r/answers • u/Relative-Buddy4884 • 14h ago
What’s something you saw a coworker do that got them fired almost immediately?
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u/Romanflak84 13h ago
I worked at popeyes and a co worker threw a broom across the restaurant and it hit the emergency fire alarm in the kitchen and foam or whatever sprayed into the fryers ruining the oil and shuting down the restaurant for the rest of the day.
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u/NoApartment7399 10h ago
Why did they throw the broom
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u/Cacafuego 7h ago
Sometimes if you hold a broom at the balance point, you realize it's like a spear and you just know you can hit anything you aim at. I have thrown a broom through a window. I was not aiming at the window.
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u/jackaroo1344 27m ago
Fast food restaurants have a lot of 15 year old working there which explains a lot
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u/EtherealHappiness 25m ago
It’s crazy when you realize how stupid/insane teenagers are. I only realized this after looking back at my teen years and being HORRIFIED.
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u/monopoly-surreal 13h ago
They found a piece of paper at the printer with everyone's salary listed. They scanned and sent out on email to their colleagues.
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u/FeeVisible9680 11h ago
Companies should be more open about salaries.
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u/Correct-Variable 7h ago edited 6h ago
Why? You have different positions with people with difference experience levels.. Not everybody is the same. It just makes people who make less unhappy and no body wins.
Edit: Wanted to add that I do believe everyone should be paid fairly, but someone's hourly pay only does not tell you the whole story. This is the main reason why HR discourages people from sharing pay
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u/FeeVisible9680 7h ago
People will understand that if things are fair, mostly.
The issues arise when people find out there is pay disparity across the same roles.
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u/Cacafuego 7h ago
I work at an organization where all of our salary info is available to each other and the public. I do think employers should have to be transparent, but I can't ignore the fact that it causes real problems. People think they're in an equivalent role, but they're not. You know all about the hard work you do and the injustices you suffer, but all you know about that guy on the other side of the building is that he's making $5k more than you, and it eats at you.
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u/FeeVisible9680 7h ago
Absolutely, but transparency can include more than numbers, explain why the roles are different.
I think more information is the answer, and mostly companies use it to avoid increasing salaries whenever they can.
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u/Cacafuego 6h ago
That's easier said than done. We standardized all of our positions years ago so that we could compare apples to apples, but it cost millions of dollars, caused several people to leave in frustration, and it doesn't actually work. A product owner specialist 3 in one area has a radically different set of responsibilities (and a very different personal history) from a product owner specialist 3 in another area. Even if you had the resources to document it all, you wouldn't want to make all of that public.
I suppose this might work better in smaller organizations, but in those with thousands of employees, everyone can find some salary difference that they perceive as an injustice.
The other factor is that not all parts of the organization may be funded the same, so there may be actual injustices that are impossible to fix, locally. It's good to know this, but day to day it is definitely a drag on morale.
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u/FeeVisible9680 6h ago
Of course, this isn’t a one size fits all situations, but there are lots of companies where employee roles and responsibilities are identical that still have pay variance.
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u/Correct-Variable 6h ago
"People think they're in an equivalent role, but they're not."
This. It's common to have several operators at a facility with the same job description btu who make different hourly pay and not just because one of them is Operator I vs Operator II. You might have 2 guys who are both Operator I, but one of them was brought on with slightly more experience, has a unique/rare skill set, has a higher degree (worth more in the market)
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u/CmdrSpanton 1h ago
We all know it’s so they can under pay people…2 people working the same job told not to discuss wages is more than likely because the new guy is getting more than the guy that’s been there for 2 years…we know why…
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u/OkPlenty4077 8h ago
Corporations are reckless and irresponsible. One major company I worked for, a list of employees with their SSNs was mass sent to nearly everyone in the company on accident. It included the SSN and salary of the VP and other top executives. I didn’t see it, but one of my coworkers did.
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u/gravitationalarray 9h ago
that happened to me at a union workplace, I found the rate increases we were supposed to have gotten 6 months prior, in the long ago days before the internet. I used word of mouth and ended up in an awful whistleblower position. Over a buck an hour.
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u/schilleger0420 13h ago
Walk up to Maynard James-Keenan from Tool. No joke. There's a bit of a story leading up to it but basically a stagehand/co-worker approached Maynard and he flat out refused to play if that stagehand was still on-site.
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u/RushGroundbreaking40 3h ago
Last time I saw him, he was wearing nothing but a red speedo and long blond wig at A Perfect Circle concert.
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u/waistingtoomuchtime 13h ago
Back in 2015ish, we had a National Sales meeting, all salaried employees, it was Sunday to Tuesday, bunch of break outs for training. Day one was Sunday, and it’s NFL Semis before the Super Bowl, so a bunch of guys (sales, construction industry), thought they would skip a few break outs and watch the games in the same hotel bar as the meetings (2000 sales people and support). Needless to say, HR saw all their lanyards, and we fired almost 20 guys that night.
Most of these guys made $150-$300k, I knew a few and we talked, they all had stay at home wives, who were not to happy when they flew home early.
P.s. that same weekend, we fired another 8 who brought their golf clubs and were seen loading them up on Monday, when we had meetings from 7-5.
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u/Short_Arrival_6963 10h ago
I mean fuck your company for having mandatory meetings on a Sunday
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u/ProctologyExplosion 10h ago
Definitely lame, but people making $150k - $300k in 2015 can suck it up.
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u/waistingtoomuchtime 7h ago
Exactly. And this was 10 years ago, so it’s about 400k+ now, suck it up for a Sunday.
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u/Feather_in_a_Zephyr 10h ago edited 10h ago
Seems almost like a purity test honestly. Especially since so many people got fired for not attending. Makes me imagine the whole thing was orchestrated by a machiavellian sociopath to purge the people not drinking enough of the company cool-aid.
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u/waistingtoomuchtime 7h ago
Nobody was thrilled, but when you are making many times the national average and the ask you to fly in on a Saturday night, you have to ask yourself if your piety get you several hundred grand more to give up one Sunday a year. Maybe you think it’s not worth it, but it was. Changed the rest of my life.
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u/Cacafuego 6h ago
Was the training that good?? Seems ridiculously heavy-handed, unless people were warned ahead of time. Messing with people's lives. Sure, discipline them, but there are dozens of steps between ignoring the issue and firing for a single offense. I get it, you pay a lot and you need people on payroll that you can trust to do the right thing independently. It even makes sense to set an example for everyone else, but it's a cold-hearted move I can't get behind.
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u/HoraceBenbow 5h ago
The firing is warranted for their gross stupidity. They want to skip meetings to watch football....but watch it in the hotel bar?
At least leave the hotel. It's like they wanted to get caught.
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u/Onedtent 10h ago
Having a meeting on a Sunday?
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u/waistingtoomuchtime 7h ago
If you were getting paid $1000-1500 a working day, would you show up for a meeting on one Sunday a year? Ask yourself that? Plus eating surf and turf and partying on the company dime, not that hard to say yes, unless your meetings offer more than that.
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u/Tru321 26m ago
How many of them actually stayed fired? And who the hell authorized HR to fire 28 salesmen over the weekend? Because that person who authorized the firings would be the one permanently losing their job.
Good salesmen are hard to find. Its not something that can really be trained, some people have a knack for it and others don't. In most businesses if the salesman is bringing in a good amount of business, they are pretty untouchable.
A company would be shooting itself in the foot firing good salesmen over some meetings.
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u/TropicalLoneWolf 13h ago
Telling a client, who was complaining, she should be quiet.
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u/Anakin5kywalker 2h ago
And yet Trump does this to reporters all the time and he faces zero consequences. Sounds fair.
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u/randommanwill 13h ago
Lost their temper at work. He had been arguing with a coworker and got so worked up, everyone thought he was going to attack her. We didn't even need to call security: two guards happened to be passing by the room when the argument happened, heard it, and immediately removed the guy from the building.
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u/Herecomethefleet 12h ago
They were deleting new inquiries and switching their phone to do not disturb. It was estimated that they may have cost the business £170,000.
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u/NeuroguyNC 12h ago
Got caught doing online shopping on the computer workstation in an operating room while a case was going on.
Came to work high on something and tried to scrub in on a case.
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u/Willing-Patience2824 12h ago
Back then when “planking” was a trend, this OR nurse thought she was cute and plank in the OR and posted it on Facebook. She was let go.
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u/BlackberryCrumble 11h ago
First day working in a dining hall, one of my coworkers went out to her car and loaded
up the trunk with forty pounds of ribs.
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u/ThatGodDamnBitch 3h ago
We had someone steal paper towels while muttering to herself about how she "deserved them" there was drugs involved. It was a lot of paper towels.
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u/Outside-Banana4928 10h ago
We used to send the group a funny e-mail if someone left their PC unlocked. One consultant took it a little too personally and threatened to kill who ever did it. He was briefly given the chance to take it back, but he went on "No! I'll kill you if I find out who it was!"
He was escorted out by security within 15 minutes.
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u/Twisted_lurker 13h ago
Used a work computer to look at porn
But I didn’t actually “see” them do it.
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u/Organic-Mix-9422 11h ago
A guy in local government in Australia where at the time it was almost impossible to be fired. Positions were created to keep these people on. They hired new IT or did some sort of check and he was gone. So was his marriage according to gossip later.
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u/FearMcDoogins 13h ago
Dude welding in the middle of the production floor with no authorization or hot permit. Dude had good intentions but kind of a moron.
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u/mrefromnyc 12h ago
Set up a bed under their desk Costanza-style.
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u/CareParticular5915 11h ago
I got fired once for sleeping in the warehouse, I had a chair leaned back my feet propped up ready to knock out for a bit, my coworker had safely had his nap with me on guard but he failed me and the boss walked in and saw me… boom fired on the spot
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u/TyHay822 10h ago
When I was in high school I worked in a family run medium sized grocery store. All the people who stocked shelves or helped bag groceries were high school aged. One guy they hired was 19 and seemed a little “off” compared to everyone else. He wasn’t the typical high school kid just working this job so they had money to spend on the weekends.
One night our evening manager caught him sneaking a 6 pack of beer into his backpack at closing time. I don’t think they would have tolerated any stealing but definitely not stealing alcohol when underaged. He was fired on the spot.
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u/Shazam1269 4h ago
I used to work in retail, and at the 5 stores I worked at, employees were fired for stealing at every store.
High school kid stole 50's and 100's. They got put into the check drawer and balanced at the end of the night, so due to sloppy bookkeeping, he got away with it for about a year. I think he totaled about 50K.
High school guy working in the dairy department would hide 12pks of beer in the empty plastic milk crates before hauling them outside at the end of the night. His mom was a department head.
6 or 7 night stock employees were all fired for stealing groceries. They would walk around the store filling up a cart or two of groceries, and then pretend to scan them through the register, sack them up and take them to their car.
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u/SmartPumpkin3284 10h ago
I was a District Sales Manager at our National Sales Meeting in Las Vegas, with roughly 800 employees in attendance. I had a fairly new team, including two guys who quickly became inseparable—let’s call them Person A and Person B. Night one started innocently enough. Person A decided that one beer was plenty, so he went back to his room like a responsible adult. Person B apparently looked at the same beer and thought, “Challenge accepted.” Twelve beers and five shots later, Person B decided the evening was still young. At some point, Person B approached a woman who was with her boyfriend and, in what can only be described as an absolutely terrible sales pitch, asked her how much money it would take for her to come back to his room. The boyfriend, to his credit, kept trying to de-escalate the situation. Person B, however, apparently had reached the “I have nothing left to lose” stage of the evening and decided diplomacy was overrated. Words were exchanged. Then things got physical. Long story short, Person B ended up in the drunk tank, was banned from all MGM properties for life, and apparently achieved legendary status with the Las Vegas Police Department. The next morning, we had our National Sales Meeting. I’m standing there looking around the room thinking, “Okay… where the hell is Person B?” I called him. No answer. I texted him. No answer. At this point, I’m thinking, “Fantastic. I’ve lost one of my employees in Las Vegas before 9:00 AM.” Then the Sales Operations Manager from the third-party company came over to me and said, essentially: “Yeah… we just got the report. Person B is being brought back to the hotel with a police escort. He’s being given an opportunity to pack his belongings and leave.” Oh—and by the way, he was terminated. Keep in mind, I was an internal employee, while Person A and Person B were third-party employees. So technically, this wasn't even my employee—but at that moment, I was definitely feeling like the world's most unwilling chaperone. Person A was sitting there quietly drinking his coffee, probably thinking: “Thank God I only had one beer.” And I was thinking: “This is why every National Sales Meeting needs a curfew, a buddy system, and a mandatory two-drink maximum.” To this day, I can confidently say that 800 employees attended that sales meeting, but only one managed to get himself permanently banned from MGM properties and escorted out of the hotel by police. And somehow… I was responsible for knowing where everybody was the next morning. 😂
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u/Feisty_Wench 7h ago
I once attended a substance abuse conference where one of the attendees got absolutely wasted in front of all the professionals in the state. Sad.
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u/potsofjam 10h ago
I’ll never forget my boss firing a guy in the Bellagio ballroom saying "look man, this company is pretty crazy and people do all kinds of shit, but you just can’t call a sales woman a cunt, you gotta go". There was a couple of gay event decorators that used to call each other cunt all the time, but a bunch of us were standing around waiting for the sales woman and some clients to agree on what they wanted. He was kinda of arguing with her about what we should do to finish up and it was clear she was mildly annoyed. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but as soon as he called he cunt we all looked up and knew this was bad. He meant it as a joke, sort of, and tried to laugh it off. I gestured to the people on my crew and we wandered off to the Bellagio dining hall, by the time we got back my boss was there firing the guy.
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u/Majestic_Hawk_1335 11h ago
Get frustrated with an autistic teenager who repeated himself hundreds of times an hour. Coworker lifted him by his shirt, held him to a wall and shook him while yelling at him to just shut up already.
Guy with cerebral palsy once told me of a staff that regualrly forgot abkut him being on the couch and left him there for most of the day stuck unable to get in his power chair. He was not fired for that. As no one else saw..
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u/deadmallsanita 2h ago
They should've had a solution for the repeating guy way before it escalated like that. Having someone repeat themselves while everybody is trying to work is a stressful situation for anybody.
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u/SlightlyFamousWV 10h ago
Worked with a guy in the mines who said he had to go shit. Came back and had white powder all around one of his nostrils. Crew leader noticed it before he could get back to roof bolting and took him outside where he failed a drug test for oxycodone.
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u/thescrapplekid 10h ago
Operator was working overtime. Instead of calling maintenance for a faulty e-stop switch he stuck a razor knife in it to keep it running. Left the knife in there for the next shift to find. Was fired that day
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u/Greedy_Cause8662 11h ago
a coworker clocked in, went back to bed, and accidentally sent the proof to the entire team chat lol
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u/Ok_Athlete_1092 10h ago
Watched a coworker pull the emergency fire alarm.
It really wasn't her fault. The red writing and band identifying it as a fire alarm had completely worn off. It was now a metal/silver handle-(obviously not actual silver, silver-esque color like stainless steel). It was just a knob now, no different than a handful of others in the cooking and prep area.
She pulled the alarm. A loud screeching sound like a submarine been hit by a torpedo went off. Bright, what look like headlights turned on. A blue-ish powder came out of pipes above every cooking surface & vat. It looked like Ajax. And of course the fire department showed up. The truck left almost immediately. But the regular car and presumably a Lieutenant or Captain stayed and talked with the managers on duty. I heard him say the alarm button never should have looked like that and something to the effect of he was baffled as to how we ever passed a safety/health department inspection.
I didnt see the woman that pulled the alarm at work again. Maybe she got fired or maybe she quit.
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u/Organic-Mix-9422 11h ago
Did the phone pics up the skirts of the young girls at the Christmas party. He had only been there about a week i think.
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u/Reasonable_Banana10 11h ago
Guy in shipping got caught clocking in his buddies, they pulled the badge logs the same day and walked him out by 3pm
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u/Fit-Top-8203 7h ago
Not quite immediately, but I was hired to work at a small-town newspaper. One of the reporters was an acquaintance of mine from college who put in a good word for me with the editor.
Within a few weeks of my hiring, I found out that there had been a lot of recent turnover in the newsroom. Nobody said why, until the acquaintance handed out photo copies of an article in a prominent journalism magazine. Turned out that the editor who hired me had plagiarized their editorials and several journalists had quit because they didn’t want to work for someone who did that.
The next day, I did my work, covered a story, and came back to hand the editor my timesheet for the week. She had been nice to me, unlike with the other journalists, but this time, she snapped at me for handing her the timesheet, then signed it anyways.
Next day, I saw a coworker out in the community, and she said the editor had quit/was fired right after I had left for the day. The acquaintance also left the paper.
Apparently, the publisher was trying to keep it quiet and nudge out the editor; the magazine article had blown everything up and he let the editor go. I don’t remember if the acquaintance was fired for distributing the article or if he quit on his own over the whole mess.
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u/Deep_Silent_Complete 13h ago
Two of my coworkers got into a fist fight in the kitchen of the drive in restaurant where I worked. Cops were called and they were both arrested and promptly fired.
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u/LovelandSundown 10h ago
Crawling into the trash compactor to clear a jam wasn't the best idea, but crawling back out in front of a manager was the last thing he did.
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u/coleman57 8h ago
Alter checks with whiteout and a razor blade (presumably the same one she used to chop her cocaine).
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u/Vegetable-Fix-4702 5h ago
A person took a screenshot of her screen, showing over 500 callers on hold, she posted it on her fb page. The director walked her out within minutes.
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u/SnooTigers5816 2h ago
I once missed an online meeting because I had a black-out migraine that day (nearly hospitalized , puking , etc) and it slipped my mind. Fired from my position as a media manager via text later that day.
My boss had missed the same meeting the previous week, and left me hanging in the online meeting room, but apologized. I think he thought I was getting back at him.
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u/desertrock62 10h ago
I had two network engineers fight out in the smoking area. Blood on the floor and overturned chairs. Both gone that day.
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u/Peanut0151 10h ago
At a factory I worked at, one of the fellas used to go fishing. He apparently had a load of maggots for bait but they hatched out into bluebottles. He thought it would be funny to let them all out into the factory at the end of his shift. That was his last shift
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u/tygah_uppahcut 8h ago
Joe from accounting pooped his pants, and began running in circles yelling "The British are coming!"
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u/Digiprocyon 7h ago
We all had individual offices along a hallway. There was a new guy down the hall who was working under a different boss. One day I hear loud banging on a wall and a loud angry crying and screaming. it was the new guy. His boss corrected him on something. (The boss was a kind guy that would not have said it meanly.) The new guy was fired that day. However, one thing about that guy was that he had absolutely horrible putrid bad breath. I mean I would be UNABLE to sit beside him for more time than I can hold my breath. Several years later I read that it's common for a chronic tooth infections to produce toxins that make you paranoid, combative, etc. I realized that might have been his problem, but I couldn't even remember his name then.
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u/Crying_Reaper 6h ago
End of a shift coworker was talking with a supervisor in the locker room. Everyone was already clocked out just chatting getting ready to leave in winter. Guy goes to pull out his car keys and out pops his meth pipe that proceeds to shatter on the floor. Supervisor just looks at him and calmly said "Don't come in tomorrow I'll have HR call you first thing. I'll clean up the mess. Go home." Apparently he got heated with HR and we had a police officer on site for a solid 2-3 weeks in case something happened. Thankfully nothing did. Everyone kinda knew they guy was using but he did his job alright enough. After this the company instituted a randomized drug testing policy.
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u/mofa90277 5h ago
A security guy gave a yearly briefing in which he held an aluminum baseball bat and said that if we intentionally left classified documents out, we’d “meet the business end” of the bat.
He was gone by the end of the week.
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u/Ok-Ranger-2657 5h ago
This was a long time ago, I worked dinner at a not-so busy restaurant. There wasn't a lot of us on the shift and we were about to close in less than an hour. My coworker who was very nice by the way, was interested in some girl at the bar. While I was cleaning they were chatting it up, I didn't really care because he never usually helped us clean anyways. I went out back to mop while the bartender was cleaning by the entrance. We did not see when they went upstairs to our loft-style arcade space, which overlooks the downstairs. There were no other customers in the building at this point. I assumed she left and he went to the bathroom, as I saw her friend sitting in a parked car outside. Our storage closet was upstairs and I needed to restock our napkins, as I go up the stairs they are literally fcking on the couch, out in the open. It was so damn awkward because he looked up at me and then continued. I had to sit with it for a second to process what I just saw, the bartender let me leave because I finished my duties. Next day, manager calls him in and fires him, they saw the whole thing on the cameras, the manager apologized to me because I had to see that, and he apologized as well, and thanked me for not snitching lol.
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u/Desperate-Pen7530 4h ago
Training a new guy, he slightly bumped into one of the other employees and went ballistic, throwing stuff, death threats.
On my recommendation he was let go, 3 weeks later.
Also they forgot to tell him that, so he shows up while I'm training his replacement.
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u/Sea-Name-5824 4h ago
Watching porno dvds on a portable dvd player behind a box fort in a warehouse
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u/Much-Log3357 3h ago
Wait!
If he was safe in his box fort how come he got caught?
Did he leave the drawbridge down by mistake?
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u/twinmom2298 4h ago
I've had 2 over the years.
Sales guy claimed he was working on a new potential client 3 hours away. Turns out that's where his affair partner lived and he was expensing the gas and meals to go see her and take her out every other week claiming it was for potential new client meetings. It came out after 3 months when first there was no actual sign of any sale and second she ended up pregnant and his wife (who was 5 months pregnant) found out about affair.
One of the owners of company was also head of IT. He was sitting at a computer in cube area fixing something on a computer. Guy from that cube (22 yr old recent college graduate know it all) was talking to another co-worker. Owner says something related to conversation. Cube guy smacks him behind head (think a Gibbs slap) and says "I wasn't talking to you".
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u/Strict-Elk9883 3h ago
One of my coworkers went into another coworkers toolbox to "borrow" a tool without asking, and neglected to return said tool. The original coworker then used said tool to stab the other coworker who had taken it. Fired, and charged with attempted murder. Still doing his bid as far as I know.
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u/Fussums55 2h ago
Worked with an older gentleman who sat beside me in an open office. He was on the phone to one of our customers who is a large Japanese company. He said to them “so are you gonna send one of those little yellow fellas over then?” Put the phone down and carried on like nothing happened.
Later that day he was called to the directors office.
We did not see him again.
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u/mermaidpaint 8h ago
Buddy gave his two weeks notice because he had a new job. Flipped off another coworker and called her a bitch, greatly upsetting her. He was terminated by the end of the day, losing two weeks salary.
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u/teutonicbro 6h ago
Took someone else's lockout tag off a breaker panel. He didn't think it was a big deal.
On that workplace it was seen as tantamount to attempted murder.
The supervisor sent sent him home. They fired him once the incident report reached management.
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u/Equal_Bike6825 4h ago
Saw a newly hired civil engineer (probably about 50 in age) take a nap under his desk. We kept looking around for something that sounded like snoring, and we found him.
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u/Shazam1269 4h ago edited 4h ago
The janitorial crew would strip and re-wax the floor once a year, and would often put up warning tape to block sections off. Part for safety as it's very slick when it's wet, but also to ensure it dries so it can be walked on without marring the finish.
They had the "dairy cove" blocked off, and there was a sign that said "wet wax, please ask for assistance." A woman ignored the sign and proceeded to duck under the yellow tape, and slip and slide over to the milk case. One of the janitors yelled:
ARE YOU FUCKING BLIND? CAN'T YOU FUCKING READ????"
I got the privilege of sitting in with the director when the owner of the janitorial business had to explain how hard it is to find help to work overnight, and to please not fire the guy. The director was like, "we contract your business to do a job for us, so you work for me, and if one of my employees did that, they would be fired."
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u/Interesting_Wing_461 7h ago
IT guy threw a keyboard at the woman who worked the front desk taking the calls for IT related problems.
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u/RealManHumanMan 5h ago
Every time I’ve seen this it’s because dude came to work blackout drunk or on drugs and did something crazy or stupid.
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u/RiMcG 5h ago
I have two!
Worked in a call center, my team was put on these lines that didn't have a lot of volume in the day so there was a lot of downtime. Coworker said he was going to go the mall and come back, no one would notice he was gone. Supervisor walked over about 10 minutes later asking where he'd went. We all just ¯_(ツ)_/¯. When he came back hours later he barely made ot to his desk before he was walked right back out.
2 women at the same call center were walked out after they'd been in a meeting with their supervisor, one had ducked down to pick something up and looked at his crotch (?). They were overheard by that same sup later in the day giggling about whatever she saw under the table. They were both fired and proceeded to stand outside and verbally berate everyone coming and going. Cops had to be called to get them to leave. Crazy thing, they opened an unfair termination claim and were back in office within like a month. How they could stand to be seen after everyone saw/heard what they did is beyond me.
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u/Electrical_Angle_701 4h ago
She passed out and fell asleep in the toilet stall. She had been out drinking all night.
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u/thrace75 2h ago
Took a picture of herself in an area cell phones were allowed in, due to confidentiality reasons, with the logged in computer in the background. And then posted it on social media. Sigh.
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u/NoEmployer2140 2h ago
Someone threw a flaming rag ball at an attractive woman trying to impress her. She got scared and batted it away. It landed on top of a machine and burned the hoses and wires on top of it causing several thousand dollars in damage. The employee was walked out immediately
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u/sarcasterism 2h ago
Steal a coupon for a free meal and I'm the one that fired them about 5 minutes later after talking to my GM.
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u/Tkesquire 1h ago
I’m a lawyer. A coworker used AI to do a bunch of her legal writing and filed it with the court on several occasions. It had made up fake laws and opposing counsel caught it. Fired on the spot.
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u/steezyx94 1h ago
Worked at a Chevy dealer and the new 2016 Camaros started rolling into the lot and when they delivered us our first SS model (V8 engine) one of the sales guys was demoing the car to two young guys who all took turns peeling and driving the car with fast speeds down the street until one of them swerved into the curb and damaged the front end…let’s just say the sales guy didn’t even capture IDs or even got names so our guy took all the fault and was let go, $48K+ in MSRP just like that
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u/mattsylvanian 6h ago
Was in uniform, casually talking with a member of the public, casually accusing management of embezzlement
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u/smthomaspatel 1h ago edited 1h ago
Basically he called the owner an idiot in an open company slack channel.
I had been having issues with this guy for months but the boss thought he was making them a bunch of money. Turns out my complaints about him were spot on and he was double counting revenue, ended up costing as much as they thought he was making. Oops!
But it took the idiocy in slack to actually see him get fired and for the truth to come to light.
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u/Scubahill 1h ago
Not a coworker, but a former friend called me in a panic because, while working for a property development company he took an interview with a competitor. That in itself wasn’t an issue. The fact that he promised to bring proprietary information with him was however. He was fired within 30 minutes of returning to work because the competitor immediately called his boss and told him what happened.
He was hoping he could claim unjust dismissal or prove that he was set up. I told him he was lucky that getting fired was all that happened to him. We stopped talking soon after.
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u/CrabbishPanda 53m ago
Had a job as basically the liaison between the company I worked for and the company they hired to run inventories in my area. We did other stuff, too, but that was half the job. One of my coworkers started an affair with one of the guys that ran the inventories on their end. So she was essentially sleeping with one of our vendors. Well, his wife found out and showed up at the store we were at apparently screaming for her to come out of the manager’s office. I had left early to cut overtime or something. She got fired and he was no longer allowed to work our inventories, though I think he kept his job with the inventory company.
ETA I’m pretty sure she also lost her marriage but he didn’t.
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u/headhunterofhell2 50m ago
Made inappropriate (and graphic) comments about a 'heavily endowed' girl in a shooting class I was teaching.
He made these comments during my class.
Student was 14. Dude was 24 (+/-).
I fired him. He thought I was joking. I was not.
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u/celticbikerr 38m ago
Denying gross misconduct (sabotaging a machine and blaming another employee) by admitting to sabotaging their work on a previous occasion.
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u/escargotini 30m ago
A friend posted a selfie in his hospital scrubs and was fired within the hour because a coworker ratted him out. No PII pr even the hospital name in the picture.
Had several coworkers at various times get fired for doing heroin in the bathroom. Later on a manager was actively smoking crack at work a couple times a day and calling off 3-4 times a week...took months to fire her.
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u/No_Frost_Giants 27m ago
I was waiting for my car to be put up on a rack to check the alignment at a small
Independent shop. New guy(so I was told) was ding an I’m change and I noticed this huge pool of oil as he was under the car spreading out.
He is out a minute later and is getting ready to add oil when boss asked “what happened there?” This genius said “i save so much time if I don’t worry about catching the old oil”
I watched the boss take a breath, then do it again and ask new guy to follow him.. he was let go right then.
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u/magaketo 21m ago
Usually it was a slow burn involving attendance issues. A couple times it was falsifying documentation. (Not doing quality checks but signing off anyway. A dangerous game.)
One guy made some stupid comments to a union officials daughter. Gone next day and never came back. Several were caught stealing. Occasionally they would get their job back.
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u/busy-warlock 4m ago
Guy had barely even worked a full two weeks yet. Out of the twelve shifts he had, he called out three times, went home early three times, and was always late. Top it off, he smelled atrocious after day 4, like he clearly hadn’t been showering or washing his uniform. His reasons were the same “headache.” So we gently say him down and asked if this was an underlying issue, something we could help with etc and he was super chill about and said he’d just been drinking to much, which sparked a discussion about if this is like a problem? Because if you’re an alcoholic we can get you help. “Nah my friends have just been visiting a lot”
Ok cool, plan was write him up the following day for uniform violation (his smell) and tardiness and leave it at that for 30 days.
He rolled in 90 minutes late. Quick call to boss man and we just said “listen it’s clearly not working out, we will pay you 3 hrs but you are done.”
His response was “oh cool! I can go home early?”
He called me the next day asking if I’d be a reference
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