over ten thousand people shared their experience.
Here’s what some of them said below.
“A guy refusing to wear safety gear/PPE on his first day.
He flat-out said no to the supervisor, who then fired him.
He didn’t even make it to the first coffee break.
If he was that adamant about not wearing safety gear, it wasn’t a good sign.”
They caught him later that day vaping in the prep area of the kitchen, strike two.
He asked on his second day if he could leave for 30 minutes to make a drug deal.
Needless to say, that was strike three."
u/Thethrasher488
3.
“Back in the mid-1990s, I had hired a guy for a senior Unix systems administration role.
The salary reflected that as well; this was a six-figure position.
It was his second day on the job.”
She got walked out five minutes later."
u/darth_syphilis
5.
There were hundreds of tiny connectors in one array.
Somehow, by the grace of God, this guy got hired.
Either they forgot to implement the CB test, or he successfully guessed his way through it.
He trained for a week and was put onto the line to build $20k cables for fucking missiles.
It was one of ‘the most fucked up examples’ of a connector anyone had seen.
The next day, the guy admitted he was color blind and asked whether he could keep the job.
He was let go because he cost the company $20k.
The connector was put on display in HR to drive home the importance of sticking to hiring procedures."
“I hired my friend’s sister as a hostess at our restaurant.
We live in NY.
I fired her via instant message.
She never even worked, then tried to claim unemployment.
THEN, she had her father call me and give a shot to threaten me into rehiring her.
She was 34.”
u/Severe_Performer_726
7.
On the first day, he doesn’t come in until 10 a.m. At the last second, he rebooked himself on a midnight flight.
Mysterious didn’t realize is most of us used to work at his previous employer.
Turns out, he was working two jobs.
He was fired from both jobs."
“As a teenager, I worked at a bowling alley.
u/CatacombsRave
9.
“When I worked in data entry, there was a tricycle on our office floor.
“Orientation second day.
Hes to sit in a conference room and read through binders of important information.
Our boss walks out and closes the door.
It has a window with blinds open to see through.
Going about our day, the boss asks us why the conference doors are locked and blinds are closed.
He had closed the blinds and locked the door.
Of course, he was out there that day.”
u/Goose
11.
“I once saw a new coworker get fired on their first day during lunch.
They loudly bragged about how they lied on their resume to get the job.
Unfortunately, they didn’t realize the boss was sitting right behind them.
By the time we got back to the office, their desk was already cleared out.
They were gone before we even finished our afternoon coffee.
It is just wild how stupid some people are.”
“She called the first day and said her grandmother died.
She called the next day and said her car wouldnt start.
She called the third day and said her blow dryer broke, so she couldnt dry her hair.
She never made it to work.”
u/exitzero
13.
“I worked a mall job in the 1990s at Electronics Boutique.
The manager walked him out about 15 seconds later.”
“I used to work as a deckhand for a tugboat company on the Mississippi River.
The amount of people who would take jobs like that who were deathly afraid of water was staggering.
