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28 Times Employees Did Bizarrely Crazy Things At Work That Folks Online Just Had To Share
Most times, you hear people complain about their CEOs, bosses, superiors, what have you, but it’s not that often you hear it the other way around.
Sure, bosses have to have something (if not a lot of things) to complain about, but their comments are often reserved, conservative and ethical because it comes with the territory.
Well, it’s come time to spill the beans, and so Redditors—mostly current or former CEOs and managers, but also sometimes other people—shared stories of the craziest things they saw employees do.
The post went viral with almost 10,000 upvotes, and generating over 5,800 comments. We’ve gathered the best of the best below, so vote, comment, and why not share some of your bizarre employee stories in the comment section below!
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#1
Had a see through water bottle that was filled with vodka. He started the day off fine but was legless by lunch. Drove him home (40mins each way) because he couldn't afford a cab. Talked the owner out of firing him and instead we helped him get into a program. That was 4 years ago... he's the production manager now. Model employee now in fact.
May 3 years ago
When I worked in a hospital, we used to see empty bottles of vodka in the bin in the locker room. Considering everyone who used the locker room was a health care professional, it was pretty disturbing. Never found out who it was, though I'm kind of hoping it was the same person who stole morphine.
Mary Rose Kent 3 years ago
Otherwise, you’ve doubled your load of people known for their poor decision making
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Fabian Meresse 3 years ago (edited)
We also are curently supporting one of our coworker at my working place through this. 15 years sober for me, so I can -a few- understand what dark night he's passing through now. Being a functional drinker is the hardest, as no one notice, and also because you keep telling stories to yourself that your life is kept together and so feeding deny. Wishing the best to him (edit: typo because of French autocorrector!)
Dina Anastasakos 3 years ago
Wow....imagine where his life would have gone had thwy given up on him. Beautiful story of redemption.
Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Ex Chef here - I, and far too many others, missed most of the 80's and 90's because of alcohol and substance abuse brought on by work pressure, long hours, stress - I've worked in busy kitchens turning out astonishing, creative and wonderfully delicious food where every member of the staff, from the Head Chef to the Pot Wash were out of their heads on whatever their particular poison was ...... I stopped being a Chef 10 years ago, and whilst not entirely sober, I do now remember what went on the day before ......
Grace Noyes 3 years ago
My son is a bartender in Austin, and he told me that EVERYONE in that business is a substance abuser. Gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling finding that out/s
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Addiction is a mental illness. Would you fire someone for having a panic attack or being OCD? It’s interesting how there are “good” illnesses and “bad” illnesses.
Mohammad Ammar 3 years ago
Yes if it interfered with their work too much. But I get what you mean, I think workplaces have a responsibility to at least try and help people keep their jobs and get healthy.
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Leona V. 3 years ago (edited)
We had an older lady come in half-drunk 2-3 nights a week at a 2nd shift light manufacturing summer job I had. The supervisor would put her on something simple like putting self-stick gasketing around case edges or the like. Nobody wanted her to get fired bc we knew she needed the income to survive and there weren’t that many places in the area hiring low skilled workers. I was only there a few months but it was an eye opener.
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#2
I manage a small weld shop. Generally, I don't care about less than clean background checks or pot, as long as you come into work every day and get s**t done. Finding reliable welders is difficult, so a lot of s**t flies. This sometimes leads to weird employees. This one guy we hired stopped showing up. After like 3 days days, he walks in the door. He's bright red from being sunburnt to s**t, and his clothes are torn to shreds. Dude was drinking on a little aluminum boat and somehow got lost at sea. He looked like Tom Hanks from Castaway! He didn't have cell phone reception, so he wasn't able to call me. He did take a bunch of pictures over the few days he was lost at sea, though. Including one where he was being rescued by the coast guard. I gave him the rest of the week off. Cost guard took him to the hospital, he checked himself out, and immediately came into work. Didn't even go home and shower. Odd dude.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Sounds like a decent boss too. Didn't fire the guy after several days of no call/no show and even gave him some time off to get over the ordeal. I've known management that would have cut the guy loose no matter what he had been through.
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LeeJ 3 years ago
Not an odd dude the guy was trying to keep his f'ing job. What is wrong with people
Beth S 3 years ago
Seems like he really needed the money and was terrified he'd lose his job!
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Fritz Baumeister 3 years ago
I have a small manufacturing shop with very similarly colorful characters. Usually when they don't show up and don't call, it's because they got locked-up in jail (no phones allowed). Of course the wildest no-show actually did call me. He went deer hunting before dawn and fell out his tree stand. He called me while lying on the ground with a broken leg (compound fracture). He was alone and didn't know how he was gonna get out of the woods. I said, " Dude! Hang up the phone and call 911!"
AngelWingsYT 3 years ago
XD commitment alao id love to think he causally went "oh yea got lost at sea for days shark almost ate me"
#3
I was doing a weekly call monitor on one of my better employees and found he was doing an Indian accent. I was a bit surprised so I went back and listened to 5+ calls of his from that week and found he was doing different impressions for almost every call. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Micky Mouse, Apu from the Simpsons, a pretty solid Christopher Walken and a few others.
Phil Tune 3 years ago
Oh when I took calls for Sprint, I'd do different accents when I knew I'd already had my quality checks for the week. Usually it was a matter of getting customers to be nicer to you if you didn't sound like you were from the Midwest(US). Deep south accents and Irish accents usually made people nicer for some reason.
Heather Vandegrift 3 years ago
I work for a call center, and I can understand this. It's not unprofessional if they do their job correctly, it's something fun to keep them from burn out, and the people doing QM get a chuckle
Lori-anne Hershberg 3 years ago
Does it matter how he speaks? As long as he is doing a good job...
phil blanque 3 years ago
As a customer I would love talking to Christopher Walken...why not get into that weird space for awhile?
#4
Seven65 said:
I had an employee call a French woman a frog and then start ribbiting. That was kind of awkward
hamakabi replied:
I once mentioned to my manager that I had a friend who was learning chinese.
She asked how anyone could ever learn that language when it's all "ping pong ching chong ching" Then she noticed the Chinese customer standing behind her with his mouth open. Yeah, that didn't go over well with corporate.
Claire Stanfield 3 years ago
Goodnessss... We had a Hispanic customer come up with a reasonable complaint and didn't raise his voice or cause a scene, and one of my coworkers shockingly suggested he go home and eat tacos instead. She got fired for that one.
phil blanque 3 years ago
These are reasons for dismissal....no question. Aside from the immorality, racist employees will only be trouble, sooner or later. Dismiss them.
Thomas Turnbull 3 years ago
A. Guy I worked with had a difficult customer on the phone he thought he had pressed mute on his phone (spoiler he hadn’t) and said out loud this customer is a right Dickhead and f**king stupid. Customer got quite angry and the guy was sacked instantly.
Poppy 3 years ago
I had a colleague accidentally do something similar. We were picking orders in a supermarket for home delivery. We all had the habit of saying out loud what we were looking for as it seemed to help us find it. One of the products my colleague was looking for was Power White kitchen towels. So he was muttering to himself 'Power, white, power, white, power white' I saw his face just suddenly redden and he had the 'oh s**t!' look on his face as he was stood next to a black lady.
#5
Pencilowner said:
In the navy we had a broken accommodation ladder(it's a stairway attached to the ship for embarkation and debarkation that isn't always used if there is a brow on the pier) it was due for inspection and rather than fail the inspection the guys just unbolted it and let it fall overboard.
Yerok-The-Warrior replied:
Typical! LOL!
My Army unit was loading a fast sealift ship with our vehicles for an overseas deployment. At the port, the transportation specialists were telling us where to stage and where to load. They had us back our own equipment onto the ship.
One vehicle was about to strike the side of the ship and all the transport guys immediately turned to face the opposite direction. Since I noticed their behavior to be odd, I asked one of them why they did it. He replied, "If we witness an accident, we have to do paperwork."
Amanda Hunter 3 years ago
Let it fall overboard, why not, it's just us taxpayers funding you lot.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
AWOL, SNAFU, FUBAR, and several other acronymic words have come into the English language from the military and I figure it's only a matter of time before CYOA does too.
#6
Referred to a Chinese customer's baby as "a cute little c****y"' when my coworker(who also happens to have Asian heritage) pointed out that it was incredibly racist, the employee replied "oh it's fine my boyfriend is black" the weird part is he was Filipino, not black ( as if it excuses racism anyway)
She was shocked when we didn't renew her contract.
Janoel Murrey 3 years ago
"Oh My BoYfRiEnD iS bLaCk" yea because being black excuses all racism
Raven DeathShade 3 years ago (edited)
But...but...doesn't having a S.O of color give me a free license to be racist? SOMEBODY LIED TO ME AND I'M GONNA FIND OUT WHO!! (I really hope I don't have to actually say I'm joking...)
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Who Panda 420 3 years ago
A girl I know of uses the n word all the time in a derogatory way then says its OK because she's Puerto Rican and had a half black baby??? Still very f,cking wrong
Tonya Wallace 3 years ago (edited)
She'll one day say it around the wrong person (actually the RIGHT person) and when she gets her head knocked back, she'll stop. It happened to my racist daughter in law. I'm still getting joy from it.
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Anne Edwards 3 years ago
How on earth can anyone under the age of 110 years fail to understand this?
Kishibe Angelo 3 years ago
my boyfreind is black. like lady that still doesn't excuse any type of racism racism is racism. no matter your skin color, who the other persons skin color is or what your signifacant other's skin color is
Fried Mermaid 3 years ago
Everyday you learn something new, unfortunately, today I learned a new slur :( had to google it
MzFitz1215 3 years ago
I'm not sure how to Google it, I have no idea what the word is.
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ERIKA H. 3 years ago
BORED PANDA MODS is there a reason you aren't censoring this word? It's a slur. You've censored plentlt of other crap way less offensive, please censor what's actually worth censoring
Doesn’t Care 3 years ago
It is you who doesn't know what racism is. A word can not be racist, it's a word. So spare everyone your woke idiology. You are to do.ple to even understand you have no intelligence.
phil blanque 3 years ago
Anyone can be a racist. You do not have to be a European -descent white person to be racist. I have known plenty of tan, brown, black racists in my life.
Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
It sounds like she was just incredibly ignorant in her racism and not malicious or hateful at least.
#7
Heh.
Back in the retail book industry in ages past I had this employee...
He would take a 'bathroom break' anytime an employee got called into the office.
Why? Well, because he had discovered (somehow) that if you went to the men's room and stood on the toilet and lifted one of the ceiling tiles, you could sort of make out conversations in the manager's office that was adjacent.
He also discovered during one of his frequent smoke breaks that there was an access hallway for grounds maintenance (this was in a shopping mall of sorts) that also had a ladder that went to the roof. He'd occasionally vanish and basically go sit on the roof. If no one could find him, he couldn't get in trouble, he figured.
Seanette Blaylock 3 years ago
You probably wouldn't like him so much if you were having to cover his share of the work while he's hiding out on the roof or snooping on private conversations (especially if you were the one thinking your conversation with your manager was confidential).
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Mickie Shea 3 years ago
Used to play bridge most all afternoons at a nine to five job. Work was boring.
phil blanque 3 years ago
Well...the work is done, or it is not. If a system cannot tell the difference between someone doing his job or not, it is seriously broken. Or the person is unaccountably superfluous Fire him.
#8
HR hired an employee to work on the mine I manage. He showed up 45 minutes late wearing shorts and crocs. I proceeded to fire him on the spot. Got a framed letter from corporate jokingly congratulating me for having the shortest tenured employee in company history.
May 3 years ago
Did they not know what a mine was, or did they expect the company to what we in the civilized world do - and provide work gear?
Claire Stanfield 3 years ago
Work gear, sure, but wouldn't you want to start off with more clothing coverage doing ANY manual labor job?
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Dina Anastasakos 3 years ago
So how did he get hired in the first place? Don't you need some kind of experience? And wouldn't they have done an interview? How did this guy not know what appropriate clothing he should wear to this job? Anyway showing up 45 min late the first day on your job is def a red flag for an employer as clearly this guy does not take his job seriously which is a bad thing working in a mine!
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Being late on the first day is pretty bad, but if they called in to let me know and it was a legit reason, I might let that slide. If safety work boots are required, that should be covered by the company as PPE along with uniforms ,if mandated by the company.
Celtic Pirate Queen 3 years ago
I once interviewed a guy for a front desk admin position. He showed up in flannel pants (jammie bottoms) and Crocs. For an interview. At a very professional company. He was SHOCKED that I wouldn't even interview him. I was kind enough to explain to him how unprofessional his attire was and if that was acceptable to him for an interview, he wasn't a good fit for the company. Six months later, our new person quit to go back to school & this guy applied again. I figured I'd give him a shot (he had great references, which turned out to be fake - long story). He again shows up dressed completely inappropriately. He was wearing head to toe camo fatigues, with you guessed it, Crocs. I just shook my head & told him to leave.
phil blanque 3 years ago
Yes, that is NOT appropriate attire for a court attorney. Unless he had a straw hat and Hawaiian shirt.....that could work.
Jimmy Lewis 3 years ago
There was this young girl that got hired where I worked that showed up in crocs. She had to go home and change shoes. I felt sorry for her. She didn't last long. She just wasn't cut out for factory work.
Elizabeth Butler 3 years ago
Is it a case of 'must interview for a job to keep benefits' but doesn't really want the job???
#9
Not too crazy, but pretty stupid. I had a girl that worked for me at a Mortgage Company pull the credit report of her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend (no idea how she got her social security number) and then went on the girl's Facebook page posting messages about all of her debt, and past due accounts, and the crappy kinds of car that she drives, etc. Got an angry call from the girl who ended up being a pain in my butt for a while.
Edit: Forgot an interesting part - We fired the girl, and about a week later an agent from the department of Treasury comes in asking questions about the girl. Turns out, she was being investigated for a series of fraudulent things, including operating as a loan officer without a license, and taking out a bunch of federal student loans in her grandfather's name. He wanted information because in investigating learned that she had been fired from the company for some sort of malfeasance, and he wanted the details. She went to jail for a while eventually.
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
I’m in chock over how Crazy people behave. And the things they come up with,WOW!!!! 😳
smugdruggler 3 years ago
I wonder how they think that they would get away with stuff like that. Chocking lol
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Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
I dont understand why the O.P. thought the new girlfriend wouldn't be a pain in his butt! If that happened to me, I'd be raising hell too and if applicable, looking into having charges filed against the employee and seeking damages from both her and the company.
Dina Anastasakos 3 years ago
Exactly! And in the US there are hundreds of laywers who would take on a case like this! O.P was blaming the victim. How would they have limes it if their personal financial info got spread around social media?
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Bob Belcher 3 years ago
Nope sorry, I call BS on this. I work for an FI in audit and the Department of Treasury would not be doing any investigation. She could be investigated by the FBI or since she worked for a mortgage company she could be investigated by the CFPB.
LOttawa 3 years ago (edited)
And I'm not sure about the US (I'm thinking both countries are similar for this), but in Canada, you do not need to use anyone SIN (equivalent to SSN) to get a credit report (I was a debt collector for about 20 years so I pulled a lot of those). Creditor use them because it's an easy individual identifier and it makes their job easier/faster, but they are not needed. SO just the fact that she/he mentions they don't know how they got their SSN, make's me doubt the story since most people who work in these fields, know its not needed.
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Julie C Rose 3 years ago
You’d be surprised. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/acc-staff-posted-clients-details-to-snapchat-group/IXG4ER5OZ7QAPOMLQVGH2ENT7Q/
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I was a supervisor at a bulk food store. Had a staff member who was responsible for sweeping the floors. He would regularly snack on what he swept up.
Jyndaru 3 years ago
Staff at a bulk food store? Yeah, most likely minimum wage, and depending where this was and when, he probably couldn't afford rent, bills, and food on his wage. I know I can't currently.
Load More Replies... Hugh Cookson 3 years ago
Oh yes, I was a Chef for more years than I care to remember and in a few places I've worked, the Pot Washers would eat from the left overs that came back from the restaurant .... One elderly lady in particular (in a small Hotel on Exmoor, UK) would snag food from the bin and take it home to eat ..... She was a bit eccentric as she lived alone in a 5 bedroom mansion, we found out after she passed away, that she was absolutely loaded and worth over £5 million. Only worked as a Pot wash because it kept her busy ....
Jyndaru 3 years ago
Probably not, if he was in America making minimum wage.
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Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
I now think wistfully of those happy times which existed before I read this post.
#11
Took a temp job leading the Santa's Village at Bass Pro while waiting on my contract to start at my career job. The people you hire are usually...interesting. One girl on her first shift was on her phone as I walked back to the department. I wasn't in uniform yet but told her, "You aren't supposed to be on your phone on shift." She screams, "Who the F**K ARE YOU?" I walked away, clocked in, wrote her up, and came back to her with write up.
She turned out to be one of the better employees.
Willie Peterson 3 years ago
I had to do job interviews yesterday. A woman walked in and asked if she was at the right place. A co worker told her yes and set her down at a table in our office. I went to walk in and heard her cussing, she was on the phone talking crap about the job she was applying for. Then when i walked in she had a crack pipe hanging out of her pocket and a 20 rock in a baggie laying beside her. I told her we had already hired someone. I was sorry to waste her time. She said its ok, can she use the bathroom. I told her yes she walked out and went to the bathroom i grabbed the crack a couple seconds later she come flying back in the room saying she lost he wallet and was looking all over the floor. I flushed the drugs. And made her leave
Beverly Lodge 3 years ago
This sounds kinda fake. How'd you know it was crack? How'd you know it was a crack pipe? How do you know it was $20? What pocket, her pants? Why were you looking at her pants? Sounds like a story someone told someone else and you're repeating. Don't.
Load More Replies... Oopsydaisy 3 years ago
These people have to deal with children and, worse, their parents, every day all day. I'd cut them some slack
Josarah Ferryer 3 years ago
So... Yelling "who the f**k are you!" at someone should be acceptable behaviour at work?...
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#12
Was middle-management at my old job. I had a team below me, but PLENTY of (awful) people above me. Had one of my people specifically request only closing shifts, because it was easier on her family for child care purposes.
After a month of this, she b*****d at my (f*****g awful) boss about no shift diversity. He "talked" with me about it, ignored that fact that she had requested it, and demanded I give her day shifts. So I gave her three day shifts, she missed all of them. Blamed me for not giving her the night shifts she wanted. My (f**k-wad) boss yelled at me for giving her day shifts too, despite me telling him this would happen when he forced me to do it initially.
Fired the girl for missing so many shifts, she recruited five guys (the fathers of her various children) to come yell at me for ruining her source of income.
Jean Peterson 3 years ago
So did they identify themselves as the five fathers? They all get along so well that they would fight for her income yet not one of them(or two) could watch the gaggle of children they created together?
Kris Duge 3 years ago
Court ordered anger management classes might be a thing for angry people.. I wish there was something for stupid/overly entitled people because both that manager and that employee should get court order to go to a "don't be a dumbass" class (read dumbass in Red Formans voice)
Cath poop 3 years ago
Right? That seems super odd considering she wanted that particular shift.
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Jaybird3939 3 years ago
Uh, shouldn't those fathers be paying child support rather than harassing her boss?
#13
I had an employee call and tell me her mother died. Well, I got an anonymous phone call from someone telling me she was lying so I called the number I had on file to send my regards and I get an address to send flowers. In the meantime the office had collected an envelope of money to help with the costs of the funeral and missing work. When I called, the mother answered and was shocked to find out her daughter used her death as an excuse to go to Vegas for the weekend. When she returned I help a big meeting with everyone in the office and presented her with the envelope of money and flowers, she took it and faked cried. I called her into my office to reveal that I knew and fired her and took the envelope back. She said she "don't give a f**k" and left.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Damnit, that's lowdown on so many levels. Bull$h!ting about someone's death, then taking the charity of your coworkers like that... she deserved to be canned and forced to work a nasty job for awhile.
Stannous Flouride 3 years ago
Unfortunately, the most appropriate one, i.e., digging graves, is now done with backhoes.
Load More Replies... Jean Peterson 3 years ago
This is really screwed up to say the death of a family member, I completely agree. However, what would it be like if people didn't feel like they had to come up with life or death scenarios just to call out of work. Your job does not own you and this person really has no business checking up on them. Unless t becomes problematic you should be able to call out of work every once in awhile to do things without having to explain yourself.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
I agree, PTO is something everyone needs and should be able to use. Granted, there will be times when coverage will be an issue.As long as there's a heads up to management, that shouldn't be much of a problem, and that's what management get paid to do...manage. If you have PTO banked, you shouldn't be prevented from using it.
Load More Replies... Jimmy Lewis 3 years ago
I've seen several employees do this. The worst one was this guy came to work, and said his child was sick. A few days later he came in, and a few hours into the shift, he supposedly got a call saying his child had died. We took up a collection for him, and didn't hear anything else about it. He ended up quitting. About a year later one of my coworkers saw him at a gas station where the guy now worked. The guy told my coworker that he lied about his child dying. He didn't even have a child.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Nasty in the extreme to use the death of a child which can be extremely triggering
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Shaista Afridi 🇦🇫 3 years ago
that's honestly pathetic; my best friend who has just turned 16 lost her mother 2 years ago and still cries about it to this day, and this twat fakes her mothers death for a trip? idiot
Kai David 3 years ago
My first day on the job as health and safety, an employee said her grandmother died and needed time off. A year to the date, the same employee said her grandmother died and needed time off. I went to set the paperwork in her file and I read through her file (part of my job, not snooping). Her grandmother died on the same date every year for the past five years. It was her annual trip to a Vegas girls trip.
Marty Sunderland 3 years ago
Worked with a girl whose grandmother died 3 time in about 6 weeks, yes, same grandmother.
#14
Watched a cashier ring up his friend and pretty much give him everything for free. Nobody likes the store but don't make it so obvious.
Brendan McCarthy 3 years ago
I worked at a grocery store. They had a rule, you weren't allowed to ring up anyone you know. When am employee wanted to check out, they either went to someone they didn't know or they went to the front service desk which (presumably) was started by the more trustworthy employees.
Albino 3 years ago
That does not work in rural areas. Here I can choose between my former classmate, my late granny's neighbor and the woman who used to drive my kindergarten bus. She's about to retire, but no chance they'll get someone who does not know 90% of the village.
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MyOpinionHasBeenServed 3 years ago
Some stores in Canada, it's a hidden law that's been recently brought to light, if an item is priced wrong and under $10 on the shelves the customer gets it for free, or if it's over $10 you get $10 off. Don't believe me (what else is new) https://www.retailcouncil.org/scanner-price-accuracy-code/
Jyndaru 3 years ago
One of my first ever jobs was at a large craft store circa 2003. My boyfriend's mom came through and I wanted her to like me, so I used every discount code and adjustment possible. She got a cart full for around $20 and left with a huge smile. I'd never do that these days, but as a teenager I was proud to have "screwed the man" and gotten away with it. Lol!
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Reminds me of the time I had friends working at the local McDonalds. Sometimes when I ordered a quarter pounder with cheese plain, they'd slip me a 1 pounder (4 burgers and 4 pieces of cheese). Never asked for it, but I sure appreciated it.
Jessica Rabbit 3 years ago
I once worked at a photo studio in the mall across the way from a candy store. I would go in there regularly and became friendly with the girl behind the counter (she was socially awkward but always sweet and I enjoyed talking with her). After a while, when I would go in and buy a bag of candy, she would lift the corner so it "weighed" less and I wasn't charged as much. That was 10+ years ago and I still remember it fondly :)
Mickie Shea 3 years ago
Common crime wherever cash registers are used. Not nice as it does affect cost of goods.
#15
Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Busy as hell. A customer comes up to me to tell me their server just dropped a platter of nachos on the ground in front of them. Yelled "f**k" in front of the family, then walked away without cleaning up any of it. Pull her aside and she is visibly drunk all of a sudden. I ask her if she has been drinking. She screams in my face "You want to go to war b***h?" Fire her on the spot. Found out she did 7 shots in about 30 minutes.
Lori-anne Hershberg 3 years ago
WON the war...fired her. Did you miss that?
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Jo Choto 3 years ago
That's the only way to get Thanksgiving off if you work in the American service industry.
#16
I once fired a guy and he tried to go back to work. His crush was in the clock in room when I had to tell him to leave again. He cried on my shoulder as I walked him out of the building. Not because I fired him but because I told him to leave in front of his crush.
Thomas Turnbull 3 years ago
I worked in a factory in the 1970’s and it was a Friday two of the workers went out to lunch came back extremely drunk and were both sacked on the spot. One was our union rep who tried to get us out on strike for his sacking (never happened) the other guy turned up for work on the Monday not remembering he had been sacked on the Friday.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
That's so sad. I was offered a few promotions that I did not accept even with a huge wage increase because I would not fire people
#17
Not an employer, but mine sure was pissed. We had a co-worker that called out of work/left early all the time, bawling her eyes out, because her dad was in and out of the hospital, in very bad condition. We all felt so bad for her, rushed to cover her shifts, offered whatever we could do to help.
Shortly after I got a different job, I heard she had called out for a whole week, because her dad had died and she had to help plan the funeral. The company sent their condolences, we all offered our help some more.
A few days later another co-worker checked this girl's snapchat, and found dozens of pictures of her and her friends going out to clubs and partying all week. Shortly after she brought this up to the GM, they saw her dad walking around the mall out store was in. They talked to him, and found out he'd never even had the flu that while time, much less been in the hospital. She got fired. And then text spammed the other co-worker to "please talk to the GM I know I f****d up but please you got to help me."
Claire Stanfield 3 years ago
Nope, this isn't something to lie about! You get what you deserve!
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Yep..thats something you just don't bull$h!t about. Can't upvote this enough. @$$holes like this are the reason that employers want to see copies of death certificates, obituaries, and other proof of death.
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Insert Generic Username 3 years ago
I can't even imagine lying about my dad's death. Almost three years on and I still have days, here and there, that just a random memory of him or catching a whiff of his cologne, is enough to reduce me to tears.
Alma Muminovic 3 years ago
I once worked with a girl who did something similar. She could cry on que. She told us her sister was in a car accident and in intensive care so she was allowed to leave early. She did this while pretending to be on the phone with tears streaming down her face. She was facing the door to the office so everyone can see her cry. Which I thought was strange at the time. Another coworker who was her neighbor also worked there and said nope saw her sister this morning shes fine. Im like so she just lied? Shes like yep, I’ve known her since I was like 4 and she lies constantly. At first I felt bad cause I believed her but after I found out she was lying I took a different stance. Following week she comes in and says her aunt committed suicide and left her a 3 page suicide note and how she had to raise her 2 young nieces now. I looked at her and all I said was, that sucks and walked away.
#18
I work for a consulting firm - we once supplemented one of our project teams with an older woman (external contract hire) who purportedly had tons of experience. She owned an entire work stream including execution work and did so poorly that we also had to refund her fees and a first year consultant had to redo all of her work. She was getting about 500 / hour as a "Subject Matter Expert". We came to find that she was basically using her time to plan her daughters wedding. She never worked with our firm again.
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
I could be a really good subject matter expert for $250. an hour. Five minutes, any subject, any subject at all.
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Jean Peterson 3 years ago
I don't even understand what this all means and I have degrees. I mean didn't you ask for references and portfolios? I call bs
Jo Choto 3 years ago
And what line of business are we talking about, where a consultant gets 500 an hour but a first year consultant is capable of doing all her work?
MellonCollie 3 years ago
I believe that would be people who are extremely good at making other people believe how much expertise they have. Some consultants do in fact carry a great responsibility, but that hourly rate baffles me. Subtract taxes and contributions and the pay per hour is still huge.
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LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
Check references!! A job like that you should be making phone calls to make sure it's all legit.
Wendy Usher 3 years ago
Yeah I think this is b******* based on how much you claim she made. Not sure what it matters that she's an "older woman". Also if she purportedly had tons of experience you supposedly checked her references. And if you'd hire people based on life experience and not that they say they went to school and took this and that program or did such and such a job for 18 years or whatever, you might get better results.
#19
Back when I was a gas station clerk, my manager would deal drugs while on the clock. He'd take people into the back office to talk to. We all knew what he was doing, mostly because he all but admitted it.
And because we all knew, someone eventually said something and then the company tried to make him take a drug test. He just quit, instead.
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of a place I used to work at. One of the welders was dealing weed out of his work truck when they were out on a service job.Found out what was up when he sold to an undercover cop, got arrested and got the truck and all the tools and equipment impounded. Same guy had been caught on the roof of the shop smoking.. something. Never could prove it was weed and the company rules stated that a whiz quiz could only be given randomly or if they were I.O.D.
Beverly Lodge 3 years ago
LOL never heard it referred to as "whiz quiz" haha nice
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DC 3 years ago
In europe, unless there is a valid reason to suspect someone took drugs ON THE JOB and also that work suffered from it, you can just laugh away people demanding you to give ANY samples of anything. NEVER do so before talking to your union. We don't wanna let them get used to these shenenigans here, too - unless you have a valid reason that I violate a rightful interest of you, me taking drugs or always being sober - at least outside the job - is nothing that you need to know about, nor have any right to judge about. Needless to say, I'm pretty much sober ALL the time, and on the job especially, but this is a question of principles, boundaries and workers' rights. Refuse EVERYTHING unless you legally cannot, for that matter. Regardless of what it may make them think of you.
David Martin 3 years ago
Working at a 7-11, the owner's niece was also an employee and would constantly just walk out with things at the end of her shifts, but nobody could prove she hadn't actually paid or that she didn't get permission from the owner. Eventually she was fired however when the store camera caught her clearly taking a case of beer from the cooler and going straight to the door (Strike 1), directly passing a cop getting coffee at the time (Strike 2), so she could celebrate her 18th birthday that night (Strike 3, the trifecta!)
Alex Noisette Stephenson 3 years ago
When I worked at Subway, the manager of a 24-hour store, that had gotten manager of the year for doing so good on sales, got fired because she was buying drugs with the cash drops from the register
Wendy Usher 3 years ago
People wouldn't need to do sketchy side s*** if they got paid appropriately
#20
We noticed that she was falling asleep a lot a work so that got all of our attention. She usually took ten minute naps through the day, which isn't a big deal because you can have breaks, but our alarms went up. One of the employees heard a crinkling beer can in the bathroom one day. Saw her come out the bathroom and checked the trashcans 10 minutes later. Beer confirmed. Also some weird blood spots on paper towels too.
We searched her belongings and found several other beer cans and a funnel. Noticed that she didn't have any alcohol on her breath.
Mfw we realized she was butt chugging the Miller High Life to get lit at work.
Lord Mysticlaw 3 years ago
Yeah me too... I want to Google and find out how it's supposed to work, but I'm too scared
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Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
This might be a bit tmi, but I used to know a girl who was (still is) a nurse, and actually a good nurse too. She told me that because they were all poor students, when her and her nursing friends went out to bars to dance etc, they couldn't afford many drinks, and couldn't sneak cheap bought alcohol in in bottles (bag checks). To get around this, they'd pre-buy a massive bottle of discount vodka, soak tampons in them, and then put the tampons in plastic bags in their handbags. No ones going to open a tampon in a bag search. They would then "insert" these gradually over the night so that they would get gradually more drunk, purpose being if they chugged it all before arriving, they'd be too drunk to get in. This was about 10 years ago and I'm still in shock. But yeah, apparently worked like a charm...
Claudiola 3 years ago
Sounds like a great way to get alcohol poisoning. Yes, that can happen- just ask a great ER nurse.
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Jo Choto 3 years ago
You couldn't get wasted on Miller Lite if you spent all day butt chugging it!
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Wow...I thought getting drunk like that was an urban legend. Kinda changes the mental image of funneling a shot with a beer chaser...
Rebekah Krause 3 years ago
I would also like to know how this woman “butt chugged” at work With a funnel? Wouldn’t she have to be literally upside down pouring beer into the funnel herself? This makes absolutely no sense. It’s my understanding that the maniacs are actually do this typically use an enema type get up
#21
Went out for smoke breaks like 5x a day, eventually got to a point where he couldn't wait to get outside and would light up in the elevator to get a head start.
2 days after that mishap he took his lunch break and came back very drunk. I think he worked a grand total of 7 days hired-to-fired.
Amy Beckler 3 years ago
Speaking as a recovering addict? Yup-it is sad 😔 but saddest for the addict-believe me.
Load More Replies... Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Dang, that's a bit much. Getting a head start in the elevator, like someone isn't going to be able to tell!?
ispeak catanese 3 years ago
We can tell time by a coworker who smokes at 40 minutes past each and every hour. It's ridiculous.
Jerry Conaway 3 years ago (edited)
Knew a dude at a job I had who was VERY nicotine addicted. Company cut out smoking on property, so on the way in in the morning he would be pulled over on the side of the road outside the factory, inhaling as many cigs as he could before having to go to work. Getting off was the same - as soon as he crossed that line where the parking lot hit the road, cigs popped in the mouth and lit. Forward a while to the Covid plandemic. This guy goes out of work with Covid for two weeks, no one hears from him. Someone calls up his wife, she says he is very sick, won't go to hospital - because it is no-smoking. Things finally got bad enough that he had to go and be admitted, spent two more weeks in the hospital getting his life saved. Could have been over it in a few days if not for the nicotine!
#22
We had a guy that would vanish in the middle of the day for roughly 3-4 hours, then return at the end of the day. Come to find out he would go home during that time, play with his dogs, smoke weed and then come back to work. When we had to sit him down and explain he couldn't just leave, he totally flipped out and told us all to "go f ourselves and to f*****g fire him". He got a warning, and still works here, and HR still does nothing when he disappears.
Daria B 3 years ago (edited)
Maybe they're prohibited from firing him by law? Still, this kind of behaviour would be an exception, I believe. Maybe they're waiting for his contract to end and that's it.
Rijkærd 3 years ago (edited)
...probably his family owns the business and they tolerate his BS
Load More Replies... Lori-anne Hershberg 3 years ago
How many potential good employees are looking for work, and places keep on useless idiots who don't take things seriously?
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
And how many good employees are gonna walk when they find out there's some slack off getting paid for blowing off work while they're busting a hump to get done, and possibly having to do the work the slack off isn't getting done?
Load More Replies... Jimmy Lewis 3 years ago
There was this young kid that came in and worked where I did in the summer while he was in summer vacation from school. He was one of the bigwigs son, so he thought he could do whatever he wanted. He got into the habit of going upstairs in the storage room, and taking a nap, instead of doing his job. The guys got tired of this. They caught him asleep, and locked the storage room door from the outside. They left him there for four hours. They finally let him out. He never did it again.
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
Perfectly understandable. Playing with dogs should always be a valid reason for extra and extended breaks. It should be legislated.
Who Panda 420 3 years ago
Not to mention the pot. The 2 go together nicely actually
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#23
Was cashier manager at big box store. There was a useless kid that finally stopped showing up. A few days go by, and I see him walk in, so I assume he's going to come up front and we can do the whole formal exit process since he missed shifts. He never comes up front, nobody has heard from him.
So a few weeks go by and we just terminated him. I go back to the lunchroom one day, and useless kid is sitting there. I ask what he's doing and he says he's on break. I'm like lol no you stopped showing up weeks ago and were terminated. He leaves to go "back to work".
I confirmed with all managers he was fired, not working in another part of the store. He shows up in the lunchroom again a few weeks later.
Turned out he didn't want to tell his mom he doesn't want to work. He kept letting her drop him off, he'd hang in the lunchroom for a bit because his mom apparently is friendly with another employee, so this way it looks like he still has the job to his mom.
Pia kjærgaard 3 years ago
I can’t help laughing 🤣😂 we have all feared our Mama one time,so we raither come up with Biggest Black Lie!!!! I know I have🙈🤣😂🥲😂🥲
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah, but hopefully we all learn its better to be honest about it. Imagine how mad his mama was when she learned the truth...and you know she did cuz moms will ALWAYS find out. Same reason you don't lie to your spouse. That and just basic respect.
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Raven DeathShade 3 years ago
My brother did that in a way, but with college. He just never went to class, even though my mom drove him to and from school every day (he didn't have a car or a license). As soon as my mom realized he wasn't doing anything, all heck broke loose and he dropped out. Then he got a job and is now a successful IT worker for Facebook, so...all's well that ends well?
Jyndaru 3 years ago
I had an awful roommate for a couple years. He was a friend first, but living with him was a horrible mistake. He would lose jobs left and right. Car broke down so he started borrowing my husband's car when he could, or having one of us drop him off at work. One day after dropping him off I'm sitting in the living room and hear noises in his bedroom. Freaks me out so I grab a baseball bat and open the bedroom door. He's in his bed. Turns out he had been fired weeks ago, was "afraid" to tell us, and didn't want to work anyways, so he'd get dropped off then walk home and sneak in through the patio door that led to his bedroom. I was absolutely floored to know someone would go through so much trouble just to avoid working. And his past excuse of "this company is awful, they never sent my paycheck" was finally seen for what it truly was: a lie!
Shanna Pugh-Champnoise 3 years ago
I was a dept head for a large retail chain and had an associate that didn't tell her mom she quit and pretended to go to work every day until mom called the store and I was like Ahhhhhh. She could have at least given me a heads up about the lie. Lol
John Dilligaf 3 years ago
I remember reading this happened a few times in Japan when a recession hit and people were actually let go from jobs, which is almost unheard of in Japan. People too ashamed to admit they had been fired would continue their work routine. Get up, dress for "the office". leave home then just hang out in a park, a library, or other public space all day. Then go home at the normal time.
Wendy Usher 3 years ago
I mean, if you didn't think of them as a useless kid and encouraged him, he might have shown up for work more often.
#24
I have so many stories about this dude, me and my former boss interviewed him for a position in IT and I got a really weird vibe but my boss was really impressed by his cv (lots of stuff like "cisco certification course teacher") and I was about to quit so I didn't really put up a fight about it and he was hired.
Day 2: He brought in a three feet long rc helicopter and put it in his office.
Day 3: He was told to order a laptop for himself (part of the job was ordering it stuff) and bought the most expensive computer he could find, im talking titanium and a 10k$ price tag.
Day 4: He ordered a office chair in leather with built in massage stuff.
Day 5: BIG argument with my boss and he was told he couldn't do anything without me approving it first.
Day 8: He told me he wanted to apply for public ip's for every single piece of equipment at all the company offices (several thousand ip's) because NAT sucked. Turns out he didn't know what it was (cisco teacher remember)
Day 9: He changed the domain admin password to a password some dudes at a irc channel had told him was the most secure password in the world.
Around day 15: He told me he needed time off cause his girlfriend had left him for his rc heli instructor and he was scared she would take stuff from their apartment.
There is so much more, he was fired a few weeks after I left. Last I heard he was selling vpn services to people using his own home broadband connection.
Monkey Spunk 3 years ago
Sounds like a lot of the guys I worked with in the early 2k's dot com boom, thought money could be lavished on anything they wanted, trashed other people code with sub par html and were general assholes to work with. They worshipped and emulated Nathan Barley.
elSti 3 years ago (edited)
A lot of those People are now still working as "thé more experienced" person. But for some reason their c & v keys are faded.
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LavenderAxolotl 3 years ago (edited)
Crazy dude. Even crazier, remote control helicopter instructor? Why do those exist? Are there actually adult men who make a living off of it?
somnomania 3 years ago
"his girlfriend had left him for his rc heli instructor and he was scared she would take stuff from their apartment" I'm crying, why is this so funny?
#25
The owner made me cut hours while keeping his son on at full-time. As a silent protest, everyone took an extra-long smoke break that day. When I went outside to corral the troops, I overheard the craziest thing: an employee defending me against the charges I was a weak, a**-kisser who failed to stand up for them!
"He's got to feed his family just like everybody else."
And she continued to defend me even after the others labeled her a Quisling, which was really crazy given the state of education in America. I'm shocked they even knew what that meant.
smugdruggler 3 years ago
Quisling was the name of a Norwegian leader who collaborated with the Nazis in WW2. His name became synonymous with collaborators and traitors.
Anne Edwards 3 years ago
I figured out the meaning from the context but really appreciate the full explanation you provided. Thanks.
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Terry Tobias 3 years ago
I didn't know what it meant and I'm pretty well-read. I had to google it. (Traitor)
ilikeplants 3 years ago
So... you were surprised someone was standing up for you and then you mocked everyone's intelligence. I'm not sure this is the feel good story you seem to think it is.
Martha Higgins 3 years ago
I'm American and I know who Quisling was and what the word means. Not everyone here is an uneducated idiot. And, by the way, I've met plenty of Brits who aren't too educated or bright either. Every country has them.
#26
Patamarick said:
When I was a kid working at a grocery store, another cashier would often buy and then chug a half gallon of milk to get sick to go home.
Job was horrid, so it was entertaining at the time.
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I worked with an older diabetic lady at Taco Bell. She would chug regular soda so she would have a diabetic reaction and then be sent home. Pretty sure she was actually trying to lose her feet to diabetic complications so she could collect disability checks.
The EMTs all knew her by name.
Kai David 3 years ago
This is f@#$ing awful. With the help of my husband, I monitor everything I eat and drink and times etc. I love my eyesight. I love taking our grandkids out for walks and play. Why anyone would deliberately do this to themselves. Also, SSC and disability incone is so much leß than minum wage jobs.
somnomania 3 years ago
Lol, as if not having feet would be enough to get someone on disability. If she could still sit in a chair at a desk for several hours, then she could still work, ergo no disability approval.
Amy Beckler 3 years ago
You have No idea why she was behaving that way. Unless you have a chronic illness that can rob you of all your health? You can pound sand. You can take your judgment and shove it someplace internal that will cause you chronic pain and/or disability.
#27
Not a boss, but used to work for a MSP, they had an office with a big tile missing in the ceiling.
Apparently they had this accountant who was working late one night, next day, everyone comes into the office and they find said ceiling hole. Turns out, the accountant heard god calling her from the ceiling, she proceeded to climb up her desk, into the ceiling, and managed to get into one of the offices next door.
Mickie Shea 3 years ago
God will often call his minion from a ceiling tile. Listen closely. Is a god calling you.
Bent. O. Jensen 3 years ago
And have you found Jesus? He is hiding behind the curtain.
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I worked at a casino in California, in food and beverage. We had just hired a kid who was fresh from "culinary school" (he didn't know anything at all). So he started back makin the pub food.
Something like his third night I'm outside smoking and I see him walking by with two security guys. This can't be good.
Turns out this genius had decided to go take his lunch break, meet his friend in the parking lot and drive around the parking lot smoking. You know. The casino parking lot, full of cameras, other employees, security guards etc. (and mind you, you could get away with plenty of stuff on your car, lord knows I did in my days) so he must have been so painfully obvious, as this was also like 6pm and still dusk out. Come on man.
Kira Okah 3 years ago
They cut the word "weed" off the end of the sentence for some reason.
Load More Replies... Kira Okah 3 years ago
BP, why did you cut the word "weed" from the comment? It doesn't make sense with the missing word - "meet his friend in the parking lot and drive around the parking lot smoking weed."
Wendy Usher 3 years ago
Because they assume people who smoke are only smoking weed. They forgot about those of us who smoke cigarettes.
Load More Replies... Mickie Shea 3 years ago
Tis up to the accredited crooks to teach the young and impressionable. Otherwise no cops.
What do you think ?
Jo Choto 3 years ago
Funniest employment story I have. I needed a part time worker in a very unique field that required a lot of independent work. Always struggled to get people who could manage the days/hours needed. This guy came and was very professional and sincere. I asked him about his bigger goals and interests. He said he wanted to write the ultimate book on how to be a manager (like, of all and any business/company) which I found odd, but hey. It's his life. Gave him training and the manual that I wrote (specifically for this business which had its own software program, very, very niche). He asked if he could take it home. I was impressed by his commitment. He never came back. I eventually realized he just wanted the manual which he thought might help him write his "How to be a manager of everything" book. Weird kid.
The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Sound like a very nice and motivated Guys.. Really want to read the book that he wrote.. Must be good one..
Load More Replies... Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago (edited)
The machine shop I used to work at hired a young dude (21 or so) that lasted 3 days. Day one, shows up late with the excuse that he had a little to much to drink the night before celebrating that he got hired. Day 2, shows up late again and gets his thumb chewed on by a tool grinder and misses most of the day going to get patched up.Gets a final warning about showing up late. Day 3,guess what...shows up late. He knows he's done so he loads up his tool box and heads out. It was kinda sad cuz he was just starting out in a career and did decent work for someone with his level of experience. Just couldn't get his head out of the bottle to come to work on time.
Nena Rosebud 3 years ago
One of my favorite crazy moments at work was the time I was acting out the wand duel scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 between Molly Weasley and Bellatrix Lestrange. I pointed my imaginary wand at the end of the aisle and said, "Not my daughter, you b***h!" at the same moment a customer walked by. 😂😂😂
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Oooooooohhhhh...I hope they were understanding about that. I think I'd just stop dead in my tracks,slowly look around and try to figure out where your "daughter" was and what you thought I was doing.
Load More Replies... The Cute Cat 3 years ago
When work as paramedic, I ever had a team mate from Aceh. He came like 5 or 6 month after the tsunami that killed soo many lives. He is always full of megalomaniac story.. Like having a pediatrician as wife and etc.. He failed to come to many schedule and have problem with other paramedics and also patients.. We fired him just in 2 weeks.. On his exit interview he describe the horror endured as a radiographer in Aceh during the tsunami.. But still.. How can we work with such person.. He needs help.. Really sorry for that guy
Troux 3 years ago
Waiting tables in college, a fellow server earned the nickname Tweak because he was always so hopped up on drugs (Florida, so anyone's guess which kind) that he had a constant quiver. He struggled to eat soup because he would shake the spoon empty before it reached his mouth. Once he came into work and - completely unprovoked - explained to me in detail how only minutes ago while on the way in, he accidentally drove his truck through a construction site, crashing into barriers and equipment and other vehicles while workers were running out of the way and yelling at him to stop. He made it through with a lot of damage to his truck, but the most bizarre thing about it was that he was talking nonchalantly as if he was talking about a slight traffic jam. Worse than that, he described the entire experience as *something that was happening to him,* as if navigating some video game stage in the third person.
Troux 3 years ago
Another story about Tweak came from another coworker who started around the same time. She embarrassingly admitted to joining him for some drinks which led to a makeout session in her car afterward. Things warming up, he paused for a moment to say, "I want to touch your thingy." She was completely caught off guard. "Wh..what???" He repeated a little louder, "I want to touch your thingy." You won't be surprised to know that the date ended abruptly. For all his unpredictable insanity, fair play to him for abiding to consent by-the-book, and obliging to take her home when she was done. Her and I were good friends after that, and I never let on just how much I think of this story.
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Jessica N 3 years ago
I have too many stories to recount but grossest is a busboy who would eat halfeaten food from the plates he cleared off of tables. And an employee who took 2 2 hour bathroom breaks every day... Destroyed the bathroom. Somehow rattled the rails loose off the walls in handicapped stalls. He ate only fast food n no veggies so god knows the agony of what he was birthing
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Damn...So if he was scheduled for 8 hours, he would have a half shift of $h!t...Whaa whaaaaaaa...Ok,that was bad...I slide on out...
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A Jones 3 years ago
One of a recent thing that happened a few years ago was I was doing a bit of shopping and was going to check out. The cashier was a student at a college I worked at. They recognized me and asked some questions about some college paperwork. I didn't mind and answered their questions as they weren't personal. It was mostly about deadlines and stuff like that.
Shaista Afridi 🇦🇫 3 years ago
i haven't actually had a job yet, but i've done some volunteering at a food bank and the manager was nice and all but he offered me cigarettes and alchohol when i was 14 😭 ofc i said no as i hate drugs and i'm Muslim and he said he wouldn't tell anyone at it was ok " cos everyone deserves to be stress-free" i never volunteered at the food bank again after that, but he gave me a good reference at least lmao
DogMom 3 years ago
Guy I worked with lied on his resume to get the job then proceeds to not do any work for almost 2 years. Just the bare minimum when he absolutely had to so he wouldn’t get too caught out. When he did do work it was usually wrong. Management knows this but lets it slide with just the occasional talking to. He finally lies about his current job title and duties on linked in a managed to get a higher up position at another company.
Jo Choto 3 years ago
Funniest employment story I have. I needed a part time worker in a very unique field that required a lot of independent work. Always struggled to get people who could manage the days/hours needed. This guy came and was very professional and sincere. I asked him about his bigger goals and interests. He said he wanted to write the ultimate book on how to be a manager (like, of all and any business/company) which I found odd, but hey. It's his life. Gave him training and the manual that I wrote (specifically for this business which had its own software program, very, very niche). He asked if he could take it home. I was impressed by his commitment. He never came back. I eventually realized he just wanted the manual which he thought might help him write his "How to be a manager of everything" book. Weird kid.
The Cute Cat 3 years ago
Sound like a very nice and motivated Guys.. Really want to read the book that he wrote.. Must be good one..
Load More Replies... Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago (edited)
The machine shop I used to work at hired a young dude (21 or so) that lasted 3 days. Day one, shows up late with the excuse that he had a little to much to drink the night before celebrating that he got hired. Day 2, shows up late again and gets his thumb chewed on by a tool grinder and misses most of the day going to get patched up.Gets a final warning about showing up late. Day 3,guess what...shows up late. He knows he's done so he loads up his tool box and heads out. It was kinda sad cuz he was just starting out in a career and did decent work for someone with his level of experience. Just couldn't get his head out of the bottle to come to work on time.
Nena Rosebud 3 years ago
One of my favorite crazy moments at work was the time I was acting out the wand duel scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 between Molly Weasley and Bellatrix Lestrange. I pointed my imaginary wand at the end of the aisle and said, "Not my daughter, you b***h!" at the same moment a customer walked by. 😂😂😂
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Oooooooohhhhh...I hope they were understanding about that. I think I'd just stop dead in my tracks,slowly look around and try to figure out where your "daughter" was and what you thought I was doing.
Load More Replies... The Cute Cat 3 years ago
When work as paramedic, I ever had a team mate from Aceh. He came like 5 or 6 month after the tsunami that killed soo many lives. He is always full of megalomaniac story.. Like having a pediatrician as wife and etc.. He failed to come to many schedule and have problem with other paramedics and also patients.. We fired him just in 2 weeks.. On his exit interview he describe the horror endured as a radiographer in Aceh during the tsunami.. But still.. How can we work with such person.. He needs help.. Really sorry for that guy
Troux 3 years ago
Waiting tables in college, a fellow server earned the nickname Tweak because he was always so hopped up on drugs (Florida, so anyone's guess which kind) that he had a constant quiver. He struggled to eat soup because he would shake the spoon empty before it reached his mouth. Once he came into work and - completely unprovoked - explained to me in detail how only minutes ago while on the way in, he accidentally drove his truck through a construction site, crashing into barriers and equipment and other vehicles while workers were running out of the way and yelling at him to stop. He made it through with a lot of damage to his truck, but the most bizarre thing about it was that he was talking nonchalantly as if he was talking about a slight traffic jam. Worse than that, he described the entire experience as *something that was happening to him,* as if navigating some video game stage in the third person.
Troux 3 years ago
Another story about Tweak came from another coworker who started around the same time. She embarrassingly admitted to joining him for some drinks which led to a makeout session in her car afterward. Things warming up, he paused for a moment to say, "I want to touch your thingy." She was completely caught off guard. "Wh..what???" He repeated a little louder, "I want to touch your thingy." You won't be surprised to know that the date ended abruptly. For all his unpredictable insanity, fair play to him for abiding to consent by-the-book, and obliging to take her home when she was done. Her and I were good friends after that, and I never let on just how much I think of this story.
Load More Replies... Jessica N 3 years ago
I have too many stories to recount but grossest is a busboy who would eat halfeaten food from the plates he cleared off of tables. And an employee who took 2 2 hour bathroom breaks every day... Destroyed the bathroom. Somehow rattled the rails loose off the walls in handicapped stalls. He ate only fast food n no veggies so god knows the agony of what he was birthing
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Damn...So if he was scheduled for 8 hours, he would have a half shift of $h!t...Whaa whaaaaaaa...Ok,that was bad...I slide on out...
Load More Replies... A Jones 3 years ago
One of a recent thing that happened a few years ago was I was doing a bit of shopping and was going to check out. The cashier was a student at a college I worked at. They recognized me and asked some questions about some college paperwork. I didn't mind and answered their questions as they weren't personal. It was mostly about deadlines and stuff like that.
Shaista Afridi 🇦🇫 3 years ago
i haven't actually had a job yet, but i've done some volunteering at a food bank and the manager was nice and all but he offered me cigarettes and alchohol when i was 14 😭 ofc i said no as i hate drugs and i'm Muslim and he said he wouldn't tell anyone at it was ok " cos everyone deserves to be stress-free" i never volunteered at the food bank again after that, but he gave me a good reference at least lmao
DogMom 3 years ago
Guy I worked with lied on his resume to get the job then proceeds to not do any work for almost 2 years. Just the bare minimum when he absolutely had to so he wouldn’t get too caught out. When he did do work it was usually wrong. Management knows this but lets it slide with just the occasional talking to. He finally lies about his current job title and duties on linked in a managed to get a higher up position at another company.
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