'Fired on first day': Hotel employee fired for revealing higher hourly wage to coworker, HR makes up excuse

Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor

Jul 20, 2023 2:00 PM EDT

Your first day on the job can't get much worse than this. There's always that moment on your first day when you get a greater glimpse into what the workplace dynamics will look like, whether that's tension between certain managers and employees, competition between coworkers, or other factors. It's usually a brief moment when the reality of what you signed up for becomes clear. Hopefully, you don't catch any major red flags, but sometimes you do. And in this case, we have an employee whose slip-up caused all the red flags to reveal themselves.

This Redditor may have made a regrettable decision by revealing their hourly wage to a coworker on Day 1, but the truth of the matter is that this information would have come out eventually no matter what. Perhaps if they were closer coworkers at that point, they could have strategized together as to how to get said coworker the same pay without sacrificing OP's job security. However, the fact that management quickly made up a ridiculous excuse to fire OP so swiftly says everything we need to know about this toxic work environment. We're sure it was a hard day to have to experience, but ultimately, OP dodged a serious bullet and should be grateful that this kind of conflict manifested itself so early on the job rather than down the road when it may have been much harder to leave.

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