“They called me and told me I was let go for not showing up on my first day.
Well, Redditor u/Psychosienposedan excellent question tor/AskReddit, and people did not hesitate to share the drama.
They asked, “Do you know someone who got fired on their first day?
What did they do?”
“I fired a guy who showed up four hours late on his first day.
I was working at a moving company at the time.
I told him to walk home and not to bother showing up the next day.”
zazameman
2.
“I worked in a pizzeria, and there was a new driver starting.
When he came back from his first delivery, there were no other orders for him to take.
So, I told him that in between, he would have to do dishes and clean.
He replied, ‘That’s a woman’s work, I don’t do women’s work.’
And…..you’re fired.”
Oneironaut3
3.
“My friend was hired, but the next day, the company announced layoffs.
Of course, he was the first to go.
Halfway into those two months, he found a better job.”
ball_gag3
4.
“I work in a college town and we hired a new part-timer to work reception.
As it turned out, he had a warrant out for him, so he went to jail.
SummerEvening
6.
I mean, I know we have a casual dress code, but…”
EricTheBread
7.
“I managed a smoothie place for a while and hired this kid for mornings.
His first day, he was two hours late.
He apologized, saying he was tripping on shrooms and got lost on the way to work.
He also took 15 smoke breaks in the four hours that he worked.
When his shift was over, I told him not to come back.”
jblantonbaby
8.
We got our access badges and our corporate Amex cards.
He came back from lunch and bragged of his exploits.
He was fired on the spot.
He actually thought his Amex card was a job perk.
“I worked at a gas station a while back.
I helped train this new guy.
He was really nice, we all liked him.
After his first solo shift, he walked away with $150 out of the register.
Didn’t even have a go at cover it up or anything.
WTF did he think was gonna happen?”
lo-key-glass
10.
“When I was 17, I got a job at Chuck E. Cheese.
Here’s the deal with those.
They kept constantly running up to me and hugging me, then punching me in the crotch.
After about five hours of this, I’d had enough.
I purposely didn’t attach the head of the costume to the body.
It was supposed to button into place.
After the twentieth or so time being nut-checked, I’d had enough.
“The kids started to freak.
Some screamed, some cried.
The older kids started laughing.
The attendant who was with me fell down in laughter.
I got ushered out the back door and banned from that particular Chuck E. Cheese.
Do I think it was worth it?
Hell yes, I do.”
anonymous
11.
“I got fired on my first day.
His best mate just lost his job, so he fired me and hired him instead.”
jubileo5
12.
“I was a pizza delivery guy at a family-owned Italian restaurant.
They brought a guy in to help make pizzas.
Two hours into his training, he started talking about wanting to bang the waitresses.
The waitresses were the daughters of the owner.
The guy teaching him how to make the pizzas was the older brother.
He was physically ejected from the building.”
“A high school friend of mine was hired at a pet shop.
He got high during his lunch break, came back, and had some kind of epiphany.
Rather, he felt they should be set free to live in the wild where they belonged.
He got fired when the manager realized what he had done.
The manager was unfortunately absent at the time of my friend’s courageous liberation.
Most of the animals probably died and got run over.”
shadyperson
14.
“I applied for a job in the kitchen of a restaurant.
There was no software, just a walk-in interview.
‘Alright, you ready to make some omelets?’
he asked.Uh, sure…you gonna show me?I thought.
He looked at me, paused, and started laughing.
As it turned out, the manager called the wrong person.
“This happened when I was working at McDonalds.
Eventually, he started making himself a burger with the buns and eating it as well.
Got fired first day on the job.
PotatoLatkes
16.
“I got hired through a temp service to work at the local phone company.
I had NO clue what I was doing and had a mini-meltdown talking to my supervisor.
My response was, ‘What test????’.
“It was the morning of her second day, and she was visiting one of our production sites.
She was on the next flight home instead.”
rednail64
18.
“I went in for my first day.
I went through drug tests and interviews for nothing.
Fuck that place.”
Ssoldier1121
19.
They told me they’d train me on my first day.
When I showed up, there was a birthday party underway with 15 8-year-olds.
The rest of the staff were really friendly to me but seemed a bit culty.
At the end of the shift, it was a pretty mutual ‘Thanks but no thanks’ situation.
It was strange and petty.”
“My company hired temps for a big job.
We didn’t have a lot of space, so temps had to double up in cubicles.
I did feel very bad for them, but some of their actions were hilarious and frankly terrible.
Basically, she was making some noise.
He was escorted out of the building.
The next day, he showed up to work again as if nothing happened.
He was escorted back out and told to yo not return.”
“A super hot girl was hired at the Dick’s Sporting Goods I worked at.
They both left with smiles on their faces.”
“I had a seizure while serving someone at a new restaurant.
It was my first of a three-day trial period.
Needless to say, they never called me back.”
“I used to work at a factory that made foodstuff.
Had I not looked behind me, he would’ve died in there.
at the top of his lungs.
ca990
25.
Lots of design jobs give you a little software test first, but not all of them.”
“I worked for a logistics company that specialized in transport computers.
“It was me and another guy’s second day.
He got fired for a dispute.
We were on the move and he was left hours away from where we started.
I voiced my concern for leaving this kid hundreds of miles from known civilization and was also fired.
It was a good time.
Never got paid for the first day and a half, either.”
qualityproduct
28.
“I had a buddy get hired as a valet downtown.
Pretty much got fired on the spot.”
havemursey
29.
“I got hired as an ‘independent contractor’ for some over-the-phone tech work.
The hours were 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. OK, that’s perfect.
I went in and got acquainted, then started taking calls.
Hours went by, and I began wondering when I got a lunch break.
News flash: there was no lunch and no breaks.
He said if I leave, I shouldn’t bother coming back.
So, I left.
And never went back.”
deftss
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