'[She] showed up in pajamas and... thought she wouldn't have to actually talk to people': 20+ Workers who got fired with haste after terrible first days on the job

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    People who saw someone get fired on day one of a new job, what did that person do to get fired?
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    funlovefun37 He kind of fired himself. Hired as the President of a live entertainment company. The owner threw a big welcome meeting in the enormous lobby. Breakfast served and the whole nine yards. Literally a million dollar salary -easy. Dude never showed. Was a running joke for years.
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    Comfortable-Fi... School bus driver. First day on job after a month of training she was seen talking on her cell phone while driving a bus full of kids.
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    boringcranberry Boss hired a temp. In the first 20 minutes he emptied her candy jar. Like took every single piece. He then asked to take lunch at 10am and she told him not to come back.
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    mylopolis Dude interviewed well, showed up on his first Monday at the office... drunk as ! Slurring, stumbling, trying to use the coffee machine and just spewing coffee all over the floor. Security walked him out within the first hour.
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    Colt_kun Showed up in pajamas and when walked to the circulation desk, wrinkled her nose and said she thought she wouldnt have to actually talk to people. The position was titled circulation and customer service...
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    pantspartynyc New guy was hired as a courier driver. Came in for his first day, and was handed some paperwork to deliver to the nearest city about 20 minutes away. He says "I don't drive in the city" That was literally the job, so he was quickly dismissed.
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    Tuxiecat13 Not day one but like day 3. He tried to hack the company computers and get customers information.
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    III-Organization... Refused to wear proper PPE. The supervisor told him to put it on. He flat out said no, so they fired him. Didn't even make it to first coffee break. If a guy is that adamant about safety gear on his first day, it isn't a good sign.
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    naporeon Dude I started with during an overnight, locked-in stocking position at Toys R Us went absolutely mental. He worked about one quarter of the shift, then started talking complete madness, then disappeared entirely. As in, we couldn't find him anywhere. We'd see evidence he was still in the store, but didn't see or hear him at all. After a couple
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    hours of this, he would suddenly leap into whatever aisle we were in and just start SHRIEKING. Or laughing manically. Or literally throwing merchandise at us. Bizarrely, he tried to show up the next day, as if he were unaware of what went down.
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    The lead guy said that happened A LOT -- dudes just couldn't handle being locked in a silent, empty store all night. "Why'd you think we were hiring three guys at once for a 6-man crew?"
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    ellWatully Ok, not the first day, but we had a new hire his company issued laptop on his first weekend. He came in after the weekend, said he left his laptop at home and asked for another one. He was told, that's not how it works and to go home to get the computer. Then he went out into the parking lot, broke one of his windows,
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    and came right back in saying the laptop was stolen out of his car. Like dude, your car was parked literally directly in front of the manager's office window. He tried to get me to backup his story which A) i didn't even know the guy, but also B) the person you want me to lie to watched you break your own window.
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    lilyblains Archaeologist working on a longhouse site with human remains uncovered and First Nations liaisons present. New girl with no field experience somehow thought she was second in command on site and an osteology expert. Started telling everyone that if they found bones to bring them to her. Someone found
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    raccoon bones and she started saying they were actually human fetal bones and that First Nations used to bury babies inside the walls of their longhouses??? She was removed from site before lunch.
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    ClassicVegtable... We were in a rut and desperately needed people, so my boss told me to lower my standards (commercial driving job and I had disqualified like four candidates, all warranted imo). I said fine, I'll try, and he sends me a student from our driving school (first three days are classroom, last 2 days are for driving.
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    This man shows up. Late. No uniform (we bought him one). I ask him where his uniform is. Left it at home. I say okay, you can have someone bring it on lunch, let me see your driver's license. He says he also left that at home. I say how do you show up to be a driver on your first day, late, without your uniform and license. He says sorry, he overslept. I fired him on the
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    spot. He cussed me out and walked away. My boss started to scold me until I told him what happened. He stopped lol.
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    FastOrangeCat In Dallas, I saw a new bartender get fired within an hour of starting training. A group of guys paid their tab in cash. She said, "These men are from Spain, they don't tip," then pocketed $5 before giving them their change. She was asked to leave and not come back.
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    AGeekNamedBob New hire's first day as an usher at a movie theatre. I was training them and he just vanished. Showed again a few hours later. Turns out he went and watched a whole movie, from beginning to end. "We were slow and you said there wasn't much more to train on, and you said we can watch stuff on shift" was the excuse. He severely misunderstood my
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    "when it's slow, you have some free time" comments. Like man, there's more to cover and we don't just watch a whole movie. If there isn't much to do and the right folks are on shift, you can watch a few minutes here and there. As an usher, it's assumed if you're not seen, you're off doing your job somewhere (and we're on radio if needed).
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    Merry Melody-S... Was an unpaid intern at my mom's campsite for the summer just to get something to do. Mom hires a new guy for a trial period, and as I know practically how everything works, I'm told to shadow him for a few days. (keep in mind this is a small campsite, and a family business first and foremost).
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    Conversation starts up, and immediately, new guy zeroes in on a worker just doing his job and starts trash-talking him like crazy, while the worker was only doing his job of trimming the hedges, emptying the trash, that sort of stuff. They hadn't even been introduced yet.
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    End of the day I report to my mom, new guy in tow. Snitch that I am, I tell every unsavory detail that spewed from the little rat's mouth. The worker he trash-talked all day long for no reason? My dad, mom's husband. Mom told him his trial period was over, and to get out of her property and never show his face here again.
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    eshemuta Guy was hired contingent on background/credit check. On day three I got a call from HR saying he wasn't eligible. The store manager who hired him made me fire him. Took him in the office and said... your checks came back negative and ya can't work here. He started going on about his record had been sealed and the forgery and theft
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    convictions were supposed to be expunged. And then I said... no man, you got bad credit. Fast forward 3 months. The company dropped the credit check requirement, so the store manager hired him again. Three weeks later they caught him stealing computers.
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    anotherdumbca... Pretended he didn't have two hit-and-run accidents in the employee parking lot by claimining he didn't even own a car. He called a friend and planned to sneak his car keys out to the friend so it could be driven down the street for him to get to later.
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    He apparently aroused suspicion that he was up to something when he asked a few of his new co-workers if there was an exit to the building that couldn't be observed from the security desk.
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    DasGoat Technically it was the second day. I work in a steel foundry and my boss hired a guy last year. First day is orientation and my let this guy and another that was in orientation to leave early to go to Redwing and pick up some required and company paid for boots. The guy shows up the next day wearing sneakers. Says he fell asleep and didn't make it
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    to Redwing. My boss tells him he can't be out in the plant in sneakers. This is 7am so my boss tells him to go home and when Redwing opens at 8:30 get some boots and come back. About noon he isn't back yet and isn't answering his phone. Boss calls Redwing and they say he hasn't been there. Boss tells them not give him boots if he shows up. An hour later he calls my boss
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    saying Redwing wouldn't give him any boots. When my boss asked him why he didn't go at 8:30 like he was told he gave the same I fell asleep excuse. He was crying about how nobody will give him a chance when my boss told him he wasn't wasting anymore time with him. You were given a chance and blew it because you couldn't be bothered to pick up free work boots.
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    D A little more like a week, but using a press to install a component on a circuit board. Was just smashing them. When told he had to go easier so he wouldn't break them, he said "that's the way I do it." Well I guess you can go do it your way somewhere else.
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    noeljb Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing. He was just sitting there doing absolutely nothing for like four hours. While everyone else was working their off.
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    Jackandahalfa Said they knew InDesign. First day on job, clearly had never even seen InDesign before.
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    j. New security guard fell asleep in various locations around the school throughout his first day. He was fired around 3pm when the principal found him asleep in the front lobby.
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    Edit: A few people have mentioned that maybe he has narcolepsy. Just to correct a misconception the public has about narcolepsy: it is not an excuse to fall asleep all day and then scream discrimination when you get fired. I have narcolepsy. I also get treatment for my narcolepsy and am able to work a full- time job without falling
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    asleep all day. I have also made my disability known to my employer and completed all necessary paperwork to get reasonable accommodations through ADA. So yes, maybe he has narcolepsy. In which case, he needs to go see a doctor.
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    necroticcyst Dude was asked to change a light bulb in the back and ended up taking down three cameras and taking them home
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    stratospaly He lasted 1 day, went for drinks with the team and boss. Commented about the boss's 16 year old daughter then just would not stop. "Is she single" was the last straw. He did not make it to day 2. This guy was 30 and in an $80k/yr Network Admin job (decent money in 2014).
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    MaggieNFredders Drank during the welcome lunch after the boss questioned if drinking at lunch was a good idea. Dude said sure not a problem.
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    SomerHimpson12 Working at a burger place outside of Pittsburgh, some lady who had applied for a job at our place came in wondering why the manager wasn't there to do the interview......I informed her that he had an emergency and needed to reschedule, and apologized but she got nasty with me, saying she NEEDED a job and needed to work, and I understood,
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    but when I excused myself to handle a situation with a customer, she got that. Manager hired her, despite my misgivings. | at Day 1, she began hitting up her coworkers for money. She then hit me up and then threatened me. She was immediately fired. Less than an hour in.
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    jcar49 Not the first day but the first month, I was training this girl and part of the job is maintenance she and I had to sign off on what she was trained, she refused to sweep and refused to learn how to grease the bearings. I filled out the paperwork and I quote "she just got her nail extensions done and didn't want to ruin them"
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    Without looking what I wrote or what the paper work was she just signs off on it. Her access card was terminated the day after and she was stuck in the rain until security escorted her to HR.
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    Impossible-Moo... A while ago now (20 years. ish) the person who showed up for work was absolutely not the person who was interviewed. Heard a couple different stories for what had happened (either they sent someone else to interview for them or someone stood in their place because they went awol but both to me are far
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    fetched). Never got to the bottom of it and wasn't high enough in the company to learn what happened. But it was definitely weird.
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    winkers I work in software development. For new hires, the team will take them out and the available directors will join to make it a joyous experience. So we are walking to the local restaurant together and the new hire starts happily bragging how he's brought us 100% of his former employer's code. Application, DevOps, and

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