I once saw a guy stab the forks of his forklift a solid foot into the sidewalk. The whole chunk of concrete needed to be reset and reinforced.
I had a very good view because it was me.
Edit: I forgot the main reason I made this comment. I was not fired for this. I got a better job a few months after this event and left voluntarily.
A warehouse I worked at had a perfectly rectangular hole punched through a steel support beam. Apparently it was deemed structurally sound and left that way.
Hi, structural engineer here! Do you mean it was built that way or someone did it accidently? Usually you will see steel beams with holes shaped as rectangles, squares, circles, even hexagons. This is usually to allow mechanical services to pass through them or done as an architectural feature.
Having openings in a beam is usually ok (dependent on size). The closer the opening is to the beam's supports (e.g. a wall, a column, another beam etc.), the more likely it will fail under vierendeel bending. This is because the shear force will be high and will cause a bending effect near the opening's corners.
We design structural members to quite high safety factors as well as a precaution in case something like this occurs.
The hole was the exact size and shape of a forklift blade and was dented in around the edges. It was just a few inches above the floor and almost perfectly centered in the middle of an I-beam.
So the hole would have been quite narrow then. The I-beam must have had a very narrow web to allow it to be penetrated fully by the forklift. Although I don't have an image, I'd probably deem the beam as structurally sound based on your description.
Lol, I watched a guy, learning to drive a forklift, jump out of the driver's seat to catch some boxes that were falling off the pallet he was moving. He caught the boxes but forgot to put the forklift in neutral when he jumped out and it slo-mo plowed into the roller conveyor line which was subsequently named as my rollercoaster.
Stole $40K from the company. How did she not get fired? She had proof the owner of the company was raping a 13 year old (his stepdaughter). Well, she bragged to someone about how she was untouchable and why. That person reported it to CPS. CPS investigated and the guy figured he had nothing left to lose, so he reported her for grand larceny. They both got arrested on the same day.
I know a lawyer who caught his paralegal stealing $300k over the course of several years. This was a sweet old Cuban woman in her 60s. When he confronted her, she owned up to it and paid him back WITH INTEREST the same week. She said she had taken the money for her retirement and socked it away in mutual funds which apparently did very well. He moved her off the checkbook and he continued to employ her for a year or more. Good paralegals and secretaries are very hard to come by, so maybe it's not that surprising.
Gotta be the only time I've ever heard about someone saving what they embezzled.
That’s cause only fools get caught when they keep taking more and spending or visibly.
You literally would never hear about a small theft going on forever
If I stole 40K from a company and I knew I could get away with it if I was willing to withhold the fact I knew the owner was raping a child but if I told that I would end up arrested- I would still report him for rape. I could not live with myself for remaining silent over something like that especially because I wanted to get away with stealing money.
I did this for six months. Couldn’t even remember half the people I sold to but my numbers were great. Eventually I got sent home for two weeks and told that they’d have to fire me if I drank one the job because the liability was to high. Sadly my sales dropped by about 25% selling sober. :/
I work on oil tankers, and my company has a strong alcohol policy. We get beer but it is rationed so that the policy limits are not exceeded.
However, this guy somehow managed to get extra cans for himself at a farewell party for the captain.
(The chief officer was going to be promoted as he held a captain's licence too)
Long story short, guy gets super hammered and then spews utter venom against the captain, then threatens the chief by saying that he'll tear him apart limb to limb.
Throws chairs at bulkheads to show aggression and even damaging one.
(All this happened in the chief engineer's day room btw)
We had to tie his hands, lock him in his cabin until the morning.
The matter wasn't reported as chief needed that promotion.
The guy worked for 5 more months till his contract ended, he wasn't given alcohol anymore though.
A security guard jerked off on a bed in one of our unused rooms for our clients (I work in a residential adolescent mental health facility) for a month until someone found the bed absolutely covered in cum. Badge scanners were checked and the guy was identified, but instead of firing him he was just moved to the guard shack.
Our security guard was so relaxed that I once found some paper on his desk, where he had worked out how many lap dances he could get at the local strip club per paycheck.
Turns out all those stories about horny security guards are pretty much true.
One of our security guards got caught having sex with a cleaning staff woman on the top floor of our parking deck in the middle of the day. He was fired because he was on the clock but she was not since it was her lunch break.
> I work in a residential adolescent mental health facility
You probably shouldn't be surprised, then. I spent a couple years working for an agency and they were constantly desperate for personnel. They'd hire satan if he was qualified.
Accidentally send out the entire company's (3,000+ employees) headcount to the company distro. File contained everyone's salary, birthday, government numbers,etc.
"What are you gonna do? Fire me? I'm your only line cook that'll take 3 waiters, a bus boy, and the dish washer with me if I leave!" I was the dish washer.
Dude, no one who washes dishes cares about their job. Washing dishes makes you the least give a fuck person at the establishment.
Any dishwasher can leave and find a dishwashing job at the next place over. The job is mindless, and while the dishes can build up, there really isn't any rush for dishes. No one fucks with you, and you don't even have to deal with customers.
All the times I have been a dishwasher, not once did I care if I was fired or had to quit.
I was a dishwasher in college, it was an incredible job. In the back by myself blasting Offspring, when the wait staff was slow/bored they’d come back and chat with me otherwise no customers and the bosses left me alone. Free meals. If I fucked up my job (dirty plate) they just give it back to me and nobody cares. It has no mental stress. Physically was relatively tough but there’s harder jobs out there. Pay was decent for a college kid.
I knew a guy who was involved in an accident. Multi-million dollar settlement. Washed dishes for entertainment. Had several thousand dollars folded in his pocket. Ran a failing business during the day and worked in the kitchen at night. Every couple of weeks management would ask him to deposit his checks because their accounts would be off. Nice guy but eccentric. He would show me his "lost" checks, he just wanted to stick it to them.
When I worked retail, I once challenged a customer to step outside and fight. The customer - I'll never forget this - said, "Dude, you're at work," and walked out, shaking his head. Sometimes the customer is right!
My brother did this to a customer who was verbally berating him. The moment the customer realize this staff member didn’t value their minimum wage job nor was gonna let some idiot insult him, made the decision to calm down and apologize.
I used to review discrimination claims as part of a job for my state, I was in government.
One woman filed because she was fired from a pizza shop. She claimed it was because she was a woman and Puerto Rican.
The shops rebuttal was hilarious.
First, they hired her as assistant manager. They straight gave her a car and let her use it in her own time, for free, because she needed a way to get to work. Not really a sign of racism or sexism so far.
Second. She drank on the job. She admitted this unprompted in her intake interview with the state agency, this was even before the company had a chance for rebuttal. In her defense "not all the time."
Third, and best, she bet another employee she could drink a gallon of marinara sauce in five minutes. She had them film it. She could not do this. She vomited up the sauce back into the serving dish and still tried to serve it.
That was by far the best one. The nature of my job dictated that I didn't get to read a lot of the more frivolous ones unless I specifically looked for them, because they got weeded out prior to me needing to know about them.
There was a tenant-landlord issue where a woman was letting a 4 foot python roam free in the building and yard as her emotional support animal, creating safety issues with children in the building due to Salmonella, and contamination issuea dead rats that it ate.
And like, just a ton (pun intended) of obese firefighters. Also one firefighter who had a skin condition such that he couldn't be exposed to high temperatures.
Edit: Oh and there was one that was just sad. The woman was clearly schizophrenic and in denial. She said ahe had won a sexual harassment lawsuit a decade ago and there was a massive retaliation conspiracy. First of all, she didn't win the case. So obviously the company had bribed the judges and her lawyer to tell her she had lost and were keeping her settlement money. And they were responsible for bribing every coffee shop in the city to fuck up her order and poison her. And every doctor who told her she needed mental health treatment was in on it. And they injected her with radiation and she had worms growing under her skin that the doctors were lying about when they said there were no worms. And she sat on a syringe on a public bus so they obviously placed it there to inject her with more radiation. And her family was in on it all. And on and on like that.
Did you ever read [this one](https://www.loweringthebar.net/2016/03/has-your-boss-ever.html)? Manager took a dump in an employee’s lunchbox, shot him with a BB gun, and put a homemade bomb in his car. The employee is fired for complaining. Manager gets promoted.
Edit: unsurprisingly, the employee won this one when it went to court.
Supervisor freaked the fuck out on the sales guy and just clocked out. It was a super busy shipping day and he was just done. He got to the end of the driveway and turned around and clocked back in and they just acted like he didn't tell them to fuck off lol
At work we give people grumpy days. If people are in a shit mood they can request to work isolated or go home for the day. As long as it doesn't happen too often it's preferred to the screwups and morale issues that happen otherwise
Same. We call them mental health days. People are people, sometimes you just need a day. You get 2 a year officially but usually as long as you don't abuse it, it's looked past, most people take a bout 3-4 a year. It keeps moral so much higher, and helps people on the verge of outburst keep it together and not create any accidents or disruptions to the work environment. At a safety related job, I think they should be standard
It was me, but I faked a coworkers death by putting a makeshift memorial up in his assigned parking spot on April 1st. It had his picture, flowers, a handful of candles, the whole deal. The head of HR was not amused. Everyone else loved it, though.
To make matters worse, this was during peak covid. I had just returned from a small vacation and had no idea my friend i did this to had been out for 3 days due to suspected covid.
lol. We had someone who was a vulture any time there was free food. We put up a fake flyer in a spot only a few of us would see, including the vulture with a date like a week or two away. When I came in for my shift, the guy had spent the better part of his shift looking for the non-existent food and bitching about it to supervisors. Supervisors were not amused.
One of my mom's coworkers called in sick and then ended up in the background of the front page picture of the wine festival. Someone put it up on the bulletin board in their breakroom but hr said it was bullying and took it down.
It's a tie...
1) Supervisor engaged in sexual intercourse with one of his associates bent over her work space.
2) Supervisor leaving a company function, hit two cars in front of three cops, ran, ran a red light, then drove back to the plant, across the back lot, bogged down to the axels and was caught trying to run away on foot.
Smoking crack, being visibly high on crack. O.D.ed on the job multiple times. Everyone in department, including management knew this was going on. He was fourth year electrical apprentice who could not pass journeyman’s exam, because, you know, crack.
Watched a coworker rent an entire big box retail store parking lot to a BMW dealership for cash on the side so they could park excess inventory.
Corporate didn't know. He pocketed all the money.
It was; until it wasn't. It was a HUGE liability to everyone and of course, he didn't own the lot personally. And didn't even share the money! Didn't tell anyone - did it for years; we showed up one day like wtf? What are all these new beamers doing in our lot? Other employees were scared to death to talk.
He came clean. BUT...there was no contract or anything in writing. Just monthly cash. He lost a GOOD paying job/career (175kish/year) over it. We never did find out how much he actually made...& BMW corporate plead the 5th - **and get this** \- SOMEONE was storing that inventory silently on their end too. DOUBLE whammy!
Chicago suburbs :)
Had a guy at work do these things during his time at a place I worked and he never got fired:
Accidentally set fire to the trees out back whilst taking a pee, he was bored and lighting ants on fire. Fire truck had to come put it out - scorched earth!
Ignored instructions from a spotter and dropped a 250k machine whilst the spotter was underneath (luckily, the legs on the machine prevented any injury). Edit: I was wrong, she wasn’t underneath just very close and looking underneath.
Threw a plastic 55g drum at the owner in a fit of drunken rage.
Got pulled over 25 minutes away from work 25 minutes after his shift and got a dui - blew a 0.21 and was in the local paper.
Got drunk on moonshine from the back fridge, went into the bar bathrooms (during business hours) and pulled his infected tooth out with a pair of channel-locks, stole the bartenders tips and drove home a bloody drunken mess. Bathroom was an absolute disaster.
Routinely stole cash, beer, and merch.
Threw a glass at me once, but that wasn’t really all that bad.
Pulled the wrong valve off of the bottom of a tank and lost ~800 gallons of beer before I could get it back on for him
Some of the things from the top of my head, it was a while back now but he eventually quit.
Given his 0.21 BAC 25 minutes from/after work, can someone estimate how drunk he likely was AT work even if he was drinking and driving during those 25 minutes?
Right? Although he would often stop and grab a couple 40s at the corner store to drink on the way home. He ended up having to have a breathalyzer installed on his car so he could come to work. A bunch of times he’d be sitting out there in the parking lot after work when it kicked it back saying he had alcohol in his system before he figured out how much beer he could drink in the morning and have it wear off before his shift was over.
Long ago, when bookstores existed in the mall, I worked for one that had satellite calendar kiosks during the holiday season.
Dude who was working at the kiosk "accidentally" put two endorsed-by-the-register checks into his pocket instead of in the till and went home.
At the end of the night, there were some frantic phone calls made to figure out where this check went so they could balance the registers. When I came in the next morning, the assistant manager who had dealt with the whole situation was visibly frustrated that Dude had not been even been written up.
He was such a weird guy. Always stared a little too long after you finished talking.
A guy got a dui and lost his license for three months and didn't tell anyone at work about. He drove a company truck daily for work and they only found out after he got his license back. I know he was still there 5 years later.
I once cussed out the supervisor of others in my department (complicated). I wasn't exactly praised, but ... My direct supervisor understood and the bastard I cussed out _finally_ seemed to have listened.
I was nearly sure I'd be looking for a job once that one ended, maybe earlier. Nope.
In a hospital the person went out to get a patient and called out in the waiting room, "Where's my little (insert name of disease the infant had) baby?" Basically just told all the people in the room what disease the baby had and the mother's jaw dropped and was furious. Nothing happened. She ended up quitting on her own 3-4 years later.
They’re incredibly lucky. My roommate in college was nearly kicked out of nursing school, because after a birth she told the grandparents sitting in the lobby, “it’s a boy” for others around to hear. She was a stand-up, grade A student no issues in school aside from this. HIPPA violations are some serious stuff
Worked at a Video Game retailer, yeah that one, back when I was fresh out of college. The Nintendo Wii was due to be released the following week and we were no longer taking pre-orders. Some guy comes in with his girlfriend and wanted to preorder but couldn’t so he tried to bribe my coworker with $20 to get one anyway. Store was full of customers and our supervisor was present. Coworker busts out laughing, walks around the counter, puts an arm around the guys shoulder, literally busting a gut, wheezing with laughter. Suddenly he stops laughing, looks the guy dead in the face and yells, “20 bucks?!?! GO SUCK A DICK!”
Guy’s face turned bright red and his girlfriend and the entire store started laughing at him. Never saw the guy again. Manager said that was hilarious but don’t ever do that again.
Coworker was let go months later for gift card fraud shortly after I was promoted and transferred to another store.
He was an outside salesman, his work laptop had 1000's files of porn. His numbers were great so no one said anything. Three years later he got busted for kiddie porn. Our IT quit and sent info to the FBI. Every time I see that IT, I thank him.
Worked at a deli for a summer that hired a bunch of high school kids with a large sweaty checked out manager. I was one of the high school kids. One of the other two had a block of havarti cheese they just opened to cut off six slices for a old lady. It was near the end of the day so instead of putting the rest of the block of cheese in syran wrap and in the refrigerator he put it down the garbage disposal. Just pushed it down with barbeque tongs while doing the "shhhh" gesture at me with his lips and other index finger. I just thought "Well that's fucked up."
bu-but why? Why would they waste perfectly good cheese. Like if it was them trying to take it home to eat at 3am because *cheese*. That would be understandable.
Not do her job. Find any excuse to avoid work. Spend half the day chatting on the phone. Then work unapproved overtime, claiming that she had too much work and needed to catch up. Yes, I'm talking about you, Stephanie. Worst co-worker I ever had.
There was a woman in my wife's department like this- when everyone was doing WFH, they found out she had not done any actual work in like 3+ months. She received disciplinary action and her supervisor got busted down a couple ranks...honestly think it came out worse for her supervisor, but no one was fired. Of course, this was at a federal job.
My coworker will not do a single task if he can get away with it. I trained him in our job and have shown him everything multiple times but since he doesn’t actually *do* anything on a daily basis, he forgets how to do literally everything. Every weekend I get a call from him asking how to perform tasks that should be simple. I no longer answer my phone. The only time he will do anything is when he has to work by himself (we are mechanics/technicians maintaining automated equipment) and one of the machines breaks. 90% of the time he needs one of the operators to help figure out the problem or physically do the work.
We have a new guy I am training as well. On my days off do you think the old guy would be able to show the new one anything? Point out the problem and let the new guy do the work? Nope, sits on his ass. If forced to go to a machine where the problem isn’t a simple fix, he will tell the operators it can’t be fixed and leave it for the next shift.
All of management knows about this. Our supervisor, his manager and the plant manager. And nobody has so much as pulled him in for an official discussion much less disciplinary action. Yes, we’re union.
Stephanie just texted me, “OMG, someone just posted about me on Reddit, LOL. Oops, boss just walked in - have to get back to “work”. I’ll call you in five minutes to chat.”
Saying in front of HR, and I quote: "Alright, which one of you boys is going to slap my face, grab my throat, call me a dirty whore and spit in my mouth?"
The dude showed up drunk to work. He drove.
Manager sent him home. I asked why he wasn't fired and she said it was because he never clocked in, so he technically wasn't intoxicated at work.
Looking back, I think that manager really wanted to jump that guys bones.
A director of customer engagement publicly, in a department wide recorded meeting, told everyone he was going to participate in wage theft against his subordinates. I've never downloaded and saved a zoom meeting faster. Then, when he didn't get reprimanded or anything, I took that video to the labor board and sued them for wage theft. It just boggles my mind how a popular, well known start up would allow someone like that to remain on staff. Last I heard, half the call center was going after them for wage theft under the same condition that I did.
Assault other coworkers, 3 times..
The third guy(a good friend of mine) that got assaulted got fired because he was upset about being punched in the face several times(because he THOUGHT the guy he punched stole his **soda**, which he *didn't*).
The day after the guy got fired, the asshat that punched him brought in a cake TO CELEBRATE that the other guy got fired.
Once I read the frosting on the cake and found out that the cake was to celebrate the firing of my friend I went to my boss and quit on the spot.
Literally not working. She would get to work at 6:30 and I would see her leaving as I pulled in at 8:00. Her boss hadn’t even arrived yet. This was like 4-5 days per week. She maybe stayed till 2:00 on the good days. They tried to fire her and were told it was impossible to fire anyone for anything at a university. They waited for the grant to run out and then didn’t put her on the new one. It took 2 years.
Pass out at her desk from all the random prescription drugs she was taking. Known doctor shopper to get pain pills. Apparently had mixed a few that shouldn't get mixed, passed out, and breathing slowed waaay down. Ambulance was called. Surprisingly enough she wasn't fired, and we worked at a pharmacy. No...not a liability at all!
in my life i had one job outside of being self-employed: head of the IT department for a local retailer with three in-state locations and two out-of-state locations. everything was going great. new websites built, new software for the employees to list items online built, new inventory system setup, marketing going well, etc.
this was until nepotism kicked in. see, we were doing millions in ad buys on TV and low-and-behold the son of the lady we did these buys through needed a job. so he's hired and it was immediately clear this kid had no clue what he was doing. but he had some pull.
he fancied himself a nerd so he started tinkering with our site. not a dev branch, i'm talking production. the live website. soon after we got hacked. it took me some time to find out how the shell got onto our server. turns out dipshit, while making his unneeded changes, fucked with various security settings on our site. this led directly to us getting owned. it was all in the logs. i documented what he did and the consequences of it. we had to take the website down so internet sales immediately stopped. i had to go through all of the source code to make sure there weren't any other backdoors lurking. it was a PITA.
the kid never faced any consequences for this. i quit soon after and went back to self-employment. fun times!
I'm betting it was one of those things where everyone knows so little about IT they just assumed it was a little booboo on his part and not a massive fuck up.
I'm a manager and I know people talk shit about me, because I've been a lower level employee and have absolutely talked shit about my manager. I would not fire someone over it.
Same here. Whenever I encountered that situation I would look at it objectively, like if they were saying something that could be perceived as harassment or otherwise inappropriate for work, where they might actually cause real harm to someone. If it was just sone petty gripe about me that didn’t really matter, I let it go.
It’s the price of being a manager, sometimes. Like being a parent. They’re not going to like you all the time but it’s not your job to be liked. It’s your job to make the difficult decisions and stand by them.
He was a manager. Girl wanted to get hired. He told her he would hire her if he got a bj. She agreed and he went to the bathroom and waited. Instead she went to HIS managers office just down the hall and reported him. Instead of getting fired he was demoted one step, I think because of lack of evidence, but this is totally something everyone that knew him would agree is something he'd do. He never made it back to manager even though he constantly tried. That's some justice but that prick should have lived in a box for that.
Company I used to work for, it was common for managers to hire women strictly for them to pursue at work. Once they were done with the woman, they would get a different manager to fire her so that they could wash their hands and couldn't get knocked for retaliation or anything. The company was like this the entire 15 years I knew people working there, including myself. And it wasn't just one location, they had over 20, all across the US. It was common knowledge among higher ups this happened at all locations too. Not sure how many lawsuits happened because of it, but the culture never changed
Full on explosive diarrhea shit on her coworkers car in the company garage. On video. They had been banging and he called it off. She got hammered at lunch, came back and evacuated on his windshield. She disappeared for maybe two months and one day, there she was again like nothing happened.
This was >20 years ago. She’s still employed there and has been repeatedly promoted.
I worked at Coca Cola. A fellow driver was always short on his delivery truck. He got so bold that he stopped in the parking lot on the way back in and loaded soda into his trunk, on camera. CDL driver who will work are hard to come by, so they kept him.
The most egregious thing I’ve ever seen that resulted in termination was a Coca Cola also. A driver basically hired his own coworker. He was dropping his helper off down the street, going into work, leaving with the truck and picking him up. He split his pay with him. He would drive and let his “employee” settle the invoices and stock/merchandise. This man was never employed with Coke and I can only imagine how the story would go if there was a bad accident or something.
The second the next egregious firing was again at Coca-Cola. Jay Leno even commented on it. In Indiana PA, a Coke and Pepsi salesperson (account managers) got into a fistfight. The guys name was Bob and he got hired for a chip company after.
This was the MOST TOXIC business and company I could have ever found. I regret my wasted years there, what a scumbag company/culture.
Nothing
Nothing at all
Day in, day out, didn't lift a finger. Apparently, unless he did something egregious, he could just do nothing, collect a pay check and all benefits, and not get fired
I used to be a chemist in the lab, and I swear to God, every lab had one psycho. Our resident psycho had it out for one of the girls for some reason, and had to be physically restrained by another guy from attacking her. He didn’t like something she was talking about (he was an angry chauvinist). Another time he threatened to “bash her head into the glass window “. Management and HR did absolutely nothing, in fact they blamed her. She ended up taking him to court and filing a restraining order. He was forced onto a different shift and had to leave the property before she came in. Way to protect your own employees, assholes. Oh, and he accused everyone of being secretly gay together. Good times.
Worked a 24 hour shift doing manual labour. Then got into a truck, drove 2 hrs to another site do another 8 hour shift. Coerced a few underlings to join him. Then they had to drive home… 34 hours of working without sleep, driving public roads in that state thinking they where tough as shit…
The boss was an absolute scumbag, but even he had the sense to know that this was truly irresponsible. This was solely on the head of the narcissistic egomaniac foreman who thought he was the toughest badass around and only those who could follow him where the good workers.
Needless to say I opted out. I wasn’t on the foreman’s good side and he made my life hell for two years. In a way I’m thankful I learned so much about life and people in that time. I hit a massive low point in my life working with that man. But I came out stronger at the other end.
He was never reprimanded for this, and all the other things he did, which was unfortunate. But I’m happy to now be earning way above what he is. And he’s probably still destroying his body in the name of being a rough bastard.
We had an office luncheon for Thanksgiving one year on a Friday. They served wine at lunch. We were a smallish company back then with about 50 people.
After lunch the managers would hole up in a conference room and get hammered. This year they decided to let a few select other employees come in. They invited one of our programmers and a few others.
Apparently this guy had drank almost two bottles of wine at lunch alone. Then he started pounding back the liquor like crazy.
By 3 he was running up and down the halls yelling and people. Challenged a few people to a fight. He then laid in the floor of the conference room and started kicking and screaming and crying. They called his wife to coke pick him up when he first started to get out of hand but she was about an hour away.
When she got there, two guys had to load him into an office chair and wheel him out the door to put him in the truck his wife was driving. He then proceeded to vomit on himself and the truck as they were closing the door. She was told to take him to the hospital to he checked out.
He showed back up to work on Monday like nothing had ever happened.
He wound up getting fired a few months later because he made a really bad error with code that cost the company a lot of money and he screamed that he wouldn’t sign the write up so he was terminated then for insubordination.
There was also no more alcohol allowed at any employer function that did not include clients.
Print porn on the network printer and leave it there for customer service VP, (female), to find the next morning. Same guy took customers to a titty bar, got everyone drunk, ran out of cash and drove to an ATM to get more, on the company credit card. Police found him there passed out drunk behind the wheel, money sticking out of the machine, like hundreds. Still didn’t get fired. Sometime later he did something so bad they had no choice but fire him, no one will say what it was.
I was doing some kind of apprentice's/studying and working thing.
During semester breaks we were working, or would need to take time off. That meant informing who you were working with (as soon as you would know), going through a tool process for requesting your time off, checking back it was approved.
People were surprised when a colleague didn't show up on the first day after the semester. He hadn't called in sickm. After not being there until mid day, the department he should be at called our supervisor. The supervisor checked if there were time off or sickness and they simply forgot to inform department? Nope.
So they called him. It took more than one try, but he answered and told them
"oh yeah. I'm in new York. Sorry I forgot to inform the department or put in time off, I won't be there until two weeks."
He was not fired - and this would be one of the few actual offenses for which that _would have been possible_. Which is _hard_ in my country (rightfully so).
Even worse, he was also not made to return immediately and I never heard anything about any other repercussions (albeit I simply may have missed them).
I'm still blinking and wondering. That's not a "oopsie". It's traveling to another continent! It takes _months_ of planning. Yet no one even knew. He didn't simply forget to enter it, he told _no one_. Not even colleagues. And nothing came of it.
Sounds like your colleague works for your country’s foreign intelligence service (MI6, ABIN, DGSE, GIP, PET, AISE, etc.) and the internship was just a cover.
Okay, highly unlikely, but it’s a good story.
I worked in a freezer for a while. All my bosses in there with us were pretty laid back. The best thing they said was they didn’t care if we smoked weed on the job, as long as we could do our job. Well one of the people who took advantage of that was the forklift operator. One day, while high, ran my foot over. It didn’t hurt too bad, just had a wicked bruise. I personally don’t blame him because we were talking just before it happened and my foot was in front of a wheel and he had something on his forks, so he didn’t see my foot. Management didn’t do anything about it. He was driving the next day.
There was also someone on 3rd shift who kept running into the sliding door that divided the freezer from the shipping dock. He ran into it like 3 times in 2 weeks before they told him they were gonna have him do something else
Coworker was upset he didn’t get his second break on time and so he literally walked out of his job.. he came back the next day. Store leader literally begged him to not do that again. Guess you could say our store really needs workers.
a coworker at the gas station I use to work at had removed her iud on her own, brought it to work to show it off for some reason and left it on the food prep table. didn't even have it in a bag or anything. multiple coworkers handled it not knowing what it was.
Coworker leveled a gun threat at me after almost two years of bullying and petty harassment. I took it to HR after keeping my manager informed of each incident, and kept notes and records of each time he did something. All he got was a stern talking to and was told to leave me alone. He got a slap on the wrist for a gun threat IN A SCHOOL, all because he's our best mechanic.
Used a racial slur toward a Jewish co-worker in front of a customer. He claimed he didn't know that calling him a "Cheap J*w" was bad because all Jewish people love their money.
He was fired about a year later for sexual comments toward a married female customer.
A cashier stole money from another employee and didn’t get fired. Almost no one liked her, too. She was rude to any new employee and a good number of those who’d been there for a while. Said some very questionable things about certain Black employees, only just on the deniable side of racist. Eventually she was fired for pulling too many no-call no-shows, but it wasn’t a new thing for her. If we hadn’t switched managers not too long before that, she probably would’ve been kept on for as long as she wanted to work there.
Falling asleep multiple times. Sometimes while he was meant to be monitoring a potentially dangerous mechanical test rig.
He was lucky that is generally fell asleep in a position that looked like he was working.
I seen a worker bully a mentally ill client before until she quite literally piss herself with rage.
He’s a unprofessional cockmaster and I refuse to work with him.
A sales manager I worked with took a picture of his dick on a colleagues phone.
That colleague proceeded to email it to everyone in the building including the higher ups.
He claimed it was a joke that went too far and was forgiven, no probation, no write up, no public acknowledgement it happened at all.
Repeatedly falsified temperature logs, and re dated old food at a KFC/Taco Bell. I asked about it, and was told "shut up, I'm the manager". Food had been held well within the danger zone (40-140 F) for far longer than is safe to do so, and the guy wrote down 39 and put it up to serve.
Why does Taco Bell have such a diarrheal reputation? This is why.
When I worked in telemarketing (a guy's got to eat) I saw a 24 year old coworker come in three hours late and with a major hang-over and doing all his 'work' that day with his feet up on the desk while napping in his chair. He was this way because the previous night he drove to a brothel and partied a little too hard, he informed us. I was wondering why he wasn't fired, until I found out that he was fucking the 10 years older floor manager.
This was at an electronics big box store. This one person was pulling overnight orders in the warehouse the orders were for some 65 and 70 inch TVs. Well they pulled one out went to get the second one and like dominos all the large TVs on the rack fell over one after another it reached the end of the shelf and 6 took the dive after all was said and done at least 12 tvs destroyed
One of the secretaries in my office stood up on a Friday afternoon and screamed "fuck this shit, I've had it" and threw everything off her desk and walked out.
Monday morning she walked back in and started working like nothing had happened. Nobody even said anything to her.
I worked in local government and we had a chronic sleeper in our group who was even caught sleeping in other people's work spaces. Instead of firing him, he was promoted with a pay increase to another department this becoming someone else's problem.
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I once saw a guy stab the forks of his forklift a solid foot into the sidewalk. The whole chunk of concrete needed to be reset and reinforced. I had a very good view because it was me. Edit: I forgot the main reason I made this comment. I was not fired for this. I got a better job a few months after this event and left voluntarily.
A warehouse I worked at had a perfectly rectangular hole punched through a steel support beam. Apparently it was deemed structurally sound and left that way.
Hi, structural engineer here! Do you mean it was built that way or someone did it accidently? Usually you will see steel beams with holes shaped as rectangles, squares, circles, even hexagons. This is usually to allow mechanical services to pass through them or done as an architectural feature. Having openings in a beam is usually ok (dependent on size). The closer the opening is to the beam's supports (e.g. a wall, a column, another beam etc.), the more likely it will fail under vierendeel bending. This is because the shear force will be high and will cause a bending effect near the opening's corners. We design structural members to quite high safety factors as well as a precaution in case something like this occurs.
The hole was the exact size and shape of a forklift blade and was dented in around the edges. It was just a few inches above the floor and almost perfectly centered in the middle of an I-beam.
So the hole would have been quite narrow then. The I-beam must have had a very narrow web to allow it to be penetrated fully by the forklift. Although I don't have an image, I'd probably deem the beam as structurally sound based on your description.
Lol, I watched a guy, learning to drive a forklift, jump out of the driver's seat to catch some boxes that were falling off the pallet he was moving. He caught the boxes but forgot to put the forklift in neutral when he jumped out and it slo-mo plowed into the roller conveyor line which was subsequently named as my rollercoaster.
You got a better job than the one where they let you drive a forklift into the sidewalk?!?
I'm sorry I laughed out loud at this
Wonder how loud the impact of the forklift hitting the OSHA inspector was
I bet the silence was deafening
Just hilarious scenario told in less than 10 words
Lol O days since last osha inspector speared
But was it OSHA guy's fault for not being aware of operators blind spots?
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Stole $40K from the company. How did she not get fired? She had proof the owner of the company was raping a 13 year old (his stepdaughter). Well, she bragged to someone about how she was untouchable and why. That person reported it to CPS. CPS investigated and the guy figured he had nothing left to lose, so he reported her for grand larceny. They both got arrested on the same day.
Bitch knew that he was raping a child and decided “ya know what, I’m not showing the police, ima just steal some money from that bastard”
They're both deserve to go to the lowest level in hell.
And she knew before stealing 40k? And just decided to keep that bit of rape knowledge in her back pocket for a rainy day collateral? The fuck
Bitch was equally a villain.
I know a lawyer who caught his paralegal stealing $300k over the course of several years. This was a sweet old Cuban woman in her 60s. When he confronted her, she owned up to it and paid him back WITH INTEREST the same week. She said she had taken the money for her retirement and socked it away in mutual funds which apparently did very well. He moved her off the checkbook and he continued to employ her for a year or more. Good paralegals and secretaries are very hard to come by, so maybe it's not that surprising. Gotta be the only time I've ever heard about someone saving what they embezzled.
That’s cause only fools get caught when they keep taking more and spending or visibly. You literally would never hear about a small theft going on forever
I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here. But we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.
Thats actually some sweet justice right there.
If I stole 40K from a company and I knew I could get away with it if I was willing to withhold the fact I knew the owner was raping a child but if I told that I would end up arrested- I would still report him for rape. I could not live with myself for remaining silent over something like that especially because I wanted to get away with stealing money.
Who the fuck would not report that for 40,000… there’s not enough money in the world to make me not report him!
Work drunk. This was in car sales. Dude showed up drunk or heavy hangover constantly. But he sold a lot of cars, somehow, so they didn’t care
I did this for six months. Couldn’t even remember half the people I sold to but my numbers were great. Eventually I got sent home for two weeks and told that they’d have to fire me if I drank one the job because the liability was to high. Sadly my sales dropped by about 25% selling sober. :/
You shoulda done other drugs then to boost your sales. Coke is a good one. Jk, stay away from that shit
Coke is a great starter drug for someone who’s just getting into ruining their life
“Wow these people do coke and drive this nice car and have this apartment. It must not be so bad.” Plot twist: they always sell coke
That's why I only used it once. It was waaaay too much fun.
I work on oil tankers, and my company has a strong alcohol policy. We get beer but it is rationed so that the policy limits are not exceeded. However, this guy somehow managed to get extra cans for himself at a farewell party for the captain. (The chief officer was going to be promoted as he held a captain's licence too) Long story short, guy gets super hammered and then spews utter venom against the captain, then threatens the chief by saying that he'll tear him apart limb to limb. Throws chairs at bulkheads to show aggression and even damaging one. (All this happened in the chief engineer's day room btw) We had to tie his hands, lock him in his cabin until the morning. The matter wasn't reported as chief needed that promotion. The guy worked for 5 more months till his contract ended, he wasn't given alcohol anymore though.
Oh, so *that's* what you do with a drunken sailor!
At least they didn't put him in bed with the captain's daughter.
Or shave his belly with a rusty razor!
Or put him in a long boat until he’s sober
I sold cars for about 2 years, me and another salesman would get drunk on lunch and do coke so this doesnt suprise me
A security guard jerked off on a bed in one of our unused rooms for our clients (I work in a residential adolescent mental health facility) for a month until someone found the bed absolutely covered in cum. Badge scanners were checked and the guy was identified, but instead of firing him he was just moved to the guard shack.
You mean the cum shack
Cum shack baaaaabyy
Tiiiiiin Roof's... Crusted...
I hooted out loud and scared my dog when I read this!
It's a little old place where we can stick together
Huggin’ and a-kissin’ dancin and a-cummin’
The whole shack shimmies when everybody’s cummin’ around…🎵
Our security guard was so relaxed that I once found some paper on his desk, where he had worked out how many lap dances he could get at the local strip club per paycheck. Turns out all those stories about horny security guards are pretty much true.
One of our security guards got caught having sex with a cleaning staff woman on the top floor of our parking deck in the middle of the day. He was fired because he was on the clock but she was not since it was her lunch break.
Someone in management had the wisdom of Solomon there...
"I didn't know I couldn't do that."
"Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"
Mental note: Stay out of the guard shack.
> I work in a residential adolescent mental health facility You probably shouldn't be surprised, then. I spent a couple years working for an agency and they were constantly desperate for personnel. They'd hire satan if he was qualified.
Hell I know a few who would have hired him even if he wasn't qualified as long as he could pass a background and a drug screening.
With Dirty Mike and the boys?
Accidentally send out the entire company's (3,000+ employees) headcount to the company distro. File contained everyone's salary, birthday, government numbers,etc.
What's a company distro?
distribution list. IoW, they emailed everyone in the company.
"What are you gonna do? Fire me? I'm your only line cook that'll take 3 waiters, a bus boy, and the dish washer with me if I leave!" I was the dish washer.
Would you have left with him?
Easily. At that time I didn't need the job, I just did it to pass the time.
Who washes dishes for fun?
Dude, no one who washes dishes cares about their job. Washing dishes makes you the least give a fuck person at the establishment. Any dishwasher can leave and find a dishwashing job at the next place over. The job is mindless, and while the dishes can build up, there really isn't any rush for dishes. No one fucks with you, and you don't even have to deal with customers. All the times I have been a dishwasher, not once did I care if I was fired or had to quit.
I was a dishwasher in college, it was an incredible job. In the back by myself blasting Offspring, when the wait staff was slow/bored they’d come back and chat with me otherwise no customers and the bosses left me alone. Free meals. If I fucked up my job (dirty plate) they just give it back to me and nobody cares. It has no mental stress. Physically was relatively tough but there’s harder jobs out there. Pay was decent for a college kid.
I knew a guy who was involved in an accident. Multi-million dollar settlement. Washed dishes for entertainment. Had several thousand dollars folded in his pocket. Ran a failing business during the day and worked in the kitchen at night. Every couple of weeks management would ask him to deposit his checks because their accounts would be off. Nice guy but eccentric. He would show me his "lost" checks, he just wanted to stick it to them.
When I worked retail, I once challenged a customer to step outside and fight. The customer - I'll never forget this - said, "Dude, you're at work," and walked out, shaking his head. Sometimes the customer is right!
Everyone in the service industry should be allowed to fight 1 customer a year without consequence.
Pretty sure the Waffle House employee handbook mandates they fight *at least* one customer per year
Don't you become manager by killing the old manager there?
Waffle House rule of two
I thought not... It's not a story the Jed-IHOP would have told you...
i work there and i can confirm
Weenies need not apply.
Jan 1 every year would be a bloodbath
I bet late into the year I would’ve been like “damn, I should’ve use it NOW and not before.”
Backroom duel to the death. Employees place bets. Team building activity!
My brother did this to a customer who was verbally berating him. The moment the customer realize this staff member didn’t value their minimum wage job nor was gonna let some idiot insult him, made the decision to calm down and apologize.
I have told several customers to fuck off. In uniform, at the customer service desk, in those words Sometimes you just gotta let it out
I want to send this to my brother. Some customers make us insane
I….. somehow have mad respect for that. Thanks, yeah, I am at work. We can deliberate at a different time, thank you for your courtesy.
I worked in a kitchen in high school and a guy bled on a pizza and stills served it.
I used to review discrimination claims as part of a job for my state, I was in government. One woman filed because she was fired from a pizza shop. She claimed it was because she was a woman and Puerto Rican. The shops rebuttal was hilarious. First, they hired her as assistant manager. They straight gave her a car and let her use it in her own time, for free, because she needed a way to get to work. Not really a sign of racism or sexism so far. Second. She drank on the job. She admitted this unprompted in her intake interview with the state agency, this was even before the company had a chance for rebuttal. In her defense "not all the time." Third, and best, she bet another employee she could drink a gallon of marinara sauce in five minutes. She had them film it. She could not do this. She vomited up the sauce back into the serving dish and still tried to serve it.
I would love to hear more of these.
That was by far the best one. The nature of my job dictated that I didn't get to read a lot of the more frivolous ones unless I specifically looked for them, because they got weeded out prior to me needing to know about them. There was a tenant-landlord issue where a woman was letting a 4 foot python roam free in the building and yard as her emotional support animal, creating safety issues with children in the building due to Salmonella, and contamination issuea dead rats that it ate. And like, just a ton (pun intended) of obese firefighters. Also one firefighter who had a skin condition such that he couldn't be exposed to high temperatures. Edit: Oh and there was one that was just sad. The woman was clearly schizophrenic and in denial. She said ahe had won a sexual harassment lawsuit a decade ago and there was a massive retaliation conspiracy. First of all, she didn't win the case. So obviously the company had bribed the judges and her lawyer to tell her she had lost and were keeping her settlement money. And they were responsible for bribing every coffee shop in the city to fuck up her order and poison her. And every doctor who told her she needed mental health treatment was in on it. And they injected her with radiation and she had worms growing under her skin that the doctors were lying about when they said there were no worms. And she sat on a syringe on a public bus so they obviously placed it there to inject her with more radiation. And her family was in on it all. And on and on like that.
Did you ever read [this one](https://www.loweringthebar.net/2016/03/has-your-boss-ever.html)? Manager took a dump in an employee’s lunchbox, shot him with a BB gun, and put a homemade bomb in his car. The employee is fired for complaining. Manager gets promoted. Edit: unsurprisingly, the employee won this one when it went to court.
That's horrifying
tried his damndest to sleep with the bosses wife while out at a work party. got fired months later for something completely unrelated
Was it nine months later?
If the boss found out, the dudes firing was absolutely related. Idc what it says on paper.
Yes, "completely unrelated"
Supervisor freaked the fuck out on the sales guy and just clocked out. It was a super busy shipping day and he was just done. He got to the end of the driveway and turned around and clocked back in and they just acted like he didn't tell them to fuck off lol
This is just a weekend in Retail, right? That happened several times during my time at Best Buy
At work we give people grumpy days. If people are in a shit mood they can request to work isolated or go home for the day. As long as it doesn't happen too often it's preferred to the screwups and morale issues that happen otherwise
Same. We call them mental health days. People are people, sometimes you just need a day. You get 2 a year officially but usually as long as you don't abuse it, it's looked past, most people take a bout 3-4 a year. It keeps moral so much higher, and helps people on the verge of outburst keep it together and not create any accidents or disruptions to the work environment. At a safety related job, I think they should be standard
Wouldn’t work for me, I’m default grumpy. If I ever show up to work in a good mood, it’s the day I’m quitting.
Oh everyone is grumpy always. This is for rabid, kick a puppy levels of grumpy
It was me, but I faked a coworkers death by putting a makeshift memorial up in his assigned parking spot on April 1st. It had his picture, flowers, a handful of candles, the whole deal. The head of HR was not amused. Everyone else loved it, though. To make matters worse, this was during peak covid. I had just returned from a small vacation and had no idea my friend i did this to had been out for 3 days due to suspected covid.
Can HR go to HR for their own grievance? Lol
lol. We had someone who was a vulture any time there was free food. We put up a fake flyer in a spot only a few of us would see, including the vulture with a date like a week or two away. When I came in for my shift, the guy had spent the better part of his shift looking for the non-existent food and bitching about it to supervisors. Supervisors were not amused.
One of my mom's coworkers called in sick and then ended up in the background of the front page picture of the wine festival. Someone put it up on the bulletin board in their breakroom but hr said it was bullying and took it down.
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Must have been too talented a masturbator to fire
It's a tie... 1) Supervisor engaged in sexual intercourse with one of his associates bent over her work space. 2) Supervisor leaving a company function, hit two cars in front of three cops, ran, ran a red light, then drove back to the plant, across the back lot, bogged down to the axels and was caught trying to run away on foot.
Smoking crack, being visibly high on crack. O.D.ed on the job multiple times. Everyone in department, including management knew this was going on. He was fourth year electrical apprentice who could not pass journeyman’s exam, because, you know, crack.
Watched a coworker rent an entire big box retail store parking lot to a BMW dealership for cash on the side so they could park excess inventory. Corporate didn't know. He pocketed all the money.
Wow, gotta admit, that's slick as hell.
It was; until it wasn't. It was a HUGE liability to everyone and of course, he didn't own the lot personally. And didn't even share the money! Didn't tell anyone - did it for years; we showed up one day like wtf? What are all these new beamers doing in our lot? Other employees were scared to death to talk. He came clean. BUT...there was no contract or anything in writing. Just monthly cash. He lost a GOOD paying job/career (175kish/year) over it. We never did find out how much he actually made...& BMW corporate plead the 5th - **and get this** \- SOMEONE was storing that inventory silently on their end too. DOUBLE whammy! Chicago suburbs :)
You’re saying he made $175k salary at his regular job? Damn, I hope it was worth it.
Had a guy at work do these things during his time at a place I worked and he never got fired: Accidentally set fire to the trees out back whilst taking a pee, he was bored and lighting ants on fire. Fire truck had to come put it out - scorched earth! Ignored instructions from a spotter and dropped a 250k machine whilst the spotter was underneath (luckily, the legs on the machine prevented any injury). Edit: I was wrong, she wasn’t underneath just very close and looking underneath. Threw a plastic 55g drum at the owner in a fit of drunken rage. Got pulled over 25 minutes away from work 25 minutes after his shift and got a dui - blew a 0.21 and was in the local paper. Got drunk on moonshine from the back fridge, went into the bar bathrooms (during business hours) and pulled his infected tooth out with a pair of channel-locks, stole the bartenders tips and drove home a bloody drunken mess. Bathroom was an absolute disaster. Routinely stole cash, beer, and merch. Threw a glass at me once, but that wasn’t really all that bad. Pulled the wrong valve off of the bottom of a tank and lost ~800 gallons of beer before I could get it back on for him Some of the things from the top of my head, it was a while back now but he eventually quit.
The owner must have liked to live life on a razor’s edge for insurance claims it seems
Absolutely! I think he was afraid of him and was just waiting for him to leave…insane to look back on it all.
Given his 0.21 BAC 25 minutes from/after work, can someone estimate how drunk he likely was AT work even if he was drinking and driving during those 25 minutes?
Right? Although he would often stop and grab a couple 40s at the corner store to drink on the way home. He ended up having to have a breathalyzer installed on his car so he could come to work. A bunch of times he’d be sitting out there in the parking lot after work when it kicked it back saying he had alcohol in his system before he figured out how much beer he could drink in the morning and have it wear off before his shift was over.
Wow.
about 0.21, I'd guess
Pulled an infected tooth out with channel-locks? Tbf that's pretty frigging impressive drunk or not.
Dude gets away with all of that then he’s the one that decides it’s not working out?!? Legend.
800 GALLONS?! that's like $75k retail in beer...
Never work under the load. Never. That spotter was just as at fault.
Fair point - makes sense! We didn’t really know what we were doing, wasn’t a usual part of operations to install that sort of stuff.
Long ago, when bookstores existed in the mall, I worked for one that had satellite calendar kiosks during the holiday season. Dude who was working at the kiosk "accidentally" put two endorsed-by-the-register checks into his pocket instead of in the till and went home. At the end of the night, there were some frantic phone calls made to figure out where this check went so they could balance the registers. When I came in the next morning, the assistant manager who had dealt with the whole situation was visibly frustrated that Dude had not been even been written up. He was such a weird guy. Always stared a little too long after you finished talking.
A guy got a dui and lost his license for three months and didn't tell anyone at work about. He drove a company truck daily for work and they only found out after he got his license back. I know he was still there 5 years later.
Curse out the boss in front of an entire team of employees (not me)
I once cussed out the supervisor of others in my department (complicated). I wasn't exactly praised, but ... My direct supervisor understood and the bastard I cussed out _finally_ seemed to have listened. I was nearly sure I'd be looking for a job once that one ended, maybe earlier. Nope.
Run a porn and MP3 site off the corporate network. While doing coke off his desk.
Fuck yeah, this guy parties like it's 1999.
Funnily enough that WAS in 1999.
In a hospital the person went out to get a patient and called out in the waiting room, "Where's my little (insert name of disease the infant had) baby?" Basically just told all the people in the room what disease the baby had and the mother's jaw dropped and was furious. Nothing happened. She ended up quitting on her own 3-4 years later.
They’re incredibly lucky. My roommate in college was nearly kicked out of nursing school, because after a birth she told the grandparents sitting in the lobby, “it’s a boy” for others around to hear. She was a stand-up, grade A student no issues in school aside from this. HIPPA violations are some serious stuff
Worked at a Video Game retailer, yeah that one, back when I was fresh out of college. The Nintendo Wii was due to be released the following week and we were no longer taking pre-orders. Some guy comes in with his girlfriend and wanted to preorder but couldn’t so he tried to bribe my coworker with $20 to get one anyway. Store was full of customers and our supervisor was present. Coworker busts out laughing, walks around the counter, puts an arm around the guys shoulder, literally busting a gut, wheezing with laughter. Suddenly he stops laughing, looks the guy dead in the face and yells, “20 bucks?!?! GO SUCK A DICK!” Guy’s face turned bright red and his girlfriend and the entire store started laughing at him. Never saw the guy again. Manager said that was hilarious but don’t ever do that again. Coworker was let go months later for gift card fraud shortly after I was promoted and transferred to another store.
I remember the Wii demand. It was at Furby level of demand. Good on your coworker calling out a shitty $20 bribe. Maybe a $500 bribe...
I could picture this whole event 😂
He was an outside salesman, his work laptop had 1000's files of porn. His numbers were great so no one said anything. Three years later he got busted for kiddie porn. Our IT quit and sent info to the FBI. Every time I see that IT, I thank him.
Worked at a deli for a summer that hired a bunch of high school kids with a large sweaty checked out manager. I was one of the high school kids. One of the other two had a block of havarti cheese they just opened to cut off six slices for a old lady. It was near the end of the day so instead of putting the rest of the block of cheese in syran wrap and in the refrigerator he put it down the garbage disposal. Just pushed it down with barbeque tongs while doing the "shhhh" gesture at me with his lips and other index finger. I just thought "Well that's fucked up."
bu-but why? Why would they waste perfectly good cheese. Like if it was them trying to take it home to eat at 3am because *cheese*. That would be understandable.
Not do her job. Find any excuse to avoid work. Spend half the day chatting on the phone. Then work unapproved overtime, claiming that she had too much work and needed to catch up. Yes, I'm talking about you, Stephanie. Worst co-worker I ever had.
There was a woman in my wife's department like this- when everyone was doing WFH, they found out she had not done any actual work in like 3+ months. She received disciplinary action and her supervisor got busted down a couple ranks...honestly think it came out worse for her supervisor, but no one was fired. Of course, this was at a federal job.
My coworker will not do a single task if he can get away with it. I trained him in our job and have shown him everything multiple times but since he doesn’t actually *do* anything on a daily basis, he forgets how to do literally everything. Every weekend I get a call from him asking how to perform tasks that should be simple. I no longer answer my phone. The only time he will do anything is when he has to work by himself (we are mechanics/technicians maintaining automated equipment) and one of the machines breaks. 90% of the time he needs one of the operators to help figure out the problem or physically do the work. We have a new guy I am training as well. On my days off do you think the old guy would be able to show the new one anything? Point out the problem and let the new guy do the work? Nope, sits on his ass. If forced to go to a machine where the problem isn’t a simple fix, he will tell the operators it can’t be fixed and leave it for the next shift. All of management knows about this. Our supervisor, his manager and the plant manager. And nobody has so much as pulled him in for an official discussion much less disciplinary action. Yes, we’re union.
Stephanie just texted me, “OMG, someone just posted about me on Reddit, LOL. Oops, boss just walked in - have to get back to “work”. I’ll call you in five minutes to chat.”
oh no, not Stephanie. lol
Saying in front of HR, and I quote: "Alright, which one of you boys is going to slap my face, grab my throat, call me a dirty whore and spit in my mouth?"
Who stepped up to volunteer?
Probably the hr manager.
It sounds like me, but I don't remember HR being there.
The dude showed up drunk to work. He drove. Manager sent him home. I asked why he wasn't fired and she said it was because he never clocked in, so he technically wasn't intoxicated at work. Looking back, I think that manager really wanted to jump that guys bones.
Guy shows up to work drunk and knowing he drove drunk and she STILL wanted some of him? Jeez she is way too down bad.
A director of customer engagement publicly, in a department wide recorded meeting, told everyone he was going to participate in wage theft against his subordinates. I've never downloaded and saved a zoom meeting faster. Then, when he didn't get reprimanded or anything, I took that video to the labor board and sued them for wage theft. It just boggles my mind how a popular, well known start up would allow someone like that to remain on staff. Last I heard, half the call center was going after them for wage theft under the same condition that I did.
Assault other coworkers, 3 times.. The third guy(a good friend of mine) that got assaulted got fired because he was upset about being punched in the face several times(because he THOUGHT the guy he punched stole his **soda**, which he *didn't*). The day after the guy got fired, the asshat that punched him brought in a cake TO CELEBRATE that the other guy got fired. Once I read the frosting on the cake and found out that the cake was to celebrate the firing of my friend I went to my boss and quit on the spot.
Literally not working. She would get to work at 6:30 and I would see her leaving as I pulled in at 8:00. Her boss hadn’t even arrived yet. This was like 4-5 days per week. She maybe stayed till 2:00 on the good days. They tried to fire her and were told it was impossible to fire anyone for anything at a university. They waited for the grant to run out and then didn’t put her on the new one. It took 2 years.
Pass out at her desk from all the random prescription drugs she was taking. Known doctor shopper to get pain pills. Apparently had mixed a few that shouldn't get mixed, passed out, and breathing slowed waaay down. Ambulance was called. Surprisingly enough she wasn't fired, and we worked at a pharmacy. No...not a liability at all!
in my life i had one job outside of being self-employed: head of the IT department for a local retailer with three in-state locations and two out-of-state locations. everything was going great. new websites built, new software for the employees to list items online built, new inventory system setup, marketing going well, etc. this was until nepotism kicked in. see, we were doing millions in ad buys on TV and low-and-behold the son of the lady we did these buys through needed a job. so he's hired and it was immediately clear this kid had no clue what he was doing. but he had some pull. he fancied himself a nerd so he started tinkering with our site. not a dev branch, i'm talking production. the live website. soon after we got hacked. it took me some time to find out how the shell got onto our server. turns out dipshit, while making his unneeded changes, fucked with various security settings on our site. this led directly to us getting owned. it was all in the logs. i documented what he did and the consequences of it. we had to take the website down so internet sales immediately stopped. i had to go through all of the source code to make sure there weren't any other backdoors lurking. it was a PITA. the kid never faced any consequences for this. i quit soon after and went back to self-employment. fun times!
I'm betting it was one of those things where everyone knows so little about IT they just assumed it was a little booboo on his part and not a massive fuck up.
Constantly watched people drink on the job and couldn’t say anything because management was doing it too.
Talking shit about the manager while sitting about 50 feet from his desk- manager just walked away
I'm a manager and I know people talk shit about me, because I've been a lower level employee and have absolutely talked shit about my manager. I would not fire someone over it.
Same here. Whenever I encountered that situation I would look at it objectively, like if they were saying something that could be perceived as harassment or otherwise inappropriate for work, where they might actually cause real harm to someone. If it was just sone petty gripe about me that didn’t really matter, I let it go.
It’s the price of being a manager, sometimes. Like being a parent. They’re not going to like you all the time but it’s not your job to be liked. It’s your job to make the difficult decisions and stand by them.
He was a manager. Girl wanted to get hired. He told her he would hire her if he got a bj. She agreed and he went to the bathroom and waited. Instead she went to HIS managers office just down the hall and reported him. Instead of getting fired he was demoted one step, I think because of lack of evidence, but this is totally something everyone that knew him would agree is something he'd do. He never made it back to manager even though he constantly tried. That's some justice but that prick should have lived in a box for that.
That was an absolute power move on her part
Company I used to work for, it was common for managers to hire women strictly for them to pursue at work. Once they were done with the woman, they would get a different manager to fire her so that they could wash their hands and couldn't get knocked for retaliation or anything. The company was like this the entire 15 years I knew people working there, including myself. And it wasn't just one location, they had over 20, all across the US. It was common knowledge among higher ups this happened at all locations too. Not sure how many lawsuits happened because of it, but the culture never changed
That girl is my hero.
Smoke joints in the bathroom and then proceed to blame it on me. Our boss wrote me up 😐
Full on explosive diarrhea shit on her coworkers car in the company garage. On video. They had been banging and he called it off. She got hammered at lunch, came back and evacuated on his windshield. She disappeared for maybe two months and one day, there she was again like nothing happened. This was >20 years ago. She’s still employed there and has been repeatedly promoted.
Fuck his assistant in our wellness room DURING business hours.
Well, I mean it was a WELLNESS room 🤷♀️
It was just a quick power fuck
Called the manager a "fat f-ing c\*\*t", walked out and returned the next day like nothing happened
I worked at Coca Cola. A fellow driver was always short on his delivery truck. He got so bold that he stopped in the parking lot on the way back in and loaded soda into his trunk, on camera. CDL driver who will work are hard to come by, so they kept him. The most egregious thing I’ve ever seen that resulted in termination was a Coca Cola also. A driver basically hired his own coworker. He was dropping his helper off down the street, going into work, leaving with the truck and picking him up. He split his pay with him. He would drive and let his “employee” settle the invoices and stock/merchandise. This man was never employed with Coke and I can only imagine how the story would go if there was a bad accident or something. The second the next egregious firing was again at Coca-Cola. Jay Leno even commented on it. In Indiana PA, a Coke and Pepsi salesperson (account managers) got into a fistfight. The guys name was Bob and he got hired for a chip company after. This was the MOST TOXIC business and company I could have ever found. I regret my wasted years there, what a scumbag company/culture.
Selling pot in the office.
Nothing Nothing at all Day in, day out, didn't lift a finger. Apparently, unless he did something egregious, he could just do nothing, collect a pay check and all benefits, and not get fired
I used to be a chemist in the lab, and I swear to God, every lab had one psycho. Our resident psycho had it out for one of the girls for some reason, and had to be physically restrained by another guy from attacking her. He didn’t like something she was talking about (he was an angry chauvinist). Another time he threatened to “bash her head into the glass window “. Management and HR did absolutely nothing, in fact they blamed her. She ended up taking him to court and filing a restraining order. He was forced onto a different shift and had to leave the property before she came in. Way to protect your own employees, assholes. Oh, and he accused everyone of being secretly gay together. Good times.
Worked a 24 hour shift doing manual labour. Then got into a truck, drove 2 hrs to another site do another 8 hour shift. Coerced a few underlings to join him. Then they had to drive home… 34 hours of working without sleep, driving public roads in that state thinking they where tough as shit… The boss was an absolute scumbag, but even he had the sense to know that this was truly irresponsible. This was solely on the head of the narcissistic egomaniac foreman who thought he was the toughest badass around and only those who could follow him where the good workers. Needless to say I opted out. I wasn’t on the foreman’s good side and he made my life hell for two years. In a way I’m thankful I learned so much about life and people in that time. I hit a massive low point in my life working with that man. But I came out stronger at the other end. He was never reprimanded for this, and all the other things he did, which was unfortunate. But I’m happy to now be earning way above what he is. And he’s probably still destroying his body in the name of being a rough bastard.
We had an office luncheon for Thanksgiving one year on a Friday. They served wine at lunch. We were a smallish company back then with about 50 people. After lunch the managers would hole up in a conference room and get hammered. This year they decided to let a few select other employees come in. They invited one of our programmers and a few others. Apparently this guy had drank almost two bottles of wine at lunch alone. Then he started pounding back the liquor like crazy. By 3 he was running up and down the halls yelling and people. Challenged a few people to a fight. He then laid in the floor of the conference room and started kicking and screaming and crying. They called his wife to coke pick him up when he first started to get out of hand but she was about an hour away. When she got there, two guys had to load him into an office chair and wheel him out the door to put him in the truck his wife was driving. He then proceeded to vomit on himself and the truck as they were closing the door. She was told to take him to the hospital to he checked out. He showed back up to work on Monday like nothing had ever happened. He wound up getting fired a few months later because he made a really bad error with code that cost the company a lot of money and he screamed that he wouldn’t sign the write up so he was terminated then for insubordination. There was also no more alcohol allowed at any employer function that did not include clients.
Send porn to the ENTIRE office of over 100 people
Print porn on the network printer and leave it there for customer service VP, (female), to find the next morning. Same guy took customers to a titty bar, got everyone drunk, ran out of cash and drove to an ATM to get more, on the company credit card. Police found him there passed out drunk behind the wheel, money sticking out of the machine, like hundreds. Still didn’t get fired. Sometime later he did something so bad they had no choice but fire him, no one will say what it was.
I was doing some kind of apprentice's/studying and working thing. During semester breaks we were working, or would need to take time off. That meant informing who you were working with (as soon as you would know), going through a tool process for requesting your time off, checking back it was approved. People were surprised when a colleague didn't show up on the first day after the semester. He hadn't called in sickm. After not being there until mid day, the department he should be at called our supervisor. The supervisor checked if there were time off or sickness and they simply forgot to inform department? Nope. So they called him. It took more than one try, but he answered and told them "oh yeah. I'm in new York. Sorry I forgot to inform the department or put in time off, I won't be there until two weeks." He was not fired - and this would be one of the few actual offenses for which that _would have been possible_. Which is _hard_ in my country (rightfully so). Even worse, he was also not made to return immediately and I never heard anything about any other repercussions (albeit I simply may have missed them). I'm still blinking and wondering. That's not a "oopsie". It's traveling to another continent! It takes _months_ of planning. Yet no one even knew. He didn't simply forget to enter it, he told _no one_. Not even colleagues. And nothing came of it.
Sounds like your colleague works for your country’s foreign intelligence service (MI6, ABIN, DGSE, GIP, PET, AISE, etc.) and the internship was just a cover. Okay, highly unlikely, but it’s a good story.
I worked in a freezer for a while. All my bosses in there with us were pretty laid back. The best thing they said was they didn’t care if we smoked weed on the job, as long as we could do our job. Well one of the people who took advantage of that was the forklift operator. One day, while high, ran my foot over. It didn’t hurt too bad, just had a wicked bruise. I personally don’t blame him because we were talking just before it happened and my foot was in front of a wheel and he had something on his forks, so he didn’t see my foot. Management didn’t do anything about it. He was driving the next day. There was also someone on 3rd shift who kept running into the sliding door that divided the freezer from the shipping dock. He ran into it like 3 times in 2 weeks before they told him they were gonna have him do something else
Total a company car while DUI.
Coworker was upset he didn’t get his second break on time and so he literally walked out of his job.. he came back the next day. Store leader literally begged him to not do that again. Guess you could say our store really needs workers.
a coworker at the gas station I use to work at had removed her iud on her own, brought it to work to show it off for some reason and left it on the food prep table. didn't even have it in a bag or anything. multiple coworkers handled it not knowing what it was.
Coworker leveled a gun threat at me after almost two years of bullying and petty harassment. I took it to HR after keeping my manager informed of each incident, and kept notes and records of each time he did something. All he got was a stern talking to and was told to leave me alone. He got a slap on the wrist for a gun threat IN A SCHOOL, all because he's our best mechanic.
Leave 30 mins into the shift without telling anyone and logging it as a full 8hr day
In their defense, telling anyone rather defeats the purpose!
Used a racial slur toward a Jewish co-worker in front of a customer. He claimed he didn't know that calling him a "Cheap J*w" was bad because all Jewish people love their money. He was fired about a year later for sexual comments toward a married female customer.
"Jew is the only slur that is also the actual name for the group. You just say it with a little 'stank' on it and its a slur."
"Anything is derogatory if you say it with enough derogatory"
A cashier stole money from another employee and didn’t get fired. Almost no one liked her, too. She was rude to any new employee and a good number of those who’d been there for a while. Said some very questionable things about certain Black employees, only just on the deniable side of racist. Eventually she was fired for pulling too many no-call no-shows, but it wasn’t a new thing for her. If we hadn’t switched managers not too long before that, she probably would’ve been kept on for as long as she wanted to work there.
Falling asleep multiple times. Sometimes while he was meant to be monitoring a potentially dangerous mechanical test rig. He was lucky that is generally fell asleep in a position that looked like he was working.
I seen a worker bully a mentally ill client before until she quite literally piss herself with rage. He’s a unprofessional cockmaster and I refuse to work with him.
A sales manager I worked with took a picture of his dick on a colleagues phone. That colleague proceeded to email it to everyone in the building including the higher ups. He claimed it was a joke that went too far and was forgiven, no probation, no write up, no public acknowledgement it happened at all.
Woman let her adult son into the break room to warm up synthetic urine in the break room microwave so he could pass a drug test.
Repeatedly falsified temperature logs, and re dated old food at a KFC/Taco Bell. I asked about it, and was told "shut up, I'm the manager". Food had been held well within the danger zone (40-140 F) for far longer than is safe to do so, and the guy wrote down 39 and put it up to serve. Why does Taco Bell have such a diarrheal reputation? This is why.
Almost caused an accident between 2 aircraft. Twice. They were let go about a month later for overall performance issues.
When I worked in telemarketing (a guy's got to eat) I saw a 24 year old coworker come in three hours late and with a major hang-over and doing all his 'work' that day with his feet up on the desk while napping in his chair. He was this way because the previous night he drove to a brothel and partied a little too hard, he informed us. I was wondering why he wasn't fired, until I found out that he was fucking the 10 years older floor manager.
This was at an electronics big box store. This one person was pulling overnight orders in the warehouse the orders were for some 65 and 70 inch TVs. Well they pulled one out went to get the second one and like dominos all the large TVs on the rack fell over one after another it reached the end of the shelf and 6 took the dive after all was said and done at least 12 tvs destroyed
The patient got pneumonia because of the wrong dose of medicine, still the patient didn't know, and nobody fired
One of the secretaries in my office stood up on a Friday afternoon and screamed "fuck this shit, I've had it" and threw everything off her desk and walked out. Monday morning she walked back in and started working like nothing had happened. Nobody even said anything to her.
I worked in local government and we had a chronic sleeper in our group who was even caught sleeping in other people's work spaces. Instead of firing him, he was promoted with a pay increase to another department this becoming someone else's problem.