'The most satisfying moment of my life': Data-entry worker fires a 'Florida Man' before he can finish his new hire paperwork

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 11, 2023 3:00 PM EDT

This new employee just didn't have what it took to succeed on an oil farm. 

One oil farm employee worked as a data entry specialist, and encountered this new worker who absolutely refused to take orders from her. Her "orders" were just filling out basic paperwork… but somehow this Florida Man thought that that was emasculating to him. Not to mention that the OP was just 17 years old at the time, which just gave this Florida Man more reason to be angry with her.

As people in the comments noted, there's no way this dude got through life without encountering and cooperating with women, from teachers to coworkers to bosses. If you can't accept that people of all genders have equal rights, you're going to have a tough time in life — and you're going to have a really tough time in the workplace, where there are strict rules about this kind of discrimination. 

Check out this person's story below, complete with commenters who adored the story (and shared some great tales of their own). Then, check out the update to this story: A remote worker was on a work call, muted themself to vent to their girlfriend, then heard their boss say, "Hey, we can all hear you." 

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    Font - Won't Be Taught By A "Girl", So He Got Fired M OC So, I used to work for my grandparents on an oil farm in Texas.
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    Font - I was 17, freshly graduated from high-school, and had moved from the Midwest to Texas to live with my grandparents and work on the oil farm they worked for doing some easy data-entry. The building was essentially a tin building on the job site where my grandma and I (the only two office workers besides my grandfather who was the foreman) worked.
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    Font - Basically when the new hires would come in that had missed the initial hiring round I was the one that would make sure all their paperwork was in order and that they had all of their OSHA classes finished, and if any safety training hadn't been done I would just put in the VHS and confirm on a written copy that they had finished it "under my instruction".
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    Font - This went on for two months with no issue until one fateful day, a regular Florida Man (record and all) came in as a new hire and came to my office to finish his new hire paperwork. Once he was in my office I found he had no safety training to speak of and I informed him his next day or two would be spent in my office watching safety videos (all of this was paid of course).
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    Font - He immediately flew into a rage, screaming about how he wouldn't "have some little girl teaching him how to do his job", which again I was a 17 year old female (at the time, I now identify as non-binary), and was only going through company standards and OSHA rules with him.
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    Font - I went to my grandfather who was my boss at the time obviously very confused and uncomfortable and unsure of how I should proceed. To which my grandfather said, "You wanna fire him?"
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    Font - Cue my excitement, my grandfather follows me to my office and I, as a 17 year old, get to fire this grown a man sitting in front of me. I start directing him to gather his things and leave and he starts up a huge fit, yelling and cursing at me, before he noticed my grandfather standing in the door with his gn holstered on his hip (my grandfather usually kept this locked in a safe on the ground or in his truck, I hadn't realized until after he'd pulled it out just for me) and very quietly
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    Font - Starfleet_Auxiliary +1. To be fair, it was be fired by you or be fired on by granddad. I think he made the right career move!
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    Font - [deleted] Someone I worked with once fell asleep while being trained by a female member of staff!! And this was because he just couldn't believe she could teach him anything. He didn't last much longer
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    Font - Johnny_Creditcard When I was 18, I worked at a hotel/conference center. I was the supervisor of one of the bars. One night a 30- something year old guy had his first day at the job there. He made jokes about me being to young and wouldnt listen to my advice, he was a "experienced" barkeeper. So I left him alone for a bit. When I returned he had broken
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    Font - 50+ glasses in the dishwasher. I told him to get something to clean it up and he left. He never returned. My boss came to me and asked why she had found his tie and name badge laying on the floor somewhere. He was fired the next day. Maybe listen to peoples advice regardless of their age
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    Font - jurrejelle that's amazing! I can imagine the look on his face, getting fired by a "kid". Surely he'll spout something about you being the grandkid of the owner and that's why he got fired, but it was 100% his own fault and this was super sweet to read
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    Font - nonecity Tbh I think that the granddad did this, as a way of learning managerial job skills. Maybe hoping as a way that OP can take over the business.
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    Font - MaybePaige-be. Could also be a poetic justice thing, a man who doesn't respect women will be more hurt if fired by 1.
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    Font - JU looktowindward No safety training, no work. This is like every job site in the world. That dude was fing crazy
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    Font - laurenthebrave I used to work in oil. There were probably 200 men working on the site and maybe 10 women. For the most part, they left us alone, but I remember once some guy made fun of my handwriting because it was "too pretty". I guess he thought that was a sick burn or something? I really don't know.
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    Smile - JU Clay_Statue I wonder how his fragile masculinity managed to reconcile that experience?
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