- Can farts get you fired? - Let's talk about that.
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- Good Mythical Morning! - Earlier this year, we talked about...
...people posting stupid things on social media and getting fired for it.
- Yeah. - But here's the thing. Once you widen
the subject matter a little bit -- broaden the net that you cast when it comes to
- people getting fired -- it turns out... - Broaden it.
...there's lots of dumb things that people have done to get fired.
And we're gonna talk about some of those today, and they may or may not
should have been fired. I think some people may have deserved it. Some people
- maybe didn't. You be the judge. - Maybe it was dumb that they got fired.
You be the judge, or (deep voice) "We'll be the judge!"
Let's collectively be the judge. First I'm going to take you to Oklahoma.
- Heather Cagle is a math teacher -- - Take me there!
- (laughing) or WAS -- at Catoosa... - (laughing)
...Middle School. This is 2014, okay? And her classroom of 13 kids --
so kind of a small class. They were... She thought they needed to be rewarded.
- So she wanted to do "something sweet"... - Oh!
- ...for 'em, so she decided to take them... - That's nice!
- ...to get some snacks at Walmart. - (laughing) Oh, wow!
- Pulling out all the stops! - In her Honda Accord.
- Oh. Okay. Her Honda Accord minivan? - Now, uh...
Does it take a math teacher to figure out how to get 13 kids into a
- Honda Accord? Actually, yes, it does. - Mm.
- She put two in the front seat with her. - Okay.
Then she crammed seven more in the back seat. And then she put two of...
- ...them in the trunk. - Oh!
- Two kids in the trunk of the car. - 2 + 7 + 2...
- By my math, that's 11. - Right. (stammering)
- Two kids got left behind. - She coulda put 'em on the...
...roof rack! She's puttin' kids in the trunk. You put 'em on the roof!
Or I think you can cram four in a trunk.
Oh, sure you can get four kids in a trunk.
- From personal experience... - Yeah, easy.
You can definitely get four kids (laughing) in a trunk.
So then she gets there and all the kids got their candy,
Got back safe. So don't worry. But it turns out the parents were a little
- bit upset about this. - Oh, really! Parents ruin everything.
Well, I really thinking it came down to no permission slips.
- Oh, yeah. Right. - All she had to do was say,
"Just sign the permission slip. I give you permission to put my kid
in the trunk of your car and take 'em to Walmart for a snack.
- Everything would've been fine. - It's Oklahoma. They would've been like,
- "Sure!" - But the parents demanded Miss Cagle...
- ...be terminated. The school board... - Oh, really?
...voted four to one for her dismissal, but 50 parents turned up in support
- of her. Yeah. And 25 of those parents... - Yeah. The Walmart folks.
- ...came out of her trunk. (laughing) - (laughing)
I think where she went wrong is taking them to Walmart. I think that's what the
parents were really upset. If you wanna do snacks -- I mean, sure, you can get bulk
- snacks -- but I don't know. - So she should've been fired, but because...
- ...of where she got the snacks. - (laughing) Yeah, exactly.
- Okay. I agree. - Kids love getting in the trunk for a...
- ...little bit. - (Link and crew offscreen laughing)
Don't try it at home, kids. Even if you're in Oklahoma, don't try it.
Okay, Paul Marshallsea, a 62-year-old Welshman, was a charity organizer for
- a boys and girls club for 10 years. - Okay.
Man puts in a decade of work. Then he goes and decides to take a vacation down on an
Australian beach, and he sees a shark in the shallow waters approaching all the
people who are playing in the waters, including children. And he, along with
a couple other dudes do this. Let's watch the video.
Wrestle a shark?
- I see a -- oh! - Paul's the guy in the middle.
The bald guy? Paul's backing out right now. Paul's running away.
He's already out of the frame? That other guy's wrestling the shark!
- What did Paul do? - And then this old man, not Paul...
- ...comes in and orients the shark. - See he's not wrestling.
He's more, like boxing the shark out. "Get out of here."
But Paul did a little... you know, he did a little tango for a second,
for a few seconds. Anyway, this thing ends up going viral.
People say, 'cause it's like, (mocking voice) "Men wrestle sharks and...
- ...rescue kids!" - Kinda.
- And believe it or not -- - Look like two bald men and a guy who...
...might be joining 'em in baldness just kinda lightly touching a shark.
- Escorting a shark. - Huhhh.
But would you believe that after these men are labeled heroes, Paul's work fires him.
- How does this happen?! - Or sacks him, as they say where...
- he's from. Well, he gets a letter... - Why?!
...and they say, (British accent) "Whilst unfit to work, you were well
enough to travel to Australia. And according to recent news footage of
yourself in Queensland, you allegedly grabbed a shark by the tail and narrowly
missed being bitten by quickly jumping out of the way."
What do you... so, "while unfit for work."
Because he was on sick leave for work-induced stress. Now, this man
works with children for a living. I have children, and have made a decision to
not work with them for a living, but to come to an office where they're
not at every single day. This man works with kids for 10 years, then he goes down
to Australia. He's chillin' on the beach because of the stress that these kids
put him through. He saves their butts from a shark. Well, kinda. He escorts a shark.
Pushes it away a little bit. And then they fire him? You know what he did?
Because this was unjust, he filed a lawsuit and he won it.
He got paid. He got a paid vacation. He wrestled a shark. He saved children.
- And he got paid in a lawsuit. - Sweet!
So I think it's great that he got fired, because it ended up being great for him.
Well played, Paul. I've got another one here. June of this year, 2015.
Patricio Molina and Federico Soaje are two Argentinian airline pilots.
- Okay. - So, people are boarding their plane...
and kinda going by, and lo and behold, Argentinian actress and model
- Vicky Xipolitakis... - Oh, Xipolitakis!
- Xipolitakis! - Xipolitakis! I'm a big fan.
Comes on the plane. Now, she posed for Greek Playboy and appeared on
- the Greek version of Big Brother... - That's where I saw her.
- ...the television show. Okay. - The Big Brother.
So when the pilots see her, they're like, "Oh, don't worry about going to
your seat. Why don't you visit with us up in the cockpit."
- (laughing) - For the entire flight!
- Oh, gosh. - So the flight was a little over...
...an hour, and they take her up there in the front. And they say,
- "Hey, you wanna see the controls?" - (laughing)
You know, "Lemme see how these things work." And she starts tweetin' about it.
- Oh, of course she does. - She posts a video of the controls...
...and at one point during the video, it's in Spanish, but she says,
- "You sure nothing can happen?" - (laughing)
- Because... - Oh, nothing can happen at all!
- You're a trained model, right? - And what she's referring to is...
...them teaching her how to take the plane off.
- Oh, you -- no. It wasn't mid-flight? - Yes.
- It was taking off? - Yeah. They taught her how to...
...take flight with the plane. And she's taking selfies with the pilots.
- Why not? - And posting that.
Look at how happy these pilots are. I mean, who cares if you're endangering
the lives of 37 passengers when you can be this happy?!
- No, they're having a great time. - Of course, when they land...
the videos circulate. They get fired. Vicky apologizes via social media.
- Doesn't help. Did they deserve to get... - Yep.
...canned? Yes! Was it totally worth it? Yes!
(laughing) Oh, yes! Okay, how about Richard Clem. He's a part-time
administrative assistant at Case Pork Roll Company in New Jersey.
Pork rolls.
- Is that like a sausage? - A pork... it's just pork rolled up.
- Okay. - You just roll up some pork.
- Call it a pork roll. - All right, true.
I think it's a processed meat.
- Sounds great. - Anyway, Richard's a big guy.
420 pounds. So in 2010, he decides to get gastric bypass surgery.
And the side effects of gastric bypass, besides losing a lot of weight,
are apparently extreme gas and uncontrollable diarrhea.
- Ooh. - Apparently the gas was so extreme...
...that the president of the company -- whose office was on another floor,
by the way, above Richard -- complained about the gas.
- Well, hot air rises. - He said, "The farts were overpowering...
...the pork roll smell." Which, lemme just point out...
- (laughing) - ...that sometimes you can't choose...
...between pork roll and fart. I mean, you walk into a pork roll factory,
sometimes you're like, "Who farted?" This guys knows it so well...
"No, we're manufacturing pork rolls here."
He's able to distinguish between the pork roll and the farts.
Well, you can't get to be president of that company...
- Yeah, you gotta have a nose for that. - ...if you can't.
"Nope, that's a fart. That's a pork roll. And I know the difference in my sleep."
So instead of just approaching Richard, he does the classic, uh...
talk to someone else who knows Richard. And it just happens to be that Richard's
wife, Louann, works there next to Richard. She didn't complain about the farts.
And the president says, "Louann, this can't go on. Tell Rich we are getting
complaints from visitors who have problems with the odors."
- Oh. - And he's not talking about the...
...pork rolls. He's talking about Richard's farts.
Working through the wife, huh? It's a sensitive subject.
And, of course, Richard doesn't make any changes. In 2014, he's fired for his
farts. And then his wife, Louann, files a lawsuit, saying that her husband's
termination was a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
His disability was not extreme farts. It was being obese.
- Okay. - Now, this is David Koller, their...
...lawyer. He says, quoted as saying, "Flatulence and farting is the sexy
part of the story, but my client suffers from obesity, which is covered by the
Americans with Disabilities Act." Now that's a sign of a good lawyer,
who knows that farts and flatulence are sexy!
- (laughing) - You want that man in your ring, right?
- Anyway, this is -- - When flatulence and farts are the...
- ...sexy part of any story... - Don't tell me the rest!
- ...don't read the story. You know? - As far as we can tell right now,
this case is still out there being considered by a federal judge, who's
figuring out whether or not discharging farts is a legal cause for discharging
- employees. (laughing) Ho! - Ho! Lets us know in the comments...
...if you think these people should've been fired or not. And thanks for liking
- and charing this video. - You know what time it is.
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We got a few more crazy getting-fired stories for you, including one involving
- a joke. Get fired for a joke? - Oh, yeah. It can happen.
(Rhett) "Rhett & Link try laughing loud without smiling."
(ugly laughter)
(Just Rhett)
(real laughter) That's really hard to do, man.
- (lauhging) You didn't do it. You broke. - (ugly laughter)
- (continued) - I'm afraid something's gonna fly out...
- ...on me. - Can you do it?
- After seeing that, I ain't gonna try. - Try!
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