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22 Stories of Employees Getting Canned for the Most Insane Reasons

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15. Wow. Dumb.

“I was managing a restaurant and I noticed a new hire had really good tip averages the day before when I had been paying her out. I did morning cash out where I checked all slips against the information in the computer. The next day, I was going through her slips and noticed a – discrepancy. Namely that she had added a one in front of each tip and changed the total. How could I tell you ask? SHE USED DIFFERENT COLOR INK! She was fired and we refunded the money, but seriously, at least use the same color ink.”

16. Hahahahah

“I worked in a fast food kiosk at an amusement park. We had a machine that cooked our burgers and toasted our buns, one of those ones where the food goes through on a conveyor belt. One day, it was raining. While walking to the kiosk, a girl got wet. So, logically, she took her clothes off and put them through the machine so the heat could dry them. Her shirt caught on fire and set the kitchen sprinklers off, then her shoe forced the two toasting plates in the bun section far apart, creating a large repair bill and her losing her job.”

17.  My time, my dime

“My manager once fired a woman for sun tanning during lunch. She went out to her car, stripped to her underwear and laid on the hood/windshield to sunbathe. Anyone looking out could see her. She didn’t think she was doing anything wrong since she was on her lunch break.”

18. Oxymorons

“Couple of straight men got into a physical fight over a lesbian, on the floor, in front of customers. She was out, everyone knew she was gay. It started out as an argument over who she was friends with and turned into who was going to be going out with her in the future. That’s like idiots arguing over who’s gonna win the Nobel Prize.”

19. And smelly

“I had to fire an employee one time because he decided to crap all over the bathroom and write his name with a smiley face. Side note: There isn’t anything wrong with him mentally, he just thought it was funny.”

20. In it for the meat

“I was training her on our computer system and all she wanted to do was talk about the men in the office. When it was break time, she actually said, ‘I’m going up to the 4th floor and check out the meat up there.’ After break, I sent her into the fax room to pick up a fax and was told that while she waited for the fax, she perched her can on the edge of the table, arched her back, stuck her chest out, and fanned herself with some papers, all the while making suggestive comments to the mail room guy. She was sent home and told she didn’t need to come back.”

21. Nice AND a thief

“I worked at a JC Penney. The store manager would come in really early to work and turn off the cameras. Then he would steal tons of stuff like purses, etc. He didn’t know that cameras also had an automatic on feature. They turned back on one day while he was still in the midst of his thieving and he got fired. It kinda makes me sad cause he was a really nice guy.”

22. There had to be a reason

“When I worked at Disneyland, I had an employee steal an entire ream of blank fast pass tickets. There’s absolutely no need or reason to have these, it’s just blank card stock the size of a business card. I caught him in the act and several minutes later, he didn’t have a job.”

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