What's the craziest reason someone got fired?
Someone got fired at my previous company for sending a rude email by mistake to a Senior Vice President.
Here's mine at my previous job. A collegue of mine was fired for smoking weed in the bathroom. He got back to his laptop and he was high as fuck, I am pretty sure he didn't even understand why he was getting fired.
Woah, the same thing happened in my 1st company, one of my colleagues who happens to be my flatmate went to lunch and founders thought he went home and had weed (he always looked high af btw😂), they got on a call and fired him that same evening. It was a big show since it was very small company with less than 10 people and we used to work from founder's home
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Clarky
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9 months ago
Very very senior person in the company got fired (pushed out rather) bcos he/she/they did not suck up to the founders “close” group of 2 girl friends. He/she/they actually questioned and opposed the unit economics and then the revenue metrics for a dumb moonshot which the 2 girl friends planned and launched as the next best thing to sliced bread.
Snapshot : the very senior absolutely brilliant person left super quickly, got hired into one of the world’s best company, turned it around for another massive success. What was left in my company was just cry baby girls.
So, I heard of a guy who got fired in my company for a very weird reason. Story time : this guy was working in the company for the past 5yrs but before he joined the company, he had an offer from another company(let's call it X). He was waiting for joining letter from X when he got a joining letter here and he started working. Now he also got joining letter from X and the joining date was the next day he was supposed to join here. He took the offer from X, worked there for 1 day and for some reason, resigned the next day. Now, that means, technically there was overlap of 1 day when he was working in both companies. 5yr passes by, nothing happens until one day my company finds out about this overlap and he gets terminated, all for that 1 day overlap he had 5yrs ago.
helloworld191
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9 months ago
How did they find out about the one day overlap.. that too after five years?
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In my previous company one guy was fired for not wearing his shirt buttons :) HR requested him to do, he denied. It was his 5th day in the organization:))
LastWhole8
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9 months ago
I was fired for talking back to a vp of engineering for some wrong system design he suggested. They put it in such a way that it has nothing to do with that, but a hr decision of overhiring. I just joined a month ago. The startup name is RIVIGO.
I joined somewhere else the next day and got 3 month severence 🤷🏽♂️
There was this weird guy who used to sleep in the office. He had a PG nearby. He would log out at 7pm and come back with a pillow & blanket at 11pm.
He would put AC & sleep on the conference room sofa. Would go early back morning around 6 am, take a shower, and get back by 10.
Our small startup office (sub-150 people) had access card based entry. He thought no one would know.
Got fired within 2 weeks.
This is not what you expect when someone says "sleeping around in office"
Blahblah
Stealth
9 months ago
In one of my ex-companies, someone was fired for bitching on google chat about the founder with another employee(who was q fired due to some argument with the founder).
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samosa
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9 months ago
One of my ex colleagues was fired on the spot because he came to the office drunk and a girl complained against him.
BahadurBilla
Stealth
9 months ago
Women ☕️
Someone (early engineer) pushed AWS ROOT account credentials to public github.
In the night A malicious bot scanning github pickedup the credentials and started terminating servers, deleting backups, wiping dns records.
By morning the company could have vanished.
It was valued at $3B at that time.
After terminating 1200+ servers, we got a call from AWS india head, asking are we shutting down company or getting acquired? 😂
The craziest reason that I came across is in my previous company, which has the reputation of being toxic. One of the SDM got fired suddenly, and apparently, he got fired as he didn't want to PIP some of his team. That guy literally took the bullet for his team
mistral
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9 months ago
Respect
I know a guy who slapped his boss in the office. His boss was funny at first but then really annoying afterwards, he was always like "Don't be a minimum guy, Don't be a minimum guy" like Matthew McConaughey from wolf of the wall street. Turns out he had a stable govt job so he slapped him, but what about others? When will they get this experience?
Toothsy
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9 months ago
Does this person also have a son who plays instruments but fails miserably?
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Someone sent a phishing email impersonating CEO and asking money over UPI. They sent without thinking twice.
When they realized they have f'ed up, they made CEO aware of it. Was fired within an hour.
Money came back to the account next evening. Every last penny. It was ~27k.
One of my senior at previous company got fired from his previous org because he wanted to learn hacking and thought of trying DDOS attack using the company's internet. It was a wework setup and all the companies working there got disrupted due to this.
WiseEfficacy
Stealth
9 months ago
I heard from a friend, his colleague, then working for a reputed Retail Giant, got fired, because he with him, took 2 packets of maggi from office.
Whatsinthename
Stealth
9 months ago
Instances from my ex-officd
1. Got fired for taking the whole box of CCD coffee and tea bags home in his bag
2. Director designate fired on the same day for false expenses claim.
3. Same day fired for writing aggressive mail to the VP in US for work related stuff
AllMonkey5Saviour
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9 months ago
Buddha new Manager pe Chillaya
CTO
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9 months ago
So a senior manager decided that it's a good idea to set up a betting portal in the company intranet.
He created a secret team which helped him design and launch it.
People could join in by invites only.
They had a DL for communication, payment by card(pre UPI) and a bunch on other features.
I don't think it was done by interntion of making money as there were no platform charges and bets were capped at a fixed amount.
Anyway, not sure how the company found out but he was fired alongside the team which worked for him and people who used to participate were given warnings.
A teammate just talked back to the director of engineering about some petty task wrt email templates, she wasn't even being rude,the director with the huge flaccid ego fired her.
The director was let go a few weeks ago in the name of cost cutting, what goes around comes around I guess.
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