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30 People Expose Coworkers Who Did Something Insanely Crazy But Still Didn’t Get Fired
Have you ever looked at someone and thought "how the hell did they even decide to do such a thing?" In the workplace, let's say. It looks like every one of us has a somewhat similar understanding of what we can do, what we can’t do and what actions would get us fired immediately. But you know what, turns out some basic understanding and work ethics does not apply in every workplace.
Speaking about that, recently one Reddit user asked community members to share the most fireable things that they have seen their coworkers do that didn’t impact their employment status. And let me tell you, this will make you question so many things about companies' values and ethics.
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#1
He hit the OSHA inspector with a forklift.
Tim 2 years ago
Our forklift operators are highly trained and follow very stringent safety rules.... *BONK*..... Oh my.
Keisha Washington 2 years ago
Now every time I run into something, I shall proudly say aloud *BONK*.
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Sammy 2 years ago
If they were real OSHA inspectors they would have more situational awareness and dogged the forklift driver.
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#2
Had a guy at work do these things during his time at a place I worked and he never got fired:
Accidentally set fire to the trees out back whilst taking a pee, he was bored and lighting ants on fire. Fire truck had to come put it out - scorched earth!
Ignored instructions from a spotter and dropped a 250k machine whilst the spotter was underneath (luckily, the legs on the machine prevented any injury). Edit: I was wrong, she wasn’t underneath just very close and looking underneath.
Threw a plastic 55g drum at the owner in a fit of drunken rage.
Got pulled over 25 minutes away from work 25 minutes after his shift and got a dui - blew a 0.21 and was in the local paper.
Got drunk on moonshine from the back fridge, went into the bar bathrooms (during business hours) and pulled his infected tooth out with a pair of channel-locks, stole the bartenders tips and drove home a bloody drunken mess. Bathroom was an absolute disaster.
Routinely stole cash, beer, and merch.
Threw a glass at me once, but that wasn’t really all that bad.
Pulled the wrong valve off of the bottom of a tank and lost ~800 gallons of beer before I could get it back on for him
Some of the things from the top of my head, it was a while back now but he eventually quit.
Natalie H 2 years ago
Hmmm. There’s definitely something going on here..them putting up with this guy’s outrageous behavior goes beyond the line of company economics & reasoning. I’m guessing he had some juicy info about the boss or boss’s family member(s), or the owner of the company owed him some kind of private debt, so they put up with him. It must’ve been a hell of a debt. Very interesting indeed… I’m nosy af, I wonder what it could’ve been 🤔🧐
Sonja 2 years ago
Or the boss was just a spineless dweep that couldn't fire anyone. I've met those kind of people, they make excuses for the most outrageous things just to not be the 'bad boss' firing someone
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Lauren Wilder 2 years ago
And he was allowed to quit instead of get fired??, must be the bosses son.
#3
When I worked retail, I once challenged a customer to step outside and fight. The customer - I'll never forget this - said, "Dude, you're at work," and walked out, shaking his head. Sometimes the customer is right!
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
But what about the final 30 days of the month?
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Tee Rat 2 years ago
I had a guy come into the convenience store where I was working and ran out the door with a a 6 pack of Heineken. I filed a police report and the next day the same guy comes in and apologizes saying he was there to pay for the stolen beer and another 6 pack He gives me $2.00 and runs out the door again. This time the cops find him down the street drinking on his porch and he still has the empty bottles from the day before. You can't fix stupid.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
I worked retail for 2 years. One night, a very angry (and possibly… substance-infused) customer came in and challenged our employees to a collective fight. Customer ripped off his shirt, jumped onto a produce display, and threw a plastic shopping basket at another employee. (I was standing there recording the whole thing as a CYA thing in case things went very south. I am sometimes very dumb.) Our produce manager, who is a HUGE guy, walks over with one of the guys from the meat dept, who is also a HUGE guy. They loom there for a second. Customer, shirtless, retreats XD Retail was… a fun time, but also traumatizing at times XD
Keisha Washington 2 years ago
How to say we will kick your a*ss without having to actually say it.
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hearditontheX 2 years ago
Love that guy. Wish I had been leveled headed when I was young. AND I still strive for grace. That's not a religious thing. To me it just means I show u compassion regardless of circumstances
Shawn Barry 2 years ago
how does this qualify for this list? did your boss find out and let it slide or something?
#4
It was me, but I faked a coworkers death by putting a makeshift memorial up in his assigned parking spot on April 1st. It had his picture, flowers, a handful of candles, the whole deal. The head of HR was not amused. Everyone else loved it, though.
To make matters worse, this was during peak covid. I had just returned from a small vacation and had no idea my friend i did this to had been out for 3 days due to suspected covid.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
I remember we had an “employee of the month” photo wall in our break room. Management had left one of the photo frames empty for a while, so for April Fools, I drew a cat in one of our work shirts, picking its nose, and stuck it in the frame. My co-workers all loved it… management did not XD (they all knew it was my art.) Yes, I still have a photo of it up in its frame on the wall, though! XD
Justin Smith 2 years ago
They loved it as in thought it was a funny joke.
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Anna Andersen 2 years ago
Do not use a photo of the 9/11 memorial for this. How disgusting and disrespectful; you can see a victim's name in the photo.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Quite a few years back a coworker was away for holiday (maybe they were getting married I don't really remember now) and several of us made his little cubical in the office into a murder scene just before he got back. Got some tape and made a body outline on the floor, someone had some fake police tape (from a Dexter box set IIRC) and taped off the cubical. There were some other little touches to make it seem "real". No one ever got in trouble for it, the team leader was the one who organised it and everyone took it with good humour.
#5
I used to be a chemist in the lab, and I swear to God, every lab had one psycho. Our resident psycho had it out for one of the girls for some reason, and had to be physically restrained by another guy from attacking her. He didn’t like something she was talking about (he was an angry chauvinist). Another time he threatened to “bash her head into the glass window “. Management and HR did absolutely nothing, in fact they blamed her. She ended up taking him to court and filing a restraining order. He was forced onto a different shift and had to leave the property before she came in. Way to protect your own employees, a******s. Oh, and he accused everyone of being secretly gay together. Good times.
#6
"What are you gonna do? Fire me? I'm your only line cook that'll take 3 waiters, a bus boy, and the dish washer with me if I leave!" I was the dish washer.
detective miller's hat 2 years ago
Reminds me of what happened when the ahole pastor at my old church basically bullied our band frontman out... and the entire rest of the worship team (as well as all of their families) went with him. Pastor lost half the church's congregation because he couldn't stop being an arrogant micromanaging misogynistic twit.
John Murphy 2 years ago
sounds like you didnt learn anything in church anyway lol
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Vasana Phong 2 years ago
Off topic , but anyone else annoyed at how you’re reading and the glitching from the ads make you lose your spot😫
Rebekah 2 years ago
I know no one cares, but my son was just promoted from dishwasher to line cook at the fancy Italian restaurant he works for. Thought I'd brag to the pandaverse.
#7
Work drunk.
This was in car sales. Dude showed up drunk or heavy hangover constantly. But he sold a lot of cars, somehow, so they didn’t care
Bec 2 years ago
I had a coworker in education who was a functioning alcoholic, until he wasn't Since he never came to clean out his office, we found things dated back quite awhile like ungraded exams. Students never complained until the end and even then didn't want to because he was a nice guy and a good teacher.
Der Kommissar 2 years ago (edited)
I worked at the post office, sorting mail by LSM (letter sorting machine). One of my co workers smoked angel dust (PCP) regularly, with unpredictable results. Sometimes he would babble incoherently, and sometimes pass out at the LSM. The supervisor never fired him, as he was afraid what his reaction would be. This was back in the 70s when you could get away with a lot more. Another post office employee, whose job was it to sort magazines, kept a coke can filled with wine at his station. By the end of the shift he was woozy.
Tee Rat 2 years ago
Could have been my attorney, it was sentencing day and he looked like he was still drunk. The whole time the judge was speaking my lawyer had his head down and was rubbing his temples. When the judge said I didn't meet a requirement for probation, which I had completed, I finally had to speak up for myself. He went back through his paperwork and sentenced me to probation, but not before telling me he was ready to sentence me to prison. The look on my lawyer's face when the judge ordered him to the bench was priceless.
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Michael Vickery 2 years ago
As someone who's worked in auto sales, I'd be more surprised by a sober, responsible car salesman.
Bryan W. 2 years ago
This is kinda normal in sales. Bigger sales positions literally pay you to be a professional party animal (wine and dine) so you loosen up the client's pockets by showing them a good time. Being a little sauced on the clock is par for the course with these types. Of course, then you end up with the types that you have to fire for being caught jerking it in a school parking lot in a company vehicle, but those are the chances you take for the big deals I guess.
Array Index Out of Bounds 2 years ago
Well, I work with at least a little alcohol in my system every day. But I'm fortunate to own my own business, so...
Definitely a Human 2 years ago
Was he a danger to himself or anyone else? Was he losing money for the company or causing legal issues by missing paperwork? If not, I don't really see what the problem is.
#8
Watched a coworker rent an entire big box retail store parking lot to a BMW dealership for cash on the side so they could park excess inventory.
Corporate didn't know. He pocketed all the money.
Princeofdarkness 2 years ago
What they just went in with a proposal to the dealer and they agreed?
#9
Accidentally send out the entire company's (3,000+ employees) headcount to the company distro. File contained everyone's salary, birthday, government numbers,etc.
Lakota Wolf 2 years ago
I’m guessing it’s a shortened form of “distribution”, so in this case, it means that the file got sent to the entire set of company emails.
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WhooHoo that salary stuff is explosive. I quit a job when I found out my admin made more than me. I was 3 years into an engineering degree. She was great. I knew the $ I was billed to client
The Kitten Overlord 2 years ago
…the only way they WEREN’T fired is that they were never caught.
#10
Used a racial slur toward a Jewish co-worker in front of a customer. He claimed he didn't know that calling him a "Cheap J*w" was bad because all Jewish people love their money.
He was fired about a year later for sexual comments toward a married female customer.
Dave H 2 years ago (edited)
Watch your mouth. This is a family place. Won't someone think of the children?
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#11
In a hospital the person went out to get a patient and called out in the waiting room, "Where's my little (insert name of disease the infant had) baby?" Basically just told all the people in the room what disease the baby had and the mother's jaw dropped and was furious. Nothing happened. She ended up quitting on her own 3-4 years later.
Justin Smith 2 years ago
Shiuld have been fired and had any medical licenses or certifications taken away as well.
Kitty 🥀 2 years ago
I think that’s taking it too far, but they definitely should’ve been written up.
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Ellie Ahmed 2 years ago
There's an old joke cartoon that used to get shown when I was studying health information management, with a receptionist announcing to the waiting room "due to privacy regulations we will no longer be using patients' names, so - could the man with the a**l prolapse please come this way?". Like, this employee is *literally* a joke.
Ellie Ahmed 2 years ago
Also, beyond the privacy breach, my hospital quality manager would point out that this just isn't very good 'patient centred care'. We don't like to refer to people AS a disease they have, we refer to them as people WITH a disease (contrast "a cleft palate baby" vs "a baby with a cleft palate" - the first emphasizes the defect first, the second emphasizes their personhood first)
María Hermida 2 years ago
When my grandmother was in hospital, I heard her doctor refer to her as "the cancerous one in bed 2". I don't think that idiot will ever forget my face. I think the whole hospital heard our argument. She was sent to a different room, un charge if a much nicer doctor. Apparently, everybody knew doctor#1 was an a*****e and treated patients like s**t, but "oh, he is the DOCTOR". I'm glad to know at least some people think a person with a disease is still a person.
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Worked at a Video Game retailer, yeah that one, back when I was fresh out of college. The Nintendo Wii was due to be released the following week and we were no longer taking pre-orders. Some guy comes in with his girlfriend and wanted to preorder but couldn’t so he tried to bribe my coworker with $20 to get one anyway. Store was full of customers and our supervisor was present. Coworker busts out laughing, walks around the counter, puts an arm around the guys shoulder, literally busting a gut, wheezing with laughter. Suddenly he stops laughing, looks the guy dead in the face and yells, “20 bucks?!?! GO SUCK A D**K!”
Guy’s face turned bright red and his girlfriend and the entire store started laughing at him. Never saw the guy again. Manager said that was hilarious but don’t ever do that again.
Coworker was let go months later for gift card fraud shortly after I was promoted and transferred to another store.
AngelWingsYT 2 years ago
XD me n 2 other co-workers were bribed a $20 by a group of 13 year olds trying to get tickets to a rated R movie 🤣 we just looked at the bill then them like "really? 20 btwn 3 ppl? 20 is not even 2 hrs of work" of course we told them no. So they went to the self ticketing kiosk. We called the manager at the point to kick them out
AngelWingsYT 2 years ago
Ppl been bribed before. And some workers do call them out for the (always) low bribe
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tried his damndest to sleep with the bosses wife while out at a work party. got fired months later for something completely unrelated
#14
It's a tie...
1) Supervisor engaged in sexual intercourse with one of his associates bent over her work space.
2) Supervisor leaving a company function, hit two cars in front of three cops, ran, ran a red light, then drove back to the plant, across the back lot, bogged down to the axels and was caught trying to run away on foot.
#15
A director of customer engagement publicly, in a department wide recorded meeting, told everyone he was going to participate in wage theft against his subordinates. I've never downloaded and saved a zoom meeting faster. Then, when he didn't get reprimanded or anything, I took that video to the labor board and sued them for wage theft. It just boggles my mind how a popular, well known start up would allow someone like that to remain on staff. Last I heard, half the call center was going after them for wage theft under the same condition that I did.
꯱ׁׅ֒tׁׅυׁׅƙׁׅ֑ꪱׁׅ 2 years ago (edited)
That is some stupid person. Especially in a live meeting? His ego was too big. Something tells me he's gotten away with other illegal stuff.
Elio 2 years ago
Do you mean why the wage theft? Because the man is a bag of d!cks.
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Supervisor freaked the f**k out on the sales guy and just clocked out. It was a super busy shipping day and he was just done. He got to the end of the driveway and turned around and clocked back in and they just acted like he didn't tell them to f**k off lol
Jose Antonio 2 years ago
Nobody is feeling 100% each and every day. dude may have just been a bad day but recognized shortly that his actions we not justified or that it may have not been the other persons fault and so he returned...probably should have at the very least apologized
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Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, based on plenty of work situations I've seen over the years. There are plenty of stupid managers, but few of them are so stupid that they don't know that sometimes employees are going to be really pissed off at them. Many of them can actually accept reality.
#17
Not do her job. Find any excuse to avoid work. Spend half the day chatting on the phone. Then work unapproved overtime, claiming that she had too much work and needed to catch up. Yes, I'm talking about you, Stephanie. Worst co-worker I ever had.
Ivy at Eve 2 years ago
I've worked with some Stephanies. Worst thing: they were the boss's heroes.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
I've recently had worse. Here's my list. (a). Subordinate who took orders from a consultant rather than me. Was instructed by same to report my instructions to consultant. I asked subordinate who he reported to. He tried to run (literally) but I blocked his path and insisted he clarify his role to our mutual manager, with the evidence on-hand of the countermanding instructions. (b) Subordinate photographed my work to try prove i was doing no-good. Got into a huge fight with my superiors as a result. Subordinate denied he did it. I saw the photo. I later asked him if he wanted to keep his job and advised him to get clarity first. (c). Subordinate would show up at work and do no work and delegate it to other subordinates of the same rank. Eventually went AWOL and was fired in absentia. Keeps calling me for a job referral. Er, no.
#18
The dude showed up drunk to work. He drove.
Manager sent him home. I asked why he wasn't fired and she said it was because he never clocked in, so he technically wasn't intoxicated at work.
Looking back, I think that manager really wanted to jump that guys bones.
Tsdey 2 years ago
nope, cuz he was not at work so there was no reason to also as a F*** YOU thing
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#19
A guy got a dui and lost his license for three months and didn't tell anyone at work about. He drove a company truck daily for work and they only found out after he got his license back. I know he was still there 5 years later.
#20
Literally not working. She would get to work at 6:30 and I would see her leaving as I pulled in at 8:00. Her boss hadn’t even arrived yet. This was like 4-5 days per week. She maybe stayed till 2:00 on the good days. They tried to fire her and were told it was impossible to fire anyone for anything at a university. They waited for the grant to run out and then didn’t put her on the new one. It took 2 years.
Wintermute 2 years ago
I had a job like this. They got grant money for an intern (me) to run a small project. The project was speculated at 6 months, but it was based off of pre-computer work flow (seriously, like 1970s work flow, this was 2009, state government). I got the job done in about 8 weeks, thought I was done, but they told me to find busy work and stay onboard (I wasn't wise to the grift at the time). So I kept the cleanest lab and did odd jobs for 4 more months. Then got another project, same thing. Worked there part time for 9 years and did MAYBE 1 years worth of work. They eventually had to give me a raise just to use up surplus. I didn't even go in for months at a time. Never was sure what they got out of it, but it was something. Your tax money at work people!
Ellie Ahmed 2 years ago (edited)
My Dad worked for a university that definitely had the same "impossible to fire terrible people" culture, so can relate. They had the most stunningly lazy and incompetent woman in their department for years, until eventually she managed to pull a stunt that was so amazingly negligent (even for her) that it resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of research and the death of every lab mouse in the facility. Then she finally got fired.
#21
F**k his assistant in our wellness room DURING business hours.
#22
Long ago, when bookstores existed in the mall, I worked for one that had satellite calendar kiosks during the holiday season.
Dude who was working at the kiosk "accidentally" put two endorsed-by-the-register checks into his pocket instead of in the till and went home.
At the end of the night, there were some frantic phone calls made to figure out where this check went so they could balance the registers. When I came in the next morning, the assistant manager who had dealt with the whole situation was visibly frustrated that Dude had not been even been written up.
He was such a weird guy. Always stared a little too long after you finished talking.
Dread Pirate Roberts 2 years ago
Sounds like the kind of creepy guy that would like break into your house at night and sniff your face while you sleep.
#23
I worked in a kitchen in high school and a guy bled on a pizza and stills served it.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Ew at target the guys would still serve those big beef hotdogs in food avenue after flies landed on the roller and cooked into them. They would hide it in the buns. Ugh gagging in my mouth so gross
Jose Antonio 2 years ago (edited)
so....what did YOU(or whoever witnessed this) do about this?...sit by idly?
Karl 2 years ago
When I worked in kitchens I sliced myself quite badly and bled into a pot of potatoes. Asked head chef if we should throw them out but he said to just carry on and cook them as planned since the blood would boil off.
Miss Revelle 2 years ago
When blood is exposed to air or heated, it basically kills any disease the blood contains. But that is still nasty and I would have thrown out the potatoes!
Load More Replies... Evan not Hansen 2 years ago
Oh god - not only is that disgusting, that could spread so many diseases. There's a reason my high school health teacher drilled it into us to never touch a random person's blood if we could help it.
#24
Worked a 24 hour shift doing manual labour. Then got into a truck, drove 2 hrs to another site do another 8 hour shift. Coerced a few underlings to join him. Then they had to drive home… 34 hours of working without sleep, driving public roads in that state thinking they where tough as s**t…
The boss was an absolute scumbag, but even he had the sense to know that this was truly irresponsible. This was solely on the head of the narcissistic egomaniac foreman who thought he was the toughest badass around and only those who could follow him where the good workers.
Needless to say I opted out. I wasn’t on the foreman’s good side and he made my life hell for two years. In a way I’m thankful I learned so much about life and people in that time. I hit a massive low point in my life working with that man. But I came out stronger at the other end.
He was never reprimanded for this, and all the other things he did, which was unfortunate. But I’m happy to now be earning way above what he is. And he’s probably still destroying his body in the name of being a rough bastard.
Thee8thsense 2 years ago
Very stupid and risky behavior just to prove how "tough" he was. In high school, a friend of mine, along with his co-worker, did a triple shift at Dunkin Donuts, and sadly, while driving home together, died in a car crash, because he fell asleep at the wheel.
#25
Talking s**t about the manager while sitting about 50 feet from his desk- manager just walked away
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
I think if you are anyone's boss you must expect the s**t talking and shouldn't be offended or fire people over it. It's going to happen no matter what you do or how cool you are
Monday 2 years ago
Well yes but if you're an employee you also need to realize that talking s**t about your boss in earshot of said boss is a terrible idea. Unless of course your s**t talk is purely factual like "Greg didn't show up till 10 today and still hasn't responded to my urgent email from 3 hours ago".
Load More Replies... My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
I always figure people like that have risqué pictures of the CEO with farm animals.
#26
in my life i had one job outside of being self-employed: head of the IT department for a local retailer with three in-state locations and two out-of-state locations. everything was going great. new websites built, new software for the employees to list items online built, new inventory system setup, marketing going well, etc. this was until nepotism kicked in. see, we were doing millions in ad buys on TV and low-and-behold the son of the lady we did these buys through needed a job. so he's hired and it was immediately clear this kid had no clue what he was doing. but he had some pull. he fancied himself a nerd so he started tinkering with our site. not a dev branch, i'm talking production. the live website. soon after we got hacked. it took me some time to find out how the shell got onto our server. turns out dips**t, while making his unneeded changes, f****d with various security settings on our site. this led directly to us getting owned. it was all in the logs. i documented what he did and the consequences of it. we had to take the website down so internet sales immediately stopped. i had to go through all of the source code to make sure there weren't any other backdoors lurking. it was a PITA. the kid never faced any consequences for this. i quit soon after and went back to self-employment. fun times!
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
If you think that's bad? I once read about an IT guy who never had any back ups that were more than a couple of days old and had to go through the entire source code instead of just restoring it from an archive.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
IT cowboys are always fun. We had one guy who was trying to prep a small registry patch to go out across a bunch of computers at work. He tested it on his main work PC instead of a test one. But at least he tested it, because it destroyed the registry hive and bricked the PC. Needed a complete re-image from scratch. Same guy a few years later was making DB changes and I had to review his scripts (part of our change process). His script was meant to alter a few dozen records with new values. He was doing his work and testing on the dev and test environments this time which was a good thing. His script did a "delete * from table" to remove the old values then he added the new ones in manually with a bunch of inserts. He didn't realise he was emptying the whole table in the DB.
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AngelWingsYT 2 years ago
Bet kid got OPs postion cause "he knows this stuff" n wrecked it all getting the company hacked
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Worked at a deli for a summer that hired a bunch of high school kids with a large sweaty checked out manager. I was one of the high school kids. One of the other two had a block of havarti cheese they just opened to cut off six slices for a old lady. It was near the end of the day so instead of putting the rest of the block of cheese in syran wrap and in the refrigerator he put it down the garbage disposal. Just pushed it down with barbeque tongs while doing the "shhhh" gesture at me with his lips and other index finger. I just thought "Well that's f****d up."
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Better than yanking it back out of the disposal after accidentally dropping it. When I worked at restaurant in HS the dishwasher once pulled a chunk of steak out of the garbage and rinsed it off after grabbing a plate while the waiter was grabbing a take home container to wrap the leftovers.
#28
Constantly watched people drink on the job and couldn’t say anything because management was doing it too.
Sue User 2 years ago
What is it about restaraunt work that invites alcoholics and cocain addicts ? Or is it the job that drives people to drink/ do drugs ?
Load More Replies... Ken Beattie 2 years ago
When I first started in the late 80s there was a culture where people would have a few drinks at lunch on a Friday afternoon. And unless they came back to the office really hammered the boss turned a blind eye if Friday afternoon's work was a bit slow. Sadly, it's one of those things that went away because people abused it and did start coming back wasted.
#29
I worked in a freezer for a while. All my bosses in there with us were pretty laid back. The best thing they said was they didn’t care if we smoked weed on the job, as long as we could do our job. Well one of the people who took advantage of that was the forklift operator. One day, while high, ran my foot over. It didn’t hurt too bad, just had a wicked bruise. I personally don’t blame him because we were talking just before it happened and my foot was in front of a wheel and he had something on his forks, so he didn’t see my foot. Management didn’t do anything about it. He was driving the next day.
There was also someone on 3rd shift who kept running into the sliding door that divided the freezer from the shipping dock. He ran into it like 3 times in 2 weeks before they told him they were gonna have him do something else
Bec 2 years ago
In college, I worked with a bunch of college kids at a light manufacturing warehouse. One day one of the guys jokingly drove the forklift into a pallet in such a way that one of the tines went between her legs where she was standing - "supervisor", also a college kid ripped him a new one, what if he had hit her!?!
Haywood Jablome 2 years ago
I used to drive forklifts. It is miraculous OP's foot wasn't crushed to nothing; those things weigh the same as like 10+cars
Con O Cuinn 2 years ago
I read this as "I got stoned and stuck my foot under a forklift wheel"
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Heard plenty of stories from friends working retail where the stores would throw 16 year olds onto a forklift and expect them to move pallets off the back dock and into storage. These are kids who barely had a drivers license. More than one story ended up with "and that's how he rammed the roll-a-door at the back dock". At least one ended with "when they rammed the door it popped out of it's tracks, so they took the forklift outside and rammed it the other way trying to get it back onto it's tracks". 0_o
#30
Curse out the boss in front of an entire team of employees (not me)
whiterabbit 2 years ago
Sometimes you just have to. I work for a surgeon that is the most disrespectful, impatient, vile human I've ever met. I was in a room with him, my coworker and a patient and he started yelling at my coworker to shut up while she was just trying to do her job and I just lost it, I got right in his face and loudly told him to stop being rude to her. He was so shocked he just stood there for a second and walked out.
#31
I was doing some kind of apprentice's/studying and working thing.
During semester breaks we were working, or would need to take time off. That meant informing who you were working with (as soon as you would know), going through a tool process for requesting your time off, checking back it was approved.
People were surprised when a colleague didn't show up on the first day after the semester. He hadn't called in sickm. After not being there until mid day, the department he should be at called our supervisor. The supervisor checked if there were time off or sickness and they simply forgot to inform department? Nope.
So they called him. It took more than one try, but he answered and told them
"oh yeah. I'm in new York. Sorry I forgot to inform the department or put in time off, I won't be there until two weeks."
He was not fired - and this would be one of the few actual offenses for which that _would have been possible_. Which is _hard_ in my country (rightfully so).
Even worse, he was also not made to return immediately and I never heard anything about any other repercussions (albeit I simply may have missed them).
I'm still blinking and wondering. That's not a "oopsie". It's traveling to another continent! It takes _months_ of planning. Yet no one even knew. He didn't simply forget to enter it, he told _no one_. Not even colleagues. And nothing came of it.
#32
Leave 30 mins into the shift without telling anyone and logging it as a full 8hr day
What do you think ?
DBear 2 years ago
Wow. So many. Most of mine would be catching various co-workers and supervisors stealing and getting a pass from management. In almost every company certain people who are deemed irreplaceable are allowed to steal. Best one though has to be the mechanic who set a forklift on fire. The company had recently switched to using a brake and parts cleaner that was less environmentally hazardous but was also more flammable. In conjunction the mechanics were told to discontinue using their old incandescent bulb drop lights and all were issued new, safer fluorescent ones. One guy kept using his old one and sprayed flammable brake cleaner directly on it. Only reason he didn't get fired was because he was union and his dad was the shop steward.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
Worked in car rental at a busy airport location as an Operations Manager (we forecast demand and availability, staff accordingly, etc - absolutely no customer interaction) of an approximately 10k vehicle fleet. We got an order from corporate to secure 10 brand new dark colored suburbans for a VVIP reservation two weeks out. Ok, no problem. About a week out, the counter sales manager sent out all the details, including names and full credit card information, of ten secret service agents to ALL managers (maybe 30-40 people, almost none of whom had anything to do with payments or customer interaction) - it was a reservation for a visit by the then-president.
Monday 2 years ago
I should have been born a nepo baby...why didn't I do that?
Load More Replies... Say No to Downvoting 2 years ago (edited)
**Trigger Warning: Gore*** Didn’t see it, but heard about it. I worked in a NICU. When babies had IV fluids they would have little boards taped to their hand and forearm to keep the over patent. A lot of tape would be used, so getting them off without distressing the baby was a tricky task. This colleague was cutting at tapes with scissors and cut the baby’s pinky finger off. She wasn’t fired - she still worked there for years. Obviously it was a terrible accident and we all wondered how close we have ever been to doing something similar. Poor colleague. Poor family. Poor baby.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
that's really awful I wish I hadn't read that ! sheesh
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Judy Ellecim 2 years ago
One of the paraprofessionals at my old school who worked specifically with 4th/5th grade special education students pulled a knife on a child. I am still dumbfounded by the fact that they are still employed in a school.
Littlemiss 2 years ago
Two workmates accessed private personnel files on the managers computer. They looked at multiple peoples files, took information about someone, gloated about their actions and got given promotions to team leader positions. Another boss defrauded people, lies to get huge amounts of funding, charges fees for things that don't exist, had unfit family people signed off for work by other family members (instead of seperate qualified individuals like she's supposed to)and continues to use her childs disability as a cash cow to claim money that never goes to the childs care and instead pays for lavish holidays, houses and cars. They all continue to work and get accolades.
DBear 2 years ago
Wow. So many. Most of mine would be catching various co-workers and supervisors stealing and getting a pass from management. In almost every company certain people who are deemed irreplaceable are allowed to steal. Best one though has to be the mechanic who set a forklift on fire. The company had recently switched to using a brake and parts cleaner that was less environmentally hazardous but was also more flammable. In conjunction the mechanics were told to discontinue using their old incandescent bulb drop lights and all were issued new, safer fluorescent ones. One guy kept using his old one and sprayed flammable brake cleaner directly on it. Only reason he didn't get fired was because he was union and his dad was the shop steward.
DeoManus Argentem 2 years ago
Worked in car rental at a busy airport location as an Operations Manager (we forecast demand and availability, staff accordingly, etc - absolutely no customer interaction) of an approximately 10k vehicle fleet. We got an order from corporate to secure 10 brand new dark colored suburbans for a VVIP reservation two weeks out. Ok, no problem. About a week out, the counter sales manager sent out all the details, including names and full credit card information, of ten secret service agents to ALL managers (maybe 30-40 people, almost none of whom had anything to do with payments or customer interaction) - it was a reservation for a visit by the then-president.
Monday 2 years ago
I should have been born a nepo baby...why didn't I do that?
Load More Replies... Say No to Downvoting 2 years ago (edited)
**Trigger Warning: Gore*** Didn’t see it, but heard about it. I worked in a NICU. When babies had IV fluids they would have little boards taped to their hand and forearm to keep the over patent. A lot of tape would be used, so getting them off without distressing the baby was a tricky task. This colleague was cutting at tapes with scissors and cut the baby’s pinky finger off. She wasn’t fired - she still worked there for years. Obviously it was a terrible accident and we all wondered how close we have ever been to doing something similar. Poor colleague. Poor family. Poor baby.
censorshipsucks 2 years ago
that's really awful I wish I hadn't read that ! sheesh
Load More Replies... Judy Ellecim 2 years ago
One of the paraprofessionals at my old school who worked specifically with 4th/5th grade special education students pulled a knife on a child. I am still dumbfounded by the fact that they are still employed in a school.
Littlemiss 2 years ago
Two workmates accessed private personnel files on the managers computer. They looked at multiple peoples files, took information about someone, gloated about their actions and got given promotions to team leader positions. Another boss defrauded people, lies to get huge amounts of funding, charges fees for things that don't exist, had unfit family people signed off for work by other family members (instead of seperate qualified individuals like she's supposed to)and continues to use her childs disability as a cash cow to claim money that never goes to the childs care and instead pays for lavish holidays, houses and cars. They all continue to work and get accolades.
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