‘He stole the CEO‘s lunch': Employees Share the Weirdest Reasons Coworkers Got Fired From Their Jobs

• "What’s the most ridiculous reason someone got fired from your workplace?"

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• raceulfson:

  An expensive ($1800) item went missing from our shop. A competitor called my boss, asking if we were missing said item. One of our crew had taken it and sold it to the competitor for $40.

  How did he know it was from our shop? The employee told him he'd stolen it from us. The employee also signed the receipt for the $40 cash, writing in his full name and address.

  My boss reimbursed the competitor the $40, took the item and the receipt, and confronted the employee.

  Employee admitted to the theft but was genuinely baffled that he was fired over it. He complained to everyone, including customers in the lobby, that he'd been fired for stealing and he only got $40!

• MistyyQueenn:

  A coworker got fired for stealing everyone‘s lunches. The final straw was when he stole the CEO‘s lunch and left a thank you note

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• FeatureAltruistic529:

  He didn’t smile enough. Literally received a termination email saying that it’s part of the employee handbook and he wasn’t doing it

• guitarmannunly:

  Guy stole the extra toilet paper from the bathrooms. They had him on camera walking out with like 7 rolls.

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• NICEnEVILmike:

  I have 2 stories (I'll try to keep them as short as possible):

  Salaried leaders at the company I worked for didn't have to clock in or out, we just had to scan our ID to get on property, and it was assumed that each time you scanned it meant you worked a full shift, and you'd earn your vacation and accrued sick time based on that assumption. One guy got promoted to a salaried role and would scan in on days he wasn't working and managed to build up a lot of vacation time. It wasn't unusual for people to 7 days some weeks, so it went unnoticed for a long time. Dude was going on vacation all the time until people started asking questions and he got caught.

  Another guy was in a high visibility position that reported directly to VPs and above and required walking all over the property throughout the shift while carrying a walkie-talkie radio to respond to various calls. He got caught "working" from home and responding to radio calls from his house. He was able to do it for quite some time until an emergency happened that required his presence and he wasn't there.

• FantasticVoyuerage:

  A lady would come to work, clock in, go home, come back, "take lunch" leave, come back and clock out. She had been doing it for a while before she was caught because they updated the systems and had us clock in/out on an app. GPS got her.

• okmyguy1:

  Ages ago I got fired from a bank for “stealing bank property”. I took a plastic fork and knife with me from our work kitchen at lunch to go eat at a park nearby. At the end of that week they had put me on leave to investigate, and then a week later fired me. On the call with HR they called the disposable one-time use plastic silverware bank property and therefore it was not to be taken off the premises.

• DiskPidge:

  Many years ago I worked in a bar / restaurant in the UK.  One of the waitresses forgot to add the gratuity onto the bill.

  The boss demanded she pay the gratuity herself.  She refused, so that's why he fired her.

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