To survive, people have to contribute to society, i.e. have to have a job. So losing it might be really scary as your livelihood depends on it. A lot of the times you may think that it was unfair and feel unappreciated for the skills and knowledge you offered to your employer.
Being fired might be expected or come out of the blue, but it’s always unpleasant and redditors shared the worst way to get fired after preshowerpoop asked them, “What is the worst way you or someone you know has been ‘fired’ from a job?”
There were some wild and bizarre stories that showed just how much companies don’t care about their workers or how weird employees can be. Let us know if you have any of your own experiences in the comments!
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#1 Fired A Guy After His 12 Hour Shift On Black Friday
I worked in retail and our manager fired a guy after his 12 hour shift on Black Friday. Could've spent the day after thanksgiving with his family, but instead, the manager made him work in case it was busy, then fired him at the end of his shift. It was a douche move.
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#2 Fired Before Heart Surgery
One capable IT employee was in the hospital due to an unexpected health emergency. They went to the hospital and fired him before his heart surgery. I s**t you not.
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#3 Got Fired Because The Boss Put The Blame On Them
I got fired because my boss f****d up and blamed it on me.I started my own business in the same field and made all key people leave my former employer and work for me instead. A year later they had to file for bankruptcy.
Ah, the malicious delight.
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#4 Fired During 'Take Your Daughter To Work' Day
My dad told me once about a coworker getting fired on take your daughter to work day. It was before lunch too so they both had to be escorted out of the office carrying their brown paper lunch bags.
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#5 Was Fired 3 Days After His Kid Was Born For Missing Time At Work
Was fired 3 days after my kid was born for missing time because I requested the weekend that my ex was in labour off, got the go ahead from my supervisor but I guess that never made it upstairs to the top boss because they got rid of me lol.
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#6 Fired Before Promised Promotion
I posted this in an askreddit thread about a week ago, but it fits this thread perfectly:When I was in my early 20s, I was about 9 months into a job at a retail store and I had been working my a*s off for a chance to be part of a new department that the store was about to open. I aced my review and I got the promotion to the brand new department. It was going to be more challenging work, it came with a pretty hefty pay bump, I would have my own office, and the work would be impactful to the whole company.
The promotion didn't kick in until the start of the next week. I was laid off that Friday. When they were asked to cut payroll, management literally selected the people who were making the most money. My name was listed next to the salary I hadn't yet received. Instead of admitting that they f****d up and keeping their best performing employee at that store, they doubled down and tried to hold my last paycheck ransom until I trained my replacement in the job that I hadn't even done yet.
The store owner just happened to be around that day. Normally he was a very kind man and knew everyone by name. I tried to explain the ridiculous situation to him and he just told me to go home. In a rare moment of frustration, I said something to the effect of "You know, b******t like this kills stores". He coldly replied "Hastings will be around longer than you."
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#7 Found Out They Are Fired Over CNN
Being the top dog of the FBI and finding out over CNN
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#8 Fired Because The Company Found Someone More Experienced But Asked To Train That Person
I had a friend who worked in an office doing office type s**t. One day, his boss croaked and he was was made interim boss. Anyways, he busted his a*s in order to try and keep his new position. A month later, he interviewed. A week later, his boss called him into the office and said.... *You know, we really wanted to hire you, I was rooting for you, but someone with more experience and qualifications got the job..... do you mind training him?*They asked him to train his replacement.
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#9 The Manager Asked To Stay 2 Unpaid Hours After She Fired Them
i was fired from petsmart for reasons i can no longer remember. immediately after the manager delivered the news, she asked me if i would mind staying for two hours to wait until the evening shift relief arrived. unpaid, of course. i laughed in her face and left.
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#10 Expected To Be Fired For Confronting The Boss About Her Committing Fraud And Embezzlement
Not quite fired yet, but today 3 of us publicly confronted our boss over proof of her committing fraud and embezzlement. The organization serves people with mental health conditions and we confronted her during a public meeting in front of those the organization serves.It was painful, we hated doing it, but the truth needed to come out.
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#11 Found Out She Was Being Fired While Looking For Another Job
I worked at a Chiropractic office once. One if the girls found out she was being fired when she was on Craigslist looking for other jobs and found her job posted for another X-ray technician. She came to work pissed and stripped off her scrubs in front everyone and walked out in her undies. My hero.
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#12 Fired Before Christmas After Doing All The Planning For The Work Party
Girl I knew was here on work visa. She had been working at a company for several years that treated her well but ended up moving and got a job at a new one. Her boss apparently used her as a scapegoat, set her up with impossible, b******t tasks (like planning the office Christmas party about a week beforehand), then fired her shortly before Christmas. That meant her work visa expired and she was going to be sent back to her home country. Apparently it's the law that the employer in this case pay for the fired employee's plane ride home, and her boss chose to fly her out on Christmas.
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#13 Fired For Yelling At A Kid Who Was Shooting Too Near To Them
I was working 20 ft up a ladder on the side of a house. I hear a BB gun fire and the pellet hit the wall a few feet beside me. After a couple more of these I turn around tell the fat kid standing in the yard if he does that s**t again he better be able to out run my hammer. Mom starts screaming about me threatening her kid. 15 minutes later I'm unemployed.
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#14 Was Fired During The Night Shift So They Were No Longer On The Travel Routs For Night Shift Workers Of The Company's Transport
Not me but a very close friend that was working with me at the time.His shift started at 11pm, mine started at Midnight, and we were both given transportation from door to door, meaning, pick up at your house, drop off at the very office, every day.
My friend was picked up on time and brought to the office as usual, 15min before his shift started. He was fired on the very spot, for some errors he had made, that in my opinion shouldn't be grounds to fire him but for a warning and coaching, but whatever, they were clauses in our original hiring contract, so, it wasn't appealed. Now comes the bad part.
In my country, the last buses run at 11PM for most areas, and even earlier in some others, and he lived two cities away, and while firing him, they also revoked his access to the building and the business center where the building was located, and was escorted out, with no way to get home.
And of course they wouldn't provide transportation, as he was no longer an employee, and neither could he wait outside for the buses or even his scheduled morning transport, since by firing him, the system automatically removed him from the travel routes.
Couldn't they fire him at the end of his shift, or at least call him and let him know so he would have got to work on his bike? Or at least, not showed up to work that day and come in the next morning, when there are transportation options and then do the paperwork. It was awful.
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#15 Fired After Working During The Bussiest Time Of The Year
Ex Public Accountant Here - In '09 one of the firms in my city laid off about 30 percent of its staff without warning a week after busy season (IE these poor accountants just worked 80-100 hour weeks with no days off for the last 2-3 months for an annual 50k salary).I would have literally taken off my bosses high heel and tried to stab her in the jugular, Happy Gilmore style, if she would have pulled that s**t on me.
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#16 Fired After Arranging A Birthday For Their General Manager
It's a long story, but I was early in my career. I wasn't fired for a good reason and I hadn't really stood up for myself yet. I just took abuse from management and did the best I couldIt was my GM's birthday, and we all had to pick names out of a hat, and we had to buy them a cake etc for their birthday. Well I had the GM, who wanted to do his birthday in the morning with bagels.
So I picked up 30+ bagels, cream cheese, giant thing of coffee, and we had this stupid bagel birthday thing or whatever
Half hour later I get back to my desk, I'm called to HR and I was fired. Oh and thanks for the bagels
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#17 Found Out They Were Fired By Given Their Paycheck
I know someone who went to his company mailbox and found a paycheck. It was stamped "TERM CHECK". He went to his manager and asked about it. She said "Oh. About that. You were fired..."
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#18 Was Fired After Telling Their Boss They Had To Go On Their Reserve Unit Training
Told my boss I had a 2 week mandatory training block coming up with my reserves unit. Got told there's no way I'm not working during that 2 weeks. Told him it's not like I have a choice. Got fired.
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#19 Was Fired Over The Phone While In Hospital
I was in a wreck on New Year's Day of 2009. A drunk driver hit me, injuring my leg up really badly. The driver didn't have insurance, their tags were fake, and their license was suspended at the time of the accident, so I was f****d. I couldn't walk and my job was being a soda merchandiser, so I was on my feet all day long. After reporting this to my employer, they told me to concentrate on getting well and to report back to management after seeing the doctor after a week or two of rehab.My doctor stated I may have to have surgery and wanted to run some tests, so I called my boss after an appointment. While I was being rolled out of the waiting room in a wheelchair, my boss fired me over the phone.
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#20 Was Forced To Fire Her Colleagues Until She Was Fired Herself
My mom worked for a small medical practice that was fast on its way to bankruptcy. Her boss gave her a promotion without raise and over the course of the next year, made her fire her coworkers one by one. She came to realize the reason she was "promoted" was so her boss could make her do the firing while he avoided everyone. Her coworkers saw what was happening, but still drifted away from their friendships with my mom as they saw her as an accomplice with the boss. The stress of firing her peers and feeling completely isolated at work was really eating away at my mom right up until the day her boss fired her, too.I'm sure there's worse ways to get canned, but my mom is a sweet woman who hadn't yet learned to speak up for herself and I'm disgusted at the lack of character and integrity her boss had.
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#21 Was Filling In For Their Own Boss Until The Company Found Someone New And Fired Them
This one resonates to me as I was let go three weeks ago. So story time:I was hired at a company back in October by a woman whom I consider the ebst boss I ever had. Awesome person, kick as marketer, we are still friends to this day. Anyway, at the end of December before we go on a New Year Break, she tells us she is leaving for a much better company. I don't blame her, the company is awesome.
Now when we get back, I instantly inherit all of her work and basically become a Director of Marketing without the title. I proceed to bust my a*s to pick up all the new duties, make sure everything is attended to, and try to make a case for being the replacement. Well the VP goes ahead and does interviews, we meet with some candidates, ultimately they hire the one who was my last choice of the four. I didn't like her. She was just off...anyway, I take it in stride and just go back to doing my job well.
For the next three weeks I proceed to continue doing all of the work I was doing before she arrived, and then some, while teaching her the business and how we did things. Well three weeks ago today I come into the office, go about my routine, and then get pulled into an office where I see HR. I instantly feel sick to my stomach. She then proceeds to terminate my position due to "budget" and I am let go. No severance, no real explanation, nothing.
So basically I manned a department for nearly four months, trained the new Director, and was then laid off by her three weeks into her tenure. Oh, and I found out she quickly replaced me with a friend she had worked with at four other companies. Needless to say it sucked and I was livid.
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#22 Fired After Signing A Big Deal For The Company
Friend of mine helped secure a BIG contract for the company he was working for. An incentive for getting contracts is you get a percentage of the profit. He *Just* started working there about 2 months prior and went out own his own several states away to talk to a potential customer from a lead he got at a convention (Basically, "Oh yeah I have a buddy who's looking into that. You should meet him") in person out of his own pocket. He secured the deal, called his supervisor to tell him, was congratulated, then drove 12 hours back home. His payout would have come out to around $40,000 over 5 years Went into work the next day and was fired for "suspicion of theft" and the boss of the division (not the supervisor, that guy is lower) would be taking over all his current stuff. He lawyerd up immediately but since he was still on his probationary period and they could fire him without cause nothing but the finders fee (around $3000) was to be paid to him. Basically his boss tossed him to get some free money.
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#23 Were Told They Will Be Shown A Presentation On Sexual Harassment, Got Fired Instead
Once when I worked in an office, they told us that we had to visit "corporate" for a presentation about sexual harassment in the office. We were broken in to groups to go on different days. Monday - Thursday, the groups got a video on harassment. The Friday group got fired en mass. The whole thing was a set up.
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#24 Foud Out They Were Fired After A Presentation That Didn't Reflect Reality At The Company
We were having a departmental meeting, and the head of engineering, Myron, was giving a speech about how all of our customers are happy - and how all of his ideas are f*****g awesome. Both of these were very false, so he was either lying or is disillusion.Next his boss is giving her presentation, and the little email message popped up at the bottom corner of the screen saying "You need to fire Myron" . Myron was soon fired... and good riddance.
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#25 Teacher Fired For Standing Up For His Students
I was a teacher at a Christian private school in Jakarta for about a year before I was removed.Going into the job I fibbed a bit saying that I was a practicing Christian as the pay was pretty solid and had a buddy working there who did the same. Anyhow, the year goes by relatively smoothly aside from constant headbutting with the head of English, Jimmy.
I was teaching grades 10 and 11 IGCSE and AS English Language, and after the initial transition phase, my students really took a liking to my teaching methodologies. Mr. Jimmy was a very strict, by-the-book, examinations every two weeks type of teacher, and I wasn't. I went in and figured for the kids to do well, they first needed to enjoy it, and so I spent the good part of my first few weeks getting the kids interested in various readings, neat ways of looking at writing etc. Anyhow, this didn't sit well with Mr. Jimmy, and so we would have constant debates in staff meetings over the way I was teaching my courses. He was the head of English, I was new, I get it. But my kids were eating it up, and they were doing better than ever!
Anyhow, between our clashes, and my lack of enthusiasm for going to chapel every Friday afternoon, my time at the school came to a head towards the end of the school year.
As the grade 10s missed chapel one Friday to sit a test, Mr. Jimmy decided that he would give his own to the grade 10s. So one Wednesday morning, myself and the other grade 10 homeroom teacher took our classes to Jimmy's sermon, and boy oh boy was it something.
Now, just to give you an idea of Jimmy, this dude is an ultra-conservative Christian from the sticks of West Virginia. Heavyset, short, and slow-speaking with a thick drawl. He constantly reminded students that "humans couldn't have evolved from monkeys." I'm not much for Abrahamic religion, but it's never really bothered me either, and I find it's more the wingnut members of the religion that tarnish the name--and Jimmy was definitely one of these.
Anyhow, we get to the little session and Jimmy says that this session would be about "defending you faith," which didn't bode well. He started the shindig by talking about being "assaulted, insulted and mocked" by all of the Muslims "running around Indonesia hating Christians." Oh boy.
I had been in Jakarta for two years by that time, and despite the recent unfortunate elections in the city, it's a very moderate place (and country in general). Not once had I heard anyone mock any religion, nor do you see people proselytizing or pushing their faith on others. Sorry, I take that back, everywhere except this Christian school.
Anyhow, I kind of reach my boiling point (I'm against religions of any kind being in schools) and raise my hand, and ask, "Mr. Jimmy, don't you think that we should just do what Jesus did, and turn the other cheek?"
He looks in my direction, keen to my discontent, and responds that "No, we need to give our children of god ammunition with which to fight the people that insult our religion." I mean, that's pretty heavy stuff for 15-year-olds.
After my question, a few other students who had talked to me in private about their lack of faith, questioning of faith, atheism etc began to raise their hands. Jimmy goes nuts. He starts rattling off bible passages, shouting, telling the students that it was no place for questioning (it is a school isn't it?) and generally throwing a temper tantrum.
I had had enough. I got up quietly, and left the room.
Two weeks later while my grade 11 students were sitting their AS exams, and whilst I was invigilating, I was asked by the vice principle to head downstairs to meet the head of the school.
I was told that I "didn't present a uniform front for the school, called into question my own religiosity, caused students to begin questioning religion, and undermined my senior."
I presented my case, explained that had Jimmy heard this same sermon, but in an Islamic school, he'd likely label them terrorists as the subject matter was just too extreme. They didn't hear me out, and gave me two options: 1. Resign with a payout for the rest of my contract (about 2 months) 2. Or be fired and get nothing.
Realizing that it wasn't worth the time and effort, I "resigned."
A few days later all of the teachers and students wore purple ribbons to school as a show of solidarity for me, parents called the school upset, the head of the school ended up resigning and moving countries. Later, I also found out that 90% of my students ended up with A* and A marks--the rest earned Bs, and they were the highest ranked classes in the past few years at that school.
I still keep in contact with some of my students from the school, and life only got better after leaving, so, whilst it makes a fun story, it only impacted my life for the better!
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#26 Found Out They Were Fired After Accidentally Getting An Email Talking About Their 'Unsatisfactory' Work
Headed out with family to celebrate at a Christmas Eve service, phone dinged because I inadvertently got copied on an email from my boss to an office assistant, directing her to draft up a letter terminating me "for cause", starting with the "unsatisfactory" job I did painting the entire new office on my own time when I started the job as an associate attorney one year prior. I immediately called him to ask "WTF?", He responded that he couldn't talk because he was in a church service with his family.
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#27 Was Fired While On Holiday
I got notice while on holiday. The day before I was supposed to fly back.I ended up just not getting the plane back and living in holiday city with a new job <2 weeks later, so it didn't all end badly.
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#28 Fired For Not Remembering Ice-Cream Flavors On The First Day
My first job ever was for Baskin Robbins when I was 15. I went in for my first day of training excited to finally be making pocket money!The owner made me try to memorize the ice cream flavours in the first 30 seconds of being there. When I was unable to recite them perfectly in their order he did this big hand motion and screamed "training over!"
I laugh now but man that was crushing for a nervous teenager.
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#29 After Moving Across The Country And Working For 2 Weeks He Got Fired As A Part Of A Large Reduction In Force
My buddy moved across the country for a job. At the end of his second week he was informed they were going to let him go as part of a large reduction in force. He had moved all of his stuff and signed a year lease of an apartment. When he complained that this really screwed him over and the company had to know this was coming well before he started and should have just told him to not come his now former boss patted him on the back, chuckled, and told him something like "life's not fair."My buddy ended up getting the last laugh. His dad's best friend was an attorney with all the right connections in that state. His old company settled with him when they were served with a lawsuit, claiming something like fraud and deception. He ended up settling for something that was over double his yearly salary.
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#30 Fired For Defending Himself From People Who Belittled Him For Having Autism
Our old manager was forced by HER boss to fire a guy who was a bit slower than the other servers because he stood up for himself when someone called him r******d (he has Autism)#31 Many Employees Were Fired Due To The Company Being Sold And One Of The HRs Firing People Was Also Laid Off
I worked at a place that was sold to investors, they brought in a hotshot CEO to bump up the numbers, then sold to our major competitor. During the transition, about 20 people were let go in one day. The head of HR (M) and the other HR employee (F) spent all day at it. It wasn't easy, since a lot of the employees had been there since the early days, 15+ years. There were tears, some shouting, the awkward "Hey Imma just stand here casually while I make sure you don't get weird while you clean out your desk also I'm so sorry this is happening" thing... After a whole day of that, the head of HR turns to the other HR employee and tells her, "Oh BTW we're gonna have to let you go too."You may ask, how did I know there were tears, shouting, etc.? Because that skeezy b******e head of HR shared all the gory details with my coworker the next day, in our open office workspace. She didn't ask, but he needed to tell someone. To this day I get mad thinking about it.
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#32 Nobody Announced To Anyone The Employee Was No Longer Working In The Company
I found out today when I got an email from a client stating. " <employeeX> was suppossed to be here today and won't answer his phone". I make a couple calls only to find out EmployeeX was asked to resign and nobody bothered to inform his accounts. I flew out of state to smooth things over (I'm in the hotel lobby right now, as this happened today).
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#33 Employee Thought She Was Fired So She Didn't Come To Work And Was Actually Fired
On night shift a coworker comes in and tries to log into the computer system. It doesn't work. She's locked out of everything. She'd also had trouble clocking in. The night shift supervisor is off that night. This lady starts freaking out and crying. She says she knew they were looking for a reason to fire her. When were they planning on telling her? What is she suppose to do now? Despite multiple people reassuring her that if they were going to fire her, this is not the way they would do it and suggesting there might just be a mistake, she is still determined that she's been fired and they forgot to tell her before they cut her access. She goes home and doesn't come in the next night either. She won't answer calls, and is out for the rest of the next week.Turn's out they hadn't fired her, but they had been looking for a reason to fire her. Not calling and not showing up for work was enough of a reason, so then she really was fired.
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#34 Falsely Accused Employee Of Stealing, Called The Police And Then Fired Them
I worked for this woman who owned a bakery business with several locations. She was a class A lunatic, but she paid well and for the most part I loved my job. I was constantly told I was one of her best employees, and one day she wanted me to be a manager at one of the stores. Honestly, I gave my all at that job because she paid me well above minimum wage for someone who had 0 experience in a bakery position prior to hire and I enjoyed making cupcakes for a living.3 weeks before christmas she came into the store and told me that if the police showed up to give her a call in her office so she could come upstairs to meet them. Weird, but she was always dealing with something crazy like a customer she insulted or the like. Anyways, the cops came and she took them into her office to talk to them and that was that. Well after we closed the store that night she called me aside and accused me of stealing money out of the register.
She has cameras all over her store and told me she had hidden ones even the employees didn't know about. She "caught me doing suspicious things" on camera such as taking an envelope off the counter and coming back into the store after I had already locked up to get something I forgot. Just weird and baseless accusations.
She told me she had called the cops on me to file a police report and they would be wanting to talk to me at some point. She then fired me and took away my keys for the store and I left. I was devastated and for the following week I was a nervous depressed wreck. I had never taken anything from her, ever.
I later found out from a friend who still worked there she told every single employee I stole $3,000+ dollars from her, and probably stole her checkbook as well because it was "missing". (Again this lady was insane and I have no doubt she's the type of person to put her checkbook on top of her car and forget about it while driving away). She also told everyone who still worked there they weren't allowed to talk to me at all. That also really upset me because I really enjoyed my coworkers, but I knew most of them were so afraid of her and losing their jobs if they didn't bend to her every whim they just obeyed. For weeks after being fired she'd randomly call and text me and if I didn't immediately answer she would call and text my girlfriend and threaten to have the police come to our house if I kept "ignoring her". Finally she stopped, until about 2 weeks ago she started harassing me again trying to set up some sort of meeting to talk about why she fired me, but I pretty much told her it can be a phone conversation or she can f**k off and I haven't heard from her since. Honestly, I'm waiting for some crazy letter saying she's trying to sue me for god knows what.
TLDR; Crazy a*s ex-boss wouldn't stop harassing me and lying about me for god knows what reason
#35 Boss Was Supposed To Fire Someone But One Of The Employees Didn't Like His Pick And Convinced Him To Fire Another Person
My boss was an idiot and one of the corporate heads had told him he had to fire somebody, so instead of thinking about who to fire he waited until Halloween to fire someone. He didn't want to make an unpopular decision. It was during our Halloween party and he tried to fire our quality assurance guy, but somehow was talked into firing somone else. So this guy got fired on Halloween because our boss didn't want to look stupid and go back to his first decision and fire the first guy. There was a big argument and our boss even tried to offer him a Chili's coupon.#36 Was Fired For Harassing Women 3 Days After Starting The Job
"Creepy Masseur"We had this guy in our dept that got fired within 3 days of starting. On the first day he had emailed all the females - only the females, and wrote an intruduction that resembled an e-harmony profile. Not that bad.
By day 2 he was trying to get "to know" a few select females better. One of them was Lori, who also in my dept and who had a healthy sense of humor. She kinda went with it to see how far this guy would go. He made it known how attracted to Lori he was and that he would like to give her a full body massage. According to him, he was quite good at giving them. I should mention at this time that Lori was 8 months pregnant. We had a good laugh but at that point Lori stopped encouraging the Creepy Masseur as to not get into any trouble for inappropriate use of company property herself.
On day 3, Lori started getting sexually explicit texts. She discreetly let us know that she thought it may be Creepy Massuer (All of our cell #s were on a sheet on our bosses desk which was not hard to get). My coworker, who is not discreet hears this and loudly announces, "I'll f*****g call the # and find out."
Co worker dials and behind us, you here the distinct "Brrr brrrr brrr" of a cell vibrating in someone's pocket. Co worker calls again. Again "Brr brrr brrr". Creepy Masseur's ears turn red and he has a thousand yard stare at his monitor.
Lori was a pretty cool chick and could have laughed it off. It was some of us that gave our manager the heads up. Apparently, women in other departments were more disgusted by him and had already complained.
Edit: On mobile. Much awfulness
Changed massuer from masseuse
#37 Was Told To Come To Work On The Day He Called In Sick Just To Be Fired
Summoned 17 people (~20% of the entire workforce) to the operations manager's office 8 am Friday. The day before the Company Christmas party, where bonuses are handed out. Usually to the tune of $2k each.Two weeks before Christmas, no job, no bonus, needing to cancel a date night with their SOs. Morale wasn't too good.
Two months later another wave of firings occurred, one of the guys was partying in LA the night before and called in sick. They forced his supervisor to call him repeatedly at home, telling him it was mandatory he showed up. He lived 35-40 minutes away. HR was waiting in the parking lot. Parked, they handed him a packet and check, turned around and drove 40 minutes back home.
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#38 School Principal Fired Teachers By Leaving Them Letters And Ignoring Them After
I was one of a group of Thirteen teachers who were laid off from a struggling private school. The decision had been made to get rid of Year 11 and 12 as a cost cutting measure. So therefore shaff had to go.The way we were told if we were being laid off or not was a letter in placed in our pigeon hole by the school principal. Who ensured he had left for the day and gone home so noone could confront him about it. He also tghen proceeded to hide in his office with the door locked when he did come back to work. We then had to work for another term before we fnished for the school year.
#39 Fired For Defending Themselves After Being Assaulted
Got assaulted by someone after work. In defending myself, the guys car took some minor damage e.g. wing mirror broken off, maybe a dent in the wing etc. I thought nothing of it, went home and then police turned up and arrested me on suspicion of criminal damage and ABH. Was released without charge but told my boss in work about it just in case. Police had me on bail for like 2 months whilst they checked cctb evidence putting me well in the clear. Due to form, the cockroach who assaulted me started calling my work trying to get me fired. My boss had my back on it but about a month later, I got called to a meeting about an hour and a halfs drive away on a Friday afternoon. This was whilst my boss was on holiday.They made me go through the meeting for nearly an hour before suddenly saying they were going to let me go. Apparently the grassing c**t had been writing and phoning in every day. Here is the kicker though - they told me that I was sacked for telling this man to f**k off in the process of defending myself. They allowed that I was entitled to defend myself and that I had not been charged with any offence but said that it was unacceptable to swear in my works uniform under any circumstances. I had to leave my work vehicle there and was then miles from home and had to take a taxi back costing £80. Luckily when my boss was back off holiday, he got them to refund me that.
TL;DR Got assaulted in company uniform and in the process of defending myself told attacked to f**k off. Was released without charge by police but sacked for swearing in works uniform.
#40 Former Colleague Was Supposed To Start A Job At The Company The OP Was Firing
A former colleague of mine said she had some "big news" to tell me and she'd be in town for a few days and wanted to grab some drinks. We chit-chatted some small-talk about how work was going, and I mentioned that I was about to fire a development company we worked with and had already signed a contract with their replacement. I went on and on for a few minutes about how pathetic the former partner's productivity had been and how it had hit rock bottom over the years.Then she told me her "big news." She had just accepted a position at the company I was firing the next day, and she was assigned to be my project manager.
Needless to say, the rest of the drink meeting was a bit awkward.
#41 Was Fired After Being Told No To Worry About Being Laid Off
I made the horrifically naive mistake of telling a co-worker (I thought was a decent person) I was putting out feelers after the clinic I was on probationary period at extended my probationary period for a third time instead of hiring me on. The very next day I was called into the administrators office and was ordered to explain why I would be so disloyal. I explained that I had become concerned when they extended my probationary period for a third time and I was only putting out feelers. The administrator claimed that they had invested a lot of time and money into me and that I had nothing to worry about - I wasn't going anywhere.So, the next day when I was scheduled to have my weekly meeting with the very same administrator I was feeling quite relaxed and confident. I sat casually in the office and smiled at her when she came in looking all tense. She then proceeded to tell me that I was being let go. When I asked "Why? You said I had nothing to worry about yesterday." She just sighed and said "You just don't seem confident that you're going to get the job." There was a brief moment of me silence and I said "You mean you're firing me because I don't seem confident you're not going to fire me?"
That's when she got flustered - like visible upset, smacked her hands on the table and said while shuffling papers nervously "You know this is a Right To Work State, right?"
"Yes?"
"That means I don't have to give you a reason, they are just letting you go." Then she offered to call security because I guess she thought I was going to be as upset about losing that s**tastic job as she was about having to fire me in such a s****y way. I assured her that security was unnecessary and that I would leave quietly. It was embarrassing, bewildering, and obviously quite unethical, but that's living in a Right To Work State for ya, o and working in a hospital.
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#42 Fired On Christmas Eve
Me and four other guys were "layed off" on Christmas Eve...#43 Got An Email Saying They Were Fired, Then Got Told It Was A Clerical Misunderstanding Which Took Almost A Year To Sort Out
The computers in our ambulances are a little particular sometimes, and we always joke that we've been fired when a login doesn't work. Well one day I could not get my login to work. Checked my email, lo and behold, I'd been fired! At the end of the day it was what amounted to be a clerical misunderstanding, but so far it's taken almost a year to get it sorted...#44 Police Escorted The Teacher During A Lesson
The police escorted a teacher out of the classroom while he was teaching.
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#45 Fired For Theft Twice
I was walking into work and saw my coworker/friend being walked out by the cops. He stole money from the store and was caught. A week later, I was at a different store. Turns out, that kid got a job from that store also. HE WAS GETTING WALKED OUT BY THE COPS AGAIN FOR THE SAME THING. It was unrealfrom Bored Panda https://bit.ly/3GJiC1n
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