What was your ugliest time getting fired/quitting?

[Neo drives a geo]

I recently lost a job because I was joking with my boss (He seemed like a cool guy to work for, and generally joked around) One night he was talkin to another employee while we were closing up the restaraunt, and they were talking about some johnny depp movie, the title was something like "Lust fun and drugs in Las vegas" <<<Total stab in the dark, that's just what I'm guessing. So I just jokingly looked at my boss and said "Do you know where I can score some Cocaaaaine?" And he was like, you're on that good s*** aren't you?" I was like, not right now.... So, no cocaaaine? How about some heroin? He say's, "You know, the district managers are really strict about talking about things like that" I look at him as if he must be joking..... So I'm like, "whatever dude." And finish doin what I was doing so we left. I came in the next day and they took me outside, and told me that I was fired and handed me my termination papers and a pen. I looked at them like they were stupid. I asked if they were serious. Yep. I asked if it was true that they were gay together, and they just looked at me (That was a rumor at work, I didn't believe it, I just wanted them to know what the general talk about them was.) Then I took the paper, stole the bosses nice pen, and left. Came in a couple days later to get my check, threw my uniforms on the floor, told everyone in the area what I thought of them (Went down the line telling people F*** you) (I'm famous for making comedy movie refferences) Didn't want to throw anything at anyone, cause I didn't want to get beat up. Lol. Sorry. I babble when I'm Stoned.

 

[IRISH]

my lawyer says i cant talk about it until after the hearing .
just kidding. . did they tell you 'the check is in the mail'?...

 

[King Bud]

I worked at a factory once..

when I quit, I had to repeat my name about five times..

..my boss didn't have a clue who I was, but he 'let' me quit anyways.

:confused2:

S'about as bad as it ever got. I am always courteous, since there's the chance that I might want to return.

 

[SirSmoke-a-Lot]

i got fired from a volunteer service... because apparently money was being stolen every one of the 5 days i was working there... lol and i am not at liberty to discuss who stole the money... but it was me lol haha i was a bad boy when i was young.

 

[Neo drives a geo]

You sound like the people I worked with one time. I swear to you they stole money every night. Then it got to where they would go on break together to rob someone. Then they started stealin from cars, then I got fired. Hope you weren't that bad.

 

[raoulduke2.0]

Coworker ate a mushroom on lunch break and smashed my finger in a baler door. My finger is fine but due to workman's compensation I lost that crappy job.

 

[raoulduke2.0]

.....As in.... PISS Test. It was one of those packaged "iCups"(Great Name)

 

[Alistair]

Well Neo, that's impressive! I once saw a dude do something like that at a factory where I worked.

SirSmoke, For some reason what you said struck me as pretty funny. That made me laugh pretty hard. Thanks.

I've never had any real ugly moments where I acted out, but I'd say the most satisfying termination experience was when I was fired from this lumber yard. I was working third shift at this lumber yard in Arkansas during the summer. It was hard, hot, sweaty, miserable work. Well, I was loading pallets with lumber fresh from the planer and I found an opportunity to go to the bathroom. I went to the bathroom and figured I might as well smoke a cigarette. The boss followed me to the bathroom and caught me smoking, and fired me. It was against his policy to smoke when in the bathroom. Well, he fired me and told me that I had the rest of the week to find another job; I could finish the week out at the lumber yard,

Well, I went back to work and after a few minutes I thought about how much I hated the job and how I was out of work in a few days anyway, so I stopped what I was doing and walked out to my car and drove off. That was pretty satisfying. I realize that I deserved to be fired, but I thought he was stupid for giving me warning like he did. Plus, I was just a kid and it seemed like a good idea.

I almost forgot. There was this one guy at another factory where I worked, and he got fired because the boss caught him drinking on the job. Well, the dude punches the boss. This guy used to be a professional boxer, and he punches the boss who had good grounds for firing him! That's wrong, I know, but at the moment it seems rather funny to me. The man that got punched hardly knew what hit him! However, the guy that punched him was a jerk. As for the boss; he was a good guy.

 

[canibanol cannonball]

used to work at a stable, took care of 30 some horses. My boss was an elderly women who after 5 years, started to lose her mind. Eventually I was running the place (everything but the money). After she lost her mind she started telling me my daily duties, EVERY DAY. Did i mention I ran the place? Second she'd tell me to do something then give me hell an hour later for doing it-and claim she never told me anything. Explosion time i finally cracked and told her i quit but would finish the day, she replys with "you gotta give two weeks notice" i told her i just give you my Fking notice, walked off and finished my last few hours.
The job was great in the summer (girls ride horses), but the pay was not for the hours and headache.

 

[SirSmoke-a-Lot]

im here to make ppl laugh..

 

[Puffin Afatty]

1977, I was in college at Case Western getting my MEE, I took a fund raising job with Police Athletic League near Cleveland and on the 1st day I pulled out a joint to spark before work :doh: the manager and a couple guys joined me in a parked car in the parking lot of the Westlake PAL Lodge. Wouldnt you just know it a local cop comes up and found us amid a cloud of smoke and coughing :stoned: 3 of US were asked to leave the premises, before we even started working, and the manager was fired on the spot

 

[Hick]

..this could be a long one...
Was working on an oil drilling rig back in the late 70's. I'd just hired out on a new rig, new crew, new driller(boss).
We were working morning tower (12 midnite to 8 am). It was 20 below zero and had about a 25 m.p.h. wind with it.
The driller decided that regardless of the conditions, the "A"-legs, which support the derrick, needed scrubbed. Since "I" was the "worm", low man on the crew, it was I that had to be hoisted, via a hoist line and harness, above the protective cover of the wind walls to scrub them.
I mixed 50/50 diesel and soapy water in a 5 gal. bucket and proceeded. But the scrub brush would freeze to the iron. I was making a mess and freezing my keester(sp) off.
I came down, and left the scrub brush hanging, frozen to the legs and went inside to defrost. The driller ask if I was finished. I said "Yes"...
He walked out, looked at the job and came back in to tell me to get my "arse" back in that harness and finish the job, or look for another job.
I went straight to my locker and started packing my clothes. Driller tells me if I don't finish the job, I won't have a ride home come morning. Being "Young 'n dumb", I muttered a "F you" and continued to pack my rags. I was bent over getting things out of the bottom of the locker when the attack came. He grabbed me by the hair(which I had a LOT of at the time) and was holding my head down, trying to kick me in the face, but the space was too tight for him to get a full swing in. Luckily for me, the tool rack was right beside the lockers. I managed to get my hands on a 24 inch pipe wrench, and went to work on his shins and feet. Didn't take him long to release his grip on my hair..
Of course, the other three crew members were his buddies, so I was challenged by all... In the words of Ron White, "I didn't know how many of them it would take to whip me, but I knew how many they were gonna' use."..
I managed to escape by useiing the pipe wrench for persuasion.
It was 3 am and the rig was over 40 miles from town, but I started walking. About a mile down the road sat another rig. I walked up on the floor, carrying my bag of clothes and asked for a ride to town come morning. As it was, they were shorthanded, and I was given a job. Got paid for 3 hours on the previous rig for that night, and the new driller gave me 8 hours for the same night, on the second rig.
That was definately the "ugliest" job termination that I ever endured. In fact, I think it was the "only" time I was ever 'fired'..

 

[Runbyhemp]

Just over a year ago I quit my job. I found out the boss was ripping me off.
I'd beeen working for him for 7 or 8 years. He owed me thousands.

I had it out with him in the middle of the shop with dozens of customers. I "F" ed and blinded him out of it. As I was walking out the door he shouted after me that he wanted my resignation in writing. I walked back into the shop, got a pen and paper and wrote " I F'ing Quit". I handed it to him and left never to return again.

 

[godspeedsuckah]

Dang Hick, that is one way to leave a job LOL. Im glad you had that pipe, sounds like those jerks just wanted to beat on someone and felt comfortable 4 on 1.

 

[Alistair]

Well, around here it seems as though ex-cons work either construction or on an oil rig. In other words, I'm not surprised that those guys beat you like they did. That's a good story; not a pleasant way to get fired.

 

[Tater]

I used to work in a busy higher end chain restaurant in a mall and was tired of being treated like **** by the management even though I was breaking all of their sales records and had just scored a 100 percent on my secret shopper audit. I was good and I knew it and I was a bit cocky but this guy was something else. After taking months of his abuse I finally snapped one night when he berated me infront of one of my tables for something that was the bussers fault and not mine. I took of my apron right there apologized to my table for what was about to happen and began to tear into this guy. Then his female counterpart and assistant manager tried to get in on it and I tore into her until she cried. By this time the entire restaurant was watching when I told him to go duck himself and that I quit. I went to the back to get my things and when I went to leave he started to beg me to stay and finish the shift. Maybe it had something to do with the fact it was the christmas season and I was working a double section that was seated beyond capacity and had over 30 orders in the kitchen. I once again told him he could duck his hat and he told me that store policy required my notice to be written. I walked past him and went next door to the drug store and bought a bar of soup. I walked around to the front of the restaurant and on their large and beautiful full glass patio windows I wrote "Duck you wayne I quit" while the customers applauded. It was awesome, they tried to press vandalism charges but when I told the judge the story he started laughing and dismissed the case. Good times.

 

[cuy103]

"Lust fun and drugs in Las vegas" <<<Total stab in the dark, that's just what I'm guessing.

I think the movie is "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I walked past him and went next door to the drug store and bought a bar of soup. I walked around to the front of the restaurant and on their large and beautiful full glass patio windows I wrote "Duck you wayne I quit" while the customers applauded.

That's ducking awesome! :rofl:

I wish I had the balls to do something like that. Great story!!!

 

[papabeach1]

one time when I was 16, got job at mc donald..first week was good (traning period). knew the rules, then next monday..saw manager (fatass lady) took 3 double chez bugers out of slot that is ready to serve!!.. she went to her office to eat all .. so next day I was sooo stoned that time.. my eyes was winkin close so I walk in and clock in, then took 2 double chez burgers, went to her office front of her, ate these burgers.. she said that is not allowed.. I said I was hungry I didnt want work and be hungry around the foods. she said you are fired, I said, okay I didnt know that rule, so I went in bathroom and stay in the booth, rolled blunt, smoked until its half, the mangerment waited outside, I went outside, she said you smoked in bathroom? I said I dont know Im stoned, she said can i Have some? I said fu..k off I gotta go and do better thing to do than deal with wussiess like you.

 

[clanchattan]

right after oil companies recruting roughnecks out of the pen comes transmission line workers. the first and only time i was fired was for stomping a mud hole in a foremans a**. thrid week on the job he tells me to get some #4 hard drawn copper outta the trailer so i do it and put it on the truck. i start gathering up other stuff the i and the guy working with me need and the foreman starts cussing and yelling at me saying he told me to get #8 copper and put on the truck. these rolls weigh like 150 lbs so im a little ticked but i swap the #4 for some #8. as i put the #8 on the truck, he grabs me by the arm (first mistake), and starts screaming about if i can't move fast enough i can look for another job. he poked me in the chest three or four times (last mistake). now, my daddy taught me, if your gonna get in a fight, get in a FIGHT, and dont stop until the other guy stops tryin to get up.

so i was fired but while the foreman was laying there none of the other guys who had worked with him for years did a thing. i kinda had the idea he had it coming.

the foreman was a bigot anyway and diddnt lke the fact that the union hall sent my buddy to work with me because he was black.

my buddy quit on the spot too.

 

[Tater]

Nice, I watched my brother get himself and me fired from a pipeline gig one time because he kicked the crap out of another welder who was mistreating his helper. That guys face will never be the same lol.

Quitting jobs that you know you will never go back to is one of the best feelings in the world. Most of my jobs I left on good terms and would be rehired if I simply asked but there are a few that I've quit and I'm sure I will never be forgotten there hah. I got a couple more but they cross some legal lines and I would rather not admit guilt even on an internet forum because you never know. If you work labour intensive jobs like I have most my life you get to see some pretty crazy stuff because guys will just snap sometimes and most of these guys are the type you never want to see angry at you.