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The role of a Human Resource specialist is often a misunderstood role. What do they do all day? Just sit at their desk filing papers and chatting all day long? Far from it. HR people have to tackle all kinds of situations, and it’s usually stuff that they don’t include in the employee handbook.
To find out more about it, one Reddit user asked HR people about the weirdest stuff they had to handle in their line of work. The answers range from all over the place and show just how chaotic it can be managing people at work. How do you politely and professionally tell someone that what they’re doing is completely inappropriate for work and they don’t even realize it? Only our HR people will know.
Check out the top ones collected by Bored Panda and share your weird work stories too!
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#1
"I've been waiting for this one. Two words: d**k tag. I don't know who started d**k tag, but it became a very popular game very quickly. The whole gist of d**k tag was pretty simple. You popped out your d**k and showed it to another employee. Whoever saw the d**k was 'it.' In order to stop being 'it,' you had to pop your d**k out and show it to someone else. I had heard whisperings, but people denied that it was a thing. I never witnessed anything, so the only thing I could do was to send out an email to remind people of appropriate office behavior. D**k tag continued, until one day it was taken too far. One of our managers — we'll call him Kyle — was an idiot. Kyle decided that the best way to welcome a new employee into the company was to induct him into d**k tag. So, while this poor guy was filling out his new-hire paperwork, Kyle pulled down his pants, dumped his d**k on the table, and yelled, 'YOU'RE IT!'"
"Around the same time, multiple employees were in our parking lot also playing d**k tag. Our lovely and sweet accounts payable lady, Ronnie, was walking into work and got caught in the d**k tag crossfire. This woman, who was super religious and had been with the same man her entire life, clutched her pearls at the sight of a barrage of d**ks coming at her. Ronnie walked into my office like she had seen the devil himself, and before she even got a chance to explain, the new guy walked in after her, handed me back the new-hire paperwork, told me what happened, and said this probably wasn't going to be a good fit for him. Ronnie then launched into her story about the indecency and how she wasn't sure she'd be able to look her husband in the eyes after what she saw. After soothing Ronnie, I called Kyle up, and he explained his side, the rules of the game, and ratted out everyone who was playing. Kyle was fired. That Friday, a company-wide memo went out and banned d**k tag. We had multiple training sessions on sexual harassment, and I had to tell 50 grown men that it's not OK to take your penis out at work."
Kari Panda 4 years ago
How can you even be okay with showing your d***s to others like that? Maybe I‘m prude, but I cannot imagine popping out my breasts to my co-workers, let alone for some stupid game.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Why would you stop at firing Kyle? As far as I'm concerned, every single puerile male that participated in this game should have been fired on the spot. How the hell do people reach adulthood, work in a professional setting, and still think this is appropriate?
3 weeks ago
Because of exactly your point: even with all that, only one person was fired.
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Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Wow, none of you ever thought that this was an inappropriate thing to do. Disgraceful.
The key to understanding the role of a Human Resource specialist is in their title. Businesses want to look at their employees as more than just that, they want to look at them as… a human. Can you believe it? But in all seriousness, it means looking at the people in their employment (or potential employment) as a resource worth investing in.
Until we’re all replaced with robots that never get tired, demotivated, or run into arguments and strife with their co-workers, looking after the humans, uh- people in the workplace is essential to a healthy and productive environment.
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#2
Worked in HR for a couple years now, mostly for large firms managing facilities within properties. One of the strangest cases was brought about because a Client asked us to review CCTV footage as he'd driven past the office late at night and noticed the motion sensor lights inside going on and off and was concerned there had been a break in.
Turned out our night security officer who's primary role is to monitor cameras from the control room was skipping up and down the corridors cause "he felt too full of energy" and had to get it out of his system somehow.
Watching the footage of him skipping featuring the occasional star jump through vacant corridors for 20 minutes at 1am really made my day
Requiem 4 years ago
He cant get in trouble, only HE and who ever is in charge of Security can review footage. And the Boss would ask him if there had been any break ins and he would tell him No and maybe someone would find out he was skipping around. But ALSO the guy who drove by would have known Security is there and patrolling floors. If he didnt patrol the floors he would be FI-RED
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Cyndielouwhoo 4 years ago
Absolutely, especially after reading the item ahead of this one with all those clueless weenie wagging idiots!
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SuperChicken 4 years ago
Another way of killing boredom. No doubt, that will also keep him awake.
Interestingly, the roles of an HR specialist will be supplemented (but not replaced) by Artificial Intelligence more often in the future. Some examples include learning-AI’s to track employee performance or assist with the hiring process. According to Gartner’s 2019 research and projections in the workplace, approximately 17% of their respondents already use AI to support their HR department, and these numbers are expected to increase to 30% by 2022.
The reasons for doing this are the same for any kind of automation process. If there’s a way to complete manual and repetitive tasks in a better way, it should be done. These productivity tools can help businesses to save time, and in effect, money too.
#3
I used to work in HR at a large corporation.
There was a big HR back-office team doing a lot of processing and data entry including employee's bank info for their salary. It just so happened that on the same day two employees with the same name started, and a huge clusterf**k ensued.
First the banking information was entered for the wrong person, one of them realised and had it corrected, but the other wasn't fixed so both salaries went to one person
The unpaid guy started refusing to come to work, but payroll said that the payment cleared and the account was in his name, so he was terminated for refusing to come to work.
He kept calling and the HR support team kept misidentifying him as the other guy who was still working for us, so when they raised a ticket to get his bank information changed they changed the info of the wrong guy, so now the guy who doesn't work for us is getting paid the salary of a guy who does.
When this was finally worked out the first guy was given his job back, but on his first day back security misidentified him and issued him a badge of the other employee, so now he was clocking hours for the other guy and not getting paid again because he never clocked in for himself.
It took about 3 months for all this to be worked out. Moral of the story is use a f**king email address to identify people
ArmyDog07 4 years ago
How about middle names? Were those the same? SSN? Birthdate? Employee number?
Terry Tobias 4 years ago
After decades of working I've always been identified by my SSN, especially for monetary purposes.
Load More Replies... WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Moral of the story is that you should use social security numbers.
The Dave 4 years ago
Or maybe assign employee ID numbers. Something a little less likely to result in identity theft.
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François Carré 4 years ago
Then the two guys got married, with a shared bank account. Problem solved.
Pat Bond 4 years ago
I agree. Whiilst not the same department they work very closely with HR, this is a payroll issue, resolved by the payroll dept, whom would have spotted it after the first incident when the job report was finalized.
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kim morris 4 years ago
using an email address doesn't always work, I had the same name as another employee, but different email . I used to get her email all the time. it was most annoying. and it was worse, because it was in a hospital, and the emails i used to get were patient sensitive. so.
Alexej Dvorak 4 years ago
At my company, new employees with the same name as an existing one will get their name with an increasing digit added. As this is hard to communicate to externals, some poor bastard whho was the first John Smith or whoever, always gets Mail for all other John Smiths in the company, because people just guess this will be the correct adress since it follows the known structure :D
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 4 years ago
As soon as it is flagged that you have two employees with the same name, you either add a middle initial or another identifying tag to the name, and you inform department leads of the situation. It's just common sense.
Teresa Taylor 4 years ago
Unfortunately there's nothing common about common sense these days
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Social security numbers, birth dates, ....? There are many, many ways to assure this doesn't happen.
#4
I've shared this story before, but...
An employee (from a different country and culture) never showered. He said that whee ehe comes from, they shower about once a month. His coworkers complained of the smell, which was gaggingly offensive. His supervisor eventually sent him home and told him he couldn't come back until he showered.
It was a union business and the guy filed a grievance with the union steward. They came into my office, which has a camera because it was where we had all major disciplinary meetings.
The moment they walked into my office, I almost gagged from the smell. It was suffocating. I had two chairs in front of my desk and I asked them to take a seat while I went and pulled his file. When I left, I pulled the door closed behind me.
I went to my boss's office, told him the situation and asked him to pull up the camera in my office. It was hilarious.
The Union steward was holding his shirt over his nose and telling the guy "Goddamn dude! You're killing me! You've got to take a shower!".
After letting them marinate in the stench for about 10 minutes, I went back in and the Union steward retracted his greviance and agreed to send the guy home.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Honestly, I think awful stink like that cannot be created just by an unwashed body. Most likely this dude also never washed his clothes. Old sweat in clothes stinks to high heaven.
chrissy goodman 4 years ago
unfortunately under the arms and down there can really gain a horrible smell if someone doesnt shower. u add unwashed clothes into the mix and its even worse. someone i knew in college didnt shower for months. they washed their clothes but the smell that came from them was like a mix between body odor and a sewer it was disgusting my professor didnt let them come to class until they showered. i even switched dorm buildings cuz i didnt want to pass by their room.
Load More Replies... Laura1985 4 years ago
I am seriously not convinced there is a country OR culture where this would be tolerable.
Yoinks! 4 years ago
We had some selfish stupid MF stinking up the break room for a few weeks. I don't know if it was him, or something he pulled from the microwave, but it smelled like fresh vomit. And I only know who it was because he got loudly defensive when I walked in, recoiled from the stench, and yelled "What the f%$& is THAT??" He's not around anymore; don't know why, don't care why, just glad he and his gross stank are gone.
Joy 4 years ago
We had a woman who cooked mackerel at home, kept it sweating in tupperware then of a lunchtime, she'd revive it in the microwave. The sickening smell was never as bad as the stink she kicked up if anyone dared mention it.
renee brack 4 years ago
A nurse told me about a bashed homeless person in Emergency who couldn't take off his beenie. The lice, nits and fleas had fused his hair with the beenie so that it was part of his head. The whole lot had to be shaved and it was jumping with angry bugs. He needed a new beenie cos it was winter. Wonder how that's going...
A 4 years ago
I worked with someone who was opposed to showers. He was unpleasant. Stinky all the time, filthy clothes, covered in food stains, dried milk (why?!) and cat hair. He got called into a meeting with HR and the boss and was offended (he told everyone afterwards) when he was asked if he needed some help paying for soap and laundry powder. He said he could afford soap. Why he chose not to use it is a mystery.
Yoinks! 4 years ago
Yup. Briefly had a barracks-mate when I was in the USAF who showered VERY infrequently, but instead hosed himself down with Lysol disinfectant spray every morning. It wasn't like we had a communal shower or anything like that; this was just what he considered the "superior" course of action.
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renee brack 4 years ago
It's the clothes too. They become infused - imbued - let's call it infected with bodily fluids - effluent - let's call it pollutant creating a health hazard that interferes with everyone's performance at work.
The reasons for doing this are the same for any kind of automation process. If there’s a way to complete manual and repetitive tasks in a better way, it should be done. And as soon as possible because these productivity tools can help businesses to save time, and in effect, money too.
And another part of this involves decision-making. When comparing candidates for a job or trying to choosing the best course of action for a business, it’s always easier to let someone else do it. Using statistics and making a pragmatic decision is simple for a computer, and it’ll only take them a few moments to make their calculations compared to an HR specialist who already has a lot on their mind.
#5
Former HR here. A woman once complained that someone in her department kept meowing and it was getting on her nerves. I asked the meowing woman to come to my office. I said “you’re not in trouble but apparently you keep meowing and an employee asked us to address it with you”. Her response: “this is america, I have freedom of speech” and “what happens if she sees a cat in a commercial and the cat meows, does she get mad at the cat?!” To which I replied, “well no, because it’s a cat. It’s expected to meow”. This went on for sometime until she agreed to stop meowing. There was no reason for the meowing. She was just meowing.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
She most certainly did not meow in the interview
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BlackestDawn 4 years ago
While you have freedom of speech (which actually only restrict the government to place restriction on speech, not private entities) your speech is not free from consequences.
Hilary Mol 4 years ago
I thought for sure this was going to end up being a cat-trapped-in-the-wall story.
Rob Woodman 4 years ago
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean meowing in an office—to start with.
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This made me laugh. In a former workplace, we had a few folks who would go on and on about something in staff meeting. The adage "beating a dead horse" came up frequently. After a while, when this would happen, one of our more senior staff members would just "neigh" like a horse from the back of the room. It worked and would shut down the incessant go nowhere round-about discussions. It was hilarious.
Troux 4 years ago
I'm extremely ok with people randomly meowing and I've taken to it myself from time to time. I'd hire you.
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Blaze Fitzwater 4 years ago
I would have to confront her because she's being intentionally obnoxious. Grow up!
Robin Roper 4 years ago
As as HR worker, you should have known the 1st Amendment protects a person from the government restraining/limiting his or her speech. The 1st Amendment does not apply to private business or private workplaces. It also doesn't stop the government from restricting some speech. Threaten and elected official and see what happens.
#6
I used to work at a staffing agency that placed people at manufacturing positions. Everyone had to be drug tested at the office as part of the orientation. If the pee cup came back as “inconclusive”, we’d send the potential hire to a medical lab. They would take another drug test and the lab could determine if the person was on a prescription or using illegal drugs (and therefore, not eligible for hire).
So one guy failed his drug test at the lab. He came back to the office claiming that it wasn’t his fault. He explained that he was riding in a car and he stuck his head of the the window. Then, when the car passed under a bridge, someone threw a bunch of cocaine off the bridge, it hit him in the face, and he accidentally inhaled it.
Viviane 4 years ago
Kid like to hang out on overpasses and throw cocaine onto passing cars. Points if you hit a car, bonus points if someone sticks their head out the window and catches a whiff.
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Sam Yobado 4 years ago
There was that time I threw cocaine off that bridge. I remember the guy with his head out of the car. Always wondered what happened to him.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
He could have said he had to sneeze, had no tissues, so used a one dollar bill. Everyone knows all our paper money is contaminated with, well, blow.
Crochet lady 4 years ago
My sister is a notoriously bad liar which all started one day when my dad had punished her for a week of no sweets. She proceeded to eat a green piece of taffy which stained her lips & tongue green. She was questioned by my father as to why she was stained green and she said it was the spinach she has for lunch. My dad was pretty abusive but this one time he roared with laughter because it was so ridiculous. Of course she was further punished because my dad was an ahole.
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Yeah, in my experience coke heads often have more coke than they need and chuck it off bridges
Anita Pickle 4 years ago
That is when they tell him he was positive for pot and just see the reaction
However, nothing can take the human element out of choosing the best person for the job. A lot of it depends on the character that a potential candidate may bring to the team, and their chemistry within it. Sherrie Haynie, the director of The Myer’s Briggs Company (based on the personality-type testing framework of the same name), said that there’s more to a candidate’s personality than just getting along well with others.
She told Forbes about her belief in using personality tests to support the hiring process. She said, “Personality is made up of psychological preferences, temperaments, and predispositions. And while many factors influence us (including social and cultural pressures), personality is a major force behind our habits, behaviors, and attitudes. So it’s not surprising that some personality assessments can be a strong predictor of job performance.”
#7
The family of the guy who passed away came to speak to us (it was in a factory environment). To get pension docs etc. We sent them away with a to do list. 1 hour later reception pinged us saying Mr Xs family was here. Strange. The documents take a few days to get. Nope. New family. Yup. The guy had 2 different families. Who were about to have a fun surprise
Vorknkx 4 years ago
How do they even pull this off? Doesn't one of the families get suspicious when he is absent for longer periods of time?
AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
Nope. Its the old "business work trip" card. Gives him a qeek or two to travel 😬
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Beezel Palomar 4 years ago
First one to get all the paperwork done gets the money. Ready? GO! There's my pitch for a reality for TLC.
Steve Wilson 4 years ago
Back in the ‘80s a guy died in South Dakota . He worked for the state & it turned out he had a family in the state capital in Pierre & another in his hometown of Sioux Falls. Both homes were identical & had the same furniture. He got away with it for over 20 years which was a miracle in a state that only had sbout 700k people at the time but nobody knew about it until he died & both wives showed up for the pension. Not positive but think both wives even had the same name.
Yvonda Marie Levings 4 years ago
Law & Order Criminal Intent(i think)had episode like this but the husband was a famous architecture lol I know a lot of useless trivia
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Aeon Flux 4 years ago
Whoever was married first would be the legal spouse.
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Norah Reilly 4 years ago
There ain't even a corner in hell that he can hide where his TWO families won't find him!
Sookie Stackhouse 4 years ago
i bet it stressed him out trying to keep the two separate families apart
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Oh, this is gonna get ugly. Hope you have a front row seat to the show.
#8
Two people had cut a hole in the wall between their offices. They pushed their filing cabinets to hide the hole on both sides. Cleaning staff was asked to deep clean the offices one day and they found the hole.
Both parties involved were married, not to each other. They were having sex through the wall.
The Dave 4 years ago
What a load of crap. Unless, this is some paper thin wall, we’re talking punching two holes in 5/8” sheet rock mounted to 4” wide studs. No way.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Really. And I suppose no-one else ever saw them doing it. Yeah, right.
Glirpy 4 years ago
So… they had to move the filing cabinets without making a lot of noise, have sex without making a lot of noise, and make sure no one would catch them while they were doing it? I don’t get it. I’m kinda gonna call BS on this. I guess it could happen, but unless there are only 5 people in the entire company and they never have to walk past each other’s offices, it’s highly unlikely.
Natalie 4 years ago
Um, yep!! Totally agree with you. It is all BS to me too. Don't care how "thin" the wall might have been, the sheer body coordination necessary and the impracticality of it, let alone complete stupidity (when ANY other location would have been easier to meet for sex), makes it a load of bull crap.
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But at the end of the day, it’s all down to an HR specialist to decide whether or not a candidate is a great fit for the company. Knowing a person well enough also makes it easier to tackle any issues they might have at work too. Although you can never tell exactly what you’re getting yourself into, based on the stories that we see here.
#9
The maintenance guy had been living up above the ceiling of the building. He had built a little cubby living area with electricity and a small fridge and everything.
K Killian 4 years ago
Yeah, there is definitely a somber note to this one.
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AngelWingsYT 4 years ago
Or general wage? Minimum is trash but some full paying jobs pay like min wage
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Riley Quinn 4 years ago
That speaks volumes to the lousy salaries CEOs expect people to live on.
#10
I got a call from a woman I'd never spoken to, asking when she could start. She'd received a job offer after interviewing with a manager for a customer service position, she told me, but no one ever contacted her about a start date or pre-employment processes like a background check, and it had been a month.
After a lengthy investigation, it came out that this manager had fabricated a job opening and offered it to this woman in an attempt to impress her. She quit her job (but, it should be noted, did not respond to the manager's romantic overtures) with the expectation of joining my company. She got a settlement (with an NDA) and the guy who "hired" her got fired.
There was also a guy who faked his son's death for some extra PTO.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Wow. At least she got compensation and he got fired, but what a creep
Yort 4 years ago
Yeah, it would’ve been easy for the company to say “sorry, not our fault” and that’s the end of it. I’m glad they compensated her. I hope she ended up getting a good job.
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Jro308 4 years ago (edited)
I had an employee fake his son's death for bereavement pay and time off. He even called me days later and cried how he was so brokenhearted that he couldn't eat or sleep and even went to the hospital because he thought he was having a nervous breakdown. His cousin works for us too...so a couple of weeks later I see the cousin and ask how the poor man is doing, he basically says what the hell are you talking about? Gives us the whole story 1. the man son's is NOT dead 2. The said child was taken away from this man and adopted by a family 8 states away when he was 3 years old (said child is now 30). 3. Apparently this is the not the first time he has said his son has passed away (ex-wife said "He's using that bullshit story again?") We attempted to reach the employee multiple times and he would not respond so we terminated him.
Toast Of Saint Louis 4 years ago
He could have used his grandparents or a family member who's already dead. Or just don't lie at all would be best.
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TheWickedOne 4 years ago
Damn, you got to be low as f**k to fake your kids death for free time off.. jeezus christ
mulk 4 years ago
Why leave your current job when not having a start date for the new one? Precision: I am not telling it's her fault..
Honu 4 years ago
Yes. Even when I have a verbal offer, I do not resign until I have a written offer. Things can change. Even if that was a genuine job, I have seen job requisitions cancelled when we were set to make an offer to someone.
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Raven DeathShade 4 years ago
Pto meams "paid time off". The second "off" was not necessary.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
"I made you quit your job because I was trying to hit on you ! Does it work? -Hmmm... Not really."
Susan Williams 4 years ago
Kind of reminds me of Paul Manafort promising an appointment by the former guy as Secretary of Defense if he donated a ton of $$$ to the former guy's campaign. The bank manager donated the $$$ and called the Pentagon to let them know he was now their boss and wanted to be briefed on military stuff. He was fired. Manafort went to jail but was pardoned by the former guy.
#11
I had to see a video of a guy who s**t himself during work while running to the restroom because his manager wouldn’t let him leave a meeting early... the guy had IBD and the manager knew this, so the video show him running down the hall and literally a few feet from the restrooms, he starts s**tting himself and you see it coming down his leg pant. He looked to be in pain cause he kinda collapsed, and then got back up. People were baffled when they saw this live lol Manager = Fired, so definitely the weirdest s**t I’ve ever seen, literally.
Night Owl 4 years ago
A very crappy shitty manager. I hope the poor IDB guy got better and got a better treatment at his work from then on
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Nicely 4 years ago
I've got IBD, it's no f*****g joke. I would like to say something about the whole idea of as an adult you know when you need the toilet. Because sometimes, you don't get a warning. It's not like it is for you. Your poo announces it will be arriving soon and then it will wait patiently. Ours is like an emergency department in a hospital. It runs through the door with no warning screaming get me a toilet STAT and if you don't get to it you don't survive. The manager was probably mid flow, said something like can you hold on a min and that min turned out to be too long. I'm not saying the manager was right, just that being an adult and knowing when you have to just walk out isn't always enough.
Calypso poet 4 years ago
Oh boy do I understand. I am unable to get on disability because I'm not disabled enough. But I have IBD and can't figure out the place that will hire me with unlimited bathroom breaks. I mean, I have people wanting to hire me because of my qualifications and past work performance but the job would be impossible.
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JP 4 years ago (edited)
He's the manager, not god. I've gotten up in the middle of meetings before to go to the bathroom. I'm a damn adult and know when I need to go. I'd love to see the company try to justify the headline "Worker Fired Because Management Wouldn't Let Her Go To The Bathroom...She Went Anyway."
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
The manager was a true sadist. Got pleasure from the pain of others.
Lauren Reder 4 years ago
I don't get why you added lol at the end. That poor guy was suffering and humiliated!
Rob Woodman 4 years ago
Because everyone that saw it was baffled by the managers behavior.
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
That poor man. Why on earth would you prevent someone going to the toilet?
#12
Someone murdered their husband then called the next day from jail and asked our department for bereavement pay.
Dave P 4 years ago
reminds me of the joke of the man who kills his parents and at the trial asks the judge for clemency because he is an orphan
Rob Woodman 4 years ago
That’s not a joke—part of the menendez brothers defense was that they were orphans.
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It takes more than a day to convict someone. This is someone that was ACCUSED of killing their husband, not convicted. They need the bereavement pay to pay for a lawyer.
Rob Woodman 4 years ago
If you’re suspected of murder you will likely wind up in jail—not prison—while you arrange bail etc.
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Jon Steensen 4 years ago
I've heard (don't know if it is true) that a way to test if someone is a psycopath is to see what they answer to the question at the end of a story going somenting like this: At her mother's funeral, a girl meets a man that she has not met before and whom she finds amazing. She only sees him briefly before he is suddently gone, but nonetheless she falls in love with him. A few days later the girl murders her own sister, why is that?
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Well, if someone's got the gonads to kill someone, why would anyone expect a normal reaction?
#13
One of the candidates I was interviewing via Skype
answered the phone while in his boxers and a tank top then stood up to grab his blazer that was probably about 3ft away. I had to see him in his stretched out boxers
Had a adult site up and open during a shared screen trial (to see how well he can use the digital classroom). I had to remind him I can see his screen he goes "oh yeah sorry" next instead of just closing it from the corner of his partially hidden window he clicks open the window in full view THEN closes it
That was nice
Bill 4 years ago
Or some people don't want to go back to work but unemployment has job search requirements. At an interview for a job don't want but have to take you make sure no call back happens.
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Jojo's Terrible Aesthetics 4 years ago
Digital classroom? Don't tell me he was applying for the job of a teacher :/
De Gueb 4 years ago
Happened to me using TeamViewer, we had a quarantined machine that gave me access via SSH to some servers a client had. when the computer was powered down there was no external access to the servers. We'd arrange a time & VPN so I could access. So when the time came I opened TeamViewer and pornhub was on full screen!!
HardTruths 4 years ago
One has to consider the possibility that these actions were intentional, esp if the interviewer was a lady.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
If someone doesn't understand the concept of cameras, they will not be a reliable employee because they will be mystified at every moment.
Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
Some people make themselves too... um... comfortable during online meetings
#14
Call center employee calls HR to complain about their supervisor: “He’s abusive... he won’t even let me leave my desk.” Supervisor calls HR to complain about employee: “can you please tell ____ that she’s allowed to leave her desk. Oh my god... she’s s***ting in her trashcan!”
It may sound humorous, but there was significant mental issues at the heart of this.
Paul C. 4 years ago (edited)
I worked in the head office for a company on the south coast of England. Each year we had people come down from London to perform the annual audit. I don't know what country they were born in or anything about their upbringing but after a couple of days the cleaners came to me as part of the facilities team and told me that rather than use the toilets normally some of the auditors were wrapping their faeces in toilet paper and leaving it in waste paper bins. Our HR department was so worried about upsetting their "traditions" it was allowed to carry on until they left. We often referred to HR as Human Remains.
kim morris 4 years ago
I worked a job (US) that had green and red lights above the rest rooms. If the red light was on, you weren't allowed to ask your supervisor if you could leave your desk to go to the rest room. If the light was green, you were allowed to ask. No assurance your request would be granted. This wasn't a factory, this was data entry. I stayed 6 months. I quit with no job lined up to jump to, I wasn't in kindergarten. Because this was bullshit.
Kay blue 4 years ago
I worked a job where they tried to tell us that toilet breaks could only happen during official lunch breaks. I have Crohn's disease, I told them they could either let me go to the bathroom or I would s**t in the office. I told my other colleagues to tell the boss that they had IBS. It didn't take long for that rule to be scrapped. Luckily no one had to go in a bin but I knew at least two people who would have done so!
Adrian 4 years ago
Not sure about including the faeces, but it is common in many countries in the middle east and asia at least, to put the paper in a basket beside the toilet. The sewerage system can't handle it. And some places its all discharged into the waterways and who wants paper floating around. Another issue is that some cheaper toilet papers don't disintegrate well, and some just scrunch up newspaper, even glossy magazine pages (like we did when I was a kid) and they don't go well in the pipes either.
Ted Expert 4 years ago
I worked in HR for a call centre. They had a 10 minute allocation for toilet time per day. Anyone exceeding that - wg if they had diarrhoea or suchlike- had to have a meeting with HR to explain why they had been to the toilet for over 10 minutes. I had to transcribe these meetings and put them on file for future use at disciplinary hearings. I am sure no one benefited from this setup. I certainly didn't enjoy it and the people with diarrhoea did not either.
Bill 4 years ago (edited)
The call center I worked for you had 3 minutes. Pretty hard for a guy to accomplish the task let alone women. ICT
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Daniel Marsh 4 years ago (edited)
So which one was crazy? (Probably both were a bit off, but which one was totally delusional?)
Skull in Sky 4 years ago
"but there was significant mental issues at the heart of this" -I guess that the woman was not healthy and was actually allowed to leave but didn't feel allowed.
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Guy came in to the interview in sweatpants and a hoodie, and said he didn’t need the job because of how much money he was making illegally, but he wanted to have a job so the IRS didn’t get suspicious.
Weirdest part is I don’t live in America, I very much doubt the IRS cares about Canadian tax returns.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Actually, they do. American citizens working abroad still have to file with the IRS and you do need to submit copies of your tax withholding and salary information from the country you work in. The US is one of the few countries to do this.
M M 4 years ago
Are you sure thet there are so few? I know about two European countries that do the same. Might be the entire EU.
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Candia Lee 4 years ago
To what end? He's not even up to minimal effort to get a job; what on earth would he do there (assuming he applied at all) besides continue his lucrative illegal activities?
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
LOL. In the UK small time wanna-be criminals talk about the 'Feds' being after them. Yeah, no.
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
I had someone come in for a front desk position, who would obviously be working with the public. He showed up in sweats and slippers. Yeah, he didn't even warrant an interview.
#16
Got a call from our office in India that staff who supported the night shift were running a brothel from the office. They didn't know they couldn't do that.
Still fired. They tried to appeal the decision. Did not work.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Was that because running the brothel interfered too much with scamming people?
Jeane Gallo 4 years ago
Sounds like a George Costanza excuse...is it against the rules to have sex with the cleaning lady in my office?
Vladimíra Matejová 4 years ago
I think I work with the type of ppl who would appeal it because it wasnt written anywhere :-D this made me laugh so hard
#17
I worked closely with HR in a call center. You'd get some crazy stuff.
Guy that carried a cooler every day was wiping s**t on random walls and desks. It was his s**t in his cooler. We thought it was his lunch. He got caught when he wiped it on the front desk directly in sight of the camera.
Another guy had a colostomy bag that he refused to empty when it got full. You would find these trails of liquid poo randomly and we had to throw out four chairs that he ruined. He was fired quickly and tried to claim discrimination because he was a veteran.
You'd also get a crazy amount of period stains on chairs. Look, it happens, but when it's the same few people (and we have free sanitary supplies in the bathroom!) you know they just don't care.
Mary Hunt Peret 4 years ago
RE: period stains -- another explanation would be your frequent offenders are people who have extremely heavy periods or have irregular cycles and don't always know when their period is going to start. They can't wear feminine products 24/7, and sometimes even the best "heavy flow" pads can't contain the sudden hemorrhage. I don't think it's fair to assume they don't care.
Sue User 4 years ago
Exactly. That happened to me. I would just " gush". Kept being dismissed by on/ gyn as " normal" until I ended up in emergency with clots the size of small peaches.
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Andy Acceber 4 years ago
Including administration, management, and all leadership. There's something deeply wrong in this business.
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Amy Dodds 4 years ago
I worked with a lot of people from another culture. They would take the communal cups/ glasses and fill them with water. Then they used them to clean their bums after going two's. Then the cups would go back into the kitchen.
Softsquatch 4 years ago
yup, call centres are notoriously harsh places to work, timed toilet breaks if any (speaking from experience). sounds like a dirty protest.
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Angela Jester 4 years ago
About period stains: It's not like holding your pee. You can't control the start or rate of flow. I know of no one who just bleeds through their clothes and goes "meh,whatever". Even if you feel like it's time to change,getting stuck on an endless call or not being allowed to go to the bathroom because it's not your specified break can cause an embarrassing situation.
Angela 4 years ago
I don't think people working in call centers can simply take a bathroom break when needed. There are quite a few stories on here about call centers and human excrement. When you have to go you have to go. You can't tell an overflowing period to wait until break. If you keep holding in urine, you'll end up with a UTI. If you try to hold in a bowel movement too long, that can cause impaction or explosion. Maybe they need to allow flexibility to meet the employees' basic needs of going to the bathroom as needed.
#18
Midway through an interview, the applicant reached into his briefcase, pulled out a beer, cracked it open, and took a sip. I guess he figured that he was not a good match for this particular job and the interview was over. He then made a bit of small talk and left.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
He was clearly making sure he didn't get the job. You'd never just do that in an interview.
L.A. Trefry 4 years ago
Did he scream and cry and yell "I like beer" in his interview like SCOTUS justice Kavanaugh?
Šimon Špaček 4 years ago
If he would offer another one to the HR guy, he might get the job. Just curious, how often applicants try to "bribe" HR with beer, chocolates, home made cookies,...?
#19
I once had a temp job in HR. I was scanning lots of old personnel files, and the one perk of the job was reading old complaints against people. The best one I came across was a mediation caused by one member of staff accusing another of witchcraft.
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago (edited)
Personnel files and complaints are the best reads. Some of them are so petty and many ridiculous. And I say this as a historian who loves digging through Soviet party records. My favorite this month is a Gulag prosecutor who signed his own arrest warrant in a corruption proceeding ( for stealing goods from Latvian prisoners to resell) either because he was that grossly incompetent or he just signed things without reading them.
Katrina 4 years ago
As an Archivist, I love coming across personnel files :) It doesn't happen too often because of records management but yah sometimes we get them and even better, sometimes we get to keep them!
Load More Replies... Stephanie Cunningham 4 years ago
A former employee in my division filed a complaint against a coworker because he made a joke about beat poetry and she thought he was making fun of her because she used to date a poet.
Hugh Walter 4 years ago
I left a message for the night-shift guy who kept mucking up the running of 'our' machine, that I'd got it running well and if he f88ked it up that night I'd curse him and his children and his children's children for a thousand generations and then one, he (a grown man) bust into tears and ran to the office to demand I was sacked, they told him it might be best to try and keep the machine running smooth, and for a few weeks he did . . . it was a long time ago and I'm not especially proud of it, but witchcraft, or the threat of it, can work!
#20
Worked for a large trucking company. Every employee would get a present on their birthday (in the mail) and their names on the video board (this weeks birthdays are:). A guy called to ask if his name could not be on the board. Reason : his twin brother murdered his parents and he did not want to be reminded of his birthday
Katherine Boag 4 years ago
I mean, fair. Some people do not have happy memories of their birthdays. Also workplaces are weird AF about birthdays.
Yort 4 years ago
My mom always finds workplace birthday things to be SUPER AWKWARD so she prefers coworkers flatout not know when her birthday is.
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Robin Childers 4 years ago
If I were him, I'd ask they use my spouse's b-day or something associated with happy memories.
Calypso poet 4 years ago
My old job was obsessed with birthdays and would send pastry's to your department for every birthday. I was not the manager but tried to be mindful because they would send them on their day off if you didn't contact HR first and my boss and other office lady were worthless. I hate Jehovah Witnesses because they are a cult and f'd up my childhood. But we had an elderly JW who worked part time and they didn't cancel it. They insisted on singing happy birthday no matter what and I remembered being traumatized as a kid in school nit being allowed to celebrate holidays. I was able to quickly pull the card with his name and make everyone sing to me so they would leave him alone. It was so uncomfortable even on your birthday but these guys want their donuts and you can't get them until someone sings🤦🏻♀️ WTF!?
#21
I was interviewing a candidate via Skype, and their connection was not very clear. There was often a little bit of lag in his response, and there was almost no sync between the video and audio. He also thought over each question for some time before answering. I offered to reschedule the call when he had better network connection, but he insisted on finishing the call since he'd taken the day off for the interview. After I asked one of the questions, I told him to take his time and think over the answer. Suddenly, there seemed to be a spike in the internet connection, and I could clearly hear someone sitting behind the laptop, coaching him on what to say
Blaze Fitzwater 4 years ago
I would've asked to speak with the person who's actually answering just to make it even more uncomfortable.
Marnie 4 years ago
Do not allow an interview to continue if this happens. Say you must reschedule to try to get a better connection. At my work, we hired someone who had done this in an interview. Turns out, someone else was moving his mouse during meetings and asking questions to us. The guy didn't know the first thing about computers and could barely speak English. We wasted almost four weeks on that guy.
Pascale Pierloot 4 years ago
I wonder why that never became a thing, haha. Hire 1, get 2 or want someone else's point of vieuw?
Csaba Horvath 4 years ago
And how many times there is happening that a coworker asks about what to say to anyone, about some basic task... how to write a mail, or so... :D
#22
We had a manager who was having an affair. To hide the affair from her husband, she had saved her boyfriend’s phone number in her phone as the name of a male subordinate. Well, one day the husband was looking at her phone and found the text conversation with her boyfriend. He was pissed, and since she had saved the number of the boyfriend under the name of an employee, he came to the office to fight the male employee. Imagine being the male subordinate and getting an ass-kicking over something you have no knowledge of
Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
If I was in this situation, my first thought wouldn't be to go after the other guy, who may not even know the woman is married. The one who betrayed my trust would be the one I'd have words for.
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
A man being assaulted and beaten up is not really a funny thing. Most of you probably don't know it, but men are people too.
Bored Batgirl 4 years ago
WHAAT?! Men are people too?? No!! Thank god you told us otherwise how would we have known that assaulting someone regardless of gender is unacceptable.
Load More Replies... Luka Verheijen 4 years ago
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#23
One of our former VPs was let go due to improper use of a company card. What did she buy? A boob job. You can’t make this s**t up
L.A. Trefry 4 years ago
But I suppose they'd be considered company property, for the company to use at will.
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GirlFriday 4 years ago
We had a sales consultant go to a conference in Las Vegas and hired a car to take him and three of our clients to a brothel outside of the city. He paid for the car, the drinks, the hookers, everything with his company card. All told, he charged $12K to his company card that trip.
Blaze Fitzwater 4 years ago
Maybe she thought it would improve client relations and therefore a real business expense.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Plastic money buys plastic things. And yes, you can make them up.
#24
The new receptionist was coming in every morning and opening up programs/documents to make it look like they were busy, and they'd sit with one hand on their mouse and one hand on their keyboard and stare blankly at their screen for 8 hours a day and not do anything. They'd also consistently pick up the phone and hang it up without saying anything so that it would stop ringing.
I sat in on their termination, and the employee started screaming at the manager about how they were doing an amazing job, and they had to give them another chance... I was 100% confident that they were just trying to get some easy money and wouldn't be surprised that they were finally getting fired, the whole thing was just bizarre.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
I'd prefer to do boring work than sit there with no kind of mental activity all day.
Bored Batgirl 4 years ago
My god how boring would it have been to just sit there and stare at the screen all day?! That would be like pure torture.
SuperChicken 4 years ago (edited)
This was in the 1990s - employees were all in a cubicle at the time. I used to work with someone, who's on their personal calls all day, while snacking/eating and hardly do any of her tasks/jobs. You could hear her *trying* to whisper so softly, while talking on the phone. Whenever our boss would ask her to do something, she would give a loud sigh, like she's buried with work. Until finally it caught on with the upper managers, as she rarely met deadlines and work is hardly ever done. I already left the company, when they finally fired her.
Joy 4 years ago
You never know who's on these sites and I've used my real name, so I can't be too specific. But my colleagues and I work with patients in a very VERY demanding environment - yet during any sports event, s/he'll happily sit watching it on her work monitor. Pissed off doesn't even begin to cover it yet I haven't got it in me to squeal 😣
Load More Replies... Chich 4 years ago
I started a new job and there was this woman who showed up everyday and sat at an empty desk in an empty office. Did nothing, maybe read a bit but you would walk by and she was just sitting there. Lasted a month or two. Finally found out she had been fired and had challenged it. Still remained fired but they had to let her "work" an additional few months due to some bizarre ruling.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
I worked with someone in a customer-facing role who spent literally the whole day on Facebook looking at pictures of her kid, or having her partner come to work with the kid and playing with the kid. This went on for months and months. She actually had the nerve to challenge her dismissal and try to get people to sign a petition in her favour. While she was a nice person, nobody was willing to support her.
Phoebe Bean 4 years ago
One receptionist or two receptionists? (The new receptionist was... they were busy...)
#25
An IT guy who worked the overnight shift (because he was doing support for our Asia/Europe regions) got written up for improper use of company systems. He had dozens if not hundreds of Google image searches related to foot fetish stuff. Like insert celebrity here feet along with other random stuff like “cute toes”, etc
Like dude...YOU’RE IN IT. You KNOW this stuff is tracked and that your boss could easily monitor it.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Oh lord, I remember running through some reports on the computer before a visit from the regional manager and found a stash of kink photos where the reports were filed. Turns out my part-timer had some rather specific interests. I told him that I had found some pictures and deleted them before they had been found by the higher ups, and that in future he should not use company property to pursue his "interests". He was very grateful that I wasn't a complete ass about it. I was grateful that the regional manager didn't find the pictures!
Victoria Pitt 4 years ago
What an idiot... I type as I'm reading and commenting on my computer at work. lol :-/
Pat Bond 4 years ago
This really depends on a few things. When an eymployee starts to miss deadlines or just not doing their job well, their line manager can ask to look at internet history with the permission of the HR & Legal dept usually to find out what's going on. I get the feeling this guy wasn't doing a lot of tasks and this was an excuse to weed him out. The guy works in IT, he would have been called in for a chat, and just as he enters the office, his colleagues would have been instructed to lock his account followed by a change of the admin password and he would never have been allowed back to his desk to clear it.
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
Obviously not a very good IT guy. Arrogant little prig most likely assumed he was the only one who could delve into the system.
#26
I started working in HR-ish functions shortly after college. It took a few years before I got to make hiring decisions, but it happened eventually. The first position I was to fill was an Admin for a client's leadership (middle manager over ~300 people). After interviews we ended up with a super bright and professional lady. Her fake name for this story will be Sarah. Sarah always had the biggest smile, was super positive, and everyone loved having her on the team. Three months later, the client calls me. "painturd, we need to talk about Sarah." "Is everything ok?" "No, it really isn't. Do you have her emergency contact information? You need to get in touch with her mom. She needs to come to the hospital. We are heading there now too." Several hours of juggling calls to family, the General Manager, our parent corporation's Legal and HR teams, and a federal investigative body ensued. Sarah had jumped off a seven-story parking garage, which was on site at the federal facility we were supporting. TL;DR: My first hire killed herself at work, triggering a federal investigation.
Stephanie Hewitt 4 years ago
A lot of times depressed people get really happy towards the end. Becuase they know it's the end.
SuperChicken 4 years ago
This is so tragic. I do hope that "Sarah" is in a better and peaceful place now; and the OP is recovering well from this tragedy.
#27
I was a recruiter, and you would be shocked to see what some people actually have as their personal email. Most people have come around to using just their name, but then every once in a while you'll have to verify that "brownglitter69" is in fact how they would like to be contacted.
Kari Panda 4 years ago
One of our customers has 'spicedonkey'. To this day, I really want to know the story behind this.
A Head 4 years ago
I was a beta tester for gmail, so I have my own name @gmail.com, and so does my wife. One of the first things I did when each of my kids were born, and named, was secure their name on gmail, and a URL that's "their name" .com.
Robert T 4 years ago (edited)
Sometimes email addresses aren't people's own fault. There was reputedly a girl called Mary Elizabeth Cumins, who by virtue of the policy of taking the first 5 letters of the surname and intitals, the email address she got saddled with was "cuminme".
ArmyDog07 4 years ago
The university I went to had an algorithm that wouldn't allow certain derogatory names or words. For example if your name is Richard and you go by D**k, you couldn't use D**k as part of a login.
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 4 years ago (edited)
Yep. My students love crazy emails. I kept getting homework turned in by a Korean person, and I don't have any Korean students, which was confusing. Turns out it was one of my girls and the name was her favorite K-Pop artist. Another favorite of mine was "pizzawithsauce"
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
There was a university contact page for a particular dept and one gal had "getbent" as her email.
Michael King 4 years ago
One day a name change notification came up in my email (I had to deal with employee data). A gentleman had changed his last name to "Golden-D**k" Yes he was legally Mr Golden-D**k
#28
A guy who was so high at the time of his interview that he forgot who he was meeting and why. Our applications say we do not hire violent felons. A guy checked that he was felon. When I asked him about it, he said it was for domestic violence and stalking. I asked him if he read the part about us not hiring violent felons and he just couldn’t connect the dots. It’s got violence in the name of the charge, dude. Literally had a guy complain, “How come we only have overtime when YOU want it?!” “You” meaning the company. That’s how jobs work, man. In casual conversation a guy told me the “hilarious” story about how his girlfriend got an IUD without his permission so he ripped it out by the strings. Had a mom show up on behalf of her son for the interview.
Yoinks! 4 years ago
There needs to be a "hilarious" follow-up in which HE gets something ripped out of his crotch.
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Robin Roper 4 years ago
The problem with "we don't hire felons" is a huge problem. In order to "get tough" on crime, so many charges are now felony level. Once the person has done their time, paid their fines, are trying to do the right thing, they can't find decent housing or get a decent job. This puts them living in crappy housing in crappy neighborhoods around all the other felons who may not be trying to do the right thing. It's a horrible cycle.
Candia Lee 4 years ago
Are you okay with them not hiring *violent* felons?
Load More Replies... GirlFriday 4 years ago
I was scheduled to interview a woman for a job. She showed up and was rather young, may early twenties, and she brought her dad. When I would not let her father sit in on the interview, he got really pissy with me. I liked her, thought she was a good fit, called her the next day, offered the position, good hourly rate, room for advancement and she accepted the position, we agreed on a start date. I hung up with her and her father called me about 10 minutes later wanting to negotiate her salary. I told him that HE wouldn't be working here and there was no room for negotiation with this job. He, once again, got really upset and became abusive with me. My manager called him and he did the same thing to her. We ended up revoking our job offer because of threats the father made against us.
Seanette Blaylock 4 years ago
Frankly, if I were the HR person, I wouldn't have bothered interviewing Daddy's Precious. A parent showing up at the interview would be a HUGE red flag that either the employee is too immature to be employable or the parent is going to be a hugely interfering PITA like this guy.
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Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago (edited)
He ripped the coil out ?! I did not even know it was a possible thing ! I would not call it "hilarious" though.
Kat 4 years ago
I don't think it is possible. No way you can get a grip on the strings without the proper instruments and such
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Susan Williams 4 years ago
This was not a normal man who ripped the IUD out. This man committed a crime. He should have been charged with domestic violence.
Teacher's Resources 4 years ago
“That’s how jobs work, man” is probably the stupidest excuse for making employees do overtime.
MilaFi 4 years ago
I suppose he meant the overtime concept. The overtime comes from the company's needs not the employees need to do overtime for their reasons, like more money.
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Jenni Irving 4 years ago
Contraceptive device that sits in the uterus. Has to be put in by a doctor.
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The HR person from my previous job told me about having to fire an employee who consistently went into the employee fridges and stole the cheese off people's sandwiches. HR had gotten several complaints of food tampering, so they watched the video of the area and finally figured out who the ‘Cheese Bandit’ was
GirlFriday 4 years ago
I worked at a company that had one employee that went into the fridge everyday and picked through other people's lunches and ate what she wanted; took the grapes out of one lunch, a pickle out of another, would unwrap a sandwich and smell it and then put it back. She did this throughout the day, sort of her own "snack buffet". She was completely perplexed when she got fired for food tampering.
Jo Choto 4 years ago
I started a new job in quite a big department and on my tour I noticed in the kitchen that there were sometimes things left on the table to share with colleagues. So one time, I brought in a massive bag of candy and put it in a large bowl, thinking it would be nice for everyone to have a treat for a couple of weeks. I headed back to my desk and then remembered I had wanted to take my chilled water out of the fridge, so literally five minutes later, I'm back in the kitchen and the bowl is completely empty. Turns out there was one employee who thought that anything that was a give away in the kitchen could be taken in its entirety. I made sure to tell lots of people how upset I was that $20 of candy to share had been stolen by someone within minutes of me putting it out. Later that day, about half of it appeared back in the bowl.
Randy Klefbeck 4 years ago
I was told at a bank that I worked at for awhile, that a former employee who was not a low man in the company, used to steal some parts of people's lunches. He never tried to steal $ but just food. He got fired for a completely unrelated reason.
#30
I investigated a performance issue where an older nurse decided to give a wedgie to a younger nurse whose thong was showing. The older nurse had no remorse and justified the action because they thought the thong was inappropriate
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago (edited)
You never touch another employee. Well obviously you do, handshakes, elbow and fist bumps, but not wedgies. Although who knows what guys do.
Michael King 4 years ago
Wait... So you're saying the fight club we run in the "historical files" room isn't okay?
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Unwelcomed Guest 4 years ago
I had an industrial piercing on the top of my ear and every day at hand over I had an older nurse come in and she would grab it and yank it not just gently
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
She probably should have known that sexual assault is rather frowned upon in most countries.
Paula Marowsky 4 years ago
And giving wedgies at your younger colleages is apropiate enough. Does she also do it with patients? Drs? Other staff?
Riley Quinn 4 years ago
So, if old nurse thought young nurse wore inappropriate make-up would she have tried to slap it off her? Mind your own business, old hag.
Barbara Deskins 3 weeks ago
isn't a wedgie putting someones panties up the crack of their b**t? Isn't that the definition of a thong?
#31
It's not super weird but just the idea that this guy thought this would work still confuses me. I worked at a corporate office for a line of dental brands. We had all the upper mgmt of course, then a call center, tech, insurance, and HR on the same floor. It was a pretty cool place tbh. Anyway, I ran background checks on folks as part of my job. We had a 40ish Male come in and apply for insurance dept. We ended up deciding he was worth hiring so we start the paperwork. We get his social, his birthday, etc. Ran the check, came back with his name, clean record, everything seemed fine... but upon our last look through of his background check we notice his birthday is completely different. And not just like a number off or anything but more like a 25 year difference with a completely different month and day. Turns out the dude used his dad's SSN on his app because he had a deeeeeeep history with fraud and the like. Definitely dodged a bullet there.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
So a guy with a history of fraud committed fraud and identity theft on a job application? Sounds like HR needed to make a phone call to the local constabulary. I'm all for giving someone a second chance because we all make mistakes. People should be encouraged to do better for themself and the world. However, the serial offender needs to be reminded of consequences when they do it again before they hurt another person.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
These days the legit fear of him returning with a shoot 'em up attitude is for real.
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Was he someone who has committed fraud, or did he use another account to protect him from frauds?
#32
My dad works in HR. He just told me about a day when they had to layoff about half of the company. It was crazy and there were a whole lot of moving parts that day. Unfortunately, in all the craziness, no one remembered to tell this one new hire that sadly the position he was hired for was no longer affordable. So he came in to the office only to see everyone clearing out their desks and leaving. And then...he got laid off. An hour into his first day.
He said the guy understood, but it was the most horrible he ever felt for someone in his life.
mulk 4 years ago (edited)
In 2020, all the 33 employee of the company I worked for, were layoff. Why? The main investor decided to close the company and get his money back. The reason: he is from arabia, the barrel value fall off, he need some cash. That's all...
Load More Replies... Steve Wilson 4 years ago
In 1973 I worked for a company that made wooden ammo boxes for the army in Independence, Ks. My first shift started at 7AM. At noon the same day the plant shut down for good.
Pheebs 4 years ago
Company I worked for the president would make split second decisions when firing people (thank you right to work state, where they don’t need a reason). Went on vacation for a week and covered your butt enough there weren’t any emergencies you had to sign in and fix? Fired, obviously don’t need you. Company had a bad week so the uppers are assuming the rest of the year will look like this? Let’s shave off 10% of the company. I almost got fired 2 weeks after starting. Only thing that saved me is the person who trained me was lazy af and started blaming her mistakes on me. Plus I had a smart boss who could see the writing on the wall and wanted to keep someone that might be able to shift to another department that had the budget.
#33
A guy pinned a real wasp to his resume to prove he was 'metal'. This was for a software developer job, but most of his resume was about his band.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
You're only real metal if you have at least one thumbtack in your eyeball.
Damon Hill 4 years ago
I read it twice because the first time my brain read it as "mental"
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Victoria Pitt 4 years ago
Just some idiot concerned with his perception of looking like a tough guy that listens to metal instead of ya know, a mature adult who is capable of holding down a job. lol
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
I like Sabaton and Powerwolf, but I would never pin a dead insect on a document.
LivingTheDream 4 years ago
I still have my old vinyl from W.A.S.P and I still would not pin a dead insect to a document.
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#34
Former hiring manager in a small agency, specializing in tech. I was in charge of dealing with designers and visual artists.
Sheer incompetence was pretty much the default: Roughly 80% of the CVs I got were idiots with photoshop who think they are the next Stefan Sagmeister. That was normal.
I was tasked with finding candidates for a senior motion artist position. Pretty cool stuff, but also supposed to be fairly easy: the list of requirements was very clear, and largely technical.
I then received the CV of a potential candidate, lets call them Kevin. It lists relevant positions and education. No list of tools, nor link to showreel, but, I mean, the fact they suck at writing CVs doesn't mean they suck at what they do. Right?
I mail them back asking for one. They reply, asking he doesn't have one.
Allright, then can you send samples of things you made? Doesn't have to be commercial work. Just anything showcasing their abilities.
I get a reply. With files attached.
It's PowerPoint.
With WordArt. And the built-in effects.
Puzzled, I asked Kevin if he sent me wrong contents. Weird accidents happen. It wouldn't be the first.
"I also know Word, if it helps."
Victoria Pitt 4 years ago
Ha ha I'm a graphic designer working professionally for 16 years. I can't tell you how many people I have encountered, either not in the industry at all or sometimes actually IN the industry, who had no idea about the basics of graphic arts. Low res clip art in a ppt would pop up more often than you'd think lol It's alarming. and also, why don't I get paid more? ha ha
Nannerdog 4 years ago
Right!! I've seen graphic design jobs on Indeed that somehow pay LESS than minimum wage, so not cool
Load More Replies... Glirpy 4 years ago (edited)
I’ve been a graphic designer for 25 years. Looked through hundreds and hundreds of job postings over that span. Part of the reason cr@apy people apply for graphic design jobs is because companies don’t write proper ads for the position. Rarely (and I mean extremely rarely) will the person writing the ad be a designer themselves. Nor will they even consult a designer when composing the ad. So, we get lots of stuff like, “You should know Adobe like the back of your hand.” Not Adobe Photoshop, not Adobe software, just Adobe. Then they tack on things like, “You should also be an expert using Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You should know HTML and CSS. JavaScript would be nice, too. You should be able to compile a database. And also be able to create marketing plans for social media.” Seriously. They literally want graphic designers to be able to do everything, and on top of that, it’s for an entry level position that also states, “super-fast turnaround environment with tight deadlines.” People who own companies are INSANE nowadays. What decent graphic designer is going to apply for that job?
Purple Gerbil 4 years ago
Exactly this! I was a graphic designer for 12 years until I couldn’t take it any longer and made a career change
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Cameron Jacobs 4 years ago (edited)
I work in post-production for film & tv; needless to say, hours are long. We had this adorably quirky Japanese kid working for us. Sometimes he'd just fall asleep at the studio, but he'd "confess" to things he'd done overnight via a note on the fridge. To name a few: Drank all the milk (taped money to the fridge to get it replaced), Ate ____ from ____'s desk, sorry ______, Used ____'s wireless headphones, Slept on the couch (not comfortable). Just to name a few. He was so likeable and sweet that no one seemed to mind that he invaded their personal work spaces.
Damon Tripodi 4 years ago
That sounds like a clear misunderstanding of what the position was to me
#35
I work HR for a call center. Entire company has around 500 employees, maybe 250 of them are in the call center. Entry level work, tiny bit more than minimum wage. A girl started her first week doing really well and then week two got really weird. She walked into the CEO's office (on another floor in the building) WHILE HE WAS MEETING WITH SOMEONE, to demand that he buy her a dog because she thought having a companion would improve her work performance. That was the entirety of her rationale.
Edit: Many are asking. No she did not get the dog. I wasn't in the room with the CEO so I don't know exactly how he handled it. He is an exceptionally nice human being so I assume he handled it kindly. Though, I mean it made its way back to HR pretty quick so he definitely told some people about it. My colleague spoke with her about it and was just like, no, thats not a thing wtf. she was fired soon after for unrelated reasons (attendance I believe). Also many are questioning if she had some kind of mental disorder. I have no idea.
Amy Dodds 4 years ago
Hah. Reminds me of when our CEO was coming for a walkabout with the departments heads of IT. Big company, 6000+ employees, so this walkabout so it was a pretty formal affair. At the same time, a couple of us got a phishing email 'from' the CEO. A woman waltzes over to the CEO, no hi or excuse me, and interrogates him going 'so was this you then?` in front of dept heads and over 100 employees.
Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Honestly, some people just cannot grasp how the world of work operates. I had quite an eye opener when I was based in the office of a domiciliary care company (I was training manager) and could over here phone calls about why someone wasn't at work. There are definitely people for whom work is what you turn up to when you don't have anything better to do - but will still pay you your entire wages.
#36
We had a woman who was terrible at her job, always off sick, never met a deadline. Any way protocol was followed. Because some people had given her half decent staff reviews to get rid of her she called in the union to support her. This dragged the process. Then when she got the final papers she sent them back saying she couldn't be fired, she was pregnant. This woman was 54. It turned out she had frozen eggs so she defrosted them etc. The process proving no discrimination then began. Six months go by, she gets served again. We worked at an organisation, big building in manhattan hence terrible beaurocracy. Papers come back, that isn't me you've sent the documents to. Turns out she had provided a false passport when hired, she was actually in her 60s. In the end they gave her early retirement to get it over with
John C 4 years ago
Why can't I get a break like this? Oh, that's right - because I strive to be a contributing member of society and pull at least my own weight. Sigh. My mistake.
Chich 4 years ago
Yes she was shady but when a businesspeople pull tricks similar to this they are defend as being successful and clever.
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Ellie Rosser 4 years ago
So she gave false )possibly even criminal) information on her hiring docs and couldn’t get fired? Company needs to look at it’s HR practices a bit better.
#37
One of my relatives worked in tech support for a really high-profile company in Silicon Valley during the height of the dot com boom. Some guy who desperately wanted to work there was emailing his resume to HR one thousand times every day. Several times a day, the number of emails would get too overwhelming. So the people in HR would just select all the emails in the inbox and delete all of them, whether the emails were from the applicant or not. My relative had to show them how to filter emails from the applicant.
Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
It always surprised me when someone would be shocked at something I took for granted, like sorting by column in Windows Explorer. But then again, most of the helpful tricks I ran across accidentally.
Lauren Reder 4 years ago
IT or the individuals involved should have simply created a rule to auto route his emails away from anyone's inbox.Disappointing a .com didn't think of that.
#38
Years ago I worked HR for a retail store. A manager would always clock out on time however the alarm wouldn't be set until about 30-45 min after he clocked out. Since we had a lot of trouble with internal theft we assumed he was stealing. Loss prevention approved the installation of cameras across all stores but we were told not to talk about it to see if we could catch any internal theft. The way the ceiling was set up,the cameras weren't too obvious but if you knew what to look for it was quite noticeable. Anyway turned out this dude was banging a co worker who was 16 (he was 25 expecting his first child with his wife). I didn't see the footage but our regional manager of loss prevention did and had to turn it over the the police. The real kicker is the girls dad was a captain on said police force. Edit: I'm not sure what happened to the guy unfortunately I didn't sit in when LP interviewed him. According to my District Manager the authorities were notified but I'm not sure if he was arrested after the interview was finished. We weren't allowed to discuss what happened but word got around. This was in Texas and the age of consent is 17, and the female had just turned 16 a few months prior. As for her she officially "resigned" and last I heard she became a nurse
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
You can be sure he got arrested and has now his name in the sex offender register. And I'm sure that he moved to another state because his life was hell in his home town.
over it already 4 years ago
Too much faith in "the system," unfortunately, especially here in the US & doubly so for Texas. I don't live in Texas, but would in no way be surprised if the man in this story was not punished harshly at all.
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 4 years ago
“The female“ - is this talking about people or insects on a nature documentary?
Stacy Beare 4 years ago
Why did she have to "officially resign"? She didn't do anything wrong...she was groomed and preyed on by a man in a higher position and much older than her!
Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
Not saying what the dude do wasn't wrong in the highest degree, but was she groomed and preyed upon? We dont know. She may have come on to him and knew exactly what she wanted. The guy was wrong because 1) he was shtooping someone that was underage, 2)he was diping his pen in the company inkwell and this one is for both 3) I would bet theres something in the employee rulebook that states no shtooping on company grounds.
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#39
Not weird as much as kind of funny (and inappropriate). Was working in HR at a call center in the early 2000s. Got a visit from the IT guys one day letting me know that a guy in Quality Control had been visiting adult sites on his work computer. They gave me the report and I set up a meeting with him. "So John...you've been visiting adult websites on the job." "Well, you know how we do a lot of research...and...sometimes you just accidentally land one. It happens." "John, you visited one particular site 27 times." "Um....should I grab my things?" "Yup."
Chich 4 years ago (edited)
We had someone using other people's computers to view porn sites. Finally was caught and it was this super religious guy. Got nicknamed "The porn again christian"
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
I worked in a Baptist, level 3-5, lockdown treatment facility for girls 13-18yrs old and at night there were only two of us on shift. I returned from vacation to learn that one of the men who I'd worked with several nights a week in the past but currently was only 1 night a week was looking at porn the biggest portion of the night. IT had been down to check some things out and discovered two male staff members surfing porn. Mr. Dave was terminated immediately 😳, so was the other guy, I didn't have as much contact with him,but wow the girls we cared for had enough to deal with without someone like that around. Unfortunately he wasn't the worst guy that worked with the girls 😕
Load More Replies... Pheebs 4 years ago
Lol. Had one guy repeatedly get in trouble for setting his desktop bg to scantily clad women - just shy of nudity, so no actual write up. He also used to harass anyone who so much as got a sniffle, accusing them of trying to give him pneumonia. Dude, we’re not taking a week off of work because of allergies. He finally got let go when a IT was doing a server usage audit to see where processes were sucking up resources, which included employee PCs as w had to run a lot of things. Discovered he’d been downloading new release movies from torrents on to his work computer and watching movies all day - doing just enough work to look “busy”.
Lily Mae Kitty 4 years ago
a guy at my sister's old job got caught(a bank officer.) He had his office set up in such a way that no one could see his screen. When he was caught, they also realized he had beer in his office fridge.
#40
Not HR but have been on teams to interview and have input on possible hires. One standard question: "What would you do if your were having problems with a coworker?" Answer's can include: "I would try and work it out" or "I would take it to a manager" etc. His answer: "I'd take him out back and beat the s**t out of him." He was surprised when he didn't get the job.
Damon Hill 4 years ago
And if he in turns gets the crap beat out of him instead because he picked a fight with someone who knows how to defend themselves?
#41
I’m not in HR but my sister-in-law used to be one for a large Canadian tech firm. An executive at the company got very drunk at a conference in Vegas and the company got a call from the hotel saying they’d have to pay for outside contractors. He had rubbed his poop all over the walls of his hotel room and the hotel cleaning staff refused to deal with it.
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
Hats off to the cleaning staff for refusing and for the hotel who didn't force their employees to do a disgusting job.
Dorothy Parker 4 years ago
Feces are a hazardous material, exposing others to e coli bacteria, among other things.
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WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
They never got out of that fase when they were obsessed with poop as a toddler.
Load More Replies... Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
Situations such as this should be classified as hazardous waste, seriously.
#42
A guy came in dressed as a clown to drop off his résumé. He was carrying a large rubber fish.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
But clowns are sweet, dedicated people, who derive satisfaction from bringing joy to others. Nothing at all like politicians.
Load More Replies... Kari Panda 4 years ago
I think that alone is not a reason not to hire him. He only dropped off his resumee, he didn‘t show up for an actual job interview like that. And for all we know, he could have just come from a hospital where he was playing a clown to cheer up the children.
#43
I was a trainer and recruiter at a call center of about 150 employees for a few years. It was in a low-income city so we saw a lot of crazy s**t. a woman who showed up for her first day in a white T-shirt and a pink bra that we could see through her shirt and flipped out when we talked to her about it. A manager who would hit on every female employee under the age of 25. They all either quit or got into it and he ended up having multiple side chicks. His main girlfriend got promoted from his team into the payroll department because the company didn't want to address it or change their policy which didn't address office relationships. He was well into to his mid-forties. My coworker, a male in his late forties who texted candidates after their interviews saying he would get them the job if they went out with him. Mind you this was for $10 an hour s**tty job but these girls were desperate. He ended up making so many women uncomfortable that a few that we hired ended up coming forward and the company actually fired him. a weird employee who used to scratch his head so often that there would be flakes of skin all over his workstation and all of his co-workers that sat around him complained to me and I had to address it. Turns out it was a compulsion and he couldn't stop. (Edit: the part that bothered everyone about him the most was that he would scrape the dead skin flakes into piles and leave them on his desk. His black keyboard was almost white. He never put the piles on the floor or in the trash can that every employee was issued at their cubicle. You could literally see a white haze above his cubicle. Other people were freaking out because it was getting on their desks.) An employee who had diabetes and who used to have medical emergencies in the middle of work. He would keep six cans of mountain dew on his desk to drink throughout his shift. We couldn't tell him to stop doing that even though it was obvious that he was creating his own health issues. An employee who claimed to be friends with cardi B before she moved to our area from New York City. This girl told me that she and her ex-boyfriend had worked at a call center and had taken credit card info from hundreds of people and made good money doing it. Obviously we fired her and she was shocked. She was still in training when she told me this. I was a f**king HR member and training her and she said this in front of four other employees in training. Like seriously dumbass? in that same training class I had an employee who had a stroke in the middle of our 4-week training course. my boss told me to fire him and let him reapply when he was able to speak again. I refused. we had to make reasonable accommodations for him and we actually had clerical positions that required no speaking but she wouldn't give one to him. That was the last straw and I left the company. And then of course dozens of employees who didn't know how to use a computer, who didn't know how to right click, who used the caps lock key to type capital letters at the beginning of sentences...
Missy Moo Moo 4 years ago
Love the way the employer protects this man over and over... this is what's wrong with the world
Chich 4 years ago
I think too many employers just turn a blind eye and hope it goes away, They have to be facing a lawsuit before they'll do anything. Don't know why. It is much easier to just deal with it, unless of course it's your nephew Kevin from your crazy sister.
Load More Replies... M O'Connell 4 years ago
I've dealt with a few of that last group of people. The caps lock thing comes from lots of experience with manual typewriters. The shift key locks when pressed all the way down and unlocks when pressed a second time. Heavy typers probably just locked shift every time and couldn't get out of the habit on a light-touch keyboard.
Damon Hill 4 years ago
The saddest thing is, most businesses lose good workers over issues with bad workers because the employer won't take action against the problem. And if you think corporate is going to ask why sales suddenly took a major dive in a single store, think again. The bigger the company the less they care about individual store performance and they couldn't care less about the employees themselves.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
Why did people downvote me for saying it was out of order to criticise the woman whose bra you could see through her t-shirt? I suppose you also think that all females should dress so that men won't be distracted by them. If so, then never express your opinions again please.
Kharyss 4 years ago
Are you serious? Most companies have a dress code, whether official or unofficial. Visible underwear tends to fall in the category of unacceptable work wear, unless you work as a stripper!
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I worked as an intern in HR, and we found out that a president of a small bank had been stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars and making fake 'loans' to clients. It only came to light after his wife and kids ordered Frozen on demand (charged to the bank) so many times that it flagged in the system as potential fraud. That's when we found the actual fraud
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
How many showings of "Frozen" does it take before it gets flagged as fraud? 2? 20? 200? I know a particular young woman who watched it back to back every day for what seemed an eternity. I have personally purchased at least 15 different versions (VHS, DVD, extended cut, box set, etc) of a certain documentary about a farm boy in a galaxy far, far, away.
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
On the commentary for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Stanley Donen (the director) mentions that he heard that there was a guy who watched the movie every day after he got home from work. Every day. LOL. I guess he was just a lonesome polecat.
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Sa Ruuu 4 years ago
Ffs how many times do you need to order Frozen on demand before you just buy the damn movie??
Cold Contagious 4 years ago
Exactly 💯, especially since he was taking cash also...
Load More Replies... Damon Hill 4 years ago
There is in fact one position in some banks, not all, where a person can embezzle and not get caught. I obviously can't give the specifics.
#45
I work for a software development consulting company where we go onto client sites and help them develop custom software. One dude, super nice, 7ish years of experience. Goes onto his first client with the company and all is good for about three weeks. Until the following happened in increased escalation every couple of days: I don't think the manager likes me The manager is badmouthing me to others The manager isn't copying me in meetings, so I don't know they're happening and miss them The manager is taking away my completed tasks from the board, so i don't look like I am being productive. The manager is logging on to my computer remotely and reading my personal emails the manager is changing my (consulting company, not client) timecards - which the manager has absolutely no access to. Essentially it turned out that he had mental health challenges and thought the manager was sabotaging his every move on the client site. Te paranoia just kept going. Unfortunately he got kind of belligerent at the end. I hope he got the help he needed, but it was super uncomfortable. How do you tell someone that their perception isn't reality?
Joel Hopkins 4 years ago
I 100% believe it was true. Gaslighting/weasely managers say one thing to employees and a totally different story to execs and HR all the time.
Load More Replies... Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
This is sad. Someone shouldn't lose their job due to illness, physical or mental, but its common. Too bad we live in a world where its acceptable for the weakest to be discarded.
Daphne Williams 4 years ago
No, actually, they should lose their job if they're unable to do it. What you're suggesting is actually sort of insane. What SHOULD happen is that every first-world country should have a strong enough social safety net to ensure that people who are mentally or physically ill can get the best treatment while not HAVING to work.
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We have two people with the exact same name, but in different departments. This still causes confusion sometimes, but the most awkward time was last year at the Christmas party. We have this annual 'employee of the year' award, and the name was announced before mentioning the department or other info, although I warned the MC not to do that! Let's just say the wrong one got the most excited until he realized it wasn't him
Damon Hill 4 years ago
I would think the lead up to the award stating what they had done to earn it would be indication enough for anyone to know exactly who they were talking about. Pretty hard for 2 different departments to have a job so similar that the reason for the award could be misconstrued.
velocirrober 4 years ago
Once, at a Christmas party, they were handing door prizes. I heard my name and went to the stage, only to be told I wasn't called. 😳
#47
Tech company, Guy harassed a customer at our own company's product showcase/conference. Customer complained and it went directly to the CEO. Guy was fired the next day. His boss tried to argue it wasn't that big of deal and we shouldn't fire him and tried to leverage himself. "If he goes then I'll go." Spoiler, they both went.
Damon Hill 4 years ago
I've seen people say "if they go, I go" but I've never seen one follow through with it. When it comes to that point, you know real quick who has your back and who's blowing smoke up your a$$.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
I'd like to know what the guy did. The complainer obviously had the "I know the CEO card" which can make minor requests ('He insisted I show my badge to get in - he should have known who I was') into major transgressions. If that's the case, I admire the manager for standing up for his team. If the guy did something much worse (catcalled them or attempted to grab), good riddance to both.
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This was in the early 2000s, when people still sent paper applications - I worked for a gaming company, so we got a fair amount of unsolicited applications, usually young people trying to break into the industry. But this application letter was extra-special. It started with
"I am in the center of an international conspiracy."
Followed by two tightly printed A4 pages of the freakiest s**t imaginable - researcher, on to something, hunted by dark forces, agent of other unseen forces he fell out of favor with, and a few weird political tangents. Wanted a job with us because "he needed to lay low for a while before he could get out of the country".
We were suitably freaked out by the mere fact that he had our office address, chose not to reply and forwarded the whole thing to corporate HR.
M O'Connell 4 years ago
If you worked for a game development firm, that might not have been a terrible hire. Creative people are often 'extremely creative.'
Cathy 4 years ago
my thoughts exactly and was probably the applicant's intention?
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Hi. I'm not in HR but my mom has been for quite a while. A few years ago when my mom worked at an automotive plant, my mom had an issue with an employee who would clock in on time and then dissapear. She asked another of the floor employees if they had seen him and was told "he's in the parking lot." So, my mom and one of her co-workers went out to the parking lot and found the employee asleep in his car. Apparently, he'd been clocking in and immediately going out to his car for another hour or so of sleep for two weeks (I can't remember why it took this long for HR to find out). He didn't see a problem with it if he was clocked in and still on company grounds. Needless to say, they fired him but I'm sure he was fine with it since he could catch up on sleep now that he didn't have a pesky job getting in the way.
Natalie 4 years ago
I used to work a technical role that required some night shifts once; we'd be paired on site for the night shift, one engineer and one customer services person. One time I got called in the middle of the night by one of the customer services staff, a woman I was friendly with who was upset and apologetic but didn't know what else to do but call me as the boss wasn't picking up. The engineer who was supposed to be on shift with her had turned up, logged in then disappeared. It had been 5 hours, multiple customers had issues that needed an engineer and were screaming at her etc. I came in and got everything sorted, went home and according to my friend the engineer on shift eventually reappeared looking bleary eyed. He'd gone off and found a quiet spot out of the way and gone to sleep for almost his entire 12 hour shift. HE DID NOT GET FIRED. What the actual...
Damon Hill 4 years ago (edited)
Worked with a guy in the 90's that told about a guy he'd worked with which was in maintenance and he'd get a lift, go up, lock it out and lay on top of some machinery or ductwork and nap. No one could see him from the floor. One day a supervisor climbed the framework of the lift and found him. A few years ago a worker at a nearby industry laid down behind bin to nap while part of the plant was shut down for something. Problem is other things continued including the forklift operator moving other bins and when he shoved a loaded one against the one the guy was behind, it crushed the napper. He was one of 3 people that died within 10 days at that plant, the others were pulled into machinery.
#50
I no longer work in HR or at this company, but it's my favorite story from my time there. Our benefits team made the decision to eliminate reserved parking as lots of employees were frustrated when they walked past dozens of empty spots in the reserved lots every day. This new policy applied to all of the company's locations. Of course, the benefits manager received hundreds of complaints in the first few days from people insisting they needed an exception for their own personal spot. The best reason by far was from one person who "needed a spot close to the door because they were terrified of bobcats". No other context. We didn't have bobcats near the corporate office so at first we thought they meant construction equipment? Turns out there actually were sightings of bobcats, like the animal, near this person's location. Last I heard they were told to arrive earlier to get a closer spot and didn't get an exception.
Damon Hill 4 years ago
There are bobcats (amongst other predatory animals) in my area and I've never encountered any that had any interest in being anywhere near humans. In fact most run if they even see you looking from inside a building.
#51
My wife works in HR. She had to question a high ranking employee about an incident where a lower ranking employee - who was being talked to about her inappropriate wardrobe choices which clearly violated company policy - decided in an act of protest to take out her (quite large) left breast and smack it down on the table and ask him in her thick New England accent “is this too much cleavage for you?”
#52
I was doing a Skype interview with a guy when I noticed he kept looking to the side of his room. When I asked him if he was alright, a bat flew in front of the camera. He immediately grabbed a broom and chased it around the room, whacking at it until he hit it. Then, we finished the interview."
Ty Stratton-Quirk 4 years ago
Because it would clearly be too difficult to open a door or a window. A*****e...
Tom Harper 4 years ago
You ever try herding a wild animal out of a portal? They're almost painfully contrarian about it.
Load More Replies... Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Murdering an animal is not really something you should do during an interview.
#53
Finally: "I worked as an intern in HR while I was attending college, and I remember one guy we interviewed had created his résumé on Google Docs. He had named the file 'f**king résumé,' which was prominently displayed in the top corner of the paper
#54
I work at my family's business in the industrial sector, and HR is one of the hats I wear. 2018 was insanely busy for us, so we had to hire a staffing agency to get some General Labor guys in. It's a simple wax-on, wax-off kind of job. The most memorable part of that hectic summer was one temp that the agency sent over for 3rd shift (Midnight-8AM). We will call him Bobby for this story. Bobby shows up wearing nothing but a pair of cargo shorts, so we had to provide pants, shirt, and steel toes. Come break time at 4, he decided to go out to the parking lot and scale the building (about 30 feet, probably climbed a tree or something), had a smoke and managed to turn the security camera away from the parking lot. Bobby then walked away from the job and went home in the uniform and boots we provided for him. We assumed he wanted to break into some of the cars, but nothing was gone. Ended up costing probably $300 for training, uniform and just wasting our time. TL;DR temp employee scaled the 30 ft building and played with the security cameras on his first day.
De Gueb 4 years ago
In a club I worked at in the 80s in Spain it was normal to have casual hires, money in pocket workers. One day a girl comes looking for work and to of the regular staff hadn’t turned up, so we put her in behind the bar with of our best waitresses, call her Vicky, to show her the ropes before it got busy. We had anticipated a slow weekday evening but thinks started to pick up we had to call in staff from other venues we had. Vicky told me the new girl was doing ok and was experienced so we open an extra bar an put here there. We kept an eye on her and she was doing great, turned out to be a great night. When we closed, I asked the floor manager to go and help her with counting the money etc. He calls me back on the walkie, no girl at the bar. She’d walked out and taken all the takings from the till with her. Never saw her again, could even remember her name.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
I've watched too many heist movies where someone goes in undercover as the janitor or temp office clerk just to deactivate the security system then disappear. Forget the parking lot - check to see if someone stole the prototype EMP generator so they can rob the Vegas casinos.
Seanette Blaylock 4 years ago
Hopefully it was also his last day and the temp agency was advised of his behavior.
#55
I worked in HR and had to do investigations. Someone took a dump in someone else's lunch bag. The owner of the rather large and slightly green turd is still at large. Can't make this stuff up.
#56
Cemetery keeper admits he buries animals that die in the cemetery in occupied graves. Police wont investigate as unlikely to be able to convict. Employer won't tackle as he is old and litigious. So someone's nanna is currently bunk bedding with a muntjac and apparently that's OK
Miz Melatonin 4 years ago
Yeah, they will have a friend forever with them and arent alone.
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over it already 4 years ago
I was today years old when I learned what a muntjac is. They're cute! (But their sound is a bit terrifying.)
Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
Aww i wouldnt mind sharing my grave with bunnies and deers 🥺
#57
We had a stair pooper. For years, someone would poop in one of the many stairwells in the giant distribution center every few months. We tried to set up cameras to catch said pooper, but to no avail. We haven't seen a poop for over a year, but are confident the stair pooper is still out there
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago (edited)
A New Jersey HS had a problem with a serial pooper repeatedly decorating their track, sometimes daily. It took them a year to catch the perpetrator - the school district superintendent. He then tried to sue the police for taking his mugshot because he had not given permission to have his picture taken. Both of these are more ridiculous because 1)he was caught with the cameras he had the school board buy and install on campus and 2)made it a detention/suspension offense for students to attempt to hide their identity in front of the cameras. (Thomas Tramaglini is his name if you want to google).
#58
I'm not in HR, but I have a weird HR related story involving this 6 pairs of brand new Levi's jeans I have. My best friend works for this pretty big company and one day he gets approached by one of his bosses, who is in his late 40s. He asks my friend where he got his jeans because he liked then a lot and my friend tells him that they are just Levi's he got at the store in Wicker Park here in Chicago. He says cool and then my friend doesn't think about it. That weekend he actually ends up at the Levi's store looking for a denim jacket. He spots his superior there shopping and they say hi. He told him that he came down to check out the jeans because he liked my friend's so much. They chat a little and my friend introduced his girlfriend and then they left the store leaving his boss to shop. That Monday his boss approaches him and hands him a bag full of jeans. He bought a bunch of them at the Levi's store for my friend when he was there and wanted to give them to him. Keep in mind this is at the store itself so these jeans are full price of about $60 each. My friend said he couldn't accept but he insisted, so he reluctantly took them. He gets back to desk and his coworker sees the jeans and asks what was the deal. He tells him about what happened, not saying who it was, and his coworker was like, "Was it_____?" My friend confirmed and his coworker said, "Oh yeah HR has a whole file on him. He's done this before with other guys. He bought me a bunch of jerseys last year." So apparently this guy liked to buy gifts for his coworkers, all male and made most of them feel uncomfortable enough they went to HR about it, but he was big enough in the company and he never really did anything totally inappropriate, so nothing was ever done about it. My friend didn't know what to do with the jeans, because he didn't feel okay with wearing them himself, plus only a couple of them sorta fit him, so I said I would take them. As you can see they are various sizes because the guy wasn't sure his exact size and just guessed around, but hey they were free for me.
Damon Hill 4 years ago
That'd be interesting for me. Most of the clothes I wear are long out of production. I find something I like on sale, I buy plenty.
#59
I had two employees at the manufacturing site that I support that didn't get along. Nothing much ever came of it until one of the employees put in his two week notice.
On this second to last day of employment, he brought a garbage bag FULL of dog poop with him to work and dumped it on his coworkers car. I'm not sure where he got it from - he either collected it from his dogs for months, or he went to a dog park and just picked all of it up. The amount of dog poop covered the car from the front bumper to the rear window. The only part that wasn't covered was the trunk.
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
But surely it's just as gross to have to pick up and bag and transport and dump all that s**t? The lengths people will go to to get 'revenge', c'est incroyable 🤦♀️
Ryan Deschanel 4 years ago
Sometimes, it is the only way to find peace and just go forward.
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I had to fire two employees for having sex on the roof of the warehouse. They were married, but not to each other.
Tiny Dynamine 4 years ago
They were just following the rules then. If you're having an affair, you can only shag on the roof. Surely everyone knows that.
#61
I was supposed to conduct an interview with an applicant, so I sent them a text two hours prior as a reminder. This applicant came 30 minutes past his interview slot, and in that 30 minutes, I called and texted him to check his ETA, and all he said was that he was on the way. At the 30-minute mark, I called him again while standing outside of the office building. Well, there he was — smoking a cigarette. He turned to me, gestured at his cigarette, scowled at me, and gestured for me to wait. He didn’t get the job, and when we sent him the rejection email, he got upset and sent me a rude email and then proceeded to block my number
#62
Not on HR but a guy that was aiming to get hired in the department that I work in sent his curriculum and the photo that he attached was of him chugging a Tonaya ( the most cheap drink you can find and is super trashy if you drink it too much you will go blind) and without a t shirt on.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 4 years ago
Depends on the department you work in. If you work for Budweiser and your department is the one providing the party guys/girls for CInco de Mayo events at bars - hire him! If he's applying for accountancy at the same company, maybe its not a good sign of job skills.
#63
I received a résumé covered in blood. The applicant attached a handwritten note to the résumé explaining that their printer had run out of ink, so they couldn't reprint.
#64
One of the dumbest things, an employee that worked night audit at a hotel parked his car at the entrance and would occasional go out there to drink a bottle of vodka in full view of the cameras. He didn't even sit in his car to drink! Just grabbed the bottle out of the car each time and drank in the open. Seriously, he could have put it in a water bottle and drank at the desk and would have not been caught as soon as he was. If at all!
#65
Overnight IT guy started working pantsless. He was the only person in the building, but it still didn't fly. After being warned, he did another shift in his boxers and hit canned.
What do you think ?
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
The number of adults doing inappropriate and unhygienic things with poop is astounding.
Betty&Doe pattison 4 years ago
Not HR, but when I worked for a global retailer, we had a shipper/reciever who was really charming, very fun to work with and also had a personal life that was very unstable. She was nice, but had a ton of drama at home due to drugs and alcohol. She had kids, and had a hard time making ends meet between substance abuse and minimum wage. Anyway, she was evicted from her home, and decided to move. She simply packed up and moved to a whole new city, hundreds of miles away. She needed work so she walked into the global retailers location in her new city, and asked the manager when she could start. The Manager was confused. She asked if they had received her transfer papers from the previous location, and was told no. She insisted she had transferred and the papers should be there. Her people skills were so good that she actually got a job there...and there were no transfer papers. She had simply abandoned her job, moved and talked her way into a position. HR nightmare.
Cami Brown 4 years ago
Went to a company Christmas party once and saw a passing acquaintance very drunk and crying at a table. Turned out she had loved the stuffed mushrooms and eaten several before she realized they had chicken in them. She was a vegetarian.
Glirpy 4 years ago
HR departments are typically a bunch of BS. They are supposed to be in place to assist the employees of the company when they have issues. However, in my experience, they are really there to protect the company and it’s higher-ups. It’s particularly bad in the video game industry. If someone complains about a higher up they end up getting fired instead of HR performing their actual job and doing something that benefits the employee.
Daphne Williams 4 years ago (edited)
It is mindblowing to me how much power people think HR has. Guess what - HR is being paid by the exact same people you are. If a higher-up wants you gone, there is absolutely nothing HR can do about it. HR exists in an advisory role - that's it. HR's job is to make sure their company doesn't violate state and federal labor laws and to catch personnel problems that could effect performance or morale, but if the people who give them their paychecks disagree that a higher up is a problem, there is no way for HR to do what you evidentially think is their "actual job." They are not gods. They are not CEOs. They are not cops. They are being paid by the same people you are. That's it.
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Mina 4 years ago
I once supervised a lady receptionist who was late to work every single day, demanded to take an hour break for lunch plus two 1/2 hour breaks just like everyone else, and she wanted to be able to go socialize with other employees. Except she was hired to work pary-time, which meant she spent very little actual time at her reception post and didn't understand what the big deal was!
Lovin' Life 4 years ago
We had a guy that would call out of work because he was drunk or high. Didnt take long before he was fired.
ben woskje 4 years ago
Everywhere i'd worked, as an IT guy through to manager to architect and board member - HR was always seen as "the" problem, rather than solving problems... then i did an MBA, expecting a different point of view.... nope - HR was still seen as the cause of way more issues than it solved. Remember, HR is there to protect the company - not the employees - sure, sometimes the goals coincide - but not often.
John Baker 4 years ago
I can't be the only one who isn't buying some of these stories. D**k tag? Really?
Evil Little Thing 4 years ago
The number of adults doing inappropriate and unhygienic things with poop is astounding.
Betty&Doe pattison 4 years ago
Not HR, but when I worked for a global retailer, we had a shipper/reciever who was really charming, very fun to work with and also had a personal life that was very unstable. She was nice, but had a ton of drama at home due to drugs and alcohol. She had kids, and had a hard time making ends meet between substance abuse and minimum wage. Anyway, she was evicted from her home, and decided to move. She simply packed up and moved to a whole new city, hundreds of miles away. She needed work so she walked into the global retailers location in her new city, and asked the manager when she could start. The Manager was confused. She asked if they had received her transfer papers from the previous location, and was told no. She insisted she had transferred and the papers should be there. Her people skills were so good that she actually got a job there...and there were no transfer papers. She had simply abandoned her job, moved and talked her way into a position. HR nightmare.
Cami Brown 4 years ago
Went to a company Christmas party once and saw a passing acquaintance very drunk and crying at a table. Turned out she had loved the stuffed mushrooms and eaten several before she realized they had chicken in them. She was a vegetarian.
Glirpy 4 years ago
HR departments are typically a bunch of BS. They are supposed to be in place to assist the employees of the company when they have issues. However, in my experience, they are really there to protect the company and it’s higher-ups. It’s particularly bad in the video game industry. If someone complains about a higher up they end up getting fired instead of HR performing their actual job and doing something that benefits the employee.
Daphne Williams 4 years ago (edited)
It is mindblowing to me how much power people think HR has. Guess what - HR is being paid by the exact same people you are. If a higher-up wants you gone, there is absolutely nothing HR can do about it. HR exists in an advisory role - that's it. HR's job is to make sure their company doesn't violate state and federal labor laws and to catch personnel problems that could effect performance or morale, but if the people who give them their paychecks disagree that a higher up is a problem, there is no way for HR to do what you evidentially think is their "actual job." They are not gods. They are not CEOs. They are not cops. They are being paid by the same people you are. That's it.
Load More Replies... Mina 4 years ago
I once supervised a lady receptionist who was late to work every single day, demanded to take an hour break for lunch plus two 1/2 hour breaks just like everyone else, and she wanted to be able to go socialize with other employees. Except she was hired to work pary-time, which meant she spent very little actual time at her reception post and didn't understand what the big deal was!
Lovin' Life 4 years ago
We had a guy that would call out of work because he was drunk or high. Didnt take long before he was fired.
ben woskje 4 years ago
Everywhere i'd worked, as an IT guy through to manager to architect and board member - HR was always seen as "the" problem, rather than solving problems... then i did an MBA, expecting a different point of view.... nope - HR was still seen as the cause of way more issues than it solved. Remember, HR is there to protect the company - not the employees - sure, sometimes the goals coincide - but not often.
John Baker 4 years ago
I can't be the only one who isn't buying some of these stories. D**k tag? Really?
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