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Top 10 People Who Got Fired For The DUMBEST Reasons

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Top 10 People Who Got Fired For The DUMBEST Reasons

Most folks who get fired do so for mundane reasons—theft, tardiness, or just plain not doing their jobs well. The employees in the list below do not fall into that category. Rather, their hilariously ill-advised or awful actions on the job left no doubt that these employees had been fired for reasons well outside of the norm.

1. Over A Twix

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Robert McKevitt was attempting to obtain a Twix candy bar from a vending machine at the warehouse where he worked when the machine didn’t dispense the bar. 

After putting in a second dollar to no avail, Mr. McKevitt decided to take matters firmly into his own hands. He got his forklift that he used for work and picked up and dropped the machine six times, re-sulting in three candy bars being dispensed. 

When his boss found out, Robert was fired without unemployment benefits.

2. Snack Run

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Heather Cagle was fired from her position as a teacher that she had held for approximately 10 years.

This occurred when one of her students told their grandmother about a snack run the class took to the local Walmart.

Apparently, Heather managed to shove 11 kids plus herself into her sedan while on this trip, including placing two students in the boot, seven on the rear seat and two in the passenger seat.

3. Singing a Bob Marley Song, Fighting Demons

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Nicole Phillips was apparently known to pour salt around her desk in an attempt to “fight off demons” at work. 

The 52 year old lady’s strange behaviour caught the attention of the Deputy Director of the call centre of the New York City’s Financial Information Service. When talking to her about this, she started sing-ing Bob Marley’s song I Shot The Sheriff, leading to the director assuming she was singing about shoot-ing the deputy. 

This prompted the director to feel threatened and ended her employment. After attempting to sue the director, Nicole stated that the song said, “I did not shoot the deputy”.

4. Letting a Playboy Model “Earn Her Wings”

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Victoria Xipolitakis who had appearing in the Argentine version of Big Brother and a Greek version of Playboy requested to attend the cockpit of a flight with 36 passengers on board. 

The pilots went above and beyond the call of duty and even allowed her to take control of the thrust on take off. 

She documented this momentous occasion with selfies and video footage, the airliner got wind of it and immediately sacked the two pilots and attempted to bring forth criminal charges against all three.

5. Peeing in an elevator

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After repeated complaints about a urine stench in the elevator, parking garage managers in downtown Orlando installed video cameras to catch the culprit. 

When they reviewed the tapes, however, they didn’t see the homeless people they suspected were using the elevator as a bathroom. Instead, they witnessed Orange County sheriff’s deputy Carl

Brown, easily identifiable in his official uniform, urinating in the corner of the elevator as soon as the doors closed. Shortly after, Deputy Brown realized he may have been captured on tape and tried to move the camera.

After the sheriff’s office investigated, Brown admitted to urinating in the elevator an estimated five times, claiming a medical condition made it impossible to wait to relieve himself. Regardless of the explanation, sheriff’s office internal investigators found this “unbecoming conduct” sufficient reason to fire Deputy Brown.

6. Drunk Cheerleading

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Everyone thinks of cheerleaders as being graceful and coordinated, yet everyone believes that the mascot usually runs around acting like a drunk. 

This was to be the case in a more literal form. In 2006, the Tree mascot for Stanford University was sacked from the job due to being intoxicated. Erin Lashnits was spotted drinking out of a flask hidden under the tree suit in 2006.

7. Stuffing Students in the Trunk for a Snack Run

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Heather Cagle, a 10-year veteran teacher in Oklahoma’s Catoosa County public school district wanted to do “something sweet” for her middle school yearbook students. 

Unfortunately, for Cagle, she expressed this nice impulse by piling 11 students into her Honda Accord for a snack run. During the clown car-style journey to Walmart, which was approximately a mile from the school, two students split the front seat, seven formed a human pyramid in the back, and two more students were stuffed in the trunk. 

Parking lot footage shows that accomplishing this human Jenga only took the students about 5 minutes. An additional two students, who were out of the classroom at the time the group of 12 de-parted, were left at the school. 

The trip came to light after one of the students recounted the trip to her grandmother, who filed a police report.

8. Biting a Dunkin’ Donuts worker

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Renzo, a four-year-old Alsatian canine in the K9 unit working for the Coconut Creek Police Department in Florida was let go from the force after biting a Dunkin’ Doughnuts worker. 

In early 2015, the worker heard a shout from the police officer and was attempting to hide in his car when Renzo bit him not once, but four times in the calf.

9. The Woman Fired for Being Irresistible

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Melissa Nelson, a married mother who had worked as a dental assistant for 10 years, was by all accounts a fine employee.

She was also according to her boss James Knight just far too sexy for him to resist; so upon urging from his wife, he gave her a pink slip. 

What’s more, when Nelson tried to sue over wrongful termination, the courts actually upheld the firing, confirming that she was, in fact, too sexy for her job.

Knight apparently accused her of wearing clothes that were too tight and revealing, despite the fact that she wore scrubs; and when she made an off-hand comment about her lack of a sex life, he cracked a joke about it being like “having a Lamborghini in the garage and never driving it.”

So, apparently in Iowa sexual harassment is okay, but being attractive isn’t.

10. Fired For Sharing A Receipt On The Internet

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An Applebee’s waiter posted a photo on Reddit of a receipt from an alleged pastor who, instead of leaving the suggested 18 percent tip, wrote, “I give God 10%, why should you get 18.” Now, after the bill went viral, Applebee's has fired the waiter.

“I thought the note was insulting, but it was also comical," the waitress, whose name is Chelsea, told Consumerist. "I posted it, because I thought other users would find it entertaining."

Apparently once the receipt hit the Internet, the supposed pastor forgot the Golden Rule of “love thy neighbour” and called the Applebee’s where Chelsea works to demand that she and all her management involved be fired.

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