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Being Sacked

  • 22-07-2011 11:32AM
    #1
    TheNardDawg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭


    Have you ever been sacked from a job, or have you ever known anyone who was sacked from a job for an unusual reason?

    I work in an open plan office and a few years ago there was a lad sacked for looking at gay porn:eek:, he was actually reported by other staff cos they could see it on his screen...that has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of someone getting caught doing in work...anyone else got a contender?
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  • #2
    Lemsiper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭Lemsiper


    You know the drill, Pics or...


  • #3
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    never been sacked.


  • #4
    deman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭deman


    Was once sacked for having a secret relationship with a colleague. Against the rules.

    I also fired someone for refusing to sit in the back seat of the car. He insisted on sitting in the passenger seat which was occupied by another colleague. He said he wouldn't get into the car unless he could get in the front. I said "that suits me" and told him was fired and drive off.


  • #5
    Frank Black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,296 ✭✭✭Frank Black


    deman wrote: »
    Was once sacked for having a secret relationship with a colleague. Against the rules.


    I think you need to re-read the definition of the word 'secret'..


  • #6
    TheNardDawg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭TheNardDawg


    FatherLen wrote: »
    never been sacked.

    Of course not, shr aren't ye priests above the law...


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  • #7
    Lux23
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭Lux23


    Nope. I still think you have to be either stupid or really useless to get sacked.


  • #8
    stephen_k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 449 ✭✭stephen_k


    Nope never been sacked..... BUT....

    My first job, I worked there for about a year, about a month before I left, the boss asked me to do a project that involved me borrowing a company laptop.... Young bloke+company laptop+internet = fap fap fap....

    Called back a few months after I had left, and was talking to some of my ex collegues and the told me that one of the sales reps was sacked because the found some ropey material on a lap top he was using....





    *whistles a he walks away nonchalantly*


  • #9
    D1stant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    deman wrote: »
    I also fired someone for refusing to sit in the back seat of the car. He insisted on sitting in the passenger seat which was occupied by another colleague. He said he wouldn't get into the car unless he could get in the front. I said "that suits me" and told him was fired and drive off.

    Eh Huh?

    What was the job?


  • #10
    jonnyfingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭jonnyfingers


    TheNardDawg wrote: »
    ..that has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard of someone getting caught doing in work...anyone else got a contender?

    A guy in work was recently sacked for porn as well. Well he wasn't really sacked, more like he could no longer get to work as he was behind bars. Seems the girls in his porn videos were slightly younger than is legally acceptable. What's worse is he's the second guy in the office to get caught with that sort of thing. :eek:

    And I know of a few people who were caught having a hand shandy at the desk and promptly given their marching orders. (Not to the same porn as the other guy)


  • #11
    jonnyfingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭jonnyfingers


    D1stant wrote: »
    deman wrote: »
    Was once sacked for having a secret relationship with a colleague. Against the rules.

    I also fired someone for refusing to sit in the back seat of the car. He insisted on sitting in the passenger seat which was occupied by another colleague. He said he wouldn't get into the car unless he could get in the front. I said "that suits me" and told him was fired and drive off.

    Eh Huh?

    What was the job?

    Backseat driver probably.


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  • #12
    mackg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,938 ✭✭✭mackg


    jonnyfingers wrote: »
    A guy in work was recently sacked for porn as well. Well he wasn't really sacked, more like he could no longer get to work as he was behind bars. Seems the girls in his porn videos were slightly younger than is legally acceptable. What's worse is he's the second guy in the office to get caught with that sort of thing. :eek:

    And I know of a few people who were caught having a hand shandy at the desk and promptly given their marching orders. (Not to the same porn as the other guy)

    Like full on kiddy porn?


  • #13
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    I was sacked from a pub in london - loved working there and me and landlady got on great - she used to leave me in charge while she sat upstairs watching the telly!

    Then a new brewery took over and we had to sign a form saying we wouldn't serve anyone under 18 - obvious - however it also said that we would be liable if we served them even if they didnt look under 18 and had id! I didnt sign and got my cards! :(


  • #14
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    jonnyfingers wrote: »

    And I know of a few people who were caught having a hand shandy at the desk and promptly given their marching orders. (Not to the same porn as the other guy)

    Good lord.


    All in a customer care call centre -

    One guy got the sack for skinning up at his desk (only ever happened on Sundays or really late at night)... In fairness he was actually really good at his job though.

    Another guy spent the whole month after training just "dropping calls"... He would hang up as soon as he got the beep in his ear.


  • #15
    jonnyfingers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭jonnyfingers


    mackg wrote: »
    Like full on kiddy porn?

    Yep. And because two guys in one office were caught, the police checked all our laptops in case we were part of a "ring".

    We were all clean. But the first guy who got caught still works here as he got a suspended sentence. :eek: Very few people work with him though for obvious reasons.


    Just remembered another one. In my last company a contractor was sacked when he was found coming out of a plant room very regularly (plant room is large industrial room in a factory full of wires, pipes etc.). Turns out he was climbing above the women's toilets and had punched a hole threw the ceiling slates for a sneaky view.

    Now that I think of it I've worked in a places full of perverts!


  • #16
    FortuneChip
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    wild_cat wrote: »
    Good lord.


    All in a customer care call centre -

    One guy got the sack for skinning up at his desk (only ever happened on Sundays or really late at night)... In fairness he was actually really good at his job though.

    Another guy spent the whole month after training just "dropping calls"... He would hang up as soon as he got the beep in his ear.

    Ah gotta love the stories from that place!!!
    Another guy got his marching orders because he refused to lower his BO emissions


  • #17
    stargazer 68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,234 ✭✭✭stargazer 68


    jonnyfingers wrote: »

    Now that I think of it I've worked in a places full of perverts!

    Hmm but you are the common denominator!! :eek:


  • #18
    Birneybau
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    jonnyfingers wrote: »
    A guy in work was recently sacked for porn as well. Well he wasn't really sacked, more like he could no longer get to work as he was behind bars. Seems the girls in his porn videos were slightly younger than is legally acceptable. What's worse is he's the second guy in the office to get caught with that sort of thing. :eek:

    And I know of a few people who were caught having a hand shandy at the desk and promptly given their marching orders. (Not to the same porn as the other guy)

    FYP


  • #19
    NothingMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,178 ✭✭✭✭NothingMan


    Never sacked but ended up leaving a company the day before I was due to because some ass hole head of security came over from the UK and thought it was very convenient I was leaving the company when he was visiting to investigate till shortages. Marched me out of the place mid shift and made me feel embarassed and humiliated in front of my friends and colleagues.

    Was due to start my first proper job the following Monday so I didn't kick up a fuss but I'll never forgive the manager at the time who stood by and let some over sized bully accuse me of theft and walk me out of there mid shift. Horrible way to leave a company I had otherwise nothing but fond memories of.

    And no, I didn't take the money!


  • #20
    wrmwit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 417 ✭✭wrmwit


    jonnyfingers wrote: »
    But the first guy who got caught still works here as he got a suspended sentence. :eek: Very few people work with him though for obvious reasons.

    Jaysus imagine the embarrassment of walking in the office knowing that everyone knows what ya did.

    A guy I worked with got the sack cos our boss caught him watching porn on his computer. Our boss saw the refection of his screen off the window that was behind him. What a dumb-*ss!


  • #21
    Jess16
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭Jess16


    I worked in a hotel as a student where one of the barmen got fired for having his fingers in the till and a waitress for having her mouth around a manager in his office


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  • #22
    Dravokivich
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    jonnyfingers wrote: »
    Now that I think of it I've worked in a places full of perverts!

    Me too... 1 guy for kiddy porn, another for pimping rent boys (he had a Prime Time special about him, which is how we all found out) and the third guy for watching porn on the work PC.

    The 3 of'em were all in the same dept as well. :eek:


  • #23
    cruiser178
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    Dravokivich wrote: »
    Me too... 1 guy for kiddy porn, another for pimping rent boys (he had a Prime Time special about him, which is how we all found out) and the third guy for watching porn on the work PC.

    The 3 of'em were all in the same dept as well. :eek:


    So you dont think it would be a good idea to stick on a bit of auld youjizz here in my computer class, no?

    Never been sacked, came close once or twice for being late but never sacked.


  • #24
    CardBordWindow
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    A guy in my work was sacked for being horribly drunk from the night before in work. As he operates machinery, he was sacked on H&S grounds.


  • #25
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Jess16 wrote: »
    a waitress for having her mouth around a manager in his office
    I'm guessing the manager got promoted yeah?
    I know a girl who was on fully-paid sick leave for a year, and then appeared on telly promoting her home-business website which she had launched "a year ago".

    Not really aware of any others. One guy in our place was told to back up his laptop as he was getting an upgrade and promptly uploaded 40GB of porn onto the company network. Worse, it was into the area where only client information is stored.

    A complete moron I used to hang around with as a kid got a job in a cinema and on his second day didn't bother going in. When they rang him and asked him where he was, he said he didn't feel like coming in today, he'd be in tomorrow. He spent about a week bitching about the "cúnts" for firing him.
    Though this guy had literally 20 minimum-wage jobs in the space of a year. The longest he managed to keep one was a week.


  • #26
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    A certain chain of exclusive gyms in Dublin fired a rake of childcare staff a few years ago because they were joining a union. The same gym has, in the last 9 months fired 2 cleaning staff and at least one member of gym staff for completely fatuous, if not completely made up, reasons. One of the cleaners got a warning, and a full-volume bollocking in the main reception, for wasting money on bin liners by emptying bins too often.


  • #27
    krissovo
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    wild_cat wrote: »
    Good lord.


    All in a customer care call centre -

    One guy got the sack for skinning up at his desk (only ever happened on Sundays or really late at night)... In fairness he was actually really good at his job though.

    Another guy spent the whole month after training just "dropping calls"... He would hang up as soon as he got the beep in his ear.

    Is this a call center in Cork by any chance? As the same incidents happened where I worked including the BO incident.


  • #28
    Gillo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,566 ✭✭✭Gillo


    Years ago I scored a girl in Coppers but as I was still living at hone at the time I brought her back to work and did the deed in th stockroom. Fair enough I deserved it.

    The annoying thing is I would have got away with it only I drunkenly bragged about it four weeks later to the area manager.

    Oh to be young and foolish!


  • #29
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    kylith wrote: »
    A certain chain of exclusive gyms in Dublin fired a rake of childcare staff a few years ago because they were joining a union. The same gym has, in the last 9 months fired 2 cleaning staff and at least one member of gym staff for completely fatuous, if not completely made up, reasons. One of the cleaners got a warning, and a full-volume bollocking in the main reception, for wasting money on bin liners by emptying bins too often.


    I hope the owners end up in court some day. I'm thinking about chancing my arm and going self employed. Due to the crap I've had to put up with I'd never ever treat anyone I hired with horribleness (getting way ahead of myself). I'm only working a few days a week so I've enough time on my hands. Small start up and see how it goes for a while but still keep my two/three day a week job till I see how it fares out.

    I might be mad in a recession but as no one is willing to give me a decent job so I might as well make one up for myself :).


  • #30
    wild_cat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭wild_cat


    krissovo wrote: »
    Is this a call center in Cork by any chance? As the same incidents happened where I worked including the BO incident.

    Northside Dublin.

    I've worked in a couple. Always the same type of people. :D.


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  • #31
    Jess16
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    seamus wrote: »
    I'm guessing the manager got promoted yeah?

    I'm pretty sure he got an um, raise (:


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