‘He looked up at my boss tearfully’: Employees Share Fastest Ways Coworkers Got Fired on the Spot

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Eleonora Bader
Apr 6, 2024 12:00 PM EDT

Getting fired is not a good feeling. The knot that forms in your stomach makes you want to bend over a toilet, and you dread the moment your boss invites you into their office for a 'discussion.' In my case, it happened via a phone call. I was waitressing at a tiny restaurant in my hometown, and granted, I wasn't very good at it. The reason I got fired was that two days in, I had failed to inform the kitchen that one customer's steak was 'too well done.' The customer had complained to management that I was unfocused and dreamy, and instead of giving me another chance, I was dismissed. I wouldn't be so bitter if they hadn't withheld my pay for those two days, but they did, and I'm bitter.

Back then, I didn't have the guts to report them because I was, well, an insecure teenager. Today, on the other hand… In any case, today, I have an entertaining thread to show you where people share the fastest ways their coworkers got fired.

For more laughs, you can check out these funny memes for employees with the Monday blues.

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  • 01
    "He looked up at my boss tearfully..." YOU'RE FIRED
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  • 02
    What is the fastest you have ever seen a new co-worker get fired?
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    jeff_the_nurse As a teenager, I worked at a bowling alley. Within an hour, a new girl was fired on the spot for dropping a ball on the foot of a complaining patron. 49.6k Share SexyR63VinylScratch Was this on purpose or accident? 5.7k Share jeff_the_nurse Purposely.
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    wanderin_fool · A 19 year old kid got hired to work the seafood counter. See him twice and then never again. Asked a coworker what happened. He had closed seafood one night and was walking out of the store and the 5 pounds of crab legs he'd stuffed down the back of his pants fell out in front of the closing manager. Edit: It was at a Publix. No, it was not Jameis Winston. 22.8k Share
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    professorglock Worked in a grocery store for awhile: new guy took a lobster out of the tank and removed the elastic bands on its claws, then proceeded to put it back in the tank. The red all the other lobsters in the tank. thing m 31.0k Share DefenestrationPraha I was halfway expecting a theft attempt by putting said live and free lobster down his pants... 12.9k Share
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    Dendad1218 I work construction. We had 2 new hires that were friends starting the same day. Boss told one take a coffee order and come back. Took everyone's money and said he needed his friend to go with him cause it was a big order. They never came back. 28.9k Share
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    fast_hand84 New guy drove a forklift into a fire hydrant, in front of a safety rep for the company. His supervisor was called over, and he immediately tells the supervisor that he won't pass as test, as he used his only bottle of clean 【s earlier that day when he hired in. Everybody standing there immediately burst into laughter, which continued as security (also laughing) escorted him off site. Even the supervisor was all smiles...just gave him a pat on the back and wished him the best of luck.
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    grimcheesers · I called a temp agency to get someone to help me count inventory. They sent a guy over with a cast on his arm.... That was my first v.` but I went with it because we were just counting parts. Then I came back from lunch and this dude was in my office chair zoned out and drooling on himself with a can of air duster in his lap. I kicked him awake and escorted him out of my warehouse. Never used that temp agency again. 23.6k Share
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    PresidentStone Coworker quit his job, great job, great pay, great benefits to work in a radio repair place. I mean, gotta do what you love and he was also a big radio enthusiast. Got fired the first day on the job for stealing parts for his own radios at home. Took him over a year to get back with us. Surprised they rehired him. He then got fired for being a security risk about a year or so later. 14.2k Share
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    lejolipamplemousse. A week. I worked in a bar and a new girl started. At work, she seemed a little rough but was fine. One day she finished a shift, sat at the bar and ordered a red wine with lemonade and ice in it (not really relevant to the story; just shows she is clearly insane). Her boyfriend came in, they had a huge domestic in front of my manager and several customers and she threw her drink over her bf and dramatically stormed out. 5.2k Share
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    [deleted] Heard this from a manager I worked with when I worked in fast food. There was this one kid who didn't show up for work. He ditched work often, so the manager called around, couldn't get anyone to fill in his shift, so she had to fill it for him. A few hours into his shift, the dude ditching SHOWS UP, with his friends, and orders food from that manager. She fired him on the spot. Edit: These were my first awards, and y'all just multiplied my Karma by 10. Thanks y'all for the likes and a
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    Ninth Reever First day of work, he walks in, says "what the fk is up dɩ ss" to the guy that parked next to (didn't touch) his new Camaro he bought since he got hired. The guy was the CEO of the company I used to work for, on visit to our branch. Literally ten minutes into his shift he was signing release papers. 14.7k Share ...
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    Revolutionary_Oil897 3 hours into the first shift. Guy lost it serving an annoying customer in a grocery shop, throw a cabbage at her. The manager came and told him to go home cause he finished there. He wasn't surprised. I was standing next to him, it was an entertaining day. 29.0k Share
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    Insectshelf3 guy got hired, while going through orientation realized that his ex gf worked there too, turned around and walked right out the front door. 11.5k Share Lindeberg1 my man 6.4k Share
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    Slim Thicc Jesus ⚫ This was a while ago at my old job. New guy gets hired as a bus boy. He was super annoying and tried to insert himself into everyone's conversation whether they wanted him there or not. It only took a couple of hours for the whole restaurant to hate him. I was working the bar and he kept eating the bar fruit. I personally didn't care but the manager did. Manager comes over and tells him to stop eating the fruit. He looks the manager in the eye and eats another piece of fruit.
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    front of me and like 4 other employees. I wanted to slam my face into the ice bin, it was so cringey to witness. He promptly walked out the front door 10 minutes later without his uniform on anymore. The worst thing about it was the manager was an insanely laid back guy. Hell, the whole restaurant was insanely laid back. You really had to try hard to get fired from this place. Had he not thrown in that big line, I'm almost positive he would have just gotten a slap on the wrist and kept the job.
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    KnightofShaftsbury. New guy started on Monday and was gone by Friday. The guy hit some racking in the warehouse with the forklift, boss saw him do it, and the guy decided to lie about it when asked if he knew what happened. 22.4k Share
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    [deleted] This was a pizza place I worked at in college. New guy was started on Thursday. Fine worker we showed him the ropes. He was on subs which is the easiest job. The instructions are right in front of your face. Friday he no call no shows (it's Friday. The busiest night of the week. And he and I were the only kitchen workers that weren't also drivers). Monday a police officer shows up at the restaurant looking for him. No idea what happened as he wasn't there. Tuesday the owner informed me
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    pdxchris Couldn't pass the simple tests given at the end of new hire orientation. Yelled at test facilitator when she wouldn't just take the test for him. 7.7k Share
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    UltimaCaitSith The IT crew at a large government office worked on a ticket system, meaning that the government workers submitted their problem online and one of the IT guys would pick it up on their end. The new guy just started his first day, logged into a computer at an empty office, and submitted a "reinstall entire OS" request so he could spend all day there. The manager decided to check in on him before lunch to see how he was doing, and he was completely asleep. Fired before they even fini
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    [deleted]. Guy got hired, went through training and all that jazz. First day on the floor, he disappeared for 3 hours and then came back high as 1 k on like m. h or something. A manager found him in the bathroom aisle, staring at himself in the mirror. Said manager looked at the cameras after firing him, the guy was there staring at himself for at least 30+ minutes. Edit: edit to clear up some questions. I worked at Home Depot, he was in the aisle where we sell bathroom counter tops and medicine
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    jbiggs107. 5 days. My boss hired an "Executive Chef".. dude didn't even know how to make a quesadilla... 12.3k Share
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    lost_access New director starts, at lunchtime goes to cafeteria, pays for the first salad plate (by weight), then goes back twice for refills without paying. Cafeteria has cameras, cafeteria manager talks to the Partner in charge. New Director fired before the end of day. 6.6k Share
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    The_Tell_Tale_Heart Guy had been working a few days at a barn. Decided to smoke right by bales of hay. Manager saw him and fired him right on the spot. At farms, you don't f k around with fire. 14.7k Share ...
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    Obsolescencee A man was hired to do stock at a tea store that sold lots of delicate China. Manager walked into the back on his like third day and saw him just throwing boxes of tea cups and teapots. Instantly fired. 25.1k Share
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    datacollect_ct Didn't like the boss and on the first day took a p; in the gas tank of his jeep. Bragged about it and It was recorded too. 5.9k Share
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    Ed_Rock. About 35 minutes I hired a guy to work for me as quality inspector for merchandise headed to Walmart & Target. He bragged about everything he stole from his last job during training and how they paid him more than I did. Well, I'm not holding him back from all that money so I had some big guys escort him off the property 19.4k Share
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    giancarlox21 Day 1 of training. Within the 6th hour of a 8 hour shift. Worked in a old crank handle service elevator at a private residential condominium (for very very very wealthy people). We told him just shut up and stare straight ahead. Don't speak unless spoken to. Cause old rich people are mean and dont care about you. Well what's the new guy do? Starts a conversation right away and asks the resident," how much money do you make ". Edit: To be more clear, it was a 1920s skyscraper in down
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    123abdce During their onboarding training, they stole my bosses wallet on camera.... 1 hour in.. 2.9k Share
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    ninetiesluddite. This is the opposite route here but I found it amusing. My boss was out of town and I managed a tea shop near a Starbucks years ago. This kid came in (foreign) and said he was supposed to start today. We were hiring and I trained him etc. My boss came back two days later and had no idea. The kid was in the wrong place but he stayed with us. Hired on the spot without even applying. 3.6k Share
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