A man was hired to do stock at a tea store that sold lots of delicate China. Manager walked into the back on his like third day and saw him just throwing boxes of tea cups and teapots. Instantly fired.
CoWorker. Smoked like every 40min for like 10min.
Then asked the Boss if he could leave an hour early because he didnt take his Lunch Break.
As my Boss said: “Sure you can, but you dont need to come back.”
This was just a summer job at a fast food place. We had a new girl start and within two days it was apparent she was an idiot and everyone knew that. You could already see the manager questioning his decision.
Then on her third day of work she said she couldn’t come in because her mom was in a car accident and in the hospital. Turns out that’s an easy thing to disprove in a relatively small town.
A few days.
I worked as a tech / network support guy at an office and our manager interviewed some applicants and posed them a challenge to troubleshoot a PC that wouldn’t boot. Of the applicants we were impressed by the front runner and he got hired.
Some days later my boss asked me into his office and he showed me a website showing the new guy in a prison jumpsuit attending a substance abuse workshop or something at a correctional facility.
Unfortunately he hadn’t disclosed this so HR gave him the boot, which sucks because he was a sharp guy and I really could’ve used some cocayeen back in those days.
I used to do a lot of field work on site investigation programs – basically we’d hang out on a drill rig while the drillers took rock cores. We’d log the cores, take photos, do some down-hole tests, etc.
New engineer gets sent to site and gets assigned the night shift (some people love night shift, but most people don’t… hence sticking the junior with night shift.) After 5 nights he calls the office and says he wants to come home because he’s freezing and he hates it and he can’t do it. Not clear to me if he quit or got fired, but it became plain pretty quickly that this job wasn’t for him.
I got pulled onto that program, and I asked the drillers what the guy’s deal was… they had a propane heater in the back of their van, and despite repeated invitations to sit in the back of the van, buddy just sat in his truck all night and shivered. In the middle of February.