‘Who destroyed their own career within seconds by being an idiot?’ – 22 futures that went down the pan in an instant
12.
‘Ellen DeGeneres. One bad reputation cycle and her entire public image collapsed almost overnight.’
–skarface9
13.
‘I was a cable technician once. The guy who trained me got fired many months later because he bet a customer that he could guess her bra size. She didn’t appreciate it.’
–rkvance5
14.
‘Used to work with a guy that went missing for a few days while on a business trip. His manager got worried and called the police at the city where he was. Well, he was in custody. Dude got drunk and ran into an electrical pole. He made it out of the car, through live wires and made on foot back to the hotel.
The police find him and he has the nerve to say he’s a test pilot and had crashed an experimental aircraft and the accident was the cover up. True story, can’t make this shit up.’
–wepa_reddit
15.
‘My coworker at a pizza joint. Crashed the company car in the first hour, takes off, but the car had the shops name on it and the other driver saw it. Cops show up and drug test her and she is high. Lost her license and her job.’
–srikos
16.
‘A guy I worked with got a big job with a competitor company. He had access to the company wide email alias and on his last day he sent a company wide email airing all his grievances.
Turns out the CEO of the company he was going to work for was best friends with the CEO of our company. He was fired before he even started and never worked in the industry again.’
–jomamma2
17.
‘My ex husband. It was literally the night before they were going to offer him the job. He nailed the first and the second interview. They had called his references. Things were going really well.
My ex decided to get drunk and high and use his key to get into the future place of employment the night before the job offer because he could. Then he got into a verbal altercation with security. And then he didn’t get a job offer.
And in his field, once they call references, you’re basically guaranteed the job.’
–WheezyGonzalez
18.
‘Igor Lytvynchuk who throw a rock at an endangered monk seal’s head in Hawaii. Then proceeded to say he could afford the fines because he’s rich.’
–snowdn
19.
‘A guy at my cousin’s company faked being sick for a week to attend a music festival. He posted stories the entire time — drinks, concerts, VIP passes, everything. What he forgot? His manager followed him on Instagram. He came back Monday acting exhausted and coughing dramatically. HR called him in before lunch. His job was gone by 3PM. Destroyed his career.’
–Classic-Pizza-4604
20.
‘An NHS trust chief executive took his team to the Savoy for a leaving do and charged it all on an NHS credit card. Became an ex NHS executive.’
–Hefty_Tip7383
21.
‘A manager at a store in London of a company I work for saw a client with a corporate discount card. The customer was Black, and the manager told the cashier in Spanish, “Let’s check this customer’s discount card, she probably stole it.”
She didn’t expect the customer was actually a senior executive from Spain who understood Spanish perfectly. We never saw that manager at the company again after that day.’
–PedroFPardo
Plenty of people who got what they deserved there, and here’s one with a doubly happy ending…
22.
‘The white lady who called the cops on a black man who was bird watching in a public park and asked her to put her dog on a leash. When she called the police she was screaming about a “black man trying to get me” and he was this nerdy looking guy who watches birds. She had a very lucrative job at Franklin Templeton Investments, she was fired.’
–AdeptVeterinarian541
23.
‘The guy (Christian Cooper) accused by her later got a job as host of a bird watching on NatGeo, “Extraordinary Birder”. In 2024 he won an Emmy for his show!’
–Architorture_66
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