50 People Who Made A Critical Mistake During The First Day On The Job And Got Fired

Working in a sheet metal shop in the 90's. Standing at one of the work benches going over some blueprints with the owner of the shop while new guy was standing there. New guy had been on the clock for only about 2 hours. A lady comes out of the office and mentions something to the owner and then goes back into the office. New guy says "Holy s**t did you see the [breasts] on her?" Owner says "Yeah... that's my wife. Here let's go get your things." Never saw new guy again.

School bus driver. First day on job after a month of training she was seen talking on her cell phone while driving a bus full of kids.

I worked in a hotel where some positions wore an issued uniform and some positions wore their own clothes. The dress code was very strict dressy business attire..everyone had to wear a blazer, men had to wear button down shirts with a tie but the hotel provided free dry cleaning for all of it.

One day I was walking down the hall to the room where you pick up/drop off dry cleaning and can hear a man yelling. Get near the door and a new hire, who was in a position where you wore your own clothes, was demanding that the attendant issue him a uniform (full suit, dress shirt and tie) because he wasn't going to ruin his nice clothes. Of course the attendant cannot issue anything without the paperwork from hr and the new hire would have been told that he will be wearing his own clothes.

Walk into the room, see the attendant in tears and this d******d agressively leaning over the desk yelling at her...I was shocked and basically asked what the hell is going on?!?!!? This guy sees another white person, immediately dials it back and gets all chummy and shmoozy and says something like "Pffft, can you believe this? Clearly doesn't understand English and since you are a manager, tell her to give me a uniform.". I just said that they would have to speak to hr about a uniform, walked him to the hr office and asked him to wait in the hall. Went in the hr office and gave the hr manager a quick run down, that this guy is a racist piece of s**t and he needs to go. Went back to check on the attendant, gave her a big hug and it was just heartbreaking to see another person cry like that.

Never saw him again and this was a time when it was an employees market but hr said that I was so upset and angry, they just terminated him on the spot without any further discussion and walked him off of the property. Like, who the f**k does or says that to another human being?

Basically young girl on her first shift as waitress. Customers order bottle of champagne. She brings it out whilst shaking it and proceeds to do the F1 celebration shooting it over everyone whilst roaring in celebration. That was the only context she had for champagne so she didn’t know that was just for big celebrations.

Was an unpaid intern at my mom's campsite for the summer just to get something to do. Mom hires a new guy for a trial period, and as I know practically how everything works, I'm told to shadow him for a few days. (keep in mind this is a small campsite, and a family business first and foremost).

Conversation starts up, and immediately, new guy zeroes in on a worker just doing his job and starts trash-talking him like crazy, while the worker was only doing his job of trimming the hedges, emptying the trash, that sort of stuff. They hadn't even been introduced yet.

End of the day I report to my mom, new guy in tow. Snitch that I am, I tell every unsavory detail that spewed from the little rat's mouth.

The worker he trash-talked all day long for no reason? My dad, mom's husband.

Mom told him his trial period was over, and to get out of her property and never show his face here again.

Archaeologist working on a longhouse site with human remains uncovered and First Nations liaisons present.

New girl with no field experience somehow thought she was second in command on site and an osteology expert. Started telling everyone that if they found bones to bring them to her. Someone found raccoon bones and she started saying they were actually human fetal bones and that First Nations used to bury babies inside the walls of their longhouses???

She was removed from site before lunch.

New security guard fell asleep in various locations around the school throughout his first day. He was fired around 3pm when the principal found him asleep in the front lobby.

Edit: A few people have mentioned that maybe he has narcolepsy. Just to correct a misconception the public has about narcolepsy: it is not an excuse to fall asleep all day and then scream discrimination when you get fired. I have narcolepsy. I also get treatment for my narcolepsy and am able to work a full-time job without falling asleep all day. I have also made my disability known to my employer and completed all necessary paperwork to get reasonable accommodations through ADA. So yes, maybe he has narcolepsy. In which case, he needs to go see a doctor.

First day as a kayak coach for an outdoor adventure place he decided to not only get the number of a 14 year old kid but send her nudes! Not seen someone mess up their life as quickly! The police arrested him, now he's a registered s*x offender... Amazes me how many of these people just ruin their lives because they wanted to get laid?? Literally 1 IQ idiots thinking with their d***s...

Young lad started in a junior marketing role in the office as part of my team, he was sat at a desk directly in front of the IT dept who had a clear view of his monitor. Within 30 minutes of his induction one of the IT guys calls me over and says 'look at this' - new lad had opened file explorer and was trying to root around the contents of shared drives and servers on the company network. We pulled him to one side and asked him what he thought he was doing, warned him that trying to pry around the systems on your first day was probably not the ideal start. He apologised and promised not to do it again. After he left the room, IT guy and I went back to IT guy's desk and, I s**t you not, in front of our very eyes this lad immediately opened the registry and started trying to access security settings. Two minutes between first warning and firing.

Boss hired a new woman for help around the office. Her first day she showed up on time and jumped right into helping out. Seemed like a good hire at first, then the police showed up and arrested her for putting her two year old in a home built cage at home that morning and left the kid alone because she didn’t want to pay for day care. 

I started on the same day as another woman. At one point I started cracking a few bad Dad jokes to break the ice a bit. She then said "Oh I've got one" and then proceeded to reel off some of the most racist jokes I've ever heard. She went to lunch and never came back.

Refused to wear proper PPE. The supervisor told him to put it on. He flat out said no, so they fired him.

Didn't even make it to first coffee break. If a guy is that adamant about safety gear on his first day, it isn't a good sign.

Asked the managers daughter if she slept with anyone to get the position she was in and then said how if he was her supervisor he would help her get promoted. I’m sure you could hear a pin drop in that lunch room. We didn’t even know his name. But he never came back from lunch.

Guy was hired contingent on background/credit check. On day three I got a call from HR saying he wasn’t eligible. The store manager who hired him made me fire him. Took him in the office and said… your checks came back negative and ya can’t work here. He started going on about his record had been sealed and the forgery and theft convictions were supposed to be expunged. And then I said… no man, you got bad credit.

Fast forward 3 months. The company dropped the credit check requirement, so the store manager hired him again. Three weeks later they caught him stealing computers.

I was a warehouse supervisor. 

Owner brought in a new forklift driver on Monday.

I asked if he was certified and was told "don't worry about it".

We start loading deliveries and l put my best spotter and inventory guy with the new hire. 

First load he clips a post. I give him a verbal warning (standard) and take his spotter aside. Spotter tells me the driver is ignoring instructions. I take driver aside and tell him He Will Listen to his spotter or l will put him on a dolly.

Less than an hour later, I'm standing by the office door, talking to my scheduler, and l hear "no... no stop... STOP NOOO" and a crunch.

Guy backed into a wall.

I walked over and told him to get off the forklift, handed him a dolly, and put him with a stocking team.

I go into my office to do a damage report and a formal write-up. I hear yelling and a huge bang.

Back out onto the dock l go and there's the new guy arguing with four people and one of my forklifts on it's side in the parking lot.

The guy had gotten back on a forklift as soon as my back was turned and had driven it off the dock. (Fortunately at a spot where the dock was only a foot or so off the ground)

I took him to my office and told him to sit his a*s down, called the owner and told him l was firing his new hire with DNR. Owner stated to argue with me until l told him what the damages were going to cost him. 

New guy was escorted off the property by two of my semi-pro football players that worked for me.

Never did find out who that clown was related to, there's no way he was certified or qualified for that job.

They worked in a grocery store and hired a guy to work in the deli. They left him alone for a while, and when they came back, all the rotisserie chickens were missing the skin. The guy said that it looked so good that he ate the skin off of one chicken, and then he pulled it off the rest of them in the hopes that if they all looked the same no one would notice.

I was working in a new restaurant and it was day one where we were going over the menu/wines and we were supposed to show up at 10 am. So we’re all around a table and a guy walks in and the manager stands up, greets the guy, and to my horror it’s my stalker’s brother. Manager walks him out of the room and comes back and tells us he fired him because he was late. I was so relieved and also a little dumbfounded by how random the world can be. I was so afraid that I was going to have to work with someone who would then tell my stalker where I was (had already changed jobs and moved) and it was solved in an instant. The weirdest feeling to be both scared and relieved at the same time.

I worked in a small chain retail pharmacy in high school in the 90s. Kid from another school got hired and spent the first 3 hours of his shift telling literally anyone that would listen he didn’t need the job and only got it to steal cologne and cigarettes. We were a pretty tight knit group, and this kid was an a*****e, so someone told the manager, who performed a “random bag check” on all of us at closing time. He found 6 bottles of Fahrenheit and 3 cartons of Parliaments in his backback. He was fired on the spot. Best part is his mom came in the next day screaming at the manager because the kid told her he got fired because the manager told him he didn’t like Indians.

Guy came back from lunch high out of his mind and then we found his instagram video shouting out the company and tagging us while he was smoking out of 3 different devices in his car at the gas station a block away within minutes because it popped up in our social media managers feed.

I work in software development. For new hires, the team will take them out and the available directors will join to make it a joyous experience. So we are walking to the local restaurant together and the new hire starts happily bragging how he’s brought us 100% of his former employer’s code. Application, DevOps, and even from their secretive R&D area. Half the faces are surprised and the others flip from happy-casual to grim-serious. The dir of engineering asks where the code is and the dumbass replies “oh I just loaded it onto my local machine. I’ll have it on the network once I know where to share it”. Dir then whispers something to a lead who heads back to the office. So we order burgers and sit down. 30 minutes later, the director takes a phone call, listens, and hangs up. We walk casually back to the office and the new hire is stopped at the door by security. He’s informed he is being terminated and his theft has been reported to the prior employer. IT boxes up everything and puts red seal tape on all of the boxes. We get interviewed one by one. And poof. By the next morning , it’s like he never existed and was a fever dream.

I don’t know if the other company pressed charges.