"Refused To Be Trained By Female Members Of Staff": 53 Reasons People Got Fired Immediately

2 days. Working at Blockbuster, my boyfriend had come in to visit me and get a movie. New girl saw him, introduced herself, which was fine, no biggie, but then asked if he was seeing anyone. He said yea and pointed at me. He leaves, and I go out into the stacks to do something, and I get a text from him saying, "Uh, that new girl just looked up my account and got my phone number and called me and tried to ask me out. That is so not cool, and I'm telling my mom!" His mom was the store manager! She came in and fired her on the spot for accessing personal information and using it for inappropriate purposes.

I had to fire a guy 2 days into a job because he refused to be trained by female members of staff.

Half of a shift. He started spewing white supremacist nonsense and locked onto me as having a German last name. Nope. Not gonna happen. Spun his behind out that door so fast he barely hit the ground.

Literally within 30 seconds into our first day when the supervisor said "well to start it's expected you do more than the 8hrs" employee out straight said "no chance". " Ok there's the door", he got up and flipped his desk.

Turns out he was right, I was gone 2 days later.

I was a warehouse manager.


The owner's kid brought a guy to me and said "This guy is your new forklift driver."


OK...


Put the guy on a forklift, gave him my best spotter and inventory guy as his team. 


Less than an hour later I hear someone yelling "Stop!" and a bang. New guy backed into some merchandise. Spotter said he wouldn't listen. I took him into my office, and gave him a documented warning (because he damaged merchandise) and told him any further mistakes and I'd put him on a dolly instead of a forklift. 


He left my office and not even 10 minutes later I hear "NOOO!" and a crunch. New guy backed into a wall. 


I put him in my office while I took pictures and documented what had happened. I made a formal write-up, had him sign it, took him back to the floor, gave him a dolly and assigned him to a picking team. 


Went back to my office, called the owner to tell him the new hire wasn't working out. He pitched a fit and told me to "make it work". While we were talking, I heard more yelling and another bang. Told the owner I'd call back, went out to find a forklift on it's side in the parking lot. New guy had gotten back on a lift and driven off of the loading dock; fortunately in a spot where the hight difference was only a few inches. 


I got four of my biggest guys (semi-pro football players) and had them escort new guy off of the property, with instructions that he never return and assurances that I'd have him trespassed and arrested. 


Called the owner again and told him I fired the new guy. He went ballistic until I told him how much the forklift and wall repair was going to cost him. 


It was quite a day.


Never did find out new guy's connection to the owner, had to be a favor of some sort or family. .

We had an idiot show up the first day of work drunk as a skunk for a security gig. Homie was hiding his liquor in a Poland spring bottle. Immediately removed from site. In less than 2 hours. His termination paperwork was printed up and sent to his address of record. Scarily enough, about 4 or 5 years later I see him working as a police officer one town over.

Not fired but quit after 3 hours when they realized that being the only man in an entire office full of women didn’t mean they were in charge.

I hired someone with “a 4.0 from U of GA” and had to fire him after two days.

Day one he asked if he could get a salary advance. Um, hard no.

Then I gave him a short writing assignment. After 4 hours he came back with a single sentence and it wasn’t even spelled right.

We did a background check and discovered he lied about attending U of GA.

We called him into HR to discuss.

I said, “We found something on your background check…” and he said, “Is this about the restraining order?”

Buh-bye!!!

Worked at a power plant and had a co-worker quit the day he was supposed to be training me to work for another company at the plant. Came to work high his first day and got fired. My boss kept a position open for him so he could come back to us after his probationary period was over. I told her I wouldn’t work with him because he constantly used the n-word (we’re both white) and he creeped me out. He got arrested the week he came back to work and I never saw him again.

One week. When I worked for a manufacturing plant we hired a safety manager. He seemed like a great guy the first week on the job. Over the weekend he went back home several hours away. He was a no show, no call the following Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday so was terminated for job abandonment. It later came out that he had been arrested for a domestic dispute during that weekend and his wife refused to bail him out or call in for him.

Video interviewed a woman for a remote job that required in office training. A not even similar looking man shows up for the training. He is nowhere near fluent in English. Claims he was the person we interviewed. Thankfully we had screen caps, but it still took a couple of days for HR to get the paperwork together.

New hire at bank transferred money from a customers account to her account. She didnt think they would notice. This was her 1st day working in the bank.

911 dispatcher. Started her first shift and within the hour all hell broke loose. There was a major accident with a fuel truck on fire, more accidents in the backup, an armed robbery, and a few domestic incidents, all happening at once.

I wasn't a dispatcher, but was answering non emergency calls to pitch in. She sat frozen, just staring, then went into the hall and had a panic attack. She asked someone if this was normal and got the dark humor response of No, some days are really busy.


She and the supervisor decided she wasn't dispatch material.

I caught a temp laborer sleeping in a closet on a big project. It was only 7:25 and the job site opened at 7. So, he lasted all of 25 minutes.

Two days.

The guy was hired, showed up for Day One of training on Wednesday, then didn't show up. My boss tried calling him and seeing if everything was ok, but never heard back. By the end of the week, my boss considered him gone. By the next month, my boss received a notice from the state's unemployment board that he was filing for unemployment benefits and cited being laid off and not called back as the reason for his claim.

My boss couldn't believe the cheek on this guy, but between both of us, we had a great time writing those papers and detailing about how he didn't even make it past one day of training. My boss shipped it off and that was it. This guy had the nerve to resubmit his claim because the first was denied, so we sent back copies of the original response to the unemployment agency. I would have loved to have seen the look on that guy's face when he was denied, **again,** for lying about his non-existent job.

Four days. He seemed incapable of putting his phone down. I would speak directly to him while training and he wouldn’t even look up from his phone lol. Boss got pissed and fired him.

1 hour, the new sales rep was introduced at a social event, he proceeded to get drunk within that hour and harass multiple female co-workers. He was escorted by Security and a Lawyer shortly thereafter.

I worked at a pizza place, a coworker was beyond incompetent, he would get lost almost every delivery, if answering the phone he would ask me " do we have pepperoni?" Or "do we have sausage?" Or "Are we able to deliver across the street?" He was finally let go, and reapplied about 8 months later, was interviewed by someone who hadn't worked with him the first time, got hired and was fired before orientation because they recognized his name.

2-3 days, new receptionist suggested to head of legal that she’d be interested in ‘extra’ work for money….

**It took less than two hours to fire someone for a high‑level finance role at a billion‑dollar company. The background check didn’t include federal charges.**

On his very first day, he met his new team. One coworker tried to add him on LinkedIn and, with a quick search, discovered he was currently facing charges for an **$8 million Ponzi scheme**.