Times someone got fired and 100% deserved it

[brawndolicious]

They weren't but they were asked to resign or retire early.

The first one was uninterested in any task she couldn't pass off to someone else and generally had a air of superiority about her. The type of person who tries to divide everyone into leaders/followers yet acts like a spoiled brat when interacting with any wait staff, embarassing everyone at any work lunch outing. Eventually she caused enough major fuck ups that she got asked to resign. The only time I've seen upper management talk shit about a former long-term employee.

The other is being asked to retire this month. I'm taking over his projects and I'm realizing that his entire workload isn't more than a few hours a week yet he's a full-time employee. And I mean the type of full-timer that spends every second bragging about how overloaded and stressed out they are. Oh and he was completely and totally unavailable while transferring tasks. Like his phones are always off and he doesn't respond at all to emails (we're a couple hundred miles apart). I had to figure out the status of everything by basically retracking every task. It's fucking crazy, and apparently he's been like that for years.

A former coworker. Super fucking lazy and rather proud of it. We all do shift work, four days on then four off. She had this grift where she would call off sick for her entire 4-day shift, then coming out on the off-shift to work overtime, basically getting paid around the clock.

It got so bad they finally passed a rule that prohibits us from working overtime on our following off-shift if we call in sick. Basically, "take eight days off and make sure you're better," but unofficially it was to stop her.

She also had a habit of not running analysis tests per the method or just straight-up penciling data.

The latter is what finally did her in, but for years she basically bent the company over and laughed about it.

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Environmental lab? I used to work at one where a couple years before I came in, some senior analyst who was there for 20 years was caught filling in data and so ALL of the reports they filed in their term needed to be amended/refunded.

 

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/us/trump-teacher-fort-worth-anti-immigration-trnd/index.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trav...curity-worker-fired-you-ugly-note/2045928001/

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/f...-14k-in-costumes-and-props-from-magic-kingdom

 

[Nome]

Fun esports story for y'all.

Guy on the esports team goes to Sweden for Dreamhack. After the event, instead of helping pack up with the rest of the team, absconds with some pro players to go to a strip club because he wanted "real pussy in face" (his words, not mine). Spends hundreds of dollars, gets smashed, misses his flight the next day, gets stuck in Sweden. Not sure how he managed to get back, but needless to say he was fired.

"RPIF" is now an in-joke with my buddies.

 

[BarryFishFinger]

One of the other teams at my company hired a new lady, she started her first day with no issues. Next day didn't show up, no response to calls and emails. The day after that she rolled in mid morning (so a few hours late) as if nothing had happened but stinking of booze. Fired that afternoon. Not a bad record, hiring to firing in a couple of days.

 

[Skade]

An old colleague of mine went on vacation in the south of France (we work in Paris) for two week. No issue there. At the end of the two weeks, he told us he fell sick and had to stay there a bit more. Again, no issue.

Thing is, he stayed two months there "sick". And his facebook clearly showed him partying almost every single night for the entire last month.

Obviously, when he finally came back, he stayed just two days to gather his stuff, deal with administrative shit, and never to be seen again.

 

[Oddish1]

Don't really have any good stories, but when I worked in a restaurant they hired a dish washer who was always late and one day just did not show up. So the manager and some of the kitchen staff ended up having to wash all the dishes that night. The next day when he showed up again the manager took him aside and fired him. He seemed to take it really well IIRC.

Then there was one of the waiters there would order food from the kitchen for himself, which wasn't a problem. The problem was that he was ordering food and then not paying for it. This apparently went on for a couple of weeks before somebody caught on and he was fired.

Then there was the head chef who would constantly drink while on the job and would have loud angry outbursts at the rest of the staff. He was actually really unpleasant to the serving staff and would sometimes just refuse to make a dish if he was in a bad mood until one of the managers would talk to him and tell him to do his job. But he doesn't really fit in for this thread because he wasn't fired. No, he quit because the owners told him he wasn't allowed to drink while on the job. So he threw a tantrum, quit, and walked out.

 

[Cokie Bear]

Back when I worked at a helpdesk there was an engineer that would pick up every single call and do the same exact thing... remote in, start a virus scan, tell the user to call back. They would take about 20 minutes for every call. People suspected this was the case for awhile so a new manager spent a few weeks pulling recordings of all of their calls and used it to fire them.

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Similar situation when I was managing a team of support agents for a tech company. Just by chance happens to catch a slack conversation between 2 other agents trying to figure out why a customer they were dealing with was so mad. Checked the call logs from that customer and saw that someone on my team had spoken to them a week or so prior but not left any notes. I pulled the call and she basically told the guy to call back in a couple of weeks when an "engineer" would be available to help him. Pulled all her calls for that day and they were all the same, no notes and just telling the customer to call back later even though it was literally her job to handle those calls.

Didn't feel bad about firing her even though she was about 7 months pregnant at the time.

Edit: an above post reminded me of someone else I had to let go. They just called in sick constantly, like at least once a week and often for several days at a time. The clincher was when he called out sick on New Year's Day after forgetting he had my on Facebook and that I could see him tagged into a New Year's Eve party.

 

[Lowrys]

Someone I knew in business told me one of his employees was caught masturbating naked in the office stairwell.

 

[Vonocourt]

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/f...-14k-in-costumes-and-props-from-magic-kingdom

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That guy caused a whole security reform for Workshops.

 

[Fergus Mac Roich]

There's quite a few crazy ones that I know of in our organisation. These include, a dirty protest, someone looking up animal porn in work to intentionally get sacked, and some guy putting cameras in the women's toilet.

The more frequent ones are due to alcoholism. Had a work colleague previously who was actually a really nice bloke. But he had an issues, and they really give him a chance to pull himself together. He couldn't, so they let him go a year and half after it became an issue. There wasn't much they could've done.

Oh, and in my first job, someone was let go for not disclosing a criminal record. He raped a young woman decades ago. Funnily enough, they kept him on after he caused someone's death (he had a parking dispute, ended up punching the other guy, he fell and hit his head off the pavement, three days later he died). He was such a good worker, they didn't want to lose him, but the rape thing kind of caused a mini revolt with the female staff.

 

[Osahi]

This happened after I left, but I worked with the guy and his scam was already up and running when I was still there.

It was in a game shop where you could also sell used games and get real money for it in stead of a coupon. There was also the system where you could return a Used game within 48 hours and get all your money back. Our boss also allowed us to accept expired coupons and gift cards (we had a special button for that in the system). In the database there was a list with all the coupon codes and if they were used.

This was a very sweet guy, but he didn't come of as very smart. But was he smart enough the come up with a system to scam the store for years. When he was alone in the store (we were always at least with two, but during lunch breaks the store stayed open so there was at least an hour you were alone) he checked the list of coupons, printed out old ones that never were used. Used them to buy a couple of Used games, and then immediatly returned them but for cash. He did this on newly created customers accounts or dormant ones, so his own account stayed clean. He did this for at least two or three years before he was caught, and scammed the store out of thousands of euro.

Once it came out he was immediately let go and complaints were filed. Afaik he was sentenced to a probational sentence (so no time to serve, unless he was caught in another crime within a certain period) and had to pay everything back.

 

[hwalker84]

We're a small company. I'm pretty well liked and am generally friendly on a personal level with everyone (past or present).
This one girl was really really annoying but I didn't really get much of it because I'm IT. I could definitely see why she was hated.
I have the unfortunate position of knowing when someone is getting terminated in advance.

1. Generally I'm told when the time is going to happen
2. When I get the thumbs up we start our IT side (password change, building removal, etc.)
3. I then physically log in and verify the new password then lock their PC.
4. I'm then usually the first person they see after being fired because I sit at the pc and they have to show me what they want from a file perspective to take with them.

Usually the termination meeting is 15-30 minutes. So I handle my side. Walk over to their building. Talk to my boy in his office. It's been about 2 mins. I hear the conference room door fly open "I HATE YOU ALL AND HOPE YOU DIE!!!" I pull a Homer Simpson into the bushes move. Then I pop out "Hey". She's furious. Screams about losing access. Screams all types of obscenities at everyone. I'm in her office for over 2 hours. Not a single manager stepped in to help. Other people were livid for me. By then I had just lost all sympathy. Because she was such an ass we took over two months to give her her files. Most of which were lularoe orders (she signed a waiver that she was not to do this at work. That's all she did).

 

[NineConsonants]

When I worked at GameStop, the assistant manager got caught cancelling old unclaimed preorders and pocketing the money. He got busted when somebody came back to collect and an old preorder and the paper trail busted him. He was obviously fired pretty quick.

 

[Fevaweva]

A couple got fired for fucking in one of the meeting rooms.

 

[Tzarscream]

Sadly, it happened after I myself got the boot, but a really fucking annoying coworker of mine got fired for bringing an 8 ball of blow to the christmas party.

This was a fast food Christmas party.
Held in the store after we closed up early on Christmas 23rd.
And he just drops a bag and starts doing lines.

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That guy knows how to party

 

[FF Seraphim]

This is from way way back:
Co-worker brought a modded AK-47 into work because they didn't want to leave it in their car. Put it in the safe office where we kept all the money. Manager found it, freaked out, fired him on the spot.

 

[Deleted member 7130]

Guy who forgot to put the air break on a docked box truck that I started unloading with a forklift...
He was gone immediately.

 

[FreeMufasa]

Worked with some weasel punk who was always borderline racist and acting like a bitch. No one did anything because it was a professional setting and didn't wanna lose their job over him (which he fully exploited).

Unfortunately for him, a real one joined the company and on his first week, boxed the shit out of him in the office. Suffice to say, he was fired and charged and the weasel was left lumped up and stopped after the ordeal. My bruddah.

 

[SapientWolf]

Sadly, it happened after I myself got the boot, but a really fucking annoying coworker of mine got fired for bringing an 8 ball of blow to the christmas party.

This was a fast food Christmas party.
Held in the store after we closed up early on Christmas 23rd.
And he just drops a bag and starts doing lines.

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My head canon is that he got fired for not sharing.

 

[Deleted member 7130]

Oh, at the same job for me: I might security manager got fired after one of his workers texted him to ask where he was. Dumbass replied in text that he was like miles away, asleep at a Walmart parking lot.

Also at the same job: Another forklift operator would show up to work hungover or drunk CONSTANTLY. It went on for nearly a year before he was finally fired

 

[PontyfaxJr]

I had to fire a guy for "jokingly" threatening to stab another employee.

I do believe he was joking but he was creating a pretty bad atmosphere in general and that pushed it to unacceptable levels.

 

[Striferser]

A co worker take a time off to prepare for his brother funeral. For solidarity, his leader and HR prepare condolences monèy for him and they visit.his home to offer their condolonces.

Imagine their surprise when they find out no one actually died and that he just want to take a time off. Quite akward since the one that greet them is the father. The guy is at home but refuse to come out of his room.

The day after that he voluntarily resign. Well, i mean, even without him doing that, i'm sure it just a matter of when they will fired him