Today, I got fired from a job that I've had for four days for being too "secretive." Apparently, I was leaning over my notebook so that my boss couldn't stand behind me and read what I was writing. The email literally said I was "being too sneaky". They were work notes. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I got fired from my job. When I asked why, all that was said to me was, "We don't have to disclose that information, but you did nothing wrong. It's just not working out." FML
Today, I got fired from my part-time job, because I insisted on keeping my phone in my pocket and never using it, instead of putting it in locker without a lock or security camera, that anyone can go through. The manager found out by searching my locker for the past 3 weeks. Ironic. FML
Today, I got fired from my job because my boss thinks that me doing everything he says makes me untrustworthy. FML
Today, I was fired without warning from my job because I was not consulting my boss about things like washing dishes and throwing away garbage. Basically, I was fired for being too good at my job. FML
Today, I received a two-page letter/rant from my boss notifying me of my imminent dismissal, based on issues such as me "speaking in a suppressed voice." FML
Today, I was accused of "spying too much" on what my coworkers are writing about Covid-19 on the news site I work for. I'm one of the supervisors. FML
Today, at work I wrote up my boyfriend (whom I've been secretly dating, because I'm his supervisor) for being $40 short on his register. Our policy is to write up anyone short over $10. He got mad and told my boss we're dating, and I was instantly fired. Then I got dumped for being a "tattle-tale". FML
Today, I was telling my coworker that I was considering quitting the shady, 50-shades-of-scum business we work at. He snitched to our boss, who quickly fired me on bullshit charges of incompetence, theft, and workplace bullying. I guess I'm not getting a good reference from him. FML
Today, my boss fired me for "fooling around" on my phone. I was looking for supplies for a surprise party we are throwing him for his birthday, and I didn't want to do it on my work computer because he has access to our history. Also, this happened during my lunch break. FML
Today, I was fired. Last week, I was written up because I came in one minute late from lunch break. The week before, I was yelled at for yawning. I found out it was all a plan for my boss’s favorite employee to get promoted to my position, so they wanted a reason to terminate me. I work in an “at will” state. FML
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Top comments
ManInTheMachine 20
Before you leave, put a sticky note pack in your cubicle that reads: "Since you seemed so keen on being a nosy ass, I made this note especially for you:" Then make him flip through about twenty sticky notes with arrows or "Almost there!" before he gets to: "Go **** yourself." It won't get you your job back, but you'll be laughing your way through the unemployment line.
echosaints 5
Why didn't you just show him the notes?
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Comments (65)
Ugi 27
Easy for me to say when it's you who will have to find a new job, but it doesn't sound like a great place to work in any case. Hope you find something better soon.
DocBastard 40
Let's hope you didn't work for the CIA.
perdix 31
How does the fact they were "work notes" make it better? That makes it much worse! You looked like you were trying to steal company secrets for sale on the open market. You've got to be an open book for the first few weeks before you become bizarrely furtive and suspicious. ;)
TrailblazerSS 5
They were work notes to hopefully improve her performance at work. Her boss just literally shot the company they work for in the foot.
perdix 31
Company's don't have feet, so the boss couldn't "literally" shoot the company there. We don't know anything about these "work notes" except that she wrote them down in a suspicious way.
kofeinisti 6
*Companies
perdix 31
#49, you are correct, sir! Sorry for the error, but such an egregious misuse of "literally" make me so mad I lose my mind, *lowers sunglasses* literally.
TrailblazerSS 5
How could you infer more than this FML implies? That's just being stupid and trying to hard to get vote up. Vote me down I don't really care, but don't be stupid and try to read into this more than what they tell you in their post. *lowers sunglasses*
TheHarvardian 25
No, not really. Them being "work notes" just make the situation more ridiculous, because as trainees we were expected to take notes on how to do the job while we were being trained.
alslulu 15
only in America
BellaBelle_fml 23
And only people who are as ignorant as you seem to be would say such a thing. Every country in the world has its own stash of people who are just as inane or, simply put, moronic as the next. Stupidity has no ethnicity.
gc327072 31
22- for your first comment, that was a huge fail.
Mister_Triangle 21
Yeah. In North Korea they fire you by forcing you to stand in one spot and hitting you with a mortar. No, seriously, they just did that to a general.
KVKdragon 26
I feel there should be a small committee that needs to give an approval or something before bosses can officially fire people :(
gracehi 33
Oh, God. Can you imagine the crippling bureaucracy that would create? Bad idea.
olpally 33
Punch that bastard/bitch in the face then show him/her your notes... What a nosy fuckface...
ScarletBloom 14
Conclusion. Ninjas don't exist.
ICastillo 25
That exactly what they want you to think. There is probably five watching you right now....
KiddNYC1O 22
You've got some balls, 31...
mckibben 7
Where's Noor?
twinkiefeets 17
Who cares!
ambear26 14
It's okay op I was fired for standing with my arms folded behind my back. It was a habitual habit that I couldn't break so they fired me. Companies like yours are not worth staying with trust me.
markuskind 7
I know the feel. OP i too hate it when people stand behind me and watch over me, regardless of what i am writing
wanted4myeyez 7
Unless it was an 'fire at will' u should fight it