i worked in a restaurant for my first job in high school. i was about 16 when we hired on my co worker/buddies little cousin. this kid was a year younger than me and a total shit head, no one liked him because of his attitude and behavior issues.
anyways, kid gets hired and at first he’s chill. him and i both LOVED the same band so we had a mutual bond and common thing to talk about. other than that, couldn’t stand him much. but during his first week he starts to step on peoples toes quite easily because he notices some of us who are friends liked roasting each other and he thought he could join in but the comments he was making wasn’t silly banter, it was full blown rude comments that made some of us mad and get selective over when we’d joke back and forth with each other. we also started to notice this kid didn’t do his job properly either (he worked dish pit) when working alone, and his lack of proper cleaning of dishes, cutlery and etc. threw everyone behind on their closing tasks cause we’d have to ask him to re wash everything due to food chunks being all over things.
after two-three weeks a number of us complained to management, this kids older cousin even complained about him it got so bad. the last straw i think for him was taking this dishwasher sprayer and started to spray people as they walked into the kitchen, he got screamed at by a number of us and was fired a few days later when it was brought to management and noticed how angry all of us were with this kid.
A shop I used to work at hired through a temporary agency,after a few months they either hired you full time or let you go.
They brought this one kid in,he worked good and they were going to hire him full time. The supervisor brought some paperwork for him to get hired on, he filled it out but forgot to sign something.
The supervisor brought the paper back to him to sign but couldn’t find him at first. She found him smoking during shift by by the emergency exit door. Had to fire him on the spot.
Started monday, showed up drunk day two. Not buzzed or smelling like booze, it was a miracle she didn’t kill anyone from her drive from home to work. She all but passed out at her desk. We got her a cab home.
Before their first day on orientation.
I got hired for a manufacturing job through Manpower (a temp agency). Me and a friend of my wife were both supposed to start on Monday at the plant for a week-long orientation.
She got into a fender bender on her way to orientation, and called them to say that she’d be a bit late, that she just needed to wait on the police to give a statement.
The manager told her not to bother ever coming in.
Girl was torn up. She took pictures and the police report in to the hiring manager, tried to explain things to the company HR managers, but no dice.
She was fired before ever clocking in.
Less than a week. Hired a new guy at the shop I worked at. When he got hired he did some side work at his house and claimed he did the work at said shop. He put a motor in a truck for some kid and the motor blew. Kids mom comes to the shop rasing hell over our shitty work. GM was out of town on a business trip so when he came back that Friday he fired him.