53 People Share The Fastest They’ve Ever Watched A Coworker Get Themselves Fired

Brand new coworker did good on her first day but then right as she clocked out at the end of her shift, her ex-boyfriend came in.

The two started loudly screaming and yelling at each other and creating a scene.

Our manager went up to them to get them to stop and co-worker shoved her and yelled at her to STFU and mind her own business.

Instant firing.

Then the next day, she had the nerve to beg and plead for her job back. Manager pretty much told her to go to hell.

2nd day. We were working at a Gold Mine in deep alaska, making a reality show (not goldrush) and we were embedded in a Mormon run family owned mining operation. We were having trouble with production assistant positions, either being incompetent or unable to commit. The DP of the show (not the on site camera) sent his daughter up to us.

On day one, she was great, just what we wanted. That night, one of the equipment operators coerced her into stealing our production truck (chevy suburban), driving 45 miles to the nearest bar, getting hammered, then breaking into that guy’s cousin’s house to smash on his couch. Cousin came home and didn’t recognize the guy so he beat the hell out of him and was going to have him arrested but they left and were rolling back into the mine camp just as we were getting up and realizing our truck was gone.

They were both still drunk and she was driving. He was an ex con and the mine was totally sober. The boss was told that she’s gone immediately or we were all gone immediately, so the producer had to drive her 180 miles back to Fairbanks and explain to her dad what happened.

Me when I was 18 and got a job at a gas station over the summer. First day barely any training, but someone comes in wanting cigarettes. I recognized him from school he was a year or so younger than me, and active in JROTC and police explorers. I refused to sell him cigarettes as he had no ID and I knew he was under 18. Boss yells at me to sell to him, I still say no. Boss then sells him cigarettes. Busted, it was something the police explorers did. I wasn’t in trouble with the law, but fired for some reason. Went back to being a waitress.

When i worked for a grocery store, my manager hired an extremely anxious/socially awkward and morbidly obese man to work as a cashier. Everyone pretty much knew just from description that he wouldnt be able to handle the job, standing still for hours alone would do it. After less than hour on his first real day he broke into tears and ran out of the building and never came back. Nothing bad happened it was just the job i guess he simply couldnt do it. Wherever he is i hope he gets the help he needs.

Not the shortest, but interesting to say the least. My job is very mobile and team members don't always see each other. Hired a new guy and he trained with me for a week. Week 2 and he is sitting nearby, but doing his own work. Frequent restroom breaks and storied of "i got lost coming back". Week 3 he is out on his own with phone numbers to contact for help (colleague and I). No calls, and minimum contact via text/email. Week 4 tells us that he will be out of town for 10 days to help his former company. Nope, you work here not there came up. He actually said that it was wrong for us to make him decide between 2 companies. He was working both jobs, original job taking calls, our company he was logging things only to hide in his car to work the other job and get paid by both. Said we were unreasonable when he was let go.

So long.

Few hours.

New guy showed up. After a few hours he was called down to security to get his badge.

The new guy asked the two black people working security "why do black people have weird sounding names?"

He was fired on the spot and escorted out.

Few hours.

On the walkthrough of our loading dock he was on his phone not paying attention and when my boss brought this up he put up his index finger to her in a "shush, a moment" fashion and continued texting.

I worked at restaurant that had servers sit down with potential server canidates. I really liked this interview process as it gave someone who works there a chance to see if they will vibe with the rest of the staff.

We had a guy that had a great interview with the manager, they alluded to the fact that they wanted to hire him. The first server sent over to chat sits down and dude says, Hey what is the scam situation here? The server sent over, stood up and walked into the manager's office and vetoed him for being a scammer.

He went from an almost job to blacklisted in 10 seconds.

Assistant managed a grocery store deli for about a year or so.

High school girl came in, interviewed, got an offer, accepted, did all the onboarding stuff and then was told she'd get her schedule soon. They scheduled her to start the next Monday... during school hours... specifically when she said she couldn't work. On top of that, they sent the schedule to the wrong email address and she never received it (they confirmed this afterwards).

They called her that Monday when she obviously didn't show up and told her that her offer was no longer on the table. She came in (left school early) just absolutely bawling about it, told them she never received an email and that she said she couldn't work this shift, etc. etc. Store manager didn't give a darn.

My deli manager and I both left not long after that, frick that place.

I was working at a computer repair shop when we hired a new guy. I trained him to check customers in, so he worked the front counter while I handled repairs in the back.

On his second day, the phone rang. A woman on the other end was furious. She asked if he worked there. I asked what had happened, and she told me she’d come in the day before. He had asked her out, and which she declined. Later that night, he started messaging her inappropriate things; first by text, then on Facebook. Her facebook profile clearly stated that she was in a relationship and her profile pic reflected that as well.

I called the owner, explained everything, and gave him her number. Fifteen minutes later, the owner called the new guy and told him he was fired. Dude was actually confused about what he did wrong.

He was hired, and fired in two days.

I was a sales director and got one of the old salespeople from my old job hired on. He was good and I thought he would be a good fit. Apparently HR had him start before all his background stuff got completed. They fired him day 2 for failing his substance test. HR then immediately tested me, thinking I was also on the blow. Negative.

I got hired at a credit card company. On my first day, the girl I was shadowing asked me if I thought the trainer was hot.

I said: I guess? I didn't really think about it, I have a girlfriend.

I was fired an hour later and told I wasn't a good fit. I'm still not sure what the correct answer was there.

New associate in training on his first day when I worked retail, was supposed to learn how to stock, check skus etc. He decided to show initiative by asking to install a tv for display in an empty spot from when we had sold the last display model.

He was told to wait for someone to assist as the space was 4 shelves up and required a ladder. He decided to move the TV to the floor and waited until everyone else was occupied to attempt the install himself.

The TVs were set up so they all ran HDMI from the same switch so we only needed one display running that was then copied to all the others. So this guy gets the TV up there, manages to hook an HDMI cord in, good so far. Except that he then turned apparently it to far while trying to plug in the power, and one side of the stand slipped off the shelf, he falls, TV falls, bringing the entire display with it due to then all being connected by cable.

Ended up destroying 20-25 or so larger 50+ inch sets, this was back in 2014 so they were bigger for the time. I found out when they called me in on my day off to go in and help clear out the mess, check what still worked and set up an entire new display. I got there as management was walking him out.

When I worked in the nightclub a new barman on his first day was told to “take one for yourself” generally this means you add £2 to the bill and pop it in your tips, this boy genuinely poured himself a vodka and coke and drank it 😂😂😂 didn’t last the shift. If I was supervisor/manager I’d have sent him home but told him he can’t do that. Personally the one training him failed him.

Intern used their corporate credit card to BUY a Honda civic “because you told us to ensure we had reliable means of transportation.”

We had many trainings after this. And there was a new policy re: spend limits for intern cards.

Temp's first day there was a group townhall lunch event. He decided to sniff the hair of the lady in front of him and tell her she smelled good. Like straight up stuck his nose in the back of her head,, unprompted. He didn't make it to the end of the day.

Girl hired on Halloween, drunk before first shift.

I manage restaurants and had a busser get fired within his first two hours.

His first day was supposed to be shadowing a trainer and he did fine the first hour and we couldn't find him after he went to the restroom.
We found him in the break room where he was drinking a beer that he brought in(he had a few with him). I told him he couldn't drink on the clock and his response was,"well, no one told me I couldn't"

He was gone by hour two when I was able to get his check to him.

Physically fighting in the smoking area during her first break in training.

About 15 minutes. Guy showed up drunk, was being shown how to use a machine, alcohol was on his breath, and he was punted.