Workers Share The Fastest Ways They've Seen Someone Get Fired

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Aug 20, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

I have a humble brag I'd like to share with y'all: I have never been fired (knock on wood). I don't think I have never been fired because I'm particularly special, but most of my work history is made up of service jobs that are desperate for anyone with even a smudge of social skills. These places would only fire you if you really screwed up, and even then, you could probably get off with a warning. 

Usually, people start slacking or acting up on the job when they feel secure that they're not going to get fired. You'd have to be one carless Carson if you were to get fired during the first month of your job. Sure, someone who was unqualified for the job might get fired under those circumstances, but I know you're not here for those stories. You want to hear tales of fools losing their jobs, and you're in luck. 

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    Rectangle - r/AskReddit u/Quintowne • 2d What is the fastest way you've seen someone get fired?
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    Font - ло Selios21122d My first job was in a small grocery store and my boss asked a coworker to do the dishes in the bakery (baking pans, etc). She replied: "I only do my own dishes, somebody else put these here so I'm not doing them. I'm serious. Fire me if you want, I won't do them." Boss says "Okay then, don't bother finishing your shift, goodbye!" ... Reply 1.5k
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    Font - JenntheGreat13 • 2d New person got access to medical records system. Week 2 - Looked up our boss and bragged about it. Was Walked out and gone the second week. Reply 3k ↓
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    Font - themoistdonut • 2d First day on the job, gave another coworker a wet- willy. Shit you not. Reply 9.2k
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    Font - BigNotGay420 • 2d First day at work, hired by a temp agency. Me and one other guy, we put stuff in boxes and tape them shut, stack boxes on a pallet. He can't keep up, can barely use a tape gun and decides its time for break. Goes to the lunch room and takes a lunch. It was the bosses lunch, he stole the guys meal his wife prepared for him. Boss man came over 15 mins later and wants to know who ate his BBQ, sticky fingers and BBQ on his shirt he denies it. I just look at him and the Boss
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    Font - DudebroggieHouser • 2d Had a coworker explain to our supervisor how he found this great loophole for making extra money: if a customer had exact change, he'd just pocket the cash and cancel the order on the register. Reply 5k
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    Font - HtownTexans • 1d 1 Award I worked at a coffee shop for slave labor and during the holidays they would sell gift cards "buy $20 get $5 free". So at the start of the shift we would "buy" a gift card and use it for all cash transactions. Every time you hit 25 we put 5 in the tip jar and bought the next gift card. Corporate loved our gift card sales lol. 42.3k
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    Font - Beestung 2d ● Worked at an ISP back in the 90s and had a guy working late shift. Found out quickly he wasn't answering the phone at all, but just playing video games. He was warned. Next day he walks in to work with a Voodoo2 graphics card to install in his work computer to improve the game playing. Fired before he sat down. Reply 6.7k
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    Font - BrokkenArrow • 2d 1 Award I saw a coworker once make a "big boobs" gesture as our boss' wife walked past....with our boss walking right behind her. He was packing his shit within 5 minutes. Reply 15.1k
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    Font - Xalibu2 • 2d Similar, but it was the bosses daughter. Also not boobs. He loudly exclaimed "look at the turdcutter on her!" Boss was standing not more than ten feet away and well within earshot for how loud he said it. The business was mostly customer service, so a few other passers by also heard it. Guy was there less than a week. Didn't bother me, he was rude and a creep. Bosses daughter was 16 I think at the time. Underage. 3.1k ↓ ...
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    Font - Useful Exchange3583 • 2d A colleague let a middle school kid drive the bus. Buh-bye! ... Reply 7.2k
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    Font - davisherm 2d ● The guy responsible for opening the shop on Saturday morning went out and got blitzed on Friday night. We showed up to work to find his car in the lot but the doors locked. He didn't answer his phone. Had to call the owner in to get us inside. Guy was fast asleep, under his desk. He was gone before you could say hangover. Reply 5.1k
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    Font - PheonixKernow • 2d I had a friend who managed a bar. She got caught on camera staying behind with a male customer after closing, drinking bottles of Cristal without paying for them and fucking him in the bar area. The owner saw it on camera the next morning, went to the bar, found the main door unlocked and open, money still in the till and her asleep in her room upstairs. He banged on the door until she woke up, they had an argument and she walked out and went to her parents house. She n
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    Font - AaronKMartinez • 2d Half an hour. Working in Arby's, new girl shows up. They run her through how to work the cash register on a few dummy orders. She takes a real order or two and then it gets slow. She asks to duck out for a minute to smoke and never came back. Register ended up being $100 short that day. Reply 2.1k
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    Font - Wild Billy Boy33 • 2d I was on a new team hired for corporate sales. They trained us as a group. We were given the task of creating a presentation with graphs and charts to show how we present to a group and given pointers on how to improve. One guy shows up an hour late, waltzes in and says he's tired from the drive in and says he needs a coffee before settling in. We are in suit and tie and he's wearing a dress shirt with a huge eagle on the front and jeans. He comes back a few minutes
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    Font - Marmoticon • 2d 1 Award Dude's first day, on a team next to mine gets an assignment, as soon as the lead leaves the area he leans over to another guy and threatens that if he doesn't do his work for him he's going to "kick his ass after work". I got up to the managers, we walked over and escorted him out. He was there all of 2 hours. On his way out he's knocking over chairs and screaming that he'll be "waiting for us in the parking lot". Fuckin nuts. ... Reply 5.6k
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    Font - noblemile 2d ● Dude showed up to his first day after taking acid. Told the boss his acid kicked in. 43.2k .... Reply
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    Font - ThatsRubbishMate • 2d Worked in a restaurant and when the table wanted to return their Mai Tai the server chugged it right in front of them and said "it tastes fine" Reply ... 362
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