30 of the Wildest Reasons Why Someone Got Fired

‘He made a bong out of the ketchup dispenser. We only had one ketchup dispenser’
30 of the Wildest Reasons Why Someone Got Fired

Contrary to conventional wisdom, dares aren’t just reserved for Fantasy Football losers, the kids from A Christmas Story or seventh-grade girls at a sleepover. For instance, the power of a good ol’ fashioned dare managed to inspire one grown-up supermarket employee to spend his day off breaking into the store’s back door, sporting a “pair of whitey-tighties on his head” and flopping around “like a fish out of water” on the floor as “a dozen customers looked on.”

Though they were fired for their Frank Reynolds-coded stunt, they apparently have no regrets. “Entirely worth it,” they remembered. 

Below are some equally wild reasons other Redditors got fired from their jobs, the craziest of which include rolling up to work high, being too good at their position and the cardinal sin of making a butter-less grilled cheese.

 . 8y ago We were all in the back, ready to clock out. A coworker was just about to clock out, when she saw another coworker, a receptionist of sorts. Instead of clocking out just then, she went over to other coworker and pulled out her phone to show a picture of her wedding dress. After, she clocks out and goes home. Receptionist coworker turns other coworker in for having her phone out during work hours. Coworker is fired without so much of a warning. 1.6K ...
hippielove80 . 8y ago I was fired from a restaurant for not working someone's shift after they called out. It was not my scheduled shift and I had never agreed to work it but wouldn't stay and work what would have been over 12 hours so the manager fired me as I left from my shift. 3.4K ...
000-000-000yea . 8y ago I got fired because | never knew I got hired - so I never showed up on my first day. They forgot to tell me.... idiots - 3.3K ...
Polar_Ted 8y ago One of our IT admins landed a job with Microsoft as a field engineer.. BIG day for him but they wanted him to start in 1 week. HR pitched a fit saying he had to give 4 weeks notice or forfeit all his accrued time off. Не started arguing with them over this, words were said and they terminated him at the end of the week. They gave him 4 weeks severance and said he could never work there again. Не didn't cry about it. 6 months later we call MS for on site support. Guess who
Llamageddon24 8y ago When being hired for a job, I was asked my availability during my last stage of the hiring process. I told them I was getting married the next week and then going on my honeymoon. After that I was completely free. The person hiring me told me that was no problem, as they wouldn't even be able to train me that soon, as they trained on a monthly schedule. However, a few days later I got a call letting me know I was supposed to start training the same day as my wedding. After explaining it to
HiMyNamelsSander . 8y ago A colleague was fired for going on a two-week holiday. During her job interview, she pointed out that she already booked everything, but she would be available for the rest of the summer. My (now ex-)boss agreed on those terms. Two months later, he had already forgotten everything and insisted she couldn't go. She went anyway and was told not to come back. - 3K ...
Xethinus . 8y ago Knew of a cart pusher at Wal-Mart who walked into the store in street clothes on his day off. A manager heard him say fuck in conversation and fired him. 796 ...
Pyr0technikz . 8y ago Guy I worked with made a complaint to HR about his supervisor and the work conditions. Не was fired. 2.7K ...
 8y ago Put in for a vacation 3 months in advance. Was approved by my employer . Routinely reminded him at 2 months, 1 month , 2 weeks , 1 week and 3 days and final day I was supposed to leave. Time to leave rolls around. Не told me he needed me to stay and Finish up mantience on a property of his.( i was doing carpentry work on his rentals non urgent stuff) I explained I had to leave then or I would miss my ride. Was fired that upcoming monday.moral of the story is if you can't trust your
alcohall183 8y ago I saw a woman get fired from a big box store because they changed her schedule. She had Wed after 1pm off and Thursday pm(after 3) off. on Wed. at 2 pm , they changed the schedule to say she was working 3-7pm on Thursday- BY LAW they gave the requisite 24 hour notice SHE WASN'T AVAILABLE to see the schedule because she was out of the store. She wasn't notified in any way-Manager's response? All employees need to call 2 to 3 times a day to check and see if the schedule changed. it isn't our responsibility
TrapTillaTrillion 8y ago warehouse person wrote an email to the owner of the company complaining about how the manager at the time didn't give him enough training, how understaffed we are, and saying how lazy and how much of a slob he was, which is true. The manager left taco bell, Wendys and KFC bags all over the shop. I read the email and it was worded very well, and didn't sound like an attack. Rather he was bringing up his concerns which he felt hindered his job performance. The next day he was fired 314 ...
FerrisWheelJunky . 8y ago A forklift driver was being repeatedly paged and couldn't be found. Не was out in the parking lot using the lift to raise his car so he could work on it. Fired immediately but convinced them to let him finish whatever he was doing to the car so he'd be able to drive it home. That guy is still talked about 10 years later. 669 ...
 . 8y ago I knew a guy who got fired from a Taco Bell for failing a drug test. I always assumed Taco Bell employees were required to be high. 1.3K ... + More replies
kaotisk42 8y ago New guy suggested to the operations manager that we be provided respirators instead of paint masks. Harmful chemicals were being sprayed constantly and he was right about us needing respirators. Не was fired on the spot, I think he contacted OSHA, two months later everyone was offered one to keep. In my time there I showed up to work to find out that OSHA had temporarily stopped operations due to health hazards twice. 103 ...
kaenneth 8y ago Myself: was fired from a Microsoft contract position for filing too many (valid) bugs. I was told I was making the full time employees look bad. One of the hard crashing bugs I reported back in 2001 was still able to crash Visual Studio 2010. 166 ...
TheNextKathyBates . 8y ago While I was at Chiptole as a customer, I saw the cashier get fired for wearing nail polish. It was around 3 in the afternoon, so it was pretty much empty. But it seems like that is something you should do behind closed doors or at least not while she was working. 435 ...
Gradual_Blackbeard 8y ago Flushing cocaine down the toilet. I witnessed this first hand, because it was me. I flushed a ball of Colombian bam-bam in the work bathroom. Now you're probably wondering two things. Why did I even have that much cocaine at wark? I worked retail and I found it in sweeping out one of our dressing rooms. How did oy know it was top-notch nose-clams? Cause I did some, mate. Straight to the stars I went. Now, being a good swab I decided ta take me newly aquired booty n give'er one last go 'round me teeth n
 . 8y ago Security guard explicitly described his sex life to a woman in front of her sons. This was at a hospital where they were visiting her sick husband. 430 ...
paigezero . 8y ago A friend of mine got fired for using a library's label printer for printing non- library-related labels. 329 ...
Berterss 8y ago My father was a manager at Burger King back in the 80's. Не once fired a guy for eating a French fry. One French fry. Needless to say, my dad was an asshole. 257 ...
3catmafia . 8y ago A friend of mine got fired for not showing up to work. On her day off. 254 ...
mathewrobert2 . 8y ago Before everything changed I saw fellow a fellow soldier be 'separated' from his branch of service due to his sexual orientation. 178 ...
KissTheBottle1 8y ago I got fired from a pizza joint for not being aggressive enough on the phone while taking orders. I had been there 3 weeks and left confused and crying. Turns out my manager didn't appreciate me taking a certain delivery driver's attention away from her. It was pretty funny to find out about several years later from a friend of the driver. 144 ...
tolive89 . 8y ago My mate went to a party, got high out of his mind, turned up next day with his eyes all wild to tell boss he wasn't coming in to work that day. Не could have just called, but he turned up, clearly high as fuck. 143 ...
Early_Grace . 8y ago Dude put a pair of whitey tighties on his head, busted out the back door of the local super market that for some reason hired him, and proceeded to flop and flail on the floor like a fish out of water directly in front of a dozen customers. That guy was me, by the way. Was dared to, who am I to turn it down. Got fired, entirely worth it. 127 ...
sentondan 8y ago I was running a night shift in a mail room. One of the guys working for me pops his head in the door and asked if we were working that night. I tell him yes and he says he has to go to the bathroom and he'll be right back. About 10 minutes later he calls saying he can't make it in because he can't find a ride. I was going to recommend he be terminated to the department supervisor at that point. But then he shows up at 3 in the morning with his angry girlfriend
 8y ago We had a guy that was working in an apartment get caught jerking off, by maintenance guys of the apartment complex. They came by to check progress and he was bare assed on the living room floor cranking one out watching a porno he found in the apartment. That was pretty funny and ridiculous to hear about. 115 ...
kristinized . 8y ago One day we got a temp worker at work, and when I went passed his desk to go to lunch he was curled up on the floor underneath his desk. Just taking a nap. Не was gone when I got back from lunch. 94 ...
masochistmonkey . 8y ago I worked as a secretary at a strip club. Yes. Secretary. Anyway, the owner of the club was visiting town and he fired the chef for not using butter to make him his grilled cheese sandwich. 72 ...
Meep_Morps . 8y ago I was working as a medical assistant in a doctors office. Coworker gave her two weeks notice. Nope, fired on the the spot, leaves crying. Was busy, so the rest of us got screwed as well. 64 ...

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