What’s the dumbest reason you’ve ever been fired from a job?

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Advisor Smith · Accepted Answer

In my late 20s, I was consulting part‑time for a startup while doing my MBA. I got “fired” because I kept pushing them to validate their business model with real customers instead of chasing vanity metrics for investors.

The founder told me, word for word: “You’re too negative. We need someone who believes in the vision, not in spreadsheets.”

Six months later, the startup ran out of cash for exactly the reasons in those “negative” spreadsheets. It taught me: right advice at the wrong place can still get you shown the door.

WhiteSteve · Answer

When i was like 18 or 19, my girlfriend at the time and I got jobs at a convenience store for the summer. We were moving out of the area in the fall. It was basically a 4-person show: the two of us, the store manager, and this elderly lady who had a set 6 AM-12 PM schedule every weekday. My girlfriend and I were the PM shifters, between the two of us. Honestly was a terrible plan because it gave us conflicting schedules, but that’s another story, haha.

So one night, my girlfriend got robbed at gunpoint on duty. She was thankfully unharmed, but she was obviously very shaken up. It was a whole thing, the cops of course came, the district manager showed up, all that. And I went down there to be there for her, for emotional support.

This district manager, who we’d never met or heard of before, was a real piece of work. After the cops left, he starts asking who’s going to finish the shift. Finish the shift? Bro, there’s like an hour and fifteen minutes left. She’s totally freaked out, and I need to drive her home and get her settled down. We got fuckin’ robbed, my G, with not much time left on the clock; CALL IT DAY. God forbid one shiny nickel roll out the door🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️…

This asshole starts talking about “what if someone needs a gallon of milk?” I was like “Buddy, there a two 24 hour spots within light walking distance from here. They’ll buy the milk there.” I’m not out here making $7 an hour to Superman for someone on the odd chance they wanted to bake cookies at 11:00 at night, lmao

Anyway, he’s all yadda yadda “OR ELSE”, I’m sure I told him to fuck himself in 19 year old unbridled WhiteSteve fashion, since I was just missing on two weeks of paychecks at that point.

And that’s the story of how my ex-girlfriend and I got to spend a couple weeks just working on our late-summer tans at the beach😂

jennifer_bloom · Answer

A jealous rival offered to take over my shift 20 minutes before she was supposed to so I let her because I thought she was doing me a favour, she ended up stealing $40 from the cash register and it looked like I stole it because the theft happened while I was clocked in and not while she supposed to clock in after me.

The boss did not fire me but he said he would call me when he wanted me to work my next shift and he never called me after mentioning that $40 cash removal incident to me. I could have explained what happened and gotten her fired, but I did not really care about that job since I did not need the money.

The reason she was jealous of me was that she only had a high school diploma and the boss took advantage of her lack of job experience by making her wait 3 months for her first pay cheque, while I was paid within 7 days because I had a university degree. She thought I was unfairly favoured by the boss because I had better qualifications than her so she tried to get me fired in revenge.

Iron_Man · Answer

I’ve never been fired, but this horrible weasel came along as a manager at my job at Publix when I was 19 and he wanted me to resign at my job and my neighbors had a fit. I they thought I should’ve protested it that the guy is just a weasel and he was new to the company. He was giving me problems from the last two months. But I lasted on the job for 10 months before he came a long

Wuai201 · Answer

Didn't get fired, but it was a summer job program. They didn't renew the program because they said I was working harder than the boys. Majority of the people working there were men, so it didn't look right to them.

Static_In_The_Attic · Answer

Knock on wood I have never been fired from a job & don’t give them a reason to fire me. So why did you get fired from your job?

bowenw · Answer

Rushing to do a price check for a cashier at a hardware store. I accidentally bumped into a customer that stepped into my path. It wasn't a particularly hard bump, but they complained to the store manager who fired me.

DryGermanGuy · Answer

Some billion-dollar IT monstrosity from India bought our general contractor firm and most of the Westerners were fired. 😠

KostasKouvalis · Answer

I couldn't tell you, because in my state there's a dumb law that they don't have to tell you why they're firing you. So I can only speculate.

exitseven · Answer

I was fired and they would not tell me why. They even admitted that I showed up n time every day and did everything they asked me to do.

Chazmatazz269 · Answer

I thoroughly earned every firing.

Oldschool1981 · Answer

I left in the middle of my shift to get drunk

liltitslove · Answer

Never ever been fired.

Abbycado · Answer

Haven't yet!

RepleteAura · Answer

For no reason at all. As in they wouldn't tell me

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