30 Times HR Had To Investigate Some Of The Most Bizarre Cases Ever

Most workplaces have a number of guidelines for what is and isn’t appropriate at work. However, humans being humans, folks find all sorts of ways to do truly disgusting things in the workplace. Normally, this is where the beleaguered folks at HR have to step in.
Someone asked “Human Resources people, what are some NSFW complaints you've had to investigate about your workers?” and netizens shared their horror stories. From inappropriate use of office equipment to outlandish and bizarre behavior, get comfortable as you read through, upvote the most shocking examples and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences below.

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30 Times HR Had To Investigate Some Of The Most Bizarre Cases Ever Not HR, but I was a manager of a retail store so I did a lot of HR related stuff.

Most of my employees were women; most of my customers were women. The women's bathroom got 90% of the attention, but that said, the men's room was a bad time with the rare man that came in.

Day comes, we get a complaint about the smell coming from the bathrooms. I'm a big guy, and my main rule was that I wouldn't ask my employees to so things I wouldn't do because I made much more than they did, so I put on the latex gloves and marched back to the men's room.

It was fine. Completely fine. Well, a scrap or two or toilet paper but fine.

I open the women's room door and I am struck by the stench of rot. It basically knocks me off my feet. I open the door all the way..

The ceiling, floor, and every wall is covered in s**t. Finger marks in it so it was *painted.* I take a minute to be shocked, close the door, tape it off, tell my boss I'm calling a clean up crew. He says no, I can clean it. I tell him he can get bent, if he'd seen what I'd seen, he would know better. He says okay.

10 days or so later, it happens again. And at that point, the only women in the store had been my employees. It was essentially an open and shut case--one is a barely functional germophobe, and the other had washed her hands at least 5 times, smelled like death, and wouldn't make eye contact with me.

"Maria, what the f**k are you doing?"

"Sometimes I smoke a little somethin' and then I hear the bugs in the toilet. I just have to fish them out before they drown."

"Uh huh. So I'm gonna go find a pen that I don't want anymore, you can keep it after you touch it, and just write down everything you just told me and how many times you've done that. That way I can figure out what to do from here."

While she did that, I called my boss.

"Hey, so there's a problem with Maria."

"When there's an employee, there's no problems, just opportunities."

"Great, so Maria has an opportunity with doing d***s then smearing s**t on the walls because she hears bugs in the toilet."

Obviously she got fired, but I kept her on staff long enough to get her into rehab.

breakbats_nothearts , Max Vakhtbovycn Report

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30 Times HR Had To Investigate Some Of The Most Bizarre Cases Ever

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