8. A worker from the Japanese “Matsusita Dienke” sued his company and succeeded. The court made the company give him back his job. Everything seemed fine: the worker got his job back, an increased salary, and even a separate office. But the worker resigned voluntarily only a month later: he didn’t have anything to do and just had to sit in his office the whole day. He had a nervous breakdown as a result.

7. Tracey Niderkir, a teacher from one of the schools in Los Angeles had to resign because of obscene behavior. She herself explained her actions by the fact that the school didn’t have enough supplies for teaching new material. She taught an anatomy class, and undressed in front of the students because she couldn’t explain the specifics of the female body just on the available skeleton model.

6. The sudden decrease in cost of coconut oil on Thailand in the early 1980’s lead to the firing of thousands of workers that took the coconuts off the trees. But that didn’t lead to an increase in the unemployment level in the country: the fired workers were monkeys.

5. Here is the reason Napoleon gave when he fired his Minister of Internal Affairs, Laplace (who was also one of the greatest mathematicians of all time): “fired for the insertion of infinitely small values into the politics of the country.”

4. A school teacher from Keln was fired in 1826 for the publication of an article, by the order of the Minister of Education. The minister thought that the “insertion of mathematics into physics is an unacceptable heresy.” The teacher was Ohm, and his physics laws are still studied in schools.

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3. Workers in the factories of Henry Ford could easily be fired just for smelling like beer, wine, or some stronger alcoholic beverage.

2. A lot of workers were fired for not being able to discipline during the massive and international Tamagotchi boom. At some point, many companies made a special 15-minute break to keep down the firing levels, just so the workers could play with their small toy. The Tamagotchi boom is over, but the breaks are still there for some companies.

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1. The education department of Whales fired an elementary school teacher in December 2001 for telling the 6-year old students the truth. The disappointed children came home in tears. That lead to complaints from the parents about the teacher that was so brutal to the kids. The truth the teacher told was that Santa doesn’t exist.