r/AskReddit • u/CayleeArbegast • 13h ago
People who've been fired, what was the real reason?
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u/Infamous-Umpire-2923 11h ago
Calling my direct supervisor a useless cunt could possibly have had something to do with it.
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u/robinson217
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Shady employee decided to steal cash out of the drawer and blame it on the new hire, which worked at first. Got fired after 1 week. A month later the owner of the company called to apologize, said the guy did it to another new hire, and offered my job back. Already had a new thing going so I passed. "I gave you my word and you said my word was worthless. I don't want to work anywhere that my word is worthless". It was a satisfying hang up.
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u/MichelloDSloth 12h ago
Similar thing happened to me, without the call back. Asst. Manager was stealing put of the till, and conveniently I was on shift the last few times it happened. They made her fire me, which at the time I was confused why she was so upset. I was about the start college so I didn't really care, other than my reputation of course.
I ran into the delivery driver a year later and he said she was hauled out by the police to stealing money. That's when everything clicked.
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u/Joey-WilcoXXX 11h ago
I didn’t get fired (I was actually already quitting) but before I left a manager job, I got a call one morning I was off from the boss asking if I knew why my job was short on these company comp cards we had to log before giving away. Told my boss I had no idea (literally never used them before in my career there) and they just did not sound like they believed me at all. Whatever. A few months later I was in the area and stopped by to visit some of my old coworkers. During our convo, one of my comanagers brought up the call and told me they found out a couple of weeks after I left that another comanager that left around the same time as me had been trading the cards with local businesses for perks or some shit. Didn’t get a callback apology or anything for the insinuation. Wouldn’t have even known my name was cleared if I didn’t visit those friends.
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u/Silent_Tap1369 10h ago
My first job was McDonald’s and I noticed registers would be $10 and $20 short, this only happened when Rita was managing. Fortunately it didn’t happen to me. Unfortunately for the people it did happen to, it took the company years to catch her on camera stealing.
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u/Beowulf33232 9h ago
We had 20 people get fired, all the same guys assistant, in a year.
Supervisor told him he was the common denominator.
The company owner stepped in and fired the supervisor.
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u/Spicyg00se 8h ago
This happened to me too! Except the thief was a longtime assistant manager who stole $5000 from the black box and shorted my till by exactly $100 on their last day. I was told that if they hadn’t lost the $5000, the $100 could be overlooked, but I couldn’t prove i didn’t take the $100 and corporate was pissed about the $5000 so a head needed to roll. The head manager didn’t want to pursue the assistant manager due to their longstanding affair, which I guess makes sense lol gotta love the Carmike.
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u/Interesting_Net1297
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I was shite at my job.
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u/ProfessorJAM 11h ago
Same. Took a chance, didn’t work, gone. Everyone better off.
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u/Teantis 11h ago
It was the very very beginning of the 2008 recession, no one knew that's what it was yet. Also I pretty obviously hated my job and the partners could tell through my performance and my attitude. Ultimately they did me a favor because I was about to quit but I had a feeling layoffs were coming so I decided to hold out for one more month, I had access to unemployment payments throughout the recession until I got another job thanks to that decision on mine and their part. It was 15 months before I even had a temp job again. I would've been so fucking screwed if I'd quit instead of letting them lay me off.
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u/Interesting_Tea5715 10h ago
The only job Ive been fired from was working frlor my Dads business as a house painter.
I was a teen and just being shitty.
With that said, a year later he hired me back and I stuck with it for several years and eventually started my own business.
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u/Knowwhoiamsortof 9h ago
Same. I didn't know how to bag groceries. Even after they showed me I just didn't get it. I still don't think I could explain what you're supposed to do.
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u/Hot_Low_3622 13h ago
Was called to testify in Federal court. My name was in the paper the following morning.
I worked third shift so I had not missed work at all. Running on no sleep.
Was terminated on arrival that afternoon. Turns out the company was shady and terrified I was some sort of secret agent.
“Due to a reduction in force, your services are no longer needed.” That was the exact wording.
Only time I ever got canned. They went out of business a few years later.
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u/beatenmeat 8h ago
Would have been a fun phone call to the feds:
"Hey, I'm not sure what this company is up to but they were scared shitless at the mere thought that you were investigating them. Have fun!"
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u/TheGreatBjork 13h ago
A new company merged with the company I worked for. Worked there 16 years.
They let me go because they said I didn’t fit in with the culture.
I had never been written up, and had only called off one time in 16 years because my dad had a stroke.
They let go of all of us in leadership roles and replaced us all with other leaders from the other company.
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u/rmsand 11h ago
A similar thing happened to my dad. It turned out that all the people they fired were over 45 so they filed an age-discrimination class action lawsuit. Didn’t go to court, but they all ended up getting a very nice settlement along with their severance package.
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u/sektekila 13h ago
That’s how it works.They always favor people they know. You’d better know someone
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u/MemeMan4-20-69 10h ago
That happened to my dad at his old job, was in a pretty good job but then they brought in this lady from Amazon after the company got bought who was good in “efficiency” well long story short she let go my dad and a bunch of other higher ranking dudes, and apparently last he’s heard working there is hell now and the company is performing worse and worse, but he’s doing better now working for a start up for construction management software, and he’s making bank and on the way to become CTO of the that company in the next year or so
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u/Legal-Ad6109 13h ago
Did you work for a sporting goods store similar to Hibbett? They bought out a company that was going bankrupt, then let the bankrupt leadership be in charge, even though they bought them out, and then the parent conpany got bought out.
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u/eddiemarsattacks 13h ago
I pointed out to my boss at the call center that what we were doing was technically a “crime.”
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u/DaFarmGar 12h ago
Hah similar experience here. Told my boss two times in a month that what he asked me to do was against the law. Terminated without cause a week later.
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u/beardedheathen 6h ago
I worked at a cell phone store and we had corporate out to give us training that was basically we need you guys to sell more data plans at the time the area we were in didn't even have 3G so I was like why would we still those? Even if people are using them 24/7 they aren't going to go through the date include with the base plan.
I was let go for insubordination the next day.
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u/ProfessorLake 13h ago
I was working at a state job. On Monday I filed a complaint with the ethics commission including documents proving the executive director had embezzled $400,000 in funds. Tuesday afternoon the ethics commission informed me they had done a thorough investigation and concluded there was no wrongdoing. Wednesday morning I was called into HR and informed my position had been eliminated. Technically not fired, I guess.
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u/hotpepperjam 6h ago
I quit a banking job because I was about to be fired. My drawer was off by too much too often. I wasn't stealing, I was just bad at my job. It didn't help that as soon as I started after two weeks of back-office training, my boss skipped all the front-line training she was supposed to do, told me to forget about the clean transaction handling I'd been taught, and when things were busy just process transactions until the rush was over and deal with sorting the piles of cash and actually reconciling my drawer afterward. Then she'd leave me alone to handle the rush. Hated her, gave HR an earful in my exit interview.
I was good at my next job! So it was a blessing in disguise.
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u/theabominablewonder 4h ago
I also got fired for my drawer being off, was only there for a day or two.
But I also worked at another bank with absolutely no issues with my drawer and I was there six months. And another branch I worked for a few months.
I think it was more likely that they were not following good practice and/or supervisor was stealing. Not always the teller’s fault.
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u/hiddenrealism 5h ago
My ex got fired for the same reason, her drawer was off too many times. Wasn't stealing, just bad at math and had horrible attention span.
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u/Owl_plantain 13h ago edited 9h ago
Our product didn’t work. I asked questions about the problem we needed to solve. The CEO drove everyone ragged while assuming the product was fundamentally good. I did my work without exhausting myself and kept asking questions. They didn’t like that and got rid of me. It never worked. The company failed.
ETA: Thanks for your responses. It was a start up, but none of the ones mentioned below. It seems that many people had similar experiences. On the bright side, I learned and avoided several other companies that had a similar, but more stressful fate.
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u/Bluestripedshirt 11h ago
This exact same thing happened to me. I was about to quit anyway. The company was sold in a fire sale a few months later. The original investors got pennies back.
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u/Ornery_Appearance_31 13h ago
I was drunk and high all the time. I passed out while teaching one day.
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u/zx7 12h ago
I've taken a shot a few hours before class at a university to calm my nerves. What did you do after?
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u/Young_Omni_Man 13h ago
I was let go from my job as a bank teller in college for failing to reach sales goals. And it's probably entirely coincidental that in the previous day's meeting I argued with the branch manager about what qualifies as a percentage. It was a dick move and she was right to fire me, but she was also wrong. I'm sorry, but if your customer satisfaction score is 1-100 based on the number of positive responses, well that's a percentage. You can't convince me it's proprietary math Celeste.
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u/bmanley620 11h ago
I used to be a teller and hated that they wanted you to upsell products while trying to manage a line
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u/scrotumsweat 11h ago
Working as a laborer at 19 years old for cash on a new house build. The owner said I can just show up if I wanted to work, dont show up if I dont. So I didnt show up one morning.
This pissed the foreman off, I told him the deal, he said it didnt sit well with him, so I started showing up every shift. But he was still a pissed off grumpy bastard.
I was tearing apart a form after a pour, couldn't get the plywood off so went to the shack to get a pry bar. He told me to get out of the way and ripped it off by hand after a few attempts, called me a pussy, I told him to fuck off, he challenged me to a fight, I thought about it but foresaw no good consequences. He claimed to be an ex con in his 50s, and I was 19. Either id get pummeled or I beat up a middle aged man.
So he called the owner and said either I go or he goes, and I got canned. Told the owner in private that guy is unstable and going yo ruin you.
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u/undefined_protocol 10h ago
Sounds about right. That one totally unhinged guy that only still works there because they've been so loyal to the company. It's always satisfying to hear about them getting fired through the grapevine.
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u/Medusa_7898 13h ago edited 13h ago
I was hired to build business for my employer to gain access to a specific sector. I have decades of experience selling into that sector and the first 6 months I delivered.
Then covid happened and the private equity firm that owned us brought in a new leader who turned out to be the sales prevention committee. He literally sabotaged every opportunity we brought forward.
After 6 months of that I stopped trying. They took a lot of money from the government during Covid so I knew they wouldn’t be able to let me go. Plus I had a contract with a very generous severance. I hung in there doing absolutely nothing until they put me on a PIP about 9 months later. By then things were normalizing and I started looking for a new job.
I received 3 offers before they terminated me. I got 6 months of severance and health insurance and started my new job 3 weeks later. It was perfect and I’ve been at that new job ever since.
Oh and 90 days later the company was sold to a competitor at a huge loss.
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u/randEntropy 8h ago
Private equity gonna private equity….
I’ve been laid off from two different companies after they were each acquired by the same private equity firm. The same optimization team even came in and a couple of them remembered me, favorably at least, not that it helped much in the end. Both of those companies are circling the drain having been loaded up with debt and bleeding customers due to crap products/service.
It’s baffling to watch it happen. The utter arrogance and ineptitude, yet they’re all making at least 10x my salary with little to no experience running an actual company day to day or building products.
Private equity is hilariously both the death knell and end goal of “capitalism”.
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u/AngryKeyLimePie 11h ago
I had a stroke, and I was forced back to work immediately after getting out of the hospital. Unsurprisingly I had a very difficult time keeping up while trying to recover, so I was fired.
I'd like to add, I was working in the scheduling department for a major health care provider while all this was going on.
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u/Old_Row4977
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The group chat got exposed.
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u/Zetta216 13h ago •
This is the one I wished people understood about remote jobs or work chats in general. I would never chat with any coworker and say something I couldn’t say to the business owner.
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u/reflectorvest1004 12h ago
Had strep and assumed when I said “my doctor told me I can’t work for 7 days” they would understand that I wouldn’t be in for 7 days. Came back with my note in hand ready to work and they fired me for being a no-call/no-show. Got to watch the HR lady sputter when I handed her the note that excused me for more time than I took as she acknowledged that I was following their written policy when I called in and told them how many days. Got my first unemployment payout at 19 years old.
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u/Raise-Emotional 13h ago
Sous Chef was threatened by me. So he set me up. Told me to throw something away and when I did. He and the chef pulled me into the office and chewed my ass and fired me. There was no defense. I was the FNG calling out the veteran Sous. Dave if you're reading this I hope you choke on a stuck sesame seed forever.
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u/Wut_the_ 11h ago
Was in a sales job. We had a meeting every morning. One salesman was always late. The manager implemented a rule that when someone is late they buy the office of ~10 people pizza for lunch.
Welp, one day soon after, I happened to be the one running late. Manager calls me into her office around lunch time and says “You can order that pizza now”. I tell her I’m not spending my own money because I was slightly late to the morning meeting and walk out.
Right before the end of the day, she calls me back into her office, and in tears, TEARS, tells me I’m done for insubordination.
Crazy moment in my life.
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u/flyboy_za 5h ago
Did anyone ever buy pizza because they were late, or were you the first one to transgress the new rule?
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u/Titt 11h ago
Worked at an inpatient addiction treatment clinic. Clients line up and get medications daily at the med window and all employees took turns dispensing them. One client was getting sublingual pressed burprenorphine (Suboxone) pills.
He wanted them crushed up into a powder but his prescription was written was to take and let dissolve normally. Supervisors were letting him crush the pill up anyways and sprinkle in his mouth, in front of all the other clients.
I told them it was unethical and triggering for other clients. I agreed to give him all other meds but insisted the RN give him the sublingual as long as they were going to let him crush it up against written orders.
Supervisors sat me down and informally disciplined me with no write up. I went on pre-planned vacation two weeks later. Came back and they fired me with no reason given.
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u/No_Yogurtcloset_8748 7h ago edited 7h ago
Oral and Sublingual are entirely different routes with differences in pharmacokinetics affecting absorption and metabolism. They absolutely should not have let him do that.
When taken orally through the stomach buprenorphine is basically rendered useless.
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u/runed_golem 10h ago
I knew a guy who used to work at an inpatient mental health facility. One day, he injured his shoulder trying to restrain a patient and had to have surgery on it. When he returned from surgery for the work related injury, they immediately fired him for missing too much time.
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u/PhoenixApok 9h ago
Yeah that stuff has to be strictly monitored.
At my last rehab, a guy got kicked out because some harder core users (who had no interest in recovery) convinced him to get his pills and give them out.
He got removed and the guys who basically bullied him into sharing just got "talked to"
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u/InspectorNo1173 12h ago
I was really bad at the job. Really bad. I was amazed it took them as long to fire me as it did.
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u/Heriteck 11h ago
They outsourced my position to 3 people in India.
Literally they paid 3 people to do my job less efficiently. Found out later they lost so many customer accounts due to that change.
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u/FatGoonerFromIndia 5h ago
If it makes you feel better as one of the people who has seen these outsourced jobs, they’re kinda set up to fail and most do as well.
There’s no institutional knowledge, close to zero KT on the technical and business processes and then they’re expected to replace someone who clearly knew what they were doing.
Then comes the old adage - do more with less. They stiff on overtime, make them work ungodly hours and receive close to zero support both from the Indian managers and the overseas counterparts.
The middle managers coast on the fact that there’s someone desperate enough to just have a paycheck in India no matter how abusive and the arbitrage rates being favorable for Indian corporations means they’ll never try to improve their work product.
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u/I_paint_stuff72 11h ago
Years ago, like 1992ish, I worked at a farm and the owner was somewhere around 50. His first wife had died about 4 years previous from cancer, and he was somewhat recently remarried to a woman in her mid-20s. Here’s the twist- this woman was my high school friend’s older sister, and she had worked at a local “massage parlor 😉” where she met, and eventually married said business owner. Anyway, she came out to where I was working one day and tried to tell me how to build fences (which she had no idea what she was talking about). I eventually got frustrated and said “I never used to go down to where you work and tell you how to give hand jobs, so don’t tell me how to build a fucking fence.” I was immediately fired by the owner. Worth it.
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u/psypher98 13h ago
Regional Director used my workstation that was logged in to try and perform a fraudulent transaction to prove to his employees that he was still good at sales.
Fucked it up and then lied to the customer who got pissed and called corporate.
RGM was sent in 30 minutes later on his day off in his gym shorts (we had a suit and tie dress code) to fire me on the spot mid-shift under the pretense of me having come in late without approval (I had been 5 minutes late bc it was a location an hour away that I wasn’t supposed to be working at, the only way to get there was on uncleared back roads, and we’d gotten 6” of snow that night). Another guy who was always at least 10 minutes late every shift, and that day had been 20 minutes late, wasn’t even given a warning,
Fuck you Matt, and fuck your scammy ass company.
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u/BerryBoilo 11h ago
My boss showed my annual performance review to all my peers before me to ask them if the scores were right. In the same review, he lowered the score in one category because, while I was meeting the expectations from my job description, his expectations were higher.
After I complained, we had a meeting with the head of HR. He said the meeting distracted from real work and then fired me for being disrespectful. HR cut me a pretty big check after my attorney ask for more information on my termination.
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u/IncidentalDecimal 13h ago
Telling a Project Manager to “Fuck Off” might have had something to do with it.
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u/whoopsiedaisy65 13h ago edited 13h ago
Was written up everyday for a week on the smallest BS ever (spelling errors in emails) and then fired stating I wasn’t fit for the job. I moved three hours away for the job 14 months prior to.
It didn’t make sense and it was so embarrassing. I felt worthless.
Two months later, everyone was laid off.
Apparently they lost huge contracts and were desperately trying to restructure but it didn’t help.
I feel bad for everyone that was laid off but it was such a relief there was nothing that I could do to save my job and it wasn’t personal.
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u/DCT715 13h ago
My buddies and I got fired from our summer janitor job when we were in high school for playing water guns with windex
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u/BricksFriend
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I've been fired twice.
When I was just starting out in my career, a lot of questionable new product was coming in. I suspected it was stolen. I ran some numbers, I suspected right. Told my manager I want to meet with him later today about some concerns with the product. When I walked into the meeting I was told to clean out my desk.
Towards the end of my career I was a manager of a new startup. I needed to hire a new staff member. I got permission, interviewed a bunch, and I chose this one guy who seemed like a good fit. I sent his info over to the big boss, he was happy and signed off on it. The new hire showed up day 1, and the big boss was very unhappy, because the new hire was not white. I was told to fire him. I refused to do that. He said if you don't, I will fire you, then I will fire him. Told him to go for it. He did. Company went out of business not long after.
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u/RoguePilot09 7h ago
I worked at a now defunct sporting goods store in the US that was purchased by a still existing sporting goods store in the early to mid 2000's. I worked on the rock climbing wall part time during college. I was honestly one of my favorite jobs I ever had. We were essentially there to drive foot traffic into the store and have fun. I got to flirt with a lot of pretty girls and being acceptable at rock climbing was enough to impress girls my age wandering through the mall. Rock climbing was a free attraction with the original company but once the new company tool over, they started charging for it (which should have been our first sign).
The crew we had on the rock wall were a lot of fun, we all got along and we were good at making a spectacle and making sure people had fun when they were around the rock wall. The new companies management team didn't seem to like that very much. They started corporatizing things quickly, including the rock climbing wall. Uniforms, mandatory name tags and the like. They wanted us to be quiet and unobtrusive and not distract customers from spending their money on the products. We didn't like that very much so we rebelled in little ways. We would cut the sleeves off of our uniform polo shirts, wear each others name tags, print our silly signs and hang them at the top of the rock wall for kids to pull off when they got to the top. Stupid little thing to try to keep the spirit alive.
The sporting goods manager in particular did NOT like that and made it his personal mission to keep us in line. But we were all part timers with other thing going on and didn't really give a shit so we just ignored him and kept going. I guess I was particularly annoying in his eyes so I was his first target.
I came in to work one day and the store manager and the head of LP met me at the time clock and escorted me into the managers office and told me I have been caught stealing a pair of sneakers. I was confused because I had purchased a pair of sneakers the day before that were on clearance with my employee discount. I told them this. They said that the sporting goods manager told the store manager he watched me walk them out the doors without paying for them. I said I pad for them with my debit card and had the receipt in my car and could also go and get the bank statement to prove there was a transaction. The store manager said he was sorry but he had known the other manager for years and he wouldn't lie and that I could leave or they would call the police and press charges. So I left, I was terminated.
I found out later that they fired the one other guy in a similar fashion who was apparently the number two agitator besides me and then they closed the rock wall about a month later and removed it. We were all getting let go anyway but the sporting goods manager had to exert his authority and make the malcontents pay.
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u/GamerGriffin548 5h ago
Me, if they threatened me with police and charges. Id tell them to do it. Dare them. Play the long game. Use it as way to get them fired and me paid.
Nobody threatens me with false accusations.
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u/Prestigious-End8468 4h ago
Yeah, if I know I didn’t do something bullshit from a store manager isn’t going to cut it. I can present my receipt as proof of purchase - what can YOU present to prove I stole them.
And if you fire me based on lies, and impound my reputation by calling me a thief, I’ll see you in HR’s office first thing tomorrow morning. Then you can take to my employment lawyer.Good luck, motherfuckers.
And yes I was also fired from a part of a job because a manager lied about me. Alas, it wasn’t about something tangible, so it literally her word against mine and I got the same line about ‘well, she wouldn’t lie…’ BS. Well, she would and she did.
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u/Flangepacket 12h ago
Swung the boom and tore down the gutter, some brickwork, scaffold and then maybe a couple of people who had until very recently still been on the scaffold, of a new gym that was being built. Oh, also like 35 minutes into that new job.
Quick edit: everyone was uninjured.
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u/FunAd6672 13h ago
The automated system flagged me for idle time while I was waiting for IT to fix my laptop.
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u/sistersuspect 6h ago
My boss called me towards the end of the day when I was working from home. We discussed whatever work thing then said goodbye. l thought I ended the call and immediately said out loud to myself, 'fuck you i hate you don't ever call me again' then saw I didn't successfully hang up. He brought me into his office that Friday and gave vague reasons for us both parting ways 🫠😭. I will def laugh about it someday
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u/SummerNew6369 2h ago
That cold sweat moment when you realize the call was still live is the ultimate nightmare scenario for anyone working from home.
He knew exactly what you said, but framing it as a vague mutual parting of ways is top tier managerial cowardice.
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u/0zer0space0 7h ago
In my 20s, my mother owned a retail business. She ran it for like 15-20 years. Fresh out of college, I needed work until I could find my first career job. So I went to work for her. About 6 months later, I went to a doctor for something and he said omg you need surgery. So I had surgery and she fired me about a week into recovery. And kicked me out of her house (I had been living there). She thought I was abusing the pain meds they had given me when it was actually her niece, who had come to visit for a weekend, and stole a bunch of them out of my bottle and left clues all over the house. This was back when doctors actually wrote for narcotics, and had given me a bunch, 3 a day for like a month I think. She didn’t believe me, cause my cousin could do no wrong, until said cousin wound up in jail on drug charges 3 months later (and told my mom she did steal those), and she asked if i wanted to come back.
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u/hiddenrealism 5h ago
My mom's pills were missing and I was blamed for the longest time, I was fully addicted to opiates at the time but I never once touched her pills so I understand why they blamed me and only me. Got kicked out of the house. A year later my mom passed away from liver failure due her alcoholism.
When they were cleaning out her things they moved her bedside table and loe and behold the pill bottle and a bunch of her scattered gabbalentin were behind it. My dad kind of tried apologizing but I was still pretty sore about it at the time.
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u/LilBoo2019TR
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I filed a sexual harassment complaint against a manager.
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u/dinnerwdr13 25m ago
Same reason I was fired from a position too.
If you ever feel like you need to talk to HR about something other than a payroll or benefits question, just find another job.
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u/Gullible_Injury6182 13h ago
Mom and pop video rental store. Was fired for stealing a dvd while I was away on a cruise. It was more probably for the bubble gum machine game me and my coworker would play with customers. You gotta keep a straight face and check out the customer with a bubble of chewed up bubble gum on your nose. If you laugh you lose. That was the funniest job.
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u/Safe_Fail_568 12h ago
Getting fired on your day off sounds like the beginning of a move franchise..
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u/izzythebear16 13h ago
Was working for enterprise car rentals, crashed my second car in a month
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u/Nepeta33 12h ago
i took july 4th off. they didnt like that. spent next 2 months looking for reasons to get rid of me. decided to fire me over wearing shoes in the cold storage warehouse, instead of boots. i said ok, fire 90% of your staff then. we can go out there Right Now and none of my coworkers are in your specialty boots. "well, we're cracking down on it!" ...i asked my supervisor, standing right next to me, if i should mention that the guy who is firing me for wearing shoes, is himself wearing FUCKING SANDLES.
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u/jchasse
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I’m Thankful I Was Fired
I was fired for performance issues, and rightly so. I’d been struggling with a manic episode that landed me in a psychiatric hospital for a month, where I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
My company stuck by me, kept my position open, and gave me another six months to get back on track. When things still weren’t working out, they let me go with three months of full pay and medical benefits.
Honestly, I loved the people, but after 35 years in IT, I HATED the work and never would have quit on my own.
Now I’m back in school pursuing a career in mental health counseling and couldn’t be happier.
After 35 years in IT, getting fired turned out to be the career move I never had the guts to make.
Thanks, FNS. You did right by me.
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u/Rho-Ophiuchi 1h ago
Got laid off from my last company, got a nice severance and thanks to unemployment I didn’t have to touch it before I found a new job paying me considerably more. I had no idea how miserable I was at my last company till I was out. Turns out being laid off was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Note this was a couple years ago when you could actually find a new job relatively easily. I probably wouldnt make out so well under current conditions.
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u/Asmodias1 8h ago
I’ve been fired three times in my life (I’m 44). The first time was at 15, and I got caught shoplifting and I was, in fact, shoplifting. The second time, I was fired for “inappropriately using vacation hours” but I later found out the actual reason was that the manager saw me as a threat to her favorite employee (we were commission sales and I was a more efficient sales person when compared to her favorite). The last time I was fired for “stealing product”. I worked at a game store as the assistant manager. The new manager was siphoning off product from our shipments and having his hand picked employee take it to a storage unit. To throw corporate off the trail, he blamed me, and said that the deck box I kept at the store (I had decks of Pokemon, magic and mlb showdown because I ran the leagues for my store) contained stolen cards. He never produced proof but sweet talked the district manager. About a week after I was fired, I was sitting in the mall playing cards (in front of the store) and I saw corp security walk in and escort both the store manager and his hand picked employee out. They were met by police and arrested for theft. Sadly, I was not able to get my job back.
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u/hit_n_run15 6h ago
I had a crippling drinking problem and became a terrible employee. I should have been fired sooner.
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u/lrrssssss 13h ago
I got caught sleeping under my desk at a call center and was doing lines of speed at the desk as a pick-me-up.
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u/LayneLowe 13h ago
One time I got fired because the manager rearranged the Pro shop like a maze. The senior players had to bring their key back for their $2 deposit , and I heard shit from every one of them .I was on the phone with my wife telling her that was the stupidest thing I ever saw, and the manager was around the corner.
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u/averageduder 11h ago
I was fired from Lowe’s when I was in college. I don’t know why they bothered - I told them I could only work when I didn’t have class and that I didn’t really need the money anyway, it that I’d work as soon as my semesters ended. Then one day I just got a call from the department manager telling me he was terminating me - and I was like I don’t even really work there as it is. They still paid me bonuses for the next 9 months.
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u/beardedheathen 6h ago
Companies are so weird with that. I was working at a call center. I told them when I was hired I'll be starting school on September so I'll need to work around that schedule. Come September I bring in my schedule and say can we adjust my hours? They said no, I didn't say anything but started looking for a new job. I found one and turned in my two will notice and suddenly my manager and hr were very willing to work around my schedule. The new job paid better so I left anyway.
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u/WalterBrickyard 12h ago
I was 16 years old. I called my boss a "lesbian bitch". She was neither of these things. I was youmg and dumb. I deserved to be fired. Only job I've ever been fired from.
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u/JollyZancher 13h ago edited 10h ago
Trying to correct a mistake that the state made on customer paperwork while preparing for my wedding. Thought I had it resolved and got married and went on my honeymoon. Apparently the state sent a warning notice to the company while I was away. When I got back, I was let go. It was also my birthday.
So not only was my 30th birthday utterly ruined, but I had to drive the hour commute back home and tell my newly wedded wife that I was out of a job that I had held for nearly 7 years
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u/jamykelley 6h ago
I was also fired on my birthday. For not making enough transfers to the insurance agents. The job was cold-calling seniors to ask them qualifying questions for a Medicare part C & D add-on.
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u/Woofle_124 13h ago
Didn't work for 6 months and got automatically removed from the system
It was like a half-firing though, when I went back last summer (did it for two years, minus the school year) they just gave me all the tax forms and stuff, no interview
I was technically fired though
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u/ExpiredPilot 11h ago
The new PE firm that bought our hotel had dinner in the restaurant I was managing.
When I cleared the table I noticed they left behind a sheet of paper detailing everyone who “sucks” and who they were gonna fire
I gave that paper to the hotel busybody and everyone knew about it within 2 hours.
Worth it. I hated that place.
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u/colormeglitter 13h ago
They were about to shut down entirely and wanted to reduce how many people got severance packages.
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u/choyboy321 10h ago
I was late. Like almost every day. But I was a hard worker, knowledgeable, and personable, so my boss tolerated it for a few years. Once my work ethic began to slip, he pulled me aside and told me he wasn’t keeping me on for the coming year.
Also I was on drugs.
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u/GregoryGosling 11h ago
My boss fucking hated me. I could do nothing right in her eyes, and she had a clear preference for my coworker
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u/cakesforever 10h ago
This happened to me and a few others. We were all hired by the previous manager a few weeks before she left and the man who got her job had a problem with not been the one to hire the Christmas staff.
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u/almostinfinity 11h ago
I fell behind in work and let things get sent to print with mistakes on it.
The reason I fell behind was because my grandboss kept assigning me projects that he needed "done yesterday" when I asked for the deadlines. One morning, before I had even clocked in, he called me to produce an entire video for a conference that he needed by end of day. I stayed at work for a few extra hours and didn't finish my other work that day.
Years later, I found out from his assistant that video was actually requested months ago but he didn't tell me until the day-of.
Things like that were a regular occurrence until they put me on a PIP, told me I improved, only to find that one day I couldn't log in to clock out anymore.
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u/Funny-Comparison-187 12h ago
I had an over exaggerated sense of my worth to the company. EVERYONE IS REPLACEABLE.
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u/TheRuncibleSpoon 1h ago
Not me but my spouse- was hired by a major retail chain home office to do a specific job in accounting- the person who was managing him and supposed to train him in their specific software was fired the week before he started. Spent about a month asking everyone he could to show him what he should be doing and to train him on the software. Was fired for not completing the specific tasks well enough before they’d even hired a replacement for the manager to train him.
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u/LizTruth
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I suck at sales. I worked in a clothing boutique and when people would try something on and asked how they looked, I told them.
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u/Alpacaliondingo 7h ago
Tbh i wish more sales associates were like this. There's a certian store i used to shop at that doesnt have mirrors inside the fitting room so if you want to see what you look like you have to step out so the sales associate and other customers trying on things can gawk at you. Fuck off Sally, dont tell me i look cute we both know i look like a thumb in this top.
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u/wafflesareforever 11h ago edited 11h ago
I worked at a small computer shop in the 90s when I was in high school. I loved it. We built custom PCs and helped people troubleshoot issues with theirs. They fired me because my mom kept getting upset about me spending too much time working; she felt like it was cutting into time that I should have spent studying. She'd refuse to give me a ride and I didn't have a car. It made me an unreliable employee and I don't blame them for letting me go. They were understanding and I stayed in touch with the owner for years.
But hey, I sure do remember those math and Spanish classes and have used them extensively in my life. Wait no, I work in IT.
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u/im_hunting_reddits 2h ago
I moved for work, and the medicine i had been using to manage adhd and some other issues wasnt covered by my new insurance. I wasnt able to even fake interest in the job, and was more focused on the logistical stress of finding a new doctor, insurance, etc.
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u/waldenjames111
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Slept with my (17m at the time) coworkers (45+f) daughter (17f). Coworker was tight with management and she got them to let me go. The daughter and I dated for 2 more years and I made sure it was always loud.
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u/adrop62 13h ago edited 12h ago
I was planning to quit before COVID, banked enough reserves to cover me for one year, and then we went into a WFH policy allowing me to save even more. Years before COVID, I implemented a project to save our company millions of $$ in costs for purchasing satellite communications data by prepaying, but it was executed using Excel spreadsheets and was really cumbersome. I tried to get the director to authorize automating the process, but he refused. I did the same effort for a competitor, and they were smart enough to automate the effort so I could focus on other efforts. The department I worked for needed my leadership on another project, and the decision was made for me to hand the cost savings over to someone else, who couldn't understand the process, nor did he care. Out of concern, I provided our Finance lead with parameters to monitor should data usage fall under the allotments we were paying for, about 2 years before COVID, and moved on to my new project. When COVID hit, our global customers stopped using satellite data, and that triggered all the parameters I warned Finance about. I was pulled off my other projects to fix this and after 3 months of analyzing then correcting and eventually cancelling all prepaid contacts, I reduced a $2 million loss to $400k. The director demanded I work that program and nothing else. I said I would only do so if he funded and prioritize the effort to automate, knowing that I still planned on resigning as soon as the pandemic restrictions were lifted. I also was up to 2.5 years of reserves because we weren't spending money on anything but essentials. Two days later I had the call with HR and took a one year sabbatical. About two months after I landed my current gig, my old company called me to hire me back, and a week after I turned them down, my former director was fired.
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u/equality-_-7-2521 13h ago
I was young and didn't know how to have uncomfortable conversations yet, so I just stopped showing up and got fired, as anticipated.
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u/UCFknight2016 12h ago
Cheaper to have the team in India to do the work of the Americans. Got laid off as a result.
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u/BallBearingBill 13h ago
I was a ringer so all the full times could take summer vacation. Once summer was over they told me they saw me leaning on the counter and they fired me.
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u/NMe84 11h ago
I only have two experiences that would qualify and both are decades ago.
The first one was while I was working as a firmware developer for custom hardware that the owner made, while I was still in college. Honestly, I was a little out of my depth there, I could manage most of my tasks but many of them took longer than I would have liked. Often because I wasn't confident enough to point out that my software was solid and a problem we were having was likely the owner's fault for screwing up the hardware, which happened quite a few times. In the end, the owner got fed up with how slow we were moving and told me I was done.
The second one was a job at the local supermarket. Worked there for 7 years during high school and college, and survived as many different managers. Then in my last year there the chain went bankrupt and the chain that bought all the stores worked with franchises, so the new manager was also the owner of the store. He hated everyone who worked there before and that he hadn't hired himself. So he started writing me up for the stupidest stuff. It didn't matter how well or how fast I worked, if I talked with a co-worker while doing it, I'd get a warning for slacking off, despite that not being any issue when others coworkers did it. He also took me off of the produce section that I'd been working for years and put me on a generic shelving job. Eventually he had had enough, called me into his office and told me he wasn't going to schedule me anymore as of next month, because I was too expensive for him (at 23 I earned like twice what he'd have to pay a 16 year old). If only I could work any other departments, then he could have kept me, he said. Forgetting that I had years of experience on a department he pulled me off of, just to spite me.
The way I lost my job there is illegal where I'm from. You can't terminate a contract because you can hire someone younger for less money, and when people are made redundant you have to show that they can't work other jobs in the same company. I could have taken him to court, but I had my next job lined up already and was planning to quit anyway, so I just left it at that. Maybe I should have taken him to court though, would have been fun.
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u/emptiedglass 11h ago
Pointed out an unsafe piece of equipment to the plant manager. Nothing was done for weeks. Head office safety guy happened to stop by for a visit. Showed him. Bam! 48 hours later, 'services no longer required.' A former colleague told me it still wasn't fixed a year or so later when they closed. It's a wonder no one was seriously injured.
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u/HoneyZoriva 1h ago
Sometimes you're not fired because you're bad at your job. You're fired because your manager takes everything personally.
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u/WritingParking 7h ago
I’ve only been fired once in my life. And it was because I wouldn’t accept a BIG c-suite promotion, because I knew my first task was a massive undeserved unnecessary layoff of hundreds of people, strictly for performative reasons to impress investors.
Yeah. That happens. A lot.
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u/Disastrous-Pie6408 12h ago
Not fired, but I told a senior person they were a bully. They responded in surprise, I showed everyone an email she’d just sent that was revolting- to her assistant. The assistant had shared how bad it was.
I got sent to HR, over my tone where I said “but did you send this” in front of others … saying I bullied her by doing it!
. I said I did - HR said they would uphold the senior’s complaint about my behaviour.
I quit, but my colleagues held a huge leaving party 🥳 She left shortly after and hasn’t turned up on LinkedIn for years
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u/critical-drinking 13h ago
The real reason was that the managers screwed up, one manager did extra when we were supposedly shut down for the day, and when we didn’t have enough prepped for the following work day, it got blamed on me.
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u/Monster_Donut_Pants 13h ago
Honestly, I don’t know. The assistant manager seemed to treat me differently than everyone else. I worked a seasonal job. I was scheduled to work the last day the store would be open. When I got there in the mid afternoon to start my shift, the assistant manager told me they had enough staff, I wasn’t needed and to consider the day before my last day. So I left. I hung out in the area for a few hours. Did some shopping. Went to see my dad who was in the area visiting my uncle. By the evening, I was headed home, and I passed the store. The manager was outside. He said “aren’t you scheduled to work today?” I told him what the assistant manager said. The manager said that those other staff members left and now they’re shorthanded. I just said that I showed up on time and was turned away. I’m doing as I was told and thinking of the day before as my last day. I just walked to the train to go home.
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u/hazbutler 6h ago
I was going on holiday for four weeks.
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u/WisePotatoChip 6h ago
Yes, I understand this - my kids were out of the house and after working every holiday for the last three months of the year, so that the younger people could enjoy their holidays, I took three weeks in January and came back and didn’t have a job. Somebody made the comment “he’s never here”. Well jackass, I was there when you were opening Christmas presents.
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u/tmotytmoty 11h ago
My position was eliminated, but it was unexpected. It was due to a merger and also terrible decision making at the senior level. Not about me, but moreso in their strategy which lost the company money leading to the need to reduce the workforce. Lesson learned, but i now look into the stability of companies before I apply. I also find out anout the leadership. I look for sceince and data lead companies. If the cso or cio or cdo is a former business major or mba, then i keep looking. There’s nothing worse than a no-nothing telling talented and informed technical pros how to do things when they have zero hands on experience. Worse yet if their background is in sales. Ugh
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u/hhkhkhkhk 10h ago
too emotionally invested as a social worker, got fired for being concerned about a client being homeless
In hindsight, it was a blessing in disguise for sure. I now live abroad and my stress is literally half of what it was living in America so things worked out lol
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u/game_of_crohns 13h ago
New guy transferred down from another state and purged/replaced the entire management team in the district so he could claim the wins for himself instead of giving credit to anybody before him
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u/Moosetappropriate 12h ago
Because I was expensive. With a decade in, I was replaced by two younger people.
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u/OlyVal 11h ago
I was late. Once. By a minute. At a minimum wage, outdoor labor job.
Real reason? I was an example. Darted into the mushroom farm work area just as the foreman was yelling at all the workers in Korean, which I do not speak. I froze at the edge of the woods. At the end of his tirade he turned and yelled at me, "And you? You're fired!"
The very next day I was hired to pick apples 100 miles away.
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u/futureformerteacher 13h ago
I wanted to see my family for Christmas. I was their best person in the sales department. They thought I wouldn't call their bluff.
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u/Cheefnuggs 13h ago
It wasn’t a bluff if they went through with firing you though.
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u/Thrilling1031 12h ago
I was fired from The Tampa Bay Seminole Hard Rock hotel spa for “stealing”.
In reality I sold guest passes (3@ 75$ each) to the spa because we were fully booked for services and the guests thought their guest passes got them in line for services. When they realized they were not going to get any they demanded a refund but we generally don’t refund guest passes, but I understood the customers confusion was due to language barrier and they had not used the facilities so I approved the refund.
I was out on leave while the situation was “investigated” and was called in for a meeting with HR which meant I was being fired. I knew this so I went in asking for policy stating we don’t do refunds knowing there wasn’t one and asked for a manager from the front desk to be allowed to sit in on the meeting as I was just providing guest service and they were the only higher up management on staff when I approved the refund and they were in agreement with me as they knew the guests and had the language barrier be an issue as well. I was refused on both counts and was terminated for stealing.
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u/eliz1bef 13h ago
They said it was because I had typos in a design document I produced. When they wrote me up, they said the unofficial reason was because my vomiting inconvenienced a Senior Vice President. They said I wasn't trying hard enough to get better. My supervisor recommended a GI guy who I was already seeing.
I had been vomiting multiple times every day for a couple of years, and at that point I was vomiting so hard it caused incontinence, so I'd have to go home to clean up.
Now, a gal that worked at the same place I did had hyperemesis because she was pregnant and they bent over backward for her, Which they should, but I got the shit end of the stick.
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u/Thesmoothdome 13h ago
Was fired once in my life and it was following a holiday party at work. While in line at the buffet, I commented that it was such a good time I felt drunk even though I didn’t have a drink. I was 100% sober. The owner’s wife was standing directly behind me. She must have assumed I was on something else. My next shift, I was called into the manager’s office and told I was being let go of my retail position, which I excelled in, but could still freelance and teach classes through them.
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u/1inthetrenches 12h ago
Worked for a family owned printing company for 20yrs. When the senior retired and turned the company over to his sons, they picked five of their senior employees and let us go and hired. Younger employees for half our pay. And this family ran a christian church!!
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u/Steffany_w0525 12h ago
I was "let go due to the company going in a different direction"
Real reason: I upset the bosses wife because I stood my ground when she said I wasn't doing my job...and I communicated that I wasn't able to take the lead on a task that wasn't part of my job because I was too busy doing my job. She got mad at me for saying I wasn't going to do my job...when that's not what the email said at all.
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u/Zakal74 13h ago
Too many simple mistakes. Best job I'll ever have. Felt like such a fucking idiot. Broke my heart to lose that job. I don't think I'll ever really fully recover mentally from that. I felt the happiest and most proud of myself I've ever felt in my life, more friends than I'd ever had before, then two years of painful, slow decline it was all gone.
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u/One_Distribution2037 13h ago
Undiagnosed autistic burnout, an abusive relationship, and not being quick enough to get the read of how a new division was working.
TLDR, can't use all your brain power when it's all being choked out by stressors.
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u/Jacktheforkie 11h ago
In one job I was too slow navigating London, they knew I was inexperienced when they hired me, never driven anything as big as the 18 ton lorry in a place as complex as London, a journey from A to B may be 2 miles in a car, in a lorry it’s 10 because you have to avoid so many low bridges, restrictions and just unsuitable roads, London has lots of low bridges, one customer I delivered to had 13 separate roads leading towards their place and only one was suitable
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u/Bombrik 11h ago
Company was wanting to shore up a sagging profit margin before end of the year meetings. So they started targeting long time veterans who had higher pay due to performance based pay increases. They went after those who got the most consistent high performance (Top Sellers, Top rated customer service reps. Anyone who aced their performance) and started engineering excuses that they were not suited to new corporate culture statements.
Oh well. Customer Inspired.
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u/RavagetheLoneWolf 10h ago
It didn't happen to me, but when I was working as a bank teller, I heard a teller at another branch would borrow money from his drawer and leave a note to remember to return it, I assume after he was paid. He ended up getting caught when his branch had a surprise audit and the auditors found a note in his drawer, and he was promptly fired.
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u/thewoodsytiger 12h ago
One of the best researchers at my rather high profile university laboratory was just had his contract forcibly non-renewed (Academia for “fired”) despite having funding and the research in place because he tried to be a whistleblower about improper and unethical behavior among university leadership.
They got a job in the private sector and are suing now. About 5-6 more of us have left the lab on our own accord after this incident as well.
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u/LadyPaige 11h ago
The real reason I was fired from my last job is because I hired a lawyer. They found a way to can me legally. But it doesn’t take a detective to see the real reason. I got hurt at work, they tried to force me back to full duty before I was fully healed, I told them I couldn’t do return without risking the safety of the kids I drove and asked to be put on light duty. The boss told said I just didn’t want to return to work. I called a lawyer. Work cut ties until they could find a way to legally get rid of me.
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u/TheWizard01 13h ago
I was argumentative with ownership, insisted on doing certain practices my way because I thought their procedures were dumb and antiquated, and when I pointed out all the parts of my offer letter they violated, it was obvious I was on the way out. So I phoned it in the final 2 months, and collected a paycheck while I just supported ops, did some billing, and occasionally napped in my office.
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u/mermaidenvy22 8h ago
I “pushed back” against some changes in employee “wellness” time policy changes, started setting boundaries with workload, had a minor crash out in a context where the ceo was criticizing me & another staff member in front of everyone else, then asked HR about a reasonable accommodation & informed him of a medical issue I was seeking evaluation and treatment for that may require me to take medical leave. The company said it wasn’t “sustainable to support me” anymore lol.
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u/Dangerous_Cup3607 13h ago edited 13h ago
Observed quite some lists of people getting laid off during my career and here is what I commonly observed.
Being a laggard thus pushed back/refused to learn new things. (Enterprise rolled out new tools but the laggards refused to adopt despite myriad training opportunities.)
Incompetent in the current position / title. Senior technical but do not have many related hard skills on the technical side. Got the senior title because of at least 10 years of tenure, and not exactly related to advancement in hard skill and perform above and beyond. Proven to be incompetent when put up to the test, but heavily rely on others’ work and somehow got the credit.
Lack of professional business understanding and tone in the field, project manager pushing people around to do things that are out of scope. Because the PM wants to shine to the senior leadership that he/she can lead and push for delivery/output.
Doing things manually while consistently checking in weekly showed having at least 50% of bandwidth. (ie getting comfortable by not working much at 50% of the time given the hours can be leveraged to optimize current process and therefore intake new tasks).
All of them either announced to be let go, put on a 90-days talent bridge program, or they took on months of COBRA coverage with their silent departure. Thus I know who got let go and who transferred.
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u/16Bunny 12h ago
My boss was working 12 - 14 hours a day (not because he had to, he wanted to) surveying properties and buildings and he would dictate his reports. He expected me to work the same hours to type the reports up and I wouldn't, so he declared that I was 'contrary and slow' and that was that. I've never been so happy to leave a work place.
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u/lost24 12h ago
Knowing that senior senior senior senior anagement had bs fees in our fee schedules. Not blowing the whistle when I figured out they were bs. Customers figured it out and massive repayments were made. I was like 7th down in the org chart of knowledge. Best and worst thing that ever happened to me
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u/Bird_Brain4101112 12h ago
I supposedly stole a whole pallet of electronics. The missing items showed up after I was fired.
Over the course of the next year, multiple people were fired for similar reasons. Claims of major violations that were unfounded weeks or months later.
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u/SecretGardenSpider 12h ago
Because the day before all I had done was put like 6 papers away and couldn’t show anything else I had done.
Weeks preceding that though I had been begging for something to do to fill my time.
I got sick of begging for work and just started looking at my phone. Didn’t do anything unless someone found me and gave me work.
Whatever. I got a better job somewhere else where I didn’t have to beg for something to do for weeks on end.
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u/RealSeat2142 11h ago
CEO thought her husband could run ops better. His first week he told my staff “this is a hard job”. Best thing that ever happened to me
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u/goddess_of_fear 9h ago
When I was hired, they talked about how the girl before me was pregnant and they laughed about firing her because she would care more about the baby than her job. Guess what happened when I got pregnant? They said it was for performance issues officially. It was an at-will state.
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u/sscall 12h ago
I was a fucking asshole to my leadership team for constantly calling out the nonsense that they continually told me was “just the way it is in the industry”. I was the squeaky wheel over and over. Then I was part of a “layoff” that only consisted of me.
Two years later, they exited the space. I work for their competitor and we are crushing them. Funny how things work out.
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u/toxicvanilla 13h ago
I was set up and accused of forging a co-workers signature..and while fighting this accusation with HR and my union, the department decided to add that I was also forging doctors signature as well.
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u/Mal_Funk_Shun 11h ago
An employee I wrote up (when I POLITELY reminded them they were on their 4th break of the day when they were allowed two and was called a bitch) one hour later started a rumor that I was talking crap about two other managers. Saying they were sleeping together, etc...
No one questioned it. No one brought it to my attention. Instead it fostered with them for 10 months before it because such a big deal HR came in. I had no idea wtf they were talking about.
Caught one of those managers stealing $50 from the employees tips to cover up her doing a cash drop wrong and SUDDENLY after reporting it I WAS FIRED. Cameras catch the whole thing!
"Incompetence" my ass. I wrote the manual for our POS system that was used by all the stores (we test launched it) and my product display was so good it was copied and put into, again, all the stores.
Its all good. I made 50k/yr more now, and no more retail!
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u/cheesusismygod 10h ago
I didnt fit in. My entire team was 20 something "girls" who drank the corporate kool aid and I, being 45, just wanted to come in and do my job and leave. They went out, had secret jokes and all that dumb high school.shit Im definitely too old for
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u/TeddyStella 10h ago
Honestly, I’ve been fired once and only once. A manager from another dept and I were out on a Friday night after work, I was 19 or 20, he was in his mid to late 30’s, another person at our company was at the same venue and saw said 30 something guy snort coke off my boobs in the men’s toilets (I had a very low cut top on), went to work as normal on the Monday, Friday got called into HR, got fired. He got called into HR and got suspended, we went out together again that night and we went on a coke, sex and alcohol bender for the entirety of his month long suspension from work.
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u/MarvinGardens_471 13h ago
I found out the company was systematically defrauding its customers via a “bug” in their invoicing system. When I notified management, I was told to just forget it and do the tasks I was assigned and nothing else. A week later funding for my position was cancelled.
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u/Captain_Coco_Koala 13h ago
Boss was skimming the till and firing staff to cover it up (including me).
She was caught after two years and the owners were asked by the police if they wanted to press charges. The owners were Mafioso, they told the police that they didn't want charges...
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u/Silly_Concern_3564 12h ago
Coworker encouraged us to steal.
He stole. We didn’t. Inventory showed the theft. He turned me in while was he effin the boss. Me in particular? Dunno
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u/ShannieD 12h ago
They said it was due to an allegation made about me. False allegation. Investigations happened. I was cleared. Pretty sure it was to save face, and they couldn't be bothered to stand behind me. They even said IF they kept me on Id have to go to a different location.I'm not mad though. As much as it was stressful for a while, it was actually better for me in every way. I am so much happier at my current job.
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u/BarnsleyBoyTX 12h ago
I was old, my mentor VP and GM got shitcanned after we bought another company. They gave a package and I retired.
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u/QRS214 11h ago
My boss asked me where an employee was (I was her assistant) and I told her she leaves every day at x time and nobody can reach her. I went to try to find her and was asking around. I said I always had trouble finding her. Lo and behold she had forgotten something and heard me. Complained it was racially motivated and I got fired.
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u/strange1738 11h ago
They wanted to find a reason to get rid of me because I had a herniated disc and could no longer do the job, but I kept showing up
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u/Interjessing-Salary 11h ago
I was new to a job along with a few others. Wasn't very busy and I was adjusting to the job with a newborn by myself so I had some tardies and days missed during my probationary period. I think they over hired and I wasn't doing hot attendance wise so I was the one cut.
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u/BadDadWhy 11h ago
Private equity was the cause for the job and the killer. They bought the company and lots of folks retired. My boss said before he could retire they needed to get an expert. So they hired me.
4 years later and the sensor works. Private equity put in a bad ceo. He left new guy was temporary and every ceo focused on selling us. Get that margin from 65 to 70 percent and trim down future development. Out goes the expert.
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u/Squanchez 11h ago
Sunglass Hut when I was 19. They said they had video footage of me "not properly performing end of day product count." Here's what happened: I opened one of the drawers saw three pairs of glasses, wrote it down and closed the drawer. Apparently they needed to see me physically take each one out of the drawer and pantomime the counting. It's worth mentioning I was never written up once and had recently trained the new store manager instead of getting the pay bump. Her first full time week was that same week. 🤔🤣
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u/Amplifiedsoul 9h ago
A coworker who I thought of as a friend screwed me over. I found out the guy she was seeing was also sleeping with another co-worker. She just broke up with him and I told her what I found out.
She confronted the coworker who lied and said she was a lesbian and wasn't sleeping with the dude. My boss fired me.
A few months later it came out that the coworker was now pregnant with the dude's child so she was caught lying. My old boss then covered it all up and even lied to get my wife fired who still worked there. He stated to someone that I still knew there, "Amplifiedsoul cannot find out he was right."
Fuck you Lorena. I trusted you. Fuck you Shanika for lying. Fuck you Fred for trying to cover it up afterwards. I learned not to say shit from now on.
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u/TheOvershear 2h ago
Got fired during training at Eegees while in college. Went through a ridiculous amount of interviews, a couple training days, then corporate wanted me to do an in person orientation. They changed the date 3 times. On the day of the previous orientation, which was pushed back to next friday, the GM called me to tell me that I missed orientation. Despite showing him the emails, he said he wanted to find someone who "respected their time better". Ok buddy, good luck with that.
Come next friday, of the day of the actual orientation, I got a call from someone at corporate asking if I was still coming to the orientation. I told them they needed to work on respecting people's time, and hung up lol
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u/oopsmyeye 11h ago •
“Hey HR, our state law just changed and now it says a store manager has to have a board license. Because I’m the only one in the store with that board license, do we need to talk about making me a store manager? They also created this affidavit that needs to be signed by the licensed store manager.”
“No, you just need to sign the affidavit that you’re the manager and if the board comes in for their inspections you need to represent yourself as the manager.”
“I don’t think I can do that. I’m pretty sure that would be perjury.”
“I spoke with corporate legal. They said you need to sign it or we’ll have to find someone who will.”
“I think legal might not understand the new state laws. Can you have them call me?”
“Because you refuse to sign the necessary forms for the company and you’re the only board licensed person at the store, you’re terminated.”
My lawyers are really happy that’s all in an email chain.