Once I heard someone saw a box of swag and took the box home. They had nothing to do with the swag order or the project the swag was intended for. The whole box was probably worth $200.
I heard someone at Google said women are stupid and got fired...:)
I heard we elected 12 year old as our president because people like you voted for him.
I m just stating stupid reasons to get fired. How did you infer my political affiliation?
At my old company there was a couple who had recurring meetings for sex in a conference room
Were you in "office" office? are you referring to Dwight and Angela?
Lol no, actual company
I know someone who resigned by text message (and was not delivered because he sent it to the wrong number) so he was still on the company payroll for two months. They “fired” him for not showing up to work. The second dumbest was due to a computer bug. Recruiter made an offer to an engineer and closed the requisition. The day he started the system saw an irregularity (offer extended + withdrawn from position) and fired him on his first day. They had to fix the bug in the system to rehire him. Third dumbest: a new hire had computer issues and dropped his machine off at IT. He sat at his desk for an hour, got bored, took his golf clubs out of his trunk and started practicing putting in front of a director’s office.
I’m confused. Shouldn’t the last one be promoted, not fired?
The last one wasted two work days working on putting a golf ball. Right outside the director’s office. How does that deserve a promotion?
watching porn
In a friend's company (which had cubicles back then) , for some office event a person stood up on chair to take office photo and it accidentally caught an employee watching porn 😆
So who was fired?
Getting excited about Christmas gift and live tweeting it. The gift was $1000 cash.
That’s harsh. A warning wouldn’t suffice?
I would agree. But apparently it was a security risk for employees.
Friend of friend fired from Apple because he bittorrented music in company network.
A employee was caught taking pictures in the restroom because of the fake camera sound. One dude called security immediately. The person’s phone was inspected and had pictures of employees dicks. He was scouted out and the person was never seen again.
Two employees engaged in fist fighting. Both were fired.
Should've let the winner stay.
Mining crypto on company infa
On that note, I also heard of someone torrenting on company infra. Not Linux distros.
A few years ago in our road map meeting, I proposed to use all unused AWS cloud computing resource to mine crypto. Only if the VP had listened :( fyi, all unused cloud computing are sitting idle waiting for customers new capacity requests.