This one still irritates the living hell out of me.

So I'm working 2nd shift till 10PM, and my coworker is supposed to come in at 9:30 to open up her register so I can close down. At 9:45 I try to call her cell, to see if she's just running late. It's been disconected. i give her till 10:15 to show up (we've all been late, no reason to have the manager give her a strike), then call the manager. No answer. I try 4 assistant managers, still no answer. I try everybody else who's capable of working 3rd shift (there's extra training involved before the store can let you work 3rd, per policy), and nobody can come in. Finally an assistant manager calls back, and basically begs me to work the 3rd shift, and passive aggressively threatens to fire me (we might have to make some cutbacks in the future, I'd hate for you to be one of them). I need the job, so I do it. The next day the b***h works (after I chewed out the manager and all 4 assistants for allowing this s**t), she tells me her second job offered her extra hours, so she took it. She missed her full-time job without calling off to go and strip. She wasn't fired because the manager would have to cover her shifts until a replacement was found.

Fun fact: I work two jobs. One full time 1st shift, the other part time at this store. I ended up working from 7AM on day one, to 3PM on day two. My only breaks were an hour each day to drive from one work to the other. Not counting those breaks. I worked 30 hours essentially in a row.

F**k you, you stripping c**t, and f**k management.

TLDR: Coworker skipped work to strip, I got stuck working 30hrs in a row.

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We have a girl who calls out for almost every single one of her shifts. When she doesn't call out she begs everyone to take her shifts. Out of every 10 shifts she is given she only ever actually shows up for one or two. Whenever she does show up she almost always asks to leave early anyway for any of the many excuses she has up her sleeve.

She has received seven serious write-ups for her attendance/reliability. Most people are sacked after three serious write-ups. Somehow she keeps sneaking on by. Every time she gets another one I think "Okay this will be the one" but she still somehow works here. She was actually fired once in the past for these very same patterns but for some reason they let her come back only for her to pull the same s**t all over again.

Anyway, right in the middle of our busy season this most recent summer she asked for three weeks off. She was told that they would give her one week but anything more than that would be considered her resignation. So she took the three weeks off anyway, and during that time all of her scheduled shifts were left uncovered. That's at least 15+ no call no shows and we were always left understaffed and screwed because of it.

Yet after her little vacation she resumed working with no repercussions. Nothing was ever said about it. We've had to let people go for far, far less. I don't understand it. I like her as a person and when she is here she is a great worker but that's the problem, she's never actually here.

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Was on a big project where Clueless Manager (CM) was required to coordinate delivery of cement to a remote site. The remote site had its own deep water jetty but otherwise all of the equipment required to pump the cement off the ship needed to be in place so that the cement could be received.

Ship shows up. Trucks, crews, pumps and storage containers either not ready, still in transit or sitting around on site not ready for unloading.

Tempus fugits. Ship captain is having a f*****g fit and they're charging $25,000/day for demurrage on the cargo.

11 days pass. Owner of shipping line calls our Project Director, screams at him a bit and threatens to pump the cement out and dump it off the ship if the unloading doesn't start within 36 hours.

Several plane flights of equipment and crew later, unloading commences within 36 hours.

Total cost to the project was over $1,000,000.

The same or similar event happened 3 more times. Final settlement went to lawyers & mediation for over $4,000,000.

CM was never sacked. Figured he must have had pictures of the Project Director f*****g goats or something...

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I worked in a really small department (4 people), was the youngest by 30 years and also the newest employee...buy I picked up fast, which wasn't hard as 2 out of 3 of my coworkers could barely run a computer.

So about 6 months in my manager goes on a 2 week vacation, and during that time my boss has a sit down talk with me and the other 2 guys. I had to leave about 6 times to answer the phone/counter and every time I walked back in things were more and more tense.

I finally pieced together that the meeting was my boss telling these two guys 3xs my age and with seniority to me that I was in charge of them, even when the manager came back.

Jay was grumbling and cursing and my boss called him out on it, Jay told him he didn't want me in charge and if he and Ralph were such failures to just fire him because he was not going to get any better and he certainly wasn't going to listen to me.

I could see the words about to come out of my bosses mouth, but he refrained and didn't fire Jay. Jay did get fired for being incompetent a few months down the road though.

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My coworker had to substitute for me to do some technical services at a petrochemical plant. He instructed the customer to pump some chemical into the system to boost the pH. He however never told them to stop and they ended up pumping the entire 14,000 gallon container of chemicals into the unit which stopped production for 2 days, and they had to dump the solution in the process, which costs like $75000 or so to make. Customer was pissed and refused to pay for his visit. I am glad they didn't sue us. Meanwhile he continues to sit in his office and f**k up everything he touches.

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Worked with an older doctor that pulled his c**k out to show a nurse. A day later we all get called in for the investigation. Then 12 of us have to do HR mandatory sexual harasent training and role play. Dude who pulled it out doesn't show up. He gets a week suspended for being a no show. Never does the class and then gets moved to department chair a few months later. Learned then that sometimes the world makes no sense.

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My coworker read a rumour on twitter that a celebrity was dead, didn't wait for confirmation from their publicist and put the story on the national wire of the country's largest news chain as breaking news. The celebrity called our office an hour later, very much alive, stating he was just in a dentist appointment. I have no idea how he didn't get fired.

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I might be late to the party on this one but here goes:

I had a coworker named Ron (name changed). Ron was a laid-back guy and you could tell that right away when talking with him. He was a very likable guy and to this day I'm pretty sure that's the only reason he was able to stick around. Anyway, Ron loved to talk. Like, non-stop. It was all or nothing for him: either he sat there quietly or he just kept on going until somebody stopped him. Well, our manager was the micromanagement type and would constantly get irritated with Ron not only for talking but for distracting the rest of us. She would yell at any of us for talking but she always let Ron get away with it a little bit more. One day, Ron was feeling especially chatty. He loudly admitted that he was high on percocets. After a few of us laughed, he told us that he gets high on Percocet every single morning before work. He told us that we had never seen him sober.

Cue my manager walking over.

She tells us to keep it down and get back to work, making no mention of Ron's comments.

But Ron just keeps on talking. About superhero movies, Netflix docs, Michael Jordan. Basically just a bunch of s**t that had no relation to our work.

Manager comes back over, tells him to be quiet again. This happened three more times before lunchtime finally rolled around.

Ron gathered his things and went to lunch. After 30 minutes, he hadn't come back. After an hour, he still hadn't come back. In fact, he still hadn't come back by the time I was ready to leave. After clocking out and walking downstairs, I see Ron passed out on one of the tables in the cafeteria. Showed up to work the next day and my manager never said a word, and everything went back to normal.

I no longer work that job but just before I left, Ron had been promoted. My mind was f*****g blown.

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I have one about myself. (TL:Dr at the bottom)
19 year old me back in 2008 got a job at a pharmaceutical companies as a tablet coater. I had been there maybe 4-5 months and work was slow. A guy in another department asked me to help move some pallets of calcium tablets with an electric pallet jack.

Being the young, curious man I was; I decided to see how high the jack went after double stacking some pallets. I was pretty impressed how high up this thing went, so impressed I forgot to bring it back down before moving. After going forward like 5 feet I took out a sprinkler head and was shocked when I got hit in the face and upper body with dirty water that hadn't been purged in 10 years (at a pharmaceutical company, which is questionable).

Anyway water just kept coming out, maintenence guy told me after the fact it was spraying 90-110 gallons per minute (~3.75 Liters/min for my non-American friends). I ended up losing the company around $200,000 dollars by shutting down several packaging lines and one manufacturing process. There was 2 inches of water on the ground. It took me and 2 other guys 3 hours to direct the water into the drains placed throughout the plant.

This was all at from 6pm to about 11pm. At the end of it, I sent a huge apology email to the directors of manufacturing and packaging who were one level below the president. They wrote me up and let me keep my job. I have no f*****g clue how because I was on probation from being a new hire. The only thing that changed was the training on the electric pallet jack. It now includes to check the height of your load, not just the width of the load for any obstructions.

TLDR: Newbie at pharmaceutical company broke a water sprinkler with an electric pallet jack and put 2 inches of water on the floor shutting down various operations resulting in 200k dollars of loss/damage.

EDIT - came back and saw all the comments.
1 - it would have been 375Liters per minute. I was corrected down below (had a few beers before typing this)
2 - to clarify: the estimated loss/damage was $200,000. My training was probably $8,000 - $10,000 just based off a couple months of hourly pay.
3 - I earned the nickname "sprinkles" due to the incident and everyone joked with me for the remainder of my time there. Myself and about 55 other people were laid off 2 months later because the company cut corners on an unrelated project and lost a ton of money. They also got hit hard by the FDA for the issues with thag project.

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Maybe the fact that the system hadn't been purged for ten years went in OPs favour. If it also hadn't had any maintenance in that time frame it could have cost the company a lot more than $200k.

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Violated policy and procedures constantly, in the same way shortly after being talked to about it. Constantly did a sloppy job then would dump it on somebody else. Denied it or played dumb if anyone tried to talk to him about it, supervisors had to have screenshotted proof if you reported his a*s for anything because of this. Lied to your face if you quizzed him about an issue he was trying to dump on you.

He never got seriously reviewed, written up or talked to because his buddy and roommate was one of the supervisors, who would intercept and handle any complaint about him. He'd always raise a stink if any other sups tried to mess with his many friends on the staff. This same sup would then turn around and persecute you if you reported his buddies. Guess why I don't work there anymore.

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I use to work for a company that did inventory audits and we frequently travelled all over the state to do audits. There was that guy EVERYBODY hated because he was a giant douche/a*****e who I will call JD(Jumbo Douche). Well one night we had an audit in a city around 3 hours away in the evening so once we got done it was around 1am-2am so pretty much everyone was tired, and only certain people are allowed to drive the company vehicles we take to out of town audits. Well all the other people who were approved to drive were too tired to so JD said he would, after about half an hour on the road and everyone in the van fell asleep. Around this time JD thought it would be the perfect time to pull out the bottle of vodka be bought when he was filling up on gas and start lining up shots on the passenger seat. Fast forward an hour and everyone in the van get woken up by JD swerving back and forth on the road and nearly hitting the guard rail ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD. Well as predicted everyone in the van calmly and politely asked JD to pull over, then 2 guys politely pulled JD out of the van and attempted to calmly kick his head in. When we got back to the office no one wasted time to call our District Manager and try to get JD fired/arrested, only everyone in the van was telling different stories with each person exaggerating the events more than the pervious person in the attempt to make his punishment worse. Well since the stories were so different our DM couldn't use this as grounds for termination.

JD did eventually get fired because he would show up to audits and refuse to work because he had an injured shoulder, he injured his shoulder when the 2 guys in the van from the incident jumped him after work and dislocated his shoulder.

EDIT: I just remembered another from my time in retail.

I used to work at a store that specialized at selling video games but basically has since turned into a a toy store. Well like everywhere Black Friday is a super busy day and this year especially since we had some really good deals so the idea was to have 3 people working through out the day so we don't get overwhelmed by the amount of customers. So one of our supervisors who I call Tony was suppose to be on the opening shift at 6am decided that it would be a great idea to go out drinking all night on Thanksgiving with his brother until 5am. Well when Tony's 6am shift came around he stumbled into work still drunk off his a*s, as expected the store was nonstop busy since opening. To make matters worse the 3rd person on that shift decided he would rather sleep in and go shopping instead of coming into work, so the shift was only being covered by our Store Manager and a s**t faced supervisor. My shift was meant to be from 2pm to closing but they begged me to come in early so they can send Tony home, and when I got there the Store Manager was telling about it and how he tried to see if Tony could work drunk because there was no way he could run the Store by himself. The Store Manager told me that Tony would frequently just stare at the customer if they asked him a question, got "lost" in our tiny backroom looking for an Xbox, fell asleep on the toilet for 10 minutes, and tried to sell multiple customers the 100 mile warranty for their games. He finally sent Tony home once he got Assistant Manager to come in at 8am.

Tony and the Store Manager were fired a few months later when they got caught padding store numbers.

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At the same shop, but two different co-workers: first was caught stealing from the till twice, but was fired for not showing up (which is really essentially being fired for quitting). The other smoked cigarettes in the public restroom because he couldn't poop without smoking. Why he didn't just wait until he got home I could never figure out.

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I work in child care. One day we had a fire emergency during nap where all the rooms started smelling like gas. We wake up the kids in our room, get them outside and wait for the all clear. Five minutes pass and the fire fighters are carrying out a preschooler that had been left asleep on her cot and completely forgotten about by not one, but two teachers. Everyone was sure they were going to get fired, you know, for endangering a child's life in a fire emergency? But no. Just got "retrained" and moved from that room.

The next week someone else got fired for back talking a manager, but you know, who cares about the safety of the children? Just don't question the managers!

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Pizza place, it was a busy night and a couple Togo orders took too long, and the owner comes in raising hell with the guy rolling dough about ticket times. The situation escalated quickly and the guy started cursing back and forth with the owner.

Guy screams something like "F*****g fire me if you think I'm doing such a s**t job, old man!"

Owner: "Are you f*****g with me?"

Guy: "No, F*****g fire me, do it! I f*****g hate this job, hate my life, and I hate this F*****g restaurant! Fire me!"

Owner apologized later.

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Haha I have 2. Same company, 6 months apart.

1. My supervisor at a company that does contact work inside plants, we'll call him "M." M is notoriously bad with money, not malicious, just sometimes he really doesn't realize what he's doing. Anyways, he "borrowed" $500 from the company to treat our clients to a nice meal while he was on an out of town trip, ended up getting drunk and blowing it all at a casino. Company found out. All they made him do was pay it back. He still works there, and this was not his only f**k up.

2. Coworker at same company we'll refer to as "T." T, in addition to working at the company also owned a failing restaurant with his wife (it's legit, company knows about it and is cool with it) unfortunately for a while it was totally consuming him and his performance was failing. They decided they had to let T go. When T's supervisor, who was about 5'7" and weighed 150lbs tried to fire T, 6'4" and 300 lbs. T says, "welp, I guess I have nothing left to lose" and then proceeded to flip boss's desk 1 handed and literally pick boss up and pinned him to the wall before the rest of the guys in the office could pull him off. For some reason they decided to give T a second chance. He still works there.

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Worked at BK, this guy catcalls ladies behind their backs all the time, and as she and her four daughters were leaving, he said: "Man, that a*s is just falling out of those jeans..." Lady heard him, turned around, and demanded the person that said it. Eventually, she kept driving around through the drive-thru, and taking pictures of us inside. I thought he was going to get fired for sure, but months after I quit, I checked back in, and sure enough, he was running drive-thru.

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Worked at a mall pretzel place. Assistant manager hated his life and was TRYING to get fired. Sparked up a joint under the counter and blew the smoke up toward all the customers above him. It hit me in my face as I was trying to cash people out and multiple customers commented, saying "what is that smoke?" or "what is that smell?" Stupid m**********r didn't even get reported (much to his disappointment).

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Oh my god, f*****g Kevin.

I worked at a Target during my later years of High School and had a lovely coworker named Kevin. His parents were rich and essentially forced him to apply for a job to get a sense for the service industry since he would never have to work a day in his life. The whole "mommy and daddy are rich and I can sue you" cliche is true with this twat-waffle.

It was a regular day in the store, but at one point our manager asked Kevin to help stock the shelves for Valentine's Day. Apparently, Kevin bought some weed with his parent's money and decided to go to work as high as Snoop Dogg's bedroom. Kevin and I were stocking the shelves when I looked over at him, and there he was, breaking open the Valentine's heart-shaped chocolate things and slurping out the cream filling. By the time I saw him doing this, it was too late. He slurped at least twenty hearts dry.

At this point I am pretty pissed, so we get the manager over to knock some sense into him. Kevin is still high, but now decides to actually try to stock the shelves, since the manager was here. Kevin is a short little s**t nugget, so we needed a ladder for stocking the top layers. In Kevin's intoxicated waltz, he knocked a bag of candy off the top shelf and went down to get it before tumbling on his a*s right off the ladder.

The manager never filed a drug report to corporate for some reason, although I highly suspect it was because his family was rich and influential in the area. Needless to say, I quit that day.

F**k Kevin.

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Underage new employee got caught drinking on shift in front of customers at a retail job. Later had to get bailed out of jail by a manager. Kept their job. How? No clue.

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Not my coworker, but a friend of mine pulled his d**k out while doing some stocking at a pharmacy. He helicocktered at another employee and got reported by them. When they talked to him about it he flat out denied everything. They gave him a raise and thanked him for his honesty.

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The assistant manager at a pizza place I worked at got into a shouting match with a customer and told her he was gonna go p**s in her gas tank. It was over something stupid. Me and the GM were in the back and heard all of it. GM went and talked to the lady. Guy didn't get fired.

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The customer might have been a Karen. I hear that there's some out there and they do converse with managers.

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There's two.

I work somewhere where at risk highschoolers come in to learn about working in a manufacturing environment and we train them in the abilities they'll need,

A disabled employee choked one of the students.

Another employee shut a machine that hadn't been down in over 14 years for three days because he did something with it that I told him the machine wouldn't do and he didn't want to listen to his trainer. (After no call no showing once that week and twice the week before.) That guy was a chronic f**k up and I was sure that'd be the last straw.

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Not my co-worker but my boss. He got the company sued for sexually harassment, he got switched to night shifts as a punishment and while there impregnated a 17 year old girl (IIRC he was 25). The owner decided to promote him back to GM and sent him to corporate training, where he got kicked out for having a hand tattoo and got caught smoking by the company VP. The owner then gave him money for a bus ride home. He ended up cussing the owner out for not getting him a plane ticket home and quit.

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Let me start by saying I used to work for an extraction company. We worked with flammable gasses-- if safety procedures are followed it's safe...but if you eff up it could lead to an explosion.

We had a guy who should have been fired ten times over, but these are the worst. He showed up hours late, on days where we had time sensitive work that couldn't be completed without him, still drunk from the night before. We know that not only from the smell but because he TOLD us(including his bosses, the owners)!--Oh and one of those times he was coming down from rolling the night before...again he told us. One of those times he thought it was ok because , 'hey it was Cinco De Mayo' (it fell on like a Monday that year).This happened 3 freaking times and he didn't even get written up.

Then another time he left for a delivery that should have taken an hour fifteen tops. After a couple hours we started to get worried so we gave him a call, no answer. We even checked traffic accident reports we were so concerned. Then called the dispensary he delivered to and they said he made it and had left long ago...Ok so he's not answering his phone, he has $14,000 something in cash and the company debit card. He better have a great excuse or (hopefully) this jackass will finally get fired. 5 hours later he calls our boss back and says that he had some personal things to work out so he took off for the day. Like it was no big deal. They decide that's worth writing up, but decide not to fire him since he dropped off the cash and card at like 8 at night in their home mailbox. Are you f*****g kidding me?!
Finally, a few days later they 'fired' him when he just didn't show up ever again and told them he was looking for another job, but not quitting yet.

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Co-worker pulled a no-call, no-show on New Year's Eve. This left the manager-on-duty and me to run the store completely on our own from 2 p.m. until we closed at 7. You wouldn't think that a pet store would be super busy on New Year's, but we were. And it seemed like every other person who came in needed a fish or some kind of assistance--I had so many customers get mad at me because they needed help in one department and it took forever for someone to come over, because there were literally TWO employees in the entire store and one of them (me) couldn't leave the register.

At one point, a customer's dog pissed in the middle of an aisle and she didn't clean up after it. All MOD and I could do for about an hour was set up a "wet floor" sign up next to the puddle, because neither of us had a spare few minutes to mop and disinfect the floor.

This same co-worker had already pulled a no-call, no-show in the past and had gotten sent home once or twice for copping an attitude with the managers. I thought for SURE that this last incident would be the final straw, but no. I had the next couple days off, and the next time I came in, the jackass was standing behind the register, reading a magazine because there was nobody waiting to check out in that moment and God forbid he find SOMETHING constructive to do.

He ended up quitting a week later, not bothering to give two weeks notice. MOD and I were happy to see him go. 😑

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Bakery.
No call, no show. Doesn't respond to any text or phone calls made to him for hours. At some point he calls in from someone else's phone claiming his phone isn't working, he's sick and blah blah blah. Shows up 4 or 5 hours later, fully dressed in street clothes. Asks the woman working front counter if the owner is there today. She tells him no, so he walks out and leaves without another word. Never talks to the supervisor, or anyone else. Shows up the next day like nothing ever happened. What the f**k.

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I work at a golf course and a coworker of mine flipped a brand new golf cart onto its side. It was raining out the asphalt was slippery and he was driving it down a slope. He hit the brakes and tried to drift but just put the cart on its side. My boss who was out golfing came in to see the damage (not extensive but a bit more than a scratch), and my boss didn't even raise his voice at my coworker, just told him to be more careful next time. We all thought for sure that this coworker was going to get canned on the spot.

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Not my coworker but a friend told me this tale. Few years back. The guy was a little kiss a*s who has no opinion for himself. And he was a d**k to anyone else with any brains so that he could keep his superior position within his group. Well his supervisor had burned some bridges with his higher ups and kinda knew his time was limited. Well the supervisor found another gig and decided that since his research was his and not the institution he was gonna take it with him. So he got the kiss a*s to come in late during the weekend to help him physically carry out equipment. Anyone would have found this suspicious and said something. But he didn't. Following week s**t exploded and he was questioned and threatened t be sued. Well months later and years now he still has job with another group. Friend was pissed.

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