70 People Got Fired For The Dumbest Reasons, Here Are Their Stories

"Worked at a cinema selling tickets and I sold most of the tickets among the team every night (which gives me nothing in return) the manager couldn’t believe how efficient I was and was certain I'm doing something fishy so he let me go. This was in Australia btw."

"Counted my drawer at the beginning of my shift. It was $10 short so I told my manager. He proceeded to tell me he counted it himself and that he was never wrong. I was fired for stealing $10. The next day I received a call from the store manager who said that she had reviewed the tape and found that he left out a roll of dimes ($10) from the drawer. I was offered my job back but declined…"

"Boss didn't know how to use a measuring tape. Fired me for cutting the lumber to the wrong size (His measurements)."

"I got fired from Burger King because a coworker let me use his vape on my break. When I was off break, I tried giving it back but kept getting ignored. I figured I’d give it back after we close but he left early. I went back the next day (my day off) to return it and got fired for stealing."

"I worked at a bar that was notorious for firing people. It is well known that no one lasted for more than a month, and it was a big deal if you made it longer than that. I made it to month three when I was fired for not putting ketchup on a customer’s table. They were eating shepherd's pie and salad respectively and didn’t even ask for ketchup."

"When I was getting hired they told me I work Monday-Friday only. Great. A couple of months go by, work no weekends. Plan a family vacation for the upcoming weekend. Leaving for vacation right after work. At 4:30 they tell me I have to work the weekend. I say I can’t I have a vacation. They say it’s mandatory. Go home, and decide to go on vacation anyway. Call on Saturday. Come in to work on Monday, fired. Spent the day fishing."

"I once got fired from a construction crew for banging my hammer in a funky rhythm. bang bang bang bang BANG bang bang. I tried to explain to the guy that this helps with accuracy and is therefore far more efficient, but he would have none of it, said if I wanted to talk back, I could talk back at my couch."

"I got fired from a job waiting tables for having a panic attack while working. I have PTSD and they can and will literally happen at any time of course one happened at the worst time when I was the only server working. When I was hired I explained this and was told: “oh yeah you will always work a shift with another server so if it happens there will be someone to cover you”. Total lies. Unfortunately, it was in Oregon and you can be fired for any reason there."

"I accepted the job and notified them I would need X date off for my sister’s wedding (2 months after the start date). Came back from my sister’s wedding and sh*t hit the fan while I was gone. Not my responsibility, but my name was on some of the changes in the document. Canned that day for “not being there when they needed me”."

"I wasn’t allowed to wear a coat in 20-degree (F) weather and made it known that that was stupid."

"Guy preparing to retire, who had been training me to take over his job for the past 7 months, felt I was ready to take over completely. Boss was afraid to lose 30+ years of experience and fired me to keep the old guy for a little longer. From what I understand there was a pretty big fight. Old guy was a wonderful reference for me with the new job I obtained, with a 20k+ pay raise, and begrudgingly agreed to stay on for another year."

"It was my second job after high school, I was 18 and going on 19. I was a parts delivery driver for a local auto parts store. All the drivers had to report to a dispatcher she would tell us where to go and what to do, basically my supervisor. She had at least 10-12 years on me so I was basically fresh meat in the store. After 4 months or so she started getting more 'comfortable' with me. She would rub my shoulders/try to give me back rubs would buy me lunch would text me on weekends inviting me for drinks. This one weekend she was being a little too persistent in texting me so I politely told her that i was not interested. Well, come Monday morning I got fired because apparently, I had not been doing my job properly."

"I got hurt at work doing my job so when I had to miss some work for a couple of emergency surgeries (minor, but…) I was told I missed to much work. Perhaps if you didn’t get me injured multiple times by actually changing the process that was causing said injury that wouldn’t have been the case…"

"I got fired from Sonic when I told them I was no longer going to be available for last-minute call-ins because I'd gotten a second job. My boss was not happy, because I lived the closest. So he stormed off and started screaming, "Guess this is Professional_March54's last day! I hope your happy!". I tried to clarify that I'd still be available for set shifts, I just wouldn't be ON Call anymore. He screamed at me to shut up. I hadn't clocked in yet, and I could sense a tantrum so I asked if I should even bother clocking in. He threw a burger at me and told me to get out. So I did. They had a Drive-Thru line wrapped around the building, and I was the only non-family employee on until 3."

"I got fired for supposably stealing boxes... On my day off."

"I was fired—uh, “politely let go”—because my manager decided I was lying about having surgery without ever actually talking to me.
I let her know two weeks in advance and reminded her five different times three different ways, but the schedule never changed to reflect the time off I needed. I took my three days off, and she had another manager call me to ask me where I was on the second day. The manager who called me was horrified to learn that, yes, I had surgery, yes, I was hopped up on pain medication, and, yes, main manager knew about this. Main manager was also mad that I had “poor performance” the week following, which is something I had noted when I told her about the surgery. I needed a week of low-impact work as I recovered. One week, I noticed I wasn’t on the schedule at all and was talking to the manager who’d called me about it. I jokingly wondered if it was because of my surgery. She basically told me, she couldn’t legally say yes, but I wasn’t wrong. Main manager notified me a couple days later. Part of me is mad, but part of me is relieved I’m not in such a toxic place anymore."

"Kinda fired I guess. Got a job offer and they wanted me to start asap but told them I want to give my job at least a week's notice. Turned in a 1 week's notice. Later in the day went to our scheduled breaks 5 minutes late because I was busy doing something at work that I couldn't just put down. So I came back 5 minutes late. the manager came up to me acting really mad and said I was fired for abusing breaks. I just laughed handed him my badge and started walking to my car. he tried stopping me saying HR needed to see me fill out paperwork. laughed even more and got in my car and left. Took the week off to relax before starting my new job."

"The schedule was hanging off the wall and it was magnetised. Everyone's names were little magnets. Someone knocked it off the wall and "thought they put the magnets back in the right places". Naturally I didn't show up for my shift. I was fired the next day even after what came to light what happened because "I should know what my shifts were". Meh."

"I got fired for forgetting my belt. My first job: I used to work at a restaurant that was ~2 hours by bus away. We had just gotten a new store manager that was a harda*s. One day I showed up without a belt. He asked me to go back home and put one on then come back. I said that would take 4 hours, so he fired me."

"I got suspended because I called my supervisor Edward jokingly because his name is Eddie. Well turns out Eddie is his full name and he's very sensitive about it."