Fastest Times People's New Co-Workers Were Fired

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Oct 16, 2020 9:00 AM EDT

Someone on AskReddit got a thread going about the fastest times that people's new co-workers were fired from their jobs. If anything, it's just surprising that these people were able to get their jobs in the first place. You never know what kinds of red flags people might be hiding before you hire them on. Yikes. Makes us think of the recent story about a nightmare Karen employee who got fired, and used the same employer as a reference.

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  • 01
    Text - FBI_Monitoring_Van • 7y When I was a teenager, I had a job at a country club washing dishes. Wasn't the most fun or best paying but everyone in the kitchen were friends so it made the job easy. The manager hired this new kid (read: pissant) to help us out, so we were asked to show him how to do things. This was right before lunch was over, so within a few minutes all the dishes and plates come back. This kid took a nice long look at the big mountain of dirty dishes and goes "No! No way I'
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    Text - dreamer7 • 7y When I interviewed for a bussing position at Red Lobster, I ended up having to attend an orientation for the new people (Myself and two new servers). One of the girls was late to the orientation, and the manager headed her off at the front door saying she no longer had a position here. Didn't even get in the building. 183
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    Text - alejo699 · 7y I'm a video game test lead, and I once had a guy who came in on his first day, sit down for less than an hour, then shout, "I can't play video games for eight hours!" and storm out. 673 ...
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    Text - meltedlaundry • 7y I worked at an Italian Restaurant one summer as a bus boy (dishwasher). About a month in, they hire another bus boy (I think there were 4 or 5 of us) and tell me to train him, which I did. The next week I notice his name is crossed off the schedule so I ask one of my managers what happened. He said they discovered that instead of washing the utensils, which he knew he was supposed to do, he was throwing them away. Insta- fired. 103 ...
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    Text - Chaserboy • 7y I worked at a Quiznos and we had to vacuum the two small rugs in the store. This job takes 5 min tops. We had a new guy working there who i went to school with and he had to have everything explained to him at least 3 times. When we ask him to vacuum the rugs, we figured that he could handle it. Well after having to show him how to operate a vacuum cleaner turning a 2 min job into a 10 min job, we informed the owner/ manager that he wasn't working out. Fired in one day afte
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    Text - OreWins • 7y It was first night dealing the World Series of Poker after a quick discussion of how to do things the Dealer Coordinator was calling out the assignments. "Thomas (guy raises hand) table 71." "Smith (guy raises hand) Table 94." "Brown (no reaction.) Brown (again nothing.) Going once...Going twice...Fired." 1 21 ...
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    Text - RhinestoneMuffintop • 7y We just hired a girl who called an hour before her first shift and said "Omg I'm so hungover and I still don't want to get out of bed. I'm not going to make it in today, so do whatever it is you have to do." I had to work 14 hours that day and cursed her name each of those hours. 634 ...
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    Text - blonde_oid • 7y I used to work in a bookstore. We had a girl who on her second weekend quit because she 'didn't realise she'd get asked so many questions about books.' Oh dear. 97 ...
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    Text - stbilyumchill • 7y I had a General Manager at an Apple Store ask one of the new members to come with him and a short while later the Manager returned alone. Guy was fired in less than an hour into our first day of orientation. He totally deserved it, he was drawing pictures on a post-it note pad while the manager was talking to us instead of listening. Also, when asked why we came to work for Apple, most of us had something good to say. He replied that his Mac was stolen a month ago and h
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    Text - gidikh • 7y Programming job, another team had hired this guy and he somehow got passed over to our team. His resume said he worked for Google and Microsoft among others. He was a Russian, living in Canada on a work visa to the US. My first conversation with him, was him telling me about owning 'Many domain name of very high quality'. I had to show him how to open Visual Studio... He lasted about 3 days, 2 of which were filled with orientation crap. 298 ...
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    Text - got2av8 • 7y We hired this woman for a top level executive position a few years ago. She had some lower-level experience in the same general area, but it was fairly obvious she was out of her depth from day one. Things probably would have been okay (even in her top position, there was really only so much damage she could do), but she got a call from a headhunter for an even bigger position, and boy did she let everyone know it. Long story short, she didn't end up with the newer, bigger sp
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    Text - RagingDangler • 7y During the first day of orientation for one of our new class of customer service agents, one chick raises her hand to ask a question. "How long do we have to work until we are eligible to collect unemployment?" The HR Generalist stood there for a minute, stunned, and then asked her with disgust "Why would you even ask that?" He then promptly escorted her out of the building. 269
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  • 13
    Text - shortergirl06 • 7y We had someone get fired because he wasn't a US Citizen, or here on a work visa. Completely non-legal, and was using a purchased SSN and ID. This was at a bank. 33
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    Text - [deleted] • 7y A couple months ago my boss hired a new cook to help in the kitchen at Whataburger. My boss was working with him and started yelling and screaming at him because he wasn't moving quickly enough on the grill. Dude had been working for maybe 20 minutes, manager was treating him like he had been doing it for years. After the manager screamed for the third or fourth time at the kid, he put down the spatula and said "fuck this." He was there for about 30 mins 225
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  • 15
    Text - nick4444 • 7y I'm a cashier at a store and have been there for 4 years now. A year or so back, we got a new manager (I was unable to fill due to availability) a few months before the Christmas season started. We needed more cashiers so the manager hired some... "older" people. Apparently this one lady that was hired had worked in a bank for 15-20 years and we figured, hey, she must be good at this. Turns out she has no idea how to use a computer and, being a cashier, a computer is all you
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    Text - [deleted] • 7y I work as a graphic designer. While attempting to use InDesign, a woman on her first day asked me how to create a text box. She was gone within minutes. 164
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  • 17
    Text - Shurikane • 7y At my previous job, a new guy got hired... only to get fired 5 days later because the president announced a massive downsize and laid off half the workforce in one go. I've got a feeling the new guy wasn't too thrilled about this. 76 ...
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