15+ Employees who defied their bosses and still didn't get fired: 'Manager... wakes me up and sends me home. Didn't get fired'

If you've ever dozed off during work, only to snap awake as your boss entered the room, you're in good company — these people also had bad days at work that they didn't get fired for.

Office workers know all about the 3 PM sleepiness that catches you off guard. One moment you're filling out a spreadsheet, the next moment you're snapping yourself awake as the boss enters the room. Oops! It's time for another coffee before you power through those last few hours of work.

That's just a little tiny mistake that anyone could make, and to be honest, you probably wouldn't get fired for accidentally dozing off at your job. But some people accidentally slept through their entire 8-hour shift! And other workers did way worse things than that, and yet they still finagled their way out of any major punishments. For example, one person deleted an entire national database! They didn't get fired because they had a sneaky backup… whatever satisfies the boss! Keep scrolling to read a bunch of other additionally startling stories of people who made giant mistakes, got found out, and still got away with it.

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