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Who’s your favorite character on The Office? Maybe you’re partial to Michael’s hilarious antics or Jim’s wit. You might even love Dwight and his dedication to rules and authority. But I’m willing to bet that your favorite character is not Toby. Regardless of how you feel about Toby as a character, though, you have to admit that his job would not be for the faint of heart. And as ridiculous as the scenarios on this beloved sitcom seem, it appears that real life HR reps encounter shockingly similar situations.
Human Resources employees have been sharing the most outrageous occurrences they’ve had to deal with at work on Reddit, so we’ve gathered some of the most sitcom-worthy moments down below. Be sure to upvote the tales you can’t believe actually happened, and remember to thank your lucky stars that you're not responsible the next time something wild happens in your office. (Unless you are HR, in which case, you should definitely get a pay raise.)
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#1
Was once asked to investigate a sexual harassment situation where three different women were coming on to a male coworker throughout their shift. I took down the details, got the names, easy peasy investigation so I thought.
A week later, nobody by these descriptions or names had ever worked for the company. I decided to talk to the gentleman again. After a lengthy conversation where things didn’t quite stack up I asked him how these women communicated with him.
I s**t you not, with a straight face, he looks me in the eye and replies “telepathically” like I’m some kind of idiot.
I had never sent an employee for psychological evaluation up to that point and I hope never to have to again.
So yeah I was asked by a delusional schizophrenic to conduct a sex harassment investigation on the voices in his head.
TopCat 2 years ago
Feel sorry for the guy, mental health disorders is no laughing matter - hope he got some help and support.
XenoMurph 2 years ago
Mental health is not a laughing matter, but sometimes the situations that occur out of it are humourous, without being callous we can find the humour in life. My friend tried to commit suicide by putting a bin bag over his head and filling it with helium. He was very distressed, and incredibly high pitched on the phone. We both laughed through our tears. He's much better now.
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I just work here 2 years ago
Ok, if he was really schizophrenic making fun of this person is NOT OK! I assumed he was scamming. Mental health issues are not funny and are not the persons fault.
Barbara Kelly 2 years ago
It is possible that the complainer picked up "vibes" from the women's behaviors (they may well have been attracted to him) and he didn't have the social skills or mental strength to brush it off or distance himself. In that case, psychological help would still be valuable.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
I appreciate your sympathetic viewpoint. However, I got the impression the women in question were in the man's imagination.
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Well sad fact is yes women do harrass men ans some als9 make false complaints just as there are men who sexually harrass (first time I've heard of a false sexual harrassment complaint) and both genders bulky and make false complaints about bullying. I will say though it seems you unlike most HR actually the complaint from a male (about females seriously) so that's a positive. Shame though he was obviously delusional. I will say this occures with women as well so it's a bit of a tricky 1 to navigate. But no matter the genders involved those who make false complaints should be treated just as those who actually did sexually harrass or bully etc because all those things can have a long term detrimental effect ans I can say this from experiencing afew false complaints *by men and women) as well as bullying by men and women and yes I have experienced sexual harrassment by women *that is never taken seriously in my experience because as a male you're immediately on the back foot
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#2
I don’t work in HR but I do have a nightmare HR story. When I was on my gap year I worked a part time job as a fitness instructor at a leisure centre. One of my coworkers, call him Bill, was a nice guy and I would often sit and chat to him on my breaks etc. Long term GF and baby at home. As part of my job I used to teach spinning classes on a fairly regular basis. I would normally leave my phone in the staff room while I was teaching, or behind the reception desk. Both these places were secure and my phone had a passcode on it. I didn’t want it going off while I was teaching because the when it received calls/texts it interfered with the stereo in the spin studio. I didn’t have a locker or anything where I could store it. Sometime in around January I was at at uni for an interview weekend. My girlfriend at the time had come to pick me up and while she was waiting in the car, she was scrolling through my messages on my iPad. When I got in the car she showed me one of my chats and said why did you send this video to Bill? I had no recollection of sending any videos to Bill, since I did not speak to him outside of work beyond “I’m going to be late” or similar. I thought it was a mistake but as I scrolled further back up I saw that “I” had sent this same video to Bill a couple of weeks prior. Feeling thoroughly perplexed I clicked into the video and saw it was a video of me (20F) and my girlfriend (26F) on holiday in Thailand. I’d like to stress that it was not a sexual video, we were just joking around but we had just got out the shower and were both naked. At this point I’m still thinking it’s some kind of big mistake as Bill is a nice guy with a baby at home. However, I look a little closer and realise that the dates / times of when “I” had sent these videos was at times I was teaching spin classes and therefore had left my phone unattended. Bill, being the sicko he was, had the obviously seen me put my passcode into my phone during all the times we had been sat chatting on breaks etc. and had memorised it. He had then taken the opportunity to scroll through all my personal photos and videos when I had left my phone unattended to go and teach classes. I’m assuming that he had deleted the video once, hence why he had sent it to himself again a couple of weeks later. He’d also deleted the chat history from my iPhone but hadn’t realised it synced to my iPad (this was in around 2012 btw). I would only have been about 18/19 at the time when the videos were taken. Obviously I reported this to my manager and to HR but it was a bit of a minefield for them to navigate. I don’t know what he told them but I imagine it was along the lines of saying I sent them to him of my own free will, how would he have known my password etc. It took a long while to get sorted but in the end he did get sacked, thankfully. The police also paid him a visit so I’m sure he had some explaining to do to his SO.
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
This is a tricky case to deal with as HR (because of the natural of the evidence rather than the actual situation...that is clearly a violation) but this is super creepy and usually at this point we'd try to gather as much evidence as possible to ensure we have a strong case for dismissal or even legal proceedings.
Joe Reaves 2 years ago
Given she was teaching class at the times they were sent it would have shown she couldn't have sent them. You can't be in two places at once, thankfully and as the techer if she wasn't there it would have been noticed and reported.
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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Bet after this incident, the gym installed lockers—-where you supply your own lock, so noone can know the combination or have the key— for ALL personnel to store their stuff while working. Bill the Perv memorizing OP’s password wouldn’t have mattered if he couldn’t get to her phone. I swear, sometimes just being a woman is a f*****g minefield.
Mimi777 2 years ago
I had to get my iPhone repaired once and apparently the guy sent himself a somewhat private picture that I took of myself to his phone. I had found out from a friend who worked there for a little bit. I was pissed and felt violated. I reported him and apparently it wasn’t the first time he did something like that. So he did it once and they just let him keep working there?? Blows my mind.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
It shouldn't really matter. I would not have pictures like this because I have been hacked before but you should be able to have your own images be private on your device at work
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#3
I had an employee put in a complaint because another employee didn't want to give them a hug. There was no reason for a hug. The other employee was very sympathetic when I spoke to them (because I had to!!!) and just didn't want to hug people.
The original employee was insistent and complained to anyone that would listen. Most of the staff took her side and thought he was a jerk for not wanting a hug. I kinda wanted to hug him for the s**t he was given for wanting the basic human right of autonomy....
JB 2 years ago
Don't even get this one. No way someone gets spoken to for not giving hugs other than being told that whoever complained about them has been appropriately corrected/disciplined.
Mark 2 years ago
Ummm yes it happens sadly when the person refusing is male. Companies etc would term it as exclusion and likely put it under the banner of diversity. Sadly I have had a bit more extreme but similar in the fact I've had 2 women whi physically crossed the line infront of witnesses and nothing occured because as a male we are expected to be ok with it. us to be honest no management 9r HR knows how to deal with it and as such will choose to avoid it or turn it in the male (hence why men are scared to report it)
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DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
I'm in HR and if this came in, the person that doesn't want to receive hugs is totally in the right. You can't force hugs on people in the workplace and if others think so then it's time for some good ole HR training in personal boundaries and harassment.
Tams21 2 years ago
I think your idea with the training is great and totally necessary. It's one thing having HR on your side but if your still seen as ah of the office, it doesn't solve the problem.
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Prince Otter 2 years ago
Repeat after me: Bodily autonomy and consent. Everywhere. Nobody should be given any negativity for not wanting to hug or touch anyone else, in any context. The one exception is parents towards children, because kids need hugs.
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
This. I struggle with my MIL so much. She takes it as a personal affront and proof I poison the kids against her because my eldest son, whom she’s seen half a dozen times in five years, won’t hug her. He’s not even her grandchild. Even if he were, he can say no!
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the_harbringer_of_doom 2 years ago
i only hug my fam sometimes, i dont always want a hug
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Jessica Cooney 2 years ago
Actually, in my recent anti harassment training at work, they said automatically going in for a hug could be considered harassment because you never know the issues the person has.
Ash Conner 2 years ago
I am a hugger, but I respect other people. Everyone has the right to say no. Nobody has the right to touch another person if they don't want to. That other employee feels entitled and you should tell them to respect other people's boundaries.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
Ok so most of these are just about people with untreated mental illness, got it
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
First question I would’ve said to the complainer is “Ever heard of consent? Reverse the roles, and tell me how YOU would feel if someone insisted they HAD to touch you when you didn’t want to be touched. Give it a good long, deep, serious think, and we’ll see how you feel about it tomorrow.”
#4
Not HR, but I had a coworker at a bakery who quit in a most spectacular fashion. She was quirky to say the least. The first time I met her, I was shoulder deep in a big bowl of buttercream when I felt a hard slap on my a*s. I turned around, totally shocked, my arm covered in frosting, to see a total stranger. She grinned and said "Hey, girlfriend. Which one's your favorite Prince song?" I said I wasn't sure and she responded "Me neither, but if I had to pick I'd take broccoli over asparagus any day."
One day she was working up front, making coffees, and helping customers and what have you. She was in the midst of filling the honey container that went out for customers to use for their coffees. This was a messy sticky job, as the honey came in a 50 lb tub, and it needed to go into one of those tiny bears. Our manager asked her to come to the back for a second. I was back by the ovens pulling out a rack of cookies and I overheard the manager informing her that she was being written up for tardiness. Which was fair, she was 15-30 minutes late every day. He asked her to sign a document saying that she had been informed of the write up so it could go in her file.
Girlfriend lost her mind. She started shouting and insulted everything from his choice of shoes to his wife's hair, to the way he walked. She then threw her hat at him, ripped off her shirt (buttons and all) tossed it on his desk while shouting "I quit your dumb a*s job". She then preceded to take off her pants as well, tossed them in the guy's face and left. She walked across the bakery, through a line of customers, across the parking lot, and out to the bus stop to wait for the bus while shouting, wearing only her undergarments, and smeared with sticky honey. Our co-workers were giving the manager some very dirty looks. The thing that has always baffled me about this whole exchange is that the hat and shirt were issued by the bakery and had the logo on them, but the pants belonged to girlfriend. Why in the world did she decide to take off the pants too?
Full of Giggles 2 years ago
I’m genuinely surprised she still had a job after smacking a coworker (and complete stranger) on the a*s.
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
Yeah I regrettably did that to a man when I was 18 and fresh into art school, he turned around and sat my a**e down and explained really nicely the implications of the situation and what it could be and could’ve of gone, and asked me how I would feel if he did that to me. I was put well in my place that day. I did it because the people I was with thought it would be funny as he was bending over doing maintenance.
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Peyton Compton 2 years ago
Why was the manager receiving dirty looks? I legitimately do not understand
TomCat 2 years ago
I'm assuming because she walked out of his office nearly naked. I.e. some thought there was some hanky panky afoot.
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Sad Quokka 2 years ago
I would have done too. Why stop halfway, might as well go the whole hog
Mark 2 years ago
Ok the thing that annoys me here is that you stated you all gave your manager dirty looks after this. Why? He didn't tell her to be abusive, loud and strip down before she leaves. Seems like you were all being sexist here by being unhappy with him for what was actually her foolish immaturity and abusive behaviors. Pretty terrible of you all really
#5
When my wife was pumping, she'd put the milk in an insulated lunch bag and keep it in the break room fridge. She kept it discreet. Someone must have looked in the bag because HR informed her she could no longer keep milk there because an anonymous coworker complained that knowing the milk was there made him think about breasts (!?). They also told her she had to pump in the bathroom. My wife refused and quoted the law that requires companies to provide a room to pump in. HR lady wasn't having it. My wife threatened to sue and informed them that the optics of all this would be bad seeing it was breast feeding awareness week and the company was involved in the cause. Long story short, HR lady barely kept her job, had to apologise to my wife, and had to go to sensitivity training.
Danalalala 2 years ago
And the pervy wanker who snooped and complained about being reminded of b00bs.
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Anne Jones 2 years ago
Should have e sacked the idiot who objected to breast milk being stored. Pervert!
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
I can’t help but laugh at the anancephalic tw@t complaining about being forced to think about (・人・) and the company’s response is “We’ll help to make it so you’re not forced to think about (・人・) anymore.” I would’ve thought they’d try to deal with *him* and his inability to control his thoughts rather than Breastfeeding Lady. If milk is a problem for him, I would imagine LOTSA common things are, so it’s likely he’s thinking about (・人・) insteada doing his job properly. Whatta dipstick, demanding others help him control his thoughts! (All this assumes he’s not going through puberty. If he is, in fact, going through puberty, then the company may wanna rethink hiring teen boys, as NOTHING’S gonna make ‘em stop doing THAT.)
Couragetcd 2 years ago
Love the timing, breastfeeding awareness week. Looks like your wife was also working HR since ours sends out email announcements about things like that
#6
I had one employee submit a form to increase her own salary, she also forged her manager's signature.
Like, for real?
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
I would have accepted if they approved their own raise instead of the forged signature. I would have sent it through for final clearance if they signed as both requested and approved. Lol
Marcellus II 2 years ago
Clearly this is a pro-active go-getter and should be lauded, if possibly given a management role?
#7
Ok, here goes:
I am not in HR, but I worked at a small company (approx. 50 people) who hired a new receptionist (I'll call her Jen). She was nice enough, though the more I talked to her, the more I caught her in little lies about her life/family/etc. I thought it was weird but just a quirk, nothing major.
One day, we get an email from HR that sadly, Jen's husband had passed away and there was a collection for flowers, etc. Everyone felt terrible, she was only mid-thirties, no kids, and had talked fondly of this guy (I'll call him Frank). She got 2 weeks off for bereavement, and came back as shaken up as anyone who just lost their spouse would be.
One day, I had to cover the reception area while Jen took a break. Imagine my surprise when I get a call asking for her...from her husband! I asked who it was, and made him repeat it, and he repeated, "This is Frank, Jen's husband." I wasn't sure if it was a prank or a goddamn ghost, but I freaked out and didn't tell anyone for months.
When I was finally ready to quit that job, my coworkers took me out for a goodbye party. I got drunk and mentioned the story to the HR lady, thinking I was going to shock her with my secret knowledge. "Oh yeah," HR lady says, "we know. She wanted 2 more weeks of vacation, which she got as bereavement. But there's nothing we can do about it because she knows the company President is sleeping with half of the admins and threatened to blackmail him."
Great place to work. I also got harassed by my boss for months, and HR told me not to make a big deal of it because "he said he was sorry."
Paul C. 2 years ago
Small company I worked for and the CEO, who was a lovely man decided he wanted to paint the WC in the warehouse below the offices. That morning he is in there happily painting and he hears, what can only be described as, groans of pleasure. Looking out he sees a young Director with his "PA" in flagranti. He wandered by and just said do either of you want a coffee as I'm getting myself one!
Bina Wei 2 years ago (edited)
This list is making me lose faith in humanity the further down I go and it was already pretty low. I hope everyone is ok now.. edit: typos. Sorry!!
Kelley Gilbert Zumwalt 2 years ago
Maybe this shouldn't be Monday morning reading...
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crazydogmama 2 years ago
HR is not there to protect the employees. It's there to protect the company.
𝖊𝖆 2 years ago (edited)
I caught out a woman who was signed off to care for her husband who had apparently nearly died, been in a coma, and was the. Wheelchair bound. She had months. I had a random day off and went to the cinema, caught the pair of them on a date. I know there are hidden disabilities but he was pretty mobile for a guy who apparently was on death’s door, house and bed-bound and meant to be paralysed… she was back to work pretty soon after that and funnily enough never mentioned her husbands ‘health issues’ again. I get people lie but at least make it believable? That lie was so big and complicated i’m amazed she kept it up for that long
Traci Purk 2 years ago
Crazy anyone else would be fired and threatened with being charged with fraud or pay the money back. I had an employee fake a pregnancy but fortunately since I was already suspicion I caught her out before the first FMLA check got sent out.
#8
I work for the civil service in the HR department, and I’ve heard some crazy things. A lot comes to mind, but I suppose the first thing that I thought of was the time that we were clearing out room old paperwork and I was relatively new. Some of the older colleagues were commenting on some of the files we were finding as they remembered the cases. Things like “Oh I remember this woman, she got married to this guy in the Post Office” or “This guy go through Stage 4 cancer, good for him”.
One of the files they picked up they just said casually “Remember this job? He’s the one that stabbed his manager in the face and ended up with a promotion. Crazy.” ... and just moved right on past. I was like woooah hold up, I need the end to that story please.
Turns out they were out for a Christmas dinner and this guy had a fight with his manager, grabbed a steak knife and stabbed him in the cheek. Because of some strange circumstances at the time in government and who he was connected to, they couldn’t or wouldn’t fire him so they decided to transfer him to a different department. Only that there were no more positions left at his grade, and he wouldn’t settle for a lower grade so they ended up promoting him to a higher position including all benefits and pay. Civil service eh?
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
I’m sorry some “strange circumstances at the time in government…” kept him from getting fired? What country is this from and what stopped him being arrested?
ginny weasley 2 years ago
not sure which country but pretty sure nepotism
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Devin Singh 2 years ago
This is something directly out of Catch-22. Hilarious book, highly recommend reading it. Minus the ending which is surprisingly dark
Karen Bird 2 years ago
Civil servants in most countries are corrupt and connected so this doesn't surprise me in the slightest 🙄
Liz Strevens 1 month ago
I once worked for the local city council. When our department was closed we were all offered alternative positions within the council..The job I was offered was a lesser grade than the existing but they would keep my pay grade the same until the 'new' job 'caught up'. I didn't accept. This was the UK.
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#9
My dad was pretty high up in HR for a F500 company, he had some great firing stories.
They had to fire one of their VPs because he was stealing bacon from the cafeteria every morning. He'd get his tray and put his newspaper over the bacon and then go through the cashier line. He lost a $200k/yr job over 60 cents worth of bacon every day.
He also handled the on the job deaths since it was a utility company. Since it was a power company, many of the power plants were cooled with water from natural bodies of water. The plants would have a water intake pipe submerged in a river for this purpose. They were big too, easily seven or eight feet in diameter.
The intakes would fill up with debris from time to time and they'd have to send a diver down into it to clean it out. The intakes used an impeller to pull in the water, which is basically just a big fan blade. The impeller would have to be stopped for the diver to go down in there. One time they sent a diver down there thinking the impeller was stopped, but it wasn't. The diver was dead before they could pull him out. Evidently, there wasn't much left of him and the company ended up having to shell out a lot of money for psychotherapy for the guys that had to go down in there and recover what was left of him.
Trinity 2 years ago
I know an even nastier way a dude died. It was here in Australia during the massive 2019 bushfires... A poor dude was humbly scuba diving in a lake and a helicopter that scoops water to dump onto the fires scooped up the poor guy in one of their scoops and dumped him into the flames. If the fall didn't kill him or the flames, the oxygen tank exploding would've. 😰
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Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
That company was rightfully paying for their therapy. There should have been a system in place that would have prevented that accident even being possible.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
It sounds like they did cut the power, but it's possible that the impeller had some momentum left in it that could have been released when the clog was removed by the diver. This is why they say safety laws are written in blood - it's sadly very literal. I would be very willing to bet that the company now has some kind of clamp fitted that kicks in when the power is cut to prevent this happening again.
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Hamlets twin 2 years ago
Reminds me of Aquaslash (2019)! If you're a fan of bad horror movies, you'll like this one.
Traci Purk 2 years ago
My ex travelled for work and at one shop they needed someone go up and weld they guy who did didn't know there was an open barrel of scrap magnesium up there ( the shop didn't mention it) well a good spark later the guy burned to death hubby and the guys he worked with had to put him out. His jobs response, pack up your gear and go to the next job 🤦yeah after he came home that was it for that place
george reilly 2 years ago (edited)
I was a commercial diver for 9 years and now I'm a power plant maintenance mechanic....soo many things have to go wrong and soo many procedural steps have to be skipped for something like that to happen, at multiple levels of the client(power company) and the contractor(dive company).
NightmaresNope 2 years ago
I think I saw something like that in a movie once. I didn't know this could actually happen...
#10
I am on the HR team that supports a wide variety of US cities for our company, including our colorful Florida locations. This is the best story I heard.
We had some woman trying to avoid doing work by sitting out in her car in the parking lot. While she was hiding out there, she needed to use the restroom. Well, instead of going back inside (or doing literally anything else) she decides to pee out her car window. Even though I am also a woman, I was impressed and disgusted by the physics behind this feat. She had stuck her bare a*s outside the window and just went for it. Unbeknownst to her, her male co-worker had arrived at work late due to an appointment. He drove past to find a parking spot as this was happening, and got full view. He then reported the incident to us.
One of our HR people had to investigate this, and sure enough, parking lot cameras could corroborate his story. Our HR person confronted the woman. Her response: "Well how did he know it was me?? It could have been anyone." We thought, ok fair enough. The cameras aren't CSI grade zoom, so we only saw the a*s part. It was harder to completely identify the face. So we went back to the male peer and asked how he knew it was her. His response? "Oh it was definitely her. The face tattoos are pretty recognizable."
We definitely don't get paid enough for this.
EDIT: for you investigative sleuths out there...our cameras are not as amazing as you think they are. It's a parking lot, not the white house. The one camera that caught the event didn't have hyper zoom on the license plate. That's why we have a witness.
Lisa H 2 years ago
It would be even more impressive if she was driving. Still disgusting, but also very impressive.
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AJ Claymore 2 years ago
Not HR, security. Last year one of the plant supervisors came asking me to pull badge records for an employee (have to badge in and out of the building and some specific areas). I did and it showed she had not left the building but had not returned to the plant floor after lunch. This was weird because there are very limited places she could have gone. I asked a lady from HR to check the women's restroom. She came back and told me she saw someone's feet in the shower stall but they wouldn't answer her. I admit I did an internal freakout bc I've seen a few suicides/attempts. I went into the restroom and saw the lady's feet under the curtain. I said "This is security. I'm going to open the curtain." Still no response. I pull the curtain open, and there she is just standing there, fully clothed. The HR lady asked her what she was doing and she said she was hiding bc she didn't want to go back to work.
Binky Melnik 2 years ago
Lemme get this straight: She thought standing alone, silently, was preferable to doing the work? May I ask what kinda work it was? The only job that MIGHT make me stand silently and unmoving for hours might be working in an abattoir, but if I disliked the job badly enough to hide silently for hours, I’d not have taken the job in the first place, or else quit at the first chance. Was she otherwise normal?
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Peeing out your car window is bad enough, but doing it at WORK?! Where your coworkers could potentially see your parts? Good grief. She musta had some screws loose (on top of the seriously poor judgment),
Nizumi 2 years ago
Seriously? If you're going to ditch work and hide in your car, bring something to use if you need a potty. I was recently on a renovation and there was no working toilet. So I brought a couple of yogurt containers - the 750 g size - and toilet paper, hand sanitizer, and a few kitchen garbage bags to wrap things up securely at end of day. If you ever need to know (gods forbid), one 750 gr yogurt container can hold a couple of number 1s and a number 2. XD
Crystal Ruiz 2 years ago
Wait...did she have tattoos on her face or did she have tattoos of faces on her butt?
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Um, they couldn’t ID her from the make, model, and license plates on HER car? Don’t even try to tell me someone could’ve broken in and done it, because they would’ve been pissing INTO, and not out of, her car.
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
Most places know what kind of car you drive and it’s color. That should be enough. And if there’s such thing as “reasonable doubt,” then there is such thing as “unreasonable doubt.”
#11
I was sitting in the HR office with one of the members of HR, I was waiting on her to finish a form so that we could go eat lunch. Suddenly, this guy comes in, he was a young temp employee and had only been there a week or so, and says he has something he needs to talk about. I start to get up to leave when he blurts out that he doesn't like that fact that there are so many gays and lesbians working in the company. Once he says that I sit right back down. The HR employee asks him to clarify and he goes on about how his trainer was gay and his team lead is gay and his manager is a lesbian (all true) and he doesn't feel comfortable working around all these gays and lesbians. The HR employee asks him is anyone has every sexually harassed him, which he says they haven't. She then says 'so you want me to fire these employees, strictly based on their sexual orientation, just so you don't feel uncormfortable?' He says yes, after which she tells him to leave the office. She then calls in his manager and talks with her about it, he ends up quitting by the end of the week.
Karen Philpott 2 years ago
What's sexual orientation got to do with whether a person is a good person to work with or not? Nothing.
Kelley Gilbert Zumwalt 2 years ago
Unless he is asking, why would he even know?
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KatZen 2 years ago
This guy has never had Lgbt friends. I can't imagine a world without all my gay friends, past and present. Dude needs to get out of his religious bubble.
John G 2 years ago
Dude probably is gay, but was afraid that he would "become" gay being around gay people. I.e. would see there is nothing wrong with it and have to choose between religion and himself.
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SPQRBob 2 years ago
I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy corksuckers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves. -Roman Moroni
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tori Ohno 2 years ago
He's a temp. I would have contacted the company he works for, explain everything to them, and told him not to come back because this isn't a good placement for him. Essentially firing him, but he's not technically your employee, you're only borrowing him to see if you want to hire him. Nope, don't want to hire him.
Daniel Silva 2 years ago
He just needs to learn to apply for only every bigotry opportunity employers…
#12
We had a woman show up to work in a fishnet shirt and a black bra, which basically meant she was wearing a bra around the office because the fishnet did nothing to hide her skin. Her male manager came to me with an exhausted look on his face and asked me to come talk to his employee about dress code. I had to take the 40+ year old woman into an office and explain she had to go home and change, and no, she wouldn’t be paid during her time away from the office because she violated dress code.
She demanded I call my boss (regional HR director) because she said I was lying and being a racist. We made the call, she got sent home for the full day without pay, and we wrote her up for it. She left shouting about how I was a racist and she was going to file a complaint.
This lady eventually got fired for a bunch of other insanity, including having sex with a coworker in our parking lot with the door open.
I’m very glad I no longer work in HR.
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago (edited)
Yep...HR isn't a great place to work. Not all of us are protected by corporate, most of the time we're just given the mess to "clean it up".
Mark 2 years ago
Yup. Although I've seen how lazy HR can cost companies money and cause extreme embarrassment as well.
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Nicoll Cope 2 years ago
I had a coworker call HR on me for a dress code violation because I was wearing fishnets. Except I wasn't... I was wearing pantyhose with a floral lace design on them. They were also opaque, so you couldn't see my skin through them. The guy had no idea what fishnets were, & assumed that all pantyhose that weren't the old fashioned sheers were fishnets. He also reported me because I kept a pair of tennis shoes, jeans, & a long sleeved shirt, because trying to rack a server in 4" heels is a bad idea. HR actually agreed with him on that one until I had one of the HR women stand beside me while I unracked/racked a server while wearing a pencil skirt, silk blouse, & heels. They realized that it's pretty dangerous to try to force people to do that, so they graciously modified the rules that applied to the server room. Of course, this same coworker reported me to HR because he didn't like that I didn't wear makeup & wore my hair in a bun because it's "unprofessional"... 🙄
AliJanx 2 years ago
Young, tiny, attractive female showed up to a work meeting in a "performance wear" golf shirt, but didn't wear a bra. Was called to the front of the room during a meeting to be given an award. Air conditioning on full blast. I Had to explain to her that while a bra is not required, dressing appropriately is. I had the manager order her a men's XXL company sweat shirt for her to wear around the office, if she wasn't going to wear a bra. Also had to explain to her that yes, guys who wear their jeans REALLY tight, without proper undergarments, get spoken to as well. Some days, I'm just not paid enough.
Captain Synaptic 2 years ago
At one of my old companies, an employee tried pulling the “racist” card and the person he accused turned around and sued the individual for slander.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
So many instances where people shout racist actually do their cause more harm than good. Just because bad things happen to you (or you get called out) and you're not a middle-aged, straight, white, able-bodied male, it doesn't mean that it happens always *because* you're not those demographics. Sometimes it might just be that you're behaving badly.
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Sunny Day 2 years ago
We had a young female employee ("Sue") show up in fishnet tights, a skirt that ended before the tights began, and a cropped top. Her manager "Mary" told her she needed to go home and change into something appropriate for her office job. Sue instead went crying to Mary's boss, "Richard". Richard told Sue she looked great, and to ignore Mary because she was just jealous.
SPQRBob 2 years ago
I hope Mary got her resume in order so she could find employment elsewhere where her boss actually had her back and wasn't actually a sexist pig.
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Mark 2 years ago
Sadly the terms racism, sexism etc etc are overused by people who merely have no ability to deal with things they don't like. I was accused of racism by a guy because I hadto constantly tell him to get off his phone while we were supposed t9 be working (c8ntext her. His job was as a sentry. This means all he hasto do is pass me stuff while I work and make sure I d9nt die as I'm in a hazardous space doing hazzawork while he sits outside safe and secure). He eventually started calling everyone racist (even his Sudanese counterparts thought he was simply trying to get away with being lazy. But in my industry because of his race he was impossible to fire no matter his behaviors so yeah I get that's racist but it's the kind that fabours him,.
#13
1) I had a bookkeeper that paid himself two checks every week. We did not catch it for a year.
2) Another bookkeeper quit and files for unemployment. He then claimed a claim with EEOC that he had a disability and we failed to make accommodations for him. The disability was alcoholism, and the accommodations were leaving early to attend AA meetings. Seriously, we had to hire a lawyer to fight that.
3) A guy I hired hurt himself on the first hour of the first day of work, he claimed he fell and hit his head on the wall. He was out for weeks on workman's comp form the concussion. Then when he came back on light duty, he could only do desk work but managed to fall again in the bathroom and hit his head again. It took me 9-months to get rid of him. It turns out this was not his first rodeo, when I called his former employer the lady I spoke to made an offhand comment about workplace accidents and head injuries and the importance of cameras in the workplace
4) While doing a remodel of a museum, one of my employees helped himself to a gun that was on display. It was very ugly and embarrassing for everyone. My company was kicked off the job and banned from ever working for them again. I fired the guy and he filed a discrimination claim with EEOC because I did not fire the whole crew, just him.
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Owen 2 years ago
To be fair, alcoholism is a disease. I wouldn't call it a disability, but it is a disease. Far too much hatred poured on alcoholics when they actually need love.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Agreed, and I might even agree that an accommodation could be required if necessary and requested. The important word being "requested". And I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty certain that AA meetings run all kinds of hours, mostly after normal working hours since the attendees are usually people who are holding down at least one job
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Id row 2 years ago
#3 is on them. You're supposed to call for references *before* you hire someone, not after they've faked several accidents.
Bec 2 years ago
Yes, but HR or managers are only allowed to disclose so much, primarily, would you rehire?
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April Morris 2 years ago
I got hurt my first day of training in a call center for to a defective chair. Instead of the chair allowing me to adjust the back, it dropped down ten inches and ripped tendons and ligaments between my spine and pelvis. I was out months longer than the temp job would have lasted. They tried to argue my worker's comp claim, but my entire training class saw it happen, so I was covered. That's the only comp claim I've ever made. Sad thing is, I still have a lot of pain from that injury.
AJ Claymore 2 years ago
Had a guy get crushed between a semi trailer and the dock on his first day of work. He'd dropped something on the ground and jumped down to get it thinking he could get out of the way of the semi fast enough. He was wrong. Had to life flight him to a hospital. Last I heard he's still in a medically induced coma
Richard busta 2 years ago
It's not a disease it's a choice that develops into an addiction. Too much understanding becomes enabling people should be held responsible for their own choices.
Cara 2 years ago
Alcohol dependency is specifically excluded from the Equality Act in the UK as a disability. Agree with others that support for those who are trying to become sober is essential though, and we need to recognise that there may be underlying issues that lead to addiction eg trauma or abuse.
G R 2 years ago
Being allowed to attend medical appointments (which AA is) is absolutely a legit accommodation. Someone who's in recovery wanting to attend AA meetings is very different from someone with active alcoholism going on a bender and wanting to brush it off as an accommodation for the disease of alcoholism. It's quite shocking the company preferred to spent a bunch of money on lawyers to prevent someone from attending AA meetings.
LK 2 years ago
It would be very shocking that a company would prefer to spend money on a lawyer than in helping an employee. However, that's not what the post says. It says 'he claimed'. This doesn't mean it was the case, just that he made the claim, and a lawyer was engaged to fight that claim. We don't know whether this claim had substance or not. But, AA meetings are not medical appointments. It is a non-professional, mutual-aid fellowship for people to help themselves and other. If someone wanted to go to AA meetings, I would very strongly encourage it, and do anything in my power to help them get to the meetings.
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Chickie 2 years ago
Cancer is a disease. Alcoholism (drug use) is a CHOICE. A person chooses to do those things. Just because they are an alcoholic/drug user doesn't mean they are hated.
Lisa H 2 years ago
Drug and alcohol use is a choice, I agree with that point. However, addiction is not and most people won't know if they're an addict until they are one.
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Whst did the gun look like that made it ugly and embarrassing? It must have been a horrible looking gun.
Nicola Koh 2 years ago
i think it was the situation that was ugly and embarrassing
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I had a friend working a GM when HR thought it was a good idea to test everyone on the skill set needed for their department regardless of how long they were in their position. Long careers, 15, 20, 25 years were ruined because even though they worked there for a long time with a long string of great performance reviews, they didn't pass the test that measured what HR thought was required for the department.
Say your a materials expert working in a design department. You may know barely enough in the CAD system to draw a cylinder. On the other hand, given a cylinder, you can whip out all the properties that cylinder would have if it were made from aluminum, cold rolled steel, fiber glass etc. You'd be out of your job because HR said you had to have a certain level of CAD expertise even if it wasn't relevant to your role in the design process.
RafCo (he/him/ele) 2 years ago
This isn't an HR decision. HR wouldn't be allowed to make a call like this. This came from a C suite.
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Nancy Marine 2 years ago (edited)
Odds are great this didn't originate with HR, but a higher up. The company probably wanted to get rid of their higher salaries people so they could hire younger people who were willing to work for less money.
Rita Vaillancourt 2 years ago
Sounds to me like they were trying to weed out older employees, who made more money than their younger (read newer) peers.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Metrics are NOT an accurate way to measure humans. Only humans can do that. Metrics can be a part of it, but only a tiny part, as some extremely knowledgeable people who are perfect for the job tend to totally freeze up when they’re forced to take tests—-and some total deadbeats have a knack for passing tests while being the absolute worst person for the job. Metrics should NEVER be 100% relied on and it’s f*****g lazy on HR’s part if they do that. There MUST be a human making the final decision, based on a mix of several factors.
Karen Philpott 2 years ago
HR not knowing anything about the job or what is needed to do said job. But doing it anyway, because they hold the reins and can screw with you.
#15
I’ve got a good one. Last place I worked was a crappy internet company. I was on tech support, the higher ups fed us all lies to tell customers when their service was bad. The GM at the time was a smile at you when you’d talk to him and then humiliate you in front of everyone kinda boss. And the owner was a family friend of my wife, a youth leader for the church and young marrieds group. But at work he was rude cussed at us, total fake act. I was working a pretty entry level position at the time but my wife ended up with a health diagnosis that required us to need more money for treatments so I setup a meeting with owner, expressed my struggle and asked for growth opportunities and training to move up in the company. He seemed like he genuinely cared and said we’d talk again soon. Mind you he spent half of every year in Austria for the youth program so getting to sit down with him was a rare opportunity. Side note, a few projects he put me on required all his logins to manage his yelp page and have him sign off to have a graphic designer paid for a troubleshooting guide we designed, I sent maybe 7 emails requesting the same info and he would never reply. Anyways a week goes by and then he calls me into the office, here I am all stoked for some good news. He proceeded to point out how the projects he put me on weren’t complete, I tried to explain the reason but he didn’t want to hear it. And then he began mocking me using a stupid voice about how my wife had health issues and that I needed more money. And laughed at me, tore me a new one then fired me on the spot. Of course I could go into the aftermath but there is a satisfying ending here. A couple years later it comes out that a family in Virginia is pressing charges against him in regards to somethings he did with an underaged girl. Mind you he’s a good looking guy in his early thirties with a wife and 3 young boys. Turns out he was conducting private bible studies with some of the girls over seas, having them pray together and then make them, pleasure him. Yeah dudes in jail in Virginia for 7+ years. Your sin always finds you out.
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
I mean, soon as you said he led a religious youth group, it was kinda obvious what he was doing.
Michelle Seyer 2 years ago
Human beings do human things. Some good, some bad, some incredibly evil. Some humans go to church. Some don't. Some hide behind the label of going to church to gain legitimacy under which to perform heinous acts. Some perform heinous acts under the guise of businessperson, doctor, boy scout leader, manager, HR, bus driver, trucker, banker, lawyer, janitor, CEO. Interesting that it's the church people who are constantly singled out, while other occupations get away with it.
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
He would have had a nice hospital visit and I would have been in jail, but he'd think twice next time.
#16
Came in to work early for a morning shift (work in an industrial lab). Heard noises from the back corner of the office portion of the building but can't make out what they are because of distortion. Head that way to see what was going on as I was the only one there (so I thought) at 3 am. See my lab manager f*****g the district manager (her boss) while the HR Rep for the district is sitting there ... enjoying the view. I NOPED and went to the lab and tried to forget what happened.
B-b-bird 2 years ago (edited)
OP was kind enough not to ask for handsome salary. Heard some story from 80s about woman who had brand new car and huge salary. Colleagues thought she's boss's lover. It turns out she was not, but she knew boss has secret passion for exhibitionism. Dude was frequenting one of biggest university female dormitory areas in the city, to startle ladies with his naked jewels from under the coat.
MrHankTango 2 years ago
That's a situation you NEVER walk away from. Whip out the camera and collect your evidence before promptly interrupting just before they're "done'. Ammo for you, hell for them.
Mark 2 years ago
Umm ok yeah sorry I would have taken a sneaky pic to report up the line as not only is that wrong in many ways its also a safety issue ans the company would have not a leg to stand on if they tried to defend it (yes taking pictures without permission is illegal but I'd say there's a Grey zone when it comes to safety so I'd talk to a regulatory body about it first as t9 how to navigate it
#17
Saw a guy blatantly lie in his recruitment form....(watching him fill it out in front of me!)...it was total bollocks....apparently he was 15th in line to the throne, went to Eaton, studied at Oxford and served in the Army for 9 years after training at Sandhurst....not bad for a 21 year old! Who had in fact spent 3 years in a Young Offenders institute, battling a drug problem......
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Well, if you hadn’t listed PhD and 20 years of experience—-in a technology that’s only been around for 5—-as a firm prerequisite for an entry level job…
Owen 2 years ago
He probably didn't have much life experience if he was a young offender. He was ashamed so he lied. I feel bad for the dude. ...I still wouldn't hire him though.
Jennifer Piard 2 years ago
Served in the army for 9 years. What an amazing 12-year-old. Lmfao
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#18
A friend of mine who did HR for a museum just reminded me of this one: It was a history museum, dealing in famous people from American history, and one of the senior museum guys was an expert on ... let's say Alexander Hamilton. Gradually, over the course of a couple years, it became clear that at some point this guy had started believing *he was Alexander Hamilton.* Either literally, or reincarnated, or possessed -- I have no idea. His e-mails only used words and phrases that appeared in Hamilton's writing (which made for high hilarity when they wanted to talk about an interactive online exhibit), and when people insulted him/Hamilton he would start calling them 18th century names and get pissed they were impugning his/Hamilton's honor. He started getting angry at the other museum guys if they tried to put "wrong" things in the Hamilton exhibit (things that didn't suit his preferred narrative of Hamilton).
When he challenged another employee to a duel because he was angry at the verbiage on a sign explaining an exhibit item, they had to call the police and have him escorted off the premises and get a restraining order. It was INSANE.
(the figure was not Alexander Hamilton, but this guy did literally challenge another employee to a duel and appeared extremely ready to follow through, to the death. The police put him in the hospital with a psychiatric hold, I don't know what happened after that.)
Hotdogking 2 years ago
Sounds like he just wanted to be Hamilton, so I’m not surprised that he’s not throwing away his shot
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Imagine the office joker just f*****g with him by saying he (joker) WAS Aaron Burr! Or whoever was the arch nemesis of whichever historic figure the guy thought he was.
Grace Note 2 years ago
My downstairs neighbour is called Alexander Hamilton. He does not think he is *that* Alexander Hamilton. Lovely chap with a couple of very cute cats. Almost as cute as mine.
Eris Kallisti 2 years ago
Dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the Caribbean...
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insert name here 2 years ago
If it was a duel with nerf guns or foam swords I'd be up for it in a heartbeat.
#19
There was a dude in our other facility that was going around and wiping their a*s and shoving the s**t back up into the toilet paper dispenser so that when the next person goes to reach ...
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
We had a shitter at Family Dollar. It was a customer. There were no cameras they just kept coming in every week and taking huge dumps mid-aisle, on shelves, one time On top of a pallet which they then dumped Tide all over the top of.
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
I once worked security at a building in North Carolina. The officer watching the cameras saw a young man pull aside his baggy shorts and take a dump on the second floor next to the elevator inside the building. He looked to be in his twenties and was definitely a pale, pale, person. By the time he got to where it happened, the dude was long gone.
tabithapaquette98 2 years ago
That is the grossest thing I have ever heard! WTF is wrong with him! I hope he got fired and arrested! SMH
#20
My friend who worked in HR told me about her old job where the boss had drilled a hole from his office through to the ladies changing rooms and was perv whacking it every chance he could get. They found out because someone saw the light through the hole as he took the cover off for a peek. He denied everything and they had to take a dna sample from the carpet under the hole which confirmed it was a) him and b) that he had indeed been whacking away.
#21
I once asked a candidate to tell me about a time your attention to detail paid off. I hate that question, but it’s a standardized one that our department had to use for all positions.
The candidate said completely stone-faced: “I worked at Sears and would follow the black customers around to make sure they didn’t shoplift anything.”
There were 3 of us on the hiring committee, we all just looked at each other in disbelief and wrapped up the interview there. It’s been a running joke now about the worst possible answer you could give to a question. This person has actually applied to about 5 other positions since.
Robert Turley 2 years ago
No, it's not. It's just plain old racism. Systemic racism is racism that is inherent in, you know, the system. Things like laws or regulations that specifically disadvantage one race. We have no evidence that this was official Sears policy(highly unlikely that they would have this as a policy).
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AJ Claymore 2 years ago
I was on a hiring committee at my old Sheriff's office. My Lieutenant at the time (who was a woman) asked a guy if he'd be ok taking orders from a woman since we had several women officers. The guy straight up told her (the highest ranked person on the committee) that he wasn't comfortable working with women and believed they should let their husbands' earn a living while they stayed home. Needless to say that ended the interview.
Istvan Kozak 2 years ago
In the old days whenever you heard on the PA in the store that there was gum on the floor that meant there was a black person there
Mark 2 years ago
Sadly I can bet it was put upon him in that role that those were most likely t9 donthebwrong thing. Sometimes the culture of a company shapes a person and eventually that person becomes that culture. I'm sure we have all seen it in some fashion in our lives and how that culture is never called out
Neuridivergent 2 years ago
I just had someone tell me movies with mixed race couples were woke and if there was decent representation in casting it is racist. No i didn't tell him what i thought because he is other wise an easy client and getting a new one is always a c**p shoot
Gatorman 2 years ago
The clapping emojis probably made it seem like I was serious
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I had an applicant list JESUS as her references.
David H 2 years ago
So she has a hispanic friend, what is the big deal. I have met a few men with the name Jesus
Mark Ward 2 years ago
Im thinking the same thing! Should the applicant have spelt it heyZeus?
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Maybe Chuy (nickname for Jesus) was her ex-boss, but she didn’t know his last name (it’s a stretch, I know).
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
I did that once, when I was younger. Didn't really want to work there. Just knew this would be an easy out for me.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
"Sorry, sir, but I received no positive comments about you from your Reference."
#23
My mom doesn’t reddit so I will type this out for her: “We received an outside email with a photo attachment, the photograph was of a nurse we employed with what looked like a glass pipe is some sort on her lap. The email alleged that she was an addict, we found out later it came from an ex-girlfriend she had just broken up with. It prompted us to go seek out the nurse, when we arrived at her desk she was on the phone with a patient but visibly nodding off. We requested she come to the HR office to with us to talk, then we confronted her with the allegation. She denied everything and agreed to a drug test. Instead of sending her to an outside lab we had one send technicians to our office building to administer the test, that’s when things went south. She began telling us she needed to go out to her car (we believe this was because she planned to use synthetic urine or someone else’s and us not sending her to an outside lab lost her the opportunity to do that) and we flatly told her that leaving the bathroom would be noted as a refusal to take the test which would mean an automatic termination. This woman proceeded to throw a tantrum on the floor of the bathroom for the next 7 hours of the day (we had to shut down that entire bathroom, other employees started a rumor we were holding a pregnant woman hostage) and at lunch time she demanded a meal. So I went to the cafeteria, purchased her a sandwich and drink, and then she at it on the bathroom floor!! After hours of tears and yelling 5pm rolled around, she calmly stood up and said ‘it’s the end of my shift so I’ll be leaving now’. We repeated to her that leaving would *still* be considered a refusal and grounds for immediate termination. At this time the technician (who had also been there watching all this for the last 7 hours) tried to intervene and talk some sense into her. Eventually she reluctantly agreed to a buccal swab rather than a urine test, and then she left for the day. Needless to say, the results we got back were Positive and she was terminated as well as reported to the licensing boards. I though that was the end of it until several weeks later when she called to complain her insurance card was no longer valid and she couldn’t pick up a prescription. This turned into an hour long discussion about how losing employment also means losing the benefits. “
LK 2 years ago
Setting aside what this woman did, it is utterly abysmal that people lose their medical insurance cover when they no longer have a job. Why am I focusing on that aspect of the story? Because it happens to far too many individuals. People deserve affordable health care that doesn't stop just because their employment with a specific company has ended.
CP 2 years ago
I was going to say the same thing. Some politicians in the US want to take Medicare away from people that don't work. Sick people are less employable, but those bastards don't care.
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Kim Shannon 2 years ago
I'm gobsmacked that they put up with her tantrum. I would have called the police
niki.bordeaux 2 years ago
Genuine question: in which jobs and/or countries do people get tested for drugs? I have 2 nurses in my family and never heard anything about drug testing from them.
Mercedus Long 2 years ago
Because they haven't given their employer reason to believe they should be tested. I would imagine most countries have a similar policy in place.
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BG 2 years ago
When I have a random drug test at work, it's immediate, and "point-of-collection" meaning that the witness has to see the stream of urine exit my body.
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I work in HR. Had an employee refer her bf (not 100% sure anyone knew they were dating, but they had a baby). So they work in the same building, but different areas. One day a new girl starts and he cheats. Find out him and new girl disappear at times. New girl harasses old gf (not sure if they really even broke up) and so the gf gets a peace order against the new girl. So we have to move the new girl to a different site. She quits and then the guy throws a fit and quits too. The gf eventually gets fired shortly as her work performance changes drastically. Few weeks later I get employment verification request for the gf and the guy for a different state. I’m like....ok... A year later he ends up murdering her and drives across numerous state lines with the toddler and drops the little one off with family back in our state. They eventually find him in a wooden area with a self inflicted gunshot wound. Before they found him or the toddler I was made to deal with the FBI and local police as most of HR was new. This is when we discovered the managers had concerns about him. Might have been the one time I lost my cool with a manager. They never mentioned anything to HR about possible domestic violence.
Stephanie Barr 2 years ago
I'm assuming the "gf" he killed was the "old" gf since she had the baby, but that part seemed a bit confusing.
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
I think that it was the old gf as well. OP stated to people on reddit that, "I’m fine. A number of staff were not as the woman that was murdered had worked with us for a number of years. I did some recruiter when I was in a different HR position, so I was the recruiter for the boyfriend. It was weird to think of the fact I had been a long in my office with him though."
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Binky Melnik 2 years ago
Whoa! This one took a dark turn and I wasn’t ready for it! I read Panda expecting to enjoy myself and have a good time, so I wasn’t prepared for murder in the middle of a post! 😱 Yikes. What a dreadful story. 😰
#25
We had a guy in one of our stores submit a grievance to us about how we were discriminating against him because we were giving a female 7 months pregnant colleague some extra breaks (she had a medical note confirming the reasonable adjustments needed) so she could sit down for an extra 5 mins every so often because he was unable to get pregnant so could not take advantage of the same extra breaks.
Didn't really know where to start with that one!
Couragetcd 2 years ago
I guess he could go break his leg. I'm sure the convenience of getting to sit while working would be worth the cost and inconvenience in every other aspect of his life
Joe Standford 2 years ago (edited)
This is insane, But, I've seen one where smokers go out every hour for five minutes and when the employee who didn't smoke went out with them, he was threatened with a write up saying if he goes out he has to smoke, so he bought those sparkler fireworks and when the boss saw it he just said well played
Mercedus Long 2 years ago
Had 1 like that. The lady who worked the drive through window had a doctor's note for why she needed to sit down during her shift. She was happy to stay in the window taking orders as long ash got to sit down once in while. Kid comes to me asking to sit down too. I explain the policy to him. He literally tried to use her medical needs as his reason to sit down.
Anne Jones 2 years ago
Sounds like the dialogue in Life of Brian where a man complained he couldn’t have a baby so it was a denial of his right to be a mother (or something like that)
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
I'm sure there are plenty of people like this guy in the story, who get pissy about smoke breaks if they're not a smoker. I'm an ex-smoker & I don't feel discriminated against if someone steps out to puff away.
#26
Government employer. Agency management fired a popular program manager with about ~250 employees under him who all love him. He's entitled to a public hearing about his dismissal if he desires, which he demands, after his HR meeting and his private hearing before the agency brass.
Everybody packs into the auditorium, all 250 of his employees there to advocate for him. His lawyer gives an opening statement about how he's been fired for caring too much and for refusing to cut corners the agency brass wanted cut and for protecting his people from politicians trying to score political points and blah blah blah. Cheers from the crowd.
Our HR director stands up. She's booed. She informs the hearing that they guy forged every single one of his employees' required-by-law assessment forms that determined raises and promotions. He forged the signatures of all 250 people there, and filled the forms randomly. She puts examples of the forgery up on screen. It's obvious. He ran out of time, and didn't want to get reprimanded for disorganization (a long running but minor problem with him), so he forged a s**t ton of government documents.
250 people walked right out of the hearing, FURIOUS. He hadn't told any of them the real reason he got fired! He told them it was random retaliation for being awesome. He knew the agency had all this evidence; it had been presented to him twice before and he had admitted he'd done it! It was INSANE. I guess he figured he had nothing to lose by punting. He became such a pariah he had to move.
Ace 2 years ago
I can't believe there's any company or country anywhere that gives an employee the right to "a public hearing about his dismissal".
Robert Turley 2 years ago
Seems to be a smart move when a popular employee is terminated. It can tamp down rumours and bad mouthing the company and get it all out in the open.
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Cat servant 2 years ago
Public hearing on a USA government job means in front of a judge or the Merit System Board not his employees. Basically he would be claiming wrongful termination and would need a lawyer. Terminations can be reversed but younhave to show wrongdoing by the upper level/ hr people.
YetAnotherSarah 2 years ago
For those questioning this, this is an example of Civil Service Law, Section 75.
Jennifer Piard 2 years ago
Good guys don't lie and forge documents on people hoping to get raises based on these assessments. This was not a good guy.
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As an office manager, I hired an employee and on the first day he was told to fill in his new hire paperwork. I put him in an office and come back in a while later and ask for the papers. He hands them over, and I scan them off to our HR dept. About twenty minutes later I get a call from our HR rep who thought it was pretty funny that he filled out their name as "Batman" on all his paperwork. So I have the guy re-do the paperwork, and he wrote his name as batman.
By the end of the day I had to get this new hire on a call with HR to have them explain to him that if he didn't fill out the paperwork correctly he'd be out of the job. I had him in my office about once a week for one ridiculous thing after another until one day he comes in and announces that he's changed his name, officially, to Batman. So, I get him the W-4 and paperwork, he fills it out and off we go. He's Batman now. HR comes back and says they need the proof of name change so that they can update his withholdings. I tell Batman he needs to provide that so we can finish updating him in the system. No problem, I'll bring it tomorrow he says. Three weeks go by where he's telling me and HR he forgot again, then it got lost, etc. Turns out, he'd never actually changed his name.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Never enter or change anything in the system until you see genuine proof. Why do you think most companies want to see two forms of ID to enter your info for payroll?
New Everywhere 2 years ago
Who (that has to work) has the financial freedom to play around with a job like this?
#28
Manufacturing, long story short, the company uses some pretty dangerous equipment and machines. The manufacturing floor and warehouse had started to have some safety issues, so they decided to start doing random drug tests.
60% failed, including the best friend of the owner. This same person was responsible for several of the safety issues mentioned above and was directly responsible for two people being injured while on the job due to negligence on his part. So what did HR do?
Nothing. The owner was one of the people that failed.
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
I don't think there is anything HR can do in an organization like that...clearly nepotism and favoritism reigns there.
AliJanx 2 years ago
HR recommends. The business decides. Gone are the days when HR terminates employment. Management has to agree.
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Mimi777 2 years ago
Years ago I applied to work at a store in the mall that sold sneakers and other similar shoes. They required a drug test for some reason. The manager, a girl a few years older than me, told me that if I needed clean pee she could give me hers. I passed the test just fine on my own.
Mark 2 years ago
I worked at a company where after many years they decided to do a random drug test of 20 people. 12 failed and 1 quit so as to not get tested. (That's a huge fail rate) so they chose not to do it again for a large number of years. Then 3 to 4 years later they did another 1 with same amount of people. Still nearly a 50% fail rate and 1 guy simply said "I won't pass, I'm going home" and 4 weeks later the boss rang to ask him when he was coming back (he admitted to ke he sat Hine smoking pot most days) so he can back to weeks after that phine call and passed (after 6 weeks off. Lol)
#29
My job is a constant HR nightmare. Boss has slept with coworker A. Coworker A is married to coworker B. Coworker B+A have been married (unhappily), for 10 years or something now, B has no idea, even though B invites boss over for dinner once every other week.
Boss is now dating new coworker (my best friend lol), and has already "gifted" her 2000$, despite another coworker suffering from cancer and barely being able to pay the bills when he was still working.
My other boss, who owns other lesser half of company has called me a narcicist in a meeting, told me literally "there are no such things as business ethics".
Charity Angel 2 years ago
They just don't define "ethics" the same way as the rest of us. (And I want to be fair - my last bosses were absolutely excellent and were scrupulously ethical. Also understood that we're human so we could go to them and say we messed up and they'd find a way to solve the problem. Even if the solution was they had to throw money at it because it was a financial error on our part. So some businesses, usually small ones, do understand the term.)
Load More Replies... Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
At least this job sounds somewhat exciting, that’s a level of drama usually reserved for sitcoms.
Junebugjump! 2 years ago
I have a feeling that about 50% of the world is insane. This is what it looks like yo work with these people.
#30
I was asked to translate for some visitors from the parent company at a celebration held by HR. I stopped translating around the time the director of HR started asking overly-personal, sexual questions to the two young HR "office ladies". A couple days later, during a private b******t session, I recounted the story to a friend who happened to be a director from the parent company. He put on his professional hat and asked me to write it up and submit a complaint to the parent company's HR. Nightmare ensued. Local head of HR had been in charge of the sexual harassment avoidance training that had narrowly saved them from lawsuit. CEO of local company insisted that I bring the story out in public and talk to the director of HR "like an adult". Parent company HR brought in HR from another local subsidiary to perform an investigation. It became painfully obvious who the whistleblower was. Nothing came of the investigation that I heard about, but the next year was made to be a living hell for me by the local company. Even the office lady who had been the subject of the sexy inquisition resented the fact that she was in the center of a controversy. I left that company as soon as I possibly could and was not saddened to hear of their bankruptcy and partition a couple of years later (they had other "issues" as well). TL;DR Got harassed out of my job by HR after reporting HR director for sexual harassment.
Mark 2 years ago
This is why many don't report things. . I work in mining in Australia and its painfully obvious now men must be quiet and accept everything and not speak up in fear of retaliation.
AndThenICommented 2 years ago
Friend of mine got fleeced out of $20k as subcontractor. The contractor he was under seems to be known for it and the other sunnies support the BS because it keeps their wages up. If he sued the guy, he’d never get another contract again with other companies. Its incredibly backwards. Make your money then get out
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Kelley Gilbert Zumwalt 2 years ago
I think the OP meant the lady resented her for blowing the whistle in the first place, instead of rightfully blaming the pig of a director that was the real cause of it all
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#31
I have so many. I work in HR at a 24/7 manufacturing facility. I returned from vacation once to a crack pipe in a ziplock bag with an incident report stapled to it. When I confronted the supervisor who left it there, and explained that a picture would have sufficed, she asked if I was going to train all supervisors on how to take a picture. What? Had issues with a temp. employee out on the floor. She couldn't work with anyone without getting into fights. She was pulled into my office and no one could get in a word in as she ranted and raved about all of the ways men had f****d her over. Then I think she realizes how crazy she sounds. So she starts reassuring me that she's very trustworthy, she's a hard worker, its everyone else etc. "You've probably seen that video of me going around f*****g that pitbull dog. But that's all lies. I was on crack that night and I wouldn't do that in my right mind." Ah, yes, of course not... we escorted her out and immediately contacted her agency to add her to the "do not return" list. I really do love my job!
Charles Mayberry 2 years ago
Why does this one feel like living in New Mexico all over again.. lol
IronySairo 2 years ago (edited)
Anyone who's spent any time near Albuquerque would agree.
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One of my company's own HR reps had to be redirected into a different job, and then finally requested to resign, after the following incident: A coworker of mine is originally from Hawaii, and her son still lives there. After the ACA was passed in Congress, she went in to HR to put her son under her insurance. He was still under 26 at the time so he was newly qualified under the law. This particular HR rep told my coworker that she actually *couldn't* put her son on her insurance, since he didn't live in the United States.
August 2 years ago
Ah yes, Hawaii, those random islands that have absolutely no connection to the US. None at all, lol.
Catastrophisticate 2 years ago
Sheesh! It's right there on the map, off the coast of California/Mexico, right next to Alaska LMAO
Karen Philpott 2 years ago
Even I know that Hawaii is a State of the US. I assume that yhe HR employee is an American from the US? Don't they teach about the 52 States?
#33
I worked in HR, and my coworker hated me. She wanted someone else to get the job I did, and she would complain about me to management for anything.
The final straw for everyone was when I sneezed and she slammed her keyboard on her desk, basically ran out of the room, and didn't come back for 30 minutes.
Management called me in and said I was making too much noise. I told them I sneezed, and they said she would complain about me every day, so they didn't believe her but had to make it look like they were doing something.
She left shortly after.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Coughing without due care and attention is arrestable during a pandemic.
#34
Work in a place with a decently sized sales floor. Employee A had been sleeping with Employee B's wife, and received confirmation of this from Employee A himself. An email was blasted to the entire f*****g sales floor (Around 300 or so people) that included a collage of screenshots of conversations between Employee A and the wife of Employee B, and plastered over the collage in Giant red letters in Impact Font "Employee A - Thanks for f*****g my wife." It was an interesting rest of the day and no one could focus on their work.
#35
I work in recruitment so not exactly HR. A guy had applied for a job that required a DBS check (police check). He filled the dbs and all his other checks flew through. The dbs came back as he had committed a crime in the past. Now on our end only the guy who will be applicants manager and a senior in our department can see the dbs result. He called the department unhappy the job had been withdrawn. He then sent a long email in begging for another chance, he said when he was 17 he beat two women up then threaten the cops with a gun. we're in the uk so guns are pretty rare especially in the 1970's he went in to detail about the attempted rape this dude wanted a job in a hospital.........its a no mate.
Sian Edwards 2 years ago
Actually, guns would have been more common in the UK in the 1970s than they are now. The Firearms Act only came into effect in 1968, so in the 70s guns were still used in a lot of crimes. It took the Hungerford massacre in 1987 for the act to be amended, and the Dunblane school shooting in March 1996 for gun control laws here to get seriously, prohibitively strict. Even then, it's not been a fail-safe measure as there have been several incidents in recent years, though nothing near the scale of mass shootings in the US.
#36
one place i used to work, one of the upper management guys who was in charge of the warehouse would hop on the forklifts and do donuts. he had colon cancer and was always having surgeries to remove another section of colon so he had a colostomy bag. he would like squeeze air out of his colostomy bag while he was doing donuts on the forklifts. it would waft this god awful stench everywhere. everyone thought it was hilarious and would immediately run outside for a smoke break until the scent dissipated. the smell was bad enough it made a coworker puke.
also had another manager there eat six 10 sacks of white castle sliders for lunch. he ate the last 10 sack on the toilet. i have no idea how he could eat with the sounds and stenches he was emitting from his other end. it sounded like someone trying to drown donald duck in a puddle while tooting a tuba. no one went into that bathroom for the rest of the day.
Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
That description of the sound just made me shoot soda out of my nose from laughing. Holy fûck.
#37
Not in hr but my previous senior manager was renown for sleeping with colleagues(he was married with kids).
Before I started there I remember seeing a huge banner plastered across a footbridge that everyone leaving work by car had to drive under to get to the motorway.
The sign said :
"Joe blogs (not actual name) cheating bastard"
Turns out he was cheating on his wife with a team leader from another dept, and was cheating on his mistress with another team leader from yet another dept.
Both the team leaders found out about each other and had a massive fight in the reception of the building.
By the time I started at the company both of the team leaders were no longer working there.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago (edited)
But what about Joe blogs? Never mind, of course he’s still there.
DennyS (denzoren) 2 years ago
I knew a case of a guy who was constantly being found in violation of the harassment policy...he's still there...the women have all been asked to leave. It's really messed up.
Load More Replies... Couragetcd 2 years ago
Exactly. I never understand the females fighting over the man that is the scummy cheater so why would they want him anyway? Best practice would be to get an std test and never go near him again
#38
I work in HR and we recently moved from one HRIS system to another- system manages personal information like benefits, time of requests, contact information, etc. Part of the transitioning is teaching the workforce how to use the app. There are a lot of challenges including the boomers who are technology illiterate, employs who speak very little English, and managers who think learning the system is below their paygrade. I'm normally pretty patient with the language barrier, I mean is not like I am bilingual either, so if they have the basics of English as a second language they already know more than I do. This one fine day, I had a constrains steam of employees trying to figure out how to access the system in their phones despite the step by step written and pictorial instructions, when I have this one older individual ask me to help him. Nothing but XXX hardcore porn would come up on his smartphone browser. He legit couldn't understand why I couldn't help him. The browser just kept going back to porn no matter what I typed in. I usually feel like I can figure peoples phones out but I reached my limit. I couldn't tell if the poor guy had a virus on his phone or if he was f*****g with me. Creepy old guy my father's age, barely speaks English, and not embarrassed by the raunchy porn stuck on his screen. I told him to go get his phone cleaned up and don't come back with it until he fixed it.... I haven't seen him since.
AliJanx 2 years ago
My husband's company in the early 2000s....husband was finance guy...company did an expensive nationwide search with a headhunter for a VP of the most technical organization in the company. 3 weeks into the job and the VP's computer breaks down...completely. Tech guy goes in there to fix and finds the most hardcore porn he'd ever seen...so bad the tech actually blushed when mentioning to my husband. Husband got the first call about the incident because he had to let the headhunting agy know to get the company's money back (and the next 2 searches free).
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs come from the boomer generation. They knew a thing or two about technology.
Pyla 2 years ago
I temped in a welding shop. The owner was a typical fragile male blowhard. His wife got fed up when he became the supreme a**e over his daughter's wedding, so there was a huge blowout over who-knows-what. So he sits in the office with porn blasting on his laptop. He finally went under. such a creep.
#39
Where do I start?
1. One employee wouldn’t work once it got dark because he was scared of ghosts (in the interview he asked if the building was haunted). He was from Asia and refused to listen to a woman boss. If I asked him to do something he would say “ok” and then literally stuff the task between files in storage so I couldn’t find it. If my husband asked him to do something he couldn’t jump high enough up his a*s to get it done. He accused every single female employee of sexually harassing him and “his wife didn’t appreciate it”. I asked for examples...the 55 year old woman who is as sweet as a grandma asked him what cologne he was wearing (it smelled like he wore the whole bottle). I was looking for employees when a friend suggested I hire him and I said we already had and it wasn’t working well due to his wife’s complaints. Her response: “Wife?? He’s gay, haven’t you met his husband?”. Apparently to our work events he was bringing his sister as his wife? After he worked for us, he applied for a job elsewhere and listed my husband as a reference. A woman called to do a check and my husband told her he didn’t work with him, that I did but she wouldn’t talk to me because my name wasn’t listed. She asked him a few questions about his duties and my husband explained his duties...long pause on the other end “that’s not what he has listed...he said....” to which my husband said those were MY duties as manager/business owner and he never ever had access to such positions and then he went on to explain to her this guy would never take direction for me. She quickly ended the convo.
2) before we invested In cameras, we had one season where money theft was constantly happening and we had an idea who it was but couldn’t catch her. She manipulated us (it was my first year and I was naive), she always had a new (fake) type of cancer for reasons for missing work. One day a client came storming into my office and said her and several others would take their business away if we didn’t terminate her. Now not being from this area I didn’t have any background except her reference check. Turns out she’s stolen money and credit card numbers from various places of employment but she’s never been charged because she’s always apologized or repaid it back. So then the money missing made sense and we were right. Once we got rid of her the money stopped disappearing. She reapplied later on and her resume was so padded I turned it into a drinking game. The duties she put down under her position at my businesses either 1) didn’t exist or 2) were my job! When you pad your resume don’t send it to a previous employer!
3) one employee developed a drinking problem. I couldn’t figure out why they were going outside every 15 minutes for a cigarette. I dismissed it at first because they were a hard worker, put in long hours and barely took a lunch break. But then I was finding alcohol bottles hidden in places and on the day I caught it, they had also overdosed on anti-depressant meds and I had to rush them to the ER and help hold them down as they kept trying to strip and run. They were admitted to the psych ward, I didn’t hear anything for days and one day they just showed back up. The hospital let them out on day passes to come back to work because they would be in the hands of a responsible adult! This wasn’t cleared or discussed with me at all.
4) one girl started off great - on time, professional, great office etiquette. I thought I’d hit the jackpot. One day she went out for her smoke break and FORGOT TO COME BACK! I asked her the next day what happened and she looked at me dazed and confused and said she did come back. I showed her the time clock and camera and she said she had no idea what happened. She started missing shifts and on one busy Friday didn’t show up and I couldn’t get ahold of her. Another employee had gone on lunch and said she was outside our office drunk, laying in the street. I went out there to talk to her and she was adamant she didn’t work that day. Her glasses were broken and she was scrapped up and with two very large men who were intimidating. She ran away from me, missed her Saturday shift. Emailed me Sunday saying she had been in the hospital with a liver infection and would be in Monday with a note. I asked her for the note both Monday and Tuesday and she ran home to get it and never came back. She didn’t remember seeing me when she was drunk! And she was still wearing her broken glasses.
Honestly I could go on and on and on. One girl I have chance after chance but after missing 17 shifts and then showing up drunk to talk about it, I was done. (But don’t worry, she claims she wasn’t drinking she was just around people who were drinking so that’s why she smelled 🙄)
B-b-bird 2 years ago (edited)
I have a feeling that last 3 cases needed immediate attention and help. In this case HR failed to recognise and take actions that were necessary. No mentioning of meeting 1 to 1 and talking with these workers, which is concerning. I am especially concerned about safety of lady in 4th story.
Joe Standford 2 years ago
Well, I stopped reading once your husband broke federal law if this was in the USA by describing to the lady what his duties were and weren't, by law the only thing an ex employer can say is that if someone worked there or not.
Jro308 2 years ago (edited)
Sorry Joe but that is absolutely not true. There is no federal law that states you can't give out more information than if they worked there or not. You can also give dates of employment, rate of pay, what their duties were. Some companies have policies that say you can only give out x,y, and z but there is no federal law
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#40
Finally all my misery is worth it! Here are just a few from my many years working in HR in startups:
- We hired a very senior person (management team) and for his work visa i needed a copy of his university degree. Followed up repeatedly, he kept making excuses like "oh i just moved i need to find where i put it" or "i need to see if it's in the basement at my parents' place." Turns out he had lied on his CV. He resigned immediately.
- CEO had threesomes with employees and ordered coke taxis to the office.
- Head of HR went on maternity leave so the CEO seized the opportunity to only look internally for the role and chose solely based on who he wanted to f**k.. which he then did.
- After a company party the toilets and sinks in the women's bathroom were all backed up. Plumber found multiple condoms stuffed down the sink and flushed down the toilets. We found hand and footprints on the wall tiles and the security cams showed the last people leaving the office to be 3 straight men in relationships.
- At a company retreat an employee did too many mushrooms and shat himself on the beach in front of the entire company. At the same retreat 3 employees cheated on their partners and there was 1 divorce.
- When we found out the developers never washed their glasses, just rinsed them and put them back on the shelf.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
Was this on Wall Street by any chance? And was the boss referred to as wolf of said street?
#41
Not an HR employee, but I do have an HR nightmare. I was a contracted employee, which means I had this weird thing where I have 2 bosses, my contract boss and my tasking boss (who was a permanent employee). We got a new contract boss, and in addition to being openly racist and sexist, he was also on a huge power trip. He basically wanted to take all of us contractors out of control of our tasking supervisors, and under his direct control, so he could farm us out. He didn't want to share supervision of us, he essentially wanted sole custody. There were a lot of things he did (including using mild racial slurs in meetings in which members of the offended race are present), but this one takes the cake: Me and my **female** coworker were called into a meeting in his office. In addition to telling us about his power-trippy plan (which we didn't agree with for a host of reasons), he also decides to complain about our tasking supervisor as well as her boss. Since both of them are women, he calls them the "wall of estrogen" that's standing in his way of accomplishing his goals. Well, **somehow** they found he said this (ok, we told them the moment we got back to the office). So we get called into another meeting. This time we get a lecture on how anything said in a meeting between us is proprietary information to our contract company, not to be released to our tasking supervisors. We decided it was time to call HR. They told my coworker to take a few days off (paid) until this could be sorted out. The next day, we have a meeting between my contract boss and 2 more of my coworkers. This meeting basically consisted of him complaining about how he hasn't been able to accomplish his goals. Then he says "and I wish [coworker] was here, because this next part is about her," and basically spent 10 minutes just ripping into how awful and disloyal she was. The kind of counseling you would generally give behind closed doors instead of in front of everyone, and you would generally give when the person is actually there. The next day after that he was no longer our supervisor.
#42
Where should I start?
* 2 employees having loud sex in the restroom during shift change
* A carpenter getting a BP from someone in finance in the supply room
* 2 employees speaking Elvish on the manufacturing line and pretending not to understand English. This went on all the way to their termination. They formally requested all documents be translated into Elvish, sent me hand scripted letters (PTO requests, etc) in what I assume is Elvish.
* An interviewee kept picking his nose and "rolling" the boogers between his finger and casually flicking them. He never broke stride in the conversation or picking. I really do not think he realized what he was doing.
* A female employee with a co-worker getting "finger banged" (direct quote from witnesses) in a company suite at a Rush concert in front of 20+ employees and customers. After which she yelled "big d***s are great, but I big wallets are better!" Best part was I had to describe the situation to the CEO, a very conservative Mormon man, while discussing damage control with said customers. I literally said "digitally penetrated", he looked puzzled and said "huh?" I then dropped finger bang on him and yeah, he couldn't look at me for months after that. BTW they got rid of her, he kept his job. Total BS, but he brought the $$ in.
Wonderful 2 years ago
Ah I remember the day a coworker gave me a bald princess. He was just fabulous and had so many fun bald princess stories.
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#43
I've only been in the field for about 4 months now, but this is my favorite petty incident: The morning shift starts at 5 AM. A lot of guys come in a little early and sit in their cars (read, sleep, whatever they want to do). Apparently, Guy A has a fancy European car in which the headlights don't turn off (his explanation, not mine). Well, Guy B parks directly in front of him like he always does. He thought that his headlights were b******t, and was becoming increasingly angry because "Guy A won't turn his f*****g headlights off!" So instead of choosing to park somewhere else, **Guy B began parking at an angle with his headlights shining directly into the window of Guy A**. He did this for a few days before then bringing in a taller truck so that his headlights would fully shine into the car of the other guy. We saw this in the footage of our security cameras. No one told me this was happening until a while after this had been occurring, as I don't start at 5 AM like everyone else does. When the operations manager finally told me, I just burst out laughing because I cannot believe that 50 year old men were acting like this. Yes, really, my employees *should* know better at the age they are, but the pettiness happened anyways. We had Guy A take some pictures for documentation and told Guy B to knock it off, and that's been the last of that as far as I'm aware. There have been other stories, like one of my guys deleting a program off of a machine so that the next guy following him couldn't work on his job, but the headlights thing makes me laugh every single time.
Couragetcd 2 years ago
Pettiness often seems to grow with age. Once someone has no more f*x to give and are old enough to that they don't care about looking mature, this is what happens
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago
Two distinct personality types - those who have to get their way and/or have the last word, and those who a bright enough to realise that it's really not worth it.
Insono 2 years ago
My not so fancy European car also automatically turns on the lights when you start the car and it's dark out, however it is definitely possible to turn them off should you decide to sit in a parking lot with the car on for heating or whatever so I thinkkk guy A was most likely also either petty or dumb
DarkViolet 2 years ago
"I WON'T! I WON'T! I WON'T!" is annoying enough coming from preschoolers, but from two adults over the age of 21? It's just.......pathetic.
#44
Not in HR but IT, responsible for the offices camera system. I was asked to review CCTV footage in the vicinity of a specific employees desk. Luckily this persons entire workspace was visible. Reviewed the footage and noticed the employee lean forward a couple of times to sniff something on the desk. Turns out his colleague sitting next door could hear him snorting every couple of minutes. Guy was snorting cocaine at his desk in an open plan office at 10am on a Tuesday.
Gatorman 2 years ago
It's too bitter! Coke is fun! It's like slamming your face on the table, but the fun part is (wait for it) it's illegal!
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Phoenix(or nix)they/them 2 years ago
10am on a Tuesday. Wow. No words can describe how deadpan/surprised (yes, both) I am rn.
#45
This wasn’t in my territory but we had a guy murder someone during his training period. We had a week long, classroom style training. On Tuesday night he shot and killed someone in an armed home robbery, he continued to come to training until he was caught by police. The entire thing was caught on the guys doorbell camera and it took the police a week to catch him. We found out he was being charged with murder when his manager saw it on the news and called us asking how to proceed. We had an HR employee steal upwards of $20,000 over the course of about a year in time card theft. She would clock in when she left her home and stay clocked in throughout her commute. She would often take 2+ hour lunches and leave hours early but stayed clocked in. She would clock in for 12+ hours a day on weekends and claim to be “working from home” but would just clock in and basically take the day off. At one point, she spent 20 hours in the office and clocked in for almost 80. It took them about a year to fire her and they ultimately chose not to sue, lucky her! We had an employee threaten a manager with a gun, I don’t know all the details of that but something to do with the manager calling him a name and the employee finally having enough of it. I believe we ended up paying the employee a small amount of hush money so I know it wasn’t good. We’ve got a manager (I work in a very blue collar industry) who’s known to ask women who’s taking care of their children in interviews. We’ve got another one who tries to figure out people’s ages based on their application and won’t interview anyone over 40. There’s a third who explicitly said he won’t hire women. That’s all run of the mill stuff in my industry. Major HR violations but these guys have to have regular training on why calling someone the N word because they were 5 minutes late isn’t appropriate so nothing surprises me anymore. This wasn’t at my company but I know someone who had a manager in their department get fired for sexual harassment. It wasn’t just your run of the mill inappropriate comments, he would constantly make the one woman on his team work late, overload her with work, and then give her bad reviews on it. He called her names and often would talk about her appearance in front of the team. In an odd turn of events, they slept together and were even kind of friends outside of work. She left the company and he was fired shortly after. They figured she probably told HR what was going on in her exit interview and he was fired for it. That wasn’t all it was... apparently he had been hitting on an intern for a couple of months and she took that to HR just before the other girl left. Then as icing on the cake, he told a woman in another department that he could sleep with her entire department if he wanted, whether they liked it or not, and HR wouldn’t do anything about it. He was fired the next day. Textbook case of sexual harassment and a man with a god complex. His termination followed him and it took him about a year to get another job. He has two degrees, a CPA, and a great work history prior to this.
René Sauer 2 years ago
how could anybody clock in from home? That´s asking for people to abuse it
Michael Olsen 2 years ago
Old job I had we clocked in and out via an app on our phone.
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#46
I work for a general contractors office. So many uncomfortable actions that my boss acknowledges he’s doing but refuses to change. One being that he sends any of our guys that are injured on the job to get checked out and treated by his chiropractic girlfriend who then gives him their full medical report. The company then pays her. Just a big no.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
I’m not sure I’d be able to resist explaining the conflict of interest to people that would investigate it. But sometimes people do what they feel like they have to in order to keep a job.
Joe Standford 2 years ago (edited)
So if you're aware and don't report this you're legally an accessory
Couragetcd 2 years ago
She better not be shoving overpriced BS vitamins on them to help them heal. That would literally be adding insult to injury.
#47
I mean, there are a LOT of stories .... but to start— most people lie about why they got fired, which HR really can’t contest or correct to others because of confidentiality. Which sometimes leads to wild situations. Situation A: Guy was fired for fooling around (read blatant sexual behavior on the clock, at work) with a co-worker. Was caught by busted co-worker, so on the job site it was a well known ‘secret’. Of course, dude goes home and makes up some BS to his wife, who comes in making an absolute scene, threatening lawsuits, etc. As HR, we couldn’t say anything at all, but we’re pretty sure another employee told her, cause we never saw her again. So awkward. Situation B: I caught a guy drinking beer he’d stolen on the job. He admitted it and we had film. But during his termination I decided to choose the reason as drinking on the job and not the theft, mostly because I felt bad for the guy and being terminated for theft can have a negative impact on unemployment payments for years. Basically, I figured this guy f****d up but didn’t want to see him punished so severely in the future. Now, since he was fired, he shouldn’t receive unemployment $ from us, but the idiot filed for it, saying he was unfairly terminated. But of course, I CAN share details with a judge, so she got the full story and film. He’s right there and admits it AGAIN. So now not only is the unemployment denied (duh) the theft incident IS on his record so even if he rightfully files in the future, his payments will be less. I know HR can get a bad rap (and like any other field there ARE bad practitioners out there) but many of us try very hard to do the right thing for employees.
#48
I am in HR but this one actually comes from a client. There was this company with a really big, nice office building. They had a gym on site as well as showers for the executives. One night, the cleaners found a big s**t on the floor in the women's showers. Then a couple weeks later it happens again. And this continues over a few months with like 6 total shittings. They keep putting up signs and stuff but to no avail. The shitter persists. The company is pretty sure they know who is doing it, but obviously they feel hesitant to accuse anyone. So they contracted my security company to install access control on the showers to see who was going in and out and when. I never got a follow up but I am still so curious how that all panned out.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
Seems like the sh!tter would’ve been smart enough to stop once the access was installed. Took care of the problem either way I’d assume.
#49
This is quite tame but I was the HR rep at a nursing home chain for 2 years, I had a nursing assistant text message their scheduling coordinator, tell them to take them off the schedule because they quit. Ok... fine. We process the necessary paperwork for her term and then a few days (maybe a week tops) she just strolls on in for her shift. Now, keep in mind we use a program for scheduling that syncs with email/phone so everyone always has access to their schedule in real time, so she knew she wasnt on the schedule that day. I pulled her into my office to ask her what was going on, and verify that she told the coordinator she quit. She confirms that she did in fact do exactly that. Without skipping a beat she then starts to yell at me for firing her. TL:DR I once fired someone who wasnt employed with us.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
In the UK you can claim benefits if you're fired, but not if you quit...
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Even if your quitting wasn't exactly voluntary. My brother had a job at uni as a bartender at the student union. Once he finished uni, without a job lined up, he was denied jobseekers allowance because he "left his position voluntarily" - never mind the fact it would be a three hour commute each way, and he had no means by which to afford other housing in the area
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My favorite was the dude who would have meetings with his boss via camera (he was remote) and while they discussed his (abysmal) performance, he would have naked women get up from his bed and walk around. He was told this was inappropriate several times. Continued.
We fired him for fraud, a separate issue that was like a Tarantino film but gives too much away here.
#51
One of my employees bought in an industrial air freshener like the ones you would see in a public restroom. When I asked her about it, she informed me that the guy in the cube next to her (also my employee) has a gas problem.
I went back to my office and an hour later got a call from our HR resolution team that there had been a formal complaint logged anonymously against my employee because of his gas issue. So I had to sit there and try to have a professional conversation about my employee’s constant barrage of farting with the HR professional. We both were struggling to keep it together.
I pulled the individual aside to talk to him about it. He and I are both males around the same age so I tried to play it cool and not embarrass him. I told him he needed to stop blowing a*s all the time and he thought I meant his work performance sucked lol hahahha.
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
He definitely could have... something like crohn's disease, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis, or several other painful and often embarrassing conditions.
Load More Replies... Charity Angel 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure you can't actually do anything about this - it's a normal bodily function
#52
Once witnessed a manager of a company try to invite kids to a casino themed party. When he asked why, HR had to explain to him. “I didn't think it was appropriate to invite children, since it's uh, you know, there's gambling and alcohol, it's in our dangerous warehouse, it's a school night, and you know, Hooter's is catering, and is that- is that enough? Should I keep going?”
Jennifer Piard 2 years ago
This is from The Office. I'm starting to think most of these are premises for TV shows. 🤣😂
#53
My boss told me about this one - I don't work in HR, but this involved HR at my job. We had one hourly employee that wasn't performing well, and was butting heads with his new boss (one of the assistant directors in our department). He was pretty arrogant, and would p**n his work off on the student employees, and would just sit around watching YouTube or ESPN on his phone. He'd been given all of the formal warnings and such, so he should have expected being fired. My boss (his boss' boss) and his boss had planned on terminating him near the end of the day. HR sends out letters for termination that are normally presented by the boss in person. For some reason, the process had been ran differently, and the letter had been taken to the mailroom by HR. Our department is pretty close to the mail room, so we see when mail is delivered. His letter was put in his mailbox around noon, and one of the student workers gave him his mail. He read it, and flipped out. He started walking through the hallways saying "Well I guess I'm f*cking fired! F*ck this place!". He did this for a solid half hour before my boss found out (she was at lunch). When my boss got wind of the situation, she went to try and calm him down and de-escalate the situation. He then threw some of his personal items across the room. Told my boss he was coming after her job next. Cussed out all of his coworkers and employees. Cussed out HR. Cussed out the president on his way out. The bad thing is, HR was going to offer him the chance to resign rather than being terminated, because there are very few jobs in our industry in the area and jobs are hard enough to come by without a termination, plus his wife didn't work, so they were going to let him stay on our insurance for longer than COBRA mandates. My boss still offered that option to him, as he threw a keyboard at her. Needless to say, he didn't take the offer. I worked from home during this time frame, so I had no idea any of it happened until like a year later.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago (edited)
Did bp censor p**n or does op think the expression is “porn his work off…”? ***omg bp really censors the word p**n and not porn guys lmao
Amberlie Mikelsen 2 years ago
P@wn is censored for an unknown reason in ~85% of chat services, along with over a dozen men's names (due to the names being "associated with male genitalia in certain cultures"), yet a lot of other words that have blatantly obvious sexual or derogatory connotations are left uncensored. Censorship has gotten severely stupid.
BG 2 years ago
the word "P A W N" is often used in search engines and shady websites to circumvent filters.
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Asked in the interview if he’d ever been convicted of a crime, which is legal in my state and a requirement of the job. He said no. We made an offer, he accepted, and we ran a background check. This s**t was 4 pages long. Drug charges, assault charges, burglary charges, basically if you can think of it this guy had done it. The crazy thing is he knew he needed a clean record for the job and he knew we were going to run a background check as he had to sign off on it. Was still surprised and pissed when we rescinded the offer.
AliJanx 2 years ago
Back in the day we made copies of DL (both front and back), stamped with "Authorized" if we actually saw the license. This wasto put in the employee's file, if hired. Guy comes in, I interview, he shows me a copy of his license, I say ok great - I don't stamp the copy and I don't hire him. Several weeks later the Director comes running into my office screaming at me about my interview with this guy. She shoves the DL copy of the copy under my nose and yells "what about this " I looked her dead in the eye and say, "there's no authorized stamp on it" and then go back to work. She honestly didn't have words.
AliJanx 2 years ago
PS, guy was wanted in 3 states for some sort of something.
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Not an HR rep but sat next to the bad employee. Worked at a job that required an FBI background check because it was a large financial company. Fingerprints, list all contacts with police whether they resulted in charges or not. Charges as a minor, expunged charges, everything has to be listed or they will auto kick you. Basically they only cared about financial crimes so unless you robbed someone you were likely fine as long as you listed it. Well this guy started. From day one he was in his cube having long conversations with his lawyer about his upcoming drug trafficking trial. He loudly corrects his lawyer with “No, they say it was two kilos, but I only had one and a half.” Was nuts. The FBI check could take up to six months to complete and they would let you start working while it was under way. So we are all waiting for that to come back. Management heard from employees what was going on and evidently had the FBI rush it. So four days in two security guards and an HR rep showed up at his desk and walked him out.
#56
Used to work in HR - can think of a couple: Male night shift employee used to disrobe in the bathroom handicap stalls (unlocked), put his legs up on the safety rails and just wait. Lost a supervisor that day too because said supervisor walked in on this and just snapped. Working with healthcare providers to get an employee extended FMLA. Their supervisor wasn't buying it and would occasionally report potential violations. Some coaching and professional reminders for the employee but nothing substantial. Then the employee claimed they hurt their back assisting a State Highway Trooper in changing a patrol vehicles flat tire. Red flags everywhere and higher ups I had only read about got involved. Last I heard, not only did they let him go - there was talk of a fraud case, and the police were getting involved. I know there's more but that's all I can think of at the moment. One of my supervisors used to say, "When you work with people, they will go out of their way to surprise and disappoint you. Get ready."
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
Sounds like this guy had moved into being a predatory exhibitionist with the way he had approached that position in the stall and waited for someone innocent to find him. It's recognized as a mental health issue but he is still a disturbing individual. I almost feel like if someone he accosted kicked him in the junk, he might think harder about doing it next time.
#57
Niche London HR consultancy - a madhouse. Owner regularly invited consultants and support staff to join him and wife (big coke habit - also worked for the company) for threesomes. Everyone knew what was going on. When I left I handed an envelope to the head of HR and told her that I hoped she wouldn't ever have to open it but, if a certain ex employee were to contact the firm, she would have to. When you are somewhere like this (i) follow processes, (ii) document everything and (iii) do not let anyone get anything on you.
#58
Not me but my wife... She is HR for a Healthcare company and oversees clinics etc. One of the Dr.s brought in an employee to her office and told her that she needed her pants. Apparently the DR had s**t her pants ( she Sharted ) abd needed a new pair so she thought she would ask the employee. On top of that, the DR. took her pants down to show her that she shat her pants.
Wonderful 2 years ago
I had to go buy underware from the boutique next to where I worked cause the owner s**t herself and needed them. First she asked if I had any spare on me. Why would I bring an extra pair of panties to work with me and also, why would I lend them to you. She had a little nose candy drug problem and that was just 1 incident out of many. Working at tattoo shops is always interesting.
Karen Philpott 2 years ago
Dr needed a Dr. Not a new pair of pants. Did Dr expect employee to give them theirs?!
#59
Not HR myself, but a co-worker of mine is undoubtedly one. I'll call him J and I'll preface this by saying yes these are true stories with some details omitted to protect both our identities and that I don't know how he's managed to stay employed for 15+ years. (*my closest guess is because he outlasts all the managers he gets his 'final warning' from. He's outlasted at least 5 managers*) Also this isn't America and the age of consent here is 16. TL;DR ->! J essentially Skyped a naked woman in the staff/break room and hit on a barely legal age co-worker until she got a restraining order against him.!< My first month into my job, J comes into the crowded staff room with his phone and earphones plugged in. The door leading to the outside area was locked so he sat in the middle of the staff room and talked to the woman on his phone. I finish up my break and head back to work whereupon a few minutes later, the HR head leads my manager, J, J's sister (our co-worker) and our assistant manager to her office. I wasn't told anything by them, however I'd just spent my break talking to a woman from another department who was also on break long enough to see what happened. J had started dirty talking a naked woman on his phone in the middle of the staff room and was egging her on to show him more (while in the still crowded staff room). One of the other employees looked over his shoulder to confirm what he was doing, then reported him to HR. He was monitored on break for a week or so then back to normal. After a year of me working there we got help from a 16 year old student who would work on weekends. J has a history of shady business with younger women (*he wanted to run away with a 16 year old Welsh girl he met on a dating app and he harassed a high school Burger King server everyday until she quit*). He was assigned to work late at night with her one night, just the two of them. A few days later we're informed that an 'incident' has caused J to be suspended for 2 weeks. Eventually he came back and accidentally let some details slip that led us to piece together that he'd acted inappropriate and sexually harassed her to the point she reported and then filed a restraining order against him. He was suspended but came back early because she quit *(likely she wasn't happy that they didn't do much until she literally got a restraining order against him.*) That time he seemed to have finally learned his lesson, we had a new girl about 18 - 19 start working there and she said that he never speaks to her when they're working together (*even when she'd ask a question he'd just stare, awkwardly laugh and wander off. They still assign him to work with her despite his past offenses because of staff shortages and, in my opinion, mismanagement*)
Couragetcd 2 years ago
Or maybe 18 is too old for J? Ew. Thanks for sharing whatever became of you two, Silent Bob.
Tim B 2 years ago
Maybe J was asking girls if they ever had their a*****e ate out from a fat man in an overcoat???
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My current job is awesome regarding HR, little to no complaints. My last job BOY HOWDY. Let us see someone got stabbed, a woman left after accusing guys of staring at her on the floor, but then what takes the cake is a guy coming to me with pictures of penises on his phone claiming another worker was sending him the pictures. He had zero proof of a coworker sending them, but I do believe that he wasn't pulling my leg when he said they were sent to harass him. Dude had at least a dozen d**k pics from a few different numbers, I suspect someone was using an app to mask their actual phone number. I told my supervisor but nothing ever really came of it because he couldn't prove where exactly the pictures were coming from. Im sure I have more stories but I can't think of any atm.
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
The employee should have reported that the d**k pics to the police for harassment and whatever else they could label them. If the offending texts were coming from some kind of app then they should have identifying information tagged on them on his phone bill/through his phone service and could hopefully catch the perpetrator/s, then hopefully press charges and if it were people from work then they could deal with it there as they decided to. I'm sure this guy was incredibly frustrated by the people sending those pics amongst other very valid feelings.
#61
I process payroll for my company. We had an employee submit a timesheet for more than 200 hours over a two week period...included at least 15 hours per day including weekends, and even a few 17 hour shifts back to back. We’re in manufacturing, so I’ve seen instances where an employee covers half of someone’s shift for a whole week giving them 5 12-hour days. But never have I seen 14 straight 15+ hour days. All told it was 100+ hours at OT time and a half, plus nearly 30 Sunday doubletime. The HR manager is currently investigating, checking with security for building access reports, etc to see if those hours are in any way legitimate. But one way or the other, the supervisor is going to get his a*****e reamed because he approved the timesheet. So either he approved fraudulent hours, or he authorized someone to work those godawful hours during a time when the business is pressing managers to curb OT whenever possible or to at least distribute it equally. This dude signed off on what ended up being a nearly $12k paycheck for an hourly team member.
Daffydillz~ 2 years ago
This sounds insane. It would have been interesting to know if they could see them at work or if they could prove it was fraud 🤔, but since it was over 3 years ago and there was nothing further from OP we will never know lol. 😉
#62
I don’t work in HR but a few years ago I was a manger at Harvey’s/Swiss chalet and had to fire a guy for using the food thermometer for “temping his balls”..
Charles Mayberry 2 years ago
I wish I could say this was shocking .. but after more than 10 years in "professional" kitchens I can say I've seen worse. And fired people for similar things. (I am not HR I was a chef however and uhhh good line cooks are a rare commodity and the ones that are out there, well they are a rowdy bunch)
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Gotta keep the swimmers at just the right temp for optimal performance
#63
Not my experience, but someone once told me that they knew a person that accidentally emailed out an excel workbook with all employees’ salaries and bonus information to the ‘All Employees’ instead of ‘All Executives’ email group. That person was a compensation specialist. Workbook was also not password protected lol. So by the time IT scrubbed the email from the server, I’m sure a good amount of employees still downloaded the data somewhere.
#64
The workers had races with those motorized forklifts. One did not know that there was freshly poured concrete. Got the forklift stuck in it, damage was >100.000€ (big foundation for a new storage facility). According to the union contracts, such damages are paid for by the company unless it was intentially done.
Walked into my bosses office, told him about the situation. "Hm ok schadavi, can you please return to your office for a while." - "Ok."
As soon as I was at my desk, I heard the loudest "GOTTVERDAMMTESCHEISSE" from his office. Then my phone rang, and he told me to inform the insurance, which ended up paying less than 10k of the damage...
Otherwise, the usual HR nightmare is just people not keeping their documents in order.
Jesse 2 years ago
The translation of this profanity is too crude to get past BP's censoring dept so use your imagination
Edward Teague 2 years ago
For those that can't quit figure it - the 'polite company version' is "Divine fornicating feces"
Load More Replies... Sami-Jo Ross 2 years ago
I'm glad I know just enough German to understand that profanity and I'm laughing about it.
Charity Angel 2 years ago
Surely there is a question as to whether it was a space the forklift could reasonably have been expected to be, and was the area properly roped off? I suspect the latter at least was not done and thus would be on the builders' insurance instead
Catastrophisticate 2 years ago
I've been using "Scheisse" as an office alternative cuss word for years... it sounds fancy, and most people take it as "shoot" rather than what it really means LOL
#65
I’m not a hr employee, but my dad encountered a lot of dumb s**t working as a manager of [enter shipping company here]. For example, his star employee, employee of the month was a common occurrence to him, a really well rounded off guy. One day dad leaves the centre for a morning because he had a horrible toothache that needed to be pulled that day. While he’s gone, star employee begin to slip small packages into his pockets. With this company, most packages have insurance, but most items have monetary value. So star employee stole over 20k worth of jewellery and items over his career with [enter shipping company here]. Edit:: We actually have no idea where this guy is these days, maybe prison, maybe still working for [enter shipping company here]. Who knows
#66
Our temporary replacement manager shot a firearm in the office while showing off. He only lasted a day.
#67
My company used to give branded gifts to our clients. One employee volunteered to drive one about and hour away, and he took another employee with him. What he didn't tell anyone is that he didn't have a license, his car was unregistered, and his brakes were bad. So inevitably his brakes failed while trying to stop at an intersection, and he totaled his car. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt, but he got into trouble when the cops came.
#68
I used to work for a company that is an HR nightmare. Several events occurred: 1) I was hired as a director of Quality/Regulatory so I come in and start sprucing up documents, policy and all the essential stuff. A VP of sales doesn't take to kindly to fixing the stuff they were lying (fraud) about and tells me in front of HR. "I'm going to make you so miserable that you quit this job" Still works there. 2) Another sales guy went into a coma (health issue) and the higher ups decided that they could fire him to keep their insurance cheaper and not pay out his life insurance. Luckily HR pointed out the potential lawsuit, after they debated the cost of the lawsuit and whether they could win they kept him on until he passed a week later. 3) When I left, I had my own company they decided they owned any IP I created when I was employed there. I had no contract and non competes aren't legal in my state. 4) The C-level employees all were convicted of corruption in multiple countries and are in jail.
#69
We had to terminate someone after 8 days of employment for very serious misconduct issues including sexual harassment. When I notified the employee, he started threatening me, the manager, and the entire company. He went on to send threatening emails to the VPs and other senior leadership threatening a lawsuit. His manager was concerned for her safety and the company had to hire additional security. Come to find out that the guy we terminated had recently sued his previous employer. This whole thing is still happening so I don’t have an ending to this nightmare yet. Happy thanksgiving
#70
working as a temp in the Leave of absence department for a major grocery chain, and the amount of people we would fire who have cancer or some other terminal condition is terrible. Having to fire people who were telling about how their rates would go up and they cant afford their house. Truly a miserable time. The amount of people who thought the law said I wasnt allowed to fire them was odd
RomanceRadish 2 years ago
For readers outside of USA - losing job generally means losing health insurance which means no more healthcare or financial ruin or both. (There are a few other options but they are pricey and not guaranteed).
Jason Doakes 2 years ago
well..., in most civilized countries, that's exactly what the law says.
Debby Keir 2 years ago
Well it IS illegal to fire cancer sufferers in most parts of the world....
April Chaffin 2 years ago (edited)
This is a perfect example of why HR is NOT working in the employees' best interest!
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
Always sue in these situations in the US. You can get a lawyer to take it on contingency and the company will usually settle to avoid the expense of lawsuit, regardless of merit. You’ll end up with something rather than nothing.
#71
Worked HR in an Employee call center. Got a call one morning from an employee saying they had been overpaid. They worked an hourly job and got paid once a week. Took a look at their check and yeah, we paid them about $60,000. WAY overpaid. We fixed it pretty fast, pulled out the 60k and paid them the right amount. We finally figured out that they had entered their employee ID number in the hours worked field when they filled out the online forms. That was fun.
Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
This seems like a legitimate accident, the employee reported the issue. Doesn’t belong on the list with all of this other craziness.
Jeff 2 years ago
What about the supervisor that signed off on the crazy number of overtime hours?
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Noho 2000 2 years ago
These are NOTHING. I once worked as an HR representative for a paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Let me tell you some stories...
Junebugjump! 2 years ago
These stories make me feel grateful. I have worked with major jerks, sexually abusive CEOs, but for the last half of my career people have been fairly decent.
Bluetoyou 2 years ago
I worked for a school district that would take principals or others and give them admin jobs when they should have been fired. Their hiring procedures were lacking. One told me he failed the psych tests for another district before getting hired with us. I left after having to call in UEA to deal with the currant principal. As I was packing up my room I had turned off the classroom lights while I took loads to my car from the closet.(I was told to take or throw away anything donated but leave what the district paid for) I came back in for another load and could hear voices from behind the tall storage shelves in the back of my very dark room. After a bit out walks the principal with the teacher that was going to be my replacement. He's married w/kids. It's dark as night in there. What were they doing behind those shelves?? I left w/no regrets on to a better school district with better pay. After I left there was a turnover at the admin building leaving only a few original employees.
Noho 2000 2 years ago
These are NOTHING. I once worked as an HR representative for a paper supply company in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Let me tell you some stories...
Junebugjump! 2 years ago
These stories make me feel grateful. I have worked with major jerks, sexually abusive CEOs, but for the last half of my career people have been fairly decent.
Bluetoyou 2 years ago
I worked for a school district that would take principals or others and give them admin jobs when they should have been fired. Their hiring procedures were lacking. One told me he failed the psych tests for another district before getting hired with us. I left after having to call in UEA to deal with the currant principal. As I was packing up my room I had turned off the classroom lights while I took loads to my car from the closet.(I was told to take or throw away anything donated but leave what the district paid for) I came back in for another load and could hear voices from behind the tall storage shelves in the back of my very dark room. After a bit out walks the principal with the teacher that was going to be my replacement. He's married w/kids. It's dark as night in there. What were they doing behind those shelves?? I left w/no regrets on to a better school district with better pay. After I left there was a turnover at the admin building leaving only a few original employees.
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