‘He stole the CEO‘s lunch’: Employees Share the Weirdest Reasons Coworkers Got Fired From Their Jobs – FAIL Blog

raceulfson:

An expensive ($1800) item went missing from our shop. A competitor called my boss, asking if we were missing said item. One of our crew had taken it and sold it to the competitor for $40.

How did he know it was from our shop? The employee told him he’d stolen it from us. The employee also signed the receipt for the $40 cash, writing in his full name and address.

My boss reimbursed the competitor the $40, took the item and the receipt, and confronted the employee.

Employee admitted to the theft but was genuinely baffled that he was fired over it. He complained to everyone, including customers in the lobby, that he’d been fired for stealing and he only got $40!