“What’s The Most Insane Complaint You’ve Had About An Employee That Turned Out To Be True?” (35 Answers)
Some employees are more proactive and responsible than others, but some care so little about their jobs, it’s surprising the things they do during work hours. Their activities often become a cause for complaints, which can cover nearly any scenario, from disagreements between colleagues to actions on the verge of being inappropriate, and beyond.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community discussed such complaints after one of the users asked what was the most insane complaint about an employee they’ve ever heard that turned out to be completely true. Their answers covered all sorts of instances, ranging from disturbing to shocking, so scroll down to find them on the list below, and see for yourself just how difficult some employees can be.
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I just fired an intern because he thought it'd be funny to smack one of the girls on the a*s. Upon further investigation, she had been having anxiety coming to work because he would ask all sorts of ridiculously inappropriate questions. For example, he asked her if she had a good weekend. She told him it was a good weekend or some plain answer and he then asked her if it was because she f****d her boyfriend a lot. Needless to say, her anxiety was warranted and we fired him as soon as we could. The mood in my group seems a bit more relaxed this week...
Ladies, if someone speaks to you like that, please take action before interactions reach the physical assault stage.
Alternatively, bosses please find out why your female employees don't feel comfortable coming to you before it reaches that stage. Obviously OP is a good boss, but for some reason that employee didn't feel she could speak up earlier. Now that may be her past experience with other bosses, which he can't do anything about, but it might be something in the way he acts that made her think he wouldn't do anything or the atmosphere in the team. I'm not criticising the OP here, just saying it works both ways and both he and the employee need to think about why it got that far before she felt comfortable speaking up.
Load More Replies...Odd question: Does anyone think that shows like The Office are harmful? I ask this as someone who truly enjoys it. There is a LOT of inappropriate sexual conduct; With Micheal Scott, it was plainly unacceptable, but there was a notion that *everyone* thought he was an idiot, and eventually they broadened his character to the point that it was explicitly acknowledged that people put up with him because his good traits outweighed his bad traits (Angela might disagree). But Gabe was clearly threatening and dangerous, but the storyline presented people as powerless to go against him, and that this was normal, and there was still no sense that it made Dunder Mifflin a toxic workplace. (Michael was certainly toxic towards to Toby, but Toby was the HR guy!) Do portrayals like this make women more likely to put up with intolerable situations?
You’re definitely right in that The Office lets the characters get away with a lot of awful things, but I feel like the purpose of it was to showcase just how cringeworthy and terrible the world of work can be. As a woman who watches The Office, I actually feel like it makes me more able to recognise when a situation turns inappropriate or threatening. I think because the entire point of The Office was to be deliberately awful, people then know that every situation is likely to be something we should never put up with.
Load More Replies...You become an intern to learn how things work in the business world. Well, he found out.
How is it in this day and age women still have to deal with this in their workplace? I mean come on. Can we have one safe space?
Make sure you keep an eye on her coming in and leaving work. He may be the retaliatory type. Always better safe than sorry
That the guy was stalking a female employee. It was a 24 hour retailer and she was a morning shift and he was night shift so I just thought there was no way they knew each other. Then one day I was filling in for a different manager and he came into the break room and was taking pictures of the morning shift schedule. I asked him why and he told me some story about another employee just wanted him to send their schedule etc. I came in on my day off later that week during day shift and caught him staring at her from a different aisle while she was stocking. She had no idea, he would follow her home and watch her house and all that. She was 17, he was 38. I called the cops and had him escorted off the property and helped her get in touch with the right resources for a restraining order. He ended up violating the order multiple times and is in jail last I heard.
If only Riley Whitelaw's managers had helped her. Maybe she would be alive today.
Working in a bank. Had a teller (about 19 year-old) get pissed about the way a customer (retail store owner) would send in her deposits at the drive up window. The teller complained about the customer on Facebook! Tagged the lady personally, as well as the store! Customer called the bank and told me, furious of course. I told the customer we would investigate, I asked the teller. She straight up admitted it, and says "What's the customer or Branch Manager going to do about it? My Grandfather is friends with the bank President." I called HR and Bank President on conference. Girl lost her job in under 15 minutes of me receiving the call from the customer. Breach of customer confidentiality in banking is a MAJOR law violation.
If you were that big a deal, you probably wouldn't have to work anywhere, let alone as a bank teller
Another entitled brat who thought she could do whatever she wanted and get away with it.
Mechanic here. I had a coworker whom would poke a hole into customers tires just so they would come back and buy more (yes he did it to new tires as well). Finally caught him one day after I found it odd that it was only the customers he put tires on that kept coming back for more tires, at first I thought maybe he wasn't putting enough air into them so I kinda hawk eyed over him without him knowing and sure enough he would put the tire on the rim (we have a special machine to put tires on rims) and he would put a small slit with his pocket knife in the tread on the tire. Caught him red handed doing it. Fired on the spot. F**k you Brett.
What a jerk. And it wouldn't of even benefitted him as I've never heard of a tire place giving commission any time they sold a tire. So he was doing it just for "fun".
"Why are you doing this, Brett? It's not like we're offering you stock options!"
Tires have warranties. The customers should've just been getting new tires free
Blanket party in the parking lot for Brett! We supply the blanket, you supply the baseball bats. Just remember kids..swing for the stands!!!
Yeah F**K YOU BRETT! I hope he gets 4 flat tires in the middle of a swampland.
Many years ago, the bookshop I worked at hired a new employee with terminal cancer - very sad, since she was quite young. She wasn't around too much due to the chemotherapy etc., but when she was in she worked in the children's department. She was actually a pretty good children's bookseller, and was a huge fan of a fairly major American children's author; she ran the UK branch of his fanclub and knew him personally, he occasionally flew her out to the States for events.
One day, she wasn't in, and all employees were called to a staff meeting. We were informed that she had passed away. There was a lot of sadness; her close colleagues were devastated.
Only... a few days later one of our staff happened to go into a branch of McDonalds in a nearby town. Guess who was working behind the counter? Go on, guess.
Turns out she was never ill. She had made the whole cancer thing up, as well as *faking her own death,* for reasons that we never really fully understood. The general consensus was that it started out as a way to connect with her author hero and kind of spiralled from there; in the end she couldn't handle living the lie any more and so... just up and had her mother tell people that she'd died. And then got a job in Maccie D's a few miles down the road, and was surprised when she got found out.
That was a pretty what-the-f**k sort of experience for us all.
Lady in our appartment building did the same thing. Told everone she was terminal. Even sold her appartment to the neighbours for a very reasonable price, cause she wouldn't be needing the money once she died. Then it turened out she wasn't sick and the appartment she 'sold' was a rental.
If you're going to fake your own death, surely you'd move to another country or the other side of the world - not a few miles down the road? How bizarre. And her mother lied for her?That's also very odd.
Or at least don't take a job where you face is in front of the public, like the counter at McDonald's. Working the midnight shift as a security guard would be smarter (and pay more).
Load More Replies...Did BP change the article title? This story has nothing to do with "insane employee complaints proven true" (title according to the URL, and the original Reddit question) nor with the current title of "35 workers that pushed the bar of getting fired for wild reasons to the fullest" (she wasn't fired, nor threatened with being fired).
A few have been ‘complaints proven to be true’, but it seems like whoever the ‘author’ of this sticker is, why from one thread to a completely different on them together!
Load More Replies...This is (one of) reasons I don't lie. A "harmless" little untruth needs to be propped up, then grows on it's own and I end up not be able to keep my own BS straight and then the massive poop explosion occurs. It is not pretty, so I don't do it.
You would think she would have at least moved to a different town / part of the country....
"Never really fully understood." I can guess--she probably started a Gofundme for her "cancer treatment" when really she just wanted the cash. Saw a lot of that after 9/11 when lots of "first responder widows" made claims--but it turned out that nobody knew who the "widow" was, and the alleged "husband's" name wasn't recognized by the authorities either.
Huge well known international company. Young straight-out-of-college guy just hired (as in, first day the same week), who had moved from eastern europe to corporate location. Cue company ski trip. Free booze. Some of his new colleagues/"friends" told him that this woman was checking him out.
He wasn't exactly sober, and started hitting on her. She told him to knock it of, that she wasn't interested. He kept being pushy. Large scary dude beside the woman told him to knock it off. He swung at large scary dude, and promptly found himself face first in the snow.
The woman in question? Head of global HR. The large scary dude? Head of global corporate security, ex military. The young schmuck? Fired.
Why employees (and companies) think "free alcohol in a work environment" is EVER a good idea is beyond me.
Yeah, he didn't show good judgment but they definitely set him up for the fall.
Load More Replies...But he still kept bothering this woman when she told him she wasn't interested, so that's on him.
Load More Replies...Excellent test: company event, provide booze and let the @rseholes reveal themselves so they can be summarily dismissed.
I know someone who had a drinking problem, mainly any time he would drink he would binge uncontrollably. In college we all laughed it off, but when he threw up in his bosses car after a work event that had a bar, he came close to losing his job. Big apologies, a professional cleaning, and started AA.
Load More Replies...I feel like his new colleagues/"friends" are partially to blame here too. He was still the AH who couldn't take "no" for an answer though.
Hired a guy on a trial basis. He was super polite and careful when speaking to me, but several of my female employees told me when I wasn't around he was creepy. After about 5 days, one came to me and said almost verbatim: "I think he's a r****t." She just a had a gut feeling about him. So I ran a background check on him... yep, he was a convicted r****t.
Yeah, that's why background checks ideally come before hiring...
Male coworkers and employers: creeps will act very different around you than around women. When your female coworkers/employees tell you a guy is creepy, take it seriously.
Seriously. It should not be that surprising that heterosexual male creeps will put on their nice face around other men and then are creepy to women. Other men aren't who these guys are interested in.
Load More Replies...It's rapist!!!! Not r****t. BP stop white-washing the topic and word. Shame, shame on u BP! U a******s!
one of my first students jobs,new supervisor. My coworker said she didnt like him and that she could tell by his eyes that he's a rapist. I told her she couldnt. I left shortly after, and lo and behold, 6 months later in the newspaper, the supervisor was arrested because he assaulted several of my former coworkers!
Some people just have the look of a predator, staring too intensely at someone or sneering at them for no reason and you can tell there's some hateful internal monolog going on with them. I used to work in criminal justice and many sex offenders were like this with female staff.
Load More Replies...You hired someone without running a background check first? Not acceptable at all!
When my mom was a nurse trainee, the local prison used their hospital as a clinic. One day she went into a patient’s room and her hair stood on end and her skin started crawling. She said she knew right away he was either a pedo or a rapist. She didn’t want to even touch him. Turns out he was both. He penetrated kids. She didn’t find this out until the next day when she asked about him. I wonder why we women can sense things like this? I’ve thankfully never run into anyone that’s made me feel this way, but I know other women have.
Racism isn't cool and all, but where do you get convicted for being a racist?
“Our night supervisor bought a ten foot python and walked around the warehouse with it around his shoulders” Checked the videos. Yep, bloke had a python. At one point he put it down, and then spent the next half hour trying to find it. Was the final straw - sacked him.
Rumour has it the python is still in the warehouse
Load More Replies...I know it’s scary and dangerous for most people, but if the python was a pet I’d be totally fine with it. Not the part about it running loose tho
Yep, foolish people can have the same impact as wicked people.
Load More Replies...As a former python owner, he should not own a snake. It's clear he doesn't know how to care for it.
Oh lemme guess...like all men, he found the python in his pants...(It was just a baby danger noodle!) 🤣
Had a new hire (as in less than a week on the job) at a movie theater, where I worked as a supervisor, throw a very loud, unbelievably childish tantrum in front of a lobby full of customers because her direct supervisor asked her to sweep up some popcorn that a customer spilled. She kept screaming "I ain't cleaning up someone else's mess! Make them (the customer) do it!" She was 24 years old. The meltdown she had when she got fired for her tantrum was nuclear, with lots of screaming & threats of how her parents were going to "call the company and get all your a**es fired!". The next day someone *claiming* to be her dad did call & tell us that we "are going to rehire my daughter & apologize to her and fire (named her supervisor and manager) or else." but nothing more came of it, the top manager just laughed & hung up. I've yet to ever see such an epic, entitled tantrum before or since.
She sounds more like 12 than 24. I’m sure she’s going to have a very successful career. 🙄
As someone who used to work in a movie theatre, if you didn’t think you would have to clean up someone else’s popcorn mess, what on earth did you think you would have to do?
Someone was spoiled to death as a child 🙄 ...and as an adult.
Maybe she can run for president since it seems some folks want a grown a** screaming, tantrum throwing adult for president.
Worked in a Long Term Care facility. There was a Nurse on staff who was a very high strung. We had a patient who would sing on occasion. It was a frequent event & was a side effect of the client suffering from a stroke. One day the patient was very vocal & singing away. The Nurse repeatedly asked/instructed the patient to be quiet. When that didn't work she told the client to shut up. Shortly thereafter she told the patient that she was going to stuff a sock in the patients mouth. Nurse was reported and immediately fired. The next day she showed up w/her husband. The husband had a meeting w/the Director of Nursing, myself (as a witness) & an HR rep. The Nurse was honest & verified that what was typed above happened. The husband was insisted that his wife should be rehired since she admitted what happened. The DON & HR told them that was not going to happen. The husband got more belligerent & LOUD. His wife was crying hysterically. Security had to escort them off the facility.
This is sad. I have a patient like this. She's legitimately disabled but doesn't recognize it. Keeps getting jobs. Quits when they're "mean" to her. Cognitively she just doesn't understand the whole thing. It's not fixable, in my opinion, at this point. She has other issues. But this is what she looks like at every new job.
...Or else what? Upper management is going to fire a supervisor for firing an employee having a meltdown in front of customers? No
Judging by the phone call, it seems more likely to be caused by the way she was raised.
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Had a coworker who always had a really strong stench and thought it was just bad BO. Turns out she was addicted to mothballs and was licking them during working hours. The chemicals give off an unbelievably strong smell through your skin. We got complaints about her odor but didn’t take them seriously (thought people were just being a******s) until someone saw her actively licking on the job.
Ball licking at work is usually confined to the CEO's office.
You'd think the individual would pick something with larger balls if that's their thing! 😂😂
Load More Replies...I'd like to hear all about the very first time a person picked up a *mothball* and said, hmm, I think I'll lick this. WTF?
Night shift at a packing line. We had two new temps and they were polar opposites. One super bubbly religious guy who was pretty emotional (cried during his favorite songs) the other guy was grunge, pretty cynical but a damned good worker. Well they both ended up working on adjacent lines and I was training them. Things were great till the bubbly guy decided it was his mission to befriend the grunge guy. Grunge dude wanted to be left alone so he could work but bubbly guy kept going to our team lead to tell her he couldn’t understand why grunge wouldn’t be his friend. My team lead comes down and tells them to play nice and be friends. (She was despised by most of our crew) she’s oblivious, I told her that bubbles needs to leave grunge alone but she wouldn’t have it. Grunge walked out. And bubbles cried for two nights straight then never came back.
You'd think more adults would understand the concept that nobody's *obligated* to be your friend. Sure, it can be a tearful moment for a six-year-old, but if you're old enough to be in the workforce, you're old enough to know that not everyone's obligated to like you.
That or bubbles was deeply insecure and couldn't handle anyone not wanting to be their friend.
Load More Replies...My cats (sisters) are like this. One wants to play, chase, sniff - the other is like get the duck away from me hiss hiss. And both end up getting upset. I've tried explaining personal boundries but I don't think she understands the concept.
The cemetery director was selling plots, pocketing the money ($750), and selling the same plot to another family. The second family would show up ready to bury their deceased only to find the grave already being used. He got away with it for a year.
I can't fathom how someone could get away with this for a *year*. What did the people who found the plot already in use do, just leave the coffin on the ground and walk away without complaint?
Around here at least, people buy their plots EARLY. My parents have had theirs for about 10 years already and my mother is only 55. So theoretically, someone could never know.
Load More Replies...Devastating for the families already having to deal with the grief of losing a loved one...
It would have been discovered when the grave diggers arrived to dig the grave. Wonder if they dug in one that didn't have a headstone or marker - YIKES!
The cemetery business is like the real estate business - location, location, location.
I knew a guy who worked at subway back when they gave out stamps. Basically for every six inches of sub you bought you earned a stamp and once you filled a card with 8 stamps you could get a free six inch sub.
So this guy started only giving stamps to customers who asked for them. If they didn't ask he pocketed their stamps and grew a sizeable stack of complete stamp cards.
Then over time he started cashing them in. When a customer paid with cash he would ring it in as a freebie, place his own completed stamp card in the till, and pocket the cash. Customer got their sub, subway's till was balanced, and he had an extra five to ten bucks in his pocket - everybody was happy.
He worked there for a few years and word was he racked up a few thousand dollars running this scheme. No idea if anybody complained, or if he was ever caught, but he did buy a motorbike.
We had a coworker do that with coupons when I worked in a restaurant. Our chain would mail out coupons, servers would hold them until a customer paid cash. If you were really lucky you could get a 20-40% off and have a large party. Most of us only used a couple a month (to offset crappy tippers). We got busted because "head waitress" was using a couple dozen--per shift.
giving discounts to customers but not paying a good wage...
Load More Replies...I used to steal those stamps and sell them to other kids back when I worked there in high school in 2001-2002. 100 stamps for 20 bucks. I made hundreds of dollars. There was no accounting for the stamps and I never got caught.
Homeless guy used to pass out a stamp-card asking people to donate their free (whatever). Few people did it, but most were saying no, and not using the stamps at all. Me? I think I earned him two free burgers and a drink all on my own.
I was the head night auditor at an upscale airport property. Had a youngish night auditor who put a room into out of order status and let his friends in to party and have an orgy that he joined during his lunch break. He got caught because of a noise complaint. Police called, he was fired and blacklisted from being hired back.
I worked at a Motel6 back in the early 2000s, and one of our night auditors did the same thing. She got caught and was fired. I don't know if any orgies were happening, but she did let her girlfriend in to spend the night a few times.
What is an 'auditor' in this situation? Where I live they audit accounts or specific processes, ie they ensure everything is correct.
I don't know why, but front desk staff at hotels are referred to as auditors.
Load More Replies...Airport orgies, yes! Believe me, nothing is more erotically exciting than hearing in the background for hours on end "Passengers in group Z with children or chimps are now cleared for boarding at Gate 14."
I had a guy call in sick so he could go to the same company’s christmas party.
People are pretty stupid. Not many genius's for damn sure. At least here in the USA.
Load More Replies...Why are people supposed to work during christmas party time? (I am assuming it is not a hospital or something like that)?
Probably something 24/7 like a hospital or IT. I was in IT and on employee appreciation day several people who had no interest in going would gladly work. Not this guy though.
Load More Replies...Sounds like there is a reason the party wasn't built around his schedule... 🤔
When my wife was in college she worked as a teller at the bank. Tellers were responsible for checking out and checking in a certain amount of cash on every shift. One of her coworkers doing the evening shift decided to take the money to the casino with the idea that he would replace it in the morning. Unluckily for him there was an audit in the bank the next morning before he came in and he was fired on the spot.
Same thing happened in the movie Empire Records. Didn't work then either.
♥ one of my all time favourite movies. Might actually watch that tonight, thanks.
Load More Replies...What would happen if he lost that money. He end being in trouble. Then he really would have been in trouble..
"One of her coworkers doing the evening shift decided to take the money to the casino with the idea that he would replace it in the morning." How bright.
A friend of mine tried to pull something similar at a restaurant we worked at. Caught immediately.
30 years ago my boyfriend and I worked and lived in at a hotel. Unbeknown to me we were paying for our destination wedding but he didn't have the final payment so he asked the receptionist if he could borrow the money from the hotel safe. She gave him the money, the hotel found out, he was sacked on the spot and she was given written notice for gross misconduct. It took me another 8 years before I finally left him . We never did marry.
When you start at a bank and they show you orientation videos, the very FIRST thing they show you is people (actors) telling how they borrowed money from their till. What the BP story doesn’t say is that your till isn’t audited daily, so there is the ability to “borrow” money if you are really brazen.
Had a friend working in a bar that had 2 of these electronic slots that required credit to be inserted by a special key, at the time. He inserted thousands of dollars worth of credit, played and when he won, he would only take the profit so the owner thought someone had paid, etc. One day he inserted several thousands dollars and only lost so his solution was to throw a bucket of water on the machine, short-circuit it so nobody could know! It worked! Owner doesn't know to this day!!!
FedEx was saved from bankruptcy early in its history by gambling the payroll at a casino
I (HR Head) got a call from a “sex chat administrator”, informing our official account is unpaid. They will take legal action if we don’t pay immediately. I thought it was a joke. Anyways we did get a legal notice! Then legal and HR investigated. The “sex chat” company sent a phone call copy. As soon I played it, my HR lady screamed- I know this guy, he works in supply chain!! Later on, we realised we had a employee who used to make phone “sex chat” calls using our company landline. We politely told him to pay up and settle the matter. Then issued a final warning letter.
A final letter besides being incredibly stupid he's a pervert. Expected fired
On his second day at KFC, he tried walk out with two buckets of chicken and ran right into our boss.
Depends on the franchise. There are four locations within a reasonable distance of my home, and only one of them is worth going to.
Load More Replies...I used to paint commercial buildings and one of our contracts was for the local KFCs. So we'd have to go in early enough to get touch ups done and whatnot. One day I went to use the slop sink to wash out a brush and there was frozen raw chicken thawing right there in the sink along side the mop they used to wash the floor. I nearly puked. I know not all of them are like this but yuck. Then we also had a hard time going up and down our ladders in the back kitchen areas because the floors were slick with grease. It was very slippery back there. Gross.
People would be staggered at how much food KFC's throw away. Way more than most of the restaurants I've been to. Since they can't cook to order.
When I worked at Sams club, one of the cashiers pocketed a few grand from his drawer and put it on Facebook.
We were a new club, so if that much money went missing, it would have taken them a while to figure out. Or so I was told.
One of the managers overheard and they put two and two together. He got arrested and was fired.
When I worked at a bank in the 80’s, a time of analog everything, somehow they mislaid a million dollars between the armored cars (huge downtown bank with 20 teller windows) and the vault. Turned out it was a guy who worked in the vault.
I worked for a large bank in the cash vault in the early 80's. We had a guy steal a few thousand dollars. He was caught. The bank turned the theft into a loan because a trial would have exposed too many security details. They also fired the guy.
Load More Replies...It amazes me how many people are so stupid as to openly brag about their crimes on social media.
In my city a group of men successfully robbed a Brinks Armored truck and made off with hundreds of thousands. They were caught because one of their girlfriends went to Walmart with a fresh wad of the cash, still in the band and everything. I figure if you’re smart enough to rob a truck, you’re smart enough to leave the country and live large on the cash. Not to go on a shopping spree at the local Walmart.
I worked at a Sam's Club in Kirkwood, MO. and we had a store manager who stole, I believe, 5000 grand or fewer, but it was a couple of thousand or so. He got caught and was fired, I am so certain that if his skin color was a wee bit darker, he would have gone to jail. I still see him from time to time, he knows who I am, he makes eye contact and turns away quickly. Honestly, what are we going to talk about? Are we going to talk about that time you promised to sign me up for lead or AMIT or that time you stole a few thousand from the safe and did not get locked up? Which is it, lol? I do hope he is reading this and wish him the worst and shout out to C.J. the condescending, snitching, petty, a-hole who was fired from the store, you had it coming and it was about time. Sorry for the rant.
Worked with a guy in finance and he was manipulating spreadsheets. Got away with 250k and all they did was fire him. Still blows my mind.
I know someone who had to fire a person that had been a good shop manager and colleagues because they 'lost' one cash deposit and were on warning when they went to do another drop and accidentally didn't have the right envelope - shouldn't you be freaking out that you've mislaid a large amount of $ that isn't yours!?!
Read about the Loomis Fargo heist that took place October 1997. Happened Charlotte and proved money will never make one smart nor will it cure "redneck" taste.
I worked at a competitor to Sam's in the '80s and '90s. One afternoon, thirteen front line workers left the club in handcuffs, including a couple of head cashiers. Meanwhile, we on the night crew were the ones treated like criminals
When I was in college working in retail, I was training on closing the cash office - there were around 30 tills throughout the store that had to be closed out in situ and anything over $50 had to be brought to the cash office to be counted again and closed out again centrally - inputting each registers take into the computer. Somehow I managed to close out the entire store after only inputting a few registers, so obviously we were hundreds of thousands of dollars "short" - corporate security was immediately on the phone with all the managers panicking and telling them to lock down the building and not let any employees leave until security reps were on scene and it was sorted out. Oops.
Once had a co-worker selling shrimp from the dumpster. Picked them out after brunches. Popped a few on a skewer, and sold them in the bars that night. Got caught in a bar with the manager, and the CCTV caught him dumpster diving. They had him arrested
I'd question anyone selling shrimp in a bar. Same way I questioned the dude who walked into our pub selling meat from the supermarket...
Who is going to buy a skewer full of shrimp from some guy in a bar?
Yep. Nothing compliments cold twofer draw beer at happy hour than dumpster shrimp!
Yikes!! This gave me the icky sick. I guess, I hope, you can be suspicious if this is an unadvertised special not on the menu? Cuz, ick!!! I can’t imagine how or why a “lowly” line employee would have any benefit doing this?!? Please tell me that’s how to avoid this. I don’t want to completely give up eating from restaurants.
What was he arrested for? It's not theft, since it's from the dumpster. Was it some kind of health violation? I've never heard of anyone getting arrested for that
It’s definitely a health violation and he may not have had a vendor’s license (if he needed one, not everywhere requires them) which is another criminal offence
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Employee said he was sick and then came to same restaurant for dinner as a customer
Brilliance should surely be rewarded with extra free time to pursue intellectual interests.
I read a similar story. Supermarket employee called in sick just to show up a few hours later with shopping bags in the very store she worked at. Reason? Because the had the tampons reduced
I don't think that should necessarily be a problem. I mean dinner is 10(ish) hours away from when you're getting ready for work. It's entirely possible to be sick in the morning, be feeling better by lunch and perfectly fine by dinner. Depending on the claimed illness of course.
I had a number of complaints about a new member of staff, they said that she kept taking off her shoes, pulling dry skin from her feet, and eating it. I thought the staff were lying and being mean about her just because they didn't like her... Until I saw her do it. She didn't finish the week as she quit.
This feels like some sort of tic or compulsive disorder that she probably didn't have a solid handle on.
My brother eats his scabs. He's not allowed to cook for me.
Load More Replies...Okay, if you're disgusting enough to do this, why, why on earth would you do it where people can see you? Did she honestly think this was normal?
Wonder what the thought process is. Peel, wonder what this tastes like? Yum tasty?! Need more! (😱🤮)
Had an employee that was actively robbing local banks on his days off. I believe he hit 8-9 different banks before he got caught. Found out about it during an early am FBI raid of the employee locker/break rooms done in conjunction with a raid on his house. To say it was a shock was an understatement. He wasn’t even top 20 of my list of potential felonious employees.
The sister of a friend of mine was robbing banks on her lunch hour. She'd go out for lunch, rob the bank (a different one each time), and return to her job. She got caught because after a while the cops plotted the bank locations on a map, and they formed a circle around the industrial complex where she worked. The next time she robbed a bank, the police were waiting for her in the employee parking lot when she returned.
It is kinda a good plan, you wouldn't expect someone to go back to work, and they'd have somewhat of an alibi, too bad they weren't smart enough to quit while they were ahead
Load More Replies...Not a bank robber, but a guy I worked with robbed a 7-11 after work. He had a ball cap and a face mask to hide his identity, but forgot to remove his employee ID badge complete with his picture on it.
Our garage band knew a guitarist who would gig with us when he was in town. Had really nice gear. We were going to talk him into joining up when he was finally arrested for a string of armed robberies. Bass player observed that now we knew where he got the money for the gear. I wonder if he's out of prison by now.
at least he wasn't doing it on company time though, that's something I guess.
This definitely won’t be as crazy as all the other stories, and is definitely not even closest to the craziest person I’ve had to go to HR about/was called in to report on, but it really stuck with me:
This guy was bullying another one really, really badly. Like American high school movie in 80’s badly. Reason? He was from out of town. That was it. I thought there HAD to be more to the drama, went to the place, interviewed a few people, watched it happen myself, and… damn, yeah, it seemed like this guy could NOT take the fact that this kid (20s) was from another state. I was absolutely expecting the sort of drama that building was more famous for (baby daddies, sleeping with someone’s wife, etc). Nope…
In school, bullies often went after "the new kid". And although bullies get older, they don't grow up.
Daughter was bullied by a kid because we weren’t from the little town. The video of him jumping her from behind was rather entertaining - he took an elbow to the stomach, strike to the throat, and a side kick to a knee. She might have been smaller than him, but her martial arts skills paid off. He was expelled. My daughter was told all was good, she was not in any trouble. This kid had been hitting other others and making threats. The next year when he came back, he actively avoided her, and was shamefully made fun of for getting his rear kicked by a girl. Karma, my dude, karma.
I despise bullying, but I would also like to hear about the other drama lol
Had someone ‘turn in’ a co-worker for doing 90+ on an interstate with a loaded trailer on the back. Guy insists he wasn’t going that fast. Installed gps. He was. Fired him. He was stunned.
If only there was some sort of device that tells the driver how fast they are going ...
Could you imagine how amazing that would be?- Not only if it existed, but if they put it right in front of the wheel so you couldn't uninstall it? If only.
Load More Replies...We used to have GPS trackers in our work trucks. One day I get a call from the CFO (small company) and get asked as to why I was driving 95 mph on I-40 at 03:30. Told her that I was home in bed and the truck was in the shop. She didn't really believe me because the GPS showed other wise. Over the next few weeks she accused other drivers of the same thing. Come to find out the steel roof of the shop combined with the RADAR from the nearby airport did some screwy things with the GPS. No one ever got an apology.
I live in snow country and one day I heard this diesel rig heading up the pass and then boom! The rig was an old Army 6 x 6 and the driver was going over the pass to rescue a Subaru that had been led up the unplowed road by GPS. Boom!
Guy at business I worked at a few years back was caught committing burglaries... The tracker on his work vehicle put him at the various locations.
Critical items at the jewelry counter were anything over $500 and had to be counting at the start and end of each shift and shift change. Items keep coming up missing and one of the other employees complained that it was a certain lady stuffing it up her hot pocket. Security took her to the bathroom. It was true. She had a men's necklace shoved up there. I can't imagine who she was gonna give that too.
It's a very good thing they didn't sell barbed wire jewelry!
Load More Replies...It may be that the guy she was going to give it to was already, you might say, familiar with the neighborhood.
In order to turn her in, how did they know she was stuffing things up there? Seriously. How?
When men do it it's called a Prison Wallet. :) I saw a show where some guy they arrested had a knife stashed up there!!
I worked for a staffing agency early in my career. We got a call that one of our placements was taking his lunch break and not clocking out for it. He was taking 2 hour lunch breaks. Also, _He brought in his George Foreman grill and cooked for himself and everyone in a highly flammable warehouse._ Another story, same staffing agency. We had a guy who was placed with a company that gave him a car and card for gas. A week after he started, he was paying for his friends and family members gas with the company credit card *at the same time, in a line at the gas station.* So many crazy stories from that place…
Jerks like this are why we have to put gas in the company car after every single trip regardless of the distance and log the mileage and $ on a clipboard - I mean obviously you have to track this stuff but I really don't enjoy stopping to put $3 of gas in a car when it is freezing out and I just want to go home
We used a staffing agency to hire a courier. The job required driving to our branch site about 3 hours away, dropping off items, picking up items, then stopping at another branch meeting day and doing the same. So, 6-7 hours of driving and 30 minutes outside the car. The first night, he rode as passenger with our emergency fill-in, so he could learn the route. The next night, fill-in hands him the keys and says you drive tonight. New guy looks at him confused and says "I don't have a license."
I worked for a music shop where a salesman clocked in, went and played a gig totally unrelated to his job at the shop, then came back and clocked out. He remains clocked out to this day
We had this guy as a delivery driver. Super nice, quiet, never showed any signs of anger even in stressful situations. We started getting calls mainly from older women, that our delivery driver(we had our logo on both front doors) was cutting off, flipping off, yelling c*nt, at these women. I didn’t believe it at first. I thought maybe they cut him off, he honked, they wanted him fired so made up some big story. Then the back window got busted out of the vehicle. And then the radio looked like it got punched out for whatever reason. Everything came together and we found out he had huge anger issues. He stopped showing up so it solved itself, but it was crazy how good of a front he put on.
When I see bad driving from a branded vehicle I photograph it and send it to their HR.
I used to work in a call center and get complaints about these guys all the time. Thank you for taking pictures because proof is what gets these guys fired, not complaints
Load More Replies...Please just call the police and report this kind of stuff… ex-call center employee who knows that complaining to the company does nothing…
"Not the employer but..." A store I worked at had a lady who would write down customer's information and repeatedly sign them up for the store credit card (to keep her goals where they were supposed to be). Needless to say when the customers saw their credit reports...
Wells Fargo did this. It’s not uncommon. It’s unethical and larcenous, but it happens
I think Wells Fargo got convicted of this. Then years later THEY DID IT AGAIN!
Load More Replies...So you had goals for getting people to apply to the credit card of the store? And she applied people without their consent? Or am I reading this wrong? Don't have the credit system like that in the Netherlands, so it's a bit confusing for me
Yes. I always cringe a bit inside when retail stores have cashiers ask me about credit cards, or rewards systems as that goes hand-in-hand with cashiers having a certain amount of those things to complete. Was like that when I worked in a retail store too, but I wasn't asking customers for their emails so I would go to my spam box across my emails, write down the spam emails, and sign those emails up.
Load More Replies...part of the blame for this can be laid on the company that sets such "goals" for their employees. And ties pay & bonuses into making those "goals".
I had a situation someone working for my vets ofc took down my info & then tried to blackmail me. It all resulted from my new & previously abused horribly dog had a run in w/her dog. I had her take her dog into the vet & would’ve paid any bill related but the vet informed me not even so much as broken skin or any injuries so they weren’t charging for the visit. I was on my way into classes with my dog & had tried to keep the dogs separate but she ignored my request to not come right up to us & my car. Then thought she was going to threaten to have my dog euthanized because of injuries. Injuries I already knew didn’t exist. When i contacted the police to file an official report/complaint and also contacted my vet to complain about them giving out my personal info to her, that’s when I learned she worked for them. When they find out what happened and I showed them the many threats rcvd by text and the numerous phone calls in one day, she lost her job and had to deal with police.
Ooo we had the same thing happen at one of my previous jobs. Management became suspicious when the employee's numbers were off the charts while other's numbers were low.
I read the stores that always want you to open a store card to save 20% or whatever aren't actual retail store. They're credit card companies with stuff to put on them. It seems true.
I call fake. You have to put in your SSN to apply to any credit card, including store ones. And that’s not used in normal transactions for the employee to write down somewhere to secretly do later.
Some in store credit cards do not require a SSN in the United States. Old Navy is an example- i use to work there. Seems crazy but it's true.
Load More Replies...That a employee took a women’s phone number from her account at the store we worked at and called her. I never thought anyone was that stupid.
I've (unfortunately?) have never suffered from that thought, I was sure that some people were that stupid. But the more you look, it was far more often than not that they legitimately just didn't get "it".
I was a grocery cashier in the US for a number of years. I started in my early 20s, most of my coworkers were still in their teens. One night, I got a call at home from a number I didn't recognize. He seemed to think I should know who he was. When I honestly told him I didn't, he told me that Coworker had given him my number--apparently Caller worked at the grocery store as well. I told him I wasn't interested and hung up. Next time I saw Coworker at work, I asked him why he'd given Caller my number, without asking me first. He looked surprised and told me that Caller claimed I'd given him my number before, but he "lost" it, which is why he asked Coworker for it. I looked Coworker in the eye. "If what Caller said is true (hint, it isn't), then why wouldn't he just ask *me* for my number again, instead of asking you?!" "Uh...I dunno..." I remained friends with Coworker, but I never did find out who Caller actually was.
I get really upset when people give out my number without my ok so when someone asks me for someone else's number I always ask the person before I give it out
Load More Replies...I had a few of these when I was younger. I just told them I wasn’t interested and to never call me again. And hung up. Seemed to work but that was a long time ago.
Local hardware store had an employee jacking and putting it in a coworkers coffee. True story. People found out and he was arrested.
Yeah it took the offramp to sick and got very close to unhinged.
Load More Replies...I was going to ask what drug “jacking” was slang for and then it hit me..🤮
Holy hell...I thought it was just a made up story. "I'm just going to run to the toilet real quick. There's no time for me to set this coffee down."
Our worker took a s**t in the toilet of a vacant apartment that didn't have running water and then didnt say anything and left. They know they are supposed to use bathrooms in the offices/clubhouses because vacant units never have running water. The complex didnt find it until three days later, when they brought a potential tenant for a walkthrough. It had been over 100 degrees all week. The woman i spoke to said there wasnt any toilet paper, either.
Daaaaaamn it had time to crockpot on high heat with those temperatures lol
I wasn’t the employer but my coworker at a sandwich shop when I was 17 would “steal hours” by coming back to the store to clock himself out a couple hours after he left. We made minimum wage and he was canned after the fourth time he did it. He stole, at most, 40 dollars with that brilliant strategy.
I'm not bothered about the story but thanks to the picture I think I'll be having a brie and chorizo sandwich for lunch. I hope the one on the right is roast pork and horseradish
I am so jealous, you play hell trying to find chorizo here in West Michigan.
Load More Replies...And companies get away with not paying you what youre owed. Wage theft. But this dude is the bad guy. 😒
I had a manager that would leave early and clock himself out at the time he was supposed to leave. Left me alone a lot, but eventually was able to get other employees more hours so I wouldn't be alone in a rather dangerous part of town for several hours. Worked out for the kids, manager eventually got fired.
My husband worked at nightclub when we were in college. The manager told all the staff that the price on the POS was wrong and mix drinks were £2 (rather than £1). At the end of each night she would cash up and pocket all the extra money. She did it for about a year.
Some of us don't want to pay for individual items by card or phone/watch... And the issue will be resolved as mentioned in the OP.
Load More Replies...Really smelly farts. Seriously. People requested to move desks.
We had a smelly b@stard of a colleague when I worked security in my 20s... He was a smoker with atrocious hygiene who deliberately farted on the chair we had to share. We came up with various solutions to the problem and eventually complained to our supervisor.
I'm sorry ... that new medicine I am on really does a business on my GI tract.
If you are going to do crime boys and girls, do it big. May as well get ten years for a billion dollars rather than 10 years for 100 dollars.
People who steal a billion dollars don't get 10 years. They get promoted.
Load More Replies...Employee stops showing up to work. We're trying to contact him to make sure he's okay. He was pretty close to come of our other employees so we were all legitimately worried. He shows up a couple weeks later and appears emotionally broken. Tells us that his 7-year old daughter has cancer and that he's been with her in the hospital in a nearby major city and that he's quitting. We're concerned, we've met his kid at a company event, she's a real good kid. We offer to hold his job or look at some remote work options so he can keep working. We end up paying him out. His replacement turns out to be close friends with his family. Daughter wasn't sick. The former employee just wanted to move to this other city. No idea why he made up the story.
He probably had already started a new life in that other city... May have been dating someone from there for longer.
Load More Replies...The frequency of stories like these makes it seem as though all criminals are stupid. The fun part is that no, criminals have the same range of intelligence as the general population. The stories we hear are always about the stupid ones because they’re the ones who get caught.
When I worked in the vault at the big bank in Connecticut in the early 80's, I had a heist all planned out. I'd do it on the day the Fed trucks delivered currency. Had a coworker with a pilot license. At showtime (lunchtime, when there weren't many people around) we'd back a car into the vault ramp, load the bags of money and head for the airport, where my friend would be waiting with a fully fueled twin-engine plane. We'd load the plane and head for somewhere with no extradition to the US. I was thinking Cuba. I figure wr would have about 60-90 minutes before serious pursuit would be ramping up. We could have left with about 10-15 million, a lot of money back then. Never did it, but it was a fun thought experiment.
There was a Twilight Zone episode where the main character started hearing other people's thoughts and an old man was planning a nefarious heist - turns out he just daydreamed about it every day 😄
Load More Replies...I read almost every single one of these here on BP before. Do better. Edited spelling
I was given a verbal warning for 'using big words' on members of staff... The complaint was raised by a girl who either stole, or helped steal a grand out of the tills, before trying to get me pinned for it... Me being the only person who was nowhere near the cash all day... Takes all kinds and the managers need a good head or they become part of the problem.
If you are going to do crime boys and girls, do it big. May as well get ten years for a billion dollars rather than 10 years for 100 dollars.
People who steal a billion dollars don't get 10 years. They get promoted.
Load More Replies...Employee stops showing up to work. We're trying to contact him to make sure he's okay. He was pretty close to come of our other employees so we were all legitimately worried. He shows up a couple weeks later and appears emotionally broken. Tells us that his 7-year old daughter has cancer and that he's been with her in the hospital in a nearby major city and that he's quitting. We're concerned, we've met his kid at a company event, she's a real good kid. We offer to hold his job or look at some remote work options so he can keep working. We end up paying him out. His replacement turns out to be close friends with his family. Daughter wasn't sick. The former employee just wanted to move to this other city. No idea why he made up the story.
He probably had already started a new life in that other city... May have been dating someone from there for longer.
Load More Replies...The frequency of stories like these makes it seem as though all criminals are stupid. The fun part is that no, criminals have the same range of intelligence as the general population. The stories we hear are always about the stupid ones because they’re the ones who get caught.
When I worked in the vault at the big bank in Connecticut in the early 80's, I had a heist all planned out. I'd do it on the day the Fed trucks delivered currency. Had a coworker with a pilot license. At showtime (lunchtime, when there weren't many people around) we'd back a car into the vault ramp, load the bags of money and head for the airport, where my friend would be waiting with a fully fueled twin-engine plane. We'd load the plane and head for somewhere with no extradition to the US. I was thinking Cuba. I figure wr would have about 60-90 minutes before serious pursuit would be ramping up. We could have left with about 10-15 million, a lot of money back then. Never did it, but it was a fun thought experiment.
There was a Twilight Zone episode where the main character started hearing other people's thoughts and an old man was planning a nefarious heist - turns out he just daydreamed about it every day 😄
Load More Replies...I read almost every single one of these here on BP before. Do better. Edited spelling
I was given a verbal warning for 'using big words' on members of staff... The complaint was raised by a girl who either stole, or helped steal a grand out of the tills, before trying to get me pinned for it... Me being the only person who was nowhere near the cash all day... Takes all kinds and the managers need a good head or they become part of the problem.

