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Does getting laid off because a vulture company scooped up the place I was working, harvested the minimum wage workers, and fired everyone with a salary once they were done scraping our institutional knowledge out count?

A pattern of tardiness. Every time.

Worked as a cashier and manually entered the price for a cheesecake as $2.99 instead of $3.99. I only made that mistake once, and was fired for it even though I worked there for two years.

They told me they have a zero-tolerance policy regarding this. They even called in one of their security professionals to investigate, pulling footage of me and everything.

Fuck you, King Kullen.

Worked for a small llc and the owner spent to look good with customers but was super stingly internally. He wanted laptops reformatted quickly and turned around because he did not want it wasting not doing anything. A big guy at the company left and specs were better the higher you went so he wanted it quickly turned over to a top developer. This guy was important and I even varified with the second highest guy at the place to make sure it was alright. Whelp it turned out that guy who left had really important stuff that he did not put on his local backup disk or the networked storage (which I had backed up regularly on a rotating schedule). Bossman wanted me to take responsibility for it and im like. Um no. I formatted it but you told me to and I even got confirmation because quite frankly I thought it was a bad idea. Yeah so dick I guess was able to tell his customers that it was the fault of this underling IT guy.

Not being enthusiastic enough.

I created a satirical Employee Handbook that, among other things, mocked the entire management chain and codified some of the unwritten rules among employees.

It was a crappy retail job so no real loss.

The only time I ever got fired was because the new girl asked me why I worked at the taco shop and I answered because they pay me. The boss heard about it and canned me for it a few days later, but I wasn't too mad, I hated the bitch and her entire family. They were rude and racist and just unpleasant to be around, which is hard when the family owns the business and works there too.

I mostly got fired for being a bad employee but my employers were no angels either. One of my first jobs was repairing computers and the money was garbage. Eventually learned that I was the lowest paid in the dept so put a sign on my desk with my salary. It was embarrassing for the manager when clients came to visit so they gave me more money.

Not the same, but as a consultant, used to fire clients all the time. Very satisfying.

The official reason for me getting fired were budget cuts, but I knew that the new department head actually wanted to hand my responsibilities to a buddy of theirs they had brought on board. Despite being there longer at the department than the new head and their buddy, as well as excellent performance reviews I had no chance to keep that job.

Throwing the CTO who committed fraud, was about to commit more fraud AND couldn't keep his hands to himself (he'd like to "tickle" all the male employees all day everyday and nobody dated to stop him) under a big fat bus (figuratively)

He fired me before he got fired himself and then about a year later I heard that he ended his own life.

Sorry, not sorry, no regrets.

Technically fired for absences. Really just walked off and didnt come back for 3 weeks after my manager assaulted me a little bit.

I received a formal warning for leaning back on my chair (didn't get fired though)

The story that went around bravo is so much more entertaining than the truth.

I'm a helicopter mechanic. I started a turbine helicopter engine to prove an entire shift of mechanics, quality assurance ("subject matter experts") and managers they're dumb. Then wrote a mean pass down insulting all of them, highlighting how many man hours, our time they've wasted, and how they made us all look stupid in front of the customer (US Marines.)

At the time I was the night shift QA. I got to work and they told me we'd be replacing an engine that was bad, it wouldn't start (they left the ignition circuit breaker in, so no spark) but worse it was now leaking out of the thermocouples.

I says, you flooded the engine; there's not supposed to be liquid fuel in that section. If you followed the procedures in our manuals you'd know how to blow the engine out to dry it then it would start.

They'd already called the higher level engine maintenance squadron to confirm the engine was bad. I was talking to the site lead, Dave, I bet him a dollar I could start that engine. At the time I was the only person on the site with an engine turn certification. He says alright, try it.

The Marines were already there. They determined nothing was wrong with the engine. I said, since you're here want to watch me light it off. They said yeah. I went through the flooded engine start and it started and ran up perfect.

Next day I come in and Dave tells me I've been fired. There was one sentence in our rules that said only pilots could start engines. BUT Dave went to bat for me, explained the situation including that they certified me to run engines. He got it turned into two week suspension and a demotion, but I had so much PTO saved up he was going to pay me during it.

I came back and was now just a mechanic. Which was alright since I never liked the rest of the QA department. I got less responsibility, got to listen to audio books and ding wrenches together. Every now and then the other QA inspectors and managers would come to me with questions and I'd get to say, "I'm sorry, I'm not paid enough to know that."