30 Stories Of New Hires Messing Up So Bad They Got Sacked

I used to work at a hotel, worked there for over 15 years. But way back when, even when I was still a relative newbie, we had new hire. Within just a couple days she was telling all our guests about her hardships and was begging them for money.

Yeah she didn't last very long. I cringed when I found out what she did, that had to be extremely trashy just to go up to customers and guests that you just met before and do that. There was no shame in her game. No self respect at all

My kid got fired the first day. They have a 30 minute lunch break. He went home and it took longer than 30 minutes, so he showed up when he was done...like over an hour later.

He's better now.

Hired three new laborers to help shovel out some trenches that were already excavated. Only job was to shovel some loose dirt out from the bottom of the hole.

The guys hired were in great shape, had experience and could talk the talk. The job was described as a rush and high paced, pay was substantial.

The first day all they did was chat amongst themselves and literally lean on their shovels.

They were fired before lunch.

Worked at a facility that processed mail for the post office.

There was a specialized sorting machine used only by our postal inspector in the back corner of the factory. We were all told when hired, and constantly after, this machine was stupid expensive, and the one rule was DO NOT USE THE ELECTRIC PALLET JACKS NEAR IT.

There were signs posted, yellow lines painted on the floor as a no go zone. Even cement posts surrounding the area. Mail DID have to be moved there so you could fit between the posts with the normal, non powered jack.

New floor lead is hired, he's come from a similar company and has years of experience. His first night our shift opens with a team meeting with our manager. On the other side of the floor the new lead is moving pallets of mail around.

Suddenly we hear a crash. He has driven the electric jack directly into the expensive machine. Destroyed the computer, two monitors, the loading belt, the cabinet that held a lot of the innards of the machinery. Just smashed it to smithereens.

He was gone the next night.

One guy punched the supervisor because he didn't like being told what to do. Which is strange because he worked a total of 1.5 hours so he didn't know what to do. I'm not sure how you're supposed to learn something if nobody tells you how to do it... There was the guy that was 45 minutes late his first day. On time the second day. And on the third day, he called and said he might be a little bit late because of traffic, but he'd try to get here on time. Problem was that this was three hours after his shift was supposed to start. This was the only time I've fired someone without talking to my boss or HR first.

Hired a guy to do crawlspace work. Dude gets to the first job, turns to me and says he has claustrophobia. He was on the job 5 minutes.

Awhile back my supervisor was on the bus to work. Some random guy asked him if he wanted to go in on some m**h with him. My sup politely declined. It turns out that guy was from the temp agency, and it was his first day. He got sent home before he even started training.

He didn't even start his first day yet. He just got hired and was suppose to start the following day. Got caught trying to wheel a big Bluetooth speaker right out of the door with the spider wrap still on the box.

P**n in the very open very busy cafeteria. He had it on mute but one of the managers didn't think it was funny when they walked up to intorduce himself on the guys first day.

The company I was working for (company a) had a contract with another (company b) to provide labor. Company a was laid back/chill/artsy culture. Company b was corporate as can be.

We hired someone (Joe) and told them their first job would be this contract with company b. We also told Joe that company b drug tests so if you need to sit out or do some “on the job training” for a few days - aka detox - let us know. He said not a problem, went to company b job - took a drug test and failed.

“Oh yeah, I smoked some weed, but I thought it wouldn’t show up because it had been a few HOURS since”