“Fishy-Tasting Cups Of Tea”: 71 Office Drama Incidents That Are HR Nightmares

Should not only be a sackable offense, but deserves criminal charges. 😅

"Wait till you see how I react when you d*e. Then you'll have something to complain about."

I once had two Rebeccas in class, so I began calling one "Beckaroo" to distinguish them. She liked it and now uses it as her name in her email address.

Sounds like a fun day!

That should be a police investigation for a*****t.

As juicy as that is, should Casanova have been stopped immediately from being able to do this at work (posting about it AND all the hookups)? Unless it's a workplace where this is allowed (hookups I mean). STILL...the publishing of all that information should be the reason that Casanova was fired immediately.

So, here's a thought. And I know it's probably a real novel idea....DON'T eat the cake or sweets. No thanks is a phrase that has been used MANY times to politely decline something you don't want.

Sounds like PCP.

I'd simply put a copy of that waiver on his socials.

She needs actual psychiatric help - someone needs to call a welfare check. And if she then denies it all and says she's fine, present the evidence. If she admits to making it up, fire her. If she keeps lying, she will get sectioned. Either way is a "win".

Shouldn't the entity doing the suspending have informed the hospitals in the area the doctor practiced?

File a stalking report.

"What do you mean, the other employees are badgering you? Badgers don't exist, remember?"

This is like the HR staffer who printed out (and left on the printer for others to find) a spreadsheet showing the salary and benefits package for every single employee in the company. (Its also why many companies have security walk you from the room you got fired in straight out of the building, not even letting you pack up your belongings. I had no juicy knowledge whatsoever, but when I got fired once my supervisor went to my desk and brought me my bag before walking me out, and then packed everything else up into a box and shipped it to me. I actually knew that I was being forced out, too, so I'd actually preemptively wrapped up some delicate decorative objects so they wouldn't be damaged by careless packing.)

If they will cheat with you, they will cheat on you - why do so many not understand this?

It's lucky for the husband that he's already there in the ICU.

"Came to help" can be misinterpreted here.

People who try to spread racism never have a leg to stand on.

I quit my first job, at a fast food restaurant I won't name, after a freezer incident. A customer had ordered a strawberry shortcake, but we'd run out of strawberry preserves in the front. So I ran back to get a new vat from the walk-in, and found that they all had a thick layer of mold on top. I told the store director and she said to scrape it off and serve it anyway. All so we didn't miss the opportunity to sell a single $1.50 item.

A and B should start carpooling with C and D. They all have so much in common.

That's not a crush. That's creepy and mentally disturbed.

Possible scenario: someone else uncovers the boss's embezzlement, and the OP gets fired because she had known for months and said nothing. No one can support her "girlfriend" story because no one knew they were dating.

Some men are bi. And even more are just greedy.

Probably because the management got repeated allegations of s****l harassment because some doctors were trying to date the nurses, and specifically applied pressure and unwelcome persistence when refused. Rather than fire the problematic guys, they opted to blame any nurses who fail to stonewall ANY personal conversation at all.

Always assume that ANYTHING you type or view (or file/image that you store) on any electronic device that belongs to your employer can, and often will, be used against you. Even if the device doesn't secretly have monitoring software like key-loggers installed (which you might have even technically been informed of in the fine print of any contracts or nondisclosures that you signed), a forensic IT examination of the device can uncover pretty much everything, even if you tried to delete it.

he might wake up abroad one day.

straight to the media with this please !!!

She probably showed up Monday morning like nothing was wrong because she doesn't remember what happened.

Is having proof of a spouse having cheated taken into account during the divorce proceedings in the US? I mean, I assume that this is the US

Time to go job hunting.

"My client was only trying to demonstrate the lack of structural integrity in the workplace infrastructure in preparation for a complaint to OSHA."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xftfZdVAIKk Exact same thing!

How was it any of the follower's business?

Profiting by outsourcing work to a foreign country is reserved as a corporate privilege.

Classy

Or it was stolen by a current employee who realized that the new one would be immediately suspected.

Sounds creepy

you were lucky then, you were maybe getting set up to take the fall.

One disadvantage of having your boss live close to the office is that it lessens the chance they will leave early to avoid traffic.

Had a manager that did this same thing. Told us he was out because he was sick. Called the emergency contact which was his wife and she spilled the beans

I wonder if it was a company where ownership and management was strongly aligned with some sort of super strict fundamentalist religious branch (Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Evangelical/Pentecostal Christians, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, etc). In some of those communities, even extremely tame non-religiously-themed music might be seen as dangerous and unacceptable.

Milton from Office Space? The Bobs will fix the glitch

I hope the boss hadn't stiffed them on pay too!

If the current owning family has no clue how to run the business, the sale might be a good thing for the employees - depending on who buys it, of course.

This is almost like one of the subplots from the British film "Bedrooms and Hallways". (Bonus: in the film, the real estate agent with the f****h for s*x in his clients' houses is played by Hugo Weaving!)

Why bully him, when the problem seems to be the 3rd person who thought that their relationship was more serious than he did?