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Desslok

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Man all those are bad. Thought I would share one that my old manager told me about. He was on the night shift and doing a walk through in one of the fab's and he saw a problem with a tool, so he was looking for the operator. Well the operator and one of his female coworkers were doing the nasty behind a tool IN the clean room.

 

Frosty3799

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a girl who had been a cashier for 2+ years, and was one of the best at the store went on break, and ate a piece of pizza planning to pay for it after her break, but got busted not paying for it and got fired on the spot
 

Gaard

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A guy at my old job got fired for wiping boogers on the inside of the bathroom stall door. :D

Another guy at the same job used to sneak out the side door while on the clock and do his laundry at the laudromat next door. :)

 

Jfur

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sat in her (shared!) office and masturbated while online all day long... intervention did not help
 

bmacd

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Originally posted by: Jfur
sat in her (shared!) office and masturbated while online all day long... intervention did not help

Did you put that on your resume under reason for getting fired?

-=bmacd=-
 

Jfur

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Originally posted by: Maetryx
Yeah, she's freaking scary. We suspect her of faking illnesses (we're pretty damn sure she didn't acutally have minor outpatient brain surgery, breast cancer, knee and hip surgery... all in 6 months). She also had multiple calls to 911 with the company cell phone that she had never mentioned to anyone.

"minor outpatient brain surgery" still cracks me up :D
 

hoihtah

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Originally posted by: Gaard
A guy at my old job got fired for wiping boogers on the inside of the bathroom stall door. :D

Another guy at the same job used to sneak out the side door while on the clock and do his laundry at the laudromat next door. :)

how did they know whose booger it was?
dna testing?
 

Gaard

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Originally posted by: hoihtah
Originally posted by: Gaard
A guy at my old job got fired for wiping boogers on the inside of the bathroom stall door. :D

Another guy at the same job used to sneak out the side door while on the clock and do his laundry at the laudromat next door. :)

how did they know whose booger it was?
dna testing?
I think the floor manager visually inspected the door after each usage. :)

 

kt

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How about getting caught sleeping on the job? I've seen several people getting canned for that. I got caught sleeping on the job myself, but I didn't get fired or even repimended. That was during college days and I pulled an all-nighter studying for my exams. Even earned myself an office nick name for that incident. They call me the "sleeping beauty" because one of the secretaries decided to be funny and woke me up with a kiss to the chin. Talking being embarrased, try waking up at your desk with a bunch of people looking over you.
 

Jfur

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Originally posted by: bmacd
Originally posted by: Jfur
sat in her (shared!) office and masturbated while online all day long... intervention did not help

Did you put that on your resume under reason for getting fired?

-=bmacd=-


Please note that in English "her" refers to a person other than the one who is speaking. If I ever decide to masturbate in my office, I will lock the door and put a blotter over the window ;)
 

Evadman

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At home depot a guy was fired last week for putting "incorrect" answers on his impact Card. the impact card is like a short test that proves you read through the impact rag that is posted ( impact meaning safety, cust service, and shrink)

For example for the question: What should you do if a customer asks you a question you do not knolw the answer to? He put down, "Beat the pulp out of the customer for asking the wrong question". No one ever read his cards for the 4 months he worked there. then his boss ( who hates him ) read one and had him fired for it. We all thought it was funny as hell :D ( the cards not his firing )
 

Maetryx

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Originally posted by: Jfur

Please note that in English "her" refers to a person other than the one who is speaking. If I ever decide to masturbate in my office, I will lock the door and put a blotter over the window ;)

Ooooooo! Now I know when to knock loudly and ask questions about your grandpa through the door. :D

BTW, how do you intervene when someone is masturbating? Sounds kind of exciting. [we need a horny smiley, like drooling or something]
 

rgwalt

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Originally posted by: kt
How about getting caught sleeping on the job? I've seen several people getting canned for that. I got caught sleeping on the job myself, but I didn't get fired or even repimended. That was during college days and I pulled an all-nighter studying for my exams. Even earned myself an office nick name for that incident. They call me the "sleeping beauty" because one of the secretaries decided to be funny and woke me up with a kiss to the chin. Talking being embarrased, try waking up at your desk with a bunch of people looking over you.

Funny... my office mate told me about the time he was laying on the floor asleep with his feet in his chair. The boss came in and asked the other guy in the office "Is he out?". The guy said yes, and my boss said "I'll just come by later".

I've taken naps in my office too. Granted we are graduate students, but we are getting tuition reimbursement and a stipend, so we are getting paid to work.

Ryan
 

vi edit

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BTW, how do you intervene when someone is masturbating? Sounds kind of exciting. [we need a horny smiley, like drooling or something]

Politely ask "Do you need a hand with that?"
 

Cyberian

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Originally posted by: Michael1897
a while back the taco bell was remodeling in my town. it was found that the construction guys where pooping in the beans. the guys got fired, and the construction company got sued as well as taco bell when a customer bought a special bean burrito
That's not exactly what I usually think of when I hear 'Special Bean Burrito'.

:p
 

Dark4ng3l

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Okay I work at McDonalds right now..... the owner of our McDonalds has 4 of em and some time people from the other places come over to work here a shift or 2 so we get to know what happens at the toher places pretty much.
1. At around 3 in the morning drunk and angry customer spits on the assistant manager ans becomes violent. 2 people try to calm him down or something, eventualy the crew chief that that was there pick up the cash register and smashes it on the customers head in self defence. he is fire on the spot, and thanked by the assistant manager.......
2. Guy is caught masturbating in the walk in freezer. Apparently he was in there for like 20 minutes and they wondered what happened to him.
 

Jfur

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Originally posted by: Maetryx
Originally posted by: Jfur

Please note that in English "her" refers to a person other than the one who is speaking. If I ever decide to masturbate in my office, I will lock the door and put a blotter over the window ;)

Ooooooo! Now I know when to knock loudly and ask questions about your grandpa through the door. :D

BTW, how do you intervene when someone is masturbating? Sounds kind of exciting. [we need a horny smiley, like drooling or something]


Nothing so exciting.... My friend (a female) was the officemate of the masturbator. She was having online sex chats and would seriously masturbate RIGHT THERE, so my friend would flee and had difficulty working. She finally told us what was happening. Our department management tried to tactfully bring up the fact that it was not appropriate but she was too far gone. After it continued they told her not to come back. Eventually, she she stopped leaving the house (even to buy groceries). She had a young son who ended up going to live with his father because she could not care for him during her addiction. It sounds humorous but it is also very sad.
 

Perknose

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Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
This happened before I was here. A tech was working late night, one of the few left on the floor. A manager decided to get up and walk around to stretch his legs or something. The manager came around this guy's cube and the guy was on the phone with a customer going through the routine but this time had his pants unzipped and his genitals out and was fondling them. Not saying a word about it to the customer or anything, just.... playing with himself. On a call. The manager asked the tech to come see him after he ended the call. Apparently he was told that he can either quit or explain to the next place that he applies just why he got fired. :Q
Geez. You'd think the boss would LOVE a tech who was so "hands on" and "solution" oriented, or did he just work in spurts?
rolleye.gif


 

notfred

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I, like TheOmegaCode, work for a government agency. People rarely get fired at all. I can't rerember anyone being fired since I've worked here.
 

gogeeta13

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DOBDT?

Department of Broken Down Transportation


(only in light of recent events, your car is tight)