When People Get Fired
ayres
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It's always weird when somebody you work with at another company gets fired or quits. I never want to ask if they got fired or quit or why but that shit always makes me want to be mad nosey! I guess when you find out it's always a letdown anyway - it's never "I stole their secrets" or "I threw a chair at my intern." It's even more bugged when you find out from the company, like "he no longer works with us."Anybody got any good getting fired stories?
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This entire industry is filled with egos so there are plenty of good firing stories.
One assistant editor I worked with did the overnight session. He would complain about how hard the work is and we would simply laugh cause his only job was to take Betas, MiniDV's and any other recordable sourced and upload them on our editing equipment. You could hire a trained monkey to do it. Anyways on top of the edit equipment in the bay there is a PC. It turned out that overnight he was in the room checking out porn fetish sites and leaving windows open on the screen. The executive producer let it slide until the guy asked for a raise several days after joining the project.
This one guy I know was an assistant to an executive, he got fired after going back on his word that it would be ok for his boss to throw pens at him.
A male manager goes out to lunch with two of his younger girl employees. While the manager is in the bathroom one girl tells the other she's hooking up with the manager and the other gets mad because she's hooking up with the manager also. They both end up quiting that day to try and "fuck" the manager.
The manager sends out an email saying the two girls have left the company but it wasn't his place to send out those type of emails to the entire company and it raises a red flag. The IT department goes through emails sent internally and finds out the manager was fucking both of the girls. One of the girls at the office after hours sometimes.
So the manager gets fired and there are two employees left in the department. Both of those employees act appalled as they "couldn't believe that he'd do something like that".
Then after further digging through internal emails the IT manager finds out that the manager that was fucking the two girls was also having lunchtime orgies with the last guy and girl left in that department. The last two were asked to leave the company also, leaving the entire department empty.
Talk about a love hexagon.
We had another guy who I wanted to fire for like a year. He would come in, get this, 5 hours late to work almost every day and my cream-puff boss didn't have the balls to fire him. He eventually did get fired after I had quit.
So, um, is this place hiring?
She was pissed off and called my boss crying (for real crying) about how upset she was and it made her late for an appointment.
"Yeah lady, go right ahead and slam into a dozen or so cars as you try to get out of this garage" Is what I told her.
That next day I get fired.
Total Bullshit.
HAHAHA -
Props to you for that. I would hope your boss was canned soon after.
This dude who was the head of our brand group. His first week he accidentally replies all to an "All Global" email sent by another co-worker. "All Global" is not only all the people who work at three global locations, but our factories, vendors, media partners, friends etc..... His response; "You're a fucking homo, fag."
Word for word.
Didn't get fired.
Sidenote he is way overpaid, and didn't do any work. His tech was to pass everything down the chain. If he did take charge of a project it ended up being a total dick sandwhich minus the bread. Total fuck-up. How he got into this position is beyond me.
He chewed mad dip at all hours of the day, depositing them in a diet coke can. One day Johnny square accountant dude is teaching him variance reports and what not, and accidentaly drinks his 2 week old dipspit. Johnny accountant pukes in his garbage can and starts to basically cry.
Didn't get fired.
Circle back one year later, after piles of retarded things that I'm not even going to go into.
We have an annual event that is considered the super bowel contest of our industry. We have many large corporate sponsors who help fund the event etc.... I am there all week working my ass off leading up to the main weekend event. He comes down on Friday, gets hammered and poached my condo bedroom. I had won a fierce rock paper sicssors to get the only private room of our condo so my lady could come down and enjoy the event for the weekend. I get back the the condo and pick his scrawny hammered ass up and throw him out of my room. DUde was five feet tall napolean style. Anyway next day I'm up at six to work, mind you he is the director of the group putting on this massive envent and he doesn't lift a finger. I watch him proceed to get hammered all day while I'm busting my ass.
The end of the day we go back to the condo and he's getting all dressed up. I'm like "can I come to dinner" and he like "Sorry son this dinner is for important people and sponsors. That's not you." I'm about to knock him out. He leaves and comes back like 45 minutes later. I'm like what's up dude? And he all "those dinners are lame, I'm over it." and goes to bed.
That monday I get called into the VP of our dept. office and my boss is there crying his little eyes out. Fired on the spot.
I thought he got fired for a years worth of incompetence but here what I later learned what happend.
He was fucking wasted; sponsor dinner. Big corporate CEO's of motorola, jeep, snickers, pepsi, resorts, senior management, their kids etc....
Stands up on his chair with a pint of whiskey and goes on to give a toast similar to "Thanks to all your mother fuckers motherfucking money we're putting on this event. You listened to our hyped up pitches and wrote a check you crazy mother fuckers, fuckity fuck fuck fuck shit, your money fuckeers etc...Lifts his drink and spills it on the head of the wife one of the CEO's at dinner. But doesn't stop toasting until he gets pulled off the chair removed from the room.
He now works at some other big company getting paid doing the same shit.
Your boss was mad
As soon as I found out I walked straight into his office and said....
"As far as I'm concerned you no longer exist. If you want to fire me go to HR and do it right now. Otherwise I'm going to continue to come to work, do my job, and totally ignore you"
Before he had the chance to say anything I turned around and left his office.
Two weeks later, not only was he fired, he was forced to stand up in front of all the people that worked for him(40 or so) and resign.
Turns out that he had lied to his superiors also.
Instant Karma!!!!
Yo, that's that shit!
we had this dude working the pizza oven that we called "dopey". This dude was a total loser. He was a real big dopehead and came into work high as shit everyday. My boss knew this shit cause dude would be scratching this face and tripping into walls. Problem was that we were hard up and needed someone in there till we had a replacement.
well this one day dude comes in mad late for his shift. He looks like he is losing his mind, like he was real dopesick. I saw him pacing around and sweating and shit. My boss is getting pissed but she kept her cool. He fucks up like 4 orders which i had to run back so im getting pissed at dude too and everyone else is just like 'what a fucking loser'. He finally comes up to her and says in this half mumbled bizzaro voice, "Did you ever have the feeling you left an iron on in your room?" Hes like "I should really go home and check that out." this is going on right in front of me. she looks at him and goes "Iron? what the fuck do you iron? Your disgusting half ripped tshirts and piss soaked jeans? Get the fuck out of here you scumbag." He started getting all upitty and she, this cute 40 year old chick, grabs him by the ear and throws his ass into the street. Calls him a "motherfucker" and spit right in his face. I was awestruck by how cool this shit all was and Dude still came in mad times after that to buy 40oz for breakfast.
another one i just thought of.
We had this shady little mexican dude that couldn't really even speak english, that used to dick me on orders pretty bad. i used to get into fights with this little prick almost every night. Everyone else was all cool with dude except for the drivers that worked with him. I used to bitch and moan about how he kept fucking me over by taking like 3 orders out when it was dead, going all over the fucking place, leaving me sitting around the shop broke as fuck. This goes on for a while so i start fucking him over and stealing orders from him and shit.
The one day we get a call from this nice little old lady and she is all concerned about her statement. She says it cost her $65 for a cheesesteak. They do some research into the credit card records, and ask her to identify the driver and she was like "this short mexican guy with the cap" Immediately they find that this motherfucker would forge crazy tips credit card orders after they signed. This women even tipped him $5 on that order too.
so they wait for him to come in and my boss just puts him on blast. This dude breaks down and curls up into the fetal position and just crys. He wouldn't stop crying till the police came. It was pretty pathetic seeing a grown man with 2 kids behave like this. I actually had to step over him to get out the door on and order and just shook my head in disgust.
i had fun the next day though with the "told you so's".
so, it's his first night, and after the dinner rush, we're all standing around, having a beer with the manager. New Dishwasher says, 'Hey, can I get out of that lunch shift this Wednesday you have me scheduled for? I forgot to mention that I have a court date."
Manager says, "Oh...ok, sure. What's it for?" Thinking its gonna be a traffic ticket or something.
Dishwasher says, "Well, I ran into my ex-wife and her new boyfriend one night, so I went to my car and attacked him with a hatchet."
'Hatchet,' as we called him for the rest of the night, was asked not to come back; the manager did the dishes for the rest of the week.
I used to work with a dishwasher named Ms Divine, who was about 85 and when she was cut she wouldn't bleed. It was like she was made out of wood. She cleaned a motel during the day and she would bring porno magazines to the restaurant from her day job and give them to my friend.
what prevented ms. divine from bleeding??? you get cut, you bleed. thats the way it works. sounds sketchy!
quite bizarro
a chef i worked for once kicked this little mexican porter because he wasn't moving fast enough and we later found him down in the basement crying and the protein cook had to go downstairs and deal with the situation in the middle of a dinner rush.
we fired this one scary dishwasher once who was sexually harassing our waitstaff (this dude was like 6' 6", fucking ripped, and obviously on some very strong drugs), and half an hour later the general manager comes into the kitchen (joking) like "oh shit! A--'s coming down the block with a machete!" I think we all streaked ourselves a little as we surveyed our respective escape routes.
but i've seen so many people get canned in the past 9 months it's ridiculous. dozens. managers for being lazy sacks, and kitchen staff often for poor performance, but usually for stealing. my sous chef's 60G ipod went missing and a few weeks later one of my prep cooks shows up with the same color ipod, 60G and everything. and we're like "no way can this dude afford that shit". we kept him around for a few months but canned him last week, stealing his ipod back while he went to his locker to get changed. still don't know if it was really his or not. but he was a little too good at the puppy dog face for him not to be up to something. (i had a $400 camera stolen a few weeks before). still he flipped out and called the cops. still looking over my shoulder when i leave work at night.
butltoo much of that kind of shit starts to eat at your conscience. in every kitchen i've worked in there's a fine line between playful hazing and people taking shit too seriously and losing tempers and jobs. well, come to think of it there's really no line at all. shit happens all too often.
What does him being Mexican have to do with the story?
people would always lose their jobs and just be gone.
We worked filling surgery orders and cleaning instrumentation and processing all the autoclave stuff. People would always freak out, and do weird shit to get canned. The area really smell and it was so frickin hot, when you would clock out at night the scrubs would stick to your back and legs and the hair cover would be all flimsy and falling apart from sweat. One time this guy freaked out and stuck placenta in all the drains in decontamination because he hated the Ukrainian who cleaned the surgery pans and wanted to do something to him. He clogged up all the drains with rotten afterbirth just to be an a_shole. The Ukrainian guy just stood there in the middle of the room and ate his onion (raw). The afterbirth guy then dumped a whole load of autoclave waste in the hall and started cussing out a nun who had just seen the drains.
That guy was gone.
Once these two girls who were into each other were caught humping each other with latex gloves and speculums. They were getting it on in the clean linen area under a huge 8-foot linen cart. The warehouse guy had to run a stat and unlocked the linen room door (usually locked at night) and he said he could smell the pussy flappin.
They both got laid off (but later tried to sue).
A guy I worked with on the floors picking up used linens reached into the dirty hold to unhook the linen bag and got stuck with a sharp.
he freaked out
We were on the oncology floor and he was going stupid over the needle.
He dropped the bag he was holding and green neon looking puke/shit went all over the floor.
A nurse ran up to see what he was yelling about and she slipped in the puke shit and fall right on her ass. Her skirt went up and I could see her re-inforced pantyhose up to the crotch.
The guy just bolted and ran towards the ER. The nurse was hurt and embarrassed, the guy ended up with a blood infection and he got canned.
also
In main OR a nurse who had been involved with a 12 hours heart surgery threw the old heart (transplant) into the garbage instead of the proper disposal methods.
We found it in decontamination in a huge rubber maid all stinking and black and dark pink.
The nurse got fired and they interviewed the guy who found it in the trash and I think he was on the local news or maybe the regional news.
I can think of many times where I just walked out and wished I had at least wrote a letter like this.
I also love the part where you justify your soul strut activity.
i typed one up another one earlie, but it got eaten. i'll try again...kitchen related. A little funny/a little sad.
we had this bar manager at the same restaurant as above. he was a total fucking asshole drunk, but he got the job done. when he was sober, he was great- no one was denying that. but when he was drunk...
anyway, one day he doesn't show up. turns out he jumped on a bus, and left ohio. when we heard from him 6 days later he was in tennessee. he was told that he was fired, but we encouraged him to come back because we didn't know what the fuck he was gonna do and everyone was a little worried.
so, a week or so later, he comes back to town. the GM calls him to talk over a drink, and hand him his walking papers. he comes in LOADED at around 5ish...they sit at the bar for a little over an hour, and by the end, the fired bar manager is just falling off the chair. Of course, by this time, the restaurant is half full with the dinner crowd...so, the GM comes back to the kitchen, and grabs me and a couple other line cooks to help carry him out of the restaurant.
So, we go out, and hoist him up on our shoulders...and, as we get halfway across the dinning room, his pants just fall down. No underwear. so, he's here, ass to the dinning room, slurring and stumbling with two guys carrying him out at 6 pm, while the dinners look on in horror.
The GM pulled his car around front, and he and one of the waiters drove this dude home to dump him in bed. Apparently, his house was a fucking horror show- booze bottles and porn from wall to wall. trash everywhere, with a coke mirror on the table. i have no idea what happened to that guy.
Yeah...kitchens....
I don't know about kitchens, cuz these are some of the wildest things I've read!
abso-fucking-LUTELY
Hearts being thrown in the trash, speculum sex, and this?