Employees share hilarious stories of new hires who were fired on the first day: 'Kid lied about his experience as a foreman and drove a skid into the side of the house we were working on'

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Isabella Penn
May 25, 2024 5:00 PM EDT

Getting a new hire at your job is always exciting. It's nice to have a fresh perspective, someone to help with the workload, and possibly a new work bestie. Unless they are a terrible employee, then it's not exciting to get a new hire. Sometimes, employees are onboarded, make it to the 90-day review period, and are let go. Or sometimes they decide that the company wasn't what they were looking for, and leave on their own. That's why you can't get yourself super invested in a new coworker because you don't actually know yet if they are there to stay. Well, in these employee's cases, they could hardly get to know the new hires' names because they didn't make it past the first day. And if you're getting fired on the first day, you know you've got to really mess up. We're talking - clean up your belongings immediately, with no warnings first, type of fired. What could possibly convince an employer to immediately fire someone on their first day after using all their time and resources to onboard the new employee? Well, check out these stories below of what these new hires did to get fired on day one, and then you'll understand. 

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    People who've seen someone get fired on the first day, why were they fired?
    via pcess609
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    . Laeryl 15h ago Worked in a chemical plant as QC (to make it short I was one of the chemists who check if the products were good enough to leave the plant). A guy working in production came for his first day, he took his break and he light a cigarette next to a 10.000 liters acetone tank. He was out before I could even blink an eye.
    via u/Laeryl
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    Wenlocke • 12h ago The afternoon of his first day as a developer, he was noticed downloading the source code of our main product app from the source control system to a personal usb stick. Said he wanted to "take it home and mess with it in his spare time"
    via u/Wenlocke
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    dirge-kismet • 12h ago On my first day at Target another new hire jokingly jumped into the cardboard compactor and the boss sent him packing instantly. It wasn't on or anything, they just have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to jackassery. We'd been on the job for less than an hour so he made something like $6 total while working for Target.
    via u/dirge-kismet
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    southshieldtravis 13h ago . I was working at a large scale architectural firm in the Bay Area in 2004 and they hired a new guy and after his orientation and paper work he finally gets to his cubicle. The first thing he does is puts on his headphones and blasts death metal (Cannibal Corpse) so loud that everyone can hear and that's him using headphones. However that was not got him fired. His first work item was to write a company wide email that said Debbie Harry of Blondie was responsible for 9
    via u/southshieldtravis
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    davethemacguy • 13h ago Graphic designer. Didn't know how to use a mouse.
    via u/davethemacguy
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    tuckedfexas 12h ago Kid lied about his experience as a "foreman" and drove a skid into the side of the house we were working on. Forks straight into the siding it was hilarious lol
    via u/tuckedfexas
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    CallousedPhallus ⚫ . 13h ago Dishwasher. First day on the job, went on break and went to the bar next door. Took a while to come back so chef went and found him. We needed a dish washer bad and he was actually pretty quick at doing dishes. Chef gives him a second chance. Second day, goes on break again and stops at 7/11. Gets a tall boy of mikes
    via u/CallousedPhallus
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    hard and starts drinking it right outside the back door (we have a picnic table right outside our back door for staff to eat/smoke). Chef finds him again and fires him on the spot. Sad part is, my chef probably wouldn't have gave a if he was always drunk, it was the fact he didn't even try to hide it.
    via u/CallousedPhallus
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    GodMachineBroke 12h ago • I worked in a kitchen and a new guy came in. I asked him to grab something from our cleaning supplies storage which was in a shed out back. He was gone for a while, so I took a look at the cameras and he was smoking a blunt while peeing in the shed right next to the cleaning supplies.
    via u/GodMachineBroke
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    AudibleNod 15h ago . Guy at fast food place showed up drunk and three hours late. Then he didn't clock in, just started working. When the manager asked him to clock in he yelled. She was a tiny lady so she called in another manager to help fire him.
    via u/AudibleNod
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    Meet the Meat ⚫ 11h ago He was a first day blackjack dealer. He took in $5 cash and exchanged it for a $500 chip. The lady stared at him for a good 20 seconds, picked up her chip and left the building. Gaming took his badge shortly after.
    via u/Meet_the_Meat
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    I laughed out loud and sheepishly said "Sorry dude. I'm kinda working right now." He thanked me anyways and walked out the building. He accidentally did me a big favor because so many of my new coworkers saw that interaction, and thought it was so incredibly hilarious, they all became immediately friendly with me to talk about it.
    via u/Bgrngod
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    . SouplsForWinners 11h ago I hired temp for data input. Her first day a guy pulled me aside and said, "She can't be here." Apparently one of our full time employees had a restraining order against her. I sent the employee home and apologized, then called her agency and told them she was not welcome back. Not sure what the order was for but my guess is stalking.
    via u/SoupIsForWinners
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    TheRexRider • 14h ago . Fighting with a customer by getting in their face and yelling at them. The dumbass thought the company owed him loyalty for being an employee,. Oh boy, wait until he learns.
    via u/TheRexRider
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    UnderToe1111 • 13h ago Pushed the emergency stop red button when there were signs everywhere saying do not push unless emergency. Corporate needs to perform an investigation before work could resume.
    via u/UnderToe1111
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    Bald Yew 12h ago . 1st day 7 hours into her shift. Gave her reasonable suspicion alcohol breathalyzer, she blew a .12.
    via u/Bald_Yew
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    TheBoomExpress 12h ago We fired a 16 year old her first training shift of being a cashier when the manager caught her doing bong rips in the employee washroom on her 15 minute break.
    via u/TheBoomExpress
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    HeadFit2660 11h ago New substitute teacher fired on day 1 for writing "BE QUIET" IN SHARPIE on 2 kids foreheads
    via u/HeadFit2660
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    Langstarr • 11h ago I was bartending at a sports bar in Hells Kitchen. New guy training first day, supposedly several years of experience. He attempted to shake a jack and coke, and of course covered the bar in his mess. Didn't come back for day 2.
    via u/Langstarr

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