'He walks away with $150 out of the register': 25+ Employees who didn't make it through their first shift at work because they were fired on the spot

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Dec 20, 2023 11:00 AM EST

If you can't even make it through the first shift at a job, maybe you just weren't cut out for that role in the first place. Or maybe you were right for that career, but you actually dodged a bullet by avoiding a bad place to work. Either way, these kinds of circumstances happen once in a blue moon--- but the people below were there to witness it and share the story. 

Everyone makes mistakes at work, but usually, they're pretty minor. Maybe only your boss knows about it, or maybe you botched something for a client and need to do a rush job for them. Next time that happens to you, take a deep breath and remember this: you have never driven a car through the glass wall of a car dealership. Yes, someone in the thread below actually did this while working at a high-end car dealership. The guy was working with a customer who just needed some air for their tires. Instead, the new employee drove their car through the front of the building! That must've been the most embarrassing day of that guy's life, not to mention an unlucky day for that poor customer. That mistake would've taken days or weeks to fix---and you can't miss a giant hole in the front of a car dealership. There's no forgetting a mistake like that one. 

Check out these other excellent stories below. Then, this woman asked construction workers if they could unload their trucks around her, so they blocked her car in at the most inconvenient time. 

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  • 01
    'New guy... drives this car through the front wall of the [car] dealership'
    via Arvid Skywalker on Unsplash
  • 02
    Do you know someone who got fired on their first day? What did they do?
    via u/Psychosien
  • 03
    lo-key-glass I worked at a gas station a while back. Helped train this new guy. He was really nice, we all liked him. 1st solo shift he walks away with $150 out of the register. Didn't even try to cover it up or anything. Everybody was shocked. did he think was gonna happen?
    via u/lo-key-glass
  • 04
    zazameman I fired a guy who showed up four hours late his first day. I was in a moving company at the time. When he showed up he asked if he still gets paid for the job, since the bill includes 4 people and we did the job with 3, I told him to walk home and not to bother showing up the next day.
    via u/zazameman
  • 05
    [deleted] Friend moved halfway across the state for a job. First day the company announced layoffs. She was let go. Seems like a common theme in this thread which is really sad...
    via u/[deleted]
  • 06
    Primesghost I work in a college town and we hired a new part-timer to work reception. On her first day she casually mentions to us that her wealthy parents want her to experience what it's Ike to "struggle". So she has to work a job and use the city busses for two months and then she can quit and her parents will give her allowance back and get her a new car.
    via u/Primesghost
  • 07
    Boss: "Wait, so you're going to leave in two months?" Her: "Yeah, that's what my parents said." Boss: "Can I talk to you in my office?"
    via u/Primesghost
  • 08
    [deleted] I worked with a guy named Darryl for about 7 hours. Darryl was probably in his late 40s-early 50s, and was a pretty intimidating looking guy. He was probably 6'6", 250lbs+, muscular, bald, and a full beard. He was hired as a produce manager at the grocery store I worked at. I talked to him for a while, and he seemed to be an extremely nice guy. He said he was in the military most of his life,went to college when he was in his 40s, and ended up getting a Masters in Industrial
    via u/[deleted]
  • 09
    Engineering. He was telling me how depressed he was that no one would hire him because of his age, and was planning on working here while job hunting. We were almost off work, and the assistant manager came to talk to us. I forgot to mention that the assistant manager was an ENORMOUS He came over, introduced himself to Darryl, and immediately began criticizing his first day's work. I don't know exactly what Darryl did, but me made a minor mistake
    via u/[deleted]
  • 10
    that made the assistant manager ask him "Do you even know what a Serrano pepper is?" Darryl defended himself, and apologized saying he would fix whatever mistake he made. The assistant manager then delivered the final blow, and said "Noah, it looks like we've hired a produce manager who doesn't know ..... about produce" and laughed.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 11
    Darryl then said what every employee there had wanted to say at one point, "You're not going to talk to me like a child." The assistant manager fired him on the spot.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 12
    nikunikuniku Got fired on my first week, after training when the schedule came out. I was in high school and during the interview I told the manager interviewing me that I could only work 20 hours a week. I didn't mind 8 hour days on weekends but during the week I couldn't do it. As soon as training ends, the schedule comes out and I'm scheduled to work 39.5 hours with
    via u/nikunikuniku
  • 13
    several 8 hour shifts on weekdays after school. I went into the managers office and told him that I couldn't do it and so he said, "this is why we hired you, either do it or your fired". Well... That was that.
    via u/nikunikuniku
  • 14
    [deleted] I applied for a job in the kitchen of restaurant. There was no application, just a walk-in interview. I show up to work a couple days later and the chef starts giving me a tour of the kitchen. "Alright, you ready to make some omelettes?" Uh, sure.... you gonna show me? He looked at me, paused, and started laughing. Nervous laughter from my side.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 15
    As it turns out, the manager called the wrong the person. She got me mixed up with the guy who had 5 years experience and called me by mistake. EDIT: Everyone is like how do you not know how to make an omelette? I can, but they look like homemade omelettes, not the fancy, fluffy, perfectly folded ones this restaurant serves. I did have experience in the kitchen, but it was limited to food prep and working the fryer.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 16
    MastadonBob At orientation, they told the twelve of us that we were the bestest and the brightest of 900 or so interviews they'd conducted. We got our access badges and our corporate Amex cards. One of the "best and the brightest" went to a high-end men's clothing store on his lunch hour and purchased four thousand dollars worth of suits, ties and shoes.
    via u/MastadonBob
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    He came back from lunch and bragged of his exploits. Fired on the spot. He actually thought his Amex card was a job perk. "Can I at least keep the clothes?"
    via u/MastadonBob
  • 18
    growsgrass I fired someone about 2 hours into the first day. We had a monster pile of branches to send through the wood chipper and two of my better guys were working on it. I hire a new guy to help out. I spend all this time training him how not to get killed by the the wood chipper and send him out with my two guys.
    via u/growsgrass
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    I run out a bit later to check on him and I see me experienced guys getting it done. They are busting their butts and putting in work chipping branches. New guy in the other hand picks up a twig and tosses it in the chipper, grabs a drink of water, grabs another twig, another drink, goes and has a smoke, another few twigs etc. I had to let him go.
    via u/growsgrass
  • 20
    ball_gag3 Friend was hired and then the next day the company announced layoffs. Of course he was first to go. He got lucky though because for one reason or another they had to continue paying him for the next 2 months even though he only worked a total of 2 days. Halfway into that two months he found a better job.
    via u/ball_gag3
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    + [deleted] I've let people go on the first day before. More often than not, it's blatant lies on their resume about work experience and qualifications. Mistakes are almost always forgiven.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 22
    jubileo5 I got fired on my first day. Reason: His best mate just lost his job so he fired me and hired him instead.
    via u/jubileo5
  • 23
    havemursey Had a buddy get hired as a valet in downtown. On his first day he was asked to park a pretty expensive luxury car and ended up hitting it on of the concrete pillars in the parking garage. Pretty much got fired on the spot
    via u/havemursey
  • 24
    digital_darkness First big job after college I worked for an MSP (IT consultants/engineers). They hired a new guy and his first assignment out of the gate was one of our tougher clients to deal with. This guy was to go out and replace a switch (config and all). Four hours later he still wasn't done. Come to find out he had no clue what he was doing, we hired him as desktop support and they were having him do network stuff. They called him in and fired him that day. I felt really bad for the guy.
    via u/digital_darkness
  • 25
    rednail64 Second day. She was visiting one of our production sites and thought the second day was starting too early, so she called down to the local leadership team to say she'd be in that afternoon, if at all. She was on the next flight home instead.
    via u/rednail64
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    Enraged_Toothbrush Dude was fired not even an hour in to his first day. I worked at a warehouse for about three months, and the company was moving to a new location, so we were taking all the boxes off the racks, putting them on pallets, wrapping the pallets, and loading them on to several different trucks. One of my bosses was sent over to help train the new guy, but the new guy didn't know he was working with a boss.
    via u/Enraged_Toothbrush
  • 27
    Halfway though our first pallet, new guy dropped a box he was supposed to catch because he was too busy texting. He starting J about how the box landed on his foot and he wasn't sure if he could keep lifting boxes now, so we sent him with a different group that was taping up the pallets.
    via u/Enraged_Toothbrush
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    Once we finish our second pallet, the boss and I take it over to be tapped. The boss specifically requested that the new guy take care of it. Turns out new guy is missing. I'm now given the task of finding him. Ten minutes later I find a pile of clothes sitting on the ground in the back of the warehouse. I walk around it and absolutely could not believe what I was seeing.
    via u/Enraged_Toothbrush
  • 29
    This guy took the clothes out of several boxes, broke the boxes down and laid them out on the floor, and I this guy was himself breakdancing. you not recording
    via u/Enraged_Toothbrush
  • 30
    [deleted] I worked at Future Shop when the store first opened in my city. Since it was brand new the first few days were spent setting up the store itself before the grand opening. When everyone arrived on the 2nd day of work, they had everyone in the entire store stand in a circle while they explained that someone had stolen a copy of Grand Theft Auto, that they knew who it was since everything was recorded by the security cameras, and asked for the person "who knows who they
    via u/[deleted]
  • 31
    are" to please leave the store immediately or else they would call the police. The youngest and quietest teenager immediately walked out with his head hanging low. Super awkward.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 32
    qualityproduct It was actually mine and another guys 2nd day. He got fired for a dispute. He was left hours away from where we started. I voiced my concern for leaving this kid hundreds of miles from known civilization and was also fired. It was good times. Never got paid for the first day and a half either.
    via u/qualityproduct
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    04440 awesomebobbo11 I worked at a Monsanto corn warehouse a few years ago with my brother. One day a new guy comes in and was training on a forklift. After al couple hours he was on his own and after about 20 minutes of that he crashed his forklift into the wall. He shut the lift down, got up and walked out of an emergency exit door and drove away.
    via u/awesomebobbo11
  • 34
    6 months later we had a new boss and he is training a new guy which just so happens to be the exact same guy but he was going by a different name. He got fired a month later for too many forklift accidents.
    via u/awesomebobbo11
  • 35
    Everyday_Ox He was hired on Friday at about 5PM and his first shift was the following day (7AM Saturday, we are mechanics, we dont respect monday- fridays sometimes). Well, he showed up to work at 650AM Saturday morning completely J. He was asked to not clock in. Ever.
    via u/Everyday_Ox
  • 36
    + [deleted] When I was in college I got a job at one of those "Paint Your Own Pottery" places. They told me they'd train me on my first day, when I showed up there was a birthday party underway with 15 8 year olds. I didn't get any training and ended up kids' pottery items on accident. The rest of the staff up a couples were really friendly to me but seemed a bit culty.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 37
    At the end of the shift it was a pretty mutual "Thanks but no thanks" situation, yet the boss felt the need to call me the next day to tell me just how much the other workers didn't like me. It was strange and petty. SUPER bummed I don't work there anymore.
    via u/[deleted]
  • 38
    pipnewman I had an employee call off on her second day (First full day). Was told to fire her.
    via u/pipnewman
  • 39
    bcos4life We had a guy call in on his first day because 3 inches of snow was too extreme for his ride. Shows up the next day with his lifted truck. He still works there, like 5 years later.
    via u/bcos4life
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    ✪ [deleted] Had a person ask to take the first official day of the job off. This was during group training (after everyone there was guaranteed a position) Didn't see them again.
    via u/ [deleted]
  • 41
    wakizashis My roommate went to school to be a nurse. The night before, her classmate got hired at their internship. That night, she comes home and tells me they fired her classmate to hire her instead. Never got all of the details, but they did the entire process right then and there, awkward.
    via u/wakizashis
  • 42
    EricTheBread 16 year old kid was fired during his first day of training because he came in wearing a shirt that just said ' |' across the front in giant letters. I mean, I know we have a causal dress code, but...
    via u/EricTheBread
  • 43
    zerbey Witnessed it myself, we hired a new welder who was supposedly well qualified and me being the other new guy who didn't t know ... I was his "assistant" for the day. That afternoon he was asked to cut some steel up with an acetylene torch (pretty easy job for a steelworker). Where did he do this? On the brand new expensive floor that they had just installed in the building we were working on.
    via u/zerbey
  • 44
    I told him, hey shouldn't we be doing this elsewhere - shut up he says. OK then. The sparks and bits of molten steel caused a couple of thousand in damage. My boss spent a good 15 minutes ranting and raving to the guy about how utterly incompetent he must be. Finally the guy meekly asks if he's fired. He was fired. I was taught how to use an acetylene torch not long after, and told to do it OUTSIDE of the building too.
    via u/zerbey
  • 45
    Lonesoldier21 An ex coworker found a job working with a high end car dealership. Think it was BMW. First day a customer comes in to get tire refills. So they get him to drive the car around back to get the tires done. New guy doesn't know how a standard works. Drives this car through the front wall of the dealership(all glass wall). of a screw up.
    via u/Lonesoldier21
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    Edit:A lot of people seem confused. Where I'm from a standard implies manual transmission(I.e. Stick shift). Edit2:A tire refill has been common recently when purchasing a vehicle from a dealership. Nitrogen top ups are something I was recommended when purchasing my most recent vehicle. They're free and are apparently better for your tires.
    via u/Lonesoldier21

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