"On the first day of my first job, I rolled a Silverado off a cliff that had under a thousand miles on the odometer..."

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"I started walking away to the locker room, devastated. He called me back and said, 'You're not fired; thanks for telling me.' That one hurt, but I've now been with the company for eight years and worked my way into a corporate role!"

"I told him, 'Sir, we’ll handle this immediately.' I took out a dry cleaning ticket, wrote myself up a 'disciplinary form,' and assured the person that Pantarus is on probation and would be fired immediately. He was happy; he tipped me 20 bucks and went on his merry way."

"My grandma (who has worked at the store for 20 years longer than the manager and is known as the hardest worker there) yelled at the manager to either get me a clip or apologize to me. The manager apologized to me for freaking me out, and I apologized for not keeping better track of the scanner. I also requested the clip again, but I never received it before I stopped working there."

"He looked at us and said, 'So, you guys have been throwing screwdrivers at the wall?' I hung my head and said yes. He said, 'That's cool,' and walked away. I never got fired, but he was extremely pissed about the machine I broke. He ended up just buying a better one."

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