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

"Supposedly, I "argued with the owner's wife about working weekends". I specifically told them I can work weekends, but cannot work anytime with less than a day's notice. I'm not at your beck and call for $8 an hour, screw me right?"

"I was given my work schedule for the week, but it was changed after I received it, and I didn’t show up on a day I had originally been off. The manager called and said “you’ve done this too many times. You’re fired.” I’d never so much as be late for work. I learned later that they found a way to get rid of every single person under 18."

"My boss assigned me 5 more articles to write each week all from categories that I do not typically delve into. I asked him whether or not this would come with slightly higher pay and was let go for even asking. Those 5 articles would have taken an extra 10 hours a week to complete."

"At the small software company, I was interviewed by the president and the VP, who happened to be his girlfriend. He thought she was working too hard. She didn't want to give up any authority. I was hired as Office Manager. She didn't communicate with me AT ALL about what I was supposed to do. Two weeks later he called me into his office (she was there) and said I wasn't doing anything useful and walked me out of the building."

"I got fired from my first job because the girl training me overfilled a washing machine and blamed it on me when it broke. The owner took the wet clothes and threw them at me then fired me without asking me what happened."

"I was in a PR job that I was completely under-qualified for. It was supposed to be an entry-level/admin role but she had me managing accounts, campaigns, etc. I explained to my boss multiple times I did not have the experience. I felt completely out of my depth and every time I got something wrong she went nuts at me. I finally had enough and told her I needed more help. She said she couldn’t help me and then fired me."

"I got fried as a dog groomer when I was a teenager because I instinctively moved my hand out of the way, so the dog wouldn't bite me, instead of simply allowing the dog to bite me. Owners are supposed to notify groomers of aggressive dogs so safety steps can be taken, but this owner did not. I learned a decade or so later that my being fired was highly illegal and I could have sued them."

"I took a job with a movie theater in high school, and only accepted the job because they promised me a set schedule. I and another coworker worked it out where one of us was always on shift. About a month after I started, they handed me a new schedule starting at 2 pm. I was in class until 3. Told them no. Got fired for my lack of commitment to the theater."

"I used to work for an escape rm and this lady was too dumb to figure out the puzzles so she complained in a review that I made her feel dumb, my boss who actually made the puzzles difficult fired me. If it weren't so sad I'd laugh."

"I worked at this hotel doing afternoon/evening shifts and two overnight shifts a week. They listed the following reasons for letting me go: Claimed I was leaving the property without clocking out because I wasn't on camera the entire time. The date they said specifically was an evening that I spent cleaning up the meeting space because it was slow. I was also not the only front desk person on shift. When working overnight I would sit on a chair to do the audit from midnight to 3 am. Sitting on a chair at the front desk was not allowed, even at midnight/early morning. Also when working overnight I had to fold linens so I would listen to the radio/music through a Bluetooth headset while folding and cleaning up the back. That was also not allowed even at midnight/early morning. They honestly probably just didn't like me but after they fired me I went and got a new job at the hotel next door and started making a lot more money and was able to do all the things I was let go for."

"The company I used to work for fired people all the time for having nicotine in their system from random drug tests. They didn't allow smokers to work there. But by God, they gave you free beer at the family outing events. It was an awful company."

"I was a new hire. It was Christmas time, so the office was hosting a Christmas sweater competition. I was appointed judge because I was new and thus impartial. I received explicit consent from each employee in front of the supervisor before proceeding to the judge. At least one female coworker accused me of looking at her chest while I was judging her sweatshirt... I kid you not... Fired..."

"I got fired from a bar I had worked at for 4 years by the owner who almost never showed up but had never had a problem with me before and no customer complaints. The reason? I was told I acted like I was in charge and I was telling people what to do. I was the security manager. I'm guessing it was the $4 more an hour I was making than anyone else."

"I used to work in a convenience store. A customer liked my service and tipped me with a joint. I went up on the roof to smoke it and unfortunately, a cop saw me. The manager laughed at the situation but had to let me go."

"Someone was stealing from the register. I got blamed. Turned out to be the owner's brother (who blamed it on me). I was let go just before Thanksgiving. I never got my job back, but the owner did apologize months later."

"I brought my own boxcutter to work at a temp job I had worked for 2 days already because they refused to replace the blades in their box cutters, and got fired because it looked like a knife."

"I got fired from my first job at a sandwich shop. Co-worker was washing the meat slicer, genius somehow got the cord submerged in rinsing water. Obviously the slicer died the next day. Co-worker blamed me for it and the owner fired me the day after. Didn't even allow me the opportunity to explain me. I found out months later the genius co-worker and owner were screwing each other. Long story short the sandwich shop went bankrupt and those two fell out. I work in aviation now so safe to say I got the last laugh."

"Got fired for not showing up for a shift that I was never assigned. I checked the schedule the day they put them out, but nothing for me. Three days later, a person calls taking at me for not showing up for my shift that they decided to add me to on a whim. Fired me over the phone. What a bunch of cr*p. They also told me to dress with lower-cut clothes earlier the previous week. Wtf."

"I got fired for following the rules. In undergrad I was a tutor for the local school district, the main perk of the job was that if I needed a day off for a test or to study I could take it as long as I told my supervisor. Well I told my supervisor, followed all the rules and she's like you can't call off you're fired. Turns out when anyone else needed a day off they just didn't show and supervisors had no way of knowing since we just walked into the schools and signed our own hours so it looked like I was the only one that ever asked off."

"I was accused of stealing merchandise when they had no evidence & I didn't do it anyway. They must have gone on a hunch. The guy who fired me tried to talk to me in town a few weeks after & I told him to f off."