15+ Employees who were fired on the spot: 'He lost a $100k+ job for stealing eggs'

When an employee is spending more time avoiding work than actually getting things done, the bosses tend to notice. They don't like that kind of thing! They've hired an employee to work, obviously, and when they don't, their burden falls onto the shoulders of their colleagues. Depending on how big the team is, it might take a while for management to notice if someone is sneaking off every day, wasting hours of working time, or if someone doesn't do any work by refusing to answer calls. There are plenty of ways that a person can "work" for 8 hours while accomplishing basically nothing. 

Some workers managed to finesse their company's time clocks. One dude was called out for driving to work, clocking in, then leaving all day to do whatever he pleased, then finally coming back at the end of the day to clock out. It's no wonder he got fired! Another person was hired to do quality checks, but instead, spent every working moment writing his own book. Naturally, when the company found out, they were not happy, and he was fired quick. He'll have to sell a lot of copies to replace that steady salary! And of course, there are lots of workers who just straight-up steal from their jobs, like one waitress who kept swiping tips that weren't hers. Coworkers clearly notice that kind of thing, and even if they don't, the cameras will tell on her instead. Keep reading to discover a bunch of excellent stories of all the ways people got fired on the spot, as told by the coworkers and bosses who watched it all play out.

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    Yossarian147 We had an employee cafeteria at a Fortune 500 company. You'd get your food at a counter and bring it, in one of those white foam clamshell containers, to the register where you'd just tell the cashier what you got. This one fellow regularly
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    ordered 3-egg scrambles and told the cashier he had just one egg. He got caught once and told never to do it again. He did it again, and lost a $100k+ job for stealing eggs.
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    [deleted] I knew a guy at work who did quality control at my company- I work in financial bullshit so QC is done entirely on a computer For a year and a half he faked all of his reports and he used company time to write a book Guy never finished the book unfortunately
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    pirateteaparty He was stealing Klondie Bars from the company freezer. One of the managers brought in a hidden camera to catch the thief. We all knew the camera was there so he crawled over to the freezer all ninja style to stay under the camera's field of vision.
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    It would have worked, except, when he stood back up he tried to do it all fancy, and fell backward back into the camera's view.
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    Dylsnick Dude would drive to the site, park his work van, then have his GF pick him up and take off for 8 hours, come back and pick up the van, thereby cleverly fooling the GPS tracker in the vehicle...
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    But not the camera pointing directly at the spot where he parked, got picked up, and dropped off. Cost the company a substantial contract. And himself a job.
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    JuliusSeizure22 I had this one coworker I worked with for years in highschool. Thought she was great. I came back from college to work over break and found out she had stolen $2,000 counting drawers over the years.
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    Forsaken-Charact... She stole cash tips off tables as a busser. When we got her on camera and confronted her, she said she never used the cash she stole, just put it in a savings account and let it sit there, as if that would clear her name.
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    weedful_things The assistant manager at a restaurant I worked at would give change back but wouldn't ring up the ticket. At the end of the night, he would do them all at once and apply coupons. I don't know how long this went but they finally caught on. He didn't actually get fired, but quit when the jig was up. Last time I saw him he was a police officer.
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    gogojack Our company was in the process of being sold. This guy who was like the assistant manager had been told by the original company that he would get the manager job when the other guy was promoted to regional manager (I'm simplifying it but that's the gist).
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    Anyway, the manager was kind of a dick, and we didn't care for him, but this guy was a total douche. If he'd been promoted, it would have been a disaster. When the time came for us to sign our contracts with the new employer, he went to each and every person in the department and asked us to refuse to sign unless the manager was fired and he was promoted.
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    He tried to stage a coup. Nobody agreed with his plan, and one person reported him to the higher- ups. He took the next day off - because it was his birthday - and when he returned to the office HR was waiting for him. Then he sued for wrongful termination. He lost.
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    [d... Company got hit with ransomware; his job was server backups; we found out afterwards that backups weren't being done.
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    Ilcucf80 He didn't do anything. I mean that, that's why he got fired, because he didn't do anything. Everything was tired of his laziness and total ineptitude
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    squirrel-phone Worked in a semi-clean room, we had to wear full body smocks. No food or liquid is allowed in the work area. I was training a new guy and he kept eating M&Ms out of his smock pocket with tweezers. I asked him to stop. Repeatedly. He didn't. He didn't pass training and we let him go.
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    Hrekires He was taking a nap at his desk because he wasn't feeling well during a slow Saturday shift when the CEO happened to walk through the pit before any of us. could wake him up.
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    kjbrasda He was long time suspected of stealing items from the shop, but it was let slide because he was a decent worker and the items weren't all that pricey (stuff like oil, filters, etc.) Then he stole cash from the drawer.
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    He had to pay the money back and I think he was in probation, but got to stay. Last straw was stealing from a customer's vehicle. He lost his job because he had to have a DVD of Ass Blasters.
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    Rgt6 Carried a bag for his own product line, complementary more than competitive to ours. In sales calls (that we sent him on) would make a pitch for both. Apparently had been doing this for over a year. Was caught when a customer called us for a quote on his product. Gone like sh*t through a goose.
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    Cold_Hour He arrived and from the first day was very adamant our comapny switch marketing agencies. He spent hours a day setting up meetings with the comapny in question. which led to our company reviewing the call logs. This idiot was using the company phones to hatch a scheme with his brother-in- law where we'd switch to the
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    BIL's marketing company and the co-worker would get a cut of whatever we paid them. The best part... He was fired 6 days into his contract.
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    vel... Worked in demolition. Pranked my coworker with a fire extinguisher by luring him into a small room an spraying him. We were in full hazmat gear so he wasn't harmed. He thought it was so funny and ended up getting drunk that night and tried to pull the same prank on our co-
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    worker in the hotel we were staying at. Then the fire alarm went off, and he tried to jump off the bed and kick the smoke detector off the ceiling. Dude got canned
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    marblez30 Bounty hunters came to get him while he was on shift. I don't know what for, but I guess it was something minor, because he was out again pretty quickly. He tried to come back to work for a little bit, but then stopped coming in without saying
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    anything, so boss told us to consider him "let go". The last time I saw him, (a couple months later) he was getting arrested (again) one shopping center over ☺
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    KyleeesB He would answer a call, put them on hold, fall asleep and when they hung up and the next person in the queue came through, the ring would wake him up.
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