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The typical workplace is usually pretty boring, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. The lack of drama allows employees to concentrate on their responsibilities. But people are people, and sooner or later, they stir something up.
There's a post on the subreddit r/AusCorp — a place where members of corporate Australia come together to discuss and gossip about their roles and industries — that has everyone sharing the biggest scandals to have shaken their offices.
From hiding alcohol stashes to helping competitors, and, of course, engaging in romantic affairs, here are the juiciest secrets that came out.
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#1
A young employee whose first language was NOT English made an enthusiastic statement to upper management in a meeting. After some consternation, the rest of the team had to educate him on the subtle difference in meaning between "It's up to you!" and "Up yours!". The team still used "It's up to you!" as a stealth insult years later.
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#2
Hubby walked into the windowless equipment room just after 5pm and was surprised to find his single cougar manager and young married teammate in there...just standing around awkwardly apparently...he came home and was musing as to why they'd just be standing around in the dark together. Told him my thoughts and his response was "No it couldn't be that, he's married". Oh sweetie.
Petra Peitsch 18 hours ago
Bless his heart! Also, OP has a cute hubby, with a soul of an innicent child.
Tricia Neville 15 hours ago
One of my jobs was to produce and hand deliver cheques for extra work by individual employees. I used to see the Director of our department come over to our block at the end of the afternoon and wonder why he didn't come and see us. I also knew that he had split from his wife after many years of marriage. The last cheque of the day was to be delivered to a pretty young manager whose office was just up a long corridor. I approached the door and heard some rhythmic huffing of at least two people, and decided I should leave the cheque until the next day. The next day, I managed to deliver the cheque and noticed a rolled up foam mattress and bedding stowed under a desk.
#3
I've watched my HR lay off 1/3 of the company to look more profitable on paper.
And then after laying off 100+ staff they gave themselves promotions and pay raises before working with management to deny promotions and pay rises for the remaining staff.
JB 1 day ago
Watched reorganisations happen multiple times in the UK, where a significant proportion of the FTE people were made redundant for the company to look better on paper, but the C-suite and HR got bonuses for “effectively managing the process and improving efficiency “. Since emigrating to Canada, I’ve lived through it several times here as well. I respectfully suggest you don’t follow CrystalWitch60 in assuming that companies acting in bad faith must be in the US.
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Andrew Keir 3 hours ago
That's a problem for the next quarter. I'll be gone, you'll be gone.
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I work in a pharmacy setting, and we regularly fire people for stealing medications.
Pro tip: if you plan to work a medical gig just to steal meds, you'll most likely get caught. If there's anything they strictly keep a count of, it's the controlled medication.
Zig Zag Wanderer 11 hours ago
In my pharmacy, one chemist has so much makeup on, I'm almost certain that she works there purely for the staff discount. It would save her thousands, I reckon....
Petra Peitsch 18 hours ago
And it's the same for the pro kitchens. Many times, when it's a 100-150 person buffet, everything, what comes back after, it's free prey. You eat it there, you bag for having some food for some days, nobody bats an eye, because anyway, it will be thrown away, as not reusable for giving out for public anymore. But! Never ever try to take the raw ingredients from a kitchen. That's already stealing.
Andrew Keir 3 hours ago
So, in their eyes, cooking the ingredients turns them from valuable into worthless? Get a new chef, I suggest ;-)
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Robert T 23 hours ago
In the US I can understand people taking jobs in a pharmacy just to get medication.
Tyranamar Seuss 12 hours ago
It's not that type of medication that gets stolen. It's the controlled substances that get nabbed. Most are relatively cheap but hard to get prescriptions for.
Load More Replies... GalPalAl 1 day ago
That's like saying the priesthood only seems to hire p**o's. How dumb people are, but in the same vein, how lousy the check and balance system is to let them get away with it.
Colin Roach 15 hours ago
Well, they didn't get away with it. That's the post.
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I would say it's the not-so-secret alcoholic that keeps liquor in her desk but it's actually the woman who stopped showing up for about 10 months except every 2 weeks to collect her paycheck.
The boss "didn't know" for about 8 of those months and then said if she was fired it would make him look bad. Boss just waited for 2 more months until her project expired.
Binky Melnik 1 day ago
Read it again: The boss “didn’t know.” I suspect funny business between the two and so he let it happen.
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Firefly 1 day ago
How would firing a bad employee make him look bad? Wouldn't it make him look like, you know, he's doing his job?
JL 1 day ago
Because if he fired her, he'd have to say why he did, and didn't want to look like a doofus for not knowing she ghosted work for the better part of a year.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 11 hours ago
A mate of mine did this for five years! Different managers kept getting replaced, and nobody knew the details so couldn't sack him. He never turned up, and ended up getting a masters degree, and then a better job when he was made redundant by a clever manager.
Tricia Neville 16 hours ago
We had an unpopular member of staff in our department. He had already been demoted from a management position because of some misdemeanor (before my time) and he was high-handed and general unpleasant towards colleagues. One of my colleagues thought he was an alcoholic, but I didn't see any evidence of this. He would, however, disappear for hours on end on a so-called errand. One day, the colleague who said he was an alcoholic, found his stash in a filing cabinet in a locked storeroom. He showed me, and others, the bottles of spirits. He decided to inform the management. An opportune moment came when he was off on one of his unauthorised "absences". Not one of the three managers wanted to go and catch him at it, or confront him when he returned to the office, obviously drunk. He was off "sick" for months at a time and then one day came into the office and just sat at his desk and wept. Management were too frightened to do anything. It was a bizarre situation.
Amused panda 1 hour ago
Sounds like there was a mental health element. A past breakdown could have led to a protected 'demotion' to remove pressure of management, whilst protecting the employee's job. Stress or other mental health issues can lead to mysterious illness - as in, the colleagues aren't told the nature of the illness for reasons of privacy and can't see anything that would explain things. And once there is a mental health condition at play, particularly a work related one, bosses can be afraid that if they pull the staff member up for their behaviour, the employee might claim this treatment unfair and detrimental to their mental health.
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A few years ago a colleague swapped out the innocent brownies in the kitchen for the not so innocent ones :)
It was an interesting afternoon to say the least.
spacer 1 day ago
this is an awful thing to do, i have a lot of a*******n running in my family and i stay away from all that stuff for various reasons. as do others. its not a fun prank and you have no idea on how people react to d***s or what it might trigger :/
Binky Melnik 1 day ago
Pot and I don’t get along. It’s absolutely NO fun for me as it makes me throw up and then lay here hoping the awful feelings will pass quickly. They never do.
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Jaya 21 hours ago
That is abúse. Is OP also okay with spiking other people's drinks? Forcing someone to use d***s (because that's basically what the colleague did) is a horrible thing. It can have serious physical consequences for some people.
Andrew Keir 3 hours ago
Maybe 'tempting' rather than 'forcing' them to eat the brownies ?
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Michael Largey 21 hours ago
Did the colleague drive everyone home so as not to endanger them and hundreds of others?
#7
Not me but my friend. At a work christmas party she had a colleague in her 40’s grab her breasts and yell out “SEE, I KNEW THEYRE FAKE”.
It’s been a month since the incident and my colleague had been really uncomfortable at work and complained to the managers etc and they basically told her “you just have to move on”.
The lady still works there and no disciplinary action was taken against her.
JSL 1 day ago
Personally, I would have slapped the person that did that to me, then done something similar. Then I would have quit on the spot.
Michael Largey 21 hours ago
I would set the colleague's car on fire and yell out "SEE, I KNEW IT WAS FLAMMABLE."
Sally Moen 9 hours ago
A little accidental coffee spill on her lap as you walk past would be needed
Zig Zag Wanderer 11 hours ago
Document it. Quit. Claim constructive dismissal. Sue them for a king's ransom!
#8
A lady at my partner's work put her baby in a car seat to take it to daycare. She was running late and forgot the kid was in the car, so she drove to work. She parked and went inside. This was in the midwest in the Summer. The kid did not make it. My understanding is that no one mentions it. It's just a tragedy all around.
Roxy222uk 1 day ago
Stories like this just make my heart ache for that poor woman. How would you ever forgive yourself? How would you go on living, even?
amy lee 1 day ago
Read a "tip" to leave your phone by the child's seat... Which read to me as you're more likely to remember your phone than your child. Which was all sorts of depressing
Load More Replies... GalPalAl 1 day ago
Following an accident this year (2025) the rental car had an alarm that would beep and show a notice to check car for any other passengers in the car. This would be a very sensible safety feature to have on all vehicles.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 22 hours ago
There is a very, very good article about this and how our brains work. On the outside, everyone says, "How could you forget your own child? You must have been a horrible, neglectful parent! I would never do that!" But in reality, a tiny change in routine, a distraction, a sleepless night, all of these can combine into a tragedy. There are neglectful parents, yes. But tragedy can happen to even the best of parents. I'll reply to this comment with the article. It's a long read, but a very good one.
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Tabitha 1 day ago
S***s that companies don’t provide daycare for their employees. Had that been the case here, and the mother could’ve just dropped her kid at the company daycare in the same building as her office, it might not have happened. We need a major overhaul in business practices in this country (I’m in the US). Of course, we have a nightmare to end first, then some catching up to the rest of the world, before we can move forward—-all because of the evil machinations of the 1% and their knuckledragging minions.
Jaya 21 hours ago (edited)
Unfortunately this happens way too often. Parents of young kids are continually sleep deprived, and drive to work on autopilot, and simply forget that they didn't drop the kid of yet, or that they took the baby with them today. It has nothing to do with how much you care about your baby, it's simply being on autopilot and sleep deprivation. Have you ever forgotten it's thursday and not wednesday today? Well, if your partner always drops the baby off at wednesday and you thursdays, then this little mistake can already have ended your baby's life. That's how easy it can happen. Let's have some compassion for the poor parents who had to live through a tragedy like that. Some new cars have a safety mechanism that reminds you that you took the baby with you, but if your car doesn't, make sure to implement your own safety mechanism or make it a habit to always check the back of the car at the end of every single ride regardless of whether you took the baby with you.
SEMOLINAPILCHARD 23 hours ago
Jesus, we go from a guy getting fired by ALAN...of all people...to this...if feel.like someone shat in my oatmeal.
#9
Worked at Qantas. High level EGM was seen and heard openly berating a low level employee in front of a whole lot of people. Was marched up to Alan’s office and fired on the spot. Apparently wasn’t the first time this person had treated people like this and this was the final nail.
JL 1 day ago
Assuming he's the head honcho that we're all apparently supposed to know.
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John Dilligaf 22 hours ago
Alan Joyce I guess. He was CEO of Quantas from 2008 till 2023.
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Senior exec suggested an underlining needed a good slap for not meeting a target in a fairly large meeting. Underling said “I’m on level x in room y. Come down and try and I’ll knock you out!”.
#11
Came about after I'd left an organisation and found out when catching up with mates from there.
The receptionist had access to a company card to book travel for people, catering, general expenses.
She stole something like $30k. Vouchers, personal expenses etc. Must've been doing it for at least 4 of the 8 months she was there because it was apparently lots of relatively small purchases.
Not sure how she thought that would be missed by finance, or at audit time worst case. As my friend said 'if she had two brains she'd be twice as stupid'.
UnclePanda 1 day ago
The boss asked a receptionist to order some more scotch tape, thinking the usual sleeve of six rolls would suffice. But when she got to the webpage, she noticed the gross price was much better (144 rolls), and then proceeded to order 144 sleeves of six rolls each. We didn't even have room to store them, so he made everybody take home several 6-roll sleeves. That was around 2005 and I just finished the last roll in the summer of 2025.
Scott Rackley 20 hours ago
Guy I worked with ordered staples because we were out. Somehow ordered 120 boxes of staples. We had not run out when I left the company 3 years later.
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Andrew Keir 3 hours ago
"Well, the company took $10 million in sales last year so my theft, I mean borrowing, of $100 000 is small potatoes".
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Oohhh federal police turned up to a government offices. Internal fraud happens more than anyone would like to think. Was quite a sight when they turned up and arrested an individual in the middle of the day. The code of conduct had quite specific examples of what was deemed fraud.
Michael Largey 21 hours ago
When I was done auditing someone, they were arrested by the police as soon as they walked out of my cubicle. It was for something completely unrelated, but you should have seen the look on the face of the person waiting for me to audit next.
#13
Tech architect had a contract role with a competitor. Got busted when he rolled out the same presentation to them as us and forgot to Change the branding on the ppt deck. Turns out he Had a bunch of offshore guys directly contracting to him doing all the work and was working for a couple of other competitors too. Always wore nice suits.
Ace 1 day ago
I'm reminded of the story a few years ago about a programmer who farmed all his work out to programmers in China for a fraction of the money and spent his days surfing the web and chilling out. It was suggested that he might have been playing the same game with several employers.
#14
I used to work for a large insurance company in Colorado Springs, CO - When I worked there they had nap rooms which were used for other nefarious means.
My favorite workplace scandal is when one coworker stopped cheating on his wife with another coworker because he found a new workplace hookup. Work hookup #1 anonymously called the mans wife to rat him out AND security to bust in on him and his new hookup.
#15
A self proclaimed 'lesbian' in the office was sleeping with the married supervisor with kids and literally all of us knew and were stepping on eggshells around them for 6 months and they thought it was a secret but it was so blatantly obvious and awkward.
She used him to secure a permanent position and he was moved on.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 22 hours ago
Being lesbian does not mean a woman is physically incapable of sleeping with a man. This says she did it to secure a position. Was it scummy? Yes. Does it mean she isn't a lesbian? No. Closeted people have séx with the opposite séx all the time, that doesn't mean they aren't gay/lesbian or are attracted to the person they're sleeping with. This woman just happened to be out and chose to sleep with a man for personal gain.
UnclePanda 1 day ago (edited)
"Three things cannot be hidden: Smoke from a fire; somebody crossing an open desert; and the love between two people." ~ Old Bedouin saying
#16
Years ago I worked at a company that hired a sales guy who was pretty hard-working and definitely put out a, 'I am trying to come back from a dark time in my life' kind of vibe. We all really liked him as a first impression, but we didn't get a chance to know him very well. One day he went out to his car at lunch, drank himself to a point of insensibility, then came back into the office like nothing was wrong. When his boss called him on it, he took a swing at him and missed by a mile, spinning himself around and almost falling over.
He was immediately fired —I don't even think there was paperwork involved. He was only a few weeks into the job— and escorted out of the building. By unspoken rule, no one talked about the incident. Enough time has passed now, I don't even remember the guy's name or really any more about it than I've said.
#17
Don't actually know, but I'll never forget the leaving announcement. Usually even for people leaving on bad terms there's a nice email sent around detailing their achievements and wishing them well on their next endeavour. This one was just
"Barry is leaving the business
In his 11 years he worked in operations, R&D and corporate affairs.
His last day is today."
I have some theories but I never did find out just how bad he screwed up.
Charlie Tuna 1 day ago
The code word at one old company was that "they're leaving to spend more time with their family." Yeah, whether they like it or not.
Binky Melnik 1 day ago
This may surprise you, Charlie, but that wasn’t that company’s phrase. It’s used everywhere, by politicians, actors, athletes, construction workers, everyone. It generally means the people using it got into trouble.
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Arthur Waite 1 day ago
One job I had, I came in to work as usual, then found I couldn't sign in to my computer. Went to the IT service guys to ask about it, was told I didn't work there anymore. Had to wait around until my Boss came in to ask him. Had to actually beg him to let me in to my files to take out personal things - he stood and watched me copy out phone lists, letters, etc.
OneHappyPuppy 1 day ago
Why did you have personal things in your files in the first place? Never have anything personal at work, it'll be always easier to leave
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Someone got 'let go' but was allowed back to their desk to finish off the day. Various abu sive emails were sent, some of them racist. We got a blanket email to over 100,000 staff warning us not to open any emails from said person and IT would delete centrally. Someone really burnt their bridges there and may have got their managers in a lot of trouble, too
Glenn Phillips 17 hours ago
We get an email saying "Effectively immediately, Barry is no longer with Company. Please direct all inquiries to Boss"
#18
A woman who had beef with another lady put dog excrement in her Tupperware lunch in the fridge.
#19
A divorced couple worked at my company in separate departments. The ex-husband went to the ex-wife's house to pick up their kids one night and got into an argument with the ex-wife's boyfriend, who was a cop. The cop shot him. The ex-husband died. The ex-wife was not exactly contrite about it.
For weeks or even months after that, the ex-husband's coworkers were on a warpath against the ex-wife and her supportive coworkers. This is in HQ for a big company and there were regular outbursts if those people saw each other in the lobby, elevators, cafeteria, etc. It was wild.
G A 1 day ago
Surprised they weren't both dismissed in the US before it all blew up. Seems to be standard procedure in a lot of cases.
Tabitha 1 day ago
Bet the cop was dismissed for shooting his girlfriend’s ex-husband, and not in self defense. Bet the gun was his service revolver too, which makes it worse.
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#20
From my first workplace as a college intern: The Director of Engineering was working on a special project and required the PM's admin to assist, every day in his office from noon to 1pm. One Thursday they forgot to close the door completely and as it turned out their special project was shagging each other stupid. They were sent home and told not to come back until the following Monday, by which time management would know how to address the incident.
Monday rolls around and they don't show up. After calling both of their spouses, it turns out that each came home Thursday, made up an excuse to their families, packed a bag and left. Within a few weeks it turns out that their special project also included embezzling $870,000 in company funds and absconding to the Caribbean.
Andrew Keir 2 hours ago
"I'm taking your admin to the Caribbean". "Jamaica?" "Every lunchtime for weeks and weeks !"
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I was an admin assistant for a mortgage team and our boss (male) was having an affair with one of the mortgage lenders (female). It was an open secret, they'd go for three hour "lunch breaks" and we'd find her draped over his desk, and it was super awkward when her husband kept dropping by to surprise her, and the other mortgage lender broke down because she was having to pick up the slack. Worse still, the dude she'd been having an affair with *before* our boss who ALSO worked in the building was pissed off she'd stopped banging him to bang our boss and was becoming an absolute liability. It all came out when they tried to blame me for her missing a meeting with a (very important) client because they were "out to lunch" when I had 100% proof I'd scheduled it correctly. He shouted at me in front of everyone, and a few of us went to HR. The entire company ended up getting restructured so he was no longer managing us, she left about a month later because she was pregnant with her husbands baby (allegedly), and they were leaving on a trip around Australia (pretty sure she got paid to leave.
Worst bit was taking the phone calls from their respective spouses and having to lie to them.
Deborah B 20 hours ago
Why lie? I'd go with "It's not my place to speculate." Don't cover for cheaters.
Andrew Keir 2 hours ago
"I can't tell you that" - not specifying why not. Sounds like you don't know but - you didn't say that ...
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Two people in the office were secretly in a relationship and we only found out when he was arrested for domestic violence against her.
#23
I used to work at a place where two employees who were both married had an affair then divorced their spouses and married each other. Two years later the guy has an affair with a client then he divorces and marries client. Everyone is somehow shocked.
#24
A manager and director were having an affair while each was married with kids. No one would’ve suspected anything until they started having massive arguments in a meeting room in another floor every week at 7am. They both became very unstable and would start crying for no reason.
She moved to a competitor once her position was untenable, but then he got a lower level role with the same company a couple of months later.
#25
One morning I came in to find half the PMs and BAs hanging around in the lobby. Turns out their manager had been running a secret recruitment business which he hired them all through and pocketed the commissions.
He had been marched out and all their passes were deactivated.
Zig Zag Wanderer 11 hours ago
Yeah, k8nd of had this at a government department I worked at and left. I sent an email which started an investigation. The guy running a lot of the contractors in IT (a contractor himself) was recruiting them through his own company. They had to sack ALL contractors to avoid a scandal. My new company was politely asked to support the system I had written for them. Imheld that contract for 17 years 😎 sorry about that Dale. Perhaps you should have paid me what I was worth.....
#26
I worked for a very professional and large organization and for a period of about 6 months there was almost daily poop on the floor in the ladies bathroom. Nobody knew who or why.
Chich the witch 22 hours ago
Just post a notice in the loo that bathroom cameras are for research purposes and are not to be tampered with. Problem solved :p
#27
A past employee faked her own d***h to avoid paying back pay advances… it’s our family business and we actually probably would have not worrried about her paying it back she had issues. Great worker, s**thouse with money.
Andrew Keir 2 hours ago
Sometimes it's the most surprising people who just can't deal with money. "Little treats", lottery tickets, scratchcards, bling...
#28
Rumour had it that an exec was fooling around with two girls in office at same time neither of whom were his wife.
Bought one an expensive gift but not the other , the other one got wind of it and SHTF.
Exec was not with us very shortly after that.
#29
Currently if there is one, I don't know about it, but at my previous employer I was the scandal.
I started seeing my boss in a fast food restaurant. I was a team member and she was the store manager, so theres a good 2-3 levels of management between us. We flirted a lot at work, and then started sleeping together, and all of a sudden I was able to get away with a lot more.
I ended up caring about her a lot, and left the store just so I could date her uninhibited. Didn't want her to lose her job.
#30
Lots of stories in industry of chairs/laptops being thrown at people in anger.
One guy/girl had s*x on campus, both dismissed. He’s still in industry and known for soliciting his underlings to orgies. Despite this, he’s very senior where he is and extremely well liked. She’s in industry and known for being absolutely lovely, but hasn’t shaken the stigma sadly.
One office manager (not corporate, private firm) stole the entire payrolls superannuation for YEARS then fled OS. Company was too worried about bad PR to do anything about it, and staff too worried about reputation in small industry to sue. So he got away with $100k’s and the firm said “oopsie”.
#31
Business started to suffer from low income and the single financial controller warned the director of it all, said wages were our biggest cost. His response was to fire her immediately because he claimed he could do all the books, payroll etc.
After several following stuff ups with pay a heap of us resigned. Don't know how they are doing now.
#32
Top salesperson has been sleeping with the boss’s wife for years. Everyone on the team knows about it. Nothing has changed.
Lukas (he/him, it/its) 22 hours ago
Op on Reddit added this: "Edit to add: For those who want more context, I’m self-employed in a solo business."
#33
Very popular head of an industry super fund, known to be very generous with staff.
Was abusing the company credit card, her PA found out, then all of a sudden PA was accompanying CEO on overseas trips.
Would return company cars without entertainment systems…
Sacked her, but couldn’t recover funds as there wasn’t a policy against the spending….
#34
Walking past my colleagues door, middle of the afternoon and looked in his office door window. Saw him absolutely shagging an intern. At the same time another colleague also stopped, saw the same thing. He called our boss, who came and a small group watched them have to leave the office and go down to HR.
#35
Our company driver never got much done. It would take him days to deliver a package down the road. One day our boss calls us into the boardroom and tells us he had been shot between the eyes, while on the beach with a prostitute in the middle of the work day.
A couple of hours after he was found his wife walks into our boardroom - where we're all being told about his death - with all his life insurance paperwork asking about her payout.
He, and his wife, were devoutly Muslim and his wife gave him a Catholic burial, complete with open casket. I'll never forget the bullet hole between his eyes.
Michael Largey 20 hours ago
Since the wife would be the No. 1 suspect, the life insurance company isn't handing the money over any time soon.
#36
Used to work at a place that had drama every week.
My female coworkers T and M were at a pub for friday afternoon drinks along with half the office.
T introduced her new fiance to everyone. T got quite drunk, has a jealousy streak and didn't like how M was interacting with her man. T punches M in the face.
On the following monday upper management announce the successful applicants for a new team. M sporting a shiny black eye is announced as the Team Leader and T is her new 2IC.
#37
Partner knocked up a marketing manager.
#38
IPhone left somewhere by accident. Picked up by another staff member and taken home. Police retrieved it.
Don’t know if anyone was punished as there was a flimsy excuse. There is now a bit of paper stuck on the wall near where it happened that says something about taking things to lost property. Nowhere else in large office space is there any kind of warning.
#39
Principal on the fast track to partnership at big 4 got caught banging a cadet in his office on a weekend. Both walked on the Monday and I believe there was a lawsuit where the cadet got some $$$. Interestingly, he split from his wife and they actually ended up staying together for five plus years and she was a stepmum to his kids!
Just looked him up, and he's now a partner at a small mid tier firm having previously been a partner at a big mid tier.
GalPalAl 1 day ago
People like this should be sterile. You want to be a p.o.s. fine, but your kids shouldn't suffer for having people like this as parents. Sad.
Andrew Keir 2 hours ago
Not just sterile, but neutered as well. Big snip as well as little snip.
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A manager had an affair with his direct report. He was married for a while, so most of his team knew his wife very well.
It all blew up at a work event, when his wife turned up and confronted both of them. There were rumors, and after that it couldn’t be hidden anymore.
All of his team took his wife’s side.
The weeks after this event, both of them were absent from work. She resigned, and he did soon after.
The rumor was that he didn’t see anything wrong with the situation, and that it was none of works business. It’s his personal life - not his work life.
I heard they’re married now.
#41
Dude at my old job (logistics) was doing deals on the side. He was very meticulous and organized. He even kept a running tally of the money he was skimming from the company on an Excel spreadsheet. He kept this file on his work computer, which he also used to conduct all his business. In all, he had gotten about $30k in 3 or so months. The company found out when he got blackout drunk at a casino at noon on a Tuesday and started asking other sales reps how much they were taking off the top. Needless to say, he was fired.
He also lived across the street from me. About a week later, I hear yelling and his naked girlfriend is thrown out of his house onto his porch. She responds by throwing a brick through his window. He then comes out of his house with a baseball bat, chases her down the street, and beats her with it. He left her in the street naked and bleeding. He then got in his car and drove away, causing the police, who I called, to not be able to arrest him that day. Luckily for me, I had this all on video, which was posted to Facebook and I tagged him in it.
What do you think ?
Tabitha 1 day ago
I’m 65 now, and when I got my first job as a teenager, I was given a really good bit of advice, “Don’t s**t where you eat”. In other words don’t do anything at work that you wouldn’t want the whole world to know about. Don’t mix business with pleasure. Always keep your personal life personal. If you can’t resist, then be extremely discreet and always take it off campus. Never at work. Don’t get that kind of reputation, because it is impossible to change and will hold you back, especially if you’re a woman since men often get an unfair pass when it comes to that. Basically, exert self control at work, and don’t do stupid s**t. Life is not a sitcom or a movie, where everything gets neatly and nicely resolved by the end of the story. Life is messy enough already, so there’s no need to make it even messier by not having impulse control.
Papa 21 hours ago
Another way to put it is "Don't get your honey where you get your money."
Load More Replies... Taibhse Sealgair 1 day ago
CEO of my (Fortune 500) company was knocking boots with another C-Level on "business" trips. Yeah, they were conducting business, alright. Both immediately let go.
Tabitha 1 day ago
I’m 65 now, and when I got my first job as a teenager, I was given a really good bit of advice, “Don’t s**t where you eat”. In other words don’t do anything at work that you wouldn’t want the whole world to know about. Don’t mix business with pleasure. Always keep your personal life personal. If you can’t resist, then be extremely discreet and always take it off campus. Never at work. Don’t get that kind of reputation, because it is impossible to change and will hold you back, especially if you’re a woman since men often get an unfair pass when it comes to that. Basically, exert self control at work, and don’t do stupid s**t. Life is not a sitcom or a movie, where everything gets neatly and nicely resolved by the end of the story. Life is messy enough already, so there’s no need to make it even messier by not having impulse control.
Papa 21 hours ago
Another way to put it is "Don't get your honey where you get your money."
Load More Replies... Taibhse Sealgair 1 day ago
CEO of my (Fortune 500) company was knocking boots with another C-Level on "business" trips. Yeah, they were conducting business, alright. Both immediately let go.
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