re: Stupid ways to get fired? Got any good stories?

A decade ago, I was caught freelancing on my full time job's time (double-dipping). The supervisor who I thought was a good work mate at the time saw me. Instead of warning me or giving me advice, the fricker went on and told the boss. It was a stupid decision but I had a hard time paying bills and was expecting a child. A week later I was fired. I had to make up a bogus story for my wife.

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We had an office manager one time that liked to drink and at the company

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This reminded me of my cousin's husband. He had an executive position as Sales Director for a well known rum bottler company overseas. His only boss was the CEO. Was making $15K a month 20 years ago.

He had a mini bar at his office. Obviously free booze all the time. Started drinking occasionally on company time. Years later he was getting hammered during regular business hours. He got fired and eventually became a jobless alcoholic. My cousin left him.

Couple come to mind...

Kid that was on my team began reporting to a newby manager. It was Y2K. Kid was a huge Va Tech fan and wanted to go see the VT/FSU Nat'l Championship game. BUT, our CIO at the time said no-one goes out of town and must be available to pitch in and help w any IT issues. This kid ignored it and went to the Sugar Bowl anyway. Which I would have had no problem with as he just joined the team and didn't know anything anyway. Well, he calls in sick that Monday (from NoLa). His newby boss somehow had his call traced and proved he was out of town and had him fired. I was pissed as he was a great resource.

Another one, at a top 10 ten bank I worked for...during the 2008/9 mortgage crisis. At the beginning of the massive foreclosures, this bank I worked for brought in this VP to lead a new default team...and he brought in all his boys. They were from NYC, dressed like they were in the Mafia, slick backed hair, great suits, etc. Paid em alot of money. Only problem was when the VP began banging multiple admins (he was married), at times in his office apparently. Gave them both thousands in gift cards funded by the bank. One night at a happy hour these two admins started comparing notes and he was exposed. Later that night one of the admins fired shots into his house. He was fired the next day. I'll never forget the couch that was in his corner office...it sat outside in the hallway for a week waiting for disposal...it was a running joke...don't sit on that couch.

I worked at Service Merchandise back in college. Our warehouse manager got caught with a big box that he was pushing out to "put in the dumpster". Store manager happened to walk in and offer to help and noticed the "empty" box was pretty heavy.

He had a whole bunch of electronics in the box. Not only fired, but arrested and fired.

Some news reporter I heard about was jacking it while on a Zoom call with his company and WNYC Radio.

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I love the "quit emails" that people send right before they exit

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This one had so much more, but it was about 25 years ago and I can't remember the rest. We referred to it as the "quitter's manifesto" for years afterwards. It was glorious.

I kinda got blackmailed into getting a guy fired

I was in Nola for a convention- did the Bourbon St trek with colleagues and chairman of the regional board (think non profit organization) i was a new hire, less than a month- one of the colleagues paid for me to have a ride in the barber chair where the barmaid spun you around, poured tequila in your mouth, slapped the shite outta your face then shoved your head into her large boobs. Someone videod it and sent it to me…

It was a point of conversation the next day ….so when i was with one of my National bosses for drinks, he said he heard about it…to show him the video- i felt i had no choice so i did/ later that night, more people showed up, including my actual boss and her boss ….the National boss told me to play the video again…this time, my real boss coaxed me to show it- i got reprimanded by my boss for showing the video (again, she told me to show it) and then reported the National boss to HR.


Two weeks later, i got a call from HR and I had to share the WHOLE story to them …literally everything he told me and he had some wild AF stories involving cocaine and hookers and strip clubs and all.

He got fired…and actually died two months later from a heart attack (prolly cocaine) and I am the non profit separated 7mos later…i wish i would have claimed hostile work environment to highlight how the bitch boss used me to help fire someone she didn’t like

Not that good of a story but definitely a stupid reason to get fired.
When i worked at a grocery story in my early days, a guy was running the register and his friend went in line to check out with him. The cashier only checked out 1 donut when the friend had 2 or 3 in his bag. Dude got fired over something that cost less than $2

I heard of this lady in marketing one time putting a transgender person on a Bud Light can, I think they made it about another week.