'He fired her on the spot': Team of employees root for Karen coworker to be let go, luckily she ensures that fate all on her own in a 'hilarious way'

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
Aug 2, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

Listen, we all know what it's like trying to get a job when you're still young and in your party phase of life. There's this constant internal debate of, "Should I keep partying or go home and get some rest so I can be fresh for work in the morning?" What if the love of your life comes to the party right when you leave? What if everyone has the absolute time of their lives and will talk about it for the rest of their life, but you left at 9 pm because you had a meeting in the morning? So, sometimes, when you're young and new to the 9-to-5, you come in not feeling the best, if you know what we mean (hungover). As long as it doesn't happen all the time and you still get your work done properly, it can be overlooked by your 20-something-year-old employees. We all remember those days. 

Reddit poster u/RootlesssCosmo shared a story of how she had to endure a sad case like this. Her co-worker was a notorious Karen, and the team was not happy working with her. She would constantly show up late with no excuse, and she would often be hungover. One day, she came in super late, which was already annoying, but instead of apologizing or making up some excuse, she started boasting about how "hungover" she was and what a crazy time she had the night before. Her coworkers had had enough—it was the last straw. They just decided to ignore her and keep working. This apparently was the straw that broke the camel's back for the Karen co-worker because she marched into HR to complain that the team was creating a "hostile" work environment for her. 

Well, HR looked at OP with a sneak grin because he knew this was her last tardy writeup allowed, and after she gave her complaint, he simply fired her on the spot. Sorry, not sorry, Karen. Like, grow up, right? 

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    Font - Posted by u/RootlesssCosmo 23 hours ago The employee from hell finally gets herself fired in a hilarious way
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    Font - Until about an hour ago, I had the employee from he!! on my team. This woman couldn't show up on time in appropriate clothing to save her life, generally had a bad attitude, half-assed every task and would not shut up about her personal life.
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    Font - We've basically been waiting for her to do something egregious enough to merit a third write-up in 6 months, which results in almost automatic termination. So today she shows up late again and I was already in the middle of gleefully writing her up.
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    Font - Instead of apologizing or at least getting to work right away, this idiot starts babbling about how she's soooooo hung over and trying to tell everyone about her weekend exploits, but nobody paid any attention to her except
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    Font - any attention to her except my assistant, who rolled his eyes, sighed heavily and turned away. I had to take a call at that point, so I didn't see what happened next, but a few minutes after I hung up the head of HR came into my
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    Font - office with a goofy smile on his face and closed the door. Apparently, Hungover Hannah (sorry, I couldn't help myself) was insulted by our disinterest in her sad little life and marched into his office to claim that we
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    Font - were creating a hostile work environment by disrespecting her. He fired her dumb a on the spot. I didn't even have to divide up her tasks among the staff because they were so happy to see her go that they did it themselves before I had a chance.
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    Font - Good fing riddance. ETA: This is too good to not add since you all enjoyed this little bit of Monday snark. The guy who fired her took her into the little office we use for interviewing people,
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    Font - listened to her rant and said, "OK, but you were late again today, so we're going to have to let you go. Your paperwork is in process. You can hang out in here while we get everything together." My hero!!
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    Font - (O ConfidentSpace9191 · 23 hr. ago I once had a work colleague like that, I used to work in a nursery while I was doing my degree. An employee would often come in late or leave early, and constantly talk about how drunk or high he was the night before.
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    Font - We work with young children, so a lot of staff were put off by the conversation. Sometimes his pupils were so dilated I was convinced he was still high at work. He eventually got fired but threatened to bring Ofsted in as he left, Ofsted came in and we got an outstanding rating.
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    Font - 8 anonymooseuser6 - 12 hr. ago In college, I once showed up to work two hours early on a Saturday morning hungover as f <. It was a store and the manager was like... Your shift doesn't start until X.
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    Font - I was like k bye then. I think I came back and was so nauseous someone gave me Pepto which made me yak while helping a customer. He said he'd pray for me. I did my whole shift and didn't have one backed up line after I got the Pepto out of my system.
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    Hair - I would DIE of embarrassment if I acted like that now in my kids 30s.
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    Font - Mammoth_Ad_3463 20 hr. ago ● Its a bummer because I work with one. Shes in her 50s now, still parties every weekend and comes to work hungover or is bringing her drinking to work.
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    Font - Then, when I have to ask her about something (a mistake usually) she says "Oh I have no clue how that happened?! Isnt that weird?!" As if it doesnt happen multiple times a week.
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    Font - I dont want her fired, that would mean Id be stuck with her work, but I wish she would grow the f up and at least try to do the damn job without making excuses.
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    Font - Low_Cook_5235 · 21 hr. ago My boss asked me to be part of interview group. Candidate (early 20s) showed up half hour late, and no excuse. My boss even prompted him with "Traffic bad" and kid casually said "No".
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    Font - I was ready to end interview there, but boss gave him the benefit of the doubt and did full interview and hired him. He was pain in the butt for 2 months. Would take off to goto girlfriends Dr. Appointments because she didn't want to go alone. (Not
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    Font - pregnant or anything, just checkup. Again he was just hired). Also took off cuz her dog was sick and she didn't want to go to vet alone.
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    Font - Anyhoo, dumb reason he got fired...dude wanted a pat on the back for whatever he did. (Self taught, Jr Software Engineer). Like whenever he wrote something he wanted to call meeting to demo for the whole team (Sr. Engineers). Not to get feedback, just to show everyone
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    Font - the awesome thing he did. One day he wanted to do demo and everyone was super busy on a release deadline so we all declined. He pouted and stormed out of the building and didn't come back for the rest of the day. Boss finally admitted mistake hiring him and he was
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    Head - let go. He was smart kid, but zero maturity.
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