Random People Are Sharing Craziest Reasons They Ever Had To Fire Someone (27 items)

• (#1) It's All On Camera

  From Redditor u/YDAQ:

  Hoo boy...

  I'd have to go with the guy who in the span of 24 hours...

  Started a fist fight with another employee (on camera, with witnesses) then called the police and said the other guy did it, trying to press charges. I just sent the video.

  Trespassed on the property the following day and slurred at my boss (on camera, with witnesses), then called the police and said my boss did it. I just sent the video.

  Hurt himself somehow and went to the hospital, where he told the doctor he'd been attacked at work. Doc found no injury consistent with his story and well yeah, camera...
• (#2) Trapped In The Closet

  From Redditor u/bunnyb2004:

  Had to fire a guy for coming to work high on meth and getting lost in a closet while painting it. Asked what the deal was and was told"shhhh I am having a conversation". That was his last day lmao
• (#3) Quick Cause For Termination

  From Redditor u/EzraSteel:

  One of my ER nurses was chasing another down the hall with a scalpel in her hand screaming at the top of her lungs “I’m going to cut you b****!”
• (#4) Safety Violation, And Also Stupid

  From Redditor u/woodenman22:

  Years ago, at a lumber company. Had a guy, less than two hours after he started on his first day, pick up his car with a forklift and stand underneath it to see what was rattling when he drove.
• (#5) Don't Make Dumb Excuses

  From Redditor u/drumandbass01:

  Had an employee that was going to get fired for simply showing up late constantly with no legit reason. During the term meeting she tells me another employee cut the brake lines in her car - it’s obvious this was to save her from being fired. She didn’t realize that something like that gets cops involved. She was termed, and then detectives showed up to her house to get statements. Of course, no evidence of lines being cut and now she’s dealing with police for making false statements.
• (#6) Yes, That Is Frowned Upon

  From Redditor u/GenXed:

  A guy shaved/trimmed off his [private area] and left them scattered across a shared desk in a shared office. When confronted, he pulled a George Costanza: “Oh, is that frowned upon?”
• (#7) Sorry, But You Actually Have To Work

  From Redditor u/tolae01010:

  At a retail job, we had a kid come in and punch in for the day then go home. Would come back at quittin' time and punch out.
• (#8) HR Would Like To Speak To You

  From Redditor u/PoisonAlii:

  He worked at the company for 2 weeks, came to the Christmas party on friday, got s***faced, told the HR manager that she was a s*** and would die alone (they had some previous vaguely romantic history, went on a couple of dates or something) tried to fight two of the customer service managers who asked him to calm down, and while being escorted out he turned to the CEO and COO and told them to go f*** themselves.

  He showed up to work on the Monday talking about how fun the party was and how he had seen some people who would probably be called into HR that morning.. he was the first and only employee to be called and was sacked on the spot.
• (#9) Stealing Will Get You Fired

  From Redditor u/USPSA-Addict:

  Dummy stole a $100 bill out of the register at the end of his FIRST shift alone on register.
• (#10) Can't Miss Happy Hour

  From Redditor u/skdubbs:

  Once a had a guy call in sick to his restaurant/bar shift right before his shift and then proceeded to show up s*** faced drunk for happy hour during the time he was supposed to be working.

  He was not a bright man.
• (#11) Please Don't Spit On The Lobster

  From Redditor u/ConvertibleBurt1:

  I am a chef at an upscale restaurant, the sauté cook has a lobster dish on his station that involves a technique called deglazing that involves alcohol so in turn the pan catches on fire briefly and flames up. When you do it correctly (hard to do it incorrect) the alcohol is cooked off and the flame goes out. Every time he made this dish he would deglaze the pan, catch it on fire and then blow it out, blowing his own germs and nastiness all over someone’s food and everything in the blast radius. That was a week ago. Fired him after he did it multiple times after being asked not to. Maybe it’s because of the current state of affairs, but I couldn’t believe a trained cook would do that.
• (#12) Non-Smoking Section

  From Redditor u/CactusPearl21:

  We had someone fall asleep at his desk with a lit cigarette in his hand. In a office full of cubicles like maybe... 6-7 years ago? Smoking wasn't legal anywhere indoors let alone in an office building lmao

  And the first time he wasn't even fired. He was fired when it happened again!
• (#13) What Is Milk?

  From Redditor u/carbusinesslady234:

  My coworker at a coffee shop.

  Told a customer she didn't feel like making x drink and she should go elsewhere.

  Wore cookie monster PJ pants while we had a very strict "black or khaki pants, no jeans, no leggings" policy at the time.

  couldn't figure out the concept of milk?? This still baffles me to this day. Like I was trying to show her how to steam milk properly, she was off in la la land and when she snapped back into the conversation asking, "What are we doing again" followed by me reminding her and she quite literally asked what was in the gallon jug that I poured into the metal pitcher. I told her it was milk and she just looked at me, her eyes saying, '???!??!!?"
• (#14) Don't Say You Will If You Won't

  From Redditor u/Les-Gilbz:

  During my summer job when I was in college, I had a shift with this guy who didn’t show up. I didn’t have his number, so I asked my boss to look into it. He gets back to me a little later, and says the guy is on his way, should be there in about 5-10 minutes. 45 minutes later the guy still hasn’t shown up, so I text my boss again, and he gets back to me a little later and says he’s certain the guy should be there any minute. But he still doesn’t show up.

  This continues until the end of the shift, and the guy still isn’t here. Closing took a little longer than normal because I was on my own, so I was still working half an hour after my shift was supposed to be over, when this guy strolls in with his girlfriend. He halfheartedly helps for a little while, in between chatting with his girlfriend, before saying he’s got some important family dinner and he has to leave.

  Apparently that wasn’t even the first time this had happened, but amazingly this wasn’t what got him fired. What finally did it was a couple weeks later when we had a staff meeting. My boss had an open shift that he needed someone to fill, and this guy volunteers. So my boss, in front of all the staff, has the following conversation:

  “You want to work this shift?“

  “Yes”

  “Are you sure you’re available to work this shift?”

  “Yes”

  “So that means that you’ll be at [location] at [time] on [day]?”

  “Yes”

  Then he still didn’t show up. Some people, man.
• (#15) Don't Steal From Your Boss

  From Redditor u/WilhelmWrobel:

  Not me but my dad. He has a small handyman company with less than a hand full of employees. His tools somehow have the habit of growing legs when he's at construction sites so he rigorously writes his name on everything with permanent marker.

  One day, shortly after he hired someone new, his folding ruler is missing. He asks around if anyone has seen his folding ruler but that doesn't seem to be the case. He doesn't think much of it, sometimes things get lost.

  The next day he sees the new hire with a familiar looking folding ruler. He asks him to see it. New hire refuses. Dad tells him that he's his boss and insists he shows him the ruler. He complies under pressure. Sure enough, there's my dad's name on it in capital and bold letters.

  Now that could've been an honest mistake and there probably wouldn't have been any repercussions if he simply said "Oh, my bad. Must've put the wrong one in my pocket. Here's you're ruler" ... But the new hire insisted that this was his ruler and that the name on the side of it wasn't my dad's handwriting but rather a note the new hire had written on it himself to remember my dad's name.

  What makes it even more stupid is that my dad's company pays for the tools of his employees. He could've simply asked for a folding ruler and my dad would've given him one for free but, no, he needs to steal the bosses folding ruler and give the stupidest lie imaginable as an excuse.
• (#16) It's Just So HOT In Here

  From Redditor u/speecyspicymeatball:

  I'm training a new girl. We're sitting at a computer together. The whole time I'm training her, she's scanning the perimeter around her. She's asking about this guy. Is he single? What about that guy? She's paying very little to no attention to what I'm telling her about, you know, the JOB. She's not even looking at what I'm doing as I'm demonstrating the work to her. She's rubbernecking every male who walks past.

  At first I was nice. Ok did you see what I just did there? Now when this happens, we do that.
  Etc etc. Her eyes were glazed over, she wasn't absorbing anything, I could tell.

  Nice wasn't working. After a time, I said to her very sharply, "Are you here to work, or are you here looking for a boyfriend? Because if you're not here to work, I'm going to need to find someone else for this job (I had hiring authority)".

  That snapped her into reality for about 15 minutes. I finally said it's break time. She smiled and said, "I'm going to go up to the 4th floor and see if there's any fresh meat up there."

  After break time, I sent her into the fax room to collect some faxes I needed. The mail guy was in there changing rolls of fax paper. He came out of the mail room and said I think there's something wrong with your new girl. He was very nervous. I said what happened.

  Apparently she was in the fax room which tended to get hot because of all the machines in there. She had perched herself up on the edge of the table, hiked her dress up to where her underwear was showing, arched her back, unbuttoned the front of her dress, and fanned herself with the sheaf of fax pages and said, "Oh, it's just so...HOT...in here." Yeah. Like that. Like the opening of a p*rno.

  I totally believed him. I believed she did that. 100%, she totally did that.

  I called her temp agency and said she's not working out. I think this was under 2 hours.

  I have stories about temps for days lol.
• (#17) Black Magic Will Get You Fired

  From Redditor u/rivanko:

  Fired a guy for looking to pay someone to cast black magic on the owner and the owner’s family to bewitch them into giving him a raise and, ironically, never firing him. Only reason I found out was because he asked someone else in the office for help in finding a witch doctor to cast the spells and word got round. No one wanted to be in the same room as him after that.

  When I confronted him he said the devil made him do it so it wasn’t his fault. I live in the Middle East. I definitely did not wake up expecting to fire someone for black magic that day. Side note: practicing black magic is literally a death sentence here.
• (#18) Showcasing The Merchandise

  From Redditor u/asleeppam:

  I worked retail, and we had an employee that would hide and take naps inside racks of clothes. Somehow that wasn't the reason we fired her. We fired her for stealing clothes and then wearing them to work.
• (#19) Rude, Lazy, And A Cat Thief

  From Redditor u/blindgirlandherguide:

  I worked at a pet store, and was the lead cashier so I had to train this girl who didn’t think she had to abide by the uniform because it’s just [store name] and doesn’t count as a real job. That was a warning. Then when ringing up customers she actually told customers they couldn’t buy certain items because we were running low and she planned on getting a pet soon and wanted these items. I apologized and rung them up. Second warning with me explaining how that’s not how it works and she could shop when she’s off the clock. Finally my manager fired her when she tried to steal one of the cats that were up for adoption after being told she needed to wait for approval after they do a home visit and make sure she can care for the cat. Her excuse for trying to steal the cat? Her landlord doesn’t allow pets so she wouldn’t be approved and she’d be a much better pet parent then anyone who else who wanted the cat and much better than any of the customers we got. The girl didn’t even last a week.
• (#20) Homophobia Gets You Fired, Jerk

  From Redditor u/buzz1208:

  I had to fire a pizza delivery driver because he threatened another driver with the giant rocker knife we used to cut pizzas. His reason was the other driver was gay and he didn't like his "decadent" life style.
• (#21) Not The Brightest

  From Redditor u/ENEBZILE:

  I work at an art studio where we teach classes and sell pottery that our artists make for others to paint. I'm one of the artists and the manager. I started getting a funny feeling about one of my employees.. she wasn't doing anything blatently wrong, just seemed to work really slowly sometimes, request insignificant but kinda odd schedule changes, and have different break habits from the other staff. I started feeling like she was stealing but this is a really small business so I didn't have her on camera or any way to really prove it... Until she accidentally sent me a video of herself painting pieces that I MADE from her home!
• (#22) Celebrated Right Out Of A Job

  From Redditor u/VEI8:

  A guy was hired at the metal fab shop I was working at. He had been laid off when we were slow He was re-hired on a Friday, started Monday. Goes and does his drug test first thing. He failed. Apparently he had celebrated being rehired over the weekend. It was funny listening to my boss say, "Are you kidding me? You knew our testing policy! You couldn't wait three days??".
• (#23) Maybe Keep Your Mouth Shut Next Time

  From Redditor u/vishumittal80:

  plumber

  my helper and I went to do a punch list at a new home.

  when the very attractive 20 something year old answered the door

  I ask what the problem was, and she said,

  "when I take a shower, the shower head makes a whistling noise."

  my helper said,

  "Hell if I saw you naked, I'd whistle too"

  she complained to the super.I had no choice but to fire him.
• (#24) A Girl With A Mystery

  From Redditor u/F***Usernames97:

  When I was working at Burger King, our restaurant manager was away on maternity leave, so we had someone from another store come in over that time to fill the role.

  He ended up hiring someone who had worked there 5-6 years previously (high turnover, so a lot of hiring/leaving), the few staff that had known her before she’d left hated her, but had no idea why she left. She even passed all the checks from head office before she was hired.

  Restaurant manager comes back about a month after she’s been hired, takes one look at her, and RAGES. Like my RM is yelling at this girl, she’s yelling at the manager that hired her, and all the crew that had known her when she was here last. Obviously none of us knew what was going on, but it turns out this girl hadn’t left, she’d been fired, and management at the time hadn’t told anyone that, just that she’d quit.

  This girl had scammed BK by pretending to be pregnant (fake ultrasounds, plans, baby shower, the whole lot) and then took paid maternity leave so she could go work somewhere else, because it was seasonal work with better pay, with the idea of having a job for the off-season to come back to.

  I have no idea how she got through the head office checks, but she was fired that day. (Super impressive when you consider that I’m in New Zealand, so getting fired is usually a month+ long process here)
• (#25) Why Onions Though?

  From Redditor u/CanineRezQ:

  They stole a $3 bottle of wine that could have easily put on the "house" check for employees.

  Prep cook stole a 25lb bag of onions.
• (#26) Out Of Touch DJ

  From Redditor u/MonkeyMeex:

  I was a bartender/bar manager. This guy came in one night and said he was an aspiring DJ and asked if we would consider hiring him to come in just on Sunday nights to DJ for us. He said we wouldn’t have to pay him at first, he would just take tips and we could renegotiate after he helped to build up our Sunday night crowd.

  He lasted less than 3 months. He drove away so much business and I got SO many complaints. He played the same songs every week and when people made requests (for commonly known songs), he had no idea who they (the musicians) were.

  I had to fire someone who was working for free. He was a nice guy, which is the only reason he lasted as long as he did.
• (#27) Casual Encounters

  From Redditor u/arbrady:

  I worked at a retail store and found one of my coworkers was using the company iPad (that we used to play music and order lunches) to go on Craigslist and search for hookups. She didn’t even bother to delete the search history.

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