Here’s what was revealed:
1.
“A guy used to keep a container of orange juice in the break room fridge.
Another coworker was constantly taking from it.
Most of us had seen her do it and had told her to stop.
She quit a few months later because the jokes never stopped.”
u/druuuval
2.
“They were clipping their toenails in the production room.
I work in pharmaceuticals.”
u/bukbukbuklao
3.
“A guy was running a side business producing ‘adult’ calendars.
He got caught because our system admins noticed he was using up a ridiculous amount of our bandwidth.
He was downloading astronomical amounts of porn.
I fired him on the spot and had him escorted from the building.
Then, I instructed my secretary to clean out his desk and box up his belongings.
u/GSyncNew
4. u/Own-Particular-208
5.
This was on the night shift at a Home Depot.
We all thought he was bad at the job and wasn’t getting anything done.
He is secretly my hero.”
u/SolidZachs
6.
“I had to fire a pet store employee who habitually ate dog treats.
We spent weeks investigating and watching the cameras because it was so hard to believe.”
u/NO_GOOD_AT_ART
7.
“I had someone fired for trying to poison me.
I learned about it because she drew pictures of herself doing it to me and people I know.
There were other drawings of her stabbing me, ‘putting me to sleep forever,’ and robbing me.
She signed and dated every drawing.
I’d known this woman for 20 years.
This was completely out of nowhere.”
u/JuliusSqueezerLXIX
8.
“He attacked another employee in the breakroom because he took the last soda.
He was very calm afterward and told us, ‘I understand I’m fired.
I just want to go on record on why I had to choke them.’
We told him it wasn’t necessary and had him escorted out of the building.”
u/Wookiess_get_Cookies
9.
“My HR lady got fired for having an affair with someone within the company.
They were using their company emails to write each other racy stuff.”
u/sumnlikedat
10.
“This guy would eat his lunch while sitting on the toilet in the men’s room.
I guess enough people complained.”
u/JumboDakotaSmoke
11.
“The workers on the assembly line stopped working to have a twerk-off.
Six people were fired for twerking for 20 minutes while a seventh judged the winner.
They might have gotten away with it if they hadn’t moved directly in front of a security camera.
They were surprised it was a fireable offense.”
u/jammer2omega
12.
“I used to work at a magazine publishing company.
I was pretty close friends with the editor of one of our health magazines.
She was really good at her job and a kind person.
I was floored when I came to work one day to learn she was fired.
She’s still married to that man and has a couple of kids now.
I know he knows.
“I didn’t know the graphic designer (who was also fired) very well.
He was a quiet guy who did his job.
I rarely conversed with him.
I couldn’t believe how foolish somebody could be to talk about something like that on a company channel!
It’s like she wanted to be caught.”
u/THGoodale
13.
They let the dude go.
u/boltsofsaffron
14.
“My buddy fired a gal who had worked there for 10+ years for drinking all the vanilla extract.
She drank gallons of it for years.
He found her drinking it all day long.”
“He fired another couple of guys for a scam they had been running for years.
Two friends, one worked days, and one worked nights.
They each got an extra two hours a day, every day, for like five years.”
u/GH057807
15. u/AcanthocephalaTop404
16.
“The only cash register at a location was stuck shut.
All of this was on video, by the way.
u/Bravely_Default
17.
“Another guy and I started as tellers at a credit union simultaneously.
u/DSleep
18.
“My friend’s dad ran a radio station in the late ’80s.
u/AffectionateTreacle
19.
“Someone where I worked had a manager fired for cheating on his wife with another employee.
His wife also worked at the same company.
They were caught together at work on company property.”
u/VillagerEleven
20.
They warned him, but he kept sneaking off for ‘breaks’ until they eventually let him go.
Definitely one of those ‘seriously?’
u/popeyegui
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