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

In Dallas, I saw a new bartender get fired within an hour of starting training. A group of guys paid their tab in cash. She said, "These men are from Spain, they don't tip," then pocketed $5 before giving them their change. She was asked to leave and not come back.

Technically it was the second day. I work in a steel foundry and my boss hired a guy last year. First day is orientation and my let this guy and another that was in orientation to leave early to go to Redwing and pick up some required and company paid for boots. The guy shows up the next day wearing sneakers. Says he fell asleep and didn't make it to Redwing. My boss tells him he can't be out in the plant in sneakers. This is 7am so my boss tells him to go home and when Redwing opens at 8:30 get some boots and come back. About noon he isn't back yet and isn't answering his phone. Boss calls Redwing and they say he hasn't been there. Boss tells them not give him boots if he shows up. An hour later he calls my boss saying Redwing wouldn't give him any boots. When my boss asked him why he didn't go at 8:30 like he was told he gave the same I fell asleep excuse. He was crying about how nobody will give him a chance when my boss told him he wasn't wasting anymore time with him. You were given a chance and blew it because you couldn't be bothered to pick up free work boots.

Worked as a steward in university for the students union event team. At the end of the year we had an official ball (black tie) and unofficial campus party in our main campus. The nightclub was underground but the party overflowed across the whole area above.

I worked both nights (cash and new to leadership). Night 1 this new guy turns up for his literal first shift drunk. He was stumbling and could have been mistaken for someone suffering from a concussion with how he spoke. Sent him home and said don't come back.

The next day (at the black tie event) he came back for his 2nd shift. He had no idea he had been fired the night before.

Needless to say we had good fun explaining the situation to him.

Dude interviewed well, showed up on his first Monday at the office... drunk as f**k! Slurring, stumbling, trying to use the coffee machine and just spewing coffee all over the floor. Security walked him out within the first hour.

Dude started a food fight in the cafeteria on his first break. Custodian found a tuna sandwich stuffed in his locker. Was out before lunch.

New driver at a trucking company backed a trailer into the terminal manager's new Mercedes on his first, and last, day.

Also, after delivering his last load for the day but before returning to the yard, a trainee stopped at a truck stop, came out with a case of beer, and tried to get back into the truck with said beer. It's a violation of federal regulations to have alcohol in a commercial vehicle (unless it is the cargo being transported as part of a manifested shipment), so the trainer reported it to management and he was fired on the spot.

Turned up to work drunk. Apparently his dad came round before work to celebrate him getting a job, clearly a great role model.

Pretended he didn't have two hit-and-run accidents in the employee parking lot by claimining he didn't even own a car. He called a friend and planned to sneak his car keys out to the friend so it could be driven down the street for him to get to later.

He apparently aroused suspicion that he was up to something when he asked a few of his new co-workers if there was an exit to the building that couldn't be observed from the security desk.

Had a photographer not have his camera charged when a celebrity showed up and he had to make them wait while He ran back to get a new battery.

Nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing. He was just sitting there doing absolutely nothing for like four hours. While everyone else was working their a**e off.