This story is a couple years old, but reading some stories here reminded me of it.
First job out of college, I get there on the first day of work, and my “trainer” tells me “there's not much work to do right now, because we're slow on business”.
People swing by my desk to meet me, have several people say “we hope you can bring more business in, there's been nothing for a while”.
I'm given little reading packets to go through about common terms in the industry and told I need to write a one-page summary on it and turn it in to my supervisor by end of day so she knows I read it. I'm annoyed, but think “okay if this is all I need to do, whatever, it's not grueling”.
The rest of the days, I'm sitting at my desk scrolling endlessly through my phone because nobody trained me because there's no work to train on.
2 weeks later, my supervisor calls me in and says I'm getting fired because I don't seem like a team player because I was 3 mins late to work one day (I wasn't, I was in the bathroom), and I haven't been asking if there's any work to do. Even though for weeks people kept telling me how there was no work, unprompted.
I was fresh out of college so I didn't know what else to say but I wish I had told her off. And then they denied my unemployment claim for “misbehavior in the office”.
I hate corporations.