26 Shocking And Wild Reasons Coworkers Were Fired — Some Very Justifiable And Others Just Bizarre

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“I worked a long-term temp job in a small branch loan office of a bank. It was a major bank, but we were in a very small city. My boss’s boss got fired because she used company funds to buy a bunch of bus stop ads for the bank. Her husband had used them for his real estate business, and they did great. She honestly thought the big bosses would be thrilled with the business it brought in, and she didn’t ask anyone first because she wanted to impress them with her initiative. I was there when her boss first came in to talk to her, frantic and spluttering as he tried to explain about marketing departments in New York and approval and guidelines and things. She kept saying that the ads weren’t for the whole bank, just for our branch, so it was fine, and no one would care. She was just so ignorant. I might have felt bad for her if she hadn’t been the kind of boss who timed people’s bathroom breaks.”

“Then my boss, who’d always been her little toadie, got fired for trying to start a petition to get her un-fired and went around asking for signatures from clients and employees. I don’t know how she thought any of that would work. She might have kept her job if she’d apologized, but she acted all shocked and indignant when they said she had to stop.

I kind of got let go, too, because of it since I knew all about the ads and petition as they were happening and didn’t think to tell anyone. My temp agency stood up for me and said that wasn’t my job. They told the bank they could end my contract, but they couldn’t put down that I’d been let go for doing anything wrong.”

—Preposterous_punk