Supervisors or Managers, When did you realize you may have hired the wrong person for the job?

1. Had a guy shit his pants at work. Asked to go home to change real quick, which we obviously agreed to. Was gone 6 hours. When he showed back up, we asked him where he had been. "Had to mow my lawn."
   — akantho


2. Hired a kid, in his early 20s at a pizza parlor. On the first day of the job he was late. Gave him a free pass, assumed it was a mistake. He was late for two weeks in a row, more than an hour late each day, so we fired him. That same day, his mom came in to complain about why he lost his job. Told her the reason, she wanted the number to corporate. Never saw them again.
   — Pikachu-22


3. She was older, but not so old that you would think she couldn't interact with computers. Our customer service email got backlogged so I checked on her and found out she was printing each email, handwriting her response on it and then two-finger-typing it into the computer. She managed to turn a 3 minute task into 45 minutes of futility.
   — PritchNotes






4. Asked her to empty the bin (as in, what we put used giftcards in,) because it was full and she said "fuck off, i don't get paid for that"
   — periofnohr


5. A friend of mine is has been a machinist for years and is the supervisor where he works. He was interviewing a guy for a lead machinist position paying $22/hr. Interview goes well, resume is amazing and he's at the top of the list. At the end of the interview, my friend asks him to operate some of the equipment. They go into the shop, he goes up to the machine, looks at it for a while and my friend asks, "You have ran one of these machines before, right?". He replies, "oh..yes, but this one is a bit different from what I'm used to". He begins looking around the machine and then gets startled, reaches into his pocket, grabs his cell phone that isn't even ringing and tells my friend, "I need to take this, be right back". The guy books it to the parking lot, gets into his car, and speeds off. My friend tried calling him a couple of times, but no answer.
   — mustardduck


6. Hired a dishwasher and when I asked his trainer why isn't "Josh" washing the pots and pans, was informed that "Josh" doesn't like to get his hands wet.
   — johnnylovesbjs






7. A: when he fought a guy on the side of the road and lost. He was in the work vehicle. And his uniform. B: when i asked him if I was going to be wasting money taking him to get a drug test, and that he should just tell me. "Is weed a drug?" "Yes" "But this is Humboldt Bro!?" Saved some money on that kid. C: He got kicked out of one of our stores for aggressively hitting on one of the women who worked in the jewelry department. Who happened to be married. Who happened to be married to one of our coworkers. It got messy.
   — Fromhe


8. When the asshat turned the meat slicer on with my hand near it.
   — Blood_Warrior


9. Did not hire the guy but was his manager. He was hired to be the delivery driver / company rep for a major client and the very first day gave their receptionist some shit and was subsequently banned from ever going back. Great, the owner loves this guy for some reason so I can't fire him and now I have to find him something else to do. I designate him the shop helper. He tries to be witty and clever with the guys but just comes across as an asshole so he pisses everyone in the shop off and now no one wants to work with him. Plus he's late every other day. None of this matters because the owner "see's something in him". Dude ends up missing work one day without calling in to let us know. Turns out he got a DUI and spent the previous night in jail. His father called to let us know and to also beg us not to fire him. He was in his late 30s btw. Boss loves him and so I can't let him go. After about 2 months of similar experiences he finally tells the owner he isn't cut out for this type of work and quits.
   — manixus






10. First and foremost, I must let you know that they interviewed extremely well. They knew all of the industry jargon, the technical details of the systems we would be using, and had a killer resume. There was no doubt in my mind that this person knew what they were doing. Day 1: They're learning on the job. Pretty standard stuff, nothing out of the ordinary. Day 2: Learning continues. Their trainer notes that they're taking very long bathroom breaks 2-3 times a day. I'm talking hour long breaks. Day 3: I go to the bathroom. Someone is going at it. I mean, hardcore beating their meat like it was the red-headed stepchild of a rented mule. They don't even pause when they hear the door, they just yell, "OCCUPIED". I, hoping that it's a medical emergency and not someone beating the maniacal ghosts out of their haunted testicles reply, "Do I need to call an ambulance!?" Alas, their reply was not to my liking. They were canned, while on the can.
    — Summonest


11. About day 3, when I got to work and the new hire was at her desk, head in her hands, crying. Asked her what was wrong and she said she just couldn't remember how to do her tasks. Later that day, her drug test came back positive, so I'm sure that had something to do with it.
    — _plot-twist_


12. I don’t typically hire for entry level positions, but we were doing a large hiring spree, and basically any manager who was available would interview and hire entry level people. I got a packet for a maintenance guy, not glamorous work but still won’t just put a warm body in that position. Young guy, early 20s comes in, seems attentive and that he wants to move up in a corporate setting. I ended up giving him a shot. About a week later, we had a toilet clogged. This guy decides instead of using a plunger, or snake, both of which are in any maintenance station, the best course of action would be the throw a tennis ball in the toilet, and proceed to unclog it with the help of a broom handle. I got CCed on the work order that got sent out for that one.
    — Crossfire7






13. This was at a smaller pharmacy of mine. I had lunch with her before I hired her for help. She took anything that was offered for free. Free candy bowl out front? She’ll go back to take some. Didn’t think anything of it, as she came off ok during the interview. My pharmacist was reporting some codeine syrup missing during our narcotic reconciliations, so I upped the frequency of the reconciliations. Found out the girl was stealing the syrup; it hasn’t even been 3 months since we brought her in. Hindsight’s 20/20! It’s so obvious now.
    — OmfgTim