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  • Now I thought I'd share some of my favorite

  • "Why I Got Fired" stories from you guys.

  • This first one's from @Mishel0107.

  • She says...

  • I was hired to bartend with no experience whatsoever.

  • I got fired when someone ordered a rum and coke and I asked, "What's in a rum and coke?"

  • Is that a vodka?

  • -This one's from @BarChefPro. -BarChefPro?

  • This person would know what's in a rum and coke.

  • He says...

  • A friend of mine called into work to say she was sick.

  • The manager said, "I don't believe you," so my friend responded, "Well, then I'm calling in drunk."

  • Honesty --

  • Honesty's the best policy.

  • [ Slurred ] How many drunk days are we allowed?

  • [ Slurred ] Well, they didn't know how to make

  • the rum and coke. -Had some rum.

  • And Captain Morgan beat the crap outta me.

  • This one's from @virgogirl93.

  • I wonder if she went to school with my friend Mark Reeves.

  • -She says... -I doubt it.

  • I asked Ryan Reynolds for an autograph while he was having dinner at the restaurant I worked at.

  • My boss yelled, "YOU'RE FIRED!" and I yelled back, "TOTALLY WORTH IT!"

  • That's right.

  • It is worth it to get an autograph from Ryan Reynolds.

  • I love that dude.

  • This one's from @Hollyb32.

  • She says...

  • My friend decided to vent on Facebook about how much she hated her job, but she accidentally tagged her boss in the post.

  • They fired her in the comments.

  • The future is here.

  • This one's from @MargoBeo8471590.

  • It's so catchy.

  • Just rolls off the tongue.

  • Very easy to remember.

  • She says...

  • Back in 1990, I got fired from Walmart for getting on the PA system and yelling, "EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!"

  • Give me the music

  • -That was Zelma. -It's getting. It's getting.

  • -It's getting. -No. Would you like

  • Was that a different song? -"I've Got the Power."

  • -That's "I've Got the Power"

  • you're thinking of.

  • Everybody d-- How's it go?

  • Everybody dance now

  • I've got the power

  • It's getting, it's getting, it's getting kinda hectic

  • -Love. -Getting kinda hectic?

  • But then if you're in Walmart, you're like,

  • "Uh, can you, uh, help me move this TV?"

  • "Because it's getting,

  • it's getting, it's getting kinda heavy.

  • It's getting, it's getting, it's getting kinda heavy

  • Everybody dance now

  • Which one?

  • "Everybody dance now," and then she's like,

  • "Give me the music," right?

  • Then she's like...?

  • That's good.

  • I'm lovin' it

  • No, no, no.

  • That's a different song. -No? Different one?

  • This one's from @kidatheart216.

  • She says, "I booked a hotel overseas

  • so my boss could attend a conference.

  • It turned out it was a brothel."

  • It's like, "Someone got a raise. "

  • This one's from patchworkgreg. Ooh, that sounds scary.

  • Ooh, that sounds spicy.

  • He says...

  • My friend used his iPhone to call the call center he worked at,

  • then talked to himself for a couple hours to look like he was working.

  • -Why don't you just pick up...? -Yeah, fake phone.

  • You just pick the phone and fake it.

  • He probably got charged for it.

  • -Minutes -- ah, whatever.

  • This one's from hweir222.

  • He says...

  • I was a cashier at Fuddruckers, and one day out of boredom we tried to ring up $1 million worth of food on my register.

  • A quarter way to our goal, the computer froze. Service was halted for 18 minutes while the receipt printed.

  • I'm going to CVS.

  • This last one's from @MeganMary19.

  • She says...

  • I brought my Dunkin' Donuts coffee into my job at Starbucks.

  • There you go. Those are your "Tonight Show" hashtags.

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