Managers Reveal Stupidest Thing Employee Has Done To Get Fired Instantly (r/AskReddit)

managers have read it what is the stupidest thing an employee did that forced you to fire them I didn't personally fire this person but I was manager on duty at a restaurant I work at newish server was dealing with a complaint a custom I had with their BLT rather than having me talk to the table he took a bite out of it and said I'm not seeing the problem I had an employee apologize to two different tables for forgetting to put their food order in they had been waiting like 45 minutes and nothing had been entered into the system we looked at the camera system because he had been acting weird all day after he wrote down their order he proceeded to go outside and fire up a joint he was apparently too high to remember to put in the order it was his first and last day every day at lunch she would drink roughly half of her Jimmy John's or whatever soda then take it with her to the bathroom to fill it back up with whiskey she did a pretty good job covering up the smell and since she did it from day one it wasn't immediately obvious that she was getting drunk found out on day four when she knocked her full cup over and we all got punched with the smell of booze in the afternoon I was assistant manager at a restaurant for a while and one of the newer buses had called in three times in his first two weeks he called in on Saturday telling me he was deathly sick and couldn't even get out of bed around 9:00 p.m. after the dinner rush one of my servers asked me to go check on table 42 I turned the corner and there is the sick buses stoned out of his mind with two buddies eating during my first real developer job the company I was working for tried to implement a bunch of things to improve efficiency and employee satisfaction two interesting programs they implemented will work from home and agile development along with the requisite bullpens shared team areas what this basically meant is that we only had to show up in the office for core hours four hours three days a week and the rest of time we could work in shared areas restaurants parks you name it sometimes if you couldn't be at core hours you would just darling we were young and excited and dedicated so the core team really got a lot of good work done with this model about two weeks after we started a scrum master casually mentioned has anyone seen Phil Phil was acquired guy and he was still answering emails and instant messages so it took us a while to agree that no one had actually seen him in a long time she called him from the speakerphone in the bullpen and as God is my witness here is the call that took place boss hey Phil what's up Phil hey boss not much what's up with you boss hey we were just noticing we hadn't seen you much lately you ever coming back in for core hours Phil probably not boss oh why is that Phil because I moved to Idaho boss but Phil we're in DC Phil I know boss why didn't you tell us you wanted to move to Idaho Phil oh because I knew you wouldn't let me I had an employee lock another employee in a closet one time the person that was trapped called the police from inside the closet it was quite an HR nightmare oh I bet we had an employee get taped to a chair and left in a back room couldn't reach his phone but Siri dialed 9-1-1 for him police showed up owner was pissed they find him and untape him employees who did it were fired on the spot one was arrested and taped guy was up in HR for four plus hours before they settled on enough money to make him shut up it was an insane day not me but my boss boss had to fire a lady in our office because she lost her marbles when someone ate a bagel from the fridge she literally had a tantrum like a total also the girl who ate it ate it by mistake she thought it was a bagel from the office breakfast we had earlier that same morning it was in the same packaging as the office staff now I absolutely hate it when people eat my lunch but the girl who ate the bagel profusely apologized even stated she would go and buy her a new one right on the spot but and from Lady couldn't let it go so that ended up being her last night forging a tip on a receipt like adding twenty dollars wasn't going to get caught one day at an old job we got a call from a customer complaining that a credit card statement didn't match her receipt it was five dollars over we got another call later that day saying the same thing later on a dude walked in to complain same thing two more people came in later their waiter had added five dollars to each of their tips they were all at the same table idiot he was fired on the spot rightfully and the customers got hella gift certificates a delivery driver did that to me once he changed a $4 tip I was the only one of my office to pay by card altogether he was getting around $25 for the entire delivery to a $40 tip I noticed it on my account as soon as it posted I went to the restaurant and showed them the copy of the receipt but they said there was nothing they could do the manager flat-out refused to even research the matter now I tip with cash and write none in the tip line I'm too poor to get overdrawn because of some [ __ ] delivery person new guy around 20 years old or so called in sick saying he thinks he had a stroke since he lived across the street from the store where we worked we'll then stood and watched through the stores gas store as he packed up his truck with beach gear and drove off with his girlfriend fired the next day 20 years old and he thinks the most believable excuses I'm having a stroke edit just wanted to clarify I know you can have a stroke at a young age and I wish all of you with personal stories the best all I'm saying is it's a [ __ ] excuse for getting out of work back in my days working at a used car dealership we had a team come in and test drive a 1,500 mile Corvette today's equivalent would be the zr1 anyway the kid drives it around our set loop once and as being a little waffle ion if he wants to get it or not he says it doesn't really drive as well as he thought it would my salesman told him it was user error and he'd prove it they went out for another loop around with the employee driving it he managed to get pulled over doing 135 miles per hour in a school zone got arrested a fire recall correctly needless to say he was not welcome back at our store however the team did buy the car two new employees got into a physical altercation because one claimed the other wasn't heard enough it was two females and this is an office job absolutely ridiculous Lola reminds me of an incident at my office two girls got into a during initial training because one accused the other of stealing her highlighter and being a ghetto ho-bag fist fight breaks out managers separated them and ended up suspending them without pay for three days one never came back and the other quit a week later hired a girl to work in a bagel store who on her first day told me she couldn't touch any of the meats because she was vegan had another guy show up for work his first day was doing just fine seemed to be good with a job I went to the office to get some paperwork for him to fill out and he was just gone never came back didn't steal anything no explanation at all the bad one was had to fire a girl for not showing up for several days in a row saw in a newspaper the next week that she had been in jail the whole time because she had locked her kids in a closet while she was buying coke offered a job to a candidate but had to step out of the office to grab some paperwork came back and a bus pass that was on the desk was missing newly hired employee stole it I asked him to return it because a previous candide had dropped it and he said he needed it more than they did and walked out did you attempt to explain to him that with a job he gets a wage that will allow him access to a variety of goods and services bus pass is included guy hired to manager store in a mall refused to park an employee parking as I'm sure everyone knows mall employees have designated parking places far from the choice spots near mall entrances this guy refused to park there and every time he parked illegally the store got fined 100 and he parked in customer parking every damn day he was cooled out on it the policy was explained over and over he got written up he was told that on the next infraction he would be fired and he did it the very next day was totally blindsided when we actually fired him managed a long-term care facility got a call one night from a resident telling me that the new nighttime worker was acting weird this was about midnight and the shift started at 11:00 I called my lead there were three people on duty and asked how the night was going she told me that yes sally was sick um I put on my shoes and headed in now having the administrator show up at almost 1:00 a.m. is never a good thing so I'm pretty sure all three of them felt scared when I showed up I took one look at Sally leaning against the wall and asked her to come into my office I asked her if she had been drinking I never drink at work she slurred at me I told her I had to have her blow into this tube we had briefed the laser tubes that registered if they were over a specific level the crystals changed from clear to dark blue with the alcohol registered over the legal limit no surprise turned dark blue I asked her again if she had been drinking she admitted to have been drinking earlier in the evening she and her friend had been doing shots up until about 10:00 p.m. but I'm not drunk I stopped and ate almost two hours ago so it's all out of my system no doesn't work that way sorry Sally but I need to let you go call someone to come get you I told her as I was filling out paperwork for the breathalyzer usage and final check request oh that's okay I drove in nope nope nope she then asked what time she should come in tomorrow Sally you no longer work here coming to work intoxicated is not tolerated oh really yes really please call someone who has not been drinking to come get you she called about 16 hours later asking me for her next week scheduled she didn't remember being at work and getting fired so you had to fire her three times come on Sally get it together we kept finding stock discrepancies we couldn't figure out for a while what was happening the count on certain items was out system said we had stuff that wasn't on the Shelf eventually found that when a customer bought something with cash later that same day the same cashier would refund the transaction for cash with no customer around they were fired on the spot but couldn't be charged criminally because the way the cameras at they'd been able to block the view of the cash drawer with their body and you couldn't actually see them take the money out of the till even though we knew exactly when the false transactions were posted footage placed them right there doing something and intentionally blocking the view at that exact time there's only one way everything added up but they still got away with it if they'd just been pulling cash out we would have caught it right away but the counts were never out because there was a transaction in the system so they'd been doing this occasionally for a couple months we figured they'd gotten away with a couple grand return procedures changed after that edit quite a few have pointed out we probably could have charged the person there were two problems first was the police weren't much interested in chasing someone for only a couple grand so we would need to do all the work which meant sifting through months worth of paperwork to nail them to the wall second was management and HR just wanted the whole thing to go away regarding our return procedures but for that the cashiers were trusted to run their own returns afterwards they needed to get authorization from one of the supervisors pain-in-the-ass but it didn't happen again not a manager but someone was recently fired from my job for something so stupid it probably inspired a few dozen facepalms I work at a retail store of a very well-known technology company customers very often trade in their old smartphones for a credit when they buy a new one protocol is to erase the old phone in the customers presence one employee didn't erase the phone went through the camera roll found some pictures he liked the customer was female and emailed them to himself using the customers email account that was logged into the phone the customer found the emails in her sent box and complained to management he was several levels of fart I had an assistant manager who would short the tool every single day three dollars and sixty four cents it was always the same amount and we could never prove it was him even though it clearly lined up with only his shifts day or night until one day he came back from lunch at Taco Bell in our parking lot and my other assistant saw his lunch and thought to herself that Luck's good and walked across the street on her break and ordered the same thing her total three dollars and sixty four cents she immediately came back and told me I pulled all the drawers and sure enough one was short that exact amount the kicker when he was sat down by Hardy M to be terminated all they told him was we know what you've been stealing and his response was oh you finally figured out I was stealing all those sketches shape-ups for those that don't remember those shoes were 130 dollars a pair

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Length: 14min 37sec (877 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 12 2019