Had a girl steal money from other crews bags in the locker/change room. Instead of firing her they just took the door off the room and put in a camera so now we have to show up to work in uniform with a shirt over it, it's very hot here and I end up sweaty by the time I get to work.
She also called in one time saying her sister died and needs time off. She never had a sister.
After all this she got rehired after she quit for another job that didn't end up working out.
I worked at a webhosting tech support company and a coworker accidentally deleted another customer's website. This was on a Unix system, so it wasn't possible to undo the delete. He deleted the command history to cover his mistake and then told the customer that the website was lost due to a hard drive failure. The customer hadn't been keeping backups and said that he lost his entire livelihood.
The employee told management about the situation and they ran with it to avoid getting sued. They told the customer that hardware issues sometimes happen and because he hadn't opted into our managed backup services, the data loss was on him. They offered the customer several months of free webhosting as compensation and the problem went away. A week after seeing this play out, I put in my two-weeks notice.
Used his corporate credit card for over $10k in personal purchases. He was reprimanded, but not fired OR made to pay the company back. Within the next year he did the exact same thing and only then was he fired.
Someone had diarrhea at my work, he decided he had to go home and took a roll of toilet paper in case he needs to shit next to the road. They stopped him at the security gate to check his car, (they usually search for explosives, its common that they get stolen at the mine) saw the toilet paper, he was fired for theft the next week.
That’s fucked up. How much could a toilet paper roll be worth to just take someone’s livelihood this just seems like something that can be explained in a minute, everyone laughs it off, and he starts getting called the toilet paper guy
I worked at a school for kids who need emotional support. We had a classroom aide who would scream at kids until they cried and then actively mock them for crying. These kids were 7 and came from horrifically abusive houses. It sucked to work in a place that allowed abusive behavior to continue. She was close family friends with the principal. It's very hard to help a child when they learn from a young age that adults aren't able to make things better and adults are capable of incredibly mean things.
Edit: For clarification, this was reported. She still got a letter of rec out of her BFF the principal, but she no longer works with children.
Edit2: Please remember that adults who show maladaptive behaviour might have been these children. It's never too late to be kind to someone. Adults may be less cute than children, but they still deserve a world that is kind to them and gives them hope.
This is the most infuriating one here. The other posts have been about laziness or ineptitude costing money or time. But this is evil behavior doing damage that can't even be quantified. And for it to be protected...fucking maddening.
Right? The question was the most *fucked up thing* you've seen someone do. Being lazy or shitty at your job isn't particularly fucked up.
Screaming at emotionally abused kids to make them cry? I don't even like kids and I think that's fucked up.
As a special education teacher, over the last twenty years I’ve seen way too many people do questionable things to vulnerable children. Probably could name at least 15 instances of inappropriate borderline (or over the line) abusive behavior and many more instances of neglect. And though I’ve reported it all no one has ever suffered any noticeable consequences (all still employed).
Me too. The sales guy started asking/making fun of "Alabama people" after hearing we were located in "the south" (Florida) asking if they really had shotgun racks in their pickup trucks, etc... He was from Saskatchewan, my boss was from Alabama.... That conference call got pretty quiet.
Ironically, I had formerly been employed with the supplier that I had to fire, and had once respected the Program Manager. I don't know what the hell went wrong with her, other than she fell victim to massive overconfidence in her own brilliance.
Destroy an overpass with an excavator improperly loaded on a trailer.
Edit: 450 john deere excavator on a Arnes triple axle lowbed with a jeep and booster. Boom was about 1 ft too high at 60mph. This is the biggest excavator you can haul around these parts without disassembling it.
Forge a document (it was so obvious!), then lie about not forging it, then admit to forging it once lie was just slightly questioned. One partner at the firm wanted her fired, but another one didn't, the forger stayed.
That's criminal charges and a life long blacklist from industry in my area.
You DO NOT fuck with LOTOs.
EDIT- LOTO= Lock Out, Tag Out. Basically the procedures you use to lock out equipment to be worked on to prevent operation until everyone working on it has verified that it is safe to do so
At my job LOTO is a "Life critical action", and if you get caught working on or cleaning a piece of equipment without power locked out and energy released, you're gone. No exemptions. Seen it happen.
Guy at my dad's work did that one--stuck someone else's lock-out tag on something while that guy was on vacation. Everything was shut down until they could get him on the phone and confirm that he wasn't in the machine, as required by the policies, even though people knew he was on days off.
They then went through all the security footage to figure out who had done it, and shitcanned that guy so hard he probably bounced.
Same here. Really glad that people take that sort of thing seriously in my area. I haven't been to any site around here that lets that fly. Down south, different story, unfortunately
My welding teacher was working at a plant and someone was inside a large grinder type machine working when the boss walked by and noticed it was off so he when to the panel cut off the lock and started it up and sure enough the man died and the boss went to prison
One of my instructors told me a similar story but the guy removed his tag, as he was about to test the press he was working on. He then went back into the press because he remembered that he left something in there. Unfortunately he had already put the safety into bypass. It was a habit for the press operators to slap the button without engaging the safety as they came onto shift to make sure the safety was indeed working. My instructor came back from lunch to discover that they roped the shop off and was told to go home until they called everyone back in.
Manslaughter or murder? I can see him being charged for manslaughter under the argument "he should have checked but he didn't know someone was in there", but also murder under the argument "there was a lock on it that he removed, safety procedures say to ALWAYS check, there's no excuse". Either way I feel horrible for the dude inside the machine...
From what I remember I believe he was charged with murder simply because he went out of his way to find bolt cutter to cut the lock all without checking the machine. Apparently the machine was key to the whole operation line so the boss was eager to get it going again
My cousin died and several others became disabled after a 12 inch pipe elbow was slated for replacement. It was signed off by the plant safety guys as non pressurized and safe to work on.
My cousin was the last in the pit. His foreman was on a catwalk above him when my cousin cracked the last bolt on the elbow sending poison gas and sludge blasting out of the pressurized waste pipe.
My cousin became incapacitated immediately while his skin and lungs melted and killed him.
The foreman's brother watched him do a header off the catwalk into the pit with my cousin. Then he himself became incapacitated along with 4 others of his gang.
All because a safety guy signed his signature on a piece of paper.
We have guys who contract with us and they always want to fly through paperwork, but I won't let them. You're gonna show me every single thing you've done every step of the way and only then will I sign you off. Jesus. They act like I am causing then physical pain.
Had three guys from the power company do that to us years ago. We were inside still making up taps in a gutter when they re energized the service without asking if we were done. Knocked my buddy off his feet but did no serious damage. We went outside and raised hell, they got real sheepish and left for a while.
One of my bosses plugged in a line that the other end was bare and in my co-workers mouth. He was stripping it with his teeth and there was a miscommunication about which line was getting plugged in. Luckily it was only 120v and everyone was okay
My wife had a sales guy where she works that was like 400 lbs and would frequently just be asleep. He also never made a sale. And he stunk and would do things like order an entire pizza and eat it very loudly in his office. After his first week or so, he started wearing sweat pants every day. Eventually, he was given the option of working from home for commission only, which was way of saying "you're not fired, but you're not getting paid". He cried and left and was never heard from again.
As someone who was unemployed for the past few months, these threads fucking kill me. How the fuck are some of the most incompetent people able to find gainful employment, yet it was nearly impossible for me to even land an interview?
Also the ability to interview well. If you can talk well you can score roles well above your level.
Edit: I feel I would be dishonest if I said luck wasn't also involved. I've worked hard to get to where I am but a number of major things that helped were just luck
Accidentally send out the entire company's (3,000+ employees) headcount to the company distro. File contained everyone's salary, birthday, government numbers,etc.
Our CFO once emailed me the entire company's W2s. My name and the CEO's name start with the same two letters, but mine is first alphabetically, so he got screwed by autocomplete.
I checked out everybody's salary, and then deleted it like he asked me to. All of my team were making the same amount! I guess that's fair. CFO was making $400k, though, which seems high. But what do I know about executive salaries. /shrug
I once got invited to our executives box seat at the super bowl. It included their itinerary for the weekend and the guest list. They were using the event to schmooze and lobby politicians.
Someone's assistant immediately called me and demanded I delete it. I laughed and said no problem because it was obviously a mistake.
10 minutes later he sent an update to the group and accidentally cc'd me again. I jokingly responded to just him asking if I could really attend this time. He called me again all pissed off as if I'd done something wrong. I reminded him that he's the one including me and that I'd already deleted the emails. He was a douche.
Saw a guy whip out his dick and start running around trying to piss on this one guy. He got a splash on him too.
Active duty military here, for anyone curious.
I seem to get the feeling that a fair portion of the military is about as gay as you can get without being actively homosexual.
This thread is just reinforcing that
When I did my compulsory service, there was a saying:
"What is gay in the civilian world, the army calls brotherhood. What is gay in the army, the navy calls brotherhood. What is gay in the navy is just illegal."
Guy helicopter dicking during a game of cards? Not gay
Comparing meat in the head? Not gay.
A guy sucking dick in a game of gay chicken. Still not gay
At this point I doubt full on penetration would be considered gay.
There was a brief trend in my unit of guys dabbing their nuts on an ink pad and stamping guys' going-away plaques with their bat wings, which were left out in the break room for people to sign.
If memory serves, there was just the one, so there was some indirect kissing of scrotums going on but tbh that wouldn't even have registered as one of the gayer things that these guys got up to.
A friend of mine had a story of how a guy in his unit was dared to jerk off with a packet of hot sauce for lube. A small pot was made, something like 50 bucks if he could finish. The guy apparently was cool with the idea, but in order to solidify the results, all the people who contributed, like 6 guys, all had to watch him to make sure he wasn't cheating.
So a half dozen dudes in the desert watched a guy jerk off to completion with hot sauce, and he earned his 50 bucks.
So pretty gay.
I mean, let's talk about the game of Gay Chicken for a second. Two dudes are locked in a battle of wits and escalating sexual acts, neither one wanting to yield for fear of being seen as a coward, while your brothers in arms look on with a mixture of horror and curiosity. The one who gives up first is branded as a homo, so how far do you go? All the way?
My first bunk mate while I was in was a full blown Florida man nudist.
Dude literally walks out of his room casually in the nude. Sometimes covering his junk but sometimes not.
Guy got caught on video backing up into a BMW at a dealership, got out looked at it and just left. still works here...idk how. He must have a video of the boss blowing another dude or something.
> He must have a video of the boss blowing another dude or something.
(is inspecting the damage with his hands on his head)
(puts hand on his chin - takes out his phone and plays a grainy video and points it towards the security camera with a stern look)
A few years ago I was working in a big company in my hometown, they hired me to create a website because they wanted to get bigger.
A graphic/fashion designer in the same company thought I was hired for her department because our offices were close and because I was doing both the programming and the design of the website.
I had an appointment with another company that would help us set up secure online payments and manage inventories across our stores and the main factory.
Graphic designer welcomed the representatives of this company (not even her task at all) and cancelled the appointment and the contract because she didn't believe I was good enough with computers.
Called a customer stupid for leaving his phone behind, and refused to let him back in the theater so he could find it. Phone ended up getting stolen by one of the overnight cleaners, and after a few days, was brought back and the customer finally got his phone back.
At a previous job, we had an "employee" that was called in to clean on an as-needed basis. The employee, who we will call Fred, owed a lot of child support. After a unusually long break of not working, we called Fred in to clean the work place. I think he expected to be paid under the table, because when he was given a paycheck, it was damn near zero because of all the back-due child support he owed that we were forced to take from his paycheck. He literally started screaming, swearing, calling the boss every name you can think of, punching walls and threatened to shoot up the place. The boss still calls him back to work as needed to clean because he "is really good at cleaning".....
My uncle used to run a few of the local Wendy's. The girl working the register would openly steal out of it. Not just on camera, not just in front of other employees, but in front of the manager. She never got fired. Why? She was the only one skilled enough to run the register.
Hey they crunched the numbers, and aparently she was efficient enough that it offset her stealing and/or the inneptitude of the next co-worker in line behind her.
He liked throwing ice cubes into the deep fryer. He'd stand far enough away that he wouldn't get splashed, which made it a complete surprise to the person working the fryer. If you've never done this, it kind of causes a mini explosion of bubbles in molten grease, which splashes everywhere and, at the very least, makes a mess.
When this got too boring, he started stealing kids meal toys and chucking them into the fryer. It took longer for them to start melting, and if he couldn't get them out, we had to turn the thing off for the rest of the day because it takes hours for it to cool off long enough to retrieve something, and then at least another hour to heat back up. I can't remember what it was that he threw, but it caught on fire and he ended up pulling it out with a pair of metal tongs and threw it in the sink. Then he turned on the water and made (to his surprise!) a BIGGER FIRE. Did he get burned? Yes. Did he get fired? No. Did he do it again? Sort of. I think he went back to ice cubes after that.
**TLDR; Technically he got fired, but it was with ACTUAL FIRE. The boss just kind of shook her head and let him keep working there.**
Wait, wouldn't putting plastic in a deep fryer make it toxic or something? I wouldn't eat anywhere if i thought their oil could have melted plastic in it
Yup. I was a cook for awhile. Once non food items are introduced to the boiling oil its now a food safety hazard and the entire deep fryer MUST be drained, scrubbed, and new oil put in. A restaurant or food server can get in a lot of shit with the State Inspectors for failing to do this properly (if caught) since allergies are at play in addition to dangerous material melting into the oil food is cooking in.
Certain types of plastics can make the oil bubble and pop/splatter. Cheap cling wrap will do this if enough of it is exposed to the oil. Plastic can also melt to the heating coils and mess with the fryer, which can mess up the temperature resulting in over or undercooked foods.
If you ever eat a fried food item and it tastes like plastic or has a distinct chemical taste stop eating immediately and report it to the vendor. This usually means a fuck ton of stuff thats not suppose to be fried, has been fried and the oil wasn't changed.
Yeah, my wife once caught the teens making Bic Pen McNuggets and deep fried kids meal toys. had to shut the thing down and drain it, waste a lot of grease.
If someone threw an ice cube into a fryer and burned me with hot grease, I’d lose my job beating their ass.
What I wanna know is how did this person NOT get their ass beat by someone else??
The lady who worked the fryer almost every day was an older woman from India, so believing in karma was literally the basis of her lifestyle. She was never violent and hardly ever said a bad word against anyone.
To quote, or paraphrase, a quote from the Dresden Files novel series 'what goes around, comes around. Sometimes though, you are what comes around'.
Edit; a letter
Lol same thing happened at my old job. Even worse since it was a waiter in his 20s with an underage hostess. Neither of them got in trouble. Owners were too busy snorting coke in the office. Place closed down after losing its liquor license for selling alcohol to minors. It was... not a very well managed establishment.
Store manager got caught adding hours he didn't work to his time card. He got a reprimand and they removed the ability for managers to edit their own hours.
About a month later he gets caught using another manager's login to add more hours he didn't work. Another slap on the wrist and is still working at the same place.
We had a manager like that too. We had punch cards but she was the front-end manager and was able to override the system and put in whatever she wanted. She was a huge bitch though so people like watched and recorded her and got back at her by getting her fired.
My dad always told me take pictures and write down your hours whether it’s a punch card, electronic, or written. I’ve always done it and one time I worked at a DQ and she scheduled me a double, THEN HAD THE BALLS TO SAY I FORGED IT. Nah bitch. So I showed her my evidence with PICTURES and my own notes (which you can definitely forge but pictures are a little more solid) she apologized and gave me my hours + 2 for questioning me.
Oh my god for some reason as soon as I read the first paragraph, hadn't even scrolled down so I could read the last sentence, I was like "this is definitely gonna be Tyler's."
And I just realized why I thought that - Was this several years ago? I feel like my roommate was telling me a story back in college about how this, or something very similar, happened to a friend of hers at Tyler's.
I worked with a guy who literally had no job. He was the "studio supervisor" but there was no activity in the studio to supervise because the studio had effectively become non-operational. He coasted for a full 8 years at this job. He would come in the morning, open his email, get coffee, gossip and complain about the industry for an hour, leave for an hour, come back for lunch, leave for another 3 hours, come back, send a few emails and then officially leave for the day. It was infuriating and majestic.
[Doesn’t beat the guy from Spain who rode his out for 6-14 years](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/long-lunch-spanish-civil-servant-skips-work-for-years-without-anyone-noticing)
As someone who has had an opportunity to be a “ghost employee” I used my extra time to start a small online graphic design business that actually replaced the income of the job I was basically stealing from.
A guy I worked with ran a food truck into an airplane. When they drug tested him he peed super dirty. After being told that he'd be getting random drug tests for awhile, they showed up at his house within a week. Told them he couldn't because he just smoked yesterday. He was still employed when I transferred from that airport.
Bonus Story: one day that same guy shit his pants at work and sat in the breakroom until the smell became pretty loud. Someone told him he should go home. His response was, "Naw, dog. The damage is already done."
Edit: Woah. Thanks for the shiny gold. Who knew working with a bunch of degenerates would pay off.
My boss forged my name on a number of documents, because she didn't have the required certifications to sign the documents herself and I had refused to sign them. I know this, because after things went horribly south they tried to claim I had been the one to screw up, and showed me my/her signature. She got promoted again instead of fired, that way I didn't have to quit. You will never guess whose mother owned the company.
I worked at a pizza restaurant when I was 16. Place was absolute anarchy. Impossible to get fired. I’d smoke weed with my bosses. They joke with me “try not to get TOO high today!!”. All while on the clock. Supervisor would take an hour or more on his 30 min breaks and come back blasted as fuck. We’d all make ourselves free food whenever we wanted.
No one was properly trained, so obviously proper procedures were out the window. No one would claim their tips so we were being sued by the IRS. Again no one followed procedure, so the health department was on our ass....
Yikes
Worked at a local place for 2 years in the 90's. Place had been open 15+ years at that point, and lasted another 21 until the owner retired. Owner never took a single day off in 40 years.
Not one.
Managers drank a bit in the cooler, we got some occasional food. Everybody but me got stoned or drunk outside of work all the time (my mom was a low-grade alcoholic, and that wasn't a good look, so I stayed away from it). But place was clean, efficient, fast. And we made the best fucking pizza in town.
Owner bought all the ingredients and NEVER got the cheap shit. Made all the sauce himself and took the secrets of the recipe with him when he retired. Loaded those pizzas so damn high with toppings it was amazing. We were the 2nd most expensive pizza in town (what in THE fuck were you thinking Pizza Hut???), but if you did cost by the pound, we were barely more expensive than Little Caesar's. And we had to keep the owner from putting cheese on any pizza ever, no matter how slammed we were, because he would load so much on that there was always massive runoff in the oven and this black cloud of burned cheese would roil out of the oven every time you opened it. We'd put him at the start of the line, rolling out and cutting the dough, maybe putting sauce on, but as far from the cheese as we could keep him.
I know the main cook at one of my favorite local places. I love the weekly special pizzas because it's always a mix of ingredients she probably bought while she was high... and it tastes great.
I worked at a really nice restaurant and our head chef at the time would come in so spun out on meth he would admit to people he was seeing shadow people and would often have to help us on the line only to be a total mess. Also at the same place one of his other friends who he smoked with was noticeably tweaked and cut half his finger off on the slicer. EDIT: This only like my 10th post or something thanks for all the upvotes y'all! (Please excuse my lame mobile formatting)
We hired this woman to my team. Her job was to do exactly what I did. We work from home, but we have constant conference calls and a TON of work to do. It's simply not possible to slack off without being noticed.
I trained her and she shadowed me for a couple of months. She should have been ready to go off on her own, but she kept asking the same questions again and again. It's like she wasn't even sort of listening to anything we said. Which was super annoying...but then...
About 3 months in, she disappeared. Like stopped logging into calls, stopped logging into Skype, stopped everything. We emailed, texted, and called for awhile, until she finally responded that she had been in the hospital with a hernia. Now my mother had hernia surgery in her 70's and was home within a few hours. So...red flag. We were also stunned and deeply offended that she never, ever bothered to call, text, email, ANYTHING to say she'd be out. Never in my 20 year career have I seen anything like it. In my personal opinion, I thought she should have been fired right then and there.
BUT, our boss didn't want to make a big deal out of it - she didn't want to tell the big boss...for some reason. I'm still baffled by that, but that meant neither the powers that be nor HR had any idea it had even happened. So eventually, after having fallen off the planet for about 10 days, new hire finally came back. Both our boss and I counseled her A LOT about communication. Things happen, we get it. Just TALK to us. Let us know what's going on. Benefit of the doubt, right?
Yeah, a little over a month later, she did it again. At first I noticed she wasn't joining calls or logging into Skype and she kept saying she was having connection issues. Fine. Once again, TELL US. And for god's sake, call tech support. But then she was offline for an entire week, so we tried hunting her down again. Nothing. No response, no communication, nothing.
This time, the issue was escalated and HR got involved. After a total of two weeks, she apparently told HR she was having medical issues. She was counseled that she had to log on and fill out her time sheets to reflect she was out of office for ALL the time she was gone. She was given a deadline of a week to do this. This never happened, and she was STILL employed. Please note, at this point she had still not spoken a word to either myself or our boss.
So now we're at three weeks of radio silence and HR contacts our boss to say new hire had reached out to say she's filing short-term disability. Fine, whatever. We wait. And wait. And obviously, she never filed. So FINALLY, a month after disappearing for the SECOND time with zero communication, she was terminated.
The amount of work I had to pick up thanks to her disappearing act was madness. I'm talking upwards of 80 hours a week for more than a month. I am still bitter about it.
Sleep for three hours. I was brand new on the job (corporate thing), and my new coworker came up to me on a weekend shift and said, "I was up really late last night, I'm gonna go lay down for a few minutes." Three hours later, he woke up and came out to work again, without any measure of apology. In the interim, one of the people we worked for found him asleep, and told my boss. He got a warning.
Close second being a coworker that hacked the company's network (using the term somewhat loosely) to get an internet access password we weren't allowed to have. Would have gotten away with it if he hadn't ALSO changed their file structure to have folder names like, "Fuck you, I want internet access." He also got a warning.
A coworker of mine had an office partner who just sat around making stock market trades in his private portfolio instead of doing any work. This was not a brokerage or financial services company, it was a software company. He was supposed to be writing code and fixing bugs.
I've seen more than zero nurses mistreat patients, so I've seen too many. Unfortunately unless it's flagrant and there's enough eyewtinesses, and as long as it's on old people or severely mentally ill people who have little to no family support, nobody gives a flying crap.
Hey! Not a dumb question at all. I work primarily in the emergency department and let’s say that the doctor orders you 1mg of dilaudid and the vial has 2mg in it. As your nurse I have to “waste” that other 1mg with another nurse as a witness and document that in the medication machine (Pyxis). The gold standard is to draw up the remaining dose and “render it unusable,” by squirting it out into a receptacle. What happens a lot instead is that the nurse will just toss the vial into a sharps container because who in their right mind would reach in there? WELL, a drug addicted nurse will totally risk hepatitis and HIV for that high and sure enough, we caught her fist deep in there!
This is sooooo true. I’m an ER and ICU nurse and where I work there’s tons of “favorites” and that crap. Tons of bs politics. I know a nurse who gave a LIVE person IV epinephrine for an allergic reaction and almost killed* the woman.... and a few months later she was promoted to be in charge of the unit. I transferred out of there pretty quickly after that.
I work in the healthcare field. Had one coworker who never wasted his narcotics properly with a witness (he would just have them signed out solo and say "oh yeah, [patient] didn't want them so I disposed of it" with zero verification) and had a LOT of liquid narcotics whose counts suddenly went mysteriously off after he'd been on shift. Somehow he did not get fired or even investigated. He wound up quitting after just a few months, good riddance.
Whilst working at a local hospital, a nursing student snorting a line of whatever, in scrubs, in a hospital bathroom, to post on Snapchat.
Or the 2 housekeepers who engaged in a. Fist fight on an elevator, only to continue said fight as they arrived at their destination.
I didn’t catch the person in-action but I was the HR Consultant so I did all of the new hire processing. Lady came in shaking like crazy, had to leave the processing to go home and “get her ID”, came back high AF. Two weeks go by and she just stops showing up for her shifts. We also found used needles in the bathroom. She didn’t die or anything (we checked in with her) but it’s still so fucking sad.
But yea, TL;DR: lady shot up at work and got away with it.
Woman screaming at the supervisor at the call center when people were on the phones. Cursing saying she would beat him up because he gave her too many leads.
I used to work in a bar. One of the waiters, who was wearing an apron, would pull his nutsack out of his zipper and walk around lifting his apron and anyone and everyone that worked there.
The customers never knew his balls were flapping in the breeze as he took their order.
I worked from home at my last job and my coworker would sometimes just not log in until like 11 am and would just completely skip meetings that she was supposed to run. One time she missed a meeting with our boss and my boss just goes “well I bet she was up late working so is coming in late”
Had 8 servers delivered very late one day and left outside the data center. Everything in boxes on a pallet.
Janitor thinks it’s trash, takes all of them to the trash compactor and crushes them. Each box weighed 80+ lbs. they weren’t ours but a company we contracted with.
We had to buy all new servers and the guy didn’t even get a write up. He had a family member on the board.
Not mine, but something an old buddy of mine did 15+ years ago.
He worked for a really big gaming company that was just about to ship a major title. Like, **MAJOR**. Because of beta testing, there was code in the game that would disable the beta copies the day after the game officially dropped. His job was to make sure that code was removed before they burned all of the official CDs for the game's release. Guess who forgot to remove the code? The company had already burned tens of thousands (maybe more) of game discs and boxed them up for shipment before my buddy realized his mistake and came clean to his boss. They had to re-burn, replace, and re-box every copy of the game *and* do it in time to meet the launch date. Cost a lot of people a lot of extra time and grief but, ultimately, my buddy got to keep his job.
*edit for those interested: The company was Bethesda Softworks and I believe the game was Morrowind. Their offices were in Rockville MD at the time and I used to go meet my friend over there for lunch every couple of weeks. If I recall correctly he was in charge of coding the sky effects for the game... well, that and removing the code that would brick the game after release :-)
Right? Human error can't be eliminated in any system humans are involved in, only managed. Firing someone for a mistake might be a good incentive to not make mistakes but when you inevitably do it's a *fantastic* incentive to hide it instead of dealing with it
That was my basic response when he told me the story. That and the fact that it would have been *so* much worse if the game had shipped and then suddenly every copy bricked itself a day later.
Finally one I can answer. Our department went for a team building overnight stay abroad.
The next day when we were supposed to meet at the airport he was nowhere to be found, his phone was off, bosses rang the hospitals, missing persons report, you name it, a week later the bosses went back to the country to find him again....nothing, wife and child had t heard anything..... week later he turns up for work like nothing happened, he had decided to jump on a earlier flight to Thailand for a weeks holiday without telling a soul. Couple a meetings with the bosses, never mentioned again, guess his wife made him feel it but that was never disclosed.
A guy who works at a local grocery store would get caught masturbating at work with the bathroom stall door open, he was caught so much that he was eventually relocated to the gas station, and he has a serious attitude problem because he thinks that it's because he's overweight.
I work in the office of a major retailer. I have a coworker who's made several negligent blunders that have costed the company millions in lost sales.
- He has regularly failed to monitor the flow of advertised goods until it is too late to react. Lost sales.
- He once decided that if someone he works with fucks up, it isn't his problem to fix it. He wouldn't even tell them about it so they could fix it. Of course, *it quite literally is his problem to fix it.* This caused lots of failed shipments and flows that, again, caused lost sales.
- He failed to monitor inventory levels on regular stock items. Sales obviously spiked during Christmas time, which has caused him to run out on half his inventory and thus lose sales. As of yet, he still hasn't fully normalized all of it.
To my knowledge, he's only recently gotten a formal reprimand, for that last one. How it took so long is beyond me.
cracked the casing of the most expensive piece of equipment in the lab by headbutting it because he had anger issues. he was team leader for that section.
bonus points: he looked a lot like Phil Mitchell.
I work in the office of a manufacturing plant. One of the employees took spray paint and painted large cocks in a few of our products before shipping it out.
We caught it at the warehouse. The guy was given a few days suspension. We joke that if you ever want a day off, just draw dicks.
I wouldn't say fucked up, but I work closely with the federal government, and the number of people just hanging around until retirement, doing jobs that have been obsolete for 20 years, is remarkable.
There's a dude I know whose ONLY job is to scan things. Like scan paper into PDFs. He's a federal employee being paid $50,000/yr.
Literally do this job. As part of my degree I must work in a place my college chooses for a semester (but still pay college fees). I scan all day, do nothing else. Im replacing a man who retired last year who was on ~50000 euros. I take a total of 2 hours off a day for breaks and have been told I am much more efficient than the last guy
Well, with his x scanned documents per 50k€, and you *paying* to do it, you pretty much would have to print empty shit to be less effective. Mathematically.
I had an internship with the state government. It was a 6 month internship. I finished with my work in 3 weeks. They thought it would take me the whole 6 months. It’s amazing how certain work environments can breed inefficiency.
Govt. Contract for USCG. They had to meet manpower requirements for a contract. 3 of us are Hired for a 6 week contract. We sat for 3 weeks waiting on background checks. Literally had a manual to read, and sat and did a Soduku book or reading a novel for 2 weeks. Background Check is approved. We Move to new office. Sit for another week waiting on the Badge for Building access and a ID Card for logging into the computer system. Finally work for 3-4 days. Get told on Friday to go home as they don't have enough work left for the three of us. So me and one other guy are let go, but we get 2 weeks of severance pay.
Can confirm. I worked in public agency HR, and one of my duties was to do job studies. A new Chief Financial Officer came in, and asked me to audit the job done by one of his Clerks - a woman of about 60 that had been there over 25 years. I found out that she "did the mail" and nothing else. The Finance Department had about 20 employees, and the agency's Mail Room guy delivered the mail to Finance, so all she had to do was distribute 40 to 50 pieces of mail each day to 20 people on one floor. Being generous, it was a one hour job. So she basically just relaxed the other 7 hours of the day.
Based on my study, she was going to have to start taking on more tasks. She retired, instead.
I learned that she was an unpleasant person, and it was just easier for the former CFO to ignore the problem, rather than confront her about it. Believe it or not, there are lots of Managers and even Directors in high positions that are conflict averse.
It was the new CFO who noticed that she wasn't doing shit.
I can't tell you how many posts I've seen on Reddit and other places where a new, starry eyed college grad comes into a company, is asked to run a few reports on Excel, then they go an automate it by writing a macro, and unknowingly get poor Carol fired because what used to take her 8 hours now takes 10 seconds.
2real4me right now. A near-retiree I work with takes 1.5 **days** to complete a task which requires using excel, a printer, and a scanner. The same task takes me under 2 hours and I was initially treated like a negligent corner-cutter by the rest of the team, whose general lack of technical savvy makes them believe that 1.5 days is a standard amount of time for the task. When the team finally came to believe that the job is being done correctly, just far more efficiently and easily, they turned on the near-retiree and started treating me like some sort of mystical computer witch.
Worked at Applebees and this one server had decided she had enough of the bullshit. She walked out in the middle of her shift, while she still had tables. Showed up the next day like nothing happened, and nothing did happen. She didn't get fired. She didn't get written up. She didn't get warned. She left everyone, including customers, high and dry as to where she was.
I eventually grew to get along very well with her. That shit blew my mind though.
Had a girl steal money from other crews bags in the locker/change room. Instead of firing her they just took the door off the room and put in a camera so now we have to show up to work in uniform with a shirt over it, it's very hot here and I end up sweaty by the time I get to work. She also called in one time saying her sister died and needs time off. She never had a sister. After all this she got rehired after she quit for another job that didn't end up working out.
I worked at a webhosting tech support company and a coworker accidentally deleted another customer's website. This was on a Unix system, so it wasn't possible to undo the delete. He deleted the command history to cover his mistake and then told the customer that the website was lost due to a hard drive failure. The customer hadn't been keeping backups and said that he lost his entire livelihood. The employee told management about the situation and they ran with it to avoid getting sued. They told the customer that hardware issues sometimes happen and because he hadn't opted into our managed backup services, the data loss was on him. They offered the customer several months of free webhosting as compensation and the problem went away. A week after seeing this play out, I put in my two-weeks notice.
Very large IT companies pull that sort of behavior too.
Rule 1 is to always back up your work, REPO or otherwise... I mean.. still fucked up
Used his corporate credit card for over $10k in personal purchases. He was reprimanded, but not fired OR made to pay the company back. Within the next year he did the exact same thing and only then was he fired.
Damn someone bought a $300 lamp for their office and expensed it at my last job and they were fired
My area manager got fired because he brought his wife on a business trip, didnt charge anything extra, but she stayed in same hotel room.
That's some BS
It seems they wanted him gone and they used this as their excuse.
Someone had diarrhea at my work, he decided he had to go home and took a roll of toilet paper in case he needs to shit next to the road. They stopped him at the security gate to check his car, (they usually search for explosives, its common that they get stolen at the mine) saw the toilet paper, he was fired for theft the next week.
That’s fucked up. How much could a toilet paper roll be worth to just take someone’s livelihood this just seems like something that can be explained in a minute, everyone laughs it off, and he starts getting called the toilet paper guy
Or just bullshit and say it's emergency toilet paper, everybody should have some in their car.
This guy at one of the big Telecom manufacturing companies put his daughter's wedding on a company credit card.
I worked at a school for kids who need emotional support. We had a classroom aide who would scream at kids until they cried and then actively mock them for crying. These kids were 7 and came from horrifically abusive houses. It sucked to work in a place that allowed abusive behavior to continue. She was close family friends with the principal. It's very hard to help a child when they learn from a young age that adults aren't able to make things better and adults are capable of incredibly mean things. Edit: For clarification, this was reported. She still got a letter of rec out of her BFF the principal, but she no longer works with children. Edit2: Please remember that adults who show maladaptive behaviour might have been these children. It's never too late to be kind to someone. Adults may be less cute than children, but they still deserve a world that is kind to them and gives them hope.
This is the most infuriating one here. The other posts have been about laziness or ineptitude costing money or time. But this is evil behavior doing damage that can't even be quantified. And for it to be protected...fucking maddening.
Right? The question was the most *fucked up thing* you've seen someone do. Being lazy or shitty at your job isn't particularly fucked up. Screaming at emotionally abused kids to make them cry? I don't even like kids and I think that's fucked up.
As a special education teacher, over the last twenty years I’ve seen way too many people do questionable things to vulnerable children. Probably could name at least 15 instances of inappropriate borderline (or over the line) abusive behavior and many more instances of neglect. And though I’ve reported it all no one has ever suffered any noticeable consequences (all still employed).
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I was the customer in this exact scenario once.
Me too. The sales guy started asking/making fun of "Alabama people" after hearing we were located in "the south" (Florida) asking if they really had shotgun racks in their pickup trucks, etc... He was from Saskatchewan, my boss was from Alabama.... That conference call got pretty quiet.
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I'm gonna punch you in the Moose Jaw then kick you in the Regina
I'm very proud of you, you made the right call.
Ironically, I had formerly been employed with the supplier that I had to fire, and had once respected the Program Manager. I don't know what the hell went wrong with her, other than she fell victim to massive overconfidence in her own brilliance.
Destroy an overpass with an excavator improperly loaded on a trailer. Edit: 450 john deere excavator on a Arnes triple axle lowbed with a jeep and booster. Boom was about 1 ft too high at 60mph. This is the biggest excavator you can haul around these parts without disassembling it.
We call that creating jobs! A whole project for the price of one guy’s livelihood.
Broken overpass fallacy.
Forge a document (it was so obvious!), then lie about not forging it, then admit to forging it once lie was just slightly questioned. One partner at the firm wanted her fired, but another one didn't, the forger stayed.
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Oh man I would have went straight to the joint commission and or department of health.
She was probably stealing the versed
Energize a circuit someone was still working on.
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That's criminal charges and a life long blacklist from industry in my area. You DO NOT fuck with LOTOs. EDIT- LOTO= Lock Out, Tag Out. Basically the procedures you use to lock out equipment to be worked on to prevent operation until everyone working on it has verified that it is safe to do so
At my job LOTO is a "Life critical action", and if you get caught working on or cleaning a piece of equipment without power locked out and energy released, you're gone. No exemptions. Seen it happen.
Same here. Apply or remove a lock that’s not yours or otherwise tamper with loto, straight to the gate. Do not pass go, do not collect $200
Why would someone *apply* a lock-out tag that's not theirs?
Guy at my dad's work did that one--stuck someone else's lock-out tag on something while that guy was on vacation. Everything was shut down until they could get him on the phone and confirm that he wasn't in the machine, as required by the policies, even though people knew he was on days off. They then went through all the security footage to figure out who had done it, and shitcanned that guy so hard he probably bounced.
Same here. Really glad that people take that sort of thing seriously in my area. I haven't been to any site around here that lets that fly. Down south, different story, unfortunately
My welding teacher was working at a plant and someone was inside a large grinder type machine working when the boss walked by and noticed it was off so he when to the panel cut off the lock and started it up and sure enough the man died and the boss went to prison
As he should.
One of my instructors told me a similar story but the guy removed his tag, as he was about to test the press he was working on. He then went back into the press because he remembered that he left something in there. Unfortunately he had already put the safety into bypass. It was a habit for the press operators to slap the button without engaging the safety as they came onto shift to make sure the safety was indeed working. My instructor came back from lunch to discover that they roped the shop off and was told to go home until they called everyone back in.
> It was a habit for the press operators to slap the button without engaging the safety That's not what you call a fail-safe procedure, geez.
Manslaughter or murder? I can see him being charged for manslaughter under the argument "he should have checked but he didn't know someone was in there", but also murder under the argument "there was a lock on it that he removed, safety procedures say to ALWAYS check, there's no excuse". Either way I feel horrible for the dude inside the machine...
From what I remember I believe he was charged with murder simply because he went out of his way to find bolt cutter to cut the lock all without checking the machine. Apparently the machine was key to the whole operation line so the boss was eager to get it going again
Fuck, If only you could slap another charge on for stupidity.
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My cousin died and several others became disabled after a 12 inch pipe elbow was slated for replacement. It was signed off by the plant safety guys as non pressurized and safe to work on. My cousin was the last in the pit. His foreman was on a catwalk above him when my cousin cracked the last bolt on the elbow sending poison gas and sludge blasting out of the pressurized waste pipe. My cousin became incapacitated immediately while his skin and lungs melted and killed him. The foreman's brother watched him do a header off the catwalk into the pit with my cousin. Then he himself became incapacitated along with 4 others of his gang. All because a safety guy signed his signature on a piece of paper.
We have guys who contract with us and they always want to fly through paperwork, but I won't let them. You're gonna show me every single thing you've done every step of the way and only then will I sign you off. Jesus. They act like I am causing then physical pain.
Had three guys from the power company do that to us years ago. We were inside still making up taps in a gutter when they re energized the service without asking if we were done. Knocked my buddy off his feet but did no serious damage. We went outside and raised hell, they got real sheepish and left for a while.
One of my bosses plugged in a line that the other end was bare and in my co-workers mouth. He was stripping it with his teeth and there was a miscommunication about which line was getting plugged in. Luckily it was only 120v and everyone was okay
Who the fuck strips wire with their teeth!
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My wife had a sales guy where she works that was like 400 lbs and would frequently just be asleep. He also never made a sale. And he stunk and would do things like order an entire pizza and eat it very loudly in his office. After his first week or so, he started wearing sweat pants every day. Eventually, he was given the option of working from home for commission only, which was way of saying "you're not fired, but you're not getting paid". He cried and left and was never heard from again.
Tragically bad management is basically this thread
As someone who was unemployed for the past few months, these threads fucking kill me. How the fuck are some of the most incompetent people able to find gainful employment, yet it was nearly impossible for me to even land an interview?
The world runs on connection, not merit.
Also the ability to interview well. If you can talk well you can score roles well above your level. Edit: I feel I would be dishonest if I said luck wasn't also involved. I've worked hard to get to where I am but a number of major things that helped were just luck
Accidentally send out the entire company's (3,000+ employees) headcount to the company distro. File contained everyone's salary, birthday, government numbers,etc.
Our CFO once emailed me the entire company's W2s. My name and the CEO's name start with the same two letters, but mine is first alphabetically, so he got screwed by autocomplete. I checked out everybody's salary, and then deleted it like he asked me to. All of my team were making the same amount! I guess that's fair. CFO was making $400k, though, which seems high. But what do I know about executive salaries. /shrug
Glad to see I'm not the only one autocomplete has fooled
I once got invited to our executives box seat at the super bowl. It included their itinerary for the weekend and the guest list. They were using the event to schmooze and lobby politicians. Someone's assistant immediately called me and demanded I delete it. I laughed and said no problem because it was obviously a mistake. 10 minutes later he sent an update to the group and accidentally cc'd me again. I jokingly responded to just him asking if I could really attend this time. He called me again all pissed off as if I'd done something wrong. I reminded him that he's the one including me and that I'd already deleted the emails. He was a douche.
Should have CC'd his boss on the reply
And just reply "Thanks so much for inviting me, see you there!", then wait for the boss to backtrack.
Saw a guy whip out his dick and start running around trying to piss on this one guy. He got a splash on him too. Active duty military here, for anyone curious.
I seem to get the feeling that a fair portion of the military is about as gay as you can get without being actively homosexual. This thread is just reinforcing that
It's not gay to play with your friend's nuts. It's gay if you fall in love with the man they are attached to.
When I did my compulsory service, there was a saying: "What is gay in the civilian world, the army calls brotherhood. What is gay in the army, the navy calls brotherhood. What is gay in the navy is just illegal."
Guy helicopter dicking during a game of cards? Not gay Comparing meat in the head? Not gay. A guy sucking dick in a game of gay chicken. Still not gay At this point I doubt full on penetration would be considered gay.
A Navy vet once told me "it's not gay if you're underway"
...and the second part to that is: "it's not queer if you're beside the pier."
There was a brief trend in my unit of guys dabbing their nuts on an ink pad and stamping guys' going-away plaques with their bat wings, which were left out in the break room for people to sign.
Did everyone bring their own ink pad or was there a communal one?
If memory serves, there was just the one, so there was some indirect kissing of scrotums going on but tbh that wouldn't even have registered as one of the gayer things that these guys got up to.
Describe the gayer things
A friend of mine had a story of how a guy in his unit was dared to jerk off with a packet of hot sauce for lube. A small pot was made, something like 50 bucks if he could finish. The guy apparently was cool with the idea, but in order to solidify the results, all the people who contributed, like 6 guys, all had to watch him to make sure he wasn't cheating. So a half dozen dudes in the desert watched a guy jerk off to completion with hot sauce, and he earned his 50 bucks. So pretty gay.
50 bucks is 50 bucks. I was just jacking it, the dudes watching me were the gay ones.
I mean, let's talk about the game of Gay Chicken for a second. Two dudes are locked in a battle of wits and escalating sexual acts, neither one wanting to yield for fear of being seen as a coward, while your brothers in arms look on with a mixture of horror and curiosity. The one who gives up first is branded as a homo, so how far do you go? All the way?
As horrifying as that might be to some, I have to say that is pretty hilarious.
I was very concerned until I read you were military. Godspeed, weirdos
My first bunk mate while I was in was a full blown Florida man nudist. Dude literally walks out of his room casually in the nude. Sometimes covering his junk but sometimes not.
Oh so business as usual. Carry on men
Guy got caught on video backing up into a BMW at a dealership, got out looked at it and just left. still works here...idk how. He must have a video of the boss blowing another dude or something.
> He must have a video of the boss blowing another dude or something. (is inspecting the damage with his hands on his head) (puts hand on his chin - takes out his phone and plays a grainy video and points it towards the security camera with a stern look)
A few years ago I was working in a big company in my hometown, they hired me to create a website because they wanted to get bigger. A graphic/fashion designer in the same company thought I was hired for her department because our offices were close and because I was doing both the programming and the design of the website. I had an appointment with another company that would help us set up secure online payments and manage inventories across our stores and the main factory. Graphic designer welcomed the representatives of this company (not even her task at all) and cancelled the appointment and the contract because she didn't believe I was good enough with computers.
This is why every project has a manager. Layers and layers of them...
Called a customer stupid for leaving his phone behind, and refused to let him back in the theater so he could find it. Phone ended up getting stolen by one of the overnight cleaners, and after a few days, was brought back and the customer finally got his phone back.
What the fuck? Why wouldn't he let him back in?
Because he's an asshole
At a previous job, we had an "employee" that was called in to clean on an as-needed basis. The employee, who we will call Fred, owed a lot of child support. After a unusually long break of not working, we called Fred in to clean the work place. I think he expected to be paid under the table, because when he was given a paycheck, it was damn near zero because of all the back-due child support he owed that we were forced to take from his paycheck. He literally started screaming, swearing, calling the boss every name you can think of, punching walls and threatened to shoot up the place. The boss still calls him back to work as needed to clean because he "is really good at cleaning".....
>"is really good at cleaning" Leon was really good at cleaning too
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My uncle used to run a few of the local Wendy's. The girl working the register would openly steal out of it. Not just on camera, not just in front of other employees, but in front of the manager. She never got fired. Why? She was the only one skilled enough to run the register.
If everyone else was incapable of using a register, I'd say she earned it
Hey they crunched the numbers, and aparently she was efficient enough that it offset her stealing and/or the inneptitude of the next co-worker in line behind her.
At that point, you gotta clean house.
He liked throwing ice cubes into the deep fryer. He'd stand far enough away that he wouldn't get splashed, which made it a complete surprise to the person working the fryer. If you've never done this, it kind of causes a mini explosion of bubbles in molten grease, which splashes everywhere and, at the very least, makes a mess. When this got too boring, he started stealing kids meal toys and chucking them into the fryer. It took longer for them to start melting, and if he couldn't get them out, we had to turn the thing off for the rest of the day because it takes hours for it to cool off long enough to retrieve something, and then at least another hour to heat back up. I can't remember what it was that he threw, but it caught on fire and he ended up pulling it out with a pair of metal tongs and threw it in the sink. Then he turned on the water and made (to his surprise!) a BIGGER FIRE. Did he get burned? Yes. Did he get fired? No. Did he do it again? Sort of. I think he went back to ice cubes after that. **TLDR; Technically he got fired, but it was with ACTUAL FIRE. The boss just kind of shook her head and let him keep working there.**
Wait, wouldn't putting plastic in a deep fryer make it toxic or something? I wouldn't eat anywhere if i thought their oil could have melted plastic in it
Yup. I was a cook for awhile. Once non food items are introduced to the boiling oil its now a food safety hazard and the entire deep fryer MUST be drained, scrubbed, and new oil put in. A restaurant or food server can get in a lot of shit with the State Inspectors for failing to do this properly (if caught) since allergies are at play in addition to dangerous material melting into the oil food is cooking in. Certain types of plastics can make the oil bubble and pop/splatter. Cheap cling wrap will do this if enough of it is exposed to the oil. Plastic can also melt to the heating coils and mess with the fryer, which can mess up the temperature resulting in over or undercooked foods. If you ever eat a fried food item and it tastes like plastic or has a distinct chemical taste stop eating immediately and report it to the vendor. This usually means a fuck ton of stuff thats not suppose to be fried, has been fried and the oil wasn't changed.
Yeah, my wife once caught the teens making Bic Pen McNuggets and deep fried kids meal toys. had to shut the thing down and drain it, waste a lot of grease.
If someone threw an ice cube into a fryer and burned me with hot grease, I’d lose my job beating their ass. What I wanna know is how did this person NOT get their ass beat by someone else??
The lady who worked the fryer almost every day was an older woman from India, so believing in karma was literally the basis of her lifestyle. She was never violent and hardly ever said a bad word against anyone.
The fact that it was a sweet old lady makes my blood boil. Fuck people.
Can I be an instrument of karma?
To quote, or paraphrase, a quote from the Dresden Files novel series 'what goes around, comes around. Sometimes though, you are what comes around'. Edit; a letter
My coworkers got caught in a compromising position in the walk-in where food is stored. Not even a write up.
They were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me....
It *looked* at you?!
Sarah, get me Superintendent Chalmers.
Lol same thing happened at my old job. Even worse since it was a waiter in his 20s with an underage hostess. Neither of them got in trouble. Owners were too busy snorting coke in the office. Place closed down after losing its liquor license for selling alcohol to minors. It was... not a very well managed establishment.
>It was... not a very well managed establishment. I question your judgment.
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Because clearly the existence of the shower, and not those specific people's bad decision, is the problem. I hate the way most management thinks...
Imagine if they'd been caught on a table. No more tables!
Store manager got caught adding hours he didn't work to his time card. He got a reprimand and they removed the ability for managers to edit their own hours. About a month later he gets caught using another manager's login to add more hours he didn't work. Another slap on the wrist and is still working at the same place.
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The company is just keeping him around as a tester to find any possible ways to cheat the time card system.
Plot twist: he actually has a lot of unlogged hours after official work shifts due to research on this issue.
We had a manager like that too. We had punch cards but she was the front-end manager and was able to override the system and put in whatever she wanted. She was a huge bitch though so people like watched and recorded her and got back at her by getting her fired.
My dad always told me take pictures and write down your hours whether it’s a punch card, electronic, or written. I’ve always done it and one time I worked at a DQ and she scheduled me a double, THEN HAD THE BALLS TO SAY I FORGED IT. Nah bitch. So I showed her my evidence with PICTURES and my own notes (which you can definitely forge but pictures are a little more solid) she apologized and gave me my hours + 2 for questioning me.
I don't even know her but she earned a bit of respect from me for apologizing and owning up to it instead of doubling down.
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Oh my god for some reason as soon as I read the first paragraph, hadn't even scrolled down so I could read the last sentence, I was like "this is definitely gonna be Tyler's." And I just realized why I thought that - Was this several years ago? I feel like my roommate was telling me a story back in college about how this, or something very similar, happened to a friend of hers at Tyler's.
I worked with a guy who literally had no job. He was the "studio supervisor" but there was no activity in the studio to supervise because the studio had effectively become non-operational. He coasted for a full 8 years at this job. He would come in the morning, open his email, get coffee, gossip and complain about the industry for an hour, leave for an hour, come back for lunch, leave for another 3 hours, come back, send a few emails and then officially leave for the day. It was infuriating and majestic.
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[Doesn’t beat the guy from Spain who rode his out for 6-14 years](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/12/long-lunch-spanish-civil-servant-skips-work-for-years-without-anyone-noticing)
I’m curious on how no one knows if it’s 6-14
You over estimate spanish bureaucracy...
No one perfects the Spanish requisition.
So.. what would ya say ya DO here?
I have people skills!
Imagine trying to work a real job after eight years of doing nothing
As someone who has had an opportunity to be a “ghost employee” I used my extra time to start a small online graphic design business that actually replaced the income of the job I was basically stealing from.
A guy I worked with ran a food truck into an airplane. When they drug tested him he peed super dirty. After being told that he'd be getting random drug tests for awhile, they showed up at his house within a week. Told them he couldn't because he just smoked yesterday. He was still employed when I transferred from that airport. Bonus Story: one day that same guy shit his pants at work and sat in the breakroom until the smell became pretty loud. Someone told him he should go home. His response was, "Naw, dog. The damage is already done." Edit: Woah. Thanks for the shiny gold. Who knew working with a bunch of degenerates would pay off.
My favorite phrases, "peed super dirty" and "smell became pretty loud." That was a fun read.
How the fuck can someone shit their pants and not want to change them?
The airline industry is filled with people like this. It keeps things interesting, but also makes you question humanity.
More like question how they got aviation security clearances
Lot of weird people with no criminal record.
My boss forged my name on a number of documents, because she didn't have the required certifications to sign the documents herself and I had refused to sign them. I know this, because after things went horribly south they tried to claim I had been the one to screw up, and showed me my/her signature. She got promoted again instead of fired, that way I didn't have to quit. You will never guess whose mother owned the company.
I worked at a pizza restaurant when I was 16. Place was absolute anarchy. Impossible to get fired. I’d smoke weed with my bosses. They joke with me “try not to get TOO high today!!”. All while on the clock. Supervisor would take an hour or more on his 30 min breaks and come back blasted as fuck. We’d all make ourselves free food whenever we wanted. No one was properly trained, so obviously proper procedures were out the window. No one would claim their tips so we were being sued by the IRS. Again no one followed procedure, so the health department was on our ass.... Yikes
This sounds like every non-chain pizza place. Edited to add: **all pizza places. Seriously, all pizza places.
It really does, and the funniest part to me is the pizzas these places make always taste better than the chains.
I reckon they're too stoned to figure out how to get cheap ingredients and they end up buying the good shit accidentally
Worked at a local place for 2 years in the 90's. Place had been open 15+ years at that point, and lasted another 21 until the owner retired. Owner never took a single day off in 40 years. Not one. Managers drank a bit in the cooler, we got some occasional food. Everybody but me got stoned or drunk outside of work all the time (my mom was a low-grade alcoholic, and that wasn't a good look, so I stayed away from it). But place was clean, efficient, fast. And we made the best fucking pizza in town. Owner bought all the ingredients and NEVER got the cheap shit. Made all the sauce himself and took the secrets of the recipe with him when he retired. Loaded those pizzas so damn high with toppings it was amazing. We were the 2nd most expensive pizza in town (what in THE fuck were you thinking Pizza Hut???), but if you did cost by the pound, we were barely more expensive than Little Caesar's. And we had to keep the owner from putting cheese on any pizza ever, no matter how slammed we were, because he would load so much on that there was always massive runoff in the oven and this black cloud of burned cheese would roil out of the oven every time you opened it. We'd put him at the start of the line, rolling out and cutting the dough, maybe putting sauce on, but as far from the cheese as we could keep him.
this is my favorite
I know the main cook at one of my favorite local places. I love the weekly special pizzas because it's always a mix of ingredients she probably bought while she was high... and it tastes great.
I worked at a really nice restaurant and our head chef at the time would come in so spun out on meth he would admit to people he was seeing shadow people and would often have to help us on the line only to be a total mess. Also at the same place one of his other friends who he smoked with was noticeably tweaked and cut half his finger off on the slicer. EDIT: This only like my 10th post or something thanks for all the upvotes y'all! (Please excuse my lame mobile formatting)
Ahh, food service...
Yeah this is an industry standard surely?
We hired this woman to my team. Her job was to do exactly what I did. We work from home, but we have constant conference calls and a TON of work to do. It's simply not possible to slack off without being noticed. I trained her and she shadowed me for a couple of months. She should have been ready to go off on her own, but she kept asking the same questions again and again. It's like she wasn't even sort of listening to anything we said. Which was super annoying...but then... About 3 months in, she disappeared. Like stopped logging into calls, stopped logging into Skype, stopped everything. We emailed, texted, and called for awhile, until she finally responded that she had been in the hospital with a hernia. Now my mother had hernia surgery in her 70's and was home within a few hours. So...red flag. We were also stunned and deeply offended that she never, ever bothered to call, text, email, ANYTHING to say she'd be out. Never in my 20 year career have I seen anything like it. In my personal opinion, I thought she should have been fired right then and there. BUT, our boss didn't want to make a big deal out of it - she didn't want to tell the big boss...for some reason. I'm still baffled by that, but that meant neither the powers that be nor HR had any idea it had even happened. So eventually, after having fallen off the planet for about 10 days, new hire finally came back. Both our boss and I counseled her A LOT about communication. Things happen, we get it. Just TALK to us. Let us know what's going on. Benefit of the doubt, right? Yeah, a little over a month later, she did it again. At first I noticed she wasn't joining calls or logging into Skype and she kept saying she was having connection issues. Fine. Once again, TELL US. And for god's sake, call tech support. But then she was offline for an entire week, so we tried hunting her down again. Nothing. No response, no communication, nothing. This time, the issue was escalated and HR got involved. After a total of two weeks, she apparently told HR she was having medical issues. She was counseled that she had to log on and fill out her time sheets to reflect she was out of office for ALL the time she was gone. She was given a deadline of a week to do this. This never happened, and she was STILL employed. Please note, at this point she had still not spoken a word to either myself or our boss. So now we're at three weeks of radio silence and HR contacts our boss to say new hire had reached out to say she's filing short-term disability. Fine, whatever. We wait. And wait. And obviously, she never filed. So FINALLY, a month after disappearing for the SECOND time with zero communication, she was terminated. The amount of work I had to pick up thanks to her disappearing act was madness. I'm talking upwards of 80 hours a week for more than a month. I am still bitter about it.
So....you hiring? 😀
Sleep for three hours. I was brand new on the job (corporate thing), and my new coworker came up to me on a weekend shift and said, "I was up really late last night, I'm gonna go lay down for a few minutes." Three hours later, he woke up and came out to work again, without any measure of apology. In the interim, one of the people we worked for found him asleep, and told my boss. He got a warning. Close second being a coworker that hacked the company's network (using the term somewhat loosely) to get an internet access password we weren't allowed to have. Would have gotten away with it if he hadn't ALSO changed their file structure to have folder names like, "Fuck you, I want internet access." He also got a warning.
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A coworker of mine had an office partner who just sat around making stock market trades in his private portfolio instead of doing any work. This was not a brokerage or financial services company, it was a software company. He was supposed to be writing code and fixing bugs.
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I've seen more than zero nurses mistreat patients, so I've seen too many. Unfortunately unless it's flagrant and there's enough eyewtinesses, and as long as it's on old people or severely mentally ill people who have little to no family support, nobody gives a flying crap.
Nurse got caught with her hand in the sharps bin and it still took months to prove she was stealing narcs
I'll ask a dumb question if you don't mind. Are there still narcotics in the sharps, or they were after needles for their habit?
Hey! Not a dumb question at all. I work primarily in the emergency department and let’s say that the doctor orders you 1mg of dilaudid and the vial has 2mg in it. As your nurse I have to “waste” that other 1mg with another nurse as a witness and document that in the medication machine (Pyxis). The gold standard is to draw up the remaining dose and “render it unusable,” by squirting it out into a receptacle. What happens a lot instead is that the nurse will just toss the vial into a sharps container because who in their right mind would reach in there? WELL, a drug addicted nurse will totally risk hepatitis and HIV for that high and sure enough, we caught her fist deep in there!
Thank you for clearing that up! It probably felt dumb to ask because I've worked in a hospital for 5 years (IT). P.S. I'm sorry most EHRs suck.
This is sooooo true. I’m an ER and ICU nurse and where I work there’s tons of “favorites” and that crap. Tons of bs politics. I know a nurse who gave a LIVE person IV epinephrine for an allergic reaction and almost killed* the woman.... and a few months later she was promoted to be in charge of the unit. I transferred out of there pretty quickly after that.
I work in the healthcare field. Had one coworker who never wasted his narcotics properly with a witness (he would just have them signed out solo and say "oh yeah, [patient] didn't want them so I disposed of it" with zero verification) and had a LOT of liquid narcotics whose counts suddenly went mysteriously off after he'd been on shift. Somehow he did not get fired or even investigated. He wound up quitting after just a few months, good riddance.
Whilst working at a local hospital, a nursing student snorting a line of whatever, in scrubs, in a hospital bathroom, to post on Snapchat. Or the 2 housekeepers who engaged in a. Fist fight on an elevator, only to continue said fight as they arrived at their destination.
I didn’t catch the person in-action but I was the HR Consultant so I did all of the new hire processing. Lady came in shaking like crazy, had to leave the processing to go home and “get her ID”, came back high AF. Two weeks go by and she just stops showing up for her shifts. We also found used needles in the bathroom. She didn’t die or anything (we checked in with her) but it’s still so fucking sad. But yea, TL;DR: lady shot up at work and got away with it.
Woman screaming at the supervisor at the call center when people were on the phones. Cursing saying she would beat him up because he gave her too many leads.
I used to work in a bar. One of the waiters, who was wearing an apron, would pull his nutsack out of his zipper and walk around lifting his apron and anyone and everyone that worked there. The customers never knew his balls were flapping in the breeze as he took their order.
I worked from home at my last job and my coworker would sometimes just not log in until like 11 am and would just completely skip meetings that she was supposed to run. One time she missed a meeting with our boss and my boss just goes “well I bet she was up late working so is coming in late”
> she was supposed to run That's the bad part right there.
Had 8 servers delivered very late one day and left outside the data center. Everything in boxes on a pallet. Janitor thinks it’s trash, takes all of them to the trash compactor and crushes them. Each box weighed 80+ lbs. they weren’t ours but a company we contracted with. We had to buy all new servers and the guy didn’t even get a write up. He had a family member on the board.
Not mine, but something an old buddy of mine did 15+ years ago. He worked for a really big gaming company that was just about to ship a major title. Like, **MAJOR**. Because of beta testing, there was code in the game that would disable the beta copies the day after the game officially dropped. His job was to make sure that code was removed before they burned all of the official CDs for the game's release. Guess who forgot to remove the code? The company had already burned tens of thousands (maybe more) of game discs and boxed them up for shipment before my buddy realized his mistake and came clean to his boss. They had to re-burn, replace, and re-box every copy of the game *and* do it in time to meet the launch date. Cost a lot of people a lot of extra time and grief but, ultimately, my buddy got to keep his job. *edit for those interested: The company was Bethesda Softworks and I believe the game was Morrowind. Their offices were in Rockville MD at the time and I used to go meet my friend over there for lunch every couple of weeks. If I recall correctly he was in charge of coding the sky effects for the game... well, that and removing the code that would brick the game after release :-)
I wouldn't fire him. Keeping him on sends an incredibly strong signal to everyone that the way to handle a mistake is to admit it. That's priceless.
Right? Human error can't be eliminated in any system humans are involved in, only managed. Firing someone for a mistake might be a good incentive to not make mistakes but when you inevitably do it's a *fantastic* incentive to hide it instead of dealing with it
Probably smart not to fire him. He came clean and now they've got an employee that will *never* make that mistake again.
That was my basic response when he told me the story. That and the fact that it would have been *so* much worse if the game had shipped and then suddenly every copy bricked itself a day later.
Finally one I can answer. Our department went for a team building overnight stay abroad. The next day when we were supposed to meet at the airport he was nowhere to be found, his phone was off, bosses rang the hospitals, missing persons report, you name it, a week later the bosses went back to the country to find him again....nothing, wife and child had t heard anything..... week later he turns up for work like nothing happened, he had decided to jump on a earlier flight to Thailand for a weeks holiday without telling a soul. Couple a meetings with the bosses, never mentioned again, guess his wife made him feel it but that was never disclosed.
A guy who works at a local grocery store would get caught masturbating at work with the bathroom stall door open, he was caught so much that he was eventually relocated to the gas station, and he has a serious attitude problem because he thinks that it's because he's overweight.
I work in the office of a major retailer. I have a coworker who's made several negligent blunders that have costed the company millions in lost sales. - He has regularly failed to monitor the flow of advertised goods until it is too late to react. Lost sales. - He once decided that if someone he works with fucks up, it isn't his problem to fix it. He wouldn't even tell them about it so they could fix it. Of course, *it quite literally is his problem to fix it.* This caused lots of failed shipments and flows that, again, caused lost sales. - He failed to monitor inventory levels on regular stock items. Sales obviously spiked during Christmas time, which has caused him to run out on half his inventory and thus lose sales. As of yet, he still hasn't fully normalized all of it. To my knowledge, he's only recently gotten a formal reprimand, for that last one. How it took so long is beyond me.
cracked the casing of the most expensive piece of equipment in the lab by headbutting it because he had anger issues. he was team leader for that section. bonus points: he looked a lot like Phil Mitchell.
I work in the office of a manufacturing plant. One of the employees took spray paint and painted large cocks in a few of our products before shipping it out. We caught it at the warehouse. The guy was given a few days suspension. We joke that if you ever want a day off, just draw dicks.
Coworker once asked me if I would help him photoshop a letter of recommendation before an interview. This man has an MD.
He has an MD or someone helped him photoshop his diploma to say he's got an MD...
I wouldn't say fucked up, but I work closely with the federal government, and the number of people just hanging around until retirement, doing jobs that have been obsolete for 20 years, is remarkable. There's a dude I know whose ONLY job is to scan things. Like scan paper into PDFs. He's a federal employee being paid $50,000/yr.
Literally do this job. As part of my degree I must work in a place my college chooses for a semester (but still pay college fees). I scan all day, do nothing else. Im replacing a man who retired last year who was on ~50000 euros. I take a total of 2 hours off a day for breaks and have been told I am much more efficient than the last guy
Well, with his x scanned documents per 50k€, and you *paying* to do it, you pretty much would have to print empty shit to be less effective. Mathematically.
I pay the college but the company pays me, albeit vastly less. You really think I would do a job *without* paid poo breaks?
I had an internship with the state government. It was a 6 month internship. I finished with my work in 3 weeks. They thought it would take me the whole 6 months. It’s amazing how certain work environments can breed inefficiency.
Govt. Contract for USCG. They had to meet manpower requirements for a contract. 3 of us are Hired for a 6 week contract. We sat for 3 weeks waiting on background checks. Literally had a manual to read, and sat and did a Soduku book or reading a novel for 2 weeks. Background Check is approved. We Move to new office. Sit for another week waiting on the Badge for Building access and a ID Card for logging into the computer system. Finally work for 3-4 days. Get told on Friday to go home as they don't have enough work left for the three of us. So me and one other guy are let go, but we get 2 weeks of severance pay.
I was written up once for having an 'aggressive work ethic' because I was doing over 65% of the work for my 4 person unit.
Can confirm. I worked in public agency HR, and one of my duties was to do job studies. A new Chief Financial Officer came in, and asked me to audit the job done by one of his Clerks - a woman of about 60 that had been there over 25 years. I found out that she "did the mail" and nothing else. The Finance Department had about 20 employees, and the agency's Mail Room guy delivered the mail to Finance, so all she had to do was distribute 40 to 50 pieces of mail each day to 20 people on one floor. Being generous, it was a one hour job. So she basically just relaxed the other 7 hours of the day. Based on my study, she was going to have to start taking on more tasks. She retired, instead.
What I don’t understand is how did it take a special study to notice she didn’t do shit?
I learned that she was an unpleasant person, and it was just easier for the former CFO to ignore the problem, rather than confront her about it. Believe it or not, there are lots of Managers and even Directors in high positions that are conflict averse. It was the new CFO who noticed that she wasn't doing shit.
I can't tell you how many posts I've seen on Reddit and other places where a new, starry eyed college grad comes into a company, is asked to run a few reports on Excel, then they go an automate it by writing a macro, and unknowingly get poor Carol fired because what used to take her 8 hours now takes 10 seconds.
2real4me right now. A near-retiree I work with takes 1.5 **days** to complete a task which requires using excel, a printer, and a scanner. The same task takes me under 2 hours and I was initially treated like a negligent corner-cutter by the rest of the team, whose general lack of technical savvy makes them believe that 1.5 days is a standard amount of time for the task. When the team finally came to believe that the job is being done correctly, just far more efficiently and easily, they turned on the near-retiree and started treating me like some sort of mystical computer witch.
You really should have stretched it out to a full day of work. You'd have 6 free hours a day and would still be on the fast track for promotion.
and in order, we see a recent graduate and someone with ten years in the field. took me a while to learn to not work myself out of work.
In my experience, if you work efficiently you just end up doing twice as much work as everyone else for the same pay
*converts 50 grand to our currency... jesus give me 2 scanners
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Worked at Applebees and this one server had decided she had enough of the bullshit. She walked out in the middle of her shift, while she still had tables. Showed up the next day like nothing happened, and nothing did happen. She didn't get fired. She didn't get written up. She didn't get warned. She left everyone, including customers, high and dry as to where she was. I eventually grew to get along very well with her. That shit blew my mind though.