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<p>Getting fired from a job is never fun. It leaves you feeling rejected, embarrassed, and scared for your future. Sometimes it&#39;s warranted, other times it&#39;s not, but every time it feels terrible. </p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6agz5j/what_is_the_worst_way_you_or_someone_you_know_has/">asked</a> Reddit, &quot;What is the worst way you or someone you know, has been &quot;fired&quot; from a job?&quot; The humiliating stories in the replies will have you cringing, laughing, and updating your resumes, just in case.</h2><p>1.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/catsporvida/">catsporvida</a></p><blockquote> <p>I worked at a kiosk in the mall for a bit as a teenager. One day I got to the mall and the entire kiosk was gone. Like, not just the business. The whole kiosk.</p> </blockquote><p>2. <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DoubleLigero85/">DoubleLigero85</a></p><blockquote> <p>I just got back from a 2-week vacation, and discovered the contents of my desk on my doorstep.</p> </blockquote><p>3.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/salzocow/">salzocow</a></p><blockquote> <p>One capable IT employee was in the hospital due to an unexpected health emergency. They went to the hospital and fired him before his heart surgery. I shit you not.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>4.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/schnit123/">schnit123</a></p><blockquote> <p>My dad told me once about a coworker getting fired on take your daughter to work day. It was before lunch too so they both had to be escorted out of the office carrying their brown paper lunch bags.</p> </blockquote><p>5. <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lnonimous/">Lnonimous</a></p><blockquote> <p>I worked in retail and our manager fired a guy after his 12-hour shift on Black Friday. Could&#39;ve spent the day after Thanksgiving with his family, but instead, the manager made him work in case it was busy, then fired him at the end of his shift. It was a douche move.</p> </blockquote><p>6.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RazorRush/">RazorRush</a></p><blockquote> <p>I was working 20 ft up a ladder on the side of a house. I hear a BB gun fire and the pellet hit the wall a few feet beside me. After a couple more of these I turn around tell the fat kid standing in the yard if he does that shit again he better be able to out run my hammer. Mom starts screaming about me threatening her kid. 15 minutes later I&#39;m unemployed.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>7. <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/koopakid902/">koopakid902</a></p><blockquote> <p>Was fired 3 days after my kid was born for missing time because I requested the weekend that my ex was in labour off, got the go ahead from my supervisor but I guess that never made it upstairs to the top boss because they got rid of me lol.</p> </blockquote><p>8.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/shakycam3/">shakycam3</a></p><blockquote> <p>I know someone who went to his company mailbox and found a paycheck. It was stamped &quot;TERM CHECK&quot;. He went to his manager and asked about it. She said &quot;Oh. About that. You were fired...&quot;</p> </blockquote><p>9. <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/spaghatta111/">spaghatta111</a></p><p> </p><blockquote> <p>It&#39;s a long story, but I was early in my career. I wasn&#39;t fired for a good reason and I hadn&#39;t really stood up for myself yet. I just took abuse from management and did the best I could</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>It was my GM&#39;s birthday, and we all had to pick names out of a hat, and we had to buy them a cake, etc for their birthday. Well, I had the GM, who wanted to do his birthday in the morning with bagels.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>So I picked up 30+ bagels, cream cheese, a giant thing of coffee, and we had this stupid bagel birthday thing or whatever</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Half hour later I get back to my desk, I&#39;m called to HR and I was fired. Oh and thanks for the bagels</p> </blockquote><p>10. <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/sykopoet/">sykopoet</a></p><blockquote> <p>Once when I worked in an office, they told us that we had to visit &quot;corporate&quot; for a presentation about sexual harassment in the office. We were broken into groups to go on different days. Monday - Thursday, the groups got a video on harassment. The Friday group got fired en mass. The whole thing was a setup.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>11.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Hippyhumanitarian/">Hippyhumanitarian</a></p><blockquote> <p>My first job ever was for Baskin Robbins when I was 15. I went in for my first day of training excited to finally be making pocket money!</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The owner made me try to memorize the ice cream flavours in the first 30 seconds of being there. When I was unable to recite them perfectly in their order he did this big hand motion and screamed &quot;training over!&quot;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I laugh now but man that was crushing for a nervous teenager.</p> </blockquote><p>12.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/elentaari/">elentaari</a></p><blockquote> <p>I was fired from PetSmart for reasons I can no longer remember. immediately after the manager delivered the news, she asked me if I would mind staying for two hours to wait until the evening shift relief arrived. unpaid, of course. I laughed in her face and left.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DrippyWaffler/">DrippyWaffler</a></p><blockquote> <p>I got notice while on holiday. The day before I was supposed to fly back. I ended up just not getting the plane back and living in holiday city with a new job &lt;2 weeks later, so it didn&#39;t all end badly.</p> </blockquote><p>14.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/dopkick/">dopkick</a></p><blockquote> <p>My buddy moved across the country for a job. At the end of his second week, he was informed they were going to let him go as part of a large reduction in force. He had moved all of his stuff and signed a year lease of an apartment.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>When he complained that this really screwed him over and the company had to know this was coming well before he started and should have just told him to not come his now-former boss patted him on the back, chuckled, and told him something like &quot;life&#39;s not fair.&quot;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>My buddy ended up getting the last laugh. His dad&#39;s best friend was an attorney with all the right connections in that state. His old company settled with him when they were served with a lawsuit, claiming something like fraud and deception. He ended up settling for something that was over double his yearly salary.</p> </blockquote><p>15. <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cerem86/">cerem86</a></p><blockquote> <p>Owner of one of the companies I worked for had us all go to this fancy meeting at a hotel. We get there, and he announces a few things. We had been bought out, by another company. Our company stock was going to sell for nearly double what we paid for it.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We were all getting sign on bonuses from the new company, and we were all being kept. Then he walked off the stage. The owner of the new company walked up rather pissed off looking and announced our office was closing, and none of that was true.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>16.<a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/leostrider/">leostrider</a></p><blockquote> <p>Without knowing my co-worker trained her replacement</p> </blockquote><p>17. <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Lo452/">Lo452</a></p><blockquote> <p>I took May 4th - 9th off for my wedding which was May 6th. Afternoon of the 9th I get onto my work laptop to initiate the name, insurance, banking, and account changes associated with my marriage and name change. While on, I get a farewell/so sorry/so shocked Skype from a co-worker (most of my small company works remote, we use Skype for internet communications).</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>After much freaking out and calls to every boss/corporate head we have (small company, currently in between HR people), I find that they have laid off about 10 people due to restructuring and financial reasons, and someone jumped the gun and announced those names at an impromptu all-hands meeting before ensuring everyone on said list had been properly informed.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>So I was let go three days after my wedding, before I even came back from my PTO, and was informed by a now-mortified co-worker who was informed before I was.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

17 people share the most humiliating way they've ever seen someone get fired.

Getting fired from a job is never fun. It leaves you feeling rejected, embarrassed, and scared for your future. Sometimes it&#39;s warranted, other times it&#39;s not, but every time it feels terrible. Someone asked Reddit, &quot;What is the worst way you or someone you know, has been &quot;fired&quot; from a job?&quot; The humiliating stories in the replies will have you cringing, laughing, and updating your resumes, just in case.1.catsporvida I worked at a kiosk in the mall for a bit as a teenager. One day I got to the mall and the entire kiosk was gone. Like, not just the business. The whole kiosk. 2. DoubleLigero85 I just got back from a 2-week vacation, and discovered the contents of my desk on my doorstep. 3.salzocow One capable IT employee was in the hospital due to an unexpected health emergency. They went to the hospital and fired him before his heart surgery. I shit you not. 4.schnit123 My dad told me once about a coworker getting fired on take your daughter to work day. It was before lunch too so they both had to be escorted out of the office carrying their brown paper lunch bags. 5. Lnonimous I worked in retail and our manager fired a guy after his 12-hour shift on Black Friday. Could&#39;ve spent the day after Thanksgiving with his family, but instead, the manager made him work in case it was busy, then fired him at the end of his shift. It was a douche move. 6.RazorRush I was working 20 ft up a ladder on the side of a house. I hear a BB gun fire and the pellet hit the wall a few feet beside me. After a couple more of these I turn around tell the fat kid standing in the yard if he does that shit again he better be able to out run my hammer. Mom starts screaming about me threatening her kid. 15 minutes later I&#39;m unemployed. 7. koopakid902 Was fired 3 days after my kid was born for missing time because I requested the weekend that my ex was in labour off, got the go ahead from my supervisor but I guess that never made it upstairs to the top boss because they got rid of me lol. 8.shakycam3 I know someone who went to his company mailbox and found a paycheck. It was stamped &quot;TERM CHECK&quot;. He went to his manager and asked about it. She said &quot;Oh. About that. You were fired...&quot; 9. spaghatta111  It&#39;s a long story, but I was early in my career. I wasn&#39;t fired for a good reason and I hadn&#39;t really stood up for myself yet. I just took abuse from management and did the best I could  It was my GM&#39;s birthday, and we all had to pick names out of a hat, and we had to buy them a cake, etc for their birthday. Well, I had the GM, who wanted to do his birthday in the morning with bagels.  So I picked up 30+ bagels, cream cheese, a giant thing of coffee, and we had this stupid bagel birthday thing or whatever  Half hour later I get back to my desk, I&#39;m called to HR and I was fired. Oh and thanks for the bagels 10. sykopoet Once when I worked in an office, they told us that we had to visit &quot;corporate&quot; for a presentation about sexual harassment in the office. We were broken into groups to go on different days. Monday - Thursday, the groups got a video on harassment. The Friday group got fired en mass. The whole thing was a setup. 11.Hippyhumanitarian My first job ever was for Baskin Robbins when I was 15. I went in for my first day of training excited to finally be making pocket money!  The owner made me try to memorize the ice cream flavours in the first 30 seconds of being there. When I was unable to recite them perfectly in their order he did this big hand motion and screamed &quot;training over!&quot;  I laugh now but man that was crushing for a nervous teenager. 12.elentaari I was fired from PetSmart for reasons I can no longer remember. immediately after the manager delivered the news, she asked me if I would mind staying for two hours to wait until the evening shift relief arrived. unpaid, of course. I laughed in her face and left. 13.DrippyWaffler I got notice while on holiday. The day before I was supposed to fly back. I ended up just not getting the plane back and living in holiday city with a new job &lt;2 weeks later, so it didn&#39;t all end badly. 14.dopkick My buddy moved across the country for a job. At the end of his second week, he was informed they were going to let him go as part of a large reduction in force. He had moved all of his stuff and signed a year lease of an apartment.  When he complained that this really screwed him over and the company had to know this was coming well before he started and should have just told him to not come his now-former boss patted him on the back, chuckled, and told him something like &quot;life&#39;s not fair.&quot;  My buddy ended up getting the last laugh. His dad&#39;s best friend was an attorney with all the right connections in that state. His old company settled with him when they were served with a lawsuit, claiming something like fraud and deception. He ended up settling for something that was over double his yearly salary. 15. cerem86 Owner of one of the companies I worked for had us all go to this fancy meeting at a hotel. We get there, and he announces a few things. We had been bought out, by another company. Our company stock was going to sell for nearly double what we paid for it.  We were all getting sign on bonuses from the new company, and we were all being kept. Then he walked off the stage. The owner of the new company walked up rather pissed off looking and announced our office was closing, and none of that was true. 16.leostrider Without knowing my co-worker trained her replacement 17. Lo452 I took May 4th - 9th off for my wedding which was May 6th. Afternoon of the 9th I get onto my work laptop to initiate the name, insurance, banking, and account changes associated with my marriage and name change. While on, I get a farewell/so sorry/so shocked Skype from a co-worker (most of my small company works remote, we use Skype for internet communications).  After much freaking out and calls to every boss/corporate head we have (small company, currently in between HR people), I find that they have laid off about 10 people due to restructuring and financial reasons, and someone jumped the gun and announced those names at an impromptu all-hands meeting before ensuring everyone on said list had been properly informed.  So I was let go three days after my wedding, before I even came back from my PTO, and was informed by a now-mortified co-worker who was informed before I was. 

Getting fired from a job is never fun. It leaves you feeling rejected, embarrassed, and scared for your future. Sometimes it&#39;s warranted, other times it&#39;s not, but every time it feels terrible.   Someone asked Reddit, &quot;What is...