19 of the Fastest Ways New Coworkers Were Fired

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6 hours. Call center job. She showed up to orientation on day 1 about an hour late. Hey stuff happens. Then we go on a 15 min break. She goes out to take a phone call, comes back in after about 45 min. We go to lunch, it's 30 minutes. She comes back over an hour later. We go on afternoon break, when the 15 min break is up, one of the trainers gets up and steps out in the hall and closes the door behind him. We hear her arrive and argue with him about 20 minutes after that. He comes back in and gets the stuff she left at her desk and we never see her again. u/misoranomegami

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Day 1, delivering pizzas. I was the trainer. Dude wasn't familiar with the town at all (this was before GPS was a thing). Second delivery, he gets in the car, and proceeds to floor it in the parking lot, showing off all 80 horsepower for the 30 feet before slamming on the brakes to turn onto the main street, nearly hitting a customer and her young child. I say whoah, slow down in the Parking lot, you almost hit that kid. "**** em" was his response. That was his last delivery, lasted all of about 90 minutes. u/talontd92tsi

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The new dishwasher told the hostess he wanted to **** her in the *** in front of the entire staff and several early morning customers. it was borderline a mob. u/kittenshart85

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First day, her grandmother died. Understandable. Second day, her car broke down. Bad luck. Third day she had no electricity and couldn’t blow dry her hair. She was told not to bother coming in at all. u/exitzero

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He didn’t get fired, he quit. But this dude was a first day hire as a bagger at a grocery store. Some dude blew up the entire bathroom with diarrhea. Walls, doors, sink, mirror, everywhere. They asked new dude to go clean it. He clocked out and never came back. He’s a hero. u/mrmastomas

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I used to work night audit/front desk at a motel adjacent to major highways. It was a super chill job, I loved my boss, and it was cool by me. But God, trying to hire and train someone to take over my hours - once for maternity leave, and then when I was moving away - was a nightmare. One lady claimed to be computer literate, and then tried to use the mouse to physically touch the correct spot on the monitor when I asked her to click on a field. Another got extremely confused when I mentioned that sleeping with a guest was completely out of bounds. A guy got arrested (and fired of course) for selling drugs to someone out the night window. It was just an absolute **** show. Before I moved, I gave my boss a 2-month notice, because I knew hiring and training was gonna be a nightmare. About a week before my final shift, we finally got someone in place. She was more than a bit strange and could certainly have used a spot of mental health care, but hey, I can't throw stones. She showed up, grasped the basics of the job, etc. About a week after I left, I learned that she had quit because she didn't realize that night audit was a purely overnight job. u/50EffingCabbages

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A guy at my work was caught playing World of Warcraft for hours each day. Boss called him in and told him that was wholly unacceptable and he had to stop immediately or he'd be canned. Less than an hour later, IT calls the same boss and says the guy is back in his office playing again. He was let go that day. u/jpiro

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A coworker sent an email to a female team member that he had a dream the night before that they had gotten married and he "impregnated her". She sat across from me and I literally saw her face as she read the email. A strange look came across her face, then she walked into the managers office. She left the office and he got called in and less than a minute later was packing his things. I believe from start to finish it took less than 5 minutes for him to send the email and get fired. u/CruelHandLuke_

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Worked in a sales call center about 10 years ago, real braindead work. New guy starts on a Monday morning, after he gets trained up on the basics (which takes about an hour), he gets assigned a desk and sets off to work. 30 minutes later, it looks like little puffs of steam are rising up from his computer monitor. Turns out he was vaping on one of those disposable ecigarettes, the kind that sort of tried to look like real cigarettes. He gets told by the boss that we can't vape indoors, and if he wants to, he'll have to go outside to do it on a break. About 30 minutes later again, the same thing happens. He gets caught again, and is told in no uncertain terms that if he wants to keep his job, he'll stop vaping at his desk. An hour later, he gets caught hiding under his desk vaping, and is promptly fired, all before lunch time. Dude could have just gone outside. u/Mr_Itch

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We hired a woman who turned out to be pretty abrasive. How she got hired, I have no idea. Our secretary was the sweetest lady in the office and never complained until this new hire talked with her for a few minutes. Right after talking to this horrible person she approached the boss and said she would walk off the job if this new worker stayed on with us. By lunch half the office was ready to walk off the job because of this abrasive person. She just had an utterly horrible way of talking to people that made them feel degraded and enraged. She was let go at the end of the day. u/saltnotsugar

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Worked 2nd shift at a factory. Late in the evening, we would prop open the doors along the side street to try to catch a breeze in the summertime. One night, this drunk guy stumbles in through the side door and just start striking up conversations with everyone like he owns the place. I run over and try to tell him that he can’t be in there, and he starts telling me he’s supposed to start work that night. We kind of argue for about 5 or 10 minutes about the fact that I didn’t have anyone new starting that night, and I finally tell him that he needs to contact someone in the office the next morning. When I came into work the next day, the first shift supervisor told me that he was supposed to have a new guy start that day but he never showed up. I told him that the guy had actually shown up… 12 hours early and staggering drunk. In a way, he was fired before his first day on the job. u/phrobowroe

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When I was in college working at Walmart (cashier), I trained a girl how to use the register one evening. Maybe a week later, she comes through my lane buying groceries. I ask her how she's been, since I haven't seen her since the day after I trained her, and she tells me, unprompted, she's waiting on her court date. One of her friends went through her checkout lane, but she only actually scanned about a third of the items. About $1,500 of merchandise went out the door free of charge. My response out loud was, "oh". My response in my head was, "did you seriously not see the camera mounted above every single register???" u/Queasy_Box_3869

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New guy offered to pull a semi trailer to a dock for unloading. Said he did it in the Army all the time. I told him, nah, you gotta get tested out by the safety guy first, someone else will handle it. 5 minutes later, I see him pulling the trailer around anyway. OK, I gotta go tell this dude he's fired 2 hours in. Before I could advise him of his updated employment status, the trailer came loose off the tractor. Slid right off the back. He did know how to drive a semi. He did not know how to check the trailer was locked in. u/ginger_whiskers

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Got a speeding ticket, 20+ mph over, in the company car picking up lunch for the staff. Day 1. u/TuPacSchwartz411

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I work in software engineering and a couple of times I've seen people let go after like two weeks because they just couldn't do the job at a all. Not me personally, but a former coworker told me about an incident at a prior job where the person who showed up to work was not the same person they interviewed. Obviously they were immediately let go. u/Renmauzuo

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New guy came in to work hammered out of his mind and started trying to operate a forklift right in front of the regional safety manager. A lot of forklift certified and "right in front of my osha handbook" memes were shared that day. u/Generico300

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New bartender was supposed to start on a Wednesday afternoon. She showed up an hour and a half late and went straight back behind the bar to grab a towel and start wiping down tables without even saying a word to me or asking where our manager was and just looking at her movements she was clearly tweaking out. I went to the back to go let the manager know the new girl is finally here and when we came back out front she was hiding in the back corner booth doing a line of coke off the table. All in all this girl worked about 3 minutes for us which consisted of her running a dry towel over already clean tables and then leaving another table for me to clean cocaine residue off of. u/TheWonderSnail

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Hopped on the forklift with no one else around. "Been doing this for years," he'd told us. Lift started leaking hydraulic fluid. Dude just goes about his business unloading a truck, handling orders and so on. Told no one. Sprayed that oily mess all over the entire warehouse until there was none left, went to lunch. There was literally a lake of it. Had to shut down the warehouse for a week to clean it up. Tens if not hundreds of thousands in damaged product and late/cancelled orders. We asked him if he knew it was leaking. "Yes." We asked him why he didn't stop or tell anyone. "I wanted to get my work done so I could go to lunch." Even after being fired, he still didn't think he had done anything wrong. u/bottletee0

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I was working as a stable boy, and I was showing the new girl around the stables. As I introduced her to the horses, she was very apprehensive to come near them, refusing to even step into the stall (she signed on to help care for the horses.) Later that day, she admitted that the horses terrified her, so the boss let her go. u/AlternativeFilm8886