'[He] lost a $100k+ job for stealing eggs': 25+ People who got fired for the craziest reasons

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Jun 5, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

People tend to get very close with their coworkers at each job they're at. After all, if you spend 8 plus hours each day with the same people, you spend a lot of time talking, collaborating, and getting to know each other. Even if it seems like you know everything there is to know about your work bestie's personal life, you may never see them outside of work! So it's hard to know what they're actually like, beyond the information they tell you. 

Some of these people below couldn't believe their coworker's surprising ways they got fired. The thread below, answering the question, "How did that one coworker get fired?" From a dude who lost his job over stealing Klondike bars from the office freezer to a woman who swiped tips while she bussed tables, the responses were surprising and super funny. 

Next,  check out these cars that are parked hilariously badly.

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  • 01
    Human body - r/AskReddit Posted by u/[deleted] How did that one coworker get fired?
    via u/deleted
  • 02
    Font - Yossarian147 We had an employee cafeteria at a Fortune 500 company. You'd get your food at a counter and bring it, in one of those white foam clamshell containers, to the register where you'd just tell the cashier what you got. This one fellow regularly ordered 3-egg scrambles and told the cashier he had just one egg. He got caught once and told never to do it again. He did it again, and lost a $100k+ job for stealing eggs.
    via u/Yossarian147
  • 03
    Font - _water_drinker I knew a guy at work who did quality control at my company- I work in financial bulls so QC is done entirely on a computer For a year and a half he faked all of his reports and he used company time to write a book Guy never finished the book unfortunately
    via u/_water_drinker
  • 04
    Font - pirateteaparty He was stealing Klondie Bars from the company freezer. One of the managers brought in a hidden camera to catch the thief. We all knew the camera was there so he crawled over to the freezer all ninja style to stay under the camera's field of vision. It would have worked, except, when he stood back up he tried to do it all fancy, and fell backward back into the camera's view.
    via u/pirateteaparty
  • 05
    Font - Outside-Tomorrow-775. He was an arsonist.... I work for a fire department.....
    via u/Outside-Tomorrow-775
  • 06
    Font - Dylsnick Dude would drive to the site, park his work van, then have his GF pick him up and take off for 8 hours, come back and pick up the van, thereby cleverly fooling the GPS tracker in the vehicle... But not the camera pointing directly at the spot where he parked, got picked up, and dropped off. Cost the company a substantial contract. And himself a job.
    via u/Dylsnick
  • 07
    Font - miss_demeanor She picked up a customer's baby without permission and walked off with her, the customer was beside herself thinking she'd been kidnapped. Co- worker didn't think she had done anything wrong because she's also a mother....
    via u/miss_demeanor
  • 08
    Font - GrownThenBrewed. He got drunk at the Christmas party, started hitting people's food and drinks out of their hands, kicked a wet floor sign at the CFO, fell and rolled down a flight of stairs on his way out, then ripped license plates of cars in the car parks and threw them like Frisbees as he left. Never saw him again.
    via u/GrownThenBrewed
  • 09
    Font - JuliusSeizure22 I had this one coworker I worked with for years in highschool. Thought she was great. I came back from college to work over break and found out she had stolen $2,000 counting drawers over the years.
    via u/JuliusSeizure22
  • 10
    Font - Forsaken-Character10. She stole cash tips off tables as a busser. When we got her on camera and confronted her, she said she never used the cash she stole, just put it in a savings account and let it sit there, as if that would clear her name.
    via u/Forsaken-Character10
  • 11
    Font - weedful_things The assistant manager at a restaurant I worked at would give change back but wouldn't ring up the ticket. At the end of the night, he would do them all at once and apply coupons. I don't know how long this went but they finally caught on. He didn't actually get fired, but quit when the jig was up. Last time I saw him he was a police officer.
    via u/weedful_things
  • 12
    Font - gogojack Our company was in the process of being sold. This guy who was like the assistant manager had been told by the original company that he would get the manager job when the other guy was promoted to regional manager (I'm simplifying it but that's the gist). Anyway, the manager was kind of a d and we didn't care for him, but this guy was a total e. If he'd been d promoted, it would have been a disaster.
    via u/gogojack
  • 13
    Font - When the time came for us to sign our contracts with the new employer, he went to each and every person in the department and asked us to refuse to sign unless the manager was fired and he was promoted. He tried to stage a coup. Nobody agreed with his plan, and one person reported him to the higher-ups. He took the next day off - because it was his birthday - and when he returned to the office HR was waiting for him. Then he sued for wrongful termination. He lost.
    via u/gogojack
  • 14
    Font - Emotional_Yam4959. Got fired for "updating his resume using company property". It was me. The job sucked a and I don't regret it.
    via u/Emotional_Yam4959
  • 15
    Font - hockeyphreak Company got hit with ransomware; his job was server backups; we found out afterwards that backups weren't being done.
    via u/h0ckeyphreak
  • 16
    Font - SoupOrMan Since this one just happened: Bro got a write-up last week and put on 90 day probation for constantly calling off/no show ( more than 20x this year). Didn't come in last night.
    via u/Soup0rMan
  • 17
    Font - squirrel-phone Worked in a semi-clean room, we had to wear full body smocks. No food or liquid is allowed in the work area. I was training a new guy and he kept eating M&Ms out of his smock pocket with tweezers. I asked him to stop. Repeatedly. He didn't. He didn't pass training and we let him go.
    via u/squirrel-phone
  • 18
    Font - Hrekires He was taking a nap at his desk because he wasn't feeling well during a slow Saturday shift when the CEO happened to walk through the pit before any of us could wake him up.
    via u/Hrekires
  • 19
    Font - biogon New associate straight out of law school got drunk on the annual summer river cruise, flirted heavily with the managing partner's husband, leaned in unexpectedly to plant a big ole kiss, fell overboard into the water, had to be fished out.
    via u/biogon
  • 20
    Font - Rgt6 Carried a bag for his own product line, complementary more than competitive to ours. In sales calls (that we sent him on) would make a pitch for both. Apparently had been doing this for over a year. Was caught when a customer called us for a quote on his product. Gone like s goose. through a
    via u/Rgt6
  • 21
    Font - vellkarmala Worked in demolition. Pranked my coworker with a fire extinguisher by luring him into a small room an spraying him. We were in full hazmat gear so he wasn't harmed. He thought it was so funny and ended up getting drunk that night and tried to pull the same prank on our co- worker in the hotel we were staying at. Then the fire alarm went off, and he tried to jump off the bed and kick the smoke detector off the ceiling. Dude got canned
    via u/vellkarmala
  • 22
    Font - marblez30 Bounty hunters came to get him while he was on shift. I don't know what for, but I guess it was something minor, because he was out again pretty quickly. He tried to come back to work for a little bit, but then stopped coming in without saying anything, so boss told us to consider him "let go". The last time I saw him, (a couple months later) he was getting arrested (again) one shopping center over
    via u/marblez30
  • 23
    Font - He would answer a call, put them on hold, fall asleep and when they hung up and the next person in the queue came through, the ring would wake him up.
    via r/AskReddit
  • 24
    Font - starfishy Had two jobs. Would click on on one, then go to the other and come back in the evening to clock out.
    via u/starfishy
  • 25
    Font - AlettaVadora I had a manager at Walmart who used to make snide remarks about my disability and gave me grief anytime I was trying to get an Acommodation. She got arrested for stealing about $40,000 in merchandise.
    via u/AlettaVadora
  • 26
    Font - ThickNeighborhood13. Expense fraud to the tune of $60,000
    via u/ThickNeighborhood13
  • 27
    Font - angrymurderhornet. Acted as lookout while another employee and some additional miscreants diverted shipments of computers from the workplace and into a waiting van. Lookout got fired. The other employee, who masterminded the theft ring, kept his job and eventually sued the organization for "slandering" him by accusing him of the stuff he actually did.
    via u/angrymurderhornet
  • 28
    Font - ArisenKog Doing a burnout in a customer car down the lane we park all the cars there for repair and lost control and hit another car.
    via u/ArisenKog
  • 29
    Font - oldbroadcaster2826. She called in sick during the weekend and the boss discovered she was at a rave the whole weekend because she posted the footage on social media. This is why you don't befriend bosses on social media
    via u/oldbroadcaster2826

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