People Revealed The Most Outrageous Reasons They Got Fired. Honestly, Lots Of Them Deserved It.

Introduction

Chances are you're going to get fired someday. It may be because of something you did, or just downsizing. It doesn't matter! So you might as well read these ridiculous terminations stories from redditors while you're still on the clock.

1. Over at the dollar store, there's so much money it's just magically appearing, and Terboh had to clean up that horrible, horrible situation.

Worked as a cashier at a store were things are generally a dollar. You only get 3 chances per year to be off on your register by $2.00, positive or negative. Was on my 3rd strike in December, at this point promoted to assistant manager, found an extra $20 in my drawer when I counted it down at the end of the night. Recounted a few times, still there. Ended up recording it, rather than taking the $20 off camera. Got fired for it.

TL;DR: I got fired for not stealing $20.

2. TheCrazyCatLady_ was fired for not being a camel.

I used to work for a large discounted designer type shop. It was the middle of summer, and I worked in the warehouse tagging clothes. After a week, I get in and there are no cups at the water machine, and we're not allowed to bring in bottles. I report that there aren't any cups. A couple hours later, still no cups. At lunch, it's so busy you can't sit down whilst you eat. After being on my feet for about 6 hours, I fainted. Got sent home in a taxi, and as I'm getting in it, the manager tells me not to come back.

3. The big mistake that teddybear11127 made after getting fired was not putting that cone on her owner's head, like a unicorn.

I was a McDonald's manager and was already on thin ice for being lazy. So one of my friends comes in and orders a soft serve, so I make it the biggest fucking ice cream you've ever seen probably like 10 swirls and as I hand it over the owner of the store walks in...

4. So what's rumsfeldish supposed to do? Not slap hams? You gotta slap the hams.

Worked at a grocery store. Always slapped the hams when I walked passed. Management saw video told me to stop. I couldn't help it.

5. User brineydeepbrineydeep lost his job to pay for another job (a boob job).

In college I worked for a small video production company for about three years. One day, with no warning, my boss calls me into his office, sits me down and proceeds to tell me that I was too skilled for the work I was doing and that he preferred quantity over quality. I was fired on the spot. Two weeks later my old co-worker told me that he over heard my former bosses wife state that that the money the company was saving by firing me was going to pay for her new boob job.

6. If like Dan_the_moto_man, you aren't quite sure if you got fired or not, you probably got fired. And also screwed over.

Not quite fired, but I lost my job when the small company (3 employees) I worked for went out of business. I had seen this coming for a while, so it wasn't much of a surprise.

I was surprised two weeks later when I saw the two guys I had worked with driving around in the company truck (with a new logo, but doing the same thing). Yeah, they told me they closed for business, and then opened back up a couple weeks later doing the same thing, just without me anymore.

7. Once goatonaboat started in with the night pizza, then everybody was going to want the night pizza, and you can't have that.

I worked at a backpacker lodge outside of my home country, for the two weeks I had the job it was great. Then I got fired for allowing some guests that had just come in at 4am to eat pizza in the sitting area. I was meant to unlock and set up the dining hall, which would've taken fucking forever at that time, and these guests were jetlagged and hungry. They didn't make any mess, but my boss came storming in and fired me on the spot.

8. Sounds like that conniving harpy Ann Landers was behind your firing, delightfuldylan.

One day I was feeling extra lazy at work so I sat down at the table in the break room and started reading 'Dear, Abby' in our newspaper. My boss walked by, saw me, and told me to go do something, I thought it'd be witty so I said "but I'm reading Dear Abby!!!"

He fired me on the spot.

9. Dawn_of_the_Dave was terminated just for being too impressionable.

I worked in the same building as an animal testing company. On my first day there was a protest outside and we were told not to speak to or engage with the protestors in any way. I don't know what happened but as I was coming back from lunch I got all swept up in the moment and accidentally joined the protest. They even gave me a placard and a cool hat. Apparently the conversation with the boss inside went like this "Has anyone seen Dave? (looks out of window) never mind..."

10. User inkykinky took their work home with them, much to their chagrin. (Chagrin means "diarrhea.")

I got fired from a café after I stayed home with severe food poisoning. I got the food poisoning by eating food at the café.