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Bosses Reveal The Most Obnoxious Reason They've Had To Fire Someone

Bosses Reveal The Most Obnoxious Reason They've Had To Fire Someone
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People can make some pretty bad decisions. What is even worse is when they try to avoid the consequences of those bad choices.

Employment can be pretty stressful for everyone, but some people take that a step further and try to make everyone else miserable too.


Reddit user u/LawngClaw17 asked:

"Business owners of Reddit, what's the most obnoxious reason an employee quit/ had to be fired over?"

10.

My Dad and I ran a business together cleaning out foreclosed homes for a real estate agency as I was finishing high school. I was a senior so I got out at lunch time and we could usually get a house done in a half day. Sometimes we'd get some bad ones and we had a few guys that we would call to see if they wanted to make a quick hundred bucks for a days work.

On my literal last day of class my Dad picked up one of our usual guys and got one house about 90% done by lunch. He was a pretty normal guy that we had never had any trouble with.

The guy we paid to help my dad went out to the truck and came back into that house with a gun and robbed my dad of his wallet and took his keys and left in our truck.

Funny thing is my Dad only had the cash he was about to give him an hour later for finishing up the house. The state police got the guy's number from us and they told him some bogus story about how my dad was being investigated for not paying his workers and if met them with the truck they would get his statement and let him go. Idiot pulls up and gets arrested on the spot. He got 8 years in prison.

-Scorian07

9.

I had a sub contractor on a job for my company try and convince the client that they should dump me and go with their business and they would undercut me by 10%.

Learned this from the client, who asked me to find another person to service our contract.

-ChildrenOfAnEldridGod

8.

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Employee had corporate card. Charged a vacation, purse, fossil watch, take out, along with overall being miserable to work with. Had laptop "stolen" within weeks of joining.

Fired her, and a few days later a watch catalog from Fossil showed up at the office with her name on it.

Have active court cases for all the theft.

-vettewiz

7.

We had a young IT intern helping with some hardware inventory tasks. It wasn't uncommon for laptops not to make it back to us as projects would hoard them from terminated employees but one day we noticed his backpack open and a laptop of a model we used sticking out.

Sent him to the other side of the building and checked the serial number and yep - it was one he reported as missing during a recent inventory.

Opportunistic theft is one thing but bringing it back into the office everyday... just... wow.

-thepensivepoet

6.

Had a guy on a location fake an injury. Now mind you he did injure himself severely accidentally, but that wasn't his plan. His plan had been to fake a minor injury and get put on workers comp. The problem was he screwed up how to do it and ended up hurting himself severely.

You ask how did you know he was trying to fake injure himself. Well that's very easy to explain. We had a 20 minute tape of him hiding behind one of the trucks on the worksite practicing his fall. Then a written confession from friends saying that he'd been planning it since the day we hired him.

-Oils4money

5.

I used to do some consulting work and hired a woman to help out. Mostly clerical stuff and whatnot. I flew down to St Thomas for a meeting and got a call from Sonitrol at 1030pm. She had keys to my building but didn't know about the alarm. Basically, she and her boyfriend brought another couple down to have a foursome in one of my offices I had converted to a bedroom where I could crash if I worked late.

So I called her... She answered mid-coitus and acted normal, albeit a little tipsy. I talked about a few mundane details I needed to relay to her anyways and then mentioned to make sure she only was ever at the office between 700am and 700pm since there was a silent alarm that that would call me with audio of activities in the building.

When I got back in town her keys were sitting on my desk.

-JosefKaiser

4.

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Back when I had my translation business, I hired a guy to seek out contracts for me, I'd pay him 20% finder's fee.

Instead of sending the finished project to a client, he accidentally sent naked pictures of himself. I learned of it when my client forwarded me the mail half an hour later, including the (multiple) glorious peen pics.

I don't even.

-Unfa

3.

I fired a guy because he said he couldn't come to work because it was raining and he had just washed his car the day before.

-xmasonx75

2.

Medical clinic. An employee told a patient he wants to know what she tastes like. Doesn't get much worse.

-WhatAFineA

Not many exit interviews start with: "We REALLY hope that was just sexual harassment, but we're gonna inventory the samples just in case."

-round_a_squared

Yeah, when sexual harrassment is the least concerning explanation...

-haloumi_pants

1.

I work in a small independent pharmacy. Its only the owner, me, and a coworker. Business is really picking up, boss man wanted to hire someone and asked me to sit in interview to ask questions he may forget. This chick seemed great. I explained the importance of protocol and procedure so we don't accidentally kill someone with wrong med and we follow all laws, blah blah blah. She had never worked in a pharmacy, was called back for interview #2 and we agreed she was best pick because she said "I've never done this, I'll make sure to follow your every direction."

I fired her after 2 weeks.

She couldn't understand when she would ask "can I do blah blah" we'd say no then she'd do it anyway because "I figured you wouldn't care." I thought my way was better" This happened AT LEAST 3 times a day. A few times she would lie and say "I didn't do that" but everything is stamped with initials.

The final straw was she tried to process a RX (which she was not allowed to do yet) under MY name while breaking HIPAA and screwed up the claim that could have caused an audit.

-ShellieAC

People Break Down The Times They Had To Sober Up Real Fast

Reddit user Known_Challenge_7150 explained: 'What’s one thing that sobered you up real quick?'

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When we're intoxicated, or even the slightest bit tipsy from having a little too much to drink, our immediate perspective on things is hazy.

But there's nothing like a bit of alarming news or a jarring incident to snap us out of the fog and focus on the moment.

Sometimes alcohol isn't always to blame for our impairment.

It can be a state of mind, like a perpetual numbness from being complacent in life, and all it takes is one shocking moment to rattle us back to our senses.

Curious to hear from strangers online about this type of scenario, Redditor Known_Challenge_7150 asked:

"What’s one thing that sobered you up real quick?"

These individuals were witness to shocking events that sobered them up right quick.

Bleeding Out

"Got out of a taxi and found a naked man profusely bleeding from his head crawling up the driveway in my condo. Called him an ambulance completely forgot I was absolutely wasted until 45 minutes later when I'd helped him translate and in to an amublance and stepped in my front door."

"Later a few days later learned he'd slipped in the tub and literally crawled out for help. Poor dude. He was fine but I genuinely thought he was going to die there."

– DongLaiCha

Tragic News

"At a bachelor party and we got a phone call that the groom’s father had suddenly passed."

– accountnameredacted

Bottom Of The Barrel

"I went to visit my parents back in July. I was homeless and deep into fentanyl addiction so I lost a lot of weight. My folks could see it. They knew something was up. Anyway, I spent the night and I was getting ready to leave in the morning and I looked at myself in the mirror for a good long time. I finally had enough and told them everything. They took me to detox, from there I went to rehab. Graduated in August and been living with them ever since then. I have 160 days clean and sober."

– Crotch-Monster

A reality check can be enough for some people to snap out of it.

Like Father, Like Son

"Was driving a drunk friend home, he had been on a bender again and was smart enough to call me for a lift rather than try and drive. As I helped in to his house his mother came down the stairs and said 'your as drunk as your father' and went back upstairs. I haven't seen him drunk since then, he still drinks but the thought of turning into his dad scared him out of hard drinking."

– psycospaz

Busted

"Flashing blue lights."

– FiddleOfGold

"This sobered me up just thinking about it."

– redmaple_syrup

Losing Sight

"Woke up to no sight in one eye. I had cataract surgery so just thought one of the lenses had slipped and it was an easy fix. Eye doc says nope, you had a stroke. I loved soy sauce, teriyaki sauce and salty food, which caused high blood pressure, which caused retina damage. Over six months was able to get most of my eyesight back with medication, and all back within a year. Trying to navigate life with one eye was very sobering. Started taking HBP much more seriously."

– MissHibernia

Quitting The Bottle

"Looked up someone I went to highschool with who was an awesome guy. Found out he had been dead for 3 years from alcoholism, at age 33. I made an overnight change. I hadn't started drinking that night yet, 10 months ago. Haven't touched it again since."

– omgtater

These disturbing moments were enough for Redditors to immediately come to their senses.

Unplanned House Guests

"Me and a buddy Woke up in someone’s living room, realized neither one of us knew the people, they were just nice and let 2 drunk guys sleep on their living room floor. We didn’t even say goodbye."

– Oneinsevenbillion75

Serious Health Warning

"Elevated liver enzymes."

"And the knowledge that this sh** was gonna kill me and I just couldn't orphan my family over it."

"So I opted for recovery, instead."

"Clean and sober since June 5, 2009."

– Far_Meal8674

The Joyride

"Grew up in a rural area. The little town hosted dances at the hockey arena, everyone (adults and kids) went and they overserved everyone, regardless of age. I was maybe 16 or 17 and was absolutely sh*tfaced, and jumped in the back of someone's truck with about 8 other people to go back to someone's cottage for after dance drinking. The driver (still don't know who it was) started racing one of his buddies and we whipped around small dirt roads, flying around blind corners on the wrong side of the road, going god knows how fast. It was basically a disaster waiting to happen. It was crazy scary and I was sober and thankful to be alive when we finally arrived."

– foxfood9116

The human psyche is a fascinating thing, isn't it?

How we can automatically focus on something urgent at a crucial time, even after getting buzzed from drinking too much alcohol.

But as we're in the thick of the holidays, it's a good reminder to drink responsibly and stay off the roads if you drive to your celebratory destination.

Cheers. Stay safe. And happy holidays.

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