Wildest times employees deservedly got fired: 'The meeting was the consultant stealing a laptop from a client cubicle'

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  • What was a time when someone absolutely deserved to be fired?

    I'll never forget the woman in the IT department that I had to fire. Suzy had been there a long time and her new supervisor built an interesting case against her. Suzy would disappear for 4-5 hours for a one hour meeting, and come back with a fresh haircut. Suzy also took many many personal phone
  • calls on the company's land line - this was pre-cell phone days. Suzy seemed to often need a non-work related ride to another facility of ours several miles away the driver said he took her 2-3 - times a week - to her BANK.
  • It turns out Suzy was running her uncle's travel agency from her office in IT. When I terminated her for theft of company time and resources, her defense was she had a brain tumor. It takes all kinds...
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  • berz34 Back in the 1993-94 school year. Girl from the yearbook staff was walking back from getting pictures of another event and saw a teacher helping a student in class, and knowing the yearbook didn't have many pics of the teacher yet, she pokes head in and snaps a candid picture, and continues on her way. Turns out
  • the teacher was a paranoid, and when he hears the camera click, he runs out of the room and chases the girl down, corners her and is berating her and wanting to know what she's doing and why she's taking his picture, and then physically snatches the camera from her and pulls out the film, destroying pictures from several other recent events from the school year.
  • By the end of that day the teacher had been sent home, and by the end of the week it was announced he would not return to finish the school year (2-3 months. remaining).
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  • Severe-Reality5546 A government contractor job. I had a co-worker that admitted he would work as little as he could while submitting reimbursement reports that included stuff outside what was allowed, just to see what he could get away with. After far too long of getting away with his shenanigans, the gov't customer finally had enough and told the
  • contracting company to pull him off their contact. He was placed with a different project, same result. Put on a third project, same result. At that point, the company couldn't place him anywhere and he was finally let go.
  • FireDude 1987 I was a professional services consultant for a software company on a gig at a client site training a newbie. Had been to the client site a few times, but first time training someone. About mid week I get a call from my manager saying that the new guy will most likely be terminated and asked that i sit in on a meeting with the client and
  • our other consultant. The meeting was reviewing a video of the consultant stealing a laptop from a client cubicle. They graciously offered to not press charges if he returned the laptop. He denied he did anything. I had to him back to his hotel, was asked to take all company equipment and I asked him again to return the laptop he took from the client. He
  • just stared at me. Ultimately, the Client thanked me for working with them didn't terminate our contract, pressed charges on the laptop thief and won.
  • Deep Tutor_9018 Nurse here: Big bald guy at work. Used to tell pretty disgusting dirty jokes with patients around. No empathy whatsoever. Refused to assist me in an emergency procedure because "he was busy". When I confronted him about it he screamed some pretty explicit bad words at me in front of patients. Same week he physically
  • intimidated 3 female nurses. that was the start of it and it only got worse. manager been trying to fire hi for about a year now but this is the Netherlands and its extremely expensive and din near impossible to fire somebody. So he got transferred to another ward. they're not happy with him over there.
  • Other-Mess6887 We had the county sheriff come in and escorted the new marketing guy out in handcuffs. Seems that he got too "anxious" waiting for flagman to change sign at road construction and nudged him with his car bumper. He was arrested for vehicular assault.
  • AndSo-Itbegins When the feds came in and took our new boss out in handcuffs. Seems he'd been dipping into University funds in his old position at the school snd some of that was government sourced. Never saw him again.
  • David_Apollonius A lab technician at a pharmaceutical company I worked at decided that he didn't need to do the analysis. He could just make up the results and forge his measurements. Moral of this story: Fraud will get you fired.
  • x-men-theme-song Fired an employee from a hotel because he kept messing up the check in process for guests. Either not finishing the process or putting them in the wrong room. Multiple times he was giving keys to rooms that were already occupied
  • l_am_just_so_tired99 I worked in a shipyard a while back. Lots of welding/ oxyacetylene cutting etc. I was on night shift doing my rounds and found the fire-watch guy asleep. Instant dismissal.

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