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Bad employeers can really hurt a company. Their inability and unwillingness to carry out their responsibilities as well as indifference to everything that's going on around them creates a toxic environment where even good workers can become stressed out and unhappy, which, in turn, can lead to even lower productivity and increased absenteeism.
And while some of these slackers are pretty good at hiding their shortcomings, others are not. So when a Reddit post asked platform users, "What's the most insane complaint you've had about an employee that turned out to be completely true?" many had tea to spill. Below are some of the most memorable answers from that thread.
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#1
I used to work at a rural hospital in Texas. We had a surgeon who was always asking the assisting nurses to leave the OR to go get some random supply. You are never supposed to have only one person in the OR, but he would always figure out a way. These were minimally invasive surgeries that just required sedation so there were no other assists besides nurses, no anesthesiologist, etc. He was the only physician. The door would also “mysteriously” lock and the nurse would have to knock to get back in. One of our nurses got fed up and knew something was going on, so she set up her phone to video him. It turned out he had been sticking his, uh, “manhood” in patient’s mouths. He was of course fired but horrifically did not lose his license.
Juanita, the ginger cat 2 years ago
The same happened here in Brazil, but was an anesthesiologist abusing women who were giving birth. He is is in prison and lost his license.
JUSTsoyouKNOW.. 2 years ago
So disgusting perv. Every patient needs to be told of this and have them checked for any diseases. How did he not lose his license?
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#2
A colleague checked out of the mediocre but adequate hotel where we were having a conference and checked into a 5 star luxury resort. She then submitted an expense report for her stay at the luxury resort.
She claimed that she felt unsafe in the original hotel, but did not elaborate.
Someone called the hotel, which checked the security camera footage. At least 4 separate men tried to enter her room that first night. No wonder she left.
Katie A. 2 years ago
She may not have elaborated to the person who told this story, but I hope she did to HR. And I hope the company paid for her stay, and NEVER used the low-rent creep place again. Unsafe for everyone.
Monday 2 years ago
It wasn't a low rent creep place though, it was just an average place.
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Joe Reaves 2 years ago
I wouldn't mind betting she was in an industry that is very skewed towards men and every one of those guys was a conference guest. More likely than them being random non guests who somehow know which rooms belong to women.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
If a non-guest can get to the upper floors without passing directly past the front desk, don't stay in that hotel.
ί𝔫ＣίŦᵃт𝐔𝐬 2 years ago
I don't know if it has to be a non-guest for that to happen.
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Weasel Wise 2 years ago
WTF?!? I have stayed in some really divey motels in not nice neighborhoods (even just last week AND I was traveling alone), I've never ever have been bothered by another guest, much less followed and had FOUR different attempts at getting into my room. 😬
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
If they were having a conference there then there is a good chance they were men from the conference and had nothing to do with the hotel.
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Whoever booked the hotel for the conference did a very poor job. And if several people tried to enter my room in a hotel I was staying in, I would call 911 and then the front desk, in that order.
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
If they were having a conference there then there is a good chance they were men from the conference and had nothing to do with the hotel
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KETGZ 2 years ago
Plot twist, a story about a reasonable employee! I have travelled for business I don't know how many times alone, and I have heard people try my door. It never even occurred to me it was someone trying to break in. I always assumed it was a random drunk guest mistaking the room number.
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
If they were having a conference there then there is a good chance they were men from the conference. Depending on what industry she works in then it doesn’t surprise me - some are dominated by men. They’re away at a conference, they’re drinking, they know her name from her name badge they’re made to wear so can find out her room number…
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Mechanic here. I had a coworker whom would poke a hole into customers tires just so they would come back and buy more (yes he did it to new tires as well). Finally caught him one day after I found it odd that it was only the customers he put tires on that kept coming back for more tires, at first I thought maybe he wasn't putting enough air into them so I kinda hawk eyed over him without him knowing and sure enough he would put the tire on the rim (we have a special machine to put tires on rims) and he would put a small slit with his pocket knife in the tread on the tire. Caught him red handed doing it. Fired on the spot. F**k you Brett.
Ace 2 years ago
Anyone who's ever tried to cut a car tyre knows that this is nonsense. "A small slit in the tread with his pocket knife" is physically impossible.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
What was his motive? He was being paid by the hour, not by the tire presumably.
#4
Many years ago, the bookshop I worked at hired a new employee with terminal cancer - very sad, since she was quite young. She wasn't around too much due to the chemotherapy etc., but when she was in she worked in the children's department. She was actually a pretty good children's bookseller, and was a huge fan of a fairly major American children's author; she ran the UK branch of his fanclub and knew him personally, he occasionally flew her out to the States for events.
One day, she wasn't in, and all employees were called to a staff meeting. We were informed that she had passed away. There was a lot of sadness; her close colleagues were devastated.
Only... a few days later one of our staff happened to go into a branch of McDonalds in a nearby town. Guess who was working behind the counter? Go on, guess.
Turns out she was never ill. She had made the whole cancer thing up, as well as *faking her own death,* for reasons that we never really fully understood. The general consensus was that it started out as a way to connect with her author hero and kind of spiralled from there; in the end she couldn't handle living the lie any more and so... just up and had her mother tell people that she'd died. And then got a job in Maccie D's a few miles down the road, and was surprised when she got found out.
That was a pretty what-the-f**k sort of experience for us all.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
But isn't working at McDonald's a widely accepted equivalent of death?
Qia Munther 2 years ago
A new a young girl in high school who did this, said she had cancer to get sympatie from the other students. It spread to the teatchers who contacted her parents to know what kind of support was needed. And she was not sick. She changed school a few days later.
Christian Golden 2 years ago
What seems like a****lean behavior is probably a pretty scary mental illness.
rullyman 2 years ago
I'm guessing the guy who wrote The Fault in Our Stars?
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Xenia Harley 2 years ago
Knew someone who had everyone convinced she had cancer until her "best" friend followed her. She didn't have cancer. I personally think it's mental illness.
#5
As an area manager for a chain of electrical stores, one Saturday I got a garbled voicemail telling me: 'store manager', 'deputy manager' and 'sales manager' at a certain location had shrink-wrapped 'a sales guy' to a wheely-chair, put him in the back of the delivery lorry -unrestrained- and done doughnuts in the car park so the poor lad was getting smashed into the walls & bulkhead with no way to protect himself, as all limbs were confined due to the dozens of layers of shrink-wrap. One of the 'warehouse guys' was in the back filming the whole thing on his phone...
Until I saw the video and the absolute state of the poor sales guy, I really thought I was being pranked.
He ended up with 2 broken arms (one broken in two places), 1 broken ankle, severe bruising almost all over and a bleed on his brain.
Horrific.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
Please tell me that those managers are now behind bars and that Sales Guy was compensated to the tune of, "never has to work another day in his life."
Lauren Caswell 2 years ago
What in the actual. How can people do this, watch this, partake? It would be terrifying but you gotta try, even if it's calling the cops, screaming at them? Oh I hope they were properly dealt with and it's on their records
Leoninus Fate 2 years ago
just a huge wtf from me, I heard bad stuff in my life and even lived it, but for some reason this hit wrong...sounds like it was meant to be a joke and someone rigged it to be deadly... jeez
Monday 2 years ago
This is the kind of stunt I imagine drunk/high uni students pulling after a night of intense partying, not something reasonable adults would even think about...
#6
That the guy was stalking a female employee. It was a 24 hour retailer and she was a morning shift and he was night shift so I just thought there was no way they knew each other. Then one day I was filling in for a different manager and he came into the break room and was taking pictures of the morning shift schedule. I asked him why and he told me some story about another employee just wanted him to send their schedule etc. I came in on my day off later that week during day shift and caught him staring at her from a different aisle while she was stocking. She had no idea, he would follow her home and watch her house and all that. She was 17, he was 38. I called the cops and had him escorted off the property and helped her get in touch with the right resources for a restraining order. He ended up violating the order multiple times and is in jail last I heard.
Lauren Caswell 2 years ago
I like the follow through in pointing her to the resources she needed, after dispatching with the creepo
Laura Lou 2 years ago
I do too! Very helpful to the young girl. I know at her age I would have been lost as to what to do, and might not have even tried to get one.
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Queen Bee 2 years ago
I saw a teacher following a teenage class assistant (long time ago). So I stepped in front of him to engage him in conversation - he was visibly angry with me but I told him I had watched him on several occasions and would inform the school board if I saw him do that again. He quit his job, thank goodness,
Mojo Flizash 2 years ago
Borat in the picture is a perfect stand in for Creepy McDouchebag in the post. What the hell is wrong with people?
Kat-Renee Kittel 2 years ago (edited)
Had a similar incident when I was in my twenties but I did not know anything about restraining orders. I was working at a convenience store chain and this creep would follow me to every convenience store they sent me to by looking for my car. I think I finally threatened to call the police if he kept following me. He asked me what am I supposed to do with myself and I said take a cold shower.
CrazyKnitter 2 years ago
The most terrifying thing is that there's so much that you can't do when getting stalked. A lot of police can't or won't do anything for the victim until it escalates. And it's usually too late at that point. I feel for this young woman who has to deal with this.
daniel (pineapple he/him) 2 years ago
men yall need to better, stop creeping, stop stalking, be respectful, and dont make nasty comments
Elle Brown 2 years ago
This happened to a girl who worked at a Walgreens. She was 17 and I think he was 28 or something. They didn't help her at all and he ended her life in the bathroom of the store because she rejected him.
#7
One of my employees stole a credit card from her co-worker and took all of the office employees (including her victimized co-worker) out to a nice restaurant for lunch. When the victim received the credit card bill she noticed over 20 charges she did not recognize including from Wal-Mart. She went to the store and got security footage from the day of the charges and found her co-worker on camera with a cart full of products. It took her over 1 year with the evidence to get the police to arrest and the DA to prosecute her.
Monday 2 years ago
The legal system works at a snails pace unfortunately. At least she got prosecuted in the end!
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
The speed of the legal system is inversely proportional to the wealth of the criminal.
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Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
I feel like there would have been a charge for the restaurant that would have given away who stole it.
Diana Graham 2 years ago
This happened to my co-worker. The company would not tell her who took it, on camera, and the police did nothing!!
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Couldn't anyone who stole a credit card to use at Walmart plead insanity as a defense?
Linda Riebel 2 years ago
Yeah, and we have to wait 2 more months before Georgia indictments rain down.
#8
Working in a bank. Had a teller (about 19 year-old) get pissed about the way a customer (retail store owner) would send in her deposits at the drive up window.
The teller complained about the customer on Facebook! Tagged the lady personally, as well as the store! Customer called the bank and told me, furious of course. I told the customer we would investigate, I asked the teller. She straight up admitted it, and says "What's the customer or Branch Manager going to do about it? My Grandfather is friends with the bank President."
I called HR and Bank President on conference. Girl lost her job in under 15 minutes of me receiving the call from the customer. Breach of customer confidentiality in banking is a MAJOR law violation.
SandraG_lak 2 years ago
What are they going to do about it? My sister's boyfriend's aunt's dog is friends with the bank president's gerbil!
Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
Most of have had tedious jobs at some point, especially at that age. Put up with it and learn from it. Entitlement can be toxic.
#9
I knew a guy who worked at subway back when they gave out stamps. Basically for every six inches of sub you bought you earned a stamp and once you filled a card with 8 stamps you could get a free six inch sub.
So this guy started only giving stamps to customers who asked for them. If they didn't ask he pocketed their stamps and grew a sizeable stack of complete stamp cards.
Then over time he started cashing them in. When a customer paid with cash he would ring it in as a freebie, place his own completed stamp card in the till, and pocket the cash. Customer got their sub, subway's till was balanced, and he had an extra five to ten bucks in his pocket - everybody was happy.
He worked there for a few years and word was he racked up a few thousand dollars running this scheme. No idea if anybody complained, or if he was ever caught, but he did buy a motorbike.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
That's genius. Not even sure whether he'd be breaking any laws doing it.
Ace 2 years ago
Yes, of course he's breaking the law. It's theft from his employer, pure and simple.
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Robin Roper 2 years ago
My niece was catering manager for a large hotel. She is sharp as a tack and knew something wasn't adding up regarding the freebee complementary breakfast coupons they gave out. It took very little effort to find several waitstaff were doing this with the coupons - they got fired.
Cammy Mack 2 years ago
Huh, it would occur to me to save the stamps if the customer didn't ask for it, but all I'd do is get free sandwiches from another location.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
This used to happen in clubs where I worked. Entre charge often included a free drink and on some night up to three drinks. House sprits were included so If someone asked for a coke they could ring a whisky coke and "keep" the whisky and sell it to a paying client who ordered a whisky coke and just ring a coke on the till. That way the pocketed the price of the whisky. Some staff were caught bring there own bottles off spirit. We used to mark the bottles with a stamp with invisible ink so if we suspected someone had brought there own bottles we could catch them.
Malwin Wellham 2 years ago
It is the Cashier scam. Dishonest cashiers that operate cash registers always find ways to skim the cash.
whatever 2 years ago
Sort of did the same thing as a server by applying a AAA discount to customer's restaurant tabs (paid in cash) before closing out the check. The 10% discount went into our pockets so for example on a $80 tab would now be closed out at $72 after the discount so that was an extra $8 for that table (on top of whatever tip they left). Technically it's not stealing but I know we would have gotten s**t-canned if they caught us.
Gabby D 2 years ago
Why even bother going through the rigmarole of only collecting stamps of customers who didn't ask for them? He has free access to the stamp AND the cards. Let's face it, he can just stamp up a tonne of cards himself... which makes me think this is fake because it's actually a more complicated way of stealing stamps than just stamping up a load of cards when no one's looking.
#10
Just remembered one that was super bad. Security guard at a mall. This coworker, probably late 30s-esrly 40s, was a really weird dude. Pretty sure he was barely functioning autistic but also down right gross and would frequently take people's left over food out the trash and eat the rest if they didn't finish. Anyways one day this dude finds a woman smoking outside one of the doors and it's a no smoking property. He bold face lies to the woman about what he can and can't do and threatens to give her a 500$ fine for violating fire safety laws unless she sucks his d**k. She asks for an hour to think about it and asks for his number to get in touch with him. She gets his number and immediately goes up to our camera room and asks for the big boss and tells him what happened. By boss, understandably doesn't believe her at first. She then calls him on the number she got and puts it on speaker phone. She asks him to explain the offer again before she decides to follow through. He explains it all again while boss man listens quietly in the back ground. Boss man picks up the phone and yells at him that he's fired and to drop all his stuff off and that he'll be arrested in the spot if he ever comes back.
Jp@nda 2 years ago
When will women be listened to and believed? Any sane person when hearing that would immediately call an authority to have it investigated
KETGZ 2 years ago
IKR? Why would someone take the time and effort to make something like that up?
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LesAnimaux 2 years ago
"Understandably" the big boss didn't believe the woman? That's messed up in itself
Alisa Knizhnik 2 years ago
I used to work in retail hell, and most of the security guard I've ever seen really WERE barely functional. And barely working.
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Elle Brown 2 years ago
"He understandably doesn't believe her" No. Not understandably. Why would she make that up. Being a woman is awful.
SGH 2 years ago
Might be unpopular for saying this, but just because someone makes an accusation it doesn't mean it's true. The boss in this case is absolutely correct in verifying the claim before making a decision. However, once verified the police should have been called immediately. As soon as he had heard the conversation he can corroborate her version of events.
#11
Had a new hire (as in less than a week on the job) at a movie theater, where I worked as a supervisor, throw a very loud, unbelievably childish tantrum in front of a lobby full of customers because her direct supervisor asked her to sweep up some popcorn that a customer spilled. She kept screaming "I ain't cleaning up someone else's mess! Make them (the customer) do it!" She was 24 years old.
The meltdown she had when she got fired for her tantrum was nuclear, with lots of screaming & threats of how her parents were going to "call the company and get all your
a$$e$ fired!". The next day someone *claiming* to be her dad did call & tell us that we "are going to rehire my daughter & apologize to her and fire (named her supervisor and manager) or else." but nothing more came of it, the top manager just laughed & hung up.
I've yet to ever see such an epic, entitled tantrum before or since.
Jef Bateman 2 years ago
This sort of thing isn't new. I worked at a gas (petrol) station once where somebody threw up all over the bathroom. A co-worker said it "wasn't in my job description" to clean up the mess. She didn't exactly throw a tantrum, but she also wasn't the person to clean it up.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
I had to put my foot down in a similar situation at green apron coffee place. Someone had thrown their feces into my crowded store. I had to call the police and close the store. My manager wanted us to clean it up, but I said, "No, ma'am. We are neither trained, equipped, nor paid to handle biohazardous material. We are calling Haz-Mat." She was pissed, because her annual bonus was tied to the operations budget.
Load More Replies... The Redhead 2 years ago (edited)
She had a fit because of a spilled bucket of popcorn in the lobby!? Lmao in my early 20s I spent 3.5 years working in a theater. She must not have been sent to clean out an auditorium yet. Spilled popcorn is the easiest thing to clean up. I can't imagine her reaction if she had to clean up a dirty diaper, a cup of used chewing tobacco, vomit that no one bothered to inform any of the employees about.
#12
I just fired an intern because he thought it'd be funny to smack one of the girls on the a*s. Upon further investigation, she had been having anxiety coming to work because he would ask all sorts of ridiculously inappropriate questions. For example, he asked her if she had a good weekend. She told him it was a good weekend or some plain answer and he then asked her if it was because she f****d her boyfriend a lot. Needless to say, her anxiety was warranted and we fired him as soon as we could. The mood in my group seems a bit more relaxed this week...
Diolla 2 years ago
I worked with one guy like that once. Ended up hitting him in the stomach after he SA'ed me at work. He stopped after that.
Katie A. 2 years ago
This is the way. Perps only understand force and quite often, brutality. They don't understand being asked politely, or manners in the first place. Glad you showed power and control, because that's what this is all about. Amazing how bad behavior stops once it's reckoned with, with even more force.
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Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I once worked somewhere that this one guy was harassing people in different departments and the new interns... instead of firing him they made everyone go as a group to Sexual Harassment training. That guy even had the nerve to sit in the front like he wasn't the one responsible for it!
KETGZ 2 years ago
There is a 60% possibility that he didn't connect his actions to the training and thought it was just a required thing.
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Soozie Beech 2 years ago
When I was just starting out in the workforce in my late teens, I had a manager who would ask me about my weekend, how many men I'd slept with, comment on my appearance ("you look tired today, were you up all night having sex? Did you orgasm?" etc). This was in the late 70s. No-one would have listened if I had complained - he was the big boss. I lost my cool one day, and finding some super-human strength, I tipped his desk over on top of him, leaving him pinned underneath. Walked out of his office, picked up my bag and coat and went home. I never went back to that job...
Diolla 2 years ago
Well done! Yes in those days ppl generally got away with that type of behaviour. Despicable.
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Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
I had a fairly new employee who didn't seem to get the fact that I (a woman!) was his boss. We were having our usual Monday morning staff meeting and I asked if there were any questions. He shoots up his hand and says, "Yeah. I was just wondering whether you like to be on top or the bottom?" Apparently he thought he was being funny. Everyone in the room gasped (fully expecting me to beat the ever lovin' sh*t out of this idiot), but I simply told him to go wait in my office. I closed the meeting and went in to discover him going through my desk. I fired him immediately & he tells me I don't have the authority to do that. OK - so I go get the GM and ask him to explain to this jacka$$ that I do, in fact, have the authority to fire his sorry butt. "Oh, yeah mate. In spades." And he walks back out. Guy turns beet red and tries to talk his way out. I gave him 5 seconds to leave the building before I would have him physically thrown into the parking lot.
#13
None of these will beat the guy who worked at the local pinata factory who was caught f*****g the pinatas. He was caught on CCTV and fired. He later sued them because he claimed they rigged the pinata to f**k up his d**k.
Mojo Flizash 2 years ago
I had a buddy who worked in a furniture store that was attached to the building where they fabricated the furniture. Upon being fired he went into a packed showroom and loudly dry-humped as much furniture as he could before the police came.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago
... I don't even want to know how they'd rig the pinata
Scarlett O'Hara's Ghost 2 years ago
So. I tried to Google this to find out if it's real. You wouldn't believe how popular it is to f**k a pinata. Stories all over the place.
KieLeaHar 2 years ago
Yeah, I tried to find it too but found a lot worse wow 😳
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Spongebob Sadpants 2 years ago
I remember watching a case like this on a show called World's Dumbest Criminals on cable.
PandaGoPanda 2 years ago
Inclined to agree with you, I cannot think of anything that will beat that.
Anna Ekberg 2 years ago
I guess candy wasn't the only thing hiding in those piñatas. Eeeewwww....
daniel (pineapple he/him) 2 years ago
on behalf of mexicans, i am very dissapointed in you man, also BRO WTF DOESNT THAT HURT LIKE HELL
#14
Huge well known international company. Young straight-out-of-college guy just hired (as in, first day the same week), who had moved from eastern europe to corporate location. Cue company ski trip. Free booze. Some of his new colleagues/"friends" told him that this woman was checking him out.
He wasn't exactly sober, and started hitting on her. She told him to knock it off, that she wasn't interested. He kept being pushy. Large scary dude beside the woman told him to knock it off. He swung at large scary dude, and promptly found himself face first in the snow.
The woman in question? Head of global HR. The large scary dude? Head of global corporate security, ex military. The young schmuck? Fired.
Mojo Flizash 2 years ago
Sounds like they set this dude up knowing he was drunk and that he couldn't handle himself appropriately. He certainly proved them right.
Helen Taylor 2 years ago
The colleagues/friends should have been fired too. We're having a nasty and bad sense of humor.
#15
Had an employee that was actively robbing local banks on his days off. I believe he hit 8-9 different banks before he got caught. Found out about it during an early am FBI raid of the employee locker/break rooms done in conjunction with a raid on his house. To say it was a shock was an understatement. He wasn’t even top 20 of my list of potential felonious employees.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Much better if we just all assume everyone around us are thieves. 🙄🤣
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Someone asked the famous bank robber, W***y Sutton, why he robbed banks. "That's where they keep the money", he teplied.
Mojo Flizash 2 years ago
8 or 9 different banks? You're lucky getting away with 1 or two but sh1t.....greed. And maybe a drug habit.
#16
She was peeing on the chairs in the office. No, she didn't have any sort of health issues. She just didn't feel like walking to the bathroom.
AFAIK she still works there.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
It's the sitting on the wet, smelly chair afterwards that boggles *my* mind.
Load More Replies... Robert Trebor 2 years ago
I worked in a nursing home, and the 70 something year old daughter of a 95 year old resident was caught peeing her mother's bed.
Anon822209 2 years ago
Like intentionally? To what end? I know I'm late, but I have questions
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#17
So I worked retail and we got this guy named something like Gus.
My boss tells me, "Hey this guy's got anxiety, go easy on him OK?" And so I was like, okay that's cool I get it I can relate. I do everything I can to help him make sense of the infernal godforsaken hellscape that is retail.
It starts off with little forgiveable things -- forgetting a task here, forgetting things there, accidentally giving the wrong info and things like that. You know, newbie retail stuff like that.
He quickly devolved in popularity as his complacency grew over time and his helpful attitude shrank. My guy started f*****g around during his shift, getting caught on his phone while ignoring backup cashier calls and things like that. He would make stabbing motions behind the manager's back to other employees, tell off new employees, and play it all off like he was some innocent dope who didn't know any better.
None of this got him fired. Day after day was a new complaint from an employee about responsibilities he shirked or a customer about blatantly wrong info like, "Oh yeah we have another location up on the hill" and we didn't. No idea whose son he was, because that was apparently all kosher.
What ACTUALLY got him fired is the one day he brought a dog and a super expensive dog collar into work. He claimed he almost hit the dog on the way to work and it was running around wild, etc etc. He tried to sell the dog collar to a customer, then tried to "adopt out" the dog to a coworker.
This coworker was competent enough to take the dog to a vet whereupon they found a microchip and contacted the actual owners. THAT'S where the fun started.
It came out that Gus never found the dog at all. He straight up KIDNAPPED this dog from his neighbor and tried to pawn it off, knowing full well what he was doing. The guy lawyered up immediately, tried to sue Gus and threatened to sue the store and the store manager if Gus wasn't fired.
Suffice to say, Gus was gone the very same evening. Nothing else came of it, but we talked about him for years and years.
KETGZ 2 years ago
I don't understand how suing the company that employed Gus would be a possibility just because Gus brought the dog to his place of employment...
Seadog 2 years ago
Worked with a guy (white) that for whatever reason never got fired until.... New store manager was a super nice guy (black) that had lived in Spain for a spell and would talk about his life there and his wife (Spanish) that he met there. She comes in the store one evening to see her hubby. Not sure what took place after that but once she left idiot made a very racial comment about her, TO HER HUSBAND of all people. That did it, he was gone real quick after that. It was no secret she was his wife. How stupid can you get?
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
The weird thing about stories like this, is that people like that apparently expects to get away with it.
#18
This was shortly before I joined. I'm the dispatcher for a food delivery service. Just a local thing. Anyway, we had this driver, right at the start of the pandemic. She apparently decided enough was enough one day. The complaint was that she was an hour late, wasn't wearing mask, was very confrontational and messy. While being sternly reminded to wear a mask, we got another call from the customer. They had found her mask, in the mashed up French fry and ketchup soup that she had made of a kids meal in the order, the chicken fingers were eaten down to the burnt ends. They got a full refund and were offered to have a fresh meal bought by another driver but refused. The original driver was confronted. Whereupon her reply was "Oh yeah that's where that went! What? I was hungry. Fat little porker answered the door coulda missed a meal or two. What yes gonna do? Fire me?"She then tried to sue for discrimination and said she was fired because she was gay
Robin Roper 2 years ago
Yeah, gay people can also be AH's and criminals. There is no correlation.
Princess Mar-li Cathryn 2 years ago
I know. I work with one. Not a criminal as far as I know but definitely a jerk. Nothing to do with her being gay, stupid comes in all flavors.
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Spittnimage 2 years ago (edited)
Above story is why I refuse to use a delivery service - and the astronomical tips they expect.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Doesn't matter in this instance. It's not what she was fired over.
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Demongrrrrl 2 years ago
I had a delivery driver who decided she didn't feel like bringing me my order. I think she ate it herself. I got a refund, but was mad because I was hungry! (The app showed me who the driver was and the make/model of her car.)
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 2 years ago
This behavior is because she has never been punched in the face. It may seem mean and undeserved, but you will greatly improve their life.
Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
Probably trying to use 'gay' as an excuse. It isn't. Gotta love entitled people!
#19
Had a coworker who always had a really strong stench and thought it was just bad BO. Turns out she was addicted to mothballs and was licking them during working hours. The chemicals give off an unbelievably strong smell through your skin. We got complaints about her odor but didn’t take them seriously (thought people were just being a******s) until someone saw her actively licking on the job.
Something else I would add is it was the kind of smell where you could never really quite put the finger on what it was, but once we figured it out it made a *lot* of sense. It doesn’t smell exactly like the real thing, but like it’s been processed through your body/skin lol. We were also very wary of being discriminatory which is why it wasn’t discovered earlier.
Tinley's Aunt 2 years ago
Mothballs are extremely dangerous. They should not be handled, inhaled, or licked.
El Dee 2 years ago
I discovered through the experience of working with someone who smelled REALLY bad (you could smell his direction of travel when he was out of sight - must be what it's like being a dog!) The problem of telling him he stank and telling him to sort it out without breaching the rules was almost insurmountable. Summer days were genuinely awful..
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
I worked with a man who really smelt. I used to hold my breath if I went into the corner of his office but nobody could ever talk to him about anything serious because he was such an angry person.
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SageHare37 2 years ago
They are a marble sized ball of insect repellent, made to keep moths from eating wool blankets/clothes. Some old houses/closets/chests smell like them forever after they are used. They are also a proven carcinogen and can be deadly to pets. I'm all for no holes in wool, but I'll be happy when they are as reviled as lead based paint.
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Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
Coworker could be severely anemic, and have pica. I have pernicious anemia, and if I don't keep it controlled, I have SEVERE...to the point of crying...cravings, for sand & gasoline. it's scary.
#20
Ive got a lot of these.
Customer complained employee was stealing. Didn't believe it, at first.The gayest man I've ever known was stealing Playboy magazines. No idea why. Got caught with them. Multiple copies of the same issue. Fired.
One employee was spotted by a customer pleasuring himself on the roof before the store opened. Also used a magazine. Didn't believe it. Staked out the roof. Turned out to be true. Fired.
One customer told me the bookkeeper is up to something because she didn't get a receipt for a space she rented. Didn't believe it. Turns out, this employee was pocketing a few hundred at a time when a vendor paid in cash. Was doing all kinds of embezzling that wasn't easy to catch. Fired. Jailed.
One customer walked in on an employee who was masturbating. There was a lock on the door. Lock not used. Fired.
Customer spotted receipt showed coupon when they paid cash. Coupon code should have been cleared out of the system years before. It was 100% off coupon. This employee made an extra $100 or so per shift. Fired. Jailed. Mystery as to how they found the coupon code.
One customer found a camera in the women's restroom. I knew right away who it was. Staked out the camera feed until I saw him go in. Fired. Jail.
One customer was hugged by an employee. No idea why. It was the employee's first day. Fired.
One customer spotted a security guard selling meth to his friends. He had been selling meth and other drugs on his shift for over a year. Added bonus when we got rid of him, thefts went way down.
One customer complained an employee pointed and laughed when an old lady fell. Reviewed the tape. It was pretty pronounced. She had tripped on an end cap, fell, and wasn't able to get herself up. He was pointing and laughing for a while. When someone else helped her up, he was berated about doing nothing. Not fired, though.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
Drugs... masturbation... embezzlement... that's a Floridian Walmart, right?
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JL 2 years ago
Compared to the criminals and deviants in this post, maybe this one should have gotten a warning?
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Toni Kay 2 years ago
I was curious about this place so I looked up op “A boutique mall. Vendors rented out stalls, but all the employees were mall employees. Ironically, the owners fired me when I caught them stealing from each other. A father and a son. Unsurprisingly, they went out of business after I left. There is only so much to steal.”
Lupita Nyong'heaux 2 years ago
i'm wondering why he never believes people, especially after the first few times ...
Niall Mac Iomera 2 years ago
Did the customer not like being hugged? Did they make a complaint? Maybe they knew each other.
Grendel Arcane 2 years ago
You didn’t fire the guy laughing at the fallen customer, but you did fire the employee who gave a hug? Makes perfect sense. Why I am my own boss.
Seadog 2 years ago
a 100% coupon? Why would there even be such a thing? I'd be digging deeper on this one. This would have to go back to whoever programmed the BMS. Even then, that would be an immediate red flag to even the dumbest of cashiers. Even an idiot cashier is going to blurt out "wow, 100% off! That's really something."
#21
Once had a co-worker selling shrimp from the dumpster. Picked them out after brunches. Popped a few on a skewer, and sold them in the bars that night. Got caught in a bar with the manager, and the CCTV caught him dumpster diving. They had him arrested.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Not worth it!!! I've been so broke that I've been homeless and there's no way, even in my most desperate moments, I would ever dumpster dive for stinky àss seafood. Much less then handle the trash food and resell it.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
I'm picturing Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler opening his coat to reveal a bunch of shrimp skewers.
LeeAnne B 2 years ago
Why was he arrested? If something is in a dumpster, it no longer belongs to anyone.
RedMarbles 2 years ago
In the US, it is a crime to sell adulterated food. Food is considered adulterated if: it has been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions, and may have become contaminated with filth, or injurious to health. Keeping Our Food Safe | OPA | Department of Justice https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/keeping-our-food-safe
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I was the head night auditor at an upscale airport property. Had a youngish night auditor who put a room into out of order status and let his friends in to party and have an orgy that he joined during his lunch break. He got caught because of a noise complaint. Police called, he was fired and blacklisted from being hired back.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
I had a friend who worked as the night receptionist in a aparthotel. When it was quite he pimped out the room to hookers. He made quite a bit of money, even paid a cleaning lady out of his profits.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
At least the ladies he rented to knew they had a safe room to conduct business. 🤷🏾♀️
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Rizzo 2 years ago (edited)
I once dated a woman, who was a chambermaid of a big hotel chain. We always met at her hotel because it was more convenient - as she said - and she always had entry cards of free rooms anyway. The true reason was: she didn't want her neighbours to see me and tell her husband about the visits. Her husband was in prison for multiple aggravated assault charges.
#23
We had to terminate an assistant manager for walking by other employees and farting near them and walking away. He was warned about it first and kept doing it.
Beverly Arana 2 years ago
A police officer in NJ was fired for that. He's now chief of police in a s**t hole town in Texas.
The_Nicest_Misanthrope 2 years ago
Had a colleague who did exactly this. She thought it was hilarious and did it multiple times a shift. F*****g gross.
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
Are they sure it was intentional? He could have Crohn’s, have celiac disease, have IBS, or be lactose intolerant, which all cause uncontrollable flatulence.
Vasana Phong 2 years ago
You know what is really repelling, when someone farts in front or near someone and it smells so bad you scream, and they think it’s funny or cute
#24
A chain restaurant here does student discount of 30% off. One of the waiters, who was a student himself, would use his own student discount whenever a table paid full price in cash, and keep the difference for himself.
Only got found out because head office emailed the manager to check why one student had eaten at the restaurant 5 times a day for the last few weeks.
Leoninus Fate 2 years ago
i would have been that student who had eaten at the restaurant 5 times a day for the last few weeks with no problem, because I can feel hunger I have to snack and be reminded to eat, so I when I'm out somewhere away from home I usually order/buy from the same place 7/10 times in one day, I would be like .... I'm just hungry I'm sorry T_T
Vinny DaPooh 2 years ago
He might not have been smart enough to only do it on single customer tickets. Might have been 3 or 4 meals per ticket times 5 tickets a day.
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If my job gave a free mellow day. It would’ve been great, but I would’ve done almost the same thing. Because that would’ve been my only meal for the day, I would have done it enough times to get three meals a day. Instead. I lived on Ramen, instant rice, and mashed potatoes
#25
Critical items at the jewelry counter were anything over $500 and had to be counting at the start and end of each shift and shift change.
Items keep coming up missing and one of the other employees complained that it was a certain lady stuffing it up her hot pocket.
Security took her to the bathroom. It was true. She had a men's necklace shoved up there. I can't imagine who she was gonna give that too.
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
The forever *Tainted* "Hot Pocket" ,if you will...
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The Other Guest 2 years ago
Vagina. Say it with me now: va-gi-na. The proper term for a part of human anatomy should never be treated as a dirty word. Although "hot pocket" is pretty funny...
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Meanwhile, people constantly refer to the vulva as 'vagina'.
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LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
"Ma'am, please step over here. We've had a report that your vagina is jingling."
Seadog 2 years ago
Reminds me a liquor store clerk I used to know. They were loosing 1/2 gallons but could never figure out who. Kept watching and it was a rather large woman in a dress. As she came by the checkout counter the manager reached over and smacked her on the bum. She of course jumped and the 1/2 gallon fell from between her thighs.
Robert McKenzie 2 years ago
I think this should win some award for most interesting euphemism!
#26
That a employee took a women’s phone number from her account at the store we worked at and called her.
I never thought anyone was that stupid.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
I had a coworker TRY to get me fired (we were both up for the same promotion) by setting me up for something like this. I rented a woman a car, and commented to my coworker how beautiful she was after she left. When she returned the car, I was out and the coworker helped her. Gave me a piece of paper with her # on it, says she left it for me. I thankfully never called it, because when she came in the next day to retrieve an item she left in the car I was at the counter and kinda asked her if she wanted to go to a local festival that weekend. She blushed, and said she was "flattered, but married." Jerk had pulled her # from her contract and wrote it down trying to get me fired!
Alexandra Grey 2 years ago
This is not at all uncommon. It's the primary reason I will never use any version of DoorDash or Uber - although in the case of Uber, there's also the possibility of your driver being inappropriate on the spot, as well.
Seadog 2 years ago
Oh they're dumber. Worker (not at the store I worked) wrote down a woman's number while registering her warranty. Even when a man answered he never considered this could be her husband and told him he was calling to ask her out. Yeah, next call was to corporate and the DM fired the guy next day.
#27
Local hardware store had an employee jacking and putting it in a coworkers' coffee. True story. People found out and he was arrested.
Julie Snelling 2 years ago
There was a TV program n UK called Tarrent on CCTV (Chris Tarrent is a presenter) and one of the videos from a CCTV camera in an office was of a woman who removed her tampon from inside herself and put it in her bosses coffee. Sticks in my memory for some reason.
tee-lena 2 years ago
Well. My eyebrows stuck to my hairline for a minute after this story!
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Sooploosh MacSchnibble 2 years ago
I keep hearing similar stories. It seems like it is very difficult to detect cum in food, and that is extremely scary to me.
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
Saw a recent story where the victim found globs in the bottom of her coffee.
Load More Replies... Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
There was a man caught on camera and exposed in his office for urinating in the company coffee pot. It aired on several news channels and made a big story on Dateline or a big investigative show like that. He did do time for it but I don't recall the particulars.
#28
my friend used to work in HR at this holistic wellness place and one of the staff members who always had one of those reusable straw cups was literally dRINKING HIS OWN PEE OUT OF IT like during meetings and everything!!?!??! she quit pretty soon after.
Jef Bateman 2 years ago
There used to be an outdoor store in Tucson called "Bob's Bargain Barn." The place was great, and it is too bad it's not there anymore. One Saturday morning I showed up and a guy came up to me - one of those strangers who acts really familiar right off the bat - and says I just missed the coolest demo of a new filtering straw. The salesman apparently urinated into a cup right there in front of everybody and then drank it through the filter straw. There was still a cup of whiz on the table where he was demonstrating.
Dekker451 2 years ago
Demonstrating what exactly, a 7 on the weird-s**t-o-meter?
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#29
While working at a well known hardware store, had a coworker build a hideout in the insulated aisle. He would disappear for hours while clocked in, no one knew where he would go. One day he's being escorted out, apparently a manager found him sleeping in his hideout.
El Dee 2 years ago
i saw this for real in a large warehouse. They call it a 'nest' During a shift people take it in turns to go for a sleep and are wakened by the next 'tenant'
Mike Fitzpatrick 2 years ago
I did as well. In the 1970's a guy I worked with built a nest inside a of packages. Kufu's pyramid didn't have as many "hallways" as this guy did into the center of a stack. They were 14' high so no danger of being seen from above. He got caught when someone heard him snoring.
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Majungasaurus 2 years ago
LOL the back area of my work is a huge maze of rows and rows of shelves. They’ve turned a corner of it into a mini “kitchen” with a mini fridge and microwave, surrounded by shelves on 3 sides. If you go into this area, move the microwave, and slide yourself through the shelves behind it, there’s a magical hidden 6’x4’ area. You can’t guess that it’s there from the outside. I used to hide back there when I needed a break from people :)
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Around 2015 or so a bunch of guys who had government jobs overseeing clean air and water were busted for hiding out in their actual inground man cave complete with entertainment center, video game systems, recliners, etc....when they were supposed to be working.
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
I work at General Electric in the 80s. We had all the head crane operators. This was in the turbine engine building so the buckets for the cranes were large. On third shift the crane operator would sleep and his coworkers would wake him up when he needed to operate the crane. I didn’t mind though, I was a secretary and love to read so he would give me all the books. He was also reading up there overnight.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
My husband used to work at a casino in San Diego (he was the facilities manager). On of the guys in his department would literally come to work and then go to a somewhat secluded spot in the warehouse and take a nap. My husband complained constantly that he wasn't doing any work, none of his orders had been processed and no one ever knew where he was. It took SIX MONTHS to get him fired, even with proof.
#30
Our worker took a s**t in the toilet of a vacant apartment that didn't have running water and then didn't say anything and left. They know they are supposed to use bathrooms in the offices/clubhouses because vacant units never have running water. The complex didn't find it until three days later, when they brought a potential tenant for a walkthrough. It had been over 100 degrees all week. The woman i spoke to said there wasn't any toilet paper, either.
Red_panda 2 years ago
Maybe he was in there doing maintenance or something and just really had to go? I've had those moments where you eat something that doesn't agree with you and all of a sudden you have ten seconds to find a toilet.
Monday 2 years ago
Fair enough there are emergencies where any toilet is a welcome toilet, but if that were the case surely he'd have just gone to get a jugg of water, filled the toilet bowl and flushed?
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Sidhe 2 years ago
The same thing happened to me when we went through our first house for the final walkthrough. What was to be our daughter's bathroom. Brand new build. One of the guys sh!t in the toilet, made an absolutely disgusting mess, and then evidently wiped with shop rags. The builders cleaned it up. Two weeks later, we noticed a horrendous smell in the kitchen that would just not go away. The builders came back. Come to find out that the shop rags had been so stuffed in the the toilet pipe, that they had to rip out an entire wall of cabinets in our kitchen to replace the pipe, because it broke under the pressure.
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
This is why toilets are screwed shut on construction sites. Some horrible bastard is going to use it whether there's water or not
Michelle Smith 2 years ago
This happens a lot in home remodel stores. Children are watched well enough by their parents. In one instance, the child was too small to have climbed up on the display, wonder how he got up there.
#31
When my wife was in college she worked as a teller at the bank. Tellers were responsible for checking out and checking in a certain amount of cash on every shift. One of her coworkers doing the evening shift decided to take the money to the casino with the idea that he would replace it in the morning. Unluckily for him there was an audit in the bank the next morning before he came in and he was fired on the spot.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
I work in the gamming industry. You can't imagen how many people get caught up in "beating the bank scams" they see a TV program about card counting or clicker devices to cheat the house an end up broke.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Gamming: a school of whales or an informal meeting amongst crew members if a whaling vessel.
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This wasn’t 100% this kids fault but it also was. I was at popular icecream and yogurt chain. Not national, but popular locally. We had some proprietary recipes that were a huge hit. So one day some people came to one of our stores saying they were a documentary crew making a film about our product and could they film how we made it. Kid gave them the red carpet, even let them write down our temperature settings, recipes, machine model numbers, everything you would need to make our product. He really meant well. But damn if that didn’t lead to a dozen copycat stores the next year....
#33
Used to work as a night auditor at a hotel and one day I was told one of the daytime workers was fired. She was this really sweet older lady who worked part time and it was really hard to get fired there so I was very curious. Several customers had complained, concerned that there was something very off about this woman. She was slurring and just seemed very off that day. Management was concerned, at first thinking there was a medical issue. After a few more incidents, they checked the cameras and found out she was taking shots of vodka throughout her shift. Like, an absurd number of shots. I can't remember how much, but I remember being rather impressed that she could function at any capacity.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
Bartender knowledge/secret: if someone orders a shot of vodka, you know they have a serious problem. Every other type of liquor has sort of flavor (peat, oak, herbs, etc.) but vodka tastes like straight rubbing alcohol and isn't meant to be enjoyable or sipped, it just is meant to numb. Another fun fact, vodka is a good cleaning solvent. It removes permanent marker and tape residue easily.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
And they use the really cheap "rot gut" kind to get sweat and odors out of Broadway, dance etc costumes that can't be easily washed everyday.
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Jro308 2 years ago
We had to fire a temp who was drunk at work. Office job, she was drinking vodka out of her water bottle most of the day. Co-worker reported her for being face down at her desk around 2pm. When we asked if there was someone she could call to come get her she pulled an avocado out of her purse and tried to call her mom.
Lorraine R 2 years ago
I mean, that would be a hilarious bit in a comedy film, but in real life it's just very sad.
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I like a drink as much as the next man but for a short while I had a GF, cute pretty and funny, very petit. 45kg. She always ordered a small beer and a shot of vodka. What I didn't realise at first was that when I wasn't looking she would sneak more vodka shots, She could knock back half a bottle in 30 mins and carry on as normal. We didn't last long she carried on with another guy a knew and went Tea total for a while, when on some religious clean up in a convent. But not for long.... Sad
#34
“Our night supervisor bought a ten foot python and walked around the warehouse with it around his shoulders”
Checked the videos. Yep, bloke had a python. At one point he put it down, and then spent the next half hour trying to find it.
Was the final straw - sacked him that arvo.
Firefly1617 2 years ago
Afternoon in Aussie. I'm Aussie and the slang is still confusing ;-;
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Jen M 2 years ago
Lol, we had a falconer for a superintendent at a place I worked. He'd bring that giant bird to the parking lot in a cage that took up his entire work truck bed, and then take him out at lunch and breaks walk around the parking lot with his giant falcon on his arm while wearing a medieval looking leather glove. Was pretty cool to see!
#35
I worked in a call center. Coworker would prank call annoying customers. One time she forgot to block our number. Customer called to complain and even called the news.
#36
I had a number of complaints about a new member of staff, they said that she kept taking off her shoes, pulling dry skin from her feet, and eating it.
I thought the staff were lying and being mean about her just because they didn't like her... Until I saw her do it.
She didn't finish the week.
Edit: a couple of people are asking why she was fired for this. She wasn't, she quit about a week later.
She didn't really get on with the other staff, because they all thought she was a bit gross, and she quickly got into a bad mood because of it.
I'm not entirely blaming her. I said before that I thought the staff might be 'lying'. The reason I say that is that it is a small group of staff, and they all collectively decide pretty quickly if they like or dislike someone. If they decide they like you, you're golden. If they decide they don't like you, you are shut out. By all of them.
Its quite a brutal environment, psychologically I mean. But she got cold shouldered pretty quickly, and left before the week was out.
Mojo Flizash 2 years ago
Who does sh1t like this in front of other people? I excuse myself if I have a booger or something like that. Decorum. Tactfullness? Anybody?
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I worked in a small office with a similar environment, unfortunately the other employees took against me before I even started because I got the job over one of their friends. If the boss doesn't sort out their staff one day there will be lawsuits for bullying and harassment. I chose to leave and it was like losing 100lbs the minute I walked out the door.
CatLady 2 years ago
The disorder is called autophagia. It's gross to see, but it's often a compulsion, and it falls under the category of self-injurious behaviours. A private conversation with her to recommend medical treatment would have been far more compassionate than the whole group just cold-shouldering.
Littlebunnyfufu 2 years ago
Aside from this employee, the other staff have created a hostile work environment that maybe needs to be addressed.
Just Kiri 2 years ago
Er... I think we've gotten a bit too comfortable sharing certain things on here.
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I’m not an employer but I found inappropriate photos of a female coworker taken by a male coworker on our shared computer network. I was doing a search on our shared network for photos of our boss, to put together a montage for his retirement, when I came across photos of the female coworker’s (clothed) butt taken from the male coworker’s cubicle., while she was standing speaking to another worker he snapped photos of her butt. There were also videos of her working that he took from between his computer monitors. Just straight up creeper s**t. So I showed my supervisor the photos and he informed HR, who confiscated his computer and work phone to do their own investigation. Thankfully I didn’t search any further cause apparently there were d**k pics as well, which I’m glad I do not have to see. He was put on paid leave for like a month, while HR did their investigation, without having a clue why. He ended up just quitting, I guess he figured he was going to be getting fired anyway.
Shark Lady 2 years ago
I really hate those men who behave like this. Each time something like this happens, women have yet another fear unlocked and then have to come up with another way or place to keep ourselves safe. Lessons will be learnt or thoughts and prayers are useless soundbites designed to get those in charge off the hook.
Zoe Vokes 2 years ago
A colleague of mine was fired for taking up-skirt photos on his phone. He was an older man, married with two daughters. I was very surprised. It was a small office.
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Not the employer for this story, but it's still pretty wild. One evening I had a regular come into the gas station I worked at while I was in the back room cleaning out our boiled peanut pots. When I heard the door ringer I came to the front to man the register and he was standing at the front door, stiff as a board and not moving. He sees me and looks relieved, gathered his usual items then approached the register. He then tells me he's glad I was working that night, because in my night off he came in and didn't see anyone in the store. Gathered his items and waited at the register. He waited a while before noticing the door to our back room was open, and went to investigate to see if someone was in there and didn't hear the ringer. Apparently he caught my coworker mid.. uh.... self pleasuring. And immediately left the store. I was mortified and he was even more so. Apparently the coworker was talking with his then separated wife over text message, and they were mending their relationship and decided to send him some nudes.
Chris Ulm 2 years ago
It’s a southern US thing. Gives peanuts the texture of canned chickpeas.
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Historyharlot93 2 years ago
Boiled peanuts are called “red neck caviar”. They are much better than caviar(too salty), they are the food of the gods. I’m speaking as a northerner who moved down south to work and was introduced to this heavenly snack. And the best ones come from gas stations that boil them in a pot all day and night.
#39
The phantom poo smearer, some filthy swine was smearing poop in one of the ladies bathrooms which resulted in the cleaners threatening to walk off the job, and I had to find a specialist cleaning company to sort out the mess. After a lengthy investigation it turned out that the smearer was a C level executive.
Jen M 2 years ago
What's the motive for something like that? Ur an exec, ur a woman who brine thru the glass ceiling, does this person hate their employer? Do u think she found out she made 70% of what her make colleagues made? Cuz I feel like that's old news, regardless of how awful it is. Seriously though, what would make someone want to do this?
#40
Night shift at a packing line. We had two new temps and they were polar opposites. One super bubbly religious guy who was pretty emotional (cried during his favorite songs) the other guy was grunge, pretty cynical but a damned good worker. Well they both ended up working on adjacent lines and I was training them. Things were great till the bubbly guy decided it was his mission to befriend the grunge guy. Grunge dude wanted to be left alone so he could work but bubbly guy kept going to our team lead to tell her he couldn’t understand why grunge wouldn’t be his friend. My team lead comes down and tells them to play nice and be friends. (She was despised by most of our crew) she’s oblivious, I told her that bubbles needs to leave grunge alone but she wouldn’t have it. Grunge walked out. And bubbles cried for two nights straight then never came back.
#41
She left an unbelievable and unflushable gigantic turd both in and out of the toilet. I went in to the bathroom to deal with what was surely an exaggeration, and probably a nasty diarrhea mess. But no. There was a single unbroken enormous log that was hanging down over the outside of the toilet seat, going up over the seat and back down through the hole into the drain as far as the eye could see. All in one piece. Flushing had no effect. None. It didn't budge, it didn't wiggle. Nothing. Gravity didn't even pull it apart where it hung over the side of the bowl halfway to the ground. It was ... well, it was unbelievable. No one knew what to do. No one wanted to clean it up. Someone wondered aloud if we should send her to the hospital. Honestly, I can't remember what happened next, only that there were tools involved, but I can still see that monster turd like it was yesterday. It was in 1997. I could never look her in the face again. I just kept wondering HOW? Mattie, wherever you are, I hope you're doing better.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
How many days/weeks of not being able to poop does this take? Asking for a friend. 🤣
#42
My boss at a tech company was abusive AF to me. Among many other things she made me do push-ups for every minute I was late if I was late due to public transportation delays (somewhat normal for the commute I had). For “team bonding” she would take us out to drinks and proceed to get blackout drunk. She was also sleeping with two of the other people on my team. There were multiple times at said “team bonding” events where she and one of my other colleagues disappeared into a bathroom... I brought up some of this with HR when I quit, but no one ever looked into it... although she ended up getting fired a few years later due to sexual harassment. Worst boss EVER
#43
This definitely won’t be as crazy as all the other stories, and is definitely not even closest to the craziest person I’ve had to go to HR about/was called in to report on, but it really stuck with me: This guy was bullying another one really, really badly. Like American high school movie in 80’s badly. Reason? He was from out of town. That was it. I thought there HAD to be more to the drama, went to the place, interviewed a few people, watched it happen myself, and… damn, yeah, it seemed like this guy could NOT take the fact that this kid (20s) was from another state. I was absolutely expecting the sort of drama that building was more famous for (baby daddies, sleeping with someone’s wife, etc). Nope…
Christian Golden 2 years ago
Imagine being so insecure and parochial that you bully someone for being from somewhere else.
Nathan Pogorzala 2 years ago
This probably happened in some redneck state and the kid getting bullied was from the North, or California.
Mojo Flizash 2 years ago (edited)
You're right. This wasn't as crazy as some of the others but it's still a head scratcher. Some people....🤦♂️
#44
We had this guy as a delivery driver. Super nice, quiet, never showed any signs of anger even in stressful situations. We started getting calls mainly from older women, that our delivery driver(we had our logo on both front doors) was cutting off, flipping off, yelling c*nt, at these women. I didn’t believe it at first. I thought maybe they cut him off, he honked, they wanted him fired so made up some big story. Then the back window got busted out of the vehicle. And then the radio looked like it got punched out for whatever reason. Everything came together and we found out he had huge anger issues. He stopped showing up so it solved itself, but it was crazy how good of a front he put on.
#45
Had a complaint call from someone get forwarded to me from an external line. Said the person threatened to fight them, spit on them, and called them a whole lot of rather offensive names. Asked for the name (thanks nametags) and got the most mild mannered staff member we had. Couldn't believe it but I passed it on up to my manager. We had cameras. Every word was true...blew my f*****g mind let me tell you.
#46
tl;dr Admin assistant committed fraud, resulting in her boss and eventually her being fired, because her dog had a nervous condition. My boss lost an internal power struggle and was soon fired. The official reason given was he was submitting fraudulent expense reports. I’m not promoted but given all of his responsibilities and I inherited his administrative assistant. Suddenly charges for car service, local hotels, and local liquor stores appear on my corporate credit card. I ask the admin about the charges and she gives me an explanation that’s plausible but that I know isn’t accurate. I called the credit card company and contest the charges until they provide more info. I also started doing some of my own research on the charges. Turns out the admin assistant was an alcoholic who lived with her dog in the local hotel I was getting charged for. She was having the car service pick up her booze at the local liquor store and deliver it to her at the hotel. Why? Her dog had a nervous condition and he liked that hotel. He would get upset if she went out to the store after she got back from work, so she used the car service so she wouldn’t leave and upset the dog. She charged the expenses to my boss’ and my corporate cards because we owed her for making her come to work and leave her dog alone. I got her fired and successfully fought the credit card charges. Even though I found the person actually committing the fraud my boss was still considered ‘fired for cause’ because he signed the expense reports with the fraudulent charges.
#47
When I worked at Sams club, one of the cashiers pocketed a few grand from his drawer and put it on Facebook.
We were a new club, so if that much money went missing, it would have taken them a while to figure out. Or so I was told.
One of the managers overheard and they put two and two together. He got arrested and was fired.
Jeremy James 2 years ago
I had a friend whose dad managed a restaurant. One day, his dad was telling me, practically bragging, about how he had just fired an employee for theft. "I caught him red-handed!" His "proof?" He had been Facebook stalking this kid and saw that he had bought new sneakers. "There's no way he could afford those!" Guy was a racist pig and a total creep. I stopped hanging out at their place after that.
Vasana Phong 2 years ago
Stupid for stealing that much without thinking you’ll never get caught, dumber to post it your social media, dumb dumb
#48
Ran an in-house training course, apprentice from another dept was sent along to see if she’d be a good fit for this job. Small room, lined with computers along 3 walls with me and a projector at the front. We had lots of practical examples to work through throughout the day so each person sat at a computer for the duration. We all agreed a 30 min lunch. She demanded a longer lunch as she had ‘things to do’. I declined her a 1.5 hour lunch break. She took it anyway. She then used her computer to apply for a job during a practical part of the course. She had chosen a computer at the back so I could see what was on her screen from my position at the front. I paused to get everyone’s attention but she was so engrossed in what she was doing she didn’t notice. I let the silence hang, which usually works and people look up sheepishly, but she still didn’t notice. Everyone in the course was now looking at her screen and we could all see she was applying for another job. Got through the course and reported her to her manager who fired her. She left the company a negative Facebook review naming me as a bully who harassed her because of her mental health.
#49
Happened recently. Driving job. I don’t really have to worry about the person recognizing this, he sucked so bad with computers that I nearly ended up with a manslaughter charge during onboarding. Ok, I get this person through onboarding, my boss and HR get him through orientation, we set him out to train. Trainer comes in, exasperated. Dude can’t drive (the easy part of the job). He can’t secure cargo (the more challenging, but still easy part of the job). He starts crying while driving. He ignores instruction. This goes on for a week. Trainer says he’s not going to pass the guy. I tell my boss his options are to either have him retrain under another trainer, do a ride along, draw his own conclusions, or term the guy. Eventually, my boss does the ride along. The guy nearly causes a wreck, while doing exactly what he was told not to do, with me in front of him not three minutes ago. During his ride along, he runs two stop signs and nearly has a head on collision. Boss wanted to give him another week as long as he didn’t f**k up his paper work (this is my domain, and I’ve been known to make people reconstruct their entire day from scratch if they f**k it up bad enough). He proceeds to back out of the lot with both hands off the wheel. Yeah, that’s it.
Shark Lady 2 years ago (edited)
It makes you wonder how someone can get out of bed in the morning without injuring themselves on a daily basis.
CrazyKnitter 2 years ago
I'm much more concerned about all the people who he probably hurts/almost hurts on a daily basis.
Load More Replies... Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Sounds like you hired someone with no driver's license. For a driving job.
#50
I wasn’t the employer but my coworker at a sandwich shop when I was 17 would “steal hours” by coming back to the store to clock himself out a couple hours after he left. We made minimum wage and he was canned after the fourth time he did it. He stole, at most, 40 dollars with that brilliant strategy.
#51
Had someone ‘turn in’ a co-worker for doing 90+ on an interstate with a loaded trailer on the back. Guy insists he wasn’t going that fast. Installed gps. He was. Fired him. He was stunned.
Seadog 2 years ago
DM calls me one day and tells me to hold the transfer driver (runs parts between DC and stores) when he arrives. We all figure DM has something to send further along to another store. Wrong. DM walks in and fires him on the spot. DC is sending another driver and his ride will take fired driver back to retrieve his personal car. Once the dust settles we get the story. DC driver passed 4 cars and an ambulance (running under lights and siren) in a single pass. One of the 4 cars was the DM.
#52
I was working for an agency in NY and we went to a client meeting for starting a new project in Boston. One of the project managers who worked for the same agency in LA office flew in from LA and joined us for the week long meetings with the customer. Super nice guy who did his homework and gave really good presentations and everyone liked him. After wrapping the meetings whole week, I few back to NY on Friday. The later week, there was supposed to be video conferences with the client but they sent an email last minute saying that they are cancelling all meetings. Well, none of us thought much about it and carried on with the day. In the evening, we got to know from our boss that the di**head sent his d**k pics to a female employee who was our client. None of us could believe this but it turned out to be completely true.
Diolla 2 years ago
Unfortunately lots of creeps manage to hide their despicable behaviour behind their public Nice Person image.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
The thing is about sending d**k pics is that surely if you do it at some point it's worked?? I don't know. Any female input please.
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The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
Many guys are fine with other men but complete d***s to women. I bet the women who worked with him weren’t that surprised.
#53
I'm late, but whatever. I work at a 911 center and one of the people in my hiring class got fired for not putting calls in. People would call 911, and this f**k nugget would go through the entire call taking protocol, and the whole time was never entering it. He got caught immediately because we have a secret squirrel "check ride" where trainers listen in on your calls for a few weeks after you're told you're all signed off. We could all hear him getting berated through multiple closed doors. Worst part, was that he got fired after I had worked his half of a shift trade so I got boned and still had to cover my original shift.
#54
The cemetery director was selling plots, pocketing the money ($750), and selling the same plot to another family. The second family would show up ready to bury their deceased only to find the grave already being used. He got away with it for a year.
digitalin 2 years ago
There was a cremation place in Atlanta in the 90s (or early 00s) that was on the news because they offered cremation services, took the money, and dumped the bodies in a pit.
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
There's a mortuary, Lankford Funeral Home and Family Center in Jeffersonville Indiana that is currently in court after being found with over 45 bodies that should have been processed but weren't, causing an odor, was reported. Had been sending substances to people, who thought it was their loved ones cremains, but weren't, because he still had their bodies a year later. 3 out of his 4 refrigerators weren't working. He's in court currently. I don't think he's looking at nearly enough time for the damage he's done, but that's my opinion. He's been all over NBC news recently. Smdh
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 2 years ago
That is major fraud and grand theft. Grave plots are deeded and as such have lots of rules as to how they can be sold and resold. Guy should have gone to jail.
#55
On his second day at KFC, he tried walk out with two buckets of chicken and ran right into our boss.
#56
Call centre agent, not one of mine thankfully, had a customer call and claim someone had used her card details to order a takeaway. She sounded crazy except she named the take away and it was a local one.
Dude lost his job and had a criminal fraud charge for an 8 quid lunch. Fricking weird.
Lauren Caswell 2 years ago
Argh, don't always doubt the customer. I've worked retail/customer service I know the drill and I am always respectful, as I wanted others to be to me when that was my job. had my card frauded last week. The hard part was getting an employee from each of the places the person used my money to actually listen to me, as I didn't have the account number of the thief etc. I was patient, but in one case it was the seventh person I spoke to after hours of calling that actually did what was needed: notify the manager. when she did, it was resolved within literally minutes. I'm so grateful for her, I am writing to her manager to thank her, make sure her efforts are noticed.
Seadog 2 years ago
LP manager had a charge show up for a restaurant he frequents when traveling to Alabama which is only a few times a year. He starts looking because it doesn't sound right and sure enough he was in Ohio or something like that that whole week. Turns out the restaurant manager had written down the card info and bought lunch on the card. How dumb do you have to be to try to scam and LPM? These people are trained to catch financial errors. And it was no secret what he does, it's right on his uniform nametag.
#57
I managed a girl who was a loose cannon. She was an alcoholic who had multiple appointments every week. Psych, Physio, solicitors, all of it. She was constantly disappearing from work at random hours for like half a day and as her drinking intensified she would show up stinking of booze. I’m a former alcoholic and the same age so I tried my best with her. Anyway, she was on the long stretch towards getting performance managed but she sped it up herself. We shared a building with the council and knew all of the staff, including the council rangers who patrol the streets/give tickets etc. One morning on her way to work she saw a street sign she wanted to take to give a friend (cannot tell you why). She pulled a screwdriver from her bag (why she had it, again, cannot say) and unscrewed it while standing on a milk crate in front of one of the rangers. She brought it into the office, told everyone, asked another staff member to hide it for her in case ranger came looking then also put photos of it on Instagram with the office and company signage in the background. We had a meeting planned that day about her absenteeism and she told me because she thought it was a good laugh. Anyway, took a few days but she quit when HR started investigating.
#58
News story in NZ recently - guy posting on shoe/foot fetish sites (things like ejaculating in a co-worker’s shoes) etc identified as a shoe store employee. Had been doing this for a while, including targeting young female coworkers etc. So gross.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
I find it amusing that wìlly gets censored but ejaculating doesn't :-)
#59
At my very first job, there was an employee who kept eating chips and farting incessantly. All 5 of us were seated in a tiny back office, with our backs to each other. Every time she farted, she'd laugh to herself and the stench of her fart would fill the cubicle space. Then she'd grab a handful of chips and chomp noisily, spraying crumbs all over the floor. This went on throughout the day for months, until someone lodged a complaint with the manager. Thus I sat through my very first round table conference with my officemates, listening to my boss lecture a 50 year old on why she should not be farting and eating chips all day long. Unfortunately they didn't fire her because she was the relative of one of the higher ups.
#60
I worked on a cruise ship. One of the women that worked in the spa was having sex with one of the guys who worked on the bridge, and she got pregnant. The company told her she'd have to go home and come back after she'd had the baby. She got mad about this and decided to steal a bunch of spa products and pack them in her luggage to sell when she got home. She was having a hard time fitting it all in her luggage, so she took all the products out of their boxes to make it easier to pack them. She then put the empty boxes into a *clear plastic garbage bag* which she left *out in the hallway she shared with the other spa workers* for the cleaners to take away. One of the spa workers saw the garbage bag full of empty product boxes and told the spa manager. They had to let the woman try to get off the ship with the stuff because legal reasons, so the security manager told US Customs to make sure and check her luggage when she got off in port to go home. Customs asked her to open the suitcase, and said, 'Whose stuff is this?' She said it was all hers, at which point the spa manager and security manager come out from behind the curtain and she was busted. Customs gave her a choice between being prosecuted for theft or accepting a 10-year ban from the US. She took the ban.
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
Of course, the guy who knocked her up kept his job and lived his life like nothing happened.
Sooploosh MacSchnibble 2 years ago
Well, it was consensual. Yeah, he should have been fired for having sex on the job, but consensual sex is legal, theft isn't.
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I was shift lead at a Gas Station and I had a customer tell me that one of my guys (like 80 years old) told him to "F**k Off, eat s**t and die, pussy." After the customer rolled his eyes at the price of cigarettes. I talked to my guy because I was sure that at very least, the circumstances were different. Happened just like the customer said, my guy apparently didn't realize his speaker was still turned on and said it as soon as the customer's back was turned. Guy turned around and that started an even bigger verbal fight. I was mulling over what to do about it but the very next morning, employee showed up drunk to work, yelling about a bonus check that "They owed him" and he got fired.
#62
I worked for a staffing agency early in my career. We got a call that one of our placements was taking his lunch break and not clocking out for it. He was taking 2 hour lunch breaks. Also, _He brought in his George Foreman grill and cooked for himself and everyone in a highly flammable warehouse._ Another story, same staffing agency. We had a guy who was placed with a company that gave him a car and card for gas. A week after he started, he was paying for his friends and family members gas with the company credit card *at the same time, in a line at the gas station.* So many crazy stories from that place…
Kathrin Pukowsky 2 years ago
Was an intern at a staffing agency. Colleague had just accompanied a new hire to their first placement, huge factory with dangerous areas, so everybody there had PPE and a key card that would only allow them entrance/exit to areas they were supposed to be in. Colleague had hung around about 30 minutes to make sure new hire was doing alright and liked it there, then left. The phone rang as soon as he sat back down at his desk in the office. The new hire had disappeared. He hadn't carded out of the area he had been working in. He hadn't carded out of the building. He hadn't tried to get into any other areas. He was just GONE. Colleague called the new hire who picked up the phone cool as a cucumber, saying that he didn't like it there, so he had left and gone home. Colleague informed factory that he had found the guy safe, then drove over to his house to get the key card back. Former new hire had the nerve to say we could call him again for a different placement.
Jen M 2 years ago
So...where's this gas station? Just saying cuz I could use a free fill-up. Gas is so crazy expensive now! I remember the day it ticked up to $1/gal. I was 16 and it'd never been more than $0.99/gal. I was shocked! Now I'm surprised when it's below $5/gal. It's always hovering just below $6/gal here in the US!
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
It's a George Foreman. Did it have shoddy wiring that made the OP worry about fire? Not saying this is normal behavior but to be afraid that the equivalent of a sandwich press is gonna start a fire is pretty dumb. 🤪
RedMarbles 2 years ago
They did say it was a highly flammable warehouse, so maybe not a garden variety warehouse.
Load More Replies... #63
I was a manager at a fast food chain back in the day and we had a head office complaint that a guy on the first window had poked his head out of the window when a car pulled up and instead of taking their money he leaned into the car and took a toke on a fat spliff. We laughed about it because it seemed entirely ridiculous but followed it up by watching the CCTV. Our faces when we realised that it was another employees car that had been at the window and that was exactly what had happened were priceless. Surprisingly he got fired and later went on to join the army.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
And di the 'other' employee, who was driving a car under the influence get spoken to?
Seadog 2 years ago
Doubtful. Not much they can do about what an employee does off the clock. If they had seen it at the time, notifying the police would be a all they could do.
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Computer repair guy at work fixed a girls computer, she didn't have a password on it so he logged in and then added himself as a friend on her facebook. When she got her PC back he started sending her messages about how sexy she was and such. He no longer works here.
Seadog 2 years ago
I always got a kick out of girls and their PCs. They more often than not would have a password such as "Pussy" but get all embarrassed when they had to tell me their password. You selected it, own it. Nothing to be embarrassed about.
Alex Foster 2 years ago
I was so ready to fight you for making fun of girls and their PCs- until the last two sentences. Completely valid, have a nice day.
Load More Replies... #65
Had a woman at my place of employment who enjoyed mining her nose and smearing whatever she found on bathroom stall walls. Heaven only knows if she did it elsewhere. Coworkers taped post-its on the stall wall proclaiming said person disgusting. The person showed their appreciation by decorating the post-it with nose candy. Enough complaints were finally filed that there was a sign put up in that bathroom to 'not put body waste on the walls'. Stopped for a bit. Sign vanished. Snot resumed. Multiple signs now in that bathroom. Few months later the pandemic hit, so I didn't have to see it anymore. Heard from someone in HR not long ago that they legit staked out that bathroom to find out who it was. She apparently left the company by choice later. You have to be a special type of disgusting to pick your nose and choose to put it anywhere else but the toilet paper four inches from your knee.
Weasel Wise 2 years ago
One of my current coworkers is doing this. I know this person is a male (cuz it was only ever in the men's single person restroom) and a cook (boogers were cleaned one night and reappeared immediately the next day before any FOH staff or dishwashers had arrived). This, and the fact that dudes find it okay to pee all over the floor in general, is why I refuse to ever clean the men's room again.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
I am toying with the idea of putting up signs that say something like "Stand closer to the urinal/toilet because your penis is nowhere near as long as you think it is"
Load More Replies... #66
My husband worked at nightclub when we were in college. The manager told all the staff that the price on the POS was wrong and mix drinks were £2 (rather than £1). At the end of each night she would cash up and pocket all the extra money. She did it for about a year.
Jen M 2 years ago
This is a common scam here at some fast food places. The digits sign will say the price. You pull up, and they give you a slightly higher price. When you ask why. They say, oh, taxes. But I know that's wrong, and they're running that scam, both because I can check a receipt, AND because they started putting signs at the drive thru that say, if you're asked to pay a price different than what is shown initially, please call 1-800-XXX-XXXX, so you just KNOW corporate is trying to suss out who, out of their thousands of national employees, are running these scams. Idiots.
#67
"Not the employer but..." A store I worked at had a lady who would write down customer's information and repeatedly sign them up for the store credit card (to keep her goals where they were supposed to be). Needless to say when the customers saw their credit reports...
Xenon 2 years ago
I had one of their credit cards years ago. Never really used it. They called me and said if I don't use it they were going to cancel it. I told them to go for it, so they did.
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We had a girl once that was dogsh*t at giving tech support, but somehow ended up topping the customer satisfaction survey scores. The team complained that it was impossible as we knew what she was telling the clients, and every ticket she escalated was a shitshow. A few months later my colleague and I discovered a string of fake clients in the CRM, but no relation to her. We started investigating and suddenly we found a list of matching phones, which we finally mapped to the employee in question (and two friends of hers). Management would've never connected the dots in a million years, and suddenly she was fired and asked to return all the RMA's she had done in those tickets (about 5k value in goods).
#69
One worker in my factory got a big sick leave (signed by a physician). Turns out she went to compete in Survivor (Koh Lanta in France). Saw her on TV. She then came back like nothing happened, the company wouldn't dare fire her due because of the bad PR she could make.
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
I worked with a woman who went on survivor. She took a leave of absence and great publicity for the company.
Seadog 2 years ago
Reverse the roles. Workers should post negative reviews on Survivors page about how people do what she did thereby leaving coworkers hanging to cover her absence when there's actually no reason for her being absent. Want to be on a show and can only get off by lying about being sick? Then quit and go. Seriously, it's a BS show to begin with. Lose the scripts and throw them all in real world situations and see how long it takes them to come pleading to go home.
#70
I had a guy call in sick so he could go to the same company’s christmas party.
Dan Holden 2 years ago
I'd be more likely to call in sick to avoid the company party
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Employee said he was sick and then came to same restaurant for dinner as a customer.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
After working 60 days in a row I once called off tired, call in person(security guard) said "you can't use that as an excuse". I said "just write it that way, what can they do to YOU?" He did...boss was amused.
#72
I am a head HR. I got a complain of witchcraft in one of our stores. One store employee complained that her team members blamed her of witchcraft and tried to put her on fire! WTF I thought. Anyways we investigated. A store lady caught her husband with pants down in her home. She Went to shangoma (African traditional healer) who asked for trial by fire for her friends. So she tried to do some magic thing in store! Anyways we fired all of them. Got dragged to the labour court. Judge asked the lady- why she tried to put her colleague on fire and if it is right! Her reply and defence- “after all I am a human being”!
Sleepy Panda 2 years ago
I get the impression they’re from an African country and English may not be their first language.
Load More Replies... Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I think I'd like to know the name of that store and location, so I can stay far, far away!
#73
I (HR Head) got a call from a “sex chat administrator”, informing our official account is unpaid. They will take legal action if we don’t pay immediately. I thought it was a joke. Anyways we did get a legal notice! Then legal and HR investigated. The “sex chat” company sent a phone call copy. As soon I played it, my HR lady screamed- I know this guy, he works in supply chain!!
Later on, we realised we had a employee who used to make phone “sex chat” calls using our company landline. We politely told him to pay up and settle the matter. Then issued a final warning letter.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I'm not sure how this one could be true. I've never called one, but I'd assume a sex chat company would want your credit card details before chatting with you. So I don't see how the company would be involved (unless the guy was using a company credit card to pay). If it was one of those pay by the minute numbers (I can't think of the proper term) then that'd just be part of the phone bill. So again, you wouldn't have some "sex chat admin" calling you about paying charges. They'd have gone through the Telco and been part of the companies regular bill (and potentially never been noticed).
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I did work somewhere that a coworker was making inappropriate videos in his office late at night with his gf and selling online. The cleaning staff found out by accident when they were trying to clean his office early before a long weekend.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
I feel bad for the guy in the stock art pic, he's just in the wrong item at the wrong time...now people will think he's a thieving perve.
Seadog 2 years ago
Back in the 90's when MCI and a few other fraud phone services were sending out mass letters to get people to change services, the store manager in the national change actually thought that c**p was for real and made the call. Took corporate about a week to get the phones in that store working again. And of course the alarm system is tied to the phone lines so once the store was off the official line, that threw up all kinds of issues at the monitoring company. We found out because corporate sent out a warning to never reply to anything like that.
Cyndielouwhoo 2 years ago
Of course he also had several inappropriate "relationships" with subordinates, so not a real ethical guy.
#74
I worked an admin job and a new hire came in and we thought something was up with him as he was always spaced out but decided maybe he was just settling in. One day he then called in sick but turned up 5 minutes later, had no recollection of our conversation, walked up the stairs to the office and walked straight into a wall. When he got to his desk he watched sport on his computer (which was facing the whole office). We asked him to highlight some lines on a page and then he coloured the whole page in. We told our boss we thought he was on something and he thought we were exaggerating until he kept doing things like this and we had to let him go. We later found out he was a drug dealer selling out of his bedroom.
#75
Had a random citizen call up to say she’d witnessed one of our delivery drivers pull up on the side of the road and throw a parcel out the window into the gutter. It was two suburbs away from where it needed to be delivered. Our guess was that he wanted to knock off early and couldn’t be effed driving to the delivery address.
René Sauer 2 years ago
Well, did your company send somebody to retrieve the package? Or did the citizen gave any proof of it?
#76
Not the employer, but one of my co-workers got fired for taking work from other team members' done folders and signing his name to it. He was doing this so he could take extra-long lunch breaks to preach to customer* at the food court across the street.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
Taking credit for the work of others is a fireable offense - it's called "impersonating a manager."
#77
I was a production control analyst in a call center about ten years ago. Saw and heard more than you'd probably believe. Helped to term out more people than I will ever be comfortable with.
The most insane but true complaint came from the housekeeping staff. He walked up to me one day and said, "I got to close the men's restroom for a bit. I don't know who done it, but you need to find him. Someone has smeared his solids all over the walls in there, and I dunno 'bout you, but I'm not lookin' forward to cleanin' it up, and don't want to have to do it again."
It took some detective work, but we found him; a guy had been hiding his mental illness when he started work there, and apparently hadn't been taking his meds in awhile because he didn't want us to find out, even though he had insurance through us. So he went nuts and started smearing his own s**t all over the restrooms. There were apparently some other aberrations that led us to him and were listed as the actual behavioral reasons for his termination, but I never got the details.
#78
I used to work on a trading floor and one of my juniors brought me a client he'd discovered himself. After speaking with the guy I decided not to proceed because I didn't think he was eligible for the investment. A few days later, I got a call from the client asking if the money had gone through... turns out my junior had sold him on the deal himself and instead of giving him the company bank details for the transfer, he gave him his own instead. Needless to say the client wasn't too happy.
#79
When working in a food environment I once had a coworker hide a laxative in a slushy. Needless to say that person didn't work there for very much longer.
#80
Rotten tooth found baked into their pizza.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
I'm hoping animal tooth in a meat lovers pizza rather than a human tooth >_<
#81
A busboy had sex with a customer in the bathroom. I was a manager. We also had all of these steps of service such as “use the guests name at least 3 times”, “thank them abs invite to em to return”, “anticipate the guests needs and exceed expectations”, “surprise the guest with the unexpected.” So he tied in all these aspects into to totally railing this person in a bathroom stall. Granted I think this was during the sex and the city premier and what a Samantha power move of that guest. Things eventually turned serious because well, it wasn’t like no one saw. And he said, “I don’t understand- you didn’t get mad the first time”. Imagine writing that report for the gm. In the morning I had a few missed calls, we closed late. Everyone thought it was a joke. ‘‘Twas not
Samantha 2 years ago
I am curious to know what is a Samantha Power move and whom are you referring to?
#82
Scene: A Restaurant Scenario: one of my employees comes up to me and complains of how our head chef (been around 25 years vs not 25 years) was clipping his toe nails in the kitchen like every day. And idk how fast they grow but I didn't believe it. Til the guy who complained quit and I was so stunned I actually went through the tapes...he did
#83
Really smelly farts. Seriously. People requested to move desks.
Michael Hauck 2 years ago
This reminds me of a George carlin joke. Have you ever noticed that your own farts smell good or something like that
#84
One of my current coworkers told me this story the other day: He used to be a manager at a fast food restaurant. He said that one night, after a busy rush, a woman called his store to complain that her fried food item had hair all over it. The manager denied this claim and ensured the lady that the food items had never been in contact with hair and would never have left the store in a dirty manner. He backed his store and employees all the way and insisted that the woman was mistaken. Upon further investigation, one of the kitchen employees admitted that she had dropped a food item on the floor that night and didn’t want to risk having the customer wait an extra 5 minutes to make a new one.
#85
Story from when my dad worked at a construction site people thought this guy was stealing tools but no way a early 20s skinny guy would steal from dudes who are all giants and some criminals turns out he did and he got a visit from what I heard to say the least.
What do you think ?
Diolla 2 years ago
OK not strictly employee story .... but this reminds me of that obnoxious co-worker I once had. I was working in ICT, back then a really male dominated environment. She would usually show up at work in tight skirts, lots of make-up and ample cleavage and used her appearance to get things done. Also used to brag about her tech knowledge which really wasn't there. So one time we were both part of a 3-day training course. All the time she contradicted the teacher because she knew better, up to a point where we were getting behind on schedule because so much time was lost with these discussions. The course itself was not too difficult, so almost everybody (about 10 ppl) passed the exam after the 3 days. Except one person. Guess who failed.
M & M 2 years ago
Several of these stories involve people being fired for flatulence, which seems ... odd?
Em 2 years ago
Coworker at a coffee shop allegedly put his penis in a customer's tuna sandwich. (I was on lunch at the time but fully believe he would have.) Henceforth he was known as D**k Sandwich. Shortly after that the entire closing team got fired for being potheads -- EXCEPT this dude. And I ratted him out hard. I'm normally not much for snitching, but he was the worst offender and if we were going down, he was going down with us. He did not go down -- in fact, he got bumped up to supervisor with everyone else gone. But I hear he got himself fired "for doing something stupid" within a couple weeks, so. (As to how stonergate started in the first place -- friend of mine liked to clean his pipe in a cupful of espresso machine cleaner. One night he left said concoction in the back office. Lot of real geniuses at that job, let me tell you.)
Marleina Hershberg 2 years ago
Remember to NOT believe everything you read on the internet. I almost fell for the one about the shrink wrapped guy, then remembered....it is likely not true.
Riche White 2 years ago
We hired a temporary maintenance man at the 500 unit complex I worked at 24 years ago. He would take his lunch in the upstairs maintenance office which was usually empty. After he left we found out he was using the company phone to call a paid number which gave you updates on what you missed from the T V Soap Operas that week. Cost about $1.99 a minute. Temp agency fired him after we called and showed them the charges.
Diolla 2 years ago
OK not strictly employee story .... but this reminds me of that obnoxious co-worker I once had. I was working in ICT, back then a really male dominated environment. She would usually show up at work in tight skirts, lots of make-up and ample cleavage and used her appearance to get things done. Also used to brag about her tech knowledge which really wasn't there. So one time we were both part of a 3-day training course. All the time she contradicted the teacher because she knew better, up to a point where we were getting behind on schedule because so much time was lost with these discussions. The course itself was not too difficult, so almost everybody (about 10 ppl) passed the exam after the 3 days. Except one person. Guess who failed.
M & M 2 years ago
Several of these stories involve people being fired for flatulence, which seems ... odd?
Em 2 years ago
Coworker at a coffee shop allegedly put his penis in a customer's tuna sandwich. (I was on lunch at the time but fully believe he would have.) Henceforth he was known as D**k Sandwich. Shortly after that the entire closing team got fired for being potheads -- EXCEPT this dude. And I ratted him out hard. I'm normally not much for snitching, but he was the worst offender and if we were going down, he was going down with us. He did not go down -- in fact, he got bumped up to supervisor with everyone else gone. But I hear he got himself fired "for doing something stupid" within a couple weeks, so. (As to how stonergate started in the first place -- friend of mine liked to clean his pipe in a cupful of espresso machine cleaner. One night he left said concoction in the back office. Lot of real geniuses at that job, let me tell you.)
Marleina Hershberg 2 years ago
Remember to NOT believe everything you read on the internet. I almost fell for the one about the shrink wrapped guy, then remembered....it is likely not true.
Riche White 2 years ago
We hired a temporary maintenance man at the 500 unit complex I worked at 24 years ago. He would take his lunch in the upstairs maintenance office which was usually empty. After he left we found out he was using the company phone to call a paid number which gave you updates on what you missed from the T V Soap Operas that week. Cost about $1.99 a minute. Temp agency fired him after we called and showed them the charges.
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