30+ Stories of how "that one guy" got fired

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Brad Dickson • Managing Editor
Aug 14, 2023 12:00 PM EDT

There has been a lot of discourse online (and, specifically, on this site) around workers who have been mistreated by their employers, amid shared stories of toxic workplace cultures, hostile work environments, and even workers telling how they were wrongly fired from their jobs. But what about the other side of it? We're all the heroes of our own stories, but surely every story we read online, shared by a purportedly exploited worker, isn't being told by a reliable narrator. After all—we've all had terrible coworkers and seen people get fired in a wildly dramatic number of ways. So where are all these people? Surely some of them are sharing their stories, painting themselves to be the victim, when really there are specific important details they're leaving out.

These people shared stories of—well, those people—that guy… the one who got fired and well and truly deserved it. 

See this collection of stories below, shared across a range of online threads, all asking the same question… Why was that one guy fired from your workplace?

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    World - Why was THAT guy fired from your workplace?
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    Font - Wiggles349 HVAC residential installer. Had a co worker take a nap in the customer's house... In the customer's bed. Was confused why he was fired. 4.8k Reply Share bearded_dragon_34. Who the fu did he think he was, Goldilocks? 3.2k Reply Share
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    Font - Familiar_Cow_5501 Work at a payroll company, we had an employee who Switched like 20 direct deposits to her own account. It was all very traceable and she was caught like later that day ↑ 1.1k ↓ Reply Share FullTorque420 What an idiot lol I worked in church audit for a while. Found multiple instances of theft but only one ever stumped me and it was because. He was using adobe acrobat to change the statement. Took about 30 days to figure it all out and then I got to work with the FBI. YAY!
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    Font - silverandstuffs. He spent the entire time playing a game on his own handheld console instead of testing the game we were doing overtime to actually test. Got very angry at being let go. ↑ 1.7k ↓ Reply Share Last1Breathin Man got payed to play video games and still messed it up Reply Share 1.5k
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    Font - novato1995 He shouted, cursed at and invited the cleaning guy to "meet him" outside to fight because he was denied access to the restroom until it was fully cleaned. The cleaning guy is known for being extremely calm, polite and nice to everyone. For someone to have a problem with him means that they have to be a certain kind of entitled as De.
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    Font - This happened in view of at least 10 cowokers, me included. Everyone was confused, but our manager was proactive about it. He told the guy to meet him at the HR office, and was promptly fired. After the manager returned, he made a quick meeting. His words were: "We're all grown adults here, well, some of us are. I just want to put it out there and say that I'll be considerably harsh to anyone that disrespects any coworker, specially hen they're responsible for making sure that your ass ch
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    Font - After the meeting was over, some of us asked him what he meant with that last sentence and he told us that the guy got violent in the HR office and invited him to fight in the parking lot when he was told he was getting terminated. 3.5k Reply Share
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    Font - Lizzy_Of_Galtar He claimed he was in the national search and rescue brigade which is entirely volunteer based. They are sorta like our troops, they get perks and can't be fired if they get called out and so on. He skipped work all the time claiming it was because he was called in. One day someone from the office decided to check if he was and turned out he lied about the whole thing. I'm pretty sure he got blacklisted by the entire city which would explain why I haven't heard anything abo
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    Font - OldBob10 Well, there *was* the new CFO who was shown the door at lunchtime on his first day. Then the stock email about "Do not use the corporate internet to visit inappropriate websites" was sent out. 1.9k Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - MGris24 Stealing the bosses Pop Tarts Reply Share 421
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    Font - Superstitious Pigeon5 She watched Netflix at her desk and took naps. With the volume up. Her desk was in the middle of the office, there was no hiding. She also fid up a lot. Reply Share 1.1k
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    Font - phznmshr Worked at a publication. Hired a new guy who was super nice and everybody liked him. Within a week, found he was plagiarizing everything he wrote. Immediately gone - no questions asked. ↑ 666 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - seanofkelley He was keeping sick and injured birds under his desk that he found on his lunch breaks and using binoculars to watch people in other offices. 633 Bl1ndMous3 Reply Share I was ok with the first half with awwww and then oohhhhhhhhhh ↑ 376 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Throwaway7219017 He was caught stealing cash from work, and spending it on hookers. Turns out he had terminal cancer and wanted to go out with a bang. Reply Share 2.6k
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    Font - mekonsrevenge Salesman addicted to frequent flier points. He'd book flights with four segments each way, meaning extra nights in hotels and basically doing almost no work two days a week. He was told repeatedly to book direct flights but just wouldn't. Two kids in college and the finally fired him. 238 Reply Share
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    Font - I_am_Reddit_Tom Shagging a temp, who worked part time but he signed her timesheet off as full time hours 831 onewander Reply Share She was putting in that work, he was just making sure she got fairly compensated. ↑ 558 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - Plus-Statistician80 Had to fire someone just a few weeks ago. He was a new hire, and in three weeks he called out five times. I wrote him up for poor attendance, and just two days later he was a no-show, no-call when we had two deliveries going out (driver - HVAC equipment). Left me no choice. 497 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - betterbuddha He took the company car home without authorization. -- that wasn't enough to get fired, it was late and he lived 10 minutes away in Brooklyn. He used company car to pickup his brother in Queens. -- That wasn't enough to get fired. He hit a pedestrian while picking up his brother in Queens with the company car that he took without authorization -- that might do it... He fled the scene of the accident after hitting a pedestrian while picking up his brother with the company car
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    Font - UncleGrako using chicken broth as urine for his drug test. 152 Reply Share unclejosephsfuton Should have used bone broth. ↑ 111 ↓ Reply Share
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    Font - by BON Statement Proper4450 Ate another coworkers lunch. There was a box of chicken in the break room refrigerator. It was one of those combos with mashed potatoes and a biscuit. There were cameras in the break room so when the employee reported his lunch missing they reviewed the footage. After confronting the lunch bandit, his excuse was "it was abandoned chicken." ↑ 770 Reply Share ●●●
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    Font - pezziepie85 Guy was fired for stealing from the register. We were all surprised since he was well liked, and a hard worker. Few months later I was helping the manager clean behind the cash wrap. When we got to the register that employee used most often and popped out the cash drawer we found a handful of 20s behind it. Turned out that bills were getting caught and dragged behind the till. 494 ↓ Share
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    Font - NotGAF She couldn't count. She was a cashier. 149 Share
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    Font - Skunkies Mechanic of 32 years got fired for disabling the RF entry card readers on the back side of the warehouse, so he could throw parties in it after warehouse hours, nobody batted an eye until they mistakenly invited the plant manager to it. ↑ 411 ↓ Share
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    Gesture - gods_undoing scammers called and asked for $2k, she pulled it outta the safe and handed it to them no questions asked 514 ↓ Share
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    Font - SugoiBakaMatt I used to work with a super nice old man who had been at that company for 30 years, and he was getting to retire at the end of 2016. He was 5 minutes late one day because he tripped and hurt his shin. He got fired. The story had a happy ending though. He sued the pants off the company, won a sO ton of money and got a lot of the corrupt upper management fired, including the CFO. 137 Share
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    Font - legice Sleeping on the job. The kicker is, he was doing it every day, but nobody important noticed. But then they talked about his performance and how he needed to get more done, he said that he cant, cause he needed his mid day nap. ↑ 218 ↓ Share
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    Font - Childof Valhalla Guy in the shipping dept. kept calling the shop manager a clown, to his face, and was warned to stop. The guy finally got fired when he decided to play circus music at full volume the next time the boss man came around. ✩ 4.4k ↓ Share [deleted] This is pretty funny though. The music was a nice touch. 1.7k ↓ Share dbx99 Man some confetti cannons and a bicycle riding bear would have really made it ↑ 126 ↓ Share
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    Font - Universal Me She messaged in the groupchat we had for employees saying something along the lines of how she hates the job and she hoped the building burned down. Loved that girl. 5.1k Share
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    Font - ThatGirl76 He was found sleeping under his desk. When awake he was caught repeatedly sneaking out the back door (no receptionist) and leaving for hours. He was taking credit for the work of others while trying to pawn his work off on the data entry girl. He worked there for 2.5 weeks. ↑ 7.0k ↓ Share
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    Font - athaliah He missed a major deadline and didn't tell anyone and didn't show up to work to face the music. Then they found out he was assigning some of his work to another coworker but turning it in and saying he did it. Then they tried to fire him but he didn't show up for 3 days. They basically drove to his house to fire him. ↑ 16.4k 16.4k Share
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    Font - Clearrouge used an can of axe body spray and a lighter in the crew room as a flamethrower ↑ 1.3k ↓ Share Smokeylongred We did that in high school- grew out of it by the time we had real jobs. But it does remind me of the boys in school spraying their hands with ace and then setting them on fire when the had to ask a question just to see the look on the teachers face. Ahhh high school in the nineties Edit- axe not ace! ↑ 708 ●●● Share
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