10 Most Weird Reasons Why People Got Fired
at Work

Posted by Paul
@ngcareers


Hiring and Firing has long been a part of life in
the today’s business world. People get fired for
various reasons from poor performance to
scandals (intimate, financial etc).
Still there are some weird reasons why people
have got sacked at work. Everyday people get
sacked (that’s not news is it?). It’s the reason
why some get sacked that pricks the attention.
Here are some of the downright craziest and
not so understandable reasons why people
have been sacked by their employees.
Note that we have not ranked them in any
particular order.


1. Being Too Beautiful and Attractive

Melissa Nelson was fired by her boss for being
“too beautiful and irrestistible” Her employee
said she was fired because she was becoming a
threat to his marriage as he could no longer
stop being attracted to her.
Melissa went to court and the funniest thing?
The all-male Iowa State Supreme Court ruled
that James Knight, Nelson’s boss, was within
his legal rights when he fired her, affirming
the decision of a lower court.
The 32 year old married mother of two was
shocked when she was fired and told the
reason for her sack.
“I was very surprised after working so many
years side by side I didn’t have any idea that
that would have crossed his mind,” she said.
The two never had a s*xual relationship or
sought one, according to court documents,
however in the final year and a half of Nelson’s
employment, Knight began to make comments
about her clothing being too tight or
distracting.


2. Writing a Blog

Did you ever think having your own blog
could get you fired at work? That’s exactly
what happened to Ellen Simonetti a former
flight attendant with Dleta Airlines. The
management of Delta Airlines discovered she
had a blog “Diary of a Flight Attendant” where
she writes about her life as a flight attendant.
And according to her she never wrote
anything to bring the airline into bad light.
However Delta Airline said they found one of
the photos of Simonetti in her uniform on the
blog inappropriate. A part of her bra was
visible in the picture. And so she got fired.


3. Beating a Team 100 – 0

Is it not the ambition of owners of sports team
that their team defeat allother opposition by as
many goals or points as possible?
Not so sure it is, going by the account of a
coach that got himself sacked for beating
another by 100 – 0. Micah Grimes was the
basketball team coach for his girls’ high school
basketball team. The school named Covenant
School was a private Christian school. The
match was between the Covenant School girls’
basketball team and one academy that
specialized in helping kids with learning
differences like dyslexia.
The school determined that beating a team of
people with learning disorders by 100 – 0 was
not Christ-like. Micah Grimes refused to
apologise and was sacked.


4. Dancing Gangnam Style

14 Lifeguards at California were fired by their
employees for recording avideo where they
danced a version of PSY’s “Gangnam Style”
According to the authorities the 14 lifguards
shouldn’t have done the dance wearing their
lifeguard swimsuits issued by the authorities.
Even though it was confirmed that they did the
dance outside of their work hours.


5. Typing in ALL CAPS

Vicky Walker an accountant with ProCare
Health in New Zealand was
fired for typing her emails in capital letters all
through. She however took her case to the
courts and won a $17,000 NZ compensation for
wrongful dismissal and got her job back.


6. Shaving Your Hair for Charity

Stacey Fearnall, whose father died of cancer,
decided to shave her head for a cancer
fundraising event. But when she returned to
work at Nathaniels restaurant, where she
worked as a waiter, she was laid off. The
mother of two was told by her boss to go home
after she refused to wear a wig.


7. Updating Your Facebook Status

Now this is one thing almost all of us are guilty
of in this country. Every now and then you
sneak into your social media account. Just
know that it could get you sacked. Just ask
Kimberly Swann.
Kimberly Swann was summarily sacked after
her boss learned — via her updated status —
that she was “bored at work.” Her boss,
meanwhile, says Swann’s admission of
boredom revealed that “she just wasn’t happy
here” and thus “it wasn’t going to work out.”
The question is, why was the boss perusing
Facebook on company time? Was he, perhaps,
a little bored?


8. Saving a Woman About to Be Robbed

A waiter in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., who left his
shift to rescue a woman being attacked by an
armed carjacker was fired after the heroic
effort. A 22-year-old woman was attacked by a
knife-wielding man outside the 84 Thai Food
restaurant in the Southland Shopping Center.
Restaurant waiter Juan Canales spotted the
attack and ran to help. Canales said he tackled
the culprit, who police identified as Albert
Means, and held him until police could arrive.
However, when Canales went back to work, he
said his boss terminated him. The woman he
saved, Massiel Marquartdt, said she did not
understand why Canales was fired. The
restaurant manager said Canales may be a
hero but he just wasn’t that good of an
employee.


9. Texting in Court

If you thought playing around with a phone
and sending texts during serious issues are a
problem of teenager and youths only think
again.
And if you think magistrates can get away with
breaking certain rules you are wrong.
Magistrate Danielle Gregory lost her job
because she was caught texting during a trial.
Among the text messages she sent were three
pictures of herself to a married male employee
in the middle of more than one juvenile
hearing. Gregory’s supervisor wrote in the
disciplinary record that “Multiple text
messages were sent from [Gregory's] cell
phone number to [the male employee's] cell
phone during court hours including times
[she] was on the bench conducting court
sessions.


10. Wearing Orange to Work

At a law firm in Florida, there had been a
tradition among the office workers of wearing
orange on paydays as a sign of solidarity when
they went out to happy hour after work.
Orange is pretty much synonymous with
Florida – from the University of Florida Gators,
right down to the oranges for which the state
is famous. But in 2012, the law firm fired 14
people who had been wearing orange on these
days for months – simply because the new
company executives somehow took it as an
insult.
The new management felt that the orange-
wearing of so many employees must have
been some form of protest, despite the fact that
it had been going on since before they took
control of the firm, and also despite the fact
that there was no policy against wearing
orange.

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