Fired over a text
So, I?m texting back and forth with both my manager and one of my coworkers to see if I?m able to have some days off. I had previously texted my manger asking cover for me on Sunday but he texted back saying that he was going out of town. So, I?m thinking I?m texting my friend telling him that my manager was such a jerk for not cover me the day I requested. But in reality I sent the text to my manager calling him a jerk. I felt terrible and apologized to him, but minutes later he sent me a text saying that my services were no longer desired and I was fired.
Factory Work
I was working at a plastic factory for almost 2 years. My job was to teach people how to do the job on the machines producing the plastic. Every weeks there was new employees, 3,4 sometime 5, because people don't keep the job. I had to show them the work but there is a problem... The machine must NOT stop, they must NEVER stop, even for explaining the job and all the little details around it, but i must show the job to 5 people at the same time on different machines but they must never stop. I was not the boss there, she was always in meeting trying to find a way to optimize the factory and spare money.
One day, i was fired because, the day before, a machine has been stopped for 4 minutes and 38 seconds according to the computer directly linked to the machine. I was not sad, i laugh at them, they were sweating all over the face in the office because a machine has been stopped for 4 minutes and 38 seconds.
The Process of Elimination
There had been many jobs lost in the health system in which I worked over the past few months. There was even an article regarding the latest job cuts in middle management copied and left on the table where we did daily report. I was the sole Manager for the department,reporting directly to a somewhat absent Administrative Director. No other supervisors; just a few great employees who assumed payless lead roles in my abscence. I was quite pleased that the a.m. staff and the staff from the night before had cleaned up the department which was going to allow me to give attention to the many projects I had. Policies to review, new surgical instrument sets to put together, new instument count sheets to create, inservicing, etc. As I made my way into the department, my boss came in, looked around and approached me and said "Can I see you in the office?" This wasn't unusual since there were many confidential things we've
discussed in the past in the office. But then she
said "We need to go to HR". I said ok, and began the long walk with her to HR. The only thing she said was that there was going to be a "redesign". This BRIEFLY set my mind at ease because things like that were happening all over the hospital and health system. We arrived in HR and met with the director. My boss began to speak and said that she knew I was aware that there were financial hardships the health system was experiencing and because of this my job was being eliminated. She went on to say that this was not a reflection of my performance and that I did an outstanding job. I was stunned. I made $50,000 a year. We had just spent $70,000 on ONE of many new instrument sets. I was the one who trimmed money from their budget when asked. I was the one who submitted cost savings initiatives to finance. I was the one who gave up a position to help another department. With that then, the director of HR went on to inform me of my "severance" pay and that they expected me to
leave immediately after gathering my personal belongings and instructed me not to not talk to my staff. The staff that I shared happy occasions and sad occasions with. The staff that I helped get certified. The staff that I listened to when they fought with eachother. The staff that I fought for and defended everyday. So, my boss accompanied me back to the department as we passed other employees that I had become close to who read my face. I even stopped and gave directions to visitors that had needed help finding their way as I stoically fought back tears. I then entered the department and saw one of my employees and shook my head and she immediately broke down. I put my finger to my mouth and shhh'd her as I was not supposed to "talk" to anyone. I then began to take down baby pictures of my kids, drawings that my staff's children made for me, emptied my drawers of the decorations, extra shoes, cards, and the other things one doesn't realize they've accumulated in the past 6 years of their
work
life. As we rode up the elevator to the main floor, my boss asked me if there was anything she needed to know, and i stated, "Yes, there's alot you need to know." And My boss escorted me out the front door WITHOUT security as many have speculated. And that was it. No goodbye party, no getting my affairs in order, no preparing my staff. As I agree that the job elimination may have been necessaary, the way it was done was so unnecessary. My peers knew I had gone back to school. They new that I wanted to get a (nursing) degree. They could've told me a month prior and allowed me to get things in order and more for their sake, than mine. And although I am extremely happy and lucky that I have a wonderful husband and family that supports me, my work life was part of my identity and having been let go in such a way does damage it. But from what I've been told, that's the corporate way.
Set up by Jealous co-worker
I got a job at a small privately owned florist in my area...everyone who works there seemed to have been there for years and were very close with the owner there like one big "clique". I was very excited to start working with flowers. My first day, the boss left and ran errands so she had her co-worker take charge of me for the day. I knew for a fact the day of the interview that this particular co-worker was his favorite and was a very "hardworker" and insisted on working everyday. I was under her wing for the day..and she treated me very badly...she seemed to hate me from the start and I was totally polite with her and did everything I was supposed to do...she had me windex these glass slides that held very breakable and glass ceramics on it..so, I carefully did that..and then as I was working on my 3rd slide the slide above a little nik-nak fell down..and it made a loud sound everyone looked and I told them
it wasn't broken..the one in charge gave me
the dirtiest look...and then as I was kept working on the 3rd slide and I noticed a huge crack down the middle of the one above (when the nik nak fell)..I started bugging out and I was afraid to tell them..but I knew I had to..so I did..and they seemed very annoyed but said it was replaceable..after that the nasty co-worker had me work on something else instead of finishing the slides..so, the whole day she gave me such attitude..and then she had me throw stuff out back to the dumpsters and said the back door would be left open and I come back and its locked I try knocking and no one answered...so, I went around to the front and that co worker has a smirk on her face and says, "why didn't you go out the back door"..(she obviously locked me out thinking she was funny)...I overheard her in the back talking in the back to another co-worker that she was gonna do everything in her power to get me fired..(she is afraid of anyone stealing her hours)..saw her purposely chipping the nik naks to set me up
like I did it. When the owner got back she lightheartedly joked around about the broken glass but said, "it was no big deal" when I left she told me to come in the next day at noon...after I get back 2 hours later she leaves me a voice message telling me how disturbed she is about the broken glass (which is weird bc she didn't care before), and how she was angry that the glass slides weren't finished (the co worker wouldn't let me, so she obviously lied to the owner to make it seem like I was too "slow" to finish)....she told me not to even bother coming back...I called her up in tears explaining how Alyssa wouldn't let me finish up the glass slides...and the owner said to call back when I calmed down..so, I call back the next day and I explained her my side of the story..she said I have nothing to explain and I quickly explained everything that co-worker pulled and she was like, "have a nice day..it didn't work out!"...she also told me she is gonna bill me a 200 dollar
bill
for all the broken glass..and all the chipped stuff that the coworker did to "set me up"...pretty messed up....I ended up saying "what the hell is your problem" and she just hung up the phone..and she billed me the 200 that I shouldn't even have to pay.
I Fired My Brother In Law
I was working for a small company in a niche market. My brother in law was the Vice President and the President of the company traveled quite a bit and was never in the office. My BIL would arrive around 11 AM and leave at 4 PM, while our work hours were 8 AM to 5 PM. During a heated argument about nothing work related, my BIL tossed the vacuum cleaner in my general direction. Later that afternoon I was doing the accounts and noticed several charges on the AMEX account that didn't belong. I was scheduled for surgery that next day. As soon as I was in recovery, I awoke to my boyfriend telling me I had a voice mail on my phone. I checked it. It was the president of the company calling me to notify me that he had to fly out of town and that I was to be in the next day to collect the credit cards and company equipment in my BILs possession. It was bitter sweet but I did it. Hated that guy with a passion. My sister didn't speak to me for
three years afterward.
Rip off
I went to work, broke my leg on the job, worked my whole shift with a broke leg the size of a elephant. The
Manager came in took me to the hospital. Looked at the video tape of me breaking my leg. I came in later that day to
Pick my check up just to find out they fired me for falling. How about a lawsuit sir...Lol...I got paid!!!
Fake people
I've been with my husband for two years now. When i met him his family was trying to open up their resturant but they kept failing inspection. So just recently i was helping them get everything done for them to pass their inspection so they can open the resturant. They kept telling me were going to have you work the front during first shift
Because im in school at night. Two months ago we filled out the applications and gave everyone their job titles. Today
We had the first meeting they called me this morning to tell me to come to the resturant meeting in the rain across
Town..., just to tell me they couldn't hire everyone and they had the nerve to hand me a w4 form to fill out. However
They did hire everyone just not me but hired someone else in my spot the same day which was today, after i was the one
Who helped them pass their inspection. And they suppose to be Christians. Ha ha.....God don't like ugly.
Presto Pasta-Italian
So I've been working at this pasta place for over a year now. I'm practically a master. I know the ins and outs of the place, and have always received good commendations from my customers and my boss. I worked very hard because I loved the job and the people there were like a second family to me. Well until I pissed off two girls, one a manager, by asking to be let off 20 minutes early one night to make it to my band's gig in time. Well, long story short they were fine, full staffed and she told me I could leave. But treated me like I walked out on them. Two and a half weeks later I needed some time off for some more band gigs. My boss told me to get as many days covered as I could and he would see about the rest (we don't have a very large staff, but enough). Well everyone is busy on my Tuesday closing shift and my Saturday morning shift(during which I am one of two employees till from 11am-12pm). So 10 days before I need my Saturday
covered, I leave my boss a note letting him know.
Apparently he sent me a text message three days later saying he could only cover Tuesday. But I didn't get it... how professional! So Tuesday after getting no word from him, I called him and left him a message about the days I needed covered. I got no reply. But I texted my coworker and asked her if she could close for me that night, so he wouldn't have to. She said he had already asked her to. So I figured he had got my message and was gonna cover both days. On Saturday I went to my gig in the morning and played all day. The next Tuesday I was getting dressed when he finally called me and told me I had resigned when I didn't come in on Saturday and that I was off the schedule for good. I told him what happened and he told me I was unproffesional for not seeking to contact him more than I did. I later looked at my missed calls for that Saturday and they called me once when I was 5 minutes late, but left no message, and then two times four hours later, with no message. But an hour after that when my
manager
texted me saying there was a rumor I quit, I responded. He said nothing of me not showing up even though there were 4 hours left in my shift. For that reason, the boss thought I had ignored his calls. But I simply hadn't heard them. So a year of perfect work, about to become a manager, all for naught.
Smoking in a non smoking business
Well, I was working at a hospital, I was supposed to be "working" it is a non-smoking business, I decided too go out and have a smoke in the bathroom, well unknowingly my boss was in the same stall that I went it. So I walked in on here, lit a cigarette, and she was standing right there, and I didn't know it!
Box-staircase
I was working at UPS as a truck loader. The job was just to take the packages off the conveyor belt and stack them neatly in rows to the ceiling of the truck trailer. Thing was, the packages are coming down the belt so quickly you don't have time to stack them all, they just spill off of the belt and there are packages everywhere.
Someone on our belt was stealing things out of packages, so UPS installed video cameras without telling us.
Once you start getting to the ceiling of the trailer, you are supposed to get a little plastic stairstep so you can reach the top. But it takes about a minute to walk over and get the thing, meanwhile a hundred packages are shooting off the belt and going everywhere. I had found a solution to this problem by just making staircases out of packages, then using the staircase packages to start the next row when I got to the ceiling.
When UPS watched the video to try and find the thief, they saw me stepping all over people's packages. I was also making the rows only half-high and about 5 yards away from the previous row, chucking a bunch of packages in between rows instead of stacking them to save time, then topping off the front row so it would look nice.
But UPS never found their thief, and the union got my job back. Apparently you have to notify workers they are being videotaped, or something. Lesson learned - if you are fired, you can get your job back if you fight it.
Go big for only 35 cents more?
I was working at Carl's Jr for about a year. Was generally a good employee - never stole, proficient on the equipment, etc. Well, on the drive-through we were required to ask every customer if they "wanted to go big, for only 35 cents more?" Nobody ever wanted to "go big." The question just made the customers angry and they would get abusive over the speaker and act like jerks at the window, so I stopped asking. The manager came through the drive-through a couple times and I was fired. Profit over people, that's the world we live in.
Bad Boss
It all started about a year ago when my company's eBay account was shut down. My manager was hiding all our sold item that had been packed for shipping in a box truck. He had used the shipping budget to pay for other things and could not afford the ship the items we sold. Our 'shipping time' was so poor that eBay shut us down after a few weeks of this. So, we started listing our products on my Boss' personal eBay account and he would write the company president a check for the items we sold on his personal eBay. Eventually our company's eBay account was allowed to start operating again. But, my boss continued to have me list about $500 a week on his account. He said this was to cover shipping supplies. When he refused to buy any shipping supplies, he then told me is was being used to buy gas for the trucks. I continued to keep $500 a week flowing in to his personal eBay account. One week he was out of town on a busines trip and had me put over $1,
500 in his personal account to cover his expenses
for 3 days. This seemed a little much. I then got yelled at for not making enough money on the company's eBay account. I tried to explain that I was too busy putting money in my boss' personal eBay account, but I was told to shut up and listen before I got the words out of my mouth.
The same day my boss asked me to put more money in his eBay account. I asked for the request by email so I could prove my time was being taken away from the company's eBay operations. My boss had a melt down. He said I would be fired for questioning him. Major stress!
Two days later he put an add up on Craig's List for my job. On the last work day before my replacement started, I was fired for a 'record of poor performance.' I collected unemployment for 2 years after that.
Fired for learning
I used to work for a commercial flooring company. I started off knowing nothing but they guys taught me a lot. Well one day my boss came in and saw me doing something that an apprentice shouldn't even know how to do but i was doing it. He straight up told me that it wasn't good that i knew how to do what i was doing because now he would have to pay me more. I really enjoyed doing my job. On point and on time everyday. well a few days later i was told that i was told i had to be let go. I guess it came back and bit him in the butt because he hired a bunch of lazy losers and his company closed.
Firestone metal products handicap fired
Wanna talk about an outrageos firing? Try this on for size.
I hurt my arm at work (Firestone metal products), worked on light weight duty. My arm got worse as the company would keep sending me to the job where I got my tenis elbow,
It never got a chance to heal. After many trips to my doctors who wrote that I now have a permanent disability, I gave this to my boss and went back to work. One week later I was fired for my handicap that I had acquired at work. Then to rub salt in my wounds, they even tried to stop me from collecting unemployment, saying that I'm unable to work.
Mexican scapegoat
I was fired today because our new owner though I was trying to sabotage her. I had been working for a year and a half and she heard through the grapevine that I was badmouthing her. She heard that I put a virus on her computer that I don't even have access to. She heard that I was influencing the other girls opinion of her. She basically hired me based off of hearsay. The first day she arrived she straight up told me that she didn't like me because I was quiet. Later that week she asked me why I didn't like her (I never said I didn't like her, never thought I give her the impression I didn't like her, I was simply, quiet). I am so angry right now.
Fired for another job
It pisses me off but this morning at shift change, my foreman Asked me for my H2S monitor which is a safety device that I have to wear on locations, & I gave it to him, Then asked what was up & he told me that he received a phone call yesterday saying to fire me... so, I got fired today, & I asked why. & he said b/c I'm switching companies... & I said, ? I have not heard anything back from Halliburton yet, & don?t know if I even have the job yet? SO BASICALLY I GOT FIRED FOR CHANGING MY CAREER OPPORTUNITY.
Adult Day Care Nightmare
To make a long story short, I worked at a medical adult day care center for 15 months and let me tell you, it was hell! Don't work in those types of places if you don't want to deal with patients! Even though I'm not medically trained whatsoever to deal with patients, I was pretty much made to deal with them and help them out with their foods, toileting, ambulating, etc. The environment where I worked was hostile and cut-throat. Even the women in my own staff constantly tried to throw me under the bus! It would take a novel for me to describe to you all the abuse I had to deal with for almost 15 months but the worst thing that happened to me was when I was given a warning two days after my car accident because I didn't know whether or not my friend/ former co-worker who was also in the accident was going to return to work! It felt like someone rubbed salt in my wounds. Eventually my poor friend got fired because she once called out
because she didn't have a babysitter to look after
her daughter! This was very common; people would constantly come and go in my ex-job. You never knew when you were going to get fired because our boss was that temperamental and psycho! She would constantly scapegoat me and my staff everytime something went wrong at work for example, when a lot of patients started leaving the center to go to better centers that offered better services! I worked my butt off and it was so unfair for everyone to put all the blame on us! What about the lousy nursing and transportation services and those disgusting bathrooms and food? Thankfully, I saved up enough money for a rainy day because sure enough, eventually I was fired. I was never even given a clear reason to why I was fired and my third warning was a stupid e-mail! The day I got fired, I was given my termination letter and told to finish my shift. But right before I finished my shift for the last time, I quickly erased every work I've done for the last 15 months and deleted everything and even took home a manual I
created all by myself that I was going to leave behind but then I said screw it they don't deserve nothing from me after everything they put me through. And then I walked out! Fortunately, this story has a happy ending. Like two weeks after I got fired I got another job at get this. Their biggest rival center and let me tell you, I love it there. The money is good and I work WAY less there than I did at my former job! Plus their center is doing really well. I love coming home and not be stressed at all! So ha ha to my ex-job you threw out a good worker so that YOUR RIVAL could pick me up! So the moral of this story is that never settle for less and don't be afraid to stand up for yourself even if everything goes to hell afterwards because that's exactly what happened to me. I told Administration that we were overworked and I get fired! Life is good now thank God! I wish luck to anyone looking for good jobs or even forced to endure crappy ones to make ends meet. It's a tough market out there and everytime
I
retell my story to others, no one can believe my reversal of fortune! Some people even think I'm lying but I swear my life is that crazy lol!
Not getting a chance
Well, I had worked in fast food and took an opportunity with a PR company. Well, I was trying to learn the company and how to write tech reports. I lasted 10 days and was shown the door. Not really given much of a chance to prove myself!!!!
The security job you never want
I was hired at a provincial alcohol bottling company for a security job - logistics and general patrol. I was hired along with 5 other people including the site manager. On the first day I was told I was a fraud from the site manager as I have owned a bar previously to this job (it recently shut down due to legal reasons) and my education was fraudulent (I have a college education). After defending myself repeatedly for over 4 months from the site supervisor, I noticed he and my co-workers were writing notes about me calling me bad words.
I complained to the security owner what was happening and was questioned as to why I was 'all of a sudden upset' and why I did not bring this issue up to the site manager (even though he was in this as well).
The next month, I had a talk to the large company's adviser about a possible raise as he was very satisfied with my workmanship and my competence so much that he wanted to fire the security company and hire me as a in house security manager..with the same security employee's. At this time I was more insulted than anything as I was literally just verbally harassed, face-to-face, from one of my co-workers that morning that I laid down why I will not be working over such jerks. He then asked my why I was so upset and why I would never take a break (I refuse to take 'breaks' except for a smoke here and there during my patrols). He then fired me because I was taking a break once per hour (while doing my job....patrolling).
I call the security company as to what the hell was happening and it seems like they are 'not compelled to answer'. Good riddance!
Cowardly Firing
At the office, I was responsible for keeping the computer backup tapes at home. One Thursday night I received an email to bring in all the tapes the next morning. The next day, my boss acted as though nothing had happened until 4 PM, when he told me that he knew I would figure it out. No notice, no severance pay, and I was getting married two months later. I still sent him a wedding invitation, but he did not even send us a card.
Don't work at Page One (Singapore)
I was trying to help a customer with a book she couldn't find in the store. I can only order it from an overseas supplier and it would take 6-8 weeks. Seriously, that long??? Even I think it's ridiculous. She obviously didn't want to wait that long. So I told her, what if I can order it online and sell it to you back at no extra cost and it would only take a week. She said ok. Book came and I told her I would meet her outside the store. But she insisted on coming in. Then she asked another colleague of mine where she can find me. Apparently she told that woman about me doing a favor. Long story short I was fired for trying to help a customer get her book. Totally worth it because I was about to leave anyways.
Fannie Mae fires contractor with a lie and a orange
I was working a 16 hour shift and got hungry. I moved away from the computer equipment as to not spill any food on it but still making sure no work came in while I opened a small cup of mandarin oranges to snack on 1 1/2 hours into the 2nd shift. When the jerk I'll call prissy sissy Patty starts giving me the eye like I was doing something wrong. He was shaking his head as if he was telling me ah,ah,ahhh!!! (no) Being confused at his jesture I apologized and explained I was really hungry and was working a double. I gulped the orange cup down and proceeded to sit down at the computer when another boss told me to grab breakfast and he'd watch things til I came back. I was happy to do so because I was starting to feel light headed and my stomach full of air. I went to get the food and on the way out, I saw the jerk, (not knowing he was one at the time) and said,"Have a nice day." All he did was smile,
that same smirk he gave me before. I didn't
think anything else of it and carried on. At the end of my shift I was asked to stay a few to talk, but ended up taking the walk of shame. He told other supervisors to fire me because we had words and I had a attitude. I was like what words? What attitude? I wasn't upset but humbly explained why I was eating and plus I got to get real breakfast anyway so what's to be mad about. They just said well that what he said so today your last day. I hate that man. He ruined my life over a fruit cup and a well wish. I hope he gets exactly what he deserves because he does this to folks all the time. I wasn't the 1st and probably won't be the last. I hope he feels the pain of having lost it all and not knowing where you will live next week or having to tell your child you cant buy them the things they need because you lost your job to a cup of fruit. The sad thing is I loved that job, was never absent and on time every day. To add insult to injury I scored 2nd highest on their little test to keep my job 90% only
there 5
months, while they still employ tardy people and folks who do the same thing day in and out for 3-4 years and fail the test (How you fail a test on something you do for years everyday and still stay employed?). How did this happen to me? I hope he becomes a pan handler and walk the streets begging for help in his old age until he dies. I hope no one helps him. I hope people start seeing him for the trash that he is and put him in his place. I didn't deserve this. Fannie Mae are heartless devils who don't deserve the power they possess.
Retail Fail
I loved my job. I was working at my job for less then a month and there was a big sale and my manager pulled me aside and told me someone complained i didnt smile enough. 2 days after the sale they fired me for it. If they were planning on firing me they should have done it the day they told me and not drag me along for two more days of working till 11:30 at night.
Ruff Day at Work
Basically I worked at a very upscale doggie daycare. The snootiest place around. I had only been there for a month when I could just tell everything wasn't going to end right. For one thing my bosses never taught me anything, expected me to know how to do everything and be available WHENEVER they wanted me to be. Another employee actually panicked when I explained I needed this day off for a doctor's appointment (I was part time mind you). She pulled me aside and told me I could never again tell them 'my' schedule, I was just to show up whenever they told me to.
About 6 weeks in I was helping my boss move this very heavy, awkward box up the basement stairs. Basically this basement door looks like a trap door, a handle on the floor, type of thing. The only way to prop the door up is to brace it with a wire--- a 10lbs door braced on a wire. So we're moving this box and its too big, so he pushes and unlatches the wire. The door comes crashing down on the back of my head. I hit the steps, and begin to cry. I felt like someone had taken a sledge hammer to my head. About 2 minutes later, I realize my boss just left me there, he went back to work. I pulled myself together and said I needed to go home. They were angry that they would have to pay for me to go to the doctor's and that I couldn't just 'suck it up' and finish my shift. About a week later, they wouldn't return my calls.
I came to find out that I wasn't the only one hurt on those stairs. Apparently, it used to be just a hole in the ground, no door. But a customer FELL through the hole, snapped his neck and was in a coma for a month. They did NOT sue...which I thought crazy. I wish I was making this up but its just too bizarre. Think twice before paying an arm and a leg for idiots to babysit your dogs
CrAzY pUrSe ShOp!!!
So I worked at this high-end popular purse shop. One day my other co-worker (the only other one) decided he wanted to leave to his house for lunch. My manager/boss wasn't even at work she went on a trip to Europe. Then a group of about 20 teenage girls come rushing into the small boutique and get in the cash line and i can't control them. Then they reported me to the manager for screaming to make them calm down and well... I got fired.
Bored...and therefore fired!
while at my job, i completed it to a T. i did the work so fast and efficiently -- isn't that what i'm supposed to do? my boss constantly questioned the "integrity" of my work because of its speed. are you kidding? he'd also give me half directions so he could yell at me later!! (e.g. "call Tricia - ask her for a quote on __" "alright" i ask her for the quote. just as im about to hang up, he yells "OH YOU NEED TO GET HER TO FAX IT!!!" while im on the phone with her. -i stormed out that time-) also, when i was bored, i surfed the internet/emailed like a madwoman because THERE WAS NOTHING TO DO. my boss warned me thrice, but i didn't care. what do you want me to do? STARE AT THE WALL!?!?! if i read a book, i'd get yelled at. if i slept, i'd get yelled at for looking like i had nothing to do! those stupid idiots surfed the internet, never began work until NINE (not 8) because they were doing
trivia, boss stared out the window for 2+ hours a
day and then took a 1 hour lunch, they'd walk out 15 minutes early, SURF THE INTERNET in the mornings, talk midday for hr.+, make racist (about indians we did biz with) and condescending remarks about the women in the next room, and talk on the phone (work phone) for 15+ mins. then one day i took lunch at 11, came back 12. he called me into his office, and said OH NO ONE KNEW WHERE YOU WERE! i was like shut up in my head! he handed me my check and said "oh you're supposed to tell someone where you're going" WHY? EVERYONE ELSE WALKS OUT OF THE OFFICE! and "thats not your normal lunch hour" i was pissed. now you TELL me when i can take lunch? he was like "oh, im sorry you don't get what im saying? you're terminated" in my head i screamed HALLELUJAH! and said "well i was going to quit the end of the month anyway" slammed his door open, grabbed the plant on my desk (everything else was cleared - i had prepared to be fired for weeks, LOL) and stormed out!! THANK GOD
ITS
OVER!!! i cant wait to go back and laugh in his face when he's making 25,000 a year while im rolling in millions! PEACE
Honesty Isn't The Best Policy!
I worked at my college cafeteria. all students had pre-paid food cards so it's not like we were actual customers..well My boss was Indian and didnt speak very good English. i heard him talking once that his religion didn't let him eat pork. Well the cafeteria had these gross things called "pork nuggets" Well my bf came thru and ordered them and i said "Ew are you sure?" haha he knew i was kidding coz we both knew how gross they were. Well my boss comes up and with his Indian accent says " BRITTANY! ARE YOU TELLING CUSTOMERS THAT THE FOOD IS GROSS?!" I was like "well..do YOU like the pork nuggets?" he was like NO I DONT EAT PORK AND YOU DON'T TELL CUSTOMERS THE FOOD IS GROSS!!! i was like "dude they arent even customers we HAVE to eat this slop!" he brought me into the backroom and told me to go home because i was rude and never smiled!
Down the ladder
I picked up a part time job at a golf store in the mall to a) get discounted golf supplies and b) to earn a little extra money to go golfing. The owner asked if he could pay me under the table. I told him I didn't feel comfortable doing that. I didn't take the job for the money, so I really didn't want to risk anything. He then paid me the minimum wage for a neighboring state (the state he lived in) and gave me a hassle when I asked for the minimum wage for the state I lived in and he operated his store in. About a month went by without incident, then one day I used a ladder to get a golf bag off a high shelf. Coming down the latter with the gold bag I missed a step and broke my ankle. I told the owner my girlfriend was coming to take me to the doctor because I heard a pop. The guy then proceeded to give me hassle about leaving and called me a pansy. The next day I came to the store (in crutches) and told the owner the hospital wouldn't take
my health insurance because it was workman's
compensation. The owner then asked for my key and told me he never wanted to see me in his store again.
With a broken ankle, a few grand in medical bills and a hospital that wouldn't take my insurance I was forced to hire a lawyer. When my lawyer called to get the store's workman's compensation insurance info the owner refused to provide any information. The owner then told my lawyer I came to work with a broken ankle. After my lawyer asked how I climbed a ladder with a broken ankle the owner threatened to report my lawyer to the Bar Association for participating in workman's compensation fraud. A few weeks later my lawyer called and told me the owner has skipped every hearing before the workman's compensation judge, the state insurance commission listed the store as having no workman's compensation insurance, the owner wasn't paying into the state unemployment fund and the owner hadn't paid any sales tax to the state in two years. The state then launched a full investigation and eventually they closed his store down. That sucked because everyone lost their job, fortunately it was nobody's full time
job,
except for the owner. What also sucked was I never got a dime from this man because he filed for bankruptcy. My lawyer said the bankruptcy won't absolve him from any of the money he owes the state. Fortunately my lawyer got the state to pay for my medical bills. According to my lawyer he's barred from opening up another business in our state. A year later he opened up a new store about 10 miles from his old location, but this time in the state he lives in. I'm not allowed in that store either, but at least my ankle is ok.
Jealous Wife
I worked for a company for 10 years full time. I became close to a coworker a few years ago. He was on and off with his spouse, and we started a relationship. This went on for almost 2 years, and he is now back with her. Because we work together, and spend so many breaks together (as friends), his jealous wife talked to my manager and human resources department, and got me fired (for private things that were not illegal)! So I have lost my career and benefits because of this woman, and I am struggling in every aspect of my life. What's to stop me from inflicting pain on her? I think of harming her all the time. He unfortunately is NEVER allowed to leave his house alone, except to go to work. She has threatened divorce and sole custody if he talks/sees me again.
Fired for chips and tea
I was recently fired from a large grocery corporation for failing to pay for a $.75 bottle of tea and a $.59 package of chips before my only 15 minute break after almost a year and a half of employment.
Fired for getting a bonus
Myself and a friend were working at a small insurance company in Los Angeles when they started an incentive program to increase production. They posted everyone's production numbers on a bulletin board each day. It only took a couple of days for my frind and I to see that in an office with 10 examiners, 45% of the work was being done by two examiners, my friend and myself. We decided to go into the owners office as a team and tell him that we wanted a raise, or we'd both quit and he would lose 45% of his production by his own figures. He explained that his company had recently been bought out by a larger conglomerate (which we knew as their corporate goons were already hovering over the work area) and that they had frozen any raises. He offered to give us a substantial bonus if we would just keep it a secret. We agreed to this immediately. Now this company had these ornate presentation envelopes that they used whenever
anyone got a promotion or a raise or something of
that ilk. The next morning, the owner came around and handed one of these envelopes to my friend and myself. Of course, everyone wanted to know why we were getting the envelopes, but we had agreed to keep it secret. The department supervisor went to the owner and he told her that he had given us a bonus, which apparently made her angry. She went to the corporate goons and said that we had circumvented them in an effort to get more pay. We were called into the office, one at a time and each told that the other had said that they had told everyone. Unfortunately for them, we were both good friends and that tactic didn't work, and we refused to even discuss or acknowledge the bonus. We were both then fired for insubordination for, essentially keeping quiet and getting a bonus. They said that they put a stop payment on those checks and escorted us out of the office. The next morning, my friend and I got together and went back to the office, and, essentially held the owner hostage until the checks were
made good. The best part of that story is that when we showed up, the new COO, who had introduced himself to the company by saying "This guy looks like he goes over 200 lbs.....maybe we should listen to what he has to say..." was found hiding in a closet because he was convinced we were coming to do physical damage to his over 200 lbs.
Eat 1st pay later
I was working at a "Wally world" aka Wal-Mar*..Ive done this before were I get a 15 min break I would get a drink and snack off the floor and go to breakrrom and pay afterwards. one day this girl saw me and told mgt. even thought they did not tell me it was her i knew, anyways mgt asks about it and i fessed up and was fired for "Stealing at that time"should have payed before eating" (Good news I got some unemloyment out of it)
Okeee-Dokee
During a 10 minute conversation with a customer on the phone and getting her order for reprints on her Christmas family portraits , i went over her order to make sure i got it correct and when she was happy with her order we confirmed the pick up time to be next week, and she requested i call her if they got done early. I told her i'd be glad to and that wasn't a problem. Because of the Christmas rush, she said she would check back regardless in the next couple of days. I replied "Okee-Dokee, thanks for your business", and we hung up. The bosses wife who had been hanging out that day thought i was too casual with the customer on the phone and didn't think it was proper to use Okee - Dokee with customers. I was let go at the end of the day.
Harry Potters fired from the olympic village
we where constructing furniture one day in the athletes village when we came up with the idea to draw on one of our mates faces. 3 of us chased after him and held him down while we drew Harry Potter glasses on his face in marker. it was all laughs till he went to wash it off and it didnt come off. the little jerk complained and we all got fired for physical assult. we all now convinced another company to give us new jobs for the olympics as managers for another site. we didnt give references.
The FEDS
I was working in Florida as a radio repair technician. I was asked by the owner / boss of the company I worked for to break Fedral law. ( FCC rules). I told him no and was fired. I did not want to go to jail. I ask the state employment board to over turn this action. As I wanted to collect unemployment. Here in florida if you get canned you get no money. Nothing. The state of florida sided with my ex boss. Go figure. This is a true story.
Fired, but had the la$t laugh
I worked for 2 years in an accounting firm. Horrible place with horrible bosses. I knew my boss was going to fire me for a younger prettier girl. Which he did, promptly after I was fired I called the NY State Labor Board. It seems the firm had a practice of not paying time and a half after 40 hours for the administrative team. I filed a complaint and the office was raided and thousands of dollars had to be repaid to assistants who had been bamboozeled by the firm. I may have been fired, but I had the last laugh.
No Clue
I was at the end of my second day of substitute teaching middle school. I thought it was going good, especially compared to my first day when the kids decided to be as wild and vulgar as they could be to the new sub. I was mentally counting down the minutes until the end of the day (15 left) when a woman came in and asked me to step out into the hall. She told me to gather my things and leave. I was completely flabbergasted. When asked why she said it was because a student said I had said something inappropriate to them, but she would not elaborate on what it was I supposedly had said. Considering the whole day had been spent fending off and ignoring offensive questions from kids, and keeping the class pet from being hurt I had no clue what they were talking about. I was not allowed to talk to any of the office staff to clarify the situation, and was basically escorted out of the building. I still don't know why I was dismissed. I went to the boards
office and was told to write out a statement of my
day for review. All I know is substitutes get thrown into a class without any introductions, instructions, or allies.
I couldnt see to come to work....
one day i wasnt feeling well so i called in sick at work. the next morning upon arriving at work my boss approached me and informed me that i could not work until i had a doctors excuse for missing the day before. on such short notice the only doctor i could get into see that day was an eye doctor. the next morning i arrived for work and my boss asked to see my doctors excuse for missing work earlier that week. i handed him my exam from the eye doctor the day before. the look on his face was priceless. he asked me "what is this", i replied it's from my doctor showing i had an exam. my boss was not amused and told me once again to go home for the day. the following morning i was fired for not having a valid doctors excuse for missing work. the good news is i found out i had 20/20 vision.
Fired
The word FIRED has been in our lives for over 3 months now. Why does a company like Central Transport fire my husband because he broke his leg and damaged his ankle falling off a ladder on vacation? He has been a truck driver since 1978, with a clean record, never called in sick and always helped others so they can go home early. He worked for Central Transport for 2 years and never called in sick and stayed late to help others finish their work. We just bought our house last March. Now I don't know how we're going to make this month's house payment. My husband doesn't deserve this. Central Transport told him on July 2, 2009 on a conference call you have 21 days to heal or your fired, and you have a great 4th of July and be safe. They terminated him on July 29, 2009. My husband will be able to work sometime this month. He gets his second screw out of his ankle on Oct 15, 2009.
Broadway Grill
Its a pretty short story. I was working Broadway Grill a few years back. I called out because my Grandfather passed away.. my boss said it was ok and to just call her tomorrow and let her know if I was coming in. I called back the next day and she told me I did not have a job anymore...
Now I was not lying.. he really did pass away! my cousin was close friends with the boss' daughter.. the info could have been easily verified.
Greasy
My name is Nicole and i got fired from McDonalds for accidently flipping hot french Fries and a whole bunch of grease at my co-worker.....OOOpps!
You want fries with that?
When I was 17, I worked at a fast food restaurant, Whataburger. After working for almost 8 hours without eating, I tried to eat a chicken strip while the manager wasn't looking but I got caught. He threatened to fire me if I was caught again. Not even 5 minutes later, I saw him doing the exact same thing he yelled at me for!
The job sucked anyways and I didn't need the money, so when he went to the restroom a little while later I emptied something like 50 chickenstrips into the top two drawers in his office. I then dumped two loads of fries on top of the desk and was in the middle of writing a swear with ketchup when he came back. Needless to say that bridge was burned.
Weird customer
so this guy walks in to the Tim Hortons i work at k? he orders a coffee, drops his change and his toupe fell off and he was extremely bald. i told my brother a million times.. thats the toupe guy and he always denied it saying it was someone else. he didnt even see it. so i laughed hard and cried out of laughter and got fired.
Tight Fisted
I worked for a company doing graphics for a year and a half. It was a family run business, by family run I mean the father owned 3 companies and let his 2 boys run 1 each. The whole place was a joke, they conned their clients and the 2 sons didn't have a clue what they were doing.
They were always trying scare tactics like pulling people into the boss' office and saying "we can replace you very easily".. which of course had the whole office's moral at an all time low.
I was promised a raise after 3 months of working there and as hard as I tried, I never got it. Until one day they said I could have it..and I did.. but not really. They raised my pay and cut my hours, so believe it or not, I worked out earning the exact same money!
That was the last straw, so I found another job. I took my "boss" (one of the sons) to the side and told him I had to give in my notice. He seemed shocked, but took it well.
Now for the rewarding part, the 2 sons called me outside and told me they didn't want me to go and that they'd raise my salary to match the salary of the new job (double what I was making). So going from "we can replace you in an instant" to doubling my wage? I had real satisfaction in telling them "thanks, but no thanks!".
Shoe Show
I left a job because my position was being phased out to go to work for this company as a store manager. I was told I would be required to close three nights a week, and they didn't want me to have to close every single weekend night, but that is how schedule wound up. This store where I was to train was an hour and a half from my home. I was scheduled three 12 hour shifts back to back. I never complained or said a word. I did not receive gas mileage, either. I worked a Friday 12 hour shift, Saturday 12 hour shift and a Monday 12 hour shift, then worked my scheduled hours Tuesday, but I guess I was kind of ran down and I caught a virus that had been passing around in the area. I came in Wednesday morning to work my shift sick. I was probably too sick to be at work. I explained this to my training manager. I was frustrated because the training manager had not allowed me to take notes initially while training, and even her boss had told me to
take notes. I finally broke down and forced
her to let me take notes. She got mad, called her DM and told her I don't know what, then the next thing I knew I was terminated on the phone by someone I had never met. I found a sheet of paper up front where the training manager had written down things I supposedly said. Only thing is, they were half truths taken out of context. So after leaving one job for this one, driving three hours every day and working these 12 hour shifts back to back, and even coming in to work sick, I was terminated, just like that. I have used their open door policy at corporate to tell them what happened to see if they would let me work because I live alone and must work, but I still have not heard from them. They also profess to be a Christian based company. During my training this training manager spoke badly of the company and everyone who worked for them that she knew of, she fractured rules, i.e. locked doors before closing time, took lunch without clocking out while I was made to clock out to subtract that time
from
my hours, etc. I have never been treated so badly at a company before. This is not a career oriented company, or even a good place to work. When I interview now I will find a way to get more information before I accept a position, even though I cannot afford to be out of work. Signed Look Before You Leap.
Vandalism
Worked as a Security Officer for a large company. I worked in the gatehouse for a shipping warehouse. 12 hour shifts get a little boring and lots of things tend to happen. In the office we had a picture of all the staff including our boss. One night i decided to draw glasses and a moustache on the picture it had a wipe clean surface. I forgot that i had done it and recieved a phonecall later the next day saying i had been suspended. When they finally called me in they told me i was being fired for vandalising company property!
Wrong place wrong time
on mother's day i called in sick to work... i said it stomach virus but really i had terrible female problems that day... after hearing a long lecture from my boss i assured him i wouldnt be with my boyfriend who also worked there. well later that day i get a worried call from my boyfriend. he needs me to come get him (cause he has no license) and we needed to go to this guy's house ( we'll call him mike.) to get his little sister an take her home cause she was in trouble. well bein in such pain when i got my boyfriend i asked him to drive. well when we got to "mike's" house it was surrounded by about 6 cop cars. which is alot cause we live in a small town. turns out they were lookin for someone we'll call him billy. see billy had cut this other dudes throat (he didnt die) so my boyfriend panicked and turned around, and before we got away we were caught. so my boyfriend (no license) got asked to get out of the car, asked
where billy was, and when he said he didnt know he was
arreseted! well in the middle of all this my mannager drives by and sees all the comotion, tells my boss, and the next day i was fired for lying about being sick. and to beat all i wasnt even given a chance to explain the situation. so lets just say i gave all the managers and my boss a very unpleasnt piece of my mind and they dont even speak to me when i go in there now... LOL!
Sick in the head
So i had been working at JCPenney for quite some time when my boyfriend (of 2 years) finally got the call that he could get a liver transplant which we had all been waiting for. Well i called my boss to tell him i had to go to the hospital with my boyfriend while he got his transplant...my boss had the nerve to say you have no business going to the hospital with them, that' so insulting that you would invade like that and just going on about how horrible of a person i am for inviting myself to go! I told him that regardless of what he thinks im going and if you say no i will quit..well then he goes on to say your just so rude and i would hate to see you burning bridges this young in your life and i need you to come to work tonight. I ended the phone call with a few choice words and hung up :)
HRBLOCK
My boss would throw a big fit about me smoking even when it was my break because of the smell and she always made me do her work, the tax pros and mine own. I left a cigarette on each desk and left in the middle of peak season.
Punished for being honest
Well, I had been working at a hair salon uptown. I live in a college town, so itâ??s really the only good hair salon around, and it was always busy. Well I had been training for the receptionist on the hair side considering it was a hair and tanning salon all in one. I had just recently graduate high school on a Sunday and that Tuesday I started. I loved the job and my boss has been holding it for me since December since I didn't graduate until May. Well about 2 weeks into the job, it was crazy, I was literally running around like I was everyoneâ??s slave and I wasnâ??t having it. I was starting college in the fall and my boss had told me that she only wanted me to take 1 class per quarter and work every day 2 p.m. to close, which was usually around 7 or 8 at night. Iâ??m a double major and I couldnâ??t do that. So I started looking for a job at the college I was attending since they are more flexible because they are used to working with the students schedule. I finally found a job, it seems pretty cool, I would be able to walk around campus during work, which is a beautiful campus, I might add. So I had a job interview for it, it was early in the morning and I didnâ??t start work until later in the day. So when I went in for my interview, I thought everything went great and they told me that only three other people applied for that job, so I was pretty sure I had it and was excited. So I went to work and acted like nothing was wrong, and around 5 oâ??clock and I had to close that night, I told my boss I needed to speak with her. So we went back into her office and I told her that I had had a job interview and I would know by Friday if I got the job or not, (this was on Wednesday) Right then, she tells me well thanks for telling me, thanks for all your work, we really donâ??t need you and she started crying, and was telling me how she had saved this job for me and everything. Well not to mention I get my hair cut there anyway and usually go tanning, and she told me how she thought that I was fit for this job and could see me being manager one day. Well I told her I just couldnâ??t do it with my schedule that I wouldnâ??t be able to put work first in front of my college education considering I didnâ??t plan on working there all my life, since there is no retirement or benefits there. So as I left the office, she had me crying too not because she fired me but because she put me on a guilt trip. So as we walked out of the office both of us crying, she told everyone that I was no longer able to work there, so I got my stuff and left. As I went out to my vehicle I realized I still had my parking pass since we have special parking where it was. So I went in and returned it to her, as I walk in she has a great big smile on and is looking at another girl already because the lady had dropped a resume off just a couple days before. So I just started crying because I didnâ??t realize how 2-faced my boss really was, and
left. As I went down to where my dad works, my mom and boyfriend were there. They both looked really confused on what I was doing since I wasnâ??t supposed to get off of work until 7 or 8. I told them both what had happened and boyfriend laughed because he thought I was joking because I told him that we wouldnâ??t be able to hang out. Well, my mom was the complete opposed. She was pissed off. She hadnâ??t liked my boss in the first place because when we would go and get our hair cut up there, she was just always mean. Well the next day, I was able to sleep in and have some time for myself since I hadnâ??t had a break from school to work, and I was leaving for the beach that weekend. Well I get a phone call and itâ??s from the job interview and they told me that I didnâ??t get the job. So basically I was screwed, I had started paying for a lot more things since money was tight between my parents. So pretty much, I had no idea what I was going to do. Well I checked my e-mail
and a lady that I had graduated with her daughter, had sent me an e-mail telling me that she had given my name out to a few people because she knew that I was looking for a job. So finally I got a job working at the campus, I love it. I work 30 hours a week and do absolutely nothing. It will be a better job because Iâ??ll be able to more study when Iâ??m in school because in the office thatâ??s what they would you rather do then to play on the computer. Well after a few weeks after this happened, I stopped in to the hair salon because I needed to make a hair appointment, and my old boss asked how my new job was and I rubbed it in her face, that I absolutely loved my job and how they are much more flexible, and she said well Iâ??ll talk to you later and Iâ??m glad you like your new job, she had to walk away because she was getting tears in her eyes, not to mention she was training someone else and I just laughed about it. So I thinkâ?¦MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! And lesson
learned from thereâ?¦.you get punished for being honest!
A number 18?
I worked at McDonalds for 3 hours, and this is why. I had showed up for my first day of work and watched the video for 2 hours when the manager put me on the front cash register. I was doing fine until a big lady came up to the register. Now for you to understand why this came out you would have to understand what type of person I am. To put it short I am not very inclined to keep my mouth shut no matter how it might seem to other people and I was 14 at the time. With that being said, this big lady came up to me on the register by her self and asked me for a number 18. I looked up at the board behind me and notice that there was no #18 so I told the lady just that. She looked at me like I was stupid and said "well that's a #1,#3, and two #7's. With out a second to think things over I blurted out Your fat butt doesn't need that stuff. Little did I know that the manager was standing right behind me, so he put his hand on my shoulder and with
a held back smile said " your fired" and
that was my 3 hours at McDonalds.
Theater Madness
My second job when I was about 17 was working at the movie theaters. To start off I asked to be put in as a Consestionist. They said sense I had no prior job working with money that I should work as a usher and they'd bump me up to concessionist after a little while (I worked there for about 5 months, never moved even though other people having this as their first job getting into Concession without even asking). Not to mention besides 3 people i was one of the only employees that didnt quit after 3 weeks after starting work there. So I start working there, get in trouble every now and then for talking to people when I'm supposed to be cleaning even though the floors are spotless and all the theaters have in. Even when I'm just cleaning a spot and i'm talking to a co-worker I'd get in trouble. Sent home early and things like that. The best manager we had there that wasnt a complete jerk got fired for i have no clue what. But the next day I
had already told them that i was taking off
Thanksgiving because my family is very into that holiday especially. And I already used up all my sick days. They have me on the list of people coming in then. I confront them about it, they said I have to come in that day. I said I'm not coming in then, they said fine, then you know you be fired. I just walked out.
Don't work near the lazy
I had been working at the local Pizza Hut/Wing Street Franchise as a dish-washer for 5-6 months, and while i may not have been the fastest worker in the store, i was diligent and got things done to the best of my ability. I worked the night shift, and saw only two other dishwashers there, an older woman and 'the offender'. The older woman was a decent worker that bridged the lunch and night shifts whom i was fairly friendly with and did her best to help me till the ends of her shifts, and often times a few minutes after...the 'offender' was this *ahem* 'special' boy that seemed to do nothing while he was there, and got payed to do it, while his case-worker hovered in the rafters, waiting and watching for someone to say something bad about her 'child', swooping down to berate and belittle them when we commented on his lack of work, which led into my firing. Around.... month 5 1/2, I came down with a severe case of the flu,
though i did not realize it for the first...week (I did feel
sick, but to be honest, i was always feeling sick), and was unable to work for at least two weeks. Upon coming back, i struck back at my job with a fervor, albeit one that lacked towards closing (when EVERYTHING gets washed [floors, ingredient containers, etc]). I had been getting fed up with 'T.O', and had begun to go directly to the case worker with my complaints, biting my tongue when she tried to use 'his' handicap {he was slightly autistic, but could function enough to do things when HE pleased [ergo, only when a manager was nearby]), and after that, the managers (there were three, Mitchell...the best of the three [he was bi-lingual, always friendly to the customers and staff, and was the hardest worker there {he worked from open to close, never once complaining}, 'Baldy', middle-manager #1, who for the most part seemed crabby but was actually decent when you were in his presence, and 'G-Pa' the resident old fart manager that probably had worked at the original Pizza Hut). The day of my firing,
I was on
my second smoke break [i worked a...nine hour shift, and took a smoke break once every four hours], leaving 'T.O' to have to work (it isn't that bad if you stick to it, since the dishes and what not don't pick up till an hour or so till closing), which caused the case worker to go postal, riding the managers to get me fired, saying ' i had been doing nothing for the past several months' and 'took a break whenever i could get away with it'....I will admit that i wasn't the best worker, and was lucky to get Mitchell as the manager that had to 'give me `that` talk', and came to a mutual decision that i WAS fired, but it would be put down as me quitting...so that i could at least pull in that last paycheck. I knew that nothing i did would matter, so i walked back in, looking happy...and promptly gave 'the case worker' a piece of my mind, and told 'T.O' what i thought of him.
As an added bonus, turns out that two months after i left, Mitchell got sacked on a 5 year old D.U.I that was brought up by 'G-Pa', which prompted most of the staff to leave with him (including the spanish cooks [legal, but only one of them spoke english well enough, the good waitresses [the ones that had no qualms make the trek back and forth at the customers whim while still being friendly {I.E:My sister was coincidentally one of them, and was the one that got me the job in the first place), and the majority of the phone girls and custodial staff....which left them with no-one that knew how to work anything (I was the only one that could have helped them, since i had worked both the oven-line, and fryers)
Too old for this
Worked a month for a high profile restaurant. We had a handook training session and I was advised to show up 5 minutes early. First hard rain in awhile, trains were delayed and I got to the meeting 10 minutes late. 3 days later I was fired for being late to the meeting and giving "attitude". Their employee policy list said you had to be late 3 times and be written up before being terminated and I really wish someone would define what "giving attitude" is, because I certainly never rolled my eyes or cussed anyone out.
Racist Pig Of A Boss
So, I worked at a Pizza Hut in New Jersey, and my boss was this southern republican, and I'm a extreme liberal, so I had to bite my lip. But one day, this nice Mexican family came in and the boss told them to get out, despite the fact that all of the people in the kitchen were Mexican. So, right in front of him, I asked the family to place their order. He said I was fired, so I ignored him, got the family their food, told him off, and walked over to my car.
Bullseye!
i was playing darts in the bar i work at it was my turn and i saw my boss anyway i wanted to get fired so when he walked past the dart board i threw it and hit him in the eye i got fired.
READ THE LABEL PEOPLE!
I used to work at a pharmacy. One day a customer took the bag I put on the counter without looking at the name on it before taking it. My boss at the time called me that evening and told me I was fired. The lady said she didn't understand what I said when I repeated the name on the bag to her. She should have politely asked me to repeat myself instead of costing me my job. Sheesh. Now I work at a department store I like better.
The days of the week
A few years ago I got a job as an administrative assistant. I would work three days per week on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. My cousin worked there too and she was the one who told me about the position. We would occasionally have our spats on a few matters but nothing too major. Anyway it so happened that the Monday coming up was a public holiday and so I didn't think anything of it. I just thought that I had to work the Wednesday and Friday. On Tuesday morning while I was home I get an angry call from my cousin saying that I was supposed to come in. I didn't think that I would considering Tuesday wasn't one of my designated days to come in to work. Then she started going on and on about how I shouldn't assume anything because I will make her look bad and that they were expecting me to come in. So I came in and again my cousin started ranting and raving. In a couple of days the boss told me that they no longer need my
services. Thanks to my dear sweet cousin.
Never Again
My very first job was a fastfood resturant called whataburger based out of texas. I loved it and was a good worker. i had to quit but went back. I ended up workin in a different city and the management sucked but it was paying my way through school so i stuck it out. During the summer i transfered to another store and my register started coming up short. not just five dollars but almost 100 dollars everytime a certin manager worked so i quit during lunch rush. when the school year started back up i got my job at the other store back but this time my roommate whom i used to love, my best friend, party go to girl etc. became my boss. she called in or didn't go in all the time but if i wanted to do the same she'd give me a hard time. so i quit, no call no show. she gave me a hard time about how they were asking her why and blaming her and how i'd never get another job anywhere cuz my references would be bad etc. so before i moved i romanced every
guy she had a crush on. She hated me cuz not a
single one wanted her... did i mention i'm a hot blonde?
Still Not Paid...
I was working at a Montessori Day Care as an assistant teacher a couple of years ago. I was pretty excited about the position, but I only lasted 4 days. The center was so disorganized and the Principal was a total Jerk. She kept changing the schedule every day, so that at one point the kids were eating their lunch at 10am. I never got a chance to actually teach my class because I was the designated pull-up changer. I was literally in the washroom all day changing kids' pull-up's and underwear. I was reprimanded for dumb things every day. I was told that I applied sunblock on kids incorrectly, and I was taught how to close curtains properly ("Now, it's kind of difficult.."). I'm not a child, don't talk to me like I'm one. I wasn't actually fired. I quit. But then I was never paid! I called and called to get my paycheck and I was hung up on. Twice.
Blockbusted
Well, i worked for blockbuster video while looking for another job, for awhile, and while most of the people were great, the manager was a lady thrust into position due to our former manager being canned for stealing and she really didn't have a good handle on what she was doing. We all tried to give her lee-way, even though our schedules would change 2 or 3 tims a week after you were already in that week, and it became confusing what hours you worked and didn't. i had things happen like showing up and being told i wasn't working, and a million phone calls that went, "Hello, the schedule changed, be here in ten minutes." This was so bad i would show up for work and they had changed what hour i was to come in that day, and claim i was late! I was written up twice, and all former schedules were always destroyed and new ones provived so there was no paperwork to show that what i had writtn down was in fact what i was told. After Two write
ups for tardy (the third being a fire) i was ready
to leave one day and was rung up for my weekly free movies. somehow it showed that i only had 4 left, and i had rang up 5 movies. Well i was told i had to pay for #5 or be fired. I said "Well then i'll just take the four then please." and was told once somethings rang up it has to be bought, etc. if it's an employee or be fired. That even though i removed accidental ring ups all day i couldn't do that. i had to pay (and she knew i was broke) so i scrounged change and stuff and paid for it after asking "are you serious? really? you can't just take it off? pay or be fired?" to which she wouldn't budge. i paid.
Couple days later i was like 8 minutes late due to an accident on the road and was told the old too bad so sad routine.
Fired because it was my last write up.
Funny thing is HER manager made her call me back and rehire me.
At this point i was to start the new job I have now, so i agreed to work it and then gave my notice so i don't have a fire on my record. At the time i was leaving she was trying to talk me into more hours as she probabally realised she needed a good experienced clerk like me who's good on the register.
Also my last day was on the day of inventory, where you spend a whole night scanning EVERYTHING in the store and then make accounts on what's missing and go and try to find the missing stuff and it suck the big one, so it was funny having her try to talk me into staying for inventory (i was one of the better employees/scanners i think was why she ate a lil crow) and me saying hell no.:)
How I got fired, and my friend Jeff
It was that one day, when I went into work with my cousin. He was in a bad mood from start because is girlfriend broke up with him. This fat hog came in and wanted a Arby's 5 for 5.95 all roast beef. She thought even if you bought all 5 roast beef you got a large pop for free. He told her she was wrong and she started cussing him out. He picked up one of her roast beef's off the counter and chucked it at her head. He got fired, then walked out. Then work was boring without him there. So I got a large cup and poured Dr.Pepper in the cup. Then I walked to my boss, tossed it at his face and took off running out the door. Then I walked back in and said "Whoop's I forgot something." then I told him off and went to my car.
First Day,Well it was my first day working at this local place of mine and this customer ordered some food she asked were the sauces were and i said it was behind her as she turned round she went straight in to my boss and she and got food all over him i got right told off and the next day he fired me i was really pissed of and the next day i walked in took all the sauces opened them all then threw them at the boss then told him off and walked off.
Fired over IM
My brother in-law and I made an offer to buy the company I was employed at for 12 years, him for over 16. Our boss had been out of the country for about 6 years saving the world, so we thought since he had been running the office for 6 years and I several construction jobs we should just buy it form him. He initially was interested and we were 25,000 dollars apart on Wednesday and on Monday he fired me. This all occured VIA IM.
Going to school
I got fired because I told the company that I worked for (Cintas) that I wanted to go back to school. They tried to talk me out of going to school, and even stated that I didn't need a degree to move up in the company. I wanted to go back simply because it was something that I wanted to do, not for a particular job reason. They are still fighting my umemployment claim. Cintas doesn't care about their employees.
Starbucks of Doom
(keep in mind that I've never been fired from a job. Also, I had 5 years cafe experience)
I was working the drive-thru window one busy night at Starbucks. I was the only one on the window at the time. (The Starbucks I'm speaking of happens to be the busiest in the southeast). I had a customer at the window that wanted his drink in his own cup (no big deal). I take the man's cup and turn around to give it to the girl that is working the espresso machine (who just happens to be the manager on duty at the time). The AUTOMATIC window closes as I step away from it...which THEY ALL DO if I'm not mistaken. When I go back to the window to take the man's money he starts yelling that I slammed it in his face! I tell him that "no, sir...the widow closes by itself. It's automatic..." The "manager" on duty comes over to defuse the situation. I work several more days with no problems. One day I come into work and my store manager wants to speak with me. So we sit out on the patio and she fires me! In front of customers and co-workers. Turns our the "manager on duty" that
night
lied and said I did slam the window in the man's face. Two other ex co-workers and I got them back though. Can't say how. It's incriminating.
Background
i was working for this business after one guy and moved. i put my stuff in his office and changed the background of the computer to one of the default ones that are already on the computer. well one of the other workers saw the background and told the boss that i had messed up his computer which it wasn't. i got fired
Splash!
So, i was working at this handmade soap store in a busy past of town. I'd been there for about 6 months and then they switched management. The girls who became managers were real jerks and very two faced. They were looking for a reason to fire me but couldn't find one. So first, they cut my hours in half! Then, they had a team meeting and didn't tell me about it, so obviously I didn't show up, and they wrote me up...even though no one bothered to call me. Then they added a shift to my schedule and didn't tell me about it, so they wrote me up again. So I decided that I was going to give them a piece of my mind. One day, I went in when i wasn't scheduled and asked my manager if I could speak to her. Well, she completely ignored me, and then went to greet customers. So i waited...and waited...and waited. Well, in our store, we did demos of the products in the back of the store. I was tired of waiting for her and the bubble bath water was just sitting
there. So...I filled up the huge pot all the way to
the top with water and bubbles. Then in front of all the customers, I threw the water all over the floor and told my manager (who's attention I finally had), that she was a two-faced idiot and I quit. It was so liberating!! I can't show my face in there anymore...but it was worth it to see the look on her stupid face! LOL!!
America Run Away From Dunkin
I was hired to work a very busy DD in Boca Raton, FL right on the spot. I had been working there a while and one day my manger comes up to me and asks me to remove the expired milk from the custom fridge. I checked all the milk and removed the bad ones. I didn't know where to put the bad milk so I asked my manager where. He said to just put them in the back. So I placed them in the back of the freezer. The next day some guy comes in yelling at about how his daughter is sick (throwing up and all that) from drinking bad milk that he bought at our DD. Someone must have put the milk back in without checking the dates. I told him to hold on and I get the owner. He holds the bad milk up to my face and goes, "you drink it". I tried to back away, but he just leaned over the counter push the milk back into my face. I was horrified. He started saying he was going to sue me. Instead of taking his sick draughter to the hospital he
came back to DD to harrase me. It wasn't even my
fault. The parents should checked the expiration dates to make sure it was safe. Thankfully the owner came over and dealt with him. Talk about a horribe work experince. I'll never forget it.
Stupid
My friend and I were working in D&D Sports when a kid walks in with his mom to buy a football helmet. I did the routine and measured his head and recommended a helmet. 3 days later I get a letter in the mail saying the kid got a concussion and he was sueing us. I got fired after the lawsuit.
Telemarketing
I was working at this telemarketing place for four months and my supervisor did not like me one bit! The center Manager didn't really like me either, I really don't know why but let me cut to the chase here... I was at work one day planning to put in my two week notice because I was moving halfway across the country! I could not get out of my seat to get the papers to fill out (it was a rule) so I asked my supervisor to grab me one to fill out, when she asked why I had told her the truth that I would be moving in two weeks... WELL she is best friends with the center manager and immediatly went and told him! Not two min after I asked for the papers, here comes the manager storming towards my cubicle, he told me I need to grab all my stuff and follow him to his office. So I get all of my stuff and follow. When we get in he shuts the door and asks me to sit down, then asks why I was putting in my two weeks, I told him the same thing I told my
supervisor and when I was finished he looked at me
and told me that he thinks I should leave NOW! I asked why, and he told me I was making poor sales and I had a bad attitude! (I was top seller for three months and am a nice person). So when he said those words, I SNAPPED INSIDE! I worked hard for all the sales I had ever gotten. I stood up reached across his desk, shook his hand and said, " It was NOT a pleasure working with you", and proceeded to turn around and walk out but he followed me. I was walking toward the coat rack to grab my coat which is not anywhere near the exit, and he proceeded to bad mouth me the whole way to it! When I grabbed my coat I turned around and Yelled IF YOU DO NOT GET AWAY FROM ME IM GOING TO KICK YOUR BUTT! Now I am a very petite woman a whole 115 pounds and five foot three inches tall, LOL! He was not happy that I had said that, plus everyone in the call center had heard him and me yelling, so I tried walking toward the exit and he followed like a stupid jerk and just before I got to the doors to leave he yelled
THATS RIGHT YOU BETTER GET OUTTA HERE! I turned around and got into his face and said You had better watch what you say to me or I will mess up your car! That made him stop for a second and I walked out the doors, only to hear him cursing at me as I got into my car! Needless to say my friends and I took turns messing with his hood and windshield! That will teach him to mess with a short nice woman who has finally had enough of his bullying!
Praying to the Porcelain Gods
I used to be a housekeeper at a 3 star hotel. I was pregnant at the time and didn't know it. It was the earliest signs possible when I started to get morning sickness. I went to work and tried to do the best I could but kept feeling nauseous. At the time I just assumed I was sick or ate something that didn't agree with me. I was slacking with my job that day and was going slower than usual cause I kept taking short five minute breaks and puking in a few toilets at work. I got fired because I got caught by the boss for puking in the toilet after I just got done cleaning it. It was the worst possible time for my boss to just walk into the room along with the customer, who's room I was cleaning at the time. The customer looked disgusted and my boss went to the extreme of firing me because she didn't know how to handle the situation. Four days later I found out I was pregnant with no job, living in the number one worst state for
employment at the time, a year ago.
Cutco
I received a letter in the mail saying I could be offered a job at twenty dollars an hour. since I was a junior in highschool I could not resist. I went to the interview that was about an hour away from my house. The young geeky young man was there all serious there... he was a really big jerk to everyone who was there and when people didn't answer a question the way he wanted them to he looked at them like they were brain dead. Cutco are these really expensive cooking knives that i have to admit they are pretty good but a set of them are about 500 to 1000 dollars and you rarely will find people that have that kind of spare cash. He hired me that night and expected me to be there for the next 3 days for 8 hours each day. The next three days he bragged (which made him look really ugly) and talked about his girlfriend. I honestly feel bad for her... he is insecure, stuck up, and way too serious. Then he wanted for us to pay for the knives that i was going
to be showing to the customers.... the way the
buisness works is that sales representatives will go to people they know and those customers will give them 3 people they know and it works from there. This manager of mine, Jay, made it look soo easy but in reality it was a nightmare i hated it. And for some reason my paychecks were never coming in and i told him about it and he said he would call and it was rediculus that it would happen to a new employee.. then he made me go meet him and the rest of his amazzzzing employees at the place that i had my orientation at which was an hour away and then drive to philly which we had to pass my house and travel another 1 1/2 hours to philly ridiculous right? He never told us where we were going and if we had enough money for gas. Pretty ignorant of him huh? and i talked to him how it was ridiculous for us to meet him at the place where i had my orientation and he yelled at me saying we are a team lol and we leave together... but after 6 hours at this seminar which was in a hall in a hotel he left us there not
telling us how to get home and he didn't pick his phone.... some team huh?.... I stopped selling and told him i wanted my paychecks... weeks went by i called him on a daily basis until my boyfriend's parents got a knife they ordered and said who is john *** because that was the name on their receipt as their sales representive... I went on the internet and got the main phone number to cutco and told them and they were in shock and really angry what he was doing to all of his new sale representives... because i was not the only rep not getting paid...I called him and left a long nasty voicemail how he was going to get sued if he didn' pay me and he gave me a check written in pencil so he had to return from his college and give me another one...he is busted and looks like a nerd and he breathes like a creeper...Cutco is a stupid job which won't ever help you unless you wanna work at a fast food joint or be a telemarketer.
Stealing Smokes
Me and my best friend Jerry worked at the same Food Lion grocery store for 7 months. From the very beginning my friend Jerry would show up to work at 5:30 A.M. in the morning, before everyone else, and steal cartons of cigarettes from behind the checkout counter. I warned him several times that he was eventually going to get caught when the manager did his inventory check. However, my friend became even more greedy, and starting stealing groceries and cigarettes from the store, and putting them in his car. Everything was going smoothly until he got into an argument with one of our co-workers: Adam; and he pushed Adam into a pile of cardboard that was going to be crushed and bailed. After Jerry pushed Adam into the cardboard, he threatened to throw Adam into the bailer with the cardboard (which would have killed him). Needless to say, Adam was scared to death, and the next day Adam went to the store manager and told him that Jerry was
stealing store merchandise. The manager reviewed the
videotape, and he called the police. The police arrested Jerry in the store, and charged him with felony larceny. (The manager told Jerry he was fired as he was being handcuffed). Jerry went to court, and the judge reduced the sentence to misdemeanor larceny; and Jerry had to re-pay Food Lion $1000 dollars for all of the cigarettes and food that he stole. Overall, it was a very stupid thing for him to do, and I hope that he has learned his lesson.
Fazoli's
I had been working at Fazoli's for about a eleven months. At twelve months you get a raise. Well during my last week there i started planing for my mom to come visit me for the first time in five years. Therefore i had a busy weekend to set up. In all of this confusion I happend to look at the schedule wrong. I checked my mom in at the hotel and headed to work. I thought i came in at five but happened to have to be there at two. I was immediatly pulled into the office and terminated. there was no use even trying to reason. i then found out my dad called up there to find out the story and the manager was rude to him too.
Daycare
I started working at this daycare when I was 18. Loved my job, had a blast working there. My boss fired me because her 13 year old son had a crush on me!
Still Drunk
I was the assistant manager at a small restaurant in Ft Collins, CO. I was given a hundred dollar bar tab every month as part of my salary. With that I was cut off from drinking there several times for getting too drunk after my shift. I didn't see a problem with this as I was off work. The owners said it made them look bad. Anyways after a night of heavy drinking with my roomates at home I went to work the next morning still drunk. My boss told me to go home take a nap and come back later. I went home had a few more drinks and ate some lunch. When I came back later he pulled me in to the office and fired me. I wanted a new job anyway.
Poor Paper Boy
My boyfriend's brother just told me this story. When he was 17 or 18 years old, he had a job as a paperboy. He was doing his route and it was 4am. He made a u-turn in the middle of the street, and out of nowhere, going 60+ miles an hour, a truck t-bones him. The cops and ambulance were called, but everyone ended up being okay, and even though his car was totalled it was still driveable. So my friend decided to go ahead and finish the paper route. He finished it up, went back to sleep for a few hours, and called his boss to tell him he couldn't make it to work for the next couple days because he got in an accident during the route and the car needed to be fixed. His boss asked him if he finished the route, and he said yes, and then his boss said that he was fired! All because someone else ran into him, AND he finished the job he was supposed to do.
Don't Dance
I hated my work place. no one ever spoke beccause 'we weren't alowed to interfere with other workers working'. one day, i forgot to eat breakfast, so i went a bought a packet of marshmallows into work. i had them on my desk and my boss comes over and said 'sorry we don't allow sweets and biscuits because it distracts you from your work' so i got on my desk, and started dancing. my boss looked completely horrifed, so i was fired.
Christmas Bonus
I worked for a computer store, doing 12 hour shifts over Christmas. To get more money I worked a weekend for a co-worker who needed the time off. When I got my pay slip I found I hadn't been paid for that weekend, so I took it up with my manager. He said that since he hadn't been told about it and it wasn't changed on the rota that I wouldn't get paid for the 24 hours I'd worked. So a PS2 plus controllers and games, as well as a game boy advanced with some games found their way into my possession - all the items values added up to the amount I'd been stiffed. Sukkas!
Bad Management
I was an Employee at the Melting Pot at one time during '06 and '07. When I worked there it was absolutely fine. The management was great, the employees were nice and everything. Unfortunately, I left because I had found something that paid more and promised me wonderful hours. I worked there for a while and tried to get my job at the Melting Pot again. I did but i find out that everything has changed. The GM was a royal jerk and the manager was an idiot. They treated me like I was 12 years old. They constantly got mad at me for doing what I was trained to do, but telling me it was all wrong. So I had finally had a enough of it and found a new job. But before I quit I turned in my two weeks notice. On my notice, I put my days avaiable to work (after all it WAS spring break). To put the icing on the cake, they didn't listen to my requests and scheduled me every day (the other two hostesses got off for spring break). I went up there to get my
check and the manager asked me why I wasn't dressed
to work. I said, your not going to honor my requests, i'm not gonna honor your schedule. So go take a menu and shove it. I QUIT. Her face was pale as paper and couldn't say a word. Almost all the employees there applauded me and walked out as well. needless to say they were very short staffed that day.
Radio Shack Mafia
I was working at a Radio Shack down the street from my house. I had been there for about 3 weeks and my boss was terrible. I mean, his idea of training was 'here, watch this video and memorize it, leave me alone' (an we all swore he wore a tupee). Well, I had made good friends with a few of the guys I worked with and we used to hang out all the time and complain about Gregory (our boss). I had been there for about 6 months when Gregory fired one of my co-workers for 'stealing from the back room' because some of the iPods had gone missing from the cage. Well, number one, none of us had the keys, and number two, Gregory was the one stealing from the store, and everyone who worked there knew it. We were all outraged that he fired my friend but we went about our day. The next day, he fired another one of my friends for 'standing around too much while closing'. This was just ridiculus and we all knew it, he was just trying to get rid of all
the teenagers he had hired. So we came up with a plan.
My friends were very into combat/military style things, so the last guy quit the next day, but I stayed (we think he would have kept me the longest anyway cuz, even though I didn't know as much as the others, I was a girl). So just before my boss was scheduled to leave for the day, all three of my guy friends came rushing into the store in full decked-out Navy SEALS-type uniforms with paintball guns. Gregory was terrified and hid behind the counter. So the boys ran up to me, threw me over their shoulders and carried me out of the store, keeping their 'guns' aimed at my boss. On the way out I yelled "By the way, I QUIT!" Everytime I go back to buy batteries or something, Gregory always asks me if my 'escort' will be arriving so he can evacuate the store LOL.
My Adventure
Well I was kinda bored so I decided to get a job at a fast food restaurant.
Then when I got the job I started messing with the prices. Like I charged $3.50 for a drink and $1.00 for a sandwitch.
They didn't catch me.
Then I started stealing other people's nametags and stuffing them in the playplace.
Nobody noticed.
Finally, I started throwing things at people. Just randomly. Then I'd deny it.
But I got fired anyway... whoops...
Jealousy from other employees
After high school i got a job working at a Mcdonalds. the first three days went well. On the fourth day everything went bad. the trainee manager chewed me out for being an hour late. the day before i had asked the manger Mellisa when to come in because they have not yet put me on schedule. so Mellisa told me to ask the other manager Freda she told me Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 9-5. so i repeated to make sure. and she repeated it back. that Friday when I showed up for work the trainee manager Michelle with a you know what attitude. said you're an hour late i said no im here on time and then she grabbed the schedule. and turns it to the page with my name and points. I told her that the manager Freda said to come in at 9 which was the time id been coming in. i even told her that i had to ask Mellisa and Mellisa said that i had to ask Freda. Freda looked at me and said you know that i dont start any employee out at 9. so the
day continued and this chick which i dont even
remember her name came up to me while i was moping the lobby and chews me out because the other new girl that worked with me Glenda was not working the counter like i asked her to i turned around and there was a big line of people waiting and where was Glenda? she was busy filling french fries in the boxes. later, i was cleaning up and Michelle said you've got the cleaning part down well but you are going to have to be more friendly at the cash register. I couldn't help it i was so ticked off. then later i noticed Glenda had come back without washing her hands after taking out the trash and she was handling the burgers which she wasn't supposed to be she had to work a certain amount of time and take the food handlers classes before messing with the food. it made me mad that they didn't say a thing to her but they kept chewing my rear all day and what she did was worse than anything i done that day. i just knew it wouldnt be long before i was fired. so i quit.
Happy Birthday
I worked at a School Age Care facility for 8 months. Let me start off by saying that wasn't even the job I applied for. I was originally working at a Teen center which I loved. They told me that the School Age Care center was short staffed and they needed me to go over there and help out for a month. I wasn't thrilled but I knew it was only for a month...6 months later I was still there. They wouldn't move me back OR show me legal documentation that they were allowed to move me. I ended up just dropping it since I had been at SAC longer than I had been at the teen center. We had to do training modules every month and I was a couple weeks behind on one that I needed to turn in. The reason I couldn't get it done was because I was too busy with the kids. My thought was that I would rather get in trouble for paperwork than not watching the kids and have one get hurt. Well they finally out of nowhere said "Hey, we need you to go back to the
teen center"...8 months later! Then they asked
if I could come in later that week for a meeting. I didn't have a problem with that. The day of the "meeting" also happened to be my birthday. I went in they all sang Happy Birthday to me, then said, "I'm sorry, we have to terminate you. You have 2 hours to check out" They tried to say it was because I was late on my paperwork, but they all didn't like me there anyway. I was the only white female, and I was younger than most of the people that worked there. I can promise you though, ALL of the children at that center loved me like I was family and so did most of their parents. OH and then they tried to tell me that I couldn't get a job with the company ever again. (This company supplies hundreds of different jobs) I told them I was getting ready to marry a Marine and that I was going to be around this company for a long time, and they weren't going to let me have another job ever again because of late paperwork?! I was not happy at all. They told me that I was young and would get
over it.
I finally got the paperwork changed, but they would only change it so that I only couldn't work with children again, like I'm a criminal or something!! Happy 20th birthday to me... Can you tell I'm still not quite over this? ;)
Nice tip!
I used to be a server at a local restaurant. One day, during a break, a few of us were telling funny serving stories. One of my coworkers told of the time he worked for and Italian restaurant chain. His cowrker had been slaving away at a table, getting numerous refills and pretty much bending over backwards to make this table happy. They racked up a decent sized bill, and when the check was given to them, they put the money in the server book and said to keep the change. The server thanked the customer and went to the back to cash them out. The wonderful "tip" that was left for him was less than a quarter. Infuriated, the server followed the customer outside, threw the "tip" at the gentleman, and shouted swears at him!; Needless to say, that server was fired.
Never draw on taget products!
i worked at a big target by my house. i was a cashier but often roamed the store messing the stuff. My friend, kym, convinced me to write with a sharpie all over the products. i crossed out the brand names and wrote "RIP OFF!" but my boss didn't get the joke. he fired me, and we were both banned from every target 30 miles from here.
I'm a money maker without anyone knowing
i worked at a big hollywood video. the pay, decent - but i thought i wasn't making enough at the time so i asked my boss for a raise. the next week, i asked him again. but he kept raising it and i asked for more and more. after a month, he was tired of it, and he left on vacation. my co worker was in charge, and i said i needed a raise and my boss was going to give me a $90 raise, and she believed me! so she raised it and i got a bunch of money:]] after my boss came back, i got fired.
TP when the manager ain't there
my friend lesley worked at a Burger Ville and i always came in and hung out with her there. I'd get discounts without the manager knowing, he thought i was just a great custumor! well, the manager had went to hawaii with his family and was gone for 2 weeks so my friend was in charge. we decided to get toilet paper and TP the whole resturaunt. we were caught by security camera, i was banned from the place, and my friend was fired. oh well, it was a good prank:]]
Not a good reason to be fired:[
I worked at a really loud Chuck E. Cheese resturaunt when I was nineteen. I really hated my job, serving little kids pizza and giving them cake. One day, I asked a kid if i could have some of his pizza and his mom told the manager, then the next day he said i was fired for taking the kids pizza even though i didnt eat it!! My manager also told me i had to apologize to the kid, by email. it sucked.
Fiesta This!
I got a job at a Fiesta and my manager put me on my own register after a half day of training and granted I'm not the most CHIPPER person to ever greet a customer but I was great at my job. My manager wrote me up twice telling me that my register was short, telling me to carefully count money when giving change. I was already double and triple counting as I went and the day before my last write up one of my co-workers who worked in the cash booth told me that my money was never the issue, that I was great with handling cash, that I wasn't storing my coupons correctly. How could I fix a problem I never knew existed?!? Thanks for Nothing. Oh and by the way they tell all employees that managers and regular employees and or booth workers can't date - HE HAD A BABY WITH A REGULAR EMPLOYEE THAT WORKED IN THE CASH BOOTH! The next day I was called into the back room and was fired. I looked like that kid who got the last golden ticket, "Oh, thank
god. I hated this job. It was like waking up to a
nightmare everyday for 8+ hours. You were there and you were there and oh,I'm free." Grabbed my purse and went out for the best happy hour I've ever taken part in!
Pet Store
After working my butt off, while attending school, at a small local pet store for a year, I was surprised to come into work one afternoon at the start of my shift and find the owner waiting for me. She immediately asked me where the key to open the front window displays (where we had a litter of kittens living at the time) was. Since I had closed the night before, and the day manager couldn't find it when she came in that morning, they automatically assumed I had stolen it. Why I would steal a key, and force animals to suffer, is beyond me. The owner informed me that they were firing me, but on Monday. I was still expected to work that weekend, since they didn't have anyone who could cover my shifts until then. I told her off and walked out. I found out later that the day manager, who never liked me, had knocked the key behind the display fish tank we had at the front desk, and didn't even bother looking for it before blaming me for stealing it.
She had also been telling the owner that I was
mistreating the animals, being rude to customers, and that she had been getting complaints about my hair, which was dyed smurf blue at the time. I decided to return her kindness by calling the Animal Control in the town and informing them of her 6 cats and 4 dogs, all over city allowances.
Chipotle
i got a job by one manager one week and the next week this new lady comes in. well i had been having medical problems so i'd have to take off weekends to leave to go back home (3 hours away) for doc appts. she kept getting pissed off at me for missing work (even though i gave notices of when i needed off) and finally one day when i had to be rushed to the ER because i fell at school and hit my head (and couldn't make my shift) she told me i didn't need to come back. like i could really help that i had stuff i had to do to get well.
I ALMOST KILLED A LADY!
I was working in this lame sandwich shop all day, and then this rude, ugly woman came in and started insulting me. I got so pissed, I loaded her sandwich with peppers even though she said no peppers! Turns out she was allergic to peppers and had to go to the hospitial. whoops... (but it was so worth it).
Nice One
I was employed in Subway. This costumer was really annoying telling me to get him everything on his sandwich. I got really pissed because he said I wasn't working that fast,, So I threw salami in his face and he left, then I just walked out because I knew I was fired. :)
Menards Secrets
Ok, so I was working at Menards in West Chicago Illinois just off of North Avenue and Route 59. Anyway, my boss Javier is a real jerk. He is the kind of boss who talks down to you instead of to you. Anyway, he pissed me off so much every single day to the point where one day he told me to organize all of this different fiberglass foam. So i opened a package and draped some all over him. Needless to say he was itchy for a week. I got fired on the spot but he knew he deserved it so they didn't look at it as an attack.
Fired for being ginger
My friend had worked at a local market for over 5 or so years, her old boss had retired and a new one appointed, she was fired the next day because she had ginger hair and he had something against ginger people.
Rip Off
basicly i worked at BP owned by indans and they had not done inventory and i took full advantge of this. i probably lifted 1000 dollars worth of cigs and candy out of that store. and the fun thing was i got fired becuase one day a regular came in and i gave him on pack of smokes for free. i got fired. but it was all good becuase the owner doesn't know about the rest of it.
Dominos Uniform
My friend, lets say Joe, was working at Dominos he just got hired. Joe is very cheap and tries not to waste more money that necessary. he went in for training, they gave him his uniform and that stuff. he went the the training, and at the end the trainer told joe that $20 was going to be deducted from is check for the uniform. when joe left the dominos that night that was the last time he went to work.
Wallet
I was collecting carts in the grocery store and I found a wallet. I took the money (I didn't count it)and hid it in the bush with 2 other friends. A lady came up to me asking where the wallet was and I told her it was inside. She came out with a manager and told us they would look at the video cameras. The lady told us to give her the money and she promised we wouldn't get in trouble. She was a single mother and just got her paycheck ($1700). I felt sorry for her,(the other two guys just ignored her). I told her where the money was and she ran inside telling the managers that she found her money. The next time I worked, they brought me in for questioning. I told them the story and I told them: "She got her money back, right? That's all that matters." They fired me (I'm Mexican) and they let the other two guys off with a warning (They're White). I don't know I think I should've gotten a write-up.
Kacy's Carry Out
About 7 or 8 years ago i worked at this convenience store that had a pizza kitchen in it as well. well it was quiet so i came to the front and was at the cashiers. so i saw that the gum display rack was a little jumbled and at the time i was straightening the gum rack just below the registers. it was cold that day so i had a little bit of a runny nose so i use my sleeve to wipe my nose so my boss looked at the video and accused me of stealing so she handed me my check and told me to get out of her store so i did. Needless to say my father-in-law was standing there at the time and he heard it all. so later that day he brought me back to the store and slashed all 4 of her tires to her brand new truck, even got the spare. he he. then i called the head office and told them that she was firing employees to hire friends. the next day i was on a bus back to Houston when i got a phone call saying that she got fired and were trying to give me my job
back. Stupid!,
What comes around..goes around,So i was working at a cattle farm. I was always on time, never missed a day of work (even know i was sick the whole time i worked there b/c of allergies), covered for coworkers whom never did cover me back. well one morning i was called in for a chick who had the flu, so i went in and fed the calves and then told my manager that i had a doc appt at 10am and needed to leave early (reminder was not my day to work) so i tell her and she goes down to tell our lazy boss and he told her, to inform me that would be my last week. So i went to my doctor appt. ended up having a serious sinus infection and having to buy meds that cost $115.00!!! went back showed him the paperwork and he goes why are you showing this to me, i don't care.
but i didn't go my last day i was to work, screw him like he did to me.
but its all good, after he fired me 3 others quit in a 2 week times and then HE got fired from the other investors!
Whipped Cream Facial
My best friend worked at an ice cream shop, let's call him 'John'. One day, 'John' came into work drunk. And when I say drunk, I mean drunker than a frat boy on spring break! Well, as soon as he walked into work, he started smashing the ice cream cones, throwing sprinkles on the floor, and cursing at customers. The manager heard the noise and walked in, and 'John' threw a handful of whipped cream at the manager's face! Without bothering to wipe it off his face, he fired 'John'. It was worth it though, it was funny as hell!
MCGRAW-HILL
After working for McGraw-Hill for over 9 years, perfect attendance, customer service awards, etc. I was forced to change postions. I took a 8 week so called training course, at which time I was given incorrect information or incomplete information or no information at all! Once the so called "training class" was over, I was put in the department and my daily work was verified. I found that I could go to 3 different co-workers in the department and get 3 different answers for 1 question. My daily error rate wasn't based on company procedures, it was based on how my verifyer would do it, which in a lot of cases, would be different than other co-workers. No consistency. Then, while doing my research for daily work, I started finding errors that the so called trainers and verifers were making.These were the same types of error that I had made as I'm learning everything! But somehow that didn't make a difference. They could make all the
errors they wanted, it didn't matter if it affected
the customer or not! The people making these errors and getting by with it are the supervisors pets and half my age. I tried to tell the HR department that I was experiencing problems and that there was unfairness but instead of helping me and looking into the issues and attempting to resolve them, they fired me! My supervisor was a mean, moody nut case which was most of the root of the problems. She should be fired for the things that she says about people, the ruin things she says to people and her actions. I wouldn't recommend that anyone work for that company! 9 years of dedication got me nothing . They were just interested in cutting costs, the temps they brought in were being paid less than me. During the 9 years I worked there, I saw a huge turnover. HMMMM ....need I say more?
Some ugly redneck p.i.t.a.
Well I wasnt fired from my job but fired from a project.
I had to do a project at a grocery store like 30+ miles away and had to leave at 5 in the morning. So I get to the store around 6 and the woman in charge didnt actually tell me what to do until 6:30. I had to redo an entire aisle of grilling stuff and switch it for toilet paper / paper towels all that jazz. I got started and cleared everything off with another worker which she was slow as heck so it took 45 minutes. Then I had to arrange all the shelves for the WHOLE aisle myself because the woman helping me felt bad she ripped a tag so was about to like, cry that she ripped it instead of getting a new one made in like 2 seconds.
It was 7:30 and I had started assembling shelves for the baby wipes and they were a PAIN to set up. Finally after I got the little display things set up it was 8:00am and the woman helping me FINALLY started bringing product over after I brough a majority of it myself.
The person in charge came up to me and said she needs the plan-o-gram back and I told her how am I going to do this without the plan-o-gram? She said make a copy so i went to the office, got the copier key, made a copy and the woman came up to me 5-10 minutes later and said "Its already past 8am I could have had that aisle done by now but you are working so damn slow"
"How do you expect me to do that ENTIRE aisle by myself when those stupid display things are broken so I had to figure a way to get them working and that woman you gave me to help me ran off and cried because she ripped a damn tag, you SERIOUSLY can get that done in an hour and a half?! I'd love to see you do it"
"Leave the store now I dont wnat to see your face"
"And I pity the man who wants to see your ugly blue collar face at night, he must be PRETTY desperate to want to even TOUCH you"
Yeah I reported her. My Boss thought it was funny what I said and they said she reported me and my boss just went "I have no idea what you are talking about" and hung up on them. I liked my old boss but we did have some issues.
Window
I worked at a bike shop, and all the employees rode bikes around all day, trying to jump over one another. I yelled at them many times, but they never stopped, so I put crisco all over the floor. The one guy, we will call him jerry, he came riding around the corner very fast and started to slide. He hit a bike rack, flipped over and went through a window. He was ok, and it was very funny, but I don't Know why i got fired.
Doller General Fun
So i was on break at doller general my first job when i was 16 my friend came over and we started playing hacky sack in the toy isle my friend kicked it so hard that it busted out a light i got fired and had to pay for the light.
Accused of being a thief!
I got fired from the first job I worked at. The boss really didn't like me. I'd never done anything to her, she just had it out for me. For example, one Saturday before we opened, I was stocking shelves. Well, EVERYONE else was sitting down chatting and gossiping. I decided to join them but no sooner than I sat down, she said real mean like, "What are you doing?", meaning, "What areare you doing sitting down and not working?" while everyone else was doing NOTHING. Well one day I was at the register with a REALLY long line. I was already nervous working at the register because they had the cheap registers where you had to punch in the price of everything so it took a LONG time and there were a LOT of customers in line. The customer gave me a $50 dollar bill, which we are supposed to call in to the office, along with $100's. Well, I did, I let them know I had a $50 and for them to come get it. They said
they would. Well my quite nervous self for some
stupid reason put the $50 under a display on the counter meaning to give it to them when they came to get it. Well half an hour later, the line was gone and I'd forgotten about the fifty they'd never come to get. I went back to stocking shelves. At closing time, I was called into the office and asked where the fifty was. They had already gotten it (I'm assuming my fellow cashier had seen me and told them where it was). I remembered I had put it there and told them, but they fired me, accusing me of planning on stealing it. Ridiculous! If I had planned on stealing it, would I have called it in to begin with??!!! To make matters worse, my own FATHER accused me of planning on stealing it and called me a thief!
Superfund
I was working at a supermarket, Coles to be exact doing nightfill (stacking shelves). Was working there for 2 months then I fell really sick and had to take some time off, i think it was only a week. Over the next month I hardly got called up then I received my super annuation notice for that company in the mail and it said.. "there is no balance shown, you are not currently employed by this company." Rude huh?
Puppy stores are hard jobs
ok so I started working for Puppies and Love at the mall. It was all together a pretty cool job, there was a lot of stress for me, but not as much for all the other girls. For one, I was the only guy working there...srsly. Everyone else was a chick. I think I got fired because I was a guy, or becuase I couldn't multitask...whatever
Free Tacos
ok. me and my freind were working at taco bell and things were pretty boring so...........We decided to go out onto the side of the road and throw free tacos at each and every passing car. Our boss eventually found out when a costomer said " you know theirs some idiots throwing tacos outside". He fired us and banned us from his buisness.
Rotten Banannas
For an April fool's joke, I hid some bananas and McDonalds meat patties around one of my coworker's office in places no one ever uses, in files, behind shelves and ect. I got fired the next day for similar practical jokes. Three weeks later, I got a call from my friend who told me that his office was infested with bugs and he would have to work in a cubical until the exterminators came. Oops!
Karma and my bf got even for me!
I worked at a stupid tiny little store called Christine at West Edmonton Mall. They sell cheap plastic jewelry and hair accessories and what-not. Well, one day I am just about to leave for work when I get a phone call from my boss saying I'm fired. OVER THE PHONE!! I asked her "Oh really, for what?" She said she couldn't tell me!! I'm pretty sure that I am entitled to a reason!! (Later on when I went to pick up my cheque I was told it was for swearing in the store, which I NEVER did, and then on another occasion the story had been changed, now suddenly it was because I was rude to a customer, which I ALSO NEVER DID!) Well anyway, I had dropped my phone and sat on the floor and started crying. My boyfriend asked me whats wrong and I told him that my boss just fired me over the phone and for no good reason, so he immediately stormed out to his car, drove over to the store, and cussed my boss out right in front of a
bunch of customers, who all started leaving the
store lol. If that wasn't awesome enough, my bf and I are now engaged, and that store has long since been permanently closed down!!
GasMart Revenge
I got a job last year working at a GasMart (phillips 66), soon after I started working there I found I was pregnant. At that point in time I had accepted the assistant manager position after only being there 2 weeks. I worked hard and did everything I was taught. My manager seemed cool. She was only a year older then me until I realized what kinds of person she really was. I got fed up with her working me and everyone so much and not doing literally anything. She would open the store late, leave on the clock for hours to go tan or shop and would play childish pranks like leaving sanitary products in the store safe for me to find when I was counting the money. She would spit in the floor and leave her trash in the floor insisting other people picked it up. I wrote a email to the district manager telling her that my manager was rude, and disgusting without detail and that I was demoting myself to employee because with the baby due soon I wouldn't
be able to handle the stress of the whole store.
Later that day my manager came in to see if I had done my cleaning list which I had all but 2 things which I told her I couldn't do because I was pregnant and it hurt to bend like that. She ended up giving me three write ups in a day which happened to be the firing limit. I flipped and started cursing her in front of the customers which oddly enough were on my side with her behavior. She called the district manager while I was still yelling and cursing her out. I proceeded to flip over the office chair, vacuum and a few other things, snatched my coat, threatened to beat her up if she thought she could take me and then leaving store. The next day she called me to tell me not to come in anymore, but I told her I would be up there anyways to get a copy of my write-ups and my termination papers for legal proof. She freaked out and wouldn't even show her face. She had an employee bring me the papers. A month after I had my baby I seen her working at wal-mart in the meat department. When she seen me she ran in
the back. Funny end to the story is she ended up getting fired less then a month after that because of the horrible manager she was. She tried to fire me to protect herself but only told on herself even more. Sweet Revenge!
You stink
This happened to my mother when I was still a child but my father told me my mother had a job at National University in California. To make a long story short, he said she only lasted for five weeks because the entire staff complained she had horrible body odor. Eventually her boss told her to put on some deoderant or don't come back at all. It's been eleven years since the incident and it's still a problem!
Electric Nut
Okay, so i have been working at this small bar-b-que place for 8 months. The boss was a man but was as moody as a teenage girl. For example, I got written up for not draining the sink one night, got chewed out for not rotating the sauces, and was close to being fired because HE left the fridge door partially open. Well, one day 3 hrs before work starts, my boss calls me and tells me not to even bother coming in. When I asked him why, he said he doesn't know what to do with me...that the night before (when i closed by myself) i forgot to turn the small tv off in the dining area. He said that my services were no longer needed. Now he has to work late every day because he decided to fire me.
Good Times
When I was 17 I worked at a very popular movie theater. Me and my buddy would shove Zowers into the middle of hot dogs and sell them to peopleâ?¦ they didnâ??t like our invention - we got fired.
Rack Room is WHACK
So i got a job at rack room shoes where i live with my cousin! it was really boring and noone ever came in so i basically got paid to stand around and text all day. this one girl that worked there (Lisa) never came to work, she always called in sick or left early or just didnt come in. my boss was so busy trying to please everybody that he didnt care and never said anything to her. one day he was on vacation and we had some dude come in to cover his shift. my mom got sick and had to go to the hospital and i was supposed to work that day. well, i called in and said i couldnt make it and the dude said it was ok since Lisa was supposed to come in, too bad she didnt. when my boss came back him and lisa got into an arguement but i got fired, not her. stupid right!?
Never work at a movie theater
i worked at a movie theater. the rules are ridiculous. you arent even allowed to say in a public forum that you work at this particular one. i was 17 with my GED and had worked there for 3 months with an ignorant manager constantly breathing down my neck, just being downright mean. he told people he didnt like me, and anytime i said anything he told me to shut up and get back to work. now if youve ever worked at a movie theater you know its hard work. im talkin get there at around 6 pm, work rushes and clean up after people, get switched to concessions and go crazy trying to get stuff done. cleaning out poppers and constantly dazzling metal and sweeping up popcorn, and closing is utterly hell. not to mention making nachos like youre a slave for mimimum wage. so one day i was having a terrible day and had just clocked in from my break. that particular manager showed up and i said damn, mr. (well be generic and call him manager)
manager is here. he asked me why i said that and i
told him that he made my working there miserable, he told me he would take care of that. i get called to the manager's office where i broke into tears. told all the other managers what he did to me all the time, and they told me to either quit or file a hostile work invironment claim. i just left, not wanting anymore trouble. you believe they said i was fired for cursing out my boss? after working me past midnight making me close, illegally, and everything else they put me through, that was how it ended. NEVER work at a movie theater. and don't buy concessions either, the prices are gouged like crazy, sneak in your own food. =]
Nurse FIRED for huge error
My wife witnessed a near death at a Hospital she was assigned to, as a part of a nursing program. She was to observe nurses in the performance of their duties. A middle-age man went into full cardiac arrest, the Nurses/physician assistants went into action to save this man from death, a "crash cart" was on it's way.
So, what does this on RN do? She does the CPR, straight mouth-to-mouth! Her mouth to his mouth! (Which is a BIG violation of medical procedures). The guy was brought back from death, and
the nurse in charge of the floor came in, and was told what happened "You don't know what he has, and I don't know what you have!" (Speaking of diseases) Yelling loudly "clear-out your locker, and go home, I will be informing the HR Department of this incident and blatant disregard for safety".
She was fired the very next day. Her nursing licenses was revoked later that month. Ouch!
Fired from the Barber Shop, US Navy
In 1998, I worked as a Barber on a ship in the Navy. Ship's Serviceman rate/MOS is a very dead end job. I was cutting people's hair, so these two guys I knew walked in.
One guy wanted to shave the other guy's hair, so I allowed it. The Chief walked in, and saw it. He was livid. I was fired (from the Position, not the Navy) right on the spot. I had to turn in my keys and I was re-assigned to work in the Ship's Laundry. Later Heard over the 1MC (General Announcing system) "Duty Master-At-Arms, Please dial..."
Which an hour later, the Master At Arms told me the Chief tried to put me on report, but he rejected the report because my actions didn't constitute a UCMJ/Military legal violation.
I was permanently reassigned to Laundry, which I was happy about.
Should have stayed awake....
All right... my friend a couple of his co-workers, and I had a party. We had been drinking n playing guitar hero all night. And now I had to drive across the other side of town to go home. It was already late, or I must say next morning. So bye da time I got home was like 5:30am and I had to work at 7am at village inn.
So I quietly sneaked inside da house so my parents wouldnt notice I came in at that hour. I layed on my bed hoping not to sleep and wait until 6:30am to go to work. However that did not happen and next thing I know it was already 10am when I woke up!!
It resulted that my mother had called in for me n said I was sick. So I come in to work the day after, and my manager saw me...he called me into his office and said "wuz up with you, how come u tell other people to call in for you?" (To make things short... I am not a very good liar, n im pretty sure he found out I was lying about being sick) so I told him "what to you want me to tell you ehh?" he got mad n told me he had to let me go. I simply clocked out after our discussion and left. Stupid me... forgot my jacket so next thing is that I walked inside the store AGAIN to grab my jacket and everyone was gossiping about me. I walked home afterwards
Smoking
I was working at McDonalads once and one of the other employees was smoking inside, i told him to take it away, he wasnt to thrilled he told the boss (a fellow smoker) and then sends him over to me, he said, my smoking buddy tells me you wouldnt let him smoke inside. and i was like you cant smoke here go out back you low life, he didnt take to kindly to that, so he fired me.
Not Good!
I worked in a clothes store and to be frank,my boss treated us like bloody slaves!
Anyway, it was one summer day where i was sorting out the new stock. I put the cheaper stuff on display and the hole-in-your-pocket clothes on the side rails! The boss came in and started yelling at me! She kept screaming until i could not take it. i threw my badge at her (it had the wrong name on it aswell!) and walked out. I also managed to accidentally knock a load of clothes onto the floor!
Paper Route,so my friend lets call her Potatoe was working as a paper route she had to do almost 150 papers!!!and half of them didnt even pay her so she phones the guy on charge of the claarington this week says is there anyway i can split the paper route he says sure i'll get to it right now a week later she calls again asking who'd shed be splitting the route with the guy said he had no idea what she was talking about and was definatley not alowed to split the route she got MAD she hung up the phone and went to do her papers a month later the guy calls back ads 50 more people to the list at least and yells at her for not completing the job before 4:00 so she yelled and yelled he still wouldnt fire her so she stoped collecting she didnt have the money to give to the paper people they still DIDNT fire her she got so mad she flat put didnt do her papers and when they finaly fired her. they made her deliver papers for 5 months while they found a replacement. she later found out the waiting list is over 50
people at the time and he could have just picked one.
Calling In Sick
i was working at a supermarket for only about a month, I called in sick (i was really sick) and my boss started swaering and yelling at me about how useless i am. (even tho i never called in before and i was always early etc.)
So after about 15 min of him going on i just out the phone done and went to sleep
the next day i was fired because he still wanted me to show up.
im now a manager of another supermarket and i go in everynow and then to rub it in. haha
I put a spell on you
I was working at a grocery store as a clerk last year. I'm fairly well known in my small town for being that weird gothic girl who hangs out at the cemetery. Lucky for me when I dress normal few people recognize me. After a week of working at this store I started to notice my cover was blown... people started to remember my face and what I looked like off work. Soon people avioded my til, I heard comments from costumers who passed my til by "I don't want to go any where near that freak."
One elderly woman came to my til, put down all her groceries, I started to scan them through. She then looked me straight in the eye for a few seconds... and started to pick up her groceries again. I stopped and asked her what was wrong... no answer. She grabbed the ones I already rang through, "Is there a problem?" I asked, then she snatched a box of hamberger helper right out of my hand, and said "I don't want your kind touching my groceries." And off she went to a new til.
It didn't take long... 2 days later called into the manager's office.
He told me he had been getting endless complaints about me, from costumers. When asked what they were he told me he couldn't discuss most of them, but mainly some saying I was rude, that I gave evil looks at people some saying I had my nose ring in while i work... funny I don't have a nose ring. Said I wasn't nice and cheery enough with the costumers and that I didn't smile enough. I was sacked.
I friend employee who worked the help desk told me she heard the complaints people were saying. Most of them just wanting me gone.. no reason. Others saying I tried to cast a spell on them, some saying they felt i was going to do something sinister to their groceries. Bogus things. I'm a nice person, even a christan, but these old ladies and small minded people kept complaining enough that they got me fired for no reason. It was because the manager would loose their business if he kept me employed.
Windy
I was riding my bike to work as usual, since i only lived a few blocks away. I was a REALLY windy day and as I was biking down this particular sidewalk with tall chestnut trees a large branch suddenly fell right infront of me. I was going so fast I tried to turn but the branch was too large, I crashed my bike right into it went head over heel and thankfuly landed in the glass. I was lucky I didn't break my neck. The bike seemed to be fine but my nice white work shirt had grass stains all over it and a small tear courtesy of the tree branch. My leg was throbing as well as my hand which i twisted, but I got back on the bike and rode the last block to work.
When I got in I was first chewed out for being late, then sent to the manager's office. She lectured me about having a nice clean shirt when I arrived at work. I told her what happened, and she didn't believe me, said there were no trees on that street a block over.... It's the main road to get to the store, and those trees have been there for years... every one in the town has seen them, a long path of chestnut trees... can't miss them, can't help driving buy them EVERY day. She still had no idea what i was talking about. As far as she was concerned I was late and arrived not prepared for work, so I was fired. So much for trying to put the job first after an accident. My advice to everyone, if you are in an accident of any kind go to the hospital or stay home from work and phone in. Because it doesn't matter if you look like you have done a front flip on your bike and dragged in the grass and mud. They don't care, because if you are there, they can get mad because obviously you were well enough to
show up.
Instead... just do go.
Video Rentals
About a year ago I started work at a video rental store. Having worked in both a library and a movie threatre before it was an easy job.
When I'm not at work, I dress in a gothic style, crazy hair, spikes, boots with loads of buckels, fish net on my arms, black lip stick the works. Needless to say when I went to the job interview my hair was straight, I wore a sky blue turtle neck and jeans with no black makeup. And at work I wear a uniform; good thing too because I only have so many normal outfits in my closet.
One night I was out with friends at a club and we choose to drop by the movie store and rent a few movies and head back to my friends house. The closet one was the one where I worked.
When we got to the til with the movies, my boss looked me straight it the eye and said
"-my name here-... is that you?"
"Yes.."
"oo-oh...k well ummm here's your change... have a g-good night."
The next moring I got a phone call
"Yeah hi, we won't be needing you for the next week, come in next friday."
~Next Friday~
"Yeah... it's not working out..."
"Why is that?" Like I didn't know.....
"Well you're not learning the system quick enough."
I know I had lost my job the week before with that phone call. So what the hell I wasn't looking for a reference
"I've been here a week... 4 days and 4 hours a day because you refuse to hire any one full time so you don't have to pay them benifits or give them an employee discount. And you expect me to be an expert after that long? You're kidding you're self. You're only saying that because it's illegal to fire some one for how they dress on their off hours."
"oh no it's not like that-"
"Sure it isn't."
And I walked out.
Funny though, after I told enough people what happened they lost a lot of business. Small town and word gets around. Little did my employer know I also am a known person in the community for working with children and local festivals, and making the towns haunted house every year. Don't judge a book by it's cover.
Waitress Drama
Ok so my first job as a waitress when I was 20. I worked at a chinese place, the cook/boss couldn't speak english very well and the head waitress (20 years my elder) was there to instuct me. The first night went well. I'm a fast learner and very nice an attentive, I made $30 in tips my first night working 4 hours, and $60 the following night. I do stage management for a local theatre group when ever there is a play so a busy restaurant is nothing in comparison.
I'm no math genuis but i know how to work a til and a debit machine, the head waitress who was training me choose to test me and give me a money problem to figure out.
"if the costumer gives you $70 for a $20 take out meal and then returns for a refund because something was wrong with the food, how much money do you give them back?"
$20 I said. She arugued and said it was $70, I argued back and said "Well I don't know about you but I would give them their change the first time and not wait for them to come back..."
She made me sit in the back while she thought about it.... 5 min later she told me I was right.
The next night when I brought water to a costumer who had asked for some she yelled at me to stay on my own side of the restaurant... Later the same guy asked for more water... i had the jug in my hand... what was i to say? "Ummmm no... you can't have any" and walk away? Of course not. The costumer comes first in my opinion so i gave him water. This time she yelled at me right infront of the costumer. I apologized to the man and went to the back. An hour later a couple came in and ordered off the menu instead of having the buffet, I asked what I should do. She told me to circle on a take out menu what they wanted and to write "STAY IN" at the top and send it back like we do with take out orders... Half an hour later I'm still wondering where their food is, but chinese boss keeps kicking me out of the kitchen because he doesn't understand me. Then he comes out angry pointing at the "STAY IN" i had written and asking what it meant. I Pointed to the other waitress and explained
she
had told me that was what to do. She denied it! Said she did no such thing! It caused a huge mess and 'I' got blamed for it all. I tried to talk to her but she got upset and stormed off, told the boss i upset her. Then I tried to apologize to her at closeing time but she told me off! a 40 year old told a 20 year old "Your a terrible person and a liar, and I never want to work with you again." I replied... "i'm sorry you feel that way." very polite like and went home. Makes you wonder who is the mature one here. The next day I was was fired by the boss when I came in to work. She set me up, and got rid of me fast, a few days later I ran into the dish washer lady down town and shared what happened with her. Turns out that place goes through a waitress a week, and the head waitress gets the every one fired if they make more tips then her. So much for trying to be good at what you do.
McDonald's
I was sixteen years old when I got my first job at McDonald's. My stepmom was an assistant manager, so I didn't really have to try to get it. I did an okay job, but it was to be expected that I wasn't perfect. I left my house one night for personal reasons, and I had work the next day. I planned to get my uniform and head to work after that. I found out that my stepmom returned all the uniforms and quit for me.
French fries
My sister worked at A burger king. Her boss was a huge jerk. He would always be yelling at someone. One day he was yelling and she just picked up a thing of ketchup and fries and threw it at him. She wasn't fired. But she immediately quit. :)
big mouth blabber!
so i was working at this sports bar which will remain nameless. anyways, i had never been caught on my cell phone or anything, but this guy who USE to be a manager there got a DUI and got demoted back down to a server, didnt even get fired! and so it was his first day back serving, and it was dead in my section, and my room mate had sent me a text, so i opened my phone to read it and he walked by and saw me and weas like OOoooh im gonna tell. so 5 minutes later my manager walks up to me and hes like were you on your phone/ and i said yea. and he was like come with me, and he fired me in the office. then gave my table that i had to the guy who told on me. their bill was around $200 . and so he got the tip off them after my work i did on that table.
Forking
I was fired from a job once because Worked with this lady who was rude to everyone so one night my friends and I Went and wrapped her house. Not only did we tp it we stuck 100's of plastic forks all over her yard. I also syran wrapped her truck shut so she would be late for work. It Worked. I got fired... I dont care though. i hated that job.
Butterfingers
My boss threw a Christmas party at his house. He gave me a bottle of wine to take home, a really expensive red wine. When leaving I dropped the bottle on his 100 year old rug from Germany. Then when I was rushing to get towels to mop it up, I knocked into the china closet and smashed his grandmother's china. The next day he called me into the office and told me that they had to cut staff. Bye bye KLutz.
Burger King Calls
During my younger years I worked at Burger King where I answered a phone call from a person asking to book a table. The next day I got a call from someone claiming to be in the drive thru but unable to find the window. Almost every day this person called and harassed the store, it annoyed me more than the others and so I one day yelled when the phone rang, just after this pranker had dialed twice. It was someone's mum and friend of the manager, not the pranker. I got fired, but I yelled out swears as I left, made me feel good
Fired By Text!
What's worse than getting laid off the week before Xmas? Getting laid off via TEXT!! I was working for an optometrist and his patient load was low, so he decided to lay off some staff - I'd just been hired a month earlier, so it was "last hired, first fired". But by TEXT?? Think there's a correlation between his management practices and his inability to retain patients?? hmmmm......
Unannounced Termination
I had been working at this bikeshop for a little short of two years when they started cutting my hours. I live on my own so I had to make up the lost money somehow so I got a night job working at a restaurant/bar. Since I didn't get off at the resaurant until 2 sometimes 2:30 in the morning I had about 4 hours of sleep between my next shift at the bike shop. I had always devoted almost my entire life to that job, staying sometimes almost 2 hours late, going above and beyond helping customers, and always tried my hardest to make my money drawer equal out to the penny. The bikeshop got fed up with my new tired mornings and new unenthusiastic attitude after a few months so they fired me the morning after I quit the restaurant to cater to their needs. So I was left without and job period. There was no warning, they just let me go. Thanks so much for nothing.
Super Bowl
well i was working at subway and we have tvs there. My boss was a jerk and i told him three months in advanced that i need superbowl weekend off because i wouldnt be in town. well time went by and he said ok to my time off but when the time came he took his vacation and i got stuck working him. so when superbowl sunday came i closed the store 3 hours early and had a bunch of friends come over and ordered in wings and pizza. well needless to say i got fired the next day when they watched the tapes.
Joe shmo
well this one time when i was working at the keebler factory, one of the other elves said that i was a b**ch Subway BLOWS.I had already worked at a Subway resteraunt before, and swore I would never work there again. needless to say the economy blows and that was the only job I could get this year. After a month or so I was working the register when a big rowdy group of guys came in. they were being rude and kept ordering things then after we made them, would say "never mind I dont want it anymore." After twenty minutes of this I was getting really pissed. One of the guys grabbed my hand really hard when I handed him his change.
I called him a bad word and told him to get out of the store.
The next day I sent my boyfriend in with a note saying I wasn't coming back.
1 hour job
My friend had a job at a supermarket and she was very excited and when she cam home she told her daughters about her job and they asked : How did you get fired Mum? and she said i kept throwing out all the bent bananas! :)
What?!
a "friend" of mine got fired at mcdonalds (it was "her" first job). apparantly you arent supposed to put big mac sauce on a cheeseburger, even if the customer requests it (and pays extra AND vouches for you!) go figure!
Drunk at a bar.
I was a barkeep at a local watering hole - my buddies show up on a dead tuesday night and how do we decide to pass the time? long story short the owner shows up at 4 am to check up on me and my buddy is standing at the bar in his underwear trying to get some girl to take off her shirt - and the only person drunker than the guy in his underwear was me. And so im no longer a barkeep at the local watering hole.
Stolen Money
I worked for a Subway owner who owned three of the submarine shops and one day was called in to work the lunch hour at a mall, which was only a one hour shift, At some point during the day someone stole the change container filled with loose change and singles totaling two hundred dollars and I was blamed. As I was preparing to go back the next day the cowardly boss had a 16 year old kid call me and tell me not to come in. I flipped and went to the closet store they guy owned to my house and flipped the store key over the line of customers, then called the owner from his store and informed to have the gumption enough to do his own dirty work and at least accuse some one to their face.
Punching out
I used to work for a shady loan office and one day the guy at the desk next to me came in and his manager walked up and handed him a box and a sheet of paper. The guy started crying and filled the box with his belongings. I went over and he had been fired by being given a McDonalds application filled out with his info. My manager thought it was funny and I assured him if he ever did that to me I'd break his nose. Just as I said it another guy a few desks away was approached by the same manager and handed the same thing, only he stood and punched the guy square in the face. Then threw the box at him as he lay on the ground. He grabbed a couple things off his desk, put on his head phones and walked out. The managers had to have a meeting with the company VP and that specific one went on probation. I was laughing so hard. Good times.
Call Center
I used to work at this call center and had to take rudeness every day. People would call in to order a product or else complain about how one of our affiliates messed up their order. We had to fix everything from our end since we were the ones taking the order, etc. The actual affiliate didn't have to deal with the customers they upset. Oh well, that's why we charged $15 per transaction. It was a convenience-oriented service.
Well, one day I decided I finally had enough. People were calling in and complaining left and right and the supervisors were all on "lunch break" for about 4 hours. All of our temporary help were outside on their smoke breaks and I and a few others were the only ones on the phones. I didn't want to just leave and have everyone else have to deal with the customers - that wouldn't be fair. So I just started telling the customers "how it was". I told one lady that she was retarded for ordering her product and putting in the wrong shipping date and then blaming us for it. This really rude guy called in to complain about his order and I just told him off - "Listen, it's not my fault you're having problems with your order. If you want to complain to someone, complain to the idiot that built this company. It stayed like that for about 3 hours and then the supervisors finally came back and found out what I was doing. They immediately demanded that I leave and it took ME about 4 hours to
leave. Everybody but the supervisors was cheering me on. I felt like a superhero. I know I'll never work at that place again. What a hellhole.
Tim Hortons
I dont know if anyone else in the world besides people who have worked there know this, but Tim Hortons is the most high stress, worst job i have ever worked. I worked there for 2 years but the story i want to tell is about my sister working there. She ran the drive thru window which always got tips and at the end of the day she would split her tips with everyone on drivethru. At every fast food place if they dont like you from the begining they dont like you ever. Well One day she was trying to grab a mans money and he dropped the $5 bill he was holding and it blew down the road a bit, but he just grabbed some more change and gave that to her instead, when she asked "um do you want me to grab your $5 bill for you"? the man told her if she went and got it, it would be her tip for the day (the man was a regular and always gave extra for the girls to keep) My sister bolted out the door and grabbed the bill and next thing you know she was in
the office and they were rolling the tapes back
to see if she took anything. It never showed any footage of her stealing anything but they fired her anyways. never work there, thats my only piece of advice!
Boost Mobile Phone Cards
My friend was working at a local gas station when one her boyfriend at the time called her n told her his minutes were almost up so she went in and ranged up a 50 dollar phone card and charge him 10 dollars she was fired the next after the camera were reviewed and it show her doing the deed.
I work here
I was a stock clerk. This whiny customer was freaking out because there wasnt any of the tea that she wanted. She asked me if I could find some for her in the back, and so I did. I brought 2 half gallons of her tea out. She said how many more are there? I responded 7. and she rudely says "well thats what i want" and she began ranting more as i walked off. when i came out carrying the crate of tea she begins complaining about why we never have her tea and i told her "because people like you buy all of it at once" and then she called me an ill mannered punk. i politely responded "look, I dont like you and you dont like me. But i have to work here. so why dont you go shop somewhere else" i was fired the next day because she claimed i harassed her.
Never Work for Lone Star....
Well I worked there for almost 7 months and I supposed to be trained as a waitress, but since they needed hosts they told me that I could be a host first and then be a waitress. I was there so long I became their head host, which just meant I ran the board while eveyone else bussed tables. They told me I was given a raise, which I never got, and they even tried to give my job away several times but no one else wanted it. I worked evry weekend almost ten hours a day and only making 3$ an hour.
We even got a new manager who was a total jerk most of the time. Well one night during a home college football game, me and my roomate (who was also a host promised to waitress training) went in for our shift. They told us that we would be bussing and they were giving our board to two other bussers. I told them that that would be the last straw and that I was leaving. They trid to get me to stay but I told them to go to hell. I grabbed my purse and walked out the door, with my freind right behind me, right before the busy dinner rush.
They tried to give us our job back but we told them we weren't interested. It wasn't worth the stress or the non existant money. I even tried to talk to them about giving me the money they forgot to give me from my raise but they never returned my phone calls...
Overall...The whole place is a joke....
The Travel Counselor who hated his JOB!
When i started being a travel counselor the pay and the benefits were great. I had 2 months of paid training and then headed to work with real clients. Clients who traveled domestically were pretty easy to deal with, but after I started to book international travel and being bumped up to $16.00 an hour the job started getting harder. The customers were really nasty on the phone and would bitch all the time about how they missed their flights and that I was the fault of their problems! Anyways I tried my best not to let the stress bother me and tried to take many days off as i could. But the day had to come when all my stress at work would come to an end, and i wouldn't have to deal with travelers anymore. Anyways back to the story, It was a normal day got my second call, and i had to call a hotel to make a reservation, the hotel front desk agent answered the phone and started to take down the information that was required to make the reservation and the asked me to hold on for a second. 30 minutes later I was still on hold, then an hour later i heard the phone ringing as if i was never on hold and they never answered the phone. And then as frustrated as i was, finally this guy answered the phone and asked me how he could help me????? So i said that this other front desk girl was making a reservation for a client of mine and that i was on hold for an hour, the guy then paused and said that he had no reservation at all and that he didn't know what i was talking about and asked me to be put on hold again!!!! So i said sure, and while he had me on hold i think i was on hold I whispered to myself" these idiots" and i guess the guy heard me and asked what did you say? Any ways my phone call was monitored that day and i was fired the next day.
Fired for being kind hearted
long story short i worked as a waitress at flying J and i would always buy this homeless man a pack of cigarettes before leaving, so one night i heard two customers talking about how a homeless man just got beat up outside in the parking lot so i went outside and offered him something to eat, i bought him something to eat with my own money i earned that night and of course a pack of cigarettes, i didn't use my discount for his meal..but i did use my discount for my meal i took home that night since nothing was set out for supper. I went to work the next day to find out i was being fired for "FEEDING A HOMELESS MAN" yeah feeding a homeless man..i explained to him that i paid for the man's meal with my own money and didn't use my discount i thought it was obserd i got fired for that so i said to him before i left "I don't need to say any further because karma is going to bite you in the bum soon and your going to
wish you didn't do this". Well apparently a
couple months later the man who fired me got fired himself. I am a big believer in karma, always have been and i think karma did much more than i could ever do...so that's my fired story, and i still go and feed the homeless because i care about those who are less fortunate than others.
Neighbor's Dog
i was watching my neighbor dog while she was out of town for the week and i decided to have a party at her house thinking it would be ok because i would have so much time over the week to clean up the party was a ton of fun (the parts that i rememeber). the next day i cleaned up really good and by the time my neighbor got home everything was all clean. i was so happy that everything worked out the day after she got home my neighbor called me and told me to come over so she could pay me when i got there she told me to go inside and when i got inside there was a video playing and it was of the party it turn out that one of her neighbors had made a video of the whole thing through a window! she didnt pay me and i never watched her dog again.
The annoying colleague..
My friend was working at McDonald's, and his colleague was being really annoying. But, he was preparing the burgers and his colleague was at the deep fryer, and he gave a little push, and the colleague's finger went into the deep fryer. Needless to say, he got fired.
Bird Store
As a teenager, I worked at a cute little bird shop. Business was slow, but my job was to train, raise, and sell birds, anything from a little Finch to a large Mollucan Cockatoo.
I worked here for 2 months, and within 2 months, I made them approximately $12,000 in bird sales alone. No commission offered. They hired a new girl, who would constantly talk on the phone and run up their phone bill. This girl never did any work, and constantly disappeared from the main floor.
My hours began to dwindle, one week I was working 5 days, and the next, just one for a couple of hours. This was hard on me because she wouldn't do her work ALL week, and I would come in on my 1 day and have to do her job.
I tried to go to my manager about this, she was even given a key to the shop, but I was forced to do her labor and work the worst hours.
One day, I walked into the back room, two days worth of bird dishes sat in the back in the sink. The smell was horrendous, and the rest of the chores had not been done. I did ALL of the work, but instead of doing the dishes, I placed them all in a large plastic bag, set them on the back counter and wrote her name in sharpie across the bag.
My manager saw this and promptly fired me. =] Thank God.
Not so Secure
This is actually just the last chapter in a very long story, but I was working a security job at a local college. During the day-time hours, there were 3 guards and one supervisor (me in this case) watching 2 administrative buildings and 5 dorms (one of which was on a separate campus).
On what turned out to be my last day, I came in for my 7-3 shift and started my daily routine (which included 4 tours of the campus). In the course of this day, I had to deal with angry parents ranting that their car had been towed overnight. (There were signs on the entrance to every parking lot warning vehicles will be towed)
I had to work a detail in the school's theatre because the people in charge didn't have enough foresight, or perhaps was just too cheap, to have another guard on site that day.
Meanwhile, I get my normal calls at every little thing that happens. One of said calls? The manager asking me to stay over for the 2nd shift (The 2nd shift supe was on vacation).
So, I work through the second shift (which was thankfully much calmer than the first).
Anyway, part of the second shift routine was to go through all 5 floors of the school library, clear out stragglers, turn out the lights, and escort the librarian (the school president's daughter) home.
At 11:57pm, WITH my relief on site, I get a call from the main desk telling me they have a leaky bathroom at the other campus. At this point, I'm a 5 minute walk from the desk (where the keys are located) and standing about 20 ft from the van. Naturally, I said to pass the message on the the 3rd shift supervisor. (OH! Did I mention this school had a full time security guy that is furnished with a house on campus? Yeah! LAAAAAZZZYYYYY).
Anyway, the next night, I come in and the Manager is waiting for me with a write-up slip. The jerk's eyes lit up when he handed it to me. I was being written up for post abandonment for not staying over at the end of a 16 hour shift when it was maintenance problem to begin with.
I was about half-way through signing the form when I stopped, turned to the manager and told him "You know what? YOU can stay over tonight." (Oh, did I mention he'd just worked a 16 :D). He almost cried as I stormed out the door.
A/P
This is sorta like being fired... I worked Accounts Payable (A/P) for about 9 months at a concrete construction company. My boss was the meanest, most bitter person I've ever met. The type who are never at fault (even when it is blatantly their fault).
Anyway... I had been dealing with her griping and nagging for 9 months. One day she picked the wrong day to mess with me.
She started getting on my case about a PO (Purchase Order) that was entered incorrectly. I told her the reason was because her husband trained me to do it that specific way (he was in charge of the purchasing department), and that I had just done it the way he trained me.
Anyway, she tells me that anyone with common sense could see that it was wrong (which really wasn't the case, she was just salty 'cause her hubby trained me wrong)...
So I pick up all the paperwork on my desk (a good chunk, too - about the thickness of a phone book), threw it all on her desk, and said: "If you're so perfect you can do it your self - I quit".
The office manager asked if I would at least finish out the rest of the week - which I agreed to. I get home and my sister informs me that the office manager called and said she didn't need me to come in anymore.
Oh well... They're going out of business anyway >=]
The Girl
okay so i was working at a restarunt and this new worker came in and of course she was hot (yes i am a man). well i got to talking to her asked her what her name was (Brittany) so i asked her out three days later she said okay. well my boss liked her to. so he made a new rule about workers not being able to date each other but i continued to date her and he fired me. we continued to date and finally got married.
Fired a week before benefits
Steins Generator and Starter service in Philadelphia. They hire some idiot for miminum wage & work the heck out of him and just before he is eligable for benefits they find a reason to fire him and try to screw him out of his unemployment. I worked there for years and watched them do this time and time again.
Day off
I was working as an assistant store manager at EB games while it was in transition to becoming gamestop. Before I got hired the store was the last in our district in warranty sales. After I took over the Asst. Manager spot we were 3rd in the region! My boss was a warcraft addict who would stay up all night playing the game and drinking whiskey (he was an alcoholic too). Because he mistreated our minimum wage employees, constantly firing and hiring new help to the point where in 3 months our entire staff turned over 3 times, he constantly had to call me in on my days off to cover shifts, but would never pay me overtime. It got so bad that he even told me that I shouldn't plan anything for my days off just in case he needed me. After calling me in on my days off and constantly changing my schedule, I finally decided one day that I had had enough and didn't pick up the phone. The next day at work he didn't say anything to me...until I had spent
half the day rearranging the entire store for the
gamestop change. Halfway through my shift when I had finished most of the hard work, he called me in his office and fired me. The reason he gave is because he couldn't get a hold of me the day before. I was fired for not coming in to work on my day off.
Fired for Moving
I worked for approximately three weeks as a new paralegal for a small law firm in Downtown San Diego. After my first week, I noted that my bosses (the Partners) were very unreasonable people. Anyway, during that first week, I gave one of my bosses prior notice that I would be moving soon (due to foreclosure on the owner of the condo I was renting), but didn't know exactly when because I hadn't found a new place yet. Also, I did let the boss know that I didn't think my moving would interfere with my working hours but I'd let her know if it would as soon as I could. To make a long story short, I didn't find a place to move until the very night before I had to be out of condo by eviction law. There was now no way to avoid moving on a work day. Since, I was a new employee, I didn't yet have the bosses home or cell numbers, so I called the office number and left a voice-mail message letting them know I would not be in because I
absolutely had to move that day. The next day I was called
into a closed-door meeting and told that I was needed for some important work and should've gotten their permission to move first. Can you believe it? I needed their permission to move? I tried to explain that I had absolutely no choice but to move the previous day or risk my belongings being thrown out on the street, because I'd just found a place hours before I moved and had to be out by law or have an eviction on my record. They wouldn't listen to reason and fired me because I didn't have their permission to move on a work day.
Theme Park Mixup
So I worked at a major amusement park for a couple of summers. These amusement park had thousands of people employeed there. One of these summers was when my favorite sports team was in the World Series. Some friends and I posted signs all over the employee lounges, employee cafeterias HR buildings, etc, telling the thousands of employees that worked there that they did not have to wear their normal uniforms while the team was in the series. They could instead show up to work in their sports jerseys. Upper management was not thrilled since it would be dang near impossible to know which people were employees and which were guests in the amusement park. I was suspended until further notice. Its been years, I guess im still waiting to hear from them.
No wheels
I had been at my job for 2 years and this week i was driving to work and blew a head gasket in my car had no way to get to work that day and the fired me!
Idiot.
so i worked at superstore. i had a very unproffesional manager (so horrible i once saw the tattoo on her butt) anyways, she would never put the schedule up, or let me change my availability. everyone else in my department would get a phone call telling them when to work, so that left me having no idea. i would go there everyday after school to see if the schedule was up, but it never was, then i would walk around the store looking for her, and i could never find her. eventually i got fed up. one night i went in to check one more time and it still wasn't there so i decided i wasn't checking it anymore. the next day i get a phone call from my manager yelling at me and telling me i was supposed to be there an hour ago. so i asked her how was i supposed to know when there was no schedule. she went off on me telling me how i never show up anymore, and how she was going to get human recources involved. so that night i decided to quit. i worked there for five
months, but she still claimed that i was on
probationary hours, so i decided to go with that and didnt tell her that i was no onger working there, i just didnt show up. well three weeks later, i get a phone call and she tells me that i have to come in and work a shift on tuesday. i was like, well i havent worked for the past three weeks and you want me to come in now? she was like yup and then hung up. so with some pressure from my mom, i decided to go. i went there, and she took me into an office with the store manager, and they bassically gave me a lot of lip and then told me i was fired. when i tried to say something, they cut me off and said that if i was going to be a problem that they would have me escorted from the store. so i left. what they didnt know was that the whole time i was talking to a union rep. and he was following the whole story, and since they didnt have a union rep. present when they fired me, my manager got fired.
She was askin for it
Well, I worked at this resturant and I had to take orders from customers (I hated them,,especially the ones with the attitudes, always thinkin theyre right, and think they have the authority to yell at me) well there was this really screwed up customer that thinks just because she doesnt have Jesus in her life; she can act like a jerk to me. She would order and TELL me to make sure her fries are not cold and that if they were she would return them and not pay for them. She also told me that our delivery drivers are stupid and can't count change. So i told her to go to hell and to not order from there again. I told her that i didn't need her messed up self to be tellin me what to do. Well, at that, The resturant lost a customer..and an employee
Bad Timing
I had been working at Sears for about a year, so I knew my job and all the other peoples jobs pretty well. My job was to stock shelves and place orders for more merchendise, but I new how to run the cash register and we were getting SLAMMED. Holidays you know? So I jump up on the register and start getting people through. There was one lady who just wanted to return a pair of shoes. I offered here an exchange but she just wanted the cash, I thought it was weird, but whatever. So I check her receipt, make sure the shoes are in the box (oh yeah, they've tried it before) and print out her receipt and hand her like 100 bucks. The next day when we were closing down the store the manager pulls me into the back. Says that the lady brought in a box, put the shoes into it, and came into my line. Im thinkin, no way, thats freakin slick. Im not worried, because we have cameras and someone watching them who is supposed to catch these people. Oh no, I got canned
because all of us are "Theft Prevention&
quot; and I should have known what was going on. I found out later, the fat jerk that was running the cameras was out for a smoke and they didn't catch it till they reveiwed the tapes. Screw retail, Join the Army.
Valentines day
I worked at Flowerama, a flower franchise store for a year. Two weeks before Valentines day, the biggest day of the year for the flower business, my assistant manager and general manager quit due to the owners attitudes. I was immediatly bumped up to manager for the holiday.......
I worked everyday for two weeks, preping two semi-trailers of premade deliveries, over 300 of them, and made sure all was done for the big days(feb 13th and 14th) I worked until 1am on the 13th and came back in at 6 on the 14th. I was the "manager" those days, i dropped cash in a box next to the owner who was there "supervising" the store. Pretty much sitting there while i ran around and answered complaint calls on 4 phone lines, kept change in the registars and help do flower prep.
I did the best i could being the manager by default. in those two days the business did over 80,000 dollars in business and i was the over seer of it all.
Two weeks later, i was approached by the owner telling me i would recieve a raise for all my hard work and i would be permanent manager.
We found out later that while i was dropping money into a box next to the owner of the store, someone stole 1000 in cash....620 on the 13th and 480 on the 14th...obviously it was an employee (transfer from another store to help) that stole the money.
The day after i was told i'd be getting a raise, woke up found out my boyfriend was cheating on me... decided to go to work to get my mind off things and talk to my coworkers, half hour into work, i was approached my the owner with a check in hand saying they were restaffing because of my inablility to find out who stole that money.
In a way, i am responsible for it, i was the manager, but if i had more help, we woulda caught it.
All in all, it was a bad day and a waste of time!
Ice cream
I was working at an ice cream parlor. I was there for six months and the only person left from the mass hire. While I was working there I saw numerouse people come and go and one person in particular was promoted after only being there a month while I hadn't been since I started. The fact that he was the manager's cousin supposedly had nothing to do with it.
Anyway I arrived at work one day and the regional manager called me out to talk to me. she basically told that I was getting in trouble because my higher up (the guy who'd only been there a month) wasn't trained right and that after the new people were trained then I was out. So I decided to work until i finished out the week and on my last day I gave away over 100 dollars worth of Ice cream. I actually had some people come into the back to make their own.
Blockbuster
I was the manager of a blockbuster in Indianapolis. being that I transferred from Cali making more then the District manager his budget was less to pay for me so he needed an excuse to rid my 6 year career. He put me up running a ghetto store. I ran it to its prime. then on my day off the store got robbed $200 extra cash for my assistant having to much in change drawer. well I was canned saying I was responsible for his actions and I put the store at risk for another possible theft.
Smelly
an old friend and coworker of mine worked at one of my serving jobs with me. This guy smelled horrible and was generally a dirty person. Honestly he got like 3 complaints about his smell. So my mangers waited until he had worked a 12 hour double shift and then pulled him into he office to tell him he was fired. Needless to say he walked out screaming walked to the back door and dumped the employee ashtray all over the place. Highly entertaining. People still talk about it
Just because you got rid of HIM???
When I was a teen, (many years ago, this was) my brother got me a job at the restaurant where he was working, because DishDogs are so hard to find and keep. I willingly accepted this job, not because it was great, mind you, but because my brother got it for me and I needed money.
I worked there for a while, probably close to a year, then my brother and the kitchen manager got into it one day and he fired my brother.
Needless to say, the next week, my name was no longer on the schedule. I inquired about it, and said, "Just because you fired my brother, you're going to get rid of me too?"
As you might expect, no reply, just a lousy grin.
That's how it goes, folks.... watch out for them kind of people
Temp Office
I got an office job as admin assistant through a temp agency in Edinburgh called "Office Team". They seemed nice at first and would always call to check everything was fine at work but in the end turned out to be unprofessional backstabbers. Basically the office I worked for never had enough work for me to do. I always had to ask for work or find something to do. After a while there just wasn't anything to do and my line manager was out for the morning so I couldn't ask for work. I decided to amuse myself on the internet until she came in. The receptionist was also very bored since we basically shared all the odd jobs around the place. She spent her time applying for other jobs. So here I was surfing the net looking for tickets to gigs, and the office manager who isn't even responsible for me comes up and asks me what I'm looking at. I say "just a website" and she kinda gives me a dirty look and tells me she is putting me on
reception in another department. This is her
obviously admitting there is nothing for me to do. I found it ridiculous how she wanted to put me in a job that I wasn't being paid to do (receptionists get paid more than i was being paid) and had no training for and no knowledge of the department. Plus I didn't like the way she spoke to me. I always did all my work to a high standard and was always asking for things to do. So I wrote an email to the agency saying I did not like the way she spoke to me and I felt like I was being "watched" and it was unfair because I always did a good job, it's just there was no work for me to do. So my agency called the office after I had left for the day and apparently there was an argument between the managers and they ended up terminating my contract. The next day I went in to get my things and I saw that I had already been replaced by someone else. Just goes to show how agencies are not your friend!
No sneeze on my extra cheese
My friend was working at the Pizza place down my street. He was making pizzas and when he was giving the pizza to a customer, she wanted to check and make sure that they didnt burn her extra cheese. About two seconds after she opened the box he sneezed right on top of the freshly made pizza. The lady was so mad that she complained to the manager for about an hour. He got fired right off the bat without any warning or chance to say he was sorry.
Subway
I worked at Subway for about three months. I loved the job - free lunches and I didn't come home smelling like grease (like I did at Hardee's).
I didn't get along with the employees. They all didn't like me for some reason. Mind you, I get along with EVERYONE. One day, we were all sitting around after we'd gotten our paychecks, and I put mine in my purse and went to the bathroom. I came back just in time to see one of the employees putting my paycheck back in my purse. They had looked at it to see how much I made an hour. I made more than some of them did (I had a lot of experience) and that's why they didn't like me.
One Sunday I was working with these two guys who were total jerks. We were so busy and I was in charge of drive thru, and it was taking forever for one of the guys to make a sandwich. The lady waited 20 minutes and bless her heart, didn't yell at me. After the rush, I went back to do dishes and I was super mad. I knew that the guy was going to come back and yell at me. Sure enough, he did. He told me that I was stupid and slow and he was going to tell our boss what happened. I slammed the dish I was washing down into the sink (soaking him in the process, hehe!) and screamed "You can't talk to me that way! I'm done with this place!!!" I clocked out, stomped out, and peeled out of the parking lot.
I never returned my uniforms and never picked up my last paycheck, which was a whole whopping $20 (Did I mention that since I got paid so much, my boss cut my hours to about 8/week???)
Pizza revenge
I worked at a pizza place the summer before my senior year of high school. I loved the job, got along great with other employees, and was real good friends with the boss.
About a month or so before homecoming, I wrote a big note and posted it in the office, asking for homecoming weekend off. My boss said I could have it off. So did the other managers. A girl got hired about a month before, and she had requested that same weekend off. When that week's schedule came out, guess who got that weekend off? Her. Guess who had to work 3 8-hour shifts? Me. I was mad, so I went to my boss and asked her what was up. She said that I had never asked for the weekend off, and I told her that I had posted a note a month ago about it. Even the other managers were backing me up. My boss said there was never any note and I just needed to stop whining, that was the way it was.
So the Saturday of homecoming, when I went to pick up my corsage from the florist, I went to my boss's house and told her that I was quitting. She looked at me and said "You really need to grow up." I retorted, "At least I'm not a 35-year-old with no college education working as a manager of a pizza place!"
Here's the irony - I was working at a fast food place about a year later (as a manager), and she applied and was hired as one of my employees. How funny is that?!
Ritters is a living hell
I would rather live in a cardboard box on I95 than work there again. Only old jewish people go there and the boss is the cheapest man alive. I got fired for accidentally getting some coconut custard mixed with vanilla. At least I think so. They make you sign a form saying they don't need to tell you why they fired you. It's okay though, it was the best thing that ever happened to me, because the month I had to go in there everyday and wear that stupid hat I was completely suicidal.
Canadian 'Fire'
I worked at Canadian Tire in Canada when I was 19. I was hired as a cashier, and right from the beginining I knew that the head cashier who trained me didn't like. I didn't even know why, I was always nice to her and polite to customers. Anyways, I was there for 2 months and 28 days. In order to be a full employee, you have to be there for 3 months. So 2 days before my 3 months were up, I was called up the office. The head cashier who didn't like me was there with the account (not the boss, he had no idea what was going on), and they told me that there were too many problems and they had to let me go. I asked them over and over again what I did, but they wouldn't give me an answer. So I got all my stuff out of my locker and left. I then found out about a week later that some other girl who worked there who also did not like me told the head cashier that I brought a large bottle of rum to work and was drinking it in the locker room.
It was completely not true at all, I don't even
drink rum. So I was fired for something I didn't do, they didn't even have any evidence of it, and they wouldn't even give me the real reason to my face. That's okay, I hated that place anyway. It was for the better.
Dirty Doughnut
So I was running a double at the KT and I was like, "Damn, the stomach is rumblin today." And the great thing about being a productive KT employee is the vast array of eateries produced on site. So I ambled into the back room and saw a succulent nutmeg caramalized doughnut lying all pristine like atop some plastic casing, and sure, it was in the garbage but you tell me if you can turn down the doughnut of all doughnuts when the tummy juices are running a screen play right up the middle. So I grabbed and munched and it was Super Bowl Sunday and Easter all wrapped into one. I'm talking pastry heaven, here. Anyways, the day manager walked in and apparently saw my sneaky lunch special in progress and they gave me the proverbial bootsky. But let me tell you, if I had to do it all over again that sweet baby would have gone down all the same.
Fired more than once
well, ive been fired a few times. but the best story was when i was working for the state park at the floating marina. but first you must know that fishing on the dock was not permitted for anyone. i learned that when i cleaned out the cricket box and threw the dead crickets in the water, alot of small fish would come up.so on one really slow and boring day i decided to put a hook on the dead insect.well, little did i know, the boss was down a ways,and seen this.so i was fired for fishing off the dock on the clock.
Didn't need me
I was doing low paying factory work, second shift. We were always short handed. I worked very hard and was trying to get training to move up the ladder. But it wasn't working because I was a woman. I had put in a request to move to first shift, and my boss said it was turned down. I was stuck on the worst machines every day, and my last day was the worst. I had to lean in and move a lot to get the parts out, and my jeans snaged, and ripped. So my but was hanging out. i yelled for my boss and told him I needed to go home to change. He told me no and to borrow a sweater from some one because he needed me to run the machine. If he had needed me he should have been kinder. As I'm walking out, cussing my boss and all such. I am told by his boss that if I could have kept my temper I wouldn't have been fired and I would have been going to first shift next week. Major suckage.
The Dead Plant
when i finished college i started at this plant company. I worked my butt off. I came in early, I was NEVER late. In turn they were good to me as well. They put me up in a fancy hotel when my dumb landlady did not pay the gas bill and the heat and hot water turned off. I loved that job and thought I would stay there forever until....... There was a huge change in managment and we were given a new manager from another country. He was a little odd. Unforuntly I had family issues and had to move. (That means I had to quit) I told my boss what the situation was and that I was very sorry. And he said no.... I said pardon? and he said you will not be quitting. I said i am prepared to give 3 weeks notice and train a new person if you find him/her in time. He said no again.....I was like okay..Well i have to go to work now soooo bye, and off I want to work. 2 1/2 weeks later my family issue became worse and I had to leave. I told my boss that morning.
He was well madder than a madcow. He started to
freak and say you promised the 3 weeks. I said sorry family is more important. He said well then don't bother coming back to work, Your fired. I was like what???? He said give me your key your fired. I was less than thrilled and left. I haven't looked back since. o yah and on my t6 slip it said that i was fired..... okay Robert okay....
Sexist Taxi Manager
I drove cab for a sexist fleet manager who thought women shouldn't drive, only dispatch. He was always rude to me, worked me long hours, especially shifts I didn't want. He accused me of driving around all day on a flat because women didn't know what a properly inflated tire felt like! One morning I was 5 minutes late to work and he fired me. He was just looking for a reason. Now this jerk owns the whole company. I always tell people to take the other cab company in town. They overcharge people too.
Race Trac
My second job was working at Race Trac. During training they didn't really teach me anything, the other guy being trained was shown the register, and how to change out the mixes, etc etc. I was shown how to clean... oh joy. Then the last day of training our trainer doesn't show up... so we just mess around the store till our shift is over and then we get to go home. They said they'd call us when our next shift is. No call... so I call the guy that hired me, no answer. Leave a message a few times then I get a survey calling me asking me why I quit Race Trac... which I didn't.. so she asked why I was let go. I explained that as far as I knew I still had a job. So I explained the situation. When my dad got home he told me it was all my fault, screaming and yelling at me for not calling them (Which I did) and I kept telling them they told me to wait for them to call. After I stormed off to my room he waked in an hour later, told him again they said
they would call... he said "oh I didn't know
that". This is all before I'm actually working there (exciting isn't it?) The survey lady helped me out a lot, she made the calls and finally I get a call saying that I'll work at a certain store at this time. I go in and I'm supposed to report to the manager.. who doesn't work that day. Awesome. So I get told to clock in and work that day. Then I wait a few more days before finally getting called in and meet the manager and get my schedule. I have to be retrained on EVERYTHING because I hadn't been trained in the first place. Everythings ok for a few days until they start deciding it's a great idea to have the smallest person in the store do all the unloading when the trucks come in, which in turn gets me yelled at for taking so long (small, not much muscle, having to clean and work the register at the same time as this because everyone goes on twenty million smoke breaks). But whatever, I ignore it. Then this girl who worked at a desk job in the corporate office (basically as a secretary) gets
sent in
as a manager. She hates me immediately. I come in ten minutes late one day and she's waiting outside smoking a cigarette and tells me to go home... I find out the next day that this left only 2 people working in the store, her and another girl. This manager never did anything except flirt with the assistant manager. So the other girl got stuck doing everything in the entire store, I apologized to her because she actually is a pretty cool person. That day the girl starts yelling at me to do this and that while I'm trying to do other things. Then the truck comes in. We have ovens in the back room to make the food, so it's pretty hot in there, and as you know heat rises. So I'm sitting on top of a ladder opening boxes and organizing the mixes like I'm supposed to (terrified of heights btw). And getting pretty hot. Finally I finish, I get halfway down the ladder when I black out. Thankfully there were boxes below me because obviously I fell. When I got back up I felt dizzy and weak. I told the manager and
was
told not to do it again... no break.. not a thing. Btw we never are given lunch breaks, 8 hour shifts (sometimes more) with no lunch break... Unless the shift manager is one of the nicer ones. Anyways, I barely make it through the rest of the day. After that I feel better. But a few days later when I'm restocking the cigs I collapse again, thankfully it was just behind the cashwrap and no ladders. To get some air I go outside to sweep the lot, it's night and my shifts almost over. My dad pulls up and the shift manager (the really nice girl from before) comes out and tells me to go ahead and clock out. She takes the broom and pan, when I get in the car I'm freaking out because I'm terrified about my health, I'm bawling to my dad. The manager says she'll take care of things at work. I go to the doctor and find out that I have a lot of health problems I didn't even know about. Next time I come into work I had decided to quit, I just couldn't do a job like that with those health problems. I tried talking
to the
store manager, who has always been a complete jerk, and he did not care. So I looked at my schedule. There was a break were two days before my next shift, so the day before my break I wrote a note on the schedule saying I wasn't coming back. I couldn't take it anymore. Not to mention that they never listened to what was supposed to be my availability, and also anytime I asked for a day off he would say he's not allowed to give me days off when requested.. which is complete BS. So never ever ever work at RaceTrac. They treat their employees terribly. Everyone I know that still works at one agrees. It's a little better now that it's pay before you pump on all of them. but still. Never again.
Not Even a Chuckle?
I really wanted to earn some money, so I took up a job at McDonalds. One day, a customer (very obnoxious) asked for me to entertain him. I said, "uhh... okay..." so I did. I juggled some oranges, and he said that was cool and he wanted a joke. So I told him a joke that I had heard a couple of days ago, it goes like this:
There were 12 blonde girls and one FAT brunette in a helicopter. The helicopter crashed and the pilot died. They all were on a ledge, so they tied a rope to a rock and started climbing down towards the ground. The rope couldn't hold them all, so one blonde suggested that one of them jumped. The brunette thought up an idea, "Well... I can't go on... I will drop myself, for my family, and you wonderful people. I knew you well, and I know that one day we shall meet again..." the blondes clapped and fell to their death.
The customer frowned and got up from his seat and went to the front desk, he insisted that they fire me from telling such an insulting joke... because he was a brunette, and was quite heavy... I of course had no intention of this. I was fired... Luckily I found a job only a month afterwards. I'm still there now...
Burger King
I had a summerjob at burgerking when i was
17 or so. i was really clumsy.
was going to give a costumer his burger, and i fell. the brurger went through the air, right into the costumers face.
the boss found out about this, but it worked out fine.
then i tried on the kitchen.
no, the burger did not turn black.
first time working there, so i had to check on a paperpiece where i had written what to do.
i didn't turn around to put the burgers on the plate, so i put the bread in there instead.
without looking, i started cutting 4 burgers in half.
when i thought the hamburger was done, i put the breads into the burgers.
this was caught on tape, so the boss saw it. got 1 more chance.
what REALLY pissed him off was when i was gonna make a burger for HIM.
i did ALMOST everything right.
bread, ketchup, mustard, salad, burger, salad, bread. that's what he wanted.
until it showed that i had put a salad with a cockroach on it.
the boss started it, and chewed straight into the cockroach.
he actually got a bit of it, and it had been dead for like weeks.
this was caught on tape, and i, with everyone else, was fired.
the burger king got closed because of bad service and bad health safety or something like that.
Friendly Customer
It was my second week of my first job at this deli where me and my friend worked at. We both did odd jobs for the boss like cleaning and making deliveries. One day this hot girl comes in while Im sweeping and starts flirting with me so I flirt back. Turns out that its the bosses daughter.
Baseball Country
My first job was at this place called Cooperstown Dreams Park, which is a camp that holds baseball tournaments for rich yuppies around the US and Canada, located in the pleasantly obnoxious tourist destination Cooperstown NY (home of the baseball hall of fame). I had been there all season and between dealing with my snot nosed co-worker and belligerently racist managers, I began to come in drunk. The last day I showed up trashed, three hours late, they were to polite enough to not fire me until the end of the day. I always wondered why my boss hadn't weeks before.
Smelly Suit
My friend was working in asda before and I had nothing to do so I went down there to keep her company she had brought her dog and was hiding him behind the counter but then she accidently let go of his lead and he ran towards the isles and ate nearly all the dog food after that he ran up the stairs to the staffroom and went to the bathroom on her boss's suit (he was going to a wedding). I tried to take the blame for her since i didnt work there but he soon found out it was hers because he read the dogs label which had her address on it, so he fired her. the day after we let hungry astray cats loose by the fishmonger Hehe! by the way the dogs name was Bobbins.
Tin Tower
I was working in tesco late at night, I was on my own because all the other staff were upstairs trying to get the coffee machine to work, I was very bored so I went over to the tins and started building towers all over the place at that moment my boss came in and yelled at me that i was fired so i purposly knocked an isle with flour on and cracked open a tin of beans and shoved it on his head, the next day I was going back to university so i never saw that loser again anyway :)
How Lame
So I had been working at a doctor's office for almost a year up front as a receptionist/medical assistant and they hired a new office manager...who proceeded to fire several people...the nurse, they TRIED to fire the NP but she cried to keep her job, and then they fired the 2 ladies who did the insurance and billing! WELL, I had HELPED with the insurance in my spare time at one point, and let me tell you, all I had to do was click a button to reprint the claims and send them out...THATS IT...well the new office manager decides to make ME the new billing person! I knew this was a bad idea but before I could protest the new girl who was taking me place was already starting. Now, I had NO clue what those ladies did all day so I was sort of hanging out trying to figure out what to do...and the office manager kept promising to hire someone to teach me the billing, but she hired a chick younger than me who knew NOTHING about insurance either! I got pissed
and told her I felt like time and money were
being wasted cuz no money was coming in and bills weren't being sent out, and I felt like I was just in the way trying to find stuff to do...so next day I got fired!...turns out she quit a couple weeks later
Fired on your day off?
So I worked at the BBQ joint, well one night I had a little get together at my place...Well apparently a bunch of underage kids were saying that they were all coming over to get drunk, none of which did. (I am going to take this time to say that I am legal) Anyway, so I had some people over (all legal) and the cops show up. We weren't sure why so we asked if we were being too loud. The cop said that he got a call for underage drinking at my address. He asked us all how old we were and let us carry on. I had no clue who had called the cops. I was off the next day, but I had to go in to discuss my paycheck. My boss tells me she is the one who called the cops and then she fired me!! Fired me on my day off, for having a party at MY house....Go figure!
Have a nice day
So my first job was a busser at a restaurant in my hometown. I started off only working a few days a week since they we're training me for several things. Well eventually they started working me 7 days a week. they did this for like a month. I was getting very frustrated with this, but i figured that by doing this for them, they'd return the favor and give me the days off i requested. I asked for prom weekend off and the weekend of my graduation off. They gave me 1 day for prom when i needed 2 and told me id have my graduation off. So i was somewhat happy. well my graduation rolls around and they call me in an hour before the ceremony starts. i told them i couldnt because the ceremony was about to start and said sorry. I go into work the next day and get fired right after i clock in. My manager tells me that since i couldnt cover someones shift that they didnt need me there. she took my uniform and told me to have a nice day. However, the
person whose shift i was supposed to cover, was a no
call no show. so they should have gotten fired too, but of course not. now i have the manager begging me to come back because they cant find reliable workers. i told her off. =]
Coffee Shop
I work for a young couple at the coffee shop they owned. The grandfather of the wife passed away and they left for the weekend. She told me that the schedule wouldn't be posted until Monday afternoon and that she would text whoever opened Monday on Sunday night. I never got a text so I didn't show up. She called me asking why I didn't check the schedule? Well how can I check something that doesn't exist? The shop closed about a month later.
Runnin' on Dunkin
My friend was working for the breakfast chain Dunkin Donuts, and he was completely tired of the job. The management treated him badly and he didn't really get paid that well, so one day he decided to get fired. On the cash register, there is a screen that reads "America Runs On Dunkin" and scrolls followed by "Have a Nice Day!". My friend took over the register and changed the scrolling screen to read "America Gets The Runs from Dunkin! Have a Nice Day!" and walked out of the store. He was fired shortly after.
Never in good hands
i was working for a bank's hr and i was fired because one of my co-workers bad mouthed me and told different lies to our boss, i.e. i said that our boss looks like a horse (w/c is partly true btw). next thing i know she was receiving a merit increase! at my expense? i dunno! now, im employed with a new company and happy :)
Chicken
My friend worked in a deli and she ate a piece of chicken that was supposed to be thrown away. They didn't fire her right away. The company called her and fired her on her day off. ha ha ha.. She got fired on her day off..
Don't work for Valero
Ok, so I was working for this Diamond Shamrock/Valero for over 4 years under the same manager. I get promoted to her assistant manager, and then eveything becomes my fault. She would always take the weekend off, she knew my birthday was in July, so she would take her vacation then, and when I finally got an invitation to be the camera person at my friends wedding. She wouldn't let me take the time off. I had known about this wedding since May with the date set in November. My boss looked at me and said, "I haven't had a day off in 2 weeks, and if you think you're getting it, you can think again." The next day I laid my 2 week notice on her desk.
What the
My friend works at a restaurant that is close to my workplace (remember I DO NOT work at the restaurant). So I had just finished my lunch and I walked up to the counter and started talking to my friend. His boss then walked out and started yelling at my friend for "disrupting the customer." Once I told the boss that I had started talking to my friend, the boss demanded I give him back my nametag and that I get out of his establishment. So I said why. And he goes, "CUZ YER FARRED!"
kmart sucks
My friend worked at kmart for 15yrs. She would work weekends, holidays ,and would cover other peoples shifts for almost nothing . One day the manager fired her and said it was because she was making to much and he wanted to hire someone who would work cheaper but she was only making minimum wage. So as advice dont work at kmart you might get fired over the amount of money the goverment requires your boss to pay you
Back Stabbing Bosses
My husband worked for a small company, that barely had enough work to keep him busy. One weekend his dad and uncle were in town and he wanted to spend a little extra time with them. Friday morning, he called his boss and explained his family was in town, and asked if it would be okay if he did not come in that day. Fridays were the slowest day and his boss said, "yes, thats fine I dont see a problem". Three hours later, he was called back and fired.
The war
January 7, 2007. "Card Yard" (My store)was empty. Overstock of candy for reasons nobody understands. Manager not paying attention. Scenario for mayhem...
This cold crisp morning, it was about 11 o'clock. My store was about bankrupt, selling cards, candy, cigarrettes,etc. It's no chain, just a small store in Minnesota, selling some candy. Cheesy generic cards, people got sick of it. Ten customers made a great day. We knew the place was out of business. We knew they were in trouble. We wanted money. So we organized a labor union. Me, Bob, Joe, Mike, Tom, and Kevin (The only Employees) Got together at the town Starbucks every Tuesday at 6 P.M. We wanted money. We made $7.50 an hour, and we were not getting enough. When the Home Depot across the street pays its worst employees $11 an hour! I mean this was a rich town and we made minimum wage. Yet we were loyal to Mr. Larken, the boss. So Kevin said, let's demand a raise, or we quit and boycott the place. "Good Idea" I says. So the union get together with Larken, and demand atleast $9 an hour. He said "NO!!! GET OUT NOW OR YOU ARE ALL FIRED!" So we get out.
Next day, I'm at note when i notice something. A key! I pick it up and put it in the cabinet that had a lock, so it opens. I realize what it is. His Master Book. So I look through it, photo copy it and bring it on Tues. Joe was supposed to get fired Friday, along with Bob, and Our wages cut to $6 Bucks! I mean you could see bankruptcies pre-effects echoing to us from the future, Notice trends of the end. So me and Tom, the math kids, make predictions that the old shop will be gone by next friday, based on current trends, and Larken's plans. The shop would be gone, so we said, let's just have fun, because it won't be worth working by Friday. So in protest, the next day, we all show up. We start throwing hot coffee, snow cones, lotto tickets, cards and candy everywhere in protest. Joe hits boss with coffee, gets fired gruesomely, and boss tells us that as a punishment, our pay is $6 an hour. Now you'll see as our salaries fall.
I throw an snow cone at Mike, who tries hitting me with coffee. I duck and the coffee hits the register. Then Kev got another Idea. He takes money from the register, climbs up the counter and tosses change everywhere. He gets fired we're down to $5 an hour. Mike dumps coffee onto the register and gets fired, making our new rate $3 an hour. Bob quits, and boss says that to make up for the damage, $1 an hour! We all quit throw stuff around and walk out. He begs us to come back, but we didn't. Turned out that the next day, the place is shut down. So if you get a coffee stained dollar, remember us, and the battle at Card Yard!
Why macdonalds supervisors suck
well this isn't so much as firing more quiting.
i was 16 and working at macdonalds, it was 12.30 (the busiest time of the day) and we had ran out of cup lids, so i told me supervisor and she just said "get the ones from under the tray or behind the machines" and im thinking 'what you mean the DIRTY ones'
eventually we ran out of these dirty lids, and she was just stood there doing nothing at all and acting like she was better than everyone else
so i went to another supervisor (who was also pissed of about it) and asked for the key to the store room to get some lids, and off i went.
when i came back she screamed at me, in frount of about 150 customers and 30 staff, that i had left my customer and i had not told anyone where i was going (there was no more lids, i had to get some before i could serve the customer, and the other supervisor knew where i was going, and we had been asking all day for her to go and get some but she would not get off her fat butt)
so i went back to my till, fuming at this point, and thats when i customer asks my name and then her name so she can put in a complaint.
i later found out that she was getting about 5 complaints a week.
well the next day i walked in at 7 in the morning and quit, the store manager begged me to come back as i was the only member of staff who was polite :D
Too Stupid?
This is the only time I have been fired in my life. I was working at Fazoli's (a fast food italian place) in the evenings to help with college expenses. I had been working there for about a month and thought things were going pretty good, when the region manager comes in for a store visit. He hung around all evening. I worked the rest of the week, then when they posted the schedule at the end of the week, I wasn't listed. I asked about it, and the manager kept saying he'd fix it when he got a minute, then avoided me the rest of the night. Well, I'm not dumb, but I did finish the shift, because I'm not the type to have a fit, or leave the rest of the crew short. Finally, when we were closed, the manager took me to the side and explained to me that the regional manager had said that I had to be let go immediately (he was there almost a week ago!) because "my intelligence level didn't seem to be up to their standards." I got
fired for being too stupid for fast food. The really
funny part is that at the time, I was enrolled in college and had an internship with NASA, through the school. I have since completed my Masters degree in Computer Science, and am currently employed doing software development for IBM. I guess maybe passing out breadsticks is more mentally challenging?
Worst Western
About 6 months ago, I had been given a job offer by my temp agency at a Best Western Hotel as a housekeeper. Having been unable to find work for awhile, I decided to settle for the job even though I was Culinary trained and certified.
When I first arrived, nobody could find the manager who was supposed to show me and my fellow new employees around, and we were given a half-assed tour and overgeneralized instructions by another employee who was fairly new herself. Then we were set to work, even though we had barely half a clue what we were supposed to do. The next day, the manager we were supposed to see came in and examined our work as we performed it, criticizing us as though we were well-trained, long-time employees who were supposed to know every detail of our jobs. She really ragged on us, but eventually had a seasoned housekeeper show us what to do. The critical treatment continued for several weeks, nearly daily verbal abuse to all the new employees by this woman.
Plus, she herself didn't know how to do her own job, often forgetting things that were important, like when she had certain employees scheduled, or when an event would be going on that required more rooms to be cleaned than usual, giving us the room assignments last-minute and making us work hours after our shifts were supposed to end. As well, she didn't know how to schedule employees properly. For instance, she would have a majority of the housekeepers on during the week and hardly any on busy weekend shifts, often having to assign each weekend housekeeper as many as 32 rooms. We all had to stay and help the others until all the rooms were done, on one occasion keeping all 6 housekeepers on shift that Friday from 7 am until 8 pm.
One Monday, when I was seriously contemplating quitting my job, I was on my way back from break when my coworkers and I were all brought into a dining hall by upper management and the doors were locked. We were asked to discuss our feelings about the job, and to discuss with them how we felt about that particular manager. Finally, the uppers told us that we had to be kept in the room for a bit because the woman had just been fired from her position and she was throwing a hysterical fit that seemed likely to turn violent.
I quit a couple weeks later, but it was very satisfying to know that foul woman was out of the hotel as well.
McDonalds
I was working at McDonalds almost everyday making low wage and i had a fat boss she had me sweep the whole floor but there was this piece of lettice stuck to the damn floor and it wouldn't come off by using the broom, so she got pissed and told me to get it off using my hand and i said some bad things to her so she fired me and i chucked my broom at her and walked out
Hospital Story
okay, my friend was working at this hospital, shes been there for at least 2 yrs now..she is in college so she need the money, she worked in the summer, when the summer was over, she quit n that day was a FRIDAY, the boss said her last day was Monday, she sais okay, then wen my friend went back to her desk, there was a girl there, on my friends computer entering her information, n the girl said, oh im sorry i didnt know, i thought u quit, then my friend said my last day is monday then the girl said "my bad" then my friend said if she could leave, politely, she said im not done with my stuff, my friend got pissed OFF!! she was like well my last day is monday, and today is friday, so im still an employee! then the girl was like i said im not done entering the information yet now would u please leave me alone?! my friend got pissed n went to the boss, turns out that it was the grls first day, and she got fired before actualyl started.
Trip up
I was working at the cornershop down my road, and brought a box of crisps out from the back to put on the shelf, but left them behind the counter instead for a minute while i used the toilet. The boss came round the corner, tripped over the box, crashed through the whole display and broke the crisps. When i came out from the toilet to find him lying on the floor surrounded by sweets and crisps i couldnt help but laugh.
And he couldnt help but fire me. No one has a sense of humour these days
No teeth
I was working for the LaRosa's call center in Cincinnati. I had been there for 8 months and was the top Customer Service representative in the place and The job was pretty cool. Just sit on the computer in a comfy desk chair in a cubicle and take call in orders. I had had oral surgery in April.I had to stay off of work because My mouth was swollen and I couldn't talk. They fired me because I was not able to work due to the fact that I couldn't talk (even though I had a doctors note that they said was fake and that I was pretending).
Here's your Newspaper!
My first job was working as a paperboy it was hell! I got up at 4 am every morning (even on my days off if the fat weekender kid didnâ??t show up) I was never later apart from when I was hit by a car (which my boss had no sympathy about) and only three weeks later (still with my arm in a cast) he told me to deliver more papers on a Saturday or I wouldnâ??t get paid, Well I did for about a week but then he told me if I didn't do another four streets (which had about 25 homes in each) I would get firedâ?¦. So all I did was take the bag off my shoulder slammed it onto the ground and said â??who do you think you are!â?? Then picked up a lot of papers and jammed them all in the post box outside the shop.
Broke The Door
I was an assistant manager at a walgreens and one day a drunk guy came into the store and was causing problems for the employees the other customers. I asked him to leave and he raised his voice yelling "This is a free country I can be where I want". When I tried to walk him outside he started pushing me. I eventually got agitated, grabbed him by the shoulders and threw him through the sliding door at the front of the store. The door slipped off the tracks and broke the glass on the ground. After watching the tape I got fired.
Stick puck fired
When I was 15 I worked at a canadian tire part time after school and on weekends. One weekend me and one of my coworkers were working in sports department alone and the rules say two people have to be on the floor at all times unfortunatly it was a 10 hour shift so we needed a lunch break and at least 1 15 minute break legally but they said niether of us could leave the other alone .. I argued it was their fault for not having enough staff that's when my coworkwer kinda stopped me and said don't worry about it . I knew he was up to something haha .. We go back to work and he takes out his cell phone and orders up some pizzas to the sports desk haha the delivery driver comes right to the desk and after we pay out comes the supervisor who in turn makes a fool of himself by yelling at us in front of customers so I calmy told him that's not very professional haha which made him even angrier seeing how I just offered pizza at work hahaha he
threatened me by saying hed fire me if I ever did
anything like that again so as the day goes by it gets quiet around the tire me and my coworker decide to go to the warehouse grab a hockey net and open up some goalie gear. My buddy there put the gear on I grabbed a net a stick and some pucks haha. Were havin a good time when I shoot the ball wide of the net and hits one of the kids building bikes. He comes out pissed right off telling me he was telling on me! So he ratted on me and I got fired haha good times tho well worth it!
Hospital stay
About 6 years ago I worked as a ramp agent at a local airport. I (and my co-workers) noticed that i was getting really sick. Losing abnormal weight and i had a swelling in my throat. Now this job sucked but it was my job and i actually liked half my co-workers and bosses were pretty cool. all except for one high strung wanna be idiot. I ended going to the hospital and getting surgery done on my jaw, because a tooth had gotten infected and went and infected my lympe nodes. I was sick as a dog for weeks due to the antibiotics i had in my system. Needless to say i was calling in alot because i didnt have the strength to destroy someones bag. Well one morning that high strung squirrel crawled up my butt after i called in after i spent 2 hrs hunched over the toliet. That jerk yelled at me saying i might as well never come back in. So I told him fine he could kiss my butt. It did my heart good to hear about how the other bosses jumped his case.
Fat People in 5 Guys
Ok so one of my first jobs was at a Five Guys. I liked the job but I felt like I was working too hard. One day I wasn't very busy cause almost everybody was away on spring break. So I decided to go into the kicks and sticks (lacrosse and soccer store) which was right next to 5 guys and have a look around. I look around for 5 minutes probably and then go back. There was still nobody in there. Then 2 super fat people walk in an order 4 large bacon cheese burgers, 2 large sodas, and a large order of fries. They amazingly finished it all in like 15 or 20 minutes. Then one of them comes back and looks really mad. He claims that I didn't put on enough bacon so I tell him that he's too fat to notice how much food he ordered and I shove a handful of bacon in his face. They told my boss and I got fired but boy did it feel good.
What's up with that?
Dude, I was walking to my job (I worked at a Hot Topic) and all of a sudden, my boss tells me to stock the new TWLOHA shirts. I wasn't even at the store yet. But I said whatever and went to go do it. Then my friend Chris walks in and opens some hair dye and starts to dye his hair. Then I tried to make him stop because he got hair dye on some of the vans we had on display. So while he was running around, he got cherry red hair dye all over the dang store. My boss fired me, and I opened a box of Electric blue hair dye and threw it at him. It was sooooooo dang worth it!
Die or get fired?
So i worked at a hospital. im an EMT, and I was working as a CNA. Anyway, i have heart issues and started to feel like I was going to pass out, or possibly go into AFIB (my heart shakes so much it cant get back into rhythm). So i took the ACCUCHEK, which checks ur blood sugar, so I could check mine to make sure I wasn't dying.. and I checked it, but i had to use a patients name because it doesnt register without a name. Well somebody went and told my boss and she pulled me in her office and screamed at me, and I told her to go to hell, and I left. She originally was telling me I was her best employee, and than I check myself to make sure Im not dying, and she gives me a hard time?
obviously i didnt die, but i DID have to go into the ER and I was admitted for a week!
The Hotel
I was working at a hotel a few years back. This hotel required all the front desk personnel to work two night audit shifts once a month and you worked them by yourself (night audit being the 11pm-7am shift). I hated these shifts but it was only two nights a month. Now let me clear this up fist, there were no rules about personal phone calls at work. It was something you wouldn't do in front of your boss, but it wasn't a rule.
So one night, I am performing one of my required hell shifts and I get a frantic call from my girlfriend. She called the hotel phone because I left my cell phone in my car. She had just gotten in a car accident and the people who actually hit her were belligerent drunks and were screaming at her. So she was crying hysterically and wanted me to stay on the phone with her until the cops came. 15 minutes I was on the phone during the grave yard shift (because you saw NO ONE during those hours). BAM instant firing. Using the phone for personal calls...let's just say that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Walmart sucks
I worked at wal-mart for three months. I was a senior in high school, I was also talking a criminal justice course at my tech class..
Well I was working untill midnight, I was comming come and going to sleep and I wouldn't get up in the morning so to make a story short I tried to change my availability three times and nothing at all changed about it..
So finally, I went to the manager (because I was scheduled to work that day so I went in early to talk to him) and I was trying to explain to him I was overwhelmed and I could only work untill 10:30 or 11.. well he said everyone has to work and go to school and I asked if he was going to change my schedule and he said no.
So I told him to take the job and shove it and I left, and never came back, for my shift or for all of that matter.
Too much to handle
I was working at Country Kitchen and had a lot on my plate. I was eighteen, living in a motel room with my boyfriend and his father, I was pregnant and had not yet told my parents, going to school, and holding this job. I only had about three hours to sleep everyday. On one night, I was the only waitress in the restaurant, and we were slammed. We even had a line. People were yelling at me, throwing food, being mean.... And customers would not stop coming. I was also having morning sickness and had to keep going to the bathroom. My manager would not help me wait tables. I was crying while waiting on people. I was walking by this couple and heard the words {"And all these teenaged girls getting pregnant." I lost it, I went in the back, and broke down sobbing. My manager came back to tell me to get back to work, and I quit right there.
Too happy!
I worked at a SuperPharm (Shoppers Drugmart or Pharmaprix depending on where you are) when one glorious sunny day, the store manager calls me into her office and tells me Im being too happy with my customers. about 1 week later i was called by hr who promptly informed me that i would no longer be required.
Fired after one week
Ok so i worked at this company part time from 8-5pm for data entry that i started for about 1 week which was my orientation time and also learning the ropes of how to put data entry for a company that makes data for oil. For the 1st day i met with the my boss and everyone else on my team. Everything was going great but they didnt even set me up with a computer account login name and password. So basically my 1st day was explained by one of my co-workers there who is a really great person and helped me alot. I had no account to the computer for the 1st day which meant i couldnt even get started. I started doing my data entry the 2nd day and the reason i got fired the next week because they are in dire times for getting things done. That really confused me since they fired me on my 2nd week on friday. I did already 2 data entries. One data entry was about 20 miles and another one was about 10-15 I dont even remember. So since im new i asked
alot of questions and also told them if its ok
to check my work. I had one of the people there who is suppose to check my work said everything was fine. My 1st data entry was good but than my 2nd one when i got fired they said the supervisor said there was too many mistakes which makes me angry since they didnt tell me about anything because i had them checked out by 3 other people who work with me. Also they stated that i was sleeping when i instead of taking an hour long lunch break to go that day i decided to close my eyes for 15 in the morning so i can relax myself and not stress about finals that i had in my college class that same week the next day. My employer told me that they caught me sleeping and that it was a bad reputation, while i see many other people who have music on who dont even look like they are doing anything half the time besides talking and looking around trying to look busy. Im really ticked off because they didnt even give me a warning or given me a second chance. Give me a break. It's my 2nd week and they believe that im
suppose to be some type of robot feeding them these data entry sheets and doing all the geometry all the time in a matter of hours which is ridicolous considering the fact the environment we work is in a small office and their most experience workers related to my stuff exluding the supervisor is 6 months. I find it hard to believe that the only reason why they fired me was because of errors they said i made while i was told by my fellow co-workers who i believed were helping me do everything in the right track were correct. How can three people check my data entry for my 2nd assignment which was around 40 pages with about 579 numbers to filled in by a new person like me be wrong when i had these other people check them. They told me that the job wasnt for me while i was still in the learning process and getting familiar of how to use the programs and assigning everything. I'm really dissapointed in myself not only because i believed and trusted everyone around me who said i was doing ok but to be told by
the employer that i was doing my 2nd assignment wrong really effected me. I can't believe people would be like that noone told me anything for the next few days before i was released ( the term they used for me) from the company.
Screw Tim Horton's
Okay, so I wasn't really fired, but I walked out of my job. I was a storefront Tim Horton's employee. The day I quit was on a Thursday. Everything was fine until we got our usual morning rush. A customer was pretty much whispering into the speaker at Drive Thru and I had to ask her to repeat her order 5 times. I STILL couldn't hear her so I just guessed. I got it wrong and we had to make it over again, which severely slowed down Drive Thru. Of course, I got blamed for it. Sorry I couldn't hear her! We had two employees that I HATED working with. One was a Supervisor (she has bi-polar disorder) and the other was a FREAK! Severe mood swings, screaming at people for no reason...Anyway, I had problems with them both. I was being blamed (ONLY ME) for the dumbest things. So I went on my break and brought the manager outside and I told him "I can't do this job anymore. I'm sick of being blamed for everything." and I walked out.
Take my word for it: NEVER work at a Tim Horton's. EVER.
The Cart Corral
so i worked at Menards for 4 months before i was quit/fired. when i first started they had me as a cashier. it was a good job with good pay. then they moved me into the carryout position. my job was to wrangle carts and help cuztomers with heavy orders. when i accepted the postion i was told that there would always be 2 carryouts during the winter season. as i pulled up to work (after a 6" blizzard the night before) i realized that none of the carts were inside. so i clocked in and started my job. the let my carryout help go home 3 hours early, leaving me to wrangle ALL the carts and help all the customers that needed rock salt. after about 2 hours, my boss told me i was going too slow, i go off on a rant about how he sent my only help home 3 hours early. he told me if i didnt like it i could leave. so i took off my vest and walkie talkie, took all the carts that i brought inside and pushed them all back outside and said i quit. 2 weeks
later i still recieved my holiday bonus. thanks
for the 6 bucks menards.
Planting the seed of terror
ive always been a hard worker. i take pride in all the hard work i do, and it shows. im taking some time off between high school and university to make some money for school. so ive had a couple jobs here and there. ive only been fired from one, but i can honestly say that im glad about it.
i worked at a natural food store for about 3 months. the job was awesome, supervisors would pull pranks on each other, everyone got along fine, the chicks were hot and the pay was decent. but theres always the jerk there that thinks hes bigger than everyone. ever since day one this idiot been on my case. at first id let it slide as the give the new guy a hard time till he gets more into the game. but this jerk left me to do all the work. i was in the produce department and even the other people in the other department filed reports about this jerk supervisor telling me to do everything while he tried to score with customers, no joke there. me being a good little idiot did as i was told to avoid problems.
but then he started getting racist. im spanish and im a rocker (go figure) not many people like me, so he gets on my case and starts going with that. i tell my manager and he said he ll talk with him about it. it goes on for about a week and thats when i exploded. since i worked in produce i worked with knives, and i study taijutsu so i know how to use them... i scared the hell out of him. a customer drops a watermelon and im restocking stuff. this idiot while hes flirting with a chick off dispatch, tells me to go clean it up and i tell him im busy do it urself ur not doing anything. he tells me to stop being useless and throws me an empty box. i grab a really big melon knife stab it into a pumpkin all the way through and make it go through the table and snap the blade off. i hold the broken knife and point it to his face and tell him to "be nice... ull live longer". needless to say i got fired even though everyone liked me including the boss. dont blame them though. but im happy cause now that
jerk cant go anywhere around knives without going pale. *keep in mind i just wanted to scare him. not actually fillet him.
I Got Fired
i was working at Petco and this fat lady comes in with a puppy she comes up to me hands me the puppy and says she does not want and to keep or sale. i take the puppy and decide keep it. my cheap boss finds out and fires me for keeping the puppy and not selling her for money! stupid i know.
Violence DOES cause poverty.
Okay so, once upon a time, there was me. A guy named Joshua. I worked at a laser tag place in Pittsburgh. Now, with laser tag, you expect to encounter a little bit of animosity from time to time. People come in, they get shot, they don't get shot, they get mad. Because they weren't shot. Or maybe they liked to get shot. I don't know, I'm only the cashier.
Anyway. How I got fired. This one boy went by himself to play laser tag with a group of strangers. They, well, to be blunt, they beat him really badly. The kid sucked at this game. About as badly as a Hoover Vacuum sucks when clogged up with socks.
Well, who likes to lose? This boy---let's call him, oh, Billy---came stomping up to me with his face all red like a balloon and perspiring, and he said, "Yo man, I want a free game. They's cheatin'!"
"Nah," says I, full of good will as always (who says I can't make it sound a little better?) "just because you lost, doesn't mean I can just hand out a free game. Bring back some money and practice and I promise you won't lose."
Well, long story short, Billy told me he disagreed with this notion, and that he could cause my defeat any day of the week (even Sunday). Only in much worse vulgarity. I won't repeat it word-for-word.
Now me, I'm competitive. I said, "Bring it, sucka." So I have a gun. He has a gun. We gunfight. He loses. He cries. Well, not really. He should have.
You may be asking yourself, how did I get fired? I said I was competitive. I did not say, not once, that I was a graceful winner.
After winning, I proceeded to prance around him like a unicorn singing "Ha, ha, I beat you, little kiddie, nyah, nyah! I win! Pay up! No free games, no free games!"
So he got all mad about it and smug and he smiled a vindictive little smile on that face like a bruised apple and told me, "Well I got a free game out of you, right? It's practice!"
So I flung the gun at him. The manager disapproved of giving valued customers concussions.
...and they all lived happily ever after, except me, 'cause now I can't buy pizza rolls.
Sweet, sweet pizza rolls. Melty loves of mine....
JCPenney
Ok, I was working a JCPenney for about a month, and I have a raw sense of humor so I did a few things to try and lighten peoples moods because I know how bad work sucks. I did things like writting "watch for deadly stealth ninjas" on the wall (in pencil!) in the stockroom, I tied a noose with a shoe string and cut out a paper man and hung him (the paper man bore no resemblance to anyone or any ethnicity), and on the line for the phone number on a merchandise hold tag I wrote "didn't give (lets shoot him!)". all of these things were done out of simple humor and were in the stock room where no customers could see and were not done out of anger towards anyone. It was just plain, simple, raw humor intended to brighten up peoples days. Well, the loss prevention jerks (who's job it is to tattle!) found all of this stuff and reported it. It was also the end of a 30 day job performance evaluation and i guess they didn't like the way I
was working. They were going to give me 2 weeks to
straighten my act, but in conjunction with all the stuff I mentioned, they fired me. I see how my termination could be justified, but come on! I was only their for 30 days! I had recieved no warnings or write-ups or anything! I feel like I should have gotten that 2 weeks to pull myself together. Oh, and by the way my brother took the job I got fired from the day I got fired!
Woodford Cafe
OK so I had this stupid boss every morning I had to be on work very early and wear stupid yellow and green ribbons.I was a server and had to cash, mop the floors, wash the dishes and lock up the store everyday for a freaking dollar more than minimum wage. my boss was a jerk she would fuss about every little thing so i decided to prank her. one early morning i put the dirty bin on the door before she came in and to make matters worse I put crazy glue on the door knob so she couldn't move.Bam! on her head she like a skunk stuck the door and every car that passed threw somthing at her before she ran inside. Her pesky daughter ratted me out that evening i got fired and no pay check.
She didnt fire me I quit
Im 16 and i was excited about my 1st job over the summer...It wasnt a glamorous job I was a housekeeper at a 5 star Hotel,but hey i was making $9.50 and hour which is so good for a student who can just spend cash LOL anyways...My mom always told me that i cant handle a job because of my attitude, my tounge has no limit i speak my mind without thinking of later conciquences.
When I 1st started working I loved it...I was quick and had evrything done in perfect order...my 1st two days there I met my co-worker she instantly became my best friend...we were tight...anyways my 1st two days there i was getting lunch breaks and 15 minutes breaks since it was a full time job...But after awhile i noticed i wasnt getting no sort of breaks me or my co-worker bff...but every1 else was and my Manager she would hide in rooms with all the other co-workers and eat in their while me and my friend would clean clean clean...we also noticed she would go into our assigned rooms and take the tips left in the rooms and leave and we would have to clean it.
So just after being hired on a wednsday the wednsday after that I got fed up and so did my friend...So I jus went to the Bigger manager (The manager of my manager) and i told her if i can be transfered she responded "NO" so i took my room keys off and said "Fine I guess I quit" The look on her face was so funny she had her mouth wide open cause they hardly had any workers only 3 including us was 5 with 200 rooms.
My other manager came to talk to me so i can stay working there along with my friend who quit with me...she was beging for us to stay but we said no...we can find another job...So my manager looked at us and said fine both of you are FIRED...I just laughed cause her face was so red...Than she said "We dont need ignorant 16 year olds working here" and i said yea but "WHO WAS BEGGING FOR THESE IGNORANT 16 YEAR OLDS TO STAY"...she called us 2 weeks later to get our jobs back but we already had new jobs.
Fired on the first day!
I got a job at this new coffee place in town. I'm heading to work on my first day, and I forget my coffee.(I'm one of those people who can't function without coffee) So I stop at the Starbucks right next my house. I walk in with the cup in my hand and BAM! I'm fired.
Not Fair
I started working at McDonald's when I was 16 and this happened when I was just about to turn 18 (I was still in High School, about to graduate). I had requested 4 days off to get my wisdom teeth taken out and I did it 3 months in advance. I went to the dentist, they removed my wisdom teeth, and I returned to work 4 days later. Having been prescribed Percocets (a narcotic pain reliever) for the pain I was going to have and did have from the surgery of the removal of my wisdom teeth, I obviously went to work with the painkiller running through my system. I was fine and I showed no signs of "being high" as they told me I was. I had 2 spare painkillers in my pocket just in case they wore off and I needed to take 1 before leaving work. I made it all of my shift to the end of the day and my manager called me into her office and told me that I was fired for coming to work "high."
The next day, I brought this up with the actual store owner and I told them that I was going to do something about it if he didn't. Well, he didn't do anything so I got a lawyer and the lawyer helped me to sue them and I actually got $50,350 out of it and the manager that fired me was also fired, I was even offered my job back. I am still recieving monthly checks of $900 each month, 3 years later!
Sliced diced and screwed
I was at a job placement as a butcher for a meat market and i found out i had court the next day late at night so i tried to call them and couldn't get ahold of them. so then i called the teacher involved with it and didnt get ahold of him but left a message he then called back later but i wasn't home saying no that it's my job to call them even though i told him i called. I got fired from the place even though i was working extra hard.
Hell No
Back in 2006, Tamura's Supermarket in Wahiawa, HI wanted me to work on Super Bowl Sunday. I quit.
I'm glad he's gone..
I fired this guy for no reason..
Compliants from the customers.
okay so my neighbor,being the good neighbor she is got me a job at the mcdonalds or "mcfatties" which is what i call it,not far from our house,it was my first job,and i got hired right away,one night i was on drive-through,being the nicest employee ever until one weekend,i wanted to go out of town and tried to find people to cover my shift,well everybody who wasnt working,told me no,so i got fed up,called up && quit,but i was going to quit anyways,they didnt treat me how i wanted to be treated,but soon after i quit,i was talking to my neighbor about it and she told me that they were getting compliants from the customers in drive-through,saying i was rude,impolite and i wasnt doing my job,which is totally wrong cause im not a mean person to begin with,i just get annoyed easily,even though i quit,i had a feeling i was gonna get fired if i lasted another week.
Maccas
My first ever job was, typically, at our local Maccas. I was 15 and had previously hurt my back as a dancer and athlete. After 3 months I landed my first fries shift. Anyone whos' been a Maccas slave should know the fries shift - for anyone else, its spending a few hours making fries and only fries. My back played up during this shift and ended with a visit to the doctor and the physio, which meant I wasn't able to work the following day. The day after, the store manager called my mother and I in for a meeting and I was told to hand in my resignation... which is devastating news for a 15 year old in her first job!
No Sympathy
I worked for a little restaurant in my town. I worked double shifts often, stayed late, came in on my days off, and received 2.50/hr. Plus the owner was "taking taxes" out of my pay. My boyfriends mom was sick and in hospice. I had stayed with her for about a week. My boss knew of the situation and let me have time off. Well, after the funeral, I went back to work, and she told me "If your mother-in-law's death is more important than working here, than you dont need to work here anymore". so i was fired.
Fired for education
So I had been working at this grocery store for over a year, and I did EVERYTHING (bakery, deli, cashier, book-keeping, deposits, accounting, opening, and closing the store), and I was only making minimum wage. Whenever somebody called out, they would always call me, and I would go in. I was also a university student, and had asked for a week off at the end of the semester for finals. They only gave me 3 days off, and one of the days they scheduled me in was on the day of a major math final. The schedule only came out a few days ahead of time, so I asked every day if they could switch that day for another day. They said no, and that I would have to call somebody to cover for me. I called one of my good friends who worked there to cover for me as a cashier, because that's where I was scheduled. She did it without hesitation, because I've helped her out before. The next day when I went into work, they put me on suspension from being
able to work, and wanted to see proof that I
actually had a final. I got my math professor to call my boss an hour later, and fax her in my graded final (I got a B+) so she could see that I was telling the truth. But still, I was suspended from working for the rest of the week. I had never had any warnings or complaints. At the end of the week I went in to get my pay stub, and inside the envelope was separation papers. She later told everyone that she fired me to "set an example". I wasn't aware that getting an education would be frowned upon.
Rag
Okay, my friend was fired form McDonalds for call the 'washcloth' a 'rag' in front of a customer.
Crazy Hicks at Farmer Jack
I was working at Farmer Jack and I started as a bagger but eventually they put me at the front of the store to be a greeter. Easiest job in the world. Just stand there and hand sales books to people.
Now in the entrance is the bottle room where customers can returned their soda cans and bottles and there's always suppose to be somebody in there but there sometimes wasn't because the kids they hired for that sort of thing were always off goofing around.
So I'm standing there doing my job and this gap toothed red neck old lady comes in from the bottle room and starts yelling at me about the bottle machine being broken and I have to fix it for her RIGHT NOW.
I tried to explain to her that I didn't know how to fix the bottle machines but if she went to the customer service counter they would send somebody to come help her.
So she goes stomping off mumbling something about me being useless and rude and I tried to say sorry as she walked away.
She came back and started yelling at me some more because they hadn't sent anybody to help her with the machine yet. I was trying to apologize to her for having to wait and apoligizing that I couldn't help her.
She ended up telling my manager that I was rude and I had terrible customer service skills and I got fired.
Fired on my day off
I worked at a grocery store in high scool as a sacker. I requested a weekend off for a school function more than a month previous to the day. The weekend came and I was out of town. My boss called my house and spoke to my mom that Sat. He asked where I was and she said I was on a school trip. He told her I was supposed to work that day and since i did not give notification, I was fired. When i came back I heard this and thus did not show up that Monday for work.
The following Thursday i went in to get my paycheck and saw the manager. He asks me "Where have you been? Why haven't you shown up for work?" I look at him bewildered and said, "Remember I asked for this past weekend off?" He replied yes. So i repsponded "Well you called my house on Sat and told my mom i'm fired b/c i didnt show up for work!" He looked at me and said, "Oh..." then walked off. I got my check and split!
Friendly's - not so friendly
So a new manager said something inapprorpiate to me. Uncomfortable, I told the regional manager and four days later I was fired for wearing earrings that were too big, (keeping in mind there was a rule about not wearing earrings) and for not wearing the right shoes (cuz I was still waiting for Friendly's to order them for me five weeks after I asked). Being 17 and only having this as a part time job, I was upset about being fired, but all I could think was what if it was my full time job and I needed the money.
$$$ OOPS $$$
I worked at a store and somone bought about $350 woth of clothes. Well, they decided to pay with a check and the check machine wasnt working and i thougth it did but when my boss was on the cash register next to me he saw it didnt charge her and so she got free aclothes and i found out i did the same thing to another costomer that owed around $500 :(
How I Got Fired
I was a chashier at McDonalds and this Fattie lady came up to me and ordered 2 Big Macs with A large Fries and a Coke. So when the order came out i gave it to her and she grabbed my hand and she was like "now we say the Lord prayers!" And im like im not christian and she gave me this stern look. and stared at me. I was like LET GO OF ME and she was like MISS BETULA (my nametag said hi im Betula) We should all thank for the food we have here upon the altar of goodness! Im like Ohhh Geez. so she wouldnt let go of me and so i pulled my wrists out and the Coke happend to co flying onto my passing by boss. And. the rest was history.
Shake Machine
I was working at an Arby's and my boss was a total jerk. She wouldn't give me more than 5 hours a week near the end of my one-year employment there, even though I did good work, was never late, and was good with customers. So I decided to quit. But not just that, I wanted to quit in style. The shake machine we had, if what you were mixing was watery enough and if you tilted the cup just the right way...maybe you can guess. So I filled a large cup about 3/4 of the way with Pepsi and added some shake mix, acted like I was making a shake for the customer, then as my boss walked by, tilted the cup, and turned the mixer on full speed. When it was empty, I smiled and told her I quit. She just stood there with all that stuff dripping off her with her mouth open. Everyone who workd there hated her and I was applauded as I left, by employees and customers.
Small town bank, just not worth it...
So, I had worked for this small town bank for... well about a year. Im not too big on sweating my career yet, honestly I just don't wake up easily before ten am. That's all ok though because I go to college during the day. I got a job with this bank before my college started and worked heavily during the summer to make ends meet. I had some attendence problems in the fall, no big, and I made it through... or so I thought.
One day in the summer my cat didn't look so good, so I took her to the vet, and was about three hours late to work, called in and everthing. I worked the rest of the week and all was fine until the friday after. They call me up around lunch time to go to the office of the 60+ year old boss. She looks down her glasses, and says "we gotta talk". "We are terminating you because you were late every day this week by 5 minutes..."
I reply stunned, "sorry??"
She says, "you clocked late on monday, and every day this week"
Long convo short, she says that me OPENING the bank at 6:45 a.m. means that I should LOG INTO the COMPUTER SYSTEM at 6:45, 6:50 was 5 mins late... This practice is actually illegal, which I realize now, due to the fact that I was working and not compensated for it every day. Her only real reply was, "well you can take it up with HR if you like"
Target
I got fired cause i was caught in the camera ringing a giftcard and putting $10 on it and afterwards putting it to my pocket and guess what they also caught me on camera buying something from the stolen giftcard!! bwahaha!! ive never regretted anything about it because it was blessing finally getting free from my stupid job, w/c makes me work hard, id always get freakin tired, always close by myself, and have to deal w/ jerky people! never work at target cause the bosses freakin thinks that its like Macys or Nordstrom!! dude its just a TARGET!! a freakin cheap place to buy freakin cheap stuff!! stupid idiots
It Involves A Forklift...
I worked at a bottling factory. My supervisor decided that one of the lightbulbs needed changed, and instead of doing it the normal way, with a ladder, he asks me to pull around the forklift and hoist him up. I do so.
So there he is, straddling the metal prongs, screwing in the halogen bulb, when he slips. First thing I think is that he's down for good. Fifteen feet doesn't have the best survival rate when the ground is concrete. Somehow, he managed to wrap his arms around one of the prongs, and kind of laughed. I laughed too, and was about to lower it, when in walks the main boss.
I thought she was cool with it, you know, had a sense of humor, so I say, "YOU GONNA TALK TO THE BOSS ABOUT THAT RAISE NOW, BUDDY?!" with a menacing look at my supervisor.
Apparently she didn't think the hostage-by-forklift was funny, and I was fired.
Myer Madness
I worked in the electonics department in Myer. This fat, old Lady came and asked me for a Sony LCD TV. She had names written down but kept on changing her mind. It took half an hour for her to even choose a brand of TV so I picked up a TV and threw it at her and then i started trashing the place. I wasnt acttually fired until i threw a TV at the manager....
Early job starter gone wrong
I was about 14 when i started working. I worked as a fashion dresser. someone who dresses the models before they go on the runway. so anyways, I was dressing my model when the boss lady comes over and "accidentily" rips the dress! After the show was over she made me (a 14 year old) pay for the $500 dress that SHE riped! I had to pay it with my college money. A nother fashion show later she fired me accousing me of burning her toast!!!!!! HOW STUPID IS THAT? What ever you do DON'T sign up for one of those jobs EVER!!
Gettin back at mickey d's
i worked at mcdonalds for six months without a raise, extra day off or anything, and they fired me for putting too much soda in the cup instead of ice, so i got a job at another mcdonalds that was owned by the same person, and gave everybody 100% free food when the manager wasnt paying attention. they prolly lost about 5000 dollars.
The internet is public
So my dad had came home from work one day saying that they had to fire a coworker. I asked him why. It turns out, his coworker had posted a blog insulting the management of the company, and then said that she worked the least she possibly could. Good thing those bot Checks came in handy!
DOMINOES PIZZA
ok so i had been working at this dominoes pizza store for about 6 months. its a gruleing job with min wage. we had gone through 3 managers in the time. anyway one day it was really busy, all my co-workers along with my irresponsible boss were out back smoking and stuff while i was up front answering phones, taking orders, and making pizza. so when i get one with the diner rush it was time for me to go. i kindly asked the boss what he would like me to do to clean up. he yeled at me and said "WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE YOU NEED TO DO!!!" and i kindly replied that i didnt know he was the boss and could assign me with any job i didnt mind. so he starts yelling at me! so i tell him to go to hell and i punched him in the face and never came back. now i constantly egg the store and drive by paint ball it with my buddies :).
Children in the lettuce
When i was sixteen i had alot going on in my life. I went to high school, i had a girlfriend, and i worked at subway. So being that i was a pretty busy guy i wasn't able to spend much time with my girl. One day i decide she could just stay at work with me sense subway was too cheap to put up cameras and have two employees working at the same time. My supervisor was a fat lazy chick who didn't care about her job, sense she loves sleeping in the back in the middle of the lunch rush, and never came around. So after the lunch rush my supervisor goes home early and asks me to fill in her shift at night till 11 pm. I needed the extra money and was about to tell her yes when i noticed she had already left out the back door. My girl comes in at around 9pm which was perfect because the dinner rush had just finished. I let her in the back and asked her to remain quiet and just sit in the back away from customers view. I attend a few more
customers and i notice i have a half hour before i close.
So i close early so i can clean up shop and prepare tomorows vegetables and prepare the chicken and also i had to do an inventory of... everything. So as i came back from locking the front door and flipping the sign to off, i notice my girlfriends pants were on the floor infront of the walk in coolers door, which was wide open. I need not to say anything else about what happen then. But when my supervisor came in the next morning she found the shop spit shiny clean. Everything was in order, well except for the white cream she found in the lettuce that at first glance she thought was mayo until she tasted it. I never passed by there again!
No Sick Grandmothers
I was working at Best Buy making a little over minimum wage. I'm a computer tech now and when I was working there I was selling computers. I was the only person who knew what I was talking about when it came to computers, networking, etc. So after working my butt off for about 6 months they fired me right before Christmas. The reason being is that I had to go a few states away to see my grandmother with terminal cancer. They couldn't "authorize" the time off and asked me to reapply when I got back. I looked my boss in the face and said, "Yeah right... Don't count on it." P.S. Best Buy sucks... in about every aspect.
Target sucks
Basically the worst job you could possibly have is working at Target. i went to my boss one day and said i wanted to put in my 2 weeks notice, she convinced me to stay so i did. than the big fatty lady that is 40 and runs the toy dept. decided she didnt like me because i transferred out of that department...so i got fired the next day.
New boss wants to be a friend
I worked at a tanning salon for 4 years. It was my very first job. I loved it. Love my boss, my coworkers, Loved the Job. Well one day my boss told us she had decided to sell the salons, due to the fact she had a little boy and really didn't have much time for it anymore. 2 months later we met our new boss. She didnt know the 1st thing about running a salon, but we all gave her and her husband the benifit of the doubt and helped them out some. About 2 months later I decided it was time for me to buy a new car. So I went to my "new boss" and explained that I would be buying a new car soon and I would need so many hours of work to pay my new car note. She happily agreed and told me no problem. So a week later I got my brand new car. Exactly a week later my boss comes in crying telling me she is so sorry, but they don't have the money to keep the salons up and running, so my last day would be Friday. I was so mad. Even
though I was upset and mad, I decided to go ahead
and finish working out the week until Friday. I was suppost to work that Saturday, but she told me the salon would close on Friday. So when I didnt show up for work on Saturday, they were mad at me cause their were customers showing up with no one their to let them tan. When I finally spoke with them they told me that they never told me that, and that I was lying. I was glad I never worked another day for them money hungry wanna be's!
Don't show up, don't bother working
I work at a pet store known as The Pet Company, I work in animal care where we take care of the dogs and cats, clean their kennels, feed them, give them fresh water, meds, etc. It's a pretty good job, hours are good, and the pay is decent. I work with 3 other people, it would've been 4, but this guy never showed up during the days he was scheduled to work with me. Granted, he has shown up for work during the 3 weeks he was there, but when he was working, he would handle the dogs all wrong. He picked up the yellow lab like it was a damn duffel bag! Seriously, I can understand picking it up by the scruff of its neck since that's how they carry each other, but this guy, Demetrius, would pick the dog up by his neck and the TOP not bottom, of his butt. Now I know I'm not a dog, but I know that's painful. Furthermore, he fails to show up for work 4 days in a row, no call, no show, nothing at all. So, my boss just took the
schedule, which had all of our days we're supposed to
come in, and crossed his name right off the list. bye bye Demetrius. Idiot...
Idiot mafia boss
I worked at a very high-class, prestegious fine dining establishment. It was privately owned and they owned the entire corporation (3-4 other restaurants in town). When our business slowed, they did what all other money grubbing jerks do and declare bankruptcy, take a week off, and re-open as a SPORTS BAR! So I was the hostess at the "sports bar" and on my last (unknowing) night there I chipped one of my back molars on their cheap popcorn they make. The piece of tooth then ended up getting stuck in my chewing gum, unbeknownst to me, and I must have chewed it wrong, and the piece of tooth ended up slicing open my gums and starting filling up my mouth with blood. I immediately got some napkins and started to spit out the blood because I was not "permitted" to leave the hostess station unattented. The owner of the joint (also a compulsive gambler) came over and said "You put a smile on that face or you're outta here&
quot;. I explained to him that my tooth had
chipped and showed him the bloody napkins, and believe me it was a considerable amount of blood, and he just shook his head and walked away. I started to cry because I was afraid it needed immediate dental care because the hole in my gums was gaping open, and the manager on duty came over and told me "I wish I could send you home, but the boss says no, and that you better cheer up because we don't want people thinking this is a sad place to eat" At this point I was holding the side of my jaw because I honestly thought it might as well fall off, for how bad it hurt. I called in the next day to get my schedule and they said that the owner didn't like my attitude last night and not to come back. what a jerk.
Windsheild Wipper
I was working the drivethru at Chic-fil-a and it was pouring rain outside. It was probably about 9:30 at night. This woman has her windsheil wippers going full blast and it was splashing water all in the restaurant. then i said "mam could you please turn your wind shield wippers off while your car is sitting still" then she said "hell no" at about that point the left windshield wipper flew off and came threw the drive thru window. I handed it to her with the food and said "serves you right" then i turned around and there was my manager.... Totaly worth it
Gas
I had starting working at Mobile gas station. I was told for my first day to report at 5 am. Now I was already upset that I had been laid off from a $20/hrly job and had to seek out a minimum wage position. So Im at the place at 5am and the manager didnt even arrive until 5:45 to let me in. She trains me for about an hour, and goes out for a cigarette break. Im at the register by myself at this point, she leaves me there by myself until 2 pm. She advised me at the end of the shift that i would be opening by myself the next day, to report to her at 5am. I smiled, waived good bye, and never called or showed up. The jerk called about 5 times that next day....
Best thing that ever happened to me
I used to work at an AT&T kiosk at the mall selling cellphones. Our pay was pretty lousy compared to how many hours we used to work. Well anyway when customers come in and buy accessories we can sell it for the tagged price or pretty much make our own price on the computer. So pretty much when a customer comes in and buys a case or charger we'll say $25 even, ring it up as $10 on the computer and pocket the rest, and usually the customer doesn't care about the recipt or we tell them the printers broken. We pretty much got away with this because the cameras were busted, but one day they miracalously got fixed and yup, i opened that day and got caught doing it first thing in the morning. Well coporate called my manager and of course he had to fire me even though he himself was doing it too..lol but in a 5 months period i probably pocketed 2 to 3 thousand dollars. Losing my job forced me to take this sales job this guy
gave me that i didnt want to do before but its been
about 6 months in my new job and im making close to $6000 a month legally working 30hour weeks. So im pretty set.
Don't work for a franchised Dairy Queen
So I used to work at a franchised DQ as a cook. It was poorly managed, and A LOT of stupid stuff went on there. The owner was a 53 year old jerk. I didn't like the guy. One day, I dropped a chicken finger on the ground by accident. I go to throw it away, and the owner is all "HEY! We can still use that!"
"Im throwing it away."
"If you throw it away, youre fired!"
Long story short, I threw the finger away and walked out.
Somehow, it didnt end there. I went to pick up my last paycheck. He comes out from behind the counter and pulls me to where he thinks no one can hear him (Oddly enough, my 14 year old brother and his friends were up there, and we wound up close enough for them to hear us). My ex boss started yelling at me and jabbing my check towards me as he talked. "I want to let you know how much of a piece of dirt I think you are. If you ever come in here again, Im calling the cops!" Thats the short version of a 20 minute rant about food costs and my return argument about food saftey.
After I left, my brother and his friends threw a stink bomb behind the counter.
Bulls eye!
I worked at Target in the back room for about 6 months and everyday I had a different manager telling me something different from the previous days manager. I talked to them about it and they said they would fix. well they never did i just kept getting yelled at and yelled and threatened to get fired so one day in the middle of the store in front of about 30-45 customers the managers was yelling at me again and I said "derek, shut up." he stopped mid sentence and was like what did you just say? i said "you heard me you idiot, this stuff isn't my fault, its all yalls faults. and that scanner gun over there, you can take it and shove it, I quit." then threw my scanner, name tag and shirt at him and walked out in the middle of my shift. Dont work for taget, they screw you over every chance they get.
I stole there food for fun
Basically i worked at mcdonalds near enough when i left school and the managers were so nasty to the young staff saying we didnt work hard enough and were lazy but i actualy was not i was a keen worker even though it was mcdonalds. Anyways after a long period of time working there they took the piss giving my break, i used to work 7-3 and staff who came in after me had there breaks first and sometimes id have to wait 4-5 hours for a break!
one day i came into work without eating any breakfast as i was a little late so i was really hungry, i asked for an early break but it was too busy apparently to give me one :( at about half 10 when it was change over from breakfast to normal day meals we had alot of spare food in the breakfast trays that were going to be thrown away anyway so i grabbed myself one tiny bit of bacon out the tray and ate it.
unfortunatly the managed caught me and had a right go at me & apparently she was going to send me off on a break but instead i was sent home lol.
couple of days after i had a meeting with these managers from different stores and basically got the sack just for eating a tiny bit of bacon when i was hungry & it was ready to be thrown away, the most pathetic thing i've ever known in my life! lol
Funny
I worked at this outside mall called streets of tanasbourne. it was a very cool place and everything. but all the young attractive chicks hung out there. ALL THE TIME!! and i had to walk around cleaning up cigarette butts and gum off the sidewalk. it was stupid because i had to wear a purple polo shirt. so i worked there for 2 hours. and some girl laughed at me. it was embarassing so i jumped on my skateboard and bombed down the hill. by then i obviously wasn't wearing my stupid polo and i was swinging it around over my head. blew the hot chick a kiss and slapped my butt to my supervisor.
Hope you choke on it
I was an asst. mgr. of a deli and worked like a dog. The manager was lazy and would only work her schedule with no exceptions. I was pregnant and was working 16 hour days, 7 days per week. They were unsympathetic to the fact that I was newly pregnant and would tell me I had to lift 150 lb. boxes by myself. Just real jerks, but I needed the money, because of the impending hospital bill.
The fateful morning, I came into work to a huge number of catering orders to get out. I had instructed my co-workers the night before to clean inside the chicken fryers because if they didn't the chicken would taste burnt. Lo and behold, that morning the fryer had not been cleaned. Catering orders HAD to go out immediately, so there was no time to do anything about it. By midday, the oil was smelling burnt and the chicken tasted awful, so we had to make an executive decision to change the oil and the orders would have to be delayed.
Go to grab the oil for the fryers and there is none. The manager, in her infinite lack of wisdom, had not bothered to order any. We ended up having to run to a local KFC and get these blocks of shortening, which dont' work properly in our machines to broast chicken.
Then, one of the ladies decides to have her yearly nervous breakdown (don't get me started about why she didn't get fired) and leaves. Her co-worker decides to drive her to the mental hospital, which was fine, except she failed to return.
This left me with myself and another gal who was really slow. She moved slow, she thought slow, and she was just plain stupid. I told her to take the counters and I would tackle the mounting catering orders.
We run out of breaded chicken, so I have to run back to the freezer to grab some more boxes to bring up front. This chicken we had to bread ourselves in a cooler. Again, something the girls were supposed to do the night before.As I'm pulling the chicken out, by myself, 3 months pregnant and cramping, the box falls on the floor, spilling it's contents onto the filthy backroom floor, with cleaning products spilled all over the surface. Totally unusable. Finally, one of the meat department managers takes pity on me and decides to help me.
I go back to the deli and call the manager and beg her to come in, explaining our situation. She refuses and gets nasty with me.
The front counter is lining up and I am falling further behind by the minute. The store manager is having a cow and trying to help and the store owner is yelling at me like I had any control over it.
This old, grumpy lady comes up and insists I slice her some smoked turkey. I plastered a smile on my face and happily told her I would. I was running on pure fumes by then.
I finish slicing 2 lbs of smoked turkey, which she wanted "chipped", which means shredded and it took nearly 30 full minutes to get it all the way she wanted it, only to have her tell me that I didn't give her turkey, I gave her chicken. I showed her the package I'd just sliced, which was labeled smoked turkey, but she insisted that I was wrong and that I redo her order.
I was ready to explode by then and was holding it together with the very last thread of my control. I'm re-slicing her meat and she's muttering nasty things behind my back and I could feel my self-control slipping, slipping, slipping. She finally said something like "It's about time" as I shut the slicer off and started packaging up the meat and that's when I lost it.
I turned around, threw it at her head and told her I hoped she choked on it. I stripped off my smock and threw it at the store manager and told him I was going home.
The next day, I felt horrible about it and my husband told me to go beg for my job, but they told me I was fired unless I apologized to the woman. I told them to get bent and never went back.
Dollar General
Okay. So I worked at the local Dollar General for about a year when the lead clerk (kind of an asst. manager) got fired for stealing money. My boss comes to me and asks me if I could work her hours, close the store up, all that fun manager-type stuff. Being she promised me a raise, I agreed. I did that job for about 2 months, then one day I walk in to pick up my check and she tells me, "Oh I hired this great new lady for that lead clerk job!" I said what the hell BJ you already put in for my promotion! She tells me that she already called Home Office and cancelled it, but could I work the day before my wedding because she needed off. Then to top it off, the lady she hired was coming in at 6 a.m. to put up stock while I was still working as the manager on duty every night for minimum wage!! When she heard I'd put in an application at Wal-Mart she "needed to see me" and said she'd heard I was trying to get hired there..
....I told her, "I'm not trying to get
hired....I start this Friday. Good luck finding someone that'll cover my night shifts next week!!" She was soo mad....even madder when I recruited 2 people from there to come to Wal-Mart, and 2 more quit less than a week before I did.
Nothing comes before work. NOTHING!
My first job was at a McDonalds store, I had been working there for about two years (since the store opened). When the casuals started the manager put great stress on ensuring that our schooling would always come before work. We soon found out that this was rarely the case (He would often give school students closing and open shifts, and giving them way too many hours). Most of the nice managers ended up quitting or moving, and I was getting very stressed. Anyway, my high-school grad ceremony was coming up, so I went in on Wednesday to ask for the night off (The rosters for the next week are posted on Thursdays). He said they had already done the rosters so I would have to see if I could swap shifts.
This is no easy business, as the managers would not call for you, but neither would they give you the other workers numbers, and you couldnâ??t ask during work, so you had to come into the store and wait for the other guys to finish and then ask them.
Needless to say, I couldnâ??t find a replacement. I told my boss that this night was very important to me and that there was no way that I would be able to come in. He still said no.
On the night of my graduation, I called in sick. He said fine but he wanted to speak to me the next day. When I arrived he sat me down and began the lecture, a few minutes in, he asked me â??Do you seriously want your job?â?�, I had had enough. I smiled at him, replied simply â??No.â?�, gave him my uniform and walked out the door.
One year later, and the store has less than one-third of the original crew left. I wonder why?
Cubicle Farm
I worked @ a business as a telephone service rep. basically a cubicle farm the size of a ranch. Bloated servile cattle shuffled about with bags under their eyes and the lie of corporate egalitarianism in their hearts. Mind- numbing monotony prevailed: Thanks for calling Thanks for calling Thanks for calling Enough I said! I made friends w/ the comp tech and lower management in HR. Gathered info & figured out you could set up the soft phone to drop calls & not record. Manipulated the software to track false stats. Surfed the net all day! This worked for like 7 or 8 months. Would have gotten away w/ it if I hadn't been careless - only way to override is manually. Boss can listen live. Only listened in twice a year, random date on a certain month. I just forgot about it. It's ok, I drew a fat cheque long enough. I was getting fat anyway.
The Other Store"
when i was 19 i worked at the dollar store. best job a 19 year old can get right? Everyone who worked with me was great, great boss and everything. Until he retired = (. On my day off me and my friends went to the other dollar store. To see what competition we had. While going inside My friend (has his skateboard) so the manager comes out and says you kids don't even come in here just go home. And i said we were just gonna get 1 thing he will wait outside. And the guy says is that right? Then if your just getting 1 thing you dont need to come in here do you? Well we could go to the one down on so and so street. And my friend (who just got off work) was wearing his vest from the store i work at. He goes off swearing at us. then he says: WHAT ARE YOU SPIES IM CALLING YOUR BOSS NOW GIT! we of course ran. The next day we all returned to work and found that we had been fired for "spying" on the other store.
No Way Out
So, I was working at a K-Mart at the time, and was quite happy about it (what can I say, I was easy to please). However, at the time, K-Mart and SEARS were merging, and still trying to get their act together, which is where my trouble came from. One thursday, when we got new items in, I was working the morning shift. Now I knew i had to get the new cds in, including a country singer whose name I can't remember but was very popular, but by half an hour after I had arrived, no stockers had arrived with my goods. So I called the front desk to ask for the call number for the back room, only to be told that in my position as the electronics cashier, I didn't have the right to know. So I asked who to page, again I was told that I wasn't allowed to. So how am I supposed to get the cd's that I need to stock. The shift leader just gave me the "um..." nose and hung up. So a few minutes later, a customer comes by and I have to, lo and behold, tell
him to come back later for the cd he wants. 5
customers later (I repeat, really well liked country singer for the area) I remembered there was an overstock room they gave me the key for. So, stupid me, I tell the customer to hold on while I go check this room. When I get back a minute or two later, the store manager is there with the shift leader and the customer yelling at me for leaving the customer alone. I ask what I was supposed to do and the manager said I was to call her, at which point I asked her extention, and she said she wasn't allowed to tell me because of a new policy. So what was I supposed to do? I asked, still no actual answer. A few days later, I was fired. However, the computers from SEARS and K-Mart weren't using the same system, so instead of being fired then, when I could have still gone back to college, I wasn't fired for another 2 weeks, the week after college admits had to be turned in.
Evil Owner.
A friend of mine was the manager of this little "mom and pop" movie store,which was locally owned and operated. Unlike all the franchise chains, it was a quiet and cool place to work where you could watch movies all day. Pretty much anything went as long as your customer service was on key. I hired on as a clerk, and should have known something was wrong from the start when the owner told me I'd be paid "under the table." Still, I stuck with it, and eventually became manager. Once I was, I organized the store far better than it had been, and our rentals jumped 60%. I got a small raise, and started enjoying the job more than any I'd had. After a little over year, the owner stopped in one day and informed me we were losing money. After consulting the accounts and payroll, it was obvious that we were far from losing money. We were making more than we ever had. After an argument over this fact, he took me outside to have a look at
the new Hummer he'd purchased, decked out and
with a price-tag of 60,000 dollars. It comes to my attention at that point that we aren't losing money, we just aren't making enough to cover his new ride. When i ask him if this is the case, he smiles and laughs. That night, he calls me to inform me that he'll be giving his wife my position since he "didn't have to pay her." My hours, and every other employees hours, were cut down to maybe one day a week. Within a week, he'd fired everyone of us on trumped up charges, and hired high school kids who'd work for minimum wage. I thought for a long time on turning him for tax-evasion, but decided to leave his doom to karma.
Caught on Camera
My sisters ex boyfriend used to work in the local co-op in our village and had done so for a matter of years over which time he had stolen variuos food from the shelves and drinks from the fridge, eventually he found a new job and was working his 2 weeks notice when on the secound to last day they were training the new employee how to use the monitors and asked her to type in a random date time and camera of which she chose to my sis ex's luck camera 2 (the fridge) at 12:05 on a saterday in june which displayed him taking an oasis from the fridge n drinking it hehehe.. inevitably he got fired ...one more day n he woulda got away with it!
Cleaning bathrooms as a dishwasher
Not really a fired story but a good i quit story I was working at the busiest mexican restaraunt in town as a dishwasher... i was the fastest dishwasher there so i had all the hard shifts friday saturday sunday and monday our busiest days.... well one day the bathroom over flows and one of the waitresses comes in and tells me that i need to clean the bathroom i told her no because we were in dinner rush and i was buried up to my neck in dishes she got all pissed and walked out but came back like 30 minutes later and told me the boss said it was my responsibility to clean the bathrooms so i argue with her some more saying nowhere in the description of dishwasher does it say i need to clean the bathrooms after a while the boss of the shift tells me i need to clean it or im fired so i clean the stupid bathroom, calmly finish my shift collect my last paycheck (it happened to be payday) and never show up for work again... i heard
that it took them 2 weeks to find another
dishwasher.... HAHA thats what they get i say
Crumbs
Well my friend was working at a local grocery store and evidently had had enough with it because he was bagging a woman's groceries and ended up putting a bag of potato chips on the bottom of the bag and then putting more stuff on top of the chips. She made a comment about this, saying "You're going to make the chips nothing but crumbs." My friend looked at her and yelled "THERE'S GONNA BE CRUMBS ANYWAY!!!" Needless to say he was fired the next day.
Customer Service Sucks
I used to work for a small outsourcing company that handled customer service for the T-Mobile To Go line of cell phones. It was an easy job, good pay, but you just sit in front of a computer talking to people who sometimes ask how to turn the phone on without even having the battery inside, and take all their abuse. It's a very boring, stressful job. So after about 11 months I got bored, and when some idiot was on the phone, I just started playing "Polly Wolly Doodle" on the keypad of my phone. Needless to say, the call was being monitored and recorded, and I was let go. I have some friends from there who I still talk to (and agree that that job was bad), and I see some jerks occasionally that I try my best to avoid. A week after I was fired, the outsource place shut it's doors, and now I'm working at a store doing floor maintenance (buffing/waxing) and it's SO much better, better pay too! So yeah, I've seen Office Space,
and I've sorta lived it.
In your face!
Once I decided to work for my mother n' law, big mistake! Of course she had to tell everyone I was related so right away I was hated. I have always been a hard worker and of course working for her I had to be an even harder worker because if I screwed up it would make her look bad! Well I'm working retail which I have a lot of experience doing and I had proven myself to her so she wanted me to take over their mall store as a manager. Well little miss quiet princess that had been hoping she would get the job based on seniority wasn't exactly thrilled that I was going to have "her" job. I understand what it probably looked like to her but she wouldn't even talk to customers or try and make sales or anything. She just wasn't management material! Anyhow she was being a total jerk to me all day, I was getting fed up with and I felt bad for my mother n' law having to deal with her childish employees so I decided to quit. No big deal
right? I was doing the right thing of walking away! As I
was walking towards the entrance this little idiot opened her mouth and said that it was good that I was leaving I didn't fit in anyways, who was she to talk to me like that! So with my bottle of Dr. Pepper in hand I slowly opened my soda while I was totally stewing and drenched little miss better than everyone! May seem childish to some but it totally relieved my tension and at least I didn't get arrested for beating the heck out of her like I really wanted to! Needless to say I had some dry-cleaning fee's taken out of my last pay check from the clothes on the wall behind her. Totally worth it!
health care bonanza
ok, so one day in june i was going thru a hard time cause I just found out that my best friend of 16 years had just shot him self, me and my girl split and i wrecked my truck. this was all in about two days. so i go into work one day and i was not feeling up to taking care of my patients for the night you know being upset from the days prior and everyone could tell something was up so i would explain what i was going thru and most felt sorry for me and comforted me, well i ended up leaving after about 5 hours of people crying, and screaming because of injuries. well to conclude the story the floor manager was all pissed off cause i left 3 hours early from my shift so the next day i was walking out the door to go to work and the admin of the hospital called me and as nice as can be he asked what i was up to and i replyed im on my way into work and he laughed and said well don't bother i have your last check in my hand come pick it up. so i
went and got it and he shook his head and turned
around and walked in his office and closed the door. all in all never work for a hospital they don't have sympathy for employees.
Would you like stitches with that?
Ever have someone burn you so bad that you tell yourself next time you ever see them you're going to get even no matter what? Dude stole 1500$ worth of music gear (Guitar, Peavey Classic Chorus 212 scorpion equipped, couple boss pedals, hardshell case, etc), proceded to disappear off the face of the earth. 9 Months go by. He walks into the Tim Hortons where I was working as a baker. I told my manager at the time I was really sorry for what I was about to do. In the dining room. One Punch. 8 Stitches.
Dunken Donuts
well i was working at Dunken Donuts for almost a year. and the first few weeks everything was fine. after awhile i started to realize people where always talking about me behind my back. i was even told that i was gonna get fired because no one liked me. for what ever reason. well one day i got really sick and i couldn't go to work or a week (i was in the hospital) well after i got out i went in to work to get my check and they told me that i fired and not to come in any more.
Soup with that?
I was working as a waitress for Olive Garden, and with the meals you get either soup or salad, and the guy i was waiting on wanted both salad & soup. So I went in the back, collected all his stuff along with Im guessing his wife or girlfriend's food, and proceeded back to the table & the second I put the salad down he was like "Umm could I maybe get some soup with that?" so i just looked at him and started to grab the soup off the tray and in the process of him rolling his eyes like a jerk, i "accidentally" spilled the soup all on the side of his body. Needless to say he started freaking out saying I did it on purpose, so I put the tray down and right as it reached the table my manager came over, got pulled aside by the customer, then I got pulled in the back and of course fired about 5 minutes later. They couldn't have someone working there with a "hostile" attitude. Oops. I obviously can't work
in customer service.
Call Center Wreck!
okay i was working at a summer camp and needed some extra cash to start off the school year. so my friend tells me about this call center where all you do is just sit and take pizza orders... im thinking to myself okay piece of cake! i can do that. long story short i get a interview and get the job. but boy was i wrong! that job sucked! it was boring and they had us working hard for 7 funky dollars, and the supervisors were all jerks! so about a month into the job i QUIT! and told all the supervisors to go drink bleach. p.s. dont EVER take a job that a friend recommends
WINNERS- ugh
I was working at winners(the ugh disgusting clothing store where everyone tries everything)
I was a cashier there, but I don't know why at Winners they train you everything cause they are cheap idiots who pays you minimum wage and wants to see you moving 24-7!
well I got fired because I joked with a co-worker saying that I will punch you in the face (me joking and in a humour way of saying) because the co-worker was being bossy, so sure this ugly jerk co-worker went to management next day and told them about me threatening her (violence). AHA way to go people. i bet she spent all night thinking about how i am going to punch her when i see her next! and yea one more thing the manager was like telling me how I always lean on the wall while i'm on cash, like what the heck man i am not allowed to lean for a bit! managers do nothing anyways all they do is sit and eat and boss everyone around....
Goodbye Job
ok so i was working at GameStop,one day i was tired and i was all ready to go home and then the boss checked the games and other stuff before i closed down so i had went in the back to get my stuff so i can go and give him the keys so i come back up and he talkin about i stole something and the game was 20.00 and i was like well its just 20.00 dollors i will just buy it if i wanted it and then he was like well you got to pay 4 it and i got mad and i just got out of there then when he fired me i called his boss and he got fired 4 not having cameras and 4 not geting to the bottom of it and i still work there
Gourmet Dog Treats
Right after my divorce, the only job I managed to get rather quickly was this new kiosk opening up in the mall, called "Just Dogs Gourmet" and all they sold was gourmet dog treats. Anyway, my 1st day there, my son was in his 1st day of preschool and got sick all over his clothes. The following day I got sick as well and there was no way for me to get in touch with my manager as the phones were not even hooked up yet. I even tried to e-mail him, in hopes he would get it. Well, the following day I was feeling better and went into work, worked the whole day, and as I was getting ready to leave, the manager asked to speak with me. He sat me down at a table in the food court and proceeded to fire me, because he didn't think I was reliable! WHAT A CROCK. I explained that he didn't give me a chance to prove myself. He just sat there and shook his head at me. I ended up calling him a jerk before storming out the mall doors. The
next day I brought up the clothes my son had puked
on in a bag and told my ex-manager that those were for him. I was walking out as he opened the bag and heard him get sick all over the counter!!! It was gross, but it was so rewarding!! That kiosk closed due to lack of sales about 2 months later! HA
Stealing Smokes
So this 19yo kid starts working my store. A Speedway. Anyway, he was odd to begin with and I had heard stories about him saying strange things in front of customers. Last weekend I found out he was fired, because one of my managers caught on to him stealing cartons of cigarettes and found 4 behind the dumpster and 2 in his car. Not only do we have like 15 surveylance cameras in the store, but he was a sneaky little jerk lol! He apparently also stole money from the drawers to the tune of 2000USD! Hes going to jail! What a doofus.
Things To Do...
well one day i walked into a local grocery store and they offered me a job as a shelf stacker. i was low on money so i decided to have a go and said yes. 2 weeks later i got sick of the job and wanted to leave but couldnt get the courage to quit because the owner of the store was an old lady and she was really nice. anyways, so i thought of some ideas to get fired an done came up ... tickle the lady and so the next day i went up to her and started tickling she didnt laugh but i did and so i was the only one making noise in the store and she said FIRED!!
Oil Change Hell
Ok I worked as an oil change boy. I was 18. Started working the day I graduated high school. Worked there 1 1/2 years - never called off once. I was a HARD working employee trying to make this guy money. I had oppertunity to become manager but declined because I didn't want to be put on salary and working 75 hours a week. They decided to get rid of the 'teenage' look and highered in a bunch of guys that we all knew were going to replace us. So on a slow day I was pissed off. I was training my replacement. So since this guy didn't know anything I waited for it to get super busy. (It's just me + the new guy). I drain the customers oil, take off the filter and said screw it, I'm going to get breakfast. Have at it big guy. I walked out the door, (not clocking out - I decided a sit down meal would be nice). Afterwards I figure what the hell, I will just go home and watch some tv. The boss calls me asking if I was going to come back to work -
and I told him no. He had to leave his golf outing to
come teach the new guy - (which the owner doesn't know how to change oil). Moral: Don't make somebody train their replacement and expect them to care about their job anymore...
Fired For A Wee!
I was working at McDonalds and I was flipping the burgers it was a busy Friday night there were big queue's me and another guy paul were the only guys flippin the burgers and I really really neaded to go to the toliet my jerk of a boss wouldnt let me so then he said to me Cole get me a drink of water I'm thirsty. I gave him a yellow twist to his water and told him I quit.
ma and pa shop idiots
I was working for a small ma and pa shop that was owned by 2 elderly church Pastors when i was hired i was promised an equal work enviornment not based on my religious beleifs but when a potitioner sat in our lobby for 2 hours and i refused to sign against gay marrage, well it took 1 week for them to find a nice fellow church member to replace me.
BANANAS
I WAS A COVERING FOR A STAFF CANTEEN CHEF FOR A BIG HOTEL IN LONDON.....THE HEAD CHEF HAD IT IN FOR ME HENCE THE DEMOTION TO STAFF COOK...BUT I WAS DOING WELL AND HAD IMPRESSED THE CHEF WITH MY MATURE ATTITUDE AND WAS CLOSE TO PROMOTION...BUT I SCREWED UP ...I TOOK 3LB BANANAS TO MY ROOM TO EAT LATER AS I OBVIOUSLY LIKE BANANAS LOL....AS I GOT THE LIFT TO STAFF QUARTERS MY HEAD CHEF SAW ME I SAID MORNING CHEF AND HE JUST STARED ....TEN MINUTES LATER SECURITY GRABBED ME AND ACCUSED ME OF TAKING FOOD OFF THE PREMISES EVEN THOUGH THE BANANAS WERE FOR STAFF....AFTER 2 WEEKS (ID WORKED THERE FOR 18 MONTHS) I WAS FIRED UNFAIRLY MY REP AND EVEN THE SECURITY GUYS SAID AND I WAS ON MY WAY....WHY SO KEEN TO FIRE ME....WELL HE'D HEARD WHEN I WAS TURNED DOWN FOR PROMOTION MONTHS EARLIER I TOOK REVENGFE BY PEEING IN HIS TEA SERVING COLD MEALS TO HIM AND BASICALLY SABOTAGING HIS FOOD (AS I WAS HIS CHEF MEAL LACKY)...WELL I MUST CONFESS THE RUMOURS ARE TRUE...SORRY
IAN OF THE TOWER THISTLE HOTEL...THEY ARE TRUE!
CINEWORLD,I TOOK TIME OUT FROM MY CHEF WORK TO GET A JOB I LOVED CINEMA SUPERVISOR...I WAS A MOVIEHOLIC AND WAS DOING WELL...BUT MY BOSS MARK CHANGED HE WENT FROM MATE TO JERK IN A FEW MONTHS I WAS SO FED UP I THREW MY PHONE DOWN KEYS DOWN STRIPPED OFF MY UNIFORM AND WALKED HOME IN JUST MY BOXERS AND FOOTY SHIRT AS I HAD TO LEAVE COMPANY PROPERTY ON THE PREMISES....AND YES I PEE'D IN HIS COFFEE TWICE TOO...SORRY! BAD HABIT
Ugg...pools...
I was working as a maid in this gigantic house and the owners had a son. he was my age, 22 and still living with his parents...sad... i know. anyway, one thursday, he came up behind me and said, 'Truth or dare?" being confused, i said "what?" he said, "pick one, truth or dare?" being stupid i said "Dare" He said, "i dare you to go skinny dipping in our pool tonight. or else" I said, dumb-founded "or else what?!" "or else ill tell my parents that you stole jewlery from them. and who do you think they'll beleive?" at the time, money was short for me so i HAD to keep the job.i had no other choice! so that night, i went out to the pool, undressed totally, and got went in. Blaine (the son) said i had to stay in for 35 minutes. so i waited...about 30 minutes went by and all the sudden, i hear this splash into the water! it was the blaine's parents!!it was dark and i was in a shaded
spot in the pool so they couldn't see me unless
they looked underwater. i quietly watched them for about 30 seconds and then realized i had to get out before they noticed. so slowly, i got out, and got up right and with out thinking walked right into the moon light out of the shade! all the sudden i heard a voice that said "Mandy?!?! what are you doing?!?!?" and right when they said that, i turned around, to face them. then i thought, oh no...i forgot , i'm naked!!!!! and to make it even better, Blaine who started this mess walked out and he saw me to. they all saw ALL of me. the next day i was fired. The parents went off to work and i gathered my things, but right before i walked out the doors, Blaine said "hey they're gone now. you wanna go skinny dipping with me? you got a damn good butt, oh yeah,i saw you last night" and then i thought, what could possibly be worse! so i did!we had a very romantic evening and oddly enough, i started dating him and a year went by and we got married! very, very, bizzare, i know.
Barbie Catastrophe
I worked at a toy store. I was on my break, I was bored so I decided to have some fun with the toys. So I took a few barbies out of their boxes and started to reinact the love scene from romeo and juliet. My boss came in at the exact wrong moment with a family that was interested in buying a few barbies for their daughter. After they saw me they didn't.
Fog Machine Galore
When I was 17 I got my first job at the local bowling alley. I worked part time, mostly on weekend nights, which is when they had "Glow N Bowl" at the front desk.
Lights shut off, black lights, disco balls, music comes on and younger kids come and bowl.
Anyways, One Saturday night it was dead as ever. Normally when its a dead night, my co worker Andy and I would bowl ourselves, taking turns and goofing off.
One night we decide to let the fog machine go (we do that once in a while for fun effects). He cranked it full blast to see how smokey we can get the 50 laned bowling alley. It got so bad we shut it off and had to evacuate everyone (about 15 people or so) out of the building because you could barely see. The fire alarm went off, of course. Fire department showed up, and it was a big mess. Yea..we got fired once the owner showed up.
Darth Fired
My friends worked at a party story that sold ballons and other party favors and around halloween time costumes. They hated the job, and dared me to run into the store Grab a 200 dollar Darth Vader costume and run out the door and I did. As a joke i applied there and got hired! my boss who was a flat out jerk and hated me. I still can't tie a ballon (fat fingers) and she wanted me to tie up 350 of them, i lost 50 to flying around the store and 20 or so to popping, she came over called me a idiot and loaf. so I shot a ballon at her face like a rubber band got up on the counter scream she harrassed me and that she was secretly a nazi. I got fired and all my friends quit with me, we came back 2 days later in the costumes we had stolen (darth vader,cyclops, freddy and jason) from there (we stole alot) and destroyed the place the 4 of us knocked 75% of the stuff of the wall and when she called the police and told them it was us. My mom said we had all
been at our house all night (she hated her too).
She refused to give me my last pay check i called corporate and got her fired for with holding my pay check from me, harrasment, and insulting me.
Businessy-Type People
This isn't a really big firing story or anything, but it's pretty funny. Once when me and my cousin were still little kids, we got a few other friends together and set up "shop", or a small lemonade stand that also sold small toys, and things like keychains. A lady came up and said we all looked cute in our little aprons, and my cousin's friend says " Well, we aint cute fatty, we're businessy-type people!" the lady storms off and my cousin is about to fire the girl when the girl starts crying, and wails out " i quit!" and ran into the house. want to know why? the "fatty" was my cousin's mom! we never set up shop with HER again!
eeeek
so i brought my boyfriend to work and he was pretending that he didn't know me and like was totally checking me out and then he came up to me and started kissing me while i was gettin some coffee for an old lady and it spilled all over!! i got fired for being inappropriate during work hours! i didn't dump him though, because the job payed a really lil mount of money!
Fired From Pharmacy
i used to work at liss pharmacy as a stock boy. For physics finals, the school decided to take us to six flags where they assigned us rides and we had to calculate the velocity, force, and other physics stuff. i had someone cover for me, but he never showed up. I got fired because i did not show up even after i emphasized that i had finals and someone was supose to cover for me. he kept the job. (probably because he was the boss' son).
when i tried to get my job back, they told me that they don't hire guys because girls works more efficient. they hired few new stock boys who are boys not girls afterwards.
lol
Well i got pissed at my boss [who treated me like a jerk and I was practically his slave and he being like 30 and me 19 hit ont me all the time] so one day before work I went to the pet store and filled his office with mice and roaches!!!I left him a note with my employee stuff telling him he was such a jerk and that i quit, also that he could go to hell.
Hotel
I worked at this hotel as front desk manager and my boyfriend needed a place to stay. I suggested the hotel I worked at. Then the boss fired me because I was dating a guest. uhg
PetSmart is not very smart.
I have been working at PetSmart for 10 months.
3 months as Stock and 7 months as a Night Pet Care Associate.
I started working for the PetsHotel in Jan. 24th, 2008.
I worked the overnight shift. They made me full-time, gave me benefits, and then fired me soon after I got my benefits. They fired me for leaving the PetsHotel to go into the break room on my break. But I didnâ??t know I was setting off motion detectors every time as I left the PetsHotel. I wish they would have warned me or at least written me up...
Not a word from them. Well, not entirely true. They questioned me as they were going to fire me. Would have been nice if I knew I wasnâ??t allowed to go into the break room. They also accused me of causing damage to the womenâ??s bathroom. Apparently the toilet was broken and it flooded. There were also some notes left in the bathroom that they said matched my handwriting. Which seriously they should get the authorities involved that can analyze the handwriting or dust for prints to see who the real perpetrator instead of wrongfully accusing someone because you didnâ??t get your facts straight.
I loved my job, I had no reason to do such things. They gave me full-time because I was the hardest working night associate. Even when there was 114 dogs, I still busted my butt checking on the pets EVERY hour, clean the facility, prepare and give out food, walk the dogs and cleanup afterwards.
The PetsHotel doesnâ??t have its own break room and the fridge in the kitchen is not big enough to keep my food and drinks because it is filled with the petsâ?? wet food and snacks. It is just a mini-fridge. I had fun playing with all the cute dogs and cats.
I live in an apartment that does not allow dogs. So I really had fun with my job. I looked up other instances of PetSmart employees being wrongfully terminated, and there were lots of people speaking out. I think I may go apply for PetCo
Sick Days
So I was working as a courtesy clerk at this grocery store, and in my opinion for a 100 pound, 5'3 girl I was doing a pretty good pushing around carts, and bagging and I know I have good customer service skills. Well the manager that has the authority to fire and all that doesn't really pay attention to how well people work so when I called in and said I wouldn't be able to work for about 2 or 3 days because I was in the emergency room sick she said I was a liar and that I should never come back. I didn't even get to give her my doctor's note.
Stupid Idiots :(
i was working at a grocery store had been for a year one day i was stacking the fruit up and my boss said i was stacking wrong and she showed me how to do it but i always had stacked it that way and she had seen me do it that way thousands of times anyways her daughter came to work there she thought she could do anything she likes because its her moms shop she was 15 i was 23 and she was telling me what to do and that so one day i had enough then the boss called me into the backroom for a chat i was thinking what had i done then she starts saying ive been eating the fruit and veg from the shop which was so un true i said what makes you think this and she said some one saw you do it i was thinking that little cow lieing about me to her mom.. so i just got up took my apron and badge of and said you no what you can screw your job and take it up your arse then as i walked out the daughter had a huge obvious smirk on her face so i got the closest
thing to hand which had to be a oranges and
started throwing loads at her and just walk out her and the stupid mom where gob smack i got a better job in an office 2 weeks after :)
Duck and Cover!
My boss use to scream about everything. In the Three years of working at the firm I don't think I had ever heard the boss talk to the workers in the office like people and in a pitch that couldn't shatter glass.
Sure I had my bouts with the boss but generally I liked to keep my head down smile, nod and then mumble hatred to myself as I walked off. Then at the beginning of the year it got worseâ?¦
From the moment you walked into the office till the time you left, all you could hear was this ridiculous screeching. Employees left, right and centre where getting yelled at from a dizzy height.
Then day after day it was my turn, everywhere I went I had this barbarians voice in my ear.
Finally, I just couldnâ??t take it anymore
She was laying into me about a report that was done incorrectly because she all of sudden decided to change the format without letting anyone and wanted to know why is hadnâ??t been done the way SHE wanted it,
"DONâ??T LOOK AT ME IN THAT TONE OF VOICE! AM I JUST TALKING TO MYSELF?! NO ONE LISTENS TO ME AROUND HEREâ?¦
It was then I turned and at the same pitch said,
"THE REASON NO ONES LISTENING IS BECAUSE THEY'VE ALL GONE DEAF FROM YOU SCREAMING IN THEIR EARS FOR THE LAST THREE YEARSâ?¦"
Yeah thing are generally quieter these daysâ?¦
I still chuckle to myself when I think about it
By the way
So I started working at McDonald's Drive thru for about 2 weeks. Well I woke up late and was like 3 hours late for work. I called them and apologized and asked if I could make up the hours later that night. They agreed and I was there and when the manager had fixed the schedule she had me working a 9 hour shift! About 1 1/2 hrs later I get my 15 min break, cool. Then went back in the "hole" after about 3 hours I asked the manager if I could take a smoke break and sit down for a min. She said I had already had my break and that I would get no other break. I went back to work, the anger pressure in my head steaming. After about 5 mins I put the headset down between customers, grabbed my stuff and started to walk out. The manager saw me around the customer side of the counter. She said, what r u doing? I can't go that long without a break. Who's in the drivethru? no one. So I guess I quit. But can I get a double cheeseburger to go? I'll
pay full price, I already had my employee meal. She
looked stunned. She said, I think you better go somewhere else. And I walked out the door, laughing to myself, but also still hungry.....
Domino's Australia
I was fired from a Domino's Store (pizza place) for 'apparently' leaving without telling my manager and being rude and unprofessional to the assitant manager. I'm a 15 year old girl and i did everything they asked me to, the customers loved me because i was friendly and i always treated them well and did my job well. One night my best friend (co-worker) got drunk out the back on her break and decided to leave. I had finished an hour ago and clocked off but i was waiting for her. She left before her shift was finished and conned the delivery guy to drive us to a party around the corner. Needless to say the next day i got a text from the manager saying that he was sorry he had to fire me and it was the big boss's decision. Now, my mum works with the union and she was SO angry. She went into the store and RIPPED THEM TO SHREDS, she got the phone number for the owner and they had an hour and a half chat which was mostly her being AWESOME
haha. Turns out the assistant manager didn't like me
and had been making stuff up about me like how rude i was and i didn't do anything and blah blah. She got fired and i got a second chance. I didn't take the second chance coz it was a pretty gross environment considering the manager is an ex-jailbird who was texting one of the girls at work and asking for love in the freezer. I now work at McDonalds and i have to say anyone that needs a job WORK THERE IT IS GREAT.
Home Depot Denied
Well, I was a over night kinda guy, you know, all the wonderful thrills of no customers, and the fact you could be as gross as you wanted to and no one could stop you, I guess it's quite the story on how I got fired, the thing I was caught for was making a potato gun, and well getting caught launching a ton of glow sticks across the interstate. But what gets me is the fact is the reason I got fired has nothing on everything I did before that day came...Well, here it goes, my story...I started, I had no clue what the hell to do, I slung wood, laugh I know you want to, anyway I got the pleasure of learning how to drive a forklift, no less then a week later I put one through a glass door. Well they were mad but no biggie, a little while goes by and I decide to take a few riding lawnmowers out for a spin, did you know if you slammed it into gear hard enough you could make it pop a wheelie, but if you're like me you have to push it a little
harder and make it flip on you, yea, that was a bad
night for me...
One of my best memories was making steel plates for my shoes and holding on to the back of the forklift and making sparks all through out the store, lol, oh the fun I had...
And how could I forget the night I decided to ghost ride a forklift and crash into a pole... yep...
And then then mother of all evil, the night I found a abandoned car, and well I destroyed, stabbing it with the forklift blades, popping tires, breaking windows, and then... picking it up 10 feet off the ground and dropping it, what a thrill...
And to think, I got fired cause of a potato gun, I just wonder what their faces looked like when they watched those videos from months and months before hand and know what they were thinking...
"How the hell is this guy still alive?"
LOL
I didn't do it
I worked as a Store Manager for a store that was only around a few months out of every year. At 20, apparently, my District Manager didn't think I could handle it and was always around. I hired several good employees, but all the ones he hired quit without notice, didn't show up, or stole. Anyway, he decided I wasn't cutting it and told everyone else before he told me. AND he told me the day after I had major surgery. What makes things worse is, after he demoted me to Assistant Manager, he accused me of stealing a deposit. I went to the police, told them my story, said I'd take a Lie Detector Test, and never heard anything else. And apparently my employees HATED the girl he replaced me with! Ha ha! That whole company was LAME!
The Valet
My brother in law had just started a job as a valet parking other peoples cars. I don't have all the details of where he worked, but at one point he has to go out and get the cars he parked. He couldn't find one car however. He gets his boss involved and they both go over to where he swore that he parked the thing. Upon looking around, the boss notices a sign "NO PARKING VIOLATORS TOWED AT OWN EXPENSE" You guessed it! After a few phone calls they reached the towing company and the valet company had to fork out $200. That was his first and last day on the job.
Too Many Forklifts?
This happened to my buddy, not me. There are rules upon rules in life, many are written somewhere, but most you just "know." Well my friend worked at a large seed shipping company (we're from the midwest). He had been working his butt off all week when he is called into his boss' office. They fired him there on the spot, but refused to give a reason stating, "We're looking into it." Turns out in his busy-bodied rush, he had zipped through one of the seed warehouses on his forklift, while some of his co-workers were waitng for a truck to finish backing in so they could unload it. Apparently there is a universal "unwritten rule" about only four forklifts are allowed in the warehouse at one time. Long story short, he's getting unemployment and is sueing for lack of adequate guidlines which led to his being fired. Sucks to be his ex-boss!
Great firing story
I got fired from a pizza place, because someone else (who didn't like me) screwed up an order, that she wasn't even supposed to take, in my section. The girl smirked and snickered when she found out. The next day, the boss told me to come in, and called her in too. The boss had watched the security tapes last night, and saw exactly what happened with the order. He also saw the other girl steal two other people's tips. I got my job back, and she was fired. She started screaming and yelling, "It wasn't my fault! She's just jealous! Stop pushing me out the door! Stop! Wait! Please! She's jealous of me! Really! STOP!!!!!" It was pretty darn hilarious!
Always try to make friends with your coworkers.
I had been working at a clothing store in the mall for about a year. Everyone there loved me, all my coworkers said I was the nicest person that had ever worked there, except for one.
This lady had been working there for a really long time, and she hated me. I don't know why.
One day, a customer came in, and she asked for pants in a size that we didn't have out. I told her I'd go get it. One of the employees that liked me and the one that hated me were standing in front of the back room door.
They asked what I needed and I pointed to the woman and said what she wanted. My friend chuckled and said, "Wow, she's pretty optimistic." The boss came out of her office, and said, thinking that I said it, "Danielle, how could you say that about that women?!" I said I didn't say it, and the boss asked the one that hated me who had said it. She, of course, said it was me. The boss told me that it was my last day there. The part that sucks the most is that my friend wanted to quit anyway.
Home Depot
I was a sales assciate for 2 years at home depot. It can get pretty boring so you have to come up with things to do. So one day I decided to find out how one of those dry cemical fire extingishers worked. So I pulled one off the shelf, pulled the pin out, and pulled the trigger. I thought it would just be a little puff so I aimed up in the air. As it turns out, if you pull the trigger even a little bit it will spray all of the powder out out. And it spray's very far. When all the powder finally settled there was a thick layer of dust down the entire length of and 80ft isle and on everything that was on the shelves and I was covered in the stuff. The dust went out of both ends of the isle and looked like smoke. One of the managers seen the smoke and came running over to see why there was smoke, needless to say she was mad. I did this at about 9am so the store had quite a few customers at the time. To this day I still don't regret my discion to pull
the trigger.
prego mishap
I was 5 months pregnant waitressing for a local restaruant. I had been there about 3 months. I was working alone one day and had about 4 customers. I was rushing around trying to fill drink orders for them when all of a sudden i started throwing up ALL over the place. I couldnt help it, I was sick alot during my pregnancy. The cook (who was also my boss) started screaming at me to get up and help the customers! What did he expect? Needless to say, he ended up sending me home, for good. What a jerk. Now I tell everyone the dirty things that go on in there. Haha. He lost quite a few of his regulars from that.
10 cents
One of my friends worked at Best and less, so one day the manager came along to her till fired her on the spot for having a 10 cent peice on the floor, turns out the mnager was just waiting for an excuse to fire her but I don't think that ws a good enough reason!
omg
okay so i went into wall mart where i work and there was this old lady walking and i hade the big carts with the boxes and stuff so i couldnt see where i was going so i knocked this old lady down and ran over her then i ran away and dint tell anyone about it but my boss found out when she sued wall mart i got fired then bought wall mart cause im rich and the fired him ha ha ha fun times
Car Trouble..?
I worked for a local steakhouse as a busgirl. I was the one that was there the longest and had the most hours and stayed the latest. I had superiority over the othr buspeople. I was always the one to get called in and I didn't mind at all. I loved the extra hours.. almost a workaholic! I helped everyone else out.. even waitresses and dishwashers! My boss was not always the easiest person to work with so I avoided him most of the time but one night he had the bartender call me and tell me I was late for work. I was positive I did not have to work that night and that he was making it up at last minute because he screwed up the schedule. I was with a girlfriend and my brother and we were going to see our friends first football game of the season for a different school.. but we were eating before we went when I got the call. I knew they were making it up and I don't understand why they do that.. it wasn't the first time they had pulled a
stunt like this at my job. They know I usually
come in.. but not that night.. we had t shirts made and everything.. face paint.. the works! So I lied and said I was outa town and we had car trouble. So they tried to find someone to "cover" for me. Yeah.. none of them would.. THANKS GUYS!.. so they called me back and I said well sorry.. what do you want me to do? They hung up and I knew I was fired.. I didn't care.. I wanted a different job anyways.. We went to the football game and had fun.. then my boyfriend dumped me... Put the cherry on top of the perfect evening.. Want some nuts for it.. my best friend tried to get with him right after that.. Love It, huh?
Barrel of Junkies
Since I was in need of a job, I applied through several temping services in search. This new job that surfaced was a third shift job in a factory/warehouse environment. I found out, on my first day, that I would be in a division where we use a multitude of chemicals to clean 50 gallon plastic barrels for re-use. All I had to do was remove the 2 caps from the top of each barrel. Here's where I forgot to mention that the shifts were 10 hours and with so many machines running you couldn't hear your trainer speaking. Six hours into the job, I had had enough. the chemicals i was breathing were burning my eyes and destroying my throat. I picked up the pase and soon built a wall of barrels between me and the line of sight from anyone else in the area. I then slipped out the side door, ran around the warehouse to the parking lot and drove home. it took them 3 hours to clean the barrels to the point that they realized I was gone. So they
paid me for 9 hours when I only worked 6.
Pet store from hell
I was working at this pet store for a few weeks during summer break. The job was horrible! I had to clean all the cages of every animal (including the mice, snakes, tarantulas and other disgusting creatures) but that wasnt what bothered me. I had to use bleach to clean the cages with my bare hands AFTER I took the animals out. In other words, they forced me to stick my scratched and cut up hands into scalding hot bleach and water with out gloves! I wasnt even allowed to use gloves while handling the animals! Well one day my boss was telling me I was doing a crappy job, told me to fix it and left the room. I looked at my hands and they were bleeding and raw. I took a pen and a wrote on my paper towel- "I QUIT! left it on the rabbit cage (while the rabbits and other animals were running around on the floor, hehehehe) and walked out. I didnt even go back to collect my paycheck.
Party City Disaster
So after a few months of job searching I land a minimum paying job over at the local party supply store. Now being a poor college student, I REALLY need this job to sustain myself. About three weeks into the job I get sick, 24 units at school, and 40 hours a week at work will do that to you. So I call in to work, the manager is very great about it, he tells me "just call in whenever you need." I call in the next day as well; however, I reach a coworker instead.
The next day I walk into the store and as SOON as I take two steps in, the manager begins to scream at me in front of every co-worker and customer in the store, "Get Out! You don't belong here." After about 40 seconds of this verbal abuse, he proceeds to beckon me to his office to talk more, obviously because of the dumb-struck expression on my face.
I then begin to get lectured. The manager says, "WHAT was the one thing I told you to do this week?" I replied, "To call in if I'm sick." He says, "Ya and you didn't! If you can't follow simple orders you don't belong in my store!" I then begin to argue with the rebuttle, "but I called both days!" He asks, "Who did you speak too?!" I give the co-worker's name. She happened to be off that day so the manager begins to scour through his office for her phone number, reaching her at the hospital he tries to confirm my story. Well she confirms what I said. He has this dumbstruck look on his face. He asks her why he wasn't told, my co-worker tells him that she reported it to a supervisor. He then apologizes to me, asking me if I need to go home for the day. It took me about a week to quit the job since I was desperate enough to work through the abuse for the money. I now look back from my $18 an hour position and laugh.
Bad Coupon
i was working at a supermarket at the U-scan lane, during this week the store had a coupon in circulation 5 dollars off of 50 dollars. i became very bored and one of the customers left their coupon behind. i decided to try to sell it for three dollars, i had a sales pitch and everything "if you buy this coupon for three dollars you get two dollars free". one old lady blew me in to management who suspended me. when i came back they gave me the option to quit or get fired.
Chocolate Chips
ok so I was with my friend and she was closing up shop right she works at the Cold Stone so she pick up the bag of chocolate chips and it had like ten so she ate one apparently she droped one when we left and got fired cause there was one on the floor she poured chocolate chips on the floor stamped on them and we walked out.
Fireworks At Work
I was working for TNA Impact as a Pyrotechnics director. My superviser was really pissing my off that week so I decided I was going to leave TNA and try to get a job at WWE. I was thinking of a really good way to get fired so what I did was during a wrestling match I decided to give the crowd a fireworks show. Pyrotechnics (fireworks) were flying everywere. I ran into the wrestling ring and the crowd gave me a standing ovation. What sucked about it was that the cops came and took me out and all this was never aired on TV!
Choco-what???
Real simple, I worked at a fancy-schmancy chocolate store, where expensive, hand made chocolates were made. I had only worked a few months, and already, I realized that the people who came in were extremely wealthy to afford such chocolate. Well, evidently, so did a petty thief. When a rather large woman came into the store, a man came in and swipped her bag. She screamed, and I chased after him. I tackled him, and got the purse back, but he ran away. No harm done, right? I got the purse back, and I continued work as usual. That night, I got called to see the manager. He informed me, that I he found me guilty of "leaving work and fighting", and I was thus fired. The woman did feel bad, and gave me a nice tip, but it wasn't worth my job.
Scared boss
So my dad worked as a cook when he was younger. (he's a great cook) It paid pretty good and his boss never had any problems with his work or style. My dad found it boring so one day he looked at his boss and said "I think I'll quit" so his boss (surprisingly) said "I think it's for the best"
mabye his boss was too imtimidated to fire him?
Say What??!
One day some employees were making chit chat and idling around the office, I overheard them saying what a terrible boss I am so I walked up and said "say what?!" and the employee said "you heard exactly what I said about HIM" not knowing it was me, so I said "ok well HE says you're fired":) I'm actually a nice guy.
Food Fight
I'm bored unless something interesting is going on, so working at McDonalds was a bad idea I guess, It was Sunday and hardly anyone had come through to eat, there was a lot of leftover food and I was working the fryer, being as bored as I was, I picked up a handful of fries and threw it at my buddy working there as well, he walked over and started throwing food at everyone this started a huge food fight while the manager was out, no one was in the store or the drive thru, so everyone working there was all over the store throwing any food they could find, the whole place was covered in cheap greasy food. The manager comes in to check on us and got hit with something, I forgot what, but it made a mess. He proceded to shout and asked who started the food fight, everyone pointed to everyone and I said I did it and left, I hate McDonald's anyways.
Daycares are Full of Crazy People
I worked at a daycare center in San Antonio, Tx. One of my fellow employees was a horrible woman named Maunuela. She had managed to run off 6 other ladies in my position. She was moody and constantly trying to frame others for mistakes she made. One day I made the mistake of telling her that I was going to call in sick one Friday so I could go out of town, this was at the request of my husband. She got mad at me for some stupid reason, and the next day when my husband called to tell them i was sick the assistant director said that they knew everything and I needed to come to work that day. I was mortified and called them later and told the idiots I would not be back. She sounded surprised. I still don't know why they kept that awful lady who looked like a bull dog and bossed everyone around and the parents didnt even like her. It was a bad job anyway.
You can't fire me!
Before I start, you should know that gas pump assistance is NEVER an option in New York, but it's the ONLY option in New Jersey, so I'm sure this sort of thing happens all the time: I was filling up my gas tank (in NY) and decided to clean off my windshield. So I grab the squeegee and start cleaning when a car with a NJ plate pulls up at the other side of the pump and the woman behind the wheel rolls down her wondow and calls out to me, "Hey, fill it up with 89 octane!" I wasn't quite sure how to react, so I politely said, "I'm sorry, ma'am, but you will have to pump your own gas today. If you want, I can be a jerk to you as you go about it." Well, the woman gets out of her car and marches straight inside and comes out not 2 minutes later with the manager (whom I happen know since I always gas up there). He sees me and decides to have some fun with this woman and starts screaming at me about how this isn't Jersey
and we don't allow people to pump gas for other people
and then, after screaming and ranting for a few minutes, he yells very loudly, "YOU'RE FIRED!" I look at him with a smile, then at the woman, and ask, "Okay...but I want some compensation for the day of work I've given you..." and then I got into my car and drove away. I went back later that day and he said the woman honestly thought I had stolen a car as payback for being fired until he explained to her (slowly) that I didn't work for him.
Staples sucks
So yeah, I worked the retail electronic gig in high school. Needed some cash over the summer and got a job at Staples. I told them on the application, interview and when I started I was going on a one week vacation in about a month. Didn't have a problem with that. I worked the first four boring staples weeks. My manager asked me everyday different sales questions and I had to answer questions or pretend I was talking to a customer. He told me every day he wanted to see some numbers and I told him everyday there were absolutely NO customers looking at computers or cameras. I spent my day stocking ink and helping ppl find replacements. I could not believe it, I worked at circuit city and had 100s of customers looking for computers each day. But at Staples for the entire four weeks I had only 2 customers interested in computers. Ugh. So I went on vacation, to Bonnaroo in Tennessee, of course I didn't tell them that's were I was. When I came back
a day early, I went in to grab my paycheck and let
them know I could start back a day early. The customer service girl said my manager was busy but would call me with a schedule. Waited two days. Called in. Same girl. He'll call you. Waited another day. Called in. Got my manager, Seth. Said He'd call me once he made a schedule. Waited a few more days. Called. Same Girl. He'll Call you. Is he in today? Yes, but he's busy. So, I went in there to confront my manager and ask him why I haven't started working or been given a schedule. He said that they just have a small hour pool, and I would only be called in when needed. I told him that if they thought my numbers were bad, it's because there's no traffic in this Staples, and if he wanted to fire me because I couldn't sell to non-existant customers, that he should be a man and fire me instead of letting me go on vacation and hoping I wouldn't come back. I told him I dreaded coming back, because Staples sucks so much compared to any other retail store i've been in, and that i don't enjoy it here, but I
can do the
work and need the money. I just looked him in the eye for a minute, and decided to break the silence and ask him if he was going to tell me what's really going on here.
He said "we have nothing to discuss." and walked away.
I didn't mind being fired from a bad job, it just pisses me off when people can't even do THAT.
car wash
when i was pregnant, i worked at a local car wash as a cashier. the manager knew i was pregnant and having morning sickness so i was sitting down alot between customers. so the punk fired me for sitting down alot. the day i got fired, the district manager was there that day and the manager told me that they "werent impressed with me". but they didnt know that i was stealing.
Forklift Fun
While working in the lumber department at a big chain home improvement store that rhymes with Blowe's, customers would often just leave trash from their trucks in the parking lot. One slow morning, a customer left a large (about 3 feet tall) stuffed bunny behind. I had the bright idea to put it on top of the entry way to the lumber entrance of the building. And the best way to do that, is with a forklift! Long story short, me and a co-worker spent about 20 minutes doing this and forgot to take it down later to get rid of the evidence. The entire thing was caught on camera. We both got fired after working there for over 4 years. We were glad.
Too Funny
i was working at a gas station on the day shift , when my shift was done i left and the next cashier took over. he aparently got bored and locked up, filled his tank for free, and bailed. the next morning my manager realized by the register print out what he had done. he never came in that afternoon, of course, so i had to stay late till she got someone else to come in, when my relief got their she called me into the back room and fired me saying that her regional manager told her she had to fire someone to set an example and since he wasn't there she choose me (skiny blonde gets the ax). well she hired a new girl for second shift and gave the other night person mine. new chick didn't show up so the girl on my shift had to stay, she got pissed n called a bunch of her friends for free fill ups, sodas, chips etc. then closed earlier than the previous guy. when she closed she didn't bring in the iced down soda displays, the oil rack, or lock the ice
machine.. all was taken by morning.. the manager
came to my door the next morning asking me to come back because she didn't have enough help to cover the hours,, i'm still lmao!!!!!!! and of course i didnt go back.. all i have to say is she is lucky one of the early closers didn't rob the place blind.
Picking up Shifts
Okay, so I worked at a sandwich shop for about 8 months. I was a good employee I got to work on time every day (well almost), I did my work, and left. Anyway my manager was a real jerk, he yelled at people for no reason, came to work drunk, just sucked at everything. So one day I come into work and he is on me about everything that goes wrong that day so I decide to quit. So next week I pick up every shift I can get, morning, night, all of them. So after accumulating over 80 hrs. in one week. I walk in during our most busy rush of the week. My manager yells at me for not spreading the mayo evenly. I threw the spatchula on the floor and told him to do it his got damn self. Needless to say I got a couple of angry phone calls from work over the next few days. Because noone would take their shifts back and a couple of people followed my lead and quit with me. :)
Thanks
I was working one day up at local Sonic in and my day was not going to well. I've benn working there for 2 years and made assistant manager in 6 months. I was the best employee there. Anyhow my day was bad, and customers were being jerks. This one women was a major jerk. Our ice cream machine was down for the day do to functional errors. This women wanted ice cream which we did not have. My car hop goes out to the women and tells her personaly, just to be yelled at. I go out to see the problem. This women is telling me that i'm a bad person with people and that it's my fault we have no ice cream. she wanted to pay with a Sonic card but our machines at the time didn't take them. This women was straight yelling at me for somthing i can't control. So I looked her in the eyes and told her off (you should have seen her face) the next day I was fired then rehired to come back as a cook to make more than I was as an assistant manager. Now I'm manager
again and making more money.
funny calendar
my boss gave me a lecture on being accurate (his principle joy in life is in lecturing everyone) and demanded why my dates for Xmas operations were wrong. I looked at his calendar and his was the only calendar that went fron Monday to Sunday whereas every normal person has a Sunday to Saturday calendar. Never the less it made him madder that he was wrong.
When he moved to the west coast, he made history as being the one of the very few who got fired from a gov't dept. for not competing a project on schedule. Guess I wasn't around to look at his stupid calendar and put up with his lectures.
Turns out you can have too much bacon
My friend was working at mcdonalds in the grill area where you make the burgers, another friend who worked there ordered a burger, well she put an extra slice of bacon on her burger (oh dear god!!!) and they both got fired hahahahahaha conspiracy is what they got fired for i guess.
Crust
i work in a school in NYC & everyday we read stories. So when it was time to read stories one teacher Ms. Harper would take off her sandals & rub her toes, clip ,& use a Pedegg. Everyday her toe crust would fall from her toe soles onto the ground.I know gross. So around Christmas i got her some feet lotion. And the same teacher was always musty, so I bought her some Dove Deodorent. A week later I was called to the office & was told I was fired.
Deli of Disaster
It was my first actual payroll job and they stuck me behind the deli counter, showed me ONCE how to use the equipment, didn't watch me do it to make sure I was doing it right, and left me to find the salad recipies by myself. After about 2 weeks of wondering who's going to bitch at me because all of my co-workers lived in this tiny hick town their whole lives and were old hags (except one.) I got a call that my mother was on the other side of the state in intensive care for a burst brain aneurysm, so I call off for the next couple of days and left. She almost died (by mere minutes,) and I called the next day to update them after I told my manager where I was and why, she said "Well, you're really not working out anyways, so we're just going to let you go." What the hell do employers expect of us? I could understand if I was googing off, but hell!
Crazy vietnamese boss!
So I worked at this local vietnamese restraunt called McPhoi Phoi Noodel for three months. I was hired to do all kinds of things from dishes, cleanup, playing waiter, cash register. I do a pretty darn good job here when I work and make it clean and good but it takes a while..so my crazy boss (who also owns the place) yells and screams at me in vietnamese and english, "You schtoopid white boy! Wok fasta! Learn to do fast! Fast!" and he throws stuff at me. So I be patient and cope with this for three long months, hey the pay was pretty good for the first two (his girlfriend was in charge of pay and felt sorry for me)..well the final month my boss came to know of my pay and got pissed so he started treating me bad to make me feel that I should quit. The third month was finishing and it was payday so I came to him and asked him at the end of my shift. He screams and throws a penny at me and says, "hea white boy! yo pay! fo
woking hard!".
I got pissed so I threw a fish at his head and got a bowl of noodles and threw them at him, his customers, and all over the place!
Sleeping on the job
I was working at mcdonalds at 10:00pm at the drive thru..i was bored out of my mind...and also really tired cause no one had come for a while. so...i actually fell asleep when a customer pulls in. i was snoring very loud when they gave their order. so they pulled up and started cussing me out because i was asleep on my job. i got fired and i have never walked in to that mcdonalds ever since then.
Where Are We?
I had one employee at Burger King in drive thru spend the whole afternoon correcting customers orders to sound like McDonalds foods and verifying the order that way convincing them we were bought out by McDonalds. (i.e. a Whopper was now a Quarter Pounder, etc) I finally had to fire him after several warnings.
Co-op
About 2 years ago i was working at the Coop,"the feed mill" in Bryan Texas. My boss and i didn't really get along too well and one day me and got into it and i ended up saying some things that i ended up regretting. He decided to make me change out all of the cat boxes "redneck litter box" for the cats that kept the mice out of the feed. well i didn't appreciate that so i dumped 2 tons of sheep and goat finisher on his desk and then dragged it with a forklift through the 7 acre warehouse until it finally met its final resting place on top of the 2 and 1/2 story stack of deer corn. needless to say i lost that job, and am no longer allowed near that feed store,"or forklifts, ironicly" but it was worth it to get back at that jerk.
Blockbuster Video
I used to be a manager for Blockbuster...yay.... So one day i'm on the phone with my mom just talking, when my boss comes to the manager's pit which is situated in the back left corner facing the door. She's all pissy and banging on the window and shouts "You Have a Shift to Run!!" then she goes in the back. i hang up the phone apoligize to the line of people for what i'm about to do. I go to the back Bang bang on the door. she finally opens and i ask her to come to front i have a question. she follows me to the front where i stop and ask her in front of 10-25 people including fellow employees. I ask her if she went to high school. she said no. i then screamed obscenities at her and threw my keys down. as I'm walking out she throws my keys at the door. i pick them up and walked to my car and before i got in my car i drop my store keys in the sewer and drove home.
You shoudn't be fired because someone chooses to die
I have been a lifeguard for nearly 6 years now. It was a good paying job but it wasn't getting enough and I needed better hours. SO I went to work at a grocery store.Being a bagger you get to do all the odd jobs during the slow times so because Publix is so bent on everything being clean I was cleaning the ladies room. An old lady came in, one of our regular customers, that I recognized and I greeted her and she did the same and went about her business doing bathroom things (need I go into detail?) I continued scrubbing down the sinks when the lady started coughing. I didn't think much of it because everyone coughs. But her coughing wouldn't stop. It turns out she had asthma. Suddenly the door swung open ond she kind of fell out of the stall, her face all red. Her coughing continued. I was getting nervous but I stayed as calm as I could (that was my lifeguard training kicking in). She couldn't catch her
breath and her face turned a darker shade of red
almost purple. She continued to cough but she was now lying on the ground. Quicky I opened the bathroom door and yelled for someone to call 911. The old lady passed out and I began CPR. Even though I had done this a few times at the pool it was nothing compared to really having to save someone's life. Anyway when you yell to people to call 911 it usually draws a crowd so in a few minutes I had people scrambling to get in the bathroom to see what had happened. I continued CPR until the paramedics arrived but to no avail, she died. Halfway through I had broken down and begun sobbing because it was so unreal and scary. I felt as though I had her life in my hands (which I did). I had been compressing and breathing for so long I didn't want to really stop. But the paramedics took over and I was left there crying stupidly on the floor. They gave me the next two days off of work so I could collect myself but when I went back in I was called to my boss's office. He sat me down and told me I was fired. He wasn't
there that night so he didn't get the impact of what happened. He said that because I had proper CPR training I should have at least known to check her purse for an inhaler or something. I also learned that the company was being sued because apparently what triggered the asthma attack was the strong ammonia of the cleaning solution I was using (someone always gets the blame huh?). It's not my fault I was cleaning the stupid bathroom. To this day I am still traumatized from the lady dying in the bathroom but you can sure as heck know I worked my butt off trying to save her life.
No authority!
I got this great job that paid $1.25 more than my old job. I didn't want to quit my old job, so my boss left me in the system and just didn't put me on the schedule. So anyway, I start my job, 1st day, and everything goes well. The second day one of my co-workers started giving me problems. She was telling me how to do my job (the wrong way may I add) and yelling at me for things that she did. I was there for a week when she blew up at me and took me to the charge nurse, called me a liar, said that nobody should deal with such a liar like me, and insisted that I get wrote up. The charge nurse went to tell my boss, and she got ready to write me up, which would end up in me being fired if the employee said anything else. I walked in and quit. My boss walked over and fired the employee. I ultimately won because I went back to my old job where we were like a family, and took vacations together. She ultimately lost because she was fired, marked never
to rehire, I was marked rehire.
Spray paint
I worked at a popular food store in my town. it was the only place to get food so yea...i worked there for about 3-4 months. one day i had to go to the bathroom so i walked in and saw graffeti on the wall that read "screw this store" i went to tell my boss and i lead her in to the bathroom. she looked at it for a minute then had the nerve to say i did it. well that was a dumb move. she started to say things like you never liked this job and so i immediately started to go off. i knocked over cans opened products i was cussin her out then that jerk called the cops. well after that was all done it was clear i was fired. one of my co-workers told me she put camera's in all of the bathrooms (not in stalls) and a couple of weeks later i got a call to come back to work there. it turns out she caught the person doing it again on tape. she felt so bad i didn't take the job but i did cuss her out one last time.
From stealing to plain illegal
We needed a dishwasher badly where we work. We waited sooo long and it was sad cuz we all had to take turns washing dishes which we all despise. The first guy was fired for stealing by the way. And finally when someone was hired...well they got fired within a week for having false documents. So we're all pitching in to wash dishes again. I just hope that someone gets hired soon and they won't do something stupid to make us do their job.
Never say Never
I was working at a shoe store and all was well, well about 2 months into it the manager ( i was the assistant manager) told me that i would be working 2 days a week 9 am -9 pm.. alone. Well that was fine, until i found out he was stealing money and shoes and anything he could get his hands on. I told him that if the issues with missing items weren't we resolved i would leave, he told me i would NEVER leave, that i couldn't. Well I had the last straw when i got blamed for $100 missing... That night i called a few friends and let them take any shoes they wanted, got a couple pairs for myself, locked the door and never went back.
Bubbles everywhere!
i was working as a dishwasher at tgif.
needless to say, i hated it.
i was always asked to stay late, and would often not go home until 2am. finally i couldn't take it anymore. they asked me to stay late to polish the stainless steel (which btw, is EVERYTHING). i didn't, and when i came in the next morning i no longer had a job. The funny part of the story is my revenge: i dumped an entire, massive, industrial size bottle of Dawn dish soap into the dishwasher. Bubbles came out the front door!
Reverse Sexism
So Home Depot takes Equal Treatment Between the Sexes a little too far. I got a job as a cashier at a Home Depot, and I was about 7 months pregnant. So my feet are swollen, I'm tired, and I'm huge. I made the monumental mistake of requesting a stool to sit on between customers. My request was confused, and when I complained about it to a coworker, a manager overheard. I was called into the head cashier's office and told that things "weren't working out" and that I should get my stuff and head directly to the door. Like I was a thief or something!
The eight year old hater
Well, I was a boss at the town newspaper. I had to handle everything. When suddenly, I see this young boy (about 8 years old) burst into the office, snatch a newspaper, and sell it to an old man on the street. Well, I got out and gave that boy a piece of my mind. It turns out it was my bosses son, and he was showing his dad how he would sell a newspaper.
I wasn't fired, I was TERMINATED. I was also humiliated because I practically screamed at an innocent 8 year old.
It's all about the customers
Well I was working at McDonalds at the register. I had only been working there three days. Anyway this one lady comes up to me and said she would like a Diet Coke. So I go to the soda fountain and fill up a cup of Diet Coke. She pays and leaves. Like 20 minutes later she comes back with the empty cup. That wasn't Diet she said. We got into a whole fight because I told her if it wasn't Diet she shouldn't have drank the whole thing then come back for a refund. I took a some french fries and threw them at her. Apparently they were still burning hot, burned her, and I was fired...
Sick and Fired
i have bipolar disorder, and had to take off of work for a couple of months (unpaid) because of my medical treatment.
when i came back, my stuff was in boxes on my desk, and the girl who had been my assistant was booking her flight reservations, something that i used to do as a trainer. something was up...
i confronted my boss, who said it was a mistake, and let me take my stuff back to my desk.
then i got a call from HR demanding that they take 2k out of my pay because i owed the company money from an advance they had given me. well, ok, fine...
So, you can only guess what happened. as soon as i paid that money, i was in the office getting the speech from my boss about how it "wasn't working out". nevermind that all the clients gave me to reviews, i was still being fired! i was in tears and went home sobbing. That was a good job too.
Barf-tastic
Well, I work at a place were beer is made. (Sweet Free Beer!!!) So anyways it was Jacob's birth day (employee) and we all were invited to his party we all had so beer and played so cards stuff like that then after a while everyboby started getting drunk and barfing all over the place so Jacob got fired for having the party..(this was in the office)
Nice Cream
Ok so my sister works at this Ice cream shop and her boss gave her a couple cans of whip cream and 4 tubs of ice cream to keep cool while the repairman fixed the broken watcha-callit in the freezer. So she put them in her mini-fridge and it turned out our little brother ate all of it in the middle of the night. She was fired.
You threw a pen?
So i used to work at a retail store and some customer has a ton of merchandise she wants to buy..so i get these papercups and she wants to know if they are on sale so i tell her yes..then she wants me to go check the price of the cups so she can know how many cents she is saving i explain to her i can't check the price and leave my checkstand bc i would get in trouble..then she persists to ask and eventually she asked for my name and manager's name i told her she didn't need to know my name its none of her business then by the time the receipt had printed i threw the pen at her and walked out on my shift and got fired.
Ready to Retire?
I had worked at a shoe store in the local mall for about 7-8 months, knew the manager's family pretty well and got along with everyone. It must have been the easiest job ever.So one day my manager tells me she's quiting and moving away, bummed out i asked her who would be taking her place, of course she left it up to head office to hire someone new! Well my old manager had a semi-retired 75 year old auntie who decided she needed a new job, you guessed it she was now our new boss!! She was really nice, friendly and called everyone "love"...for about two weeks. Cutting to the chase, one day I came into work on time as usual and happy to deal with angry customers! Just my luck the computer and till were deciding not to work that day, there were about 5 disgruntled, 50 something, divorcee, high class, money spending haggs waiting in line for me to ring in a gift card (anyone who works in retail knows that gift cards have to be the
biggest pain in the butts ever) and of course the
computer freezes...3 times...well my lovley manager decided that to solve this problem she first had to yell at me "You are not doing it right, you dont know what your doing, are you stupid?" in front of a store full of people and to make matters better she had to rip the scanner out of my hand with all the 75 year old wrinkly skin strength she had and literally shove me out of the way (picture a 5ft nothing 90 lb little old lady with dark red short hair and horrible fashion taste trying to fight with a 5ft 8" 18 yr old twice the size!) yeah well I decided to take action: screaming profanities, walking away angerly, I marched out of that hell hole with not another word. And of all the nerve she calls my cell phone not ten min's later, accusing me of stealing her keys!
Caught!
I was an assistant manager at Jetstream Car was in Oshkosh WI, i put almost 4 years in, never late, never writen up, worked 2200 hours a year, loved it. one day another Asst. manager called me in the office and asked me to check out the punch cards, the head manager had punched in almost 3 hours early but was not there, i then pulled him in and when i said something to him about it he told me he didn't have to answer to me, the following week i was "let- go" , it was called a "buisness Decision", following that week other mangers quit and customers stopped comming in> well this is a buisness decision from a 40 year old car wash manager who is divorced and has a overweight cat like himself, and lives on a collage campus because he feels he's a "ladies man" how dumb.
Working to targets
I started working in an office for a major credit card company in the UK. Job was easy enough, standard office work, calling up customers, invoices, photocopying, the odd admin duties, and the occasional coffee run.
I had been working there nearly 2 years, never had a problem, my boss didn't have one with me, which in a office enviroment is good. So a job placement comes up within the company to do sole admin duties, off the phone work and for £3k more than what i'm on for the same hours, so naturally i apply. After the interview phase I was told i got the job and i started the following Monday.
I do my training, i get buddied up with some one to show me the ropes, and every thing is going well.....or so i thought.....The kind of work was target based, so many work cases an hour per person. at the time the target was around 18-20 an hour. so the first few weeks i was just about hitting target....just shy by 2 or 3 cases an hour....so my new boss, lovley lady, takes me to a meeting room, and asks what i could do to reach the target. i said that i would try harder, she accepted that and i carried on as i was working hard. it was handy to listen to my i-pod while i worked. after about a year (so this is my third year) i have learned the job inside and out and have been pushed up to an SME, someone that knows alot and gets asked a lot of questions.....i now smash targets and normally reach the hour target in 30 minutes.....so im a good worker? you would think that. But i get pulled up in the office with my manager and a senior manager (her boss) and we have a discussion.....they ask how i'm fitting in
and discussing how im smashing the targets and my quality of work is perfect........so my job is safe right?? NO the senior manager has a dislike for me......not for my attitude, now get this, the way that i sit in my chair, and the expression of my face, apparently i don't seem to look like i enjoy my job. so they say that i can have the rest of the week off and i'll be paid for the full month.
The employment tribunal fined the company for gross misconduct...and i got a full months salary and £23,678. If you don't have the look the company wants no matter how good you are at your job they will get rid off you. I hear that the senior manager was demoted and giving a job in a call centre...HA HA HA its all about Karma.
Poor Mr. Cohens
I applied for a job at Burger King when I was 18. My boss's name was Mr. Cohens. He was the angriest meanest guy you could ever meet. I was the cashier. One day the boss comes up to me and says, "Why don't you talk a little louder?" I grumble and continue with my job and talking louder. Later on he walks up and says, "Hey, you aren't takling louder." I was frustrated but kept my cool. I nodded and spoke even louder. The next day I came to work and he was yellin' at everyone. He was just nagging and nagging on every little thing they did wrong. The next day was Sunday and I had the day off. I went and bought a megaphone at the store.The next day I went to work and saw my boss yelling at an employee. I took the megaphone and put it up to my bosses ear when I was behind him. Then I yelled, "Shout louder when your naggin' on people woud ya?" Then he turned around, grabbed my nametag, and ripped it off. He then
yelled at me to get out. After that I decided to go to
college.
Student Expels The Master
In 2006, I worked for a company inside one of the local malls making custom T-Shirts, necklaces, graphics, etc. When I applied for the job, I was given it after answering the first question, which was: What skills do you have that will help you for this job? After saying that I was an expert Adobe Creative Suite user, they hired me to work for them and teach their employees to be proficient in Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, and then eventually InCopy. After teaching their current crew everything I knew, I took the 30 minute commute by bus to work one morning to be told that they were having to let me go because I was not needed anymore. I told them we had a full-time agreement for employment, and they thanked me for cutting the company's costs and gave me my last paycheck, telling me "not to spend it all in the same place". I guess I should have seen that coming.
coffee buzztedddd.
Me and my best friend worked together at a coffee shop near my house. There was never any drama at all until a new girl started working and thinking she could do whatever she pleased. She stole things and gave out wayyyy too many free drinks and food to family, friends, and even people she just met. Well, when our bosses found out, they fired us because we didnt speak up. . after being asked to not start drama or complain about other employees. Sweet mistake.
Drive thru Window.
Ok. I was going to Burger King. And i pulled up to the drive thru. The people wouldn't say "how may i help you" until a couple minites later. Then finally they said it. I said " Yes, Finally, ok i would like a.." Then she purposly interupted me and said "Just hold on sir." And i Screamed " I am not a sir, i am a ma'am" And the lady said "oh sorry ma'am, i don't care!!" I GOT PISSED!!! So finally she came back and she said "ok can i take your order now?" And i said" ok i want a..." Then i got cused out, the girl said "God Damnit! order some food!!" and then i cused her out, then i got some food and then threw it at her. Then i went back a couple days later, and i asked where did that one girl go, and they said she got fired for cussing out a lady at a drive through.
So I was in an accident.....
So my best friend and I decided to get part time jobs at the mall, we were both still in high school. We walked the mall in search of job after job but it turned out nobody was interested. So as we were walking out we noticed some indian guy in a new store selling blankets and purses. So we thought we would give it a shot. The guy "Dempi" tells us that he would be hiring a couple "girls" and that he would give us a call.
So he calls and tells us to come in and we could start working. My friend and i insisted that we could only work on the same days. What we thought we would be helping customers and ringing them out, OH NO! we had to do all dempi's work. He would tell us all kinds of lame work while he sat in this chair and ordered us around. And then he started to act really creepy.
So my friend and i knew we wanted to quit, but how could we do this the easiest way out? So the next day we were at one of our friends, who is known for always breaking a bone at least 4 times a year. So we were playing around with the casts and crutches when we decided to tell dempi we got in a car accident, therefore, we couldn't work. So we limped on in with my arm cast and bandaged head, and my friends crutched leg. We told dempi we were in accident and that it would be impossible for us to work anymore.... HAHA
And the funniest part is he believed us. So every time we went to the mall after that we would have to hide in stores and duck down behind counters when he would walk by!
Why don't you just DO that!
I was working at a videotape and CD duplication company near the airport in Salt Lake City. That job started out pretty decent, but over a period of time they started to get really cheap, and began insisting on having us work double shifts and weekends. Needless to say, I was in the market for a better job. Besides, I was going absolutely INSANE having to quality check Barney videos for 16 hours a day. (Yes, you heard right! BARNEY the dinosaur! I had to watch those over and over again, checking for defects! I am probably ruined for life! What was ridiculous is that we couldn't keep up with the demand either. Who WATCHES that crap, and why in the WORLD did the client insist on using Macrovision (anti-copying coding), like who in their right mind is going to want to make copies of THAT??!!??)
So anyway, a former co-worker had quit and got a job at this vending machine company in Salt Lake City. He said he could probably get me a job there as well. Turns out he drew his boss this really pretty picture about all my so-called "qualifications" and convinced the boss that I was the right man for the job. I went in for the interview, and they started asking me questions, such as whether or not I have ever worked on arcade or vending machines before. I wanted the job, to get away from my old job, but I answered their questions truthfully; no I didn't have any experience with working on arcade games or coke machines. That didn't matter apparently, because they ended up hiring me.
First day on the job, I show up and the only other person there was the receptionist. Everyone else was out doing service calls. The receptionist told me that the boss wanted me to start working on this pinball game in the back room. So I go back there, and the machine is all disassembled, in pieces, all over the workbench! I had never seen the inside of a pinball game before. I was totally clueless! So.... I faked it! I picked up a part here and there, examined it, would scratch my head, glance at the manual, then back at the part, back and forth. The receptionist would occassionally walk past the room and ask me how it was coming. I faked it, trying to look like I was actively engaged in working on the machine. I did that for about 3 hours until my co-worker got back to the office! I pulled him aside and said, "Don't you EVER do this to me AGAIN!" He thought it was hilarious.
Anyway, it didn't take long before the boss started figuring out that no, I really wasn't as knowlegable as Scott had led them to believe I was. I wanted to quit, but wasn't sure how to break the news to them. Scott and I were always joking back and forth, and were always smart-mouthing to Rob, our boss. Well one day, rob called us from the Front Row bar, which was one of our clients. (The place should have been called FRAT row, it was a complete DIVE!!!) He asked Scott and myself to drive out there, he wanted to show us something. We got there and Rob started chewing us out for not fixing a machine properly. Scott set the trap and I fell right into it. Scott started telling Rob, "Well why didn't you tell us which parts to bring with us so we don't have to run back to the shop and get everything??!!?" Rob replied with, "Well if you guys come out here as often as you should, then you should already know what's wrong and what to look for." At that point, I said something
like, &
quot;Well if we have to keep doing that, before long I might be looking for something ELSE, like maybe another job..." I was half-kidding when I said that. Rob was quiet for a minute, and then he said, "You know what? Why don't you just DO that! Go back to the office, drop off your keys." Scott had the most priceless look on his face, like "OMG, I can't believe you said that!" So... I DID! I wanted to quit anyway, I would have preferred that the job end on a friendlier note, but problem solved, none-the-less. When I got to the office, I politely handed in the keys, thanked the big boss for the opportunity, said it wasn't working out, and I left. Good times!
The Binki
I was baby sitting for this adorable little boy, Kenny. One day, Kenny and i went to buy some ice cream in the park. Kenny started to cry, so, I bought him another small ice cream. He didn't stop crying, so I called his mother and asked her what to do with Kenny. She told me to go home and get his purple binki. She told me it always shut him up. When I got home, the binki wasn't there. When i asked Kenny were he kept it, he said he left it under the Alice statue in Central Park. He refused to go out an buy a new one, so I stayed inside with him and listen to him cry. When his mom got home, I told her the full story and said I would be happy to pay for the missing binki. She said that she got that binki in China and it was almost impossible to replace. I said "What mother gives their two-year old a binki made in China?" Then, I got fired. Oh well. I didn't get paid well either!!!!
Breath Mints are a must!
I was working at this tire shop, that happened to be located right behind a bar. I decided to go to this bar on my lunch break, because they served up some pretty tasty steaks. Well, I ran into some buddies, took down some shots, then returned to work to pull some vehicles into the shop when the idiot (we didn't get along) sales man smelled the booze on my breath. He called up the manager and I was fired on the spot. He tried to cuss me out, but I told him to go to hell, and his place of business sucked anyway!
kitchen problems
I was 17 and got a weekend job at a local night club. My job was to collect pint glasses and put them in the dishwasher and bring them back out into the bar. Without thinking i also put these tea-light bowls into the washer. the wax from them melted and clogged the machine. oops. for the rest of the night they had no more clean glasses and couldn't sell any more beer haha. same night i was dismissed without pay.
It was worth it
I found my work place really boring even though my co-workers were cool people. They liked having fun but were always scared to get in trouble with the boss. I told them that I got approval from the boss to host a mini putting tournament in the office on a Friday. I made a 18 person bracket (with a qualifying round) and a trophy for the winner. We got kind of loud and the boss started yelling at people. I went in and took responsiblity and got fired.
Tonsilitis
I used to work for a collections company as an account rep processing payments and scheduling repos for cars. One day i started to get a sore throat, i thought it was nothing and went to work becuase i didn't have any sick days remaining. My throat just got progressively worse over the following 2 weeks, but i didn't go to a dr or miss because i didn't have any sick days. Finally i gave up and went to the hospital, they told me i had tonsilitis. My tonsils had swollen up so bad that i couldn't swallow anything and i was having trouble breathing so they had to give me a breathing tube. Needless to say, they told me no work the following day, sitting on the phones would just make everything worse. I called my supervisor and let him know i had just come back from the emergency room and i wouldn't be able to come back to work until the following week after my dr cleared me. I faxed him over a copy of the doctors signed instructions specifying
absolutely no work. i laid down and took a nap after i
faxed over the note, about 2 hours later the Floor Manager called me and let me know that they had to let me go because i missed a day of work and didn't have any sick days. I got fired for almost dying and not coming into work.
Wingers
So I worked at Wingers for a while as a hostess... Needless to say I did NOT plan on working there my entire life, so I never took anything seriously. I used to get the bartender to make me drinks and throw stuff in the kitchen... just cause pure havoc. I decided I was going to get my dimples pierced while I worked there and since this is in Utah, people are not okay with piercings and tattoos... I happen to have both. Well now I was on the manager's bad list for a stupid piercing... One night my girlfriend and I are hostessing (this was a Friday and it gets crazy on weekends) Mind you, both she and I had worked there for a long time... There was a new girl working there and the managers decide to put her in charge of us. She has no clue what she is doing and since she was in charge of us... we just didn't help her. We did exactly what she told us to no questions asked. Except and occasional 'you can say please' LOL... then we went around and
got all the servers to put TEAM ASHLEY on all of
their server books...Best part was we weren't closing, she was... so we trashed the bathrooms knowing she was going to have to clean it. I guess after we left she broke out in tears and quit! We so got fired but who cares, its Wingers!
The Bad Day
So one day I walked into work and I was really pissed off for no reason at all really, I was pretty much on my last nerve when this guy walks past my cubicle, and as he did, he hit all my papers and they fell. AT this point I was REALLY angry and said if that guy walked by again I would curse him off, so about 10 minutes later I'm still watching for the guy, I see him walking up and since I only saw his pants I figured it was him, as soon as he got close I jumped out of my chair screaming and cursing, turns out it was my boss so I got fired.
Target...and the deer
So i had a job at "the most wonderful superstore chain in america" (aka Target). as much as i loved shopping there i thought 'hey, why not, it pays the bills right.' so this one morning i was on my way to work at 6:30 in the morning (i live in the boonies and it took me an hour and a half to get to work) when i come around a blind corner in the road in the middle of the woods. this HUGE deer jumped onto the road and needless to say, i hit it doin about 45. and of course i totalled my car. i walked for 35 minutes hurt tryin to get service on my cell to be able to call work to let them know what happened. now mind you i had been working there for about 4-5 months now and had never been late or called off. ever. when i finally got service and got a hold of the manager, i told her the story. the answer i got? "if you don't come in today, you're fired"...needless to say, with that answer after a wreck like that, i wasn'
t going to work for "america's best superstore&
quot; again.
Fired on account of Brocolli
After graduating from college I worked at a really high-end, "customer service" type grocery store while waiting to start law school. Anyways, I was working at a cafe and this customer comes to order a stir fry but wasn't impressed with the freshness of the brocolli even though I had pulled a fresh case from produce that day. I told her it was fresh and that I didn't have time to go all the way to the cooler to get more, well it was more like yelled at her. Anyways, she yelled back and told on me. Turns out she bought a lot of food there. Anyways, I get taken aside by two of the managers and apologize profusely, and tried to explain that it was my bitchy supervisor that was putting me on edge. Anyways, they let me work another two weeks before canning me, which was incidentally a few days before getting into the union. Never fight over brocolli that's for sure.
Unavailability
I was working at a BnB for a couple of months just there...really, it was kinda bad, but I was nice, polite, did my best to arrive on time when I had to rely on trains and other kinds of public transport, did a whole ton of extra work, like laundry, considering I was only a receptionist. But the pay was really good, and it was two seconds down the road, sooo...it was pretty sweet. And most of the guests were pretty nice, though we had ones who called us incompetent one time (the office was locked, manager out, and we didn't have access to all their info, and they hadn't brought along the copy of their booking, and we were trying to be nice and help figure out how much money they owed us exactly) and some swore at me in Spanish...anyway, not the point. So I have driving lessons on a Saturday that I have to travel to get, and since I'm within a month or so of my test I was pretty reluctant to change instructor. I explained that to my manager
at my interview, told her I'd be moving it to
during the week in summer though, she said that was fine. I also recently gave her a list of exams I had coming up, so I'd need time off then, and I had a holiday booked for mid-June. Hello, I was told to give a week's notice - I gave a month and a freaking half! I was told it was all fine, especially since I said I'd be totally free after that, and weekends and summer's the busiest time (but I always worked Saturday nights to make up for being unable to do the day). So this week, I totally forgot that I hadn't let them know I had an exam on Monday. I couldn't get hold of the manager, so I called the other guy and said to him, could I maybe have a few days off this weekend to study, I'm really worried about it? I can do Sunday easily, but let me know if you need me to work the other days? He said it should be fine, it was my exams after all, and I apologised for not letting them know sooner. Then the next day, I got a TEXT from the manager - Kirsty, I'm naming and shaming - to say that the
other guy
had explained the situation, but "unfortunately, I am unable to offer you any further work DUE TO YOUR UNAVAILABILITY"!!!!!!!!!!! BY TEXT!!!!!! So I'm gonna get the money she owes me - I'm going to TEXT back and be all nice and ask her to post it - but I'm not sure what the worst of it is - the fact that I have to walk past it every day, or that I can't even get a damn reference! Actually considering offering my services to the new HOTEL that opened up just down the road...
body ice cream, anyone?
I was working at an ice cream parlor, and of course all this ice cream fell on ME when MY CO-WORKER dropped the bucket. It was pretty funny at the time, and i took some off my cheek and ate it. I joked around and asked if my co-worker wanted some (he said no haha) but my boss came and fired me. Of course this happened the day after his wife left him. Excuse me for being happy!
What the heck
so i was working at Food City (a grocery store) and i messed up my knee pretty bad and they said that i needed to bring in a doctors excuse before i came back in. and this was on a saturday that they told me this so i had to work the next day and then monday rolled around and they marked out my name and stuff and told my best friend i was fired and then they never told me and i walked into work and everyone asked me why i was there and i said to work and they said but you don't even have job here anymore and i was like what the heck.. so yeah i dont think i will EVER work in a grocery store anymore.
Fired at a company
I am a Java programmer at a major corporation. I was too lazy to make my own program so I copied it off the internet. I was fired the next day because I did that, now I went from making $90,000 dollars a year to less than $25,000 working at Wal Mart.
167$ gone...
I work at a McDonalds Resteraunt in Canada, i usually work in the back. well one day we hired this new guy, he seemed cool. well on his first shift alone his till (cash) was short 167$...your only allowed to be up, or down 3$ on a till...well turns out he had all that money in is pockets....instantally fired....it was pretty bad considering it was his first shift alone after being trained.
Fired For the Color of My Hair!!!!
I worked for a resturaunt that rhymes with smickadilly, and I was a waitress, well I like funky colors. Well our uniforms were hunter green, so I decided to dye my BANGS (Not Even My Whole HEAD OF HAIR) Teal Green, The Manager told me that I had 1 week to change the color of my hair of I would be terminated. I choose not to come in until the next payday to get my last check. I mean this resturaunt paid 2.15 an hour UNDER the waitress law, Plus It was a very slow resturaunt with people who didn't tip well, When I dyed my Bangs people would call me over and say Oh I wanted to see if your hair was really teal of if it was a reflection off the lights in the resturaunt, There by starting a conversation leading to more tips. But NOOO none of that!!!
Mexican Restaurant
I started working at this Mexican restaurant because a friend of mine was friends with the owner and they needed a part time bartender. It was a decent job, $7 an hour plus tip out, so I was happy. Everyone was cool except this one girl, Joy. She was the snottiest little girl I had ever seen. She was also friends with the owner and got away with everything. She would even tell customers who asked to see the manager that the owners of the store were her parents! Her PARENTS? Whatever, she was a jerk. Well, I started needing more work, so they let me come in on Tuesdays and Thursdays to run the cash register. It was like my second cash register shift, and I didn't know what I was doing. So I kind of sat off to the side while the other two were working (not even offering to teach me or whatever). I was really starting to get tired of Joy's attitude, so when she looked over at me and said "What are you doing?" So I
responded that I was waiting for someone to show me what
to do. Ooh, she was like 'You need to find something to do'. I was so pissed that I snapped. I started on a little rant that went something like this: "Joy, you are a jerk. Just because you are friends with the owners doesn't mean you can treat people like dirt. I don't understand why you are such a jerk. Were you mistreated as a child? Because you are a jerk. A short little jerk." All she could reply was "You need to do your job". HAHAHA. Well, the owners knew she was a jerk. The dishwashers were congratulating me, telling me that they had my back and everything, EVERYONE hated this jerk. So the next time I bartended, she wouldn't ask me for the drinks so she wouldn't have to tip me out. At the end of the night I went up to her all sympathetic and said this exactly: "Joy, I didn't realize things were so tight. I have some canned goods in my cabinets at home if you need". Well, I guess she decided then to tattle on me. Of course, I was scheduled to leave
for
Spring Break, and when I was in the Keys, I discovered that I had Shingles. So I called work and told them that I wouldn't come in the next time because I have shingles and I can infect little kids and stuff. Well when I finally did show up, they had another bartender and told me they wouldn't need me. Oh well, it felt so gooooood to put that little jerk in her place. I wish it hadn't had to be that way, she was a little hottie. I think I was secretly attracted to her jerkiness.
Something you weren't suppose to hear
At the time I was 17 and I had gotten a job a the local Burger King I was working the drive thru when a rude costumer drove in I was talking to my co worker about the rude man when I said, " Wow that is one rude guy that is one burger I'm definetly spitting in." then to my surprise the man answered me by saying that's one burger I'm not buying and of course he told my boss and I was fired on the spot!
A Week in Texas? Fat Chance!
So I worked as a busboy at a diner in a somewhat large city close to my house. I had a vacation planned for the summer, and called my boss to verify, as well as fax the vacation form to his wife, who worked as a manager/hostess/waitress. So anyway, I go on my vacation and have a grand old time. I head into work the day after I come back to find that my name isn't on any of the time cards. When I go upstairs to ask the boss's wife what's up, she glares at me and walks out of the kitchen. So I give my pop a call on his cell phone, and he drives to the diner and gives her a piece of his mind. She stood by her claim of "He was a no-call, no-show and we don't need that at this point, so we decided to take him off the time cards." At this, I flipped because she had hung my vacation request form ON THE BULLETIN board where that stuff was supposed to go. So I politely called my boss and asked him what was going on, and he said
it was a misunderstanding and asked if I wanted my
job back. I took one look at his wife (who was listening to the phone call) and said no, hung up and walked out.
Doggy Delight
So I worked at this Doggy daycare. My boss was a total jerk. Even though I worked with the dogs everyday she thought I was afraid of them, so she moved me to the front to be a receptionist. Working in the front means I'd run the computers, do sales, and count the cash drawer everyday. After a few months of that she started to accuse me of stealing money. That progressed into accusing me of stealing her camera, and her cell phone, both of which she found at the end of the day in her office. She never did apologize and I just kind of let it go. The straw that broke the camel's back was when she got into an argument with a customer and took it out on me. She swung a leather leash and it hit me in the face. I gave her a good left hook to the jaw and walked out. Needless to say I'm no longer allowed anywhere near her. At least I went out with a bang =]
I'm just going on break
I worked at a small, local grocery store for over two years and was also the Office Manager. To put it short and sweet - I had been in the company longer than my assistant manager and I could also (easily) run circles around him. For some reason, he began to suspect me of stealing money from the office. We had video tapes and I know he could not prove it on there for the fact I had NOT stole a penny from that store. I began to get really fed up with being accused. So one day, while he was snooping around the office trying to make it obvious he was making sure I hadn't taken anything, I had had enough. I walk into the backroom and he follows. As I'm clocking out, he asks me if I'm going on break and told him I was. This was right before the five o' clock rush would hit the store and I promised I'd be back before then. Needless to say, I wasn't. Best part of it all is the fact that he had NO idea how to run a register and he was the
only one there who could. Of course I was fired but
hey. . it brings a smile to my face every time I think of the frantic look on my Assistant Manager's face as he attempted to run that register.
Dock box mix up
When I was 16, I worked at West Marine. I knew ZERO information on boating so I was already dead in the water here. Well I told Hal, that one of the customers wanted to purchase a huge dock box and I couldn't bring it to the register because it was too heavy. Hal brings up the dock box, I ring it up, the customer leaves;everyone is happy. The next day I found out that neither me or Hal looked inside the dock box. The customer paid $175 for the huge dock box, but there were atleast $1500 worth of life vests inside. oops ;)
Crazy sauna
So i was bored one day at the gym where i worked. i decided it would be funny to turn the sauna room temperature up as high as it would go.
Unfortuneately for me, that happened to be the day the boss inspected the gym to make sure it was all working and he used the sauna. Well after some investigating he found it wasn't the first time i'd done one of my practical jokes (tinkering with the speed controls on the treadmill etc..) and he fired me.
Wrong husband
I had just got accepted for a job and was so excited! me and my sister were going to pick up our husbands from their skiing trip when I saw my husband from behind ran up and put my hands over his eyes and kissed him hard on the cheek suddenly he turned around and i saw it was my new boss he was soooo angry and told me not to come in on Monday so i told him where he could stick his poxy job whilst my family were in stiches although my bosses wife looked like she could kill me on the spot! we quickly made off for the nearest taxi!! (my family and me rather than me and the bosses wife).
The Fat Pig
I was working at a mortgage company and part of my job was to receive mortgages throughout the day and process them. That is no problem. Come 4:30ish PM everyday the group I worked for would stop sending me mortgages so I could get caught up on the final part of my day. Well this fat, freckled, Ms. Piggy type woman made me late in leaving at least twice a week, usually sometime over 45 minutes later than what I should have left. Well we never got along to the point where I would tell her to stop e-mailing me because seeing her name annoyed me. Well, my boss told me to e-mail her when I felt the need to say something to this chick. So I did... problem was, I was soooo busy ranting and raving about this red-headed stepchild that at the end of the e-mail I accidentally typed the ugly woman's name into the TO box. So within roughly 3 and a seconds the ugly woman got a message saying "I don't need to like her, she is a fat pig." Needless to
say, I was fired the next day. When they fired me
I sent a company wide e-mail out saying "It was great working with most of you. (ugly ladies name) is a big fatty!" Then I was out of there.
Work Injury
I had worked for this teensy lil chemical company as a secretary for 5 years. The owner just loved my work, kept giving me raises, and even helped pay for my after-hours schooling!
He sold the place to an ex-employee. This new owner, my previous co-worker, first busted me down to "receptionist" with corresponding pay-cut, then began making arbitrary protocol changes without notifying me. He started making me come in early, then stay late so that I was late for classes, then complained that I was there for HIS satisfaction, that I should not be in classes at all. He then decided that I didn't have enough to do, so he made me work in the warehouse most of the day. He wouldn't allow me to use moving equipment...I had to move containers under my own power. While moving 300 lb tanks, I fell. I wound up with two fractured vertebre and displaced discs, one in my upper back and one in the lower, with excrutiating pain radiating down my arms, back, and legs. I couldn't stand, sit or lie down without crying out. I turned in an incident report, and went to the dr. The doc sent me to phys-rehab.
I got fired for going to rehab. It's ok, though, because when I applied for unemployment, he LIED about it and said he'd fired me for being unprofessional. Unemployment ruled in MY FAVOR, and it went against his record!! Bwahahahahaaaaaaaaa
Bad Telemarketer
I was working as a telemarketer for an insurance company and our manager was a real jerk. We were told that a very important client was coming in the next day and we had better not do anything to embarrass our manager. That morning i waited until the clients came in before i entered the building. I was wearing a Batman mask with a rainbow wig and a t-shirt that read "Fight the Power" and carrying an air horn and a whipped cream pie. I walked up to an employee that i didn't like and rang the air horn, screamed " HAPPY NEW YEAR" and hit the other employee in the face with the pie. My manager physically removed me. A few months later, the business closed.
Bakers Square
ok so i just got my first job... it wasn't what i expected cuz they put me at the cash register knowing that i have no experiance... and it was sunday so everyone was there... and i had the manager come help me and she yelled at me... so she decided to have me seat them and take their drink order... well this nice old couple came in and i went to seat them, and no one told me that there is a special way to hold the tray when you get them their drink (everything that is served has to be on a tray... even the littlest thing.) so here i go to get them their ice water with lemon... i went to give the old man his drink... that worked out fine. but the tray was now off balance because weight was taken off. so i spilt the ice cold water all over me and the nice old lady. then they decided to show me how to use the cash register. so the person who showed me ran through it like she was running from the cops... she showed me how to do credit and debit. but
it is complicated to someone on their first day.
so she left and this one guy came to the register and was TRYING to pay for his meal. well i dont know what i did but i almost either charged him too much... or what i think i did was gonna let them have a free meal. so i tell them to stay while i get the manager. so i go and get the manager and she is pissed and she fixed it but she had to shut the whole system down and start it again. after i finished my shift, she called me into her office and fired me.
Walmart
I hated my job at walmart so i decided to not qut but have some fun and get fired. I got into a buggie and got my best friend to push it. She ran as she pushed the cart all over walmart and i screamed " FLYING RAINBOW MONKEYS ARE EVERYWERE!" Then i got out and went in the dressing room along with my best friend and locked the door and said " i can't come out, there are flying rainbow monkeys everywere and they are taking my muffins!" they got SO mad at me! they opened the door and these big men came up grabed me & my friend and dragged us out and said we can't go into walmart anywere ever. we still go in anyway, just not infront of those same people.
Cleaning the windows
My best friend's brother worked at this resturaunt (i think it was called Frank's or Frankie's or something) anyway his job was to clean the windows and he absolutly loved his boss. His boss decided he had to move out of state and he got a new boss, the boss was a total jerk. He always yelled at my friends brother and the day he quit, he wrote "I QUIT!" in big letters in ketchup and mustard on the windows. HAHAHA
Wal-Mart Job
I worked at a Wal-Mart for about a year and a half, and for that long period of time i was a very good employee. I had a co-worker who thought that just because she was an old hag that i should respect her. She was always telling me to do stuff when she didn't ever have the right. At the time i was going through a rough spot financially and needed the money so i put up with her. One day she was especially hard on me; yelling at me for random things, blaming stuff on me, etc. So when i went to take some trash out i noticed a friendly stray cat wandering around the trashbins. That sparked and idea...I stormed back inside, bought some laxatives and a can of tuna. I made sure to purchase the neccessary items in her lane throwing the money i owed her in her face. I marched right out the back door, opened the can of tuna and crunched up a couple of laxatives to put in it. After watching the feline eat up his dinner i grabbed it and walked over to the co-
worker's car. I opened it up (she never locked
it), shoved the cat inside and locked the door (No animals were harmed, i assure you). I was tired of the job so i picked up my belongings and drove home. Needless to say i was fired the next day, it sure was worth it.
Thieving Employer
I used to work at a childrens portrait studio. i was really good at my job,and got great commissions and had a lot of fun. but for some reason i always got picked on, and i finally figured out it was cuz i was the youngest one, who lived out of a backpack, so they were harrassing me for being better at the job while having no expirence and no money. so one day, i had money, i had $800 to pay off a traffic ticket and put down some rent. i folded it up in my wallet and put it in my backpack at the very bottom. Before i left that day this stupid coworker came up screaming at me cuz some girl lost $45 she'd left openly in her clear cubby. she acused me of stealing it, because i was "a hobo" and i screamed back i didn't do it. well, she left, i left, and i reached into my backpack to find my wallet, it was there, it looked like the money was there. when i unfolded my bills, it was two twenties and a bunch of ones! i called my boss
who wouldn't answer, and when she wouldn't help me
i called the cops and filed a report. The next day there was a meeting which consisted of them yelling at me since cops came, and me shredding the employee lounge looking for it in the highly unlikly scenario it fell out of my bag. i started wearing dress code violating pocketed pants to keep my wallet on me always, and they cut my forty hours to eight and harrassed me constantly. With my twenty dollar check i said i needed more hours. My boss said the other girls didn't trust me and didn't want to work with me, and i could quit, or be fired. I said i quit. However, before i left i printed out all the pictures of me, my family, and my boyfriend, probably a hundred dollars worth of merchandise, and set the printer running test pages, which were solid black. I set all thier computers to the ping of death, and left. They asked me why i printed of the pictures without paying for them. I said screw you, take it off my tab. They didn't pursue it at all.
Foreign boss
I live in Australia, and had to leave school at 15 and get a job (for family reasons). So my first job was in a small cafe/sandwich bar, and the boss was an American who had only just bought the cafe. The first few months there were great - I was a fast learner and picked up on things better than she did - I had her asking me how to do things all the time - and even got me to do interviews for her to get another employee. In my first month there she bought me a bunch of flowers for "being a great employee".
Well, one day, when I'd been there for about 10 months (and had hired another worker). I had an order of bacon and eggs to be delivered across the road (just after we'd opened). I took the order across the road and then came back and wrote up the Specials Board. Well about 5 minutes after I finished writing up the board, our boss got back from the grocery shop, and asked me why I didn't put quiche on the board. I told her I didn't know we were having quiche, as I looked in the ovens and wrote what I saw. She told me that she had told me we had quiche just as she left for the shop, and I told her "no, I was delivering the breakfast order when you left, you must have told Liz" (the other employee). She was certain that she'd told ME and that Liz had taken the order across. I told her that she was mistaken. She started yelling at me (as a customer walked in behind her, but she had no idea, and Liz wasn't there as she'd just gone to the bathroom) anyways, she totally blew up at me saying how
my
imagination was going to get me in trouble. Then Liz came back and was like "um... what's going on?" then the boss said to her "Liz - tell Raychel that YOU delivered the order and I told HER what we had for specials". Well, Liz said to her "No actually Raychel delivered the order and you told me what we were having" so she got really pissed off and ran back into the kitchen. I walked into the kitchen, grabbed my handbag, threw the apron on the floor and told her that if she wants to get away with speaking to employees like that then she needs to find some pathetic little school girl. She obviously thought that I'd put up with that just because I was young. Okay I know this isn't actually a "fired" story, because I actually quit, but hey...
The gossiping manager
ok so i was working at a Halloween store and my manager was always talking bad about everyone who worked there and one day she started talking about one of my friends and i told my friend and he called her out on it and she got pissed at me and started yelling at me in front of everyone thinking that because she was older than me and my manager that i wouldn't yell back and lets just say she was wrong anyways she clocked me out early and sent me home and when i left she told everyone that i was lying and that she never said any of that stuff and she bought everyone pop in an attempt to get them on her side needless to say her boss found out and she was fired a few days later.
He dug himself into a hole
I own an excavating company. We do large earthmoving projects and underground utilities. One of my workers was to back a very large articulating dump truck close to a 25 foot deep hole for loading. He got into the truck, turned on the radio and off he went. He could not hear the spotter backing him up. When I looked up, he had backed the truck right into the hole. All that could be seen was the very tip of the truck. Needless to say, he went home early, I'm sure he had to change his shorts;).
She got hers in the end
I used to work at Sears in the Women's Department while I was going to school. When I was hired, I told my manager I was in school and gave her my schedule. I wrote the schedule in three different books so I wouldn't get scheduled while I was supposed to be in class. Well, the manager would schedule me either right after I had class and yell when I was late or schedule me during a class. I finally complained to one of the assistant store managers and he offered to move me to Kids, since the manager there loved me. My current manager stopped that in the tracks, siting the times I had been late (because she had scheduled me without enough time to drive from school to work) So I put in for a Sunday off so I could go to a musuem for my art 101 class. (I had a paper due that week). It happened to fall on an employee appreciation sale. My mom had seen an entertainment center she wanted and sent me to pick it up for her. My manager
saw me and asked why I was there when I had asked
off. She fired me on the spot and demanded my key card. I threw the damn thing away, cleaned out my locker, and left. When upper management found out that she had not followed the proper firing procedures, they fired her! They asked me to come back but I had gotten a better job that worked around my school schedule.
Hot Dog!
I used to work as a hot dog jockey at a Famous Hot Dog Joint. I had been there for about 6 months, when in walked my ex-boyfriend with the girl that he cheated on me with. They were laughing and giggling and all over each other while I had to take their order. Eww... Anyways, when it was time to bag the order, I decided to lick her corndogs before I put them in to the packages. I thought it was freakin hilarious. And she never noticed...she scarfed those wieners. Unfortunately, my boss didn't think it was so funny.
Dunananana Batman!
Well, I worked in a costume store. I got bored so one day I decided to dress up as Batman. I went outside as Batman, and sang the theme song just as my boss was walking in. I was fired but it was soo much fun!
Fired for vacation
ok, so, i was working at the ice cream place near my house one summer, and made it perfectly clear to my boss that i would be on vaca for a week and that another kid was covering my shifts. Well, when the kid didn't come in for my shifts, the boss called me and told me to get my butt to work...too bad i was 600 miles away. SO, he fired me for not coming.
Christmas Party
Well, we're having the company Christmas party at the bowling alley i worked for. It's a real loose atmosphere around there, we were all like family. Well anyway let me first state that at the bowling alley there's (lets say his name is) "shawn" who is the main boss and (let's say) "miguel" who is the one below him. Well anywho "shawn" the main boss also coached a college bowling league so he was out of town at the time of the Christmas party. Now here's where the fun begins. I go into the bar to talk to "miguel" and he bets me 20 bucks to go "streaking" in only my boxers. So keep in mind "shawn" is gone so "miguel" is first in charge. That in mind I take the bet. Well I do it and the security guard gets mad and almost tackles me. He calls "shawn" and "shawn" fires me.
It's the mustard's fault!!
ok i was serving the people, and when i got to a family at dinner they kept changing their order over and over again. They kept the order of mustard and when i brought them their food, they changed their order again!!! i have anger problems so i squirted the mustard all over the floor and screamed. i got fired after that.
Bad DJ
The bowling alley had unexperienced DJs for a short time. One of the DJs just walked out on the job. Just his luck, an experienced DJ was sent to check on him... He comes back an hour later and The experienced one calls their boss, and the next thing you know, the experienced one is DJing and the just-fired one is leaving.
Fired for a hit and run
I was working at Dominos Pizza as a delivery boy, right. And one time I was in the mood for a smoothie. So as i was gonna pull into a parking space, this totally hot girl passed in front of my view and as I stared at her, I accidentally clipped this parked car. Since I didn't want to get a ticket, or be late for work, I jetted outta there! Not even a month later, thanks to parking survellaince, I was giving the dreaded ticket. So I went to court and plead guilty, for I totally was. Another month later my boss said, "Don't clock in I have to talk to you." So he asked, "Do you have a hit and run on your record?" I explained to him the situtaion, but it didn't matter because it is company protocol. Sucks too, I was making some bank there.
V-day Quitter
On Valentines day I had a friend that worked at an ice cream shop, and she didn't like her job any more, so she sent them a dozen roses with a note that said "I Quit."
Mark
So I worked at Boston Market and they gave me 4 hours one week. I decide its time to go find another job. I interview for a position and get it 2 hours before my shift starts at Boston Market. I decide to show up for my shift in the clothes interviewed in and tell my manager I quit in person. Well since I was one of the people who served food they were short staff and my manager had to start serving people food. To make things better I went and ordered food and sat and ate in the dining room watching my manager serve orders for about a half hour.
oh no not again
i was working at mcdonalds and i saw some chips that were left so i ate some while they werent looking but my boss saw me and i was.....FIRED!!!!! I WAS SO BUMMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fired Over Bread
I worked at a French resturant and my co-worker had a family. They finished all the bread and then asked the boss for more bread. My boss thought that she never gave them bread. He was so mad he fired her over bread! The family tried to explain they just wanted more but the boss still fired her.
Im so so sorry
well i had just started a new job at a hospital ... Which i had always wanted to work at. I did such a
Good job on my first day .. My boss insisted i come in && do some extra hours the following nite ... Which just
Happened to be the same day && time "i love new york" comes on .. .I went in but of course decided i
Would watch tv in one of my favorite patients room ... Halfway through the show i couldnt understand why i kept hearing
A beeping sound.. Come to find out the person who's room i was in was losing blood pressure just as the show ended .,..
I saved their life... But was still fired quicker than you can say "i love new york"
Extra Cash
My friend used to charge everyone an extra dollar for their meals when he worked at mickey D's. He got fired. Then they hired him again the next week. But he did it again, so they fired him again.
Chocolate-covered popcorn
My ex co-worker, Katie, got fired because we were working at a movie theater and she thought it'd be fun to try to make chocolate covered popcorn by dumping a bag of m&m's into the popper lol and the boss got PISSED.
As if I am that dumb!!
I landed a new job as a receptionist at a family owned company. On my first day at the job, I was asked to print a document, so I pressed print, and a screen came up with about 10 different printers to choose from, so I asked the girl who was trainig me (the boss's daughter) which printer to print from. About an hour later the boss came into the office, and in front of everyone told me that I am not suitable for the job (I had only been there for a few hours) I thought he was joking, because I hadnt even done any work yet, so how would he know if I was suitable or not) and he said to me 'I am being serious you are not suitable, I will pay you out for the week and you dont have to come back again'. Then I asked him why, and he said that he heard I dont even know how to print a document. I mean, come on. I am now in a job that pays almost double what that job was paying, and this job is a much higher level. His stupid daughter obviously
didnt like me!!
Majority Rules
I used to work as a cook at the local Pizza hut and all of us who worked there were really close knit friends after a while. Then one day we got a new general manager who was a bit... quirky. He insisted that everything be done in a certain order, even if it was against how we'd been trained.. and his hands shook CONSTANTLY. Naturally it wasn't too long till we questioned his sanity or soberness. One of the other cooks, Santi, stood up for Pizza hut policy of not giving out a free meal to everyone who calls with a slight question or whatever. Well... Mr. Manager didn't like that and fired him. Soon after the rest of us were rescheduled to cover his hours.... then the other cook quit.... then the girls who answered the phone... then the counter...
The final day I worked at the store there were three of us on the payroll. I was scheduled for a double shift 5/7 days that week and besides the manager the other guy didn't speak much english. When I quit the manager looked at me with tears in his eyes... and when I walked out the door the entirety of the former staff was there to give me a high five, and the Region General Manager was with them.
It doesn't matter if you're sick ...
I had health problems for about 5 years - I needed to get my gall bladder removed. Because of my health problems it wasn't unheard of that I would need a day off during the week because of excruciating pain in my mid-drift area. I ended up in the hospital for an emergency operation, and they kept me there for a week. A month or so after I got back from the hospital I was told I took too much time off from work, and they didn't believe I'd been in the hospital; they thought I may have even fabricated the hospital documentation!!! ... I collected unemployment as long as I could :0)
Jerk of the Year Award
So, im from Texas where the whole friday night lights thing is a pretty big deal. However, our schools football team is more worried about getting dirt under their nails than catching the ball. So, because the fb team sux our school has devoloped a deep love and respect for our band, were pretty good. anyway, i took a job at a convenience store about mid-way through the season. the jerks i worked for were very strict about comming to work, "No Excuses". Any way, our pretty good band has advanced to the state competition in San Antonio. when i told my boss i needed the weekend off he had the nerve to say to me, and i quote "Well my dear, its starting to sound like 'band' is more important than this job." you can imagine where i told him to shove his beloved cash register, and how fast he told me when to come pick up my check.
then the jerk didn't even send me my w-2!
balloon
Ok. So I was working at a party store, and my job was to blow up the balloons with the helium thing. Just that. So one day I was in the back room, blowing up balloons. It was a really slow day, And I was almost done with my set of balloons. So i decided to have some fun. Everybody knows the trick with inhaling helium and it makes your voice all high. So I now sounded like a Chipmunk. So when I had had my fun, I got back to work. But I was still giggling to myself, and I accidently put to much air in the balloon. It startled me, so I screamed. But I still sounded like a chipmunk. It was hilarious!! So I started laughing. And I couldn't stop. Maybe helium fumes affects your brain or something, because I was not in a right mind. So I popped another balloon, and screamed. And I did it about another five times when my boss came in. I tried to tell her that I just wasn't paying attention, but my voice was still skweaky!!! So she fired me on the spot,
charged me for the helium AND the balloons, AND she tried to check me into REHAB for inhaling helium. She thought I was crazy!! lol
FIRED MORE THAN ONCE
i was fired first at a big hotel in london where i worked as a chef...i was working in the staff canteen as cover and took 5 bananas from the staff canteen fruit stall (all food free) and took them to my room on the way i met the head chef and said morning chef went to my room and returned the chef approached me agian this time with security and i was fired for staff...umfortunatly taking the bananas out of the canteen to my room was theft as the staff quarters five floors up where off hotel grounds...whoops........the 2nd time i was fired was when a friend of the managers enjoying a free barbecue complained i said bloody vegetarians (wrongly it was the customer behind her) anyway she complained and the drinking on duty manager fired me when i told him i was innocent and that he was drunk useless and unfit to be a manager....
few years back
So a few years back I was working at this local restaurant while in college.it was a second job just to make ends meet. From the start I shoulda known it was a bad environment cuz at least 1 person was fired a week. So the job started off well, I was a waiter and made pretty good tips. I worked days cuz it was summertime but told the manager that when school started I would need nights and she was cool about it. Well much to my dismay the owner fired her 2 weeks before I started school and I had not yet been trained for night shift. Well of course when I went to the owner about working nights he kept saying nights were fine (even though only 2 people worked nights).well when school started I was only able to work on sunday (which killed my tips) and to boot I had to come in at 6am. Needless to say I eventually overslept one day so I called in but the asst manager said it was a slow day so not to worry. The next sunday I wake up early and make
sure I am there on time only to find that my name was not on the schedule for the next 2 weeks. I saw the asst manager walking into the kitchen and when we locked eyes she promptly turned around and went into her office. I left and never went back there even to eat but to think I got fired so subtly,just didn't put me on the schedule...that's low.
When in doubt, say what you really mean. It feels AWESOME!
This is a great memory for me... I had been working for a while at Dunkin' Donuts with my boyfriend (now an ex), and he had been working there for over a year, full time (supposedly), when all of a sudden our boss decided he didn't want to schedule him for more than 3 hours a MONTH. Yeah, I know, what a jerk. Anyway, as this was affecting my rent payments (I had to get a second job to keep up because my ex is an EXTRA super lazy mooch and wouldn't get another job, so instead of making him, I just let him live with me while I paid all the bills - lesson learned), I decided to give the boss a piece of my mind. Best decision EVER. I burst in the door after my stupid boss sent my b/f home for the day because someone else showed up unexpectedly and my boss would rather let that guy work instead of the scheduled person (my b/f), who was higher-ranked and had been there a full year
longer. I was pissed because I had to drive him there and then straight back home, wasting my time and gas money. SO... I went to my boss' office, where he greeted me very nicely like we were best buds. Until he saw the look on my face. Then he just stared like a deer in headlights as I told him exactly how his life is and how he's a jerk for saying my b/f was full-time and then jerking him around. I used lots and lots of profanities, and hand gestures to him and all the security cameras. He said that if I kept it up, my b/f would be fired, so I said, fine, just fire him then, he doesn't need to be working for an idiot like you anyway, and so... he fired him. So I got my revenge and my b/f got over being mad at me pretty quick, but then refused to get a job for 3 months and I had to kick him out of my apartment. But now I'm absolutely in love with my new(-ish) boyfriend of 1 year, and my ex is still a loser. Oh well. Worked out for me!!
fired for fighting with a repairman!!!!! LOL
Well ill put it this was i once worked for the Railroad Norfolk Southern... we worked on track gangs there are like 50 some gangs in the whole railroad system. Well each gang has their own repairman to fix the machines when they break down, well our repairman was extremely FAT and LAZY, he complained everytime he had to get outta his truck to fix something, and he always hated the new employees... so i was operating a machine called an anchor machine. One morning we went out on the track to go to work and it was cold as hell, my machine wouldn't start, so he had to get outta his truck and try to start it. After he had got it started he looked at me and said "you are a worthless piece of dirt and i dont know how you got hired when you can't even start a machine", and i said well its cold like 5 degrees below zero, and he said "well im gonna go tell the supervisor that your too dumb to even
start a machine and that he should get rid of you". Well i called him a lazy fat jerk then he slapped me upside the hardhat, so i took off my hardhat smacked it upside his head picked up a railroad spike threw it at him hit him in the knee flatened the tires on his truck. Then the supervisor come up to me and said your fired and i said i quit!!! not much of a story.... it just goes to show that sometimes not only bosses can be your worst enemy on a job!!!!!!
I Scream at Keeny (with the fight at Town Square)
The second I started my job at "Keeney Kone's Ice Cream Parlor", I hated it. My Co-Workers were snobby and it was a 102 degrees. But I couldn't quit or get fired until I found a new job. Sure enough, I was fired the next day. I don't know why. The assitant manager just came up and gave the slip to me. As I was walking home wondering what I would say to my Dad and Step-Mom, I bumped into my old boss, nicknamed Keeny. I screamed at him for firing me, even though I hated the job. But it ended up a mistake. I was not fired! But because of the yelling, now I was. Hmmph.
Don't work at Fazoli's
I had been working at Fazoli's for a month when they fired me. They said i hadn't been productive enough, but i had "been so nice'! hours before my firing, i was being trained for another area, and the trainer was commenting on how well i was catching on and doing a great job. one of my friends worked there too and they fired her too. They didn't bother to tell her in person, they called her!
Dentist Office
I worked in a Dentist Office. My job was to call patients and make appointments. One day I was in a really bad mood and my boss[who is my cousin-yeah I now know that you CAN NOT work with family]was on my case. It was a slow day at work, we had no patients. My boss told me to call patients in and I did. The problem was that NOBODY wanted to come to the office. My boss started screaming at me saying that I was not doing my job. And I screamed back at her "WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?!?! DO YOU WANT ME TO GO TO PATIENTS HOMES WITH A GUN A POINT THEM IN THEIR HEAD AND THREATEN THEM TO COME HERE OR ELSE I WOULD KILL THEM?!?!" Then I left and slammed the door on the way out. When I arrived home, i had a message from my boss saying "You know you are fired right?". I was pissed because I didn't have a job...but it was worth it.=]
Whoopsie...
So, I was working at this camping store that also sold cool boats and boat trailers and stuff. It was my first day and this cool mercedes pulled up (Keep in mind this is January 2007) and it was brand new. This really nice, kind guy gets out in a big, official buisness suit and smiles at me. He bought a boat trailer and asked me to direct him out the gates.The boat trailer started unhitching itself from the car. I shouted at him to stop, but the trailer rolled down the big hill that the store was on. Moments later a truck at the bottom of the hill drove along...and the trailer and truck was mangled. This can't get any worse, but it did. The guy got out of his flashy car and shouted at me. He ran to the edge of the hill and saw his brand new trailer...or brand new hunk of metal. Suddenly his car rolled past us and crashed into the truck/trailer combo.The driver was still sitting in his seat and got out. The two men were hollering in my ear. I was
fired on the spot. To make matters worse,the flashy guy was my bosses husband and the truck driver was my friend's uncle...I was so great at my job.
Employee Privacy Rights??
I am writing on behalf of my wife. She took a seasonal job at a jewlery store chain. She just got a better job. She didn't call the jewlery store, she just stopped going. Her boss just called and asked for her. I answered and told her that my wife had a new job that's full time. She barked to ME that my wife was had missed 3 days and was now terminated. With no hesitation she slammed the phone down. This woman had NO IDEA who she was even talking to. Has she no right to privacy?
donut shop fist fight
i used to work at a donut shop...well one day i was tired of my coworker bossing me around, so i decked him in the face and we started a fight that ended up totally destroying the whole place and getting us both fired...soon after i got hired at a local golf course and promoted to manager...i hired my ex-coworker and made him work cleaning the portopotties outside in the heat...i love my job
Conspiracy
I used to work at a library. I was good at my job and I caught on pretty fast. I made friends with several of the employees. But....one day one of the employees told me she heard a rumor that someone was out to get me although she didn't say who. After talking to more of my co-worksers, several people confirmed her story. To my surprise, one of the Asst. Managers actually was nice enough to let me know that the main Manager was looking for reasons to fire me but she didn't know why. After that...I never went back. Later they told a future employer seeking a reference that they loved me and I could have my job back. Needless to say I didn't take it back and to this day I am unsure about whether I quit or got fired.
Sheetz is Definitly not the place to be...ever
It all started in the summer, I was just getting done with my junior year of high school and I needed some extra cash. The local sheetz was hiring, 7.25 starting and that sounded like a good job for me. Well within the week I was hired, and the first thing I was supposed to do was do all this training on the computer on a program they used called z-force witch told you how to do everything in the store. (In other words, an orientation of sorts.) Well my first day witch was a Sunday started out ok, I used the computer for about 30 minutes and the swing manager came busting in all flustered up and said ? we need you out In the MTO food section were all backed up.? So never even being trained to do it I was just put out on the floor... making food, yes I taught myself and when I was done and was ordered to go back to my training, the swing manager had checked off and deleted all my food training as to make it look as
if I was done with it.
So another week went by in food and all was ok? and now here it is the most ridiculous firing in the history of fast food/ mini mart working. One night I was out on cash register... Witch by the way was never.. Ever told how to do. Someone came to the gas pump and filled up, and drove away. When that happens you were supposed to go through a big process on the cash register to report it, well I never was trained how to use this thing and just closed the warning box out. The next day bright and early in the morning I show up and a hefty plump angry looking women form ?Human resources? awaited me. She then explained what I did wrong and decided to ?let me go? or just plain old terminate me for... And get this..Impromper register operation? ahaha I know its ridiculous they fired me for not working something I never was trained to do. Ridiculous as I said before so I just figured you guys would like to hear that one, and even if I don?t win this... Take one simple thing with you?. DO NOT WORK AT SHEETZ?. EVER?.
Most sincerely : P
Josh
Dropping the Soap
When I was younger I worked in a gift store in Southern Texas. One day I was cleaning up the store and I accidentally knocked over a huge display of shower gift baskets. It was a disaster. Soap every, it was just a mess. The next day I was fired, because my manger was just a grump.
Fired
A few years back I worked for a small design firm that had (2) owners and an owners best friend. The best friend, we'll call her Amy, probably felt threatened by me, since I had a degree and she did not. Anyway, from the day I started the owners would tell Amy to have me help with whatever she was working on, but as soon as they would leave she'd tell me she didn't need my help and would have me file, clean and answer phones. After 9 months of being left out of real work I was fed up. I tried to think of a tactful way to express my feelings, but exploded one day and just yelled at her. She was appalled! I tried to further explain, but the damage was done. That following Saturday (Yes, on the weekend) I got a call from one of the owners who told me "I should have just sat back and learned and not butted heads so much." I was fired. Funny final note. They ended up calling me on the very next Tuesday and left a message on my voice mail asking me
to come in and help them with some computer stuff they couldn't do. The nerve, right? Needless to say, I never called them back.
Insults
I fired my employee because he came to a boardroom meeting drunk and started insulting me in front of my audience, I ended up loosing the contract.
the costumer is always right
I got fired for arguing with a costumer at the fast food restaurant that i worked at and throwing their meal into their car at the drive thru.
Falling Asleep
I was working at price chopper and i was working nights and was fired because i went into the back and fell asleep on the paper towels in back stock.
Best babysitter ever
When I was 13, I lived in a small town of about 700. This new family moved in town and had a 1 month old baby and needed a good babysitter. I was well known in town as the best babysitter there. Well the lady at the general store told these people that I was the best and that every one used me for their babysitter. No, I was not the only one in town that babysat. She also recieved recommendations for me from several other people in town. When she called me, she said that I came highly recommended and would I babysit for her this Friday and every Friday on a weekly basis. Of course I said yes.
I got there and she left....oh no the baby was crying..yes she was wet so I proceeded in changing her. Now you have to know that I had never watched a baby in diapers before, I always watched toddlers and up. Please keep this in mind. Every thing was going very well. The family came home and paid me and thanked me. I went home. You know she never called me back again but was using a friend of mine instead. I later found out why.....I had put the baby's diaper on backwards. WOW I bet she never asked any one else in town for a recommendation. I guess you can say I was canned.
lawn mowers blues
working at a job i loved for 3 years and one year found out we had a new supervisor.dude must have had a thing for women being in charge of guys..because one day,while cutting their grass at a new account..i had a small accident..ran over a guys light in his yard. the home owner was great about it..the stupidvisor used that as an excuse to fire me..what a bozo.
Food Folly
I worked as a driver at a company which catered food to major airlines. I pulled my truck next to a jumbo 757 and my helper and I got out and catered the aircraft. I did not think that I was too close, but evidently I was. As the plane filled with fuel and then passengers, it lowered as expected. But I was an inch too close! The guard rail on the top of my truck caught a bolt on the plane's side causing it to pull out. The airline's mechanics said that it would not be much to replace, the co pilot who inspected the plane also agreed. The captain however did not, the airline ended up putting all of the passengers on a new aircraft. From what I have heard the company I worked for had to buy all new tickets. I sat at home for 2 mos waiting to hear from my union, I never did. I went to resign, but later found out that I had been fired.
I still cannot find the same type of job, this happened in Nov 2004
Long Dress
my friend worked at a record store. it was her first day and the boss came by to pick up something in her new long dress. my friend walked to put something away and accidently stepped on her boss's dress a little too long and sort of exposed her boss to the entire store, including her date. and well, you know what happened to my friend.
Relatives
Everything was going smooth at my job. I was hardworking and dedicated to it. I was very comfortable with my co-workers and I enjoy the office space. When my boss asked me to bring someone in to fulfill an open position, I thought it dutiful of me to bring in my sibling. The idea was that no one would be aware of our relation since we have different last names. However, my uncle who worked at another station wasn't too keen on the idea and started asking around to be sure two siblings could work together. Needless to say, word got around until the very high positioned people got wind of it. Both my sister and I were unfortunately fired (she hadn't even begun working there yet) without any specific reasons, but just that it was causing too much of a strain to figure out if two siblings could work together so they decided to just let us go. Not only that, but searches were done and all sibling counterparts (mostly in lower positions I think) were
fired also.
Vacation
My boss fired me while i was on vacation. He mailed me a letter saying my services would no longer be needed....and then proceeds to insult me by saying I am only worthy of working at McDonalds, as a bookkeeper. Talk about looney tunes.....
he's a loser
one day i was at work and my friend was talking to his other friend and he tripped on a wire and fell on my boss's desk and all my boss's papers fell. his computer fell too and it broke. when my boss got back he was fuming. then my friend got fired.
Farts
My boss fired me because he thought i put a farty bag on his cushion chair! It was my friend who did it and i got fired!
The Day Sonic Fired Me
I went to work like a usual day. I walked in and was excited to hear talk of the annual "Christmas Party" so i decided to ask if I had to attend. Sure enough, I did. So, after my shift, I gladly went home and slept...awaiting for the time of 9pm. As the clock ticked away the minutes, 9pm was roaring upon me quickly. Alas! I heard a honk outside. I open the door quickly and I see it is my friend and loveable co-worker, Roxie. I walk down the stairs and talk to her. "Do you want a ride to the Christmas party?" I gladly shook my head yes. I opened the car door and sat down inside.. "Hey lets ride to my mom's house first," she sugested. I quickly nodded and figured I had time. As 9pm arises, I remind her we are going to be late. Little did I know, Roxie was fired earlier that day! So, she wasn't supposed to attend. Well, when we finally do arrive she hands me money and asks me to order her some
food. She gets out of the car and walks inside Sonic. (Nothing out of the ordinary,right?) Until, she comes walking back outside angry as hell! She puts the car in gear and drives off fast. The next day, I went into work, ready to explain that I had no idea what happened. Well, they sent me home and fired me for getting a ride to the work premises with someone who wasn't even allowed on the property!
fired for going to the hospital???
Well, i was a dishwasher at this little Italian restaurant and pizza place. I got paid under the table so there was nothing i could do about getting fired. Well my mother has a problem with getting really bad migraines. and one day she woke up with one so bad that she was passing out from the pain and sensitivity to light. so enough was enough... i couldn't take seeing her like this anymore. I called my friends mom and asked her to drive us to the hospital. I wouldn't leave her side to call work and tell them i wouldn't come in cause i was with my mother, until they gave her the painkillers and she fell asleep. Well i stepped outside to smoke a cig and call my boss. i got the waitress on the phone that worked the shift before me and i told her to tell my boss Angelo that i was at the hospital with my mother and couldn't go in. so i go back inside and go up to her room. then the doctors tell me she has to have a cat scan to
check for something wrong. so i have to leave all my stuff in the room cause im not allowed to bring any metal or electronics into the room. when i get back maybe an hour later theres a message on my phone. i call my voice mail and my boss Angelo left me a message in broken english saying "you no come back bobby... u dont get paid either. and he hung up. well i never got that 75 dollars he owes me and i never went back there. thats how i got fired
look before you leap
I used to work in an engineering company and i got along pretty well with my colleagues. one day i was talking to my boss and i saw a really overweight woman out my window. i looked at her and said to my boss"that woman needs to be strapped to a traedmill for hours" the boss replied "IF YOU HAD A WIFE I DEFINITELY WOULD NOT INSULT HER INFRONT OF HER BLOODY HUSBAND" he stormed off and that night i got a call off him and he told me i was fired.
Aggresive one
I was always going to work thinking I was the boss. My boss was a pain in the ass. I dont take anything from anybody. If there was a piece of paper on the floor he would tell me to pick it up when it was right next to him. I hated that...he'd always try to keep me there late until one day I went off on one of the employees and then my supervisor...til finally I got into one with me boss and he kicked me out for the day and I said I quit...you think you the boss of me (which he was) and I said you need to learn how to act like a grown man instead of a wimp...and that was it...my mouth did it all for me
a lesson in depth perception
well i had only had the job a very short time. i was still going trough training when i was told to go clean up the dining room of a local fast food resturaunt. well i was mopping the dining room floor and i kept backing up and up and up till i heard a shattering sound. i accidently backed the long mop handle trough the plate glass window behind me and broke it. My boss thought i was a safty hazzard so he fired me.
Drunk
My friend walked into work drunk, still from the past night. Our boss pulled us aside to go over what she had planned for the day. In the middle of her talking he grabs her butt. She just stares at him for a moment and without any exchange of words he just walks out knowing he just got fired.
Sonic mess up.
I was skating around with a tray full of food when I lost my balance and threw two burgers and two drinks all over a Firebird. I blamed it on the family for distracting me. I had to pay for the food, but instead I threw the rest into the car and swore at the family. The boss fired me.
we ripped you off, so now we'll fire you
I was fired from my last job after I noticed that they had been paying me at fulltime wages when I was on casual hours, (a difference of $3 an hour)for a full seven weeks, resulting in me having been ripped off for around $180 in that time. I told the boss that it was happening, thinking it was accidental, and she fired me on the spot so she didn't have to give me what I was owed.
eating the business
I was working at a restaurant that was very busy. I was a cook. Everytime it got so busy that it was stressful, I'd say that I was going to get something from the prep kitchen fridge. I'd always go into that fridge and chow down. This one time they had a cake that was specially made for some sort of reception. I was in the middle of chowing down on this cake, when the night supervisor came in. Busted. then fired.
oops I did it this time
I was an escalation supervisor for verizon wireless midwest for a call center. We were being trained for verizon northeast. Our trainer advised us we could have an hour lunch break, but we needed to clock in to work after 30 min. All 14 sups that were being trained went to lunch across the street, wrote down all of our logins and passwords and had someone run back to work and clock us is at 30 min. The person doing it got caught with all of our info by human resources, and we were all fired.
14 minutes
Well, I was taking my break one day and I had finished my sandwich and thought I'd go back in. I got bored so I decided to clock back in an go to work work. Well, I didn't know I could get in trouble for clocking in too early but I did. That night when I was getting ready to leave, my boss called me into his office and told me I had been terminated for coming back to work 14 minutes too early.
The wrong person
One time I was suppose to give the rep from the bigger company office a tour of the office I worked , and while I was giving the tour to the wrong person, the real rep. became really angry told my boss and I was fired. And in the end the wrong person said thank you for the tour.
Long Lunch
This was a little different to getting fired, but when i was just out of school i started an apprentiship and i had the worst boss in the world, so i waited until lunch one day when we got paid, and i went to lunch and didn't return. A few years later it came up again in a conversation with mates, and they all bet me ( $650 all up ) to return to work in my old uniform and apoligise for the extra long lunch, i was nervous but really wanted to do it, i went up to my old boss (who i hated!!!) and acted as nothing was different and asked what he wanted me to do for the day, he was shocked at first then he got very angry and told me to get out!
Broken Truck
It was just an ordinary day back in 1999. I was at work doing my job in cleaning up lots and houses in a construction zone using a rubber tire back hoe. Some of the guys and I would do some pretty cool tricks with it. mostly spins and pop a wheelie. Well that day I was on it and one of the co-workers yelled at me to pop a wheelie. So before I started I had to back up. Yes that's right back up, because there was not enough room in front of me. So instead of looking behind to see if anyone was there I decided to go forward and spin around. Well I didn't realize that the gear was already in reverse. The reason for that was because I had to stop quickly to see my co-worker. Well lets just say that I went so fast backward that I freaked out and ended up going through my bosses hood of his pick-up truck. Needless to say I was fired on the spot. Let me also say that I have never seen a face turn so red like a ripe tomato until that day. I'll never
forget the summer of 99'
Syrup
My friend worked at a pancake house and hated it. After getting sick and tired of his boss he locked himself in the break room and stood in front of the video camera with about 10 things of syrup and started screaming and pouring it all over himself and the room yelling, "I QUIT I QUIT!" they still say they fired him since he didnt give 2 weeks notice.
I just stopped going
I worked as a waitress at this crappy Perkins restaraunt in Wisconsin when I was 16. Everyone hated me because I was quiet and shy and there was a couple of girls there who made it especially difficult for me to work there. They would check my work before I could leave at the end of my shift and were just overall jealous of me I think. Anyhow, the best ever, was, I just stopped going, the most fantastic way ever to quit a job, hahahaha
shot at
i was working the shake maker at McDonalds and it suddenly broke and sprayed all over me i ran to get the boss and right on the spot he fired me just like a movie.
Don't lie, you might get fired
I was a waitress at this restaurant. I asked my boss for a week off to spend time with my bf when he's in town. We live 3hrs away and we don't see eachother much. Anyways, she wouldn't let me so I called in one day and told her that I broke my leg and couldn't come in. The next night, my bf and I were having supper at Boston Pizza, and my boss and her family came in and saw me without a broken leg, so I got fired.
How I broke my wrist
one day at my job as a restocker at the local wallmart, it was closing tome and no one was in the place except for like 5 people.
soooo, i decided to take one of the shopping carts for a joy ride. hopped in and started surfin. then i fell quickly. right in front of my boss.
and got fired.
Cheater
i had a boyfriend that i worked with and lived with. i noticed the past couple of days he'd been talking to the new girl a lot. one day he came up to me and asked me for the car keys so he could put his wallet in the car. i gave him the keys but found it to be an odd request so i took a glance out the window a few seconds after he walked outside where i found him and the new girl kissing! my heart was broken and i was furious but decided to do nothing at the moment so i wouldnt get fired. later on that a few hours after work i sent her a text that said she had what was coming to her because i was angry. the next day i showed up to worked and was asked to leave because i had scared one of the emplayees!
bar-tending
my friend was fired beacuse he was drinking more alcohol than he was serving at his bartending job. there was no cameras there and he had a little too many one night, he wasn't drunk but his boss noticed he had been drinking. needless to say he was fired on the spot
Pant size
I was working in this company where the work had to be done standing up. It was a "when we need you, type of work". Around the table were several women working and they were really into a conversation about clothing. Well, this one lady (who is much heavier than I) stated that she wore a size 14 jean. Well, everyone looked around at each other as if to say "yeah...where". I didn't really know who the lady was but I turned to her and said "I'm heavy and I wear a 15 in jeans and they are stretch jeans, if they weren't stretch I would probably be wearing a 18/20". Well I guess she got the message I was trying to tell her and she didn't like it to much because I wasn't called back to work again. I didn't know she was the supervisor. Live and learn.
pennies
It's probably not the most interesting story but I used to work in a movie theater and I threw a roll of pennies at my manager and hit him in the head. What's funnier is that at my current job; I threw a drapery rod at a fellow employee from about 20 feet away, hit him dead center between the eyes(lots of blood), and I got promoted a couple months afterwards. Ignorance be praised!
Text Messaging
Ok, so text messaging on the job is bad right? Well I had been working for a guy named Jerry for almost a year. There where only a couple employees so we where all like a little family. One day we were text messaging and he was teasing me and I teased him back. HE FIRED ME! Granted, I told him to go suck on another bottle of jager... he still made fun of me first... I saved the text: "YOU'RE FIRED! Turn your keys in tomorrow morning!"...
Wow....
Fries
A few summers back I was in need of some money so one day as I was eating at Mickey-Dees I thought hey why not ask for a job, so with in that thought I walked to the counter and asked if they were hiring. Sure enough they were and I had to report in for work the very next day. I got there and they showed me the ropes and how thing worked. Every thing was great for about a week then the other workers started to talk to me about every Friday they would steal a bag of fries and they would get together at someone?s house and have a cook out? well I thought that was a big lie, but Friday after Friday pasted and they would steal a bag of fries. Well finally they asked me to come to a cook out but the catch was I had to steal a bag of fries as sort of an initiation. So Friday came around and we were closing and I went to the freezer and took a bag of fries and put it in my car?But the way my luck ran NO ONE told me that they had installed new cameras. So the
next day when I showed up for the job i got fired?..ALL FOR A DAMN BAG OF FRIES.
You Snooze, You Lose
I work on a computer all day. I had finals at school that week and stayed up all night studying. I fell asleep at work on my computer and when I woke up there was a post-it note on my computer screen from my boss saying that I was fired and to make matters worse I had the keyboard inprinted on my face.
Not so appropriate...
I used to work at Chuck E. Cheese, I worked there for over a year. After hours one night. I was with another co-worker and her friend waiting for our manager (the co-worker's sister) to finish closing the restaurant. So I happened to have a video camera, so we dressed up in two Chuck E. costumes, and had some fun. ;-) Not real anything, just fake. Well, I came home and made an awesome video out of it with music from the opera Carmina Barana (sp?) It was awesome. I put it on my myspace to show off. Within a week I had received a call from the Chuck E. Cheese, Regional president asking me if I knew about it. I said yes, freaked out, erased everything. But it was too late. I got canned for bad publicity.
Ironically, I now run a small business in video editing. :-)
haunted house havoc
I was working at a haunted house where all of my friends joined. I thought I would be a great actress, but it turns out I was completly wrong. The first thing that happened is trying to scare everyone by acting insane, and punching the walls, but all that did was put holes in the wall. The second thing I did horibbly wrong was my trench coat hooks got caught on a coat rack, and hit a costomer walking throgh the house. My coat troubles didn't end there. It caught on to a skeletons hair. I tryed to chase someone out, but instead of scaring them they cracked up laughing, as the skeleton draged behind me.
Someone told my boss that they had been hit by a coat rack, and that they were going to sue unless I was fired, so he watched the video tape from the camera secretly placed in my room in the haunted house, and saw everything I did wrong. That's when he came to my room and told me someone else would be taking over, and that i had to leave. I couldn't even face my friends after that.
Burger King
I had called in sick one day to hang out with my girlfriend. I came in the next day and clocked in, was fired, and clocked out. 2 weeks later I got a check from burger king for 13 cents. The postage and paper cost more then the actual check value, I have this check on my wall as a reminder of how stupid some people are.
Busted!
I was scheduled one day at work and an hour before i was about to go in i got a call from a friend, he just got these great seats to a Red sox game tonight! so i did what any fan would do which is call in sick. i called my boss made up this tragic story about a death in the family that just happened thats why i couldnt call the necessary 2 hours before work. He's apologizing to me while im working up some tears. So im at the game, beer in hand, screaming, having a great time (about 20 minutes into the game) who comes walking by to get to his seats a few rows ahead of me?? My boss and his wife. He takes one look at me, walks over and says.. You Are Fired! Clean out your desk in the morning. I wasn't screaming for the rest of the game.
Punish your children harshly
I worked at a pre-school and there were two ladies in charge of the place. They told me that I didn't punish the children harshly enough. They were mean to children, they yelled at them, and spanked them when it wasn't there own kids.
Fired for competency!
I recently was fired from a job because I did everything I was asked to do quickly and accurately. The final word was "we don't have anything else for you to do." The projects that office staff thought would require months, the hundreds of incoming calls, the new accounts and employees were all someting that I could handle. The problem was I handled them a little too well. If I had any idea that I could possibly work myself out of a job, I would have worked much slower and a lot less proficiently. But, I didn't know. So, here I am broke and astonished and really in need of the hundred you claim to give for good stories. I guess it's worth a try.
Fed up
For a month now I have worked at an office job I hate, a lot of people I can't stand, not to mention bad pay. Last week I decided to go out with a bang. I volunteered to stay late to finish up some work, so while I was waiting for the janitors to finish up, I went out and bought a dozen large bags of flour, then, back at work I checked to see if anyone else was around. I went to the main boiler room where I know the air vents are and made sure they were turned off for the night, then loaded the flour in, locked up and left. The next day, every single window in the building was caked with flour, and I imagined every surface. I called my boss on my cell phone and told him I did it because I hate the job, then hung up. Needless to say I was fired.
the firing of ryerye
I was working at this 4 star resturant named Gertrudes. I was the saute' making this french sauce named demi glace. Well the kitchen got really busy, and all i work with are spanish people who did not speak any English, and it didn't help i don't speak Spanish. Well i was cooking very fast, and then 2 of the spanish men started to argue. Well i was laughing my butt off cause they are arguing in a language i couldn't understand, and it was so funny, i started to HIC-CUP while making the sauce and the 2 spanish guys started to fist fight, well i was trying to break them up, hic-cupping at the same time, laffing my butt off and i burned the sauce that took 8 hours to make.Well while breaking up the 2 guys, one of them picked up a saute pan and swung it at me, then i picked up a saute pan and i swung it at him. And i hit him, and he fell face first in the burnt sauce. No Harm done to him,no burns or anything. But i got fired for trying to
break up the fight that i actually ended up in!!!
salad
one day at work the boss called me to his office. I was guessing it was probably a promotion. When I walked in my boss was eating some sort of messy salad. When I sat down my chair fell backward and hit his desk and his salad went flying into the air, adn landed straight smack dab in his face. He wiped his face and said "YOUR FIRED".
PARTY!!!!!!!!!
I was working at the Cracker Barrell for a few months when I requested off the weekend of my best friends B-Day to be able to go to her party. Now I requested it off, like 3 weeks in advance! So I should have gotten it no problem well the weekend came and I happened to not have it off so I lied and said I got poisen Ivy really bad (I did but the previous summer ha ha) anyways I went to the party got so drunk I passed out ofr a few in some POISEN IVY! I was tryin to look all sexy so I had on a mini skirt OMG that poisen got all over me my legs mostley my back my arms my feet my chest. So I actually went into work on Monday showed them the poisen ivy (in the appropriate spots) and they fired me for a no show. What jerks!! I got poisen ivy for nothing :(
Earn too much
I was paid much more than my co workers and I told one of them how much i earned. He then told the entire office. 4 days later, i got fired.
The happy face
I worked for an ambulance company, I was having a bad day, so I decided to carve a smiley face right onto the ambulance driver side door. The ambulance was red so it was pretty visible, needless to say the only person that was happy at the end of the day was the smiley face.
Snowstorm
I called off work due to heavy snow and ice,so they fired me for not coming to work.I chosed my life and my four children over a job at Staples Disturbution.
How I lost my job at Rapid Rooter
I was let go from Rapid Rooter in Sacramento for reporting someone else for not doing their job. The bosses turned around, decided I had created a hostile work environment, let me go, and are now contesting my unemployment. The other employee who actually created the problem still has her job and is still doing the same thing,
Responsible Service Laws got me FIRED!!
I was a bar manager for a year, and obviously had done my Responsible service of alcohol course, paid for by my boss. I was fired for a dispute because i refused to let my bar serve a man who could barely stand up and was being so loud, regulars were leaving. being a casual employee despite my full time hours, they took the 1 week old club manager's word he was sober, despite my 4 witnesses and fired me.
The so-called mobster
I worked at a diner/bar. I was seventeen years old, and it was my first job.I worked really hard and i would close the restruant at night. There was a new employee that showed up a month after i started. All of a sudden money started to come up missing. I guess because i was the youngest; they blamed ME without any proof. It doesn't stop there! I always kept track of my clock-in slips. I never even got my first paycheck yet. They jipped me out of 60 hrs. of pay!! i counted my slips it just didn't add up! Well when i confronted the owner, he said i stole money and i didn't. So i dragged my parents up there; so i could get the rest of my pay.They fired me! i was gonna quit anyway.I was so mad i was going to report him to the news. I was told not because he was considered a dangerous man. He was supposedly part of a bigshot mob. I obviously don't believe he is, but i stopped the process anyway. I figured it was gonna take to long of a
process to get my hard-earned $100. I look back now and i wished i did something.
Silent Revenge
I was working at a call center where we were contantly on the phone with customers. I has just switched teams and moved across the room to a new row two days before. My old team was announced to having been the top team in the center. I look over at my friends across the room and they start laughing at me and mouthing off how much my team sucked. Since I was in the middle of a call, I simply raised my right hand and flipped them all the bird. Unfortunately for me, a manager who was trying to get me fired saw the whole thing and went to upper management. I was fired for unprofessionalism in the workplace. 8 months later, still unable to get a job.
Why i got fired
i was at work one day and i accidently spilled coffee on my boss, and by girlfiend had just broken-up with me and i cursed out my boss. He fired me in a snap of a finger.
Shopping Carts
I worked at kroger and i was the cart guy. So i would push all the carts to the racks and shovel so that people could use them and stuff. During winter, I was taking out a whole stack of carts, and I had to stop on the wheelchair ramp into the building for a car. The front six carts came out of my stack, and rolled into the car. So the chain had to pay for a new mirror, paint job, and hubcap.
coffee
i was walking into work and my boss came up to me and started telling me things that i was supposed to do all day at work. i was supposed to go home early that day to watch my sons. i got so mad at him i dumped my hot coffee all over his white shirt and tie.
McDonalds
It was a monday morning and i worked at McDonalds someone asked for a large fries i gave them small then they complainded to my boss and he fired me.
Hot Dog Embezzler
I got fired for rolling on the floor MI style behind the cafe at a store I used to work at. I stole a hot dog because the cafe was closing in only 15 minutes and everything was being thrown away. There was a really nasty lady who worked there so it was pretty funny. My friends were cracking up so I hit my one friend in the jowl with the hot dog. Then I bit the top off and spit it at my other friend. I then threw it away, i never actually consumed ANY of the dog. I came in the next day and got called to the office. They showed me the video of myself rolling behind a counter and stealing the hot dog. They couldn't see what I did after and since i was already on probation for telling a lady that her "sturdy" mop could be used to beat her kids. So they fired me. FOR HOT DOG EMBEZZLEMENT it actually says that HOT DOG EMBEZZLEMENT.
Cashier not a detective
I worked at a beauty supply store for about two weeks, when my boss told me I had to follow certain people around the store. She pointed out several black women to me and said they might steal something. I told her I wouldn't do that. She fired me the next day for not following company policy!
St. Patrick's Day only in Chicago!
I was just 20 and missing my hometown of Chicago. I recently moved to California and I loved celebrating St. Patrick's Day, even though I am not Irish, lol...but everybody in Chicago is Irish on St. Paddy's Day, but I soon found out that only Irish people in Los Angeles celebrate and by celebrating they wear like a green shirt, ugg...Sooo...I had to gather all my friends from Chicago and really party. SO we really partied and had a great time, but missed the Parade and the green river. When I woke up, about 6:30 am with a great huge hangover, my girlfriend was designated to call my office and tell them that I was sick. She did call and tell them not that I was sick, but that I had broken my arm!
It was a Thursday, so I had some time to work on this "lie", and too recover. On Sunday night my boyfriend and I went to the local 24 hour drugstore and found some of that cast stuff. We soaked the strips and put it on my left wrist due to fact that I am right handed and wanted to use my hand, and proceeded to let the cast set. Ouch, if you don't have a broken arm, wrist don't place it in a cast! After a week of work I could finally take the cast off, then put on another one Sunday night. When I went into work, the owner reconized that the signatures on the cast were not there from the week before, such as his two children! He explained to me how he really loved my ambition, with the cast, but he could not have me work for him and could not trust me...I have since never had a friend call in sick for me. That was my lesson, lol!
Mean Boss
Well, I worked for a smokehouse over the summer. My boss was new and she sucked!!!! She threw measuring cups at me, so I told someone else who worked there that I was quitting after that day. That person told the boss and my ex-boss called me at 6 in the morning to tell me that I am a unhappy person and I need to find a new job. Needless to say, I don't eat or go near there anymore.
babysittin
i was 13. and i was a babysitter for some neighbor kid for 4 days. i got fired cuz i forgot to clean a mess of the brat's barbies in the basement.
The Ternderloin
I was working at a retirement community and i was head cook of my kitchen. It was about 6:45pm,we had just got done serving supper and i was cleaning up the front line to prepare to leave for the night. When we serve supper we fill out tickets for the residents so we know what to put on each plate and who the order goes to. Its really busy during serving time that sometimes the tickets get lost or sometimes we forget to fill out one for a resident. We also have room tray tickets (a residednt eats in their room). Well this one room tray ticket never got filled out or completed so a cna came into the kitchen to ask for a tenderloin on a bun with french fries! well at this time i only have 15 min to fill the order so the cna ask the resident if she would eat a cold meat sandwich instead because i didn't have enough time to prepare the tenderloin and she said YES without and fuss. Well the next morning when i was well into my shift the kitchen
phone rang for me and it was one of my bosses. She asked me all about the night before. Well by this time i was all upset because i knew they were mad because i didn't make that tenderloin and the resident had complained that she didnt get it. After the phone call my favorite boss came up to my kitchen and asked me what was wrong. So i told her and she just told me to forget about it and everything was going to be ok. Well 15 min later the phone rang....they (2 bosses) wanted to see me. This was it, 3 years in the making all down the drain. "you refused to -prepare a grilled tenderloin for a resident and we have had complaints all day long" YOUR FIRED! Thats so funny because a week before that my best friend got fired for burnt chicken!
Termination From Worlds Of Fun
Well, i was operating a ride called the Finish Fling and i was texting on my cell phone at the same time. My supervisor walked up and noticed what I was doing. She started yelling at me and some words were thrown around, apperently texting while peoples' lives are in your hands is strictly prohibited. I was sent to the manager's office and i was fired.
Fired For Arguing
I got fired for arguing with the boss and pushing the boss into the wall.
PowerFired!
I was working with a guy named Karl as security for a club. He was a horrible employee and management wanted to fire him but knew he would collect unemployment so they came up with the idea to convince him that he had won Powerball and in turn most likely quit his job. So the night of the drawing the managers called out over the radio that they were sending Jon (another security guard) to the store to get PowerBall tickets and if anyone wanted tickets to see Jon before he left. Karl came out front and gave Jon $5 for tickets and Jon went. When he came back the General Manager jumped into his car and copied down a set of numbers from one of the tickets and told Jon to give Karl that same ticket. Just a minute or two after they ran the numbers on the tv the manager read the numbers on the radio that were copied down and given to Karl as if they were the winning numbers. So as predicted, Karl ripped off his headset and radio, threw them to the floor and walked out. He drove to the nearest gas station to claim his multimillion dollar prize and found out that he in fact didn't win. He turned back around to ask for his job back and when he arrived the manager just smiled and shook his head no! They had 2 of us "escort" him off the property. Thats evil!!!
What the heck?
I was fired from a law firm after a week and a half of being a receptionist. The only reason the lawyer could give me was that if and when i got my own transportation (i didnt have my own at the time) I would be gone to long on running papers to the courthouse!! (What the heck!?!)
Its not my fault I had brain surgery
My boss called me into her office to tell me that she did not like the way I was styling my hair and that she could not stand looking at me another day with my hair styled that way so it was time I moved on and then went on to complain about how I came to work when I was sick because I looked like hell and can't look like that in front of clients. I came to work thinking it was better than calling in because I could still do my job I just didn't look too great. And she did all of this when I had brain surgery 6 months before and had my head shaved. Styling my hair was not the easiest thing to do considering the fact that I had long hair all of my life. I feel like I was fired because of my surgery.
Never get hurt on the job.....
At the last job I worked at, we had a session about safety and how to handle materials that we worked with in order to avoid work related injuries. (Not to mention that we did not have health coverage from that company).
The next day I came to work, I was ready to take the trash out to the dumpster, I pushed the trash down in the bag for it to fit the bag, the next thing I knew I cut my finger and I reported to my supervisor to my big surprise all he could say was "go home and have some rest................."
oopsie
My friend got fired ON THERE DAY OFF!!! Reason being that they shipped boxes to the wrong address in another state the day before.
damn fat dude
this fat guy got me fired by farting beside me and my boss thought it was me
how i got fired by a 9 yr old
Well i was in a band with my cousin who was like 9 and we had pretty good business and one day i showed up 4 practice and she was like "i found a cello player we don't need a singer anymore". and i was like how old is this kid? and she said"6". and i just flipped out. But now i have a new band with people i can trust.
Me and My Boss
It was April Fools Day.
I'd just got to work to find my boss wanted to see me. As I went to his office and sat down, he collapsed. I rushed around for help and to ring an ambulance, but before I did he jumped up to say April Fools. Needless to say I was relieved but also slightly annoyed so I decided I was going to get him back.
I thought very long and hard but the best I could think of was to place something in his office that would make him jump. So me and a few of my colleagues set up a trap while he was in a meeting, we made an alarm go off that would make him jump then as he got up to turned the alarm off he would walk through some fishing wire which would make a box tip upsided down full of mayonaise. It worked perfectly yet little did we know he was quite allergic to mayonaise and had to go to the hospital, so I got fired when he came back to work.
Here's some roses your fired.
So I was working at this ambulance company. It was my second week training and it just so happened it was my birthday. They bought me a cake and an expensive vase with roses thent he next day they fired me. Isnt that nice? Happy Birthday, your fired.
Crapple Bee's
I was a waitress at at Applebees, I got so sick of the cheap people that would come out to eat and order a whole bunch of half price appetizers during happy hour and not leave me a tip. So I started serving underage
kids liquor for a fee. I also used to get my manger's card to comp food off the bill so I could pocket the money. In my last attempt I tried to give my manager a 10 dollar coupon for another cheap table, but then he confronted the table and I was fired! Thank God.
On a good one
I worked at the Ram restaurant and Brewery in Kent, WA. I was a server. I had to be to work at % in the evening so i decided to get drunk before. I had like 9 shots of vodka and a pack of cigarettes. I showed up to work totally blasted and everbody knew it. I even told them! They let me work my shift and then I was fired the next day.
Mrs Heavyweight
I was working as a driver for a limosuine company. I was sent to the airport to pick up a lady who had to weigh 350-400 Lbs. When I got her home to her house to drop her off, she couldn't get the seatbelt unfastened. The more she struggled the more difficult it became. She started to panic and scream. This of course attracted a lot of her neighbors who came outside to see what was happening. I called my boss on the radio from the car and asked him what i should do. He said do whatever it takes to get her out of the car, because you have to hurry back to the airport for another pickup. That's all they care about is the next pickup. So I took out my pocket knife and leaned over her to try to cut the belt off. Someone who saw this called the police. They showed up guns drawn and needless to say I had quite a time explaining. I was fired for not being able to get back for my next pickup.
Experience not wanted
I got fired because they didn't want to pay for experienced employees anymore and felt I was being over-paid. It's fun, because they were the idiots that were giving me raises all along.
ink explosions
one day i decided to blow up some ink tags, you know the ones they put on clothes so people dont steal them, well i blew up a couple of them by stomping on them or throwing them against the wall, ink was everywhere :)! i was fired the next day by my fat, ugly manager.
babysitting
I was babysitting and I got fired because i let a child have one cookie.
Night Shift
While working the night shift at a soda distribution warehouse there were about 20 of us driving around on pallet jacks filling orders for supermarkets and the like and loading them on truck to be delivered in the morning. I came around a corner and was side-swiped by one of my co-workers. My jack was loaded, his was empty so he bounced into a stack of cases of sobe. The impact broke about half of the pallet load (some 400 bottles) and he was pissed. He shoved be off my jack and took a couple swings at me. Though I wasn't hurt I wanted the jerk fired. Unfourtunately he was union and I wasn't. I got fired for fighting on the job. When I threatened a lawsuit over it, the company paid me for the rest of the season (it was a summer job) and my supervisor wrote me a glowing letter of recomendation for any future jobs.
screen saver
my best freinds computers screensaver said "if u are reading this u r fired, yes u tony see me in my office asap"
DICKS SPORTING GOODS
I worked for DICKS SPORTING GOODS in Las Vegas, NV. That was until I got fired because I was sick. I mean really sick. I was throwing up and had to have someone from another department watch the register while I ran to the bathroom to puke my guts out. What happened was this, I had some sort of food poisoning and was throwing up alot, to the point where I just about threw up on my register. I needed to go home. This was at around 9:00am and I called my boss (CHRIS C.) and told him I needed to go home because I was throwing up. Now, I also hurt my back on the job, went to physical therapy and had a doctors note stating that I couldn't lift no more than 10 lbs. But this job didn't care and I was still lifting. Anyways, I needed to go home and my boss assured me that Id be able to leave at 11am when another person came in...No one showed up, and 12:00 passed, then 1pm...then 2pm... and by 3 I couldn't take it anymore so I left and went home.
Now I show up for work the next day and get fired by my boss Chris C. because he wouldn't let me go home. Do you know how unhealthy that was, not only for me but for my customers too... so i got my things, went home, took a hot shower and went to bed! The very next day I got a new job with UC Inc. located in the LVOC and I love it. I am currently still employed by UC Inc., the best company I've ever worked for!
Off the ramp
I worked at an automotive shop doing oil changes and tire rotations. To do an oil change I had to drive the cars onto a narrow ramp just wide enought to drive a car on. One day I hade to drive a truck onto this ramp and change the oil. As I was about to drive up the ramp, I meant to hit the break but accedently pushed the gas. I lost control of the truck and hurrled that truck right off the ramp. All this happened while the owner watched from about ten feet away. I went home after that never to work at an automotive shop again.
blue hair
well my story does like this i woke up one day and decided to color my hair blue and went to work and i walked in and all the workers looked at me and were cheering me on and a costumer walked in and started talking to me and the boss wanted me to get back to work so i did and that day my boss came up to me after my shift and said here is up months pay go home and that is my story
Back Injury
I worked in a nursing home for almost a year when we got a resident that had dementia, and a slight case of schizoprenia. I was all by myself one night and she fell on me and pulled my back, when I got her back into bed she was trying to scratch and bite my arm. I was sent to the doctor the very next day....The doctor confirmed that I had pulled my back.
So my employer would not give me any days off, making me work 12 hours a day, even though the doctor's order said to rest as much as possible. So I asked for a weeks vacation time, and it was approved.
The third day of my vacation I got a call from my boss, stating that I had not showed up the night before so now I am fired. She ignored the fact that I was on approved vacation. She didn't want me to sue for the back injury so she fired me instead!!!!!!!!!
Dilly Bar Disaster
I had worked at DQ for about a month, and they NEVER gave free food, not even a fry. Not even if it was a mess up order. So one day, I was really freakin' hungry, and I had no money on me to spend on a hamburger. Me and my friend Tiff always would spot for eachother while we wolfed down dillybars in the big freezer, but Tiff wasnt working. I decided to go eat one anyway. I went in the freezer and got to work on a rock hard dilly bar. Once I was FROZEN and finished eating it, I went to open the freezer door, but it was locked! I started banging on the door but no one could here. Finally about 5 mins later someone opened the door, and I walked out all casually as if I had been in there for no more than a minute. Next day, I got a phone call from my boss saying there was hidden cameras in the freezer, and my dilly bar stealing days were over.
I was fired from my receptionost post
I was working as a receptionist in a reputed company. One day in the morning when i was going for work, my mom asked me to buy some things from the mall while returning. In the office, she called me to remind of mall. Between her call, the mager of the company(an old lady) called me for getting some files ready. Call got connected to the manager and I thought that my mom was on the line. I said "I love you". I intended that for my mom, but, the manager heard it. When the manager came to the office, she acted to me differently. Next day, the boss called me and asked me that do I really love the manager. I said that she is good at her works. And he gave me the dismissal order silently. I thought that it would be a promotion letter, but was shocked to find that it wasn't.
vaished
I worked with this guy at mcdonalds and you could tell he did not want to be there..none of us did...anyways-we heard the backdoor alarm go off, so the manager sent me and a male employee back there to check it out. We find this guy out in the parking lot with bags and bags of frozen patties and fries, throwing them- screaming some crazy rant..needless to say he was fired and arrested for theft (unbelievable, i know)..and my manager got mad at us for taking so long to clean up his desruction....we were laughing so hard.
Well Known Retailer goes stupid
I worked with a co-worker who's friend bought her some cupcakes because she had a bad night. The next day she got called into the office and and they fired her for accepting a cupcake without asking for a receipt. So, now everytime we see her we ask GOT RECEIPT?
Better Late Than Sorry
I was Late because my car had broken down and my boss did not believe me.
Gas Station
Boss fired me after buying me chinese food, fired me in front of EVERYONE! Customers, other employees, Very loudly said, "You no longer work here, please get your things together, and leave my store" After telling me the day before in his office that if I kept up I could become assistant mananger soon!
Fired for following the Rules
I was a waitress a TGIFridays for about nine months. I was a loyal, honest, hard-working employee who was never in any trouble of any sort. One VERY VERY slow night- a very elderly woman and her adult daughter came in and ordered an alcoholic drink from me. After I brought it out the daughter spoke to my manager and I soon found out that these two were secret shoppers (people who are hired to check up on chains and report back to the 'mother' company). The next day i was fired for not ID-ing the woman! Our rule is to card those who look under forty and seeing that this lady was obviously over forty I abided by the rule....and was fired. Even though I did what was I was taught, the manager basically wanted to cover his butt so he wouldn't get in trouble with HIS manager....uuuuuh.
A Change
I had been the receptionist for a general contractor for almost 2 years. For Christmas I got a bonus and in November had received a pretty descent raise. So in January when I was called into my bosses office I was not alarmed. The next thing I know, he states "We're making a change." I had absolutely no idea what was going on. I asked questions and he answered with the same...."We're making a change!" I collected my things and was escorted to my car. I couldn't believe it. Was I being canned so they could hire a young blond, or someone in the family....I mean what in the world was "making a change"? It's been about 10 years since this happened and I sometimes I still wonder what the real story was with that one?!?!
OH, Nissan Nissan Nissan....
Well, i starting working at Nissan Motor Acceptance Corp in Irving TX around July of 06 (by the way, i was 18). It was at the insurance dept of the corp taking calls from customers when they have been in accidents and from insurance comp to do total loss reports. Any way they hired me on a temp to perm position and they needed someone who was bilingual because that dept didn't have one, well i gave one hell of a interview speech (it was all true) about me and i was hired. I believe i had the most responsibility because i took english calls when ever they would come in but also any other rep who would get a spanish call, they would transfer to me, so basically they can go 30 min with out a call but i would ALWAYS be on the phone!! and i had to do numerous other tasks around the office and i had an hour lunch and when i would come back i had about 15 - 20 spanish cust to call back!! Mind you i was the ONLY spanish rep there. Any way
one of my jobs was to seal certified letters to cust about repos i guess and it was everyday that i had to do some like every body else and they HAD to go out the same day by 3:00, it was a MUST!. By this time i had been working there for 3 months and there was this one monday morning where i was more overloaded then i had ever been, around the time they pass out the certified letters i didnt realize they had givin me any because i was tied up. So around 4:00 it started to slow down and thats when i looked over and realized that i had about 40 certs on my desk. Well i immedietly went over to one of my ser reps and told them the problem. The next day i come in and my boss comes over really gingerly like if nothing were wrong and told me that my temp agency downstairs wanted to see me. I was never under the impression that anything was wrong so i went down with confidence. The moment i sat down at Amy's desk, she says "Well, (boss name) wants to let you go." I was in total disbelief and so was she.
..after about 5 min, when it actually hit me, i started to cry because i started thinking that i was going to have to live on the street because my boyfriend and i were not going to be able to survive on his paycheck, but i made things work and we are still living off his check but i try to do little things here and there to make a little extra money.
We All Makes Some Mistakes
Well My friends and I needed money and needed it quick, So i got this job translating things for my boss. My boss was German so i just used daily resources since he preffered human contact for translation. Anyway this one guy stepped in and he was a metaphors kind of Idiom guy then he told my boss "I've had my eye on you for a while" I translated and my boss looked Skeptical then nodded and looked shifty eyed. Then the convo got boring and I spiced it up with some Idioms .. Bad idea My boss went insane and shouted. "HOW CAN I BE STUMPED?!!? SO I LOOK LIKE A TREE?" Then he just kept shouting and i justed looked shorter and shorter :/ Finally My Boss asked "Wheres that eye hes had on me" Then i Luaghed and fell of my chair laughing... Then got Fired for insolence -.-.
oh no
When i got my very first job working for the littlewoods catalogue company i was only 17 and my supervisor was very hard on me because we had to meet targets that were nearly impossible to meet, i had been working there for about 4 weeks and one day my supervisor said to me get your stuff your going home and i said why so she said she watched me run through 5 ilses and then she said she seen me go for my dinner 10 mins early so i've lost it and threw tv-video combi (in the box) towards her and nearly broken her leg i got arrested and everything for it.
Daycare
Well i used to work at a daycare and one day i went to work i had only gotten a few hours of sleep the night before so im sitting in a rocking chair rocking a kid to sleep and the next thing i know my supervisor is waking me up and she said i was fired i was so embarresed for myself and the children i was supposed to be watching.
Caddie Problems
Well, when I was younger I used to be a caddie at a nice country club. As a caddie, obviously, it was my job to carrie the golfers clubs, bag, and so on. I was still a newer caddie so I found my self struggling to make it through a single round. On this particular day it was a 27 hole tournament. I made it through the first 18 holes fine but the problem came around hole 20. My back was starting to become quite painful and I was trudging along head down not paying much attention. Well, this particular hole was a par three in which you had to take a rounded trip to make it around a pond to reach the green. So as I'm starting to make the trip around the pond my back continues to ache. So I trudge along head down simply trying to ignore the pain. However, I misjudged the placement of the pond and I suddenly found myself trying to balance myself as to not fall into the pond. But, the heavy golf bag weighed me down and took me and all my golphers
goods into the pond. Well as a young worker that was where I learned all the choice swear words, thanks to my golfer, for my vocabulary. The golfer quicly took his soaking bag and walked away yelling at me as he went "Go home you little piece of %#^% because I ain't *&^%*& paying you" So I went back to the caddie shack and told the caddie master the whole story. He simply laughed and told me to go home because I wasn't built for a caddie. Thinking about it now I should have gotten paid for the first 20 holes but ehh I'm sure the golfers bag smelled like *%&$ the rest of the day.
How to get fired on your first day of work......
I have only ever been fired from one job, and amazingly it happened on my first day. Impossible, you say? No my friend, easy as pie. For you see, after being hired to said job and scheduling my first day of work, I promptly forgot about the job and didn't show up for that first day. About an hour after I was supposed to be there, I got the call.
fire cracker
When I was coming to my work on january 3rd, and I put the bag of fire crackers by a hot oven and they blew up!
Tabasco Sauce
This guy at my work was always daring everyone to do stuff for a dollar. like touching the stove, of licking the floor and no one ever did any of it. One day he dared me to drink Tabasco Sauce right out of the bottle for 5 seconds. At first I was like NO but then he just kept buggin me about it so i did it. I Puked all over and was fired.
Sesame Street on Ice?
In December of 1991 the company I formerly worked for sponsored a bus trip to a Minnesota Timberwolves game.It was the fourth quarter and the Wolves were losing as was usually the case in the early years.Myself and a few employees were expressing our displeasure with how the game was going. A gentleman 3 rows behind us yells "Hey watch your language down there" I responded with "This isn't Sesame Street on Ice, you jerk"..He came down 3 rows and pushed me over a few rows of seats,my buddy coldcocked him and the brewhaha was on.We were removed by security rather quickly.Come monday at work everything seemed normal til i seen the guy who was at the game walking towards me with a huge shiner.He says to me.."Son..there's a cab waiting for you out front". The guy ended up being the plant supervisors son. Oops..best thing that ever happened to me though..2 months later i joined the Army and have been sober for
14 years!!!
ex boyfriend
At the time i was 18 years old and workng at a trailer manufacturing company welding the 16 foot trailers together. I worked the night shift form about 5pm to 5 am. i had been dating one of the painters who also worked there when he was fired. a few months after being fired i had broken up with him because he was a dead beat jerk. one night while at work, he showed up drunk and it took me several hours to get him to leave. the next day when i showed up to work i was immediately fired. i had no idea that anyone even knew he was there the night before until i saw that he had spray painted his name across all of the walls in bright red paint saying "BUD WAS HERE".
Television
I was a tv repair man until one day when a wealthy family called me up to repair their widescreen tv. When I got over there I looked at the tv and saw that the tv was just unplugged so i reached over to plug it into the outlet. I pulled a little too hard and the tv fell over. Luckily nobody got hurt.
bathroom hide out
i worked at the super market and i had to go clean the bathroom so i hid down there and kept switching bathrooms until my shift was over and they never schedualed me again
McDonalds
My First Job was at McDonalds. I am a normal teenager and was looking for a small job. I usually would go to McDonalds with my friends so i thought i would work there so we can get cheap deals and maybe get them some free meals. So when i show up for my first day on the job i have to unload and put away the boxes from the delivery truck. I was putting the raw chicken mcNuggets in the freezer and i saw an open box of them. They were all BLUE! I went straight to my boss and asked him why they were blue. He responded that thats how they are when they are frozen. So I decided that i would tell everyone i know including many of my friends from high school that the "all white meat" chicken nuggets arrived blue. Many of my friends were creeped out and they decided to stop eating at our McDonalds. My boss was confused why there was not as many teenage customers as there usually were. He called to his office and questioned me about this.
I told him that all my
the broken nose
my friend had gone into work as normal at 7:30 am to wait tables in the hotel he worked in. as he wlked through the door and started his shift there was one of the guests making a scene over the heating in his bedroom the night before. the man started to blame the staff and was shouting in my friends face. when he said to the gentleman in question "please calm down" the guest pushed him so my friend friend punched him headbutted him broke his nose and was then sacked for it on the spot.
College Greenhouse
I worked for a horse barn next door to me. My one job was to pick the weeds from around a sand field. When I would be done with one end, the other would be filled with weeds. I ended up asking for more help and asked 4 other friends to help. So instead of paying for one, he paid for 5 and told me to never come back.
Butt Suprise
One day i was working and i snuck into the copy room to copy my butt then i wrote kiss my butt on it put it in a envalope and told someone i work with to give it to my boss then he opened it read it and the next day i had a picture in my locker at work and had a picture of a building on fire and it said ,your fired!!! i mean whats that about ? a building on fire???
Keep your pregnancy a secret....
I was working at a good job for about 9 months with no problems... I found out I was pregnant after I was 5 weeks and told my job right away... after that my manager made my life hell... she searched through my desk for things I did wrong and checked my emails. She even double checked my phone calls to see what I was saying to customers... 3 more months went on and I was so frustrated, I confided in one of my work "friends" that I wanted to quit because of the stress but I couldnt because I was showing and couldnt get a job anywhere else... 2 days later I had a scheduled doctors appt and arrived at work at 11 am. I was called into the my managers office and was told I wasnt a good fit for the company because I told someone I was unhappy there. I think it was because of my pregnancy... well, sucks for them... my lawyer is in talks with thier lawyer now... wrongful termination and pregnancy discrimination... hahaha!
Milkshakes
i was woking 4 McDonalds and every night when they made me wash up id steal a peice of the milkshake machine! id stole about 5 peices from it and it started playing up then they made me wash up again! so i stole the biggest part of it. The next day my boss found all the parts in my locker so obviously i got fired i even asked 4 a free milkshake b4 i left ha ha ho ho he he weeeeeeeeeeeee lol
Sick and Tired...
I was working at a drug store and my boss had scheduled me to work the week before Christmas. Since it's really busy she needed me to be there. I told her barring any health or family issues I would be there.
Two days later (the Monday before Christmas) I got the flu. Bad. So bad that I actually went to the doctors, and had to get a prescription for antibiotics and some other stuff. My mom took it to the pharmacy in the store I worked at to get it filled. That evening I called my boss and told her I couldn't work that week because the doctor told me I needed to rest.
On Friday I called to tell her she wouldn't need to find someone for my shift because I was better. She told me not to bother coming in. I was irresponsible and couldn't be trusted. She didn't believe I was sick. (Even with a note and the prescriptions filled AT HER STORE)
Grocery store messup
Well I had started at a local grocery store and I had worked there about 3 weeks. I was dating a guy from 6 hours away. He decided to come see me. I had to work that night, so I decided to lie and tell them I was sick. I called in and my boyfriend came into town. Well in the mean time my mom had got sick. When he arrived she asked us to go to the store to buy her some medicine. So stupidly I decided to drop into the store that I had worked for. I walked in and my boss met me at the door. I acted like "I" was sick. He fired me right on the spot and to make matters worse right infront of my boyfriend. He was so embarresed that he broke up with me and told me I was a jerk.
Midnight Injury
I was working in a factory type job in a middle management role. I had access to all of the tools and had general maintenence responsibilities. I also had a key and the alarm code. I opened up the factory one night after midnight, long after it had been vacated by other employees and I went into the infeed room which is full of metal roller conveyors. I grabbed a plank of timber and after turning on the automated rollers I threw the plank down on them and jumped on in an attempt to ride it like a surf board. I fell and landed with my leg stuck between the rollers and though I wasn't seriously injured, the serveilence cameras caught the whole thing on tape. I was fired the next day for entering the factory with no purpose and for gross negligence resulting in harm to myself. (Apparently I lacked the maturity for the job!) I am currently trying to convince my friend who still works there to retrieve the tape.
"no tips for you!"""
Oh my gosh! I know this story sound wack, but it was true. I used to work at this chinese buffet for like 4 and a half weeks. And every day i would get average up to 50 dollars in tips. But what I didn't know was that I wasn't suppose to take the tip. So for the first two days I took "MY" tip. And he pulled me aside and said your only a "bus-girl" your not suppose to take the tip. So we had a long discussion about it. And he said, "if the customer gives you the tip directly then you can take it." so the next day I was serving these very polite old folks and they handed me 10 dollars. I was like, "Cool! my first 'REAL' tip!" and then after I was finish cleaning up the table, the boss came again, pulled me aside, and said "I thought I told you not to take the tip" Then we got into this discussion about if the customer leaves some tip on the table for the waitress and hand me
some then I could take it. But if the customer only hands me the tip then I'm not suppose to take it because I'm only the "bus-girl" So then I quit before I could get fired! This story still gets to me!!! ahahah
Im sick!!!
Well so I had been working at job for about a year when i started getting sick. I was passing out and the doctors couldnt figure it out. SO a few months went by and i had passed out quite a bit so i wasnt at work alot i had called off like maybe 7 times those couple months and one day i came to work and they fired me for calling off and that wasnt even the bad part she was so mean to me like it was my fault and i was doing it on purpose. I was crying so hard and i couldnt keep it in because i just felt so not in control and she was just like ok well bye your fired. so that is my I was fired story it has been horrible. I still have no job because of my illness no on w ill hire me. So i'm done being depressing but thats my story!!!
stupid firing
My mom's friend works at the target distribution center. one day she was lifting a skid in a truck because she was unloading them and she got a sharp pain in her neck. later on she had to tell the company and the company had a meeting about it they decided that it was her fault and she was fired.
My boss sucks
My Friend told me this story.
She came to work on Monday like it was any other day but it wasn't no it was not .She was going to be fired that day .Her boss ask her to come to his office and of course she did.Then when she got in she understood he had bad news to tell her .This was his words.
"Rachel I'm sorry but we well we have to let you go ."
"What?Why?"
"It is not you it's this company we did someone with more expirence for the up coming projects.I'm sorry really."
"No i get it i will get my stuff and leave good bye John,I hope you find the persons you need."
Merry Christmas
Well it was a week b4 xmas, and I decided to confide in my boss about a sickness that I had aquired. She was at first sympathtic and assured me my job was fine. She said she didnt know much about it and was concerned about it being contagious. I assured her that it was only possible blood to blood and that the probabilty of that was slim to none as all I did was serve drinks and food. So things went well for two days and then I was called into the office and she sat me down. She said "John I cannot allow you to work here any longer." How come I asked. I can't tell you why. So she refused to tell me why but I knew deep down why. So I got up and retrieved my coat and walked out.
kiss and tell
So i was working like always, I am kind of a big flirt. Anyways this cute guy comes in and asks for my number not only did I give him my number but I left from behind the counter went outside and was flirting around and making out with him when my boss opens the drivethru window and yells "go ahead and take your belongings and you two get a room. Dont worry about coming back to work." it was pretty embarrassing!
Lottery
The reason i did get fired is because i was playing the lottery at work!
drinking and selling cars do not mix
I had just got a job at a used car dealership and was doing really good. I was the new salesman at this locally owned car lot. anyways we had our christmas party at the dealership and i drank everything they had beer, wild turkey, fire water, and what ever else they had. when everything was over i did a dumb thing and decided to try and drive the few blocks away to my house. well when i put the car in gear and turned my head around to back up i gave my car alittle gas and instead of backing up like i intended i ended up going forward right into a this 2005 vw bug beetle. I was fired on the spot by my drunken boss. When i came in to pick up my check he was like where the hell you been? I told him that he had fired me that night when he was drunk and he said did I ..well good i already got that taken care of.
bugger
i was bored at work as usual and there was a guy in the corner that most other people pick on so i went up to him an tiped him off his chair little did i know it was my boss
Don't throw change!
I worked at Ruby Tuesday's for close to 3 years as a server. This story is about my co-worker and friend. If you have ever worked in a restaurant you know the stress and chaos that insues with your job. Well guys with short tempers who are in their early 20's are not the people you want to piss off. My friend had a table of a really ghetto and rude family. They were being a pain in the butt just like all of you have been one time or another. Well needless to say the family's bill was around $75. Usually a tip of about $14. Well this family left him about $0.37 , many of which were pennies. Furious when he walked to the table to see this change left, he scooped up as much as he could and ran out the front door screaming. He yelled "I know you need this more than me " and threw the change at the whole family, hitting them from accross the parking lot. He was fired on the spot, and what makes it even better is the next day the restaurant got a call from the family's lawyer. They were pressing assault charges on my friend. All this for a couple bucks.
shopping, boyfriend, fired?
i was working for a rest home and everyday i went in to work there was something different well i went in one day and did my rounds then it was my lunch break so i told my boss i had to run to lowes hardware and get some stuff for the house she said ok so i went and while i was there i called my bf and was talking to him he told em he was going to quit as he worked at the same place i said ok i understand he told me i had a check at home so i ran home real quick when i get there he says i did it i called i was like ok then my cell rang and it was work telling me i was fired for leaving work even though i was on my lunch break.
Flowers or Court
i was working at a small flowers shop for 2 years and i actually had expanded it and brought in a lot of business with expanding the delievery area. Well one day i was makeing a fruit basket and my boss came in she looked at me came over threw the fruit out of the basket and said you dont know what your doing i said show me then she proceeded i went to school for 15 years and you are tring to do things your way and i dont like it (with customers in the shop) you are lazy don't do nothing no more and you screw everything up. Not thinking i said "damn you don't got to act like a B****" her husband came up from behind me (73 years old) and punches me in the back then she had the nerve to fire me and ask me to leave. Well i did. Went right to the court house and took papers out and then right to the unemployment office.
Lifeguard On DuTy
Alright well i was a lifeguard at one of the city's pools. The pool would normaly close at six and the staff goes home execpt for one life guard who had to secure the pool from people sneaking in until 10 pm. Well..I got bored and i told me friends to come over so we can all get into the pool, by the time they came it was like 11 pm. Just my luck the boss had forgot papers in his office and caught me with my friends and literally came over my head while and i was in the pool and said: "YOUR FIRED!" had to be the most embarrasing day lol
Too Fast
I went for a temporary job at a certain company. My "friends" at work told me to do it as slowly as I could. The boss was not supposed to know about it. I found it kind of strange and did it at my own regular speed. My "friends" made some very bad gossip about me and found a way of getting me fired before my contract was finished. Up to this day I don't know the reason for them to want me to work on a low speed.
Pizza
Several years ago, I was working at a pizza joint to make some fast cash. The district manager told me to change the sign outside to "The pizza is here", "thats H-E-R-E, not H-E-A-R", he added with contempt. I promptly changed the sign to "Closed for private party" (it was friday afternoon). Several hours later, while he was wondering why so few customers had arrived on what was supposed to be a very busy evening, he noticed several cars enter the parking lot, and quickly turn around. Upon noticing a large party exit their vehicles, point at the sign and return to their vehicles and leave, he decided to investigate. I attempted to deny my actions with the sound reasoning that I was supposed to be illiterate, and thus could not possibly have spelled all those words correctly. It didnt work out.
Slaven at the Haven
I was just turned sixteen, the legal age for working in my state. Well, I was excited because I had just gotten my first REAL job at a town pizza place called Pizza Haven. The owners were a cute married couple who had both their son and daughter working as a family business. It was great at first, I had money, the people I worked with were fun and I eventually got one of my friends hired. Well, I noticed that when asking for a day off during the week, my lady boss would give me and entire week off. It was as though she was angry. Then one day I didn't see my name on the schedule so I didn't go to work thinking I had the day off. Well my friend called me up saying that I was scheduled and already late. So I talked to my boss, And she started screaming at me over the phone saying that I was scheduled, so I told her I had already made important family plans. Well she told me to show up or consider myself without a job and hung up. Well
needless to say, I found a better job.
The Notebook?
So, I worked at this well known "Italian Resturant" as a hostess. I brought in a blank notebook because sometimes it got boring up front so I'd doodle. Anyway, a few of the other host(ess) got ahold of it and wrote some unkind things in it about another employee who was known to be a brat, to say the least. This person told me she was going to turn the notebook in and I told her, "Fine. I didn't write anything rude in it. In fact, I wrote things saying be nice." Of course she turned it in right that moment and I was called into the office. Then I was sent home. She wasn't even scheduled to work that day AND she wrote nasty things back to the people who wrote things to her in it! I was fired, everyone who wrote it was fired, and she wasn't.
wedding day
Well both me and my boyfriend worked at subway, and one of our good friends was getting married. We knew that he babied this kid who worked there and always gave him saturdays off. So we asked for it off in advance. When the schedule came out and we saw that we were on it we told him we would not be there. He kept at it the whole week, and kept asking and we kept telling him NO! Well........needless to say we went to the wedding and proceded to get drunk at 11:00 AM in the morning.
yha fired
I was using my bosses money for my pleasure's and the next day he take me to the airport and said you are fired and said I need your keys, car, and i will drive you home. I'M sorry
Late Party
this friend lets call him Chucky went to party with a couple of pals of his anyways the party was amazing everyone had a lot of fun he ended up going home at 4:30am but he had work at 5:00 so he just went straight to it when he got there his eyes were blood red smelled like beer and it didn't help that he threw up there too.So the boss walks up to him smells him and Chucky is smiling like there something funny and yeah the boss just fires him.
Bleemin' chocolate letters
Half a year ago I worked in a chocolate letter factory, here in Holland these chocolaty digits are part of the holidays.
Anyway, I was working in the department where they pack the letters into displays, because you constantly have to work with sharp paper it's not unusual to have you hands full of papercuts at the end of the day, which I had, now call me childish but I have tendency of drawing random stuff of bandages.
Anyway, next day boss comes over to me and says that I don't work fast enough and would better be used packing seperate chocolate letters, well, this would mean that I could esentially eat chocolate all day so, I didn't mind.
With the bandages still on my hand I start working, working, and suddenly it's 10 pm, when I start noticing that some of my bloody bandages from my hands are gone...
At the end of the day, if there's been a good production the boss gave us all the letters that are unusable, he and his pet employee of course also indulge.
I get nibbling on my chocolate when I suddenly hear "BOOOOOOOOOB!!!!".
And I looked at the boss's pet holding a piece of bloody, now full of saliva bandage in it's hand, that had one of my drawings on it.
Needless to say, that night I was unemployed again.
Walgreens sucks
I was sick on monday, and i had a note..my mum called in and everything, so i checked my schedule thinking that i worked monday, thursday, monday...etc.. well i missed monday, so i figured i worked on thursday and went in. I got there and my manager came over and pulled me aside..i guess i had to work the monday after i called out, and i was fired because i came in on the wrong day..they said they called my house, but i was home all day and the phone did not ring..isn't this unfair?..now its hard to get a job anywhere because i got fired from walgreens..grr
Underage
When i was 17, i worked at a grocery store. at the time, i was a smoker; as was another worker who was at the time under the age of 18. So, to purchase a pack of cigarettes, i went into his line because i knew he would sell them to me even though i was only 17. the "front end supervisor" saw the transaction and notified the manager immediately. Thus, i was fired for the underage purchase of tobacco products, while on the clock. The kicker is, another kid who was under 18 sold cigarettes to a minor which caused for police involvement, this guy only got a three day suspension!
Hurt Ankle
Well i was in colorado on a missions trip and with my bad luck i severly sprained my ankle and i was out for a couple weeks but my boss wanted me to come back in so i did and then a few days later i got fired because i couldn't move fast enough, it was like i got fired for having a hurt ankle.
dared to hug
I was working at a gas station. It wasn't very fun. I was complaining about it to a friend. She dared me to go to work and hug every customer. So I did. And well apparently people don't appreciate hugs like i do. My boss came out and told me it is inappropriate and he could not have me doing this. So i gave him a great big hug and well needless to say I had to give my name tag back.
So Messed up!
I was employeed at a fast food place, well my boss had given me some verbal and written notices that I was slacking off and that my chances were slim. Well one day I came to work and tried to open the store and someone who worked with me had taken my key off my key chair so I couldn't get in and there was an enveloped taped to the door that said "Turn in you uniform or you will be billed! Have a nice day!" Can you believe that, they didn't even tell me in person!
I Hate My Boss So Much I Could Die
OK i was not so ready to go to work and so i was late for work and when i got there i started working my boss was looking at everyones papers and i didnt care but my boss did so i started playing games on the internet and my boss came straight to me and he said " where is your work" and i said that i didnt do it and my boss said " come to my office NOW" and i walked in and he said YOUR FIRED!!!!!!!! and i said WHO CARES! so i geared up my stuff and walked home and i told my husand that i got fired and we got into an argument and thats why my job sucks and " I Hate My Boss So Much I Could Die" THE END
Salty Strawberries
I once salted strawberries that are used in strawberry shortcakes. I made it look like sugar and then the desserts went out to tables and the people were so pissed. It was really funny! I was fired later on for telling them that the job wasn't worth my time.
shaving
I got up late and didn't shave so i did it while working with a customer and my boss saw me.
Fresh Fried Puke
Well about four years ago I was working at a Red lobster in Illinois. I was the cook there and I totally loved my job. Well one night I was celebrating my 21st birthday party with all the waiters and waitresses at a Rip rocks club that was next door. That night I had very many drinks, and little sleep, and had to open the next morning. So I got to work opened up the kitchen but I was notfeeling that great. After running back and forth for about an hour cooking food the smell just got to my stomach from the food. So without great reaction time I ended up throwing up in the fryers. My boss was pissed. They had to shut down the kitchen for about and hour and a half to clean and sanitize the fryers. Well because of all the sales they lost and my upchucking I ended up being fired. Oh well, at least I had fun the night before.
I snooped....
I snooped in my boss's private folder on the computer and found out I was going to be fired 1 week before he fired me. All the way up to the last day he didn't even act like he was going to fire me. I told a co-worker, and that Monday, he fired me right off the bat.. saying "I noticed you started taking your pictures down".... still not sorry I snooped!!
Rude Customers
A friend of mine was recently fired from the restuarant she worked in because she got busted dripping dirty dish water into the food of a particularly rude and sleazy customer.
mint?
I was working at sonic and my job was to carry a tray filled with ketchup...napkins..etc. I saw this couple making out and I said to them.."you want a mint FOR YOURE BREATH??!" Manager heard me and then fired me.
Brakes
I used to work at a Carpet cleaning agency and didn't work on weekends and usually kept the van keys with me. One weekend I decided to use the company van to go to the shore with. I had forgotten the van needed brakes. The following monday one of the other employees needed to move the van and he quickly reversed it into a spot by a brick wall and went to slam on the brakes but didn't catch and he slammed it into the wall causing a good amount of damage. My boss looked up the Ez-pass record and noticed it was used over the weekend and terminated me.
I knew it!
well this was a couple years ago I was working as a sales clerk in some store I was talkin to a co-worker about how they were cheating us out of money. My co-worker looks at me and tells me that they have microphones to hear us and me not believing it kept on rambling about how they stole my money. The next day my manager tell me I'm fired because I could find a better job that will pay more money I was like omg it was true lol. Months later it turns out that my manager had a stealing money scheme in the store I was like I KNEW IT! point is he got fired and as for me I moved on.
Wet Soulder
Well.. I worked at an arcade at the local mall..boring job, crappy pay..anyways, one day I was at work, it was a weekend, so it was pretty packed. I was just hanging out at the counter talking to some friends, and one of them wanted to play DDR, so without thinking I went over to DDR and opened it up, threw some free credits on it, (which we always did) forgetting that my supervisor had just gotten finished souldering a wire on the inside, and went about my business. Well, a while after the credits ran out, I was swamped with customers, and my friend wanted to play DDR again, so I threw the keys at him and told him to bring them right back to me, as I was too busy to run over and put credits on for him. So..a few days go by, and my supervisor calls me and asks me if I had given the keys to anyone for DDR..and I was like "yeah" and hes like ok well DDR is all messed up now, and youre going to be in trouble..blah blah..so I had a few days
off and I went to see a friend who lives out of state..and I wasn't too tight with my money because I knew I would be getting paid soon..So when I get back, I go to work to get my check, and a friend comes up to me and is like " I heard you got fired, Im sorry" and Im like "???" So I mean they fired me without calling..without letting me know..and I thought it was pretty GEH...
Tah Dah
I was working at a BurgerKing in Hull, when I started eating a burger when nobody was in the restaurant, I decide to eat it because I hadnt eaten anything for over 30 hours, My boss saw me and sacked me, not only did he sack me, he ate the burger in front of my face.
the day i got fired
i was working at tesco at christmas and i was very fed up off how the day was going. so i decided to keep scanning the same item over and over again to one customer without them knowing.the longest chain of scanning the same item was 23 on a bottle of coke. i finally got caught when my boss decided how i was getting on and guess what... i got fired.
No more monkeys jumpin on the bed...
Haha i worked at a hotel and i had to go in early in the mornings.. about 7 a.m. and the night before was a friends birthday... when i went into work i was still drunk/hung over.. so while my coworker was trying to make the beds i was jumping on them and then soon after i was worn out.. threw up.. and passed out on the bed... my coworker got mad and decided to leave me behind... when not only the people staying in the room... but my manager came in to check out the toilet that hadn't been working all morning... that day it was kind of a relief being fired because all i wanted to do is sleep and throw up in my own toilet... that worked... haha!
Ketchup???
It was my first job. I started working a fast food chain. I had only worked there for about 45 minutes when my manager asked me to fill the ketchup pump in the dining room with ketchup. So I went and got it and I saw a big box of the ketchup packets (you know the ones they put in your bags in the drive-thru). I took the packets and started emptying them into the ketchup pump thing. My manager was standing behind and she started rolling with laughter when she said that she was going to have to fire me for wasting company money. Well at least I was worth a laugh anyways. Right???
Nursing Home
i got fired from a nursing home because my boss said that i was pushing the patients down the hall to fast in there will chairs and the patients were upset that i left and it still hurts me
wow
my friend got fired because he started the office building on fire because he was smoking and it burnt down . then he didnt confess and it took like 20 days to figuare out it was him.
sick time
i had almost 80 hours of sick and vacation time and i used it all within 3 weeks i was down to an hour and a half and my boss fired me after working the for 6 years
Drinking on the job
I worked at a day care. I worked with first graders. One day I came in with what everyone thought was a strawberry coolata. Nope! It was very much spiked with vodka. I threw up at work and the kids just thought I was sick. The director could smell the alcohol and fired me. oops
My Mother's Involvement
I was working at a local restaraunt in town (I'm from a small town) as a waitress. Waitressing wasn't really my thing, but I did the best I could and I think my boss recognized that (which is why he never really fired me). It was the summer before my first year of college and he hadn't given me hours in over a month. So I called and asked why and he gave me a reason that seemed perfectly logical to me, but my mom didn't feel the same way. So after I hung up my mom called him and started railing on him, saying she didn't like the way he ran his business and that he was an unfair employer. It was bad. I'm still too ashamed to go eat there again. Some friends that were working then told me later at school that they had heard my mom yelling and just cracked up. it was bad.
glued door
so i had this dumb boss who left three young teenage girls to run her boutique while she went on a vacation to israel (which she didnt tell anyone). The day she came back, the store was a mess and she made us stay there until 10 p.m, way past the time we were supposed to leave (4 pm it was a friday.. and shes orthodox jew by the way lol) so anyways my boyfriend got so mad at what she did that he put crazy glue in her door the next day. The day she went to open the store, there was a heat wave and about 95 degrees. Take a wild guess what happened to that door, and to my job.
How I got fired
My friend was kinda mad.Once he was told by his boss to bring some tea.The bass liked it.The boss continued his work till evening at his place.At about 4 he told my friend to bring tea just like the one in the morning and my friend did.The boss said"Hey, this tea stinks,didn't I tell you to bring me one like in the morning!"And my friend replied" Well....Sir,I don't remember the exact recipe of the one I made in the morning so I just gave you the remaining tea which was left ."
Chicken
My friend used to work at Oportos, and he was the chef, one day a man ordered a meal, and he brought it back 5 times so my friend through the chicken at him,it just barely missed his head but his tupee (wig) moved a little. he was fired the next day.
Damn that buffalo
I worked at denny's a few years back and on my break decided to play the claw machine. I put twenty five cents in manuevered it around to the first thing that looked easy to get which was a buffalo and suprisingly won it.when i went back into the reasturant my manager came up to me and said if i didnt give him the baffalo he was going to fire me.Come to find out he had spent over sixty dollars tryin to get that buffalo and it pissed him off i got it with one quarter. Anyway to make a long story short he didnt get it and i got fired.
gap is not cancer friendly
i got fired cause i was sick for too long with tongue cancer. just doesnt seem fair. oh well
the scary firing.
I was on a break with my friend, and we decided to so something fun. So we went on youtube and watched a featured video. The one we watched was supposed to be about a ghost in a summer camp, but all that showed was a picture with a quiet song, and then a ugly face and scream at the end. Well, we turned the volume up really high at first because we enjoyed the music, but then when our boss came to tell us to quiet down, the scream came. As my boss opened the door and came to us, the ugly face and VERY loud scream came on. My boss was so scared, he banged his head on the cabinet and got a huge bruise, and he spilled his coffee all over his shoes. Well, after we got him to stop screaming and cleaned up the coffee on the floor, he looked at me and my friend with a red face and screamed "GET YOUR FACES OUT OF MY SIGHT". We then sadly went home to make up excuses to our wives....
sleepy
My friend was working at the hospital in the cafeteria he hadn't had much sleep the night before due to staying up all night playing video games so he decided he would take his alarm and pillow to work and sleep during his breaks in one of the booths out front were the patients and visitors could see.
M.S.
I was fired from my position at a retail store, I was in loss prevention. My reviews came in the month before all very favorable. Any way I was fired for haveing M.S. I ask you is that fair? I also lost all my medical coverage, for myself and my young daughter.
A little too much to drink
My job was to clean a supermarket car park using what can only be described as a big industrial hoover . One day I forgot that I had work and drank a litre of Vodka. I was running late and decided that I could whip round the car par with the hoover as if it was a small room. Only trouble was,as I was running with the industrial size hoover, the my feet stopped and the hoover kept going. I feel flat on my face just as the boss was coming round the corner to check up on me after receiving complaints. The hoover nearly hit him and I was sacked instantly. I also had a black eye for my troubles.
Hot Grease Anyone??
Ok so I was at work one night, I worked the overnight shift. I had been ready to quit my job at Arbys for the longest. I had worked there for four months when they hire this girl I had gone to highschool with as my "supervisor" when she had no idea what the hell she was doing and had no supervisor experience! I was pissed as you can imagine. Well one night I lost it. We had cameras in the store and on my last night of work she came in bitching and complaining as always trying to "make me" do alllll the work...So right when I took the bacon out of the oven, she said the last "smart azz" comment I could take...I turned around and threw at her the entire pan of hot bacon and bacon grease! Bacon bits went flying! She must have felt the seering heat of the grease cause she started screaming and crying HAHAHA! I ran out of the store, and needless to say I didnt come back, not even for my check..I was scared ..
but they mailed it! LOL So I win !
It Was A Long Way Down
well it all started before deer hunting this past year i requested the season off and got it I am a truck driver I just worked extra hard the week before now the truck i was in needed some majore repairs that were considered hazerds for the truck to be on the road the boss said that the 9 day deer season would be more than enough time to repair it when the 9 days were down nothing was done and the truck hadn't moved from the place i parked it I told the boss that I wasn't moving the truck because the law states that these repairs have to be made and that I didn't want the fine if the d.o.t. checked me. He waited 1 day then called me on the phone and told me I was fired then got someone in the truck and sent it down the road!!!
Camp
It just so happened to be the last day of my brother's summer job at a camp and to celebrate the end he and some friends went down to the conference center pool which had a very tall waterslide winding down to the pool. Apparently my brother had a new found confidence from jumping from high places. One of his friends "Sharkbait" jumped first and he made it into the pool perfectly. After his stunt, he urged my brother to do the same and he did, making it into the pool...the first time! He climbed back up the 20ft. waterslide for a second jump and as he jumped his foot slipped out from under him (the bar they climbed atop was wet). He and his friends both knew something went very wrong. He flailed in slow motion for what seemed like forever to him and suddenly he smacked the pavement with the whole right side of his body and flopped into the pool. First he panicked and tried to crawl out of the pool as quickly as possible, but his friends had to help him out. We were all more worried about him being paralyzed or having a head injury. An ambulance was called immediately and was there in about ten minutes. They put him in a neck brace and laid him on the stiff back board and rushed him to the nearest hospital. I (his sister) had just come back from the mall and was getting ready for work when I heard the news. I was quickly driven to the hospital by some friends. The hospital had done a few test and to everyone's amazement, his only injury was a deflated lung. He spent many days in the hospital and nothing was done except many, many x-rays. The hospital bill was outrageous! Anyway, he and the lifeguards were all fired the day of the incident. What a way to celebrate your last working day!
Work Troubles
there was alot of stuff that had been going on at work. first, the newest employee stole money out of my cash register and i got in trouble and almost fired for it (which my boss found out was the new girl after i got fired). Then i had found out i was pregnant so i had morning sickness at work and had to go home early a few times. But the worst thing of all...one of the other employees tryied to hit me while i was pregnant!!!! That same night, i was doing the things on my chore list before we closed up and she told me that she didnt like me because i was dating her ex-boyfriend who she was still hung up on (and i was pregnant by). I told her that i didnt care what she thought of me, that everyone is entitled to their own opinion and i went back to doing what i was suppose to. Well, she came over and tried to hit me because she didnt offend me by what she was saying so she got mad. Well, words were exchanged and the next morning we were both
called to the boss' office and I got fired and she didn't....
chillin on the job[literally]
Well it was in summer and i was working at quiznos subs. They had me work the "mascot" so i had to walk around in a cup costume all day! it was literaly ninety something degrees. So after a while i just couldnt stand it anymore, i walked inside and hid out in the freezer for the whole shift (while still in the costume)! Well turns out a fellow employee told on me and i got fired the very next day. hahaha
Oh..we didn't tell you???
So, I was hired as seasonal at a Gap Outlet store. The time was coming to an end so I asked two of my four managers if I was being kept on. They said that I was doing very well and that they would put in the good word to my main boss, aka Kris. So one day I came into work and was told by a co worker that they had already let go everyone who they wouldn't keep on. I was so happy and ran to get my schedule. Then as I went through the stack of schedules I suddenly noticed...I didn't have one. So I went to the manager on at the time and asked them what was going on. Her response, "ohhh Kris didn't tell you?" I was so upset that I told her, "I loved this job, until now. That was unproffesional and rude. Since you don't have the respect to tell me I'm fired. I don't have the respect to come in for my last day of work." Then I wallked out. They have called a couple times to apoligise, but I just say, "You
guys are unproffesional, Or did I forget to tell you that?"
underpaid
ok well i was working in a village pub in england. i had just finished a 6 hour shift and they paid me 15 pounds, bearing in mind the salary was 5 pounds per hour, so i went back and told the owner that she had underpaid me and i think she was very drunk because she started screaming at me! so obviously im not going to stand there and do nothing so i started to shout back and well we had a huge row and then she fired me...i was like ok...i just got fired for being underpaid?
Amusment Parks arnt fun.
When i was 16 i worked at a local amusement park. I was only making $7.40 an hour, but it was my first job so i didnt care. After two 8 hour training sessions they stuck me on a kiddy ride, and left to do other things.
I was on the ride for about 30mins when i noticed a man and his son in line. Both of them didnt have a shirt or shoes on, and the man was smoking. It was my first day fresh out of training and i distinctly remember that there was to be no smokeing in line. When i told the man this, he got angry and relcutantly put it out.
Another 15 mins when by and him and his son were up next to go on the ride. I loaded then on and sent them off. Just as the ride started my boss came over and said that the man and the boy both needed shirt and shoes to ride. I was embarsed and after the ride stopped i told the man what my boss told me. Needless to say, he got really angry and started yelling at me and wouldnt leave the ride. I called my boss to handle the situation, but it was no good because the man went on a rampage and hit my boss into me, knocking us both over into a line of people.
After security came, and the man was escorted out of the park my boss told me "if you cant handle this situation, i cant immagine how you would work out for the rest of the season".
That day i drove home with my first and last paycheck for roughly $30. Not even enough to pay for the gas to get there.
Flu?? Then go home
I worked at a children's play place for almost 2 years. I knew everything there and I organized parties and ran them quite well. I hardly messed anything up and I was always eager to help anybody. I even climbed up and all around the 3-story jungle gym to dust it off! Then one week I came down with the flu, i would basically vomit every 10 minutes. I called off work for the next day and then went to the Dr. I couldnt work for the rest of the week and so I was given a Dr. excuse for the next 4 days. I went to work to hand it in, and i was dizzy and ready to pass out. The boss said "ok" and "feel better" and then i left. A few days later at school a girl who worked there told me that I was supposed to come in and talk to the boss today.. i told her I would and that I was even scheduled to work that day anyway. When I went in my boss told me that he couldn't keep me working there since I got sick. He thought I would
only be out for one day and not 4. Apparantly I suppose he wanted me to work with small children while i had the flu, well that is one caring man right there!
Giggle of a gaggle
I quit school to work as a dental assistant. Everything was going fine i was picking things up fast, until one day we had a weakened stomached lady come in for a check up. When i put the sucker in i couldnt help but have a giggle with the noises this lady made as well as the noises the sucker and spit made. Lets just say the doc wasn't impressed.
How I Lost My Job
Hmm well lets see... to make a long story short, I was working at safeway and my loser jailbird of an ex thought it was a great idea to let him and our neighbors go through the till daily without ringing in their items. For many reasons I am not about to explain, I agreed to this stupidity! So anyway, this went on for about a week or so until... BAM!! One day myself and the neighbors wife were pulled into my Boss' office and in turn, fired and arrested by the cops!! Most embarrasing moment of my life!!
Bad Valet
Well, my friend was working part time as a vallet. The basic routine was simply parking cars, and some of the cars were nice, very nice. But he and his co-workers got bored one day and pulled straws to see who would actually take one of the cars for a test drive. My friend was the lucky one, and got to drive a Mercedes. When he got back, he was given a warning and lost a day's pay. But when you do something once it is easy to do it again. It was a monday, and his boss does not work monday's. So my friend, he came up to my house with a gorgeous mini cooper s convertable. We could not resist driving it around town. Around noon we would heading to a resturant, pulled into the parking lot, where by lord his boss was. My friend's boss was pissed. He fired my friend on the spot. Whatever, I doubt the boss was able to get the car back in time, well that is his problem....
FIREd
I am a member of the army.Yesterday, me and my friends were doing extra drill (punishment routine) on the mountain.We had to carry six bricks and walk to the top.We took a short break and suddenly, while punishment under the sun, my friend started to give the demo of our company commander.He said,"Do you think your asses is the only thing you'll carry?No, 'cause you'll have six bricks stuck to your asses.If I see you dropping the bricks at anytime, then I will, throw your ass in category C.Do you know who I am?I am your company commander.!HA HA HA HA ! But I remained silent as I saw our company commander's shadow behind him.He saw me looking back and decided to look back too.And you should have seen the look on his face when he saw our boss.Then, I silently laughed as our company commander gave him the boot from the hill saying,"Soldier, you have violated my law.So, get your brick-ass out of the army
now.You're fired.But if you don't go, then you'll really be FIRED.HU HU HA HA HA HA HA!
Fired for doing my job!!!
I used to work at a call center for a well-known telephone company. My job was to take calls from customers who had bill problems, wanted new service, etc. One customer was very irate and the more I tried to calm him down and explain his bill the madder he became; finally, I had to raise my voice just to get him to listen (as we were not allowed to hang up on any customer. One of the supervisors happened to hear me and thought I had instigated the arguement she instantly parked herself next to me and began to tell me what to tell the customer and shouting at me at the same time. I couldn't possibly pay attention to TWO shouting parties who were both agitated with me! So I continued to help the customer (and this after the supervisor told me to put him on hold for a long time just so she could yell at me) and he said "thank you for taking care of me and helping me understand my bill." However, I still got written up
for arguing with the supervisor and this got me fired...kinda dumb, huh?
bad apple...er...tomato
This woman got mad cuz i put a "bad" tomato on her sub.She left and came back later and fussed me out. So I got fired. Stupid woman.
Everything HALF OFF!
So I used to be the store manager at a small movie/music outlet store. I was employeed there for 6 months. Well around the 3rd month, my boss began to piss me off. Since I was the store manager, and I knew how to work the system, I began to give everyone that was nice 50% off their purchase. I did this for 3 months straight. About the 5th month, my boss comes up to me and says, "Why are sales down so much since you started working here? We have lost almost $25,000 per month!" I calmly explained it wasn't my fault and that movie sales have been slow. Needless to say, a few weeks later I was "let go."
Moral of the story is, don't piss off someone who is in a possition, that can bring down the company. Thank You.
no blonde
i got fired from working at a Restaurant because i was the only "not blonde", girl/guy there. And i refused to dye my hair a blonde color... they fired me that night.
Why Can't I Be Here?
So I was working as a server in a crummy little family diner, I had to work New Years Eve and was very upset, all I did was say how hungover I was going to come in the next morning cuz I also had to work New Years Day at 8AM! So about 730 AM that morning I call in and tell them I had a terrible car accident and I couldnt come in. So they bought it and I tried getting over the hangover. About 10AM my friend wakes me up and says "lets go get food" I wake up, he drives, we go into this place...Before I knew it I had walked right into my work and was fired on the spot...
PS I still ate my meal, then puked in the mens room!
love changes everything
One sunday my boss said he has organized a surprise party for me .I went there and he provided me with a grand feast.he gave me a check and said it was my bonus .But when the party ended he said i have one more gift for you. He said 2 words: Hey man You are fired.
i lost my yob to illegals!
i worked at a custum wood working shop i got hired as a shop apprentice for $15 an hr.it was nice until the slave driving boss started canning guys left n right! first it was simple outa staters nothing wrong with that exept if you come from Iowa were you make $12.50 an hr. now your in Chicago were we make higher wages but they didnt realize this so the boss fired a few guys to bring in these guys who didnt mind getting paid $12.00 an hr it was ok till one day the boss hired an illegal South American who worked for $8.00 with no breaks! next thing you know i'm fired along with the last two guys makeing $15 an hr. I go to get my last check and papers for unemployment and i see 6 illgals he canned 2 outa staters a day after us! unreal slave driver wins!
forklift antics
i worked at walmart for 3.5 years. I decided to start screwing around on the forklift one day like i usually did every day. I was driving the forklift and i decided to jump off of it while it was still going about 10 mph. I let it coast for a while before i jumped back on....i did this a few times. The last time i jumped on just before i ran an employee over who was too dumb to get out of the way of a 7000 lb vehicle and skidded to a stop. Well anyway...i got a phone call later at work from the assistant managers office. they sat me down and asked me straight up if i jumped off the forklift...i didnt deny it a bit...haha. plus they had me on camera anyway! so i got fired....i got my job back 2 days later though cause i came in there and told them they shoul dnot have fired me.
oldy
i was working as a saturday girl for the local giftshop and i happened to mention how young i though one of the other employees looked for her age my boss said she bet I couldn't guess her age and she's always saying she should have retired years ago and she does look about 70 so i said 63 she's only 48! Apparently i was cheeky and disrepectful and she used the excuse that i turned up late to fire me. A colegue later told me she saw her altering our shop clock.
got fired
I took my son to work and he messed up everything so the boss said get the baby out off here or u get fired so I talked back to him so I got fired.
Coffee
my boss fired me for taking too long to get the coffee. isnt that unbeieiveable?
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
I was doing the gob for a month now and I was so used to having naps after work and I had to work overtime and I fell asleep on the job! My boss was so mad that he fired me.
biology lab
I was fired because I didn't notice a leak in the tank of the 4 manta rays I was taking care of. How was I supposed to know? They all died, and I left. (Happily).
Shot My Boss With A Paintball Gun
I no longer wanted my job, so I thought how I wanted to end it. I finally decided on going to work and shooting my jerky boss with a paintball gun. Guess what? it worked!
Newspaper
I was 15 when I started working at a newspaper. I filled out an application and everything that said I was 15. I started working and everything was going good when one day I came in and they told me that I couldnt work there because I was only 15 and I had to come back when I was 16 (they told me this afer a few months of working there). Now I am 16 and I have an even better position at the same newspaper.
Buying from Competitor
In the days of the Five and Dime Stores, I had a job at the Woolworth Store in our town. After clocking out one day, I wanted to buy a candy bar to eat on the way home; but, I did not want to take the time to go through the long procedure involved in making an employee purchase.
So, I walked a few doors down the street to the Kress's Store. I went in, selected, and paid for the bar of candy I wanted; then, turned around to see the Woolworth Store manager standing right beside me!
I nervously blurted out an explanation, but, he made no comment at all. However, when I went in the next day to see about my work schedule for the following week, the secretary told me that I was not scheduled to work at all! She did not know why, but, I was sure that I knew why.
So, I walked down the street to the Kress's Store, filled out an application, and, they told me to come in to work the next week.
She's Healed!!!
My sister took a part-time job while in high school but she also loved to go out with her friends. Well, the party of the year was scheduled and she was also scheduled to work the same night. She decided that she would call the manager and tell her she had broken her leg and would not be able to work that night. She did not think her plan through well enough because not only did our cousin's husband work there and the manager called our house to see how she was doing. Well, my mother did not know she had broken her leg as she had just seen her walk out of the house only an hour before she received the call. Needless to say, she was fired and on top of that, our mother made her go back to the restaurant to apologize for lying. She never did that again.
Cancer bald and Fired
I went thru radiation and was bald and not allowed to wear a wig for medical conditions. I wore a scarf. I was fired as a director of a daycare after 13 years.
I-70 breakdown
My friend Brian worked about 30 minutes away and i went to college by where he worked. Well, he offered me a ride back to college one morning because he had to go to work.
Well, we broke down on the interstate. He said that his job was already mad at him for absence, so he walked with me back to the college, and left his car on the interstate.
He not only lost a job that day, but lost a car too!
the con conned me
Conagra all employee meeting
they are closing our plant
what a bunch of fat rich folks they will be.
THE HELL HOLE
I WAS WORKING AT IHOP FOR 1 WEEK WHEN THEY GAVE ME A VEST THAT DID NOT FIT. THE MANGER SAID YOUR TOO FAT. I SAID SCREW YOU, SO HE FIRED ME.
Best Buy
I bought something for a neighbor of mine. He got a discount through me. He saved over 200 dollars. He decided to go up to Best Buy and return everything in that i had bought for him. He told on me and i got fired.
crisco disco music
I was fourteen at the time and I used to run to the store for the little ol lady down the street and she had asked me to bring her CD's and food items often and she was from burma and still had a very strong accent and she said crisco and I misunderstood her words and came back with twinkies a coke and a greatest hits disco CD and the same day her cat died and she wanted to bake a pie and she got pissed and didnt get any money and i had to get my parents to get her to pay me back and she never did but at least I got to return the CD. And guess what? Apparently she killed her self 5 months ago with a sawed off shot gun in her uncles cabin ( i could tell she was mentally destressed but not to this extent).
The boss from hell
so i work my butt off for this woman day in day out. but she is never satisfied. she was the devil, true story. so one day she calls me in her office and says shes letting me go but i can finish the rest of the day. when i ask what the problem is she was like your not on time enough. i looked at her and said not on time. so coming in for my shift ten min. early is not on time? she looked at me and said well you called in sick yesterday. i looked at her astonished, because i was in the hospital, you stupid jerk. You never liked me in the first place and seeing as you have the audacity to act like a two year old instead of a boss i will not finish the rest of the day. you can sit on it and rotate. That was a bad day .
knowing when 2 much is enough
Well my friend valerie and i were workign togehter at burger king hoping that we would get free stuff at work and go home happy. Well it didn't really work that way and we ended up having half priced instead of free. So valerie got really mad and thought that revenge would be a good way to start. While i was working the cash register she was working the onion ring machine, she put so much in it that when they came out they looked all bad. I took the blame for it since i was the cash register person all the customers came down hard on me with their gross half done onion rings in their hands. The manager finally came out and told them that they could have their money back since the machine wouldn't work. Valerie was fired in a second and she had to pay for another onion ring machine....
hungry
I workjed at pizza hut!
and Í was always late so before I could go to work I cold not eat because i would get there later!and when I'm at work I'd always eat!pizaaaa so before The pizza's where delivered half of it was gone!1
Library
Ok i was working at a public library.My boss was and lady.I was talking and she said i was talking too loud.She fired me for talking too loud before i left i knocked down every book shelf they had.
Backstabbed!
I worked as a custodian at the golf course. I got let go suddenly and without warning. I asked my supervisor why and she said that the golf course superintendant claimed that I argued with him about when I take my breaks. Total lie! Anyways I still got a job, just elswhere on post. I call my best friend and rant about the lies and said I might beat his face in. The twerp played it for the superintendant, and I got fired from my new job before it even started.
Happy New Year
I called in on New Years because I had a hangover. What made it worse was the fact that they were going to fire me anyway because I threw pizza at some lady for tipping me only 5 cents 2 days prior.
Nice boss...
So I worked at the Home Depot call center. I was a customer service rep. One day my car got broken into, the passenger side window was broken, and my purse was stolen with everything in it. I called into work, about a week later they fired me. I even offered to show the police report, but they just booted me out of there.
John Deere Landscapes
I worked at John Deere Landscapes for 4 months till I was brutally fired. I was hired as a warehouse specialist but my boss discovered that I was a talented sales person. He had me cold-call over 70 potential customers in hopes for them to come to us with their business. I was pretty successful and I had some huge clients coming in.
To make a long story short. My boss ended up finding a way to fire me so he could get the credit (and the bonus)for making those calls. In fact, he was required to make all those calls but pawned it off on me, just to fire me and get the glory!
He said I was fired because of my insubordination in a situation where he told me I could have a Friday off to see my girlfriend. But on the prior Wed, he told me I couldn't go anymore. With no reason. That Friday he actually made me stay 2 hours late and out of frustration I ended up delivering the wrong shipment to the wrong customer. He set me up for failure and fired me.
we dont need you
i worked at and ice cream shop and my employee played a trick on another employee. only the trick backfired onto himself in which ice cream fell from the ceiling and hot fudge came with it. i had to fire him on the spot but it was cool.
bully boss
After a year working at the butcher i had enough of my loud mouth boss that told me to do everything. So one day after cleaning one of the big frigde i ask her to come and have a look if it was clean as she stepped into the frigde and walked to the back i shut the door and sliped a bar downthe lock so she couldn't get out. I then went and to the other people i worked with and told them i was going home, later that day i got a phone call from a person who worked there he said that it took 3 hours to get her out as every one went for their lunch and he told me i was sacked.
False Time Card
I was fired once for "fudging" my time card and making it seem like I worked hours that I didn't. My boss dragged me into his office and yelled out a classic "YOU'RE FIRED!!" so that the entire office could hear it. I thought that only happened in cartoons or in movies, but I guess I was wrong. It was very embarassing.
Pizza Guy
I was delivering pizzas for about 8 months and was just tired of doing for that long. At the time, I was aggravated over being pushed around a lot by people that I had been coming in contact with lately. So I told myself that I wasn't going to put up with it anymore. So I guess the little thing set me off.
One night, someone ordered a pizza and when I knocked on the door, they never showed up. So I left the food outside on the doorstep. Not the smartest thing to do as I understand it.
So I guess word of what I did got back to my boss. But I guess it didn't help that a few before that, I was arrested while on the job for some unpaid parking tickets. This happened while I was en route to delivering to someone's house, and I had to leave my car on the side of the road with about $75 worth of food in the trunk.
Not my finest moment, but I laugh about it now.
Great Ameica
During the summer, when I was 17 years old, I was working at the Outback Shack restaurant in Great America. One day I was carrying a box full of drinks and I fell. I spilled the drinks and they were no good anymore. My supervisor came in and yelled at me and said that I was fired. That was that and I never worked there ever again.
FIRED
I WAS AT WORK IM A TRUCK DRIVER,I DROVE IN THE WAREHOUE DOING 5MPH AND MY BSS WAS TOLD I ALMOST HIT SOMEBODY AND THAT I WAS DOING ABOUT 15MPH SO I GOT FIRED
Oh, Baby!
I was working security at a downtown mall with my boyfriend and his best friend. We had found out that I was pregnant in early Sept, I was written up 7 times for utterly ridiculous stuff (taking too many bathroom/snack breaks, not taking it when people pushed my pregnancy buttons on purpose) basically they thought that my pregnancy symptoms were not allowing me perform properly. So, about 4-5 weeks after we find out, I was let go. The kicker is, that not only was I fired, but my boyfriend AND his friend was fired!
I was only trying to help.
A few years ago, I was working for a Medical Transcription Company (listening to doctors' recordings and typing what they say). Prior to working for this particular company, I had worked for a large Internal Medicine practice called ICP. Dave, my boss at the time of this story, wanted so badly to get a contract with ICP, and I thought I might be able to help him by setting up a meeting with Dave and the office manager from ICP (Kevin). So I sent the office manager from ICP (Kevin) a personal fax inviting him to an event that I was also trying to get Dave to attend. In a sense, I was trying to hook them up like they do in the TV sitcoms. Anyway, it backfired on me because my personal fax came through on a paper that had of our biggest client's letterhead. It apparently looked like a medical letter from them, but it was a personal letter from me. One of the girls at ICP called my boss and squealed on me (She was my arch enemy
when I worked at ICP) notifying him that I sent her boss a personal letter that came through on the letter head of one of the doctor's offices who was our biggest client. My boss, Dave, called me on the spot and said, "Joanne, I can't believe you did that. I'm going to have to fire you. But you can come back again in 6 months to work." (Yeah, like I was going to come back to work for a guy who fires me for using the fax machine in an attempt to help him gain business. It was a blessing in disguise because Dave was a total jerk anyway.
The Witch
I had been working at "Subway" for almost 2years when my boss quit. Well after she quit I was the longest employee. so the company put me as the temporary manger. for three months I ran that store, I knew everything about and how to do it all. well they finally found some one to be the manger. well this lady found out that I was the one that would be training her, she never mad a sub ever in her life. she found out that I was the one that was in charge and everyone that worked there listened to me. she played it out to be really nice and cool. well one day I needed to take off and she didn?t give me the day off so I had some one else come in for me. later that night when I was done with the other stuff I needed to deal with I went to the store to check on everything. Let me first say that the next day I was supposed to be there at 8am, and work all day long till 9pm. I went into the store and saw two people there, my new manger and the guy
that I had come in for me. right then she fired me. no reasoning, all she said top me was "You lying little B****, get out of my store and don't ever come back." I looked at her and corrected her that I wasn't the b****, and that she was. and told her that she'll never be able to run that store like I did. with in the following two weeks, everyone quit on her. and the third week she quit.
my crazy boss
i was going to work one day and my boss walked in and we was all just standing around and she got mad and fired us all later that day i went back and tried to get my job back so she gave it back to me and then fired me again for no reason. i was so mad.
late again
i was late for the seventh time so i got fired
fired for working
I had a manager at walmart that i guess felt that i made him look bad in the community and at work because of my good work and involvement with people and charities etc, well he had tried to get me to quit and fire me several times over the year but to no success, well finally he decided to fired me for working too much on schedules they approved and then offereing me up to 40 hours overtime to help unload trucks, needless to say he said i was fired for workign too many days , oh and i'm just letting my attorney handle it and anyways he already now has a very bad image in our community from how he has treated me and several other associates over the last year.
MY LAST DAY
Well , it was my last day when i argued with my boss in a rude manner and my termination letter was on my table after 15 min
a piece of my mind
I worked at tyson fresh meats for about a year and a couple of months. And one day I was in a bad mood my supervisor and I always got along but that day I assume us both were not having a good day and she gave me a piece of her mind she todally snapped on me so I snapped back. I got sent to the superintendent's office and got fired for talking back to my supervisor. So basically I got the message if you don't have anything good to say don't say it all.
Everyone loves a clean-shaven rat
I had been working at a local Chuck E. Cheeses, My position was in the arcade section, but occasionaly each employee would be persuaded into jumping into the Chuck E costume, a 6 foot tall "hip" rat.
Anyhow upon my arrival to work, in full wardrobe, I had been taken out of my superior acting debut (as a Friendly Rat) walked in to the office and immediately questioned about some stuble on my face. that was it; it was all over. fired mere seconds later, never to return.
i had no idea
i got fired from my job at Burger King because i thougth it would be funny to come dressed as a chicken to my job ieven was walking and acting like a chicken when i got to work iguess it wasnt funny!!!
Terminate because of taking Company Money
I was a manager in a leader restaurant, because I was addicted with gambling, It was ruined my life. I feel so sorry for my self, I lost everything in life that I've dreamt of. I got terminated after the day I took a company money for almost 4000 dollars, I had co-operated by go to the head office of my company I worked and we have a talk, I had told them why I took the money and what reason I took it. I got terminate on that day, I volunteer to turn my self to the police station in Santamonica, I was arrested. They put me in jail for one whole night,it was my first and freaking time I've ever had. I look to myself and think look at you Santhana, A Smart and Full of Knowlegde Manager sleep in a jail. I was crying and feel so sorry about my future. Right now, my case not finish yet, I have to go back to the court on 01/22nd/2007. At least, I feel better cos PD told me, they won't put me to jail, the court will order
me to take probation, because I was co-operated with everything, they don't really beleive why I volunteer to take myself to the Police Station to get arrested. Most of the Crime, they try to run away, but not for me, I just feel I have to responsible for my case, and I did paid the company back. everything I did bad, I already solve. I write this story not about the money but I just want everybody knows that Gambling can make you nut and ruin your life and I just want to let the world knows so I feel better for my self. I know I am not gonna get a good job from today, but at least I paid back what I did and try to be a new man in a golden country.
Employee Harrassement
I was an employee at our Target store near the Del Amo Mall here in Torrance .
Anyway another store employee was bothering me while I was working in the womens dressing room all alone by myself .
I didnt have anyone to help me so I had to do something because my supervisor at the store wouldnt help me .
My Job coach was never there when I needed her .
The other store employees wouldnt help me .
So I got fired for doing something that I shouldnt have done .
A nerf ball..... It hurt this time!
My Fiance was working at that yucky store that begins with a W. Where everyone goofs off all the time by the way. It was a very slow night and he was picking a little nerf ball off of the floor and he tried to throw it into a shopping cart. Well he missed and an assistant manager saw and they fired him for not following store rules. I swear other people there including managers dont get fired for harrasment and other things but throw a nerf ball and you are out of there.
ex-boyfriend
My day started normal and while I was working my boyfriend sent me an email and I sent him one back he sent me a very nasty e-mail and it got forwarded to my boss!! I got fired that day.
The Wrong Comment
So I was working in a video rental store. The store was dead at the moment with only myself and my Manager working. There wasn't much to do but place some videos back on the shelf. So my girlfriend walks in to say hi to me...I tell her to just look around until I'm done putting back the movies. My manager walks up to me and tells me he wants to talk to me privately in the back...(there was no one in the store but the 3 of us). So he tells me that I can't have my girlfriend around cause its interrupting my concentration at work and that I should tell her to leave the store..I look at him like if he was kidding, but he wasn't. So being the good employee I am, I walk up to her and tell her to just wait in the car about 15 minutes until my break time came around because of what my manager said...she didn't take this lightly so she leaves the store, saying a couple of things under her breath..nothing personal towards the manager. At that
moment he turns to me and says "If she wasn't such a witch, I might have let her stay". So I lose all perception of reality and start firing at him verbally with every cus word I've ever learned since pre-school. As I'm doing this, I start approaching him so he thinks I was trying to attack him and proceeds to jump the check-out counter and tells me to leave the store. I walk outside and with all that adrenaline pumping, I knock over a trash can that was cemented down to the sidewalk. At the moment he peeks outside and says, "thats coming out of your paycheck mister." So I said screw you I quit, picked up my last paycheck the following week (paid in full) and never saw the place again.
penciled
Computer guy working, when i was told that a shop guy could use one of our old computers. So i hooked it up for him and aked him what he needed to do with it. He said print. So i added him to the network with printing privilages. The boss guy who told me he could have the computer got all upset... So i cracked a pencil and threw it at the wall with disgust. The next day i was fired :)- And of course i collected my unemployment benefits of $405 per week all that summer :)
sleeping on the job
I was working security overnights and it was common to nap a little at night with two guards present. So I layed down in the dark, on the floor, curled up in a ball, next to a space heater in a room just off of the guard desk. Anyhow, I was awaken by a security inspector at about 3am. Ha Ha, I still collected unemployment benefits after being fired:)-
Dumb Excuse
I was working as a hostess in a resturaunt only for a couple of weeks when i decided to go out drinking one night. Despite the fact that I had to work the next morning, I got a little wasted. Early in the morning, I woke up with a terrible hangover. I decided to call my manager and in a state of panic, the first excuse that came out of my mouth was that my dog had run away and I needed to catch him so I would not be able to make it in to work that day. I was fired shortly after the incident.
Comfy Couch
I used to work at this local cofee shop in a small neighborhood about 15 mintues away from my house. It was my very first job, and I loved it at first. I would be the only person there when it was opened, and I was the one who did everything. I could do everything when I was ready to do it, as long as I had it all done before it was time to close at 9:30pm. I only worked nights dut to the fact I had school in the mornings.
School didn't start until 8:30am and my boss opened the store at 6am! EARLY!!
Thank god I only worked afternoons...
until I got that dreaded call,
"Can you open the store tomorrow? I will come replace you before you have to go to school..."
Well of course I couldn't say no! So I dragged myself there. I had such a hard time keeping my eyes open, and I jolted awake everytime a customer came through the door.
One morning turned into two, then, every other morning...
I was exhausted!!!
One Saturday I was schedulded to work in the morning. I got myself out of bed, painfully, at 5am!! I got comfortablly dressed and did not even think about getting all dolled up. No make up, not fresh hair style... just rolled out of bed.
At 5:30 I left my house and made it the shop at 5:45. I proceeded to make the coffe, turn on the machines, and got myself awake as possible. (like a good employee should) At 6am I called my boss to let her know I was there and that the store was open.
When she answered she sounded like I had waken her up! She then asked me why I was there so early...
Um, because that's the time you open your store... I thought.
It turns out that she doesn't open her store until 7am on Saturdays!! I was so upset...
She didn't seem to mind, even though she sounded annoyed, and she told me to just hang out until 7.
Well, I made myself a large latte and plopped down on the big comfy couch in front of the big screen television that was there for customers.
Sleep deprivation started to kick in, and my eyes began to get heavy. I set an alarm on my phone to go off a couple minutes before 7 just in case I dozed off.
Which I did.
And my phone did not wake me up.
It's now 8:30am....
the coffee shop phone is ringing.... I hear it but I ignore it, until I realize i NEED to answer it. I jumped up off the couch and realized there were a bunch of people outside watching me and wondering what was going on.
My boss was calling! I answered the phone and told her everything was fine, and proceeded to tell her I was just too busy to call her.
But she found out after all the customers complained...
I was later terminated due to the fact she said i was too irresponsible and couldn't do the job efficiently enough.
I may have been upset... but in the long run I am so thankful! I hated that job...
thank you Comfy couch!
my boss the idiot
I worked at a golf course as a proshop manager for a couple of years and during that time we got a new owner and he knew nothing about the golf industry. One Saturday morning, we were short handed and the new owner and I had to set up for a big tournament. I had a killer hangover and was not in the mood to deal with his stupid questions and so after about 30 minutes I said "you own the frickin' course and you know nothing about golf, you are such an idiot, my 5 year old goddaughter would be more help to me!" Well the jerk waited until the tournament was set up he came up to me and said "how does it feel to be fired by an idiot, get out."
even with a doctor's note...
When I was 16 I worked at a hobby/silk flower shop and go MONO and was out of work for a month because the DOCTOR said so and gave me note stating that I couldn't work. When I came back...managment had changed and I got fired for ABSENTEEISM!!!!! Jerks...too bad I was too young to know that I could sue them....
Mean Boss
I was working as a marketing executive at an IT firm. My boss was handicapped, short, and a very loud, rude mouth. He was (is still) the meanest and most cruel boss on the face of the Planet! Well one day a customer walked into our premises with a laptop that he had previously bought from us. He claimed it was faulty and started yelling and demanding his money back. I was the one who officiated the sale so when it came to my boss' attention, he blew off the roof. He started cursing me and yelling at me as to how i suck at my job. Then he went on to abuse my mum. That was it! I got into a fit, grabbed his neck, pulled him out of the wheel chair and threw him out the window!... (lucky for him we were on the gound floor...) He called me "the biggest idiot I've ever seen" so I told him that only an idiot employs an idiot! Ofcourse after that i was fired, ordered to pay for the broken window (which i didnt)......!
Electrician
i was hired as an electrician, and i got assinged a job to fix the electricity at someones house but i kind of blew everything up.the police and fire department came and i got fired with in two hours.
Subway of DOOM!
I started working there a little after school started. I was there about a month and I got strep throat. So my boss was a jurk and punished me for calling out sick and having a doctors note. Then like 3 weeks later he fired me saying I was "rude" "rude to customers" and not a good worker and everything else. But it was a lie.
Working when i want too....
Well i needed a job and Macys hired me for a seasonal job and so i started working. First of all i hated getting dressed up and my boss was always sending me home. I never had a job before and i didn't know how to read a schedule, so i got fired when they caught me and i was so embarrassed that i didn't tell them that i didn't even know how to read a schedule...
Caught red handed
we have a food court at Sams Club and i couldn't work there because i was to young so used to steal out of the food court taking napkins to food, I thought i wasn't going to never get caught i went in the food court got ready to eat i didnt pay for so my manager tim was watching me the whole time i drop everthing and walked off he called me and said u know what you done wrong he told me it was complete termination. everyone found out i was so shame.
drunk and tired
well I had to work the Oklahoma, Texas A and M ball game, so I drank a pint of scotch and a few beers, then I got pretty tired since I had been up all damn day. so I decide to just lay down next to this dumpster and take a nap, needless to say, I woke up in handcuffs, barney pfeiff beating the hell out of me, went to jail. so when the boss finds out, of course, he fired me, thank god.
McDonalds
My sister was working at a mcdonalds and it was her first day there and she was working the cash register, someone came and held a gun to her head and said give me the money when my sister gave them all of the money in the register the robber left and her boss came up to her and said that she was fired when she asked why he said because she gave in too easily.
a stupid reason to fire
My boss is very uptight and must have everything perfect, well on April fools day, we found out how uptight she was. My co-worker though since our boss is so mean to us sometimes, we would play a prank on her for April fools, so we got the key to our office and rearranged everything during the night and the next morning she was freaking out and my co-worker decided to tell her and she got so mad she fired her.
Kissing at work?
So I worked at a pizza place called Eureka Pizza. The manager, was a good looking guy, in his 30's, but was married and had 6 kids. Every night, I would take a smoke break and he would always drop everything to go outside with me. I just thought he was bored or I was really fun to talk to? Anyways, one night we were both out there smoking, he kissed me!! I was shocked! I pushed him away and reminded him that he was married and had 6 kids, he didnt seem to care and tried to kiss me again. I walked away, got in my car and left. Next day I had called the area manager and told him the story, he said that Brian, my manager that kissed me, told him that I had just walked out and he fired me for lying to him!!! Messed up huh? haha
Callbacks
I worked at this lingerie shop as a second job. From the moment I was hired I told them I could only work one or two days a week because my first job was my main job. They understood and everything was ok for about three months. Then one day one of my managers said that I needed to be a little bit more flexible. I said there was no way, so I was told I would be back up and they would call me when they needed me. Well it's been about 6 months... still haven't heard anything.
Wendy's Day in Court!
When I was 18 I got my first job working at Wendy's resturant, I was so happy. I worked there for a year when they hired a new manager. Dana. I went in for my shift and saw that beside my name that I was off for 2 weeks, woohoo! So 2 weeks later I came back and Dana called me into her office,"I've been waiting a long time to can your butt, now get the hell out of my store." I was shocked, so I left crying my eyes out and went home and told my Dad, he said we'll see those jerks in court and sure enough we took them to small claims court. We called it Wrongful Dismissal, they said I was stealing from the condiments, What the heck? Needless to say the judge ruled in our favor and Head office heard about what Dana had done and canned HER butt. Karma works in mysterious ways.
keep your mouth shut
The manager at the store where i worked was going on vacation for a week. This man was full of himself, he thought he was the best salesman in the world. Well, while he was on vacation the owner of the company worked in the store with me, this was the end of the year and we sold abouut 7 or 8 hot tubs in one week. The owner sarcastically told me that 'we do not need tom", She said this a couple of times!!
When the manager returned from vacation, he said "Did Cecelia say anything about me?" I said"yeah, sarcastically she said we do not need you". He acted like it was no big deal.
The next day that I showed up for work. I was called into the owners office. While i was in there the manager started to cry and said he was really depressed about the things I had told him the previous day and the owner said the she never said "we did not need tom". So, she got mad because I was accusing her of being a liar and I got fired. Next time I will not open my mouth.
I LIKE FOOD
I worked at Taco Bell and got fired for eating to much food. They said I ate more than 4 fat pregnant women put together , so they gave me an ultimatum and said i can stay if I cut back on eating or they will dismiss me if not, I chose to EAT Because I LOVE FOOD AND FOOD LOVES ME! SO before I left that day . I had one last goodbye FEAST
My Record
i got hired at Wal-Mart with them knowing i had a prison record, and after about 1 year they fired me because the wall was broke from someone and it broke so i got blamed for it, they realized they were in the wrong. So i got rehired then about another year later they fired me for having a prison record! Now i can't get another job....
Suit
i did not were my suit, and i got fierd
Take this job and...
I worked at a library a few years ago. It paid like 4 buck an hour and sucked. So I went in for my first day of work and realized i didnt want to do it, so i left in the middle of my shift..without clocking out. The next day I just walked into my work, clocked in and left. I came back later to clock out, and walked past my boss. She just asked me how i was doing and how i was liking the job. I said great, and went home. I never went back. A few weeks later I got a letter in the mail from the library saying i was lazy and was not a reliable worker.
gotta go gotta go gotta go right now
I swiped ID cards at my college for my work study job, allowing people access into the dorms. I worked a six hour shift sitting at a desk swiping cards. We weren't ever supposed to leave the desk. If we had to pee, we were supposed to call for a break, but oftentimes relief took around two hours. So naturally, when I had to pee I wasn't going to wait two hours in extreme discomfort so I would always run down the hall and pee and run back. Took me sixty seconds top, and it's not like a murderer was going to walk into the building while i was gone, or if he was going to, it's not like i would be able to stop him if i hadn't left. anyway, one day a security guard was walked in during the sixty seconds i was away from my desk, reported me like an jerk, and my stupid boss who was just an older student thought that was worthy of firing me.
my fault
I barely went to work and if i did i went on their computer and ate there food and it was a daycare
Postman Pat
While i was working as a postman in a town i didnt know my way round in, i found it much easier to repost the letters i had and go to the nearest pub. I managed to do this for two days until the undelivered letters turned up and the manager realized they were from my round. Sorry if there was delay in your post.
I DID'NT say it!!!!!
i was a cook and i was talking to my assistant one night at work. there were 2 waitressses that were there that did not like me to begin with. After a while of talking to my assistant, the assistant manager came barging into the kitchen telling me that if i wanted to talk about her then i need to do it to her face and not behind her back. i asked her what she was talking about and she told me that the 2 waitresses heard me call her a nasty word behind her back. After trying numerous amounts of times that i DID'NT say it, she told the manager. about an hour later i lost my job of almost 2 yrs. right before I got a raise and before i started recieving vacation time. hey, the manager and the assistant manager were dating anyway. i really got screwed out of my job.... I DID'NT SAY IT!!!!!!!!
My Deranged Encounter
A man came into the she department at my job one day. He looked like your average Joe. Tall,white, a beard. As he was looking over there, he asked me for help and I couldn't help him because I had boxes in my hand. He became angry and, in his anger, called me nasty words. In my anger I pulled out a knife which he assumed to be a boxcutter and held it up yo his face. Mind you, I am not a violent person. My boss caught me and fired me, not because of the knife, but because I didn't call on her to assess the situation.
employee vs.waitress
Me and this girl had been having miss comunications all day. we ended up getting suspended from school because of the fight. We were suspended for a total of 10 school days. We had to work that night and we both worked at the same restuarant. The other girl didn't think that she got her full sayso in at school so she thought it was necessary to wait for me in the parking lot at work to finish out the conflict from school. SO here we are going full involvement and these customers show up and they think that something needs to happen so they go into the restuarant and they tak to the manager that was on duty which happens to be the owner. The manager comes out and he sees me hit her. I am fired on the spot for fighting with an employee in the parking lot. SHe gets to keep her job because she wasn't seen hitting me and the customers didn't see her hit me either. Needless to say that wasn't it. I showed up that night and placed a brick
through her back window of her ne
pwn the noob
i was at work one night when my friend tim came in to show me his new airsoft gun. was a little pistol airsoft gun that cost about 30 bucks.A fellow employee had been annoying me all night so i decided to get even. i borrowed the gun and when she went across the dining room to change some trash i pulled the gun and shot across the store and hit her in the back of the head. pwned that noob...boom headshot.
but of course the manager saw it and i was fired on the spot.
Dreaming
My Boss got me sleeping.
Waitress from the other side
Well it was my first job , besides the odd jobs. N-E-Ways I was going to be the new waitress @ a small town resteraunt. I did all my training and was working for 2 weeks befor the rest of my co-workers finally figured out i was Black and not mexican (a issue I've delt with my whole life). No offense was taken at all , even though i was the first black person they had ever hired there. Well, i was still in high school and my football team was going all the way we were 13-0. The state game was coming up and i asked for the day off. They told me if i could find some one to switch with me they would let me off. Well i had been working there for 4 months now and knew everyone and had my own regulars. Everytime they needed some one to fill in i would come on my days off with no problems at all. So when i asked for the day off to go to the state game i figured there would be no problems. I asked if anyone could take my place and my boss
said no one wanted to work for me. But i already had the tickets and was gonna go to tha damn game no matter what!! I called tha morning b4 to see if i had any takers and my boss assured me there were none but she would keep askin. I got up very early and boarded tha bus to the game. I called and asked again they told me no and I got fired for not showing up that day. i understand why i had gotten fired and got over it. In fact i do not dissagree with thier choice. But 3 nites later I ran into one of my old co-workers she and i talked for hours when finally she asked why had i got fired i told her the situation and she looked @ me in disbelief. She then led on to tell me that she told our boss that she had no problem takin my spot as long as i took hers next weekend and our boss told her that it was ok because i didn't need anyone to cover for me any more. And that I had changed my mind about going to the game. That I do NOT agree with!!
wedding
well my fiancee and i just found out we were gonig to have to relocate for his job. so we decided we may as well get married while we were still around family and friends. anyway i told my boss i could work for her untill i moved and she agreed that was fine, she's known me since i was little. well we only had a month to plan the wedding and i asked for the next 4 saturday's off so i could plan for it. well she got her husband to tell me if i need them off then i need to leave. that was so wrong b/c i ran the place by myself for over a month, so i said see ya!
The Bug Guy Got Me!
Well, I'll just start off by telling you that, this must have all been planned, and my superisor must have really disliked me, because: I was working at the local Dairy Queen, the closing shift manager(f.y.i Im 17 years old), and, at 9:15, the pest control guy walks in and claims, "I understand that the store was to be closed at 9:00." I had no idea, obviously not being informed by my supervisor. I question him about it, but was forced to make an immediate closing of the restuarant. Anywho, after finishing counting and organizing the registers, the bug guy approaches me in the office, (where by the way, we keep all the money) and asks me if I can keep the office open for the pesticide. Me, young and unexperienced as I am, responded, " Im not sure, We dont have a pest problem here, but I suppose if you need me to, I can keep it unlocked." Then he asked, If I could sell him an ice cream bar. "Well," I said
"we are closed, but perhaps if you have the right amount, I could just leave your money here in the office." So I sold it to him. Well, in the end, it turns out the pest guy told my supervisor that I gave him the opportunity to enter the office without supervision, and that I sold him ice cream after close. (Which by the way, is not allowed...) She fired me a day later.
Flirting
I once had a temp job as a call center employee. I was flirting with this girl, and she was flirting back, U know a little frienly whispering in the ear, she would giggle, but tell me, why did I go and mess it up by sticking my tongue in her ear?. Her smile turned to a frown as if I had just vomit on her. She marched into the office. I was called in about 5 min later, and terminated on the spot.
right across the street
I went thru a mcdonalds drivethru with my pizza delivery light on, and the mcdonalds was right across the street from my job. my boss saw me of course and i was fired
Loss Prevention
In november I was hired at local department store. In our training class our trainer told us that we would receive $25 if loss prevention would ask one of us ladies to come to their office to stay with a female shoplifter since their wasn't any female security guards. So a week and half later I got a call from loss prevention to come to their office. I ecstatic that I rubbed it into my co-worker's faces that I was the lucky female that will get $25 in my next pay.They were so jealous. I ran upstairs to the loss prevention office and knocked on the door. After entering I expected to see a shoplifter but a folder on the desk. I acted as if I won a prize but received a one way ticket to the unemployment office. They sat me down and said that I was fired for falsifying documents because of a previous misdemeanor that I failed to put on a application.
fire cracker boom boom
I was 17 years old when i was working for KFC. i was the cook there, ine day i was all cought up on my cooking and it was really slow so i decided to go and light off some of my fireworks that i had. so i went to the back of the store and i stacked up all the fire power i had. i lit the army of fireworks right as my boss rounded the corner. his jaw dropped at the sight and his fists clenched. he tried to stop it before it went off but he was too slow. so then they went off causing the sprinkler system to go off and all the customers ran out screaming. so he said to get my stuff and get out, so i did. i went back a week later to pick up my last pay check and he gave it to me, the only problem was that is was all wet and the ink had ran. lol so i never got to cash it .
A DARK DAY
I was sick and ordered by the doctor to rest from any kind work while on treatment. I was shocked to death when reported back just to receive termination
fired for letting boyfriend stay in room
i work in a hotel...3rd shift my boyfriend always scared for me at night..so i let him stay in a room until i got off,,,well boss found out in fired me,
How I got fired
One day I was reparing a broken computer, when suddenly I saw my boss enter the room. He said," You have been slacking off lately, so we are going to have to let you go." I got so mad that i just dropped my tools and left that building for good
Getting fired on your day off
my boo and I were working together at the local Dominios. I was an insider and he was a delivery driver. On our day off we recieved a phone call. One of the new hires had quit. Leaving no driver for the night. So, he came in to help out. well, two hours after his shift should of ended, I hadn't heard anything from him. I was getting worried. So, I drive to our job. Only to find him sitting in the back of our job talking to friends. Well the situation quickley went from worried to anger. We got into an argument in the back of the store. He had gotten so mad in the arguement that he knocked down a large stack of boxs we had folded. Landing on me, in anger i threw the closest thing I could find which was a cock gun. Now, why was there a cock gun in dominos, Ihave no idea. Just then the manager came to the back. He still had closing work to do and I didn't know that. so, she yelled at me "you have to leave your
disturbing my employees". Well, she was a good friend of both of ours and I thought she was joking. boy was I wrong. My boyfriend and I kept arguing. I seen our manager come back to the back and told me I was fired. and, my last check would be waiting for me.
run over
I was working at a carwash when the driver of a car ran into me with the bubmper, so I dumped a bucket full of water all over him and the interior of his car.
Fire to fired
I was working as a fry cook and I accidently caught my boss's right leg on fire.
Fired From Fast Food
So, after my friend got fired from the job at Subway, I figured the 'stealing money' issue was over. Oh no; the next day, I come in to hear I was, now, being blamed for stealing money. In fact, my drop ticket was missing, and the money was out of the drawer; and thus, we went to look over the camera - it shows me dropping the money into the safe and all. However, the money was not there.. but an empty envelope was. After lots of arguing, I was discharged for stealing which I did not do. I go back the next week to retrieve my final paycheck, and low and behold - the assistant manager tells me it wasn't me, but another girl doing it. Thus, I ask if I can have my job back. Her response? They'd already filled out the paper work, thus no.
Subway
i was working at Subway and handing out foot longs to ANYBODY for a 1.71. Chips, foot long, drink, cookies all included for under 2 dollars. I got fired a month later because he thought I was playing games on my calculator! (TI-89) Not for selling subs and everything for that cheap. lol
Fired for taking my vacation
I worked 3 years for a resort in florida in charge of the cleaning crew that did the rooms.My vacation time came and a few people had quit and it was time for my vacation.I had already made reservations to go to Vegas.When the time came they told my to cancel my vacation i said i could not do so. When i got back they told me my position has been eliminated and i did not have a job anymore. So i told them,you can't fire me for taking a vacation and then quit.
How I got fired from Jack n The Box
My first job I ever had I worked at Jack n The Box. I was new so they called me "Taco Girl". My best friend who got me the job also worked there. Her brother who I had a crush on picked us up from work every night. This night her brother showed up early and I could see him from the corner of my eye watching me as I made a ton of tacos. It was almost time to go so I was trying to hurry. While I was doing my work I just so happened to over hear my shift leader talking about my crush. She said he was cute and she would "do" him. I couldnt help but be so pissed! I started to throw curly fries and tacos every where. She seen that I was obviously pissed off and asked if we were going out. I said no and since she was my shift leader she wrote me up for having an attitude and throwing stuff around. Next thing you know I ran out the back door across a busy street all the way home. Needless to say I got fired.
How my life and my job was over
It all started when i was in the bedroom watching my favorite cartoon. i was aware that i would have a reaally really really busy day ahead of me.Instead of going to bed i stayed up and watched television.I went to bed at around 1:58 the next morning i was 2 hours late my dumb alarm clock didnt go off instead i slept most of the day i managed to get to work 1hour after but i didnt understand why my husband daren didnt bother to wake me.when i finally arrived at work it took me 32 mins untill i finally realized that my shirt was on wrong and showing half of my upper area. but it was too late my boss already saw me and beleive me he was ferious he fired me on the spot so i had to pack all my belongings and it seemed like everybody was laughing at me. when i reached home my husband was most ferious of all.i didnt even explain i just went straight to bed and knew my job and my life was over.
firred
i was on my break and i didnt really no nobody so i went outside for a cig and at the end of my breake i went back into work and all of my belongings was in a box i wouldnt mind but it was my first day starting that job and the boss come out of his office and said none of my staff smoke on my premises i said i wasnt smoking on your premises i was smoking out out side he said just get out.
Sundays
A new manager would not allow me back to work after taking a leave because I told her I could not work on Sundays. She said, "My daddy was a Penecostal preacher and HE worked every Sunday!" Yeah - I thought - that's what preachers do ...
scratch
my friend was working at a bar and grill and he was ask to clean the grill one day it was his first time cleaning the grill and when he seen it he notice that there was about a months worth of grease on the grill and so after Brian finished cleaning the grill the boss looked at it and told Brian that he was fired for scratching up his only grill, but the grill was not scratched its just that the boss hasn't seen his grill cleaned so long that when Brian got most of the grease off of the grill it seemed to be scratched in his eyes.
a safe way to earn a living
I was working the night shift at safeway in Bearwood Birmingham, and really wasn't enjoying the job or the unsociable hours. I'd also just split up with my girlfriend so I was feelin a bit down and really didnt wanna go back to the place. The only wayI could think of to never have to go back there again was to tell my parents the other members of staff were bullying me, making me do disgusting jobs and hurling abuse my way. I said I was never going back and my parents accepted it, i then proceeded to go out for the night thinking the issue had been resolved. I got back at 3am and my dad had a face like thunder, apparently he went down to Safeway and grabbed the manager up against the wall and was threatening all the staff!! whoops! Never had to go back there tho wahey!
jerk! jerk!jerk!
i got fired because my boss didnt like the fact that i couldnt come in early for work because my sister was in the hospital. even though another employee can take the entire day off to see her brother who drove drunk and in the hospital!!!
Brushing teeth
Ok too make a long story short that morning i woke up late and didnt have time to brush my teeth. I went to work and it was like 7 am so by the time i get to work my boss asks my why im late and then i tell him. I guess he smelled my breath and said that i had to be let go because he will not be represented by someone who doesnt brush their teeth.
Drunk or just another hangover
I was drunk the night before so I had my friend take me to work. I had a few drinks on the way there because I had previously came up with the idea to quit. My boss was cruel to everyone especially me. I knew that the boss liked me he had just a bad way of showing it. He would have had to have a good reason to fire me. So I had to be drunk and crazy. I often don't drink as much as I did but this was a matter or eat or be eaten. So I walked in to find the boss had decided to give me the promotion I had wanted since I got married. Well, when I told my wife just what had happended she just bust out laughing. So I had to tell someone about how I was fired from my great new job, before I even started!
toilet
So i was working in a fast food place and I got fired for forgetting to flush the toilet.
6 O'clock
I worked at a fast food restaurant that served breakfast, lunch, & dinner. Rather than just being open to work one shift. I told the manager I will work ANY hours that is available to make more money. So I often did 3 morning shifts and 2 evening shifts each week. It was never steady.
My hours were all jacked up. Sometimes I would work 4 hours, 5.5 Hours, ooooh and if I was really lucky I was able to work a 6 hour shift without being sent home early due to lack of sales. Not by choice but when it "slowed down" I was the first to go home!
To make a long story short I was scheduled for 6 O'clock AM one day but I arrived at 6 O'clock PM it really was an honest mistake. When I jotted down my schedule I must have made a mistake. I didn't even get a WARNING just: YOUR FIRED! I cried my eyes out and have been a 26 y/o female living with my parents ever since. I can't quite afford an apartment yet.
I bit her
This is honestly the stupidest thing that has ever happened to me. I worked in a clothing store and I was playing around with a co-worker and i bit her lightly playing around. we are both females so it's not like I was trying to make some sort of move on her. Well, she felt uncomfortable and instead of confronting me she went and told the manager who she is close with. I got fired for "misconduct".
The Babysitting Accident
One day i was watching an 8 year old and an 8 month year old. I sat them down on the couch and the younger baby fell off the couch and smashed his head against the floor. When the mother came home, the 8 year old told his mom what happened and I started laughing even though it wasn't funny. Afterwards, she cursed me out and told me to go home and never come back. Till this day, i still laugh about what happened that day!
oops!
i was working in a marverick store one morning, and our big head honcho guy makes his routine visit. well i am stocking all the frieght,( breaking down boxes and all). i could break down this certain kind of box, that the bagged jerky came in, very easily. so i thought i would jump onto one at a time and smash it. lol. needless to say, on my way back down the box slid out from under me, and my butt landed on the concrete floor right in front of the district manager.
just plain wierd
i was going to be a stable hand at a horse barn, and, at the time, i wasnt used to working with earshy horses, so i was leading a ear-shy horse to the round pen and i saw he had a fly so i reached up and brushed the fly away. well, the horse freaked out and got lose and galloped all over the place, i finly cot him but my boss fired me just for that one mistake!
I GOT FIRED
WELL I GOT FIRED B/C I CAME TO WORK LATE LIKE ABOUT 2 HOURS LATE HAHA
oops!
This is what happened. You see, I was a secretary and my boss treated me so low that I couldn't take it anymore. So, I ask my friend for advice on how to get fired. She says 'Spill some coffee on his groin.' So that morning, I went into his office and spilled the extra-hot coffee all over his groin. I waited for his reaction. In my mind I was like ' YES! THIS IS IT!' But boy was I wrong. He didn't fire me. There was no answer. He jsut sent me away to get him a new pair of trousers. Damn! I was upset. So, I went back to my friend and she asked me,' Why don't you just quit?' But you see, I couldn't do that, because...I just couldn't. I need revenge. A few days later, I was in my office when I got a call from my boss's wife. She left a message telling to inform him that his yearly cut for his wig was today. Wig?! PERFECT!!!!!! Later on, I walked into my boss's room with a camera hidden in my pocket. I charged towards him and ripped off his wig
and quickly took a picture.
Immediately after that I ran home. I went on my computer and I upload the pic. I sent it to everyone in the office. The next day, I printed copy of the picture was posted on every wall of the building. And guess what? My plan worked!! And now I'm at home, jobless...yay!
wedding
I was planning on getting married on a Saturday coming up. I asked for the day off work but my boss said no. So rather than changing anything, I called off sick. I was told to either come in to work or I would be fired. I was fired.
wet grass
I was coming back from my lunch break in my car and it was raining. the parkling lot was full so i had to park in the grass parking. well i thought it would be cool to drift/slide my car in to the spot. well i cut the wheel to turn but i just kept sliding staight and i slid right into an empty oil tank. It had a huge dent in it. so yea i got fired for that.
Water Spill
I was on my way to the office when i saw my friend push over a water bottle. our boss came and said he saw me do it . and he fired me cuase my area was the wetest.
don't work for benson box ever
i was doing a lot of bending over so i asked the boss for some equipment that we use to lift pallets so my back does not ache as bad and i can work better but he straight away said i didn't hurt my back in his building and said that bending over repetedly wouldn't harm my back at all the next day i recived a phone call saying that i wasn't needed for work at benson box
Thats so dumb...
I called to ask a personal day. My Boss said okay,so I did. Then, next day at work, he asked,'Where were you yesterday?' Then I told him that he said I could take a personal day off.
'well, I dont thin so. I think youre makin me think I dont remember what I said.YOURE FIRED!!!!GET OUTTA HERE!!!!!
drunk tubing
i worked at a water park in nj for the summer to make some quick money. the business was family owned and operated so everyone was against me pretty much when something went wrong. so one moring i drove to work with 5 of my friends in the car and we were all drunk. so then we continued to go down the water slides until they sent people after us. ha they found out it was me and told me never to come back.
Personal Phone Calls
I once had a job that required me to be on the phone for a certain amount of time everyday making sales calls. I also had a lot of work to do off the phone. In order to meet my phone time quota I found a few numbers that would go into voicemail systems and not hang up on me. That way I could leave my desk and go do other work and still accumulate minutes towards my required phone time. I kept this up for six months. Once the boss discovered that I was getting a lot of my phone time from a few numbers, he called them. When he got the voicemail systems, he realized that I had found a way to cheat the system, so he fired me for making personal phone calls.
ADMIT THE TRUTH BUT STUPID
I STOLE A PAIR OF SHOES AND THOUGHT I COULD GET AWAY WITH IT AND GOT CAUGHT AND LOOKED DUMB BECAUSE I DENIED IT.
cheating
i was working at publix grocery store everything was going fine then my fiance' brought another girl up there while i was workin when he came to see me on my break he said she was just a friend but i knew better so i ended up leaving on my lunch break to go check up on him and i didn't go back that day so i got fired and he broke up wit me within 2 hours of each other.
Pathetic!!!
So i was fired for absolutly no reason. Well it's not i have two people who were there with me. My story is about a bakery and how for 7 months i delt with them not giving me my check and just giving me money right out of the drawer. On july 21, 2006 i was fired for asking to have all my money that i worked for. I didn't yell i didn't swear..In fact i almost started crying because i was scared that she was going fire me. But 10 min before she fired me she wanted me to work a 7 hour shift. ( what kind of boss wants you to work 7 hours then fires you) anyway i demanded my full paycheck and i was called names and told i was fired that 'they don't run a business like that' So that's the short story. Usually when we were supposed to get our checkes she would run away or say she didn't have time. Thats a long story short.
Fired for Not Working
My friend and I work at a convenience store, will I do anyway.My friend and I were hanging out at his house when our boss came in and started yelling at us, because we ran out of beer. My boss and my friend are yelling at each my boss saying I don't pay you sit on your butt while my friend is saying if you were their this morning you would have known we were running low and could have gotten more. So finally after about half an hour they stop yelling and my boss tells him that he is has to go to work the next day, his only day off that week, and my friend says he's not going to go to work the next day and my boss tells him that he is and my friend refuses and my boss finally tells him that he's fired and my friend says good then you can go to work tomorrow and stock the beer cooler, Then my boss says you want to get smart with me boy and my friends says if thats what it takes to get anything through your skull, so my boss says lets take
this outside and i'll put my fist through your skull.
Step fowrard
I had been working as a billing clerk in a hospital and my boss told all the employees, not including doctors and nurses, to come to his office then he asked all the employees who worked the to take one step forward as soon as i went to take my step h said to me wait just a minute. It only took me a second to realize what he was trying to say i just wished he would have told me in private or in some other way because not only was i job less I was completely humiliated in front of all my co-workers
Sleeping Head
One morning i came to work and felt very sleepy. It was the afternoon about 16h00 after my lunch break.
I was playing a game on my PC and fall asleep next to it.
My manager woke me up - asking me what am i doing . I told her but i was just closing my eyes because something flew in it. Than she asked but why did i play games while i surposed to be working - i could'nt give het=r an answer, she said well first you plaed games and then after that you were sleeping. She said if you were only closing your eyes why were you snoring so much. I also cou;d'nt give her an answer. She walked away - and myself and some collegues were laughing so much i thought it was just nothing to worry about. She called me saying that she wants to she me before i go home - at that moment i started worrying.
I was only in her office for 2 minutes and she said 'YOU'RE FIRED'and that she never wanted to see me again.
So i turned around and walked home very sadly.
So there you have it.
Regards
Yvette
I GOT SICK
WELL I WENT IN TO WORK SICK AS A DOG AND I FELT LIKE I HAD TO VOMIT AND WHEN I CAME UP I GOT MY BOSS AND IT WENT IN TO THE DEEP FRYER......LOL THEY FIRED ME O WELL
Denny's
I was working at Denny's, my boss accused me of using a manager's number for giving discounts, which wasn't true. I called him a nasty name, then he fired me.
slapping match
it was feurary 2004 i had been working at Mc donalds for about 3 months there was a teenage girl who worked part time well it was super bowl sunday me and her were workin side by side for a few hours making burgers when suddenly a guy walks in and orders 30 double cheese burgers and 30 chicken sandwichs we start fixing the order when i reach over her to get some meat patties she said im tired of your atttitude and threw a Mc chicken sandwich in my face so i picked up a patty and slapped her in the face with it . the only difference in mine and hers she had mayo on hers after it was over i was fired and sent home immediately and put on the non rehirable list she was never even gotten onto
Um
My Friend Got fired from his job at Subway.. He was checking this lady out and he was taking for ever.. so the lady said that he was the worst worker she has ever come in contact with. So he said that she was the ugliest person he has ever come in contact with and then said you know what, I dont give a care about doin this for you. Then he reached into his pocket and pulled out his camera phone to take a picture of the lady and then he laughed at her and went to make more sandwiches.. He got fired the next day. It was Hilarious.
Kleptomania and me
I was a sincere salesperson at a famous and huge Departmental in a cosmopolitan city centre. With the whole gamut of CCTVs and the security setup, I was to keep an eye on the CCTV monitor screen between my busy tasks at the counter.There were many a descrepencies in the stores tally at the weekends and my collegues were being pulled for the lapses.
That horrific day, I zeroed in on a graceful looking lady looking very casual and hoarding a lot of stores on her shopping trolly and in the mean time tuck-in a couple of expensive and small cosmetics and such novelties in her hand bag.That was blatant and I shot out like a James Bond and ran to the corner and showered all the abuses and caught hold of her wrist, quite hurting her and treatning her.
Loud and insulting, showing a great deal of initiative, I called the police from my cell phone. The Police station being in the near vicinity, the cops took no time to arrive.Some local press also got a few snaps for the evening newpapers.That was quite a scene till the Manager came and held my collor and took me aside.
It took only next 2hours to get myself fired and kicked out of the famous shopping Mall because that woman turned out to be the Boss's wife. The graceful lady did not lose her grace in slapping me hard on my face before the security staff pushed me out of place.
BAD DAY at work
Ok it started off with me teaching this guy named Randy how to do his job because he was new. So i tought him for a good year. Than i stoped because he new how than he took all my ideas and my job. I dont know how!
hangin out
i want to a bar and met this beiutiful woman sitting all by herself. I though i would go talk 2 her and maybe get to know her a little bit. As I sat there and talked for about 20 minutes I started to make a move. As i did her husband came up to us. It was my boss. so i got fired and she got divorced.
the way that i got fired
so, last week i got fired. i've worked at a firm that sells computers. My job was to repair broken computers, so on that day i had to repair a laptop. While I was working a friend came a brought me a cup of coffee, but accidentally i dropped the coffee on the laptop a I broked it. My boss saw me and I was fired.
I WORKED FOR AN IDIOT
I was fired for complaining about my
bounced pay check.
Sick Leave
Was going through hard times: divorce, depression, lots of things. Worked in the medical field and my job was stressful. Decided to talk to my boss about it. Boss encouraged takeing leave and mentioned family medical leave which I had never heard of before. Before my 12 weeks of time off had occured, my boss called me in office and said I was fired for 'no call in, no show' for work. And it was acutally his idea I take time off! I am not happy.... neither is my lawyer!
kristina
i got fired at fashion bug for being at work on a saturday i wasent even suppouse to work at 5pm instead of 4pm and i wasent even told to come in at 4pm. tey fired me n they didnt even know why exactly when i asked the managers.
Fired because I care more about School
Alright so I called my boss and told her that I was supposed to work that day but would not make it because I was still on my way back from home. Then another time I had to call in because I'm currently in College and so I had a lot of homework and studying to do. My boss didn't even care at all and said that she could not rely on me and that my school schedule does not matter to her and that she would not be able to work around it so she fired me. How retarted.
Too Old, Too Slow
I had just moved to a small country town where jobs were scarce. I found a job in a paper factory grabbing folders off the assembly line. After about 2 months, it wasn't getting better. Remember the old I Love Lucy where the girls are working in a candy factory? That was me. The folders fell on the floor, I dropped them....I had to grab stacks of these as they came off & filter through them for mistakes & count them in 50's & stack them on skids. I worked so hard by lunch time I was to exhausted to eat. My boss caught me throwing more folders away than stacking & he fired me in front of everyone. To make it more embarrassing, I begged for my job as I really needed it. He said no, I had tried as hard as I could, I just couldn't keep up. Actually he said I was one of his best employees...I just couldn't do it.
Burnt Hair
I burnt my bosses hair when we were having a cigarette, I went inside grabbed a drink - which unfortunately was vodka from last weeks party- and tipped it over his head. His head was burning so so bad, I called the ambulance just in time my mate Bill came over and chucked some water over his head. The first thing I heard him say was ' your fired! '
Thrown up and out
I once called in because i was sick and throwing up every where. When i called in i was told that i didnt have any sick days, so i decided to go in. Within the first 30 Min. of being there i threw up all over a lady and her baby. I was immediately fired and sent home.
boss hates me
i went in to work to check the schedule to see when i worked that week and it said that i worked the next day at 4:00pm the next day i went into work and the boss called me in to his office and said why are you late i'm not yes you are he said i have you on the schedule for2:00 not 4:00 your fired
Wrong Place For the Bowl
My friend got a job at a local restaurant as a dihwasher, and he was pretty happy about it. Well, one day when he was finished washing a bowl, he set it down on the counter beside him. His boss saw this and began to yell at him for not immediately placing the bowl with the others. My friend tried to explain that he was just about to do that but his boss wouldnt listen and he got fired.
sick child
My daughter had two surgeries in a 2 year time frame. I mised two days work for each one of them. After the 2nd one my boss had his secretary to call me and let me go. I immediately called him to see what was going on . I mean with hospital bills for this we needed my job. he agreed to keep me on . So the next day as I was leaving for work my cell phone rang . it was him telling me that he had changed his mind, I was fired . Not only was I fired i never received my last paycheck. I now have a better paying job with better hours. thank God
Git-in-go
i was working at a git-in-go and i was hungry and thirsty at the same time so i thought that a shrimp slushy would do the job of filling me up....unfortunately the manager caught me and i was fired!!
cutting
well i was cutting a lawn for a bit of extra cash and well....i kinda chopped up their most expensive plant that they had had for about 10 years oppps lol.
TOO SLOW
I was working for a company that packaged things for convenience stores . This story is not funny but it's the only one I have . I was working for them for about three weeks and the man that hired me had already told me that he didn't care how slow I was as long as Ididn't make any mistakes which Ididn't after I got the hang of what I was doing . But after three weeks they called me into the office and fired me because I was 2 slow it really sucked 2 because i couldn't go back 2 the job i had before . Now though Ihave a very good job making alot more money than I was there .
called the county health department
I was a waitress at a hotel restaurant that had a banquet facility on the 8th floor and the regular restaurant on the 10th floor. When passing by the banquet facility kitchen on the service elevator, the stench was overwhelming. I called the county health department from the restaurant telephone and told them how bad the kitchen was. The operator that helped me get the number was horrified when I told her the story. The garbage disposal on the dish-washing machine was broken and all backed up with rotten garbage and dirty dishes. There were stacks of dirty dishes everywhere; pots and pans, plates, eveything. The floor was filthy, the walk-in cooler was filled with rotten, uncovered food, the lights were burned out in the cooler too. They were giving banquets, but never cleaned up afterwards. They had over ten pages of citations and were fined a lot of money. I told the head-waiter what I had done, and he told the boss. The
boss asked me if I had called and I said '
yes'. I wasn't surprised when she fired me, but felt good about what I had done.
Its not what it seems
I was mowing lawns for a lady in the middle of fall and as soon as I was done all of the leaves blew all over the lawn again. I was so exhausted so I went to sit down and as I was drinking water the lady came home and saw the work I had done but to her it looked like I hadn't lifted a finger. I haven't recieved a call back since.
slap that boss
i slaped my boss because she told me that i couldnt go to the restroom when i had to go very badly. he said you can go in ten minutes when your brake is but i couldn't wait!!!
Star Trek Was Too Interesting
So I had a job at a Grocery store called Giant Tiger in Canada. I was a good worker and all for about 3 months. However, after the three months they shifted my schedule over an hour, so I had time to go home after school instead of directley to work, this is where Star Trek compelled me. I would watch star trek deep space nine then go to work no problem, I got into it about 2 seasons, when they transfered my shifts back to their original time. However, I chose to come in an hour and a half late to work everyday because I did not want to miss star trek cause it was getting so damn interesting. After about 3 weeks of this I was fired. There you have it, I lost my job because of star trek, and I don't even regret it
Pudding prank
My friend worked at a vase shop and was a real prankster so one day she decided to fill a vase that her boss was showing to customers with chocolate pudding. A woman went there tring to find a vase to match fake flowers she had and my friends boss a
showed her the one with pudding (not knowing it had pudding in it) and the woman stuck the flowers in it to see how it looked and when she pulled them out she screamed and scared off customers the next day she was fired! lol Right!
no shoes no job
ok, when i was 16 i had worked at this hair-cuttery. there was a dress code which made you wear fancy shoes EX:HIGH HEELS. n*e*wayz, i went to work one day after school and forgot to change my sneaks. so i called my bf. to bring me my heels. when i sw him pull up outside i took my shoes off inside the store and ran outside to get the heels. when i came back in to put them on, the big boss came out and told me i was unprofessional and was fired. whatever!! there wasnt even any customers in the store.
joke gone bad
I got fired when i made fun of my boss and my boss in the office overhearheard it and fired me for that.
Oh "Shoot!"
I'm a security guard. I was working on one of my cites when I saw one of my friends and we just started foolin around. He showed me his bibi gun he had jus got and I was showin him my sexy gun poses. So while we were getting out of control, my boss showed up and was watchin me point the gun at random strangers while I was at work. Think thas it? Here's is why this was the worst day ever. I was a new employee, I had no met my boss yet. He was comin to give me the uniform and the badges and all that stuff. I was dressed in dress pants and the work shirt for my work. So the cops were involved and everyone thought I was some psycho killer. Good thing it didn't go on my criminal record!
i was fired
alright i was working in a messagenger place but i was still in school and i kept on going to work late then and my job was taking money out of my check next thing u know i said something three days later FIRED just like dat they told me that they had to let me go becuase i was getting 2 work to late
Have a nive trip? See you next fall.
My sister and I worked at the same place at this time. After I had been there about a month, my sister quit because our boss verbally abused and cussed at her. On the next day I worked with our boss, she 'accidentally' dropped a slice of tomato right as I took a step causing me to sprain my left ankle. I had already sprained that ankle twice, so, it was pretty bad when it got sprained at that time. By the way, I saw her looking over her shoulder every time she heard me move. Looking back at this point, I know she was waiting for me to take a step in the direction she was planning on dropping the tomato slice. After everything was said and done, she fired me because I had to sit down when my ankle bothered me too bad. What she said was that she couldn't have me there not doing anything. I had to sit down once every hour. I was there for 7 hours a day. I only sat down, maybe, 5 minutes other than we I ate lunch or dinner,
depending on what hours I worked. Is
that a bad (or good) enough for ya?
how i got fired
well it all started when i was sitting at my desk as usual doing my work.when i suddenly began to feel bored so i decided to play some computer games. while my boss was having his dinner. i was shouting every time i shot the people on it.i was shoting that much i heared a creak at the door when in came my boss.
'katieeeee'
'wot are you doing i heared shouting every time i tried to take a bite of my samwich'.
i just stared at him.
he came over to look at my computer i quickly tried to minimise it but i minimised the wrong one.
'katie,you are fired for playing computer games'.
so thats how i got fired all because of me playing computer games.
loser
when i went to work my boss said yo your fired and i ask y he said because yo were`t hired.
not smiling enough?
i got the job at the mall working at a restaurant/bowling place... a new place that was opening. was working there for about a week.. training and fixing up the store for opening.. the day before we were scheduled to open they pull me aside and tell me that they were letting me go because they didnt think i fit their needs. yaddayadda.. they go on and on to make it not sound soo terrible. then at my new job i ended up at.. a girl that was the twin of the girl that worked with me at the restaurant..was working with me and was like hey arent u the girl they like fired for not smiling enough? what she really said was in spanish and meant '**** face' if u directly translate it!! isnt that lovely?
fallin asleep
The day before I went to work I had a really good day I was sooo drunk that I didn't go to sleep till like 7am in the morning and I had to work 2 hours latter the day i went to work since I worked in a pizzaria I had to get some sleep cuz I did pizzas and make them guess what the morning I went to work that day 2 hrs after my hang over and no sleep I went to work and was making a pizza guess what happen I was puttin the sauce on the pizza and my face fell in the pie lolz is that funny or what I was so tired from the 1 hr of sleep and being drunk I couldn't help my self I was soo tired and write there my boss told me I was fired
Sorry, we just don't have the money to pay you
So i worked at the local pet store putting food on shelves. I got minumum wage. It started when both bosses left. One got a real job and the other got hurt. So they hired a temp boss. Since I am underage, she hired her boyfriend to help out. I had to beg for a week to get my measely excuse of a paycheck. Then they took me off the schedule. After a week I asked why. The answer was-sorry, forgot. Just call in every day to see if we need you. So I did and they did not. Finally I said I am even still working here. My answer was,'Yes of course, but we don't have the money to pay you' I still haven't a check that they have owed me for about a month now.
...i Got Fired >:(
it kind of happened....kind of like...as soon as i got my job! So i had to go to this like....meeting. and i talked. and then ma boss got angry coz i like just talked. and so i talked again...he got real angry. and i talked again basically becoz ni want to put my point of view forawrd and he just goes really red and i'm like looking at him thinking 'what the heck hav i done?' and when i get out of the room he fires me......he has some baaaad anger probs.
Car trouble
My car got wrecked and it was not drivable. So when i called in on monday to get a day or two off, i was told i could only get that day, it was a travel job. I couldn't get things figured out in the one day so i called the next, Tuesday to talk to my boss, who wouldn't return my phone call. Later that night around 11pm, i got a voicemail telling me if i didn't show to the store, i would be fired. Obvioulsy with no car and a problem like this i was unable to do so. As a result i was fired unfairly from a great job.
I got fired for calling my manager a ugly bear from the woods.
i got fired for calling my manager a ' ugly bear from the woods '
i have been working at mcdonalds for like 6 months and now that i found a job that pays me $11 an hour i thought that it would be smart to call my mcdonald manager names.
she is a very bad manager. she makes me clean up the floor and pop can while there were whole bucnch of peoples right there looking at me.
one time i was about to smack her face with a broom stick for making me clean up the bathroom and she was yelling too while there were lots of peoples looking at me.
so last month i had enough and i called my manager an ugly bear and told her to go back to the cave in the woods, then she came to me with her bear face in front of me so i said u touch me i sue you and ' I'M LOVING IT '. then i said i quit u ugly bear and walked out WITH MY HEAD HELD HIGH .
ALIENS ATTACK
I was detasseling during the summer of 2006, to earn money for a car. I got real bored after days of slowly walking down the lonely rows of corn. I thought it would be funny to make crop circles in the middle of the corn feild. With no one looking, I made a crop circle about 30 feet in diameter. I finished my artwork then continued working. Later on, people came screaming running out of the corn field. They got so scared of the crop circle, many of them quit detassiling. About five people got fired because of me. The next day, I was caught and got fired for scaring the other employees. It was well worth getting fired for such a funny prank.
Doctor Said
Me and my mate Emma were a bit bored and were always skint, so we decided we should have a go at helping out down one of the local day care centres. Now, Emma has a bit of... Bowl trouble, if you know what I mean, and she was getting it sorted out at the Doctors round the same time we applied at Sunnydays Care Centre. Anyway, we'd been put on assistant duities, and had to make snacks for employees and file things for them, you know the sort of thing. Meanwhile, Emma's doctor had told her he needed a sample of her stuff, just to see how her bowls were doing. She came into work with an old coffee strainer and said she's use it when ready. Anyhow, she did her business and left it out the way on a tray with some sugar and old teabags and stuff on it. Anyhow, the boss came into the lounge and asked for a coffee, 'sharpish'. I rushed to be the one to make it and hopefully leave a good impression. Of course, I ended up quenching my boss's thirst with
a cup of... Well, guess! She splurted it out all
over the floor and fired me on the spot. When Emma saw it she fessed up rather crimsonly and was fired too. We got home and spent abour four hours laughing about specific moments, I'll never forget it! I still wonder why my mate's business looks like weak coffee though...
burning shame
well it starts off as the boss was just a complete idiot had no idea on how to run a business. so me and a few of the workers gave him hell non stop..it was really funny! the boss ended up crackin the sads and said he was gonna fire me...at that stage i really didn't care.. anyways i was walkin to work and decided to light my work shirt on fire and ripped it all up..it was a mess. i walked into work and threw the shirt at the boss and said 'i quit' he said too late your fired. i didn't care it was a pissa.
Sleepy boss
I walked into my bosses office one day and she was laying there asleep.i simply acted like i was clearing my throat.she woke up and was embarrased so she said 'youre fired'.I asked why.she said for snooping around in her office
cleaning hose
I didn't show up for work 1 day!!!
SURPIRISE!
It was my birthday, and everybody ignored me. Including my wife and kids. I thought they had all forgotten, so I was really mad. So I went to work like it was any other day, then my really hot secreatary (And the Boss's Daughter), Elise gave me a my cup of coffee like usual, then invited me ot her house after work. Naturally I obliged, and on the way to her home we didn't speak all that much. So we got inside the hosue and I sat on her couch. She said she was going to go 'Freshen Up'. I took this in the wrong way, so when she came back I was shirtless, and nearly pantsless. She screamed before turning the light on. Everybody jumped out, and yelled Suprise, Happy Birthday! Of course I was fired.
first kids job
i am 14 and i was 13 when i got my first everyday job. a friends mother asked if i could tutor her 8 year old daughter. i said yeas because for my age i got good pay. she really apperciated me and the daughter was doing better in school. i lost my job because i didny work with her daughters schedule.
How I got fired from my job
I work at hotel. We have a very old and stupid boss. He pisses me off. I would of kill him. Ok, now I will tell you how he fired me. Once I was pissed off by him and I did one thing on purpose. I went to his room and turned everything upside down. I took all his important papers that he need for work and I threw them out of the window, then I took his computer and I threw it on the wall. His computer broke. Then i broke his table thats made out of glass!! Then when I finished doing all of that, I was still in his small old freakin Room. And he came and he saw me. He WAS SO SO SO SO PISSED OF!!! First we were fighting I punched him in the face then he. Then i beat him up and he was scared! He called the security and he SO FIRED ME!!!!
oh my god
well i was working for wendys and a person came in threw the drive in window and she said there was a piece of hair in the food and i told her to take it to some one who cares and th en i got fired
The supermarket
I once worked for a supermarket that had a cute checkout girl that my boss hag the hots for. instead of him she went out with me.
the next day the boss told me that I was fired.I decided to 'treat' my boss to some chocolate,knowing he had a sweet tooth.the 'chocolate was secretly exlax,and I gave him 4 squares.as soon after he ate the chocolate he became sick,and headed to the bathroom.
As I left the store, I was applauded and hoorayed for getting the jerk off everyones back,even for just a day.
and thats how I got fired.
Some Boss
I was 5 months pregnant working at a BP gas station for a real nag of a boss. I was working Valentines Day of this year when I got really sick and had severe pains in my stomach. I called my boss and told her she needed to come in and work because I was going to the hospital. She told me to call someone else becuase she was busy. i told her the ambulence was on the way so she was going to have to do it. she said fine and slamed the phone down. When she got into work she was crying becuase SHE had to work... she didn't care that i was colapsed on the floor in pain but she did care that she had to work. Anyway, I was supposed to work the next day but was still in the hospital. my mom called my boss and told her i wasn't albe to work because I was still in a lot of pain. Later that same day, the phone in my room rang and it was her. she told me that she had no further use for me and that i was worthless. She said i needed to give my uniform
back that day. so let me recap... SHE FIRED ME
WHILE I WAS LAYING IN A HOSPITAL BED!!!!
Hairy Bed
I used to work at a hotel called The Hampton Inn (house keeping).I hated having to go to work everyday at 8am.One day I got lazy and as I was cleaning the rooms I started slacking and I wasn't changing the sheets on the beds,I didn't think I would get caught but sure enough the next day I got a call from my boss and she told me she had to fire me because she found hair on one of the beds!
And I would have got away with it too.....
Didn't feel like working one day so brought a bag full of cans of beer with me. I clocked in and sat outside in this shed they had for smokers. By about 1 o'clock i was off my face and flicked my cigarette across the room . This landed in a polystyrene cup setting it on fire. The cup was next to a bin which also set on fire. As I tryed to get up to put it out I fell and landed in my pile of empty cans. And who should walk in at that very moment but my supervisor Willy. Strangely enough I still got paid for that entire weeks work even after being booted off the property by security. Jackpot :)
Giving Coupons is Bad?
I arrived at work on friday the 13th and my general manager was there and she asked me to come in the back and talk to her. i went back there and they gave me the big long spiel explaining why they started looking into my like paperwork. ok people i am a hairstylist, how hard can it be. so she proceeded to tell me that it is against company policies to give people coupons when they don't recieve them in the mail or don't have them at the time of arrival, so in other words i got fired for saving people money. Then they told me that if i would do a whole haircut and only charge then for a bang/neck trim (5.00) instead of 11.00 that that was wrong and taking money from them, shows you how much they care.
Fired Outback
I worked at Outback as a hostess for about 3 months. In that time, my manager had fired 9 people in one month and accidently took me off the list along with everyone else and didn't schedule me all one week (I have bills to pay!). Then I had told her I was available everyday except Tuesay and she was cool with that. Well, she scheduled me like 2 Tuesdays in a row and I still worked them. Then came the deadest week of the year. She scheduled 4 hostessed to work one night which is rediculous. (Keep in mind we make our money off tipshare). So I decided to call in sick. This was my first time and since they screwed me so many times, i didn't think it was a big deal. Well, my manager called me the next day and told me since I couldn't give him a doctor's note, i was fired because I wasn't dependable!! Who isn't dependable??
How i got fired from my first job
I was baby sitting this kid every friday night.one night the kids gramma came over unannounced and fired me she said i was to young and she would baby sit from now on.
the dr appt
I worked at Chilis and my insurance only covers me out of the town i live which is about 3 hours away. i put the appt in the book and had it approved by a manager. then when i got back i was fired for a no call no show even tho i was already approved to have that day off. so i walked out and didnt care that i was missing out on 3 dollars an hour plus about 12 bucks a day in tips for only 3 days of work a week and which only added up to about 2, 50 dollar pay checks every 2 weeks i was making like 250 bucks a month go chiliheads! way to get rich quick
lost job
I was on holiday got delayed couldn't inform company tried to explain to personnel when i got back but was fired.
All for Love
I was an assistant manager in a Pizza Hut, and I was closing on the night of July 3rd. Ten minutes before closing, my ex-boyfriend came strolling into the store. Since I was still in love with him, I asked him to stay until the crew and I were done closing down the place. He agreed and sat with me in the office while I did the closing paper work. We talked and worked a few things out. After all the closing work was done, I set the alarm and locked the doors. My ex offered to buy me a drink after work, so thinking I might get lucky, I agreed. Needless to say, one drink turned into ten, and we were on our way to Taos (a big tourist gambling town in New Mexico). After many more drinks and bouts of gambling, we decide to get a room because I we wre both way too intoxicated to drive any further. I knew I had to be back to open the store in the morning, so I set up a 6 a.m. wake up call (it was already like 4 a.m.). After making up with my ex
and no sleep for over 24 hours, I slept through
the wake up call. I rolled over and saw that it was a quarter to 10, ten minutes before I was supposed to be at work. I couldn't find my cell phone, so I quickly grabbed the room phone and called my general manager and said I was sick and would not be able to make it into work. She then instructed me to call her back in ten minutes to see what she could do. Five minutes later the phone rang. Not thinking, I picked up the phone, and to my surprise, it was my manager on the other end of the line. I got fired for lying, and calling off on a holiday. Needless to say, I hate caller ID, but on the bright side, my boyfriend and I are still happily together!
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