'Dracula voices at [the] drive thru': 20+ People who got fired from their jobs

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Aug 2, 2024 3:00 PM EDT

Listen, I just think you should be able to take a drive-thru order in whichever voice you feel like. The employees at fast food restaurants get super unbelievably bored of saying the same, "Hi, how can I help you?" phrase over and over. After you say it dozens of times per day, you start to hate the phrase. Why not change it up a little? One person replying to this hilarious thread did just that, but sadly, they got canned for their creativity. They just wanted to sprinkle in a little Dracula voice, saying "Vvvvelcome" to their customers. Sadly, their bosses didn't find it funny. 

Another person worked in retail and was fired for not owning the proper shade of khaki pants. People really can be fired for any reason, but at least we can laugh about it, thanks to the 7,500+ people who shared their funny stories to r/AskReddit. 

Next up, I hope you're hungry for some fails, because these people have whipped up some droopy bread dough and melted-looking cakes. 

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  • 01
    Granola Granola MUESLI MUESLI 'I got fired... for dropping a box of crackers from a shelf. My 90-year-old boss said I did it Carman) Carman "great-great- Weet-Bix BITES FREE purposely' ANGLA GRANOLA GRANOLA GRA
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    Why did you get fired?
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    [deleted] I got fired from CVS for dropping a box of crackers from a shelf. My 90-year old boss said I did it purposely and I am "out to get her". ?
    via u/[deleted]
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    OnlyUsersLoseD I worked at a motel when I was younger, graveyard shift. I worked at the front desk, and also took care of laundry. We were a smaller motel, so I rarely had check- in's after midnight, and laundry took all of 2 hours. The rest of the time I worked on homework, watched movies, and slept. Not a bad job for someone in college.
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    On Christmas Eve, we had someone call out, so I came in and worked the 3p-11p shift, and then worked my normal shift. The owner came in about 6 AM and told me (not asked, told) that I would be working the next shift as well. I respectfully told her that I would not be, that I had already worked two shifts and was going to spend the rest of Christmas with my family. Her response was that if I didn't work it, don't
    via u/OnlyUsersLoseD****
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    bother coming in for my next shift (which was that night). I tossed her the keys and wished her the best of luck in finding someone to work Christmas morning and the next two shifts since I wouldn't be returning. Funny thing, I got a call from her at 11:30 that night asking why I wasn't there. I reminded her that she had fired me that morning since
    via u/OnlyUsersLoseD****
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    I refused to stay, and she said that she was "just kidding". I told her I wasn't kidding, and hung up the phone
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    TwasIWhoS JR When I was in high school I worked at a pizza place. It wasn't like dominos or anything, it was a sit-down place with rides for kids and was essentially a mini amusement park - it was a nightmare. I had worked for like 8 hours, needed a cigarette, and was just having a day when this guy walked in and ordered a pizza. We made the pizza and sent it
    via u/TwasIWhoS***JR
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    to him and be complained that that wasn't what he ordered. I KNEW what he had ordered, and he was saying he had ordered something completely different, so I knew he was just with us to get free . (This was in a bad neighborhood btw) So my manager got involved and essentially patted this guy on the back and coo-ed him like a big baby and said we'd make him what he totally
    via u/TwasIWhoS***JR
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    really did order. So this starts making loud and snide comments, saying how stupid we all are and how we all should have respect for people who don't "need to work at a pizza place." I shrugged it off, whatever, humanity fail for the day. I take the pizza over to his table, which was covered in plates and napkins and other garbage he had already somehow accrued in ten minutes, and there
    via u/TwasIWhoS***JR
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    wasn't a clear spot to sit the pizza down on, and he wasn't making any attempt to clear a spot, so I asked 'Where can I put this?" and this guy's response was "God you're so stupid man..." He didn't get to finish his sentence because I threw the pizza onto him and literally went off the handle and yelled a short rant at this man's horrified face as he tried to wipe an extra large pan pizza off of his chest and lap.
    via u/TwasIWhoS***JR
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    My boss asked me to not return, and I happily complied. I never found out how much free that guy probably got. TI;Dr: I threw a pizza at a man. Edit: [redacted] - p.s I made $5.25 an hour while working there.
    via u/TwasIWhoS***JR
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    SamuelLChang Got hired as a bartender to replace the bosses son who had decided to move to Colorado. After working for a week got pulled aside and was told I was fired for being too slow. Came in the next week to pick up my check and guess who's back behind the bar working? Apparently he changed his mind about moving.
    via u/SamuelLChang
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    [deleted] I was fired from Zehrs (a Canadian grocery store) for not getting paid. I put in a transfer from one store to another, but the head office was taking too long to process the transfer, so I worked for two months without getting paid. I spoke to the cash office at work, my immediate supervisor, and my union rep. I was assured that the situation was "being handled". After
    via u/[deleted]
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    those two months, I was sick of working for free, so I told my manager that I wasn't going to come back in until I got paid. He said that was fine with him. The next day, I got a call from one of the store managers, telling me that she could give me $100 in cash and then "look into seeing if I'm owed anything else". I said no, the next pay day, I got the $1000+ I was owed, so I went back in. My manager told me that I had been fired for skipping work, and
    via u/[deleted]
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    the union let me know I could file a grievance over it the day before the deadline was up. tl;dr Gave corporate too many chances to sort it out, they did nothing, then fired me when I had enough
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    [deleted] I got fired from the Ritz Carlton for walking in the front door instead of using the "employee entrance".
    via u/[deleted]
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    3ilo boss hired boss's buddy, who promptly did no work. and started around with the client money. i called him on it.
    via u/3ilo
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    [deleted] I was fired from a coffee shop for a stupid reason once. I was on my way home from a shift when I realized I had promised my girlfriend I would make her a drink before I left work. I said whatever, I'll just stop by the location nearest my apartment and buy it for her there. I walked in, still wearing my store branded "uniform" t- shirt, so the barista says "Oh hey, you work for ****?
    via u/[deleted]
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    You shouldn't have to pay, I'll give you this for free!" I balked at first, saying no don't worry I'll pay, but everyone working at the time agreed I should get a free drink, they insisted and wouldn't take my money, so I caved. As soon as the drink was made, and the barista goes to hand it to me, out of the back bursts this angry looking manager with huge bushy eyebrows, furiously scowling at me.
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    He starts yelling "Who are you!?" "Where do you work?" "Do you really think you can scam me like that? Who do you take me for?!" He grabs the drink away from me, spilling it everywhere, points to the door and starts screaming "OUT!" until I left.
    via u/[deleted]
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    The next day when I arrived at my location, my manager takes me aside and shows me a series of CCTV printouts from the security camera at the other location I went to. He says the manager claimed I was demanding free drinks, claiming that I deserved. them and if I didn't get them for free I would call corporate. No amount of explaining could convince him I actually wanted to pay for that drink.
    via u/[deleted]
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    [deleted] Dracula voices at Tim Hortons drive thru. "Goooood evening and veellcome to tim hortons..."
    via u/[deleted]
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    PuSonLee I worked at a gas station several years back. The policy there was to pump your gas, then pay inside. If people pumped their gas and left without paying, I was not allowed to do anything about it. I couldn't say anything to the customer, wave them down as they drove, or anything else. Also, there were no cameras outside.
    via u/PuSonLee
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    With all these awesome policies, of course people stole gas all the time. I got fired due to the gas station's policies. They told me I was causing too many drive-offs. That was 5 years ago when I was a student. I still avoid Speedway gas stations at all costs.
    via u/PuSonLee
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    [deleted] When I was in highschool I was a shift lead at KFC. I got fired on Christmas eve for closing 15 minutes early because we ran out of chicken (chicken takes 15 minutes to cook). Merry Christmas.
    via u/[deleted]
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    gejimayu18 Not me, but a buddy of mine (on his last day of work) was told he was fired from BJ's because his till had come up $200 short the day before. They said he was fired and he was forced to sign paperwork basically saying he was guilty.
    via u/gejimayu18
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    It's BJ's policy that large. shortage is required to be reported, which it wasn't. Turns out a few months later the manager on duty was arrested for stealing a bunch of money out of employee's tills. TL;DR: Buddy of mine was fired because his manager stole money out of his till
    via u/gejimayu18
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    [deleted] I was hired to work the newly installed ice cream section at a little Mom and Pop restaurant about 15 years ago. First day there I was trained on how to properly clean the machines (by the guy who installed them) but that night the owner came up to me and told me he wanted them cleaned differently...In a way that would save them money
    via u/[deleted]
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    but would definitely not get the machines as clean as they should be. I decided to ignore the boss, he saw me, I was fired. HOWEVER...He had been drinking that evening and I assumed he wouldn't remember. Went in the next day as though I hadn't been fired and kept working there for another few years.
    via u/[deleted]
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    Moromon I recorded my first CD. You see, I worked in a pizza place and truly hated my tenure there. The co- workers were customers were , it was really a stereotypically bad job. However, as a poor student studying music, I kept on to it since I didn't think I could find anything else. So one day I learnt that my services would be needed to record a cd. I told my job roughly two
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    months in advance that I would need two weeks off to record. They said it was fine, and to remind them when it came closer. So I proceeded to tell them at least one time a week, "Hey guys, remember that I need those two weeks off." So I have 2 weeks before I leave, and I talk to my manager and give him the last details of everything(his idea). My last day of work, they all tell me good luck. and they can't wait to hear
    via u/Moromon
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    it. The last day of recording (also my birthday), my friend sends me a text telling me I got fired over a week ago for not showing up for work. TL;DR Manager never wrote down time I was taking off, I got fired for it.
    via u/Moromon
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    [deleted] I taught public school and told a parent who got in my face to go themselves. Best thing I ever did.
    via u/[deleted]
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    charlesml3 OK, so it's my turn. I was teaching at this little technical education company that was going downhill quickly. I was probably too vocal in my objections to the way the management was taking us. They'd been wanting to fire. me for months but I was the highest rated instructor in the company and made them the most money.
    via u/charlesml3
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    So finally the call came that I knew was coming and they were really insistent that I "bring my laptop in today." I got delayed and called saying I'd be late and again, "You have to bring that laptop in." This got me a bit suspicious so I purposely left it in the trunk of my car when I came in. So the local manager (John) is sitting there all indignant and hands me a check for my last few days and expenses. But he'd left out the back
    via u/charlesml3
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    vacation I was owed. When I asked about that he said there wasn't any even though I had documentation to prove I had it. So we're at an impasse and the laptop comes up. I got up, headed for the door and said "You'll get the laptop when I get my vacation pay." He was all yelling threats to call the police but I knew he wouldn't. Last thing he wanted was the Department of Labor up his ass.
    via u/charlesml3
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    Two weeks to the day later the company owner closes. the whole company and fires everyone else there. I never got my vacation pay but kept a decent laptop.
    via u/charlesml3
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    eburroughs 11:30> I IM a coworker a silly joke involving calling our boss an . We chuckle. 11:35> My friend calls my cellphone and asks if I want to come see his new workplace and possibly get offered a job. 11:36> I zip out the door, telling everyone I'm going on my lunch break.
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    11:40-12:30> I tour my friend's new workplace and have an informal interview with his boss (with no resume prepared, no references... nothing except my degree in the field and the good word of my who JUST got hired). friend 12:40> I go back to my workplace to find my boss sitting at my desk, running a Windows search on my workstation. I ask him what he's looking for. He
    via u/eburroughs
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    responds, "whatever's there." 13:00> I resume normal operations. 17:00> My boss returns to my desk, hands me a letter and tells me I'm fired. Hilarity ensues. Apparently he had been known to sit and snoop on other peoples' computers. I was so overly-eager to jump at a new job opportunity that I stupidly forgot to close
    via u/eburroughs
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    my IM window. I got hired at the other place a couple days later. Been there ever since.
    via u/eburroughs
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    [deleted] Well, my time in the office started to go downhill when I corrected my boss on the different forms of "their." I was sending a letter out to a community group, and was using "their" (e.g. their concerns are...). My direct boss kept saying I was using the wrong there, and they were tired of having to continually clean up my work. So I emailed them (and their direct boss, the big boss) the two definitions
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    of their and there, and apologized for the oversight. After that, literally everything I did was wrong in some way. To the point that she started editing my weekly reports to the big boss. Oh yeah, and she took credit for the largest success the office had in two years.
    via u/[deleted]
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    truth-informant I got fired from my first job working a movie theater because I did not own/could not afford the right shade of khaki pants. No joke.
    via u/truth-informant
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    desertjedi85 Was on reddit
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    Cow_of_Doom I was let go with "At Will/Unsatisfactory Work Performance" written on my paperwork, but it had more to do with the fact that I refused to forge tax documents.
    via u/Cow_of_Doom
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    Astrixtc I got fired for having a moustache...it was a really creepy moustache, but I had just come back from vacation and instead of shaving the entire beard, I decided to have a moustache day/week. My boss at the restaurant I was working in at the time wasn't pleased.
    via u/Astrixtc
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    DominiqueGoodwin • I had to get my wisdom teeth out so I asked for time off (a week). • Manager agrees. . Everything is brilliant... so I thought. ⚫ I called less than a week later to ask for my hours for the next day and my manager called back annoyed to tell me I'm scheduled (never mind the nonexistence of a
    via u/DominiqueGoodwin
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    schedule) for that day. • What?? • I politely responded that I had asked for that time off weeks ago and that I couldn't come in. • He told me that "it wasn't working out" and something resembling "reliable and working employees." • I'm looking for a job.
    via u/DominiqueGoodwin
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    hornflips When I was 16, I had the worst job of my life: I worked at Chuck E Cheese. After working 8 awful hours, someone called in, and I stayed late. I was then asked to put on "the suit". I was working at the wrong place to be sure, I hated kids at the time. I decided to run amok and started picking up random. kids as Chuck E Cheese and throwing them, willing or
    via u/hornflips
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    not, into the ball pit. When my manager came over to yell at me, I loudly told him to himself while standing in the suit in the middle of the dining. room, for all to hear. That was the end of my career at Chuck E Cheese.
    via u/hornflips
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    [deleted] I knowingly stood behind a falsified document, even after it was demonstrated to be a forgery. My boss was fired as well.
    via u/[deleted]
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    Final7C Something about not listening... I wasn't really paying attention.
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