A pattern of tardiness. Every time.

Worked for a small llc and the owner spent to look good with customers but was super stingly internally. He wanted laptops reformatted quickly and turned around because he did not want it wasting not doing anything. A big guy at the company left and specs were better the higher you went so he wanted it quickly turned over to a top developer. This guy was important and I even varified with the second highest guy at the place to make sure it was alright. Whelp it turned out that guy who left had really important stuff that he did not put on his local backup disk or the networked storage (which I had backed up regularly on a rotating schedule). Bossman wanted me to take responsibility for it and im like. Um no. I formatted it but you told me to and I even got confirmation because quite frankly I thought it was a bad idea. Yeah so dick I guess was able to tell his customers that it was the fault of this underling IT guy.

I created a satirical Employee Handbook that, among other things, mocked the entire management chain and codified some of the unwritten rules among employees.

It was a crappy retail job so no real loss.

Not the same, but as a consultant, used to fire clients all the time. Very satisfying.

Not being enthusiastic enough.

Technically fired for absences. Really just walked off and didnt come back for 3 weeks after my manager assaulted me a little bit.

The only time I ever got fired was because the new girl asked me why I worked at the taco shop and I answered because they pay me. The boss heard about it and canned me for it a few days later, but I wasn't too mad, I hated the bitch and her entire family. They were rude and racist and just unpleasant to be around, which is hard when the family owns the business and works there too.

The official reason for me getting fired were budget cuts, but I knew that the new department head actually wanted to hand my responsibilities to a buddy of theirs they had brought on board. Despite being there longer at the department than the new head and their buddy, as well as excellent performance reviews I had no chance to keep that job.

Had about 15 different jobs in my life. But I never got fired.

Not me, but someone I know was accused by a homeless person ( probably drugged up to Hell and back ) for being on drugs because they were pissed that person I know didn't have any drugs on him. It was either drugs, cash, or smokes. I can't remember which.

The story that went around bravo is so much more entertaining than the truth.

I'm a helicopter mechanic. I started a turbine helicopter engine to prove an entire shift of mechanics, quality assurance ("subject matter experts") and managers they're dumb. Then wrote a mean pass down insulting all of them, highlighting how many man hours, our time they've wasted, and how they made us all look stupid in front of the customer (US Marines.)

At the time I was the night shift QA. I got to work and they told me we'd be replacing an engine that was bad, it wouldn't start (they left the ignition circuit breaker in, so no spark) but worse it was now leaking out of the thermocouples.

I says, you flooded the engine; there's not supposed to be liquid fuel in that section. If you followed the procedures in our manuals you'd know how to blow the engine out to dry it then it would start.

They'd already called the higher level engine maintenance squadron to confirm the engine was bad. I was talking to the site lead, Dave, I bet him a dollar I could start that engine. At the time I was the only person on the site with an engine turn certification. He says alright, try it.

The Marines were already there. They determined nothing was wrong with the engine. I said, since you're here want to watch me light it off. They said yeah. I went through the flooded engine start and it started and ran up perfect.

Next day I come in and Dave tells me I've been fired. There was one sentence in our rules that said only pilots could start engines. BUT Dave went to bat for me, explained the situation including that they certified me to run engines. He got it turned into two week suspension and a demotion, but I had so much PTO saved up he was going to pay me during it.

I came back and was now just a mechanic. Which was alright since I never liked the rest of the QA department. I got less responsibility, got to listen to audio books and ding wrenches together. Every now and then the other QA inspectors and managers would come to me with questions and I'd get to say, "I'm sorry, I'm not paid enough to know that."

I received a formal warning for leaning back on my chair (didn't get fired though)

Alcohol.

Last time, asking for more responsibilities.

I was ghosted twice, by two separate employers. Does that count as being fired? I worked for a conference center (wait staff) I ran the Cafe, full cold buffet breakfast, as well as being the barista and there was a chef for any hot breakfast meals ordered, including room service deliveries for a hotel above that was super long, the building is listed at about 5000m2. The Cafe was almost in the middle. In a warehouse type structure. They originally said I would take over running the Cafe, me and the chef, for 3 months while someone went on holiday, 6 months later I still hadn't heard anything and it was such a hard task I asked to stop doing it and just do the conferences. They ghosted me.

Second was about 15 years later, catering service I worked for, shonky af, oh have I got stories from there!! Covid hit, everything stopped, they asked me back for one job, they had my friend working slave labor for them while they pocketed the government covid payments and expected her (a single mum) to do twice the work she did before, with no breaks, she tried to tell them she had kids she couldn't do as much as they were asking, they ignored her and demanded she work every day, doing the catering for whatever functions they had (exhausting) and then all the dishes from the functions too (usually other employees do that job) she went until she burnt out and her kids needed her, she told them she couldn't work, they acted like she left rhem in the lurch and how dare she, and I was friends with her she they cut her off, stole her jacket, and ghosted me because we had become close friends. Scorched earth. They ended up begging for employees not long after that and no one would work for them. Horrible horrible people.