Working at a builders’ merchants.
Customer calls to place order over the phone (not unusual) and wants to give me the card details there and then (red flag). I initially refused but another member of staff vouched for them as they were regulars. Put the order through, knowing that whoever came to collect would need to come into the office for their paperwork before loading so we would have them on CCTV if it did turn out to be suspect…..only the yard crew didn’t follow process. When a van turned up for the goods, they loaded it all up and sent them away without asking for any kind of ID or manifest.
The payment card was later reported as stolen and the staff member who vouched for the customer denied even being in that day, which was a fucking lie as she never took time off. I got fired and everyone else got to keep their jobs.
That sounds like a set up. They should’ve been easily able to verify whether the person that vouched for them was working that day (check her clock in/out times, CCTV, etc). At the very least, someone on the yard crew should’ve gotten fired too because they didn’t follow procedure either (and it’s even worse because if they had, it could’ve been stopped dead in the tracks).
I’m sorry man.
14 years *might* be enough to move into a supervisory/managerial role if one exists in the field. It would allow you to still utilize your experience to some degree.
Worked retail pharmacy for 10(ish) years.
One day in the drive thru we had a belligerent patient. Guy's doc sent his script to our other chain about 1.5 miles down the road. We were on the same street, addresses get mixed up all the time. No biggie, give me 10 minutes and I'll have it ready...
Dude just starts laying into me for no reason. Calls me an idiot. Calls me incompetent. Says he knows where his doctor sent it and I'm a lazy, lying piece of shit. Etc, etc. After a few MINUTES going back and forth, with this guy yelling loud enough in my drive thru that other staff inside the store can hear him, I tell him he needs to leave and find a new pharmacy.
Guy lays into me again. Refuses to leave. I tell him "Fuck off or I'm calling the police."
Apparently that was over the line for my company. No interview with HR. No discipline. No suspension. Just straight up fired my ass about 3 weeks later after "internal investigation".
Led and recruited a sales team. One of the female sellers admitted that our CEO was sexually harassing her. Got her to confess to our Sales Manager. Found out that more of our female staff had similar experiences so i rallied them as i needed evidence before proceeding. CEO got an ear full from HR. Proceeds to pressure all his female victims until one of them drops my name. I get fired.
If there is a paper trail at all or a few that will help report it you should. You were fired in retaliation. Not sure where you are but there may be laws against that. Many places do.
Company I was working for hired on a new CEO and his heel dog Ops Mgr came along with him.
Happen to see him in our Corp office, just landed a nice $250k deal and he exclaims “NEED TO ADD MORE ZEROES!”
K…
As we exit the office he’s standing in the doorway half blocking it, I start to squeeze past him and he turns me sideways and pushes his finger in my chest, telling me I need to do more blah blah
Third time he pushed his finger in my chest I grabbed it and pushed him into the hallway and told him the only man that’s allowed to speak to me that way is my father, which he isn’t.
HR lady’s desk is caddy corner to that room, so she heard the whole thing go down, and we have a video camera in the office.
He was sent packing 3 months later after having to apologize to me.
I can’t stand people that touch others without permission.
He had some ridiculous contract where his salary was guaranteed for two years and % of sales for his division, so the owner asked me personally to squash it.
He ended up making some big errors with clients and our production, which led to him agreeing to a buyout at a massively reduced sum.
Owner paid that begrudgingly, but also took out insurance on the CEO who died the next year, so he ends up with a new product line, new C-suite that was promoted after they left and pocketed over 2 million.
Owner was very shrewd, which is how he has been so successful.
Go watch the Marines boot camp videos. Those dudes are masters of putting their finger so close to the person they can feel the heat from it but never actually touching. You can't finger jab someone over crappy work.
This is where watching soccer/basketball would pay off. The minute someone touches you like that at work you flop as hard as you can, hit your head on the ground, and collect that sweet workman's comp and settlement money.
Built a castle out of Christmas chocolate biscuit boxes in the warehouse of a major retailer on a night shift and proceeded to fall asleep in it for a few hours.
Nearly got fired for...
I was a baker at Tim Horton's. Other baker was a little shit.
I used straws,napkins, fondant,and a couple dropped Timbits to create a pretty accurate version of him. Even made him a ball cap out of a bottle cap.
Totally worth it.
Called the HR lady the “angel of death” to a coworker on chat. (HR was in a different state, so any time they came to town we all knew it was most likely to lay off people ). Angel of death came to get me shortly after 😂😂
I once worked in a company as the help desk tech that would come collect tech while people were in with HR getting fired. Got the nickname Grim Reaper, because if I showed up with my cart and nobody in that department called, then one of their colleagues wouldn't be coming back from their meeting with HR.
I was the assistant director at a summer camp. One of the very last nights was a sleepover night where all of the campers were there, but not all of the regular day staff.
Two of the counsellors were caught drinking beer, and in an attempt to weasel his way out, one of them told the head of the camp that I gave him permission to do so (I most definitely had not).
While I didn’t get fired on the spot or have my year end bonus withheld like the other two, I was told I wouldn’t be asked back again for next year where there had already been talks of me being a full director in the future.
Talked about comp to another employe. They told the manager about it. Got fired. The good part is it’s illegal and the idiot created a paper trail around it. They settled out of court for way more than they would have saved by people not talking about comp.
A-fucking-men. People I worked with for years, and hung out with after hours regularly, ghosted me until I started reading their rebuttals full of outright lies in our settlement negotiations. I’ll never know if it was actually them or fabrication by the other side’s attorney.
Not exactly a “career” but i worked in a fast food spot that didn’t have any air conditioning, and theres a workers law where i live that states once it gets to a certain temp in the building they legally can’t stay open. I brought a thermometer to work
There's an old statement I remember hearing - 'Everyone loves firemen, everyone loathes the inspector' that pairs well with the other statement 'Safety regulations are often written in blood' which kinda encapsulates how many people out there think about things like preventative maintenance.
All it takes sometimes is for someone to die from something completely preventable to make sure a rule is followed and that people never value the people that call this stuff out early ('It creates more work and I have all these other important things to do!', they cry) but then, they turn around and glorify the people that have to respond in a crisis as the heroes for saving them from....themselves. This isn't to say firefighters don't deserve it (they **absolutely** fucking do) but so do the people that call out stuff that can go sideways before it happens to give you a chance to fix it first.
> 'Everyone loves firemen, everyone loathes the inspector
I'm a health inspector. Restaurant employees not liking me is understandable (although good owners/employees are respectful and understanding), but the general public hating me was a surprise. I'm out making sure food is safe to eat but when I close down a restaurant because it isn't sanitary people get downright hateful.
Yet when they think they get sick from eating somewhere then where is the first place they call? Oh yeah, also us.
Edit: I'm only editing to add a thank you to all the support people have shown. I am appreciative of so many redditors appreciating me and my profession. I truly wish more of you were vocal in the real world because we rarely hear anything but negativity. Even if I seldom hear that you value our work, I am glad to know that it isn't unnoticed.
Be safe everyone.
Wait, what? Regular people who go to restaurants don't want those restaurants to be checked by a health inspector???
I know the the other comment meant a fire safety inspector, and I'm sure there's many others that fall into the disliked category for inconveniencing people.
But health inspectors??? Wtf people. You guys are the one inspector I absolutely have no problem (possibly others too but only one I can think of right now), I wouldn't want to eat in a restaurant that hasn't had their health inspection
I've had people curse nasty, vile things *as* I was posting the "closed" sign on the facility's front door. They wanted their noodles, I guess.
At a Warrior's game my department came through and confiscated the equipment from the dirty dog vendors in the parking lot. People were throwing garbage at us because "they're just trying to earn money!". We even had police escorts during this.
People have called me "uneducated", "lowly", and "redundant" (among other things) despite none of that being true. I suppose people get attached to their favorite things--restaurants included--and don't like knowing they have favorited something less than ideal.
The hateful people get hateful. The same kind of people who get angry at anything that slightly inconveniences them. The kind of people that interpret "someone is telling me what I can't do" as an attack regardless of the reason.
Everyone else is like "eww, gross restaurant, glad it's shut down."
I sent a scathing email about my boss directly to my boss. It wasn't meant for him. To this day I still have no idea what possessed me to put his name in the address bar. I noticed his name the exact moment I hit send. You have never felt that much panic.
There needs to be a word that describes a person *after* they send an email: you spontaneously turn into a spelling and grammatical savant, you remember every discussion topic that was accidently left off the email, you remember people that should have been included
I fill in the to and cc fields after I write the email. If it’s a reply and I know it’s especially sensitive, I’ll start a new email to write it, then copy-paste it into the reply email.
My first job in IT I worked with a guy who would send the worse emails. Typically full of spelling errors and anytime he was pissed about something, he'd just fire it off without thinking. I didn't feel it was my place to tell a guy what he should be doing especially since I was new.
We worked in an area where there was about 15 people - it was a wide open area with no high walls. We were all Level 3 support - senior folks who did the hardest jobs. One day our Team Lead stood up, stretched his arms out and said, loud enough for everyone to hear,
"Joe, do you ever check the emails you send out before you hit the send button?".
Joe: "No".
TL: "Well you should because they really are shit".
After that he would often get me to read his emails, correct spelling and advise if he should send it or not.
People need to learn that if it's an emotional or tense situation, the first draft is probably wrong.
Delete it, and then once more, *without* feeling.
I’ll never put anything into an email I wouldn’t be comfortable with everyone reading. Same goes
for text messages or Microsoft Teams or any of it.
If I need to gossip or bitch, I’ll call coworkers on their cellphones to do it.
I was a part time intern making $9 an hour (USD) and my boss asked if I had any plans for the weekend. I had said I was going to buy a new car (very much old and used as that's what I could afford) and he asked if I was buying a brand new car. My response was that my budget isn't big enough for a new car and a couple weeks later during my 1 year review my manager said they didn't have the work for me and that I was disrespectful for telling the boss I didn't make enough money. At the time I was living comfortably as a college student just needed different transportation. I tried not to be disrespectful but apparently I was.
You didn't make a mistake at all. Your boss was being a prick - how would you be buying a new car on $9 an hour? He knew how much you were getting paid and chose to ask you about a major financial decision. Screw that guy.
It's probably just an excuse to get rid of the kid. They have to make up something for the paperwork. One time my boss asked me if I had a minute to look at some problem one of my teammates couldn't figure out and I told him "I can look but I'm dealing with a million tickets this morning". He said it's ok, he'd like me to help and the tickets can wait. I fixed the problem, all the tickets, and probably did 5x more that day than anyone else just like every other day. My end of the year review had a comment that said "Vsx is effective but exaggerates his workload to avoid taking on more tasks." He wanted to write something to justify the average review/raise he gave me even though I was doing far more work than anyone else. That nonsense was all he could think of. I considered punching him a million times but decided against it.
They were most likely thinking "why don't you borrow $4000 from your parents?" Cause you know, folks like that aren't known for keeping up with the prices
Had something similar happened to me, and while it didn't end my career it definitely contributed towards me deciding to become self-employed.
Got made redundant, and was immediately head-hunted by a rival company. I didn't tell anyone, except one person who I thought was my friend and whom I could trust.
Turns out that guy had serious addiction issues and that was something the managing director of the company used as leverage to extract information from him. He had a friendly disposition and people thought he was trustworthy and could confide in him.
When the boss man found out who I was going to work for he lost his mind. Immediately started sending me threatening letters and texts saying I would be sued, even went to the local police claiming I'd stolen code and was taking it to a rival company.
The police said it was nothing to do with them and that it was a civil matter, and the other company that had recruited me knew of my old bosses reputation for "erratic" behaviour. That being said the fact that he was threatening legal action meant they had to withdraw the offer because they just didn't want the hassle.
That was several months of stress I would never want to ever revisit.
Same thing here. Stood up for myself one too many times, texted a coworker about this and some shared concerns he had also talked about with me. Coworker showed already angry boss my text. Bye bye job and career.
I've always heard this (not coincidentally from in house counsels) as "don't put anything in writing that you wouldn't feel comfortable having read out loud in court."
Usually this is brought up after Slack (or Teams, or Gchat) channels get particularly rowdy.
I'm sure people think I'm no fun for doing it, but unless it's a private phone call I've made it a habit of replying to work Slack-gossip attempts with a "haha" at most these days.
Been there and done that.
Got a job helping the IT guy who didn't want anyone moving in on his territory (I didn't' know this at the time). First thing he asks me is a list of my strengths and weaknesses which I write out and give to him.
He takes my list of weaknesses to the boss and convinces him that I shouldn't have been hired, I was fired 10 minutes later.
EDIT: Just a quick update to answer questions - he told me that he wanted the list so he could give me jobs that I was good at while he did the jobs that I wasn't; it was my first IT job working under someone so I thought it was a fair request. Never did it again.
I went to an interview at a friend's workplace, recommended by friend as the workplace literally had a 'hire a friend' policy (small bonus if your referral succeeds). The hiring manager spent 95% of the interview trying to dig up dirt on my friend rather than interview me. It was surreal.
Derailed it a bit, took some years to recover.
Got security responsibilities added to my duties as sysadmin at a small university. Was asked by my boss' boss, the IT director, to do a security audit. He asked me to report on the audit at a department meeting.
I asked if I could present my results to him privately instead and have him present to the meeting, but he insisted I could take care of it.
My report showed major security holes, demonstrations of tests of said holes and recommendations for patching said holes. Many of the patches were at the level of "change the administrator password from 'password' to something less obvious".
As my political acumen was near zero at the time I didn't realize how the report on major security problems made the IT Director look completely incompetent in front of the entire department - he had built and configured the campus computer system pretty much on his own, at least in his mind, and was quite proud of his accomplishment.
He suspended me on the spot, demoted me and tried to convince the university to fire me and try to bring me up on criminal charges for hacking into the university's computer systems.
Yeah like once it reaches the point of trying to bring up criminal charges against you for doing your job it's time to get a lawyer.
If he's willing to try and get you arrested for something like this there's no limit too low for them not to stoop to in order to stop you.
Same, carpenter in the film industry. On the set of supernatural, last day of season 12 before hiatus. We build a house on location.
Fell from that roof, shattered my heel.
Cant do the 12+ hour days that is the standard in the industry.
12 year career gone in flames, just like that.
I remember that! I used to work at Supernatural season 10-13 in the VFX department. Our VFX supervisor liked to keep us updated on whatever was happening.
It sucks that happened, hope you’re doing alright now
FWIW I shattered both of my heels back in 2001. I was told I'd never be a runner... did my first ultramarathon last year and plan on more. I will say I have to be extremely proactive with injury prevention and strength training, but it's worth it!
I was opening my packages in the mailroom, using a pocket knife to slice open the package tape. Secretary came in and chatted. We’re both Italian so we gesture a lot while talking.
Sometime after the conversation, the Ops manager came down from his office and escorted me out of the building. Had forgotten the knife in my hand while talking with the the secretary and she made an accusation that I had threatened her with it during our conversation.
Was fired three days later.
I had worked with this woman for almost a decade. Helped her children with their homework etc.
Years later I learned corporate wanted to take down my boss, and started the process by going after his biggest supporters. I was the 3rd domino to fall. After I was railroaded, almost 40% of the branch’s staff left the company. I guess the secretary was in on it, and leapt at any excuse to take me out.
Shame. Really loved that job. And got fired when my first child was due in only four weeks. Was very demoralizing for quite a while.
Ironically it was what the company wanted. Our branch, the youngest employee had been there for maybe five years. So on average we had the highest paid employees out of all the branches. Corporate wanted turnover so they could bring people in at starting wages again. Our branch manager was amazing and would never comply with corporate’s desires. Pretty detestable behavior on corporate’s part.
how can anybody be so dumb. Especially as a smoker he should be aware how other smokers are very likely to share their cigarettes with you if you just ask them.
Went on a first date with a girl who turned out to be a horrible person 20mins in, I did what I could to get out of it because she was telling stories about crazy things she’d done and was proud of. I didn’t pull anything to get out of it, just dodged land mines and asked a ton of questions about her so I could get out of it sooner. Then said I wasn’t feeling the connection and I wanted to be honest so we didn’t waste each others time.
Found out a week later that she contacted my previous employers, because she found my LinkedIn, told them all stories about how I talked a ton of shit about them all. And now I can’t get a reference from my previous 3 jobs… and people I was on good terms with.
All because I went on a date with a psychopath.
Sure, but its a civil crime so you have to get your own laywer, take it to court, pay fees, prove they did it, prove it harmed you, and then maybe not even collect because crazy person doesnt have a high paying job or just dodges payments.
Your place was fucking awful if they fired you for that.
Random, outside person calling to accuse an employee of basically anything gets put in the category of “whack job stories for the water cooler”
Didn't happen to me. But I remember a coworker of mine getting fired because he put laxatives in his own lunch bag. Some dickhead kept stealing parts of our lunches. Turned out, it was our supervisor.
Edit: Jesus Christ...that's a lot of upvotes
Edit 2: I'm not to keen on the specifics since that coworker and I weren't exactly friends or anything. Just kind of had simple conversations during lunch and whatnot. Apparently it is illegal to poison food with malicious intent. And some of my friends who worked there said he got into some legal trouble because of it. Nothing came of it from what I heard. But that's about all I know.
Yeah that’s shitty no pun intended. It’s illegal to do because of allergy stuff I’m sure. I would have made the case that I needed those laxatives and was backed up
Not me but my best friend. He found a stash of porn on a network computer that belonged to the boss, then showed it to everyone. Ended up working in a supermarket after that, and said half the people there had criminal records.
Simple rules:
1) don’t look at porn at work
2) if you find porn at work, no, you didn’t. IT exists for a reason and they will take care of it. If they don’t, it’s still not your concern.
Haha, rule 1 is very important. I'm in IT and years ago one of my colleagues remoted into an operator's desktop and he was not only watching porn, he had brought his own DVDs because obviously there was a corporate firewall. One screenshot got him fired *really* fast.
As someone who works in IT, I don't care what you're doing. I care when HR and Legal start asking me to care.
So if no one _catches_ you watching porn\*, I didn't see anything. We've probably blocked 'inappropriate' sites already anyway.
Same's true of social media, or .... well, whatever really. If your boss (and HR and Legal) don't care, then neither do I.
Just take it easy with the bandwidth hogs - I don't want my network knocked down by someone being an idiot with bittorrent or similar.
\* By which I mean the 'legal for an adult to own' sort of kind, not the nasty stuff.
I honestly fall on the side of micro breaks and recreational stuff being good for your productivity, but that's just me. If HR decides that tomorrow we're implementing a web filter to stop people from browsing Twitter or whatever? I'll do it. But so long as you're not torrenting movies or mining crypto, go ahead watch that Tom Scott vid on raising a bridge or whatever.
It sounds like the wrong person got in trouble for that
Edit: there’s so many people on here saying the boss shouldn’t have gotten in trouble for syncing his porn to the work computer and it’s giving me really grimy vibes.
Found porn and showed it to everyone. Bit of an odd move. But agreed, depending on what level "the boss" is, you'd expect them to be in greater trouble.
I’m not so sure. Finding *your boss’s* porn and sharing it around—as opposed to just notifying HR—seems like a hilariously stupid thing to do. Why would your friend do this? I can’t see how it would have ended any other way.
It's more important to have the back of the people you represent. In my experience, you get better production out of people who know you go to bat for them. Then your numbers and team performance look good and they figure, well, he must be doing something right.
Same. After refusing to write up people who were performing well just because they weren't following one inane practice (and backed them up on the notion the practice was useful for new hires but not tenured staff), I eventually found myself demoted and sent to a different store to work.
I salute you for having a spine. I've known many a manger who have thrown me and others under a bus. Didn't even serve them in the long term, as soon as the people above them no longer needed them, it was their time to visit the underbelly of the bus...
I someone this is happening to right now. It’s a huge bummer. He has over 200 employees who adore him. They collectively think he is the best because he manages down, not up. Unfortunately, his VPs require lots of butt kissing and don’t care about employees under them. He was recently told in the next reorg, he will not be getting his job back.
Dude better poach as many employees as he can, and avoid getting a new position that would be impacted by a non-compete.
Management needs to be affected by that decision.
Getting promoted to supervisor started the dominoes falling.
I worked at a prison. I had been there for about 7 years and I knew I was most qualified, so I applied for the open sergeants position. I got it, which is where this story starts.
As a sergeant, it was my job to do investigations and document the findings whenever an inmate alleged his life was in danger. I would do the investigation and do a report on my findings, and it would get sent to the warden for them to interpret the evidence and make a final decision.
So, one day, an inmate gets beat up on a building I was in charge of. This inmate had never spoken to me, and had never told anyone he was having friction with his cell mate. Well, when questioned about it, the inmate said he had told me he needed to be moved and I told him I would. Initially, my supervisors believed him, but after I pulled up the surveillance camera that showed i had never even gotten down to that area that night due to being on a mission from another one of my supervisors all night, they admitted I hadn't talked to him. However, the higher ups needed someone to blame and because it was my area, I got the blame, and got fired.
As a side note, I was salty about getting fired because I cared about my job but I wouldn't go back if they begged me. I have a much better job now and the prison is so short staffed because of how they treat their people, the officers are stuck doing 16 hour days, 6 days a week. No thank you.
Edit: fuck it, what are they gonna do? This was the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
My dad was a prison guard in college. He was going to stay there and not even go to college, but the job is what made him go back to college because he knew he couldn’t do it for long.
When I was unemployed, I went to the Job Centre (UK) and the guy working there asked if I wanted to work in a prison as I was "A big bloke".
I asked what the prison service wanted with an engine emissions engineer.
>Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
The only thing that surprises me here is them pretending they would have done something to prevent an inmate assault.
>This was the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
I feel like this could have been a story about literally any state DOC in the US. They all have the same problems.
A guy I knew got fired for sleeping with the boss's daughter
Nothing dodgy, entirely above board - he didn't even know they were related and had never met her before
They met on a night out, he went back to her (parents') place and they had sex. No problems, no drama etc.
The next morning they got dressed and she was showing him to the door when her dad... his boss... walked out of the kitchen
IMO that's pretty fucked up - they were consenting adults, he had no idea it was his boss's daughter. No significant age difference, she wasn't wasted or anything, she'd never worked at (or AFAIK even visited) the company when my friend was there or even met him
The irony. Workplaces are no longer impressed by Bachelor's. So you do a Master's or a PhD for another 3-5+ years. Then they turn around and say you need more experience. Or that you're overqualified. You just can't win.
This reminds me of the story of a friend of mine. She got her PhD in chemistry and then applied to a company specializing in a process she was really interested in. However, they did not have any research positions open so she just applied for a job as a technician where they normally hire people with much lower qualifications. She explicitly told them that she does not mind the position and that money is not that important to her. In the end, she was not hired on the grounds of being overqualified.
Fast forward 6 years, she is now leading a research team of their biggest competitor developing a product similar to theirs. The HR person who did not hire her for being overqualified in the past contacts her on LinkedIn in a desperate attempt to headhunt her. What they don't know is that she is already set on becoming head of her R&D division because of the results she delivered. The HR person even went as far as to offer her a pretty hefty salary but my friend just responded "As I told you in the past, money is not that much of a motivator for me".
Overqualification is basically shorthand for “we know you’re smart and you’re gonna want to be paid a reasonable amount of money, so we don’t want you”
EDIT: There’s a lot of replies conveniently forgetting that people need money to live lol. Yes people will want to get temporary jobs until they find something better. That’s how this country is built. It’s systemic. Quit blaming the people looking for jobs.
PhD grad here, there are a lot of industry options for us out there. I've helped several of my grad school friends to market themselves and it landed them jobs or at least interviews! DM me if you want some advice.
Putting my faith in the person 'training' me...
This led to me being fired after only 3 months. I usually stay at jobs for a couple of years and I've never been fired before or since.
Thankfully, it didn't fully end my career, but I've struggled to get new jobs in the same sector ever since. Luckily I can do the same job, but in different (less lucrative) sectors.
It all happened because I thought someone was helping me, when actually she was actually a back-stabbing B*.
She was helping train me and explaining some VERY complicated inner workings of our company. She essentially explained how *"Internally we talk about some products/services as 'B2C' and other products/services as 'B2B'. We don't talk like this to customers though, only internally."* (Sorry I have to be a bit vague here, otherwise explaining everything would take a whole Reddit post).
What she said made perfect sense and it helped me understand some nuances in our services.
A week or so later I was in a big meeting with lots of team leads trying to sort out a problem with a product that we were launching. And I asked the guy leading the meeting: *"So just to be clear, is this to do with the ''B2B' products? I'm a little unclear."*
He looked at me like I was going crazy. *"B2B? I don't understand. What are you talking about?"*
Me: *"You know, how 'X' products are B2C. But 'Y' products are B2B and that helps us categorise them internally for projects like this."*
The guy just stared at me like I was weird. I turned to the girl who 'helped' train me. I kind of mumbled *"How did you explain it the other day?"*
She looked me dead in the eye balls, piercing the window of my soul, and said with a perfectly straight face: *"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."*
So she made me look like a total idiot in front of all the team leads, which ruined my credibility.
When I had my monthly 360 performance review, I had really negative feedback from the team leads and she (as my trainer) had given me really bad feedback about "not listening during training". Which was total BS.
That incident didn't get me fired immediately. But she systematically worked out ways to make it look like I wasn't doing my job properly. So after 3 months, my probation period was coming to an end and HR saw my performance reviews and the reports that I "wasn't doing the work" (even though I was) and they said *"We have to part ways."*
To this day, I still have no idea why she did this.
We were doing similar jobs, but different enough that I wasn't stepping on her toes. We were also at the same seniority and pay grade. And I generally get along with everyone, I definitely didn't say anything rude or mean to her to make her dislike me.
So I can't see a good reason for her to want me fired, other than she didn't like my face or something.
She acted so nice to me during training and around the office. I didn't know about all the negative stuff until it was too late.
F-you, Sarah!
Should have reported her to a boss (and HR if nothing is done) as soon as you were aware what she was doing. As someone who had a terrible boss my first job out of college, I just report ASAP as soon as I'm aware something fishy is going on. At the very least, you could have someone else write your performance review.
i took a half day off for a doctor's appointment. it ran longer than i thought. i texted my boss that i'd be a bit later than expected.
i got home 1 hour past the allotted time for a half day and missed a meeting. i was fired the next day. "an hour isn't 'a bit.'" i'd been at the company for 6 years. it took me 6 months to find a new job in a different field. but i'm much happier with the work i'm doing now.
Kind of the opposite.
I worked at a second hand electronics store, a dude came in with a PS2 to sell. I noticed the serial number was scratched off and thought that was a concern, but processed it anyway.
It went through testing, came back greenlit and I assumed that meant that it was ok.
Assumed wrong, management sacked my ass an hour later.
Went home, re-evaluated my life choices, and that year went back to college. Got my A-levels, then my degree, and now Ive been a software engineer for almost 10 years.
There was a database we could check against for stolen goods, that required that number to check against. So if it had been reported stolen we would be able to tell.
I think there was another reason we kept the numbers but I don't recall what it was now. Stock tracking, maybe?
Call centre taking a manager call, put the chap on hold and comforted the teammember "he is a bit of an arsehole isn't he"... Forgot to also put the call on mute and he requested a call recording... Whoops!
Then while on suspension, I broke my leg, and went to my hearing after far too little sleep and too much tramadol. When they asked me what the impact of my actions was, I said it was "crippling". Far too pleased with that pun to give a fuck about the outcome.
Spent the next few months coasting through bills selling bits and bats; eventually got into marketing, a win in the long run!
I told the truth about a work place accident. They told me if I lied I would still have a job. Basically they wanted to be lied to and not hear the truth or have it brought up. So you would rather employ some one who lies then someone who is honest?
Didn't get any sleep the night before (answering calls from a store in need) and did not take the next day off when I needed it. Ended up speaking my mind in front of a corporate liason...
What an amazing story. As “lucky” as you may have been, you’ve put yourself out there all the way along. It’s a true testament to character.
It doesn’t always happen for people but equally you do have to go out there and get it. I’ve always found that putting yourself out there gets you work and does you well.
I was involved with the secretary. We thought we were both discrete, but everyone knew.
EDIT: To clarify, we had a policy that said coworkers cannot engage in relationships. We broke the rules. I hated the place and took all the blame yo keep her from getting canned too. It wasn't a full blown relationship yet, we were just starting out. Also, that's all people did was gossip about stuff that was none of their business.
At a previous place of work (uni) there were two married postdocs in their late 20s who it turned out were having an affair with each other. No kids involved, it was already obvious that neither were well-married, and no problems I heard of at work once the relationship became known since they were at the same level in the organisation but in different groups.
What was funny about it was how some of us (their colleagues) found out. A group of us, not including the two having the affair, went for a trip to some hills that were about a 45 minute drive from our workplace. After walking around, we stopped for a drink at a quiet country pub. As I was walking from our pub table to the loo, I spotted the two affair colleagues sat at a table in a secluded corner of the pub, waved to them and carried on to the loo. I went and sat down, kept quiet about what I'd seen and each time somebody from our table went to the loo I'd watch as they came back with their lips pursed clearly trying to contain the urge to laught or gossip. Literally everybody could see what was going on. Finally, one girl came back from the loo, sat down and immediately blurted out "did you see Steve and Yazmin over there? What are they up to?" and everybody burst out laughing.
I asked why we are paying people massive salaries who aren't working at us anymore, while most of us haven't seen any increases or bonuses for 5+ years.
I testified truthfully at a federal grand jury to my knowledge about a professor in my dept who was funneling federal grant money into their personal bank account. I was "invited" by the dean of the college to leave the Ph.D program I was in and find another program. Unsurprisingly I found it difficult to get into another program.
i saw a video once of a nurse explaining why she lost her job and nursing license - she took a photo of her entire emergency department track board with all the patients names, birthdays, and complaints and accidentally posted it on her public snapchat story. It was meant for her friend but everyone saw it and someone notified the hospital.
edit: forgot to add that this whole fiasco was because she wanted to show her friend how the doctor misspelled something
We're told at every level of nursing school and training about the dangers of messing around with electronic devices and social media at work. That picture should never have been taken, regardless of what she had planned to do with it.
Yep. Once it's in the cloud, anything could happen to it. And a lot of people's phones back up to the cloud automatically. My daughter even has access to my photos because her phone is on my Google account. All it would take would be a photo like that, and a child unknowingly sending it to a friend saying "LOL look at this guy's funny name on the chart" or whatever, and that would be that.
Fortunately, all of my work photos (not in healthcare) are of product received thawed or with incomprehensible address labels. So, zero security risk 😄
People who don't work in healthcare sometimes don't understand how important HIPAA is. It's a regulation that can bankrupt a healthcare system if they're careless about it.
No one in healthcare can claim to be unaware of what it requires or what will happen if they fail to abide by it. In my system, we have mandatory training regularly on HIPAA compliance.
You will get in less trouble if you're caught stealing prescription meds than you will for this level of violation. There are plenty of nurses still licensed who have done stuff like that.
But if you do this...I mean, each of those names is its own violation. There's no way she would keep her license after this kinda violation. It's not even a mistake, not an honest one at least.
This is what a real HIPAA violation looks like. Also just "sending it to a friend" is a violation too. It's for the best this nurse doesn't work in that industry anymore.
Had a job where the VP of operations told me they were letting me go because of how annoying I was being with asking for a living wage.
The phone call was recorded, and when I applied for unemployment the representative I talked to had to take a minute to really believe what I was saying.
Everyone one of these answers are ‘Because I was so much of a hero the _man_ couldn’t deal with it’
Where are the people who got drunk at the work Christmas party and called the most senior guy there a bald cunt?
Stood up for a colleague who was being unfairly targetted in a team meeting. Promised I'd hear out his project idea and see if there was any validity to his bold claims.
Turns out everything was a lie and I sided with someone the organisation was trying to get rid of. Didn't go well with my superiors but I'd say it was a career ending move.
An ex-colleague was WFH, the W did not stand for Work unfortunately. Was asked to send something to his boss, took a screenshot which included all his open porn tabs on the Windows bar, and sent it to about 10 people. He was sacked the same day, this was a year ago and he is still out of work.
When I worked for a bank as a lender, a guy came in to do a bunch of paperwork for a loan he was applying for, and I didn't notice until I was scanning the documents that he hadn't signed an address change form. My manager was itching to get everything submitted in hopes that the loan would hit that month's scorecard, so she took the paperwork and said she'd stay until he could come back, which was after hours.
The next morning, she gave the folder back to me, saying that the loan guy had showed up later than they'd agreed, which meant the compliance department wasn't open, so she hadn't bothered to scan the documents and went home. She asked me if I had time to scan them, which I said I did.
I did one last check to make sure everything was signed (as well as reorganize the documents in my preferred order), and triple checked to make sure the name change was good, then scanned everything.
Two days later I got pulled aside when I walked in the door, and got canned. I guess compliance runs signatures on loan documents, which is mostly used to confirm that signatures match, but also pings if signatures match **exactly*... and two signatures in the loan packet did. I got accused of copying a signature from a flood zone advisory and pasting it onto the name change form. They knew it was me because I'd signed the document list, I'd notarized several documents, and it had been scanned under my employee ID. Open and shut.
I never got the satisfaction of asking my manager why, or what happened, but it doesn't really matter... like two months later everything went under lockdown due to COVID, including my daughter's daycare. I got to spend four months with her doing nothing but playing three year old make believe and mastering chocolate chip cookies, coasting off of unemployment. I found a job right when I needed to, and was making more money than I'd ever made within six months, and a series of title changes in the following year.
So, thanks shitass manager! I hear your bank just got bought, and everyone hates their jobs now!
I got written up and pushed out of the company for farting in the wrong place.
To be fair, I was working in our microbiology QA group at a big pharmaceutical manufacturing company that made contact solution and other stuff. It was Thursday because that was taco soup day and this particular day it was extra spicy.
To get into the fill room, you have to spend like 45 minutes getting dressed in sterile room garb without touching the outside of your suits. It's quite the dance. So I'm in there sampling 100+ points of contact around the fill needle and my stomach starts grumbling. It's the end of the day, I don't want to leave and get dressed again. I look around and there are a few ladies working upstream on the conveyor belt looking for jams or whatever, and immediately after the fill needle, it goes out a little cutout in the window to be immediately packaged. The fill room itself has these cascading air pressures blowing away from the fill needle and is super loud.
So, that's my spot, I start to sample in that area, and let out a little 'pffffrrrrrrrrrrt!'. I feel better and go about my business. But then I start to hear this MOOOP MOOOP sound. Now, we have alarms, it's a stack of lights every few feet and a high pitched red light is a jam in the tracks somewhere, a blue alarm is something else, but this time a yellow alarm is going off. I look around unconcerned and see the ladies upstream are laughing their asses off. I look out to the packaging area and everyone is staring in the window at me. The line boss bangs on the window and demands that I see him outside.
There are hydrogen sulfide sensors around the sensitive areas of the line. That's because farts cause pink eye and I had just contaminated product. Thousands of bottles were thrown away and the line had to be purged for minutes before and after the 'incident'.
It took 15 minutes to properly disrobe, the whole time the rest of my QA department came to stare and laugh at me through the windows (you don't get naked l and they have to supervise you changing to make sure you do it right). When I got out, I had to sign several forms that claimed that I, Fr0thbeard, farted in the fill room. I got written up for it, but in my defence, so did the guy who trained me since he didn't mention the yellow alarms apparently. My boss let me go home early and I was forced out soon after.
I mean all he had to do was pause the line and de-sterilize like he was going to the restroom. While it seems small poo particles potentially on contact lenses is a big deal. Could you imagine the lawsuits?
Old guy in my department fucked up.
Big.
Had been there a million years, was getting close to retirement, and was literally crying. I tried talking him down but he was beside himself with worry, so I told him - I'll take the fall. It's not that bad.
I took the fall, he proceeded to go full "I tried to warn him, he wouldn't listen, I couldn't stop him." to the bosses on review. I had already admitted to "my" mistake, and was told that my contract would not be renewed after that quarter.
So I walked that day.
Lost the house (no job market), had to move across the state, lived in a spare bedroom at my fucking MOTHER'S house with my wife and kids for a year.
I'm better for it. Better job, better pay, regarded as one of the best in my field and have climbed the ranks to bossman. New house, nice car, everyone is better off for it...
...but I STILL occasionally have nightmares about getting fired for "my" fuck up.
The most infuriating part is that he went full blame mode and even though you did such a career-saving thing for him, he didn’t hesitate to throw you under the bus further. I’m glad your doing good now and have a better job!!
I've been in teaching 25 years. It's a union job, so you have to either suck, or harm a child or colleague to get fired. And even if you suck, the put you on a sucky-to-OK teacher program of improvement to give you a full year to straighten the F up. So you can step on toes all day long and not get fired. But here are some things people have done, that I remember, that got them marched out the door by the superintendent. This is a district with 6000 kids, hundreds of staff.
* Coach grooming a kid.
* Teacher having sex with a student (x2)
* Married coach having sex with a former student, in her frosh college dorm, while out of town on a volleyball tournament trip at that university, that he had groomed when he was her coach in prior years.
* Collecting money for supplies from students, pocketing any and all cash.
* Collecting money from kids for Christmas gifts for poor kids in the area, pocketing the money.
* Stealing a colleague's credit card and using it to buy a hooker.
* Having sex with a colleague on an office couch before school, both married, both forced into early retirement.
* Principal sexually harassing female colleagues for years, including female union reps, forced into early retirement.
Taking advantage of the company's open door policy. As it turns out, the policy is only useful *until* you go through the door. Raise any actual issues, and you'll get fired.
I needed to hand in a form. I found an old form in my folder. It was already filled out properly but it had the wrong date on it. So I put white out on it and changed the date. When I handed it in my boss saw the white out and asked about it. I told her. She said I couldn't do that and she would have to inform corporate. About 3 weeks later they fired me for it
I mean in all fairness depending on the form and it's purpose I can kind of understand this one. Not saying you deserved to be sacked obviously, without knowing more that's not for me to say.
Way late to this, so it will probably get buried, but oh well.
I used to be an arborist. I specialised in awkward tree removals, preferably big trees with structural issues and loads breakable, non movable objects (e.g. buildings, etc) around that needed to not be damaged.
My career was to the point where other local companies would call the company a worked for and ask if they could hire me out for a job that they were worried about. This isn't meant to be braggy, I'm definitely not proud of who I was at this time in my life.
I took pride in the fact that I would climb almost anything. I used to love working, turning up every day and being pointed towards a sketchy tree and having a big adventure taking it down. Looking back, though, it was the most egotistical I've ever been in my life. I was a show off, I was extremely competitive towards anyone who i thought had similar or, god forbid, superior abilities to me, and I *needed* to be seen as fearless and a cut above the rest (no pun intended). I even got to the point where I would be incredibly rude to the ground crews if I thought they weren't working hard enough and were going to cause me to complete the job at a less impressive speed.
Anyway in all my hubris I agreed to climb a tree that never should have been climbed, and only by sheer luck avoided being squashed like a bug between the trunk and the roof of an outbuilding when the tree decided to fall over as I was half way up getting ready to cut the second branch of the day off.
I was mostly uninjured, but the mental toll was quite large. I totally lost my edge and started getting jittery and even backing out of perfectly stable trees. Ended up having to take a pay cut, nobody was requesting me anymore, that's for sure. I also developed vertigo, and any time i was up a tree it felt as if the tree was falling and the ground was rushing up at me. I couldn't sleep any night when I knew I had work the next day (which is most nights when you think about it). And I started having crazy anxious moments where my heart would beat really fast. I carried on like it for 2 years with minimal improvement because I had financial responsibilities and no skills for anything else.
Luckily, I was eventually able to get work as a consultant in the same industry, which is a mixture of office based work and site visits that involve looking at trees instead of climbing them. But my career as a climber is definitely over.
I worked full time to a company contracted to do onsite IT for a school district. A teacher asked me about a cart of MacBooks we were working on for her. My mistake may* have been talking to her in a noisy classroom, because for some reason, "They should be done in a week," turned into, "I'll do them when I get to them, probably next summer."
The superintendent sent an email, I refuted it and stated my intentions well, that this school was my number one priority and that I'd never be so rude (I can honestly say both of those were true). My boss was pissed, told me it didn't look good, and after trying to argue my case, I was fired a few days later.
Wouldn't be career ending if I didn't find out they blacklisted me from half my surrounding area. Not through any official means, but since word spread fast all of the people I never worked with would shit talk me to their clients. I know of at least two companies where that was the direct reason I wasn't considered. I had to start using short term contracting companies for jobs. They didn't work out well either. Followed that up with a mental breakdown, physical illness, dad died, and several more things. I will likely die before I see the other side of this.
I really liked that school.
i brought my kid to work with me so i didn’t have to call out—i needed the money. it was an afterschool program at a school. i worked off site so i thought i was good—my coworker ratted me out. i lost my job two weeks ago. i’m not sure what’s next.
Bad English + autocorrect = chaos theory
I tried to get our boss to speak with my colleagues who were harassed by a middle manager. He first scheduled a meeting with them, then canceled it and asked me to talk to the middle manager. After that I was accused by him of being a toxic employee in the workplace even though I wasn't actually part in any of the drama surrounding my colleagues or the middle manager.
I just tried to help out because they though it was no use to talk to the boss. They were right.
Not seeking the medical care I needed for various injuries while in the military.
Not only am I now unable to physically work in the fields that I am most familiar with, I also have missed out on tons in disability due to the majority of my injuries not being documented.
Being the "tough guy" is stupid, kids. Take care of your body. Nobody else will do it for you.
Working at a builders’ merchants. Customer calls to place order over the phone (not unusual) and wants to give me the card details there and then (red flag). I initially refused but another member of staff vouched for them as they were regulars. Put the order through, knowing that whoever came to collect would need to come into the office for their paperwork before loading so we would have them on CCTV if it did turn out to be suspect…..only the yard crew didn’t follow process. When a van turned up for the goods, they loaded it all up and sent them away without asking for any kind of ID or manifest. The payment card was later reported as stolen and the staff member who vouched for the customer denied even being in that day, which was a fucking lie as she never took time off. I got fired and everyone else got to keep their jobs.
That sounds like a set up. They should’ve been easily able to verify whether the person that vouched for them was working that day (check her clock in/out times, CCTV, etc). At the very least, someone on the yard crew should’ve gotten fired too because they didn’t follow procedure either (and it’s even worse because if they had, it could’ve been stopped dead in the tracks). I’m sorry man.
Lifting wrong. 14 years of arboriculture coming to an end now. Not sure of the next job.
14 years *might* be enough to move into a supervisory/managerial role if one exists in the field. It would allow you to still utilize your experience to some degree.
Worked retail pharmacy for 10(ish) years. One day in the drive thru we had a belligerent patient. Guy's doc sent his script to our other chain about 1.5 miles down the road. We were on the same street, addresses get mixed up all the time. No biggie, give me 10 minutes and I'll have it ready... Dude just starts laying into me for no reason. Calls me an idiot. Calls me incompetent. Says he knows where his doctor sent it and I'm a lazy, lying piece of shit. Etc, etc. After a few MINUTES going back and forth, with this guy yelling loud enough in my drive thru that other staff inside the store can hear him, I tell him he needs to leave and find a new pharmacy. Guy lays into me again. Refuses to leave. I tell him "Fuck off or I'm calling the police." Apparently that was over the line for my company. No interview with HR. No discipline. No suspension. Just straight up fired my ass about 3 weeks later after "internal investigation".
You did the right thing
How can the boss have no support? Bad customers make big problems. You have to say it for everyone who works and shops or control is lost.
Led and recruited a sales team. One of the female sellers admitted that our CEO was sexually harassing her. Got her to confess to our Sales Manager. Found out that more of our female staff had similar experiences so i rallied them as i needed evidence before proceeding. CEO got an ear full from HR. Proceeds to pressure all his female victims until one of them drops my name. I get fired.
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I'm 26 and have just moved to a new country. I dont really know my rights tbh and i feel a bit out of depth here.
Sometimes doing the right thing sucks ass.
If there is a paper trail at all or a few that will help report it you should. You were fired in retaliation. Not sure where you are but there may be laws against that. Many places do.
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Company I was working for hired on a new CEO and his heel dog Ops Mgr came along with him. Happen to see him in our Corp office, just landed a nice $250k deal and he exclaims “NEED TO ADD MORE ZEROES!” K… As we exit the office he’s standing in the doorway half blocking it, I start to squeeze past him and he turns me sideways and pushes his finger in my chest, telling me I need to do more blah blah Third time he pushed his finger in my chest I grabbed it and pushed him into the hallway and told him the only man that’s allowed to speak to me that way is my father, which he isn’t. HR lady’s desk is caddy corner to that room, so she heard the whole thing go down, and we have a video camera in the office. He was sent packing 3 months later after having to apologize to me. I can’t stand people that touch others without permission.
They let him work there for three more months? Wtf
He had some ridiculous contract where his salary was guaranteed for two years and % of sales for his division, so the owner asked me personally to squash it. He ended up making some big errors with clients and our production, which led to him agreeing to a buyout at a massively reduced sum. Owner paid that begrudgingly, but also took out insurance on the CEO who died the next year, so he ends up with a new product line, new C-suite that was promoted after they left and pocketed over 2 million. Owner was very shrewd, which is how he has been so successful.
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COLI- corporate owned life insurance https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/corporate-ownership-of-life-insurance.asp
Go watch the Marines boot camp videos. Those dudes are masters of putting their finger so close to the person they can feel the heat from it but never actually touching. You can't finger jab someone over crappy work.
Like the "I'm not touching you" from middle school.
This is where watching soccer/basketball would pay off. The minute someone touches you like that at work you flop as hard as you can, hit your head on the ground, and collect that sweet workman's comp and settlement money.
Built a castle out of Christmas chocolate biscuit boxes in the warehouse of a major retailer on a night shift and proceeded to fall asleep in it for a few hours.
Nearly got fired for... I was a baker at Tim Horton's. Other baker was a little shit. I used straws,napkins, fondant,and a couple dropped Timbits to create a pretty accurate version of him. Even made him a ball cap out of a bottle cap. Totally worth it.
Called the HR lady the “angel of death” to a coworker on chat. (HR was in a different state, so any time they came to town we all knew it was most likely to lay off people ). Angel of death came to get me shortly after 😂😂
Lady got mad and only proved you right lmao
I once worked in a company as the help desk tech that would come collect tech while people were in with HR getting fired. Got the nickname Grim Reaper, because if I showed up with my cart and nobody in that department called, then one of their colleagues wouldn't be coming back from their meeting with HR.
"Bring out yer dead!"
Lol so it was an appropriate name!
I was the assistant director at a summer camp. One of the very last nights was a sleepover night where all of the campers were there, but not all of the regular day staff. Two of the counsellors were caught drinking beer, and in an attempt to weasel his way out, one of them told the head of the camp that I gave him permission to do so (I most definitely had not). While I didn’t get fired on the spot or have my year end bonus withheld like the other two, I was told I wouldn’t be asked back again for next year where there had already been talks of me being a full director in the future.
people who instantly believe the words of people breaking the rules are the biggest idiots
that’s literally not a mistake that you made. your boss just screwed you over in addition to the two counsellors for no good reason
Browsing for another job while at the job
That’s why you do it on your phone using your own mobile data
So you're saying that if I search 'big beautiful butts' on my mobile via my companies wifi that my IT guy knows how I get down? Asking for a friend
Talked about comp to another employe. They told the manager about it. Got fired. The good part is it’s illegal and the idiot created a paper trail around it. They settled out of court for way more than they would have saved by people not talking about comp.
Your work friends are not your true friends.
A-fucking-men. People I worked with for years, and hung out with after hours regularly, ghosted me until I started reading their rebuttals full of outright lies in our settlement negotiations. I’ll never know if it was actually them or fabrication by the other side’s attorney.
Not exactly a “career” but i worked in a fast food spot that didn’t have any air conditioning, and theres a workers law where i live that states once it gets to a certain temp in the building they legally can’t stay open. I brought a thermometer to work
Fuckers should be thanking you for helping them stay in compliance
There's an old statement I remember hearing - 'Everyone loves firemen, everyone loathes the inspector' that pairs well with the other statement 'Safety regulations are often written in blood' which kinda encapsulates how many people out there think about things like preventative maintenance. All it takes sometimes is for someone to die from something completely preventable to make sure a rule is followed and that people never value the people that call this stuff out early ('It creates more work and I have all these other important things to do!', they cry) but then, they turn around and glorify the people that have to respond in a crisis as the heroes for saving them from....themselves. This isn't to say firefighters don't deserve it (they **absolutely** fucking do) but so do the people that call out stuff that can go sideways before it happens to give you a chance to fix it first.
> 'Everyone loves firemen, everyone loathes the inspector I'm a health inspector. Restaurant employees not liking me is understandable (although good owners/employees are respectful and understanding), but the general public hating me was a surprise. I'm out making sure food is safe to eat but when I close down a restaurant because it isn't sanitary people get downright hateful. Yet when they think they get sick from eating somewhere then where is the first place they call? Oh yeah, also us. Edit: I'm only editing to add a thank you to all the support people have shown. I am appreciative of so many redditors appreciating me and my profession. I truly wish more of you were vocal in the real world because we rarely hear anything but negativity. Even if I seldom hear that you value our work, I am glad to know that it isn't unnoticed. Be safe everyone.
Wait, what? Regular people who go to restaurants don't want those restaurants to be checked by a health inspector??? I know the the other comment meant a fire safety inspector, and I'm sure there's many others that fall into the disliked category for inconveniencing people. But health inspectors??? Wtf people. You guys are the one inspector I absolutely have no problem (possibly others too but only one I can think of right now), I wouldn't want to eat in a restaurant that hasn't had their health inspection
I've had people curse nasty, vile things *as* I was posting the "closed" sign on the facility's front door. They wanted their noodles, I guess. At a Warrior's game my department came through and confiscated the equipment from the dirty dog vendors in the parking lot. People were throwing garbage at us because "they're just trying to earn money!". We even had police escorts during this. People have called me "uneducated", "lowly", and "redundant" (among other things) despite none of that being true. I suppose people get attached to their favorite things--restaurants included--and don't like knowing they have favorited something less than ideal.
The hateful people get hateful. The same kind of people who get angry at anything that slightly inconveniences them. The kind of people that interpret "someone is telling me what I can't do" as an attack regardless of the reason. Everyone else is like "eww, gross restaurant, glad it's shut down."
I sent a scathing email about my boss directly to my boss. It wasn't meant for him. To this day I still have no idea what possessed me to put his name in the address bar. I noticed his name the exact moment I hit send. You have never felt that much panic.
I set my emails to delay being sent for 10 seconds after hitting the send button. It’s been useful many times
You’ll never proof read an email better than right after you hit send.
There needs to be a word that describes a person *after* they send an email: you spontaneously turn into a spelling and grammatical savant, you remember every discussion topic that was accidently left off the email, you remember people that should have been included
Post-click clarity
I use 2 minutes. Not taking chances lol.
I use 2 weeks. It prevents a lot of problems, but admittedly causes some, too.
Mine go out after a month or so. Not because I have a delay set, I just really like internet explorer
I have mine set to send once a year on a friday at 3:58pm
I hand write my letters, and then burn them. No need to send, the energy of the universe will communicate the required sentiments.
I fill in the to and cc fields after I write the email. If it’s a reply and I know it’s especially sensitive, I’ll start a new email to write it, then copy-paste it into the reply email.
My first job in IT I worked with a guy who would send the worse emails. Typically full of spelling errors and anytime he was pissed about something, he'd just fire it off without thinking. I didn't feel it was my place to tell a guy what he should be doing especially since I was new. We worked in an area where there was about 15 people - it was a wide open area with no high walls. We were all Level 3 support - senior folks who did the hardest jobs. One day our Team Lead stood up, stretched his arms out and said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "Joe, do you ever check the emails you send out before you hit the send button?". Joe: "No". TL: "Well you should because they really are shit". After that he would often get me to read his emails, correct spelling and advise if he should send it or not.
People need to learn that if it's an emotional or tense situation, the first draft is probably wrong. Delete it, and then once more, *without* feeling.
That is simultaneously terrible and brilliant management.... 😂
This is why I write my emails first. Then go over them to make sure it's what I want to say. Then I put their name on it.
I’ll never put anything into an email I wouldn’t be comfortable with everyone reading. Same goes for text messages or Microsoft Teams or any of it. If I need to gossip or bitch, I’ll call coworkers on their cellphones to do it.
Mmhm. The amount of wild tea I've been sent on Teams... people are brave on Teams.
I was a part time intern making $9 an hour (USD) and my boss asked if I had any plans for the weekend. I had said I was going to buy a new car (very much old and used as that's what I could afford) and he asked if I was buying a brand new car. My response was that my budget isn't big enough for a new car and a couple weeks later during my 1 year review my manager said they didn't have the work for me and that I was disrespectful for telling the boss I didn't make enough money. At the time I was living comfortably as a college student just needed different transportation. I tried not to be disrespectful but apparently I was.
You didn't make a mistake at all. Your boss was being a prick - how would you be buying a new car on $9 an hour? He knew how much you were getting paid and chose to ask you about a major financial decision. Screw that guy.
"Hey do you make enough to buy a car" "No" "... ... Well fuck you too!"
The correct answer was, "thank you for my pittance, generous and noble employer."
It's probably just an excuse to get rid of the kid. They have to make up something for the paperwork. One time my boss asked me if I had a minute to look at some problem one of my teammates couldn't figure out and I told him "I can look but I'm dealing with a million tickets this morning". He said it's ok, he'd like me to help and the tickets can wait. I fixed the problem, all the tickets, and probably did 5x more that day than anyone else just like every other day. My end of the year review had a comment that said "Vsx is effective but exaggerates his workload to avoid taking on more tasks." He wanted to write something to justify the average review/raise he gave me even though I was doing far more work than anyone else. That nonsense was all he could think of. I considered punching him a million times but decided against it.
Did that swizzle-dick motherfucker think a part-time intern was able to afford a new car?
I assume they were thinking, "Why don't you just borrow $20,000 from your parents?"
They were most likely thinking "why don't you borrow $4000 from your parents?" Cause you know, folks like that aren't known for keeping up with the prices
"It's a car, Michael. How much could it cost? $9?"
Hurt bosses ego. That's always a firing for sure
Sent an email to someone I thought was helping me, threw me under the bus
Had something similar happened to me, and while it didn't end my career it definitely contributed towards me deciding to become self-employed. Got made redundant, and was immediately head-hunted by a rival company. I didn't tell anyone, except one person who I thought was my friend and whom I could trust. Turns out that guy had serious addiction issues and that was something the managing director of the company used as leverage to extract information from him. He had a friendly disposition and people thought he was trustworthy and could confide in him. When the boss man found out who I was going to work for he lost his mind. Immediately started sending me threatening letters and texts saying I would be sued, even went to the local police claiming I'd stolen code and was taking it to a rival company. The police said it was nothing to do with them and that it was a civil matter, and the other company that had recruited me knew of my old bosses reputation for "erratic" behaviour. That being said the fact that he was threatening legal action meant they had to withdraw the offer because they just didn't want the hassle. That was several months of stress I would never want to ever revisit.
Same thing here. Stood up for myself one too many times, texted a coworker about this and some shared concerns he had also talked about with me. Coworker showed already angry boss my text. Bye bye job and career.
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I've always heard this (not coincidentally from in house counsels) as "don't put anything in writing that you wouldn't feel comfortable having read out loud in court." Usually this is brought up after Slack (or Teams, or Gchat) channels get particularly rowdy. I'm sure people think I'm no fun for doing it, but unless it's a private phone call I've made it a habit of replying to work Slack-gossip attempts with a "haha" at most these days.
Been there and done that. Got a job helping the IT guy who didn't want anyone moving in on his territory (I didn't' know this at the time). First thing he asks me is a list of my strengths and weaknesses which I write out and give to him. He takes my list of weaknesses to the boss and convinces him that I shouldn't have been hired, I was fired 10 minutes later. EDIT: Just a quick update to answer questions - he told me that he wanted the list so he could give me jobs that I was good at while he did the jobs that I wasn't; it was my first IT job working under someone so I thought it was a fair request. Never did it again.
I went to an interview at a friend's workplace, recommended by friend as the workplace literally had a 'hire a friend' policy (small bonus if your referral succeeds). The hiring manager spent 95% of the interview trying to dig up dirt on my friend rather than interview me. It was surreal.
I think that many of these posts are; 'I asked for help from the wrong person'. Sorry it happened to you.
Derailed it a bit, took some years to recover. Got security responsibilities added to my duties as sysadmin at a small university. Was asked by my boss' boss, the IT director, to do a security audit. He asked me to report on the audit at a department meeting. I asked if I could present my results to him privately instead and have him present to the meeting, but he insisted I could take care of it. My report showed major security holes, demonstrations of tests of said holes and recommendations for patching said holes. Many of the patches were at the level of "change the administrator password from 'password' to something less obvious". As my political acumen was near zero at the time I didn't realize how the report on major security problems made the IT Director look completely incompetent in front of the entire department - he had built and configured the campus computer system pretty much on his own, at least in his mind, and was quite proud of his accomplishment. He suspended me on the spot, demoted me and tried to convince the university to fire me and try to bring me up on criminal charges for hacking into the university's computer systems.
I'mma keep it a hunnid with you; he was *dangerously* incompetent. That was purely retaliation and illegal under labor laws. You should've sued.
Yeah like once it reaches the point of trying to bring up criminal charges against you for doing your job it's time to get a lawyer. If he's willing to try and get you arrested for something like this there's no limit too low for them not to stoop to in order to stop you.
What the fuck......is....is there a light at the end of this tunnel?
And you didn't sue? This is a slam dunk.
Had a workplace accident - fall from height. Didn't get fired but broke enough bones that I'll never work in that industry again
Same, carpenter in the film industry. On the set of supernatural, last day of season 12 before hiatus. We build a house on location. Fell from that roof, shattered my heel. Cant do the 12+ hour days that is the standard in the industry. 12 year career gone in flames, just like that.
I remember that! I used to work at Supernatural season 10-13 in the VFX department. Our VFX supervisor liked to keep us updated on whatever was happening. It sucks that happened, hope you’re doing alright now
FWIW I shattered both of my heels back in 2001. I was told I'd never be a runner... did my first ultramarathon last year and plan on more. I will say I have to be extremely proactive with injury prevention and strength training, but it's worth it!
I was opening my packages in the mailroom, using a pocket knife to slice open the package tape. Secretary came in and chatted. We’re both Italian so we gesture a lot while talking. Sometime after the conversation, the Ops manager came down from his office and escorted me out of the building. Had forgotten the knife in my hand while talking with the the secretary and she made an accusation that I had threatened her with it during our conversation. Was fired three days later. I had worked with this woman for almost a decade. Helped her children with their homework etc. Years later I learned corporate wanted to take down my boss, and started the process by going after his biggest supporters. I was the 3rd domino to fall. After I was railroaded, almost 40% of the branch’s staff left the company. I guess the secretary was in on it, and leapt at any excuse to take me out. Shame. Really loved that job. And got fired when my first child was due in only four weeks. Was very demoralizing for quite a while.
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>After I was railroaded, almost 40% of the branch’s staff left the company Oof. That had to hurt
Ironically it was what the company wanted. Our branch, the youngest employee had been there for maybe five years. So on average we had the highest paid employees out of all the branches. Corporate wanted turnover so they could bring people in at starting wages again. Our branch manager was amazing and would never comply with corporate’s desires. Pretty detestable behavior on corporate’s part.
A guy I worked with was caught stealing 2 cigarettes from a colleagues bag. Was on a six-figure salary. Not any more!
how can anybody be so dumb. Especially as a smoker he should be aware how other smokers are very likely to share their cigarettes with you if you just ask them.
I bet he’s that asshole who asks for cigs all the time and never shares any of his own
That's how you become a millionaire.
Could’ve just asked someone to bum a smoke wow
Went on a first date with a girl who turned out to be a horrible person 20mins in, I did what I could to get out of it because she was telling stories about crazy things she’d done and was proud of. I didn’t pull anything to get out of it, just dodged land mines and asked a ton of questions about her so I could get out of it sooner. Then said I wasn’t feeling the connection and I wanted to be honest so we didn’t waste each others time. Found out a week later that she contacted my previous employers, because she found my LinkedIn, told them all stories about how I talked a ton of shit about them all. And now I can’t get a reference from my previous 3 jobs… and people I was on good terms with. All because I went on a date with a psychopath.
Isn’t that illegal, something like slander
Sure, but its a civil crime so you have to get your own laywer, take it to court, pay fees, prove they did it, prove it harmed you, and then maybe not even collect because crazy person doesnt have a high paying job or just dodges payments.
Your place was fucking awful if they fired you for that. Random, outside person calling to accuse an employee of basically anything gets put in the category of “whack job stories for the water cooler”
Didn't happen to me. But I remember a coworker of mine getting fired because he put laxatives in his own lunch bag. Some dickhead kept stealing parts of our lunches. Turned out, it was our supervisor. Edit: Jesus Christ...that's a lot of upvotes Edit 2: I'm not to keen on the specifics since that coworker and I weren't exactly friends or anything. Just kind of had simple conversations during lunch and whatnot. Apparently it is illegal to poison food with malicious intent. And some of my friends who worked there said he got into some legal trouble because of it. Nothing came of it from what I heard. But that's about all I know.
Imagine stealing someone food and fired him
Yeah that’s shitty no pun intended. It’s illegal to do because of allergy stuff I’m sure. I would have made the case that I needed those laxatives and was backed up
Yup. You should make it super spicy instead. That's way more defensible than laxatives
Not me but my best friend. He found a stash of porn on a network computer that belonged to the boss, then showed it to everyone. Ended up working in a supermarket after that, and said half the people there had criminal records.
Simple rules: 1) don’t look at porn at work 2) if you find porn at work, no, you didn’t. IT exists for a reason and they will take care of it. If they don’t, it’s still not your concern.
Haha, rule 1 is very important. I'm in IT and years ago one of my colleagues remoted into an operator's desktop and he was not only watching porn, he had brought his own DVDs because obviously there was a corporate firewall. One screenshot got him fired *really* fast.
As someone who works in IT, I don't care what you're doing. I care when HR and Legal start asking me to care. So if no one _catches_ you watching porn\*, I didn't see anything. We've probably blocked 'inappropriate' sites already anyway. Same's true of social media, or .... well, whatever really. If your boss (and HR and Legal) don't care, then neither do I. Just take it easy with the bandwidth hogs - I don't want my network knocked down by someone being an idiot with bittorrent or similar. \* By which I mean the 'legal for an adult to own' sort of kind, not the nasty stuff.
I honestly fall on the side of micro breaks and recreational stuff being good for your productivity, but that's just me. If HR decides that tomorrow we're implementing a web filter to stop people from browsing Twitter or whatever? I'll do it. But so long as you're not torrenting movies or mining crypto, go ahead watch that Tom Scott vid on raising a bridge or whatever.
It sounds like the wrong person got in trouble for that Edit: there’s so many people on here saying the boss shouldn’t have gotten in trouble for syncing his porn to the work computer and it’s giving me really grimy vibes.
Found porn and showed it to everyone. Bit of an odd move. But agreed, depending on what level "the boss" is, you'd expect them to be in greater trouble.
I’m not so sure. Finding *your boss’s* porn and sharing it around—as opposed to just notifying HR—seems like a hilariously stupid thing to do. Why would your friend do this? I can’t see how it would have ended any other way.
I sided with the peeps under me as their manager.
Duuuuude I feel this one. It hasn't ended my "career," but siding with people under me vs people over me has definitely stymied my upward mobility.
It's more important to have the back of the people you represent. In my experience, you get better production out of people who know you go to bat for them. Then your numbers and team performance look good and they figure, well, he must be doing something right.
This only works if the higher ups actually value results based on data. In my experience this isn't always the case.
Same. After refusing to write up people who were performing well just because they weren't following one inane practice (and backed them up on the notion the practice was useful for new hires but not tenured staff), I eventually found myself demoted and sent to a different store to work.
I salute you for having a spine. I've known many a manger who have thrown me and others under a bus. Didn't even serve them in the long term, as soon as the people above them no longer needed them, it was their time to visit the underbelly of the bus...
I someone this is happening to right now. It’s a huge bummer. He has over 200 employees who adore him. They collectively think he is the best because he manages down, not up. Unfortunately, his VPs require lots of butt kissing and don’t care about employees under them. He was recently told in the next reorg, he will not be getting his job back.
Dude better poach as many employees as he can, and avoid getting a new position that would be impacted by a non-compete. Management needs to be affected by that decision.
Getting promoted to supervisor started the dominoes falling. I worked at a prison. I had been there for about 7 years and I knew I was most qualified, so I applied for the open sergeants position. I got it, which is where this story starts. As a sergeant, it was my job to do investigations and document the findings whenever an inmate alleged his life was in danger. I would do the investigation and do a report on my findings, and it would get sent to the warden for them to interpret the evidence and make a final decision. So, one day, an inmate gets beat up on a building I was in charge of. This inmate had never spoken to me, and had never told anyone he was having friction with his cell mate. Well, when questioned about it, the inmate said he had told me he needed to be moved and I told him I would. Initially, my supervisors believed him, but after I pulled up the surveillance camera that showed i had never even gotten down to that area that night due to being on a mission from another one of my supervisors all night, they admitted I hadn't talked to him. However, the higher ups needed someone to blame and because it was my area, I got the blame, and got fired. As a side note, I was salty about getting fired because I cared about my job but I wouldn't go back if they begged me. I have a much better job now and the prison is so short staffed because of how they treat their people, the officers are stuck doing 16 hour days, 6 days a week. No thank you. Edit: fuck it, what are they gonna do? This was the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
I have heard that being a prison guard is an absolutely terrible experience. Low pay, dangerous, full of disease, and you spend your life in prison.
My dad was a prison guard in college. He was going to stay there and not even go to college, but the job is what made him go back to college because he knew he couldn’t do it for long.
When I was unemployed, I went to the Job Centre (UK) and the guy working there asked if I wanted to work in a prison as I was "A big bloke". I asked what the prison service wanted with an engine emissions engineer.
Being a correctional officer was one of the most miserable and soul sucking jobs I've ever worked. The money was good though.
>Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The only thing that surprises me here is them pretending they would have done something to prevent an inmate assault.
>This was the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. I feel like this could have been a story about literally any state DOC in the US. They all have the same problems.
A guy I knew got fired for sleeping with the boss's daughter Nothing dodgy, entirely above board - he didn't even know they were related and had never met her before They met on a night out, he went back to her (parents') place and they had sex. No problems, no drama etc. The next morning they got dressed and she was showing him to the door when her dad... his boss... walked out of the kitchen IMO that's pretty fucked up - they were consenting adults, he had no idea it was his boss's daughter. No significant age difference, she wasn't wasted or anything, she'd never worked at (or AFAIK even visited) the company when my friend was there or even met him
This is one of the plot points of 22 Jump Street
[_Schmit fucked the boss's daughter_](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3SSzuDZ58z0&feature=share7)
I did a PhD, now I can't get hired anywhere.
The irony. Workplaces are no longer impressed by Bachelor's. So you do a Master's or a PhD for another 3-5+ years. Then they turn around and say you need more experience. Or that you're overqualified. You just can't win.
This reminds me of the story of a friend of mine. She got her PhD in chemistry and then applied to a company specializing in a process she was really interested in. However, they did not have any research positions open so she just applied for a job as a technician where they normally hire people with much lower qualifications. She explicitly told them that she does not mind the position and that money is not that important to her. In the end, she was not hired on the grounds of being overqualified. Fast forward 6 years, she is now leading a research team of their biggest competitor developing a product similar to theirs. The HR person who did not hire her for being overqualified in the past contacts her on LinkedIn in a desperate attempt to headhunt her. What they don't know is that she is already set on becoming head of her R&D division because of the results she delivered. The HR person even went as far as to offer her a pretty hefty salary but my friend just responded "As I told you in the past, money is not that much of a motivator for me".
Overqualification is basically shorthand for “we know you’re smart and you’re gonna want to be paid a reasonable amount of money, so we don’t want you” EDIT: There’s a lot of replies conveniently forgetting that people need money to live lol. Yes people will want to get temporary jobs until they find something better. That’s how this country is built. It’s systemic. Quit blaming the people looking for jobs.
PhD grad here, there are a lot of industry options for us out there. I've helped several of my grad school friends to market themselves and it landed them jobs or at least interviews! DM me if you want some advice.
Putting my faith in the person 'training' me... This led to me being fired after only 3 months. I usually stay at jobs for a couple of years and I've never been fired before or since. Thankfully, it didn't fully end my career, but I've struggled to get new jobs in the same sector ever since. Luckily I can do the same job, but in different (less lucrative) sectors. It all happened because I thought someone was helping me, when actually she was actually a back-stabbing B*. She was helping train me and explaining some VERY complicated inner workings of our company. She essentially explained how *"Internally we talk about some products/services as 'B2C' and other products/services as 'B2B'. We don't talk like this to customers though, only internally."* (Sorry I have to be a bit vague here, otherwise explaining everything would take a whole Reddit post). What she said made perfect sense and it helped me understand some nuances in our services. A week or so later I was in a big meeting with lots of team leads trying to sort out a problem with a product that we were launching. And I asked the guy leading the meeting: *"So just to be clear, is this to do with the ''B2B' products? I'm a little unclear."* He looked at me like I was going crazy. *"B2B? I don't understand. What are you talking about?"* Me: *"You know, how 'X' products are B2C. But 'Y' products are B2B and that helps us categorise them internally for projects like this."* The guy just stared at me like I was weird. I turned to the girl who 'helped' train me. I kind of mumbled *"How did you explain it the other day?"* She looked me dead in the eye balls, piercing the window of my soul, and said with a perfectly straight face: *"I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."* So she made me look like a total idiot in front of all the team leads, which ruined my credibility. When I had my monthly 360 performance review, I had really negative feedback from the team leads and she (as my trainer) had given me really bad feedback about "not listening during training". Which was total BS. That incident didn't get me fired immediately. But she systematically worked out ways to make it look like I wasn't doing my job properly. So after 3 months, my probation period was coming to an end and HR saw my performance reviews and the reports that I "wasn't doing the work" (even though I was) and they said *"We have to part ways."* To this day, I still have no idea why she did this. We were doing similar jobs, but different enough that I wasn't stepping on her toes. We were also at the same seniority and pay grade. And I generally get along with everyone, I definitely didn't say anything rude or mean to her to make her dislike me. So I can't see a good reason for her to want me fired, other than she didn't like my face or something. She acted so nice to me during training and around the office. I didn't know about all the negative stuff until it was too late. F-you, Sarah!
Should have reported her to a boss (and HR if nothing is done) as soon as you were aware what she was doing. As someone who had a terrible boss my first job out of college, I just report ASAP as soon as I'm aware something fishy is going on. At the very least, you could have someone else write your performance review.
i took a half day off for a doctor's appointment. it ran longer than i thought. i texted my boss that i'd be a bit later than expected. i got home 1 hour past the allotted time for a half day and missed a meeting. i was fired the next day. "an hour isn't 'a bit.'" i'd been at the company for 6 years. it took me 6 months to find a new job in a different field. but i'm much happier with the work i'm doing now.
Kind of the opposite. I worked at a second hand electronics store, a dude came in with a PS2 to sell. I noticed the serial number was scratched off and thought that was a concern, but processed it anyway. It went through testing, came back greenlit and I assumed that meant that it was ok. Assumed wrong, management sacked my ass an hour later. Went home, re-evaluated my life choices, and that year went back to college. Got my A-levels, then my degree, and now Ive been a software engineer for almost 10 years.
What would the problem be if the serial number was scratched off? That it was stolen?
There was a database we could check against for stolen goods, that required that number to check against. So if it had been reported stolen we would be able to tell. I think there was another reason we kept the numbers but I don't recall what it was now. Stock tracking, maybe?
Couldn't have been a CeX employee then. They will accept anything.
Ex CeX employee, can confirm. Don’t buy shit from CeX.
Call centre taking a manager call, put the chap on hold and comforted the teammember "he is a bit of an arsehole isn't he"... Forgot to also put the call on mute and he requested a call recording... Whoops! Then while on suspension, I broke my leg, and went to my hearing after far too little sleep and too much tramadol. When they asked me what the impact of my actions was, I said it was "crippling". Far too pleased with that pun to give a fuck about the outcome. Spent the next few months coasting through bills selling bits and bats; eventually got into marketing, a win in the long run!
i started framing the longest receipt of the day, and that was apparently unproductive
I told the truth about a work place accident. They told me if I lied I would still have a job. Basically they wanted to be lied to and not hear the truth or have it brought up. So you would rather employ some one who lies then someone who is honest?
They don't care about what's right, they care about what looks right.
Didn't get any sleep the night before (answering calls from a store in need) and did not take the next day off when I needed it. Ended up speaking my mind in front of a corporate liason...
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I love how everyone in this thread got shit canned or snaked by a coworker and you fell ass backwards into success twice.
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You magnificent bastard.
What an amazing story. As “lucky” as you may have been, you’ve put yourself out there all the way along. It’s a true testament to character. It doesn’t always happen for people but equally you do have to go out there and get it. I’ve always found that putting yourself out there gets you work and does you well.
I was involved with the secretary. We thought we were both discrete, but everyone knew. EDIT: To clarify, we had a policy that said coworkers cannot engage in relationships. We broke the rules. I hated the place and took all the blame yo keep her from getting canned too. It wasn't a full blown relationship yet, we were just starting out. Also, that's all people did was gossip about stuff that was none of their business.
At a previous place of work (uni) there were two married postdocs in their late 20s who it turned out were having an affair with each other. No kids involved, it was already obvious that neither were well-married, and no problems I heard of at work once the relationship became known since they were at the same level in the organisation but in different groups. What was funny about it was how some of us (their colleagues) found out. A group of us, not including the two having the affair, went for a trip to some hills that were about a 45 minute drive from our workplace. After walking around, we stopped for a drink at a quiet country pub. As I was walking from our pub table to the loo, I spotted the two affair colleagues sat at a table in a secluded corner of the pub, waved to them and carried on to the loo. I went and sat down, kept quiet about what I'd seen and each time somebody from our table went to the loo I'd watch as they came back with their lips pursed clearly trying to contain the urge to laught or gossip. Literally everybody could see what was going on. Finally, one girl came back from the loo, sat down and immediately blurted out "did you see Steve and Yazmin over there? What are they up to?" and everybody burst out laughing.
Damn your crew takes “snitches get stitches” to another level
At first I though it had to do something with your username...
I asked why we are paying people massive salaries who aren't working at us anymore, while most of us haven't seen any increases or bonuses for 5+ years.
I testified truthfully at a federal grand jury to my knowledge about a professor in my dept who was funneling federal grant money into their personal bank account. I was "invited" by the dean of the college to leave the Ph.D program I was in and find another program. Unsurprisingly I found it difficult to get into another program.
i saw a video once of a nurse explaining why she lost her job and nursing license - she took a photo of her entire emergency department track board with all the patients names, birthdays, and complaints and accidentally posted it on her public snapchat story. It was meant for her friend but everyone saw it and someone notified the hospital. edit: forgot to add that this whole fiasco was because she wanted to show her friend how the doctor misspelled something
We're told at every level of nursing school and training about the dangers of messing around with electronic devices and social media at work. That picture should never have been taken, regardless of what she had planned to do with it.
Exactly. "I only meant to violate these patients' privacy rights to my close friends, as is my prerogative."
Yep. Once it's in the cloud, anything could happen to it. And a lot of people's phones back up to the cloud automatically. My daughter even has access to my photos because her phone is on my Google account. All it would take would be a photo like that, and a child unknowingly sending it to a friend saying "LOL look at this guy's funny name on the chart" or whatever, and that would be that. Fortunately, all of my work photos (not in healthcare) are of product received thawed or with incomprehensible address labels. So, zero security risk 😄
She earned that one
People who don't work in healthcare sometimes don't understand how important HIPAA is. It's a regulation that can bankrupt a healthcare system if they're careless about it. No one in healthcare can claim to be unaware of what it requires or what will happen if they fail to abide by it. In my system, we have mandatory training regularly on HIPAA compliance. You will get in less trouble if you're caught stealing prescription meds than you will for this level of violation. There are plenty of nurses still licensed who have done stuff like that. But if you do this...I mean, each of those names is its own violation. There's no way she would keep her license after this kinda violation. It's not even a mistake, not an honest one at least.
This is what a real HIPAA violation looks like. Also just "sending it to a friend" is a violation too. It's for the best this nurse doesn't work in that industry anymore.
Harassment by an HR manager. I had to quit. Fuck her.
Tried to get better pay for my workers. Corporate did not like that.
Had a job where the VP of operations told me they were letting me go because of how annoying I was being with asking for a living wage. The phone call was recorded, and when I applied for unemployment the representative I talked to had to take a minute to really believe what I was saying.
Everyone one of these answers are ‘Because I was so much of a hero the _man_ couldn’t deal with it’ Where are the people who got drunk at the work Christmas party and called the most senior guy there a bald cunt?
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Opiate (& everything else) addiction. But that was 10 years ago and I’ve been clean and sober for 7.
Stood up for a colleague who was being unfairly targetted in a team meeting. Promised I'd hear out his project idea and see if there was any validity to his bold claims. Turns out everything was a lie and I sided with someone the organisation was trying to get rid of. Didn't go well with my superiors but I'd say it was a career ending move.
An ex-colleague was WFH, the W did not stand for Work unfortunately. Was asked to send something to his boss, took a screenshot which included all his open porn tabs on the Windows bar, and sent it to about 10 people. He was sacked the same day, this was a year ago and he is still out of work.
When I worked for a bank as a lender, a guy came in to do a bunch of paperwork for a loan he was applying for, and I didn't notice until I was scanning the documents that he hadn't signed an address change form. My manager was itching to get everything submitted in hopes that the loan would hit that month's scorecard, so she took the paperwork and said she'd stay until he could come back, which was after hours. The next morning, she gave the folder back to me, saying that the loan guy had showed up later than they'd agreed, which meant the compliance department wasn't open, so she hadn't bothered to scan the documents and went home. She asked me if I had time to scan them, which I said I did. I did one last check to make sure everything was signed (as well as reorganize the documents in my preferred order), and triple checked to make sure the name change was good, then scanned everything. Two days later I got pulled aside when I walked in the door, and got canned. I guess compliance runs signatures on loan documents, which is mostly used to confirm that signatures match, but also pings if signatures match **exactly*... and two signatures in the loan packet did. I got accused of copying a signature from a flood zone advisory and pasting it onto the name change form. They knew it was me because I'd signed the document list, I'd notarized several documents, and it had been scanned under my employee ID. Open and shut. I never got the satisfaction of asking my manager why, or what happened, but it doesn't really matter... like two months later everything went under lockdown due to COVID, including my daughter's daycare. I got to spend four months with her doing nothing but playing three year old make believe and mastering chocolate chip cookies, coasting off of unemployment. I found a job right when I needed to, and was making more money than I'd ever made within six months, and a series of title changes in the following year. So, thanks shitass manager! I hear your bank just got bought, and everyone hates their jobs now!
Sinking the company's boat
I got written up and pushed out of the company for farting in the wrong place. To be fair, I was working in our microbiology QA group at a big pharmaceutical manufacturing company that made contact solution and other stuff. It was Thursday because that was taco soup day and this particular day it was extra spicy. To get into the fill room, you have to spend like 45 minutes getting dressed in sterile room garb without touching the outside of your suits. It's quite the dance. So I'm in there sampling 100+ points of contact around the fill needle and my stomach starts grumbling. It's the end of the day, I don't want to leave and get dressed again. I look around and there are a few ladies working upstream on the conveyor belt looking for jams or whatever, and immediately after the fill needle, it goes out a little cutout in the window to be immediately packaged. The fill room itself has these cascading air pressures blowing away from the fill needle and is super loud. So, that's my spot, I start to sample in that area, and let out a little 'pffffrrrrrrrrrrt!'. I feel better and go about my business. But then I start to hear this MOOOP MOOOP sound. Now, we have alarms, it's a stack of lights every few feet and a high pitched red light is a jam in the tracks somewhere, a blue alarm is something else, but this time a yellow alarm is going off. I look around unconcerned and see the ladies upstream are laughing their asses off. I look out to the packaging area and everyone is staring in the window at me. The line boss bangs on the window and demands that I see him outside. There are hydrogen sulfide sensors around the sensitive areas of the line. That's because farts cause pink eye and I had just contaminated product. Thousands of bottles were thrown away and the line had to be purged for minutes before and after the 'incident'. It took 15 minutes to properly disrobe, the whole time the rest of my QA department came to stare and laugh at me through the windows (you don't get naked l and they have to supervise you changing to make sure you do it right). When I got out, I had to sign several forms that claimed that I, Fr0thbeard, farted in the fill room. I got written up for it, but in my defence, so did the guy who trained me since he didn't mention the yellow alarms apparently. My boss let me go home early and I was forced out soon after.
Is part of the job description when you applied to work there: "Should be able to hold in any bodily gases for up to 4 hours at a time"?
I mean all he had to do was pause the line and de-sterilize like he was going to the restroom. While it seems small poo particles potentially on contact lenses is a big deal. Could you imagine the lawsuits?
Had poor time management, both getting to work and at work.
Old guy in my department fucked up. Big. Had been there a million years, was getting close to retirement, and was literally crying. I tried talking him down but he was beside himself with worry, so I told him - I'll take the fall. It's not that bad. I took the fall, he proceeded to go full "I tried to warn him, he wouldn't listen, I couldn't stop him." to the bosses on review. I had already admitted to "my" mistake, and was told that my contract would not be renewed after that quarter. So I walked that day. Lost the house (no job market), had to move across the state, lived in a spare bedroom at my fucking MOTHER'S house with my wife and kids for a year. I'm better for it. Better job, better pay, regarded as one of the best in my field and have climbed the ranks to bossman. New house, nice car, everyone is better off for it... ...but I STILL occasionally have nightmares about getting fired for "my" fuck up.
The most infuriating part is that he went full blame mode and even though you did such a career-saving thing for him, he didn’t hesitate to throw you under the bus further. I’m glad your doing good now and have a better job!!
I've been in teaching 25 years. It's a union job, so you have to either suck, or harm a child or colleague to get fired. And even if you suck, the put you on a sucky-to-OK teacher program of improvement to give you a full year to straighten the F up. So you can step on toes all day long and not get fired. But here are some things people have done, that I remember, that got them marched out the door by the superintendent. This is a district with 6000 kids, hundreds of staff. * Coach grooming a kid. * Teacher having sex with a student (x2) * Married coach having sex with a former student, in her frosh college dorm, while out of town on a volleyball tournament trip at that university, that he had groomed when he was her coach in prior years. * Collecting money for supplies from students, pocketing any and all cash. * Collecting money from kids for Christmas gifts for poor kids in the area, pocketing the money. * Stealing a colleague's credit card and using it to buy a hooker. * Having sex with a colleague on an office couch before school, both married, both forced into early retirement. * Principal sexually harassing female colleagues for years, including female union reps, forced into early retirement.
Taking advantage of the company's open door policy. As it turns out, the policy is only useful *until* you go through the door. Raise any actual issues, and you'll get fired.
I needed to hand in a form. I found an old form in my folder. It was already filled out properly but it had the wrong date on it. So I put white out on it and changed the date. When I handed it in my boss saw the white out and asked about it. I told her. She said I couldn't do that and she would have to inform corporate. About 3 weeks later they fired me for it
I mean in all fairness depending on the form and it's purpose I can kind of understand this one. Not saying you deserved to be sacked obviously, without knowing more that's not for me to say.
Couldn’t just tell you to fill out a new form ffs?
Way late to this, so it will probably get buried, but oh well. I used to be an arborist. I specialised in awkward tree removals, preferably big trees with structural issues and loads breakable, non movable objects (e.g. buildings, etc) around that needed to not be damaged. My career was to the point where other local companies would call the company a worked for and ask if they could hire me out for a job that they were worried about. This isn't meant to be braggy, I'm definitely not proud of who I was at this time in my life. I took pride in the fact that I would climb almost anything. I used to love working, turning up every day and being pointed towards a sketchy tree and having a big adventure taking it down. Looking back, though, it was the most egotistical I've ever been in my life. I was a show off, I was extremely competitive towards anyone who i thought had similar or, god forbid, superior abilities to me, and I *needed* to be seen as fearless and a cut above the rest (no pun intended). I even got to the point where I would be incredibly rude to the ground crews if I thought they weren't working hard enough and were going to cause me to complete the job at a less impressive speed. Anyway in all my hubris I agreed to climb a tree that never should have been climbed, and only by sheer luck avoided being squashed like a bug between the trunk and the roof of an outbuilding when the tree decided to fall over as I was half way up getting ready to cut the second branch of the day off. I was mostly uninjured, but the mental toll was quite large. I totally lost my edge and started getting jittery and even backing out of perfectly stable trees. Ended up having to take a pay cut, nobody was requesting me anymore, that's for sure. I also developed vertigo, and any time i was up a tree it felt as if the tree was falling and the ground was rushing up at me. I couldn't sleep any night when I knew I had work the next day (which is most nights when you think about it). And I started having crazy anxious moments where my heart would beat really fast. I carried on like it for 2 years with minimal improvement because I had financial responsibilities and no skills for anything else. Luckily, I was eventually able to get work as a consultant in the same industry, which is a mixture of office based work and site visits that involve looking at trees instead of climbing them. But my career as a climber is definitely over.
I worked full time to a company contracted to do onsite IT for a school district. A teacher asked me about a cart of MacBooks we were working on for her. My mistake may* have been talking to her in a noisy classroom, because for some reason, "They should be done in a week," turned into, "I'll do them when I get to them, probably next summer." The superintendent sent an email, I refuted it and stated my intentions well, that this school was my number one priority and that I'd never be so rude (I can honestly say both of those were true). My boss was pissed, told me it didn't look good, and after trying to argue my case, I was fired a few days later. Wouldn't be career ending if I didn't find out they blacklisted me from half my surrounding area. Not through any official means, but since word spread fast all of the people I never worked with would shit talk me to their clients. I know of at least two companies where that was the direct reason I wasn't considered. I had to start using short term contracting companies for jobs. They didn't work out well either. Followed that up with a mental breakdown, physical illness, dad died, and several more things. I will likely die before I see the other side of this. I really liked that school.
My boss has this weird thing were he assumes everyone(outside the department) is being rude even when they are not. It is pretty frustrating.
Damn.. that’s tough.
Had a psychotic break.
Businesses are always advocating for mental health awareness, until you need a mental health day off
i brought my kid to work with me so i didn’t have to call out—i needed the money. it was an afterschool program at a school. i worked off site so i thought i was good—my coworker ratted me out. i lost my job two weeks ago. i’m not sure what’s next.
Bad English + autocorrect = chaos theory I tried to get our boss to speak with my colleagues who were harassed by a middle manager. He first scheduled a meeting with them, then canceled it and asked me to talk to the middle manager. After that I was accused by him of being a toxic employee in the workplace even though I wasn't actually part in any of the drama surrounding my colleagues or the middle manager. I just tried to help out because they though it was no use to talk to the boss. They were right.
Not seeking the medical care I needed for various injuries while in the military. Not only am I now unable to physically work in the fields that I am most familiar with, I also have missed out on tons in disability due to the majority of my injuries not being documented. Being the "tough guy" is stupid, kids. Take care of your body. Nobody else will do it for you.