While some play video games to relax or experience a good story or whatever, speed-running games takes it to a whole new level.
Speed-running a game takes skill, commitment, perfect reflexes, and a whole lot of practice. Many people commend speed-runners for their sheer aptitude to run through a game like no other. It’s impressive to say the least.
Now, apply the same formula to folks who got fired from a job more or less as soon as they got hired for it. A recent AskReddit dealt with this very question of what’s the quickest way you saw a coworker get fired? and you’d be surprised to learn how many folks attempted a world record at this point. It’s actually impressive.
Now, apply the same formula to folks who got fired from a job more or less as soon as they got hired for it. A recent AskReddit dealt with this very question of what’s the quickest way you saw a coworker get fired? and you’d be surprised to learn how many folks attempted a world record at this point. It’s actually impressive.
After a couple of days, I asked what happened to her; I figured she was working a different shift or she had possibly gotten covid. Nope; they just caught her smoking crack on camera.
It’s hard to explain why some employees choose to do intellectually questionable things at work. Heck, it’s often hard to pinpoint why people do stupid things in general.
Some venture to say that it’s stress. Even the smartest of people can succumb to the pressures of it. You see, stress inhibits your brain from working in unison with all of the other faculties. In turn, it can’t coordinate well and so bad decisions happen.
It was only found out after someone complained because they didn’t have the money to go in with their friends because they had to pay for parking. I think the guy was only there a couple of hours before he got fired.
Ran into a light pole that took out electricity to the whole site. Wasn’t wearing a seat belt and was thrown into the front window. When we went out to see what had happened she reeked of booze and there were empty liquor bottles in the back of the car.
She never even made it to the front door, got a guest badge or started her orientation training.
The emergency stop that he hit switches off all drives on the 100m long paper machine. This means there is a loss of production for 3-4 hours for the entire paper mill.
He was immediately escorted from the factory premises by two colleagues.
Others suggest deeper causes, like bad habits or self confidence. In the case of the former, unlearning things is harder than learning, and bad habits embedded through poor practice or lack of it altogether (among other things) can lead to equally bad results.
As for the latter, humans have a tendency of turning confidence into arrogance whenever it’s about defending ideas instead of pursuing what’s best.
A new young girl turned up for the testing company and was dipping her finger into a chemical called phenol and stating that “it makes your hand and arm go numb”. Phenol is a severe muscle relaxant (including your heart) and can kill you at very low concentrations. One hour into her employment we had paramedics on scene monitoring her vitals and was released after 8 hours. She didn’t last the first hour of the first day and the testing company was fined pretty heavily.
RM: Run those plates that just came up.
Server: Those aren’t my plates, not my job.
RM: You don’t have a job. Get your stuff and go.
This is besides things like success promoting stupidity (because it’s easier to learn from failure), reacting being easier than focusing (as folks tend to lose sight of long-term goals in favor of reactions making folks feel important), and knowing blocking learning (as you do need to be confident enough to believe what you know and humble enough to admit you were wrong).
The dude was a legal assistant right out of college with no experience.
A minute after the email went out, I heard a crazy shout and then watched one of the senior partners run past my office towards HR. And 5 minutes later Paul walked past with the HR manager and a security escort. He lasted less than 45 minutes.
And sometimes it’s by design. Sometimes when you work for, say, a bank, that has a set goal of, say, X number of accounts opened per person, which is more than what the current average is, and then the bank starts putting so much pressure on employees to get this done, that the employees start doing absolutely anything to get it done—like cheating the system and opening accounts and juggling money among them without anyone knowing, but the coins still clink in the bank’s favor. And then they got axed anyway while management got payouts for a job well done.
20 minutes later the boss walked in and ask Tim if he could have a word with him.
5 minutes later the boss walked back in and announced that Tim no longer worked there and if there were any questions.
There were no questions.
But even smart people can get fired. After all, a business is subject to things like market fluctuations and supply and demand and other economic forces. So, this can inevitably lead to mass firings.
Other times, smart people become victims of a “CFO budget target” mentality where the most effective way to cut costs is to let people go. People who cost the most, regardless of their actual benefit.
This was 2008.
Edit: left out the crucial tidbit that it was fabricated. Nobody was sick at all.
This is besides factors like bosses being incompetent narcissists who exploit crises to cover their own mistakes by finding scapegoats. Nobody’s safe from that.
So, if even the smart people don’t stand a chance sometimes, the chances are even thinner for those who don’t even have the mental capacity to stand up or even see it coming.
Well, unless, there’s one reality that might just save them.
A guy gets hired and takes advantage of this and consumes a bucket load of these items at work, which is fine, that’s the deal.
He then goes to leave for the day and security asks to check his bag. He hesitates and asks security if they could just check it tomorrow instead. They say no, and he says “I do have some items in there, I haven’t left the site yet, can I put them in your fridge?”. Security relents and let’s him do this.
Security then checks the fridge and there’s 18 items in there that weren’t before. The guy is immediately terminated. Lost his job over $8 worth of products.
Sometimes—sometimes—bad employees don’t get fired.
Maybe the manager can’t bring themselves to have the hard conversation that should lead to letting the employee go. They might also be hoping that the employee leaves on their own without a need to tackle the situation altogether.
Interviewed a guy that was replacing someone who was leaving. Offered the job and was supposed to start the next day.
Just so happened that we were having a going away party for the leaving dude that night so new guy was invited as a chance to “get to know the team.”
New guy shows up and proceeds to get absolutely s**t faced and asked the head of HR is she wanted to go back to his place because he “got a vibe” during the interview process.
Next day, new guy is a no-show so we were thinking bullet dodged. He shows up just before lunch clearly hung over making up some excuse for being late. Big boss came out and told the guy to gtfo.
They unplugged it at the wall, opened the door to the fire stairs, and pushed the photocopier down the stairs – the noise and the mess (coloured toner spread over 5 floors worth of stairs) – caught everyone’s attention.
They were escorted out by security immediately.
Its always the quiet ones you have to watch out for – nobody expected it from her.
We have a set of movable stairs like they have in supermarkets. Goes about 2.5m in the air.
Old mate decided to vigorously shake and move it while another coworker was on it as a joke.
He went on suspension immediately and stayed there until he was officially fired and the two weeks notice ran out.
If conditions are different, the manager might not let someone go because having any employee is better than having no employee. Hiring new people takes a lot of time, money and energy, and sometimes it’s just not worth it.
But it can be as simple as just feeling sorry for the employee. It’s normal for people to feel compassion for someone who’s about to lose their job. But while that is good, it shouldn’t mean that everyone else who also has to deal with the bad employee has to suffer through it.
Showed up to work 2 hours late laughing about how she’d overslept as she’d been partying the night before. Tried to just start working like that was ok, and like she hadn’t been consistently “over sleeping” for a while. Same coworker also ruined her company computer by spilling iced coffee all over it. I think it was just over a month into employment before she was let go. She told everyone she left as “it wasn’t the right environment for her mental health”. Hasn’t worked since
He was around the corner right as a server was coming through, and she almost got *got*. New Line Cook just chuckled and waved his knife-hands around more until the GM strode right up behind him, grabbed him by the collar, and marched him right out the back door.
All this happened in under 5 minutes.
If going through this list on the job didn’t get your fired, then why not take a gamble on something else, like mayhaps this Bored Panda article about people losing their jobs in the most ridiculous ways possible.
But if you do have to go back to working, at least leave a comment and upvote this article to show us your support.
Edit: answering the questions in the replies about how anyone junior could have access to the ‘All Users’ address. This was back in about ‘94, shortly after email (it was called MS Mail, I think – I assume the precursor to Outlook) was rolled out within the company. I remember not having a work email address when I joined. I don’t think the IT department had yet got up to speed on what could go wrong letting everyone have access to everything!
He walked into the office today like nothing happened and was told to hand over his keys and company phone and to get off the property immediately. He didn’t understand why he was fired.
While some play video games to relax or experience a good story or whatever, speed-running games takes it to a whole new level.
Speed-running a game takes skill, commitment, perfect reflexes, and a whole lot of practice. Many people commend speed-runners for their sheer aptitude to run through a game like no other. It’s impressive to say the least.
Now, apply the same formula to folks who got fired from a job more or less as soon as they got hired for it. A recent AskReddit dealt with this very question of what’s the quickest way you saw a coworker get fired? and you’d be surprised to learn how many folks attempted a world record at this point. It’s actually impressive.
Now, apply the same formula to folks who got fired from a job more or less as soon as they got hired for it. A recent AskReddit dealt with this very question of what’s the quickest way you saw a coworker get fired? and you’d be surprised to learn how many folks attempted a world record at this point. It’s actually impressive.
After a couple of days, I asked what happened to her; I figured she was working a different shift or she had possibly gotten covid. Nope; they just caught her smoking crack on camera.
It’s hard to explain why some employees choose to do intellectually questionable things at work. Heck, it’s often hard to pinpoint why people do stupid things in general.
Some venture to say that it’s stress. Even the smartest of people can succumb to the pressures of it. You see, stress inhibits your brain from working in unison with all of the other faculties. In turn, it can’t coordinate well and so bad decisions happen.
It was only found out after someone complained because they didn't have the money to go in with their friends because they had to pay for parking. I think the guy was only there a couple of hours before he got fired.
Ran into a light pole that took out electricity to the whole site. Wasn't wearing a seat belt and was thrown into the front window. When we went out to see what had happened she reeked of booze and there were empty liquor bottles in the back of the car.
She never even made it to the front door, got a guest badge or started her orientation training.
The emergency stop that he hit switches off all drives on the 100m long paper machine. This means there is a loss of production for 3-4 hours for the entire paper mill.
He was immediately escorted from the factory premises by two colleagues.
Others suggest deeper causes, like bad habits or self confidence. In the case of the former, unlearning things is harder than learning, and bad habits embedded through poor practice or lack of it altogether (among other things) can lead to equally bad results.
As for the latter, humans have a tendency of turning confidence into arrogance whenever it’s about defending ideas instead of pursuing what’s best.
A new young girl turned up for the testing company and was dipping her finger into a chemical called phenol and stating that "it makes your hand and arm go numb". Phenol is a severe muscle relaxant (including your heart) and can kill you at very low concentrations. One hour into her employment we had paramedics on scene monitoring her vitals and was released after 8 hours. She didn't last the first hour of the first day and the testing company was fined pretty heavily.
RM: Run those plates that just came up.
Server: Those aren’t my plates, not my job.
RM: You don’t have a job. Get your stuff and go.
This is besides things like success promoting stupidity (because it’s easier to learn from failure), reacting being easier than focusing (as folks tend to lose sight of long-term goals in favor of reactions making folks feel important), and knowing blocking learning (as you do need to be confident enough to believe what you know and humble enough to admit you were wrong).
The dude was a legal assistant right out of college with no experience.
A minute after the email went out, I heard a crazy shout and then watched one of the senior partners run past my office towards HR. And 5 minutes later Paul walked past with the HR manager and a security escort. He lasted less than 45 minutes.
And sometimes it’s by design. Sometimes when you work for, say, a bank, that has a set goal of, say, X number of accounts opened per person, which is more than what the current average is, and then the bank starts putting so much pressure on employees to get this done, that the employees start doing absolutely anything to get it done—like cheating the system and opening accounts and juggling money among them without anyone knowing, but the coins still clink in the bank’s favor. And then they got axed anyway while management got payouts for a job well done.
20 minutes later the boss walked in and ask Tim if he could have a word with him.
5 minutes later the boss walked back in and announced that Tim no longer worked there and if there were any questions.
There were no questions.
But even smart people can get fired. After all, a business is subject to things like market fluctuations and supply and demand and other economic forces. So, this can inevitably lead to mass firings.
Other times, smart people become victims of a “CFO budget target” mentality where the most effective way to cut costs is to let people go. People who cost the most, regardless of their actual benefit.
This was 2008.
Edit: left out the crucial tidbit that it was fabricated. Nobody was sick at all.
This is besides factors like bosses being incompetent narcissists who exploit crises to cover their own mistakes by finding scapegoats. Nobody’s safe from that.
So, if even the smart people don’t stand a chance sometimes, the chances are even thinner for those who don’t even have the mental capacity to stand up or even see it coming.
Well, unless, there’s one reality that might just save them.
A guy gets hired and takes advantage of this and consumes a bucket load of these items at work, which is fine, that's the deal.
He then goes to leave for the day and security asks to check his bag. He hesitates and asks security if they could just check it tomorrow instead. They say no, and he says "I do have some items in there, I haven't left the site yet, can I put them in your fridge?". Security relents and let's him do this.
Security then checks the fridge and there's 18 items in there that weren't before. The guy is immediately terminated. Lost his job over $8 worth of products.
Sometimes—sometimes—bad employees don’t get fired.
Maybe the manager can’t bring themselves to have the hard conversation that should lead to letting the employee go. They might also be hoping that the employee leaves on their own without a need to tackle the situation altogether.
Interviewed a guy that was replacing someone who was leaving. Offered the job and was supposed to start the next day.
Just so happened that we were having a going away party for the leaving dude that night so new guy was invited as a chance to “get to know the team.”
New guy shows up and proceeds to get absolutely s**t faced and asked the head of HR is she wanted to go back to his place because he “got a vibe” during the interview process.
Next day, new guy is a no-show so we were thinking bullet dodged. He shows up just before lunch clearly hung over making up some excuse for being late. Big boss came out and told the guy to gtfo.
They unplugged it at the wall, opened the door to the fire stairs, and pushed the photocopier down the stairs - the noise and the mess (coloured toner spread over 5 floors worth of stairs) - caught everyone's attention.
They were escorted out by security immediately.
Its always the quiet ones you have to watch out for - nobody expected it from her.
We have a set of movable stairs like they have in supermarkets. Goes about 2.5m in the air.
Old mate decided to vigorously shake and move it while another coworker was on it as a joke.
He went on suspension immediately and stayed there until he was officially fired and the two weeks notice ran out.
If conditions are different, the manager might not let someone go because having any employee is better than having no employee. Hiring new people takes a lot of time, money and energy, and sometimes it’s just not worth it.
But it can be as simple as just feeling sorry for the employee. It’s normal for people to feel compassion for someone who’s about to lose their job. But while that is good, it shouldn’t mean that everyone else who also has to deal with the bad employee has to suffer through it.
Showed up to work 2 hours late laughing about how she’d overslept as she’d been partying the night before. Tried to just start working like that was ok, and like she hadn’t been consistently “over sleeping” for a while. Same coworker also ruined her company computer by spilling iced coffee all over it. I think it was just over a month into employment before she was let go. She told everyone she left as “it wasn’t the right environment for her mental health”. Hasn’t worked since
He was around the corner right as a server was coming through, and she almost got *got*. New Line Cook just chuckled and waved his knife-hands around more until the GM strode right up behind him, grabbed him by the collar, and marched him right out the back door.
All this happened in under 5 minutes.
If going through this list on the job didn't get your fired, then why not take a gamble on something else, like mayhaps this Bored Panda article about people losing their jobs in the most ridiculous ways possible.
But if you do have to go back to working, at least leave a comment and upvote this article to show us your support.
Edit: answering the questions in the replies about how anyone junior could have access to the ‘All Users’ address. This was back in about ‘94, shortly after email (it was called MS Mail, I think - I assume the precursor to Outlook) was rolled out within the company. I remember not having a work email address when I joined. I don’t think the IT department had yet got up to speed on what could go wrong letting everyone have access to everything!
He walked into the office today like nothing happened and was told to hand over his keys and company phone and to get off the property immediately. He didn't understand why he was fired.
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