Some firings come out of nowhere, but for a lot of employees, they know exactly why they were fired, and they don’t regret a single thing they did.
In the retail field, hirings and firings are daily occurances. Just ask one retail manager who shared a story: they write that every holiday season, there’s an influx of fresh employees. Every year, this manager warns them that they’ll be tempted to steal gift cards from oblivious customers. But, the manager warns, they should certainly not do that. They will get caught, and they will get fired. Guess what the employees do anyway? Exactly, they swipe a card or 3 when customers aren’t looking, and then the manager has to have a conversation with them explaining why they won’t be getting put on the schedule any more.
Another guy who should’ve known better was the call center worker who liked to mute calls with bad customers and insult them while they couldn’t hear him. It’s too bad that he forgot to hit the mute button one day, and ended up startling an old woman with his foul language! She hung up, called back, demanded to speak to a manager, and ratted him out. I guess that call center rep didn’t know that calls are recorded for quality assurance (a phrase we’ve all heard a million times!) because that call was recorded, and then played aloud for him to hear. Whoops! Onto the next job!
