Not mine, but a guy I know got hired to be fired.

He got a job with a company that managed storage systems. They hired him and gave him some basic training for the systems. After a few months, they sent him to a client who was irate. The client was angry when he got there and there was nothing he could do to appease them. The client demanded that they fire him so they did.

He found out after that this was all theater for the client. The company would regularly hire someone new specifically so they could fire them when they sent them to this client. It sounded like the client was borderline insane, and this was how they managed to keep sucking massive amounts of fees out of the client without losing employees they actually valued. Once they fired a sacrificial tech, the client would be happy, and they could send one of their “permanent” employees out to deal with the technical issue.

It worked out well for the fired guy. They hired him at a salary much higher than he was getting previously. The training he got there allowed him to move on to better jobs doing the same thing for even more pay working for employers who weren’t insane.

I worked at billing in a company serving adult content phone services, sex line if you will. We had quite casual fridays, meaning going out for longer lunch and having few beers and then back. One friday they were making an audio tape but lacked one male participant and obvious thing happened and they asked me to join in. Well… few beers later I was to be found on one audio story.

Parking lot attendant for a couple of lawyers looking to make money with an unused, vacant lot in the city.

Every weekend, I must have had about a dozen cars towed and about as many times been angrily filmed with (the then new) iPhone cameras stuck in my face.