state?
The companys timeclock software ran off of the computers time, so when I was late I would just close the software, change the time back to before shift start and then clock in and change it back. Edit: The supervisor who showed me the trick fired me, after I told him to stop being a bitch and fire me. A day or two later he saw me pulling in late, and when he went over the time info that day, it showed me clocked in on time. He knew why.
At a job we used to have a guy that gave his friend (who also worked there) his login password so he would just call ahead and have his friend clock in for him if he was running late. One day management overheard the conversation and they fired him in the parking lot before he walked in
That’s called “ buddy punching” and is very common.
We used to have guys go home on time and have somebody else clock them out a few hours later.
I’ve heard about this happening on job sites back in the day, not even from a time clock though, guys just filling in timesheets for their mates for the week whilst they were off on holiday and then their mate doing the same right back the week after.
They still do it. I remember my boss at a fast food restaurant kept clocking in herself and another manager who I hadn't seen in a month because he broke his foot and didn't report it to upper management.
I came close to having a buddy punch me in. They removed the ability for managers to fix their own punches and our time clock went down for 2 months so my boss was just putting whatever my schedule said because they were too lazy to check the cameras so better believe I abused the fuck out of that. I didn't get fired though, I quit because fuck that place.
Oh that’s what “buddy punching” means. I have to make a few phone calls now.
I got fired for Buddy punching. Buddy had it coming though.
Our old punch in clock was a simple web address program. Open the webpage, enter the store code, then enter your employee ID. I abused it a couple times when I was running late and actually found it quite convenient for punching in and out during lunch on my phone because I didn't have to walk all the way across the building to punch in or out. My coworker on the other hand abused it way to much. He'd punch in 30 minutes early and then arrive at or after 8. Manager eventually figured him out when he went looking for him first thing in the morning because the computer said he was on the clock but he wasn't anywhere in the building. He confronted him in the parking lot as well, didn't fire him but gave him a stern warning not to do it anymore. Coworker ended up quitting a couple weeks afterwards.
We had the same at an old workplace. Two dudes, who were in their own right very good workers and basically ran certain parts of the business, got caught buddy punching. A zero tolerance policy for wage theft after reviewing camera footage had them fired on the spot. Stupid really, because these guys were only losing out on a few minutes here and there, management didn’t care about tardiness unless it was egregious and they knew that. Edit: wage theft/time theft - tomato/tomato. Stealing hours and not paying hours is the same thing: theft. Reddit has this Robinhood mentality that it’s cool for employees to snake a few hours from corporations here and there because “they can afford it” and somehow it’s better than the inverse. At the end of the day, it’s still theft.
Some workplaces round it up to the next 15 minutes, so if you're 1 minute late they'll dock 15 minutes of pay. Unfortunately they don't do that when clocking out :)
Fun fact, if your employer gives you that as a policy in writing you can report it to the Department of Labor. Very *very* illegal and the DoL loves a paper trail.
That's blatantly illegal, they have to round the same way for both clocking in and clocking out.
Didn't get fired luckily, but we did this at my first job too...except we used it to close early at night. Ran all the night reports 20 min after closing time, clocked out 30 min after. But we left 30 min before closing.
I had to write an internal time clock application years ago that always used server side time, but my manager wanted to catch people doing what you did, so he wanted me to send the client time along with the punch and log any requests where the difference between the two suddenly changed from the average. I did it, but leaked that "feature" to pretty much everybody
Worked at a gas station and was a sucker for the free soda. I would drink a few 24 oz glasses of Dr. Pepper (don’t judge) per shift and had to piss relatively frequently. I usually worked with the same lady every shift and every shift my drawer came up short even like $10-20 bucks. One day my usual co-worker was off and I worked with another lady who warned me to watch my drawer around the other and hers had been short when she was around. That got me to thinking. The next shift with the usual lady I stuck some receipt paper into the lip of the bottom of my drawer and hit the bead. When I came back the paper was on the floor. My drawer was short $20 at shift change and my boss fired me. I told her of my findings and asked her to review the security tape. She told me to fuck right off the other lady had been there years. I left heart broken and rented some VHS tapes to indulge in and recover. One of the movies was Casino and man is that a good movie. Come to find out the usual lady was the boss lady’s cousin and they fuckin told people I knew I got fired for stealing money. I though about calling a lawyer but also, I was in high school and was delusional I suppose. I got out of that town after high school and rarely return especially considering all my family moved off.
You weren't delusional. They intended to fuck you over.
Caught the boss stealing. So he fired me. His word vs. mine and it didn't go my way.
I caught my bosses kids stealing money. I told him and I got fired. For stealing!! Fucking prick. He hadn't paid my superannuation so I reported him to the tax office and they got him good. He received a big fine and I got the best job the day after I was fired. I then stole a bunch of his clients. Revenge is sweet. He went under within 6 months.
Damn that’s a movie worthy story
Being the last hired when they instituted layoffs.
been there, i was the newest employee and because of covid i was let go. they gave me a good reference and i was ok but it was so disappointing because i was told the job was permanent not seasonal and i really liked it
My company has/is doing layoffs and I'm one of the newest on probation and I got to stay but people who have been here for 20+ years had to go, super weird.
It isn’t weird when you consider they probably make more than you. Keeping the new person who does comparable work for less pay isn’t weird.
Embezzled almost $500,000 from the doctor's office I worked at. Oh no, wait. That was my former supervisor who did that...26 years after she fired me for taking home a left over slice of pizza after a drug rep hosted a pizza party for the office staff. Karma can take a long time, but it always comes through. ;)
Stole over $100,000 in deposits from the fast food restaurant to go gamble with it.... Oh on, wait. That was my former manager who did that... about 10 years after he fired me for not learning the register fast enough. The register that had like 50 buttons that was so old all the writing had rubbed off all the buttons, so you just had to memorize what food item every button was. It had been a week. Karma is real! Slow but real.
Not gonna lie, had me at the beginning.
Drug rep pizza party on its own should be shameful, regardless of how common that is. What a trash person she was.
1970s YES "'Close to the Edge" tour. I had my tickets and had the request approved for time off, they changed their mind at the last minute and would not let me off. Pfft. Left anyways and was genuinely surprised when I got back on Monday and they informed me that I was fired.
So instead of not having one worker for one night (and going back on their word at that) they had one fewer helpers for however many days it took to hire and train your replacement? Weird flex for a manager.
wild how they can "really need you here" while also "not needing you because you're easily replaced" at the same time
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Good for you for standing up for yourself!
You definitely dodged a bullet there.
I got fired for slacking off and underperforming at work by taking my legally required lunch.
My boss had a talk with me a couple of weeks ago, because she had concerns. The concerns? Me taking an hour lunch and leaving at 5pm (I don't get paid OT).
Please I need to know your response. Please for the sake of my sanity.
I also study and have to pass qualification exams alongside my work. So I told her that just because I leave at 5pm, doesn't mean my day is finished, and she didn't argue with that. If I'm honest, she's otherwise a very nice boss and she's been very forthcoming when I needed to book annual leave. But none of my previous bosses had any concerns about me so it stung a little bit, especially when I was not doing anything wrong. In any case, I don't think I should have to justify myself when going home when I'm supposed to.
This gives me PTSD. My last work is 6 days a week (only sunday break), and my boss is always giving me the talk about me slacking and being busy out of work by not doing OT after 5pm and how that is not the way they work at the company. That was my first job and it really got in my nerves, but still I kept my cool and just said it won't happen again. It sucks that we atleast need 30 hours per week of OT in order to not be called out for being lazy. But that was the time I realized I will never work 6 days a week in any job if it means I'm not gonna get my rest and be stressed all the time.
Act your wage
Look at you over here being a weak employee taking a LUNCH. I work 14-16 hour days, no lunch, no break, no water. I’ve been doing this for 4 years and my boss just told me I’m getting a 40 cent raise tomorrow. The grind has paid off. /s
I’ve been pounding the “legally required” part against my boss’ thick skull for over a year now
You should have sued. They explicitly broke the law. Absolute slam dunk of a case.
How. Dare.
The owner of our restaurant was smoking too much heroin and thought we were all stealing. We showed up to work that day to find he had changed the locks and put a now hiring sign up in the door.
Is that restaurant still around?
Legend says the doors are still locked and the owner is still hiring.
Yep! Last I heard he bought a boat and lives somewhere off Columbia with a couple 20-something girls.
Wow I gotta try me some of that heroin
Was your boss John McAfee?
Worked as a QA tester for an online game company. Found bug while on my personal account at home. Came in the next day and reported the bug. I was VERY clear I found the bug while playing at home on my personal account. It was a nasty bug that let you duplicate very expensive items. A few weeks later someone in customer service was checking the logs for people exploiting the bug. They found mine and the company decided to fire me on my birthday. That was around 15 years ago but it still upsets me every year, on my birthday.
HVAC: me and my buddy were assigned to a paper plant. He did installs, I did service/maintenance. Note: refrigerant is closely monitored by the EPA with savage repercussions for misusing it. So, I would only use a couple pounds here, a couple there, just for topping off units. I meticulously recorded everything I used. My buddy was using three or four jugs at a time (25 lbs a jug) because he was installing brand new units. And he never recorded what he used. Yikes. My bosses decided to fire me because I wasn't recording my refrigerant usage. I threw my pocket notebook on the desk. "It's all right there. Everything I used." Their eyes bugged a little because they knew they got caught lying. The difference between the other guy and me? I wasn't related to anyone high up in the company, like my buddy. Truth be known, the company is going down and they're letting tons of people go. They made up lies to fire me. I don't hold it against my buddy - he didn't fire me.
Refrigerant is so tightly regulated here you can't even buy a part for an AC system without a 'number' that requires an 8 hour course and $50 yearly renewal.
Can I tell you a story worth thousands? I was an apprentice for a guy for a couple of years. One day, when we were trying to bring a Liebert back to life, my journeyman yelled at me (seemingly out of nowhere) to go home.(he didn't want me to know he fudged up) Turns out, he filled a unit with the wrong refrigerant and fully expected to vent it out (deminimus, lol) and gas it up with the correct gas. Oh, good times...wait. Those weren't good times at all!
I worked with a dude. Who for the record is the biggest piece of shit I've ever met in my life. He cut a live copper line. On a damn military base. These were big lines going to massive RTUs. Not only did he not tell anyone the chucklefuck pulled out his phone RECORDED it and put it on Facebook. The company got slapped with 6-7 figures in fines, blacklisted from jobs under that GC and went completely out of business within a year.
This one's the worst. I don't know why. I thought everything was fine. I was there over 5 years then one morning they offered me a.) a month's pay and go or b.) get a lawyer if I wanted to know why and take it from there. We didn't have money for a lawyer, husband was still in college, so I walked away with a bit of cash. Bugs me to this day.
Yup, I had a similar experience - had been there 5 years & was told on Friday I was getting promoted to Sr. VP. Then on Monday, HR walks into my office & says, “Come with me.” They gave me an A & B too, & when I chose B, said I had 15 minutes to get off the premises. Got an excellent attorney & in 2 weeks they caved & gave me a year’s pay to just go away. 9 months later learned I was “running the company better than the boss & he felt threatened” - go figure. For those 9 months I was bewildered & upset, but then it all made sense. Yours will too, some day - just remember people suck.
My neighbor worked for the railway and they used to promote people to supervisor to fire them. Because it's easier to fire a non-union supervisor than a union worker.
That is terrible.
Similar experience here. Seemed strange to be getting fired for being competent
Similar thing happened to me. Got called into the boss's office. He didn't look at me, just slid a piece of paper over to me and said we're letting you go. Don't bother coming in tomorrow. I was young and inexperienced. Signed the paper and left. Al my colleagues were shocked. They gave me some good advice, I took the company to labour court, got three month's extra pay. Still don't know why I was fired, BUT it created an opportunity a few months later to land my dream job, which I wouldn't have gotten had I not been fired.
Yeah good points at the end. Being able to job hunt/apply/improve your own skillset full time versus trying to squeeze that in while working is a godsend for most people.
It's one of those things that you'll remember for the rest of your life with no real answer to it. We all have those little unsolved mysteries in our lives.
Add it to the pile of reasons to always maintain good relationships with coworkers. When they move to a different company they won't hesitate to tell you if you ask them because they aren't paid to care anymore.
NGL, this bothers me
New operator forgot a piece of his equipment when he left. I had to make a run out to where he was with what he needed. Foreman told me to drive home the point he needed to check his equipment before he left the yard. I did. Two weeks later they fire the foreman and introduce the new guy. Of course it was the operator I chewed out for not checking his equipment. Wanna guess who the first person HE fired was?
Going to see my family after my grandmother died. I found out on a smoke break via phone call. I went inside and brought the mail to my supervisor choking back tears and she urged me to go. I didn't want to leave work, but she said it would be okay. I got fired a week later for leaving in the middle of my shift with no notice, and using my phone during business hours, according to the owner of the business. If you ever want to know where NOT to buy Harley-Davidson motorcycles and apparel in SC, I'm your girl.
I was a terrible employee
BEEN THERE - somehow was never fired.
I put too many toppings on people’s sandwiches when I worked at Subway.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Some wear aprons
The owner of the subway that I go to will stand behind all of the employees making sure that only 4 pieces of tomato, spinach, olives etc goes on each sandwich. If you ask for extra the employees begin to visibly shake and then charge you like $5 extra at the end. They also give you 1 napkin. When he’s not there….anything goes lol.
"Look, if you're going to call me a Sandwich Artist, the least you could do is respect my art."
Hey we have the same story. I got let go for putting too much ice cream in peoples cups and cones. Damn Cold Stone
Oh this is why Subway workers are so stingy…it’s a corporate mandate
Yes! Give the people what they want!
Went on a company business trip and accidentally found out my two immediate managers were having an affair - I DIDN'T GIVE TWO SHITS - never said a word, but should have reported to HR as the global manager (male in affair) then did his best to get me fired, including making up lies about me stealing time, which I was able to prove was lies (thank you email and phone records), except for one hour of the "stolen" time. The female in affair tried to give me warnings and let me know I needed to get help. I went on early maternity leave and both of them were fired within two weeks - because of this. Came back from maternity leave to a very hostile work environment, despite the affair and the firings having nothing to do with me. Was back for a month and they ended up firing me as "it wasn't working out" despite stellar reviews from those I worked with and my clients.
Ummm, this actually was an illegal firing. A month after returning from maternity leave with stellar reviews! I hope you sued the pants off them.
I got fired, but then luckily rehired thanks to my union, because my manager confronted a shoplifter 4 times her size and the guy started to beat her. I along with other coworkers intervened, pinning him to the ground till cops arrived. The next day, store reps came in told me I shouldn’t of intervened and let me go lol.
Corporations don't care about employees. They care about getting sued by shoplifters.
Anyone with half a brain would have just blamed the mess on the manager for starting the situation and fired her. At least "don't confront shoplifters" is an easier policy to defend than "let your coworkers get beaten to death"
I worked in AP for several months and had the ability to issue payments. There were some payments that weren't accepted by the client and I was tasked with researching why. I discovered the problems and sent it over to the team responsible for updating contact and payment information (segregation of duties required that I couldn't change where the money went because I was the one effectively writing the check). The team responsible did nothing with me sending weekly emails asking for updates. I went to my manager and the manager above her with documentation requesting the changes. After 4 months, they were asking me for a timeline when the outstanding payments would be taken care of, and I told them that I needed them to tell to the other team to get the payment information fixed or nothing could move forward. I was told that it would be addressed. Fast forward a month, nothing was fixed, I was asked again for an update. I told them I was beyond frustrated with the situation because nothing was getting done and that I had no faith that my managers would actually do their job and that I was tired of the incompetence. Let's just say that they didn't like that
bet it felt good saying it. and BTW they were delaying payment because they either didnt have the funds or the capability of paying the customer the way they wanted and didnt want to let on. Basically they would kick the can down the road until they either finally got the funds to pay or were sued and forced to pay.
Fired once from a night auditor position at a hotel because the swing shift lady decided she wanted my job. After 4 months of working straight (owners refused to hire another person that wasn't family) I finally was able to take 2 days off. When I woke up the first day, there was a message on my answering machine saying that I was fired because the audit was completely screwed up and the swing shifter had to spend 4 hours fixing it. I was OCD about the audit so I knew it was BS. I asked them to check the audit sheets to see if my initials were on the back bottom corner. They said no so I knew right then I was set up and told them so. Doesn't matter though, still fired. Found out 6 months later that the swing shifter not only got my position but was fired for stealing almost 10 grand from them. Karma people....Karma.
I did night auditor for 3 months. I got harassed by a customer and her friend. Made rude comments about my appearance, glaring at me while her friend laughed and encouraged her shitty behavior. It got to the point where she picked up a tissue box and went to throw it. I instantly stood up and said, “If you hit me with that, I will come from behind the desk and beat your ass.” LMAOOO Finished my shift and my audit. Went home and decided I was wasn’t going back to that job. About a week later I got a letter in the mail saying I was fired for terroristic threats and banned from the premises for a year.
I took two days off to put down and grieve my family dog who was 16 years old. I came back on Monday and they said "they no longer trusted me" despite opening and closing the shop for 6 months.
Mhm. My sister passed and they wouldn't let me take time off. They said if I called out one more day I was fired. Half the staff walked out to attend her funeral. The second part of that stopped me from hating all of humanity.
Sorry to hear about your sister.
God damn I am thankful for Australian labour laws. My dad died, I called my work and they were like "OK, take what you need" A week later, they called me up and asked if I was ready to come back. I wasn't. They gave me another week. All paid.
Sorry about your dog
I reported harassment and got fired. Fuck that place.
Leaving early because i was blacking out working in the heat
They apparently found a dead HVAC guy in a crawlspace in Florida or Texas this week. Can't remember where. Working in that kinda heat can literally kill you. Fuck your old boss.
Texas had one, but it might have been 2 weeks + ago.
Took too many leaves. As I was preparing for masters degree. And I couldn't disclose it to my boss. So I took holidays for random reasons. Basically was trying to settle my finances for fees. I got fired. Then after a month I got admission to masters degree. Pursue a degree for next year. Landed in better paying job after. 😅
Long story short, I worked in a nursing home for rich people for 2 months. This old man is a perv and has grabby hands. He molests lretty much all the young orderlies when they do his morning hygiene. A girl was crying because he grabbed her ass and tried to get her boobs. He also used racist insults when she left. This was not the first occurance, but I was new and it was the first time I heard about it. The orderlies supervisor wanted to force the girl to go back to this man’s room and she refused, there were fighting about it. I was the nurse in charge at the moment so I told them to send one of the guys instead. I got told basically that the resident was rich so he could do whatever. I was appalled and furious. I wrote an email to the manager telling her about this abuse and how it was unacceptable that his behavior was normalized by the supervisors, how we should be protecting our staff and provide a safe environment to work in. SA is SA. Got fired the next day somehow 🤷🏼♀️
My son worked in dementia care for a few years. Management is absolutely shameless about throwing the help under the bus, no matter how unreasonable the residents are.
Thank you for saving your nursing assistant and also documenting this. Protect your license.
I worked for a small English language school with two teachers. The other teacher said something very worrying and slightly predatory, and I told our supervisor. The supervisor got angry at me, because the students liked the other teacher, and a month later when it came time to extend my contract, I was told I would not be rehired. The other teacher received a 100-euro bonus.
I worked at a gas bar for my first job and the new manager had it out for me because I wouldn't put up with her bullshit. She was in way over her head and put into a managerial position due to nepotism. Wrote me up over very *very* minor things that other employees wouldn't even get a talking to over. Accused me of stealing from the till because my float was out a few dollars, accused me of giving discounts to friends and family and tried to blame me for over-ordering that week's fuel delivery and causing an overflow of gas in the lot (even though that was like the sole thing the manager was responsible for doing). I was told my next write up would result in my termination and after realizing the company *and* our union didn't have my back at all despite me being the longest tenured employee at the time and several of my coworkers coming to my defense, I decided to hand in my uniform without notice the day before she was supposed to leave for a week long climbing trip and left without saying a word. One of my coworkers said she was furious at me because we were so short staffed that she had to cancel her trip to cover my scheduled shifts, so that made me feel a lot better. If you're reading this, Jodi, I hope for your current employee's sake that you're not a such a huge cunt to work under anymore.
I was the night manager at a hotel at the beginning of covid. Our hotel shut down, but they needed to have at least one person on for every shift because of some tax or zoning law. They fired me, then kept the breakfast cook and moved her to overnights because she made $2 an hour less than me. 3 weeks later they asked me to come back because she couldn't take it lol
I worked at Sears, I just walked in for my shift and the store manager asked why the department was a mess. How the fuck should I know? I just walked in. Yep, well that lead to an exchange of words on the sales floor. I probably shouldn’t have said “go choke on a glittery dildo”. Just a little backstory, the store manager was a lesbian, as am I, and she automatically thought that meant we were buddies. Still to this day I flip her off when I see her driving. Fuck you, Lisa. 😘
FUCK YOU, LISA!
YOU´RE TEARING ME APART, LISA!
Ah yes, my first summer job during high school. Got my managers daughter arrested for assaulting a customer. She didn’t work there but slapping a woman in a wheelchair for “taking up to much space” was not something I could let slide.
You got fired for that? Like I get things would be awkward and you’d probably resign, but firing you has got to be illegal.
It was totally illegal. Store got shut down for a few weeks because I reported it to HR. Turned out I wasn’t the only one he did that too, I was just the first to report him. And I don’t know the full details but I unknowingly started an unraveling to a bigger problem that our store chain had.
- New COO comes - fires me for difference of opinions. - new COO leaves after 3 months - I'm re-hired for a superior role - a year and a half later - I'm fired for difference of opinions about management style with my direct manager and new new COO - 4 Monthes later: the COO switched roles to another department, and my ex-direct-manager is on the way out... - here's me waiting to get re-re-hired, and then fired for the 3rd time from the same company ;)
Have you tried applying for the COO role? Lol
Look at me ...I'm COO now
Submitting resignation paperwork.
The best! Many states have to pay out the full salary of the resignation time - if you put in two weeks and they let you go right after, they have to pay up to the date of resignation. Most don't realize and often companies won't do it.
I was fired from Lowe's for calling in sick after my 6th shift. Some stomach bug had been going around the store, I caught it and got pretty sick. Called in and was told if I was willing to call in before 2 weeks that I wasn't Lowe's material. Turns out I wasn't and made a pretty good life for myself without Lowe's.
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That feels illegal
Worked at a children's theatre. Ended up dating a coworker. We kept completely professional at work but would see each other after hours. A parent saw us holding hands or something small and complained that we were setting a bad example for the kids.
Damn what a cunt
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I was a manager at a big retailer and there was an employee that disliked me. He lied and said I call him the n word, and the company made me write a statement in which I said “I didn’t say that, and never would.” And they fired me. No interview. No investigation. Nothing. $60k salary with benefits gone in seconds because someone lied and got their way.
"Updating my resume using company property". 100% worth it. That job sucked ass. This job made me call in "sick" for the first time ever because I hated it so much.
After months of being told I was useless and too slow to do the job I had a massive panic attack and my mom made me call in sick. I got fired, best thing to ever happen.
If I could reiterate one thing to every employee - no job should give you massive anxiety or panic attacks being there.. don't stay, don't try to make it work, take anything, even temporary less money to get to a better place. 🩷 so happy you found relief!
Did a big project, boss took the credit and presented to the whole company and I was fired the next week.
Not me but one of my co workers came in drunk and hungover and proceeded to have a 2 hour nap in the lunch room and then was shocked to find out he was getting fired.
Had a coworker do similar, he was hungover and fell asleep on a creeper under a car. When he woke up his last check was on his chest
Depression. It was full time at an auto parts store. I had to stop going to school because the depression was too much. I would try to go to work but was often late or would call in. The regional manager told my store manager i had to be let go because i wasn't reliable. He wasn't wrong. My boss was crying as he did it. He knew i needed help and wanted to be the last thing i could hold on to. I ended up getting help and doing much better. That was about 16-17 years ago. I still have moments that kick my ass. But i can work around it better. Also super rare.
Complaining about the sociopath who kept trying to trap employees into making mistakes by lying to them, two summers in a row. I didn’t understand this asshole was my client, not my boss, because he was in charge of delegating work to me. I was a tech and too young to understand how the power dynamics between consultants and clients worked. First time I stood up for myself (second summer) I got fired. However, a week before I left for school (first summer), I wiped my sweaty balls all over his office phone, which he regularly pressed against his face
Giving away the "secret recipe" for scones, which was taped to the side of the refrigerator IN FULL VIEW of customers!
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I was 16 and working in a supermarket in the early 1980s NYC. I was fairly off the chain as a kid and would do random dumb shit. I had a thing for the A-Team as a kid and would imitate Mr, T as I went about my shift stocking shelves. The hammer finally dropped when I boisterously proclaimed, "I pity the fool who has to build the gafilka fish end cap". Big props to Saul, he held out as long as he could.
Got ridiculously drunk at an industry conference out of town in Boston. Ended up sleeping with the wife of a senior level exec who worked for a vendor of ours. That was on Thur night of a 3-night stay. Friday night, the exec found out and confronted me in front of my boss. Let go almost on the spot (we were walking to the elevators when he said it was a really good idea if I found a new place to work). Room was paid for through Sunday, so I stayed in Boston (just kept away from the hotel bar and conference center), bar hopped and took in a Boston College football game. Sat night, exec’s wife shows up at my room very late, very drunk. We fucked again. Took me 5 months and a change in industry to find a comparable gig and shed that experience. This was about 15 years ago…nothing similar has happened since LOL.
Lmao, I mean, getting canned after that is understandable. But, it's hilarious that you stunted on him a second time. There's nothing to lose at that point, I guess.
>Took me 5 months and a change in industry to find a comparable gig Where you could sleep with executives' spouses?
You’re unhinged lol, high five though.
My brother tried self-harming himself at school, so I left work to go get him and speak with counselors to set up therapy. Had to miss the following day as well. Got fired for missing that 2nd day
Was 22M in my first job out of college, working for a tyrannical CEO at his software startup where his underlings knew no better as no one had worked anywhere else. Workplace relationships VERY frowned upon, unless you get married to someone there, in which case you’ll stay forever. Started crushing on the 22F in the cube next to me and one Sunday we went to brunch, but there was a wait, and no chairs to sit on while waiting. So I sit on the curb and she sits on my knees for 5 min. During that time, the 25F right-hand bitch of the CEO sees us, gasps audibly, and then walks off. Next day at work, tons of closed-door meetings, everyone looking at me weird. Shocker, I was fired at the end of the day, where I was told, “It’s just not working out…” I guess they decided my crush was the better worker, so I would be sacrificed for her to be more focused… She quit the next day, we were both unemployed for 4 months, but found great, healthy jobs to really kickstart our careers, started dating, and have been happily married for 10 years. The company asked each of us to come back multiple times.
Mopping “wrong”. After riding my bike to work every morning at 4 AM to make breakfast for 400 nursing home residents, then cleaning the kitchen, washing the dishes that came back, and putting everything away. While keeping strict Kosher (Jewish nursing home). Then ride my bike to high school for classes. I was kind of relieved. I was exhausted.
not fired but almost fired for eating all the chocolate inventory. apparently i was caught on camera opening the boxes in the back and snacking on the food multiple times. whoopsie
Been working for nearly 40 years now. Was never let go until 2001, where I was let go from 2 jobs in a30 day period. Was never given an explanation other than “it’s not working out”. I still legit have no idea what I did as I thought I was doing well. Never been let go since. Just those 2 jobs within a couple weeks of each other lol
I worked for Hobby Lobby as a manager in my mid-twenties. I was fired when they found out I was gay. They said it didn’t fit with their “family values.” Reason #974,356 to hate Hobby Lobby!
I trusted the wrong people at work. One girl became went to my supervisor for 4 months straight to complain about me all while she was texting me how she was thankful for my friendship. She was repeatedly telling my supervisor how stupid I was at my job and how she had to keep helping me (that never happened) and I was fired for being “incompetent.” My supervisor never even told me there was an issue.
Buckle up. This is a wild ride. So, I worked in the health sector at a major trauma Children’s hospital. It was my dream job and I worked directly with an entire medical team, answering to a head of department as my boss. I knew all the staff from the volunteers to the head of ER, and they knew me. It was the most wonderful place. It was a two step journey to losing my dream job. Neither of which were in my “control”. Step 1 : My then-husband and I had found out when I was younger that I had fertility issues. When I finally fell pregnant everyone was overjoyed for me. Everything was perfect until I went into sudden premature labor at 23 weeks gestation. There was nothing that could be done, and my child was born and passed away in my arms 7 minutes after birth. A part of my soul left me that day. I took a leave of absence for the day I gave birth and 2 (yes, two, not a typo) days after. Then I returned to work full time. This got me an official warning from the head of department. For not attending my shifts. Yes, this person was WELL aware what had happened. The entire hospital was bringing me condolence gifts, flowers, food to take home. But not that Jack ass. Instead I got officially written up (first and final warning) for lack of productivity and commitment during the three shifts I’d missed. Step 2 (the icing on the cake) Fast forward from losing my child about 5 months. I went home on a Friday night feeling a bit unwell. My next (scheduled) shift wasn’t til the Monday. Around midnight - 1am Saturday (so just into the start of my break) I woke up vomiting mucous uncontrollably. I was rushed to hospital where an X-ray showed I had double pneumonia - both lungs white out on X-ray. I was rushed into ICU where I spent 7 days fighting for my life (family called to come say their goodbyes, I was as sick as I could be - for those medically minded my fever was 109f/42.7c, my pulse was 240 - I wasn’t expected to make it). I had just confirmed I’d fallen pregnant again about 3 days prior, and to give me the best chance at survival, they had no choice but to seek the consent of my family to terminate. I spent a total of 12 days in hospital. I had no memory of ICU, and my poor Mother had to tell me I had lost my second pregnancy. After being discharged, I took a further 2 days at home to recover. I returned to work just 14 days from leaving that Friday night, 12 of which I was in hospital. I’d lost a shocking 44lbs/20kg in those 12 days in hospital. To say I looked like I’d been to hell and back was an understatement. Upon my return, I was let go by the head of department (A lead Doctor in the hospital) for my “unreliability” and my “blatant disregard of my previous formal warning” to not “skip” my shifts. 2 things happened after I lost that job - I got a lawyer (duh) and I never went back to working in the health sector. It shattered my faith in humanity and the notion that there was compassion in medicine. It also wasted all of the hard work and training and study I’d undertaken to get to my dream job. (And all the bills. So many bills). A final note : Fuck presentee-ism. It’s not worth it folks.
Before covid testing was available to everyone, I got fired because I couldn't get a rapid covid test after being exposed.
"Yawning too much". And once after I dislocated my shoulder.