To survive, people have to contribute to society, i.e. have to have a job. So losing it might be really scary as your livelihood depends on it. A lot of the times you may think that it was unfair and feel unappreciated for the skills and knowledge you offered to your employer.
Being fired might be expected or come out of the blue, but it’s always unpleasant and redditors shared the worst way to get fired after preshowerpoop asked them, “What is the worst way you or someone you know has been ‘fired’ from a job?”
There were some wild and bizarre stories that showed just how much companies don’t care about their workers or how weird employees can be. Let us know if you have any of your own experiences in the comments!
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#1 Fired During ‘Take Your Daughter To Work’ Day
My dad told me once about a coworker getting fired on take your daughter to work day. It was before lunch too so they both had to be escorted out of the office carrying their brown paper lunch bags.
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#2 The Manager Asked To Stay 2 Unpaid Hours After She Fired Them
i was fired from petsmart for reasons i can no longer remember. immediately after the manager delivered the news, she asked me if i would mind staying for two hours to wait until the evening shift relief arrived. unpaid, of course. i laughed in her face and left.
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#3 Expected To Be Fired For Confronting The Boss About Her Committing Fraud And Embezzlement
Not quite fired yet, but today 3 of us publicly confronted our boss over proof of her committing fraud and embezzlement. The organization serves people with mental health conditions and we confronted her during a public meeting in front of those the organization serves.
It was painful, we hated doing it, but the truth needed to come out.
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#4 Was Fired 3 Days After His Kid Was Born For Missing Time At Work
Was fired 3 days after my kid was born for missing time because I requested the weekend that my ex was in labour off, got the go ahead from my supervisor but I guess that never made it upstairs to the top boss because they got rid of me lol.
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#5 Found Out They Are Fired Over CNN
Being the top dog of the FBI and finding out over CNN
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#6 Was Fired While On Holiday
I got notice while on holiday. The day before I was supposed to fly back.
I ended up just not getting the plane back and living in holiday city with a new job <2 weeks later, so it didn’t all end badly.
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#7 Was Fired During The Night Shift So They Were No Longer On The Travel Routs For Night Shift Workers Of The Company’s Transport
Not me but a very close friend that was working with me at the time.
His shift started at 11pm, mine started at Midnight, and we were both given transportation from door to door, meaning, pick up at your house, drop off at the very office, every day.
My friend was picked up on time and brought to the office as usual, 15min before his shift started. He was fired on the very spot, for some errors he had made, that in my opinion shouldn’t be grounds to fire him but for a warning and coaching, but whatever, they were clauses in our original hiring contract, so, it wasn’t appealed. Now comes the bad part.
In my country, the last buses run at 11PM for most areas, and even earlier in some others, and he lived two cities away, and while firing him, they also revoked his access to the building and the business center where the building was located, and was escorted out, with no way to get home.
And of course they wouldn’t provide transportation, as he was no longer an employee, and neither could he wait outside for the buses or even his scheduled morning transport, since by firing him, the system automatically removed him from the travel routes.
Couldn’t they fire him at the end of his shift, or at least call him and let him know so he would have got to work on his bike? Or at least, not showed up to work that day and come in the next morning, when there are transportation options and then do the paperwork. It was awful.
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#8 Found Out They Were Fired By Given Their Paycheck
I know someone who went to his company mailbox and found a paycheck. It was stamped “TERM CHECK”. He went to his manager and asked about it. She said “Oh. About that. You were fired…”
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#9 Was Fired After Telling Their Boss They Had To Go On Their Reserve Unit Training
Told my boss I had a 2 week mandatory training block coming up with my reserves unit. Got told there’s no way I’m not working during that 2 weeks. Told him it’s not like I have a choice. Got fired.
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#10 Fired After Signing A Big Deal For The Company
Friend of mine helped secure a BIG contract for the company he was working for. An incentive for getting contracts is you get a percentage of the profit. He *Just* started working there about 2 months prior and went out own his own several states away to talk to a potential customer from a lead he got at a convention (Basically, “Oh yeah I have a buddy who’s looking into that. You should meet him”) in person out of his own pocket. He secured the deal, called his supervisor to tell him, was congratulated, then drove 12 hours back home. His payout would have come out to around $40,000 over 5 years Went into work the next day and was fired for “suspicion of theft” and the boss of the division (not the supervisor, that guy is lower) would be taking over all his current stuff. He lawyerd up immediately but since he was still on his probationary period and they could fire him without cause nothing but the finders fee (around $3000) was to be paid to him. Basically his boss tossed him to get some free money.
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#11 Fired After Arranging A Birthday For Their General Manager
It’s a long story, but I was early in my career. I wasn’t fired for a good reason and I hadn’t really stood up for myself yet. I just took abuse from management and did the best I could
It was my GM’s birthday, and we all had to pick names out of a hat, and we had to buy them a cake etc for their birthday. Well I had the GM, who wanted to do his birthday in the morning with bagels.
So I picked up 30+ bagels, cream cheese, giant thing of coffee, and we had this stupid bagel birthday thing or whatever
Half hour later I get back to my desk, I’m called to HR and I was fired. Oh and thanks for the bagels
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#12 Fired For Not Remembering Ice-Cream Flavors On The First Day
My first job ever was for Baskin Robbins when I was 15. I went in for my first day of training excited to finally be making pocket money!
The owner made me try to memorize the ice cream flavours in the first 30 seconds of being there. When I was unable to recite them perfectly in their order he did this big hand motion and screamed “training over!”
I laugh now but man that was crushing for a nervous teenager.
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#13 Were Told They Will Be Shown A Presentation On Sexual Harassment, Got Fired Instead
Once when I worked in an office, they told us that we had to visit “corporate” for a presentation about sexual harassment in the office. We were broken in to groups to go on different days. Monday – Thursday, the groups got a video on harassment. The Friday group got fired en mass. The whole thing was a set up.
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#14 Employee Thought She Was Fired So She Didn’t Come To Work And Was Actually Fired
On night shift a coworker comes in and tries to log into the computer system. It doesn’t work. She’s locked out of everything. She’d also had trouble clocking in. The night shift supervisor is off that night. This lady starts freaking out and crying. She says she knew they were looking for a reason to fire her. When were they planning on telling her? What is she suppose to do now? Despite multiple people reassuring her that if they were going to fire her, this is not the way they would do it and suggesting there might just be a mistake, she is still determined that she’s been fired and they forgot to tell her before they cut her access. She goes home and doesn’t come in the next night either. She won’t answer calls, and is out for the rest of the next week.
Turn’s out they hadn’t fired her, but they had been looking for a reason to fire her. Not calling and not showing up for work was enough of a reason, so then she really was fired.
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#15 Nobody Announced To Anyone The Employee Was No Longer Working In The Company
I found out today when I got an email from a client stating. ”
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