Managers reveal the worst thing an employee has done to get fired: 'He walked in 25 minutes late holding a Starbucks cup and said “I couldn’t help it, the drive thru took forever”'

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Isabella Penn
Apr 6, 2024 9:00 PM EDT

No one wants to get fired. A lot of times, getting fired is entirely out of our control. Lots of employees have found themselves in this situation recently, with companies doing mass layoffs and inflation continuing to rise. In this one employee's case, their boss changed their workweek from 40 hours to 42.5 hours, causing rage amongst the workforce, while many outside perspectives speculated that this was the employer's way of weeding out employees without having to do mass layoffs. Whatever the reason, losing a job is tough, but it's even tougher when it's your own fault. Yet, in the cases of these ex-employees below, their ridiculous actions were 100% to blame for being fired. Some of these stories were completely uncalled for and wouldn't have resulted in anything else except getting fired. And these managers are here to share the hilarious, unexpected stories with us. Keep reading below. Maybe everyone needs to take a note from this retired employee who shared 4 important rules he's learned in the workforce.

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    Posted by u/TeddyBabyyy 2 hours ago Managers of Reddit, what's the worst thing an employee has done to get themselves fired?
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    p38-lightning · 2 hr. ago Dumbest, maybe not the worse: A mechanic in my chemical plant wrapped expensive copper tubing around his chest and put his coat over it. It was a really cold day and it started drawing up to where he couldn't breath - just as he got to the guard gate. The guards had a good laugh unwinding the soon-to-be- unemployed mechanic.
    via u/p38-lightning
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    Adventurous_Fox_2096 2 hr. ago Story comes from my mum who's a night manager at a retail shop. This guy starts, He absolutely REEKS and when I mean reek customers would report a horrid smell from whereever he'd been even hours after he'd gone home. Imediatly the Shop
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    manager and my mum and the rest of the team want him gone, but this is the UK, he can't be sacked for just smelling worse than a skunk. So over the next few days he's monitored daily where eventually he's caught on camera, reaching into his trousers and pulling out What looks like rotten meat and fish and eating it raw.
    via u/Adventurous_Fox_2096
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    He was quickly dismissed for Contaminating "Free from" products intentionally.
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    • asking_hyena · 2 hr. ago blew up 45 000$ worth of equipment through shoddy electrical work he had been already trained for. To be fair, this one's also on us management, we probably shouldn't have let him have a go at even this simple electrical work considering how unreliable he had shown himself to be thus far.
    via u/asking_hyena
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    Eventually, after weeks of complaints the IT department set up a hidden camera and caught the woman taking two yogurts, a weight watchers TV dinner and a can of coke in one swoop. At another job, a co-worker got snippy with the receptionist
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    during an internal phone call. As she clicked the phone, she said 'f-----g '- but the click did not disconnect the call, the receptionist was still on the line and said 'what did you call me?' HR would later get involved, it was investigated and the co- worker was terminated.
    via u/boxingfan828
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    Holmes02 · 2 hr. ago • I don't remember the circumstances but an employee slapped our general manager and walked out. No the police weren't called probably because the GM was doing a lot of shady and that's probably why he got slapped.
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    rustblooms 54 min. ago • Got mildly injured by the garage door in the warehouse after around. Agreed to go to the hospital after his supervisor very clearly told him there would be a drug test and he didn't HAVE to go to the hospital. And that he would be fired if he tested positive on
    via u/rustblooms
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    the drug test. Remember, this was a mild injury. Like a small scrape. (Saying this as a co- worker who saw it, not a boss trying to downplay!) Guess who got fired?
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    jimmyb1982. 1 hr. ago I'm not a manager but an employee of an airport cargo handling company. We had a guy, high, crash a brand new jet engine airstart unit into a jet engine. Bosses were not happy.
    via u/jimmyb1982
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    Luthalis 52 min. ago First job in insurance, weird guy wanted to be in SIU, the team that investigates fraud. He got it in his head that, rather than investigating external fraud as part of the claims department, they were a kind of clandestine CIA operation who were listening in on our phone calls and you could get tapped to join
    via u/Luthalis
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    if you were smart enough and hard working enough. He was fired for sleeping at his desk repeatedly.
    via u/Luthalis
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    • palinsafterbirth · 2 hr. ago Not really a manager but a small business owner (wedding photographer). Showed up an hour and a half late smelling of whiskey and weed, got him to photograph a bit past the ceremony then told him to peace.
    via u/palinsafterbirth
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    Gibbo1044 1 hr. ago I worked at a food distribution center in the UK years ago. You could get into trouble for leaving the warehouse floor without authorisation and this guy wanted to use the loo but didn't want to get into trouble. So he done a in one of the 1100ltr wheelie bins that are scattered around the warehouse. He was fired, I think I laughed for 2 days.
    via u/Gibbo1044
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    DoYouSmellChloroform 1 hr. ago • He asked a coworker in the parking lot if he could pay him to complete his assigned work. He faked it through the interview process and was a terrible hire.
    via u/DoYouSmellChloroform
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    . Difficult_Image_4552 · 40 min. ago Supposed to drive a car from one city to another on a Friday. Probably 2 hour trip? Took it to Mexico and partied for a weekend and delivered the car on Monday. This was not even a border state.
    via u/Difficult_Image_4552
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    plants4life262 .53 min. ago One time an employee at my company (biiig company) did a reply-all to a company wide email complaining about the timing of employer-provided lunch. He was gone within a couple weeks.
    via u/plants4life262
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    bigfatfish5000 - 41 min. ago Not a manager but a carpenter with sevral employees but I had a worker doing a window replacement I'm a person's home. The room he was working in had a fully stocked bar. Employee drank a 400$ bottle of liquor and homeowner found him passed out in their guest room
    via u/bigfatfish5000
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    • DarkKnight77 · 1 hr. ago I had one dude writing creepy fantasy stories about females AT WORK.....on the WORK COMPUTER
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