8 TV Characters Who Would Have Been Fired In Real Life

3. Ross Geller (Friends)

Reasons For Termination: All of them. All of the reasons. If we're basing this entirely on work attendance, then pretty much every person in that group of friends should have gotten the axe multiple times over. Joey gets a pass because he's basically an out-of-work actor who mooches off his friends, but that's it. Even giving some leeway for basic sitcom editing techniques (we obviously don't see every second of their lives, because that would be boring), it's unintentionally laughable how frequently these people are hanging out with one another in lieu of tending to real, adult tasks of any kind.

The worst of the bunch? Ross !*$% Geller. The most neurotic person in this friend group also happens to be the one who shirks his responsibilities the most often, performs most poorly at his job, and still maintains the steadiest work of them all. Remember when he got caught having sex with Rachel at the museum he worked at? Yeah, NEITHER DID HIS BOSSES, because he was allowed to keep that job for years afterward, even following an epic unleashing on his boss for eating his Thanksgiving Leftovers sandwich. (He went on sabbatical, but wasn't actually fired.)

He then moved onto a role as Professor of Paleontology at New York University, where he has his academic research frequently discredited, is given consistently poor evaluations from his students, sleeps with one of his students (and later, one of his colleagues), and is generally just the absolute worst at teaching.