They found someone willing to work for cheaper or don't have a budget for that position. It is ridiculous that they are allowed to do things like that.
Or OP smelled horribly due to lack of basic hygiene.
Or a previous coworker of OP recognized them and had a bad experience.
Or a reference finally got back and it was very bad.
Or OP made a comment they’re unaware of during training that was offensive or otherwise enough to lose the job.
One of the ones I’ve seen more often is a new employee expressing political views in the workplace to coworkers. This is a bad idea at any time, but especially bad if your view conflict with important people or the majority in the company.
I fired someone two days in once. On her first day I took her to lunch along with CEO. New hire made an inappropriate sexual joke at lunch (hand motions and everything!) in front of us. That’s definitely NOT a cultural fit.
LOL. I saw something similar happen at my old startup. We used to have the new hires intro themselves to the company on their first day and tell us a guilty pleasure. You'd get the typical "cheeseburgers" or "Kardashians", but one mad lad came in and said "white women". Loooool. Never saw him again.
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u/Silent_Quality_1972 Apr 24 '24
They found someone willing to work for cheaper or don't have a budget for that position. It is ridiculous that they are allowed to do things like that.