Cody Rhodes got fired from Einstein Bros. Bagels for nailing a coworker with a bagel.
Long before WrestleMania main events and WWE championships, Rhodes was working at the bagel chain when he decided to cover an everything bagel with garden veggie spread and try to stick it to his friend’s neck or face. It worked a little too well. While speaking to James Sweetnam, Cody how it all went down.
“Well, I was released, even though that’s not how you describe it, I was fired from my job at Einstein’s Bagels because I put, I believe it was garden veggie spread on an everything bagel, which is a pink spread, and you put it on, you schmear it on the bagel, and then you palm it kind of like this, and you try to get it to stick against your friend’s neck or his face, and I nailed him.”
The problem was Cody didn’t do it somewhere out of sight. His coworker was standing at the cash register, cameras were running and a customer saw the whole thing. That customer complained, and Cody was out of a job the very next day.
“But he was at the cash register, and obviously there’s recording cameras in all modern businesses these days, and a customer complained. So, the next day I got the old—I got the old boot.”
The firing didn’t stick forever. Rhodes said Einstein Bros. eventually brought him back, and his second departure from the company was far less chaotic.
“I did return to my job though at Einstein’s Bagels, and I still love Einstein’s Bagels. So, they brought me back, and then that one was a more peaceful exit, but the first one it was—it was a schmear.”
Cody went from getting canned for sticking a loaded bagel to somebody to becoming one of WWE’s biggest stars, so things obviously worked out. Still, getting fired because you successfully landed a cream-cheese-covered bagel on your coworker is one hell of a pre-WWE origin story.
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