“Drunk Every Day”: 69 Times People Got Fired For Doing The Most Ridiculous Things At Work

Hired a guy who we had interviewed virtually. Nice guy who had a great resume and credentials for the job. I was excited to have him join the team. He wound up being very productive, pleasant, and a great fit. I thought I knocked it out of the park with hiring him.

My company moved back to a hybrid schedule for local employees at the time and before I even got to the office, seven people messaged me complaining about his body odor. When I arrived, I nearly fainted. I didn’t know human beings could smell like that. Genuinely one of the foulest smells that I’ve experienced. I brought him into my office and asked if something was going on or if there was a medical situation or something I needed to be aware of. He just assured me he forgot to shower. I told him to go home and take care of it.

He came back two days later and somehow smelled worse. This continued to happen for three weeks and people were ready to riot. I had to temporarily move him to a back office because a pregnant employee got sick due to his body odor. I tried to get approval for him to work remotely but our company’s CEO wouldn’t approve it. After repeated warnings, I fired him.

The security guard who escorted him out asked our office manager for a mask with an exhalation valve before walking him out, while he was right there beside him. I managed to catch a glimpse of the guy and the look of humiliation, shame, and embarrassment was rough. Really cool guy who was decent at his job so I felt kind of bad, but my god. That s**t was nasty.

I used to work the cash office in a big box store. One of the third shift guys who worked in electronics and was responsible for stocking and/or locking up the new games and game consoles was actually stealing them and either keeping them for himself or selling them. He also stole money out of the register - A LOT of money. They actually waited for him to steal enough to make it a felony, then fired him and had him led out in handcuffs.

Well, we had a sales manager be drunk everyday. We kept smelling a smell of booze but thought maybe he was having a drink at lunch… nope. Walked in one day as he was putting away an open bottle of something in his desk, wiping his mouth and slurring his words.

He got the boot the next day.

I was an assistant manager for a lawn and garden department in college and we had to fire one of the seasonal girls because she would invite various love interests into the department on the 2-11 shift when no one was in the store after 8 and hook up in areas that didn't have cameras.

Me and my buddy caught her out behind the store with some guy with his pants down where we stored extra racking. She begged not to be fired but policy is policy. She was awful anyway so it was a relief to get rid of her.

We also had a cashier get fired for moving a nested waterfowl and was later arrested because she took the bird and nest to her house lol.

It turned out a**e on photocopier was ok but p***s and balls was not.

Got fired for shoplifting at the grocery store behind our business. The manager from the store asked for me, and showed me a CCTV image of him shoplifting on 3 occasions in full uniform (including name tag).

First guy I ever fired. If you're wondering it was a high end grocer, he was stealing CBD oil.

A couple who worked the sales floor left their baby in their car and it died. I remember the CEO flip-flopping between seething with rage and crying. Was a weird day. To this day I don’t trust Outbound Salespeople.

Not super crazy but I was a regional supervisor for a construction security company and supervised about 120 guards we had in South Florida. I had an employee named Yansi who worked at one of our most important sites with Lennar, our biggest client. I was suspicious so three separate times I would show up unannounced to the construction site and he wouldn’t be there. He was clocking in and then going home. After the third time, I fired him and he begged me for his job and another opportunity but I said no. Fast forward a week, the guard we replaced him with was unable to man the site so against my better judgement, I called Yansi and told him we were willing to give him one last opportunity, I begged him not to make me look stupid for vouching for him. THAT VERY NIGHT not even 3 hours into his shift, he disappeared. Left the site, turned his phone off. Came back 3 hours later and tried to tell me he was there. Fired him, didn’t pay him for that day. He blew my phone up because he wanted the money he thought he deserved. Some people really don’t deserve second chances.

I was the highest ranked person at a big back office building, I wasn’t in charge but kinda informally was.

There were REPEATED POOPS IN THE URINALS. We had some footage from a bad angle that only showed some of the entrance to the bathroom areas. Security and I went over endless hours of people entering and exiting and could not match anyone to the urinal pooping. We suspected this one dude but one day he left early before a p**p happened. So it got even weirder. At this point we are up to maybe 10 poops over 4 months. there are signs, warnings of discipline, people informing on others, mainly the Dude but I’d already ruled him out after some timing issues and his abscesses.

Eventually we figured out it was two older women working in tandem to P**P-FRAME this dude.

Turns out they didn’t like his politics and the two ladies formed this plan to get him fired without benefits. Instead we had to have these ladies put on peps before eventually laying them off at the first opportunity.

Lied about her brother dying to take a paid bereavement leave. Sent texts describing his wreck and condition in vivid detail. Created a fake obituary and sent to HR for proof. This employee always had an issue and I didn't trust her. Google helped me find the real obituary she used with a few details changed. She was fired and I was told not to do my own research anymore but instead let HR handle it.

First mgmt gig out of college was at a convenience store. Had an employee brace herself for a few minutes and then kneed the large metal safe behind the counter as hard as she could.

The worker's comp case lasted as long as took the judge to view the video and stop laughing.

Growing software co in the late ‘90s.

Server guy was running a few p**n sites off the company’s servers.

Where I used to work, 2 people got fired for having s*x in the warehouse. Lots of cameras in that warehouse so they couldn’t deny it.

Sent naked videos of herself eating cupcakes to a married coworker on teams !!! So easy not to do.

Embezzlement. Seen it happen at 3 different jobs across a decade. The first time it was my direct manager. She was led out of the office by security her boss and the VP of the entire company (big company, 5000+ people). She was kind of hated and it was really surreal. They had to threaten to call the cops there for her to finally leave, and I think the police were involved.

The worst one was the CEO of a small nonprofit. He was robbing Peter to pay Paul for years, and spending huge sums of money on “IT upgrades” (like moving the membership system to a different platform) to cover up the smaller but still large things he was doing. The company lost 3/4 of the staff and the office building iirc and still exists but is virtual only with a skeleton crew. Not sure why the people who stayed wanted to even stay at that point,.

Middle aged engineer took his shirt off in the middle of a meeting to impress (?) a junior female engineer.

I don't really know why he did it, but he managed to work god into it somehow.

Watch p**n on their work computer.

I was a supervisor at a call center for one of the world's biggest brands. It took some effort to get a job here, we usually only hire those with experience and references.

Well we hired this guy and he got fired on his first day out of training. He went through 4 weeks of training and seemed normal enough. Day one at his cube doing his actual job? He took his pants off on the call floor. He said it was hot. It wasn't, we had a ridiculous air conditioner. Even if it was, you don't whip your balls out to your coworkers.

He genuinely didn't understand what he did wrong.

We had an in house cafeteria. Someone thought blatantly stealing food from a place where everyone wears security badges was a good idea.

Was at a client's offices one day when several black SUVs pulled up. Guys in suits asking for the president. She came out and they asked to be taken to a specific worker's area. Went to his office and took him out in handcuffs along with his work computer. Turns out he was storing his illegal material on a company server. Most likely child SA material. Never heard what happened to him.