Oddest reasons for being fired?

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Hi:
I would like to know what were some of the strangest reasons an employer fired you?

They hired me, experienced at finding bird nests, and someone not experienced, but she was more physically fit and could go to more areas.... I got fired for not being able to go to those areas, but at the time I was fired I had found twice as many nests.

I got hired to work at a pretzel shop and the person who hired me had supposedly quit because the district manager didn't like him. Surprisingly the new manager went over every single reason why someone would be terminated including showing up at work in street clothes. She sent me out to hand out pretzel samples in my street clothes while saying we would get the uniform later. Meanwhile the district manger showed up and refused to introduce herself to me along with ignoring me for 2 hours. After that, district manager told me that she was sorry and had to let me go because it wasn't working out.

Reasons? They said that I was "Sniffing the food."

I got beat up ... for not loaning out my tools.

I refused to wash the boss's car ... in my new suit.

I listened to public radio ... on my own receiver ... during lunch.

I refused to clean up after the boss's dog ... after she had kept it in the conference room ... all day.

All before I turned 18.

Hahaha sniffing food!

I was once fired for sending an email from my personal account to my office mate's personal account making a disparaging remark about the company. They had hacked into her account and were monitoring her.

During the interview for that position the manager forewarned me that the district manager was a nasty person who seemed to treat every other manager in her district to dinner except for him. He turned out to be right when it came to my situation. Yet I will admit that anyone who ignores an employee for the first time and make a judgment to be strange.

Anyway, I forgot to mention something else. When she fired me on the spot she told me that I didn't know how to hand out pretzel samples properly and then changed her story one week later with the whole "Sniffing the food," thing.

I want to know why this person thought that anyone in the world who was holding food would NOT sniff it. It's like holding a flower. You would, without even thinking about it.

I've gotten hired for wearing a hat and refusing to remove it. By an assistant manager who worked under a Store manager and district manager who had no problem with anything I did. Which this 10yr assistant didn't appreciate... I probably could have gotten my job back, but the scene I performed was classic. Highlighted by getting on the store loud speaker and talking all sorts of s**t about the guy who fired me. About how he smelled literally like s**t and cooking grease and routinely stank up aisle 11 where he often worked.

I didn't smile enough. Of course it doesn't matter, since there won't be such a thing as fast food cashiers in 2 years anyway.

I got discharged from the military for being on anti-depressants. The doctor told me that taking anti-depressants was allowed to treat anxiety, but not to treat depression.

I have been only fired from two jobs.

One as a Debt Collector because I could not collect enough. Let's face it I am more customer service than anything.

Another one is from a company I had huge problems with. They hired all new call center works as independent contractors so they didn't have to pay the variety of taxes for us. Needless to say it was nice getting a big check but two years later everyone was getting audited by the IRS for not filing right and a lot of people were getting hit big time. Even after I left there I still had issues.

I became a supervisor within the company the controlled everything the salesman did. Everything that happened, I over seen it and I also had to change up things from the salesman when something was no longer available. Though I wouldn't get commission like they would it brought bitter feelings when they lost money because of a mistake or something else. Eventually I did some research about IRS form SS-8 and brought it to their attention I played it off as if my tax guy told me but I researched everything myself.

They decided to pay me for my taxes and asked me not to tell any other workers. Eventually though I was being watched as a trouble maker now. One of my subordinates or saleswomen decided to come to me and show me an e-mail claiming she was about to lose her job and needed help.

I decided to coach her the rest of the day as she asked. What I didn't know was she used this as a chance, she went to HR and claimed I told her she was going to get fired. I came to work and was corned by HR and supervisors who tried to pin the situation on me. I didn't send her the e-mail nor did I tell her she was going to get fired but because she "felt" I knew she was going to get fired her job was secure and I got written up.

I was so distraught I lost all my blood pressure and passed out on the train before going to work and then twice in the airport where I tried to get to and get some water or food.

Eventually though I got myself fired as four months later I read QA's BS reviews of everyone allowed, I didn't want to be there anymore and that got me fired but fired in a way I benefited.

I've had bad jobs before, crappy jobs but never have I had a job like that, that literally went behind your back with backroom politics and literally played with your money. I want to say I felt the affects of that job three years afterwards because of taxes and IRS stuff.

Been let go twice after 6 months of trial employment (mandatory here in Sweden before you are hired permanently) because of the same reason: "you did not get in to the team", even though i did what was expected.

First time i have a clue as to why and i sort of may have caused it myself. Second time there was no legitimate reason, but i did not care and just wanted to quit anyway. I have learned to be way more communicative and social since then.

Fired for "a lot of little things.". The was the phrase the lead engineering guy gave me which was what a new general manager told him. I had the offer to sit down with the general manager for a more specific explanation, but I chose not to.

It was a technical night shift job that I was burned out on. I do feel that day shift was neglecting a shared task basically leaving me to do the whole thing. Just one time, I let some of that work slide and the new manager fired me.

I've never been fired but a co-worker of mine was fired for punching in early and logging in that he serviced an account when he in fact didn't. How he got caught? His boss was suspicious and went to his account early and waited two hours for him and he was no where to be found. When he asked where he was, he said he was in the bathroom, that's why he didn't see him. His boss said, "For 2 hours?" The co-worker than said it took so long because he s**t his pants. His boss didn't buy that and once he got the guy to admit he was lying, he was canned on the spot.

Once landed a job as a hotel room worker (I was actually excited at the time to have landed a job at all but that soon changed), and we were told simply to work fast and hard. I was new to the job and in such a hurry to keep up that I kept missing odd smudges here and there when cleaning, which were pointed out to me loudly and frequently. I don't think they intended to keep me there very long.

Two Polish girls were hired shortly after, both of whom seemed to be close friends outside of work and who, basically worked as a linen folding team. Anyone who's worked with large sheets knows that two people get the job way faster than one, so I was trailing behind in their wake. They chatted away in Polish, passing instructions back and forth to each other, they were like a smooth, highly efficient machine. I was never entirely sure what to do so I couldn't even understand what *I* was meant to be doing in turn.

Of course, I ended up becoming the third wheel, and one day they just told me to get my stuff and go home. They didn't explicitly say it but there was no way I was going to be able to keep up with those relentless speedy Polish girls all on my own. I was so pissed off I didn't say a word, I just turned on my heel and walked away. It felt *good* at the time.

Oh yeah and another job I wasn't technically fired from but I almost certainly would've been if I hadn't quit when I did.

I worked on a till in a supermarket and the supervisors seemed to make it their mission to get *me* in particular to smile and make small talk with the customers. The customers didn't even want to chit-chat any more than I did but those supervisors were hell-bent on their mission and they even went as far as to send a mystery shopper through my check-out to snitch on me out for not smiling or talking enough. I was polite and efficient but apparently that wouldn't do at all... they kept saying that making conversation (asking how their day was going, what the weather was like, etc) was "part of the job", strongly implying that I wouldn't last long there if I didn't play ball...

So one day I just didn't go back in. That also felt good at the time...