'Our cars were mysteriously keyed': 10+ Tales of job firings gone completely wrong

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
May 22, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

No one ever wants to have these types of conversations. Getting fired is one of the worst feelings out there, and not everyone handles rejection well. While most people doing the firing probably don't want to, they still have to deal with the crazy aftermath. As these people shared in their stories below, some folks just loose their entire mind when they're let go from their job. 

One particularly glorious tale is a brother and sister who were both working at the same restaurant when the brother was fired. Knowing their boss was several states away, the siblings decided to hand out free food and then close up shop. That's an extra petty way to deal with it! Other people did much, much crazier things than that… keep scrolling to check out these tales of bosses who had to fire people, and the insanity that resulted. 

Next up, check out these eye-opening secret confessions. 

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    Font - r/AskReddit. Posted by u/Pakelekia_08: 8 Bosses of Reddit, have you ever fired someone and had them totally freak out? Whats the best story you got?
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    Font - brought them outside and smashed them into pieces right in front of the window. In her defense, I found out later that she bought those stools a while ago for the office. Everyones reaction to this was the best part, just watching, looking confused but calm. Then, when it was all over, we all kinda just looked at each other, shrugged and then went back to work.
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    Font - LycorisSeig I used to be a manager at a KFC, and had to fire this girl for overuse of her cell phone. Got so bad, I would take it from her at the start of shift. She would talk on it in front of customers, text constantly, and never follow through with her duties. About 16 or 17. I started taking her phone at the start of shift, but I never really checked her phone, turns out she got another and gave me her old one with no service. Caught her
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    Font - texting under the register one day, told her to leave. She freaked out and shouted and screamed at me, said she needed the job, wanted another chance, etc. but I had already given her a bunch of chances. She ended up throwing stuff all the way out the door, dumped a whole tray of chicken on the floor, knocked over plate stacks, etc.
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    Font - Msmooov2 I have had the parents of fired employees call me to yell at me and/or try and get there child's job back, and these "kids" were over the age of 20. I have had this happen several times when firing an employee and I've even had parents come into the office to chew me out. They failed to realize that being a helicopter parent has resulted in their child work having a s ethic.
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    Font - Whaccoon Witnessed my boss firing someone and it was super awkward. I work at a coffee shop and this girl would literally sit on the counters and eat muffins, complaining she had cramps and couldn't work. She was so f king lazy, and super annoying too. However, my boss is a huge softie and felt bad for her because he knew she had a rough life, which is very sweet.
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    Font - One day, she came in two hours late and he pulled her into the back and explained to her that if this ever happened again he would have to fire her. So, she gets up and opens the door and laughs SUPER loudly in his face and screams out "Fire me?! FIRE ME?! Yeah, FING, RIGHT!! You don't have the f f ng bs to fire me. I ng dare you, you ng p My boss 11 got up, walked to the doorway where she was now standing and replied "...get the f out, you're fired". She honestly looked stunned, actually
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    Font - calmly and said "no no, you walk through the back door and get out of here or I call the cops" We never saw her again after that, thank God.
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    Font - jamjam1128 In high school I worked at a local Mcdonald's and there was this girl that always complained about working and was lazy. She was scheduled a 4 hour shift and half way through was demanding that she wanted a break, in Iowa you have to work 5 hours to get a break. The manager tells her no so she walks out, comes back 15 minutes later asking for her job back and the manager tell her no she's done. She probably would've gotten her job back if it wasn't the third time she pulled the
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    Font - willcsy Well I have never been fired but I have been let go from a job. They shut the site I was working down and some 1000 jobs in the area were lost. During the meeting where the announced the closure I was sitting next to a lady who was two years from retirement from a previous job. She was talking to herself crying and my manager stopped the meeting and told her to shut up and listen. I had been really annoyed with the company before hand but this just set it off. I found a new job an
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    Font - [deleted] I have a similar story to tell. I do security at an airport, and one of the posts we have to man controls access to the runway area. The person manning that post needs a special badge from the airport authority, and has to check and make sure that at least one person in every group heading onto the runway area has the same badge.
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    Font - However, this post only needed to be manned when a taxi gate was opened: when it was closed, there was no way to get to the runway, so no need for the guard in that spot. But since the gate could be opened at any time, we always had a guard on standby for that gate.
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    Font - In the same area, I was working as a patrol officer: roaming on foot between buildings just looking around for stuff like safety hazards or suspicious activity. One day I start my first patrol and notice that an airplane is being pulled out of one of the hangars behind the taxi gate. Obviously the gate is about to be opened so that the plane can taxi out to the runway and go fly, so I go notify the guard with the badge that the gate is about to open so she can be in position.
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    Font - Roughly 30 minutes later, I do my second patrol, and an hour later come back to the shack, and she's STILL there. Now things are getting to the point where I could be fired (and the other guard) if we're caught like this. So I excuse myself to the bathroom and call my superior, explaining the situation. Now, I hate to be a snitch, but I'll be d ed if I was going to lose my job over her bulls Long story short, it's worked out, and supposedly things return to normal. Until she does the same
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    Font - [deleted] I was the one fired, but this was a great time. My sister and I worked at a sandwich shop in an affluent suburb of Chicago, for a woman who's father had bought her the business. She had no idea how to run a food service, for example, she had me run to the grocery store down the street for produce every morning instead of getting it wholesale from a distributor. It was a BS job, but fun so Sis and I lived with it for the summer. Eventually the 4TH of July comes up, on a Saturday,
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    Font - were supposed to be paid on Friday). Come Saturday evening, about an hour until the local fireworks show starts, and the place is packed, we also sold ice cream. It's myself and Sis, with a 16 year old girl working the register, and I get a phone call from Boss Lady who wants to know how the night is going. "Busy, but the crew is pretty ped." I tell her, she asks why, and I explained that we were supposed to have been paid yesterday, and people needed that money, and that her skipping out
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    Font - Bad move. I share this info with Sis, who takes the phone from me and quickly tells Boss Lady that "Since you fired Brother, Sis quits!" and hands the phone to me. I then explain to Boss Lady that since the only employee she has now is 16 year old, we'll have to close the shop down, and hang up. She's about 3 states away, and in no way able to get here. I then climb on a chair and tell the crowd that I've just been fired and why, and that loyal Sis is quitting with me, and that I'm gonna
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    Font - we close up, toss the key into the mail slot, and go home. Two days later we go in together to get our final check, and Boss Lady tells us that she's going to make sure we "never work in this town again". We laugh, and cash the checks quick, which was a good idea, since she shut down about a month later. Tldr: boss skips town without paying us, fires me when I call her out, loyal Sis and I dish out free ice cream to store before leaving.
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    Font - or nutellasammich I had about 5-6 write ups on this girl at work. She consistently had a c attitude at work, would wander off to make long, painfully detailed personal phone calls, was confrontational and volatile. My documentation was impeccable and I wrote down, verbatim, every single one of our check- ins, verbal warnings, constructive criticism conversations, etc-- and I let her know this, every time. The day that we sat down with our director to tell her she either needed to move to
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    Font - times) incident reports, then asked if she recalled any of those incidents. She stood up, and started a slow clap. She looked me in the face and went, "oh, nutellasammich, brilliant. Well played! you got me! How proud of yourself are you? Amaaaazing. Fantaaaaastic. Good for you. Good for you. Are you happy with yourself? This is just great." I sat there and stared at her until she stopped. She sat back down, cleared her throat, and said, "I had no idea this is how you felt about me, nutel
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    Font - enough with her and just needed someone who "wouldn't hold my hand and would just man up and tell me what to do." Director looked at her dumbfounded and said, "Well, no one has ever called nutellasammich a handholder before, but if you insist..." She then placed her in a location with a high turnover rate and this biggest hardal in the agency. She quit soon after marrying one of their staff on a whim. FUN!
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    Font - Also had a woman burst into tears and tell me I was firing her from her entire life. I informed her that if her job was her life then maybe she should think about taking up some hobbies. (handholder? I think not.)
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    Font - lipsticklady When I worked in the corporate world, I had to fire a woman for poor hygiene as well basically what boiled down to her eating habits. Her co-workers were constantly coming to me to complain about her "feminine odor" as well as her daily consumption of milk shakes when the after effects clearly indicated that she was lactose intolerant. Mix those Frostys with the Wendy's chili she ate daily and the afternoons were extremely unpleasant in our small training room. Her diet had h
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    Font - She threatened to sue me for discrimination against fat people (I'm not skinny) amongst other things and then, on her way out, attempted to flush her training manuals, end result being an out of order bathroom for the rest of the day. No loss, she rendered it unusable most afternoons anyways.
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    Font - emmattack My family owns a flowershop. We had this woman who had been with us for a few years, but the quality of her work was sliding. She was nearly forty and had just married some 20- something Spanish guy who was dependent on her. She ended up getting pregnant (which we had no problem with). About 3 months later, she ended up forgetting to do flowers for someone's wedding (I cannot stress enough what a huge deal that is). She ended up being fired for it. A few months later we ended up
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    Font - pregnant." Her man-boy left because she was broke and she blamed my family for her divorce as he left when the money stopped. TL;dr: a florist forgot flowers for a wedding, got fired then won $10,000 in "damages."
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    Font - o I work at a pool as a lifeguard. At the time, I wasn't in any kind of boss position, but I had woked there for about 4 years with no promotion. One day my boss hires a new girl, we can call her J, and immediately promotes her to a senior guard (the boss position among non managers). I was upset I didn't get the position but I understood they needed someone who could work more often since I was in school. However J thought I hated her and would go out if her way to give me terrible jobs
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    Font - Well everything WOULD have been fine, except J was lazy as f. She didn't do ANY of the jobs her position held, she constantly was hours late, refused to work due to cramps and beer induced sickness, and worst of all, she would steal from the register. Being the most senior person there I had to pick up her slack, and after a few weeks my boss noticed. However she wouldn't fire J as she didn't want to upset her mom that also worked at the pool.
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    Font - One day in the winter J decided rather than work, she wanted to sleep in full view of patrons. Well one patron took offense and took video of J sleeping and sent it to my boss. This forced her to fire J. The next morning J comes in and my boss starts talking to her to give her the old "we don't need you anymore" talk. As soon as the word fired was said, J flipped s She started yelling and screaming, accusing me of wanting her fired and making sure it happened. After which she proceeded to
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    Font - After she broke everything that she could she started to throw things at me and my boss saying "we are why the world is wrong". We called the cops and had her escorted off premises. The next day J's mom didn't come to work. No call, no resignation, nothing. However my boss and I noticed that our cars were mysteriously keyed to over the next week h or so. Worst job experience ever. On the bright side I did get promoted.
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    Font - TL:DR Crazy co worker got fired and blamed me for it. Proceeded to throw things at me and break appliances until she was escorted out. Then her family keyed my car.
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    Font - yooki42 I worked at a DVD/Video Game/Electronics store where employees were allowed to rent stuff if they wanted. Well, I caught one of the new employees selling me games that she had rented from one of our other locations. I noticed because these were all high-dollar games (really stupid move). So I fire her, and she proceeds to go to the other location to try and get a job there.
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    Font - (She knew the manager there, but hadn't been working there since they didn't have enough space. He asked if I'd hire her, and at the time I didn't have a reason not to). She told the guy "She just didn't like working with me". What she didn't know is that of course I'd already told him that I'd fired her for selling me high-dollar stuff rented from his store. So now he's extra mad because he had vouched for her and now had to listen to her lie to him. When he tells her to hit the road, sh
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    Font - A week later she comes back to my store asking for her paycheck. I told her the value of her paycheck was less than the money she got back for the product she stole, so she wouldn't be getting one. Of course she calls her mother and puts me on the phone to explain to her why she wasn't getting paid. I couldn't believe it. I almost never play these kinds of head games with people, I just show them to the door or call security, but I couldn't help myself. I picked up the phone. There was a
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    Font - of her paycheck..." "SHE WHAT?" When her daughter heard me say this she started jumping for her phone. Apparently the conversation had traveled to a (somehow) unexpected area. Of course I kept going "Yeah, she was renting product form our other locations and selling it here...-" At that point the phone was yanked from my hands and the girl ran from my store, managing only to knock over my little lucky cat and shattering it. I was pretty sad, I kept a small lucky cat on all the counters of
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    Font - tl;dr: I fired a girl for selling product she rented from another store. She ransacked that other store, then had me explain to her mother why she was fired.
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    Font - LeonidLeonov I had to fire a lady because she drank too many energy drinks. She'd be absent from work 2-3 days a week by the end with migranes. We sent her to the doctor who determined that the migranes were the result of her huge caffiene intake from 7-10 cans of energy drink a day. We spoke with her about options, assistance, and gave her loads of chances, but after three months we ran out of patience and had to give her a final warning, but to no avail. She was still chugging the energ
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