We all know that we’re expected to act professionally in the workplace. But depending on what company you’re employed by and how well you know your colleagues, what’s considered appropriate behavior may not be black and white. Sure, you probably shouldn’t show up to the office wearing a robe. But you might be able to get away with using swear words or getting drunk at the holiday party if your boss doesn’t mind.
Some employees, however, get carried away and end up throwing workplace etiquette out the window completely. Redditors have recently been discussing the wildest things they’ve ever witnessed while on the clock, so we’ve gathered their juiciest stories below. Enjoy reading through, and be sure to upvote the tales that you can’t imagine ever taking place in your office!
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Every Wednesday there was a tamale lady that would walk local businesses, selling her tamales. My boss, had a bit of an addiction with them because he would buy a dozen or more weekly.
One day, she tells him that she is moving, and thanks him for his business. Well, he offered her $500 to teach him how to make them. Next day, she comes in with her husband, we have a tamale making class, and it was one of the weirdest (but fun) moments I’ve had.
I love tamales, I would have jumped at that class. My masa is never right.
Okay this one is seriously awesome. What a treat to learn how to make tamales!
BP, you seriously couldn't find a stock photo of actual tamales? XD Those are Chinese zongzi - a food made of rice stuffed/mixed with various fillings and then wrapped in a bamboo leaf and steamed.
Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering what those were, because I knew they weren't tamales.
Load More Replies...A Japanese intern at my school (public elementary school in NJ) came to my house and taught a bunch of teachers to make California rolls. I still make them decades later.
I could Google but exactly what are Tamales? As in ingredients and how to cook them at home? Love different recipes btw! 🙂
A corn "dough" or masa. You buy the corn flour add water, lard, salt? I don't know if anything else is added. I have only seen my mom make the masa a handful of times so someone can correct me. You then add meat, pork or chicken that has been simmered in either red or green salsa. You put the masa in a corn husk, spread it out, add the meat, then roll up the husk and steam them. That is a general explanation for Mexican tamales anyway. :)
Load More Replies...Tamales sound helluva great right about now. Considering I've only ever had Chinese dumplings most times and never had a tamale before.
Adopted into a Mexican family - authentic ones are AMAZING. You want to avoid ones that are super-tiny (some shady "Mexican restaurants" will try to sell "Christmas tamales" - and yes, there is a tradition of eating tamales at Christmas, lol - but they'll charge you $3 per tamale and they'll be tiny. Makes me mad!) - the tiny tamales are rarely made correctly. They usually tend to have too much masa (basically dough made from ground maize/hominy) and never enough fillings. Tamales are similar to Chinese dumplings in the sense that they are "fillings wrapped in dough and steamed" XD The masa is a lot drier/clumpier than most bao dough, though. Still, if you get a chance to try "authentic" tamales, do it! Sometimes there are even "dessert tamales" with sweet fruit fillings XD
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My work let me take two hours out of my day once a week for weeks to play D&D with coworkers. Probably about 40 people participated across all the groups. Most people I tell about it can't believe they let us do that.
Much better than many of the "team-building" events we read about so often here.
Load More Replies...It’s an excellent way to build a team that can function together also. And it relieves stress! I used to make rounds at my office daily to “check in” with everyone (very busy healthcare office lots of stress) just to say hello and share a joke or funny story I read…I’d always make everyone laugh. I left about a year ago to work from home and I still get messages weekly about how much they miss me and my humor around the office :)
I wish we could do that at my office! I love D&D, but I have no one to play with. :(
When I worked for Wizards of the Coast, we employees were encouraged to play boardgames, play Warhammer 40k (miniatures battle game), or even paint our miniatures/figurines while on the clock, because those were all things we sold, and having customers see them "in action" (so to speak) really helped make sales. I also used to love sorting the dice bins. WOtC is... not a great company overall, but that was the best job I've ever had. Even got to play Counter-Strike on the store's LAN/computers while on the clock sometimes XD
My mom's told me stories about working for an RPG company (she did copyediting) and apparently everyone had Nerf guns at their desks and would shoot each other.
Load More Replies...Should be implemented in every office if possible. We have a D&D gathering in my country although Pokemon TCG and Magic the Gathering are more prevalent. Fun, either way.
I am director of security at a college with over 400 cameras....pretty sure I have seen it all but my favorite is a guy scratching his junk furiously, pulling his waistband out to look and then screaming. I don't even want to know what was going on down there.
In my 30s? I went to the loo and a moth flew out!!! It'd obviously been under/behind the toilet!!! But I thought - "Omg has it really seriously been THAT long???" 😄
Why did you have to open your wallet in the loo?
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If you put cameras everywhere, you’re bound to see some things you don’t want to see.
To find out how this thread began in the first place, we reached out to the Reddit user who started this conversation, who was kind enough to have a chat with Bored Panda.
"There wasn’t really anything in particular about what made me want to create the post. I’m newer to using Reddit and wanted to create something people could engage with, plus I feel like everyone has a story of something crazy they’ve seen," the author shared.
At my old job, a coworker got fired but refused to leave the building. Instead of making a scene, he calmly walked into the breakroom, popped a bag of popcorn in the microwave, and sat down at his desk like nothing happened.
Security was called, and while they were trying to escort him out, the microwave caught fire because he set the timer for 20 minutes instead of 2. So now, the office smelled like burnt popcorn, the fire alarm was blaring, and this guy just grabbed his half-burnt bag and walked out like it was all part of the plan.
Still not sure if it was a meltdown or the most legendary exit ever.
I vote for the latter. Nothing screams petty like leaving the hideous smell of burnt popcorn behind you.
Oh god, dried burnt ramen makes burnt popcorn smell amazing. One of my co-workers had a Ramen cup that you open, add water, then pop it into the microwave to cook. Except, d*****s forgot to add the water to the cup. The ramen caught on fire and it left a smell that will live in my nightmares. I will take burnt popcorn ten times over what happened in the breakroom that day. Throwing out the microwave didn't help, because that stench lingered and the entire 2nd floor of our building reeked. Anytime, you would have to go to the upstairs floor, the minute the elevator or stairwell door opened you would be hit with a wall of nastiness. It was like an outhouse on a hot, humid Southern summer day. Our cleaning staff scrubbed and disinfected the Breakroom, but there was still an underlying smell that hung around for weeks after "The Incident" and noodles of any kind was banned from using the microwave for months in that room. Even after the ban was lifted you were required to triple check EVERYTHING before it was allowed into the microwave. "The Incident" is still talked about and used as a Cautionary Tale for all new employees about Breakroom etiquette and to explain the PTSD of Veteran Employees.
I worked at a job where this woman a few cubicles over had a tragic weekend. Her husband died while napping on the couch, and she had to deal with that circus and now on Monday, she was on the phone, making calls and sobbing hysterically: funeral homes, family members, insurance companies, the hospital, the morgue, and so on. All the s**t you have to manage when a spouse dies unexpectedly.
A few of us reported to management, but her manager said, "she only gets of three days bereavement as per policy, and she already took those when her mother died at the beginning of the year. She is also out of sick days, which she took because her kids were sick. Nothing I can do, it's an HR mandate. if she didn't come in this morning, I would have been forced to write her up."
God damn.
Horrible country. The whole USA is like this.
Load More Replies...When my mother died last year, our EMEA team lead said "take as long as you need. If you need more than 3 days, just send me a message, no need for any explanation, just let me know how many days." UK, Europe, in case you're wondering.
A few years back my grandma passed and a month after my mom also passed, per law I had 2 days bereavement for each, no one questioned why I need bereavement 2 times in a month. These were are apart from the standard 20 days paid leave we have, and my manager told me I can take more time if I need it. This is in Bulgaria.
Load More Replies...what the f*ck. My boss offered me a whole week off when my cat died in October.
Christ, even my notoriously anti-leave boss let me have compassionate leave several times in 2024 - the year of 4 funerals and a wedding.
Who were the jerks who reported her to management? And, for once, kudos to the middle-manager for not disciplining her for it - shame they couldn't give her a quite corner office for a few days.
It sounds like they reported to management in order to make them give her the day off, not as a complaint.
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I got my first manager job (IT). I was really excited. I was going to mentor and mold the youngins. I had taken business management classes. Conflict resolution classes. Mentoring workshops. I had binders. I was ready to go.
First day. First task: "Jimmy is one of your direct reports. You need to get him to stop cutting his toenails at his desk.".
I had to post a note telling whomever was doing it, to stop saving toenail clippings in the filing cabinet. I didn’t think these ppl were numerous
That's an easy one - mate you are breaching health and safety in the office, consider this a friendly warning. Next one will be written.
That sounds good in theory, but why hadn't that been done long before the new manager arrived?
Load More Replies...Um I would have said what are you doing the second the sock came off!! Do you know how fast and long the smell of feet can permeate an office? Blergh
I am trying to imagine a situation in which this has a) happened and b) is obviously an ongoing thing? Like, has NO ONE said anything before? If a coworker started doing that, they would get a massive earful from about everyone in the office before it even reached manager level.
And then you walk into a real-world situation and all your training goes out the window. Hopefully with the nail clippings.
"Jimmy, you either cut your toenails at home or I cut all the leads going to your computer... Oh, and your pay!" 👍😃
The OP also says that they've seen plenty of shocking things at work. "I used to work at a country club, and behinds the scenes of weddings gets particularly interesting," they told Bored Panda. "I’ve seen people have s*x in the bathroom, cheating spouses, and more dr*gs than I can count."
Layed off almost everyone over 50, then HR rewrote all of their job descriptions and hired younger people to do the same job for less pay. During the exit interviews you signed a paper saying you wouldn't sue and if you didn't sign you received no severance pay. This happened in a US state that has almost no employee rights.
My former company did this, and had to hire 10 engineers back as consultants. They made bank on that company. I mean upwards of $200/hr with upfront money guaranteed. Institutional knowledge is not immediately transferable.
It’s been happening! I’m 47. I’ve been working full time since age 19. I’ve declined at least 3 rather high paying jobs for large healthcare entities because I’m not signing an NDA to work there. To me NDA means you’re up to some shady sh*t because we’re already governed by privacy laws. They try to tell you it’s under the guise of research and development blah blah blah. Like what? Oh in case I discover your animal torture lab in the basement I can’t go to the press? The scenarios that ran thru my mind scared me enough I was out lol
We had a fruit market that did this in the 80s. They employed teens and paid them as little as possible. The second they turned 18 and went up to an adult wage they sacked them. It went on for years.
I used to work at a bank and every morning the businesses would file in to drop off their morning deposit bags, and it was always the same 9-10 businesses so I’d see the same employees day after day and make small talk while I counted the deposit for them.
One of these places was a tile shop. Just a massive retail warehouse of tons of different tiles for your kitchen, bathroom, etc. one day the normal guy I joke around with is gone. The backup guy looks somber and nervous. The next day he’s also gone and it’s a totally new person. So I start making small talk and me and this new guy start becoming friendly. After about a month of this I finally ask what happened to the other guys.
Turns out that their manager, and a bunch of his underlings were opening up the warehouse after closing hours and renting the space out to a porn studio. It was discovered when one of their customers recognized the tiled kitchen set in the background of the porn, and took screenshots to send to corporate. Corporate came in and rained holy hell down on them and fired like half the staff and brought in management from elsewhere to cover.
The customer! 😂 Yeah I was watching porn and I noticed your kitchen set at the back because the porn was boring and so I'd like to share with you (corporate) that it looks like it was filmed on your site...
Carpenter Porn. "Are those hardwood floors, or are you just glad to see me?".
Just when at 60 yrs old lol u think you heard it all then this n now you really have heard it all !
I bet if they had paid a cut to the Company, it would have been allowed to continue.
WHOA! I've seen a lot of things over the years but that's a new one for me.
It had to be reported because porn watchers have all these high moral standards they have to live up to.
Engineer was always saying he had low bandwidth and was overwhelmed with tickets whenever any of us asked him for anything. Turned out he was playing World of Warcraft 10 hours per day on his company laptop. HR fired him right away.
As for why people think it's appropriate to behave like this at work, the author says, "I think some people just really can’t control themselves and don’t have the ability to stop their behavior in the workplace. Also some people are just crazy."
Finally, we wanted to know what they thought of the responses to their post. "I absolutely loved reading the replies, especially now since they’re still coming in," they shared. "It’s hard to pick a favorite when there’s so many good ones."
Sort of indirect, but I once worked in an office that had a very relaxed dress code, and one of the only things specifically prohibited was Speedos. We were told that, yes, there was a story behind this. We were not told the story. I didn't inquire further.
My husband and I have worked in hospitals, and at more than 1 it was literally in the dress code that underwear was required. Somewhere Theresa vet interesting story!
Amazingly, someone had to be TOLD, that's inappropriate. Golly Gee Wilkers!
Just today, my 80+ year old coworker was just watching a video on how to keep an erection out loud in the office. You could literally hear it down the hall.
Can't decide what's more outrageous : Playing that video out loud... or an actual 80+ c oworker. Think I'm going for the latter.
More and more people are having to keep working past "retirement age" these days :(
Load More Replies...Uuhmm, 80+? Coworker? I had to read that twice. But I am happy to read that he is in good health. But still, ewww
In my reading, I separated the keeping an erection out... then read the loud part. Even more disturbing.
I didn't wish to know that, kindly leave the stage...
Load More Replies...Same amount of time as C-I-A-L-I-S - which is actually better.
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Toys R Us was one of my first jobs when I was a teenager. Used to work with this metal head guy who was probably about 5 years older than me. He used to regularly show up drunk/stoned/hungover to supervise the warehouse, operate the forklift and compactor etc. They didn’t want to sack him because he was one of the only people there who knew what they were doing. Also used to have sex with his (co-worker) girlfriend in the customer toilets. He was funny as f**k, cool guy. Fell out of touch with him after a while as you do. Last I heard he worked as a Captain Jack Sparrow impersonator. 🤷♂️.
I miss Toys R Us. And this guy sounds like a real character. I've always liked people like that.
Grown a*s man slept in a corporate office. at his desk. on the toilet. in the lunch room. in his car. in 8 person mtngs around a conference table. in town halls as the PRODUCER of such events, front row, head back, mouth open, as president of company spoke. he snored. he was startled awake. it was truly something.
In my experience it's always substance abuse. This one guy I worked with worked his way up to shift manager. One night the FOH staff are trying to turn in their banks and the door to the manager's office is locked. They start calling through the phone tree hoping to find a manager with a key who's still awake. One guy answers and comes in and when they open the door, there's Jessie, passed out on the floor with a bottle of oxycontin. Don't miss working with that guy.
Load More Replies...I was just like this too. Not from d***s or booze, I had severe obstructive sleep apnea all my adult life and it was getting worse. Constantly tired from never having any proper sleep and without knowing it. Just spent each night struggling to breathe. Getting a CPAP machine changed everything.
I was just about to say this! Sleep apnea is terrible if you don’t know you have it! My mom’s new cpap is so quiet I couldn’t even hear it running!
Load More Replies...Lol. I struggle to stay awake in corporate bs meeting too. Especially ones I'm forced to attend that don't pertain to what I do. We have a quarterly state of the business meeting that's all about sales, markets, profit margins and bunch of corp jargon. I repair communication equipment. I don't need any of this information, don't care about it and don't have an interest in it. It doesn't help me do my job it bores me to sleep. Its not intentional but stop meetings that could have been an email and I'll stop falling asleep in said meetings.
This was back in the 1970's when I worked briefly in the State Office of a Government Dept. A guy in his 50's who'd recovered from a heart attack, no idea of the timeframe, regularly fell asleep at his desk &, consequently, was nicknamed "Heat attack (surname)". Both his Director & the Branch Manager allowed him to remain asleep, no matter how long it took. In reality, he should have been compulsory retired on invalidity grounds but there was very much an 'old boy network' in the place at the time. I moved after 6 months, no idea what happened to him
I had a great job as a paralegal. Then I developed a substance abuse problem and I did fall asleep at my desk (with the door closed) often. But I never got caught. Until I did. Then they started reviewing my files and I got fired. Over 8 years clean now, but that was a huge wake up call.
A co-worker of mine did this because it was a compulsory attendance meeting which he didn't want to go to. So he sat in the front row, crossed his arms and legs and went to sleep. He was not a nice person.
I fell asleep once while talking to a customer. I'm not sure how many minutes I was out but didn't get caught fortunately. I have autoimmune and some days the painsomnia is overwhelming. I'm actually retired now.
I have a colleague who just goes around with some paper in his hands and just... kinda stops all the time to chat with people, smoke cigarettes, take coffees. Never seen him do any work really. A legend.
Not a legend, because other people had to do his work. Although I can appreciate his moxie.
And he was keeping other people from doing their jobs.
Load More Replies...On my first ship I always had a clipboard and was off to do something important to the technical publications whenever the paint scrapers came out.
It must be a legend because nobody smokes in the office anymore.
OP might have not find it necessary to mention that co-worker goes to the smoking area for that. Just as we don't always mention if someone takes a s**t that they go to the loo.
Load More Replies...Unpopular opinion: that guy could be the oil that keeps the corporate machine running. Those informal conversations means he knows the status better than any TPS report and he will hear the friction and alleviate it before it becomes a problem. My first mentor led extremely successful teams; he called it "management by walking around"
I knew a bloke on the assembly line in IBM who walked around with a screwdriver in his hand. He wasn't in maintenance or any dept that require the use of a screwdriver, he was the line manager. Total prat. Last I heard he had joined Tesco as a Dairy manager and proceeded to walk around with a blank folder clutched to his chest. Being a manager used to mean that you had progressed up the ladder in a company, nowadays all you need to do is hold a screwdriver or blank folder.
Receptionist picked up her sick kids from school and brought them to work. Laid out a blanket IN THE FRONT LOBBY and gave each of her 3 kids a tablet to watch movies on.
Why did I get downvoted? Elon, is that you? She clearly knew she couldn’t take off to care for her kids or her job would have been in jeopardy. Do you think she wanted to be at work?
Load More Replies...desperation.. Don't want to lose your job, don't have a baby sitter. That said, she must have known her kids were sick when she took them to school - they do not show any symptoms and then get all sick at once. Then she took them to work- super spreader. So all and all not great.
Actually kids can and do get sick unexpectedly and suddenly, just like grown up people do. Just thought I'd correct you there because your comment was odd and just wrong.
Load More Replies...I worked at a bank and one of my co workers brought her sick daughter and bedded her down in the coat closet with a puke bucket next to her
If you live somewhere that doesn’t have guaranteed time off to care for family, what else can people do? (Talking to you America)
This is so sad…sick kids belong at home not in bed resting not in a lobby…spreading it to everyone coming in…I’m grateful the doctors I worked for were very lenient when it came to sick children and employees. Especially if you came to work sick and they (one of the docs) saw you…you’d be out the door in about 5 minutes lol they don’t want to get sick either!
My mom used to take us to work when we were sick but she worked in 911 dispatch at the time so it was kept dark and we just slept under her desk.
I worked at a large state university and we had a huge H1N1 flu outbreak; people were dropping like flies and sick as dogs. One morning, a faculty member comes in and announces he's sick with flu and his wife made him leave home and come to work so their kids wouldn't get sick. He was afraid of his wife and it took a visit from HR to get him to open his office door to be escorted to his car. He was forbidden from being back on campus until he had something from his Dr. indicating he was no longer contagious. We all disliked this guy with a hot passion.
My wife sometimes has to take my kid to work with her. I feel bad for the kid and her but he's not in daycare, our parents still work, we don't have short notice baby sitting options so he goes to the office plays his switch or whatever until she's done with urgent stuff then goes home. It sucks but that's life.
Happened in a different city, but two people who were having an affair at work went into the cash room to have a quickie. The cash room with ten cameras so they were caught in every possible angle. Somebody leaked the video the all the offices around the country, so we all saw it.
People need to stop having sẽx at work(unless it is your work)
A job that involves mating at work - would love to see how that's advertised eg "Various positions available", "Individual mentoring provided", "Work at your own pace", etc
Load More Replies...With decent editing, they could have made an underground porno out of it. Even if the pair were ugly, there’d be a kink for it.
As a sex-repulsed asexual it extra blows my mind that anyone would ever want to do this. I guess doing it somewhere forbidden makes it more kinky or something? I dunno, people who have sex already seem weird to me.
I worked a few years as a freight delivery driver, everything from flatscreens from Amazon to human cadavers on the same truck.
One day I’m at a regular stop which happened to be a medical school’s ears, nose, and throat department. We frequently delivered smaller boxes there and even though every box containing a cadaver just says “human tissue” it was clear there were heads in these boxes.
The typical woman I delivered to wasn’t there, and her understudy was out sick.. so they had a student worker guide me. We mistakenly end up going to the wrong room, instead of the storage room with freezers my paperwork for some reason had a classroom written on it.
We enter, the lights are out so she goes to the opposite end to flick on the light. Once it’s on I look around to see maybe a dozen small desks each with a human head sitting on it with one of those blue paper towels similar to what you’d wear at the dentist resting on top, partially covering them.
This poor girl freaks out, it turns out her field of study pertained simply on dealing with medical instruments, and had never seen such a thing (nor have I). She is clearly having a panic attack and excuses herself to go get some PPE as Im standing there nervously laughing like a maniac at the insanity of the situation.
I go back outside of the room and after a while am met by somebody who works there who apologized profusely asking if I was alright. In hindsight saying no could have been a good financial choice.
Yeah, wish she had a "heads up" (not really sorry for the pun and I do seriously hope she was OK)
Load More Replies...I was gonna call BS on this one because why wouldn't they put the heads back into the "fridge" between classes to slow down decomposition... then I remembered that the heads were most likely embalmed.
A woman working in a supermarket I ran was stealing bottles of cola from the shelf and then stealing bottles of vodka, mixing it under the checkout and necking it. I caught her and went through months of CCTV as evidence and called in HR. Before she got sacked she did a final shift where she came running off the checkout and shat herself in the back office 😭
It also came out that on her lunch break she would go out to her car and drink in there. She must have been absolutely wasted by the time she drove home, it's a wonder she didn't end up killing anyone!
While I agree with your sentiment, I also feel sorry for how sick she was. alcoholism is a disease that really makes you make stupid choices, especially at her level. It's why I won't call her scum skank having witnessed my own parents. (Both recovered).
Load More Replies...Oof. I hope she got help, she obviously had a serious problem.
I can't comment on this post, but in my part of the world, necking it means drinking quickly.
Load More Replies...I once worked in a Tesco store where someone was stealing biscuits out the pack in the storeroom. I took a pack of Tunnocks Teacakes, carefully opened each of the six teacakes, and sliced through the chocolate topping and extracted some of the filling. I replaced the filling with glue-paste, resealed the teacakes and placed them in a prominent setting. The following day it was obvious someone had taken some of the teacakes from that pack and we waited to see what happened. Strangely, no more thefts of biscuits etc were reported after that, although two storeroom workers did call in sick.
This came out AFTERWARDS. I sometimes worry about other people's reading comprehension, but then again, I've missed important details or misunderstood things. It happens to everybody.
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A new coworker started on day 1 and fell asleep in our morning meeting with our boss.
I can do it with great alacrity and speed in situations when I shouldn't be falling asleep - such as while watching the Superbowl, while on lunch break, or sitting in an uncomfortable chair. But at bedtime, in my own bed at night? Ha. I'm lucky if I fall asleep within an hour and STAY asleep for more than two hours at a time XD (I actually do have both narcolepsy and insomnia, which explains my hot mess, lol.)
Load More Replies...... fell asleep IN OUR MORNING MEETING with our boss. No suggestion the boss fell asleep.
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Guy brought his kid to work yesterday. The boss had a big meeting with some people in his office and this dude just busts in, interrupts during the meeting, and hoists his kid up on his shoulders like it’s no big deal.
imagine being such a prick that you have to use your kid as a distraction from the fact your screwing everyone over and your blatant lies are about to be exposed as the lies they are
Load More Replies...This exact thing happened in the Oval Office a couple days ago and it was Elon Musk with his kid X? I think his name is because Muskrat is an imbecile obsessed with letter X. How do I get off this weird timeline?
It's "X Æ A-Xii Musk". Apparently they call him "Ash" because the Æ part can be pronounced as "ash"...? Man, if I got teased and mocked for being named "Crystal", I can't imagine what that kid is going to go through. Even being the likely highly-protected and shielded child of a megalomaniacal billionaire isn't going to keep other kids/people from mocking his name to his face.
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I worked in a call center around 2005. One of the employees and a manager built a sex toy website on company computers during work hours. Both fired.
Shhh... these days they seem to take it as a challenge to do something dumber.
Load More Replies...I used to work in a call center many years ago, and, being around the office after hours, I got bored and started poking around in one of the work computers. Now bear in mind that this was a computer in a call center when I tell you that I found a file folder full of foot fetish porn. And the guy who saved it there named it with his name.
Nurse here…A postpartum nurse at a large hospital in Minneapolis was in charge of making sure mothers after giving birth (not normal births, high risk and c-sections) were treated with pain medications.
She was drawing the liquid med into syringes, filling other syringes with tap water and filling the med bottles back up with water
Then she would go into the bathroom and inject herself and then go see her patients.
Thank you to cameras and the Pyxis machine she was caught
TL:DR - Hospital nurse was an opioid junky stealing meds from sick patients and hurting them with tap water “pain” meds.
Retired nurse here. Sorry to say, but drüg addiction is an epidemic in healthcare - especially among doctors, nurses, and nurse aides. As for me, I have never abused a drüg even a single time in my life.
It absolutely is an epidemic in health care. I used to manage the Employee Assistance Program for a large health care system, people have no idea.
Load More Replies...One of the clients we had before I retired had this happen. https://www.wric.com/news/nurse-investigated-after-michigan-boy-with-disabilitys-death/ it was kinda pitiful, but the mom was always so out of it... It's really no wonder the boy died before she noticed. I personally transported them many times and the mom was always a tripped out mess.
Why wouldn't you have been required to report that to cps?
Load More Replies...My little brother was an operating room nurse. Sad to say he did the same thing. He never got caught, but died in 1998 from an o******e.
Used to be a carer in nursing homes. Absolutely sickening to see one of the RNs helping herself to the morphine. So it wouldn't be missed (as it is accounted for down to the millilitre) she would simply give a half dose to the resident and the rest for herself. A half dose of pain control to a person literally dying of cancer. When it got found out, she was quietly asked to leave amicably because the place feared what would happen if they had to fire her which would mean the history would become known (like to auditors and so on). So this nurse just goes and gets a placement at a nearby nursing home and...guess what happens.
Fast food in the 90s.
Our best drive through worker would sell weed through the drive through. There was some small order, he'd tell them the total was 21.07 instead of 1.07. I thought it was kind of brilliant, no one would accidentally be cool with paying $20 for a $.99 whopper.
Another guy brought acid to work on new Year's Eve. I heard the manager tell him to just wait until after closing (midnight). Around 9pm he calls for manager help. I heard him insisting he couldn't get the milkshakes because the machine kept melting.
Had coworker in high school who had to open the next day and downed three hits to stay awake. When I got in for my shift he had spent two hours polishing the windows.
Acid to stay AWAKE? Cripes! XD I tried it twice and it didn't exactly keep me awake or energize me. Cocaine, however... ;p Don't do cocaine, kids. Not worth it. One time I didn't sleep for literally three days. I wanted to, but I physically could not. Absolutely NOT a good time XD (Been clean for 4 years, woo!)
Load More Replies...I recall the first real multi-pump gas station to open in our area, probably had 16 or 20 full service pumps, back in the day when four pumps were customary. But anyway, one of my classmates worked there and dealt weed. Seemed like a perfect arrangement - lots of traffic didn't arouse suspicion.
I wonder if this was the same kid I knew running the drive thru drüg business. He had code words and everything, like "double cheeseburger" for an 8th of weed, "small fries" for a gram of coke, etc.
Man! Where were you in the 90’s when my friends and I were looking to score some? Lol! No instead we all had to go to this creepy older guys house all with pocket knives hidden on us because he was one of those close talkers and very touchy-feely. Hand on your shoulder or you’ve got a fuzz in your hair kind of touch innocent enough but still made my skin crawl!
I honestly can't see the attraction to d***s. Perhaps it's because I live below a junkie scumbag t****r who makes everyone's life hell. I must have had second-sight to see my future and thus stay away from d***s.
Local to me a drywaller was retiring, they threw a party in a unfinished townhouse complete with stripper, blow, booze etc. young guy pulled out his phone and posted a video. They all lost their job. Retiree lost his union and pension. Died of a heart attack a year later.
The USA is like "Hold my Beer". Trump/Musk are literally going after VA benefits. You can't contribute much more than that.
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I used to work at a place that was a fever dream. A few stories from there because I don’t have the time.
We started every Friday with a full company “huddle”. Around 30 people. Occasionally bossman wanted to prove how cool and hip he was and would come in a costume. One day CEO and his right hand man came down in full over the shoulder mankinis with a speaker on their shoulder and ran around humping all the dudes there. The left the women alone while dressed like that at least. Then continued on for the full 30 minutes dressed like that.
Different day same whole company meeting bossman learned one of the ladies had never shotgunned a beer and he was like oh you have to do it now! Anyone else wanna join she can’t do it alone so like 6 people shotgunned beer at 8:15 in the morning.
There were some perks but it was largely hell. One time he took the whole company to drive on a race track. That is still one of the most fun things I’ve ever done.
If some dude in an off the shoulder mankini tired to hump me, I would smack him.
I work 9-5 but in a building that has plenty of 24 hour workers. Outside my office there is a small first aid room with a bit of medical supplies, a sink and small bed. Shortly after starting here I went into the room and there was a post-it note on the bed that said :
"Please don't have sex on this bed".
I helped open a new restaurant once and one day I saw a futon appear in a back storage room. I was like "Where the hell did this come from?". Turns out it belonged to Jeramiah, our bar manager. It was there for exactly the reason you are thinking and we fired him for sexual harassment. Being a white male, he failed up and owned his own restaurant less than two years later.
Similar thing happened to two white females workmates who accessed private documents on a work computer used by the admin only. They spread all the details around about pay, leave owing, and all sorts of juicy things. They got pay rises and management positions and got rid of the decent boss.
Load More Replies...Some people just can't keep it in their pants until they get home, huh?
I worked for Tesco for many years and one of the stores I worked in had a "First Aid" room. Various managers would "interview" young women in there during the day and night. Most of the male managers indulging in this were ugly as sin. I suppose that the power trip of being a manager was just too good to refuse. 😂🤣
Former high school teacher. One of my colleagues department would send his TAs (16 and 17 years old) on errands during his class. They'd make coffee runs, get him lunch, take his car to get it washed, and do other totally inappropriate tasks off campus. He was finally fired after it was discovered he had sent a 16 year old girl to some random person's house to pick up somthing he bought on Craigslist.
That whole school was a s**t show. It was a small, conservative town where people covered for each other because they all grew up together and they all had dirt on one another. I have a million stories but this is the only one where the person faced consequences.
I did this for a teacher in HS. I think he felt sorry for me cause I was such a mess, but smart. He'd toss me his keys and some cash to go get his car washed and some donuts for the class. I was the envy of the other guys when he got his Vette and did the same thing then. He said he knew I "wouldn't do any stupid 💩 in it". He was also the teacher who organized a field trip to a pancake house for us, lol. He taught me how to do hexadecimal and binary math, so there's that.
Back in the mid-1990s, in the very early days of the Internet, we had a colleague who would sit at his desk with 2 or 3 windows open streaming porn. On his screen. In the office. In an open-plan office building.
Again, this was in the 1990s. Another colleague would smoke cigars at his desk. In an open-plan office building.
A couple of years before that, we had one colleague who didn't show up to work on Monday. Or Tuesday. We asked our manager if he had called in sick ... apparently no, he was in jail for dealing heroin. I never saw him again...
Why, just why is Porn so interesting?? Never understood this fascination!!! 🤷♀️🤔🤪
Men are more attuned visually more than women are. Women enjoy written p**n more, it's the way we're made.
Load More Replies...That's nothing - we had a male librarian who streamed various porn things to his computer AT THE LIBRARY! Across from the children's section. He didn't get caught until a page (tall one) looked over the shaves in the Yung Adult section and saw the stuff on the computer. I missed the drama, but I sneaked a peek at a folder that was marked children's programs on his former PC and his stuff (including sermons because he was an elder at this church) was saved there. Seriously? They kept the information...
Sermons and various porn things? That old time religion indeed...
Load More Replies...ahhh, i remember the days of blatant smoking in public...working in retail, having ashtrays under the counter with the smoke sneaking up...hard to believe! I remember smoking in grocery stores & people would drop their butts on the floor & stomp them out. really hard to believe what was accepted as late as the 90s!
I worked with one lovely gentleman (sarcasm) who was caught wanking at his desk. It was a very small office and late in the evenings there'd just be him and one other person (usually female, he was the only male on staff). His excuse was 'he was checking himself for lumps'. What made it worse was his MUM WORKED IN THE SAME OFFICE!!!
Manager was stealing deposits and banging a cashier in the office. Where he knew there was a camera. His solution? Turn off the computer monitor showing the camera feed. Because he thought that would turn off the camera. He got arrested for the theft. The cashier kept her job. Why? Because there is nothing in the handbook saying you can't have sex in the office. Yes, that was the official reason given for her keeping her job.
"Qui tacet consentit." Silence gives consent.
Load More Replies...The unofficial reason was if she kept her job, she didn't sue the company...
Or she was sleeping with someone higher up that helped her keep her position
Load More Replies...don't know when this happened, but she could also have kept her job just because of the work relationship--did her boss get her to have sex by threatening her with her job?
I’ve seen some crazy things at work. Manager was sleeping with a couple employees, new manger comes along and they start hooking up, they get caught, he gets fired, now they are married.
Another employee found acid and decided to take it on the clock, freaks out, hides in a closet and gets fished out to an ambulance. He got fired.
Supervisor decided to smoke weed in various places. He was fired.
Supervisor started sleeping with new employee, would deny it but was caught multiple times. Was promoted to manager.
Employee would sell d***s to patrons. I think he still works there.
My favorite story is about a line cook. The business next door was a strip club and it was pretty common for the staff to sneak off for a shot or two on breaks. This guy Chris, he heads that way after his shift and comes back completely bug-eyed. He found a bag of d***s behind the toilet at the strip club and he did them.
At one restaurant where I worked, I had purchased a baggy of mushrooms but forgot them i the freezer; they were found and a stink was being made but one of the line cooks dropped the whole baggie into an omelet - he said they were really, really good (darn, I missed out)
Load More Replies...Many years ago I heard of a woman she, I don't recall if she worked for a store of some kind or another bank but she went to make a night bank deposit. She put the money in the night deposit container. The next morning whatever company she worked for accused her of stealing the money. She very vehemently swore she did not steal the money and she deposited the money. She wasn't arrested or anything but she did get fired. Manny years later that bank or branch closed up. When somebody decided to take out the night deposit device out, on the floor was the deposit bag with the money and receipts. Somehow when she put the deposit bag in the night deposit device, it fell behind it and fell to the floor.
At a previous IT job, I helped the site safety and security guy install cameras. Once they went live, we had to monitor them for a few days to see if there were any issues. We had two employees that were dating and working on different production lines. We watched on a camera in the hall as the guy went into the bathroom and about 30 seconds later his girlfriend came from another section of the building and joined him. About 5 minutes later, she goes sprinting out of the bathroom and he comes out a second or two later fastening his belt. About 2 minutes later, water starts pouring out from under the door. We run down to investigate the water and call facilities who meet us. There was a sink broken off the wall, water going everywhere, and a condom wrapper on the floor. Couple gets called into the office and the guy confesses to everything and takes full blame so his girlfriend wouldn't get fired. We knew what they were doing.
Teachers at a school I was working at for a short time we're cheating on their respective spouses with each other. Students had called it, as they'd seen some overly friendly behaviors between them. They got caught in one of the trailer classrooms by a janitor at lunch time. Both put on admin leave for like a week, then both were fired. Afaik, they also both were served divorce papers before the end of the school year.
Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me
Twofold story here, "I can't believe they did that at work" and "I can't believe the company did that"
One of the guys at my job was a technician in charge of equipment and maintenance. He would steal mobile equipment and resell it on ebay (mobile meaning it had no assigned home, so it could be used by anyone who needed it). It took months (possibly years) to discover he was stealing stuff because it was just assumed that someone misplaced what he had been stealing. He was only caught because he never removed our company's asset labels and a manager saw one of his ebay listings for a piece of missing equipment.
After firing the technician, the company started lawsuits because they realized he stole >$100k over his time there. But people who knew this tech at that time told me the company's lawyers refused to cut any deal and wanted to drag the process out to press to continue suing until they got all their money back (they wanted to make an example of him and kept him buried in lawsuits and lawyers fees). The tech was now unemployed, in debt from lawyers, and was constantly in and out of court; he took his life 2 years after he was fired, still overwhelmed with the lawsuits and seeing no way out.
The company retells this story during every new hire orientation, leaving out the lawsuits and suicide from the story. It's something I had to warn multiple new employees to not mention the guy who stole equipment. Because during orientation, it's treated as a joke about "an employee who stole from the company so we fired him." I talked with the trainers who told me the higher ups required them to mention that story and a separate story about following safety protocols and a guy who got injured.
Working at the IRS meant we were told every year that you never look up a person's tax record w/o a job-related reason; one guy was worried about his daughter's BF so he looked him up to make sure he was okay. He was fired and spent 4 years in federal pen
And now a DOGE worker is trying to get access to all of that information, despite it being against the law for anyone to see it.
Load More Replies... This was a good 10 years or so ago... After an altercation occurred in the store that I worked at (not related to the below), the police came to examine CCTV footage.
Whilst reviewing the footage for the altercation, it also revealed an affair between the assistant manager and a coworker in the storage area. They were both married with kids and ended up losing their job.
Imagine being caught in the act by the police and your coworkers on CCTV, then having to explain to your partner why you've been sacked from work.
As far as I'm aware, they both got divorced and tried to make a go of it together, but the relationship lasted all of 3 months.
I dont know im how many companies i have worked were.people had relationships and fornicated in different places at work. No one ever lost their job. Maximum was thatbthey had to be reminded to keep that to break hours. Maybe that is because all that happened in north europe and people here know that work love is a great motivation plus?
Yeah, but you folks believe that rehabilitation is better than punishment just because it costs millions go Euros less. /s
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Someone had been doing mini bottles of fireball and then flushing the empty bottles down the toilet. We got an email one day about how the sewage pumping station for our campus broke down and they cleared out "hundreds of mini bottles of fireball". That email ended with something to the effect of "whoever is doing this, we don't want to punish you, we want to get you help".
There was also the time someone discovered a bag full of feeder mice in the breakroom freezer.
There's toilets in my factory you could flush and angry cat down.
Load More Replies... I used to work with someone who spent most of the day running her own business from our office. Everyone knew about it but nothing was done because she'd given one if the higher ups a huge discount for the services if her other job.
It caused several issues. One time no one could find her during a major issue because she was with one of her personal clients when she claimed to have been at one of our client's offices. Another time I was printing up a report at the same time she'd printed up an invoice for her business. The invoice ended up in the middle of my report. I didn't catch it because I just checked the first and last page when I grabbed it. I only discovered it after uploading it to our server and someone called me about it when the read it. Had to deal with IT to get it removed so I could re-upload it. Our boss was livid and I'm pretty sure she was the one who finally called the corporate office. She retired before they could fire her.
I think it more improbable that another print job is printed w h i l e one is already running
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Closing manager had a gambling addiction and was taking the deposit to the casino.
Our manager used and lost our Christmas night out funds in the bookies next door to our office. Came to light when the admin called the event to adjust the booking and there was nothing booked for us. We had all chipped in ourselves, it was our money not the company money he lost.
Surely the bookie knows someone in the "collections business" you could have hired to show the manager the error of his ways. Might not get the money back but seeing him walking with a limp would be pretty satisfying.
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Walked into the back stock room to get more bags, and found one of the cooks and cashiers having sex on the happy meal boxes. I oped and walked outta there.
Before or after they stopped including toys, I wonder.
Load More Replies...Hypothetical question… same amorous couple in the stock room, but the guy is eating her out. Wouldn’t that also constitute a happy meal?
We had a guy storing very graphic X rated pics of him and his wife on a government computer. He’s now married to another woman, who happens to be the mom of one of the younger employees. A real class act.
It's quite difficult getting rid of any given federal worker. Generally they get moved around but never fired. Kinda like Umbridge and Bathilda Bagshot in the Harry Potter series.
Load More Replies... Ever hear of the “Roof Ninja of Family Fare”
I heard stories, I never believed them.
They were true.
A crazy person, related to an employee, made a home inside the sign for the store on the roof. She lived there at least a year.
Just seen here on another post of BP that a man's food kept going missing. So he put up a camera. Found out a woman was living in his attic.
Had an old supervisor that would bang this girl that worked under him. She had a BF at the time and the BF had no idea. The supervisor would allow this girl “extra breaks” and they would both goto his car, bang for 10 minutes. Then both come back in. EVERYONE except her BF knew about it too.
I was a management consultant working for a very large insurance company (3-letter name, was big in the news in the 2008 financial crisis). We were there late one night when my colleague goes to grab something off the shared printer. Only to find a bunch of full-color prints of very hardcore man-on-man gay sex. Interesting choice of things to print at work.
Or it was a big look at me stunt, that turns some on
Load More Replies... Was hired as kitchen manager at a new place in town, they had been open 2 weeks just winging it with a fella who convinced them he knew what he was doing.
Day one i throw away TONS of open cans of moldy food, no coverings, no proper storage at all. Ok.
Then I look at the grill, like really look at it. Underneath is a very deep pool of sludge. Deep.
I say to this man, we will call him Batman, i says to him “Batman, what are you doing with the grease at night after youve cleaned the grill?”
This grown man says “it goes to the grease pit outside”
I ask, “Batman, how is it getting to the grease pit outside?”
He says, “it just goes there”
And that day that man cleaned a 90 year old cast iron griddle and carried a LOT of grease to the pit. It leaked goo for about 2 weeks.
The thing was huge and had 2 weeks worth of grease in it.
At a previous workplace, watching one saleswoman trying to get her friend out of the male toilet cubicle, while her friend was "getting friendly" with an external sales rep. This was at a works social event.
At a place I volunteered for, they had to use a live capture mouse trap, for "reasons"...the main problem was that they are vermin and cannot be released in to the wild, especially a problem when most of the people in the office had "Ecologist" in their title. It was humanely euthanised, much to the wailing and gnashing of teeth by some of the more sensitive workers there.
Employees had an air mattress set up out on the robotics field, they put down electronic barriers to keep pods around the air mattress. Set up a whole bedroom out there. Bed, lamp, condoms, sex toys. They would hook up on the robotics field often.
No cameras that far out into the field, they got caught because product pods were showing stuck so lead robotics manager went out to find out what was going on.
Yes they got termed.
I spent a couple years as a shift manager at a very large inpatient healthcare facility that was half long-term care and half physical rehabilitation. We had LPNs and nurse aides who were addicted to opioid drügs. They would steal drügs from the med rooms and from the med carts. They would also take pain patches off residents and eat them. But these workers were all union members. So we could not fire anyone as long as they continued attending drüg counseling meetings (which the company paid for).
chewing or eating on a pain patch? That is low.
Load More Replies...I once worked as a secretary in a legal office. One of the attorneys unexpectedly married a large aggressive Russian woman. We were surprised because the attorney was just a little short mild-mannered guy, so we couldn't figure out what they saw in each other. One day, the attorney had a massive heart attack and was going to be in the hospital for a while. The other attorneys went into his office to collect his files to be reassigned and found several large boxes of Russian p0rn videos and mailing supplies. It turns out that the wife was involved in various aspects of the Russian p0rn business and was making him help with the mail order distribution. The attorney elected to resign "for health reasons".
When I worked at a small library we had a male librarian who streamed various porn things to his computer AT THE LIBRARY! Across from the children's section. He didn't get caught until a page (tall one) looked over the shelves in the Yung Adult section and saw the stuff on the computer. He was "retired" and kept his pension (which was probably enormous because he NEVER took a day off unless he was forced to) and his insurance. I missed the drama, but I sneaked a peek at a folder that was marked children's programs on his former PC and his stuff (including sermons because he was an elder at this church) was saved there. Seriously? They kept the information...
When I was a student I interned somewhere in the Social Studies department - this is so long ago we could smoke inside the building - and one of the guys who worked there used to come in at eleven, toke up and do all these insanely difficult statistical analyses for everyone. Nobody cared.
One of the facilities guys in the computer factory I worked in back in the late 90s had the nickname "Night Rider", due to his several and various lady friends (who were not his wife) showing up in an isolated spot in the car park, and them then engaging in acts of intimacy. Which was fine up until the point that the CCTV cameras were upgraded to have night vision.
I spent a couple years as a shift manager at a very large inpatient healthcare facility that was half long-term care and half physical rehabilitation. We had LPNs and nurse aides who were addicted to opioid drügs. They would steal drügs from the med rooms and from the med carts. They would also take pain patches off residents and eat them. But these workers were all union members. So we could not fire anyone as long as they continued attending drüg counseling meetings (which the company paid for).
chewing or eating on a pain patch? That is low.
Load More Replies...I once worked as a secretary in a legal office. One of the attorneys unexpectedly married a large aggressive Russian woman. We were surprised because the attorney was just a little short mild-mannered guy, so we couldn't figure out what they saw in each other. One day, the attorney had a massive heart attack and was going to be in the hospital for a while. The other attorneys went into his office to collect his files to be reassigned and found several large boxes of Russian p0rn videos and mailing supplies. It turns out that the wife was involved in various aspects of the Russian p0rn business and was making him help with the mail order distribution. The attorney elected to resign "for health reasons".
When I worked at a small library we had a male librarian who streamed various porn things to his computer AT THE LIBRARY! Across from the children's section. He didn't get caught until a page (tall one) looked over the shelves in the Yung Adult section and saw the stuff on the computer. He was "retired" and kept his pension (which was probably enormous because he NEVER took a day off unless he was forced to) and his insurance. I missed the drama, but I sneaked a peek at a folder that was marked children's programs on his former PC and his stuff (including sermons because he was an elder at this church) was saved there. Seriously? They kept the information...
When I was a student I interned somewhere in the Social Studies department - this is so long ago we could smoke inside the building - and one of the guys who worked there used to come in at eleven, toke up and do all these insanely difficult statistical analyses for everyone. Nobody cared.
One of the facilities guys in the computer factory I worked in back in the late 90s had the nickname "Night Rider", due to his several and various lady friends (who were not his wife) showing up in an isolated spot in the car park, and them then engaging in acts of intimacy. Which was fine up until the point that the CCTV cameras were upgraded to have night vision.
