fired

SO. MUCH. PUN.

"If it makes you feel any better, you weren't the only one who got laid (off)."

This was a memo actually issued to the employees of QC Marts, an Iowa-based chain of convenience stores, back in March. The owner of the chain announced a contest in which employees would guess which of their number would be the next to get the proverbial ax. Four employees, who for some reason felt uncomfortable turning on their coworkers like rabid wolves, quit in protest. QC Marts denied them unemployment benefits, arguing they had quit voluntarily, until a judge ruled against the chain yeste

Another great gag from Five Second Films

WARNING: Language is not safe for work. Conversely, the joke is highly relevant TO work. Weigh your options, I suppose.

Kaitlyn Walls, a woman living in The Colony, Texas was fired from her new job before her first day even started.

The reason? The daycare center that was to be her new place of employment caught wind of her post on Facebook saying that she hates "working at daycares". She followed up that post with another saying "I just really hate being around a lot of kids" as she prepared for the first day of her job that requires her to be surrounded by children.

"It really was a big mistake," Walls said, telling CBS that she was just "venting".

Predictably, she has gotten a lot of hate from the internet about those comments as well. Walls vows to change her social media habits after learning from this, in hindsight, painfully obvious mistake.

It would make "The Apprentice" 100x better if they replaced Trump's finger with this.

The guy who brought the video to the authorities' attention must have had a really awkward time. "So, uh, I accidentally stumbled onto a certain website while I was, uh, browsing gift ideas for my, uh, wife..."

~Office Lackey Jack