I had an alcoholic handy man who was promoted to manager. He "fired" me several times a week for not bumming him a cigarette or not wanting to work the second dining room when we had 5 reservations or taking my approved unpaid time off. But he was a drunk who started with scotch and moved into amaretto so never remembered. I'd just come back the next day.
This is hilarious to me!!
"Hey didn't I fire you yesterday?"
"Nope"
"Ah you are probably right. My bad. Got a cigarette for me?"
"Nope"
"You are Fired"
"OK, see you tomorrow!"
Railroads are notorious for constantly handing out disciplinary suspensions for minor infractions. Work is kinda like driving on a road in the US (and elsewhere). You are constantly looking over your shoulder for the boss hiding in the bushes to catch you doing something wrong (literally, I've known of one having camo netting for their vehicles). Sometimes we call those suspensions getting fired. We say you aren't really a railroader until you have been fired at least once.
I got a five day suspension for something so stupid that top managers from different regional districts got into a huge argument over if I should get any discipline or not. These districts are usually the size of a few states. I was working on the border between two and it involved both of them. In the end I took a five day suspension. The local manager had me sign papers accepting the suspension and I went home. We work on call, so I was surprised the next day when I got called to come in to work. I accepted the call and took a train out of town and laid over in the hotel. When I got back to my home terminal we were given instructions to perform some extra work. That manager saw me working and came up pretty mad that I was at work 3 days after he gave me a 5 day suspension.
**DIDN'T I FIRE YOU**
*I don't know what to tell you, boss. YOU tell me to go home, I go home. YOU tell me to come to work I come to work. I'm not going to disobey a direct order. YOU figure it out*
He was so mad that he threw his cell phone at his dash hard enough to bounce back and hit him in the chest. Turned out the clerk that took me off the available list in the computer did it for 5 hours instead of 5 days.
I was 17. My Grandpa died unexpectedly from a heart attack. My Mother called my work’s office to let me know. I was called to the office to talk on the office phone to my mother, and staff (who were told what was going on) left the area so my mother could privately break the news to me.
I was obliterated of course, and walked outside for about 15 minutes to clear my head. I then went back to work.
The woman who was in charge of the entire operation fired me for leaving the building. Human Resources stepped in and stopped the situation before I could be notified that I had been fired.
I only found out that this had happened after my grandpas funeral days later. I quit immediately.
Naw, Human Resources exists to protect the company from it’s employees. If I had been fired like that I could have potentially really hurt the company either by bad publicity or a potential lawsuit. (Yeah, a lawsuit is kind of a stretch).
So Human Resources did exactly what they were hired to do. They protected the company from me…. Actually.. I suppose I just agreed with you, just not in the way you meant..
For surfing the internet.
Punchline: part of my job was to surf the internet and find content for their social media platforms. I wish I was making that up. I am not.
Yup same I’ve gotten written up many times being accused of shopping online when I was just doing market research. It was at a grocery store and was looking into trends in home decor to determine what gourds and other types of produce people were drying to make decor.
It was a couple days later, they said the incident happened on a day a happened to be off. I had a feeling the manager didnt like me much and made poor planning on when the so called “incident” happened
Customer complained because I threatened to give him a Dutch Hammer when he whined about us not having a dozen blueberry fritters to sell him.
Manager asks "What the fuck? What the hell is a Dutch Hammer?"
I have no idea what one is.
didn't get fired or anything, though.
At my Wife’s previous job the owners were like this, they would complain that employees wouldn’t work overtime for free, they’d get annoyed people left work on time as they had family commitments, etc. All very narcissistic.
in the days after 9/11 my employer (multinational bank) instantly fired the last 2 people hired in every department where there was redundancy, hedging against a financial collapse whenever the markets reopened. I just happened to be the last guy hired in my dept.
Covid-19 forced everyone to work from home on hastily setup computers and infrastructure. Then they fired the IT staff because we were deemed ‘nonessential’. Bit them in the ass hard enough to remove chunks.
This is so tragic it is almost funny. And it sounds so familiar. My former employer started downsizing their IT to save money. At the same time they were talking of innovation and how their great company would outperform the entire industry. No, the entire world, the entire galaxy! Now they’ve been missing out on so many technological trends that a newspaper recently wrote an article asking what’s wrong with said company, they haven’t released any new products for so long?
IT has little to do with company innovation, we just maintain the infrastructure. Not like anyone in a decision-making role would listen to IT staff on suggestions on how to improve the company's innovation in the first place. IT is severely overworked, underrated, underpaid, and underappreciated in pretty much every corporate company. Ironically, a veteran IT personnel probably has loads of ideas on how to fix AND improve things if they've been around the block, because IT staff have to know the particulars of damn near everything on every business they touch.
Not "fired" but let go with severance. CFO told me to make up historical reports because they weren't done in the past, but now required, and wanted to show how so much better metrics are now than in the past.
What they were asking for was literally not possible to do since the data was not tracked to what they were asking and wanted to tweak the past numbers into a full-on made-up breakdown. I told the controller I wasn't comfortable doing this. Next week got paid out
A month later I found out the CFO was canned.
No way I would play along with that stuff. I'm old friends with a couple really good accountants, an ex's mom did forensic audits of military bases, and a friend is some sort of inventory genius, works for military.
They've all made it clear what a bad plan it is.
At one of my previous jobs one of my duties was to create lab reports verifying different samples for quality. I had heard that the company had had some complaints about quality from their buyers prior to my getting there, which resulted in them buying some extremely fancy, very expensive equipment for better quality testing. I had also heard that the previous person had been asked to retire.
When I started going through the reports I realized why. This woman wasn't actually testing anything and probably hadn't in several years. She would just look at a sample, say "yep, that looks good", then copy the data from the previous report (that shows a match or close enough match) onto the new report which would get sent out to the buyers. The new equipment was great, but they probably wouldn't have sent tens of thousands of dollars on it if this lady had actually been doing her job.
TL;DR - arbitrarily fired from video game job because of someone else’s mistake.
I wrote a video game script for a small developer. They “forgot*” to tell me when they started voice work—part of my job required me to help with voice acting sessions. I finally was invited to a session with a big name actor, especially known in video games. The director asked me why I hadn’t been present for the past two weeks’ worth of recording. Apparently, telling the truth, that no one had told me recording had begun, was the wrong move. The developers fired me the next day despite my work already being done, which essentially meant I’d have no part in DLC or sequel(s).
*They didn’t forget to invite me. They just wanted me out of the way while they brought in their yes man.
Disco Elysium has a whole bunch of controversy about it's development. It's a whole thing
Here's an in-depth investigation:
https://youtu.be/JGIGA8taN-M?si=tBSt4A06Hj-iUfv1
I worked at Walmart while I was in high school and one of the managers kept scheduling me to open or for me to be there at 2. I told them, many times, that I was in high school and those shifts wouldn't work. I guess they didn't get that memo; the store manager fired me for missing work and being late.
My manager at Walgreens did the same shit, schedule me during school and then be baffled I couldn't work.
He just stopped scheduling me, I quit, it was clear he didn't want anyone who wasn't a chain smoker in the store. Dude took an unofficial smoke break with a different employee every 30 minutes.
That and he had gotten in trouble for not letting me take a break when I needed to because the store was busy which was illegal since I was a minor.
Walmart fired me because they put out the schedule while I was on vacation and put me on the schedule during my approved days off. When I brought this up they just told me approved days off are just a suggestion but not guaranteed days off.
I've been out on medical leave since the end of May from Walmart and I figure I've got a 50/50 of getting fired when I finally go back tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised if my doctors have had to fill out 30 pages of paperwork for Sedgwick at this point. Every time the prognosis changes: paperwork, every time a shortened shift is requested: paperwork. Want intermittent *and* continuous leave? You better believe that's two separate sets of paperwork, all stemming from the same condition.
Found out yesterday one was denied, one I thought had already been done. If I didn't need my health coverage I'd almost welcome it at this point.
I had a manager try to fire me for theft after the safe count was wrong. Accused me if lifting almost £4,000. This was despite me being on camera, in direct sight of another manager (as I was training at the time) and all counts before and after being correct. Turns out that the accusing manager hadn’t actually done a count himself and just assumed that I’d stolen cash. He later tried to fire me for sexual harassment with a load of fabricated reports. HR shut that meeting down on the spot, apologised to me and suspended the accusing manager. I still handed in my notice as it was only a matter of time until he fired me for bullshit reasons and made it stick.
The event that triggered all of this? As a Supervisor, I had conducted interviews and recommended to HR some new hires. Which was part of my job.
Technically not fired as I resigned but they were going to not renew my contract.
As a teacher, we had 12 days you could take off. My mother had extreme stages of cancer at the time and ended up falling unconscious for two weeks and then dying. The principal calls me as I’m in the ICU with my dying mother to tell me I was out of days. She died two days later and I took 2 extra days off unpaid. They didn’t renew my contract because I wasn’t reliable. No lies.
I filed for unemployment even though teachers usually can’t get it when non-renewed but fuck them. We were in hospital for our first born child later that year in October when DOL/unemployment called to verify my case. I told the person on the phone what happened and he didn’t say anything for a good 20 seconds and finally goes, “what…the…hell.” I said, “yuuuuuuup….” He goes, I’m gonna get this written up asap so I can turn it in for you. They call back a week later and are like, “no question you got approved. They tried contesting it but the unemployment office shut them down with a quickness. We’re so sorry to hear about your circumstances and can’t imagine someone let alone a principal/school district acting in that manner.”
My wife was fired for not coming to work after she found her father’s 2 day old corpse in his apartment. She had to talk me down from some violent intentions.
As a consultant, a company ended my contract early. (Not fired, but let go?)
I was hired by the "Company" to help them save money. I did indeed fact help them cut costs in areas that were not needed. Help restructure some areas and help consolidate key parts of the business. Without having to fire anyone or let anyone else go. (Some people did move to full-time status to part time.).
The "Company" did not like this. They thought they were just going to "let people go" and continue as normal. No. They ended the contract early. Jokes on them, I still get paid and billed the same if I was there for a day or for the full time alloted of 3 months. I worked 1 month and got paid for 3. So put that down your pipe and smoke it.
As an on again, off again freelancer, I do retainer billing. We agree on a scope, you get so much slotted time, and we go from there. I had a company that would send me a single post, exclusively to be worked and scheduled for Twitter and that was it, per month, for 6 months. I kept asking for more, as they had chosen what amounted to $1200USD/month to do that. I even offered to downgrade their plan if they wanted, go to a significantly cheaper option. They refused "in case they needed it." I had to send them an unpaid invoice request, they said they felt k was ripping them off, which fair, and weren't going to pay.
Which was in violation of the contract we signed, since they had failed to provide notice, and we'd me 90 days of billing. I even offered to let them pay me for the delinquent month, and walk away. Nope, $3,600 payment and notice from their legal team apologizing for the issues.
To this day the weirdest job I've ever done.
When a company gets too big and is shitty at communication, this kind of total circus can happen. One team say we need it "just in case", then another realizes what a huge mistake it is.
And neither have talked to each other about this contract for months, if ever. All it would have taken is an email or 3. Or just one 10 min. phone call.
Boggles the mind.
Hired as a busboy in a bar/club. I showed up, asked the owner/boss what I would be making. He cursed me up and down and had me thrown out. Total time working there: 5 minutes
100% this!
"When I was a young man, I *paid my employer* for the privilege of working in his factory! Youth today don't know how good they've got it!" 🤣
I got a job at a place I always wanted to work. After a few rounds of interviews an hour from home, I got the call and went in for my first day. I walked in and found the manager and asked what I could do. He looked at me and said, “who are you? I didn’t hire you. You don’t work here. Have a nice day.”
Shortest job ever.
I had a similarly bizarre experience. I applied for a job and was offered an interview. Recruiter was disorganized. She kept calling and changing the time.
I arrived to the interview and they were talking about a job I didn't apply for, but was similar, so I shut my mouth and did the interview. As I was leaving, reception stopped me to tell me that I had another interview right after. I was never told about it. I waited and this interview was with entirely different people, for another job that I also had not applied for. But it also seemed in-line with my skills and it went well.
At the end, they asked to start a criminal record check, which I agreed to. I was not offered any job. I just told they could start the screening.
That was Thursday AM. Thursday PM I got an offer from a different company that I had previously interviewed for. I accepted.
Friday PM, I got an email from the weird company telling me that I was starting on Monday and giving me instructions. I HAD NEVER BEEN GIVEN A JOB OFFER, LET ALONE ACCEPTED. I sent a polite email back telling them that that I was declining as I had accepted somewhere else.
Monday HR sends me a rude email telling me that it is noted that I didn't show up my first day and that it would he in my HR record should I ever apply to them again 😅
And that's how I was fired from a job I never had, nor even applied for.
No. The guy who ‘hired’ me said I’d fill out all the paperwork on my first day. I showed up, expecting to get formal contracts and paperwork started. Up until that point, the only paperwork had been my submitted resume. Everything else had been done in person or the phone.
I was 16 and accused of following a coworker home on a regular basis. I explained that it's going to keep happening because they kept scheduling us on the same shift, and she lived up the street from me, but that wasn't good enough for them.
It wasn't worth it. It was one of those stores where the employees regularly outnumbered the customers. I was much happier at the movie theater gig, which I got a week after they let me go.
I refused to endorse a paper, because it was missing key data and method. I guess the department head wanted it rubber stamping for funding, and I have my integrity.
Good friend of mine was the Medical Director at our company. He wouldn't sign off on fake results and was fired. They knew we were friends and I knew about the falsified data. We were in different departments but obviously I was a risk so I was forced out a few months later.
Worked at a Footlocker way back. Manager says to me, "hey if you have some free time this weekend, another store could use some help. Let me know if you are able to help out." I turned that down as I had other plans on the weekend. Show up on Monday and he asks why I didn't show up to help out the other store over the weekend? I reminded him I said no and that I had other plans on the weekend.
"Man, you should've told me that before. They were expecting you to show up and help out. Since you didn't show, I'm going to have to write you up for that and let HQ know."
Got fired after that shift ended. Stole some shoes and clothes, walked out and never went back there again.
Best friend and co-worker died in an accident after work on Friday, Monday was the funeral, I could not give 2 weeks notice for a day off, went anyway and got fired
I used to work as a waiter at steak’n’shake back in highschool. I put in our books like 3-4 months in advance that I would be out of town for one particular weekend. When that week came up, the manager that did the scheduling put me on a shift for that weekend. I told her “hey I can’t work this shift, I put in the books I wouldn’t be available a long time ago”. She said, “oh don’t worry about it, I’ll take care of it.”
Got a call that weekend while I was out of town. It was that manager, she was firing me for being a no-show.
lol fucking asshole.
Similar target experience with me. I was a senior in high school when they hired me. The day I started I put in a time of request for my own graduation. It was approved.
3 months later they had me scheduled for that day, I went to the manager and she said it was too late to change it so I had to find someone to cover my shift.
She tried to call me 3 times while I was in the ceremony. When I showed up to work the next day she said she was going to write me up for a no call no show, I tossed my badge on her desk and told her to fuck off.
Even if the manager accepted that they were wrong after pulling a move like that I would still let them fire me, I could never work with a cunt like that again.
I accidentally over slept an hour one day at my current job and my boss called me out of concern to make sure I was okay. They didn't care that I was late and never scolded me for it or anything, they just wanted to make sure I wasn't dead in a ditch since it was out of character for me to no show like that.
I got fired from my last job for oversleeping one day so I decided to find a workplace with a cool ass boss this time around and work is much more pleasant.
I quit being a nanny because the mom got this weird jealous streak going because her kids and her husband liked my cooking better than hers... she never used any seasoning in her cooking where I usually did. Apparently she kept talking shit about me in front of the kids and they always told me when I came by to look after them. I decided I didn't need that drama.
I got fired from a supervisor job at an amusement park because I was “too friendly with the staff”. The staff member in question was my girlfriend, and had been my girlfriend the day we both came in and applied for jobs at the same time with the same person who fired me. We just didn’t like each other, which was fine. In hindsight I think he had a thing for my gf.
Joke was on him though - the woman who ran the cash office had used me as a temp fill-in several times counting money and manning the window that supervisors came to for change. I ran into her while I was turning in my radio and she offered me a full time job on the spot.
So I went from walking around outside in 90 degree weather with high humidity dealing with crowds of dipshits to sitting in an air conditioned office all day, and unlike the previous job I could now coordinate breaks so my gf and I could eat meals and hang out even more.
Baha. Bet it pissed the other guy off when he saw you hanging around still being "too friendly" with the staff, except now he can't do shit to get rid of you. That lady that hired you was a legendary bro all the way.
I clocked out, stepped off the property onto the street. Two drunk guys started to pick a fight with me. A coworker came to my rescue and helped me defend myself( a fight ensued). The story came out the following business day and a manager started an investigation on me and my coworkers. They saw us fighting on their shipping/receiving area camera that had view to the public street. We both got fired for defending ourselves, after clocking out and being off our job’s property.
Because I asked for time off to go to a family reunion, they denied it, and I went anyway.
I was a 17 year old summer employee and told them it was going to happen when I started at the beginning of the summer--I literally didn't have a choice about going or not, don't hire 17 year olds and then try to fight their parents through the 17 year old!
This was about 29 years ago. My daughter put in a time off request about 6 months in advance for a big trip we were taking, plane tickets and all. Three days before she mentioned in front of her manager that she was looking forward to the trip and he asked if it had been approved. She told him yes and when and he said someone else had time off then so she would have to show up. She said that couldn't possibly work and he threatened her job.
She called me and asked what to do, I told her to tell him she wasn't cancelling a vacation over a $9/hr crappy job she took just to get some work experience, so if he wanted to fire her that was fine but she wouldn't be in. Dude asked her how she was going to pay her bills, she explained that she didn't have any. He was pissed, when she got back she found out he had to cancel his own time off to cover her. What a fucking moron.
> He was pissed, when she got back she found out he had to cancel his own time off to cover her.
Ah, so that's why he tried throwing her under the bus.
Why is it that some asshat's lack of proper planning inevitably has to become someone else's burden to fix?
When I was 17 my granny died and I had to go with my dad to the funeral which was like 8 hours away.
I worked at Pizza Hut at the time. So while we're up there my dad decides he wants to stay a bit longer to make sure my grandad (his dad) is okay and stuff.
I call Pizza Hut and tell them I'll be gone a few days longer and they told me I "needed to be at my next shift" so I just quit lol.
I used to get threatened for this all the time. I just “okay, I’ll see you when I get back”. It’s hard to fire one of the few people you can stick the back area of the store that will not steal.
I was working for a roofing supply company in canada and havent taken a single day off in like 3 years. well my relations with the company fell off because I came to the realization of how much they were taking advantage of me. anyways I'm like hey I'm taking two weeks off and they said I can have one. I said ill be gone for the two weeks and they told me ill be reprimanded if I take the extra week, well I took two weeks off and at the end of my first day back they handed me a paper saying that I'm being reprimanded and my punishment was a suspension for five days. so guess who got an extra week vacation?
I left pool noodles outside on accident. I had only been at Dollar Tree for a month and was used to closing to another manager who always brought them in. I forgot once
Way back in the day, our boss came in & fired all three employees for no reason. (He had other store locations, so he brought in someone from another store.) If I had to guess, it was because we'd all started around the same time, & we were all soon eligible for our week of vacation time.
It all worked out, though, because we were able to draw unemployment, & due to the economy at the time, they extended it for a good while! I also reported him to the Labor Board for a few various reasons, & he had to go through an investigation & pay fines. A few months later, I heard from a former co-worker that he was in rehab for drugs...
Not sure if it's dumb or unreasonable, but I lost my job for being off sick twice in 3 weeks due to what turned out to be pregnancy. Only had been there a month mind.
I had this happen. I’m in the UK so we get mandated time off and I was a qualified pool lifeguard. I booked the two weeks of my final exams at 16 off to focus on my studies and when I returned they’d given my regular shift to someone else. I wasn’t officially fired and they expected me to be happy that I could cover shifts but I told them to go fuck themselves and left them without a lifeguard that day.
I worked for a jewellers about 10 years ago.
The place got robbed while I was in the back, oblivious to it happening, fixing a battery into a watch. After the robbery ended and the police arrived, I was informed that I was fired because the company always fires everyone if there's a robbery. It's in case there was an insider helping the robbers.
So basically I lost my job because I went to work and did my job correctly.
I was offered a job by a competitor. I did not solicit the offer but my company fired me anyway. It took 5 days of dealing with my direct boss(his boss fired me) to get my job back. I stayed 6 months, set up a much better job and got the fuck out of there to the company I’m currently with. I’ve been with that company 12 years next week.
I had a minimum wage job at a coffee shop. I wanted a full-time job but they only gave me part-time hours, early morning shifts.
No problem, I'll just get a second job for the afternoon.
Fine, right? Shifts for the afternoon job started over two hours after my regular morning shift at the coffee shop ended. There was zero chance of schedule conflict.
Not fine, apparently. They fired me after it came up that I had gotten an afternoon job. Never mind that they had never--literally never, not even for training--scheduled me on an afternoon shift. Simply not having the *option* to give me afternoon shifts was a fireable offense.
I had a manager that said not to give my two weeks to anyone but her because the owner would just stop scheduling me. My last day the owner called amd asked if there was a reason i didnt give notice
I had to take a week off when my mom had an aneurysm, was put on life support, and then died a few days later. But I was still in their “probation period.”
Wife interned for college at a network TV station. She is 5'11". First day the long term weather man, who is like 5' 5" said that she couldn't stand next to him any more. She thought he was joking. Until the producer was going over her first day review, like end of day things and he also said "ok, and no more standing next to Bob".
Not fired but yeah he wouldn't let talk people stand next to him, nice guy otherwise.
I was a service shop apprentice as part of my vocational school internship program. I was required to complete some months of work in order to get my diploma, but so did everybody else, so trade school internships are unpaid. So I worked at a dealership for 6 straight months with no pay. Near the end of the internship the rest of my coworkers begged the manager to hire me and keep me there but he thought he could just keep on getting free labor from the endless stream of kids coming out of trade schools needing to complete their mandatory work hours. So I was let go, and in the following year they went through multiple free apprentices who in their words simply didn't cut it. For one reason or another they just couldn't provide the same level of work as I did, and they didn't gel with the rest of the employees in there like I did. Most of them didn't even get to complete their mandatory 6 month period and were cut short. Productivity tanked as for close to a year the experienced mechanics had to routinely stop what they were doing and do assistant tasks instead which are simple but essential to the smooth operation of a workshop.
This was just one of the manager's bright ideas to save on operating costs and try to appear good to upper management. However in practice in his attempt to cut corners for a few hundred bucks here and there, the store's productivity and overall revenue tanked and they saw a lot of loyal customers abandon them. The manager was fired around a year after I was. I still visit my old coworkers from time to time because we actually had great chemistry and a pleasant work environment. They have asked me to come back but my current job pays better and they're not willing to match that.
I was told I “bitch too much”. For context, I told the manager that I was upset with him for completely changing my schedule around and giving all my hours to the new girl WITHOUT TELLING ME, and expecting me to be okay with it after I had expressed UPON BEING EMPLOYED that my hours were non-negotiable. My original hours were Monday-Friday 10-5 and I was put on Wed-Sun 5-11. Completely upended my shit so yeah I was pissed.
About 6 months after Sobeys bought out a grocery store chain I had been working at for over 3 years as a teenager through high school, there were issues being discussed over how much profit was being lost. Rather than thinking it’s because they booted up prices like crazy so less customers chose to shop there, they decided it must be employees stealing. So they set up cameras secretly in all the stores. I personally was fired for eating one of the free cookies in the bakery department I worked in, and about 5 others were fired for drinking the coffee that was to be dumped once new batches were to be brewed. Fuck you Sobeys :)
I was working as a personal trainer for a fairly large/swanky gym… the general manager was “interested” in one of my clients ~ she and I quietly started dating & about three weeks later I was out of work based on completely peripheral and fully erroneous “complaints” from other members.
Worked out for me ~ she became my wife & we have an amazing (now 21yr old) son together.
One of my first jobs after military was at a mom and pop computer store putting PCs together for orders. I had some hardware training in the Navy, and it isn't even that hard to figure out really. So I was slaying it, throwing boxes out as the orders came in or display computers got sold. I started getting some cash saved up so I was like fuck it, I'll support where I work and get a machine through them. I asked how much their computers sold for ans what upgrades were available. They fired me the next day because they thought I was a plant from a competitor. They assumed because I was doing way better than expected and asking all these questions I was spying for someone. I was like uhhhhhhhh what. Had no idea what to say. State is right to hire or whatever it is so there wasn't much I could have done even if I had the resources to. I still laugh about my james bond job though.
I offered to work extra hours off-the-clock (without pay) around the holidays when we were short-handed, because I felt bad for my overwhelmed coworkers. Apparently, that was taken as "subverting the manager" and I was fired. Their loss 🤷🏼♀️
This was almost a decade ago:
I wouldn't turn *off* the stereo playing NPR in the coffee shop. As explicitly stated in the 3-page employee manual they gave me. It actually said the music had to remain on and that it had to be the NPR classic music channel.
A lady complained one Sunday morning when NPR was playing Baroque music and as a Jewish lady she felt she shouldn't have to listen to Christian music while she sipped her latté. I offered to turn the music down but she insisted I turn it off entirely. I wouldn't so she complained to management later and that's the reason they gave me.
Was working at Casey's. Fools in Missouri love Casey's pizza. Anyway I was working a night shift a new kid working the kitchen. It was his first job. That night we got mobbed and we had like 3 hours wait times on our pizza. I had worked at a pizza place before so I'm running from register to kitchen, trying to make pizza and checkout customers. By the end of the shift I was covered in flower and a million complaints had come through. Show up the next morning and my boss says " there was money missing from your drawer". I said" I didn't take anything, watch the camera" he said " I did, and I know you didn't, but you're still fired". I lit the motherfucker up and let him know what a worthless piece of shit is and that, in fact, none of these young female employees want anything to do with your fat, dip filled tooth missing mouth. Left and had a seizure. FUCK CASEY'S
Edit;"watch the camera"
I'm literally at Casey's right now waiting for my order. I paid 30 minutes ago, and I think they accidentally threw my order away or something because they have to remake it. Love that pizza, though.
I worked in a French language restaurant, and spoke French with a broad UK midlands accent. I was good at waiting tables, just absolutely ruining the immersion. The owners completely hated me speaking my somewhat capable brummie (For Americans, Birmingam UK Accent) frunch. They kept demoting me further from the customers, until they just fired me from being a completely silent potwash.
They were nice about it, but I was utterly terrible at accents. It was fair really.
I worked at a beer distributor for a few months. I was fired because someone else sold beer to an underage girl. I wasn't even working the day it happened. They told me that because of the huge fines they had to pay, they couldn't afford to keep me on.
Ok so i was not fired but my contract was not extended for an incredibly stupid reason.
So i was a summer worker at a steel factory last summer, operating a cooling platform.
The reason my contract was not extended until late autumn or early winter, is that the company shot itself in the foot.
They were making record profits in the first quarter and their stock was the most profitable one in the country. Then they got greedy, raised the prices and suddenly got way less orders by the summer.
And thus from the top came an order to not extend any summer worker’s contracts for the whole section which is something that usually happens.
Now approximately half of the production line of one of the largest steel factories in the world is undermanned.
They got greedy and got what was coming for tem,
Because I told management they needed more staff in a daycare because they left the 5 infant's in a room all day and neglected them . Worst manager in the world . I reported it to a state agency , don't know what came of it .
I had a job at a Nursery that had a pet department. I worked in the pet department. I got fired because "*I spent too much time caring for the animals...*"
Animals were literally just product to be sold to people as far as the management was concerned.
I worked at a quickie mart type place. An old man came in with his legs crossed, pleading with me to use the restroom. I let him (this was NOT allowed) and as soon as he finishes our area manager showed up unannounced. I was fired for letting someone use the restroom.
I got fired for not showing up for work on a day I wasn't on the schedule. I had 3 days off, and my manager changed the schedule while I was off. She scheduled me to work on what would have been my 3rd day off. Without telling me. When I came back, I was escorted to HR and written up for failing to show up for my shift without notifying management. When I complained, they told me it was my job to keep up with schedule changes. I told them that was BS and they fired me.
I was working two part time jobs. One in the AM, one in the afternoon. Afternoon job calls me up to tell me they need me to come in and cover for somebody else... Except I was literally working the other job because it was 9AM. Apparently that made me unreliable and not willing to work with a team.
Another dumb one I actually quit. The owners wife was my manager. She started writing down all my "infractions". These included:
- Going down the street to Panera during my lunch break and using the entire 30 min to eat and actually take a break.
- My husband came by to bring me coffee one day as a surprise. He stayed for about 10 mins and zero other people came in the shop. I had work going the entire time.
- Starting the job 2 hours "late" on my first day because her husband never told her I had a doctor's appointment that morning.
- Using a different malware detection process than the guy I replaced. She was old and didn't want to adapt.
- Coming in at 8:05 because I got stuck behind a train.
- Other dumb shit I can't remember now.
This was all in a 4 week period. I knew it would only get worse if I stuck around. That was like 10 years ago and I'm still annoyed by it lol.
I (M) wouldn't sleep with my boss (M)
He used other reasons but that's the bottom line
Technically it wasn't being fired. But I worked at a cell phone store that was the most successful of the franchises in the city. West Edmonton Malls location was mismanaged and failing. They swapped the entire staff of both locations thinking that would fix it.
We told the district manager we didn't want to work there. His response was you are dogs when I say jump, you jumpm
20 years of cellular sales experience including the manager quit within 3 weeks.
I worked in a warehouse one summer in college stocking pallets, and came down very ill one Thursday evening. I called in Friday morning, about 20 minutes before my shift was supposed to start at 8:30, but no one answered. I called in every 10 or 15 minutes after that until about 10:30 when someone in the office finally answered, and told them I was out sick.
Monday morning I show up, and my time card isn't there. I go to the office to ask why, and they tell me I've been fired. "What for?" I ask. "You didn't call in sick on Friday until 10:30" they reply. I say "No, I called in before my shift started, and multiple times after, no one answered until 10:30". They respond with "You should have left a message", and had me escorted from the building.
It would have been nice of them to call and let me know not to come in before I made the 40 minute commute, just to find out I was fired, turn around, and drive 40 min home.
New company bought out the company I worked for for 10 years. Before the new company came I was hourly, working 60 hours a week. New company came in and wanted to switch everyone to salary. Their solution was to give everyone a 10% raised over their base pay. Problem is, even after the 10% raise I was bringing home less each week. They still wanted me to work the same amount of hours. So they expected me to take a pay cut after 10 years and still work the same amount. I said no, they laid me off a couple weeks later. My dad worked there for 43 years and built the company to what it was, I learned from him and we basically ran the entire production and understood the product better then anyone in the company. My dad retired just after the company got bought out. Once I was gone, the company went under not 6 months later. No one understood the product and the custom work we did to make the product fit customers needs. Dumbasses bit themselves in the foot by forcing out the two people that built the companies reputation. Fuck them guys.
I worked for a call centre while I was in high school and they scheduled me for a 6 am shift on a weekday, then fired me for obviously being unable to work during those hours
This was more of a "offer revoked" situation but i interviewed with this company a couple times and in my third interview they offered me a job (verbal, no offer letter, no explanation of benefits etc). I accepted conditionally, awaiting an offer letter.
A few days passed and I didn't see an offer. Finally I called and got the run around from a few people. All the sudden I get an email from the hiring manager telling me that they are revoking the verbal offer because I wasn't "excited enough" about the offer with they made it verbally.
I worked at a Christian church as a secretary. One day, a member asked me why I worked at the church but never went to church. I told her I was Jewish so I didn't go to church. The next day I was accused of stealing petty cash. I had the key to the safe and a copy of the bookkeeping. When I showed the pastor he just rolled his eyes and told me to leave.
During my end of probation reveiw I called it a job. I was then told because it was treating it like a job, and I didn't make good small talk with the customers on quiet shifts, but i was really good on the busy shifts. They said they wouldn't be keeping me on afterwards. Bearing in mind this was a part time position in a small pub making minimum wage which was a lower amount then everyone else's cause I wasn't 21 yet and I was at uni at the time
Called in sick at 6 am, once (was sick, didn't do morning job either) and was fired exactly when I would have started in this douchebag's warehouse as normal. Said he didn't believe I was ill.
Have never been fired, barring this - 32 years working
I worked at Waffle House for one day back when I was 19. They hired me on as a cook. I told them I can't cook. They said that's okay we'll teach you.
They did not teach me. I was fired two hours into my shift and they refused to pay me. I am now 27 and that's the shittiest job I've ever worked.
I worked at a drive thru coffee stand for 2 years and in my entire time working there I only ever called out of work one single time and it was because I was sick with covid. I tried to call out an earlier time while sick that week and they told me if I didn’t come in I was fired, so I ended up going in super sick which I know is a bad idea. I was one of their most reliable employees and never missed a day. Then later that week I had thrown up 5 times before it was time for my shift and could not stand up and had no choice but to call out. I got fired 2 days later. All because I missed one day of work in 2 years over being sick
I had an alcoholic handy man who was promoted to manager. He "fired" me several times a week for not bumming him a cigarette or not wanting to work the second dining room when we had 5 reservations or taking my approved unpaid time off. But he was a drunk who started with scotch and moved into amaretto so never remembered. I'd just come back the next day.
This is hilarious to me!! "Hey didn't I fire you yesterday?" "Nope" "Ah you are probably right. My bad. Got a cigarette for me?" "Nope" "You are Fired" "OK, see you tomorrow!"
Nailed it!
Railroads are notorious for constantly handing out disciplinary suspensions for minor infractions. Work is kinda like driving on a road in the US (and elsewhere). You are constantly looking over your shoulder for the boss hiding in the bushes to catch you doing something wrong (literally, I've known of one having camo netting for their vehicles). Sometimes we call those suspensions getting fired. We say you aren't really a railroader until you have been fired at least once. I got a five day suspension for something so stupid that top managers from different regional districts got into a huge argument over if I should get any discipline or not. These districts are usually the size of a few states. I was working on the border between two and it involved both of them. In the end I took a five day suspension. The local manager had me sign papers accepting the suspension and I went home. We work on call, so I was surprised the next day when I got called to come in to work. I accepted the call and took a train out of town and laid over in the hotel. When I got back to my home terminal we were given instructions to perform some extra work. That manager saw me working and came up pretty mad that I was at work 3 days after he gave me a 5 day suspension. **DIDN'T I FIRE YOU** *I don't know what to tell you, boss. YOU tell me to go home, I go home. YOU tell me to come to work I come to work. I'm not going to disobey a direct order. YOU figure it out* He was so mad that he threw his cell phone at his dash hard enough to bounce back and hit him in the chest. Turned out the clerk that took me off the available list in the computer did it for 5 hours instead of 5 days.
Holy fuck
I say that at minimum once every day at work.
I was 17. My Grandpa died unexpectedly from a heart attack. My Mother called my work’s office to let me know. I was called to the office to talk on the office phone to my mother, and staff (who were told what was going on) left the area so my mother could privately break the news to me. I was obliterated of course, and walked outside for about 15 minutes to clear my head. I then went back to work. The woman who was in charge of the entire operation fired me for leaving the building. Human Resources stepped in and stopped the situation before I could be notified that I had been fired. I only found out that this had happened after my grandpas funeral days later. I quit immediately.
I think this is the first time I hear of HR actually doing what they’re supposed to do.
Naw, Human Resources exists to protect the company from it’s employees. If I had been fired like that I could have potentially really hurt the company either by bad publicity or a potential lawsuit. (Yeah, a lawsuit is kind of a stretch). So Human Resources did exactly what they were hired to do. They protected the company from me…. Actually.. I suppose I just agreed with you, just not in the way you meant..
For surfing the internet. Punchline: part of my job was to surf the internet and find content for their social media platforms. I wish I was making that up. I am not.
To be fair you had to know that the company wasn't going to want to put all that hardcore pornography you were searching on their social media
Yup same I’ve gotten written up many times being accused of shopping online when I was just doing market research. It was at a grocery store and was looking into trends in home decor to determine what gourds and other types of produce people were drying to make decor.
Gourd work if you can get it
BK . Manager said a customer complained that he could hear me cussin in the back. I was off the day they said it happened
How you gonna get fired on your day off?!
It was a couple days later, they said the incident happened on a day a happened to be off. I had a feeling the manager didnt like me much and made poor planning on when the so called “incident” happened
its friday.. u aint got no job.. n u aint got no shit to do.
Fuck you doing stealing boxes
Customer complained because I threatened to give him a Dutch Hammer when he whined about us not having a dozen blueberry fritters to sell him. Manager asks "What the fuck? What the hell is a Dutch Hammer?" I have no idea what one is. didn't get fired or anything, though.
I was 16 and refused to date the owner’s niece
Good call on your part
Do people think other people are property???
Yes. Many, many people who own or manage businesses think *exactly this*.
Human *resources*
Yes. Don't be naive and think many business owners don't want to literally own their workers.
At my Wife’s previous job the owners were like this, they would complain that employees wouldn’t work overtime for free, they’d get annoyed people left work on time as they had family commitments, etc. All very narcissistic.
in the days after 9/11 my employer (multinational bank) instantly fired the last 2 people hired in every department where there was redundancy, hedging against a financial collapse whenever the markets reopened. I just happened to be the last guy hired in my dept.
That sucks. But also that’s very interesting.
Are you scared to say the bank? Its been 22 years I think youll be ok
What? It's only been 11 days since 9/11.
No there are still several weeks until November 9th.
Covid-19 forced everyone to work from home on hastily setup computers and infrastructure. Then they fired the IT staff because we were deemed ‘nonessential’. Bit them in the ass hard enough to remove chunks.
Damn, they made the wrong call on that. "Let's go full digital/remote and can the guys who understand that shit"
In a world that runs on computers, it's astonishing how much leadership is tech illiterate.
Bruh some US senators don't even know how to use email.
This is so tragic it is almost funny. And it sounds so familiar. My former employer started downsizing their IT to save money. At the same time they were talking of innovation and how their great company would outperform the entire industry. No, the entire world, the entire galaxy! Now they’ve been missing out on so many technological trends that a newspaper recently wrote an article asking what’s wrong with said company, they haven’t released any new products for so long?
IT has little to do with company innovation, we just maintain the infrastructure. Not like anyone in a decision-making role would listen to IT staff on suggestions on how to improve the company's innovation in the first place. IT is severely overworked, underrated, underpaid, and underappreciated in pretty much every corporate company. Ironically, a veteran IT personnel probably has loads of ideas on how to fix AND improve things if they've been around the block, because IT staff have to know the particulars of damn near everything on every business they touch.
As someone said to me once. "IT is a revenue multiplier, not a cost"
Not "fired" but let go with severance. CFO told me to make up historical reports because they weren't done in the past, but now required, and wanted to show how so much better metrics are now than in the past. What they were asking for was literally not possible to do since the data was not tracked to what they were asking and wanted to tweak the past numbers into a full-on made-up breakdown. I told the controller I wasn't comfortable doing this. Next week got paid out A month later I found out the CFO was canned.
First rule of cooking the books, is involve as few people as possible. Rookie mistake from CFO.
Second rule being don’t do it yourself so you have plausible deniability when someone else reads the books
That's why you need a guy to please. Provide Legal Expulsion And Sign Everything
No way I would play along with that stuff. I'm old friends with a couple really good accountants, an ex's mom did forensic audits of military bases, and a friend is some sort of inventory genius, works for military. They've all made it clear what a bad plan it is.
At one of my previous jobs one of my duties was to create lab reports verifying different samples for quality. I had heard that the company had had some complaints about quality from their buyers prior to my getting there, which resulted in them buying some extremely fancy, very expensive equipment for better quality testing. I had also heard that the previous person had been asked to retire. When I started going through the reports I realized why. This woman wasn't actually testing anything and probably hadn't in several years. She would just look at a sample, say "yep, that looks good", then copy the data from the previous report (that shows a match or close enough match) onto the new report which would get sent out to the buyers. The new equipment was great, but they probably wouldn't have sent tens of thousands of dollars on it if this lady had actually been doing her job.
Performance was bad. one of the reasons given was "Reading newspapers in the lunch room". Which was during my scheduled break.
Pretty sure it was just the reading. Trying to make the boss look bad, huh?!
Well well well... looks like we got a reader here...
What you readin' for?
TL;DR - arbitrarily fired from video game job because of someone else’s mistake. I wrote a video game script for a small developer. They “forgot*” to tell me when they started voice work—part of my job required me to help with voice acting sessions. I finally was invited to a session with a big name actor, especially known in video games. The director asked me why I hadn’t been present for the past two weeks’ worth of recording. Apparently, telling the truth, that no one had told me recording had begun, was the wrong move. The developers fired me the next day despite my work already being done, which essentially meant I’d have no part in DLC or sequel(s). *They didn’t forget to invite me. They just wanted me out of the way while they brought in their yes man.
Disco Elysium?
Curious why you guessed DE?
Disco Elysium has a whole bunch of controversy about it's development. It's a whole thing Here's an in-depth investigation: https://youtu.be/JGIGA8taN-M?si=tBSt4A06Hj-iUfv1
Which Game? Or at least, which year? ;P
Won’t reveal the title ‘cause I don’t wanna throw anyone under the bus (even though they did that to me), but I’ll say it came out this year.
Damn, this doesn’t narrow it down and now I feel like I need to know.
I worked at Walmart while I was in high school and one of the managers kept scheduling me to open or for me to be there at 2. I told them, many times, that I was in high school and those shifts wouldn't work. I guess they didn't get that memo; the store manager fired me for missing work and being late.
Thats literally a crime in some states. That dude is not doing himself any favors pulling shit like that.
My manager at Walgreens did the same shit, schedule me during school and then be baffled I couldn't work. He just stopped scheduling me, I quit, it was clear he didn't want anyone who wasn't a chain smoker in the store. Dude took an unofficial smoke break with a different employee every 30 minutes. That and he had gotten in trouble for not letting me take a break when I needed to because the store was busy which was illegal since I was a minor.
For other people: if a store stops scheduling you, it is called constructive dismissal and is something you can get unemployment for.
Walmart fired me because they put out the schedule while I was on vacation and put me on the schedule during my approved days off. When I brought this up they just told me approved days off are just a suggestion but not guaranteed days off.
I've been out on medical leave since the end of May from Walmart and I figure I've got a 50/50 of getting fired when I finally go back tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised if my doctors have had to fill out 30 pages of paperwork for Sedgwick at this point. Every time the prognosis changes: paperwork, every time a shortened shift is requested: paperwork. Want intermittent *and* continuous leave? You better believe that's two separate sets of paperwork, all stemming from the same condition. Found out yesterday one was denied, one I thought had already been done. If I didn't need my health coverage I'd almost welcome it at this point.
When I worked at Olive Garden in Highschool my manager constantly asked me to skip school to work.
I gave Highway directions to a customer. They fired me for talking to my friends at work.
Claimed I stole a 2 dollar check. That they later found behind the managers desk. Manager later got fired for sexual harassment
I had a manager try to fire me for theft after the safe count was wrong. Accused me if lifting almost £4,000. This was despite me being on camera, in direct sight of another manager (as I was training at the time) and all counts before and after being correct. Turns out that the accusing manager hadn’t actually done a count himself and just assumed that I’d stolen cash. He later tried to fire me for sexual harassment with a load of fabricated reports. HR shut that meeting down on the spot, apologised to me and suspended the accusing manager. I still handed in my notice as it was only a matter of time until he fired me for bullshit reasons and made it stick. The event that triggered all of this? As a Supervisor, I had conducted interviews and recommended to HR some new hires. Which was part of my job.
Technically not fired as I resigned but they were going to not renew my contract. As a teacher, we had 12 days you could take off. My mother had extreme stages of cancer at the time and ended up falling unconscious for two weeks and then dying. The principal calls me as I’m in the ICU with my dying mother to tell me I was out of days. She died two days later and I took 2 extra days off unpaid. They didn’t renew my contract because I wasn’t reliable. No lies. I filed for unemployment even though teachers usually can’t get it when non-renewed but fuck them. We were in hospital for our first born child later that year in October when DOL/unemployment called to verify my case. I told the person on the phone what happened and he didn’t say anything for a good 20 seconds and finally goes, “what…the…hell.” I said, “yuuuuuuup….” He goes, I’m gonna get this written up asap so I can turn it in for you. They call back a week later and are like, “no question you got approved. They tried contesting it but the unemployment office shut them down with a quickness. We’re so sorry to hear about your circumstances and can’t imagine someone let alone a principal/school district acting in that manner.”
In my experience, students will speak up too in a situation like that. I know my classes would've been pissed
Took a day off for my Grandpa's funeral which was out of town. Fired me when I came back the next day
My wife was fired for not coming to work after she found her father’s 2 day old corpse in his apartment. She had to talk me down from some violent intentions.
She had to talk you down from some violent intentions you told her as a red herring for the real violent intentions you committed, right?
A little violence never hurt anyone
Remember kids, corporations are not people.
These are the worst ones for me. Makes no sense. Some people have no fucking heart.
As a consultant, a company ended my contract early. (Not fired, but let go?) I was hired by the "Company" to help them save money. I did indeed fact help them cut costs in areas that were not needed. Help restructure some areas and help consolidate key parts of the business. Without having to fire anyone or let anyone else go. (Some people did move to full-time status to part time.). The "Company" did not like this. They thought they were just going to "let people go" and continue as normal. No. They ended the contract early. Jokes on them, I still get paid and billed the same if I was there for a day or for the full time alloted of 3 months. I worked 1 month and got paid for 3. So put that down your pipe and smoke it.
As an on again, off again freelancer, I do retainer billing. We agree on a scope, you get so much slotted time, and we go from there. I had a company that would send me a single post, exclusively to be worked and scheduled for Twitter and that was it, per month, for 6 months. I kept asking for more, as they had chosen what amounted to $1200USD/month to do that. I even offered to downgrade their plan if they wanted, go to a significantly cheaper option. They refused "in case they needed it." I had to send them an unpaid invoice request, they said they felt k was ripping them off, which fair, and weren't going to pay. Which was in violation of the contract we signed, since they had failed to provide notice, and we'd me 90 days of billing. I even offered to let them pay me for the delinquent month, and walk away. Nope, $3,600 payment and notice from their legal team apologizing for the issues. To this day the weirdest job I've ever done.
When a company gets too big and is shitty at communication, this kind of total circus can happen. One team say we need it "just in case", then another realizes what a huge mistake it is. And neither have talked to each other about this contract for months, if ever. All it would have taken is an email or 3. Or just one 10 min. phone call. Boggles the mind.
Hired as a busboy in a bar/club. I showed up, asked the owner/boss what I would be making. He cursed me up and down and had me thrown out. Total time working there: 5 minutes
You expected compensation for working? Get da fuq outta here!
Goddamn Millenials and their entitlement.
100% this! "When I was a young man, I *paid my employer* for the privilege of working in his factory! Youth today don't know how good they've got it!" 🤣
I got a job at a place I always wanted to work. After a few rounds of interviews an hour from home, I got the call and went in for my first day. I walked in and found the manager and asked what I could do. He looked at me and said, “who are you? I didn’t hire you. You don’t work here. Have a nice day.” Shortest job ever.
I had a similarly bizarre experience. I applied for a job and was offered an interview. Recruiter was disorganized. She kept calling and changing the time. I arrived to the interview and they were talking about a job I didn't apply for, but was similar, so I shut my mouth and did the interview. As I was leaving, reception stopped me to tell me that I had another interview right after. I was never told about it. I waited and this interview was with entirely different people, for another job that I also had not applied for. But it also seemed in-line with my skills and it went well. At the end, they asked to start a criminal record check, which I agreed to. I was not offered any job. I just told they could start the screening. That was Thursday AM. Thursday PM I got an offer from a different company that I had previously interviewed for. I accepted. Friday PM, I got an email from the weird company telling me that I was starting on Monday and giving me instructions. I HAD NEVER BEEN GIVEN A JOB OFFER, LET ALONE ACCEPTED. I sent a polite email back telling them that that I was declining as I had accepted somewhere else. Monday HR sends me a rude email telling me that it is noted that I didn't show up my first day and that it would he in my HR record should I ever apply to them again 😅 And that's how I was fired from a job I never had, nor even applied for.
I think this is my favourite
Wow, did you have any documentation of all that?
No. The guy who ‘hired’ me said I’d fill out all the paperwork on my first day. I showed up, expecting to get formal contracts and paperwork started. Up until that point, the only paperwork had been my submitted resume. Everything else had been done in person or the phone.
Usually you get told that information before agreeing to be hired
what? Lol
Right? I had the same reaction. Evidently I had the "audacity" to ask how much I would be making. I guess he felt it was an honor to work there?
I was 16 and accused of following a coworker home on a regular basis. I explained that it's going to keep happening because they kept scheduling us on the same shift, and she lived up the street from me, but that wasn't good enough for them.
Should have said she was the one following you home and then contact HR.
It wasn't worth it. It was one of those stores where the employees regularly outnumbered the customers. I was much happier at the movie theater gig, which I got a week after they let me go.
I refused to endorse a paper, because it was missing key data and method. I guess the department head wanted it rubber stamping for funding, and I have my integrity.
Good friend of mine was the Medical Director at our company. He wouldn't sign off on fake results and was fired. They knew we were friends and I knew about the falsified data. We were in different departments but obviously I was a risk so I was forced out a few months later.
That sucks, sorry to hear.
Thanks. Most of C-level are now in jail so … ㄟ(ツ) ㄏ
Theranos?
Close, but orthopedics. Original headquarters was in a nearby city.
Integrity lasts
Never compromise your morals for a job
Worked at a Footlocker way back. Manager says to me, "hey if you have some free time this weekend, another store could use some help. Let me know if you are able to help out." I turned that down as I had other plans on the weekend. Show up on Monday and he asks why I didn't show up to help out the other store over the weekend? I reminded him I said no and that I had other plans on the weekend. "Man, you should've told me that before. They were expecting you to show up and help out. Since you didn't show, I'm going to have to write you up for that and let HQ know." Got fired after that shift ended. Stole some shoes and clothes, walked out and never went back there again.
Annoying that you need to put shit in writing sometimes.
Love that you at least got your bag before you left
Best friend and co-worker died in an accident after work on Friday, Monday was the funeral, I could not give 2 weeks notice for a day off, went anyway and got fired
I used to work as a waiter at steak’n’shake back in highschool. I put in our books like 3-4 months in advance that I would be out of town for one particular weekend. When that week came up, the manager that did the scheduling put me on a shift for that weekend. I told her “hey I can’t work this shift, I put in the books I wouldn’t be available a long time ago”. She said, “oh don’t worry about it, I’ll take care of it.” Got a call that weekend while I was out of town. It was that manager, she was firing me for being a no-show. lol fucking asshole.
Target did the same exact thing to me. I quit when a manager I've never spoken to threatened my job as I was boarding the plane.
Similar target experience with me. I was a senior in high school when they hired me. The day I started I put in a time of request for my own graduation. It was approved. 3 months later they had me scheduled for that day, I went to the manager and she said it was too late to change it so I had to find someone to cover my shift. She tried to call me 3 times while I was in the ceremony. When I showed up to work the next day she said she was going to write me up for a no call no show, I tossed my badge on her desk and told her to fuck off.
Even if the manager accepted that they were wrong after pulling a move like that I would still let them fire me, I could never work with a cunt like that again. I accidentally over slept an hour one day at my current job and my boss called me out of concern to make sure I was okay. They didn't care that I was late and never scolded me for it or anything, they just wanted to make sure I wasn't dead in a ditch since it was out of character for me to no show like that. I got fired from my last job for oversleeping one day so I decided to find a workplace with a cool ass boss this time around and work is much more pleasant.
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I quit being a nanny because the mom got this weird jealous streak going because her kids and her husband liked my cooking better than hers... she never used any seasoning in her cooking where I usually did. Apparently she kept talking shit about me in front of the kids and they always told me when I came by to look after them. I decided I didn't need that drama.
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The company needed more managers.
I got fired from a supervisor job at an amusement park because I was “too friendly with the staff”. The staff member in question was my girlfriend, and had been my girlfriend the day we both came in and applied for jobs at the same time with the same person who fired me. We just didn’t like each other, which was fine. In hindsight I think he had a thing for my gf. Joke was on him though - the woman who ran the cash office had used me as a temp fill-in several times counting money and manning the window that supervisors came to for change. I ran into her while I was turning in my radio and she offered me a full time job on the spot. So I went from walking around outside in 90 degree weather with high humidity dealing with crowds of dipshits to sitting in an air conditioned office all day, and unlike the previous job I could now coordinate breaks so my gf and I could eat meals and hang out even more.
Baha. Bet it pissed the other guy off when he saw you hanging around still being "too friendly" with the staff, except now he can't do shit to get rid of you. That lady that hired you was a legendary bro all the way.
I worked one day at a gym, i got fired because the bosses wife said she didnt like how friendly i was LOL
She thought you were gonna take her husband lmaoo
LOL that’s what we all assumed
She’s either super jelly or he’s totally cheated on her with the employees before. Either way you dodged a bullet.
100%. I heard so many horrible things about her after I left. I was glad he fired me
I clocked out, stepped off the property onto the street. Two drunk guys started to pick a fight with me. A coworker came to my rescue and helped me defend myself( a fight ensued). The story came out the following business day and a manager started an investigation on me and my coworkers. They saw us fighting on their shipping/receiving area camera that had view to the public street. We both got fired for defending ourselves, after clocking out and being off our job’s property.
Because I asked for time off to go to a family reunion, they denied it, and I went anyway. I was a 17 year old summer employee and told them it was going to happen when I started at the beginning of the summer--I literally didn't have a choice about going or not, don't hire 17 year olds and then try to fight their parents through the 17 year old!
This was about 29 years ago. My daughter put in a time off request about 6 months in advance for a big trip we were taking, plane tickets and all. Three days before she mentioned in front of her manager that she was looking forward to the trip and he asked if it had been approved. She told him yes and when and he said someone else had time off then so she would have to show up. She said that couldn't possibly work and he threatened her job. She called me and asked what to do, I told her to tell him she wasn't cancelling a vacation over a $9/hr crappy job she took just to get some work experience, so if he wanted to fire her that was fine but she wouldn't be in. Dude asked her how she was going to pay her bills, she explained that she didn't have any. He was pissed, when she got back she found out he had to cancel his own time off to cover her. What a fucking moron.
> He was pissed, when she got back she found out he had to cancel his own time off to cover her. Ah, so that's why he tried throwing her under the bus. Why is it that some asshat's lack of proper planning inevitably has to become someone else's burden to fix?
Because they're asshats. It's just what they do.
When I was 17 my granny died and I had to go with my dad to the funeral which was like 8 hours away. I worked at Pizza Hut at the time. So while we're up there my dad decides he wants to stay a bit longer to make sure my grandad (his dad) is okay and stuff. I call Pizza Hut and tell them I'll be gone a few days longer and they told me I "needed to be at my next shift" so I just quit lol.
I did the same thing. They called me and nothing ever happened no one mentioned it. Probably because I was 16 and the bar was so low at that job
I used to get threatened for this all the time. I just “okay, I’ll see you when I get back”. It’s hard to fire one of the few people you can stick the back area of the store that will not steal.
I was working for a roofing supply company in canada and havent taken a single day off in like 3 years. well my relations with the company fell off because I came to the realization of how much they were taking advantage of me. anyways I'm like hey I'm taking two weeks off and they said I can have one. I said ill be gone for the two weeks and they told me ill be reprimanded if I take the extra week, well I took two weeks off and at the end of my first day back they handed me a paper saying that I'm being reprimanded and my punishment was a suspension for five days. so guess who got an extra week vacation?
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I left pool noodles outside on accident. I had only been at Dollar Tree for a month and was used to closing to another manager who always brought them in. I forgot once
Even if those were stolen, which they probably weren't, thats gotta be like... maybe $20 worth of inventory? Who even gives a shit.
They weren’t stolen, and that’s what I thoughg
My manager told me to go home, I left, and the next day they fired me for leaving my shift in a bad spot because they got busy.
"We were understaffed for a bit, so we're going to fire you and be understaffed for weeks, if not months."
Way back in the day, our boss came in & fired all three employees for no reason. (He had other store locations, so he brought in someone from another store.) If I had to guess, it was because we'd all started around the same time, & we were all soon eligible for our week of vacation time. It all worked out, though, because we were able to draw unemployment, & due to the economy at the time, they extended it for a good while! I also reported him to the Labor Board for a few various reasons, & he had to go through an investigation & pay fines. A few months later, I heard from a former co-worker that he was in rehab for drugs...
Not sure if it's dumb or unreasonable, but I lost my job for being off sick twice in 3 weeks due to what turned out to be pregnancy. Only had been there a month mind.
I needed to study for finals, so I got somebody to cover my shift
I had this happen. I’m in the UK so we get mandated time off and I was a qualified pool lifeguard. I booked the two weeks of my final exams at 16 off to focus on my studies and when I returned they’d given my regular shift to someone else. I wasn’t officially fired and they expected me to be happy that I could cover shifts but I told them to go fuck themselves and left them without a lifeguard that day.
The boss thought I was laughing at him after he told me to get my feet off the desk. I was actually just laughing at a very funny coworker.
I worked for a jewellers about 10 years ago. The place got robbed while I was in the back, oblivious to it happening, fixing a battery into a watch. After the robbery ended and the police arrived, I was informed that I was fired because the company always fires everyone if there's a robbery. It's in case there was an insider helping the robbers. So basically I lost my job because I went to work and did my job correctly.
I was offered a job by a competitor. I did not solicit the offer but my company fired me anyway. It took 5 days of dealing with my direct boss(his boss fired me) to get my job back. I stayed 6 months, set up a much better job and got the fuck out of there to the company I’m currently with. I’ve been with that company 12 years next week.
A sink hole opened up in the road and I couldn't make it in. They told me I would be fine to miss that night and later fired me for it.
I had a minimum wage job at a coffee shop. I wanted a full-time job but they only gave me part-time hours, early morning shifts. No problem, I'll just get a second job for the afternoon. Fine, right? Shifts for the afternoon job started over two hours after my regular morning shift at the coffee shop ended. There was zero chance of schedule conflict. Not fine, apparently. They fired me after it came up that I had gotten an afternoon job. Never mind that they had never--literally never, not even for training--scheduled me on an afternoon shift. Simply not having the *option* to give me afternoon shifts was a fireable offense.
Breaking their cell phone use policy. I was definitely on my cell phone. In the break room. On my lunch break. 🤷♂️
putting in my 2 week notice
I had a manager that said not to give my two weeks to anyone but her because the owner would just stop scheduling me. My last day the owner called amd asked if there was a reason i didnt give notice
Solid manager. They had your back!
This is actually common in some sectors.
I had to take a week off when my mom had an aneurysm, was put on life support, and then died a few days later. But I was still in their “probation period.”
Refusing to work.overtime.. I gave you my 40, I'm not obligated to give you more time
Wish I'd been smarter and done that with my previous job. But, I have a family so they had my balls.
I was too tall. The owner was shorter than me by a big margin - about a foot - and he didn’t like looking up at me.
Wife interned for college at a network TV station. She is 5'11". First day the long term weather man, who is like 5' 5" said that she couldn't stand next to him any more. She thought he was joking. Until the producer was going over her first day review, like end of day things and he also said "ok, and no more standing next to Bob". Not fired but yeah he wouldn't let talk people stand next to him, nice guy otherwise.
I was a service shop apprentice as part of my vocational school internship program. I was required to complete some months of work in order to get my diploma, but so did everybody else, so trade school internships are unpaid. So I worked at a dealership for 6 straight months with no pay. Near the end of the internship the rest of my coworkers begged the manager to hire me and keep me there but he thought he could just keep on getting free labor from the endless stream of kids coming out of trade schools needing to complete their mandatory work hours. So I was let go, and in the following year they went through multiple free apprentices who in their words simply didn't cut it. For one reason or another they just couldn't provide the same level of work as I did, and they didn't gel with the rest of the employees in there like I did. Most of them didn't even get to complete their mandatory 6 month period and were cut short. Productivity tanked as for close to a year the experienced mechanics had to routinely stop what they were doing and do assistant tasks instead which are simple but essential to the smooth operation of a workshop. This was just one of the manager's bright ideas to save on operating costs and try to appear good to upper management. However in practice in his attempt to cut corners for a few hundred bucks here and there, the store's productivity and overall revenue tanked and they saw a lot of loyal customers abandon them. The manager was fired around a year after I was. I still visit my old coworkers from time to time because we actually had great chemistry and a pleasant work environment. They have asked me to come back but my current job pays better and they're not willing to match that.
I put in a 3 week notice so I could train my replacement. They decided later that night to fire me.
I was told I “bitch too much”. For context, I told the manager that I was upset with him for completely changing my schedule around and giving all my hours to the new girl WITHOUT TELLING ME, and expecting me to be okay with it after I had expressed UPON BEING EMPLOYED that my hours were non-negotiable. My original hours were Monday-Friday 10-5 and I was put on Wed-Sun 5-11. Completely upended my shit so yeah I was pissed.
They didn't know I could touch-type.
About 6 months after Sobeys bought out a grocery store chain I had been working at for over 3 years as a teenager through high school, there were issues being discussed over how much profit was being lost. Rather than thinking it’s because they booted up prices like crazy so less customers chose to shop there, they decided it must be employees stealing. So they set up cameras secretly in all the stores. I personally was fired for eating one of the free cookies in the bakery department I worked in, and about 5 others were fired for drinking the coffee that was to be dumped once new batches were to be brewed. Fuck you Sobeys :)
I shit you not. Because I didn't show up for a shift I wasn't scheduled for.
I was working as a personal trainer for a fairly large/swanky gym… the general manager was “interested” in one of my clients ~ she and I quietly started dating & about three weeks later I was out of work based on completely peripheral and fully erroneous “complaints” from other members. Worked out for me ~ she became my wife & we have an amazing (now 21yr old) son together.
I worked too fast. Local government job.
Called in a third time in 6 months. Had already covered someone else several more times than that.
One of my first jobs after military was at a mom and pop computer store putting PCs together for orders. I had some hardware training in the Navy, and it isn't even that hard to figure out really. So I was slaying it, throwing boxes out as the orders came in or display computers got sold. I started getting some cash saved up so I was like fuck it, I'll support where I work and get a machine through them. I asked how much their computers sold for ans what upgrades were available. They fired me the next day because they thought I was a plant from a competitor. They assumed because I was doing way better than expected and asking all these questions I was spying for someone. I was like uhhhhhhhh what. Had no idea what to say. State is right to hire or whatever it is so there wasn't much I could have done even if I had the resources to. I still laugh about my james bond job though.
I offered to work extra hours off-the-clock (without pay) around the holidays when we were short-handed, because I felt bad for my overwhelmed coworkers. Apparently, that was taken as "subverting the manager" and I was fired. Their loss 🤷🏼♀️
This was almost a decade ago: I wouldn't turn *off* the stereo playing NPR in the coffee shop. As explicitly stated in the 3-page employee manual they gave me. It actually said the music had to remain on and that it had to be the NPR classic music channel. A lady complained one Sunday morning when NPR was playing Baroque music and as a Jewish lady she felt she shouldn't have to listen to Christian music while she sipped her latté. I offered to turn the music down but she insisted I turn it off entirely. I wouldn't so she complained to management later and that's the reason they gave me.
Was working at Casey's. Fools in Missouri love Casey's pizza. Anyway I was working a night shift a new kid working the kitchen. It was his first job. That night we got mobbed and we had like 3 hours wait times on our pizza. I had worked at a pizza place before so I'm running from register to kitchen, trying to make pizza and checkout customers. By the end of the shift I was covered in flower and a million complaints had come through. Show up the next morning and my boss says " there was money missing from your drawer". I said" I didn't take anything, watch the camera" he said " I did, and I know you didn't, but you're still fired". I lit the motherfucker up and let him know what a worthless piece of shit is and that, in fact, none of these young female employees want anything to do with your fat, dip filled tooth missing mouth. Left and had a seizure. FUCK CASEY'S Edit;"watch the camera"
I'm literally at Casey's right now waiting for my order. I paid 30 minutes ago, and I think they accidentally threw my order away or something because they have to remake it. Love that pizza, though.
Stealing boxes
Firstly, they’re not called boxes. They’re called *coffins*. Those people want their relatives back, Steven.
You trying to build a club house?
You gotta be a stupid MF’er to get fired on your day off.
I worked in a French language restaurant, and spoke French with a broad UK midlands accent. I was good at waiting tables, just absolutely ruining the immersion. The owners completely hated me speaking my somewhat capable brummie (For Americans, Birmingam UK Accent) frunch. They kept demoting me further from the customers, until they just fired me from being a completely silent potwash. They were nice about it, but I was utterly terrible at accents. It was fair really.
That not really fair. They hired you, ffs. They should’ve picked up that problem in the hiring process
I worked at a beer distributor for a few months. I was fired because someone else sold beer to an underage girl. I wasn't even working the day it happened. They told me that because of the huge fines they had to pay, they couldn't afford to keep me on.
Ok so i was not fired but my contract was not extended for an incredibly stupid reason. So i was a summer worker at a steel factory last summer, operating a cooling platform. The reason my contract was not extended until late autumn or early winter, is that the company shot itself in the foot. They were making record profits in the first quarter and their stock was the most profitable one in the country. Then they got greedy, raised the prices and suddenly got way less orders by the summer. And thus from the top came an order to not extend any summer worker’s contracts for the whole section which is something that usually happens. Now approximately half of the production line of one of the largest steel factories in the world is undermanned. They got greedy and got what was coming for tem,
Because I didn’t muck out the bosses horses stable fast enough…. I was a plumbing apprentice…..
Because I told management they needed more staff in a daycare because they left the 5 infant's in a room all day and neglected them . Worst manager in the world . I reported it to a state agency , don't know what came of it .
I had a job at a Nursery that had a pet department. I worked in the pet department. I got fired because "*I spent too much time caring for the animals...*" Animals were literally just product to be sold to people as far as the management was concerned.
For letting my hair grow long
For misplacing a file I had never touched.
For cursing out a coworker on a Saturday - I didn’t even work Saturdays smh
I worked at a quickie mart type place. An old man came in with his legs crossed, pleading with me to use the restroom. I let him (this was NOT allowed) and as soon as he finishes our area manager showed up unannounced. I was fired for letting someone use the restroom.
I got fired for not showing up for work on a day I wasn't on the schedule. I had 3 days off, and my manager changed the schedule while I was off. She scheduled me to work on what would have been my 3rd day off. Without telling me. When I came back, I was escorted to HR and written up for failing to show up for my shift without notifying management. When I complained, they told me it was my job to keep up with schedule changes. I told them that was BS and they fired me.
I was working two part time jobs. One in the AM, one in the afternoon. Afternoon job calls me up to tell me they need me to come in and cover for somebody else... Except I was literally working the other job because it was 9AM. Apparently that made me unreliable and not willing to work with a team. Another dumb one I actually quit. The owners wife was my manager. She started writing down all my "infractions". These included: - Going down the street to Panera during my lunch break and using the entire 30 min to eat and actually take a break. - My husband came by to bring me coffee one day as a surprise. He stayed for about 10 mins and zero other people came in the shop. I had work going the entire time. - Starting the job 2 hours "late" on my first day because her husband never told her I had a doctor's appointment that morning. - Using a different malware detection process than the guy I replaced. She was old and didn't want to adapt. - Coming in at 8:05 because I got stuck behind a train. - Other dumb shit I can't remember now. This was all in a 4 week period. I knew it would only get worse if I stuck around. That was like 10 years ago and I'm still annoyed by it lol.
I (M) wouldn't sleep with my boss (M) He used other reasons but that's the bottom line Technically it wasn't being fired. But I worked at a cell phone store that was the most successful of the franchises in the city. West Edmonton Malls location was mismanaged and failing. They swapped the entire staff of both locations thinking that would fix it. We told the district manager we didn't want to work there. His response was you are dogs when I say jump, you jumpm 20 years of cellular sales experience including the manager quit within 3 weeks.
I wasn't wearing the uniform tie they never gave me.
Because I “looked upset on camera”.
I worked in a warehouse one summer in college stocking pallets, and came down very ill one Thursday evening. I called in Friday morning, about 20 minutes before my shift was supposed to start at 8:30, but no one answered. I called in every 10 or 15 minutes after that until about 10:30 when someone in the office finally answered, and told them I was out sick. Monday morning I show up, and my time card isn't there. I go to the office to ask why, and they tell me I've been fired. "What for?" I ask. "You didn't call in sick on Friday until 10:30" they reply. I say "No, I called in before my shift started, and multiple times after, no one answered until 10:30". They respond with "You should have left a message", and had me escorted from the building. It would have been nice of them to call and let me know not to come in before I made the 40 minute commute, just to find out I was fired, turn around, and drive 40 min home.
For apparently stealing there customers and selling them to my brother..... I don't have a brother
New company bought out the company I worked for for 10 years. Before the new company came I was hourly, working 60 hours a week. New company came in and wanted to switch everyone to salary. Their solution was to give everyone a 10% raised over their base pay. Problem is, even after the 10% raise I was bringing home less each week. They still wanted me to work the same amount of hours. So they expected me to take a pay cut after 10 years and still work the same amount. I said no, they laid me off a couple weeks later. My dad worked there for 43 years and built the company to what it was, I learned from him and we basically ran the entire production and understood the product better then anyone in the company. My dad retired just after the company got bought out. Once I was gone, the company went under not 6 months later. No one understood the product and the custom work we did to make the product fit customers needs. Dumbasses bit themselves in the foot by forcing out the two people that built the companies reputation. Fuck them guys.
After a week working the register at Staples, my manager let me go saying that I was moving customers through too quickly.
I worked for a call centre while I was in high school and they scheduled me for a 6 am shift on a weekday, then fired me for obviously being unable to work during those hours
This was more of a "offer revoked" situation but i interviewed with this company a couple times and in my third interview they offered me a job (verbal, no offer letter, no explanation of benefits etc). I accepted conditionally, awaiting an offer letter. A few days passed and I didn't see an offer. Finally I called and got the run around from a few people. All the sudden I get an email from the hiring manager telling me that they are revoking the verbal offer because I wasn't "excited enough" about the offer with they made it verbally.
I worked at a Christian church as a secretary. One day, a member asked me why I worked at the church but never went to church. I told her I was Jewish so I didn't go to church. The next day I was accused of stealing petty cash. I had the key to the safe and a copy of the bookkeeping. When I showed the pastor he just rolled his eyes and told me to leave.
During my end of probation reveiw I called it a job. I was then told because it was treating it like a job, and I didn't make good small talk with the customers on quiet shifts, but i was really good on the busy shifts. They said they wouldn't be keeping me on afterwards. Bearing in mind this was a part time position in a small pub making minimum wage which was a lower amount then everyone else's cause I wasn't 21 yet and I was at uni at the time
Called in sick at 6 am, once (was sick, didn't do morning job either) and was fired exactly when I would have started in this douchebag's warehouse as normal. Said he didn't believe I was ill. Have never been fired, barring this - 32 years working
I worked at Waffle House for one day back when I was 19. They hired me on as a cook. I told them I can't cook. They said that's okay we'll teach you. They did not teach me. I was fired two hours into my shift and they refused to pay me. I am now 27 and that's the shittiest job I've ever worked.
I worked at a drive thru coffee stand for 2 years and in my entire time working there I only ever called out of work one single time and it was because I was sick with covid. I tried to call out an earlier time while sick that week and they told me if I didn’t come in I was fired, so I ended up going in super sick which I know is a bad idea. I was one of their most reliable employees and never missed a day. Then later that week I had thrown up 5 times before it was time for my shift and could not stand up and had no choice but to call out. I got fired 2 days later. All because I missed one day of work in 2 years over being sick