Reddit, what was the most ridiculous reason you witnessed someone getting fired?

I was fired from a restaurant for not working someone's shift after they called out. It was not my scheduled shift and I had never agreed to work it but wouldn't stay and work what would have been over 12 hours so the manager fired me as I left from my shift.
— hippielove80

I got fired because I never knew I got hired - so I never showed up on my first day. They forgot to tell me.... idiots
— ooo-ooo-oooyea

One of our IT admins landed a job with Microsoft as a field engineer.. BIG day for him but they wanted him to start in 1 week. HR pitched a fit saying he had to give 4 weeks notice or forfeit all his accrued time off. He started arguing with them over this, words were said and they terminated him at the end of the week. They gave him 4 weeks severance and said he could never work there again. He didn't cry about it. 6 months later we call MS for on site support. Guess who shows up. Classic.
— Polar_Ted

I got fired from a meat market/deli for cutting cheese wrong. I rotated positions to learn them all, and had done the meat section, cash register, and backroom stocking stuff. My first day in the deli, while I'm being taught, my trainer has to go do something, and there's no one else to cover so I'm stuck in it alone with almost no experience. First customer wants sliced provolone, I try my best with the deli cutter thing and while it's not perfect, it's not terrible. He complains anyway. I tell my trainer what happened and she says "Oh it shouldn't be a big deal, I'll cover for you since I shouldn't have left you alone." Well, she didn't. Next day when I come in, boss stops me and tries to berate me for not perfectly cutting the damn cheese, and promptly fires me. Nothing else negative, just one customer upset about cheese. They went out of business not too long after.
— Jay985

A colleague was fired for going on a two-week holiday. During her job interview, she pointed out that she already booked everything, but she would be available for the rest of the summer. My (now ex-)boss agreed on those terms. Two months later, he had already forgotten everything and insisted she couldn't go. She went anyway and was told not to come back.
— HiMyNameIsSander

Worked at a same day procedure facility. One of my nurses was legally blind, often describing what she saw as “looking through a pinhole”. When she was having trouble seeing something clearly she would squint her eyes. We had a full case of patients that day and every single one loved her. Then at the end of the day we had a return “VIP” patient. Nurse is as sweet as candy, starts to squint when charting. Patient says the nurse must hate her job because she looks unhappy. Scrub tech had it out for her and told the supervisor, who told the president. They were going to fire her on the spot. Everyone else vouched for her so instead she got written up for the stupid reason of having a resting bitch face when trying to see and then quit the next day.
— mmeezyy

Put in for a vacation 3 months in advance. Was approved by my employer . Routinely reminded him at 2 months, 1 month , 2 weeks , 1 week and 3 days and final day I was supposed to leave. Time to leave rolls around . He told me he needed me to stay and Finish up mantience on a property of his.( i was doing carpentry work on his rentals non urgent stuff) I explained I had to leave then or I would miss my ride. Was fired that upcoming monday.moral of the story is if you can't trust your employers word don't work for that dickhead anyway.
— sleekstability

Guy I worked with made a complaint to HR about his supervisor and the work conditions. He was fired.
— Pyr0technikz

When I was an RA (resident adviser, DOM) our boss insisted that we come to her if we had personal problems, not to each other. She said she would help us through whatever came up. One of the guys went to her and said he was having a bit of a hard time. He was in the process of coming out, had told his parents with mixed results, same with his friends from back home. He was starting to date dudes, and he was nervous about first first time with a man. She fired him the next day because she said he couldn't handle his personal life and the job. A couple of weeks later she asked the staff why no one wanted to talk to her and would leave the room when she entered.
— Ganglebot

We were all in the back, ready to clock out. A coworker was just about to clock out, when she saw another coworker, a receptionist of sorts. Instead of clocking out just then, she went over to other coworker and pulled out her phone to show a picture of her wedding dress. After, she clocks out and goes home. Receptionist coworker turns other coworker in for having her phone out during work hours. Coworker is fired without so much of a warning.
— BrainDamage1027

Knew of a cart pusher at Wal-Mart who walked into the store in street clothes on his day off. A manager heard him say "fuck" in conversation and fired him.
— Xethinus

I work at a university, back story. We have a baseball team. At the baseball games, they are allowed to sell beer. You have to show your ID and get a wrist band. Well, during one game, a person who works at the university for the campus dining was in attendance. Person was not working, is of age to consume, and had a beer or two. One of her coworkers, or boss (can't remember), was working that day and told the off-duty employee that they needed help. She agreed to help. She was fired later on for having had a beer and then working. I wouldn't say it's a completely ridiculous reason someone was fired, she could have said no when asked to help due to beer consumption, but they also knew she was not supposed to work that day and she helped out kindness.
— thutruthissomewhere

Maybe not "why" but how and when. I had a co-worker go on a 3 week cruise in the Mediterranean for like his 15th wedding anniversary. He had plenty of vacation, gave something like an 8 month notice, talked about it for weeks and weeks before he left. About 4 days into his 3 week dream cruise they called him and told him they were letting him go, that his job was no longer necessary or whatever. Thats just shitty....let the man have his vacation and terminate him when he returns, it wouldn't have cost the company any real money and he would have enjoyed his dream vacation a little more I would assume.
— housebird350

I used to work at a prominent fitness studio in LA. One of the male instructors sexually harassed one of the female front desk staff members. She was pissed and complained to the (female) manager. Manager began the appropriate steps to take action. Male instructor found out about it, threatened to quit if they went any further, so the CEO fired the manager. This wasn't the first time this instructor had done something like this. He's a real piece of shit and everyone knows it, but he brings in a lot of money for the company and, as we all know, that trumps everything.
— LAFitThrowaway

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