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

Spilled booze all over their brand new laptop, came into my IT office drunk and handed us a fried out laptop, while still under the influence. He was a manager in another department, he was let go not long after.

Worst thing I have seen people do, but not get fired for, were older receptionist ladies bullying a fellow receptionist into committing s*****e, but that's a lot harder for HR to prove on who did what or when, since no official reports made, but it was kind of "known" in the office as happening.

Had a guy doing a carving station in the back, only job he had was to cut primerib as it came in - well, apparently cutting his toenails was more important. He was relieved on the spot.

A woman stuck her hand into an active bread maker and almost lost a finger just because she WANTED to be fired so she could collect unemployment.

I bought a dog daycare a few years ago, about a year in, we caught one of the new employees... lets say having too much fun with one of the dogs, lost a lot of faith in humanity that morning jfc people...

This girl who was clearly on d***s (couldn't sit still, odd speech, picking at her face) decided to cut her hair in the middle of the store and left the hair clippings on the floor.

He just ghosted us. He did not appear for his work appointments, did not respond to any work emails or text messages or phone calls. Did not ask for time off or sick leave. Nothing. Just disappeared. Left his personal items in his office, even a few opened snacks and half can of a coke on his table.

We finally heard back from him about two weeks later. He said that he had back pain. None of us believes him though. Unless he was in a coma or some traumatic accident, I just don't understand how during the entire two weeks he cannot even send us a text message. Our bosses are very lenient with giving time off too. It was bizarre.

I worked with a guy who was fired (while in training) for stealing a huge tub of peanut butter from our restaurant. I think that was a like a 5 lb vat of it. The store delivery driver saw him take it out. After that we referred to him a peanut butter boy.

I had a purchasing agent start a resupply business to sell the company product. While at work, they would find the item we needed, purchase it for their own company, and then sell it to us. After 6 months, someone in accounting thought it was strange that this new vendor had been paid $80k. They did some research and saw the employee name on the corporate documents as the owner.

The employee was offended that we suggested their was anything illegal in what they did.

"Worst" was probably someone at a work party drinking too much, causing some issues when her manager tried to take her keys, and then attempted to drive away before crashing into a parked car in the parking lot.

Most egregious was that we used to have an "unlimited PTO" policy and a dude just left one day and never came back. It took about a month to fire him.

I knew a guy who got fired for planking at GameStop.


He got a Kotaku article about it.


Then a follow up article when he was denied unemployment. However you feel about the firing, I found it very funny that a government certified document has PLANKING listed as a reason to deny unemployment.

Worked retail. A man got naked in the stock room that we never used... was on his phone having phone s*x with a woman, while m****rbating.... how do you even deal with that? I had to tell him to get dressed and go home he was fired.

Edit: thanks for the gift!

I was the manager of an employee and the supervisor of that employee.


The employee was having issues at home.  His wife had developed mental issues and was struggling.  The employee met with the supervisor to discuss the situation and ask for flexibility in scheduling as he navigated the issues and got help for his wife.


The supervisor agreed, and also offered to be an ear for the employee to talk about his issues with.  The employee was grateful and over a few months opened up about some details of what the wife was going through.


After about 6 months, the supervisor used information obtained from employee to locate his wife while she was out shopping.  Supervisor approached her, told her he was psychic and that upon seeing her, had been overcome with the weight of her mental load.  The supervisor used all the privileged information to fake that he had a close emotion connection to the wife.


Supervisor f****d the wife for a couple months before he was caught.  When it all came out we were...surprised.

I had an employee pull a g*n on me in the oil bay of Walmart. I had to scramble to make sure my other employees were safe. Lucky I talked him down.. but I needed new pants..

Guy clocked in, walked straight to the break room, slept for three hours. Did it four days in a row before anyone noticed.

Caught someone running their own etsy shop on company time using company equipment. Like full on packaging orders at their desk.

Caught a sub contractor smoking h****n in his van at the back of the shop.

Obviously fired him on the spot - absolutely insane behaviour.

Got blackout drunk on kitchen wine, locked themselves in the bathroom, broke the toilet by falling into it and bled all over the place. We stopped the bleeding and paid for their cab home after making sure they were okay. Never heard from them again and they never returned for their things.

Got fired for diverting narcotics then got caught with another employee’s urine in her v****a during the d**g test.

The funniest ive ever seen was at my one job years ago I worked as an office admin for a janitorial company (oh i have stories) but one that really stands out is we had a contract for a recycling facility. The client came to us as it wasnt once, but like 5 times (dont know why they didnt tell us after the first time) where she was stealing cans from the recycling facility. She got her partner/husband or whoever to come pick up cans for her.. in HIS WORK TRUCK!!!! company logo and all exposed on camera. Then she proceeded to take those same cans and recycle them during the day for money back at the same facility..

I remember she came in to talk to HR and all I could hear her saying 'was that wrong? I thought they were garbage.." "The whole plant is recycling.. thats what they do, is recycle cans and you know that you are not to touch the cans... yes that was wrong and you know better' 'oh.. sorry, should i return the money back? as ive spent it already' Thats when I had to go out back as I was laughing in shock. People are wild.


craziest ive ever heard of was a cook at a casino in my city was caught dropping ladles of grease on a grease fire that went up the wall and burned down the kitchen, casino evacuated. She was charged with arson.

My mate told me a story about the chemical plant he worked in. Guy rode his push bike into the plant every day, of an evening pushed it out. One day said guy with bike had a problem as bike had fallen over. The guy was struggling to lift it a security guard went over to help. Both couldn't move it.

Turned out the guy was filling the frame with mercury.