'Got fired 4 hours into my first day': Karen coworker gets new warehouse employee booted for working too slowly

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Aug 9, 2024 4:00 PM EDT

New employees are not supposed to spend their first day at a job fearing that they will be immediately fired.

The typical first day should involve getting to know one's coworkers and employers, becoming adjusted to daily tasks and responsibilities, and gaining a general understanding of the expectations in this new workplace environment. One should not feel tested on day one or threatened by a competing coworker. Unfortunately for this warehouse employee, he arrived on the job and instantly found himself dealing with an imposing Karen coworker. She started insulting his pace and lack of efficiency after just four hours of working. When she disappeared, the employee thought he found himself free from her intrusive personality. Instead, she had gone off to the higher-ups to get him fired… and it worked.

Keep scrolling below for the full story from the Original Poster's perspective. For more tales of workplace drama, check out this story about a boss who forced employees to come to work during a raging hurricane.

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    . Almada "I was absolutely furious and confused [as to] why this lady [would go] out of her way to get me fired" Budweiser Bud . . .
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    Got fired 4 hours into my first day I went through a staffing agency and found a job that seemed pretty decent. Got all the details about the
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    dress code and schedule and pretty excited. I show up 15 minutes prior (thanks Army) and I walk in with an open mind and a willingness to learn.
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    Get into the office and fill out some paperwork while the ladies in there chat with
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    me. Meet the owner, he was cool but busy seeing as he's always on the phone. So far all around great
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    environment. Get out to the floor with one of the office ladies and after the pleasantries she basically tells me since it's super slow
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    in the mornings to "just look busy". So she recommended. that I sweep the warehouse, too easy. Sweep half the warehouse and get tasked out to do another task.
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    Normally I'd ask if I could finish the first task before I start something else but no
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    biggie. The guy I got "paired" up with told me people freak out if this task isn't done a certain way. He proceeds to show me the way to do it and I take over.
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    Here's where the "fun" begins I'm 99% done and the office lady brings
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    someone over to me saying that I'd be paired with her. I thought "Aight cool". Now I'm not a judgmental person but this woman has all the past looks of m e use. So she asks me what I'm doing and says that I'm not doing
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    it right and tells me to undo the whole thing. Then proceeds to ask if I was sweeping, I replied yes. She
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    goes off on a rant that that's not where the broom goes and people don't put things where they belong. And she spots my small pile of
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    dust/dirt and trash, and yells at me that we're not allowed to leave a pile sitting in the warehouse. Keep in mind that I forgot all about it (it was out of the way and I wasn't going to let it sit there). She made a remark that I'm a "strong young
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    man” and I can lift blah blah blah and she can't because she's a female. Let that one slide, then started a task building boxes and placing items in them and taping them up and stacking them on a pallet. She tells me two of the other guys in
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    the warehouse can do this super quick, I just gave a Oh type nod. She starts asking why I'm slow, I politely explained to her that I have. a leg that's shorter than the other and a bad back. She then starts insinuating that I was raised spoiled and that
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    I'm lazy, I was confused because it's my first day and I haven't done something like this before.
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    First break starts and I ask the office ladies if they can talk to her as she's been rde and expecting me to be lightning fast on my first
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    day. After the break I don't see her for the next two hours. Lunch time comes around and the woman tries to get me out of the warehouse quickly. And I run to the gas station to grab a snack and a RedBull. It's at this moment I get a
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    call from the lady at the staffing agency telling me that I can go home. When I asked why she told me she's gotten complaints about. me. I was dumbfounded and asked what the complaints were. She was told that I had said I had two blown
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    out knees and I didn't wanna work. I was absolutely furious and confused why this lady had gone out of her way to get me fired. Oh the reason why she's was gone for two hours is
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    because she was filing "complaints 863 people here 321 Comments
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    Revis_FL. 9 hr. ago. edited 9 hr. ago I can't stand employers who side with people who have been there longer, and don't even attempt to get your
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    side of the story. I got written up once like this. My coworker told a bs lie to our boss and he just wrote me up without even speaking to me. When I did speak with him he didn't even care to
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    listen and told me to "use it as a learning experience." Then it happened again. a couple months later and I didn't show up the next day. So glad I'm not working there anymore. I kind of hate
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    that my coworker "won" but at the end of the day I don't like drama at work. I just want to do my work and go home. Anyway OP sorry you're unemployed but you're
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    better off working somewhere else. 438 Reply
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