To the people who have been fired at a job. What were the reasons you were fired? Was it because you couldn't finish something or other reasons?

I was fired one time because the company made losses and had to cut down staff. It had no relation to performance, it was because I didn't have family and children.

A few of my friends' friends were asked to leave owing to reportedly below-par performance. This was during the economic recession during 2008-09 during which they did anything imaginable to keep the revenues up

@M1sf3t all you got. I got time.

There was a job I had for a few months where they didn't give me any direction at all (no assigned projects, tickets, anything) and towards the end they didn't like that I was doing a project for the CEO instead (designs for a new website). Instead of what? No idea. I was ignored when I asked for work. Anyway, I got sick a few days after their complaining and asked to go home early. My supervisor fired me on the spot. Shrug?

Speaking of, my supervisor/"mentor" was a junior dev with a total of two years' experience. I don't mean only professional experience, he literally had picked up programming for the first time two years prior. By contrast, I had a good ten years' experience at the time. That guy was so haughty and cliche, like really: he would always insist that Zend PHP -- his first and only programming language -- was far and above the best in the world, and refused to try any others because they were worse. I laughed at him so many times. He hated me.

But I digress. A lot.
Back to the question!

Most of the jobs I've lost were because:
¤ The company ran out of money.
¤ The company ran out of projects for me to do.
¤ The poduct I was working on got canceled.
¤ My contract ended.

@M1sf3t Crazy stories. Thank you for sharing!

I was fired for surfing the web when the company's shitty product (built in Flash / Adobe Flex) took a whole 15 min to compile every time I changed the smallest thing in the code! Glad that happened, I wouldn't want to be a customer to such a slow product...
This was back in 2012