41 Bosses Who Fired Employees Over Text And Made It Even Worse

I called in sick, in my 6 months of working there id only ever taken 1 sick day, and this was going to be my second. I called in through the agency because I can't communicate with the manager myself, and after about 5 minutes I got a text from someone at the company who I'd become Very close with telling me that the lady who runs my station had run into the manager's office yelling about how I'm never there and how I was late 3 times the week before (those 3 times were when I was late for the early 7 o'clock start, I start work at 9 am, 7 am start is basically overtime, and she, as well as the manager, knows I take the bus to work, and London buses are unreliable as hell, especially that early in the morning.

As soon as I heard that she had run to the manager to complain, I knew my job was gone. It took about 2 hours for me to get a text from the agency telling me not to go back to the job site and that I had no job there anymore. Now I don't know whether or not I dodged a bullet or if I was at fault in some form of way. This was my first official 9-5 job cause well im only 19.

Don’t even celebrate, but quite the gift, huh?

Curious as to your thoughts, I’ve shared with some acquaintances, and the short version of the feedback was that essentially, they have never seen anything like that. Neither have I, with over a decade in the restaurant business.

Got laid off after working for free for a month and a half. He has been withholding my last three paychecks. Making me jump through all kinds of hoops and then just stopped answering the phone. I need the money that I worked for.

I’ve worked at the same place for months. A month ago, my owner told me two clients had a bad experience, she came into the shop, taught me more, and said I was good! I had two days of training when I started with a few clients, and that was it. We received a bad review, and she told me the customer was talking about me. I’m new at my job (5months), so clearly this was disheartening, but then I got this long text firing me the next day. It’s a super sweet text, and I’m not angry. My frustration lies. In fact, people were complaining, and she wasn’t telling me about it, and now I’m fired. She lets me know. It’s really disheartening, but I have another job. I’m ready to focus on aesthetics. Her last hire caught on fast, but I guess I didn’t…

I’ve worked at this dive bar for 2 months, I’m a great employee (I was always early, I’ve never called in sick, and I make good tips), and I have NEVER had a conversation with my boss where she explained anything serious that I was doing wrong/anything I could improve upon, let alone a fireable offense. Today I received this text, hands down the least professional exchange I’ve ever had with an employer.

My cousin sent me this screenshot for me to translate for him, which his boss sent him. Actual owner of the company, to be exact. It was hard for me to tell him he was let go, and, to make matters worse, he wasn’t going to receive his bi-weekly paycheck or any accumulated sick or vacation hours. This is a manufacturing company in the Bay Area in California with about 30 employees. Knowing your company has zero money and still making them work and wait until you exploit them to finally fire them is just the worst.

I worked for three hours for my first job. I did nothing wrong, and I think for my first job, I actually did pretty well. I also made sure to offer to help out my coworkers and was nice to the customers. I was fired the day after with this text, and I’m not sure if this is legal or not. If not, should I pursue this? I worry this could impact my record for future applications. Also, does this mean I would get severance pay, despite only working three hours? This is in Tennessee.

So let me preface this by stating this is a NEW restaurant/butcher place where I live (There’s no structure whatsoever).

EVERYTHING started Saturday the 17th. Our main "manager" left Thursday, quitting, so the owner's brother was filling in to help out, acting as manager. We’ll call him Daryl. With the place being new and all that, nothing runs smoothly; people have questions. Well, Friday I had messaged about my pay because I was told BY THE OWNER I was making $12, and my paystub was for $10.45 an hour. I asked the person if I could call them to speak about it. They ended up calling me, and I asked Daryl if I could take it as we weren’t busy. THAT'S when his issues with me started.

Anyway saturday rolls around, I had a question about whether dine-in guests get stuff from the hot case if it’s the same price as what we sell to take-out guests. I walked to the back to ask that question. He was on the phone. BUT instead of saying give me a few minutes I’m on the phone or just putting his finger up to signal he’s busy he FLIPPED out on me, “if you bother me one more time we’re spitting ways message or call so and so I know you texted her yesterday to have her call you, I’m not stupid don’t bother me again”. That next day, the schedule came out and EVERY SINGLE day last week was labeled “OFF”.

They waited until Christmas Eve to tell me they’re firing me for it. I worked here for two years, yet I’m not "dedicated" to the role. Also, the "prior performance" issue she mentioned? I left on a walkie-talkie overnight.

This is from back at the end of April, so things have settled a little since then, but I am still stunned. Honestly, this was insane. I’m a type one diabetic by the way, this all happened because my insulin pump site had clogged and failed, I made sure to message them as soon as I was sure that there was no chance of me going in and really nothing to be done except try and avoid a hospital visit and hope that I didn’t have like a seizure or something.

Started working for this staging company a few months ago, and like any other company, they should provide training. I was there for 3 months+ with no training. I had to figure it out by myself (what to do, how to pack, how to unpack, where to put things back). I had no experience with staging, but they were hiring people, including those who didn’t have experience. Fast forward, the manager who was in charge of me owed me money, and everything was fine till I asked for that money. I asked for the money, and he got so passionate and aggressive, saying I was lazy and that I put no effort into the company, where I never had training. I did everything I could with no training (always on time, clean, organized, and a hard worker). We had a long conversation before I got that text about how I called the company not professional because they never provided training. They agreed with me on providing training and fired me the following weekend.

I worked for three hours for my first job. I did nothing wrong, and I think for my first job, I actually did pretty well. I also made sure to offer to help out my coworkers and was nice to the customers. I was fired the day after with this text, and I’m not sure if this is legal or not. If not, should I pursue this? I worry this could impact my record for future applications. Also, does this mean I would get severance pay, despite only working three hours? This is in Tennessee.