Why did "that guy" at work finally get fired?

1. Guy in the shipping dept. kept calling the shop manager a clown, to his face, and was warned to stop. The guy finally got fired when he decided to play circus music at full volume the next time the boss man came around.
   — ChildofValhalla


2. She messaged in the groupchat we had for employees saying something along the lines of how she hates the job and she hoped the building burned down. Loved that girl.
   — UniversalMe


3. He was found sleeping under his desk. When awake he was caught repeatedly sneaking out the back door (no receptionist) and leaving for hours. He was taking credit for the work of others while trying to pawn his work off on the data entry girl. He worked there for 2.5 weeks.
   — ThatGirl76






4. He put an ultrasound guided IV in a patient's artery instead of their vein. He wasn't signed off on performing that task yet and did it anyways.
   — knz-rn


5. I'm a software engineer. My company hired a software architect who specialized in a different field. About a week after joining, he declared we need to restructure the whole software. So far so good, except: - The new structure was not clear to anyone but himself. - He could not explain what was wrong with the existing structure. Now, software engineering is still engineering. There's some leeway but ultimately there are right and wrong answers. Reasonably adept engineers should be able to communicate and convince each other of ideas, barring their egos. This guy, though, just sort of made up his own language. Like he'd tell you the software needs to be made of boondoggles connected to flimbusters, and you'd ask what he meant by flimbuster and he'd just launch into a long (~10 uninterrupted minutes) explanation at the end of which you still had no idea. While this was going on, he was generally being annoying. Nothing earth-shattering, but he'd leave empty coffee cups on people's desks, would pull them in "a brief discussion" that would take up over an hour, bad-mouthed some of us to the rest of us, bad-mouth some of us to upper management, generally sleazy stuff. It went on for two months. Two months where we engineers genuinely couldn't figure out if the guy is a misunderstood genius or a scam artist, because nobody could figure out what he's on about, and he was extremely adamant about whatever it was, repeatedly bashing the existing architecture for being a dead-end. It ended when one of us basically called him on his bullshit. Told management "we can't figure out what to do here, let's take all the time we need to make it concrete" and just spent entire days locked in a room with him and management, slowly forcing him to go into details. The endgame was for Mr. Architect to write a document explaining in full detail what needs to be done. He had two weeks. He didn't show up to work after they passed, and the document he left behind was just the chapter headings. I *think* we dodged a bullet but the story is so crazy I don't think I'll ever be free of the doubt that maybe he really had a good idea I was too dumb to comprehend.
   — Antrax-


6. I worked with developmentally disabled adults. One employee was accused by a client, whom I've never seen angry before or since, of groping and staring at her naked body in the shower. This client didn't require any kind of supervision in the shower. The facility decided not to fire the employee, just move her to a different house. She was finally caught on camera sniffing clients' dirty underwear while doing laundry. No one was sad to see her go.
   — vintagemisery






7. Got caught vaping in a clean room with hydrofluoric acid, butanol, and a salt bath with a temperature of 500 degrees Celsius near him.
   — Lichruler


8. Guy always got to work high. As in, couldn't-function-high. We worked at a grocery store, so the work wasn't hard but we tried extra days of training anyway. Guy said the job was too difficult and that he was going to quit. We tried to convince him not to, but left him alone after that. About a week later, we have a picture of him in the office on the 'Do Not Serve' wall. Turns out he sent a letter to management threatening their safety and had a no trespass and no contact order for the premises.
   — featherteeth


9. This guy Sharkie continually came to work late (civil construction site) and then went out got drunk and shit the bed. He then tried to wash an electric blanket in the washing machine. This all happened in the share house that my company pays for. People like this are building your bridges and roads.
   — Offensiveraptor






10. He missed a major deadline and didn't tell anyone and didn't show up to work to face the music. Then they found out he was assigning some of his work to another coworker but turning it in and saying he did it. Then they tried to fire him but he didn't show up for 3 days. They basically drove to his house to fire him.
    — athaliah


11. Watching porn on company computers and came to work high all the time. Also was an hour or two late every day. Guy lasted 1 week, I honestly thought this only existed in movies, I didn't realize there are actually people out there stupid enough to do this. Edit: A lot of comments about how he got hired. I work in finance and from my experience with banks, insurance and investment firms they all have so far required a bonding process where they run criminal & credit checks on you as they often take out insurance policies on employees as losses from a mistake can be massive. Nothing came up during that process apparently for him.
    — NEEDAUSERNAME10


12. A customer finally made a complaint about a sexual comment he made. Backstory: This guy was super weird with women, got really depressed a lot and would talk about being alone forever often, despite being 24. When he was in a good mood though, he would apparently be hitting on customers as a cashier at a fast casual restaurant. He’s done some pretty creepy things towards women from the stories he’s told me. The kicker was when a customer pointed to a picture on the menu and said “That looks delicious!” to which he said “Not as delicious as you must be.” She phoned in and he was fired.
    — pizzapoutinesandwich






13. You are not fired from the military, it's more like "fucked up the rest of your life" Anywho, he got caught smoking pot in 4 man berthing on base, and in the subsequent investigation was also on meth ( said the pot was to help him sleep after the meth) and found out he had run up and defaulted on $10,000 of charges to his official use only credit card. All of this 4 months out of boot camp.
    — Interlection


14. Fifty five year old slovenly pervert (Imagine the stereotypical neckbeard with a few more under his gut covered belt) walked up to a 17 yr old female employee, grabbed her face in both is hands and told her "I want to teach you how to please a man". Security escorted him out of the build twenty minutes later.
    — Liar_tuck


15. I worked at a first class/business class lounge at an airport. Shift leader took pictures of me in the restroom and showed it to me laughing. He was given a stern talking to and a slap on the wrist by the general manager and so I left the company. Heard from one of the coworkers that he got caught masturbating in the restroom and the general manager let him off with another warning. Turns out one of the big bosses of the company was the one that caught him during a personal trip and fired both the team leader and general manager. TL;DR - Team leader and GM got fired for sexual harassment by a big boss after evading any type of repercussions.
    — TomatoIceCream