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15+ Employees who were fired for bizarre reasons: 'I was fired for not putting ketchup on a customer’s table'

Remy Millisky

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‘I thought he was joking…’: Mediocre tech who's worked for the company for 3 years preaches about flat earth to the new manager of 2 months, gets fired

Elna McHilderson

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Manager lets go valued server at diner, then begs for her to come back after disastrous Thanksgiving week at the restaurant: 'I do not want to back'

Ben Weiss

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'[He] didn't even make it to his desk': 15+ Workers who were fired from their jobs on the first day

Remy Millisky

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Employee discovers consultant's push to get her fired, she proves her value to the company by taking a 2-week vacation and leaving everyone scrambling: 'I came back on Monday with a $10,000 raise'

Ben Weiss

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Employee gets boss fired by successfully taking care of a last-minute product shipment to Europe that boss had neglected: ‘He had no one else to blame for his mess-ups’

Bar Mor Hazut

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New hire takes "free office coffee" too far, gets fired on her second day of work after taking all of the office coffee beans home on her first day: 'She came in today for 10 minutes, was called into the manager's office'

Brad Dickson

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Company rescinds candidate's job offer after claiming they don't have the qualifications, only to reach out two years later to offer them the same job: ‘The audacity…’

Bar Mor Hazut

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'My old manager said anyone could do my job… Looks like he was wrong': Client-facing employee vindicated after being wrongfully fired, watching a $75,000/month customer walk out on his ex-company with him

Jesse Kessenheimer

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Guy gets last laugh after being fired as ‘non-essential,’ 6-weeks later that company implodes and he has a new job with a 20% pay raise: 'It's a great feeling.'

Elna McHilderson

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Two ER doctors catch coworker forging patients' documents, report the fraud to their supervisor, but the next day, they are both fired for "causing a huge internal investigation", despite following protocol: 'The signature on the file did not match'

Emma Saven

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Shipping coordinator quietly compiles evidence of boss’s mistakes and gets him demoted after he blames her for delays she didn’t cause: 'A month later, he resigned'

Isabella Penn

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New hire gets fired on day one by hotel manager for wearing "jorts" to work: 'He couldn't have been here longer than 10 minutes'

Ben Weiss

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Employees share the funniest stories of getting fired and how losing their jobs ended up being the best thing that could’ve happened to them: 'I ended up making 3 times what he was making at the job he was fired from'

Isabella Penn

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'I want to press charges': Newly hired salesperson brings $1,800 personal chair to the office only to have another employee steal it, ends up getting him arrested after the boss threatens to fire the victim

Isabella Penn

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Consultant gets fired unceremoniously after using daily $50 lunch credit to fund his side business for months: 'He was embezzling $40 to $45 a day for "lunch" while eating PB&J sandwiches'

Ben Weiss

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