Sometimes your first day of work isn't the best. For these people it was sooo bad they were fired on their first day.
Don’t Hit On The Boss’ Daughter, Especially If…
“A guy showed up on his first day, went through orientation, then went out for beers with his boss and a few others. His boss was talking about his 16 year old girl and the new guy straight face said ‘Is she hot?’… this was a 24+ year old dude. His first day was his last” Source
How To NOT Work A Cash Drawer
“At a Jamba Juice back in high school, we hired a guy who coincidentally shared my name but wasn’t me. His first day they had him doing everything a little bit just to learn, including the cash register. Well, when the end of his shift comes, his drawer is short $20, and the manager starts giving him this whole ‘you need to be more careful and make sure you’re counting your bills correctly, keep the person’s paid cash out before you hand them change so you know the denomination’ etc etc about how to handle money correctly. His response: ‘Oh I didn’t think you were going to count that.’ After a stunned silence from the manager and everyone else in the breakroom/back office, he was fired on the spot” Source
The Worst Day To Have The Flu…
“First day of training at a new restaurant and I come down with a massive flu. Sweating, coughing, sniffling, vomiting, the whole 9 yards. I called to tell them I needed a few days to recover and they told me I still had to come in at least for a couple of hours. So I drag my a** out of bed and ride the bus for an hour to get over there and as soon as they see me, they tell me to just go home. Got taken off the schedule the next day. It was my first job after 6 months of unemployment…”
What Working On Wall Street Will Do To You
“Not me but some recent graduates. So I worked on Wall Street and we had a rigorous hiring process. Almost 3,4 rounds for an entry level MIS position. So it took about 6, 8 weeks to find someone and he started. After the introduction he started training and mind you we stay fing late, 12 hour shifts. So he’s training non-stop for the day and slowly everyone is trickling out. I’m assuming he was the last person to leave because when I came in I saw an email around midnight saying ‘y’all mother fers are crazy and this place will kill you all in a month, I’m out’ Talk of the floor for about a month and ironically some people quit because he was actually right. I’ll never forget it” Source
A Knife In The Side…
“The police came and arrested the new guy for his involvement with a stabbing at a night club the previous week. In his defense I saw his application and he mentioned that as the reason he got fired from his last job, so it wasn’t a surprise” Source
Sexism = bad
“I worked in a pizzeria and there was a new driver who was starting. He took his first delivery and when he can back there were no deliveries up so I told him that in between he would have to do dishes and clean. He replied ‘That’s a woman’s work, I don’t do women’s work’. And…..you’re fired.” Source
Warrant’s Out
“yup, new kid around 19 or 20 comes in (warehouse job) goes out to buy weed during lunch break, gets busted, turns out he has a warrant out for him, goes to jail, then has the balls to call us to bail him out because he lives with his grandmother and she would get upset. We didn’t bail him out.” Source
Fired For Efficiency
“When I was in between jobs, and early in my tech career, I took some temporary work. Among this work was a manufacturing outfit that needed a few thousand records digitized. Upon the early part of my discovery I found that they already had most of this data in a giant flat file, and were bringing in only two new pieces of unique data. It took around 4 hours to get my script ready, and then all I had to do was enter two pieces of unique info per record, and the script would take care of the rest. This was going to be a huge time saver, likely cutting the 5 day job to 1.5 or 2 days. I would be paid the same either way, and would be out of their hair days early, so I figured it was a win-win. The lady in charge of watching me asked me right after lunch on that first day how many records I had completed so far, and I answered her honestly. I had done 4 records (the ones I had tested my script against), but was going to blast through hundreds before the day was done. I went back to my desk, and started banging through the stack of records. After I had done about two dozen of them a security type showed up, and escorted me out. I asked to be given 3 minutes to show my script to anyone that cared, but they were not interested at all. Those folks just did not understand what I was doing, or how powerful scripting is. All they knew was that I spent the morning doing something other than the mind numbing data entry that they had hired me for.” Source
“Can I at least keep the clothes…”
“At orientation, they told the twelve of us that we were the bestest and the brightest of 900 or so interviews they’d conducted. We got our access badges and our corporate Amex cards. One of the ‘best and the brightest’ went to a high-end men’s clothing store on his lunch hour and purchased four thousand dollars worth of suits, ties and shoes. He came back from lunch and bragged of his exploits. Fired on the spot. He actually thought his Amex card was a job perk. ‘Can I at least keep the clothes?'” Source
“How Do You Not Recognize The Hamburglar When You See Him?”
“Not me…but happened when I was working at McDonalds. New guy came in and when he saw that we were trashing patties if they had been sitting too long, he ate one…then he started just eating them from the supply…dude must have inhaled 10-12 patties over a couple hours after repeatedly being told to stop. Eventually, he started making himself a burger with the buns and eating it as well. Got fired first day on the job. I’m still convinced he had no real plans of working and just wanted to see how many free burgers he could eat before getting canned” Source
“Had I Not Looked Behind Me, He Would’ve Died…”
“Used to work at a factory that made food stuff. Guy I was trained with fell into a big vat of wet ingredients that was about to be heated up. Had I not looked behind me, he would’ve died. The boss went to the hospital to tell him he was fired but they were giving him some extra pay in his check” Source
“And That Was My Last $50…”
“I got a job as a waiter at an Australian themed steakhouse (no not that one). They had me buy construction boots as part of their uniform and a pair of black shorts totaling $50. I had never worked as a waiter before so they had me shadow one of their waitresses. She was the lead waitress, she had influence with the managers for sure. Pretty sure she is also the waitress that had been there far too long (all restaurants have one). I followed her for drink orders at two tables and then she told the boss it wasn’t going to work out. No idea what happened, and that was my last $50. In retrospect that place just screams ‘You don’t want to work here’ but I’m still mad about it a decade and a half later” Source
When Your Boss Forces You To Starve…
“I got hired as an ‘independent contractor’ for some over the phone tech work. Hours were 8am-6pm. Ok, that’s perfect. I go in and get acquainted, start taking calls, and hours go by. I’m wondering when I get lunch. News flash. No lunch, no breaks. Independent contractor or not, pretty sure here in the U.S. you gotta give people some breaks and a lunch at some point in a 10 hour shift. Some kinda law about that I feel sure. So I tell my new boss, look, I’m starving, I’m going to get something to eat, I’ll be back in an hour. He said if you leave, don’t bother coming back. So I left. ‘Found out the boss cannot be overseeing you and dictating how your job is done, nor can they tell you when to show up and when to leave. The IRS is gonna have a lot to say to this guy'” Source
“We See A Group Emerge From The Freezer, New Guy In The Middle Clutching His Mouth…”
“I wasn’t fired on the first day, but I saw someone get fired. I got a job working in a grocery warehouse, driving a forklift in the freezer section. This freezer was supposed to be kept at -20°F, which means they actually kept it a little colder (I once saw it at -46° on a rainy day). Day one, as I’m getting a brief tour around the place by a rotund middle-management fellow, we see a group emerge from the freezer, the new guy in the middle clutching his mouth, tears in his eyes. Y’know when kids dare each other to stick their tongues onto poles during winter? This guy did that of his own volition, in this incredibly cold room, and had to wait until someone stumbled upon him for rescue. He was fired on the spot” Source
Flying Car
“This guy was driving cars from where they were dropped off to where they were sold at auction. He was driving this really nice BMW sitting at a stop sign at the base of a hill. Semi truck carrying logs loses its brakes and slams him at 50+ mph. He then proceeds to t-bone another car while still getting pushed by the semi. Him t-boning the other guy knocked him out from in front of the semi and into another car which had seen what was happening and slid to a stop. The semi went over the hill and landed in the creek at the base. He got cut out of the car then airlifted out (along with the driver of the semi and the passenger of the car he t-boned) and when he called his boss (after emergency surgery) the boss fired him. He sued the h**l out of the company for wrongful termination and he’s been living off the money for 3 years. Source