When an employee is spending more time avoiding work than actually getting things done, the bosses tend to notice. They don’t like that kind of thing! They’ve hired an employee to work, obviously, and when they don’t, their burden falls onto the shoulders of their colleagues. Depending on how big the team is, it might take a while for management to notice if someone is sneaking off every day, wasting hours of working time, or if someone doesn’t do any work by refusing to answer calls. There are plenty of ways that a person can “work” for 8 hours while accomplishing basically nothing.
Some workers managed to finesse their company’s time clocks. One dude was called out for driving to work, clocking in, then leaving all day to do whatever he pleased, then finally coming back at the end of the day to clock out. It’s no wonder he got fired! Another person was hired to do quality checks, but instead, spent every working moment writing his own book. Naturally, when the company found out, they were not happy, and he was fired quick. He’ll have to sell a lot of copies to replace that steady salary! And of course, there are lots of workers who just straight-up steal from their jobs, like one waitress who kept swiping tips that weren’t hers. Coworkers clearly notice that kind of thing, and even if they don’t, the cameras will tell on her instead. Keep reading to discover a bunch of excellent stories of all the ways people got fired on the spot, as told by the coworkers and bosses who watched it all play out.
