‘I got fired 4 hours later’: Warehouse employee gets fired 4 hours into his first day

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Eleonora Bader
Aug 7, 2023 7:00 AM EDT

Your first day at a new job is nerve-wracking and awkward, as you're just getting used to your new surroundings, and meeting a ton of new people that may or may not end up making your life difficult. Getting along with new coworkers is a hard task, because you haven't quite made your name yet in the office or industry you're working in, and people can take advantage of the fact that you're new. My own anxiety only begins to wean once I'm a few months in, and less embarrassed to stand up for myself when somebody does something that I deem unfair.

This person, who we'll call OP, went through a staffing agency to find a job and stumbled upon one that he found pretty decent. He prepared himself with work rules and made sure that he was wearing something that fit the dress code. Arriving fifteen minutes early, he was happy to begin working. However, that initial excitement didn't take long to dissipate, as it turns out he was working with one of the all too familiar Karen employees, who took an immediate dislike to him.

This lady saw OP sweeping the floor and decided that he was doing it all wrong, even though he'd been told how to do it by another employee already. She began to rant and rave at him, and one thing led to another… scroll down to read how and when OP found out that he was fired. All thanks to your run-of-the-mill office Karen, except that this took place in a warehouse.

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    Font - Posted by u/Emotional-Moment7729 9 hours ago Got fired 4 hours into my first day I went through a staffing agency and found a job that seemed pretty decent. Got all the details about the
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  • 02
    Font - dress code and schedule and pretty excited. I show up 15 minutes prior (thanks Army) and I walk in with an open mind and a willingness to learn. Get into the office and fill out some paperwork while the ladies in there chat with
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  • 03
    Font - me. Meet the owner, he was cool but busy seeing as he's always on the phone. So far all around great environment. Get out to the floor with one of the office ladies and after the pleasantries she basically tells me since it's super slow
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  • 04
    Font - in the mornings to "just look busy". So she recommended that I sweep the warehouse, too easy. Sweep half the warehouse and get tasked out to do another task. Normally I'd ask if I could finish the first task before I start something else but no
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  • 05
    Font - biggie. The guy I got "paired" up with told me people freak out if this task isn't done a certain way. He proceeds to show me the way to do it and I take over. Here's where the "fun" begins I'm 99% done and the office lady brings
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  • 06
    Font - someone over to me saying that I'd be paired with her. I thought "Aight cool". Now I'm not a judgmental person but this woman has all the past looks of m ? use. So she asks me what I'm doing and says that I'm not doing
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  • 07
    Font - it right and tells me to undo the whole thing. Then proceeds to ask if I was sweeping, I replied yes. She goes off on a rant that that's not where the broom goes and people don't put things where they belong. And she spots my small pile of
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  • 08
    Font - dust/dirt and trash, and yells at me that we're not allowed to leave a pile sitting in the warehouse. Keep in mind that I forgot all about it (it was out of the way and I wasn't going to let it sit there). She made a remark that I'm a “strong young
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  • 09
    Font - man" and I can lift blah blah blah and she can't because she's a female . Let that one slide, then started a task building boxes and placing items in them and taping them up and stacking them on a pallet. She tells me two of the other guys in
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  • 10
    Font - the warehouse can do this super quick, I just gave a Oh type nod. She starts asking why I'm slow, I politely explained to her that I have a leg that's shorter than the other and a bad back. She then starts insinuating that I was raised spoiled and that
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  • 11
    Font - I'm lazy, I was confused because it's my first day and I haven't done something like this before. First break starts and I ask the office ladies if they can talk to her as she's been rude and expecting me to be lightning fast on my first
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  • 12
    Font - day. After the break I don't see her for the next two hours. Lunch time comes around and the woman tries to get me out of the warehouse quickly. And I run to the gas station to grab a snack and a RedBull. It's at this moment I get a
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  • 13
    Font - call from the lady at the staffing agency telling me that I can go home. When I asked why she told me she's gotten complaints about me. I was dumbfounded and asked what the complaints were. She was told that I had said I had two blown
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  • 14
    Font - out knees and I didn't wanna work. I was absolutely furious and confused why this lady had gone out of her way to get me fired. Oh the reason why she's was gone for two hours is
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  • 15
    Font - because she was filing "complaints 863 people here 321 Comments
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  • 16
    Font - Revis_FL 9 hr. ago · edited 9 hr. ago I can't stand employers who side with people who have been there longer, and don't even attempt to get your
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  • 17
    Font - side of the story. I got written up once like this. My coworker told a bs lie to our boss and he just wrote me up without even speaking to me. When I did speak with him he didn't even care to
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  • 18
    Font - listen and told me to "use it as a learning experience." Then it happened again a couple months later and I didn't show up the next day. So glad I'm not working there anymore. I kind of hate
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  • 19
    Font - that my coworker "won" but at the end of the day I don't like drama at work. I just want to do my work and go home. Anyway OP sorry you're unemployed but you're
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  • 20
    Font - better off working somewhere else. 438 Reply
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