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“He Faked It:” 30 Times Employees Messed Up So Bad, They Got Themselves Fired
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Finding a job is rarely a simple or quick task. Crafting an impressive résumé, sending it to potential employers, getting an interview, and reaching an agreement often take months. On the other hand, losing it can take just a few seconds. All it takes is one pivotal mistake, and you’re out the door.
Recently, redditor TeddyBabyyy was wondering about a similar thing, which led them to ask an online community the question, “Managers of Reddit, what's the worst thing an employee has done to get themselves fired?” And, well, people had a lot to say, from causing clothes to catch on fire to shoveling money out of the cash register.
Scroll down to find more stories of workers who got sacked for the strangest reasons and a conversation with the person who started this discussion in the first place.
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#1
Not a manager, but have been in the restaurant biz for 30 years. Worst I saw was a 40+ chef hitting on and basically attempting to molest our 16 year old hostess. I caught him myself. He had her cornered in the dish room with nobody around. Even though he was a full chef and me just a sous, and 10 years my senior, I basically kinda fired him. Told him if he didn't leave now of his own free will and never come back, he would be leaving on a stretcher, possibly in a bag. Poor girl was in tears. It's been somewhere around 15 years, and it still infuriates me to think about.
She pressed charges, it was all on camera, and he was arrested. Got off light though on a plea, which also infuriates me. Got a couple months in jail (not even prison), years of probation, and didn't even have to register on the sex offenders list. Which also infuriates me until this day. He was never a chef anywhere around here ever again though. We blackballed the f**k out of him.
ARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!
Sorry. Had to get that out.
EDIT: I'm not a hero guys. I'm just what every adult should be. Zero tolerance to bullies and people that ignore consent.
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
I'm an ex Chef with 35 years in front of the stove and have seen this sort of scenario too many times over the years. When I eventually ended up in senior positions I made it very clear to all the staff in whatever capacity, that not only would harassment, sexual or emotional, and bullying to whatever degree, would NOT be tolerated and if reported they'd be facing a good kicking, then they'd be out of a job (and in some cases out of somewhere to live as many of my staff lived in), they'd also lose whatever tips were in the communal pot and finally they wouldn't be able to find work within a 20 mile radius as my contact book was quite full. Oh, and they'd not get a reference. Harsh, but it worked. I only had to do this 3 times over a 20 year period.
Cold Eagle 1 year ago
Even though it's very likely the op won't see this, thank you for standing up and helping. Far too few would.
Papa 1 year ago (edited)
In the US, you go to jail if you're arrested for some crimes. You go to prison after being convicted. The jail is operated by the local law enforcement (usually the city or county) organization. The prison is operated by the individual state.
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I hope that the other prisoners found out what he was in for and... I'm not allowed to say this on BP, no?
Bradley Auerbach 1 year ago
I’m kind of surprised this manager didn’t get arrested for implicitly making a violent threat!
gilded panda 1 year ago
First, the legal system is messed up for all that. Second, jail and prison aren’t the same thing?
whineygingercat 1 year ago
No. They're not. Jail is short-term. Small potatoes. Prison is a horse of a different color.
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#2
Cart associate at Walmart was playing on his phone while using the cart mule to push a large line of carts. He ran over an elderly woman breaking her leg and hip. Was immediately fired. Not sure what all happened to him legally, but he was out of our store.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
With what exactly? Attempted mulicide? It was an accident and not on a public roadway. Sued for reckless negligence, definitely.
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John Luckmann 1 year ago
I was a cart pusher for years. How does that even happen cause the mule stops like instantly. Did he just ignore any noises around? Cause even with not looking you should be able to immediately stop the second you hear something weird. If I imagine her leg straight up first the cart mule had to hit her, then it would take another second for her to fall to the ground, thats 2 seconds he had to simply remove his finger from the button before it started to go over her leg.
#3
Guy xerox copied multiple pics of his d@#k, put them in envelopes, and placed them under the windshield wipers of the female employees. Total creep.
Full of Giggles 1 year ago
Recently fired one of my farm hands because he had exposed himself to one of our intellectually disabled employees. He denied everything and had the audacity to ask if I was going to believe a “r****d” over him. It took every ounce of energy I had not to punch him in the throat.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
That's disgusting! Did you report him to the police for indecent exposure? He should face consequences other than just losing his job.
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BROmanicus85 1 year ago
I'm hoping he at least got his name copied in "the list" for that move!
Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
Parking lot security cams would be my guess. Probably got quite a few views of it as that would take some time.
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GamerChick5567 1 year ago
Lol if i got one of those, i would leave a note on his car saying "not big enuff"
Bored Panda reached out to redditor nicknamed TeddyBabyyy, who started this discussion in the first place and was kind enough to answer a few of our questions.
Naturally, we were curious to know what inspired them to take such a matter online. They told us, "I recently had to train a new employee. We work at a seafood restaurant. He lasted a week after he was caught defecating in customer food."
Trying to see the light in such situations, our interviewee believes that losing your job isn't always bad. "Sometimes losing a job lights a necessary fire under you to straighten up. Although the trainee had to have been on drugs."
#4
Removing the high limit switch on a dryer causing the clothes to catch on fire.
Twice.
Cold Eagle 1 year ago
Anyone know what a high limit switch actually is? I get that it most be a temperature cut off of sorts but it's not a phrase I've heard before,
TheOGpandaHavana 1 year ago
Had to Google it... It is a kill switch for dryers when/if the dryer exceeds a safe temperature. https://www.fix.com/repair/appliance/dryer/too-hot/high-limit-thermostat/#:~:text=The%20high%2Dlimit%20thermostat%2C%20or,dryer%20from%20causing%20a%20fire.
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#5
Literally just shoveled money out of the cash register into his pockets with 3 separate cameras looking at him. He took several thousand dollars.
That tiny x on the pop up add 1 year ago
Kathy O'Sherry, sorry, you got downvoted. It *is* necessary because there are people who would take it literally. Yes, there are people that dumb.
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BoredBranzino 1 year ago (edited)
Happened to my daughter while working at a GameStop, as if they didn't have all the Shack security bells and whistles (plus the rest of the mall outside the store)...vageuly waving around his gun then sticking it back in his pocket. My daughter did as trained - just gave him all of it, and he immediately ran off.....only to take off his mask once in the Mall so he could be ID'd in seconds. Turned out he was from another GS store. At least he can't travel abroad.
Diana Pahule 1 year ago
That's a lot of money, now many times did he do this? Did they not do money drops on busy days? how could that much money fit in the register?
#6
Not a manager but HR here... had a male employee who would heavily flirt with a female coworker (to the point of causing disruptions in training classes and meetings) stop his work vehicle next to this employee at a worksite where she was sitting due to not feeling well. He offered to drive her to the sector office, which she accepted, then offered her an "asprin" and water, which, unfortunately, she also accepted. Yeah... he roofied her on the job, in a work vehicle, at a worksite. Thank goodness she demanded to be let out of the truck once she realized she was feeling really strange, and he actually complied with her request to let her out.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
I hope he went to prison. That’s not even a spur of the moment s****y choice that requires planning to get the d***s.
gilded panda 1 year ago (edited)
Eight in and three have involved sexual attempts, this, the d/ck pics, and the molesting chef one
Indeed, there is a big chance that something much better is waiting for you out there, and losing a job doesn't mean the end of the world. Most likely, the fear of losing your position is much worse than the loss itself.
Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that those who feared being dismissed from their role reported poorer health and more symptoms of depression than those who had actually been laid off.
#7
Mechanic of 32 years got fired for disabling the RF entry card readers on the back side of the warehouse, so he could throw parties in it after warehouse hours, nobody batted an eye until they mistakenly invited the plant manager to it.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
An individual whose job is to manage a manufacturing facility
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Not a manager but a carpenter with several employees but I had a worker doing a window replacement I'm a person's home. The room he was working in had a fully stocked bar. Employee drank a 400$ bottle of liquor and homeowner found him passed out in their guest room.
Starry starry night 1 year ago
Alcohol is the worst addiction to have as it is everywhere. It must have been too hard for him to resist, hope he found the help he needed.
Nicole Weymann 1 year ago
That is one aspect, and I sure pity him and nearest and dearest. But seriously: in a room with a fully stocked bar, how dumb do you have to be to empty one whole bottle of whatever it was? Two sips out of six bottles and likely nobody would have noticed. Passing out drunk, even if áddicted, takes some effort.
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Supposed to drive a car from one city to another on a Friday. Probably 2 hour trip? Took it to Mexico and partied for a weekend and delivered the car on Monday. This was not even a border state.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago (edited)
One young co-worker called in on monday during spring break and said he was in another town visiting his sister and his car died and it was going to take a couple of days to get the part to fix it, so the boss gave him an excused absence and told him to hurry back when he could. That night on the evening news they were doing a story on the college spring break madness on a beach in Mexico. Guess who was front and center falling down drunk for the live close up.
Some guy 1 year ago
Well, he WAS in another town, and his sister MIGHT have been there, I guess . . . /s
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Justme 1 year ago
Just don’t lie about taking time off. My ex-husband got the day off once and a bunch of us all went to a local amusement park. I held all the purses and phones while friends went on a roller coaster and his phone rang. It was his work and I said he’s on a roller coaster and will call back in just a few minutes. Turns out he had called in sick to get the day off. He had the nerve to be mad at me when he got caught in his lie. Just don’t lie.
UncleJon_TheMadScientist 1 year ago
When I was a mechanic in San Antonio I had a client [large family owned pharmacy] with multiple delivery vehicles. One day they decided to have me install high end go's trackers in all their vehicles, including one brand new pickup... one condition I could not tell any of the drivers what "service" was being done to the vehicles... the driver with the new one was suspicious so I made up a convincing story that the owner wanted me to change out the oil an Trans fluids to high end synthetics an I had to flush all the old stuff out and that's why it took almost 2 days to do properly... turns out 3 of the drivers had out of town delivery routes and were allowed to take the vehicles home over the weekend... the driver with the new truck was sneaking from San Antonio to the coast at Corpus Christi EVERY WEEKEND, he knew how to disconnect the speed sensor that ran the odometer so milage didn't show... But ha had no idea the vehicle was being tracked AND RECORDED by GPS ... got him fired
#10
Someone got fired because he went in the bathroom on his break and huffed the bottle of canned air and passed out.
He was a good employee too, what a waste.
Powerful Katrinka 1 year ago
I work in the field of addiction treatment. This is actually a widespread problem, and for some reason it’s very difficult to stop. I had one client who had been in treatment numerous times; it seemed that she finally had the tools to get better. An absolutely lovely young woman, whose family was 100% supportive; yet she huffed once too often and died of cardiac arrest. It was heartbreaking.
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GoldenDove 1 year ago
There is a pretty infamous episode of "Intervention" with a gal that was addicted to this stuff. She was an effing mess. She huffed a few of these A DAY. They did a follow up after a few years and she was happy, sober and looked like a completely different person.
Sinnsyk Jakte 1 year ago
Had a guy who's work Secret Santa got him a niiice bottle of tequila. Without even trying to hide it, he was taking shots in the breakroom. I almost broke my neck with how far my head tilted. He was quietly fired for Christmas.
GlamourGhoul 1 year ago
I knew a guy who worked at a fast food place that got caught sucking the nitrous out of the whipped cream canisters. If you’re going to do that dumb 💩 , don’t do it at work!
#11
Dumbest, maybe not the worse: A mechanic in my chemical plant wrapped expensive copper tubing around his chest and put his coat over it. It was a really cold day and it started drawing up to where he couldn't breathe - just as he got to the guard gate. The guards had a good laugh unwinding the soon-to-be-unemployed mechanic.
Raymond Smith 1 year ago
Heard a guy once taking wheelbarrows of dirt home. Come to find out he was just stealing wheelbarrows.
#12
Guy was just hired, he asked to go home on his second day because he [pooped] his pants. Alright, s**t happens, a little tmi but what can you do? He must be an honest soul. Went home for the afternoon, came in on the third day [pooped] his pants again and asked to go home. There was no fourth day.
Ritchat 1 year ago
Maybe he had a chronic illness like morbus crohn? Then I would feel very sorry for him.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
If so, he should have made the person in charge aware of the situation, of what he needed in that respect to do his job, and what the company would need to do to facilitate his doing his job.
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Savannah greenleaf 1 year ago
Serial pooper was never an excuse at work. My goodness they would just quit over the jokes!
Hmmm hmmmm 1 year ago
Maybe he had a stomach bug at the time and was just fighting to come into work, since it was his second day.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
Had a buddy ask me to get his friend's kid a job at a sandblasting factory I worked at. I helped it along. Kid got interview and hired. First day he gets dropped off and literally vomits in the garbage box in the parking lot. Boss had literally just was walking up to open the door for us to go inside. He asked to go home. They let him. Next day he was back an acted like nothing happened. Although because he was a redhead he got the nickname ketchup. We never called him anything else. When he decided to quit he just stopped coming in. That was like a year later. Just all around lazy and wouldn't pay attention. Prob real first job anyway.
Mad McQueen 1 year ago
Oh forgot to add that once he got fired for not coming into work the buddy that asked me to help get him a job started harassing me about it. I said I run my own dept and you need to talk to the boss. I gave him boss number and then blocked him. Ketchup never returned.
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#13
Had a guy who was late one day…who then called and tried to get coworkers to bail him out of jail on the drunk driving charges he got…on the way to work that morning.
Papa 1 year ago
I had a coworker who got thrown in jail on Friday night, called the boss to bail him out (which the boss did), and then didn't show up for work on Saturday morning. Not a good career move.
Stacy Parker 1 year ago
Many years ago I worked with a guy we called "4-day Joe". Paydays were Thursdays, so he would be "sick" every Friday. He was a good worker Monday through Thursday, so he was only scheduled those days.
#14
Manager of a store (mid 30s) stole around $1,000 of our store bank and used it to pay for his trip to meet up with his 14 year old girlfriend multiple states away.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
I'll take "let's commit several felonies for $500," Alex.
#15
I had one dude writing creepy fantasy stories about females AT WORK.....on the WORK COMPUTER 🤦♂️.
Luke Branwen 1 year ago
While I (God forbid) don't write creepy incel erotica, writing on the clock is totally something I'd do 😅
Olli Hawk 1 year ago
I really don’t understand writing about real people like that- it’s disgusting and weird. (Off topic but there was this one tiktoker who had so many creepy fanfics written about him, girls lying about dating him, and girls getting death threats just for posting a picture with him, that he had to make a podcast episode to address it)
#16
Maybe not the worst, but drinking beer during a Zoom call while on camera. At 9am. After asking for accommodations related to your problems with alcohol.
BoredBranzino 1 year ago
Oi...don't we all know to pour it into an aluminum water bottle with a BPA free lining for these times??
#17
One employee was constantly stealing food from the refrigerator, that other employees placed in there for lunch and late work-night dinners. Eventually, after weeks of complaints the IT department set up a hidden camera and caught the woman taking two yogurts, a weight watchers TV dinner and a can of coke in one swoop.
Sleepy children love Moon 1 year ago
I just rewatched that episode! I love Brooklyn 99
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Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 1 year ago
Exlax brownies ✔️ once you figure out who it is warn everyone else so they don't eat them. Or "special" brownies... And then do a random drúg test lol
Mr. Sourcrowd 🧐 1 year ago
Just put in a dish with lots of laxatives and wait in front of the toilettes 😇
#18
I was a newly hired manager at McDonald's. The guy before me was working the cash register. This store was very highly trafficked, it was right off of the interstate right on the border of city and middle of nowhere. It was the first place to stop and get some food for travelers coming in, and the last place to stop and get some food for travelers leaving out.
It was not uncommon to have over 1,000$ in under an hour in the cash register and policy was to "drop" money in the safe at least once every hour. So this new guy comes in, works for a few hours, but the manager never did the drops. After about 4 hours, the employee goes to the bathroom and disappears.
Turns out he left with over 4,000$ from the cash register. Police were called because obviously they have the guys ID, address, and information on file. Only to find out that everything was false. He stole someones ID and social that looked similar to him and used a fake address. I don't think the police ever found him or figured out who he was.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
Poor, poor McDonald's. Think of how many minimum wage hours that $4000 could have paid for.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago (edited)
Stealing is stealing. Even if it's from a multi-billion companies who can easily recover from it
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Jeff Hunt 1 year ago
McDonald’s felt nothing. The franchise owner was out the cash. A lot of fast food franchises are small businesses trying to make it.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
If it was one of the 2,770 locations owned and operated by the McDonald's corporation, it did feel it. If he was a franchiser, I would hope he knew enough to have theft covered in his insurance package.
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#19
I worked with someone that, after a couple months on the job, started leaving early every day. Sometimes a half hour early, sometimes up to half the day. Finally my manager goes to fire him on a Friday afternoon, except no one could find him, he had already left! .
Jasper Sardis 1 year ago
When I worked for a university library (student employee supervisor), I noticed that one of our newer hires repeatedly volunteered to reshelve returned books in the most annoying part of the library (many very thin books, long library of congress number, hard to shelve in proper sequence, etc). I eventually became suspicious and tried to find him a few times: found his full cart of books to reshelve, but never him. I mentioned it to my superior, who scoffed and brushed me off, and let it go. A couple of months later I find out that he'd been fired--and BRAGGED at the exit interview (or whatever you call it for a student employee of a university)--that they'd paid him for over three months and he hadn't shelved a single book.
#20
Just a few weeks ago: Salesman tells HQ that his very large national customer wants us to use a specific vendor for a multimillion dollar contract. We set it up but have procurement run backgrounds on the vendor to make sure they are reliable, no slave or child labor, etc. After digging down many layers, the founding documents for the vendor come back. It's owned by the salesperson and his sister. It was done quietly to save face with the customer, but the salesperson no longer works here.
OneHappyPuppy 1 year ago
I'm reading English here but not quite comprehending what's happening and what's wrong. Why does it matter if the salesman owns the vendor? Conflict of interest? If he'd do a good job, does it matter in the end?
Zakaria bin Haris 1 year ago
Basically it's a corruption scheme, he lies about the customer want to use only his own vendor
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Would have called the customer and told them to demand a discount from that specific vendor
#21
We had an HR woman and a male executive at our company both get fired... They were accidentally walked in on in their executive's office... They were found to be both partaking in lines of c*caine, and the woman was busy playing the man's skin flute... Both were terminated.
Stardust she/her 1 year ago
Had a weird mental image where they were doing both at the same time. I don’t like it
Kimberly Young 1 year ago
Was she snorting the d***s off of the "skin flute"? Because I had the same thought lol
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Andy Frobig 1 year ago
I was out of work on a medical thing for three months once and found out this same thing had gone down while I was out. We all missed the HR person, but not the manager
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#22
Faked stage 4 stomach cancer.
OnlyMe 1 year ago
I had a colleague who faked leukemia. Got 4 months off on full pay, wasn't even asked for a doctor's note. She was a useless b***h anywayl
Some guy 1 year ago
Sounds like something my sleazebag son-in-law would do.
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AnnaRachelle 1 year ago
This infuriates me..i have lost enough people to cancer. Currently, 2 of my neighbours are battling the disease. These people who fake cancer should be made to spend time on a cancer ward
GoldenDove 1 year ago
How how HOW do you even feel comfortable doing something like this?!?! And talk about tempting fate. Sheesh.
CanadianaKa 1 year ago
Had an employee who faked cancer. I went out in front of 2500 people to announce a scholarship in her name and everything, seeing as she was terminal and had only weeks to live. Obviously since she was dying, she terminated her short-term contract with us. Last time I heard from her was about two years later. She realized the game was up and stood me up when I was planning to have it out with her...
BROmanicus85 1 year ago
I feel we need a bit more information on this one... Faked it for what purpose? What happened in the end?!
Astar_ALT 1 year ago
It went on for a couple of months. Zero symptoms and I mean zero. I watched my stepfather die from stage 4 stomach cancer and let me tell you it is not pretty. What a super weird cancer to lie about. I had my reserves about him already and previously wanted to let him go but corporate mubo jumbo and was told no. HR got involved and weirdly dude just never surfaced again. Wouldn't answer phone, didn't return emails. Mailed his check out. Who does that...f*****g weirdo. Response copied from reddit
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#23
Not at my current job but at a previous job a guy got caught trying to bring a heroic amount of c*caine on the airplane and when TSA pulled him out of the line he said “it’s not a liquid what’s the problem?”.
Mike F 1 year ago (edited)
🎶I'm holding out for a hero, I'm holding out for a hero till the end of the night 🎶
Penguin Panda Pop 1 year ago
He's gotta be strong and he's gotta be fast, and he better be coked off his tits
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CalamityOne 1 year ago
How many bears'-worth is a "heroic amount" of cocaine? We Americans refusing to use metric measurements and so forth...
Weirdo with Internet 1 year ago
I would guess one.or two grizzlys or like 3 black bears.
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At least be smart about it and not just take through TSA like it's a perfectly normal thing to take through TSA
Anička 1 year ago
But it's not a liquid what's the problem?😂 I'm having a hard time imagining this. Like he just had a kilo of white powder in a bag? Oh just baking soda, gonna do a lot of baking! 🤷♂️
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Mark Wilson 1 year ago
For some reason this had me humming Barry Manilow's old Dr. Pepper jingle. "It's not a cola, it's something much much more..."
#24
My stupid sister lied her way up to get an engineering manager job at a boat manufacturer company she has absolutely no education higher than a GED,/ HS diploma. However boat company decides to give her a company credit card upon hiring and a bunch of projects for her and her team to work on She has no idea how to do the projects because she is not an engineer. Has no idea how to manage a team as she never managed people before She doesn't show up to any project meetings, so the team she was hired to lead never knew what to do. Time goes on and the employees that are left hung up with no leadership on what to do start complaining. The boat company finally tracks her down and turns out she was traveling around the US site seeing and spending money at high end restaurants. She was fired. Rightfully so. Not sure if she had to pay anything back or was charged with anything. Sure hope she was tho.
Vinny DaPooh 1 year ago
So you know details but don't know if your sister was charged with felonies?!? Write a better end to your fiction
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
Almost certainly not charged with anything. Lying on your resume isn’t a crime and they’d have to prove that the credit card charges weren’t business related. Most likely, it all got swept under the rug.
#25
He asked a coworker in the parking lot if he could pay him to complete his assigned work. He faked it through the interview process and was a terrible hire.
Alison Marchand 1 year ago (edited)
A worker was hired as new; He offered to pay off the crew; A terrible liar, A terrible hire, His payment is still overdue!
#26
This was told to me when i first started my job but- someone drove off in a piece of industrial farm equipment. For reference- these are worth like $80,000+.
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
People who are startled at the cost of high-end cars and trucks really need to price brand new farm equipment some time. Tractors, Harvesters, Combines, and other picture postcards. It would probably make them faint.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
How do you not get caught doing this? How do you think you won't get caught doing this?
Helen Rohrlach 1 year ago
They are all the same colour, design and all use the same key.
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Guy took bereavement leave for his grandpa funeral in UK but instead went partying in Jamaica and someone snitched on him providing SM posts as proof.
Bill Swallow 1 year ago
In a world with Donald J. Trump, do you really need to ask that question?
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#28
Bank. One guy managed the dormant accounts. Incredibly nice guy, everyone loved him, had been there for years.
One day, after an audit, it was discovered that he'd been embezzling money from the dormant accounts for quite some time. Turns out he'd gotten himself into debt he couldn't climb out of and that was his solution. Not only did he get fired, he went to prison.
OnlyMe 1 year ago
I had a colleague who was a SAHM, her husband was a high flying lawyer. Turns out he'd been embezzling money from clients for years. He went to jail, the family home was sold to recover some of the debt and the woman moved cities and had to get a job to support herself and kids. I felt so sorry for her. She'd had no idea.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago (edited)
Guy robbed a 7-11 after his second shift and forgot to take off his company ID badge with picture and name on it. Losing his job was the least of his problems.
Comedy Clumbers 1 year ago
His 7-11 ID Badge? He robbed his own employer or he robbed 7-11 with his not 7-11 work badge? Either is roll my eyes funny, I'm just curious.
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Richard Graham 1 year ago
I used to work as a bank teller. A bank client accidently left her ATM at the teller's counter. A fellow teller found the card, then looked up the client's information. Changed the PIN number, then bought $4,000 worth of Christmas presents for her children. Fired, and prosecuted. HINT: If you work at a bank and try something funny - - YOU WILL BE CAUGHT.
Katie Lutesinger 1 year ago
Reminds me of that guy who stole money from the bank where he worked to pay off his gambling debts. And he might even have gotten away with it; they busted him when he started returning the money now that he was out of hot water.
#29
I don’t remember the circumstances but an employee slapped our general manager and walked out. No, the police weren’t called probably because the GM was doing a lot of shady s**t and that’s probably why he got slapped.
Brian Droste 1 year ago (edited)
It said she walked out so she probably quit and not necessarily got fired. Yeah the GM should have been fired. He probably said something that was off or was hitting on the female employee.
Some guy 1 year ago
For anything like that she should have had better (i.e., legal) recourse.
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I worked in a big box place where the GM and ops manager were girlfriends. Thru worked shifts together, usually nights ago there wasn't enough management coverage on days, took vacations together so there was no management coverage at all, and did bad work when they were there. Home office sent someone to interview workers. Eventually the regional manager was called in off his honeymoon to fire them
#30
Took pictures of women he thought were hot at the target he delivered to, then went to instagram and posted the pictures with a tag @target with the caption along the lines of “you guys hire the most beautiful girls”.
Jason Not Bourne 1 year ago
"How can I harrass strangers, exploit them online, and make sure I'm not caught? Hmm, maybe TAG THE COMPANY?!" -this guy, probably
Examining the labor struggles faced by various employees brings to light the challenges in the modern workplace.
The experience of a Starbucks employee, who encountered difficult working conditions, highlights a common theme of worker exploitation. This narrative aligns with the broader issue of job insecurity as discussed in recent forums.
#31
I read that as dumbest instead of worst and started typing this, so I’ll finish it out anyway. I managed a call center for a while. One of my staff was a 23 year old guy who just could not figure out how to get to work on time. He had his own car and only lived like 15-20 minutes away, but he would be perpetually up to a half hour late shift after shift. We had a generous tardiness/absence policy - three strikes for unexcused absences but an unexcused tardy was only half a strike - and we were even nice enough to give him just a verbal warning at least two or three times instead of starting to count them because the call center wasn’t one that had like an inbound call service level, it was just outbound calls so the time you lost hurt you in other metrics and killed your chance at getting bonuses, but soon enough he had burned through five of the six unexcused tardiness he was allowed. The last time he was tardy, I brought him into my office and told him this was his final written warning. If he was even a minute late clocking in without a legitimate excuse for the next 90 days, he would be terminated on the spot. That was on a Tuesday. On Wednesday, he was scheduled to arrive at 4:00 PM for an evening shift. He walks in at 4:25 PM holding a Starbucks cup in his hand. “I couldn’t help it, the drive thru took forever!” I took his badge and walked him out. I hope he learned from it.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I had to fire an employee who was calling out sick 2 or 3 times a week, every week. And her excuses were always the craziest things she could come up with, and quite obviously not true. I sat her down and told her if she called in sick ONE more time I was going to be forced to fire her. She swore she understood. Then a few days later she did it again. And was shocked when she actually got fired. #headdesk
Pa Pa Panda 1 year ago
Next time you deal with an employee like that demand they bring in a doctors note, after a couple doctor bills they might get the hint. But I'm looking at it from a U.S. standpoint.
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panther 1 year ago
He was drinking starbucks, he hasn't learned anything, like there are better tasting coffee to be had.
#32
An employee left on lunch break and didn’t return to her overnight shift. I was the opening manager and two of the cash registers had been turned off. I asked the overnight manager about the registers and he had no clue why they were off. Did a count and there was a $1,000 shortage. Someone bought a visa gift card but there was no cash for the purchase. I reviewed the security footage and there she is loading the card and unplugging the registers. She finally returned and confessed to a gambling addiction. She lost all the money at the casino. Loss prevention said either give the money back or we file charges. Her uncle came to the store and gave us $1,000, and she was out of a job.
#33
Dude. I was working for a tech company and we acquired another company. The FIRST day the new employees arrive we have a welcome meeting. In the meeting we ask one of the ladies (older white woman) how she feels about joining her new team. This woman replies “I’m happy to have new bosses, the old ones treated me like I was their N*word*” The amount of jaws on the floor!!!! Oh my God. She was immediately let go. Lmfao wildest s**t.
#34
This one bartender called in to see if her bartender buddy that night wanted to swap in times/cut times. She was asking him to close for her so she could leave early as she was sick. We expected a slow night so he told her to just stay home, all good, he’s got it covered. We then watched her go into the bar across the parking lot, in her work shirt. One of our crew was off shift but hanging out. He ran over to see what was up. Chica acted like nothing was wrong, ordered him a shot and did one with him. This was not her first offense. She was 23. No body likes you when you’re 23. .
#35
When I ran a retail store I once had an employee steal money from the safe. I got a call from one of my assistant managers close to close that the safe was short money. I drove to the store and verified the safe was short and figured out what happened within 10 minutes. The employee took a broom and moved where the security camera was pointing. To make sure it was no longer pointing at the safe, they stepped in front of the safe. Unfortunately for them I could still see their legs on the camera and they were wearing shorts. This happened in the winter in Michigan, only one employee wore shorts to work at that time.
#36
Called in to work sick for a few days, and when it wasn't feasible to continue to do so, they had to admit they'd been arrested for murder and were in jail.
#37
Blew up 45 000$ worth of equipment through shoddy electrical work he had been already trained for.
To be fair, this one's also on us management, we probably shouldn't have let him have a go at even this simple electrical work considering how unreliable he had shown himself to be thus far.
Javelina Poppers 1 year ago
At a local aerospace machine shop with computer driven machinery, one machine was acting up so the frustrated employee went to his car and came back with a gun and put 5 shots into the control module.
Jenna Kay 1 year ago
Hubby had a coworker get fired because he downed an electrical substation, he blew a transformer AFTER he had been told not to touch it. He wasn't fired for the explosion, but for lying that he wasn't there when it happened. Dude was doing maintenance, on security cameras, that recorded that he was there 🫣
#38
I'm not a manager but an employee of an airport cargo handling company. We had a guy, high, crash a brand new jet engine airstart unit into a jet engine. Bosses were not happy.
#39
I used to run a large food distribution center. The overnight crew was responsible for picking orders for delivery the next day. There was a recovering alcoholic on the night crew who fell off the wagon one night. He snuck out at break and drank a whole fifth of vodka. Once he was back on the clock, he tried to stab another employee for picking the bag of potatoes he wanted for his pallet. A fight ensued and the drunk guy ran outside. We found him blacked out in his car with the doors locked. I was worried he might choke on his own vomit, so we called an ambulance. They didn’t want to wake him or try to treat him where he had a knife, so we had to wait for the police to show up, break a window, and get him out of the car. Then they took him to the hospital to pump his stomach.
#40
Former assistant used his mom as a reference (different last name ... I should have caught it when she said she felt like she'd known him from birth ...), had none of the skills he promised. Final straw when he ordered himself a $75 gaming mouse for the computer and a birthday cake scented candle. After being fired, he left me a Yelp review telling people I was the meanest, craziest boss ever. Bless his heart ...
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
Ah, “bless your heart…” the southern “f**k you all the way down”
Papa 1 year ago
Another possible interpretation, depending on context, can be "he's too stupid to pour p**s out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the bottom of the heel."
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Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
We only hire those we interviewed ourselves - as testing their knowledge with easy enough tasks is part of our interview. This is software development, mainly.
#41
Had a guy working for me who was a recovering alcoholic. One of the other employees went to Cuba and brought him back a mickey of Cuban rum without knowing how bad it was. The guy drank it all in the bathroom before collapsing and nearly pulling down all of the fixtures. I made sure he got home and gave him an ultimatum - resign and use us as a reference or get fired with cause. He chose the former. The guy lived under a bridge for a while after before settling in with his father in another province. I'm still his reference for employment.
#42
Worked at a hotel. One of the overnight front desk agents had to evict some guests for partying. After he had them removed, he realised that he had never finalised their check in, and he didn't have any information for the people on the room. Very apologetic. Accidents happen, and good overnight help is hard to find. I wanted to get at least a picture of the people he evicted. I did some research on the key used to access the room so I could check the camera on the time they checked in. Turns out the overnight front desk guy made the key...for himself. He threw the party and there was no guest kicked out.
#43
CEO walked into his office while he was m*sturbating. She was not happy with how he was using his time.
#44
One of my former chefs got drunk, and probably high on shift. Smashed a door. Tried to fight the gm. Left of his bicycle but fell off it on the drive way. Which no one knew. I come to work not knowing there was an issue the night before to the guys stuff all over the drive way. Tobacco, papers, filters, a grinder, alcohol bottle smashed, his underwear and I few other bits. I clean it all up on my way in. He’s not there yet so I start to prep breakfast and I ask what the f**k has happened the night before when I find the door. He finally comes in late at 7.30. Bleeding all over my kitchen from an open wound in his leg and he’s wearing shorts. I fire him for gross misconduct. This isn’t even really all the stupid part. The guy, so off his face on what ever substances he’s been on proceeds to forget that I fired him and comes into work the next day. I’m in f*****g disbelief when he comes in and I have to fire him for the second morning in a row.
Hugh Cookson 1 year ago
Sounds like a normal day in some of the places I used to work at !! I was a Chef for too many years (38) and on my way up the greasy pole I've seen some seriously bizarre s**t.
#45
Had an employee try to get someone else fired for poor hygiene. Employee stated that they witnessed a cockroach crawl out of the bag of another employee. When said employee was not fired for this, they stepped it up a notch. This employee put a large soda cup filled with roaches and a note taped to the hood of a third employees car (who was indirectly involved in this situation). Third employee brought me to their car to see everything. Looked at the security footage and sure enough, you could see this employee writing the note and taping the lid on the cup shut before sticking it on the car in between the windshield wipers. The note was pretty mean and degrading to the employee they wanted fired. It was asking this other employee to frame the first one by putting these bugs around the building and saying they saw them come from the other employees bag. We had to involve the police and the associate who tried to get someone fired ended up getting arrested instead. Maybe time think before you let loose the crazy?
#46
I don’t know if “worse” means dumb or bad but either way this is a question for me! They get worse as you go down. For context because of where I work all of these acts and crimes were committed by teenagers, usually 16 or under. — stole pizza and when asked what she was doing replied “I’m stealing.” — was on track for a minor leadership role when it was discovered that he had been stealing ice cream products all summer. The description of the thief was very specific and this guy wore the same bright pink hoodie with a giant rose on it every day. Naturally the hoodie was included in the description. The guy insisted that the girl who reported the thief had him confused with an identical employee who wore the same hoodie. — sold other employees already used employee tickets to guests and lied about it to the general manager. — stole the iPhone of a born and bred New Orleans guy three times his size off the desk of the HR manager. He then refused to give the phone back when the guy he stole from and his big brother knocked on his door (tracking him down with find my iPhone). — my almost assistant manager hooked up with a teenaged employee. (The assistant manager was pretty young himself, probably 18.) the girl was really into him and had been going for him, but when it didn’t work out she got upset, her parents noticed, and called us. We had to fire both employees. — threw a makeshift shrapnel bomb at another employee, who put her arm up to block it. The bomb (a sealed metal water bottle with dry ice that had been inside for hours) exploded on contact with her arm, ripping it open and hitting another employee in the head. The bomb was accidentally created by another employee (dry ice in metal water bottle. — Stole a car under the (truly mistaken) impression that he was borrowing it and allowed to do so. He took another employee in said car to go get food, with himself driving, despite the fact that he had no license or permit. He thought a school ID would suffice. He then went about 60 down a 30, swerved from one ditch to the other and totaled the car in the ditch outside the place of employment.
#47
Scammers called and asked for $2k, she pulled it outta the safe and handed it to them no questions asked.
Tomato Smudge 1 year ago
Had a closing manager do this. Fked over our hours for weeks since it was 20k. Should've known better than to believe a phone call claiming the director owed them money.
ZuriLovesYou 1 year ago
I think she gave the scammers their bank info or something. Probably. I don't know.
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A few weeks ago a very important manager of a very important company made a 1million euros wire transfer because a scammer convinced him he was one of the company advisors, or something like that. Source: https://www.romatoday.it/cronaca/truffa-manager-fremantle.html (happened in Italy)
Amy Smith 1 year ago
My sister had a new payroll manager at work who received an email "from one of the staff" that she had changed her bank account details, he didn't check with her and went ahead and paid that account. It was found out on payday when she hadn't been paid and asked, the bank was contacted, the employee paid and the money clawed back. However, guy was too daft to change the account details back or stop the payment to the new account, next month's payday - the employee got paid but so did the scammer - again. Apparently didn't last long at the firm
#48
Ran a side hustle producing "adult" calendars. Discovered it because our sysadmins noticed he was using an anomalously large fraction of our network bandwidth. He was a downloading a *ton* of p*rn to harvest the images.
#49
Married plant manager had an affair with an assembly worker who was his granddaughters age and a mom to two very young boys. The girl dated one of the techs who was 12 years older than her and worked at the same plant. The tech found out about the affair and killed her. The company fired the plant manager.
_physically_insane_(he/him) 1 year ago
I’m assuming the tech was fired as well (and imprisoned probably)
Some guy 1 year ago
Neither of them deserved to die, of course, but I'm wondering why he killed her and not him?
Justme 1 year ago
Women get blamed for everything. It's always the woman’s fault.
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#50
I worked at a food distribution center in the UK years ago. You could get into trouble for leaving the warehouse floor without authorisation and this guy wanted to use the loo but didn't want to get into trouble. So he done a poo in one of the 1100ltr wheelie bins that are scattered around the warehouse. He was fired, I think I laughed for 2 days.
Polterbean 1 year ago
That's on the company. Everyone has to have the option to just go to the toilet without trouble.
Papa 1 year ago
Presumably he could have gotten permission, but chose not to.
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Cerise Hood 1 year ago
If the bathrooms require permission from someone, then OSHA is going to have a field day.
#51
First job in insurance, weird guy wanted to be in SIU, the team that investigates fraud. He got it in his head that, rather than investigating external fraud as part of the claims department, they were a kind of clandestine CIA operation who were listening in on our phone calls and you could get tapped to join if you were smart enough and hard working enough. He was fired for sleeping at his desk repeatedly.
Howl's sleeping castle 1 year ago (edited)
There was a guy in my office who worked in the fraud department of the bank. The job was to block cards when the account holder would call in case of theft, or its misplaced etc and check if and where it was used , anything that is not known to the account holder. This guy really thought he was some FBI CIA level. He had Fraud analyst ( or department , I forgot) written on his house name plate. He was really weird. He used fake keychains of high value bikes and cars for his low value bike and used to hang the fake keychain on his belt loop so that it's easily visible. He got fired because they found a call where he was abusing the caller (forgot to mute his device) and the caller heard everything
#52
My dad/uncles small family remodeling company where I also work. New hire says he’ll let us use some tools for a job we’re doing. Proudly says he stole them from his last employer. Later on, while driving the company truck, hops out and gets in a fight with a teenager right out front of the high school…that I go to…and brags about kicking this guys a*s. It was in the paper the next day as a mini riot. This guy was an adult just out of the army. Didn’t last the week.
Rebelliousslug 1 year ago
Probably should’ve been terminated immediately upon learning he stole from his previous employer
panther 1 year ago
If he stole from one he will probably steal from them all.
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No longer a manager but I used to be a GM at a small shop in my college town. Immediately let a guy go that sent a text implying disgusting things with a hairbrush to one of our underage employees, who was very upset by it and no longer felt safe coming to work. My boss told me I needed to calm down and we shouldn’t rush to let someone go because they’re flirting, and told the dude he wasn’t fired. Girl quit, and business failed not even two weeks later. I was not sad to say goodbye to that place.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
I hope someone takes a hairbrush and "flirts" with him.
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Had a guy selling plates of Puerto Rican food at work. One day, someone catches him feet in air, rummaging through a dumpster for scraps of food to cook and sell along with his plates. Gets caught red handed, decides to “play crazy” and shave his eyebrows saying “It’s for his personal hygiene regimen. I don’t remember what happened to him or where he ended up. But that was the last time I ever ate home cooked meals from co-workers.
Katrina Nixon 1 year ago
I can't remember what it's called but there are meals made like this and sold in some poorer countries.
#55
Call center job, can't decide between: The guy who lit fireworks off at his desk OR the guy who challenged a customer (who happened to be local to our location) to a fist fight. Busy days for management but, all in all, probably the least remarkable call center firings that will be mentioned in this thread.
#56
I had a coworker get fired for applying for jobs on a jobs site using her company computer at work. After she’d been warned about appropriate internet use and that she was being monitored. Had a different coworker fired for looking at p*rn at work on a work computer, also after being warned about appropriate internet use.
#57
I currently manage software engineers. If you’ve ever worked with engineers, they can be a different breed. I haven’t necessarily had a bad experience with one, but have definitely met some characters. I hired a guy. He killed the interview (it was virtual). Resume was great, had excellent references. My team alternates between 3/2 and 2/3 in office days and this guy had worked remote since 2011 and in his first day it f*****g showed. Before I even got into my office, I had four complaints about this guy’s body odor. I wasn’t really sure what to think until I got there and shook his hand. I damn near fainted. I’ve never smelled body odor like that in my entire life. I immediately asked him to come outside with me because I didn’t want him stinking up the office. I asked him what was going on, if he had a medical condition I needed to be aware of. He had no idea what I was talking about. So I told him point blank he smelled like a bomb hit a diaper. He was shocked and couldn’t believe it. I asked him to take care of it and gave him the rest of the week to work from home to get it taken care of. A week goes by and he comes into the office. Immediate complaints from people. One colleague threatened to walk out. I asked the guy again what the deal was and he told me “well I sprayed Febreeze on myself before I walked in?” My jaw almost dropped. Apparently this guy hasn’t showered in literal years and just washes himself with water from his sink once a week. He also smokes cigarettes and apparently only eats one meal a day and “drinks IPAs” for dinner. I asked him again to take care of this or there would be conversations with HR. Conversations with HR happened, as you probably guessed. He was eventually terminated but one thing he told HR was that he WASN’T SURE HOW TO PROPERLY SHOWER and asked for guidance 😂.
wowbagger 1 year ago
My stepfather used to interview software engineers, and he also said they were "different." He told me about one guy he interviewed who was doing great in the interview until he leaned back and spread his legs apart. His pants had a big hole in the crotch and he wasn't wearing underwear! My stepfather almost died laughing, but still gave him the job
The Starsong Princess 1 year ago
Years ago, I worked with a guy who smelled absolutely foul. He was good looking, smart and hard working. His hygiene was fine. He went to a lot of doctors but they couldn’t figure out what was wrong with him at the time. It was too bad because he wanted to be a fire fighter and aced the admission test but they wouldn’t hire him. But he had a beautiful girlfriend - she had anosmia and could not smell or taste anything.
#58
When we brought up minor issues to talk to the employee about, they sicced their mom on us during their break, screaming, cursing, threats of violence and lawsuits. The person was in their mid-late 20s, not a kid. We told them to go ahead and not bother clocking back in from the break lol. The organization offered at-will employment and all employees knew this. It was a summer camp with most employees ranging from 18-28 though there were some older employees. We anticipated that this might be an issue with the younger employees but none older than 20.
Some guy 1 year ago (edited)
At one of my old jobs, we got a call not from the former employee (competent adult in his 20s; I don't remember whether he'd quit or gotten fired) but from his mommy, demanding the guy's W-2 from the previous year. This was on April 15. In the afternoon. On a Sunday. Mama Karen demanded I call one of the business office people to come in and get her baby's W-2 so he could file his taxes on time. I told her he should have gotten the W-2 in the mail in January, refused to call in the bosses on a Sunday afternoon, and probably suggested she (or even he!) might have been better off calling before now. I don't remember what happened after that, so probably nothing.
#59
I used to be in the news industry on the commercial production side. A few years back we ran a tragic story of a father and son drowning on a fishing trip. The father was a well known doctor at a local hospital... The very next day, we had a sales person literally approach the hospital he worked at and say "well it looks like a good time to run a new recruitment ad"... Our GM got a call from someone at the corporate level of the hospital and we never saw that sales person again. The GM didn't even bother to send an email or make an announcement about her no longer being employed. Managers were the only ones that were told 'why.'.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
The really galling part is taht there ARE "managers" that will do this - "somebody died! this is time to make money!"
#60
Senior exec tried to steal the company's IP and key employees to start their own business. Even got the CEO to sign a fraudulent letter to their potential investors. Got found out, terminated with extreme prejudice and all hell broke loose. F****d us up for at least six months.
#61
Early 20's kid disappeared for a week on a h*roin binge. His friends dropped him off in the middle of the day the next week walking into the office high off his balls as if nothing happened. The next day his dad came to apologize, explain what happened, let us know that he was going BACK to rehab, and ask if he could continue working afterwards.
#62
Pales in comparison to many stories here, but I figured I’d share: I brought in a contractor who was *super* eager to get a foot in the door at the company I worked at. Due to company policy about this team, we were only hiring in-state. It was the first thing I brought up in the interview. It was reiterated by his contract firm multiple times. Day 2 we hop on a Zoom call, the guy dials in with a tropical beach in the background. Not a fake background. Me - “Hey where are you?” Him - “Costa Rica, man! Just got here late last night. It’s gorgeous!” Me - “When are you coming back to the states?” Him - “I rented this place for the month. So probably after that. But I miiiight hit up Portugal to see a buddy for a few weeks first.” Me - “Ok. Well, you were told multiple times that you were required to work within the state. So you’re fired. I’m going to have your account deactivated immediately. Turn in your laptop with your firm when you get back to the US.” Him - “But my permanent address is still there!” Me - “….”.
#63
In college I worked at a tire shop, it was actually a really fun job. I never saw it happen but one of my co-workers would take some tires as he was unloading the shipment truck, hide them behind the retaining wall outside, then come back at night and put them in his truck and take off. I’m still not even sure how he got caught but they fired him for it, which is too bad because I actually really liked that guy.
Some guy 1 year ago
You don't know how they actually caught him, but where there's a wheel, there's a way.
Sven Horlemann 1 year ago
Well, once a year a business usually takes stock, so... they should know what is missing soon enough.
#64
I had an employee use a company gas card on his personal car.(purpose is for company vehicles only). Got caught using his gas card on a Sunday Night at 12am. In the HOOD, not where he would be working but right near his house and not the time he would be working. He admitted to it. I asked him if it happened previously. He said no. Got a warning letter…… 2 days later I got the report he did it 2 previous times….lost his job the next day. If he had just told me the truth he wouldn’t have lost his job. And I asked him 3 times! What makes you think if you got caught the most recent time, you wouldn’t get caught the previous times?
#65
Smuggled like 8oz of marijuana into a prison and gave it to an inmate.
#66
We had a guy who nonconsensually licked a coworker at a work event. Not the worst thing I've ever heard, but definitely the most amusing to recount that I've heard.
#67
After close one night, one of my employees robbed another employee at knifepoint in the parking lot. Came in the next day like nothing happened and was surprised when we told him he needed to leave and that the police had been called.
Papa 1 year ago
He had robbed the other employee at knife point. Would you attempt to keep him there if he didn't want to stay? If yes, I'd suggest calling 911 to get the ambulance headed your way first.
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When I was a manager in a smaller kennel two of the female employees came independently to say one of the other workers had shown them some very inappropriate images and made a lot of inappropriate comments about the animals. Checked his socials just to see what kinda things he's posting publicly and it's all the worst furry stuff and sexualizing animals. Also saw some pictures of him with the dogs at work that had some very inappropriate comments alongside them He didn't work for much longer and lost his s**t when I told him we can't allow him to work around animals or give him a reference.
#69
Oh I have 2. One was a supervisor that got busted in a police sting operation involving meeting up with minors at a park via a Craigslist ad. The other was this guy that left work one night, chainsawed a hole in his pregnant ex-gfs apartment door and started shooting. The baby and the baby’s dad died, the ex-gf lived.
#70
I was a media director and one of the guys on my team got drunk as f**k off Hennessy that we kept in a VIP area for clients. We had to shoot a commercial that day and the dude couldn’t even hold his camera correctly. He stole Hennessy that is for clients only and couldn’t help film the commercial. The next day I fired him.
#71
Gave out their badge. Police were called due to strangers being seen in the building and entering an area they shouldn't be in. Lied to me. Lied to police. Told both of us the badge was lost. Later found out that the employee had given out the badge so their friends could come on-site to grab something for them.
#73
He pulled the fire alarm in an airport terminal, and denied that it was him in the security video.
#74
Employee was a gold bug. Would not pay taxes thru the old "I have ten kids" filing trick so IRS got no withholding. Came in Monday wearing flip flops and swim trunks. IRS had padlocked his trailer.
#75
Not really a manager but a small business owner (wedding photographer). Showed up an hour and a half late smelling of whiskey and weed, got him to photograph a bit past the ceremony then told him to peace.
#76
I'm a manager for a cardboard company. Three months ago, an employee got fired when he rushed into the office and was about to hit another employee. The reason, as it turns out, was because the second employee had kissed the first employee's fiance a while back. Luckily, a third employee, who volunteers as a sheriff, had his pepper spray on hand. He took down the first employee with the pepper spray. Crisis averted. Needless to say, we fired the belligerent employee. For a good while after, the female employees in the office kept asking about how the volunteer sheriff took down the first employee.
#77
Bought Stolen Merchandise on Store premises and took it directly to his house in the Company truck. 48 hrs later a detective called & said he had a written confession. He lost 200.00, got fired and brought it back to my store along with his uniforms. He's lucky he wasn't charged as we had a 2nd hand dealers license.
What do you think ?
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Years ago I had a very tiny business myself. The guy I had who would pay the few employees I had contracted stole from the account that contained their combined salary, to buy (and I wish I was making this up) furry foot fetish artwork. Had his access removed asap when it came out, but stupidly kept him around because I had no experience. So he went on and contacted a client by himself to swindle money out of them and use it again for his weird fetish. So he got kicked - later on the artist contacted me and told me he has debt and that *I* have to pay it now. Sent the artist away too. Half a year later, someone tried to hack our site and I had to quit it because I had too much stress. Doubt that was a coincidence after he was kicked, eh? Some people really are the scum of the earth.
Olli Hawk 1 year ago
The only person I ever WITNESSED get fired was at the abuse relief shelter for animals, she was teasing and being mean to one of the dogs, and holding a treat above his head with some “oh you gonna get it?” Bs. Well he did jump and get it, and accidentally nipped her hand in the process. She disciplined the dog by literally SCREAMING at him, well then he got scared and actually DID end up biting her aggressively. She got eight stitches and threatened to sue. We won the case and she got banned from the property
DB 1 year ago
Guy would order parts from the warehouse then fake a return for them and pocket the money. Got caught when someone realized the quantity on hand didn't match. 2 brake rotors from the warehouse plus 2 from the return meant there should be 4. But the guy who kept track of inventory kept finding discrepancies. Didn't take long to narrow it down to him.
Richard Graham 1 year ago (edited)
My immediate supervisor (Jerry) was on a business trip. Jerry got so drunk he was thrown out of two bars in one night. Driving to a third bar (in a company vehicle!) he drove on the wrong side of a highway. Head-on collision, killing the driver of the other car. Jerry was rushed to a hospital with a skull fracture. Turns out the person he killed was a ICU Nurse returning from a shift at the same hospital he was taken to. Jerry woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed, under police guard. Jerry also woke up just in time to hear a five-year-old girl told her mother is dead - that little girl became an orphan. Jerry got a loooong prison sentence. He had a wife and five children under six years old. They lost everything - went from a nice middle-class existence to welfare housing. (I once saw his wife pan-handling) I hope he dies in pain and rots in Hell for all the lives he ruined and pain he caused.
EmBree 1 year ago
The worst I've seen was when I worked for a charity that helped Romanian orphans and a guy was fired for stealing from the charity. He wasn't even smart about it he just pocketed money that we had counted and put in the safe. The hard part was being a suspect for the two days it took our boss to figure out it was him.
Lyrica Melody 1 year ago
Most of the text is cut off of these entries when I try to read them in the app; several other BP posts are the same.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Click on the text when that happens, since it's a screenshot the full text will open then
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Years ago I had a very tiny business myself. The guy I had who would pay the few employees I had contracted stole from the account that contained their combined salary, to buy (and I wish I was making this up) furry foot fetish artwork. Had his access removed asap when it came out, but stupidly kept him around because I had no experience. So he went on and contacted a client by himself to swindle money out of them and use it again for his weird fetish. So he got kicked - later on the artist contacted me and told me he has debt and that *I* have to pay it now. Sent the artist away too. Half a year later, someone tried to hack our site and I had to quit it because I had too much stress. Doubt that was a coincidence after he was kicked, eh? Some people really are the scum of the earth.
Olli Hawk 1 year ago
The only person I ever WITNESSED get fired was at the abuse relief shelter for animals, she was teasing and being mean to one of the dogs, and holding a treat above his head with some “oh you gonna get it?” Bs. Well he did jump and get it, and accidentally nipped her hand in the process. She disciplined the dog by literally SCREAMING at him, well then he got scared and actually DID end up biting her aggressively. She got eight stitches and threatened to sue. We won the case and she got banned from the property
DB 1 year ago
Guy would order parts from the warehouse then fake a return for them and pocket the money. Got caught when someone realized the quantity on hand didn't match. 2 brake rotors from the warehouse plus 2 from the return meant there should be 4. But the guy who kept track of inventory kept finding discrepancies. Didn't take long to narrow it down to him.
Richard Graham 1 year ago (edited)
My immediate supervisor (Jerry) was on a business trip. Jerry got so drunk he was thrown out of two bars in one night. Driving to a third bar (in a company vehicle!) he drove on the wrong side of a highway. Head-on collision, killing the driver of the other car. Jerry was rushed to a hospital with a skull fracture. Turns out the person he killed was a ICU Nurse returning from a shift at the same hospital he was taken to. Jerry woke up handcuffed to a hospital bed, under police guard. Jerry also woke up just in time to hear a five-year-old girl told her mother is dead - that little girl became an orphan. Jerry got a loooong prison sentence. He had a wife and five children under six years old. They lost everything - went from a nice middle-class existence to welfare housing. (I once saw his wife pan-handling) I hope he dies in pain and rots in Hell for all the lives he ruined and pain he caused.
EmBree 1 year ago
The worst I've seen was when I worked for a charity that helped Romanian orphans and a guy was fired for stealing from the charity. He wasn't even smart about it he just pocketed money that we had counted and put in the safe. The hard part was being a suspect for the two days it took our boss to figure out it was him.
Lyrica Melody 1 year ago
Most of the text is cut off of these entries when I try to read them in the app; several other BP posts are the same.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
Click on the text when that happens, since it's a screenshot the full text will open then
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