AskReddit Thread: New Hires That Absolutely Tanked

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mattstaff
Apr 26, 2021 9:00 AM EDT

Sometimes, you have a new employee join your team and you can just intuitively gather that things probably aren't going to work out for them. It could be a matter of them not fitting in with the company culture, or perhaps something more comically senseless like them endlessly chattering away on the phone with their girlfriend for the entire shift that they were supposed to be working. 

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    Font - WeddingElly · 2d At some point in her adult life, she legally added "- bear" to her otherwise normal first name. So like "Sarah" became "Sarahbear." She was hired as a receptionist and she took offense to everyone who made any sort of comment about her name. Which is fine in the office and among coworkers, none of us said anything, but as the receptionist she took calls all day and insisted on answering with her name, like "[Business], Sarahbear speaking, how may direct your call?" Of cou
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    Font - profan1028 · 2d I worked at a liquor store a few years ago. This one guy was put on the closing shift with me on his second day of work. He talked on the phone to his girlfriend almost the entire shift, leaving me to do most everything. The manager was reviewing security footage for a different reason the next day and saw everything. He was fired. G Reply 4 92 3 ...
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    Font - ODB2 · 2d At the time I was a district/general manager for my company So I meet with our supplier to handle the trucks at each store every week. The store manager had just hired this kid.... it was his first day, an hour or so in. He must have thought I worked for the company the truck driver did because the first thing he said to me was "hey man, what company do you work for because im not trying to keep this job very long" ..he didnt keep the job very long, but it wasnt his choice. G Re
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    Font - Vexillol0gy · 2d I walked in for my closing shift and the kid comes up to me in tears saying he's tired and he can't work anymore. He was begging me to cut him. (We were both busboys at a pizzeria, and he had worked his first- ever double shift) G Reply + ...
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    Font - d3k3d · 2d When they took a 3 hour lunch on day 1 G Reply 4 75 3 ...
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    Font - anniekinskywalke · 2d Not an employer but used to be an assistant manager at a restaurant with pretty high turnover. We had one girl who was hired as a hostess and literally spent most of her first shift in the bathroom on her phone. Another girl asked me where she can get drugs after two weeks of working there. The funniest one was a girl who didn't know who my boss's wife was (she manages occasionally) and told her "you can't order me around" before she had a chance to properly introduc
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    Font - acornwbusinesssocks · 2d We had a first level manager that was supposed to start by flying to our location for week 1 for training. He didn't call us when his plane landed. I called him up and he was groggy and disoriented. Hey Bill, are you at the airport that we can come pick you up??" Bill replied to me that his flight was tomorrow and he'll be there on Monday. He was very confused as to why I was calling him on Sunday!? I explained that today was Monday and he had missed his flight. H
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    Font - nsmith0723 · 2d I had I guy come in for an open interview. It was a delivery position. He didnt have a license... || G Reply 4 46 3 ...
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    Font - Archz714 · 2d Worked at Starbucks I'm the early 2000s, we had just started selling bagels and we had to use a vertical bagel cuter to cut the bagels longwise. Told the newbie to cut the bagels in half Yup, she cut them in half but like she was cuting a sandwich G Reply 4 31 3 ...
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    Handwriting - MauiMoon_ • 2d Crashed our company vehicle trying to get it out of its parking spot. I sent him home so fast, so he couldn't even apologize. G Reply
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