31 of the Wildest ‘Fire Me, I Dare You’ Moments

‘That’s stupid, I’m not going to do it that way’
31 of the Wildest ‘Fire Me, I Dare You’ Moments

There are many ways to quiet a mean boss threatening to give you the axe, but none compare to the silver bullet of providing that mean boss with a reality check. One Redditor had the pleasure of doing so by letting his manager know exactly how screwed the entire establishment would be without him. 

“I was 1 out of 3 dishwashers for a hotel + restaurant, so there was a lot of work for us,” he explained. “One of the guys never did any work, and the other guy only worked early morning shifts as he had multiple jobs. I finished all my duties, walked outside for a smoke break. Manager came out and threatened to fire me if I didn’t go back inside right then and finish the dishes. I told him what his predicament would be if he fired me, he stormed off.” 

This is just one of many ways a worker has held their own when threatened with termination, as other Redditors have chimed in with stories that include lawsuits, malicious compliance and a whole lot of satisfying snark.

Kalgor91 6y ago Worked for a newspaper, editing and actually putting the paper together. Arranging it all, placing stories and pictures where they need to be. Titling, quoting and sourcing everything. I was a one man team and used an overly complicated system that I figured out how to use really effectively. They treated me like shit, set impossible deadlines and berated me for not meeting them. One day the boss tells me to fully put a paper done by the end of the day, gave me no warning, I had no articles from the journalists and no photos from
reserge11 6y ago When I was 17 I worked a summer holiday job at Pizza Hutt - I had transferred to my home town restaurant from my University town restaurant. I was there for 5 weeks and hadn't been paid yet. The dickhead boss claimed it was because I gave him the wrong employee number. I hadn't. Anyway after 5 weeks of no pay I rang him on New Years' Eve (ie busiest night of the summer) and said I wasn't coming to work because I wasn't a volunteer and I wasn't going to work for free. Не told me if I didn't
6y ago Edited 6y ago Husband was having his gallbladder taken out and was having complications before surgery. I needed to leave early from work for about two hours and my boss threw a fit stating I couldn't leave. I told her I had 300 hours of sick time I can use for myself and my husband and if she wanted to push I'd take all of it at once.. Leaving no one but her to do my job. She said she'd fire me if I tried.. I just looked at her and said I have to go ill
sonofabunch 6y ago Worked for Radioshack and always butted heads with the District Manager. Не wanted me to use these ridiculous sales techniques that might work in a big city but were really pushy. The year he became our DM I won a contest for best salesman in the whole company, out of about 14,000 employees, and I did it without being pushy and forcing stuff on people. Не still tried to get me to use these ridiculous techniques each month when he would visit, but after I won the contest I stopped sugar coating it and would flat out
lasaucerouge 6y ago R Was 19 and working a minimum wage job in a shop. Owner sold the business to a new guy, who had never worked in the industry and knew nothing about any of it. His first day in charge, he decides I look unprofessional and should be wearing a uniform. Then he decides the uniform should include a fluorescent cap with my name embroidered on it. I told him I wouldn't have taken this job if it had included wearing a fluorescent cap with my name embroidered on it, but he tells me it's going to be
consort_oflady_vader 6y ago I'm a speech therapist. I work in a skilled nursing facility. For the most part.....they all suck. This is no exception. But the place I used to work, the boss was a scumbag. To the extent that the entire rehab staff signed a letter asking to get him fired. Не was basically forced out, I eventually left, and came to my current job. I swung by the rehab gym and.....saw his ass sitting in my current boss's office. I kind of froze in shock..... I thought he was interviewing for a job there. So I went to
WrestleCuck 6y ago For the past few years I've worked at one of the nicer restaurants in my small beach town. I'm one of the only servers there who cares about doing a good and I'm the only one who doesn't take a smoke break every 15 minutes. This past summer a new, very illegal, rule was implemented that if we messed up an order in anyway we would be liable to pay for that messed up food. I usually didn't have a problem with mess ups so | didn't bring up the legality of this matter since I make
haelesor 6y ago Put in my two weeks notice at wildly understaffed job. 6 days later got sick. I call around and see if anyone can take my shift. No one is available. Tried to call out that morning. Shitty manager tries to persuade me to come in even though I am barfing everywhere. I non-commitally agree to call in later in the day to see if I am feeling up to coming in anyway. Call back, say I am still sick and will not be coming in. Manager blows up at me in front of customers, being rude as
technos 6y ago I was elbows deep in an AT&T Unix machine that should've been replaced a decade before, parts strewn all over a desk, when the client came in to see what was taking me so long. Me: You've got three dead fans, one of the power supplies has failed, there's a bad CMOS battery and the video card is glitchy and refusing to allow the machine to POST sometimes. Client: So how long is that going to take? Fifteen minutes? Me, laughing: I can patch things up in a couple hours, but I'm going to have to come
IlizarovPavlov 6y ago Worked at a private medical college in Punjab , India. They wanted me to falsify patient admissions to get increased grants from govt. I refused. They said that I would be fired. I was the only resident with specialising in orthopaedics . I was let go Then came surprise checking by govt medical body. was offered 3 times my monthly pay to attend for 1 day inspection. I asked for 5 times and they agreed. ditched out at the last moment. They lost their recognition of deptt of orthopaedics with insufficient residents . No admission in ortho till next checking.
Blackmaybe 6y ago Edited 6y ago My dog became very ill quite suddenly and he needed to be put down, I was at work and I asked to leave half an hour early so I could be there for him. I asked my manager and she got annoyed and said there was no way and that I should have told her earlier. I said I'm sorry I didn't realize my dog was going to die in the most sarcastic way possible then walked away knowing she'd follow me, I then stood at my desk and typed my resignation up infront
6y ago I was working at a shoe store in a mall and I requested a week in August off for my wedding. My manager told me her boss wasn't happy about that and all I said was my wedding is more important than back to school sales. They didn't fire me, per se, they just stopped scheduling me and eventually my access to the employee website went away. 13K Award Share ... let-go-of 6y ago That's called constructive dismissal and is illegal in some circumstances. 11K Award Share ...
mjergen 6y ago As I was studying in Paris, I also worked night shifts in a hotel near the Hôtel de Ville district. I worked from 8pm to 8am several nights in a row. The hotel was very busy as it was a very touristic area so getting 4 hours of sleep over the total 4-5 nights was usual. It happened several times a week that the hotel manager simply forgot to relieve me in the morning, so I'd be falling asleep on the counter as they came 2 or 3 hours late. When politely remarked that I'm tired and
x_mas_ape 6y ago First kitchen I worked in, they told me, the more jobs I learned, the more I'd get paid (came in basically knowing all of it anyway). 6 months later I had learned every job there except 1 spot. They told me if i learned that spot, I'd get a raise, I told them I could find a new kitchen (i was easily one of the best employees there), and that i was told the more i learned the more id get paid, and i still hadn't been given a raise. Head Chef cracked and gave me a
Vulturo 6y ago Company was doing badly in the 2008 depression. They hired an expensive new Vice President to lead our division who asked me barely one month in to sack any 2 people from my team of software engineers whoever I felt like because she said so as layoffs were necessary to ensure long term stability or some such. I steadfastly refused and dared her to fire me instead, and the issue really blew up at the time. Before they could fire any of us though a new contract came along which needed more people to execute than we
SplendidTit 6y ago Worked at a cancer nonprofit. Hired a lady who knew about us because her kid had cancer. Boss wanted me to fire her because she had to come in late or leave early to take her kid to chemo. I refused. Boss said she'd fire me if I didn't. I told her she could go right ahead. Our CEO said no way. 62K Award Share ...
extaynia 6y ago Not me but my dad. So he was delivering catering to an office one day and the receptionist obviously fucked up. She was yelling at him infront of her bosses saying that he was too late (on time with proof) and that the order was wrong when it wasn't. She was making such a big issue of it and then said she was going to report him to his manager and get him fired. So my dad said see if I care and gave her the number. she called and my dad picked up because he is
Mjdillaha 6y ago I worked a Burger King as a teenager. One day, the assistant manager, who illegally brought her teenage daughter to work to help her out, asked me to clean the restrooms. It wasn't my normal job but I didn't mind. I had a good attitude about it and prepared to go clean the bathrooms. I walked into the men's room and discovered that the reason she asked me to do it was because someone shit all over the bathroom. Smeared fecal matter on the walls, the sink, the floor, the outside of the toilet. The toilet was
Beraht 6y ago I've been at the company a long time, therefore I know both day and nightshift duties in and out, are well liked by our clients and in charge of training the new recruits. Most work for us up to 6-12 months before growing tired on the workload or finding that they can't handle the job or just wanted cash enough to study up for something else. Anyway, they are heavily dependant on me. My closest boss threatened to fire me for being home one day and drinking beer when I was supposed to be at work. 2
6y ago Used to work at a liquor store with two extremely unreliable people who loved drama. Both of them got into dick-measuring contests with the manager and quit on the spot, leaving me and a skeleton crew to manage the rest of the crazy summer season. The rest of the crew spent a good portion of their shifts sitting on pallets, doing coke in the bathroom and/or drinking on the job, so I was the go-to employee suddenly. Comparatively to the two drama queens, I was a very well-behaved employee, but I would sometimes take my tips and
blackjustin 6y ago Working at an important political building. Been there for about a year. Other employee's have been there for decades. 99% of the staff is black, including myself. None of us have ever been written up. New manager shows up. A older white lady with a complex, and starts berating people for not doing their jobs, when they are very clearly doing their jobs as the job is defined. She berates people until they back talk, then fires them for insubordination. She fires ten out of 13 people, all black, and replaces them with white workers. She approaches
mrsparky17 6y ago Im an electrician. Boss' son said my clothes are too dirty to wear to work. Told him these clothes were clean when I 1st wore them to work told him buy me new 1s or fire me. That was a year ago. still wearing the same pvc glue stained clothes to work. - 3K Award Share ...
Carpe_DMX 6y ago My 22nd birthday I was working at a bookstore in the King of Prussia Mall. My college girlfriend of 4 years had broken up with me earlier that night. It was around 7-8pm of a busy weekend night when I noticed a pretty awful smell. I glanced over at my manager working the other register and could tell he smelled it too, but we continued to power through a line of antsy customers. Once we cleared the line a woman came up to me red-faced and laughing in shock and embarrassment. She said she had walked into
total_brodel 6y ago I was the warehouse / delivery manager for a furniture company about 15 years ago. All of us delivery / warehouse workers smoked weed except one guy and he was a pot nazi. We all knew this so we kept it fairly well hidden from him. One day he smelled weed in the truck and told the store manager. The store manager called me to his office and asked what I thought would happen if he drug tested all of us. | told him he'd have one guy left working for him. Needless to say he didn't drug test us and
VonCarzs 6y ago . Edited 6y ago Openly typing up replies to reddit posts with boss standing behind me. Its amazing what you can get away with by just making eye contact and staring them down. 1.4K Award Share ...
6y ago I was 1 out of 3 dishwashers for a hotel + restaurant, so there was a lot of work for us. One of the guys never did any work, and the other guy only worked early morning shifts as he had multiple jobs. I finished all my duties, walked outside for a smoke break. manager of the resturant area came out and threatened to fire me if I didn't go back inside right then and finish the dishes. I told him what his predicament would be if he fired me, he stormed off. Came back in 10
mountainsprouts 6y ago I was one of 2 employees at a place and they were refusing to hire more while lying to us and saying no one was applying. My place and the attached coffee shop was run by the same company, so there was one manager for both. I told a bunch of people from the coffee shop that I had a job interview and if I got it I wasn't doing my 2 weeks. Word got around to the manager and he yelled at me for it after I yelled at him for saying my coworker would be
Tetrafy 6y ago I used to work at Domino's. I hated my bitch ex manager so much | would test her just to piss her off and to see if she would ever do anything about it. Of course, I was the most accurate and fastest worker there and we were understaffed all the time while busy as hell every single day so the makeline would completely fall apart without me. I did what I wanted because I was good at my job and knew they needed me. I don't like to weigh my toppings. I find it unnecessary and
6y ago Got told | could not discuss my pay rise with other employees. I said I was going to regardless of what she said. 378 Award Share ...
NumenSD 6y ago I was working in the service industry and one of my customers ordered something that had since been reworked on the menu. I could tell he didn't like it but didn't want to complain. I told my manager exactly that and she got mad at me because he didn't actually complain. She yelled at me about how I couldn't know what he was thinking, so I asked her to just go talk to the guy and if I was wrong she could fire me. You'll never guess exactly what the guy said to her. She didn't look
rkl666 6y ago I once called in sick to my part time job at Club Monaco. My manager told me that if | couldn't find anyone to cover my shift, I was going to be fired. So I FaceTimed her from the ER and had the doctor explain to her that I needed an MRI cause they wanted to make sure I didn't have a brain tumor. - 485 Award Share ...

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