‘How did that one coworker get fired?’ – 23 tales of workplace woe that will make you feel like employee of the month

13.

‘Dude told a mystery shopper that he could give her her order for 1/4 the price if she paid cash and didn’t need a receipt.’
–El_Douglador

14.

‘After borrowing a pickup from the boss he called off sick the next day. He was actually moving and using the truck to do so. He crashed it on a hard turn that he took way too fast.’
–ContributionFar6060

15.

‘Made a chair with boxes we were unloading sat down ate a bag of hot Cheetos.’
–Author-of-wolves

16.

‘Accidentally e-mailed a steamy conversation between him and a female coworker to the entire company. This is also how he got divorced.’
–WombatWithFedora

17.

‘His mum dropped him off at the front gate of the business. He stood there and called in sick, the boss could see him from the office while listening to him on the phone.’
–Bchap10

18.

‘A few day after the guy started, we had an office party. He got wasted and ended up talking the CEO´s ear off about how the company should be run better.’
–TeriSupertramp

19.

‘This one coworker got fired for messing with the time clock. They’d clock in, leave for hours, and then come back like nothing happened. Eventually, someone reported them, and HR found weeks of fake hours. They tried to deny it, but the security cameras didn’t lie.’
–Local-Quality-634

20.

‘At onboarding, get told not to take pictures of anything in the office, ESPECIALLY the first-party in-house proprietary software on everybody’s monitor, on pain of immediate termination. So of course on their first day they take a selfie and post it on Facebook and their Facebook isn’t even private.

In the selfie, a monitor with the aforementioned software running is visible. Fired before the end of their first shift.’
–bloodectomy

21.

‘He disagreed with a decision upper management took and was convinced he knew best. He went into a meeting with the biggest poobas of the department dressed head to toe in a clown costume so he could properly convey to them that they were clowns.’
–Mazer33

22.

‘He would regularly fall asleep at his desk. During the times he was awake he would be playing Halo on our Government computers. I don’t know how he managed to stay employed for as long as did.’
–ValkyrieQueen13

23.

‘Accidentally sent the whole project package for one (very high profile) client to another one. This included sensitive information, working files, unpublished deliverables – the works. The silent walk of shame to and from the boss’s office was very painful to watch.’
–Wowufuh

Just how much does toilet roll cost in the US?

‘One guy had a $100k+ annual income tech job (coding) and was caught stealing a backpack full of toilet paper.’
–Freaky-Freddy

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