What's the most bizarre or unhinged reason someone got fired?

Just curious. Feed is constantly spammed by the HR folks with their gyaans on empathy and positive work culture. Some are genuine to build good teams, that’s great.

But I also feel some does it to mask their toxic environment (with their long posts about 'family' values) and to make people feel like getting to keep their job is the ultimate privilege that can happen to a corporate employee. What’s with too much romanticising the hustle culture?

Just yesterday on Monday, a guy in my org was let go because he didn't use enough exclamation marks in his emails to leadership. They said it showed a 'lack of enthusiasm' and poor culture fit.

Do organizations use these bizarre reasons to directly or indirectly create a culture of fear? Or do the managers get the sense of superiority and the euphoria kicked in after ruining someone's livelihood.

Moreover, I don't understand how managers with less than 5 years experience immediately consider themselves as psychology experts just because they could read a book on leadership.

I still think the real leaders are busy enough in solving actual problems and building stuffs. The other set of people are just trying to exercise control as much as possible with absurd PIP metrics and finding unhinged reasons to show people the door.

I'm curious to see what would happen if the job market flips and employees hold the cards again. All these power tripping bosses would fold the next day like cheap lawn chairs.