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01via Vitaly Gariev
A man leaving his office after getting fired.
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"A guy at my work was fired after only 2 weeks.
During those 2 weeks he did a lot of things to annoy people, repeatedly resulting in him being called into our boss's office to be told "don't do that." It was annoying/stressing our boss to constantly have to tell this guy not to do very obvious things.
One day my boss calls him into his office for another chat. My boss isn't sure if he's going to fire him yet, but is going to see how the chat goes.
The guy starts off the conversation with "[Boss], you really need to relax." My boss said "You know, you're right. You're fired."
The dude had unknowingly recommended his own termination.
2 weeks later he came back to the office to try to convince our boss that our boss had made a mistake firing him. That did not go well." —Arbiter_89
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"My employer is one of the kindest people I've ever met in my life, but it does lead to some... less than optimal new hires.
Years back I was leaving as manager of one location, so they hired someone to take over. This woman lived very close by, and our business was very community oriented, and my boss really thought it would be a good fit. I recommended someone else because something just seemed... off. Alas, she was hired... and fired on day two.
She did live very close, and she was also a completely insane trust fund baby (this was in Los Gatos, CA - super rich area). On day two she just... disappeared. She was the only person that was supposed to be on site (my boss' husband just happened to stop in while she was gone), so she left the place unlocked, unsupervised and with no indication of where she'd gone or when she'd be back. She ended up being gone for about an hour, and then got back at like 11AM because this was right at the start of the day.
Where had she gone? Well, she didn't like the shoes she'd picked out for her outfit so she walked home to change, then walked back. They weren't broken, uncomfortable, etc. - she just didn't feel pretty enough in them and wanted to be giving people the best possible impression. Her words.
It was at that point my boss finally stopped being kind. Unbelievable. This woman was like 40+ years old, too, not just some teen or something." — PeterLemonjellow
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“My company asked me to train the new guy. First day he told the boss to “take it down a notch” when giving direction. that was the last I saw him” —CanaDoug420
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“I saw a girl get fired because she wouldn't shut up in orientation. Like 35 mins in.” —LTxBackside
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“I work in a chemistry lab as the lead on one of our projects. One day I was in the office talking to my boss at around 9:45 in the morning, and this new guy walks in. He walks up and says “Sup, lardo.” Now, I’ll admit I’m something of a rotundship, but my boss and I were both shocked. He wasn’t even there for 15 minutes before he was fired.” —Sonikclaw2
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"They were hired, went into the saw room and stuck their finger in a saw to see if it was running ... it was.
Total time..... about 10 minutes from hired to fired." —nomadnomor
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"Saw someone who got let go the first day.
I was working as a government contractor and a new hire came aboard. While he was waiting on his work laptop to be configured, he pulled out another laptop from his bag to jump on a Microsoft Teams meeting.
Considering he didn’t have an account or email with our organization yet, we asked what meeting he was on after his call was done.
Turns out he was working another job. Guy had some brass balls to try work another job right in front of our clients." —RLCGooner
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"Few hours.
On the walkthrough of our loading dock he was on his phone not paying attention and when my boss brought this up he put up his index finger to her in a "shush, a moment" fashion and continued texting.
Stupid kids.' —Phil8show
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I wonder how someone like this acts day to day. Most employees are on their best behavior at work, so you have to imagine that this is this guy's version of “best behavior.” At home, he probably yells at his mom, whom he still lives with, to stop telling him to do the dishes while he's playing on his phone. At work, he gave his boss the courtesy of only putting up his finger when he texted her, then ignored her.
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"I got hired at a credit card company. On my first day, the girl I was shadowing asked me if I thought the trainer was hot.
I said: I guess? I didn't really think about it, I have a girlfriend.
I was fired an hour later and told I wasn't a good fit. I'm still not sure what the correct answer was there." —Squeezitgirdle
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Was she trying to get him to say, “That is inappropriate to talk about in the workplace?” Because if she was, that's a weird, bad position to put a new hire in. Who wants to contradict and shut down something that the person who's supposed to be training you says?
Maybe it's just the opposite, and she wanted him to be a fellow messy individual who engages in workplace drama. Either way, she spilled the pot, and I don't think the new hire was wrong to say what he said in a situation where no answer was good.
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“I had to fire a forklift operator 15 minutes before his shift started. He showed up, was told not touch anything until his trainer arrived, proceeded to hop on a pallet jack he deemed “in the way” and drove it directly into our packaging machine.” —seantrell68
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“Temp's first day there was a group townhall lunch event. He decided to sniff the hair of the lady in front of him and tell her she smelled good. Like straight up stuck his nose in the back of her head,, unprompted. He didn't make it to the end of the day.” —Midas_Ag
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"Intern used their corporate credit card to BUY a Honda civic “because you told us to ensure we had reliable means of transportation.”
We had many trainings after this. And there was a new policy re: spend limits for intern cards." —BumblebeeComplex2792
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This is absolutely the most absurd of all of these stories. For some reason, I 100% believe it. It really sounds like something that a clueless intern would do.
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