Have you or known someone who was fired over a menial task?

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: loki8481
one of my friends was written up for being ~5 minutes late twice in a week.

personally, if I'm ~5 minutes late, I consider myself to be early

If you worked for me, you'd get bitched at the 2nd time it happened, and fired the 3rd. (granted, shit happens, and if it's not a frequent thing, then that'd be different, but given the bolded text above...it sounds like he's late all the time.
I realize that with some jobs, punctuality isn't as important as with the work I did...but if you're SUPPOSED to be there at a certain time...FFS, BE THERE ON TIME or EARLY.

 

[Kyle]

One of my friends was fired over giving a free cup of soup to a customer at olive garden.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: TechBoyJK
i was fired because i sent my supervisor an email, which was pretty heated, asking for a bit more respect becuase its not like we work at mcDonalds. He had chewed me out in front of my entire helpdesk staff because I used the word "stuff" in an email to a client, of whom I already had good repoir with.

I think I see your problem here. "Repoir" is not even close to the spelling of "rapport", and the phrase itself, in the English language, would be, "with whom I had a good rapport."

You can't have a good rapport of with someone.

For client e-mails, you simply didn't have the right, errrrrrrrr, stuff.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: loki8481
one of my friends was written up for being ~5 minutes late twice in a week.

personally, if I'm ~5 minutes late, I consider myself to be early

If you worked for me, you'd get bitched at the 2nd time it happened, and fired the 3rd. (granted, shit happens, and if it's not a frequent thing, then that'd be different, but given the bolded text above...it sounds like he's late all the time.
I realize that with some jobs, punctuality isn't as important as with the work I did...but if you're SUPPOSED to be there at a certain time...FFS, BE THERE ON TIME or EARLY.

I am late all the time. usually in the 20-30 minute mark.

punctuality isn't especially important at my company, since basically everyone works through lunch, stays late, is on-call 24/7, etc... it more than evens out in the end, as long as someone doesn't take it to a ridiculous extreme (like coming in an hour late every day and leaving on-time). in fact, here it is 3:53 am and I was actually just at my office like 15 minutes ago couldn't sleep and I called out tomorrow, so I went in for a few to take care of some stuff.

only time punctuality is stressed is when there's another shift waiting to be relieved, which only applies to me one day a week (standard shifts are 12-8, 8-4, 4-12... I work 8-4 1 day/week but 10-6 the rest)

 

[winr]

I got fired from TG&Y warehouse.

EDIT:
I was 18 years old.

I was working as a receiver unloading trucks.

Each door had 2 unloaders except for me, I had a door to myself as I am super hyper and no one wanted to work with me.

I was riding my pallet jack down an aisle and a junior supervisor was chasing me, I was unaware of him chasing me until I stopped.

He started hollering at me and told me to come to the office which I did.

All of the big bosses gathered around me and the head boss told me if I didnt apologize for riding the pallet jack and also apologize to the junior supervisor they would fire me.

I said I was sorry I was riding the pallet jack and it wouldnt happen again as I was wrong but I didnt do anything to the junior supervisor to apologize for.

The head boss said if I didnt apologize to the junior supervisor I was fired.

I said tell you what, I quit...thanks for the job and see ya...

The head boss said you are still going to apologize to the junior supervisor.

I told the head boss I wasnt apologizing, I was leaving and if anyone wanted to stop me to go for it.

No one said anything and I walked out and was glad I quit that place.

I didnt graduate from high school and do not have a college diploma but I work as hard as 2 people in every job I have had.

Half of my life I have worked for a business, the other half I have either owned my own business or contracted myself out.

My first job paid $1.25 an hour, the most I have earned was $7000.00 a month.


When I was in charge I treated my people like I would a family member...with tolerance...


I wonder if the hard nose bosses that rule with an iron fist at work go home and treat there Family the same way ???

 

[Locut0s]

I have a feeling that a lot of these I got fired over nothing incidents are really cases where the person was already on someones 'sh!t list'. And by that I mean someone in management already had it out for them and wanted to get rid of them. That doesn't mean it's the persons fault it could just be because their manager doesn't like them and is an ass hole. In such cases they are just waiting for some small little piddling mistake to can the guy.

 

[Jawo]

but the TPS cover sheets need to be printed OP!

I quit before I could be laid of for something stupid at my first job....long story...

 

[maxster]

:beer:HAHAHA

 

[skillyho]

I had to poo once......and bossman said I couldn't go poop.

I pooped anyway.

 

[Oyeve]

I got fired from an IT contract for a CC company when they relocated their offices from Manhattan. Apparently, I went above and beyond my call of duty. I did what was in the contract, and their network engineering staff were complete idiots so I stepped in, saved the day, and their manager was embarrassed as hell because one single contracted person knew more about their network system than the entire in-house staff. So he let me go. I had fullfilled my contract and the help I gave his engineering group was gratis. He was a total idiot. So I took about 20 SoundBlaster cards (worth about 100 a pop back then) from their inventory when I left.

 

[puffff]

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: beat mania

Originally posted by: banksh0t

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: banksh0t
i got fired for giving away $0.25 of nacho cheese to a coworker for free.

explain more please.

I used to work at a movie theater and they would sell those small cups of extra nacho cheese for people who wanted more. Coworker was on his break and wanted some more cheese, gave him a cup of it for free. Never the less the manager thought i was giving away like $20 bucks of free food and came to realize it was only nacho cheese.

Do workers get free food? If not, then its theft ... and that's something people usually get fired for no matter where you work and what you do.

it's 25 cents worth of fucking cheese.

But it's nacho cheese to give away!

/bad pun

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: puffff

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: beat mania

Originally posted by: banksh0t

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: banksh0t
i got fired for giving away $0.25 of nacho cheese to a coworker for free.

explain more please.

I used to work at a movie theater and they would sell those small cups of extra nacho cheese for people who wanted more. Coworker was on his break and wanted some more cheese, gave him a cup of it for free. Never the less the manager thought i was giving away like $20 bucks of free food and came to realize it was only nacho cheese.

Do workers get free food? If not, then its theft ... and that's something people usually get fired for no matter where you work and what you do.

it's 25 cents worth of fucking cheese.

But it's nacho cheese to give away!

/bad pun

Actually. thats pretty funny!

 

[judasmachine]

It happens all the time. Many times it's many failed menial tasks stacked up, and many other times its a low level manager with a superiority/inferiority complex.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Ns1

Originally posted by: beat mania

Originally posted by: banksh0t

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: banksh0t
i got fired for giving away $0.25 of nacho cheese to a coworker for free.

explain more please.

I used to work at a movie theater and they would sell those small cups of extra nacho cheese for people who wanted more. Coworker was on his break and wanted some more cheese, gave him a cup of it for free. Never the less the manager thought i was giving away like $20 bucks of free food and came to realize it was only nacho cheese.

Do workers get free food? If not, then its theft ... and that's something people usually get fired for no matter where you work and what you do.

it's 25 cents worth of fucking cheese.

This time it was. 4 of those is $1 and usually this escalates to higher value items.

If it was just '25 cents' then it shouldn't have been a problem to slap a freaking quarter on the table.

You actually carry cash? Wow I sure don't/

 

[aceO07]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I got fired from an IT contract for a CC company when they relocated their offices from Manhattan. Apparently, I went above and beyond my call of duty. I did what was in the contract, and their network engineering staff were complete idiots so I stepped in, saved the day, and their manager was embarrassed as hell because one single contracted person knew more about their network system than the entire in-house staff. So he let me go. I had fullfilled my contract and the help I gave his engineering group was gratis. He was a total idiot. So I took about 20 SoundBlaster cards (worth about 100 a pop back then) from their inventory when I left.

!??

 

[compman25]

Originally posted by: winr
I got fired from TG&Y warehouse.

EDIT:
I was 18 years old.

I was working as a receiver unloading trucks.

Each door had 2 unloaders except for me, I had a door to myself as I am super hyper and no one wanted to work with me.

I was riding my pallet jack down an aisle and a junior supervisor was chasing me, I was unaware of him chasing me until I stopped.

He started hollering at me and told me to come to the office which I did.

All of the big bosses gathered around me and the head boss told me if I didnt apologize for riding the pallet jack and also apologize to the junior supervisor they would fire me.

I said I was sorry I was riding the pallet jack and it wouldnt happen again as I was wrong but I didnt do anything to the junior supervisor to apologize for.

The head boss said if I didnt apologize to the junior supervisor I was fired.

I said tell you what, I quit...thanks for the job and see ya...

The head boss said you are still going to apologize to the junior supervisor.

I told the head boss I wasnt apologizing, I was leaving and if anyone wanted to stop me to go for it.

No one said anything and I walked out and was glad I quit that place.

I didnt graduate from high school and do not have a college diploma but I work as hard as 2 people in every job I have had.

Half of my life I have worked for a business, the other half I have either owned my own business or contracted myself out.

My first job paid $1.25 an hour, the most I have earned was $7000.00 a month.


When I was in charge I treated my people like I would a family member...with tolerance...


I wonder if the hard nose bosses that rule with an iron fist at work go home and treat there Family the same way ???

Holy Crap, you worked at TG&Y? No one I knows has ever heard of TG&Y. And I always thought it was just a local store in CA.

 

[D1gger]

I have had to fire a number of people over the years, and although sometimes it may seem like it was over a menial task not done correctly, in my case, the firing was always the result of a number of issues, and the menial task was only the last straw.

 

[meltdown75]

A guy used to work here that was fired because he had been asked to file away file folders all day long for several weeks and complained of a sore back. He started wearing runners to work and wearing a back brace to help with the soreness. The manager continued to be a dick and not let him do other work or even mix up his workload a bit. The guy eventually got canned for whining about his back too much.

He sued the company for wrongful dismissal or something and got $25,000 for it.

 

[wwswimming]

when i was in college i worked for the audio visual guy
for the mechanical engineering department.

he gave me an old projector with foam sound proofing that
was coming off, and a vacuum cleaner, and told me to
BLOW the foam off. (which would have filled the entire
room with bits of old soundproofing foam.)

i vacuumed it all up, made no mess.

he saw i had not followed his orders & fired me.

i ended up building particle detectors at SLAC which was
a lot more fun.

 

[PepePeru]

Where'd the Cheese Go?

 

[Greyd]

Originally posted by: aceO07

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I got fired from an IT contract for a CC company when they relocated their offices from Manhattan. Apparently, I went above and beyond my call of duty. I did what was in the contract, and their network engineering staff were complete idiots so I stepped in, saved the day, and their manager was embarrassed as hell because one single contracted person knew more about their network system than the entire in-house staff. So he let me go. I had fullfilled my contract and the help I gave his engineering group was gratis. He was a total idiot. So I took about 20 SoundBlaster cards (worth about 100 a pop back then) from their inventory when I left.

!??

Exactly...WTF??? You're proud about stealing??

 

[sourceninja]

Let's see.

I got fired from a job once because my boss thought I was stealing. Charges were filed, I had to take a lie detector test, charges were dropped. I did not take my job back. Apparently, the guy who reported me was indeed stealing. He was taking parts and customer credit cards. The cops offered him a plee in exchange for giving up his 'gang'. He accused almost everyone one of the guys in shipping of stealing.


I was fired from a collection company. I had higher averages then most of the collectors. However I refused to follow company policy of demanding the entire past due amount all at once. I found that by doing that, the targets would clam up and refuse to pay. So instead I would work out a payment system with them and help get them back on track without getting their cars repossessed. The company was setup in such a way to target lower class people and get them into a system where one late payment turned into an impossible debt to ever pay off, unless you knew the trick. I knew how to work the system and helped get people back on track. I was fired for being moral.

I quit a job once after the boss laughed at me. I was working for a small software firm. I was the only IT person in the company (We had one programer who worked from home, and one support rep). I revolutionized their setup over my first year. Brought them into the future, wrote my own CRM and billing software, discovered a billing error in their favor with sprint, and recovered 30,000 in cash due to it. Used that money to bring in our own T1, switch to voip long distance for the sales group, and bring all servers in house, saving almost 6000.00 in month payments to salesforce, the phone company, the hosting companies etc. At the time I had no work experience in the IT field, fresh out of highschool. I was making 9.00 an hour. I asked for a raise to 10.50. I was told no. I told her that I was sorry, but I was going to start looking for a new job, and she should probably know that to find someone to run all this stuff I had just setup was going to cost a lot more then what I was asking. She laughed and told me "I'm sure you will have no problem finding a job, with all your education." (I had not been to college). I sent my resume out to a few companys, was brought in for an interview and hired for a job at about 17.00 an hour. I quit with 1 week notice. Last I knew, they almost went out of business because nobody knew how to maintain the servers, how to admin the network, their programmer quit due to the strain they tried to put on him to do my job, same with their support guy. They had to pay someone to come in and migrate their system to windows and re-engineer or replace the software I wrote (the server side of it was ment to run on linux). Last I've checked their website, their software has not been updated in at least 6 years. That's what a 1.50 an hour cost them.

 

[BrownTown]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: loki8481
one of my friends was written up for being ~5 minutes late twice in a week.

personally, if I'm ~5 minutes late, I consider myself to be early

If you worked for me, you'd get bitched at the 2nd time it happened, and fired the 3rd. (granted, shit happens, and if it's not a frequent thing, then that'd be different, but given the bolded text above...it sounds like he's late all the time.
I realize that with some jobs, punctuality isn't as important as with the work I did...but if you're SUPPOSED to be there at a certain time...FFS, BE THERE ON TIME or EARLY.

WOAH, good thing I don't work for you...

Although its probably a different type of job, being late for an assembly line shift or something is different than being late for an engineering job where you can choose your own hours (within reason).

 

[cjvon]

Originally posted by: banksh0t

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
I quit my job over how to put cheese on a Whopper.

Cheese is ruining the work place.

lol

 

[KeithTalent]

I've seen people fired for doing heroin in the bathroom, stealing copious amounts of steaks from the fridge, for skimming funds (lots of funds), sexual mosconduct on the job, and for showing up drunk to work on multiple occasions, but never for anything like the OP mentioned, unless there was an accumulation of things along with it.

KT