Top 10 most ridiculous layoffs

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The chef can fire his employee for a thirst for new sensations, or even for a slice of pizza. It turns out that the reasons why people are fired from their jobs are sometimes so ridiculous that you can make a whole hit parade.

"You're fired!" - how unpleasant to hear this phrase. Much nicer to say, "I'm quitting." And if you don't have enough courage to say these words to the chef's face, you can simply provoke your departure and arrange so that the chef will be the first to show you the door. However, sometimes, the bosses can dismiss an employee completely unjustifiably. The site www.simplyfired.com collects stories about the most awkward layoffs. Based on such stories, Top-10 of the most ridiculous reasons for dismissal was compiled.

10th place. "Sorry, I can't hear well"

An employee was fired from his job for sending parcels to a certain Michael Finn. When his supervisor was going on vacation, she instructed him to send parcels with data to a certain Michael Finn. And every day this employee sent parcels to this gentleman by mail. And when the boss returned from vacation and looked at what the poor fellow had been doing for two weeks, a short dialogue took place between them, after which the employee was fired:

- Who is Michael Finn?

“The person you ordered to send the parcels.

“Not Michael Finn. A microfilm had to be sent …

Anecdote on the topic:

Finally, the salary was issued for six months. A trifle, but nice!

9th place. "I crave new sensations!"

One American who served in the army was fired because he just got bored. Together with his wife, he posted an ad on a swinger website. The management, having learned about the announcement, immediately fired the aspiring swinger. The dismissed employee in revenge on his superiors ordered 200 “Live Wrong” bracelets and presented them to the soldiers.

8th place. "Stealing a slice of pizza is no joke!"

A mortgage developer's career was ruined by a bad lunch. One day, an employee noticed how his colleagues, after finishing lunch, left pizza on the table. He was hungry and without a shadow of embarrassment went to the table and took a slice of pizza. It was later revealed that the employees were going to take the leftover lunch home, and a hungry colleague interrupted their plans. Having got angry, they called the developer a thief and reported the stealing of a slice of pizza to the company's manager. A month after the incident, the hapless pizza lover was fired.

7th place. "Crush the boss! Crush!"

Another dismissed employee worked in a distribution plant. The boss asked him to deliver the parts by car to another office located a few blocks from the place of work. When leaving the parking lot, the employee's car hit the ditch with its front wheel and got stuck. Seeing this, the caring chef ran out to help. Just at that moment, the driver turned on the reverse and drove the dear boss on the leg. The enraged boss was not hurt and did not even say a single rude word to his subordinate. He just fired the poor guy a week after the incident.

6th place. "Donut Victim"

One careless employee fell victim to a donut. She worked for a firm looking for directors and vice presidents. Once the boss invited a subordinate to discuss work plans over a cup of coffee and bagels. Their conversation took place in such a warm and friendly atmosphere that the employee did not doubt that she would soon be promoted. However, that evening she was informed that she had been fired for eating a donut! "They thought I was eating it too slowly. And this despite the fact that I finished it off even before my boss ate hers!" - said the shocked woman. It turns out that the manager deliberately delayed the meal, and the bagel was a test for laziness, which the employee did not pass.

5th place. "Are you not an Indian? Then you are fired!"

Once a man was fired from his job because he was not an Indian. The young man got a job in a casino in Washington state, where he repaired slot machines and office computers. Once he was summoned to the office and told that he was fired. The fact is that the young man was replaced by an Indian who worked no worse than the previous employee, but agreed to receive half the money on the condition that part of the proceeds from the casino would go to donations to his tribe.

Advice. All corporate events should be treated like work. There should not be any "let's forget about the official position for one hour", etc. All these are working meetings in a strict and discreet format! According to statistics, most of the layoffs occur after corporate celebrations of the New Year, March 8 and other celebrations …

4th place. "Don't switch!"

One lady got a job at a hairdresser. She did an excellent job with her duties for 2 months. The favorite radio station of the owner of the hairdressing salon played every day in the cozy salon. However, the employee did not know this and once switched the radio to another wave. For which she was immediately dismissed.

3rd place. "You shouldn't have worked so well"

The next laid off was very fond of being an office manager. His task was to optimize the work of the office, and he successfully coped with it, bringing many processes to automatism. He was so good at his job that he ended up distributing all the work in such a way that it literally took place on its own. And so the management calls the miracle worker into their office and says: "You have done the work so fast and automated that we no longer need you, and we have no new position for you."

2nd place. "Donut packaging is serious!"

One 16-year-old worked as a donut bagger. The time was already approaching midnight, and there was no sign of her replacement. The girl called a colleague and told him that she had overworked the allotted time for him and was waiting for him to finally appear at work. The changer appeared … with a sawn-off shotgun in his hand. He frightened the girl with a gun and declared: "You are fired!"

1st place. "Straight discrimination"

A marketing employee at a bank was fired by a gay boss for being a normal sexual orientation. His boss, as well as all his colleagues, were gay, which for the time being did not bother the marketer at all, who had worked for the company for a year. But one day, the boss went with his new friend to dinner at a restaurant. There he stumbled upon his straight employee, who was chirping sweetly at the next table with his girlfriend. The next day, the manager called and said that the employee was not suitable for the company. The dismissed person was not much more worried about the fact that he became the object of real discrimination. The guy asked himself a question for a long time, looking in the mirror: "Why did the boss take me for a gay?"

Of course, it is a shame when an employee is fired for a completely unreasonable reason. In fact, those 8 hours that we spend at work should be spent as befits all respectable subordinates. But people are not robots and sometimes they make some mistakes and mistakes in their work, or they just allow themselves to relax at some point. If this is not flying an airplane with 150 passengers on board, but just sending mail, is it really worth being so strict about the fact that an employee made a mistake at some point? Or should there really be no "personal factor" at work? What do our readers think?