Random Bosses Share Why They Fired An Employee On The First Day (25 items)

• (#6) Teacher Taught A Lesson

  Posted by Redditor u/ligamentary:

  I'm a teacher.

  I was on a committee to hire a new 5th grade teacher.

  I was showing her the ropes and monitoring her in class behavior. I watched this bonehead tell a student "I don't like you very much. Figure it out yourself."

  The next thing I showed her was the door.

  In the exit interview (had on the walk to the door) I demanded an explanation and she said of the student she 'didn't like' she said "He was wearing designer jeans. You know his life is all peaches and cream, taking from us little guys." I say "Did he make an inappropriate comment to you about money?" She says "No. But I know their kind."
• (#5) He Tried To Make A Hot Fudge Sundae...In The Microwave

  Posted by Redditor u/TheGnomishMafia:

  I was a nightshift manager for McDonalds in HS. New guy (17 years old) makes an ice cream sundae for a customer with gloopy cold fudge. When the customer complained he put the whole sundae in the industrial microwave oven we use to melt cheese in like 10 seconds. On like 2 minutes, no less. Enough to start a nuclear reaction.

  Whole thing melted, plastic container included. He opened the door to steam and slop. Took out the melted half full containers, put them on a tray and served them to a customer. Which is when I became aware. She, rightfully, asked to speak to a manager.

  I got the customer set up, apologized and pulled the kid aside to figure out what happened...while staring at the still steaming tray of sundae slop. All he had to say for himself was, "I needed to melt the fudge."

  Told him to please take his shirt off and go home cause I think he's had enough for the day.

  Before anyone asks, he was trained on the ice cream machine by me personally earlier in the shift.

  Told the store manager what happened in our mgr meeting the next day and said I absolutely don't want him on my shift. The other managers laughed but echoed the same. Store mgr let him go.

  I called him and told him, apologized and said it's not going to work out and he can come pick up his check for the hours he worked in two weeks. He said, "OK, thanks" and I thought that was the end of it.

  His mom actually came up to the store about an hour later and asked to speak with me since I was the manager that sent him home. I said sure. We grabbed a booth and sat down. She proceeded to tear me a new one for being an incompetent manager.

  Like a dumbass I sat there for a few minutes to take it until she took a breath to breathe. I said, "Look, I understand this is your sons first job, I'm still in high school myself, but anyone who tries to microwave ice cream and then serve it to a client won't be allowed on my shift."

  She turned bright red and started screaming at me. I got up, politely told her she was causing a scene and to please leave the property.

  It actually escalated to me having to call the police to get her to leave. She didn't think I had actually called them... Stuck around until they showed up and then tried to split. They stopped her in the parking lot, put the magic handcuffs on her and eventually let her go.

  10\10 - would fire again. Highly entertaining.
• (#19) Permanent Coffee Break

  Posted by Redditor u/Xand3rs:

  I manage a coffee shop lunchy place. Young girl came in fresh out of culinary school and had previous coffee shop experience. What could go wrong, right? The first day I had her shadow the other employees just to get a hang of the POS system and general flow of the store. Nope, customers overwhelmed her and she liked to hide in the back leaning on the ice machine. Fine. Whatever. She said she loved baking earlier on so I sent her to the kitchen to make some cookies.

  I'm super chill, I didn't even care what kind, as long as they were f*cking awesome and delicious she had creative control. She comes out some time later admitting she doesn't know how to make cookies and needs help. Now I'm getting bloody frustrated.

  As we move on into lunch rush a wave of customers flood the front of house and I was needed. I had 40 litres of soup in the back needing a titch more roux and asked her to thicken it a tad before serving. Surely she could handle that, soups and sauces being addressed in the first bloody week of the culinary school she aparently attended (I attended the same program, btw). Nope. She found a box of corn starch and dumped the whole box in. Dry. Soup destroyed. Her shift ended shortly afterwards.

  Turns out I forgot to get her contact information at the beginning of the shift so I had to message her on Facebook telling her not to bother ever return
• (#18) Failed At Greeting Customers

  Posted by Redditor u/StraightouttaDR:

  Worked retail management. On black Friday we had a new guy and his one job was to greet customers. Literally, "Hi welcome to ___."

  Two older ladies walked in and he says, "What the f**k is uuuupppp?"

  I told him "Your time working here is done."

  I clocked him out remotely and told him to enjoy his family, because he wouldn't be shopping with the $4 he made working that half hour.
• (#23) Short But Sweet

  Posted by Redditor u/LLCoolJ93:

  Drove a forklift through a wall into a dumpster.
• (#7) Impersonating A Police Officer

  Posted by Redditor u/Icarus638:

  I didn't fire this guy personally but I did one better, I arrested him.

  I'm a police officer in the UK, I was forced to help on a recruitment event in our headquarters where applicants turned up, listened to a talk and did a few exams. Almost all wore suits or shirts and ties, except one... One was wearing a black polo shirt, black combat trousers and tactical boots, wierd and a bad impression but whatever.

  Whilst they do the exam I went into the yard for a smoke, all the applicants had to park in a certain area, which was just by the smoking shelter. One car stood out, it looked just like our unmarked cars, exactly like our unmarkeds. I was a little confused so I had a closer look at it. It had radiator lights and on the back seat was a police issue stab vest.

  I thought that it must be one of our cars parked in the wrong place, it happens. After the exam they left, I watched them leave and lo and behold polo shirt man gets in the "unmarked car". Immediately I jump in a real unmarked and take off after him. I found him 2 streets away putting blue lights on and driving through a red light. I overtook him, put my lights on and blocked him. He gets out waving a fake warrant card telling me he was en route to an emergency.

  Arrested for impersonating a police officer. He was also suspected of doing the same in about 3 other forces.

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