What was the oddest thing a Co-Worker has been fired for?

[KimR]

When I worked in the operations center for a bank, one of the girls from another department tried to flush a bunch of checks down the toilet to avoid doing her work.

 

[Heidict]

We had an employee get fired for looking at porn on the office computer. He got found out because his boss walked by while he was looking at it.

This one is the worst though. I was eating lunch in the lunch room and noticed a newspaper sitting on top of the cabinets. Well, I was bored and figured that reading days old news was better then staring at the walls. So, i pulled it down and discovered that there was a folder in the middle with pictures of child porn.

The pages showed that they had been printed at about 2 in the morning. I took them to my supervisor who called in the cops. Come to find out the security gaurd was using our computers in the middle of the night to look at and print child porn. He was arrested and needless to say fired.

Thank God that those images have been erased from my mind.

 

[Sandy V.]

The CEO of my company hired the CEO's son as a summer intern. The kid was in law school and had a distinct "my dad is the head of the company and I can do whatever I want" attitude.

At the beginning of the summer, he started dating one of the women in our office. This girl, ahem, "got around" with the available men in the office as well as outside. So, needless to say, CEO son and the hussy soon were intimate.

Well, eventually, CEO's son learned that his relationship with hussy wasn't the exclusive one that he naively thought it was. So he went to her cubicle when she wasn't there and trashed it. He wrote all sorts of derogatory things on the walls like "Slut" and "Wh***", etc. He was SEEN doing this (cocky idiot). When it was discovered, hussy's supervisor had to go bring CEO down to show him his son's handiwork.

CEO's son was sent packing that same day . . .

 

[Makdyn]

This one girl maybe lasted I think 2-3 weeks with being out 3 days each week. She would download yahoo messanger we took it off her computer and told her not to download it again. So she hid her start menu bar and downloaded it again. Well she was being trained at her computer there pops up a message. Then she call out cause she was sick in the "hospital". Well my co-work's boyfriend is an IT person so on the road all the time. He was driving to a job and seen her on the highway, when she was suppose to be in the hospital. The next day there was no word from her. Then we finally get and email from her friend that said "Worker was driving on the highway and passed out. I had to grab the wheel and drive the car from the passenger seat to the side of the highway. Worker is in the hospital for something."

So that day we had to get check her email cause we were doing her work again and came across some picture of her ****age. This pics were sent to about five different guys. That was the end of her job.

The funny thing is that the next day she came in like nothing was wrong. She had a coffee and breakfast and sat down at her computer.

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

We had to fire a stinky woman!

This woman had the worst period smell ever - like if she came near you it made you gag. She insisted she had no problem, refused to use tampons, refused to move to an office, refused to use the air thingy (company provided).

I guess she could not smell it?

 

[Maleficent13]

We had to fire a stinky woman!

This woman had the worst period smell ever - like if she came near you it made you gag. She insisted she had no problem, refused to use tampons, refused to move to an office, refused to use the air thingy (company provided).

I'm trying to wrap my head around this. You say she refused to wear tampons. So does that mean someone in HR or supervision called her in and requested her to? I just have a visual of this "meeting".

 

[chicagodisneyfan]

Being absent from work for more than 3 days because she was in intensive care fighting for her life after a very serious car accident..

I used to work for a company that did that. They had this attendance policy that was so strict - no exceptions for anybody.

So if you used all your time off and went into the hospital - too bad.
Ugh - I ended up having to leave there because I could not understand how they could treat people like dirt.

I actually heard the director say we will just hire more!

 

[mickeyfan2]

I'm trying to wrap my head around this. You say she refused to wear tampons. So does that mean someone in HR or supervision called her in and requested her to? I just have a visual of this "meeting".

ITA

The tampon lady wins for the best way to get fired.

 

[Poohbear123]

That worked in the Produce Dept. of my store. Worked there for about 10 years, and one day the FBI came in around 6:30am, (he got there at 6am), and took him OUT of the store in Handcuffs....turns out he was wanted in NY for something he did 12 years ago. No-one ever knew for what, he was quiet and rode a bike to work everyday!

 

[phillybeth]

The strangest had to be the girl who was fired for taking 2 weeks off w/o pay for 'carpal tunnel surgery', since she had run out her paid vacation and sick time. When she came back to work without bandages, wrist brace, or even incisons her boss got suspicious. Did you know 'laser surgery' for 'carpel tunnel' needs no incisions and doesn't leave a scar? She never did produce doctors' notes, so I think that was the reason for the termination, but still- how stupid did she think we were?

Oh, and the pain meds and antibiotics that she was on for her 'carpal tunnel' condition had the rare side effect of giving her a lovely tan

 

[barkley]

had a co-worker who was fired from social services because he had a 'thing' for prostitutes and would frequented several on his off time. now using a 'pro' on your off time was not a dismissable offence, but when they are your own eligibility clients and you know that they are not reporting the funds you've paid them along with whatever other earnings they've made as 'independant contractors' (actual term we would use in the case records ) was and is welfare fraud. he got caught when he short changed one of the women and she reported that he would call her in for eligibility interviews and then leave the property to go to the atm to prove he had enough cash for that night's 'date'-so he was also canned for leaving the property on work hours.

 

[AprilShowers]

refused to use the air thingy (company provided).

I'm afraid to ask, and maybe this is something obvious. But what is the AIR THINGY?

 

[WhatATreat]

Not odd so much as stupid. but, we had a guy fired for looking at porn on his work computer. How was he found out? He was trying to email pics to his home computer and somehow ended up emailing them to the VP instead.


ETA: I am guessing the 'air thingy" is one of those air cleaners that is supposed to remove odors from the air.

 

[Maleficent13]

I'm afraid to ask, and maybe this is something obvious. But what is the AIR THINGY?

I assumed it was an air freshener. BUT...a few minutes ago one of my employees cleaned their keyboard with a can of compressed air and I just about lost it thinking about the "air thingy".

 

[DISUNC]

My last job, the CFO came in ONLY 2 days a week....he lived over 500 miles away! They flew him back & forth every week. Very crazy place to work.

Anyhow when he came in he just locked himself in his office ALL DAY LONG and looked a kiddie porn!!!! This went on for years.....FINALLY when 'the board' woke up & realized all the money was gone....the fired him!

YUK!

 

[ducklite]

Some of these are sooo funny!

I've got another. This was at my first "real" job back when I was 16 or so and working in a family restaurant.

There were two cooks who "hooked up." One day they had a HUGE fight.

She slammed the door on the microwave so hard that it fell off the hinges, then he threw a knife. His aim was really bad, and just that second this woman who was the head cook and was around 60 and one of the crankiest people I've ever met in my life walked around the corner. Fortunately she was also all of 4'8" tall. The knife flew over her head and stuck into the wall.

The guy was fired on the spot, and the girl was fired the next day. She couldn't understand what the problem was.

Anne

 

[DISUNC]

Because yesterdays "Theft" thread was rather entertaining, I figured I'd try a slightly different angle today.

I worked in a retail store that had a costume that was a "cuddly mascot" that during certain events and seasons someone would wear wround the store. One of the other employees enjoyed wearing it (the rest of us would do just about anything to not have to wear the thing!) and would always volunteer. We later found out why. As pretty teenagers came in to "hug" the "mascot" he would ask for their phone numbers! He ended up with probably 50 or more girls numbers. I can't recall if that was the exact reason he was fired, but it was certainly the straw that broke the camels back!

Anne

When I was in college, for Christmas $$$$ I was a Santa helper at the local Mall. Their where soooooooooo many woman who had a 'thing' for Santa! They gave me phone #'s, gifts and more! AMAZING JOB! One of the Happiest times in my life!

 

[bevtoy]

At the Postal Service we had a maintenance man fired for punching the nickels out of undeliverable Readers Digest Ed McMahon sweepstakes envelopes that were in the trash dumpster.

A letter carrier was fired for cashing a "Payable to bearer" rebate check for less than three dollars, she said a customer gave it to her instead of cash to buy postage stamps with. She said she couldn't remember which customer it was. (The postal service plants bogus payable to bearer checks to test the workers and sometimes plants cash for the same reasons.) The inspectors did not follow up on the check till 6 months after it was cashed.

A letter carrier was fired who broke into a grocery store at night. In the ensuing scuffle with the police he managed to shoot himself with his own gun.
He got his job back with a lawyer who said he wasn't the burgler, just a good Samaratin passing by who tried to catch the actual thief who escaped.

A Post Master was fired for cashing a money order that was left in the lobby with out a name on it. (By Postal Inspecters)

 

[koopa]

Not as odd as some of the others, but here I go.

College co-op took a smoke break in the building's lounge (The building is a seven story building housing many companies). He said something very derogatory to a lady who works for another company. She called our main office in another State, and she ended up talking to our company's president. The president called our little office and told the branch manager to fire the co-op on the spot.


Not a firing, but working for the power company, an employee was reamed for parking the company pick up truck in a McDonalds parking lot. She was only taking a break, and she resigned the next day. The company was sensitive to the community's perception that utility workers just goof off all day and made it a point to discourage workers from taking their breaks at restaurants.

 

[disneymom3]

I have another--this one is a doozy!

I worked for a small consulting firm in NYC. The president's assistant was Romanian. She had a Romanian accent, Romanian features, Romanian name. She SWORE she was French. If this girl was French, then I'm Swedish!

Anyhow, we had international clients, and whenever one of the clients from France called, she had every excuse in the book not to speak French to them. Like duh, she didn't know the language.

The lies got bigger and bigger, and we all knew it. She told us she was going to visit her parents in France over Christmas break (on her employee application it listed her parents address in Queens as an emergency contact), and even brought in a suitcase saying she was going directly to the airport from work. One of our co-workers ran into her in a store between Christmas and New Years, and she denied being her!

Finally the last straw was when she told one of our clients that she had been promoted to Vice President of the company and made all the financial decisions. She was sent packing the next day. Turns out she had been selling company intellectual property to our competition, and to make a long story short, when they tried to serve lawsuit papers on her, she had been deported--not to France, but back to Romania!

Anne

Other than the deportation part, this could have been a woman DH dated many years back. She had this whole elaborate lie about owning her own company and on and on.

I have a "how could you NOT fire them" story. I worked at an upscale toystore for a few years and loved the job for quite awhile until we got a new manager. He was an idiot. We had these two girls who were friends--one got hired after the other told her to apply. Another co-worker called them Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. It was during the holiday season and we did free gift wrapping. Deal was you had to check the receipt to make sure everything you were wrapping was on the receipt. These two girls constantly missed items. Missed? Probably more like omitted. They would both regularly not show up for their shifts. One went on break and never came back--twice!! And then just showed up for work her next shift and nothing was ever said. No management going on there at all. There was a lot of other crap we were putting up with too, like being scheduled on days we always had off and were "unavailable" on our sheets and then being told to find our own subs. Got to the point that virtually all of the good employess quit because it was such a crappy place to work at that point.