Hi everyone,

This is my first time in this reddit community, and I wanted some people's insight.

So, long story short, I got let go after allegations of making inappropriate jokes.
I know, unfortunately in my old job this happened often, and I was on the short end of the stick. I understand I made a mistake and stuff. I am there to work and I represent the company. The whole situation was bizarre and it was an incident that happened many months ago that randomly got submitted through the company's anonymous open door portal on our HR site.

I did briefly speculate maybe someone wanted me gone, and had gotten a bunch of people to submit stuff against me. Just strange it happened almost a year ago, and another situation a few months ago.

I worked at this company for 5 years and I just wanted to see how to approach applying for jobs and how to respond to questions during an interview.

Should I just be honest why they terminated me if they ask?

Just figured I'd say " I made a couple joke remarks on company time and was let go for it." "I made an honest mistake and realize this is a job, and such actions should not be tolerated."

I had been asking friends and received different answers.

Some of them had said they can't legally say anything about you negatively, or why you got fired.

It differs from state to state (i.e. I'm in FL)

I frankly don't know what to do.

Any advice?

Thank you everyone. (: