These 20 Petty Reasons People Were Fired Will Make You Grateful For Your Boss
By Zachary Brenner
Updated Nov. 18 2019, 2:24 p.m. ET
One of the most stressful parts of being employed is knowing that any slip-up can cost you your job. Show up late? Fired. Have low sales numbers? Fired. Get into a full out brawl with your co-workers? Fired.
You probably deserve to get fired for reasons listed above, but there are certainly some reasons that are completely without merit. For example, body odor. That seems like a ridiculous thing to get fired for, but I can almost guarantee you that it has happened.
Here's another example: Everything on this list.
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1. How dare you not control air travel!
2. This is a dry office.
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3. Bummer.
4. What about our customers who are allergic to big patties?
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5. See? This is why you should take up smoking.
6. Do you have any idea how expensive paper clips are?
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7. He was your responsibility.
8. He could have just been wearing a convincing beard.
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9. No One Can Read This Now!
10. Save it for the bedroom.
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11. There's got to be more to this story.
12. Hockey is serious business.
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13. We want this company to fail.
14. It was a trap!
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15. You had to know you wouldn't get away with this.
16. I'm sure he was very productive the rest of the day though.
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17. I smell a lawsuit!
18. I'm sure your grandfather would understand.
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