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Most workplaces have a number of guidelines for what is and isn’t appropriate at work. However, humans being humans, folks find all sorts of ways to do truly disgusting things in the workplace. Normally, this is where the beleaguered folks at HR have to step in.
Someone asked “Human Resources people, what are some NSFW complaints you've had to investigate about your workers?” and netizens shared their horror stories. From inappropriate use of office equipment to outlandish and bizarre behavior, get comfortable as you read through, upvote the most shocking examples and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences below.
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#1
Not HR, but I was a manager of a retail store so I did a lot of HR related stuff.
Most of my employees were women; most of my customers were women. The women's bathroom got 90% of the attention, but that said, the men's room was a bad time with the rare man that came in.
Day comes, we get a complaint about the smell coming from the bathrooms. I'm a big guy, and my main rule was that I wouldn't ask my employees to so things I wouldn't do because I made much more than they did, so I put on the latex gloves and marched back to the men's room.
It was fine. Completely fine. Well, a scrap or two or toilet paper but fine.
I open the women's room door and I am struck by the stench of rot. It basically knocks me off my feet. I open the door all the way..
The ceiling, floor, and every wall is covered in s**t. Finger marks in it so it was *painted.* I take a minute to be shocked, close the door, tape it off, tell my boss I'm calling a clean up crew. He says no, I can clean it. I tell him he can get bent, if he'd seen what I'd seen, he would know better. He says okay.
10 days or so later, it happens again. And at that point, the only women in the store had been my employees. It was essentially an open and shut case--one is a barely functional germophobe, and the other had washed her hands at least 5 times, smelled like death, and wouldn't make eye contact with me.
"Maria, what the f**k are you doing?"
"Sometimes I smoke a little somethin' and then I hear the bugs in the toilet. I just have to fish them out before they drown."
"Uh huh. So I'm gonna go find a pen that I don't want anymore, you can keep it after you touch it, and just write down everything you just told me and how many times you've done that. That way I can figure out what to do from here."
While she did that, I called my boss.
"Hey, so there's a problem with Maria."
"When there's an employee, there's no problems, just opportunities."
"Great, so Maria has an opportunity with doing d***s then smearing s**t on the walls because she hears bugs in the toilet."
Obviously she got fired, but I kept her on staff long enough to get her into rehab.
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
The real question is, how do you solve an opportunity like Maria
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
My brother lasted 6 months with ServPro, he literally did see some s**t. Lot of other things to. (ServPro is a company in the US that cleans up very very nasty things)
KillerKiwi 1 year ago
Tbf he did come back to life, so was it really that much of a sacrifice
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#2
Not HR, but I had to report a guy to HR.
He (a full grown adult man) would PRETEND to wash his hands.
If he assumed nobody was in the bathroom, he would walk in, turn the faucet on, go to the urinal as it ran, walk back to turn it off, grab a dry towel, wipe his hands with a dry paper towel, then leave.
Now, some people may think that I shouldn't care. However, this guy's job was to touch/package hundreds of pieces of medical devices going to compromised individuals.
I left the job shortly after that, but old work friends said he got fired for a pile of other things, but the not washing hands was directly mentioned and supported by others who reported him as well.
Enuya 1 year ago
Just...why? What was he thinking? WAS he thinking? I just don't get the mental gymnastic behind his behaviour
MadRatter 1 year ago
Probably of the mindset " wAshiNg haNdS is foR pUssiEs." 🙄
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PeTeH 1 year ago
Sounds like the covid times, when people were asked to wear masks and use hand sanitizer, people who didn't want to make any effort to prevent contagions started to resent every common method of hygiene because it's just another form of suppression from the government. Replaced common sense with conspiracy c**p...
DC 1 year ago
... in an office environment, this is gross. Anywhere near food, medicine and anything related, it's attempted murder, at least a level of carelessness that doesn't JUST happen, but has to be decided to LET happen, and that's ... I gross myself out when I can't wash my hands, with a lot of triggers, of which all make somewhat sense, and most are just common sense anyway (... slight disorder regarding clean hands ... always surgery-fit clean, they are).
rmandevi831 1 year ago
90% of questions of the line "what was (x) thinking" can be improved by removing the word "what".
Gobi Todic 1 year ago
Probably some kind of water phobia. in any case, a mental disorder and not normal. He should see a psychologist, but his level of suffering probably is not high enough.
#3
Around the year 2008, our IT director came into my office and wanted me to see something that he had discovered in our internet surveillance software. A guy in accounting had installed a program on his computer to make it appear that he was on yahoo while he was actually surfing p**n. There were 1000’s of images saved in a hidden folder on his computer. It was an open and shut investigation. Also explains why he took such long bathroom breaks. The dude just about passed out when we confronted him. As I was walking him out of the building, he asked if I was going to tell his fiance. Uh no way dude, but I will share it on Reddit in 2024.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
He was lucky they just fired him. A couple of decades ago, I served in a local grand jury. And they presented a case where the IT guitar the local vocational school was caught with almost a terabyte of downloaded porn on the school's computer system. This was when a gigabyte was a lot of information. We indicted him.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
There's no way it was a terabyte 20 years ago. That'd be multiple servers full and someone would have noticed way before it got to that point.
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Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I got the second shift shop lead canned because he kept using the metrology lab computer to look up mail order russian brides. He was told not to use the computer. I check the history the next week and bingo. I didn't care if he was looking up chinese mail order husbands, he just kept messing up the lab computer.
#4
I was the manager. An employee complained that there were condoms in her garbage can. Often. We installed a camera in the hallway outside her office after the third or fourth time. It was her. With different guys. A coworker who knew her husband found one, so she made upba story about people breaking into her office after hours and doing it on her desk. But she was staying late and had at least three guys she admitted to after she got caught.
#5
Someone calling a black employee the N-word and then the manager retaliating against that black employee for “making a big deal out of it”. Several people fired and a generous severance for the victim (who very much wanted to leave the company and had a new job lined up).
#6
Not HR, but I work in a hospital setting and heard about it from HR. The hospital I used to work at had generic ID cards (i.e. they had your name only, not your title). A housekeeper (aka janitor) bought a white doctor's coat and stitched his name in it to pass off as a doctor. Thankfully he never attempted patient care- he only did it to hit on nurses.
Supposedly he was quite successful! He only got found out because a nurse he used to be with caught him with another nurse, and a sexual harassment complaint was made against him to retaliate. I can only imagine HR's face when they slowly realized that there was no Dr. "John Smith", only a housekeeper John Smith!
Enuya 1 year ago (edited)
It's rather sad that he thought he needs to pretend someone with higher status to find a partner. And also, accusing someone of sexual harassment to retaliate is a new low... and one of the reasons why so many peopke still don't take these accusations seriously. All in all while the guy did a stupid thing, I sort of feel sorry for him.
Zoe Vokes 1 year ago
Maybe the nurses were looking for a relationship and he was only looking for a good time. He isn’t going to ever have a committed relationship with them if he’s constantly lying. Maybe he’s not trying to “find a partner,” maybe he just wants to sleep with nurses.
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Mel Colley 1 year ago
Hmmm! It wasn't sexual harassment until he was caught cheating? Is this justice nowadays?
#7
A warehouse worker complained about an older female colleague who constantly pinched his bum and would make sexual comments about him. She tried to make light of the whole thing and implied he was over reacting and the complaint was frivolous. I left before there was any conclusion to the mess.
PattyK 1 year ago
Some people just refuse to know what sexual harassment is.
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Cat_Whisperer 1 year ago (edited)
If she’d been an older male employee doing that to a younger female, he’d have been fired in a heartbeat. Sexual harassment goes both ways.
Another Panda 1 year ago
But if a man had done that, he would be up sh*t creek. And that’s not equality.
Ephemera Image 1 year ago
A lot of older people think because they are older it isn't offensive. It is.
#8
Somewhat NSFW. One of our executives was working abroad when he had a mental breakdown and disappear. The country he was working in was not extremely modernized.
Fearing he was taken hostage, we engaged a security service to locate and retrieve him. 4 weeks later they found him almost 300km from where he disappeared. He had started a cult, claimed to be the living embodiment of the damned. He had almost 300 followers.
The security company extracted him and he spent 3 months in a mental hospital. It's almost funny if he wouldn't have castrated himself and at least 40 of his followers.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
To be a cult leader, you need to be unscrupulous, uncaring, and willing to make other people's lives hell in order to exploit them. So his past as an executive made it a natural fit.
#9
A minor, sending everyone video of him having sex with another minor who also worked there. Then an adult manager who decided she should proposition the male minor because of his “performance” in the video.
Maartje 1 year ago (edited)
Oh it makes perfect sense to me. You have sex. I see you have sex. I now know you have sex so I want to sex with you. * eyeroll* - you have NO IDEA. I have had it happen that roommates would walk in on my and my boyfriend, and every single one that ever accidentally walked into my BF's room propositioned me later. The logic escapes me but there it is.
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KnightOwl 1 year ago
Was it reported to the authorities? He should have been charged with possessing and sharing child p**n and the manager should have been charged with SA of a minor and put on a register.
#10
Employee coming in early and taking a dump on bosses desk.
DC 1 year ago (edited)
That would be my first question, too. Because I once had a boss who deserved to take a dump on him in person. But, that didn't happen. I didn't shid on anyone's desks. I regret and promise to be better!
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Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
If it was his last day, and he planned on quitting spectacularly, this is actually epic.
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Sometimes you really need to listen and actually hear the message your employees are sending you. Same boss each time, or more than one boss several times each? What's the constant in this equation? Bosses who are so despised that employees take shits on their desks. The employees aren't the main problem here. The bosses are. If they weren't a******s, and hadn't driven their employees to the point where they did such extreme acts, their desks would never have been s**t on, and there would never have been a problem in the first place.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
if you listen and hear "plop plop", not usually a good sign
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#11
Not HR but IT. I told this story recently, but it goes like this.
We had a break in. It was going to be a week till the new security system was installed, so we hired an off duty cop to watch the place at night.
The next day my boss (a nosey a*s) wanted to know what he was doing on the computer all night, so I checked his Internet history.
It took be.a.while to figure out what was going on because it was simultaneous, but eventually here's what I got.
He had 2 windows open all night.
One, as you might expect, had naked ladies on it.
The other was dead bodies. Mostly rotting.
Needless to say, he was not asked back.
Zephyr 1 year ago
Cop, rotting bodies and the first conclusion is it's a kink just because of another unrelated tab, seriously?
Nina 1 year ago
Doesn't need to be a kink. I would think it's quite disturbing if the nightcrew likes to watch porn and rotting corpses even if done by different people.
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Sleepy children love Moon 1 year ago
probably not, simultaneous means at the same time
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We had to fire an employee, who worked on an offshore rig, for masturbating too much. He was repeatedly caught and given warnings. It got to be so bad that the cleaning crew said his sheets “felt like potato chips.”.
Guy-Incognito 1 year ago
Lol stuck on an off shore oil rig for weeks and you can't even have a w*nk?
Nina 1 year ago
The point here is -a- wank. Not turning your sheets into crisps.
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#13
I was managing a drugstore and was called in because two pharmacy assistants were beating up a pharmacist.
Turns out he was having sex with both of them. He was married and was telling both of them he was about to leave his wife for her.
1- I was happy they beat him up and not each other.
2- Both girls got fired because they instigated the right. At that time in the industry, you kept every pharmacist you got. I understood the decision, but I hated it.
Maartje 1 year ago
ikr- all together it sounds like a different time to me.
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My old job had security go through and check to make sure the offices were locked at the end of the day. So as a result they more than once walked in on people f*****g in offices.
The best example was a manager with an engineer from a different department. You could argue it wasn’t too bad since he wasn’t sleeping with someone he had direct oversight over, the only problem being what his department was. He was the manager of HR.
Needless to say he was no longer employed there after that.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I used to work in a high end hotel when I was younger. There was a LOT of sex going on all over the place. You had to be careful about walking in to an "empty" room. :)
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
As my FiL says: “Two biggest HR problems are stealing and fücking.”
#15
A man taking advantage of watermelons.
Jess Smith 1 year ago
Can you SA a watermelon? It doesn't feel anything, does it?...I don't like that I'm asking this question.
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linda harbin 1 year ago
How the heck does someone take advantage of a water…. Nevermind. I really don’t want to know.
#16
Not human resources but I need to get this out of my brain.
I was working in Germany on an IT green card, and so was this dude. He banged on about being from Pakistan but NOT being Pakistani. Like literally every day. He is Indian! Literally every day exclaiming he's Indian but was raised in Pakistan. But he is NOT Pakistani.
Whatever. No one cares.
He poured powdered Tang (orange drink) on a plate and ate it with a spoon. Every day.
He YouTube'd Britney Spears songs over his desk speakers and sang along with his super high pitched voice.
He wore 3-piece suits when then rest of the company wore khakis/jeans/casual clothing.
His head was shaped like a volleyball but had no neck.
He lived in the West side, but one day announced that I, east sider, could find better places to eat (he was stalking me). He would take the U-bahn to my neighborhood on the weekends.
One day, he came to the office with black sesame seeds(Nigella?)
He told me that they were a gift from his mother. Because they were for fertility. Because I needed to bare a child(?!?!?!?!??!!?!)
The HR woman didn't even know how to handle everything.
Bookworm 1 year ago
Buried the lede here. His obsession with his nationality, his dietary habits and his physical appearance and clothing style might make him the office weirdo, but aren't actually HR problems. The stalking and the fertility treatment, on the other hand, are extremely creepy and I hope this guy got fired.
#17
IT - years ago I had a coworker complain that his computer was slow and acting funny...all the telltale signs of a virus/ malware issue. I told him upfront, tell me where you were online and what you did so that I'm not spinning my wheels finding the root cause. He swore he didn't do anything. Fine. Dug into it and found thousands of farm animal p**n images and videos. Seriously... thousands.
Glasofruix 1 year ago (edited)
Seriously, if you have questionnable material on your computer, unless it's in an encrypted folder IT would, most of the time unwillingly, find it. It's even worse when the material is of more personnal diy nature. Also urologists, holy mother of god, turn off previews in the folders.
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Rule 34 is basically "if it exists, there's porn of it".
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So far, the most NSFW complaint that I dealt with was a male employee who propositioned a female coworker offering his entire paycheck for a hookup. This dude was married so how he would explain a whole two weeks worth of pay gone to the wife, I don’t know.
#19
A friend of mine is an engineer that was using ChatGPT to help write his Emails and help with Excel formulas and macros. However, he was signed into ChatGPT with his personal Email account, which also had a log of the more *private* writing exercises he would have ChatGPT do for him.
This was noticed during a Zoom call when he was presenting a report by sharing his desktop. An eagle-eyed viewer noticed the ChatGPT logs in the sidebar while he was cycling between Internet tabs, and managed to grab a screenshot of it.
So the sidebar read things like "How to reference adjacent cells in data validation." "Automatically outputting spreadsheet data into a formated Email." "The sexy island adventures of Dread Pirate Booty Beard." "Importing generated MD5 file hashes into a cell."
IT investigated his computer and reviewed the ChatGPT logs. It was determined he was writing ChatGPT erotica in his free time, and the nature of the erotica wasn't anything too terribly outlandish. But the funniest thing about it was how 80% of the erotic conversation was this poor guy constantly fighting with ChatGPT to ignore its content filters and to stop using the term "female genitalia" when he obviously wanted his smut less clinical sounding.
He had an uncomfortable meeting with HR, was notified that his "personal projects" should never ever touch company computers, and he had to create a new Email account to sign in to ChatGPT. Which caused a problem. He was paying premium for his personal account, so he had to choose between premium ChatGPT for his career, or premium ChatGPT for smut.
He chose smut.
I don't blame him. Dude's paying for it with is own money, so he should use it for personal use. If the company notices a dip in quality work because he has to use an older ChatGPT model, well, they mandated it, they can pay for it.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
"The sexy island adventures of Dread Pirate Booty Beard" just made me spit coffee on my keyboard! :)
Glasofruix 1 year ago (edited)
If he's using chatgpt from his own computer at home or during his free time i don't see the problem. It's no different from having a word document with the stuff, it's not like he's violated some security policy or some such. If it was a company account it would be another story, but the guy pays for it himself AND uses it to be productive. It's also his private account so he should've told IT to pound sand.
Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
I disagree on the payment question. They hired him to do the work. If he is going to outsource it, then he can pay for that. Heck, it's kind of the company to allow for the outsourcing at all, but to expect them to pay him to then charge them for software that does his job for him? Ridiculous.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
That kind of stuff is an area that ChatGPT actually does well. He probably still had to refine it, but it can give a good starting point.
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#20
Tldr: employee mu***red two people, chopped them up using work knives, and soaked them in acid. Was caught because his roommate turned him in. First month at a new job. Was not HR, but the safety manager. Was asked to collect all knives assigned to the overnight clean-up crew and turn them into HR. After that, numbers were engraved on knives. They were to be assigned and accounted for at the end of the day. Weird, but whatever. The day before the knife collection, one of the overnight employees came in to see if he could collect his paycheck earlier. Sometimes, they showed up a couple of days early. They had not this time. I chatted with this guy on the floor. Nice enough guy. No big deal. I told my boss, HR, that he had come in. It was an offhand comment. Nothing I was concerned about. My boss freaked out, told me if he came in again to call the police. She wouldn't answer my follow up questions about why. That's right, she never told me about the m***er. Later, the police had me confirm that a knife they had was indeed one of my employers knives and that this employee had access to it. I found out after that that this was not the first time an employee at that place had m***red someone.
#21
I got 3 good ones, think grocery store setting 1. The store has a public bathroom downstairs that was always destroyed. It was in a bad part of town and d**g users would shoot up and s**t all over the floor, people would p**s on the walls, and generally not usable. There were also employee bathrooms upstairs. This particular employee didn't want to go up the stairs so he would go in the coolers and p**s in the drain. One day there was a young girl (18 or 19) that was in the cooler and he didn't see her but she saw him drop pants to the ankles and p**s down the drain. He was let go. 2. One of the employees was a drunk who would constantly talk about how he would get drunk and beat his wife because she would talk back to him. After a while he would complain about how she didn't have sex with him anymore. Another employee (who is gay and very open about it) told him, "Me and you can go back into the cooler right now and I'll suck you off." Then proceeded to offer him sex acts constantly throughout the week. It was brought up with HR with 6 witness statements and we were sure he was gonna be gone. He wasn't fired. 3. There were 2 overnight employees, one a janitor and one an overnight stocker, that were really good at what they did. They had been both working there for 20+ years and had no complaints against them. One day there were multiple lockers broken into and they pulled security footage on the break rooms and watched all of it. These 2 employees were f*****g in the break room for 3 to 4 hours every time they worked together. Our footage only goes back a week or so, so we don't know how long it has been going on. They still managed to get everything else that was assigned to them on half of a shift.
Regina Holt 1 year ago
They wanted to get full use of the little blue pill, Viagra.
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I am unclear if HR dealt with wifebeater or gay guy. The offers on sex seems like a payback for the guy beating his wife and not a serious offer.
#22
Not in HR but was a manager at a grocery store. Had to investigate complaints that a cashier was having sex with people in their cars while she was on break. She was :/.
Nina 1 year ago
If it was on company terrain, it is. If she's wearing a uniform/name tag/etc., it is. If people can link her to the store while she's doing it, it is.
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Marki Campbell 1 year ago
Hey look, hopefully this person knew better than to compromise the company's name or show her bum off where kids could see , but honestly the first thing i thought when i read your comments were 1. How quick are you to judge for the sake of your own feelings of false superiority And 2. My dear, not everyone is as s*xually suppressed as you
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Not HR, but was a manager. Had to let an employee go because he decided to send unsolicited d**k pics to a cashier and tried to solicit her for a threesome with his girlfriend. I think calling HR was her way of declining the invitation.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Yes, with 99.99999999% of them being unsolicited
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DC 1 year ago
I've not yet heard any report that goes like "All a girl like me ever wanted is to receive a picture of his apparatus, but they all always just invite me for coffee or so. But then, one dude checked all my boxes: obviously circumsized, well equipped, wearing a mullet and on top, he had a huge pickup truck with a fridge full of beer between the seats, and a mirror on the ceiling of the second row - I just couldn't resist!". Because ... come on, guys, anyone ever succeeded with a picture of your equipment? Without being asked for it, even?
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Seems like an effective way to very emphatically reject the creep, and IMO he deserved it.
Sven Grammersdorf 1 year ago
Why is this the workplace's business if it didn't happen at work?
#24
I worked in the construction industry when this happened. Our call center received a call about an employee (in a company truck) having sex with another man in a public park bathroom. Apparently, some guy took his grandson in there to use the bathroom, saw it, and called it in. We checked his truck’s GPS and sure enough he was going to that park regularly during the workday/after work. There was no actual evidence of wrongdoing and no history of disciplinary action. Per company policy, reasonable personal use of company vehicles was permitted so he wasn’t even really violating any policy. The manager damn near lost his mind when I explained he could only address use of the vehicle lol.
To make it that much messier, the employee was married to a woman and their shared son also worked at the same location. Controlling the rumor mill and subsequently updating company policies took much more effort than actually handling the situation.
#25
Manager here, not HR. Female employee sent a NSFW video of herself to another female employee who made the complaint. Last message between them had been months before and was work related, so there was no prior contact that would suggest she might want to receive a video like that. Sender didn’t deny it, but thought it was not that serious and was shocked to lose her job over it.
#26
I didn’t have to do this, but my black female supervisor had to deal with it. White male Employee was seen on an old episode of Jerry Springer for being super racist- N word and all. He claimed it was “all for TV” but there was a lot of animosity after that.
Freya (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Same thing happened with one of my coworkers. She ended up quitting her job due to racism from a customer at the store that has a long history of misconduct
catastrophegirl 1 year ago
i'd actually buy it being "all for tv" in this specific instance at least. i used to know a homeless guy that went on springer for the money. he pretended to have a sexual addiction to stuffed animals. also had a coworker with dwarfism who was hired to be on springer as a KKK member. nicest guy, not racist at all and would never actually join the KKK but the rent's gotta be paid. hah! found the first one on youtube. i can assure you that terry didn't even own a stuffed animal, it wouldn't have fit in his backpack. https://youtu.be/SAf-eDtm2y0?si=lu1rUNmWna4LdTC1
Matt Richardson 1 year ago
Jerry Springer episodes shouldn't really be admissible as evidence. It was gloriously, sleezy, trashy, "reality" programming that had no connection to reality. Whatsoever. The "guests" knew exactly how to earn their paycheck. Now if this was used to help establish a pattern, and not the sole piece of evidence, that's a different story. 90's daytime brawl and bawl programming was basically just WWE light for mothers and children home sick from school. Besides, some of them even had recurring guests who used the lamest disguises to play other roles.
#27
I work in IT. We had a user with personal p**n on a micro sd drive. She was using her laptop during a meeting when she accidentally clicked on it in file explorer. Thumbnails were turned on so everyone got a good view. I had to search her computer for more. I told them I can just reload it and it will be gone but they wanted more evidence. Luckily I never found any more.
Maartje 1 year ago
I don't even understand the lack of self control. Why on earth not wait until you get home?
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#28
Not HR, but IT. There were only 2 cases I had to report to higher ups. 1. My first IT job was at a MSP (think third party IT). I had to manually apply patches to computers at theaters after hours. It was mostly mindless so I was sitting next to my GF at the time doing it while watching a movie. I was watching the movie when my girlfriend was like "WTF are you doing?" I was remoted into a computer and there was a bunch of gay p**n on the screen. Turns out it was that user's personal photos they were uploading to their computer. 2. My second week at a job I noticed a user changed their computer desktop to a very famous picture of a migrant family that died trying to cross into the US. The pic is their dead bodies floating in a river. I let my boss know and that we should lock desktops down so people can't change them.
#29
Not in HR, but I was in orientation with a guy (just he and me) and HR was explaining why you can't have any p**n on company property. He argued that if he wants to sit in his car and read Hustler at lunchtime, it's nobody's business because it's on his own time and in his car. Surprisingly, he didn't lose his job, but he got written up three times in 30 days for various infractions, and he was gone.
DramaDoc 1 year ago
I teach college and every semester part of my 1st day of class speech to students is to please, please, PLEASE don't watch p0rn on personal devises during class. I caught 1 student 1 times years ago and now it's part of my spiel. Only now I add that if caught, I will put said images on the big screen and then the entire class will critically evaluate lifestyle choices and make wild assumptions about personal, er... endowments.
Trisec Tebeakesse 1 year ago
Is the car parked in a company lot? They'll get you for that. I worked for a place that was a**l about smoking - so even at the far end of the parking lot 200 yards from the building was NO.
jennifer brinkman 1 year ago
You can't leave that thing alone for 8 hours? Pathetic little boys. This is why men cant deal wirh real women.
#30
I was the IT guy HR would call when something internet nsfw oriented would arise. So many people doing so many stupid things on the company internet. Downloading p**n was of course the most common but one instance I saved someone their job. P**n ads in the logs appear as if the person visited the site but only for a few seconds and then another. I trained HR to be able to tell the difference when going through their internet reporting software.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 1 year ago (edited)
That last sentence makes no sense considering the fact that these are logs of internet traffic and not browser history... unless you just have no clue what you're yapping about
Load More Replies... Con O Cuinn 1 year ago
Depends on when this was. 2010 and before, porn ads were literally everywhere.
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#31
I had to self-report myself to HR, about ten years ago.
I’m an IT guy and we had a live issue with the email system stalling when trying to process file attachments.
Five of us on a call, me sharing my screen as we investigated the issue.
I randomly opened one of the stalled email attachments (all we could see were a list of files waiting to be scanned by antivirus, not the names of recipients or senders) and BAM There’s a photo of Becky from Payroll with her tits out.
I closed the image. No one said anything on the call for a little while. Then we fixed the email problem and closed the call.
I couldn’t risk someone else from the call going to HR first. So I walked straight down the corridor, passing by Payroll, for a sit down with the HR Manager.
It was announced a few weeks later that Becky would be moving on to a new company.
Ru Bee 1 year ago
I don't think he was involved at all, it was a list of files other people were sending over email and most companies have a policy that anything sent over company email can be viewed by the company.
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Not in human resources but we recently fired two employees. The male was a Superviser of a specific department, late 50s ish. He had a younger, maybe mid to late 20s female working for him. She wqs terrible, we work oilfield and she knew nothing. So we noticed more and more he wqs out on location doing her job for her while she did god knows what.
Hr started getting suspicious after confidential information came to light. Long story short, we work 24/7 with call outs. Anytime this woman was called out in the night, he'd meet her on location. We know this because our trucks are GPS monitored. We'll he'd get to location, his GPS would "malfunction" ( he'd unplug it). Then it'd turn on hours later. We'll turns out they were making BS calls for call out and meeting up and having sex on company property, in company vehicles, while being paid for it.
DC 1 year ago
... and they're smart enough to disconnect the GPS; but not to do so prior to driving there? Why, even, are people so dumb? I mean ... the oil industry fug sub way more anyway, banging on their dime wouldn't make me too worried, but I'd still make sure I won't get caught, and I'd check a few more things than just GPS. It's always some small, overlooked mistake that gets people in trouble, when otherwise, it would just be a nice story they'll tell their grandkids, how they fell in love by banging, and having the oil industry pay them to do so, and they discovered they share some core values, despice ecologically harmful practice, ... ..... could be the opening scene to a love movie, and even if it stops at that, it would still be better than most of those cringy romcoms, ...
#33
Not HR, but IT. We had a big turn over at an organization that I worked at due to some major compliance issues. CEO down to directors were let go. The CEO sues the org for the remaining money in his contract, stating he wasn't the reason for the compliance issues because it was never reported to him. This was to the tune of nearly 1M dollars. To circle back a bit for context, the CEO had a son in college that would come in at night and use the computer in his office to complete his school work. We were ordered by the CEO to make sure nothing was blocked and for him to have access to everything. We did because that's just what you did with that CEO. Was asked to pull his computer and run a forensics scan on it to look for things that might have alluded to him knowing about the compliance issues. Found p**n, lots of it, all time stamped on the later evening hours. The son was logging into the CEOs account and watching p**n all night rather than doing school work. CEO immediately dropped his case and lost out because he was too cheap to buy his son a computer to use at home.
#34
Guy was investigated for sexually harassing a female associate. Snowballed into like five women who he would make comments to...like them looking good, "a*s looks great" and pestering them to go on dates, "drop boyfriend I'll show you what a real man can do ".
He denied and said that it was the women harassing him. Said he had texts to prove he was victim but when asked for them he said he deleted them.
He also said he had a witness that would vindicate him who heard the women conspiring to get him fired. The witness was a middle aged woman who denied hearing the women plan this allegation but said that he made similar comments to her but it didn't bother her cause she was married and she wouldn't do anything with him.
Also investigated a couple incidents of penis pics sent to associates. One was male to male, the other male to female....and yes I saw pictures too as part of investigation.
#35
One hour after setup of a web traffic monitoring system, part of our new security tool suite, while checking out the screens and options in the log monitor, boom tons of p**n browseing in the logs from one computer. I tell the IT manager he tells the guys manager and they go talk to him and remind him he can't do that at work.
#36
Not HR but used to work for an MSP. Ticket gets submitted for email that’s acting up, I find the guys machine in the remote control dashboard and open it to do a preliminary check (connectivity, check for malware, email server accessible, outlook errors in the logs etc) before I call the user and initiate control to troubleshoot etc… In the thumbnail that shows what’s on the screen I see obvious p**n… Screenshot verifies it’s an adult site, (and I’m not one to kink shame but it was some hardcore bondage s**t on some obscure site not like, p**nhub) I store it and ping my supervisor and ask what I’m supposed to do He said to contact the company’s IT director, so I did and it was basically “just block it in the firewall” and an ask if I can adjust the firewall to categorically block adult sites etc. never heard if he got reprimanded for it or anything and they ended their contract a few months later, but like most places I worked any kind of p**n on a company machine was an immediate resume generating event.
Realistic Optimist 1 year ago
Whats with people using work computers for porn? If you want to look at porn so bad, use your personal devices... and data. Companies can see what you search for using their internet, if they so choose.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
If you have a spouse and the're around all the time at home, you can't risk it there.
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Worked in HR, used to work for a manufacturing company. A guy came into the office and told us that he wanted to be removed from his department because a supervisor was making him feel unsafe. We asked him who the individual was what they had done to them to make them feel unsafe as we needed all the information we could get to start an investigation.
Turns out that him and this guy were having sexual relations outside of work and it was going on for several months until his abuser tried to rape him. He show us text messages they had between one another and how his abuser would constantly text him on and off work about how he wanted to f**k him and how he expects to see him at his house etc. Crazy enough while they were on the clock together, his abuser would never interact with him in person and act like they didn't have any kind of relation at all. Straight up pretended like they were coworkers that just never talked.
It was pretty open and shut as the guy confirmed everything and begged us not to release him as he would never do it again. We released him the same day. We had the victim move departments but he resigned a couple of weeks later.
#38
In a 30 year career we had condoms left on a desk, two salespeople, both married, that spent all day hooking up rather than selling (ultimately both got fired for poor sales but that’s when the truth came out), a manager got fired for making dildo comments to some younger female employees repeatedly, gay p**n on a guys computer who swore he was straight, a manager that accidentally projected his screen with p**n history on it, and an.HR manager who hooked up with another manager at a company party then filed a complaint. Both were ultimately fired. And those are just the ones I can think of. Oh, one more. An employee got in trouble for making comments about a young, female summer employee’s highly inappropriate attire. He wasn’t wrong. Unfortunately, it was the CEO’s granddaughter that was working for us that summer who was dressed in skimpy outfits. And believe it or not, this was in a professional industry.
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Zephyr 1 year ago
So I've learnt that most workers are toddlers, sex offenders, tattletales, inconsiderate and HR is just useful for firing staff and not preventing workplace discomfort, so sad
PeTeH 1 year ago
One time at a chemical plant turn around, where they fix and maintain things, a welder had sex with a fire guard in a tent built around the welding spot. They fired the guard, because it's hard to find good welders, but not fire guards.
DC 1 year ago
Good Welders are a rare breed ... understandable, that, for that reason. But ... still ... why on the job? Why in a way that gets you caught? Why?
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John Nelson 1 year ago
Not HR, but ran the segregation unit for a few years in a prison. Had some inmates for a while who got caught having sexual relations with a couple female officers. They had a setup going where one worked control and kept a lookout for supervisors or other personnel while the other "made her rounds" then they'd trade places. One night, the sergeant had central control let him into the unit through a side door....
jennifer brinkman 1 year ago
I see why women stay sungle. Men are pathetic disgusting perverts that only care about their d*cks. HUGE TURNOFF!!!
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Love the knee-jerk sexism here. I'm female, and am not willing to dehumanize and demonize half the human species over possession of an appendage. Did you not notice that several of the sexual harassment stories involved FEMALE offenders, including at least one against a female victim?
Load More Replies... Zephyr 1 year ago
So I've learnt that most workers are toddlers, sex offenders, tattletales, inconsiderate and HR is just useful for firing staff and not preventing workplace discomfort, so sad
PeTeH 1 year ago
One time at a chemical plant turn around, where they fix and maintain things, a welder had sex with a fire guard in a tent built around the welding spot. They fired the guard, because it's hard to find good welders, but not fire guards.
DC 1 year ago
Good Welders are a rare breed ... understandable, that, for that reason. But ... still ... why on the job? Why in a way that gets you caught? Why?
Load More Replies... John Nelson 1 year ago
Not HR, but ran the segregation unit for a few years in a prison. Had some inmates for a while who got caught having sexual relations with a couple female officers. They had a setup going where one worked control and kept a lookout for supervisors or other personnel while the other "made her rounds" then they'd trade places. One night, the sergeant had central control let him into the unit through a side door....
jennifer brinkman 1 year ago
I see why women stay sungle. Men are pathetic disgusting perverts that only care about their d*cks. HUGE TURNOFF!!!
Seanette Blaylock 1 year ago
Love the knee-jerk sexism here. I'm female, and am not willing to dehumanize and demonize half the human species over possession of an appendage. Did you not notice that several of the sexual harassment stories involved FEMALE offenders, including at least one against a female victim?
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