14 Characters Who Don't Get Fired (While We Would)

How did literally anyone at Dunder-Mifflin stay employed?
14 Characters Who Don't Get Fired (While We Would)

Hollywood loves to depict the modern workplace as fun, hilarious, and even romantic. But come on. Be serious for a second. There is absolutely no way workplaces are that cool. Most of them aren't even that clean, or filled with that many hot people. And we know—being internet writers, we've been in a few horrifyingly undignified workplaces. And we have spent more time trying to not get fired than we have falling in love, mocking our bosses, and starting a mutiny on a rebel spaceship a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

So yeah, workplaces being chill and rad and fun and basically dating apps? Our readers are here to throw some cold water on that hot take. There's all kinds of crap that movie and TV characters get away with all the time would literally get you fired, if you tried them at work.

Things like ...

POE Not following orders, and starting a mutiny like he does, would (at best) get me court-martialed. SSTIAR THE LAST JEDI WARS It would NOT be treate
2 BROKE CRLS NAX Offending my customers? Making rape jokes and racist jokes in front of both my customers and my boss, like Max Black does? That would
CRACKED Dickies In High Fidelity, music snobs Dick and Barry openly mock their boss and their customers' music choices. On top of that, all they do is
Speaking as a mortician, using a body as a lunch tray GONEIN hl SECONDS would land me in hot water CRACKED.COM with my boss, my wife, my doctor, and O
ENENOY 26 Jen From THE IT EROLD thought The Interneto was little box with a tiny red light. When 0 worked in management, not knowing the ins and outs
CRACKEDo SUITS Boy genius Mike Ross becomes a lawyer at a law firm... ...despite having never been to a law school. Even after he is exposed by the ma
Blackmailing her assistant into marrying her and making him lie to the Immigration Bureau should' ve gotten Margaret not only FIRED but DEPORTED THE P
Bullying employees would get me fired immediately, especially if they're above me in the food chain. The janitor from Scrubs constantly bullies actual
CRACKED.COM Attention: Entire staff of EMPIRE -RECORDS- Wm If I sat in the break-room with all my coworkers while ignoring a store full of people it m

Stranger Things

Mr. Clarke gives middle school students his personal phone number and instructions for building dangerous scientific contraptions late at night. STRAN
BiG BANGTHEORY the Dr. Hofstadter, Ph.D. and Caltech's experimental physicist, not only isn't working on any original research at the time, he also ha
TRUEBLOOD I wish I could get up and leave in the middle of my shift without getting fired like Sookie Stackhouse does almost every single time. CRACKE
14 Characters Who Don't Get Fired (While We Would)
If I argued with my boss like Peter Parker always does, SPIDEF- I'd get 808004 fired on KED6on P
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