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Strange reasons for getting the sack

  • 24-04-2013 7:28am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭


    I was talking to lad in work the other day about someone getting sacked and he told me a story of a Frenchman he used to work with in a large city centre hotel.

    The French lad was working with guest services in the hotel, hoovering, making beds and what not. One busy weekend he was caught by a customer in their room wearing a pair of her knickers like a mask as he was cleaning, he was reported and sacked on the spot.

    Anyone else got any other strange reasons for people getting the sack.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Because I was a short sighted circumcisor.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    That's not a strange reason, it's a perfectly valid one!

    Crazy French bastard :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    I know a guy who was sacked for watching the video of Saddam Hussain being hung in work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,854 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    joe stodge wrote: »
    I was talking to lad in work the other day about someone getting sacked and he told me a story of a Frenchman he used to work with in a large city centre hotel.

    The French lad was working with guest services in the hotel, hoovering, making beds and what not. One busy weekend he was caught by a customer in their room wearing a pair of her knickers like a mask as he was cleaning, he was reported and sacked on the spot.

    Anyone else got any other strange reasons for people getting the sack.

    You consider that a strange reason?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 399 ✭✭IceFjoem


    I often get the sack after dying in Halo...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 986 ✭✭✭joe stodge


    lertsnim wrote: »
    You consider that a strange reason?

    Strange reason in the way I can't imagine many people getting sacked for wearing a customers knickers like a mask as you do your job.

    But a very valid reason for getting sacked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭General General


    Jizzing on the boss's wife's tits... the rubbing it in. My mate Marco's mad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Used to work in a place where a guy got sacked for watching porn in his office. The weird thing is that his office had glass walls, so how he thought no-one would know what he was up to, I have no idea.


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,641 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I knew a guy who was eventually fired for many sexual reasons with colleagues. He had slept with 3 of the staff in the office (there was only something like 20 people in there). He was eventually fired because not only was he caught with a fourth girl, but it was the boss's daughter


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,000 ✭✭✭Stone Deaf 4evr


    I heard of a fella who was fired from the kitchen of a hotel for sticking his mickey in the dishwasher.



    she got away with a written warning....



    I'll get me coat...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭bacon n eggs


    Tsk....read it wrong, thought it said strange reasons for getting In the sack...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,200 ✭✭✭muppetkiller


    I heard of a fella who was fired from the kitchen of a hotel for sticking his mickey in the dishwasher.



    she got away with a written warning....



    I'll get me coat...

    I think I had to re-read this about 10 times before I finally got it lol It's going to be a long day :)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    Practically eating from the trash. Used to work in Dunnes. Whenever something broke on the shop floor or when packaged food was found to be ripped open, it'd be taken out back to be thrown out and marked as returns. Well, the main security chap just happened to be doing an overview of the stockroom and saw some lads bringing a pack of doughnuts back and stuffing themselves.

    Golly, were they embarrased when they got caught.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    Practically eating from the trash. Used to work in Dunnes. Whenever something broke on the shop floor or when packaged food was found to be ripped open, it'd be taken out back to be thrown out and marked as returns. Well, the main security chap just happened to be doing an overview of the stockroom and saw some lads bringing a pack of doughnuts back and stuffing themselves.

    Golly, were they embarrased when they got caught.


    Well., hadn't he little to be doing, Bastward!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Practically eating from the trash. Used to work in Dunnes. Whenever something broke on the shop floor or when packaged food was found to be ripped open, it'd be taken out back to be thrown out and marked as returns. Well, the main security chap just happened to be doing an overview of the stockroom and saw some lads bringing a pack of doughnuts back and stuffing themselves.

    Golly, were they embarrased when they got caught.

    That's the norm in all supermarkets, I'd say. Worked in one once and management were lucky if half the packs of jaffa cakes on the pallet made it onto the shelf. Also, one of the fridges wasn't covered by CCTV, so we used to gorge ourselves in there. Good times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    Used to work in a sports shop many moons ago and this chap got the bullet for keep telling people they didn't have their shoe size when we did. He done it because he thought it was hilarious.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    kylith wrote: »
    That's the norm in all supermarkets, I'd say. Worked in one once and management were lucky if half the packs of jaffa cakes on the pallet made it onto the shelf. Also, one of the fridges wasn't covered by CCTV, so we used to gorge ourselves in there. Good times.

    Aye, but to think someone'd be foolish enough to do it, even though being told during induction on the very first day it's considered theft and an immediate sackable offence.

    Aw well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Aye, but to think someone'd be foolish enough to do it, even though being told during induction on the very first day it's considered theft and an immediate sackable offence.

    Aw well.

    The trick is to make friends with the security guys so you can have a look at the monitors and work out where the blind spots are. Which is completely immoral and shouldn't be done at all, at all.

    Unless there are Jaffa cakes to be had. You can go as spy-movie as you like if there are Jaffa cakes in the offing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    antodeco wrote: »
    I knew a guy who was eventually fired for many sexual reasons with colleagues. He had slept with 3 of the staff in the office (there was only something like 20 people in there). He was eventually fired because not only was he caught with a fourth girl, but it was the boss's daughter

    Hope he sued for unfair dismissal. That is not a reason to sack somebody


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Sadderday


    I know someone that was sacked for piling up cups on his desk. A serious amount with tea/coffee/soup still left in some. compiled them for months, boss hassled him to get rid - never did and cleaner wouldnt tidy up after him (fair enougH)
    health issue apparently


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,737 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    Hope he sued for unfair dismissal. That is not a reason to sack somebody

    Depends. There could be something in the contract about fraternising with colleagues. Or, he might have been caught getting jiggy in the office. They don't like that at all.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Catkins407


    Had one poor girl get the sack for spending too much time in the bathroom. We only had a few minutes each day for bathroom breaks and no one ever exceeded it as you really had to be at your desk to meet your targets.

    She not only exceeded it but set new records . The things is though she was going to the bathroom to vomit as she had bulimia . She was painfully thin. Had terrible breath constantly and was weak all the time. Everyone knew . The company did nothing to help and just put her through the warning and dismissal procedures. I know they were under no obligation to help but they did help other people including myself when we had personal issues. It was just sad .


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,641 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Henlars67 wrote: »
    Hope he sued for unfair dismissal. That is not a reason to sack somebody

    It was in the office and he was already on multiple warnings over the same issue!


  • Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Unless it was physically in the office, they'd be on thin ice. Does it mention having relationships with colleagues in his contract?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60 ✭✭Gymsey


    I know a guy who used work as a baggage handler at an airport and took to writing his name on peoples bags! God only knows why!
    So he was doing this for months until an investigation was launched in America as the name is quite rare and americans didn't know what it was about. Long story short he got fired and is barred from America.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Catkins407 wrote: »
    Had one poor girl get the sack for spending too much time in the bathroom. We only had a few minutes each day for bathroom breaks and no one ever exceeded it as you really had to be at your desk to meet your targets.

    She not only exceeded it but set new records . The things is though she was going to the bathroom to vomit as she had bulimia . She was painfully thin. Had terrible breath constantly and was weak all the time. Everyone knew . The company did nothing to help and just put her through the warning and dismissal procedures. I know they were under no obligation to help but they did help other people including myself when we had personal issues. It was just sad .

    That is fcuking shocking, the lack of help is bad, but you are timed if you go the jacks? How long do you get a day?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 LuciusPax


    Used to work in a clothes shop not so long ago. One of the staff was this ferociously lazy geezer who was one of those people who had that rare knack of being able to look busy while not actually doing any work. He finally got his comeuppance when the boss sent him into the store room to gather a few items. When he didn't return the boss went in to look for him and found him wearing a pair of womens knickers on his head and dancing like a mad man. He was promptly told to hand over the underwear and was fired on the spot. Good riddance says I.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,658 ✭✭✭donutheadhomer


    antodeco wrote: »
    I knew a guy who was eventually fired for many sexual reasons with colleagues. He had slept with 3 of the staff in the office (there was only something like 20 people in there). He was eventually fired because not only was he caught with a fourth girl, but it was the boss's daughter

    any HR people here. Is it a valid reason to fire someone for having consensual sex with fellow employees?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,325 ✭✭✭true


    A friend who worked with me a few years ago phoned up to take a day off sick, he said he was in bed with the flu. He was caught shopping, well and healthy, in a well known shop in Grafton St that day by the manager, who had the days holiday. It was the straw that broke the camels back and he was "allowed resign" by mutual agreement. Trust was gone.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Sadderday


    any HR people here. Is it a valid reason to fire someone for having consensual sex with fellow employees?


    yeah, if it's on her fathers desk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Catkins407


    Odysseus wrote: »
    That is fcuking shocking, the lack of help is bad, but you are timed if you go the jacks? How long do you get a day?


    It was something like 9 minutes over the course of the working day but honestly if you had an off day you were never pulled for it. I don't anyone else who ever got pulled for that particular rule. It's wasn't strictly enforced but this girl used to spend 15 to 2o mins of each hour in the loo some days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭Sadderday


    wonder if a doctors note woulda been any use to her case?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    Catkins407 wrote: »
    It was something like 9 minutes over the course of the working day

    I'm only settling in for a dump by the 9 minute mark!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


    Alright lad how's the form lad?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,754 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    Catkins407 wrote: »
    It was something like 9 minutes over the course of the working day but honestly if you had an off day you were never pulled for it. I don't anyone else who ever got pulled for that particular rule. It's wasn't strictly enforced but this girl used to spend 15 to 2o mins of each hour in the loo some days.

    Who the fcuk came up with 9mins a day. I have this image of a big countdown clock on the wall and the music playing as people try to get back to their desks in time.

    I thought stuff like this went out in the 60s.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭EuskalHerria


    Worked in a similar place with times given for breaks which included the toilet. 21 minutes per 7 hour shift. That included fag breaks which was annoying as I was on the 2nd floor and the smoking shelter was around the back of the building. I won't name the company, but little-wood change their mind about the policy.

    On the topic I know of a girl who was fired for flashing herself at a female colleague at the Christmas party. If she had done it to the right manager it would have been a promotion.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,473 ✭✭✭vandriver


    I heard of a fella who was fired from the kitchen of a hotel for sticking his mickey in the dishwasher.



    she got away with a written warning....



    I'll get me coat...

    Its taken me 2 1/2 hrs for the penny to drop D'oh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 132 ✭✭Catkins407


    Odysseus wrote: »
    Who the fcuk came up with 9mins a day. I have this image of a big countdown clock on the wall and the music playing as people try to get back to their desks in time.

    I thought stuff like this went out in the 60s.

    Well as far as I know it's still in force to this day and there are always similar rules in call centres as you can't be out if the "queue" for very long otherwise people are stuck on hold waiting for calls to be answered.

    The thing was I moved to a lovely company with no rules at all around breaks of any kind and honestly I spent most lunchtimes at my desk with a wrap or sandwich working through my lunch happily as I wasn't forced to do it. I wanted to do it as the company really looked after us and respected us.

    We put up a big sign one day. It said " doing a good job in here is like peeing in a dark suit . It gives you a nice warm feeling but no one sees you doing it. " CEOs thought it was hilarious. In my previous company I'd have been put on a warning for that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 980 ✭✭✭Freddy Smelly


    anyone ever get the sack from a sack manufacturer?


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