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“Time Clock Thievery”: 30 People Recall The Craziest Things HR Has Accused Them Of At Work
By now, we all know that it’s a red flag if an employer boasts about their staff being “their family.” But that doesn’t mean you’re not allowed to be comfortable or make friends in your workplace! Just be careful what you share with your colleagues and what they catch you doing, or you might find yourself in a meeting with HR explaining why you have to fill up your water bottle in the office…
Employees on Reddit have been recalling the wildest things they’ve ever gotten in trouble for at work, so we’ve gathered some of their stories below. From stealing trash to using phrases that their manager had never heard before, enjoy scrolling through these ridiculous accusations. And be sure to upvote the ones you find most amusing!
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#1
I had an employer of mine write me up for stealing trash. In reality, at the end of my shift, one of my duties was to gather all the trash. Often times, I would pick through the trash and sort all the paper, pop cans, and water bottles in our company's recycle bin. We had a special promotion with our trash company in which our company would get money based on the number of pounds we recycled. It ended up being $1500 per month AND we didn't pay our trash bill.
So long story short, I got a final write up for stealing company time for sorting our recyclables. So I stopped, the following month, our manager was pissed that she had to pay a trash bill. She called the trash company and the company told her that the past 2 years she didn't pay for trash because our company would recycle so much, we would get a $1500 check AND free trash service.
My boss thought that the checks were a bonus for her. Anyhow, the district manager was reviewing the write ups and saw I got written up for stealing trash, so he called me up and asked me what was going on. I told him the story about the trash company and their promotion. He congratulated me for a job well done.
The next day he flew in to talk to my manager. He asked my manager what happened to the $20,000 that she got from the trash company. Apparently, she tried to pin it back on me, and our district manager promptly fired her. After escorting her out, he called me into the office. He told me what happened in that meeting, and offered me a promotion to Assistant Manager.
Lyone Fein 11 months ago
In what universe is it acceptable to pocket money that a vendor or service provider is paying to the company you work for? She's lucky the district manager didn't have her arrested.
Ace 11 months ago
An alternative universe, it would seem, certainly not the real one. Discounted trash collection I can believe, paying to take it away? No way. Then the supervisor/manager seeing the cheques, not questioning why they were getting them, somehow crediting them to her personal account... the list goes on, the writer has clearly not been living in in the real world for very long/
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Richienotsorich 11 months ago
Good to see the company goes through a thorough and equal process for promoting their staff.
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#2
I worked in retail as a cashier at a pet store for a long time, and occasionally when there was nothing going on I would just grab a couple tennis balls and juggle them to keep myself amused. I'm pretty good at it, can do 3 in all sorts of weird ways without looking at it or thinking about it so I converse with customers perfectly normally when I need to, and most of them find it funny (if I didnt think they would I'd stop before they even made it close to conversation range, and I'd done it long enough that I was a pretty good judge of that kind of thing).
Cue a day such as that, I'm bored and juggling while I watch the front door. Family comes in with little kids, they laugh at the juggling and come talk to me for a little while about reptiles (and juggling) while I try to teach one of their sons (5 or 6 years old) how to juggle because he asked me to. Good times were had by all, they walk off and do their shopping with their little son trying to juggle the mini tennis balls I gave him.
Immediately get called into the back by the assistant manager who (with another manager present as a witness I guess) decides he's going to rip me a new one for being disrespectful to the customers by juggling and not giving them my full attention. I respectfully (perhaps sarcastically, no promises) disagree, and when he looks to the other manager in the room to back him up you could just tell the guy was completely uninterested in getting involved, and he basically had nothing bad to say. Assistant manager continues to lay into me a bit more, says he's going to work with me on not being disrespectful like that and if it continued we'd have to have a talk about my employment, I leave.
Month later, new store manager gets hired, walks to the front with the assistant manager and sees me juggling. Assistant manager gets the look like he's about to rip me a new one, but the store manager laughs, compliments me on my juggling, goes and grabs his own tennis balls and starts juggling too. Ah man, the look on the assistant managers face...priceless.
Devin Schmitt 11 months ago
I can toss the balls correctly, but then I have to chase them around the floor.
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Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 11 months ago
Managers who want to suck all enjoyment out of jobs so they can flex their 'do as I say' muscles are the absolute worst.
Alex Schneider 11 months ago
I would stay attached to a store with such kind shopassistances..eben if I would move further away. Management never get this how important it is to bond with customers in a easy way
Abraxas59 11 months ago
Totally having worked in pets at home in uk it was a great job n having a laugh with customers made it even better can’t juggle mind u lol
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veryvenasaur 11 months ago
When I worked at a grocery store I would bring my juggling balls and when kids would get fussy at the checkout I would take them out and amuse the kid for a few minutes. Parents loved that.
Uncle Schmickle 11 months ago
Fantastic story. That A*s. Mngr. is an idiot. People (customers) LOVE being entertained, especially kids. That creates GOODWILL for the business, which is priceless.
Michael Largey 11 months ago (edited)
Meanwhile, the annual financial report is due, and upper management is busy juggling the books.
#3
Several years ago, I was working for a sporting good store as the customer service desk guy. Mostly what I did was returns and some spcial stuff with Ticketmaster and hunting/fishing licenses. While it wasn't a glamorous job, I liked it because I'm an outdoors guy, and so the clientel were fun to talk to. One day, we were informed we were getting a new general manager, as the old one (decent guy, but distant) was being transferred. The new manager was a raving harpy a*****e c*ntrash. She enjoyed making employees upset, didn't give a flying f**k about our customers, did nothing to improve anything about the store, and kept the other managers in her office with endless meetings about "improving" the store. After a few months of this b******t, and seeing some of the highschool girls hired to work in shoes crying after her ranting at them, I had enough. I wrote a rather eloquent letter to corporate about her behavior and actions, and had several employees sign it. Two days later, several regional higher-ups arrived, and proceeded to chew her out big time. She was suspended for two weeks, and told that if the store didn't improve withing the next quarter, she'd be fired.
But that's just the beginning of the story, dear reader. I thought I had won. But no, I had not. Apparently, she found out it was me who wrote the letter (probably got told by one of the other employees, I'm not sure) and wanted revenge. So she got into the computer system, and started to fake records showing I had been selling gift cards to myself, pocketing the cash difference, and then buying merchandise with those cards (mostly candy/pop/small stuff, which she was probably pocketing since our counts weren't ever off)
She then called in loss prevention, who weren't doing their jobs too well, because they didn't look closely at the files and their "last edited" dates (Yay for WinNT Office!!) because they believed it and called in the county sheriffs. Two deputies came, looked over the evidence (to their credit, they asked "Are you sure?" and "Can you explain this?" several times, and I got the feeling hey were unsure about the whole mess. Nice guys, too, they offered to take me out through the back instead o parading me past customers, let me have a cigarette before we left, and were generally courteous and respectful) and ended up arresting me on felony theft charges. Taken to jail, booked, the whole she-bang. I was in tears for pretty much three days. But I knew this was b******t, so I go my parents to help hire a lawyer for me. Told him the whole story, and said under no circumstance were we pleading out to anything. He said ok, and set up a meeting with the DA to talk about motions and such. When we arrived, the DA was all smiles and very polite. He informed me that the paperwork wasn't quite done yet, but that they were dropping all charges, and filing False Report charges against my old manager. The investigators had looked over the evidence, and found that A) the files for almost 3 months worth of "thefts" had all been edited on two days, both of which I had not been present for, but that she had, B) they had all been edited from her computer, a computer I did not have access too, and C) several of the "thefts" occured on days when I was in the system as being out of state on vacation.
I felt a lot happier after that, and felt even better when my ex-boss was found to have fled the state, and checked herself into a mental hospital for a "nervous breakdown." She was eventually brought back, charged, and convicted. Last I saw she was an assistant manager at a gas station, while I'm now a federal firefighter and in school to become a police officer (and will make damn sure I read over every bit of evidence put in front of me). It's only after I saw her pumping gas that I could claim victory over her.
**EDIT:** Bestof'd? Aww shucks guys, twernt nuthin'.
OnlySometimes 11 months ago
"Raving harpy a*****e c*ntrash".There's a lot going on in that one.
#4
I went to HR to report that my team's manager was illegally shorting all of our paychecks. HR's response was to adopt a new, company-wide policy addressing the paycheck issue and back-paying most people for a certain amount, and also to frame me for work avoidance. HR and IT disabled part of my login account to a tool we used, and then fired me a few months later after failing to fix the problem and allowing me to actually do my job.
They tried to deny my unemployment claim afterward. Told the unemployment rep that they "had logs" showing that I did something to break the tool I don't even have access to break in the first place. They also didn't think to disable my email access in a timely manner, so I was able to back up all my emails with IT documenting exactly what went down. Unemployment approved my claim and hit them with a major penalty to their insurance.
René Sauer 11 months ago
companies should have no power to decide if an ex-employee gets unemployment or not.
#5
an anesthesiologist i worked with refused to keep his mask on at the end of a surgery, even tho it’s required to keep the room sterile in case we would need to reopen, emergently.
i asked him again to put his mask back on and he hit my arm. i got in his face about it and told him to never touch me or anyone else again.
i wrote an incident report which went ignored. and followed up with HR. HR lady replied, “well, what do you want me to do about it?” after i relayed what happened. i replied, “your job” and then silence from her.
never had a good experience from HR.
the as**ole anesthesiologist finally got fired after 5 more nurses came forward saying he hit them, as well.
appleguy1 11 months ago
This is in EVERY hospital. The conditions are horrendous, Management is pushing for profit over patient safety..... Inova hospital system in Fairfax County is the Worst. They are a non profit thats trying to profit off the backs of their patients. Its incredible how Medicine has gone downhill, but then i look to Pfizer . In business 175 years and NO CURES.
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Michael Largey 11 months ago
The role of HR is not to fix the problems you bring to it. Its role is to make you aware that nothing will be done about them.
Load More Replies... Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 11 months ago
"Never had a good experience from HR". Same. They don't work for the employees and are all cold blooded IMO
Grant Caldwell 11 months ago
I had almost this exact thing happen to me two weeks ago. Except mine was with guest services not hospital.
appleguy1 11 months ago
HR in Inova Hospital System is there to keep the employees down. No help what so ever. Culture in most hospitals now is PROFIT PROFIT PROFIT, even for Non Profit hospitals. Its incredible the short cuts they make in order to turn a profit and i can tell you for a fact that patient safety is NON existent. So be WARY
RedMarbles 11 months ago
The screws certainly seem to have been tightened to the point of stripping, in all areas of US life. Probably goes unnoticed by many who are comfortable, but the canaries in the coal mine have been flopping over for a while now. Hope we can turn things around.
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I'm on a diet that requires me to drink a metric s**t ton of water (shout out to my friends over at r/keto!) so I carry around a 1L Nalgine bottle at all times.
I'm a mid-level manager at a 60 person company. At the end of the work day, on my way out I pass the water cooler and fill my bottle up for the commute home. Yesterday I was doing just that when our office manager walked up and said the following: "You're leaving for the day, water is for employee's to drink when they are working in the office only" I laughed it off, finished filling my bottle and headed home.
I thought she was kidding, or at the very worst having a s**tty day and lashing out, she wasn't. Today I get into the office with an email from her to myself, my boss (our CEO/founder), and our HR person saying that I am stealing from the company, that I didn't stop filling my water bottle and immediately apologize when confronted, and that she is officially reporting this behavior and asking to have it documented.
Needless to say we all had a pretty good laugh about it, my boss called me in hysterics and could barely form a sentence he was laughing so hard, and someone wrote "Is proper hydration good for the company?" on my water bottle. Our office manager, however is just walking by my office and glaring this morning.
TL/DR I'm the Daniel Ocean of our office watercooler.
Robin Roper 11 months ago
The OP's boss tell his supervisor that she was ridiculous and to cut it out?
Paul Navarrete 11 months ago
House water goes to work. Work water goes home. The circle of hydration.
Tucker Cahooter 11 months ago
For the benefit of American readers, a metric s**t ton of water is about 1.1 imperial s**t tons of water
Data1001 11 months ago
I mean, to a certain extent, I can actually see the point of the manager here. If it were tap water, that'd be different, but the water bottles that go into water coolers actually do cost money to refill (although a meager amount, to be sure). Still not the best way to broach the subject with him, though.
Pieter LeGrande 11 months ago
Get it in writing. Tell her that an insurance claim will require that if I fall ill on the journey home.
Betsy S 11 months ago
Doesn't this person's office have indoor plumbing? That usually comes with a cold water tap. That water is free, where delivered water for a cooler is quite expensive. The employee should be using the water tap, not the bought water (and why have bought water at all, when water is free from the tap?)
#7
HR ordered me to downgrade my three excellent employee reviews to satisfactory because management didn’t recognize their names. I got written up for telling my employees this.
HR denied that they told me anything, even though I had the emails from them documenting it.
Totally worth it. My employees were excellent and got the raises they deserved.
Damned_Cat 11 months ago
I once had a manager tell me that she never gives employees a rating of "Excellent" because then the employee has nothing to aspire to. What exactly are they aspiring to if they can never get a top rating?
Geoffrey Scott 11 months ago
Had one rate me as a 3 out of 5 on attendance. Never called off, no lates/ early exits, worked EVERY time his pet called off...beginning of the end
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ZGutr 11 months ago
like when I was at IBM ..... HR: statistics don't lie, there is always some that excels and some that can do better. So if it's true in the company, it's true in a department. They would NOT budge, so a department of two they where taking turns in following the mandatory improvement process to do better next year.
Rick 11 months ago
I worked as a Senior Mangaer for a large company. We were restricted on handing out excellent reviews due to an undocumented policy that only 10% of the total employee population in the company could get excellent reviews. This caused a lot of heated arguments among the management group at review time.
Alyssa Phillips 11 months ago
Yup. My company has the same. They also can't give an excellent if you have been at the job for less than a year because you "haven't had enough time to be excellent at all aspects"
Load More Replies... Sven Horlemann 11 months ago
With HR the rule is: Get everything in writing. Or make a short summary email and send it. They stop f**king with you pretty quickly.
#8
We got a "Confidential Employee Survey" handed to us at work. It had our employee number on the top of the page
Damned_Cat 11 months ago
Our HR used to email them to employees and then ask that it be emailed back to them.
Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Or with ‘secret’ individual code numbers at the top. Purely for validation purposes only
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whineygingercat 11 months ago
Grocery store where I used to work had these. At the end you'd be asked your dept #, gender, and age range. You couldn't skip this. My dept was so small, any doofus off the street could identify someone from that data.
P1 No-Name 11 months ago
Firstly I hate these things, secondly, I never for a moment they were truly confidential or anonymous - but this is so blatantly awful!
Patrisia Sheremeta 11 months ago
Nothing is anonymous to HR. But that doesn't mean that your supervisor or management will have access to your specific information. What I do is compile and summarize the information, but not identify anyone. So you need to figure out if your HR department is trustworthy and act accordingly.
Michael Largey 11 months ago
I don't see what liberals have to do with it, but I hope things improve soon for you and the other patients at the Iowa Home for the Bewildered.
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Back when I was in high school, I worked for my town's parks dept. One time, my boss (who was a total sleazeball who sexually harassed every girl there, and hated me mostly for not being female) calls me in to his office. While there, he accuses me of stealing a $3 check, and then says that I have to be let go. I tell him point-blank that if I was to steal from the dept, it would be something a lot more than a measly 3 dollar check (what the hell would I do with that anyway?). Later on, I find out from a friend of mine that he found the check underneath his desk, and then a month later someone finally reported him for harassment and he got fired too. Karma's a b***h yo.
katiekat0214 11 months ago
Yep, and as a teen, I worked at a small classified monthly newspaper. Got accused of stealing canceled checks. Even at 18 or so, I said, what could I possibly do with a CANCELED check?
Bookworm 11 months ago
I suppose if you were that guy Leonardo DiCaprio played in Catch Me If You Can, you could, like, steal their signatures or something?
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Last night my manager called me stupid and uneducated for not cheating a customer out of fifteen dollars due to a computer error. She thought it was obvious I should lie about the error and garner another whopping 15 dollars for the struggling hospitality industry. Today I go in for a meeting to get scolded for not lying, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to burst into tears.
Alex Schneider 11 months ago
tell them that your mom didn't raised an unhonesty cheater... and she would be very sorry to hear how other moms seemed to fail
Jane Jayne Jain Jeign Jein 11 months ago
Honesty is an implied term of your employment contract.
Abraxas59 11 months ago
put in your resignation put this as the reason why exactly what you told us and that you will not work for a company that cheat and scams its customers out out money had it directly to the top top boss and watch that evil woman get fired I’m on uk nd have worked in hospitality since I was 16 until ten yrs ago im now 60 n disabled my 23 yr old daughter works in our local village pub its very busy and I can assure you no place would tolerate that what so ever it’s despicable illegal with it
Kylie 11 months ago (edited)
Where does it say it was a hospital? It said HOSPITALITY.
Load More Replies... P1 No-Name 11 months ago
What an abysmally toxic environment - run away quickly, but please report this to local Employment authorities.
katiekat0214 11 months ago
I worked at a food bank (retired, just getting back into work, wanted something to keep me busy and give back to the community). I got written up for several extremely small, petty things that *might* have warranted a 30-second conversation. The kicker was getting written up for making a suggestion for warehouse safety. I quit. Did not know but learned that non-profits may do great work in the community, but can be toxic in gossiping, backbiting, and insecurity.
TiNaBoNiNa 11 months ago
I'm sorry you had that experience. I work for a non-profit in the Administration Office, and I am soooo happy my coworkers get along and have each other's backs. We're pretty picky about who we hire and if they are going to fit into the company culture. My BIL worked for a non-profit and had an experience similar to yours.
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Work as an editor in television. Did a series for a production company and was told many times by the big bosses how wonderful my storytelling was. After the show ended they asked me to stay and help edit some shows they had been doing for years.
Day one of the new gig the show's producer asks me what I think about the new show.
"Honest opinion?" I ask.
"Of course" she says.
"It's too slow, every episode feels the same and I learn nothing about the subject matter. With a little massaging we could make it a much more interesting show," I reply.
Fired two weeks later because my "editorial pacing" is off. I can't prove it but I know that b***h producer whined about me bagging on her precious show. One of the heads of the company actually had tears in her eyes when she let me go because I was giving her a WTF look the whole time.
Silver lining: next gig doubled my salary and got me an Emmy for editing! Suck it b***h!
Data1001 11 months ago
Pro tip: when creatives ask you for your 'honest opinion', they really want to hear you praise the work/product/etc. with only minor issues, at most. And even then, you need to sandwich those between two positives. The only exception is when you are on equal footing with them. But if they've hired you, you've gotta play that game.
Rahb in Oz 11 months ago
SICK. I am Aspi and take people at their word, and have been dinged several times for this. I wouldn't ask someone to spray me with mud, obviously, so why do they ask for something they DON'T want, and then get upset when it is given? Some people are scum.
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#12
I worked in a souvenir shop at an amusement park. It was the fourth of July, one of the busiest days because of the park's fireworks show. We were also understaffed.
The shop was just inside the gate, so it would get swamped just before closing, as people bought the stuff they didn't want to walk around with all day.
I was left alone in the shop just before closing time running the cash register as people flowed in. It was utter chaos. While closing out the register that night, it was noticed that a large stuffed animal had been stolen.
The manager simply could not fathom that one person manning a swamped store can't prevent theft because not all the displays are within sight of the register. I think it must have been a team effort, with one or two people getting my attention in one area while the other walked off with the toy, but I didn't say that because I really didn't know when or how it happened. Bastard accused me of being in on it and looking the other way while a friend stole it so we could profit later. I didn't even know what to say.
I was 17, it was my first job, and I cried for days under the assumption that every job I'd ever hold would be like that one.
Lyone Fein 11 months ago
Sounds like bad management. When you don't have enough staff to cover the busiest shift of the season, a good manager will come in and work too.
The Big Bad 11 months ago
A guy ones came in at the end of the day where I was working the register alone and managed to cheat me out of 50 euros. It happened so fast and he was probably so trained in it, that I only remember finding him strange but did not see the actual stealing under my nose. When I found out he stole the fifty I was shocked, my employer just shrugged and told me I didn't have a chance against a trained thief, she felt sorry for me.
Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
In a way, every job from Musk’s companies, to Amazon, to retail ARE pretty much like this.
#13
"Time clock thievery..." while doing volunteer work.
EDIT for details: It was a simple volunteer gig, no major organization and nobody was keeping track of hours for anything, and it was not court mandated. We were cleaning up at the end of the day and I answered a phone call... The supervisor got all pissed and "Get off the phone! That's time clock thievery!".
Robin Roper 11 months ago
"Please deduct the amount you would have paid me for this time from the my pay check of zero."
Don Adams 11 months ago
Be. Careful, they might send you an invoice for $5.00 and expect payment .
Load More Replies... Larry Truelove 11 months ago
In one job, personal phone calls were restricted to five minutes. This was before cell phones. Plant manager spent 30 on my desk phone talking to his son about son’s personal taxes. “Rules for thee, not for me.”
Uncle Schmickle 11 months ago
It's a VOLUNTEER job. Tell the supervisor to look up the meaning of the word.
Tommy DePaul 11 months ago
Volunteer coordinators in nonprofits are the unsung heroes. They can make or break an organization.
#14
I got accused of stealing a salad. I worked as a cashier at a grocery store while in high school. Because they had scheduled me 6 1/2 hours, I only qualified for a 15 minute break, not a 30 minute. So I spend the first 8 or so minutes of my break on the phone with a mechanic working out issues with my car. I then run back to the little cafe near the back of the store that has a salad bar and make a quick salad, which you weigh and price there. By this time I had about 5 minutes left on break, and the manager was very strict about not going over your 15 minutes.
So I stand at the cafe register for a good minute, and no one is to be found. I quickly eat my salad, and then take the sticker up to the front registers to pay for the $1.99 salad. I go back on the clock, and about 20 minutes later I am called into the office. They say a situation has occurred, but don't tell me what. They said they are sending me home for the day.
So I come back in the next day for my shift, and they call me into the office again. In the office is the store manager, the assistant manager, the office manager, the cafe manager, and my shift supervisor. Mind you I am a 16 year old kid at their first job who had never been in any sort of trouble. They accuse me of stealing the salad because "despite purchasing the salad, as our records do indicate, you consumed the salad before the purchase." I explained to them how the cashier at the cafe was nowhere to be found, and how if I wanted to eat during my break at that point, I would have had to eat it back in the cafe and then pay for it up front. They tell me to go home, and that they will contact me tomorrow regarding if I keep my job or not. I left in tears, but then got really angry at the severe overreaction, so I came back in an hour later and told them I quit.
P1 No-Name 11 months ago
Good for you! I hope wherever you are working now or in the future treats you better than that.
#15
I've posted this before but my boss thought I was goofing off in the restroom. For a few months there he wouldn't let me flush the toilet until he came in and made sure I actually used it.
KatSaidWhat 11 months ago
This would be fun times for me and would stop after I deliberately triggered my IBS for a day.
TiNaBoNiNa 11 months ago
Same thought! Let me chug a gallon of milk first and then you can come see (and smell) the consequences!
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Paul C. 11 months ago
Me and a colleague were the Post Room operatives but had desks in the customer service department as well. A new manager couldn't get it into his head why we spent so little time at the desks and how did he know we were starting work on time. I had to point out that one of us would open the building at 7 in the morning as key holders, unsetting all the timed alarms, proving when we came in and the fact we sent out a quarter of a million letters the previous year, probably proved we did our fair share of work!
John Dilligaf 11 months ago
walk out onto the work floor and loudly announce "Hey [boss name] . I've finished shi**ing, you can go flush for me now."
Caryn C Crespo 10 months ago (edited)
See, this is when you get the Karo syrup and red food dye out (to look like blood)! Maybe also throw some chocolate pudding in there for good measure! For f*x sake that is ridiculous! It's not like it's a d**g screen.
michael reid 11 months ago
I'd have just showed him my unwiped arsé and said that enough proof for you or do you need to clean it yourself to be sure
Uncle Schmickle 11 months ago
Sounds like your boss should be fired, as obviously he has nothing better to do !
#16
Living in Boston at the time, and the city got hit with an epic Snowstorm/Nor'easter. Like the good little worker bee I am, though, I shovel out, and brave the "state of emergency" to limp up the highway to work. "State of Emergency" means that many business (and sometimes the highways) are shut down. An Adult snow day, if you will.
When I get there, I just get to work, but my Manager feels the need to castigate me for being 20 mins late. I give him a "you're an interesting specimen" look, and get back to work.
That night, I had a previous engagement planned. I had already cleared leaving early with my manager, **and** I'm a salaried employee. When the end of the day neared, I packed up to go home, a whopping 30 minutes early (knowing that I would probably be a bit late, due to the snow - but also knowing that the company is very sensitive about "clocking out early")
So I walk out and am trudging to my car, when - you guessed it - my manager comes running out again. He asks me why I am leaving early. I gently remind him about my prior engagement, and the conversation we had about it. He says "yeah, but you came in LATE this morning. "you have to make up that time or you are STEALING from the company."
I just looked at him.
Then I turned around and left anyway.
What a small person he was/is.
I don't work there anymore.
tl;dr: I left for work early, after coming in 20 mins late due to a horrific snowstorm. Manager accuses me of stealing company time.
Chich 11 months ago
This is the type of manager who pushes to end work from home because it illustrates how useless their position is.
Fern 11 months ago
A manager isn't entirely useless, they just shouldn't have an authority that much higher than the employees they manage.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 11 months ago
People like this manager seem to have so little in their lives that has meaning or purpose, so they have to make every single molehill into a mountain.
Rahb in Oz 11 months ago
If it is THAT important, you could work an extra hour the next day. Has this idiot 'manager' never heard of give and take?
Jayeff Vee 11 months ago
If the story was Too Long and you Didn't Read, how did you provide an accurate account?
nottheactualphoto 11 months ago
Even though OP says (s)he is salaried, (s)he is probably hourly and exempt. This is the situation I was in for most of my career, and only learned it recently. It means you have to clock in and out, but they don't have to pay overtime. US perspective because the OP's story takes place in the US.
Load More Replies... P1 No-Name 11 months ago
With respect, your former manager was a total tosspot. You are well out of there.
Brian Droste 11 months ago
Should have told him next there is a snow state emergency you won't come in at all. There would be nothing he could do because it is a snow state emergency
Kristiina 11 months ago
How much snow would there have to be for declaring a state of emergency? We can get 20-30 cm and it's business as usual.
Abraxas59 11 months ago (edited)
lol try living in the uk 😂seriously we only need a smattering of snow n the whole country grinds to a half it’s embarrassing 😂
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A friend of mine used to work for wellknown communications company
One day the CEO of the company visited the office. He went into the break room and counted the supplies. He then announced that he could tell from the proportion of coffee to sweetener that people were stealing the sweetener and taking it home.
He then ordered the discontinuation of coffee service for all company offices
His name was Bernie Ebbers and it wasn't too long after that he was indicted for the biggest act of corporate thievery in history.
#18
I worked in the bakery at a Fred Meyers for about 6 months when I was freshly 19. There was this like 45 year old guy in meat/seafood who was super creepy and all of the women in my department and even one woman who was previously in my department but was moved to another TO GET AWAY FROM HIM warned me about this man from day 1.
Somehow, any time I was on my break, he would "be on his break too" and he'd follow me into the break room and try to flirt with me the entire time. Not only did he follow me on my breaks and lunches, but if I had to walk to another part of the store to get anything he would run to catch up to me and walk with me, he followed me to my car a few times after I got off shift and the scariest time was when I was closing by myself and he came into the back of the bakery and kept following me around the long table, trying to grab me while telling me how much he liked me and how badly he wanted to be with me.
I told him no and to leave me alone CONSTANTLY while managers just shrugged and said "that's just how he is". My boyfriend threatened him when he got off work one time hell even my father came in and threatened him because NO ONE was doing ANYTHING.
The final straw for me was one night when I was closing alone again he came into the back area and followed me into the freezer and tried to kiss me and he grabbed my a*s. I pushed him and f***ing ran to the closing manager who also functioned as HR. He said he'd "watch the store footage" and talk to me the next day.
Next day comes and he pulls me into his office and says that he saw the video and saw this man stalking me inside and outside of work and that he "talked" to him about his behavior to which the man responded that it was just a "misunderstanding". I replied that this had been going on for months and I wasn't going to take it anymore and he had the f***ing NERVE to tell me that "He just does this to all the new girls. As soon as another girl gets hired he'll leave me alone." I told him he was a bastard and quit on the spot.
Turns out the creep was the brother of the stores owner who had been to jail in the past for sexual assault and R*PE but was now "cleaning his life up".
Tldr: 45 year old man stalked 19 year old me for 6 months trying to be with me. Told managers on many occasions they didn't listen. Guy finally assaults me, managers talk with him - he says it's a misunderstanding. Manager says he "just does this to all the new girls and when a new girl gets hired he'll chase her and not me". Turns out guy is a registered sex offender for sexual assault AND r*pe but he's the little brother of the stores owner so he gets a pass.
Abraxas59 11 months ago
If he was in prison for that he will be on the sex offenders reg for life and on parole ! You need to report this asap anyone else has this happen report it do not be scared to report it do t let scum like him get away with it he’s filth an inhuman and needs to rot in prison where he belongs
Tommy DePaul 11 months ago
He was probably on probation or parole. You should have reported it that way.
P1 No-Name 11 months ago
This makes me feel so sick and angry. He is a predator, and the fact that "management" says it will all be better once another young woman starts, the victim will then be left alone, practically makes it organised crime in my mind. Both brothers should be arrested & sent to jail for a very long time.
#19
HR hired consultants to run morale building employee input sessions. Basically saying "We're not from the company. You can tell us all the things you don't like about working here and would like to see changed and we'll put it all into a report for management. Don't worry, everything is anonymous, we just need material for our report and you guys get to have your say in improving things around here."
Turns out HR and the consultants recorded all the sessions and played the highlights for management. People were disciplined for criticising the company or their immediate superiors and any shred of faith or trust in management that the employees may have had was instantly incinerated.
Managers now complain that they don't know what's going on in their teams because nobody tells them anything. I wonder why.
Nicola Mawson 11 months ago
Yeah. I learnt the hard way to keep my stuff to myself, even though a work environment should look at people holistically
Uncle Schmickle 11 months ago
The best way is to jump all the pencil pushers and go straight to the top. I've done this several times, just so constructive criticism doesn't get distorted along the way. If the owner/CEO is worth his salt, he'll listen politely to what you have to say and appreciate your frankness. Otherwise de doesn't belong in that position.
P1 No-Name 11 months ago
What a truly dismal workplace culture. Run - just get out of there as soon as possible.
geezeronthehill 11 months ago
Got fired from a job in exactly that situation. They tried to deny my unemployment claim, had a hearing, and the unemployment person absolutely laughed them off. Turns out the company had a history of those kind of shenanigans and the unemployment folks were ready for them.
Janissary35680 11 months ago (edited)
A word of advice: Ask one of the consultants' reps to sign a written statement concerning what they're saying about anonymity and confidentiality. If they won't sign, don't say anything that you wouldn't want your employer to hear.
#20
I worked in the stock room of a Gordmans and i was accused of stealing a security cable that goes on jackets... Yeah, what would i do with one of those? Oh and it turns out, our store didn't even carry those cables. It was my phone charger i had in my hand.
whineygingercat 11 months ago (edited)
I was once accused of not following the policy on knife safety. In the Deli dept I worked in, when handling a knife, you were required to wear cut resistant gloves. When using a box cutter, no gloves were required. One day I'm called into the manager's office. As there is a Union, I brought the Union Steward with me. I was told that I was being suspended for three days for violating the safety policy. That they had evidence and it showed me using a knife to open boxes sans cut gloves. The thing is, I NEVER used the dept knives for that as that was a food prep/contamination issue (we used these knives to open ready-to-eat products.) I denied it, the manager showed me the pics she had printed out and said 'it's right there in black and white.' As luck would have it, I had MY STORE-ISSUED BOX CUTTER with me and pulled it out saying, 'that's the problem, in color, you'd see that THIS, I pointed to a bit on the pic where the cutter was, would be GREEN. I was so adamant that the manager went to the security office and re-watched the dvr footage - in color. When the manager returned, she apologized, tore up the disciplinary papers and said 'next time she'd do her research better.'
Brian Droste 11 months ago
At least she admitted she made a mistake and she tore up the disciplinary papers. Another manager would not have done that.
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#21
I was a chemist working for the govt. For density we used to use pyncometers which were defined volume vessels with a hole for a thermometer and we would perform our analysis on a old balance. We had extra money in the budget so i bought a electronic density apparatus for a new balance. Anyway my team leader who was in his 70s had no idea how it worked and forbid me from using it telling the lab director i was "making up science with the balances"
the lab director walked me into the wet lab and i showed him how this new piece of equip would save us hours from having to do prep with the pycnometers. He laughed and said this is the govt whats the hurry.
pretty sad.
Uncle Schmickle 11 months ago
Yes indeed. The Government is the greatest money - wasting organisation in existence.
appleguy1 11 months ago
Oh it absolutely is!!!! and risk averse as all get out. Time to cut the Govt down to size
RedMarbles 11 months ago
No doubt there is government inefficiency, but less government oversight is only good for those you were complaining about earlier who are prioritizing profits over employees and health outcomes. Looks like you're going to get what you want but I don't think you're gonna like it.
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My former employer sent me to “employer-funded” therapy and then used the therapists notes to place me on indefinite stress leave because, as they put it, “employee exhibits negative views of workplace”
I was a prison guard. Of course I didn’t like being there. That doesn’t mean I’m incapable of handling it
Nils Skirnir 11 months ago
Immoral maybe. Violation of union agreements. Not illegal in US
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P1 No-Name 11 months ago
I can't believe what I just read. That a licensed therapist would report back to ANYONE is a complete betrayal of their client. Time to call the appropriate licensing authority and sue their socks off!!
tameson 10 months ago
It probably wasn't illegal. If the employer was paying the therapist to assess the ability of the employee to safely complete their jobs than HIPPA rules don't necessarily apply. The therapist can share their conclusions, and the basis for those conclusions with the employer. Think about police officers who are involved in shootings. They are off the street and perhaps out of work until cleared by their therapist to return.
Uncle Schmickle 11 months ago
That would be illegal in Australia, due to patient / doctor confidentiality.
Ruth Watry 11 months ago
Generally, unless you pose a risk to yourself or others, or give permission for them to share things with somebody else, a therapist cannot share information with others.
Michael Largey 11 months ago
The entire purpose of a prison is that people don't like being there.
#23
I once used the phrase "more than one way to skin a cat" around a manager who had never heard the phrase. She called me into her office later to ask why I was saying such disgusting things, accused me of being a sicko who k*lls animals, and then threatened to fire me if she heard anything like it ever again.
Data1001 11 months ago
It is a weird phrase, although I'm sure I've used it myself countless times. But when you think about it, it's not terribly different from saying something like, "There's more than one way to drown a puppy."
Kenneth Barns 11 months ago
You mean you _don't_ use the expression "there's more than one way to drown a puppy" at your workplace??
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StrangeOne 11 months ago
I've been written up for saying "Just a minute" to an employee. That's just what I say when I need a second to put something away and tend to said person. These are the types of coworkers and managers who are reaching to get you in trouble or fired.
ColdSteelRonin 11 months ago
From English-grammar-lessons.com: The exact origin of this phrase is unknown, but it is thought to be of British origin. It first appeared in print in the early 1800s. It dates back to 1854, when it was first recorded in print in the book "Way down East" by Seba Smith. This phrase is thought to be derived from the practice of skinning animals. In the past, people would often skin animals for their fur. There was (and still is) more than one way to skin an animal. Over time, people started using this phrase to mean that there is more than one way to do anything.
Mike F 11 months ago
We were taught that it refers to skinning a catfish to prepare it for cooking.
Load More Replies... P1 No-Name 11 months ago
Admittedly, it is an odd phrase, but it sounds like your Manager dropped out of School around Grade 3. 1 minute on Google should clear up the confusion, but I fear that the manager is too stupid to benefit.
Uncle Schmickle 11 months ago
She must be a very ignorant person never to have heard that expression before.
Julia Ford 11 months ago
I don’t like when people say stuff like that. I know it’s just a saying.
Abraxas59 11 months ago
It’s also very common in the uk to lol literally means more than one way to solve a problem but you can’t stupid can you lol extra upvote lol cos some numpty downvoted you
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My first job with the state was awful. My supervisor was an idiot in every sense of the word. I remember once, I was called into a meeting with our bureau chief. He asked us some questions about office matters, and my supervisor flat out made up lies about me that were completely against my character. I couldn't hold in my frustration and blew up at her, told my bureau chief I wasn't there to play childish games, and then walked out of the meeting. I ended up winning that one, and got a promotion that paid twice as much as that terrible supervisor. It was one of those awesome revenge moments where nobody got hurt.
#25
I work in sales and my co-worker, who is quite paranoid, accused me of going in and making returns on his sales and the transferring the sales to my name.. Which is complete b******t. He was just trying to save face when he realized that most of his customers were actually returning their product because he had done a horrible job of getting them the right sizes, colors, ect... He was fired shortly afterward for incompetence.
Edit: Should have said "former co-worker.".
#26
When I worked at circuit city, I had an 80 GB iPod that my dad had given me because he no longer needed it (it was practically brand new). Even when I first plugged it into my computer, it came up as "Richard's iPod". Well, one day it's in my purse that I kept under my counter while I was working. It goes missing. I couldn't undestand how it had gotten stolen, it had been one of the slowest days ever. Nonetheless, I was pretty freaking bummed out about it. This happened during a time where the case we kept iPods in was broken and it was terribly easy to to steal them, and many had gone missing.
Fast-toward a few weeks later, my coworker tells me my recently-left for another job dept manager thought I was the one stealing iPods and that he got into my purse when I wasn't looking and took it to check the serial number, but never gave it back because I was flipping out and causing a bit of scene walking around asking everyone if they'd seen anyone take it.
I was so f*****g pissed.
#27
I used to work at a retail store and I had a beard. One day my boss told me to get rid of my beard so I came back the next day with a mustache. I was then told I had an attitude problem.
#28
After working at Subway for 5 years, 3 of those being a manager, I was accused of turning off the cameras in the store and getting high in the cooler.
I quit shortly after. Turned out the owner was trying to set me up to fire me.
#29
I was told by the lady that I shouldn't wear jeans, meaning the "jeans" I was wearing. I was sporting brown khakis. I said as much, they were brown cotton, & total khaki construction = Not Jeans. She said that b/c other people had complained & said they were jeans, she had to say something to me.
Michael Largey 11 months ago
Principal tried to fire me because x, y, and z administrators had complained about me. Union took statements from x, y, and z. They had said no such thing. Then the principal tried "He has a low opinion of the job I'm doing." The union replied "Then you have to fire all of us because so do we." Years later that principal apologized to me for this because now he needed my help in keeping his job. He didn't get it.
Lisa Barbeau 10 months ago
Exact same thing happened to me. I had purchased three pair in different colors specifically for work. Management finally admitted they were not jeans but still told me I had to stop wearing them because unnamed other employees thought they were. Damn pants cost between $150 and $200 and because they had been worn I could not return them.
Brian Droste 11 months ago
Whst company was this and was you not supposed to wear jeans where you worked?
#30
I work in Sweden. I had a friend recruited to an identical position as mine. I had to tutor him for a year, given that I have more work life experience for that gig. He came in earning 1000 euros a month more than I did.
When time came for salary discussions for me, I used this example and my manager tried to pass that along to at least align my salary. The HR partner responded that they didn’t want to make that drastic raise because, and I quote, “there might come a time where he (me) wouldn’t do the same things as now, and if that happens, we can’t downgrade his pay, and he would therefore be overpaid”. This is because two other team members has been demoted and now make manager pay for less work. We share job description, but they make double of what I do.
I got a minor raise that year due to my boss asking other the team members to give up a small share of their annual raises to be able to align my salary. Quite insane that they actually did that. Still not anywhere close to being aligned. On Monday comes this years salary discussion. Madness to be continued.
(Delivery-wise I perform better than they do. They are 10 and 20 years older. The friend I mentioned is one year younger than me)
iBlank 11 months ago
look for a new job. I'm not sure about Sweden, but in America many companies have policies about how much they can raise a current employee's salary, so switching jobs is the only way to really see fair pay raises. And, some times companies will match an offer to keep you, if they really value what you do
#31
I was working retail at Best Buy at the time and they had me working in MP3 players/Cell Phones despite the fact that DVDs/Video Games were really more my wheelhouse. But I worked where they told me and I did my job well.
During Christmas season, it got really busy so everyone was running around helping every department. I was hanging out in my own section when a woman comes over, asks about some headphones, and I help her. She then asks me if the Dance Dance Revolution Madcatz (?) mat she bought for her daughter is any good and I ask if she has any of the games (she didn't) and showed her a slightly more expensive (but better) copy of a Konami mat with a game. She thanked me since she didn't even know it needed a game and went off.
My department manager comes up behind me, tells me to meet him in the breakroom in five minutes, and -rips- in to me. He says that the department with the best revenue gets bonuses (only true for him, not for the rest of us below him) and we shouldn't be helping customers in other sections get more expensive things. He says he'd be shocked if I made it past the winter. I just say "Yes, sir" and go back to work.
Come January, I get fired by "department manager recommendation." So, when you go to Best Buy, know that all the departments have their own agendas with you.
Lee Gilliland 11 months ago
No, it sounds like a Best Buy, this was pretty much my son's experience as well.
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Kristine Condon 11 months ago
They used to be a lot better back in the mid 90's as a company. I worked as a Music/Movies/Video Game & Software supervisor from 93-97 in Atlanta
#32
In one of my darker life periods, I was doing part time tech support for a dinky computer shop here in town. The owner was a pill-popping nutjob that kept a loaded gun in a drawer in the front desk, and regularly cheated his customers.
Anyway, I'm working one day, and one of the other techs who had been there forever and a half tells me to go install a modem in some guy's computer. I'm shaking my head, because this is in 2009 and I can't believe anyone would be requesting a modem. I ask him if he's sure before I go out there. He said he was. So, I go out, and sure enough he doesn't need a modem at all. He needs a wireless card or adapter. I call, go back to the store, get the card, head back to the customers', install it, head back, and yell at the guy for being a dumba*s, as common sense would tell anyone reasonably competent that he didn't need a modem.
Long story short, next week the boss comes in and fires me because the other guy made up some absolute c**p about me drilling a hole in a motherboard to fix a PC, which made no sense whatsoever. On my way out, I rolled my eyes and said "Fine, whatever.", grabbed my stuff, and left. The owner freaks out and follows me into the parking lot yelling and screaming and ranting and raving and trying to pick a fight. I just calmly walked to my car, went home, and had a beer.
I found out later that shortly thereafter the other guy was busted for fraud and the owner went bankrupt, shortly before popping a ton of pills and blowing his brains out.
#33
I was fired for being late to work. They would schedule me a 12 hour shift during the holidays, Only to have me come back to work 5 hours later. it was a 30 min drive to and from work. So at most, I'd be able to get 3 hours of sleep, and that was if I was lucky to fall asleep immediately.
They did this several times. I tried to make it back on time, but I would be anywhere from a half hour to an hour late. I would always get the work done that needed to be done as well.
Bay Bo 11 months ago
In my state that's illegal. U must have 8 hrs in-between shifts. Must of been horrifying, getting maybe3 hrs of sleep on 12 hr shifts 😬
Geoffrey Scott 11 months ago
Even an 8 hr turnaround sucks. 2nd shift, called in for 1st.
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I recently got written up for reasons that are unclear to me. Apparently I have become the IT department's supervisor despite never being told this or getting a raise.
I got written up for the department not meeting an impossible roll out schedule, 450 computers in a month with two people and no overtime allowed, all with dealing with tickets that come in for the existing systems.
To top it off, they went straight to a final written. I had never even got a verbal before this.
#35
Overall I've been able to get along with HR departments with one exception. I was working a help desk job for a company during college and the head of HR called in for help. He was making an Excel spreadsheet and couldn't figure out how to make a formula do what he wanted. I offered to come take a look as we were in the same building and he told me I couldn't because the spreadsheet was full of confidential information. So I asked then if he could describe what exactly he was trying to do without giving away any specific info, and he told me that what he was trying to do was confidential. So I clarified that he wanted me to tell him how to do something but I couldn't see it and he wouldn't even tell me what it was he was trying to do. At that point he agreed that I wouldn't be able to assist him since he couldn't divulge anything. As soon as we hung up he called my boss to complain that I was useless.
#36
Our HR always abuses the company budget. They have the nicest ergonomic keyboards, a fancy coffee machine in their office, and are the first to receive gifts from vendors.
One time they did the food tasting for the company year-end party (that they were organising). Catering company allowed 2 people for food tasting, and will charge $100 for additional people. The ENTIRE HR department went in the afternoon (and charged the company for the tasting fee, of course).
#37
I reported sexual harassment to HR at a large international company when I was 21. They notified my harasser (an older VP) before I even made it back to my desk. I was fired a few days later, despite an excellent performance review the week before he propositioned me.
Orysha 11 months ago
Document everything you can and tell the police before saying anything to HR.
Michael Largey 11 months ago
Lots of sexual harrassment is not a matter of criminal law.
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I've worked as a city worker before. I was constantly told that working too hard.
These old guys don't want to look bad as they sit around all day making lewd comments about girls that are too young for them, so they get mad at me for actually doing stuff.
I almost got fired a few times because of it. Just made the days take forever, pissed me off.
Geoffrey Scott 11 months ago
I was repeatedly disrespected by co-workers for filling my day with tasks ( school custodian, there's ALWAYS a task needs doing..) being called a suck-up etc. Being idle makes for a long day. Had a set-to with a female co-worker who was incredibly condescending, and who I was helping with a physical task. She never got a lick of help from me again, and yep, I was the jerk. Good luck to ya Boss, hope ya have a good one.
#39
I briefly worked at a cooking school, doing some admin work during the days and helping out with the classes in the evening. The owner was an old-fashioned stubborn old goat who refused to modernize in anyway (unimportant except for background on character). I was in working, on a bank holiday, so nobody was phoning in to book classes because everybody thought we were closed. So i'm sorting dishes and putting them away when my boss says, from across the room, that he's going out for lunch and that I could go home when I was finished. Great, I think, I'm bored out of my mind. I finish my stuff and go home.
I run into him on the stairs on the way out and cheerfully say that I'm finished everything and that I'm going home now. He looks vaguely puzzled and says ok.
The next morning I get a phone call where he asks me 'what happened yesterday?' I'm running through every phone call I made the day before wondering if there was some sort of a problem with a customer that I forgot to mention. I can't think of anything and ask what he means. He says 'why did you leave?' I reply it's because he said that I could go home when I was done my work. He says, no he didn't say that. I apologize for mishearing him.
And here's where it gets really, unbelievably stupid. He just keeps repeating over and over how he never said that and that I was making it up and that he had more work for me to do in the afternoon. He tells me to come into the office later.
I'm confused and pissed at this point because, has he never heard of a misunderstanding before? And if he had more work for me to do, why in the hell didn't he say anything when I ran into him in the stairway on the way out?
I get there and he says very somberly that he had thought about it and had to let me go because I was a liar and he couldn't have untrustworthy people working for him. I said that's fine because I didn't want to work for anyone so rigid, who couldn't fathom that his words could be misheard.
I couldn't even report him to the labour bureau or anything because I was working in the UK illegally.
TL;DR I got fired for being an untrustworthy liar after miss-hearing something my boss said across a room.
GalPalAl 11 months ago
I got fired by a woman who claimed to have discovered the healing power of crystals long before there was a market for it. She also tried to coerce me into starting a diet that she likes and when she fired me for unknown reasons (Like she is batshit crazy), didn't want to pay me.
#40
I was called a racist because I didn't really talk to or interact with one of my fellow employees beyond what was needed.
I had to explain to my boss, who was also black, that I wasn't a racist I just didn't talk to this girl because she was incredibly annoying.
Oerff On Tour 11 months ago
Was called a racist too. Told him I couldn't care less about someone's skin color, as long as it isn't Orange. (This was during Trump's first reign of terror, and, although we're in Europe, he's a massive Trump fan.)
Michael Largey 11 months ago
Boss should have said to girl "He talks fine with me, and I'm as black as you are."
G A 11 months ago (edited)
A manager where I worked was accused of racism for failing an anglo-indian person's performance review (no racism involved, she was very lazy). Case dismissed. Next year, she fails another person (an utterly fvckwit) who then pulled the same sh1t, solely to get away with it. Rather than face another investigation, she decided to leave. People can cry 'racist' far too easily.
#41
The HR/Payroll manager at a small hospital I worked at had a bad habit of not paying out the sign on bonus that was paid out incrementally in three payments through the course of a year and sign on bonuses for picking up extra shifts. After repeated request to be belatedly compensated, I took it to corporate who addressed my issue immediately.
A couple weeks later I was terminated on what amounted to a technicality where I forget my badge one shift and my relief was late to take over sitting with a patient, causing me to receive more points against me than if I had called out for that shift.
When I was called in to receive my notification, the director of nursing was shocked but ultimately not much she could do.
#42
Money. An old manager before I ended up working in government accused me of stealing from a till at a little convenience store I worked at as a supervisor. I ended up suspended and paraded through the store by my boss and his boss as a criminal when they “Escorted me off the premises” and told me they’d be in touch. So I was on suspension with pay (thank f**k) until they decided to investigate this fully. I happily had quite a few beers as it was a Friday night when they suspended me and though “F**k you!” and started searching for new jobs…
My manager called me up on Saturday morning (eurgh, hangover) and called me in… he then slated at me ‘bullying’ charges from other members of staff, his boss no-where to be seen and told me “I can send these charges up the chain of command…” (Yes he used those words) “… or you can hand your notice in and leave now.” I was 19… pissed off at my treatment by this f****r of a manager since he’d taken over so I thought “to hell with you and your company” went home, wrote my notice and handed it in with the understanding of “All your holiday will be paid and you won’t need to work the notice period” (D******d me never got it in writing). (In hindsight I should have asked to look at those charges and f****d him from there but it takes a long winded part here. I left the company and expected my last month’s pay-packet as agreed with my boss when I handed the notice in…
…behold the pay-packet of £910 short-fined for “Not working notice”. I go back to see my old boss who rapidly avoids me… and hides in the office. I speak to the assistant manager who lets me into the back store to have a chat with the manager, he tells me to leave or he’ll call the police. Old assistant manager gets involved and lets me in the back-door (shut it Reddit) when he isn’t there to have a look at some records. F****r never had charges there, f****r never put my notice in and got it classified as AWOL. F****r. The charge he got me with originally? A till that was £32.12 down…
War. I went in all guns blazing with this back-up and a letter from my third-cousin (She works in law) that basically he gives me the cash or he’s f****d. This is after a long drawn out “You give me the cash and this goes no further ultimatum from me” AFTER I’ve started work at my new place making nice dosh… it’s the principle. He avoids it and thinks I’ve got nothing until I give him this letter from my cousin. He s**ts bricks and hands me £750 out of the secure safe… Yep, the money had been going walk about somewhere and into someone’s pocket … but it certainly wasn’t mine. It was his. I made sure that he gave me the cash in the store-room with my back to the camera in there. Said thank you and was on my merry way home… but a quick call to HR made sure they’d view that footage just now…
Two months later I pop in as I need some beers for a party and my old assistant manager pulls me to the side to have a quiet word. Turns out the manager had stolen £28K worth of goods and money from the company. He got taken to court, prosecuted and lost everything. Funny thing is two years later where I’m working his name comes up on the unemployment benefit register over here and I sit there with a smug grin knowing that f****r got caught and lost everything all because of his lack of integrity.
Tl;dr – worst thing a manager did was steal money and blame me. Justice prevailed and that f****r got caught and I now make enough to make a lot of people at 23 jealous.
halazia 11 months ago
This is horrible written, I can barely understand anything even without all the censored words
Tom Brincefield 11 months ago
Keep practicing. English is a notoriously difficult language to learn.
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I worked at this expensive little supermarket in an uppity part of fairfield county, ct. i got called to the service desk/floor management office and it turns out exactly $50 dollars was missing from my till. i didn't take it and a low level manager whom everyone disliked actually rationalized, in my defense, the loss by saying that it's possible that some bills could have stuck together. that in itself is unlikely, because bills over $20 go in the part of the tray with the checks.
flash forward a few weeks and i'm starting to know how things typically work in that supermarket. at closing all our till trays go in a large safe and when the last tray is in it gets locked right after that. but that one generally disliked manager seemed to take her time at the end of the night when locking up the safe and closing the store down. and every time she would do this, within the next few days another person would get pulled aside for discrepancies. i get called in the office again because now $80 went missing, i get a talking to and a warning.
i quite some time later, but it turns out this manager would dip into the tills at the end of the night and pinch a few bills. i don't know if it was exactly what it appeared she was doing. but i know she did get caught stealing none the less, in the same manner.
apparently this manager would, every few weeks, shop at the place she worked and barely paid a thing. she would hand in dozens of receipts for bottle returns each time and coupons. the coupons weren't suspicious in itself. it was the bottle return receipts. nearly every one of them from different times of the day, different days of the week. i even recognized a few. she eventually got caught stealing by reusing bottle return receipts from the tills.
TL;DR market floor manager steals from tills occasionally and blames cashiers. apparently got caught using stolen bottle return receipts from tills to pay for her groceries.
#44
I worked at Sears, and I gave someone 0% financing for a 6 months(might have been a year, I honestly don't remember) on their Sears card on a purchase. I thought we were running a promotion, turned out we were not. Later, they threatened to fire me for stealing, saying I had stolen the money they might have made on the interest if the person had not made payments.
#45
I was a counselor at a teen summer camp where the campground was shared by different camps. A 14 year old girl from the ballet camp flashed the boys at our camp (much cheering was had by them). I reported it to our director, and he accused me of making it up because "ballerinas aren't sluts."
It wasn't until one of the 15 year old boys was bragging about seeing boobs to a boy who wasn't there within earshot of the director that he believed me.
#46
I worked a pizza place for about two months before quitting. I was pretty bad at the job, but to top it off, the owners found the most random things to blame on me.
We write a "K" or "Q" for King or Queen sized pizzas on the order ticket. These customers wanted a King but the cooks made a Queen on accident. The owner told everyone it was my fault for "using the wrong pen" on the ticket.
I ended up quitting because the cooks moved a ticket to the 'in the oven' spot before they made it. Honest mistake. However, my family was in the restaurant that day and overheard the owners telling the customers that it was my fault for putting the ticket in the wrong spot. When I asked the owner if she said that, she said no. I quit right then.
Made a lot of money, but it was a terrible experience.
#47
I worked at a paintball park and I typically did the register. I had my best friend helping me that day because it was very busy (she typically worked in another department). At the end of the day, my supervisor counted out the drawer and claimed I was $50 short. Immediately, fingers were pointed and we were both to blame. Apparently we stole it and were going to use their measly fifty dollars to take us out for a nice dinner or some b******t. (My supervisor was not very fond of me, whatever, she was a c**t dragon and I hated her anyways). My friend and I both started an uproar and had a "f**k this place" attitude about it, but of course, they eventually found the money.
This story wasn't that great, but I just recently left that s****y job, and I just wanted to reminisce on the b******t. Thank you.
#48
I worked at a bank for a while and was yelled at for being 10 cents short one day. I was literally asked to return the 10 cents. 10 f*****g cents to a bank. That is 10 pennies, or 2 nickels, maybe even one dime. 10.. cents...
I still laugh about it to this day.
Edit: I got a lot of responses to this and would like to just mention that it was my first day. I probably became short because a lady asked me for about 5 dollars in small change for her kids. I quit a little bit later because, as you can tell, my boss was an a*****e. Thanks for all the responses!
#49
I'm pretty sure that, any day now, my boss is going to have our HR manager send out a memo about breathing up air that is company property.
Michael Largey 11 months ago
"If the air is company property, it explains that horrible smell."
#50
I was accused of selling pictures of the Tiger Woods accident to TMZ all because I bought a new car a month later; I was the first person on scene.
Edit: Using better judgement to wait on AMA until a child sex r*pe case is closed. I would hate for me to ruin anything there...
What do you think ?
Sheena Leversedge Wood 11 months ago
I once got a disciplinary for leaving the surgery (dental) in a mess. apparently there was dirty equipment and debris in the sink. I told them this had nothing to do with me and they said another one of the nurses said I had been the one working in that surgery that day. got a formal warning and everything. despite the fact that this incident was midweek, during a time I was on holiday, on paid time off that whole week. I pointe this out, of course. but their response was well xxxx said you were the one who was there the day before. I wasn't even in the same COUNTY any of the days that week.
Kristin 11 months ago
I used to work a small town hospital. I have a big family and took special care not to assist with their accounts. My supervisor attempted to write me up for insubordination as I refused to call a patient, who was my cousin. I was in HR, and refused to sign the write up and demanded that the quality assurance and the CEO participate in this meeting. QA and the CEO were on my side and reminded them it's conflict of interest and I had the right and duty to protect their privacy. The supervisor tried to tell them she didn't know we were related. I reminded her that she was engaged to my brother and had met my cousin several times at family gatherings. The next time she attempted to write me up was for listening to a podcast instead of music while wearing my ear buds. Walking out of there was the best decision I ever made.
MegDragon 11 months ago
My dad was getting close to retirement after many years at a mill. There was a rule that to take something you wanted out of the trash you had to fill out a form. But common practice was guys would routinely grab random stuff that the company had already salvaged from and was paying a service to throw away. One day my dad found a piece of pipe he could use to fix my car and took it home. They accused him of stealing and offered him severance or early retirement.
Ronnie Beaton 3 months ago
The world of employment started going downhill when the Personnel Department mutated into HR.
Christina Dutta 11 months ago
We had a big water still in our lab. It frequently got clogged with lime scale, especially in a short elbow shaped pipe. We arranged with the plumber that he brought an extra elbow and put it in, while we took the clogged one and descaled it for him to use the next time - thus saving him time (and, I suppose, the University, money). His boss found out and bawled us out as if we had stolen the elbow! Quite daft.
Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 11 months ago
Cashier at mcd. If the register is shorter than a dollar you get the difference discounted from your check. If the register is over, they keep the money. A faulty change machine wasn't helping with it I started giving a little less change to customers in order to make up for that bs
Sheena Leversedge Wood 11 months ago
I once got a disciplinary for leaving the surgery (dental) in a mess. apparently there was dirty equipment and debris in the sink. I told them this had nothing to do with me and they said another one of the nurses said I had been the one working in that surgery that day. got a formal warning and everything. despite the fact that this incident was midweek, during a time I was on holiday, on paid time off that whole week. I pointe this out, of course. but their response was well xxxx said you were the one who was there the day before. I wasn't even in the same COUNTY any of the days that week.
Kristin 11 months ago
I used to work a small town hospital. I have a big family and took special care not to assist with their accounts. My supervisor attempted to write me up for insubordination as I refused to call a patient, who was my cousin. I was in HR, and refused to sign the write up and demanded that the quality assurance and the CEO participate in this meeting. QA and the CEO were on my side and reminded them it's conflict of interest and I had the right and duty to protect their privacy. The supervisor tried to tell them she didn't know we were related. I reminded her that she was engaged to my brother and had met my cousin several times at family gatherings. The next time she attempted to write me up was for listening to a podcast instead of music while wearing my ear buds. Walking out of there was the best decision I ever made.
MegDragon 11 months ago
My dad was getting close to retirement after many years at a mill. There was a rule that to take something you wanted out of the trash you had to fill out a form. But common practice was guys would routinely grab random stuff that the company had already salvaged from and was paying a service to throw away. One day my dad found a piece of pipe he could use to fix my car and took it home. They accused him of stealing and offered him severance or early retirement.
Ronnie Beaton 3 months ago
The world of employment started going downhill when the Personnel Department mutated into HR.
Christina Dutta 11 months ago
We had a big water still in our lab. It frequently got clogged with lime scale, especially in a short elbow shaped pipe. We arranged with the plumber that he brought an extra elbow and put it in, while we took the clogged one and descaled it for him to use the next time - thus saving him time (and, I suppose, the University, money). His boss found out and bawled us out as if we had stolen the elbow! Quite daft.
Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 11 months ago
Cashier at mcd. If the register is shorter than a dollar you get the difference discounted from your check. If the register is over, they keep the money. A faulty change machine wasn't helping with it I started giving a little less change to customers in order to make up for that bs
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