👀 What's the craziest thing you've ever seen a coworker lose their job over?

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One of my former cleared, defense industry colleagues went on three week trip to China and married a Chinese woman there without telling anyone beforehand or after, including the security team. It only came out about 6 months later when she came to the US and showed up with him at the office one day and he admitted it to our team.

I wasn't involved in exactly what happened to him, but he was rolled off the project within like a day or two and was gone fom the company shortly thereafter.

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That's a pretty wild story!

Unauthorized computer use. Someone was using his work computer to watch videos of a very questionable nature. You'd think it would occur to him that a government building and computer network is not the place for that. But people just do weird things sometimes.

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Sounds like you are directly talking about my coworker 🙄 He would literally need to go to prison to lose his job. Not kidding. We call it the Good Ole boys club.

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Running up their P-card with alcohol, hotel stays, nail salon trips, etc. and then not being able to pay it off.

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Two people were caught having an affair on the clock. They were both married to other people.

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Could you imagine 🫣😱

Getting their car keys out of the trash compactor

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Now that's just stupid! What were they thinking!?

Back when I was a projectionist I had a colleague for a while who was constantly trying to swap out of his Saturday night shifts. (It was a cinema, so naturally everyone was expected to do their fair share of the Saturday night's.) I swapped with him one week, bit then when he asked again the next week I didn't. I quickly found out that he had been asking everyone else on the team to swap him out of his Saturday night's, so we all agreed not to swap with him until he was working his fair share of Saturday night shifts. His work was always substandard anyway, and we were all constantly picking up his slack. Then one day he came to the boss and announced he was quitting because he'd found a better paying job.
"Doing what?" Asked the boss.
"Labouring," he replied casually.
The boss just laughed. "Mate, you're too lazy even to be a projectionist! How do you think you're going to hack it as a labourer?! Do you know how hard those guys work?!"
He then took our colleague downstairs and finished him up straight away. We were glad to be rid of him.

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Giving a BJ in the company parking lot on company time.

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This had me laughing 🤣🤣 people are so silly sometimes!

Reveling their past as a stripper while giving a smoked whiskey recipe on a management check in .. that was a nail in the coffin lol

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For being a Combat Veteran and them thinking was going to Snap from a Perceived PTS
KR oger co. person was a BUTCHER

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