58 Times People Got Fired So Spectacularly, HR Will Never Forget It

We had this absolute idiot working for us about 10 years ago. He wanted to be hgv driver so they were trying him out after he got his license.
He constantly forgot to take his card out after a drop off (something to do with tracking how many hours a driver has been driving / resting or something, idk) and it was apparently a huge pain to constantly fix.
Still, our boss is big on second (and third, forth, fith) chances so they gave him one last go.

They loaded him up, gave him an address and said "ring me when you get there." So he drives to the customer and rings the boss. Boss says to him "brilliant, come on back and we'll get you loaded for the next job." So of course this moron puts the phone down drives back here without being unloaded 🤦‍♂️.

Hotel industry - she worked the front desk and was pr*stituting on the job.

I worked at a local bank and the biggest scandal during the time was in the collections department.

A senior collection specialist that had trained more than half the team got caught taking extra money than people owed, and skimming off the difference. Went on for awhile because the account got settled, customers were shown in good standing, everything hunky dorey.

We never got all the details (it was a small company so everyone talked) of how the person got found out but eventually it got in security's radar and a subsequent audit found the pattern of behavior.

They were let go, charged, and I don't know the exact outcome of the conviction but got some closure when I was working on payment processing and there were checks being mailed in for restitution by the former employee that always felt scandalous for me to process.

I was a manager at a call center and we had to take a certain number of calls ourself to have them get reviewed. So the project I was on at the time had one of the people from the actual company come down. They wanted to review a few calls. So I was in a meeting with couple of other managers, the person from the actual company and our boss. One of the other managers was a complete d*******g. He started bragging and told the person from the company to pick one of his calls. The idiot didn't realize if you picked up one of the phones in the call center and made a outgoing personal call it would also record. The call that played was him getting into a loud cussing out shouting argument with his girlfriend. He looked terrified like he died on the inside and was immediately walked out.

Another person got fired on that same project he was a trainer that went overseas to train people in the Philippines to take our jobs. The idiot had a company credit card and racked up like $20,000 in long distance phone calls with his girlfriend. Everyone just joked because all they did was argue. He came back and they took him to court.

Immensely popular Math teacher at a private school I used to work. His mother died, and he got a 2-week paid leave to take care of everything. The school even organized a memorial for her, many students attended and everyone was crying. Two months later, HR calls his home, his mom picks up and confirms she’s alive. He was fired on the spot.

Was getting hammered at work. Vodka and Diet Coke. Rum and Gatorade. Mixed drinks. One day she smelled like a distillery. HR gave her an option to test to prove she was sober. Declined. Threaten to sue everyone and keep job with treatment. Declined. Then she sent everyone and their significant others messages on any social media just lying about random s**t and trying to stir s**t up. She never met anyone’s SOs so it was very funny.

A collegue of mine got fired becouse he joked he is an ISIS spy. The guy was syrian. We were airport passenger inspectors lol.

I used to work for an online delivery service and we will request restaurant owners to provide their financial details so that we could deposit the money we owe them directly to their accounts. One of the guys who worked in that department thought it was a great idea to swap out the routing numbers and account numbers of these restaurants with his own checking and routing number.

These restaurants called immediately to tell us that they're deposits were missing. They're upset that they were missing thousands of dollars. This is money they need to keep their business running. After some investigating, we found out what he did. Not only was he terminated, but he was immediate arrested by the police after he left the building for wire fraud.

A guy was all over a handful of ladies since he started at my office. Not physically, thankfully, but nagging them via chat (mobile, work chat, etc) - including inappropriate comments.

Obviously, the ladies got sick of it (and of him) quite quickly, and one of them actually started rejecting his advances/comments vocally. And he didn't like it.

After like a year of him being there, it all blew up after said lady went off on him (via chat as well) trying to protect a colleague, and as usual, he responded negatively. She got up to report him to management, and when she (and the manager) walked past him towards her desk, he got up all aggressive, started insulting her, and tried to hit her - pushing the manager out of the way.

He was out the following day, obviously... Although they didn't sent him home immediately after the events, they took a couple hours, which is something none of us comprehend to this day.

I worked in the hardware section of Sears back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

Full time co-worker figured how to get two different departments phones to ring and connect at the same time. Both employees would pick up thinking the other called.

It was harmless fun for awhile. Then he started merging in 1-900 s*x lines with the calls.

The Big Boss from regional was visiting one day

Store Manager thought he was being helpful, Showing off how answering a phone call was not beneath him.

Appliance section was upstairs and I later heard the look on the store manager's face was priceless.

This was after he picked up 1-900-BIG-T**S with the regional standing next to him

Everyone knew it was Matt, and after pulling cameras, he was s**t canned the next day.

On his way out from collecting his stuff he drilled a hole into the register from a returned drill.

Every so often I wonder how he turned out.

The new guy was hired right before Halloween, at the height of Stranger Things. We all had a dress up Friday, and he showed up in a long white shirt (short shorts underneath I assumed), with Eggo waffles stapled to it as Eleven. He also had a small stick on H*tler mustache.

He was 9/11 for Halloween. Nein/Eleven.

Promptly pulled in HR and fired.

Night shift security guy set up his PS5 in the office basement and played games all night. He was caught by the supervisor who decided to check in that night.

Not exactly co-worker. Teacher, he forgot to close tabs from last night and let’s just say his laptop was connected through the projector already.

Lying about going to college and having degrees when only requirement was a high school diploma. ( they were hired before background came back).

Call center, night shift. Guy shows up to work with an old pocket knife in his pocket - already a fireable offense.

Takes it out on the floor to show his co-worker this “family heirloom”, then leaves it on his desk. She takes it and looks at it, opens it, then walks over to another employee working at his desk and holds it to his throat from behind as a “surprise!” joke.

Of course that guy freaks out and runs over to my desk to report it.

I had to call the police and fired both of the employees that night. The third employee did not press charges, surprisingly.

The cake topper…. The guy who brought the knife asked me if I’d give him a job reference as I was escorting him out of the building.

He head butted a colleague at a christmas night out and was fired the next morning.

Kidnapped a man with severe developmental and physical disabilities to run errands with a company vehicle.

Watching p**n on the computer. But it wasn’t like an office cubicle, he was on like an industrial work floor in a shop, with the screen facing the shop. Everyone seen it, even outside contractors. No idea what dude was thinking.