Pettiest Thing to Fire Someone For 

I was fired for not coming in on a day that I was not scheduled. I told the boss that he would regret that action. He said f-you do something about it. I filed a wage action with the department of labor for all of the overtime that I was not paid correctly. The labor board held him liable for false termination and underpayment of his employees. He had to write me a check for 2 years of underpayment and he was fined $50,000. They also had to pay back wages to 1,500 employees going back 5 years. He ended up filing for bankruptcy.

Happened mid September this year. Filed for an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accomodation due to a congenital skin condition that makes it torturous for me to be on my feet for long periods of time while working as a service manager at a [insert auto repair chain]. Job title did not specify that I'd be doing more than interfacing with customers from behind a work station. I even asked for a different position altogether instead of an unreasonable accommodation. Instead of considering a call-center, customer support position, HR fired me. Waiting for my lawyer to complete my demand letter for my approval.

Know a woman who got fired for going to the hospital in pre mature labor. She gave birth and the baby passed away. She got fired for missing work.

When the management of a business is worried about whether employees are paying for the milk in their coffees, it is already far, far too late for said business.

I got fired from a late night secretary position. One of my responsibilities was to make sure the lights upstairs were turned off. One of the teachers in the upstairs classrooms told me, as she was leaving for the night, that she had made sure all the lights were out for me. Given that she had worked there for ten years, I believed her. Apparently, one of the lights was left on anyways, and I was fired for it.

I was fired after swearing into the National Guard and going to Basic Training. I told my boss that I would be gone for a certain number of months in advance. I was out on leave, then he went to the hire-ups and convinced them to fire me because "everyone knows that National Guard isn't really the military." That was almost 10 years ago and it still disgusts me at how scummy some folks are.

When I was 17 I worked in a nursing home as housekeeping. In my 2nd week a elderly woman who didn't move very well and couldn't bend over at all shuffled over to me while I was wiping down the mop boards and asked if I could tie her shoe. Since I was already down there and there hadn't been a nurse or a CNA at their desk for over an hour, I tied it and continued on thru the day the very next morning I was pulled into the director's office and was fired. FIRED FOR TYING AN ELDERLY WOMAN'S SHOE

getting fired at work for pre rolling silverwear . lame

The Army one: My boss hired a guy who was a National Guard Reservist: one weekend a month. He scheduled the guy on said weekend. He told the boss he couldn't come in; and, that legally he couldn't fire him over it. The boss said, "If I'd known that I wouldn't have hired you."

Oh, I got one I heard from Reddit. OP used to work at a small "mom and pop" shop, but received his pink slip after requesting time off to go to a concert. According to OP, there was no mistreatment at first, until the time off request and their attitudes literally flipped a 180. Even worse, when they went to court cause the owners refused to honor the last paycheck, one of the owners went on a long tirade describing all of OP's alleged flaws. However, this only served to annoy the judge, and OP won the case. I don't know, I kind of feel the owners are on some kind of power trip to want to control the personal lives of their employees, hence the complete change in attitude after wanting some time off.

I had a married female co-worker continually ask to 'meet me outside of work' after I continually reminded her that she was married! Apparently she realized I could get her fired over that; and, sought to get me fired first by telling the boss lies about me. I wasn't very HR-savvy. All I knew was that all of a sudden I kept getting called in the manager's office, where he stated, "Perlita said you said this." And I'd have to say, "No, I said this. She twisted it into that." Finally, I told her, "I'm not gonna talk to you anymore, 'cuz you always take what I say & twist it into something somehow offensive. So, I'm just not gonna talk to you." She responds with, "Well, if you don't say anything, then you're leaving yourself open for me to put words in your mouth!" Well, it worked. I got called into the manager's office, yet again, made to sign a false confession to keep my job (again, not HR-savvy). The manager then uses that signed 'confession' to stop paying me my monthly bonuses for 6 months, which he turned into 7, just to be an extra dick. I had to file for bankruptcy over that (going through a divorce in CA), which is still on my record today, keeping me from getting any real, good paying job. Thanks, Robert!

'Not being a team player' should not be legally valid reason for firing. There will always be another option you can use if their behavior justifies firing.

Worked at Wal-Mart one summer when I was but a lad. I told them on the job application, during the interview, and again when they explained the scheduling system that I would be going to college in the fall, and on what day I would be leaving. I reminded them a month ahead of time. They scheduled me beyond my departure date. I immediately told them I couldn't work that, I had already said I couldn't work that. They said unless I showed up on those days I would be fired. In other words, it was their intention to fire me for not having given the notice I had given, after the last shift I had been planning to work anyway. Boy, they really showed me.

If mayo guy was my boss and he angerly fired me over mayo, his car would be covered in it when I left if he pulled that crap on me.

I was fired for leaving a hot iron unatented for two seconds. I was in the room, I was getting what I was supposed to iron.

One of my coworkers was fired. She had to give birth with our call in the hospital. She was fired for the doctors being able to see the screen. It honestly f*cked me up for a while.

That 1st one reminded me of what my dad did. My brother had done something wrong & he lined all 3 of us up, saying, "Now, I'm not going to spank you, I just want to know who did it." We stood there for the longest time, my brother saying nothing. Finally, just to get out of there, I said, "I did it!" I'll never forget the shock on my brother's face. Then my dad said, "Alright! over my knee!"

My mom was fired for needing to leave work early on like the 2nd day she worked there... She needed to pick up me and my sister because we had fallen victims to the lice outbreak at my school

4:44 That is known as constructive dismissal, and is a slam dunk case for any employment law attorney.

I worked at a Loblaws (think a smaller Walmart, but if it was 60% groceries first) as a general aid: cleaning shit, pushing in carts, taking return bottles, that shit. I was in the union so I needed multiple strikes to be fired These strikes included: -being 5 mins late when I told them repeatedly to stop scheduling me 1pm-10pm when I had classes until noon exactly one hour away. -arriving 15 mins late after the largest blizzard in 20 years: a day that no manager arrived sooner than 2 hours lateand only 1/2 of regular staff showed up. I was the ONLY one reprimanded. The firing offence? "Purposefully not training the new hires after being warned to do so" I had never met these new hires. They were both scheduled together on days I didn't work, leaving me to open after days they closed, taking 2 hours or so each morning to fix their mistakes and mess (they did well for hires given ZERO direction or training)

A lot of these are litigation worthy. Glad some of them got it!

Almost 200 people fired because executive management was in a “pissing” contest over a large office with a “really nice” attached bath. I was a management consultant in the 90’s and this was at the now defunct ENRON. The president wanted to streamline management and concentrate on core competencies. I worked with the VP of the services division, the assistant VP of services and the dozen managers in the division. We fired all the managers and outsourced about 200 of the 240 employees. All within 2 weeks. At the end the senior VP told me “tell him I give up. He can have the fucking office.” I didn’t have a clue what he was talking about. When I relayed the message the president said “about fucking time. We were running out of people to fire.” And laughed. Hundreds of people fired, lifes turned upside down over an office on the executive level that had a nice bathroom.

I gotta doozy for y'all. Worked at a casino in Sales . Had a guy transfer over from one of the restaurants to my dept which was Gaming related . Was a good guy, 19 years old did really good . Keep in mind gaming requires you to be 21 to work in gaming related depts but I guess he fell through the cracks. We had and employee appreciation dinner and one of the managers asks about the young man his hobbies his family etc,. He says his age and they immediately kick him out of the dept same day , he is subsequently transferred to another dept again still gaming but isn't allowed to work the systems that allow him to do his job and get commission. Now the guy puts up with this for awhile but he knows the managers and vp messed , so he gets mad goes to our manager and threatens to sue he was gone that same day. TLDR . Manager and VP of my dept hire an underage guy to work in gaming,find out they screwed up royally hide the guy guy gets mad threatens to sue and is fired. P.S. since this a indian gaming casino the casino just deleted all trace of the guy.

A friend was fired for swearing at the manager... manager and my friend were best buds too and swore at each other all the time.

I was working in 2 departments in a hotel, laundry/housekeeping and banquet set up. I worked an 8-hour shift setting up tables for several meetings, then went to my other job as night laundry. Somewhere during this shift, my boss (a banker by trade, but Chapter 11 means the creditor is going to use their own people to fill mgt positions) asks if I'd stay later. Boss: Hey, we really need you to stay later Me: I would, but my brother is in town and we have plans to go fishing Boss: But wouldn't you like all that extra money? (Banker mentality, I suppose) Me: Some things are more important than money. (Yeah, never say this to a banker) So, I went fishing with my brother and all was right with the world. Some days later, the new schedule comes out for housekeeping and lo and behold, I'm not on it. I inquire as to why. Me: Hey boss, I'm not on the schedule. Boss: Yeah, I figured since you didn't want to work those scheduled hours the other night, perhaps you really don't need this job. Me: Those were NOT scheduled hours, and in fact, I was already on overtime. Boss: *looks over previous schedule, calls banquet coordinator* Oops. *pencils me in for my usual hours.* And all was right with the world. That is, until a few weeks later, banquet coordinator fired me for not moving a customer's paperwork during a refresh of the room. WE NEVER TOUCH CUSTOMER PROPERY!. Soon after, I was also dismissed from laundry for very similar reasons. Moral of the story: Never tell a banker that family is more important than money.

After 10 yr.s without a raise, they asked me to take the overflow work of a dept. that got paid 1/2 again what I did; and, I was doing it better than them! They made $10/hr. more than me. I asked for a raise, thinking maybe $1/hr. They freaked out, went ballistic, started micro-managing me for over a year. Finally, they fired me on a technicality: leaving the co. premises on my break. Which, was OK for everybody but me, because they made me sign a paper that I wouldn't & after a year I forgot, and went to the store for some cigarettes.

Story 1: "I am Sporkticus!"

I worked for a co. that sucked so bad one guy left to join the Army; and, considered it a step up!

Some of these should've sued for wrongful termination imo

The first story tells of a case of scapegoating. The story of Mary, Stephanie and Tiffany is another such case.

Fired last year and this year for “driving to use a bathroom and not clocking out while driving to/from”. This is for UPS, 5 year employee. Lawyer said I have a case but it’s not worth enough to pursue ($20k) because I signed to return to work and UPS would drag it out 1-1.5yrs and lawyer would have $60-$80k wrapped up in it.

Yeah... I was given an option to quit a job I needed at a Pizza Ranch due to crossing a line that I didn't know about because they didn't train me properly... the management there was bs on communication and I had issues with one who was cutting short my shifts of an already crappy paying, barely "part time" job. I told him I quit and walked out. I was not going to have him "snitch to the owner" about something that was someone else's job that they didn't do properly and I figured the manager could go frick himself and that no, I clearly did NOT have the same training he claimed he had gotten because if I had I wouldn't have been in that position of doing something wrong without knowing it was wrong. Their pizza isn't that good anyway, Godfathers is a lot better (if pricey).

Here's a goodie:I got fired over a garbage bag;;used to work for McDonald's,(yeah, the burger joint)so,this one day I get off,and I'm sitting in the dinning room having a cup of coffee killing time, waiting on the bus,my shift manager asked me to change out a garbage can before I left. the Co. snitch misread the signals, went and tattled to the GM. The next day I come in for my shift ,the manager called me into the office,has me turn in my uniform (I was fortunate enough to have my backpack with me that day, because I had a Dr. Appointment) and sign a termination paper.ran into a friend of mine a few weeks later (who still works there to this day)told me about a month or so after I was "let go",the GM was fired because she couldn't keep the store clean and stealing coffee (talk about karma being a beast) Peggy; if you're reading this I hope you were able to get away from that sh*****show

Refused to sleep with Harry, the boss. He had a waitress proposition me FOR him, so I couldn't even sue for harassment.

I got fired for 3 reasons, that's for 22 years, being ugly, my allergies ( severe to onions/ scented products) and because of my family name hahaha

I worked at Schnucks too, the one in Webster Groves, MO. The most entitled pieces of shit I have ever had the displeasure of serving.

legit most of these people probably have a good chance of winning a lawsuit against the company they are working for and getting a lot of money 💀

Another one was after I came back from maternity leave. (Filed for, approved, my dr.s letter, and everyone knew why I was gone for 10 wks.). I was fired for missing 10 wks of work. I was required to call in every day, which I did and even came back with a return to work letter from Dr. I was fired. *Note: there were 4 other women that were pregnant on my team. All of us due within a 6 wk period. I was the only one fired.

I had brought my nana home (her wishes) from the convalescent home after her hip surgery and finding out that she was end stage cancer with no hope and she just wanted to pass at home. She loved another six months and I held her hand as she passed the morning before Mother's Day. I worked at a high end steak house. I had to work Mother's Day dinner, I tried to call in even though I had not lost it yet I know it was going to be difficult. Suddenly after we were packed (had plenty of other waitresses it would have been handled without me) suddenly I lost it. I couldn't stop crying seeing all of the mom's and grandmas there it was like the floodgates opened and I just couldn't stop. I tried so hard not to be upset. My boss told me if I couldn't pull it together I wouldn't have a job. I told her my nana literally just passed away and she said oh well Death happens and I don't think you are a good fit if you can't handle life. She forced me to finish the shift then fired me with a bs excuse the next weekend. I was the only one who could keep up with the upstairs customers and never got complaints. I told her oh btw half your crew is smoking more than weed on their breaks outside and I'm not one of them, threw my uniform at her and slammed the door. Two winters later during Christmas rush she emailed me asking if I would come back 😂 I never bothered to answer. Note: this is the same owner/manager I dad take wilted nasty lettuce out of the garbage after myself and another waitress tossed it, she put it back in the salad bar and I found mold on the dessert and she scraped it off and told us to add whip cream to hide it 🤢. I threw it out when she walked away! I won my unemployment after that even though she tried to deny it but then proceeded to tell unemployment exactly what I told them 😂

So some one rolled their silverware at the beginning of their shift and that p!ssed off the power hungry manager so they fired them. Never speak up to take one for the team, they can fire you but they arent going to fire the whole staff.

Knewna guy who got fired for stealing company power, he was charging his cellphone on his break.

Who orders pizza while a tornado is raging through town??

a lot of these sounds like lawsuits

My wife work at a inground play area and on her day off we took our children in to play actually it was a playdate well our daughter come to us saying this little boy kept chasing her around and instead of letting me handle it my wife wanted to since she knew who his mom was since she worked there next thing we know my wife is being told the very next day via text message that that parent said she was very rude yelled at her son and that she was trying to start trouble and keep in mind this place is under video and audio surveillance so all she had to do was look at those dates instead she just goes ahead and fires my wife via text message stating all that stuff and within a couple of weeks we find out that she has her business up for sale she ends up selling it for I believe a quarter of what she wanted and she was also going through a pretty bad divorce so we just think that instead of saying hey I can't afford you guys as she had a couple other PRN people like my wife she just looked at any small reason to fire people

So, am I the only one who realizes how many of these are illegal? Seriously, an employment lawyer would get hard just hearing about most of these.

This seems like a good opportunity to remember the earth shattering firing of Nanette Byrd (Brad's Wife) after 11 years of faithful service to Cracker Barrel. We haven't forgotten you Nanette.

Thanks for the stories. Some of these are really stupid. Have a good day

NPR is the definition of Mayonnaise

The firetruck story sounds like Sauder Woodworking Company in Archbold, Ohio. Obviously I don't know the commentor or the story.

as a computer tech CCleaner is such a great program.

Some of these stories make me extremely glad I'm retired.

on odhuts he didint

Had a Mexican boss fire me 'cuz he decided he didn't like me. It happens; but, he took it a step further & had his gang steal my car the next day! Of course I can't prove he did it; but, I know it's so!

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