Employee Gets Fired After Sharing Meme, Boss Instantly Regrets His Decision After The Internet Gets Involved

One Facebook meme was all it took for Cody to lose his job, and the fallout got messy fast.

What started as a joke about company time turned into a full-blown internet pile-on after his boss fired him over the post. Once people saw the meme, the text exchange, and the company’s response, they wasted no time picking sides.

Then the story spread beyond Facebook, and the backlash only got louder. Read on.

Here's Cody, the person who got fired

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Here's Cody's original Facebook post:

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I feel embarrassed for the boss, to be honest...

Here's the text exchange between Cody and his boss:

That’s when the story started spreading fast.

After Cody's post went viral, everyone obviously sided with him, and people started mass emailing the company.

And speaking of office pettiness, check out the “simple sandwich” feud after someone reported a stolen lunch.

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Things got even more exciting after people started submitting their reviews on Google and Facebook.

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The moral of the story is: Never fire your employee over something as trivial as this; otherwise, the internet will literally destroy your career. People do not take matters like this lightly.

That decision clearly backfired.

Wait, it gets messier: see how a manager handled repeated lunch theft after firing a coworker.