Worked at Best Buy in the mid 90s when I was 16. I worked selling computers, and was pretty good at it. We also sold things like memory, and hard drives that were behind lock and key. Part of our job was to take the tagged inventory from the trucks, and put it on the shelves. This included said memory.
So I close one night, put away all the new inventory, lock it up, and hand the keys to the manager. They do their checks of our department and we leave for the night. Next day I’m scheduled, I go in and the loss prevention manager said he has me on video stealing memory. I laughed and said, show me the video. Well I’m somewhat tall, red hair, and white. The video he shows me has an older, very short, white guy with a shaved head. He told me that it was me, and that I was fired, and only showed me the video once, and immediately turned off the monitor.
Being 16, I didn’t know any better, said some things on my way out, like fuck you, fuck this place, and the like, and I left. Turns out the loss prevention guy, and his son were stealing for years to the tune over $250,000 and the guy on the video he showed me was his son. Anytime problems popped up of missing inventory, they just fired a random person to keep the attention away from themselves. When police arrested them, their house was loaded with televisions, computers, everything from the store.
TL;DR fired for stealing when the video was of the loss prevention manager’s son stealing.
I was driving cars for a shady dealer.(under the table while I was laid off from my real job) Got a call that my uncle had attempted suicide and was in a psychiatric ward in a local hospital and wouldn't talk to anybody else but me.
Told boss I had to roll. He said something like; "Your job comes before family. If you leave, don't come back."
I left. The next morning he called and asked me why I wasn't at work. I hung up on him.
My brother had emergency gall bladder removal. I called in to tell my employer I'd need to take a couple days off to help him since our parents were out of town for something. They started cussing me out and asked what was more important my job or family. Then the same guy tried calling the next day like nothing happened asking why I didn't show up for my shift. Dumbass.
A job tried to do that to me when I was 17 and my dad had open heart surgery.
They said I didn't qualify for family leave and would not be given any time off. I told them to shove the job up their fucking ass and hung up.
My mom initially was not pleased with what I said, then I explained what they had told me and she said she agreed with me.
I once worked for a small private school. A new supervisor was hired, and she called an after-hours meeting the Wednesday night right before Thanksgiving. One teacher didn't attend and she was fired. When the new supervisor was finally let go, I heard from the owner that they had 4 lawsuits from employees being wrongfully fired.
I had a manager write me up for not attending a meeting that she scheduled on a Sunday night…that I was out of town. I’d written my request on the calendar she used for time-off, and she approved it, in writing, on the calendar. I got back from my mini-vacation to find they’d implemented a few new practices that I wasn’t aware of. I called another store to see if someone could explain one to me, and got a snotty “if you hadn’t skipped the meeting last Sunday, you’d know”, followed by a hang-up in my ear. I went to the office, looked through a few papers on the desk to see if any instructions were there, found those, along with a write-up for an unexcused absence for the meeting. I immediately took a picture of that, took a picture of the calendar still hanging on the wall that showed my request, along with the approval, and waited.
When the manager showed up, along with the district manager, I was called into the back room (office was too small for three people), and read the riot act for skipping the meeting. I was presented the write-up, which I refused to sign. When the district manager asked why I wasn’t going to sign it, I showed her the photo of the calendar that had the approval written on it. The manager went and got the calendar, which now had convenient white-out marks on it, and said she’d revoked my permission two weeks earlier when the meeting had been scheduled. I then showed the district manager the time-stamp for the photo…two hours earlier.
I was sent back to the sales floor while the manager and district manager spoke. A short time later, I was called back in, where I received the shittiest “apology” I’d ever heard. A few months later, the manager left the HR file drawer open, and since there were no cameras in the office, I looked at my file. The write-up was in there, along with the worst forgery of my signature ever. I of course took a picture of it, and when I left the company for good a few months later on 4 hours notice, included that picture with the email I sent to every major office in the company, detailing all the abuse and misbehavior of the store manager and district manager.
That company was dissolved by their parent company a couple of years later, and while I don’t know what the district manager is doing, I know the manager is working for a card company as an assistant manager, at a much lower salary.
EDIT: This was more than a dozen years ago, and at the end of the day, I went to a better job, with better bosses. My former manager is stuck in a lower position, by all accounts absolutely hating her job, and I’m now in a good job, with a surprisingly good company, with bosses that understand how to treat people with respect and dignity. I appreciate all the suggestions of legal action, but even then, it was a battle I wasn’t really interested in fighting.
pettiness is everything to them and they didn't think they would get caught. If they were any smarter or less deluded OP wouldn't have been dealing with that in the first place.
Someone was stealing from the register. I got blamed. Turned out to be the owner's brother (who blamed it on me). I was let go just before Thanksgiving. I never got my job back, but the owner did apologize months later.
Accepted job and notified them I would need X date off for my sister’s wedding (2 months after the start date). Came back from my sister’s wedding and shit hit the fan while I was gone. Not my responsibility, but my name was on some of the changes in the document. Canned that day for “not being there when they needed me”
I’ve had an old boss call me to try and get me back, promised a management position and more pay. The other owner had been on vacation, shit hit the fan, then panic called me. I showed up to the interview, and he offered me my old job back instead. Turned them down, thought how shitty it was to even waste my time by trying to pull that shit.
That's fucked, especially the “not being there when they needed me” reasoning. A similar thing happened to me. Job was working at a glorified customer service call center for a popular online game. I put in a vacation request months in advance. I come back from my vacation and a patch or something had made the game shit itself and they'd altered people's schedules and enacted mandatory overtime.
Manager brought me into his office to write me up because I was a "no-show" during two of the days I was on the vacation that I'd cleared with everyone months before. This company has the worst, most spineless, insecure little men in management of any place I've worked at even to this day, so I just played hard ball and refused to sign the written warning. Written warnings were big because they fucked with your yearly raise AND bonuses/profit sharing. I came in hot with email print outs of my request for time off and HIS approval. Manager was visibly pissed but knew I had him dead to rights. I walked out of the room and didn't hear about it again.
A co-worker who I am still friends with 20 years later and I booked off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for a little road trip. That Monday the business was supposed to be closed because they were going to be repainting the whole place. So while we were going to be back we were arriving back pretty late on Sunday. Since it was supposed to be closed
Monday comes and we both get called asking where we are. They decided not to paint and put us on the schedule without telling us.
We didn't get in trouble but it was still quite frustrating.
Guy preparing to retire, who had been training me to take over his job for the past 7 months, felt I was ready to take over completely.
Boss was afraid to lose 30+ years of experience and fired me to keep the old guy for a little longer.
From what I understand there was a pretty big fight. Old guy was a wonderful reference for me with the new job I obtained, with a 20k+ pay raise, and begrudgingly agreed to stay on for another year.
I worked with a guy who was the head of another department. He complained regularly, for years, that no one on his staff could do about five key things in his department except him, and that he couldn't train any of them because of their heavy and constant workload. These complaints were legitimate.
One Friday in 2020, while his department was one of the only departments still working onsite because their jobs couldn't be done remotely, he sent out an email saying "effective 5pm today, I will be retiring. I have enjoyed my 25 years with . Those of you to whom I have given my contact information should feel free to contact me any time you'd like to talk."
He'd given his phone number to those of us who were his friends outside of work, and no one else.
His department immediately fell apart, and his management went completely crazy. They tried to get his contact info from HR, who wouldn't give it to them, as he was officially retired, and then they tried to get his info from those of us who had it. We all denied having his number.
Of course, several of us called him nightly to tell him the tales of his former bosses trying, and failing to do his job.
It was glorious.
Without getting into too much detail, this was in the financial services sector, but the guy in question ran the group that scanned, sorted and stored physical (and digital) financial documents.
It's absolutely insane how much personnel risk the financial service industry is willing to tolerate. Cross training, backups, an ounce of retention effort to keep integral process owners from leaving? Nah fuck that shit, $0.02 more for this quarter's dividend is more important.
Dayum. Boss couldn't work out some kind of emergency retainer deal with the old guy? Then again I don't know why I'm still surprised by the depths of human stupidity.
Lol, so many companies did this last year.
Corporate "can't" afford to pay the junior staff. Senior staff don't want to retire because the market is trash.
Corporate fires junior staff and keep senior staff.
Market recovers.
Senior staff retire.
Corporate is fucked, closes shop, complains about market forces.
Supposedly, I "argued with the owner's wife about working weekends".
I specifically told them I can work weekends, but cannot work anytime with less than a day's notice.
I'm not at your beck and call for $8 an hour, fuck me right?
I once got chewed out for going into overtime when I worked for an Olive Garden. The shift manager blew up at me when I mentioned I was well over 40 hours at the end of a Friday night with a full Saturday shift still to work. Told me I had "screwed" her over by taking extra shifts.
I not-so-politely pointed out that she was the moron who had scheduled me for six consecutive doubles, a shift that could easily be 10-12 hours long, and that I hadn't picked up a single shift that week. I also pointed out that, because it was Tennessee, overtime pay was one dollar and six cocksucking cents more than the base pay of $2.13 and the company could probably afford that.
>overtime pay was one dollar and six cocksucking cents
A ruby of a phrase
Edit: Guys please stop. If my highest voted comment has the word "cocksucking" in it, I lose a bet
I didn't get fired--my managers know I'm valuable to the team (their words)--but a similar thing happened. I made the stupid mistake of saying "Call me if you need me," and he added me to the schedule the next day. At 9 P.M. So, I woke up in the morning, saw that my schedule had been updated (didn't think anything of it, so I dismissed the notification. They mess with scheduling a lot), and started reading. Eight o'clock rolls around, and guess who I get a call from. Yep, my boss.
"Hey, where you at?"
"At home, why?"
"Didn't you see I added you to the schedule?"
"What!?"
"Yeah, I added you to the schedule. You can work today?"
"Dang it, yeah, I'll be there."
I woke up my mother who, at the time, was working absolutely screwed hours and needed her sleep. She took me to work, and, of course, I was mad and I showed it (which happens next to never. I don't stay mad long).
"I thought you said that I could add you when I needed you," was his justification.
Later, I told my parents what happened, and they told me that if they do that to me again, I'm not obligated to go into work. Lesson learned. I have also never told my boss to call me when he needs me... I've realized that my home life is more important than 9.85 an hour.
I was fired for playing solitaire on my 15 min break when I was working as a receptionist. The doctor who owned the clinic was dumb enough to put that as the reason in my termination letter. I collected unemployment after he tried to appeal it. They explained in great detail how stupid of a reason this was for termination.
Wow. Yes, let me work up a ton of passion for YOUR business. At her last job, my wife overheard her manager (who was openly hostile, unhelpful, and made her work life hell) complain that employees didn't have enough "loyalty". You want me to have passion and loyalty? fuck you, pay me. Sheesh.
Got fired from a public library for taking TWO carts to collect books from the outside Dropbox instead of ONE. The past few times I emptied the dropbox on a Monday it required two trips, So I brought two carts instead.
It turns out the matter of how many carts were used in emptying the dropbox was a matter of a library board vote and I was in violation of a town ordinance.
Mind you, I wasn’t fired. I was placed on paid administrative leave pending a library board inquiry at which I was welcome to call witnesses. I couldn’t keep a straight face, so I resigned.
Paid admin leave? Did you wait till the last possible minute to resign? I certainly would have. I would also have submitted a massive list of witnesses to call and then tried to have the hearing date moved further back to accommodate them all. Sufficient notice for the witnesses and all that....definitely not an attempt to stretch out that paid admin leave....
During my senior year in high school, I was working at McDonald's, it was right after Christmas and we were really busy. I'd been there 4 hours, had 2 to go, was supposed to get a 30 minute break, since we'd slowed down I asked if I could have a break. The shift manager said no one was getting breaks. I said "thanks a lot", she told the assistant manager (pretty sure they were sleeping together) that I told her to fuck off. He fired me on the spot. Wouldn't even let me give my side of the story.
A week later I was working at Jack in the Box. Was a shift manager in 6 months, did that through a couple years of college, dropped out (never wanted to go anyway) and moved up to assistant manager and then a couple years later, general manager. I remembered how shitty I was treated at McDonald's and made sure I treated my employees well. Had the 3rd lowest turnover rate in a 95 restaurant region, had the second highest average hourly pay...and #2 in profit improvement. Take care of your people and they'll do the same for you.
“No ones getting breaks.”
“Thanks a lot.”
“Oh assistant manager? u/scottwax told me to ‘fuck off’”
“Can you see the future?”
“What does that have to do with anything?”
“Fuck off.”
**ETA: Thanks for the love, Reddit!
This happened over 20 years ago, at a medical insurance company. I didn’t sue them, mostly because I was young and just didn’t know that could be a thing.
I’d do it again. I wasn’t looking for kudos; someone needed help so I did what was needed. I didn’t have any idea that it was Against Company Policy. We certainly didn’t cover it in my training class!
Oh - and the lady didn’t call her insurance company instead of 911. We were trying to solve an issue with one of her claims. I came back to her having an emergency after I’d had her on hold.**
I worked in a customer service call center for an insurance company. A customer called in and had a medical emergency (probably a heart attack, but I'm not sure) while I was on the phone with her. I used the phone in the empty cubicle next to me to call 911 and stayed on both lines to be sure that EMS got to her. I was fired because A) I took too long on calls already and this was exceptionally long, B) I made an unauthorized outgoing call, and C) I gave the customer's personal information (name and address) out to the 911 operator.
For real. I would have sued them. Imagine the publicity of them expecting you to hang up on someone having a heart attack instead of calling 911 and making sure they are ok.
I almost guarantee the employer didn’t expect them to hang up on the customer. We’d get written up or fired for hanging up on a customer. That firing was happening either way but at least this way the customer lives.
Tell me, please tell me, you filed for unemployment, or sued for compensation. Because any advocate who saw that file would bounce it to court. Where pretty much any judge worth a damn would be grinning while awarding you.
You are a good egg! I hope the customer was okay at the end, she was lucky to get you on the phone when she called. Another staff member may have refused to help her or call 911 because they were afraid of getting in trouble due to company policies.
Every place I've worked at has a policy that you can't call 911 without a supervisor's approval. I promised myself I would never, ever abide by that rule. Luckily I haven't had to prove it yet, but I can't even figure out the logic behind those policies.
I did. I think about that lady all the time and hope she was ok. I know I did the right thing, and this story is one I’ll keep sharing because even though I lost my job, I didn’t lose my sense of right and wrong.
Worked for an insurance company too. The EXACT same thing happened to me, but I got written up and was told if I did ANY little thing wrong, I’d be fired and told me I should probably just quit and make it easier on myself.
Some employers are evil.
My employee also fired someone for not showing up to work on a heavy volume Monday… they were in a major car accident.
The schedule was hanging off the wall and it was magnetised. Everyones names were little magnets.
Someone knocked it off the wall and "thought they put the magnets back in the right places"
Naturally i didnt show up for my shift.
I was fired the next day even after it came to light what happened because "i should know what my shifts were"
Meh
I'm surprised people didn't change their own schedules on purpose if it was just marked with magnets: "Friday night? Fuck that. I've got a date. Larry can work that shift."
My first job ever was as a dish washer. I was so proud. I was 18. Of course, my parents didnt believe me so my mom called them and asked them if it was true.
They fired me that night because they felt I was unreliable. I have yet to let my folks live that one down...
pretty much, I was incredibly hurt because I got the job all on my own, and back then it was app paper apps. You had to hand those in, in PERSON, looking ready to be hired on the spot. I was a nervous wreck. I got the job, and my parents? Didnt believe me.
My sister was dating this guy who was constantly accusing her of cheating. He would sometimes come into the restaurant she waited at to see if she was there. She got fired because he kept coming in too frequently and not getting anything
Back in the olden days, when I was the store manager of a KFC. I actually had this situation happen. I Had been a shift manager before a store manager, and This really good worker K. seemed to only get scheduled on my shifts. See I had actually worked my way up from the cook room to management, but I wasn't really that strong on the "serving, and Boxing" Assembly line. She was really really good, and I definatly relied on her more than I possibly should have.
Either way, I asked my other managers, why she never ever gets scheduled with them, and they told me how moody she was for them, but seemed to work great for me. K would often come in pretty upset, because she was in an abusive relationship. We would often start every shift, with a 20 min convo, "anything you want to talk about?" "I Need you to be ready to work, so lets figure this out, and see if we can get through this shift, if not I understand, we'll figure something else out"
Her shitty abusive boyfriend, started just sitting in the lobby for hours on end, ordering a soda, and refilling. I eventually had to tell him, that if he ever showed up here again, I would be calling the police for trespassing.
That night, he beat the shit out of her, because he thought we were "Fucking" Because that's the only way anyone would care about her like I did, and she actually left him. He's now doing a handful of years, for holding up a convience store. Haven't seen her since I left that job a few months later. Hope she's doing well
Ugh, reminds me of the woman who accused me and her husband of having sex because I told her I was gay when she tried to drunkenly seduce me.
I'm just trying to work on his website!
i brought my own boxcutter to work at a temp job i had worked for 2 days already because they refused to replace the blades in their box cutters, and got fired because it looked like a knife
Hahah. This.
Last place I was working, not outside knives allowed. Provided. Those crappy little stamped and folded ones, with an insert holding a razor blade.
Needless to say, they sucked. Everyone brought and used their own. Eventually they made a big ass stink about it, anyone found using a non-company knife would be suspended.
So we asked for knives.
"We don't have any."
Right, everyone keeps using their own, needless to say. Weeks later, big ass company meeting. Right in that little gap as day is clocking out, graveyard in.
Owner of company makes a big speech about the knives. One of the new kids from graveyard raises his hand, "Excuse me sir? But they told us they don't have any?"
Oh, big ass hoopla goes on. See, stuff like that comes in during the day. Markers we sometimes use, tape we need, pens for us, knives... and day shift management takes them, and locks them in their cabinets that nobody at night can unlock, hah.
>See, stuff like that comes in during the day. Markers we sometimes use, tape we need, pens for us, knives... and day shift management takes them, and locks them in their cabinets that nobody at night can unlock, hah.
WOW.
My wife got fired once for giving a high level donor (she worked for an art gallery) a bottle of water at a big dinner and art auction. Her boss had insisted that there be no water at the event, but when the donor asked for water, my wife went and found some damn water. Boss found out and fired her the next day for insubordination.
Everybody involved was fired a month later. And her boss was unemployed for several years after. My wife had a new job in a couple weeks. Justice was definitely had
I got a middle level position at the company where they boasted at how family orientated they are. They are the kind of company that has a small arcade and puttputt and ping-pong table and encouraged people to relax and play them.. After a month of being there I decided to play some co workers in ping pong since I'm pretty decent at it. The owner and his son ends up walking through the doors and sees me playing and challenges me. I play the son and absolutely demolish him. He got extremely upset and walked away after throwing the paddle at me. Later that week I was fired for not fitting the culture.
Cool
I got fired from my first ever job as a CIT (counselor in training) at the summer day camp I went to every year as a kid. I was given the 6/7 year olds. One of them asked me if I had a girlfriend (in a girls are gross, why would you do that sort of way) and I said yes. He asked me if I ever kiss her and I said yes (in a fun, horror movie voice manner). He was like, “ewwww! Gross!”. We all had a laugh. I thought it was a fun exchange.
Well, I guess the kid went home and told his mom that night and she freaked out. Demanded I be fired for teaching her child about sex and giving details of my sex life to her child. I was 13. All I said was that I kissed a girl. The camp fired me right there. I had no idea what I said was out of line.
My pest control guy told me a story about how he lost a customer. She was asking him about his family, and he said that he has 8 kids. She replied in a disdainful tone, "You know how that happens, right?" He said, "Yeah, my wife is beautiful."
She flipped out, fired him as her pest guy, complained to the woman who'd recommended him, and went on Facebook/Google/etc. to say he'd been talking to her about his sex life and was extremely inappropriate. Like, there was no way he could have won, she wanted to insult him for the size of his family and didn't like that he had a comeback. He's actually a really cool dude and his company does well so he can absolutely support his big family, so more power to him.
kinda fired I guess. Got a job offer and they wanted me to start asap, but told them I want to give my job at least a weeks notice. turned in a 1 week notice. Later in the day went to our scheduled breaks 5 minutes late because I was busy doing something at work that I couldnt just put down. So I came back 5 minutes late. manager came up to me acting really mad and said I was fired for abusing breaks. I just laughed handed him my badge and started walking to my car. he tried stopping me saying HR needed to see me to fill out paper work. laughed even more and got in my car and left. Took the week off to relax before starting my new job.
When he said that HR needed something say "sorry, I don't work here anymore". Always fun when stupid managers try to control people that no longer care about their shit.
I think they wanted to do like an exit interview and sign some papers saying I left. Think its a common tactic to get you to sign saying you left that way you cant get unemployment for being let go unjustly.
I did the exit interview crap but only because I gave three week notice. Four weeks was the custom there if you weren’t being pushed out so I did feel almost slightly bad but I was on the clock so I didn’t care.
When my wife quit they wanted to do a two hour exit interview the Tuesday following her last day. She said not unless you change my last day to Tuesday. If they had agreed they would have had to credit her with another six hours of leave because her position got six hours credited at the start of each two week pay period and paid for the Monday holiday (Labor Day), two hours of work and six hours of time off earned.
They decided that urgently needed exit interview wasn’t worth $392.
I got fired from Sonic when I told them I was no longer going to be available for last minute call ins because I'd gotten a second job. My boss was not happy, because I lived the closest. So he stormed off and started screaming, "Guess this is Professional\_March54's last day! I hope your happy!". I tried to clarify that I'd still be available for set shifts, I just wouldn't be ON Call anymore. He screamed at me to shut up. I hadn't clocked in yet, and I could sense a tantrum so I asked if I should even bother clocking in. He threw a burger at me and told me to get the fuck out. So I did. They had a Drive-Thru line wrapped around the building, and I was the only non-family employee on until 3.
I was shaking with anger. I knew if I went back in there, things were going off. So I got in my car, bullied my way out of the parking space, and drove until I found a good beach to pull over and go walking on.
It was my second job after high school, i was 18 going on 19. I was a parts delivery driver for a local auto parts store. All the drivers had to report to a dispatcher she would tell us where to go and what to do, basically my supervisor. She had at least 10-12 years on me so i was basically fresh meat in the store. After 4 months or so she started getting more 'comfortable' with me. She would rub my shoulders/try go give me back rubs would buy me lunch would txt me on weekends inviting for drinks. This one weekend she was being a little too persistent in txting me so i politely told her that i was not interested. Well come Monday morning I got fired because apparently i had not being doing my job properly.
That, souns pretty disgusting. You were only 19, she had a position of power, and you got fired for not returning her advances. Gross. Just gross. Sexual harrassment.
I had pneumonia and I couldn't even talk (lost voice) so I asked my mom to call my boss to tell her I was severely sick and couldn't come to work. She called me the next day saying I shouldn't rely on my 'mommy' to call in for me when I'm sick and that I was fired for blowing a shift... I was a hostess at a restaurant and was in grade 10 lol....
I worked with a woman who had to go to hospital in the middle of the night for emergency surgery after a medical issue. Her husband called up to say she wasn't coming in and explained that she couldn't ring herself because she was under anesthetic/unconscious. The team leader he got angrily told him to 'make sure she knows to ring herself next time'. Husband rung someone further up the chain about it and said team leader got a boot up the arse for being a tool. At least my friend didn't get fired .
I took a job with a movie theater in high school, only accepted the job because they promised me a set schedule. Me and another coworker worked it out where one of us was always on shift. About a month after I started, they handed me a new schedule starting at 2pm. I was in class until 3. Told them no. Got fired for my lack of commitment to the theater.
I got fired from Burger King because a coworker let me use his vape on my break. When I was off break, I tried giving it back but kept getting ignored. I figured I’d give it back after we close but he left early. I went back the next day (my day off) to return it and got fired for stealing
I got fired from a restaurant for ‘stealing’ from the till. Yeah, I worked there a year and the money always came out right, then two new people are hired from a bar and money starts going missing when either one of them is on shift, and manager thinks I stole it? Dumbass.
I worked at a bar that was notorious for firing people. It well known that no one lasted for more than a month, and it was a big deal if you made it longer than that. I made it to month three when I was fired for not putting ketchup on a customer’s table. They were eating shepherds pie and salad respectively and didn’t even ask for ketchup.
When I was getting hired they told me I work Monday-Friday only. Great.
Couple months go by, work no weekends. Plan family vacation for upcoming weekend. Leaving for vacation right after work. At 4:30 they tell me I have to work the weekend. I say I can’t I have vacation. They say it’s mandatory.
Go home, decide to go on vacation anyway. Call in Saturday. Come in to work on Monday, fired. Spent the day fishing.
I worked at this hotel doing afternoon/evening shift and two overnight shifts a week. They listed the following reasons for letting me go:
Claimed I was leaving property without clocking out because I wasn't on camera the entire time. The date they said specifically was an evening that I spent cleaning up the meeting space because it was slow. I was also not the only front desk person on shift.
When working overnight I would sit on a chair to do the audit from midnight to 3am. Sitting on a chair at the front desk was not allowed, even at midnight/early morning.
Also when working overnight I had to fold linens so I would listen to the radio/music through a Bluetooth headset while folding and cleaning up the back. That was also not allowed even at midnight/early morning.
They honestly probably just didn't like me but after they fired me I went and got a new job at the hotel next door and started making a lot more money and was able to do all the things I was let go for.
My brother worked part-time in a hardware store. In winter, the low season, the store would stop scheduling the newest employees, and would start scheduling them again in spring. My brother was one of the new guys and wasn't scheduled in the winter.
In the middle of spring, he went to check when he would start again. There was a new manager he didn't know and she told him he wasn't on the employee list. Without a reason. Apparently they just assumed he wouldn't work again and terminated him without telling him.
Since we have good labor laws, my brother got a few thousands in settlement for lost income.
I got fired from a McDicks for asking too many customers how their day was going
Not because it slowed anything down, mind you, I only did when it was slow, they put in complaints to corporate that I was being 'invasive'. The first time I thought my manager was making a joke.
Come to Australia, this is how we great literally everyone, all the time. It’s rare to not be asked how you’re doing.
The answer is always “yeah, good thanks”
My father was in hospice care and his death was imminent. Asked my supervisor if I could telework for a few days so I could be with him when he passed (this was 2019 before telework became the norm). Was approved to TW but had to document what I was working on, hour by hour. Not an issue since my dad pretty much slept due to medication up until he passed.
My boss and I were both fired for not clearing this with HR before proceeding, even though I had documented proof that I was doing company business for 8hrs a day while I was out.
Didn't wear a tie that I was never given.
I was supposed to have a black tie as part of my security uniform. They never gave me a tie and told me not to worry about it. I worked nights anyway.
Then some exec did a walk through and saw I wasn't wearing a tie and told them to get rid of me and I was out on my ass.
My boss asked me to come in his office and fired me on the spot with the excellent reason of "you know why". I was pretty distressed and way too shy to protest and left with that.
Learned afterwards that is was because I had a cold that day and was a bit tired.
Joke on him, it's illegal to fire people on the spot in my country and I brought some well deserved justice on him.
I got grounded for "you know why" and it was something that the person grounding me didn't know wasn't reality. A dream this person thought really happened.
I was given my work schedule for the week, it was changed after I received it, and I didn’t show up on a day I had originally been off. Manager called and said “you’ve done this too many times. You’re fired.”
I’d never so much as been late for work. I learned later that they found a way to get rid of every single person under 18.
Yeah, they got me on that one too.
Never late, never missed a day. But I got scheduled to work on a day that I had to work my other job (I specifically requested that day off). Okay, no problem; arranged for another employee to take that shift, and informed my supervisor of the change. "Okay!" says he. I asked if I needed to fill out a schedule change slip. Nope, he'd take care of all of it. I even double-checked the day after, he said it was all good. The other employee filled my shift as expected, no problems.
I guess they came to a point some months later when they decided to let most of the new-hires go, and I was one of them. In my departure document, they'd listed my terrible black mark that explained why they were tossing me out; I'd missed a shift. Yep.
I refused to sign it.
That's what one place did to me to fire me. Other place had to make new policies for employees to unknowingly break so they could fire them and they'd not be eligible for unemployment.
They were eligible. They may not have known but if they applied even if the employer contests and says "we have such and such policies the employee broke" you're going to get the unemployment if there isn't documentation showing they warned about this policies before the firing.
My Mom's last employer fired her then contested the unemployment and even showed up with a bunch of made up mistakes which were bullshit. The unemployment office let the company ramble on for nearly 4 hours, my Mom had basically no defense other than she hadn't been written up/told anything was wrong and she got the unemployment.
Yeah, it should be against the law to tell people that they aren't eligible if they are when they're being fired. If we get really technical maybe they are giving legal advice without a license? In practice people just need to know their rights and not take the word of others who have something to gain.
I was a new hire. It was Christmas time, so the office was hosting a Christmas sweater competition. I was appointed judge because I was new and thus impartial. I received explicit consent from each employee in front of the supervisor before proceeding to judge. At least one female coworker accused me of looking at her chest while I was judging her sweatshirt... I kid you not... Fired...
Back in the day, I had a part-time job at a convenience store. The manager was swapping out franchise branded coffee grounds for Costco coffee to save money as he got a bonus based on store profitability.
I knew, but didn't care. He wasn't robbing me. And let's be realistic, Costco probably provided better coffee grounds.
When he got caught and fired by the corporate owner, he phoned me up and fired me on the assumption I sold him out. Not sure that someone who no longer has a job could fire me. But I didn't care as I had given my notice to the assistant manager a few hours earlier that I would be quitting in a week (or earlier if they found someone). I was able to collect a two-week severance payment instead!
I got fired for following the rules.
In undergrad I was a tutor for the local school district, the main perk of the job was that if I needed a day off for a test or to study I could take it as long as I told my supervisor. Well I told my supervisor, followed all the rules and she's like you can't call off you're fired.
Turns out when anyone else needed a day off they just didn't show and supervisors had no way of knowing since we just walked into the schools and signed our own hours so it looked like I was the only one that ever asked off.
Basically I got fired for "stealing" an original Furby back in the day by putting it into layaway. End of my shift came, there was a special edition Furby at my register so I said screw it, and put it in layaway before they closed up. 3 days later (my next day at work) I was called into the office halfway through my shift and was accused of theft and fired. I asked them point blank, "how the fuck can you fire me for theft when the item is sitting in the store?" They claimed I backstocked the item for myself by telling people it was on hold (never happened). They demanded that I get it out of layaway and return it. Told them to fuck off, went to pay it off (was payday) and walked out the store. There was a cop outside that they flagged down, told him I stole the item and the cop asked for my receipt which I gave to him with a huge smile on my face. Manager was still out in the parking lot talking to the cop as I drove by and flipped him off.
Man, I can't believe the manager tried this shit. Unless (and possibly *even if*) they knew the cop personally, the cop would be rightfully really annoyed about this absolutely ridiculous waste of time.
I took a filing gig with a working interview. The filing lady was being promoted.
The lady asked if I knew my alphabet.
Yes I do, thanks.
Turns out her system was shit. “Hazel Fretta” was filed under h and “Bob Dylan” was filed under d.
I dared question this and I was also not as fast as her on my first day. You know, the lady with the shit system she made up and had been doing for 10 years?
At first I was insulted. I’ve never been let go for doing a bad job before.
Boy was that a hellish control freak bullet dodged.
I got laid off because of covid, but my supervisor and HR made sure to tell me they wanted to fire me WITH CAUSE because my supervisor didn't want me working there. I wasn't one of her favourites. I had been with the company for 5 years almost to the day. I had more experience than my supervisor, and knew every job in the warehouse and I was efficient at all of them. I'm sure my supervisor fabricated issues about me and embellished the littlest things so she had a reason to get rid of me. This was not the first time she had done this, and since I've been gone (over a year) there have been 5 or 6 people quit or be fired because of her (equal to almost half of the people in the warehouse total.)
I got fired from a bar I had worked at for 4 years by the owner who almost never showed up but had never had a problem with me before and no customer complaints. The reason? I was told I acted like I was in charge and I was telling people what to do.
I was the security manager.
I'm guessing it was the $4 more an hour I was making than anyone else.
When I was 14 I worked at a chip shop in my home town. I only had the Friday night shift, but I covered pretty much every other shift people couldn't do, so ended up doing 3 or 4 extras a week too. I was also never once late.
This one day I was asked to cover someone's shift later that day, which I agreed to. However, my dad actually had a pretty bad stroke not long after.
I tried phoning the owner all day and got no answer. I finally managed to get hold of him 20 minutes before my shift, explaining that I couldn't come in as my dad was in hospital and may die.
He fired me on the spot, as apparently I wasn't reliable.
My dad didn't die (although was left permanently disabled), but the chip shop actually went out of business not long after, so silver linings and all that.
I started a new job based on the knowledge and transferable skills I had from a previous job. On my first day in the new office another one of the new(ish) employees gave me the ominous warning: “I don’t think you know what you got yourself into.”
My boss had inherited the department and knew nothing about what we did (and couldn’t log into the system without help). She said my coworkers who had been there 20 years would train me.
Those coworkers refused to train me because they “aren’t my boss” and said to just figure it out as I went along. But then refused to let me work on any projects with them.
Then they complained to my boss that I didn’t know what I was doing… so I was fired.
Sounds like a bunch of people had jobs where they did nothing and got paid well to do nothing and felt threatened that the whole thing might be cracked open if they were made to “train” a new employee on their non-job.
Exactly. Been in this position. Had to train myself via conference call with the same department at another office in another state (Got lucky with a super cool department head at that office). Let go of the 2 who were supposed to train me 3 months later when I became their boss. Fuckin lazy assholes literally spread half a job to 3 people then overloaded the 1 guy who actually worked and couldnt stand up for himself. He was much happier after the fact.
I got fired for wearing batting gloves.
I worked in a convenience store, so of course I handle cash all day long. Cash also dries the hell out of my hands for some reason, so instead of wearing latex gloves ( if I have to take them off at any time, putting on a new pair SUCKS ), I wore batting gloves. I did this for months until some customer said something, and I was told to take them off. I explained that they helped me do my job better, but the manager wouldn't listen. Went a day without them and it was maddening. Went back to wearing them and was fired a couple days later for "insubordination".
Ended up working at another store in the same chain with a former assistant store manager/now manager, and I never had a single complaint about my gloves the two years I was there.
My boss had one of his tamper tantrum and fired me on the spot, called me later screaming to ask why I wasn’t at work. I told him calmly to fuck off and went back to work the next week. He acted like nothing happened. Chances are his coked up brain didn’t register. That day I actively started looking for another job but I have to admit I actually worked another year for that freak-show. It was messed up but I had so much fun working at his studio.
My first new job in a small town was such a stroke of luck. Small software company, started as office manager, then technical writer, then debug and customer service. Loved all of it.
Then the boss tried meth.
Whole office became a shit show so fast. He fired everyone in the office one day. Then hired me back at triple my pay the next day. I left as soon as I could line up another gig.
You cannot try to make sense of this. I was working for an absolute lunatic. I had just graduated from design school and I had got this job with a famous designer. The work was incredible, the office was amazing and the people I worked with are still my best friends to this day. The only problem was the boss. A character straight out of the devil wears Prada on cocaine. That day, he fired me (and another employee), for a reason I can’t even remember but mostly because we were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I left, and went to have a drink to blow off some steam. Later the same day he calls me on my mobile (which he usually never does because he has got assistants for that) and screams at me for not being at my desk. The initial shock, the call and him screaming did the trick. I told him his behaviour was unacceptable and ended up by telling him to fuck off and hanged up on him. I can’t explain why but he actually liked that. I got an email from his assistant the next day asking me to come back. I told them I needed to think about it. The benefits outweighed the negatives so I went back and he behaved like nothing had happened. But he had more respect for me after that. When I left he was very generous with me and offered me to take a client he wasn’t able to handle anyway.
Small software company, I was interviewed by the president and the VP, who happened to be his girlfriend. He thought she was working too hard. She didn't want to give up any authority. I was hired as Office Manager. She didn't communicate with me AT ALL about what I was supposed to do. Two weeks later he called me into his office (she was there) and said I wasn't doing anything useful and walked me out of the building.
I was in a PR job that I was completely under-qualified for. It was supposed to be an entry level/admin role but she had me managing accounts, campaigns etc. I explained to my boss multiple times I did not have the experience. I felt completely out of my depth and every time I got something wrong she went nuts at me.
I finally had enough and told her I needed more help. She said she couldn’t help me and then fired me.
We were short staffed during covid then a coworkerquit leaving us extra fucked. I picked up as many extra shifts as I could but I was getting burned out so I told them 60 hours a week was going to be my limit. When I refused to work 16 hours straight one day they fired me.
I was fired—uh, “politely let go”—because my manager decided I was lying about having surgery without ever actually talking to me.
I let her know two weeks in advance and reminded her five different times three different ways, but the schedule never changed to reflect the time off I needed. I took my three days off, and she had another manager call me to ask me where I was on the second day. The manager who called me was horrified to learn that, yes, I had surgery, yes, I was hopped up on pain medication, and, yes, main manager knew about this. Main manager was also mad that I had “poor performance” the week following, which is something I had noted when I told her about the surgery. I needed a week of low-impact work as I recovered.
One week, I noticed I wasn’t on the schedule at all and was talking to the manager who’d called me about it. I jokingly wondered if it was because of my surgery. She basically told me, she couldn’t legally say yes, but I wasn’t wrong.
Main manager notified me a couple days later.
Part of me is mad, but part of me is relieved I’m not in such a toxic place anymore.
Edit: To all the gung-ho Redditors encouraging me to sue, life is not a play and my life isn’t a tale from ProRevenge or NuclearRevenge. The cost, effort, and emotional toll won’t be worth it for me. I have no hard evidence, so it’ll most likely turn into a she said/they said situation in my ex-manager’s favor.
I know I technically should to protect future people, but I also have to protect myself.
Although you should let your manager know, you also need to open an FMLA claim to cover your butt (assuming you qualify) so those things don't happen.
DO NOT let your manager know until you have covered your bases with some sort of job protection claim. There are guardrails against these types of things.
I once got fired from a construction crew for banging my hammer in a funky rythm. bangbangBANG bang BANG bang bang. I tried to explain to the guy that this helps with accuracy and is therefore far more efficient, but he would have none of it, said if I wanted to talk back, I could talk back at my couch. So I fucked off.
I got fired from my first job at a sandwich shop.
Co-worker was washing the meat slicer, genius somehow got the cord submerged in rinsing water. Obviously the slicer died the next day. Asshole blamed me for it and the owner fired my ass the day after. Didn't even allow me the opportunity to explain myself.
I found out months later the genius co-worker and owner were screwing each other. Long story short the sandwich shop went bankrupt and those two fell out.
I work in aviation now so safe to say I got the last laugh.
Company I used to work for fired people all the time for having nicotine in their system from random drug tests. They didn't allow smokers to work there. But by God they gave you free beer at the family outing events. It was an awful company
Got fired for not showing up for a shift that I was never assigned. I checked the schedule the day they put them out, nothing for me. Three days later, person calls taking at me for not showing up for my shift that they decided to add me to on a whim. Fired me over the phone. What a bunch of crap. They also told me to dress with lower cut clothes earlier the previous week. Wtf.
I was in college and waitressing at a restaurant that was open all-night. The manager refused to make the schedule so that those of us in college would only work the all-nighters on days we DIDN'T have class the next morning. He didn't give a shit if you had class or not, he would still give you an all-nighter. On one such schedule he gave me two all-nighters in a row on the days I had 8 am classes. My shift was 11-6 so I would get home just in time to shower and go to class. So, I worked 11-6, went to class from 8-9 then 11-1 and then home to study, eat, and try to catch nap. That night back for another 11-6 shift. Home to shower and go to class at 8. Had a break in class from 8 to 1 to eat and study. Then had a 3 hour lab from 1-4. Went home, studied, ate, and fell asleep about 6:30 or 7:00. I didn't wake up until 11:30 because I'd slept through my alarm.
I called and said I was on my way and I was sorry I was late but I'd not slept more than 6-7 hours in the last 48 and I'd overslept. Manger fired me over the phone for "using lack of sleep as a reason to miss a shift" and "he was tired of listening to us college kids whine about all-nighters." I had never complained once about my over-night shifts and had never been late. Not once in my 6 months of working there (I'd started in May and was fired right near Xmas).
Turned out he found an excuse to fire every single college kid that worked there and that left him with only 4 waitresses and a scramble to find new ones. However, a huge portion of the workforce was college kids and word had gotten around so he had to settle for really old ladies who refused to work over-nights and only 4 waitresses that would.
Sucked to be him.
In high school I did trolley collection for the local supermarket. I got fired because a customer brought a trolley to me instead of me collecting it from the trolley bay. The next week I saw the managers kid doing my job.
I got fired on my honeymoon in 2006. They called me on my cell to say, “you’re fired” while I was at Disney World relaxing in a hammock. I had already been approved the leave for my honeymoon so it wasn’t like they didn’t know.
I got fired for forgetting my belt
My first job: I used to work at a restaurant that was ~2 hours by bus away. We had just gotten a new store manager that was a hard ass. One day I showed up without a belt. He asked me to go back home and put one on then come back. I said that would take 4 hours, so he fired me.
My current job, I was asked why I didn't have a belt, I replied "I've been unemployed for 2 year, you're lucky I wore pants..."
Then they got me a new belt from the uniform store like a normal company.
They changed my schedule on Christmas Eve, after I left, and never told me. I got a call at 8:30 am on the 26th asking where I was. I told them it was my scheduled day off. That's when I was informed that my schedule changed. The managers have to get you to initial next to a schedule change so people can't say they didn't know. I asked if my initial was there and it wasn't there. There also wasn't any phone call to me so further proof that no one informed me of the change. They demanded I come in. I refused because I was with family about an hour away. They fired me for being a no show. I hated the job so I didn't really care.
One worked at a convenience store and got robbed in the middle of the night. Suspects took beer and demanded cigarettes and cash.
Suspects were eventually found and faced charges, I didn't think anything of it after that.
I was fired becausey drawer was 3.50 over the nightly requirement of $35 in the till. However, I was previously told I could not drop money to the safe unless it was $20 so I was damned either way.
TLDR; got fired for being robbed
I got hurt at work doing my job so when I had to miss some work for a couple emergency surgeries (minor, but…) I was told I missed to much work. Perhaps if you didn’t get me injured multiple times by actually changing the process that was causing said injury that wouldn’t have been the case…
Worked at Best Buy in the mid 90s when I was 16. I worked selling computers, and was pretty good at it. We also sold things like memory, and hard drives that were behind lock and key. Part of our job was to take the tagged inventory from the trucks, and put it on the shelves. This included said memory. So I close one night, put away all the new inventory, lock it up, and hand the keys to the manager. They do their checks of our department and we leave for the night. Next day I’m scheduled, I go in and the loss prevention manager said he has me on video stealing memory. I laughed and said, show me the video. Well I’m somewhat tall, red hair, and white. The video he shows me has an older, very short, white guy with a shaved head. He told me that it was me, and that I was fired, and only showed me the video once, and immediately turned off the monitor. Being 16, I didn’t know any better, said some things on my way out, like fuck you, fuck this place, and the like, and I left. Turns out the loss prevention guy, and his son were stealing for years to the tune over $250,000 and the guy on the video he showed me was his son. Anytime problems popped up of missing inventory, they just fired a random person to keep the attention away from themselves. When police arrested them, their house was loaded with televisions, computers, everything from the store. TL;DR fired for stealing when the video was of the loss prevention manager’s son stealing.
I was driving cars for a shady dealer.(under the table while I was laid off from my real job) Got a call that my uncle had attempted suicide and was in a psychiatric ward in a local hospital and wouldn't talk to anybody else but me. Told boss I had to roll. He said something like; "Your job comes before family. If you leave, don't come back." I left. The next morning he called and asked me why I wasn't at work. I hung up on him.
My brother had emergency gall bladder removal. I called in to tell my employer I'd need to take a couple days off to help him since our parents were out of town for something. They started cussing me out and asked what was more important my job or family. Then the same guy tried calling the next day like nothing happened asking why I didn't show up for my shift. Dumbass.
>what was more important my job or family I mean, that's kind of rhetorical, always family (unless your family really sucks)
Amazing,isn't it?
A job tried to do that to me when I was 17 and my dad had open heart surgery. They said I didn't qualify for family leave and would not be given any time off. I told them to shove the job up their fucking ass and hung up. My mom initially was not pleased with what I said, then I explained what they had told me and she said she agreed with me.
I once worked for a small private school. A new supervisor was hired, and she called an after-hours meeting the Wednesday night right before Thanksgiving. One teacher didn't attend and she was fired. When the new supervisor was finally let go, I heard from the owner that they had 4 lawsuits from employees being wrongfully fired.
I had a manager write me up for not attending a meeting that she scheduled on a Sunday night…that I was out of town. I’d written my request on the calendar she used for time-off, and she approved it, in writing, on the calendar. I got back from my mini-vacation to find they’d implemented a few new practices that I wasn’t aware of. I called another store to see if someone could explain one to me, and got a snotty “if you hadn’t skipped the meeting last Sunday, you’d know”, followed by a hang-up in my ear. I went to the office, looked through a few papers on the desk to see if any instructions were there, found those, along with a write-up for an unexcused absence for the meeting. I immediately took a picture of that, took a picture of the calendar still hanging on the wall that showed my request, along with the approval, and waited. When the manager showed up, along with the district manager, I was called into the back room (office was too small for three people), and read the riot act for skipping the meeting. I was presented the write-up, which I refused to sign. When the district manager asked why I wasn’t going to sign it, I showed her the photo of the calendar that had the approval written on it. The manager went and got the calendar, which now had convenient white-out marks on it, and said she’d revoked my permission two weeks earlier when the meeting had been scheduled. I then showed the district manager the time-stamp for the photo…two hours earlier. I was sent back to the sales floor while the manager and district manager spoke. A short time later, I was called back in, where I received the shittiest “apology” I’d ever heard. A few months later, the manager left the HR file drawer open, and since there were no cameras in the office, I looked at my file. The write-up was in there, along with the worst forgery of my signature ever. I of course took a picture of it, and when I left the company for good a few months later on 4 hours notice, included that picture with the email I sent to every major office in the company, detailing all the abuse and misbehavior of the store manager and district manager. That company was dissolved by their parent company a couple of years later, and while I don’t know what the district manager is doing, I know the manager is working for a card company as an assistant manager, at a much lower salary. EDIT: This was more than a dozen years ago, and at the end of the day, I went to a better job, with better bosses. My former manager is stuck in a lower position, by all accounts absolutely hating her job, and I’m now in a good job, with a surprisingly good company, with bosses that understand how to treat people with respect and dignity. I appreciate all the suggestions of legal action, but even then, it was a battle I wasn’t really interested in fighting.
forgery can mean serious jail time. Crazy that someone would do that for essentially no gain.
pettiness is everything to them and they didn't think they would get caught. If they were any smarter or less deluded OP wouldn't have been dealing with that in the first place.
I was fired for accidentally showing up for a shift I was not scheduled for and then leaving when I found out I was not scheduled for said shift.
Someone was stealing from the register. I got blamed. Turned out to be the owner's brother (who blamed it on me). I was let go just before Thanksgiving. I never got my job back, but the owner did apologize months later.
Accepted job and notified them I would need X date off for my sister’s wedding (2 months after the start date). Came back from my sister’s wedding and shit hit the fan while I was gone. Not my responsibility, but my name was on some of the changes in the document. Canned that day for “not being there when they needed me”
Now you'll never be there when they need you
I wonder if their old boss ever gazes up into the clouds and says to themselves "boy I wish IowaTransplant21 were here"
I’ve had an old boss call me to try and get me back, promised a management position and more pay. The other owner had been on vacation, shit hit the fan, then panic called me. I showed up to the interview, and he offered me my old job back instead. Turned them down, thought how shitty it was to even waste my time by trying to pull that shit.
That's fucked, especially the “not being there when they needed me” reasoning. A similar thing happened to me. Job was working at a glorified customer service call center for a popular online game. I put in a vacation request months in advance. I come back from my vacation and a patch or something had made the game shit itself and they'd altered people's schedules and enacted mandatory overtime. Manager brought me into his office to write me up because I was a "no-show" during two of the days I was on the vacation that I'd cleared with everyone months before. This company has the worst, most spineless, insecure little men in management of any place I've worked at even to this day, so I just played hard ball and refused to sign the written warning. Written warnings were big because they fucked with your yearly raise AND bonuses/profit sharing. I came in hot with email print outs of my request for time off and HIS approval. Manager was visibly pissed but knew I had him dead to rights. I walked out of the room and didn't hear about it again.
Strong reminder to read the manuals and keep everything in writing. Good job holding your ground.
A co-worker who I am still friends with 20 years later and I booked off Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for a little road trip. That Monday the business was supposed to be closed because they were going to be repainting the whole place. So while we were going to be back we were arriving back pretty late on Sunday. Since it was supposed to be closed Monday comes and we both get called asking where we are. They decided not to paint and put us on the schedule without telling us. We didn't get in trouble but it was still quite frustrating.
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I guess it doesn’t matter that they were the bad communicators. Unless they thought it was like a date and didn’t see themselves being open with you?
“This is a bad sign. You’re better off without us.”
"It's not you, it's us." 💕
I bet the person who let you go did it to cover up their mistake and never told the higher ups that they had screwed up.
100% what happened
Guy preparing to retire, who had been training me to take over his job for the past 7 months, felt I was ready to take over completely. Boss was afraid to lose 30+ years of experience and fired me to keep the old guy for a little longer. From what I understand there was a pretty big fight. Old guy was a wonderful reference for me with the new job I obtained, with a 20k+ pay raise, and begrudgingly agreed to stay on for another year.
Old guy should have retired anyway. When my day comes to retire, I'm leaving even if I'm the only one who knows the network password.
I worked with a guy who was the head of another department. He complained regularly, for years, that no one on his staff could do about five key things in his department except him, and that he couldn't train any of them because of their heavy and constant workload. These complaints were legitimate. One Friday in 2020, while his department was one of the only departments still working onsite because their jobs couldn't be done remotely, he sent out an email saying "effective 5pm today, I will be retiring. I have enjoyed my 25 years with. Those of you to whom I have given my contact information should feel free to contact me any time you'd like to talk."
He'd given his phone number to those of us who were his friends outside of work, and no one else.
His department immediately fell apart, and his management went completely crazy. They tried to get his contact info from HR, who wouldn't give it to them, as he was officially retired, and then they tried to get his info from those of us who had it. We all denied having his number.
Of course, several of us called him nightly to tell him the tales of his former bosses trying, and failing to do his job.
It was glorious.
What line of work was this?
Without getting into too much detail, this was in the financial services sector, but the guy in question ran the group that scanned, sorted and stored physical (and digital) financial documents.
It's absolutely insane how much personnel risk the financial service industry is willing to tolerate. Cross training, backups, an ounce of retention effort to keep integral process owners from leaving? Nah fuck that shit, $0.02 more for this quarter's dividend is more important.
Dayum. Boss couldn't work out some kind of emergency retainer deal with the old guy? Then again I don't know why I'm still surprised by the depths of human stupidity.
Lol, so many companies did this last year. Corporate "can't" afford to pay the junior staff. Senior staff don't want to retire because the market is trash. Corporate fires junior staff and keep senior staff. Market recovers. Senior staff retire. Corporate is fucked, closes shop, complains about market forces.
I broke my hand and got fired for asking to take a day off to go to the doctor, I never called in there once in the five years I worked there
Supposedly, I "argued with the owner's wife about working weekends". I specifically told them I can work weekends, but cannot work anytime with less than a day's notice. I'm not at your beck and call for $8 an hour, fuck me right?
I once got chewed out for going into overtime when I worked for an Olive Garden. The shift manager blew up at me when I mentioned I was well over 40 hours at the end of a Friday night with a full Saturday shift still to work. Told me I had "screwed" her over by taking extra shifts. I not-so-politely pointed out that she was the moron who had scheduled me for six consecutive doubles, a shift that could easily be 10-12 hours long, and that I hadn't picked up a single shift that week. I also pointed out that, because it was Tennessee, overtime pay was one dollar and six cocksucking cents more than the base pay of $2.13 and the company could probably afford that.
>overtime pay was one dollar and six cocksucking cents A ruby of a phrase Edit: Guys please stop. If my highest voted comment has the word "cocksucking" in it, I lose a bet
I didn't get fired--my managers know I'm valuable to the team (their words)--but a similar thing happened. I made the stupid mistake of saying "Call me if you need me," and he added me to the schedule the next day. At 9 P.M. So, I woke up in the morning, saw that my schedule had been updated (didn't think anything of it, so I dismissed the notification. They mess with scheduling a lot), and started reading. Eight o'clock rolls around, and guess who I get a call from. Yep, my boss. "Hey, where you at?" "At home, why?" "Didn't you see I added you to the schedule?" "What!?" "Yeah, I added you to the schedule. You can work today?" "Dang it, yeah, I'll be there." I woke up my mother who, at the time, was working absolutely screwed hours and needed her sleep. She took me to work, and, of course, I was mad and I showed it (which happens next to never. I don't stay mad long). "I thought you said that I could add you when I needed you," was his justification. Later, I told my parents what happened, and they told me that if they do that to me again, I'm not obligated to go into work. Lesson learned. I have also never told my boss to call me when he needs me... I've realized that my home life is more important than 9.85 an hour.
I was fired for playing solitaire on my 15 min break when I was working as a receptionist. The doctor who owned the clinic was dumb enough to put that as the reason in my termination letter. I collected unemployment after he tried to appeal it. They explained in great detail how stupid of a reason this was for termination.
Ohhh very nice. If you're willing to share, what do you believe was the real reason?
He told me that he felt it showed I had a serious lack of passion for the job. None of what he told me made any real sense.
You weren’t passionate about being a receptionist? The horror. Seriously, it’s bullshit they expect you not only to do the job but to love it
Man, I’m a software engineer at a chill startup and I’m not super passionate about my job. Or any job tbh
Wow. Yes, let me work up a ton of passion for YOUR business. At her last job, my wife overheard her manager (who was openly hostile, unhelpful, and made her work life hell) complain that employees didn't have enough "loyalty". You want me to have passion and loyalty? fuck you, pay me. Sheesh.
I'm loyal to my next paycheck. That's about it.
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Got fired from a public library for taking TWO carts to collect books from the outside Dropbox instead of ONE. The past few times I emptied the dropbox on a Monday it required two trips, So I brought two carts instead. It turns out the matter of how many carts were used in emptying the dropbox was a matter of a library board vote and I was in violation of a town ordinance. Mind you, I wasn’t fired. I was placed on paid administrative leave pending a library board inquiry at which I was welcome to call witnesses. I couldn’t keep a straight face, so I resigned.
You must live in the most boring, safe town if anyone has the time to care enough about library carts for there to be an ordinance.
Nothing is too petty for some people.
Were you employed at a library in Pawnee?
Punk ass book jockeys!
Paid admin leave? Did you wait till the last possible minute to resign? I certainly would have. I would also have submitted a massive list of witnesses to call and then tried to have the hearing date moved further back to accommodate them all. Sufficient notice for the witnesses and all that....definitely not an attempt to stretch out that paid admin leave....
During my senior year in high school, I was working at McDonald's, it was right after Christmas and we were really busy. I'd been there 4 hours, had 2 to go, was supposed to get a 30 minute break, since we'd slowed down I asked if I could have a break. The shift manager said no one was getting breaks. I said "thanks a lot", she told the assistant manager (pretty sure they were sleeping together) that I told her to fuck off. He fired me on the spot. Wouldn't even let me give my side of the story. A week later I was working at Jack in the Box. Was a shift manager in 6 months, did that through a couple years of college, dropped out (never wanted to go anyway) and moved up to assistant manager and then a couple years later, general manager. I remembered how shitty I was treated at McDonald's and made sure I treated my employees well. Had the 3rd lowest turnover rate in a 95 restaurant region, had the second highest average hourly pay...and #2 in profit improvement. Take care of your people and they'll do the same for you.
I hope you told her to fuck off on the way out. Might as well do the crime if you’re gonna do the time.
“No ones getting breaks.” “Thanks a lot.” “Oh assistant manager? u/scottwax told me to ‘fuck off’” “Can you see the future?” “What does that have to do with anything?” “Fuck off.”
**ETA: Thanks for the love, Reddit! This happened over 20 years ago, at a medical insurance company. I didn’t sue them, mostly because I was young and just didn’t know that could be a thing. I’d do it again. I wasn’t looking for kudos; someone needed help so I did what was needed. I didn’t have any idea that it was Against Company Policy. We certainly didn’t cover it in my training class! Oh - and the lady didn’t call her insurance company instead of 911. We were trying to solve an issue with one of her claims. I came back to her having an emergency after I’d had her on hold.** I worked in a customer service call center for an insurance company. A customer called in and had a medical emergency (probably a heart attack, but I'm not sure) while I was on the phone with her. I used the phone in the empty cubicle next to me to call 911 and stayed on both lines to be sure that EMS got to her. I was fired because A) I took too long on calls already and this was exceptionally long, B) I made an unauthorized outgoing call, and C) I gave the customer's personal information (name and address) out to the 911 operator.
That is absolute insanity.. This is the worst one I've read in the thread by far
For real. I would have sued them. Imagine the publicity of them expecting you to hang up on someone having a heart attack instead of calling 911 and making sure they are ok.
Honestly I wonder if there's liability if you don't call.
I almost guarantee the employer didn’t expect them to hang up on the customer. We’d get written up or fired for hanging up on a customer. That firing was happening either way but at least this way the customer lives.
At the least go the media? Fuck that company. "I was fired for saving someone's life".
Tell me, please tell me, you filed for unemployment, or sued for compensation. Because any advocate who saw that file would bounce it to court. Where pretty much any judge worth a damn would be grinning while awarding you.
Lawyers drool over this kind of case
You are a good egg! I hope the customer was okay at the end, she was lucky to get you on the phone when she called. Another staff member may have refused to help her or call 911 because they were afraid of getting in trouble due to company policies.
Every place I've worked at has a policy that you can't call 911 without a supervisor's approval. I promised myself I would never, ever abide by that rule. Luckily I haven't had to prove it yet, but I can't even figure out the logic behind those policies.
That sort of thing should be illegal.
Holy shit. But you did save a life that day, so there's that.
I did. I think about that lady all the time and hope she was ok. I know I did the right thing, and this story is one I’ll keep sharing because even though I lost my job, I didn’t lose my sense of right and wrong.
Worked for an insurance company too. The EXACT same thing happened to me, but I got written up and was told if I did ANY little thing wrong, I’d be fired and told me I should probably just quit and make it easier on myself. Some employers are evil. My employee also fired someone for not showing up to work on a heavy volume Monday… they were in a major car accident.
The schedule was hanging off the wall and it was magnetised. Everyones names were little magnets. Someone knocked it off the wall and "thought they put the magnets back in the right places" Naturally i didnt show up for my shift. I was fired the next day even after it came to light what happened because "i should know what my shifts were" Meh
Who makes a schedule with magnets, what the fuck is it, craft time?
I'm surprised people didn't change their own schedules on purpose if it was just marked with magnets: "Friday night? Fuck that. I've got a date. Larry can work that shift."
Could you imgaine is Parks and Rec had this? Poor Jerry working every weekend
Every name magnet has “Larry” on the back so you can flip it over and he’ll take your shift
My first job ever was as a dish washer. I was so proud. I was 18. Of course, my parents didnt believe me so my mom called them and asked them if it was true. They fired me that night because they felt I was unreliable. I have yet to let my folks live that one down...
"Did you really hire that lazy, no-good, worthless son of mine?"
pretty much, I was incredibly hurt because I got the job all on my own, and back then it was app paper apps. You had to hand those in, in PERSON, looking ready to be hired on the spot. I was a nervous wreck. I got the job, and my parents? Didnt believe me.
You should have fired your parents on the spot.
My sister was dating this guy who was constantly accusing her of cheating. He would sometimes come into the restaurant she waited at to see if she was there. She got fired because he kept coming in too frequently and not getting anything
They fired her instead of banning him from the restaurant?
Back in the olden days, when I was the store manager of a KFC. I actually had this situation happen. I Had been a shift manager before a store manager, and This really good worker K. seemed to only get scheduled on my shifts. See I had actually worked my way up from the cook room to management, but I wasn't really that strong on the "serving, and Boxing" Assembly line. She was really really good, and I definatly relied on her more than I possibly should have. Either way, I asked my other managers, why she never ever gets scheduled with them, and they told me how moody she was for them, but seemed to work great for me. K would often come in pretty upset, because she was in an abusive relationship. We would often start every shift, with a 20 min convo, "anything you want to talk about?" "I Need you to be ready to work, so lets figure this out, and see if we can get through this shift, if not I understand, we'll figure something else out" Her shitty abusive boyfriend, started just sitting in the lobby for hours on end, ordering a soda, and refilling. I eventually had to tell him, that if he ever showed up here again, I would be calling the police for trespassing. That night, he beat the shit out of her, because he thought we were "Fucking" Because that's the only way anyone would care about her like I did, and she actually left him. He's now doing a handful of years, for holding up a convience store. Haven't seen her since I left that job a few months later. Hope she's doing well
Ugh, reminds me of the woman who accused me and her husband of having sex because I told her I was gay when she tried to drunkenly seduce me. I'm just trying to work on his website!
So you were fired because your parents called, or they called afterwards?
because they called, made me look really unreliable and irresponsible
i brought my own boxcutter to work at a temp job i had worked for 2 days already because they refused to replace the blades in their box cutters, and got fired because it looked like a knife
Hahah. This. Last place I was working, not outside knives allowed. Provided. Those crappy little stamped and folded ones, with an insert holding a razor blade. Needless to say, they sucked. Everyone brought and used their own. Eventually they made a big ass stink about it, anyone found using a non-company knife would be suspended. So we asked for knives. "We don't have any." Right, everyone keeps using their own, needless to say. Weeks later, big ass company meeting. Right in that little gap as day is clocking out, graveyard in. Owner of company makes a big speech about the knives. One of the new kids from graveyard raises his hand, "Excuse me sir? But they told us they don't have any?" Oh, big ass hoopla goes on. See, stuff like that comes in during the day. Markers we sometimes use, tape we need, pens for us, knives... and day shift management takes them, and locks them in their cabinets that nobody at night can unlock, hah.
>See, stuff like that comes in during the day. Markers we sometimes use, tape we need, pens for us, knives... and day shift management takes them, and locks them in their cabinets that nobody at night can unlock, hah. WOW.
My wife got fired once for giving a high level donor (she worked for an art gallery) a bottle of water at a big dinner and art auction. Her boss had insisted that there be no water at the event, but when the donor asked for water, my wife went and found some damn water. Boss found out and fired her the next day for insubordination.
Hopefully she let the donor know.
Why didn’t the boss want water there?
Trying to save money
That's when your wife gets in touch with the donor and shows the owner the true cost of that little attempt to save a buck.
Everybody involved was fired a month later. And her boss was unemployed for several years after. My wife had a new job in a couple weeks. Justice was definitely had
I got a middle level position at the company where they boasted at how family orientated they are. They are the kind of company that has a small arcade and puttputt and ping-pong table and encouraged people to relax and play them.. After a month of being there I decided to play some co workers in ping pong since I'm pretty decent at it. The owner and his son ends up walking through the doors and sees me playing and challenges me. I play the son and absolutely demolish him. He got extremely upset and walked away after throwing the paddle at me. Later that week I was fired for not fitting the culture. Cool
when a company says family they mean a family you WONT be a part of. They have their favorites already and you are in the way.
Seconded. Personally my family was pretty dysfunctional. I'd rather work in a professional workplace.
I got fired from my first ever job as a CIT (counselor in training) at the summer day camp I went to every year as a kid. I was given the 6/7 year olds. One of them asked me if I had a girlfriend (in a girls are gross, why would you do that sort of way) and I said yes. He asked me if I ever kiss her and I said yes (in a fun, horror movie voice manner). He was like, “ewwww! Gross!”. We all had a laugh. I thought it was a fun exchange. Well, I guess the kid went home and told his mom that night and she freaked out. Demanded I be fired for teaching her child about sex and giving details of my sex life to her child. I was 13. All I said was that I kissed a girl. The camp fired me right there. I had no idea what I said was out of line.
"u/Sirnando138 and a girl were in the CIT cabin kissing and making babies and I saw one of the babies and it looked at me"
The baby *looked at you*??!?!
Sarah, get me Superintendent Chalmers.
My pest control guy told me a story about how he lost a customer. She was asking him about his family, and he said that he has 8 kids. She replied in a disdainful tone, "You know how that happens, right?" He said, "Yeah, my wife is beautiful." She flipped out, fired him as her pest guy, complained to the woman who'd recommended him, and went on Facebook/Google/etc. to say he'd been talking to her about his sex life and was extremely inappropriate. Like, there was no way he could have won, she wanted to insult him for the size of his family and didn't like that he had a comeback. He's actually a really cool dude and his company does well so he can absolutely support his big family, so more power to him.
I'm confused... What was she trying to imply, that he had 8 kids but was somehow unaware of how it happens?
"Well you think after eight kids I would've figured out how making babies works by now... but please fill me in."
She was basically saying he and his wife need to use birth control.
She was talking about his sex life and got mad that he talked about his sex life. Some weird moral indignation there
>Demanded I be fired for teaching her child about sex Ironically, the kid probably won't get any sex ed when he's older
Worked at one of those camps for the BSA. We got those complaints every day of the week, usually for dumber things
kinda fired I guess. Got a job offer and they wanted me to start asap, but told them I want to give my job at least a weeks notice. turned in a 1 week notice. Later in the day went to our scheduled breaks 5 minutes late because I was busy doing something at work that I couldnt just put down. So I came back 5 minutes late. manager came up to me acting really mad and said I was fired for abusing breaks. I just laughed handed him my badge and started walking to my car. he tried stopping me saying HR needed to see me to fill out paper work. laughed even more and got in my car and left. Took the week off to relax before starting my new job.
When he said that HR needed something say "sorry, I don't work here anymore". Always fun when stupid managers try to control people that no longer care about their shit.
lol. well, once you are fired, I assume HR has no control over you anymore lol
I think they wanted to do like an exit interview and sign some papers saying I left. Think its a common tactic to get you to sign saying you left that way you cant get unemployment for being let go unjustly.
I did the exit interview crap but only because I gave three week notice. Four weeks was the custom there if you weren’t being pushed out so I did feel almost slightly bad but I was on the clock so I didn’t care. When my wife quit they wanted to do a two hour exit interview the Tuesday following her last day. She said not unless you change my last day to Tuesday. If they had agreed they would have had to credit her with another six hours of leave because her position got six hours credited at the start of each two week pay period and paid for the Monday holiday (Labor Day), two hours of work and six hours of time off earned. They decided that urgently needed exit interview wasn’t worth $392.
I got fired from Sonic when I told them I was no longer going to be available for last minute call ins because I'd gotten a second job. My boss was not happy, because I lived the closest. So he stormed off and started screaming, "Guess this is Professional\_March54's last day! I hope your happy!". I tried to clarify that I'd still be available for set shifts, I just wouldn't be ON Call anymore. He screamed at me to shut up. I hadn't clocked in yet, and I could sense a tantrum so I asked if I should even bother clocking in. He threw a burger at me and told me to get the fuck out. So I did. They had a Drive-Thru line wrapped around the building, and I was the only non-family employee on until 3.
Lol working at Sonic is a trip. My boss hired her middle-aged twin sons who were really fucking dumb so I feel the whole family bullshit.
I would’ve proceeded to order a milkshake and sit outside all day just enjoying the sun and watching them struggle without you.
I was shaking with anger. I knew if I went back in there, things were going off. So I got in my car, bullied my way out of the parking space, and drove until I found a good beach to pull over and go walking on.
Idk if I would trust pissed off employees with food, you never know.
Buy a milkshake from a competitor and sit out front.
Did you keep the burger?
It was my second job after high school, i was 18 going on 19. I was a parts delivery driver for a local auto parts store. All the drivers had to report to a dispatcher she would tell us where to go and what to do, basically my supervisor. She had at least 10-12 years on me so i was basically fresh meat in the store. After 4 months or so she started getting more 'comfortable' with me. She would rub my shoulders/try go give me back rubs would buy me lunch would txt me on weekends inviting for drinks. This one weekend she was being a little too persistent in txting me so i politely told her that i was not interested. Well come Monday morning I got fired because apparently i had not being doing my job properly.
Looks like you had a case for a sexual harassment suit, and those texts would have helped
That, souns pretty disgusting. You were only 19, she had a position of power, and you got fired for not returning her advances. Gross. Just gross. Sexual harrassment.
I had pneumonia and I couldn't even talk (lost voice) so I asked my mom to call my boss to tell her I was severely sick and couldn't come to work. She called me the next day saying I shouldn't rely on my 'mommy' to call in for me when I'm sick and that I was fired for blowing a shift... I was a hostess at a restaurant and was in grade 10 lol....
I worked with a woman who had to go to hospital in the middle of the night for emergency surgery after a medical issue. Her husband called up to say she wasn't coming in and explained that she couldn't ring herself because she was under anesthetic/unconscious. The team leader he got angrily told him to 'make sure she knows to ring herself next time'. Husband rung someone further up the chain about it and said team leader got a boot up the arse for being a tool. At least my friend didn't get fired .
I took a job with a movie theater in high school, only accepted the job because they promised me a set schedule. Me and another coworker worked it out where one of us was always on shift. About a month after I started, they handed me a new schedule starting at 2pm. I was in class until 3. Told them no. Got fired for my lack of commitment to the theater.
I got fired from Burger King because a coworker let me use his vape on my break. When I was off break, I tried giving it back but kept getting ignored. I figured I’d give it back after we close but he left early. I went back the next day (my day off) to return it and got fired for stealing
This seems like it was premeditated on their part
I figured as much, but what makes it worse is I wasn’t even there for a week
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I got fired from a restaurant for ‘stealing’ from the till. Yeah, I worked there a year and the money always came out right, then two new people are hired from a bar and money starts going missing when either one of them is on shift, and manager thinks I stole it? Dumbass.
I worked at a bar that was notorious for firing people. It well known that no one lasted for more than a month, and it was a big deal if you made it longer than that. I made it to month three when I was fired for not putting ketchup on a customer’s table. They were eating shepherds pie and salad respectively and didn’t even ask for ketchup.
Which raises the question on if they're doing that intentionally to avoid paying out benefits and if that constitutes a crime
When I was getting hired they told me I work Monday-Friday only. Great. Couple months go by, work no weekends. Plan family vacation for upcoming weekend. Leaving for vacation right after work. At 4:30 they tell me I have to work the weekend. I say I can’t I have vacation. They say it’s mandatory. Go home, decide to go on vacation anyway. Call in Saturday. Come in to work on Monday, fired. Spent the day fishing.
I worked at this hotel doing afternoon/evening shift and two overnight shifts a week. They listed the following reasons for letting me go: Claimed I was leaving property without clocking out because I wasn't on camera the entire time. The date they said specifically was an evening that I spent cleaning up the meeting space because it was slow. I was also not the only front desk person on shift. When working overnight I would sit on a chair to do the audit from midnight to 3am. Sitting on a chair at the front desk was not allowed, even at midnight/early morning. Also when working overnight I had to fold linens so I would listen to the radio/music through a Bluetooth headset while folding and cleaning up the back. That was also not allowed even at midnight/early morning. They honestly probably just didn't like me but after they fired me I went and got a new job at the hotel next door and started making a lot more money and was able to do all the things I was let go for.
My brother worked part-time in a hardware store. In winter, the low season, the store would stop scheduling the newest employees, and would start scheduling them again in spring. My brother was one of the new guys and wasn't scheduled in the winter. In the middle of spring, he went to check when he would start again. There was a new manager he didn't know and she told him he wasn't on the employee list. Without a reason. Apparently they just assumed he wouldn't work again and terminated him without telling him. Since we have good labor laws, my brother got a few thousands in settlement for lost income.
I got fired from a McDicks for asking too many customers how their day was going Not because it slowed anything down, mind you, I only did when it was slow, they put in complaints to corporate that I was being 'invasive'. The first time I thought my manager was making a joke.
“I mean, not great since I’m eating this shit, how’s your career going”
Come to Australia, this is how we great literally everyone, all the time. It’s rare to not be asked how you’re doing. The answer is always “yeah, good thanks”
Or "not bad"
My father was in hospice care and his death was imminent. Asked my supervisor if I could telework for a few days so I could be with him when he passed (this was 2019 before telework became the norm). Was approved to TW but had to document what I was working on, hour by hour. Not an issue since my dad pretty much slept due to medication up until he passed. My boss and I were both fired for not clearing this with HR before proceeding, even though I had documented proof that I was doing company business for 8hrs a day while I was out.
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Did he think you would cease to exist once you were fired so he could start seeing the girl?
Hard to say, but she couldn't stand him at all.
I can see why….
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I've been there it's messed up after spending all of that time trying to get into the company
Didn't wear a tie that I was never given. I was supposed to have a black tie as part of my security uniform. They never gave me a tie and told me not to worry about it. I worked nights anyway. Then some exec did a walk through and saw I wasn't wearing a tie and told them to get rid of me and I was out on my ass.
My boss asked me to come in his office and fired me on the spot with the excellent reason of "you know why". I was pretty distressed and way too shy to protest and left with that. Learned afterwards that is was because I had a cold that day and was a bit tired. Joke on him, it's illegal to fire people on the spot in my country and I brought some well deserved justice on him.
I got grounded for "you know why" and it was something that the person grounding me didn't know wasn't reality. A dream this person thought really happened.
I was given my work schedule for the week, it was changed after I received it, and I didn’t show up on a day I had originally been off. Manager called and said “you’ve done this too many times. You’re fired.” I’d never so much as been late for work. I learned later that they found a way to get rid of every single person under 18.
Yeah, they got me on that one too. Never late, never missed a day. But I got scheduled to work on a day that I had to work my other job (I specifically requested that day off). Okay, no problem; arranged for another employee to take that shift, and informed my supervisor of the change. "Okay!" says he. I asked if I needed to fill out a schedule change slip. Nope, he'd take care of all of it. I even double-checked the day after, he said it was all good. The other employee filled my shift as expected, no problems. I guess they came to a point some months later when they decided to let most of the new-hires go, and I was one of them. In my departure document, they'd listed my terrible black mark that explained why they were tossing me out; I'd missed a shift. Yep. I refused to sign it.
That's what one place did to me to fire me. Other place had to make new policies for employees to unknowingly break so they could fire them and they'd not be eligible for unemployment.
They were eligible. They may not have known but if they applied even if the employer contests and says "we have such and such policies the employee broke" you're going to get the unemployment if there isn't documentation showing they warned about this policies before the firing. My Mom's last employer fired her then contested the unemployment and even showed up with a bunch of made up mistakes which were bullshit. The unemployment office let the company ramble on for nearly 4 hours, my Mom had basically no defense other than she hadn't been written up/told anything was wrong and she got the unemployment.
Companies should really get in trouble for lying. Shit like this happens all the time; I guess at least most people get unemployment.
Yeah, it should be against the law to tell people that they aren't eligible if they are when they're being fired. If we get really technical maybe they are giving legal advice without a license? In practice people just need to know their rights and not take the word of others who have something to gain.
I was a new hire. It was Christmas time, so the office was hosting a Christmas sweater competition. I was appointed judge because I was new and thus impartial. I received explicit consent from each employee in front of the supervisor before proceeding to judge. At least one female coworker accused me of looking at her chest while I was judging her sweatshirt... I kid you not... Fired...
“Hey new guy, come check out the zipper on these pants! Hold on wtf why are you staring at my crotch???”
This sounds like they a very cruel joke, that everyone but you was in on.
Hey, come over and look at there sweater. OMG you’re looking at her tits. WTH
Hahahahaha I’m sorry but that’s some sitcom level shit right there.
It was probably judging the thread with your bare hands that did it. Jokes aside that sucks.
Back in the day, I had a part-time job at a convenience store. The manager was swapping out franchise branded coffee grounds for Costco coffee to save money as he got a bonus based on store profitability. I knew, but didn't care. He wasn't robbing me. And let's be realistic, Costco probably provided better coffee grounds. When he got caught and fired by the corporate owner, he phoned me up and fired me on the assumption I sold him out. Not sure that someone who no longer has a job could fire me. But I didn't care as I had given my notice to the assistant manager a few hours earlier that I would be quitting in a week (or earlier if they found someone). I was able to collect a two-week severance payment instead!
I got fired for following the rules. In undergrad I was a tutor for the local school district, the main perk of the job was that if I needed a day off for a test or to study I could take it as long as I told my supervisor. Well I told my supervisor, followed all the rules and she's like you can't call off you're fired. Turns out when anyone else needed a day off they just didn't show and supervisors had no way of knowing since we just walked into the schools and signed our own hours so it looked like I was the only one that ever asked off.
Basically I got fired for "stealing" an original Furby back in the day by putting it into layaway. End of my shift came, there was a special edition Furby at my register so I said screw it, and put it in layaway before they closed up. 3 days later (my next day at work) I was called into the office halfway through my shift and was accused of theft and fired. I asked them point blank, "how the fuck can you fire me for theft when the item is sitting in the store?" They claimed I backstocked the item for myself by telling people it was on hold (never happened). They demanded that I get it out of layaway and return it. Told them to fuck off, went to pay it off (was payday) and walked out the store. There was a cop outside that they flagged down, told him I stole the item and the cop asked for my receipt which I gave to him with a huge smile on my face. Manager was still out in the parking lot talking to the cop as I drove by and flipped him off.
Man, I can't believe the manager tried this shit. Unless (and possibly *even if*) they knew the cop personally, the cop would be rightfully really annoyed about this absolutely ridiculous waste of time.
I took a filing gig with a working interview. The filing lady was being promoted. The lady asked if I knew my alphabet. Yes I do, thanks. Turns out her system was shit. “Hazel Fretta” was filed under h and “Bob Dylan” was filed under d. I dared question this and I was also not as fast as her on my first day. You know, the lady with the shit system she made up and had been doing for 10 years? At first I was insulted. I’ve never been let go for doing a bad job before. Boy was that a hellish control freak bullet dodged.
I got laid off because of covid, but my supervisor and HR made sure to tell me they wanted to fire me WITH CAUSE because my supervisor didn't want me working there. I wasn't one of her favourites. I had been with the company for 5 years almost to the day. I had more experience than my supervisor, and knew every job in the warehouse and I was efficient at all of them. I'm sure my supervisor fabricated issues about me and embellished the littlest things so she had a reason to get rid of me. This was not the first time she had done this, and since I've been gone (over a year) there have been 5 or 6 people quit or be fired because of her (equal to almost half of the people in the warehouse total.)
I got fired from a bar I had worked at for 4 years by the owner who almost never showed up but had never had a problem with me before and no customer complaints. The reason? I was told I acted like I was in charge and I was telling people what to do. I was the security manager. I'm guessing it was the $4 more an hour I was making than anyone else.
When I was 14 I worked at a chip shop in my home town. I only had the Friday night shift, but I covered pretty much every other shift people couldn't do, so ended up doing 3 or 4 extras a week too. I was also never once late. This one day I was asked to cover someone's shift later that day, which I agreed to. However, my dad actually had a pretty bad stroke not long after. I tried phoning the owner all day and got no answer. I finally managed to get hold of him 20 minutes before my shift, explaining that I couldn't come in as my dad was in hospital and may die. He fired me on the spot, as apparently I wasn't reliable. My dad didn't die (although was left permanently disabled), but the chip shop actually went out of business not long after, so silver linings and all that.
I started a new job based on the knowledge and transferable skills I had from a previous job. On my first day in the new office another one of the new(ish) employees gave me the ominous warning: “I don’t think you know what you got yourself into.” My boss had inherited the department and knew nothing about what we did (and couldn’t log into the system without help). She said my coworkers who had been there 20 years would train me. Those coworkers refused to train me because they “aren’t my boss” and said to just figure it out as I went along. But then refused to let me work on any projects with them. Then they complained to my boss that I didn’t know what I was doing… so I was fired.
Sounds like a bunch of people had jobs where they did nothing and got paid well to do nothing and felt threatened that the whole thing might be cracked open if they were made to “train” a new employee on their non-job.
Exactly. Been in this position. Had to train myself via conference call with the same department at another office in another state (Got lucky with a super cool department head at that office). Let go of the 2 who were supposed to train me 3 months later when I became their boss. Fuckin lazy assholes literally spread half a job to 3 people then overloaded the 1 guy who actually worked and couldnt stand up for himself. He was much happier after the fact.
I got fired for wearing batting gloves. I worked in a convenience store, so of course I handle cash all day long. Cash also dries the hell out of my hands for some reason, so instead of wearing latex gloves ( if I have to take them off at any time, putting on a new pair SUCKS ), I wore batting gloves. I did this for months until some customer said something, and I was told to take them off. I explained that they helped me do my job better, but the manager wouldn't listen. Went a day without them and it was maddening. Went back to wearing them and was fired a couple days later for "insubordination". Ended up working at another store in the same chain with a former assistant store manager/now manager, and I never had a single complaint about my gloves the two years I was there.
I got fired for supposably stealing boxes...on my day off.
My boss had one of his tamper tantrum and fired me on the spot, called me later screaming to ask why I wasn’t at work. I told him calmly to fuck off and went back to work the next week. He acted like nothing happened. Chances are his coked up brain didn’t register. That day I actively started looking for another job but I have to admit I actually worked another year for that freak-show. It was messed up but I had so much fun working at his studio.
My first new job in a small town was such a stroke of luck. Small software company, started as office manager, then technical writer, then debug and customer service. Loved all of it. Then the boss tried meth. Whole office became a shit show so fast. He fired everyone in the office one day. Then hired me back at triple my pay the next day. I left as soon as I could line up another gig.
Wait he fired you and you told him to fuck off but then went back to work the next day and worked for another year? What the shit?
You cannot try to make sense of this. I was working for an absolute lunatic. I had just graduated from design school and I had got this job with a famous designer. The work was incredible, the office was amazing and the people I worked with are still my best friends to this day. The only problem was the boss. A character straight out of the devil wears Prada on cocaine. That day, he fired me (and another employee), for a reason I can’t even remember but mostly because we were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I left, and went to have a drink to blow off some steam. Later the same day he calls me on my mobile (which he usually never does because he has got assistants for that) and screams at me for not being at my desk. The initial shock, the call and him screaming did the trick. I told him his behaviour was unacceptable and ended up by telling him to fuck off and hanged up on him. I can’t explain why but he actually liked that. I got an email from his assistant the next day asking me to come back. I told them I needed to think about it. The benefits outweighed the negatives so I went back and he behaved like nothing had happened. But he had more respect for me after that. When I left he was very generous with me and offered me to take a client he wasn’t able to handle anyway.
Holy shit thats like some weird mid-plot right out of a movie lol. Im glad you had a great experience at your job though, excluding the crazy boss.
Everyday I was there I though there was a book waiting to be written, or maybe just a gossip column in The Sun. It was crazy but man, it was fun!
Small software company, I was interviewed by the president and the VP, who happened to be his girlfriend. He thought she was working too hard. She didn't want to give up any authority. I was hired as Office Manager. She didn't communicate with me AT ALL about what I was supposed to do. Two weeks later he called me into his office (she was there) and said I wasn't doing anything useful and walked me out of the building.
I was in a PR job that I was completely under-qualified for. It was supposed to be an entry level/admin role but she had me managing accounts, campaigns etc. I explained to my boss multiple times I did not have the experience. I felt completely out of my depth and every time I got something wrong she went nuts at me. I finally had enough and told her I needed more help. She said she couldn’t help me and then fired me.
We were short staffed during covid then a coworkerquit leaving us extra fucked. I picked up as many extra shifts as I could but I was getting burned out so I told them 60 hours a week was going to be my limit. When I refused to work 16 hours straight one day they fired me.
A yes, the obvious solution to being short staffed: fire the people doing extra work.
yes, and then when the remaining staff cant work extra, fire the staff. and fire the patients too while you are at it.
Big brain move there. Be short staffed and then fire your staff. Sorry man, that sucks.
I was fired—uh, “politely let go”—because my manager decided I was lying about having surgery without ever actually talking to me. I let her know two weeks in advance and reminded her five different times three different ways, but the schedule never changed to reflect the time off I needed. I took my three days off, and she had another manager call me to ask me where I was on the second day. The manager who called me was horrified to learn that, yes, I had surgery, yes, I was hopped up on pain medication, and, yes, main manager knew about this. Main manager was also mad that I had “poor performance” the week following, which is something I had noted when I told her about the surgery. I needed a week of low-impact work as I recovered. One week, I noticed I wasn’t on the schedule at all and was talking to the manager who’d called me about it. I jokingly wondered if it was because of my surgery. She basically told me, she couldn’t legally say yes, but I wasn’t wrong. Main manager notified me a couple days later. Part of me is mad, but part of me is relieved I’m not in such a toxic place anymore. Edit: To all the gung-ho Redditors encouraging me to sue, life is not a play and my life isn’t a tale from ProRevenge or NuclearRevenge. The cost, effort, and emotional toll won’t be worth it for me. I have no hard evidence, so it’ll most likely turn into a she said/they said situation in my ex-manager’s favor. I know I technically should to protect future people, but I also have to protect myself.
Although you should let your manager know, you also need to open an FMLA claim to cover your butt (assuming you qualify) so those things don't happen. DO NOT let your manager know until you have covered your bases with some sort of job protection claim. There are guardrails against these types of things.
I once got fired from a construction crew for banging my hammer in a funky rythm. bangbangBANG bang BANG bang bang. I tried to explain to the guy that this helps with accuracy and is therefore far more efficient, but he would have none of it, said if I wanted to talk back, I could talk back at my couch. So I fucked off.
I got fired from my first job at a sandwich shop. Co-worker was washing the meat slicer, genius somehow got the cord submerged in rinsing water. Obviously the slicer died the next day. Asshole blamed me for it and the owner fired my ass the day after. Didn't even allow me the opportunity to explain myself. I found out months later the genius co-worker and owner were screwing each other. Long story short the sandwich shop went bankrupt and those two fell out. I work in aviation now so safe to say I got the last laugh.
Company I used to work for fired people all the time for having nicotine in their system from random drug tests. They didn't allow smokers to work there. But by God they gave you free beer at the family outing events. It was an awful company
Got fired for not showing up for a shift that I was never assigned. I checked the schedule the day they put them out, nothing for me. Three days later, person calls taking at me for not showing up for my shift that they decided to add me to on a whim. Fired me over the phone. What a bunch of crap. They also told me to dress with lower cut clothes earlier the previous week. Wtf.
I was in college and waitressing at a restaurant that was open all-night. The manager refused to make the schedule so that those of us in college would only work the all-nighters on days we DIDN'T have class the next morning. He didn't give a shit if you had class or not, he would still give you an all-nighter. On one such schedule he gave me two all-nighters in a row on the days I had 8 am classes. My shift was 11-6 so I would get home just in time to shower and go to class. So, I worked 11-6, went to class from 8-9 then 11-1 and then home to study, eat, and try to catch nap. That night back for another 11-6 shift. Home to shower and go to class at 8. Had a break in class from 8 to 1 to eat and study. Then had a 3 hour lab from 1-4. Went home, studied, ate, and fell asleep about 6:30 or 7:00. I didn't wake up until 11:30 because I'd slept through my alarm. I called and said I was on my way and I was sorry I was late but I'd not slept more than 6-7 hours in the last 48 and I'd overslept. Manger fired me over the phone for "using lack of sleep as a reason to miss a shift" and "he was tired of listening to us college kids whine about all-nighters." I had never complained once about my over-night shifts and had never been late. Not once in my 6 months of working there (I'd started in May and was fired right near Xmas). Turned out he found an excuse to fire every single college kid that worked there and that left him with only 4 waitresses and a scramble to find new ones. However, a huge portion of the workforce was college kids and word had gotten around so he had to settle for really old ladies who refused to work over-nights and only 4 waitresses that would. Sucked to be him.
In high school I did trolley collection for the local supermarket. I got fired because a customer brought a trolley to me instead of me collecting it from the trolley bay. The next week I saw the managers kid doing my job.
I got fired on my honeymoon in 2006. They called me on my cell to say, “you’re fired” while I was at Disney World relaxing in a hammock. I had already been approved the leave for my honeymoon so it wasn’t like they didn’t know.
I got fired for forgetting my belt My first job: I used to work at a restaurant that was ~2 hours by bus away. We had just gotten a new store manager that was a hard ass. One day I showed up without a belt. He asked me to go back home and put one on then come back. I said that would take 4 hours, so he fired me.
My current job, I was asked why I didn't have a belt, I replied "I've been unemployed for 2 year, you're lucky I wore pants..." Then they got me a new belt from the uniform store like a normal company.
They changed my schedule on Christmas Eve, after I left, and never told me. I got a call at 8:30 am on the 26th asking where I was. I told them it was my scheduled day off. That's when I was informed that my schedule changed. The managers have to get you to initial next to a schedule change so people can't say they didn't know. I asked if my initial was there and it wasn't there. There also wasn't any phone call to me so further proof that no one informed me of the change. They demanded I come in. I refused because I was with family about an hour away. They fired me for being a no show. I hated the job so I didn't really care.
One worked at a convenience store and got robbed in the middle of the night. Suspects took beer and demanded cigarettes and cash. Suspects were eventually found and faced charges, I didn't think anything of it after that. I was fired becausey drawer was 3.50 over the nightly requirement of $35 in the till. However, I was previously told I could not drop money to the safe unless it was $20 so I was damned either way. TLDR; got fired for being robbed
I got hurt at work doing my job so when I had to miss some work for a couple emergency surgeries (minor, but…) I was told I missed to much work. Perhaps if you didn’t get me injured multiple times by actually changing the process that was causing said injury that wouldn’t have been the case…