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119 Work Secrets Employees Discovered That They Probably Shouldn’t Have
Every person who's ever had a job knows that every workplace, starting from huge corporations with cubicle offices and ending with family-owned businesses with three office employees, has its own secrets, big and small. Most of us don't ever find out anything unusual about the secret life going on within our workplace, except for some petty gossip or drama between coworkers. However, on rare occasions, some people just happen to find out something that they were not supposed to know, and then it's up to them what to do with said information.
Well, the most common route the office working people seem to take is to keep the secret to themselves and occasionally share it on sites such as Reddit. But to be honest, we are delighted by this, as some of these secrets they shared made for a very juicy post! Scroll down below to see what kind of information and office jokes were unknowingly found out and don't forget to comment and vote on your favorite stories, or, hell, add your office work secret if you have something interesting to share!
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#1
All this stuff is so negative...I’m gonna throw a positive one out there! My boss is secretly a competitive ballroom dancer and he’s too embarrassed to tell anyone. I found out when my girlfriend and I took a beginner course and he was in the studio working on a routine. I got sworn to secrecy but I think that’s so interesting.
Night Owl 7 years ago
Aww, tell him there's no need to be embarrassed. He should be proud instead.
Lola 7 years ago
There’s always going to be someone who makes fun of you. So what?
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Being_Cori 7 years ago
the ballroom dancers are what the girls admire specially at weddings ;)
Robert Morson 7 years ago
You got sworn to secrecy, so, naturally, you told the entire internet. Nice.
Magdalina777 7 years ago
Haha, I've been on a job-related(not looking for a new job, been interviewed by one of the potential clients on the current one is more like it) interview recently and I swear I made the most positive impression on them when I mentioned I'm into latina dancing XD Turned out the whole 4 people interviewing me were into it too lol...that client did decide to side with my company after all, though whether that's thanks for or in spite of my interview is unknown:P
Morgana Alexa Dovah 7 years ago
WoW, you have to love it when something like that happens. You took a chance and shared a bit of your private life in that interview that I'm sure you don't share at every interview you've been on and it paid off in spades. You must be very good at reading people. Congratulations to you on getting the client account for your company. I sure hope they appreciate what a gem they have in you because I'm certain the company didn't "side with" your company in spite of your interview, you obviously made a promising and favourable impression with them. :)
Load More Replies... bob 7 years ago
You know it's the premise of a very nice japanese movie? Shall we dance is the name.
Lara Smith 7 years ago
Stanley Tucci has the perfect response to being caught in the US remake.
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#2
At a previous job we had an HR manager get fired right after returning from maternity leave. She was replaced by the guy that she trained to fill in for her while she was gone. She sent a company wide email with the pay rate of everyone from the plant manager on down. It was a s**t show. A lot of pay rates were wildly different in management/supervision and maintenance. There were talks of workstop strikes and slowdowns, even threats of unionizing. I believe that this one act lead to the eventual closure of the plant. It was a crazy time.
athornedrose 7 years ago
secret salaries are how discrimination is able to occur without anyone fighting for their rights
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Whawhawhatsis 7 years ago
My mom, while I was in college, got fired from her job and replaced by a young man from her department who she had trained for a subordinate position. This was before lawsuits were common, around 1973, but she filed suit for age and sex discrimination, and after a couple of years settled for a small amount of money -- but paid healthcare for life. Needless to say, when my dad got Parkinson's about 10 years later, that settlement was worth a whole lot more than just cash would have been. I was very proud of her.
Bridget Star 7 years ago
my boss discriminated against me in the workplace and I reported it to HR, HR turned around and fired me for reporting the incident. lol
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
This is obviously in America. Not only is there a generous maternity leave in most European countries, but you cannot be fired for having a baby.
ThatJeremyKid 7 years ago
All places should have to do this once per year. It would basically eliminate workplace underpayment and general discrimination.
#3
Not a current job but at a past job, my manager quit and the CEO gave me access to his emails so I could find information about how to do projects he only knew about. I started looking for all the salary information from all the co-workers on my team. Found out I was being paid significantly less than the person who previously had my position. I went and negotiated about a 40% raise with the CEO based on that information.
KaPOW 7 years ago
Thats not ok, you negotiated your pay, they negotiated theirs. I dont agreed with going snooping
Random Panda 7 years ago
Secret salaries is how people get exploited. 40% less is a big difference, they did the right thing.
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I know the key code to a store room I'm not really supposed to. I use it for naps
Giulia Piccy 7 years ago
Well if you are dead I think being found is last of your problems...
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キミ 7 years ago
Someone need a nap. And you can do it at home, after work. Yeah ! :D
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ThatGirlHayley 7 years ago
Haha thats something i can see myself doing. To bad if you die in there. Nobody will know
Neill Powell 7 years ago
We moved to a beautiful home right next door to work. The big-boss quipped "so you go home for lunch?" I replied "Yes, I do, lunch is code for 'power-nap', actually". I am waiting for him to ask for the keys to have "lunch" at our place...
#5
After reading the other stuff, mine is kinda boring. But i spent company money on an ice cream machine that i hide in my office.
kmxo 7 years ago
how do you hide an ice cream machine... how much ice cream do you need a day.. this is blowing my mind
gellert grindlewald 3 years ago (edited)
you have asked all the right questions, my dear kmxo!
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Trixster Million 7 years ago
Congratulations, you're a felon. I hope your kids look up to you.
Louise Brigance 7 years ago
Oh come on! I scream, you scream we all scream for ice cream...be a hero and share!!
#6
Casino worker. There are a disturbing amount of suicides that happen on property. Almost none are reported to the public.
Patricia Ross 7 years ago
Let's see...just lost the house, the car, the job, the family...yeah, it was suicide.
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BusLady 7 years ago
Not surprising at all. Casinos are corrupt. Gambling addiction is a living hell, and the casinos do nothing to help these people. They just take their money.
Wendillon 7 years ago
Technically a person's addiction is not the fault of the casino. That's like saying McDonald's does nothing to help the obese.
Load More Replies... Bored Fox 7 years ago
I remember one documentary about Las Vegas hotels where the hotel workers told how they have to keep a hotel guest's death a secret from the other guests and it is very difficult always try to get the body out of the room without no one noticing.
r3dd3v1lL 7 years ago
Reminds me of Fawlty Towers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAA7wmiBF-4
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Kevin Donegan 7 years ago
If you've ever stepped into a casino, you see lots of desperate, depressed looking people. They're all there to spend their last time on the 1 in 436,589,451,083 chance of winning.
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
wow, I had no idea. That's sad :( Is it because they get too far in the hole?
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
With all the online casinos adding that many more black holes to lose money in, the number of gambling-related suicides are probably even more under-reported. Gambling has caused tragedy for so many families, not only losing everything they had but also their loved ones. It is like drug use. The ones who do it create problems for others.
Jace 7 years ago
Like drugs? Antidepressants make people more likely to act on impulses. This includes wasting money on gambling, or many other things they know they shouldn’t, and normally wouldn’t, spend money on. I wonder how many depressed gamblers are on this specific track.
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Pam Falcioni 7 years ago
Suicides are typically not reported to the public unless they occur in a very public place and there is news coverage. They are most definitely reported to the coroner though.
#7
My boss has been banging the secretary, who is married, for years, and it’s a secret that the secretary’s first kid (14 yo) is my boss’ biological child. my boss is also married with kids.
Martha Meyer 7 years ago
More like poor cheated-on husband (and bosses wife). The kids are not affected as long as this stays secret and their families aren't ripped up by divorce.
Load More Replies... Trixster Million 7 years ago
You should anonymously tell the husband to get a paternity test. Or should they all live out a lie?
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
wow.....they should get divorced and then marry eachother. What a horrid deception
Molly McCabe 7 years ago
This world needs morals and human sacrifice for those who don't have any
#8
From my last job... "Under no circumstances are you even to look at what's going on in the other half of the plant." What was going on? They were building an automated side. Got replaced by a robot a year later.
#9
My boss stores beer in the server room because the temperature is always kept cool
Neill Powell 7 years ago
This has actually been done in many more honest situations. beer in "big-jim" containers in the server rooms before an afternoon with the tech-staff is completely common, also, fingerprint access-control. Nice
Basil 7 years ago
This bothers me a lot more than the ice cream machine one ever could. That one may be technically stealing, but they never took it off company property. Anyone who drinks at work though puts everyone there at potential risk, no matter what the job is. I guess as the wife of a factory worker I just a long time ago lost the ability to see humor in stuff like this. If someone at my husband's job sneaks a couple beers at lunch, someone could die.
#10
Once instead of receiving my paycheck, I received a file containing every paycheck of everybody in the company. Thus, I knew how much money everybody were making, what benefits they had, etc. (Including the CEO and high management)
Michael Vickery 7 years ago
I'll bet upper management would have had a heart attack if they knew. I would have made a copy for every single employee and see what happened.
Nikki D 7 years ago
Oooh, if you could be sure of staying anonymous, that would be an excellent idea!
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#11
Not my current job, but when I worked in logistics my boss, head of outbound operations didn't have a high school diploma and and the job required a college degree. She lied on her resume to get the job. She was an amazing boss, though. She didn't micromanage, she called me on my shit and screw-ups when they occurred but was never mean or "power-trippy" about it. She offered suggestions to increase efficiency, but they weren't required, we just had to test them out, keep what worked, discard what didn't. Somehow, she always was able to make me feel proud of a job well done, while still making determined to do better. Probably the best boss I've worked for to date. And that includes 6 years of self-employment. She was fired a few months after I left for lying on her resume.
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
That is sad. They should’ve offered her a chance to finish her schooling. It’s well known people lie on their resumes all over the place, and all the time. But it’s the level of the lie that is what matters. She sounded like she was wonderful at her job, but didn’t have the education. Letting her go, was a bad decision. Because she should be snapped up in a similar job situation, and they won’t care, they L just help her finish school! And keep doing a great job in the meantime!
Mike Cullinan 7 years ago
This is the stuff that gets me - a good boss, with both personal and technical skills - terminated on the grounds that she didn't have her pedigree. I'd rather work for someone like that than others that think that piece of paper makes them automatically qualified.
Lola 7 years ago
Going to college does not constitute as just a piece of paper. Going to college opens up your mind to a whole sea of information and knowledge that you wouldn’t get otherwise. Please don’t knock down the importance of it.
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Patricia Ross 7 years ago (edited)
Maybe not educated, but obviously a very intelligent person.
ADHORTATOR 7 years ago
You need skills, no diploma (Especially in logistics, I am working on this field since over 30 years...)
phil blanque 7 years ago
"And that includes years of self-employment".....funny. But personnel lies often catch up with you. A sad change in the American workforce is the loss of the opportunity to enter at a lower position (one that a person is qualified for) and work upward. It just is not available much anymore. Many, many people benefited from this opportunity in the last century.
Teri Donovan 7 years ago
Just proof that a college degree isn't everything. If she worked for me and I found out I would pay her tuition to get her AD at least.
#12
I’m a nanny. Short answer - everything. I hear all of the whispers you think I can’t hear from the next room. Your kids know/talk more than you think. Google fills in your search history when I’m ordering more diapers. I pull the receipts out of the dryer that fell out of your pants pockets. The iPad the kids use has the photo account linked across all of your devices. I don’t snoop intentionally, but just as a byproduct of being in the home all day and working with a family so intimately I definitely know most/all of the family secrets. Even the secrets that Momboss and Dadboss may be keeping from each other. I just pretend not to know anything at all until I’m directly told. I would never tell these things to anyone, but make sure you really trust your nannies. And/or have a non-disclosure clause in their contract.
BusLady 7 years ago
Especially if Mom and Dad are well known people, like performers. Those gossip mags pay well.
Keuthonymos 7 years ago
"I don't snoop intentionally" So the five seconds you have from feeling around to find something in the pocket to opening it up and reading it isn't intentional? You snoop, and you do it knowingly.
Lola 7 years ago
Maid/cook/driver/teacher/cleaner/parent psychiatrist...you name it. These people are never just hired to take care of kids.
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Neill Powell 7 years ago
This is precisely the reason I always say "no Slip". My Bank account keeps a record, i don't need to prove I bought an orange at a deli on a Tuesday, at 13:50pm. Big things yes, heavy domestic purchases and items that need to show up on your tax return, for the rest.. No slip. Having the maid see your patio-table purchase for double her salary for the month will p**s her off. She doesn't need to know you burned the last pennies in your credit card to do so,she'll never think of it like that. I have not got a single device without a password on it. not a chance.
#13
Someone has been stealing things from everyone's desks in our office. I setup a teddy cam on someone's desk (with their permission) to find out who was doing it. Turns out it's the owner of the company. Since a lot of people are asking. I confronted him about it in private. Over the course of 2-3 months the majority of things started reappearing and the stealing came to a stop after that. At least for the most part, occasionally something would go missing but it wasn't near as often.
BusLady 7 years ago
Exactly what I was thinking. They do it for the thrill, and often take things that are useless to them, or that they could easily buy.
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Martha Riche 7 years ago
Very considerate of you to confront him in private. Hope he's getting counseling for his kleptomania!
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
Good job. You didn’t have to embarrass him, so you didn’t. He knew he was caught, and gave it back and learned a valuable lesson. You are a great and caring person! You handled it the right way, and allowed him to return what he took. Thank you, for you human kindness!
#14
The reason there's high turnover is because management fired the one competent manager for being too kind.
#15
There is a removable panel in the restroom that allows access to various pipes in the wall. It also allows you to perfectly hear meetings in the superintendents office. I've learned lots of juicy things I'm not supposed to know about. 1)some coworkers were having sex on company property on company time they thought management wouldn’t find out. Management found out. 2)My top boss has anxiety and would practice his speech to my direct supervisor before giving it to everyone. 3)My boss isn’t nice behind closed doors. I heard him talk so much shit about my coworkers.
Test Oratiusx 7 years ago
Sex on company property is not unusual for you? Where do you work? Are there any vacancies there?
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My office purposily messes up people's wages to see if A) they're honest about receiving extra or B) they can save money by not paying it all. It's such a scum thing to do just glad it never happened to me.
Ruth Beaty 7 years ago
Many people just don't keep track of their hours and pay. You really, really should. For this reason if nothing else.
Jolijn Njamin-Geurts van Kessel 7 years ago
Happened to me, was honest about it to my employer, got a raise :)
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 7 years ago
Not everyone knows exactly how much they should be paid - this sounds illegal.
Basil 7 years ago
I believe B happens. I do not believe A happens because the legal nightmares that would cause. The amount of employee outrage that would generate omg, my husband and his coworkers would burn their business to the ground if their boss tried that s**t. That's not like the finding a wallet on the ground moral quandary, that's your paycheck, and regardless your boss isn't your moral guide anyway, ew ew ew ew. I fully do not believe this one, that is bananas.
#17
That at my “zero drug tolerance” workplace the CEOs executive assistant and the head of HR do coke on weekends together. So I know when they’re not going out that weekend there’ll be a workplace drug test the end of the next week.
Basil 7 years ago
To control employees under the guise of "safety". To participate in the failed drug war. Racism. Classism. To be able to freely discriminate against addicts or casual drug users. A tool of propaganda for the alcohol industry. Just spitballin' here. I'm sure there's a million more.
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Hugo Raible 7 years ago
4 days. But longer in hair. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/heres-how-long-various-drugs-stay-in-your-body-1/
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#18
Everyone's passwords. We store them in cleartext. It's horrifying.
Neill Powell 7 years ago
You have a Moral obligation here to literally have a s**t-fit about this.
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
haha yes. I was told a co-workers password one day, he really likes his swear words
#19
Not really something I’m not meant to know but more something the public aren’t meant to know about an old place of work: the vegetarian roasts aren’t vegetarian.
Mhor 7 years ago
Not a vegan or even a vegetarian but just want to point out that there is such a thing called Alpha-gal allergy - otherwise known as meat allergy (or mammalian meat allergy). I believe it is rare, but that's not really the point here.
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Bored Fox 7 years ago
This would not work here (Finland). Here the restaurants have a very good reputation to serve exactly what was ordered so people with allergies, intolerances and various diets will always get what they ordered. No one wants to pay the hospital bill if someone gets sick because of the wrong type of food.
Liz Karsa 7 years ago
It is really terrible to screw with someone's dietary needs and or beliefs without their knowledge. People don't eat meat for many reasons that go beyond being a vegetarian. It's weird...if a restaurant serves a vegetarian a (ooh don't tell anyone) non-vegetarian roast somehow it is funny BUT if that same restaurant takes a steak...drops it on the floor..puts it on your plate and you eat it ..hmm..not so funny at all.
kathryn stretton 7 years ago
That's assault. A terrible thing to do. I'm not even vegetarian and this has made me livid.
Captain Marvel 7 years ago
I actually find this very disturbing and...well, not offensive, exactly, but something like that. I myself am vegetarian. Like most vegetarians I love animals very much (very!) and that's one of the main reasons I don't eat meat, because I can't stand to eat our beautiful creatures.It's very upsetting to find out this sort of thing, there's a REASON we've chosen to eat the way we do and how hard can it be to change your menu?!?! There's a LOT I want to say about this but I'm just going to leave before I get even angrier...moving on...
Azure Adams 7 years ago
That's super f****d up and a major lawsuit waiting to happen. Blow that whistle!!
Karasi Mills 7 years ago
That is so messed up. Vegetarians who haven't eaten meat in a long time get sick when they accidentally eat it, their digestive systems have shifted. This is as cruel as intentionally putting laxatives in every meal served.
Whatevers not taken 7 years ago
Your wrong. Your body doesn't evolve because you don't eat something. That's like saying i stay in water all day but when i get out the air hurts me. Your an idiot. Do your research before you comment on something you don't know.
Load More Replies... Basil 7 years ago
TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN.Do you really need to be told that this is unethical and it is up to YOU, poster of this secret, to do something about it? OK, well here is your permission then. This is unethical and immoral and its immorality trumps the unethicalness of breaking any sort of non-disclosure agreement you might have signed promising not to tell. Leak that s**t, and do it as anonymously but as verifiably as possible. It is our duty as human beings to not let capitalism grind us up and remove our humanity. Stand up against this s**t! It just takes one person with a conscience!
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
That's terrible :( makes me think about people who do not eat meat because of religion etc that place could be sued and lose everything
Whatevers not taken 7 years ago
Yeah all those people going to hell now for eating meat. Makes sense.
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The CEO does coke before public speaking
Ryo Bakura 7 years ago
I do coke before breakfast. I know I shouldn't, but diabetes is a risk I'm willing to take.
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
Having a boss that is doing drugs at work cannot be very conducive to that boss being respected by anyone.
#21
That in March next year the company I work for will lose the contract to provide catering and all employees will probably lose their job. I can't sleep at night, I can't look them in the eyes. The company that contracts us has already started negotiating with another contractor and I am friends with someone high up in that company. They've told me to get out ASAP. My boss doesn't even know. I have been dropping hints but I don't know what to do. If I can i will find new jobs for my team (there are two separate teams and I manage 1) before then and encourage them to put in an application but I can't make them.
Captain Marvel 7 years ago
Just start posting really creepy signs on the doors, leave them all over the place anonymously. Stuff like, GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAN, LEAVE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE, GO, GO AND DON'T LOOK BACK in drippy red marker. Trust me, it'll work.
Ruth Beaty 7 years ago
anonymous emails? Anonymous postings on company boards? Get out now and don't wait.
Justina Garlaitė 7 years ago
why don't you tell? You have time to find a new client. And what is the business with one client anyway? You cannot keep all eggs in one basket...
sharron lynn parsons 7 years ago
A sad situation for you, just do what you are able, with your Big Heart !!!
Elizabeth 7 years ago
does this fall in any way under insider trading regulations? eek, this is a nerve wrecking situation
Just Curious 7 years ago
“Insider trading”? Um, no. I don’t think the SEC concerns itself with catering companies’ contracts...
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I work in education. My former chairman allowed a female employee to embezzle money from the school. I found out and blew the whistle. I assumed the woman would be fired and the chair would be demoted. Instead, the woman was asked to quit and given a package, and the chair stayed in his position because of his status as a coach. He proceeded to make my job very difficult for the next five years until he gave up the chairmanship to someone competent. The woman was his work wife and mistress, who also used to be his student, at our school.
Ruth Beaty 7 years ago
Screw whistle blowing, get some confirmation of what was going on, leak it to the wife and the press on the same day. Preferably one of the TV crime stopper news shows or something. Hell, rent a billboard. Get creative and get revenge.
PandaMan 7 years ago
Sounds like our educational system at work. Maybe, Ethics should be added back to the high school.
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
oh yuck all around. Good on you for staying your ground and protecting those around you from fraud
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
I know someone who applied for a job within her work place. She has worked within the company for more than 15 years. She was passed over for someone outside the area. The outsider embezzled money within 3 mos. of being hired. My acquaintance was pissed!
#23
My boss makes more than $6m annually but likes to pretend he's only making 100-200k so the low level employees don't ask for more. I make more than everyone solely based on the fact that I run the books and know how much he actually makes so I can ask for more.
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
You should send out an anonymous tip to everyone. That is horrid practice. people have families to support
#24
By jumping from department to department over the years, at my old job I knew a combination of things that no one person was supposed to know. I knew alarm codes, vault combinations, locations of keys, passwords, schedules, location and functionality of cameras and security systems. Led to a lot of idle daydreaming on bad days of things I could, but never would, do.
Freya the Wanderer 7 years ago
Perhaps the company treated you well enough that you never had the motivation to carry out any evil plans. Or are you just plain honest and thoroughly self-controlled?
David Cobb 7 years ago
This is why companies should change alarm codes, vault combinations, passwords and rekey all locks on a regular basis.
RedstonewolfX 4 years ago
If you're going to get put in jail and fired due to hating the job and taking your anger out on the company, might as well do it in style and with as much damage as you can
Neill Powell 7 years ago
This is why we have now started auditing security access, bothe pysical and virtual.. and yes, it's a little scary... what you find.
#25
One of my project supervisors is the owner's nephew. The guy spent 17 years in prison for killing 2 people because "it sounded like fun at the time." The guy committed the murders when he was 16. While highly intoxicated on a cocktail of drugs, he and his buddies were arguing what's the best way to hang someone. They decided to test their ideas.Their experiment was successful. He ended up turning himself in a few days later and took a plea bargain. He got a reduced sentence for snitching on his friends.
Monika Soffronow 7 years ago
No. I would not be comfortable having an idiot like that as my supervisor. He murdered two people for fun and destroyed two families forever. Nope. I would not work there.
Azure Adams 7 years ago
use that info to your upmost advantage for $$ and power. Then a year later, blow the whistle. No loyalty
BusLady 7 years ago
Are you kidding? He might end up another *experiment*.
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Nikki D 7 years ago
I know you shouldn't hold a person's past against them and he's supposedly paid his debt to society but yikes.
Gloria Hafner 7 years ago
with petty crimes..debt is paid. This guy can never come up with a repay plan to replace two human beings that could have benefited society. Not to mention the sorrow he caused the victim's families.
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#26
The bedbugs in the hotel beds are not isolated to one room anymore
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
That is something that could tern in to an epidemic and potentially kill people. I’d report it to the health department ASAP.
Great Panda Mamu 7 years ago
I was told by one hotel manager that people can have anaphylactic reactions to bedbugs. So, they should definitely call the health department. Even anonymously.
Load More Replies... sharron lynn parsons 7 years ago
The bed bugs are a tremendous problem, it is difficult to control being so wide spread !!!
#27
The chiefs on my ship and others in our home port are being investigated for wife swapping. Maybe sounds harmless, but adultery, even mutually agreed upon, is technically illegal in the military.
BusLady 7 years ago
And immoral. And why do they call it wife swapping? Why not husband swapping?
Natalie Lucero 7 years ago (edited)
Immoral? According to whom? For four concenting adults whose intimate behaviour is none of anybodys business: only the people who feel they get to decide how these peoples lives should and should not be happily lived, are the immoral ones. And rude ones at that!
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Cami Ereth 7 years ago
This was gossiped about back in the 1970's-I was 4 years old, & even I heard stories about 'someone's Daddy going to another person's Mommy's' through the connected attic-spaces. Military housing is frequently connected. Disgusting for kids to hear, by the way...
Wendillon 7 years ago
Because the wife is the one that leaves the home and goes to stay with the other man. The husbands usually don't leave the house. It's a practical thing, not a sexist thing, most of the time.
Load More Replies... Jace 7 years ago
I never knew the military owned people’s PERSONAL SEX LIVES. How the hell do pro-military people think this is okay but mildly socialist programs are “evil communism”??
Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 7 years ago
People in the military cheat on their spouses all the time! (a lot of sex workers would lose a lot of money otherwise...)
Rebekah 7 years ago
When I was in college, I worked for a major bank, bill collecting. We LOVED when the accounts were military people. Just had to call the superior, and it was "handled" right away. They were all held to a higher standard. I look back now and wonder if that was fair, to call "the boss" and tattle. But it was common practice.
Lisa Chambers 7 years ago
No, now if you call, you get told to stop bothering people on a government line and to take your issue up with the person listed on the bill.
Load More Replies... Hugo Raible 7 years ago
What kind of b******t is that to dictate what people do in their free time?
Cami Ereth 7 years ago
To that I would add, if they are in the military, their time is owned by them (they are not 'free').
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I found out my coworker on a lower position was getting a few thousand dollars more in salary than me (she told me her wage when she left the company). Wrote up a polite but stern email to my boss asking her to not only match it but increase by a couple of K - because I did have a higher position after all - and she did. Sometimes knowing things can be a benefit.
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
But, it’s how you use that knowledge, and with care and politeness, in a non threatening manner. You were stern, but let her know, you were just as capable and could do the same thing and felt equal pay, was in order, with a raise. I really hope that’s how you did it! Most of the time, the polite but firm, I’ve got you over a barrel. And I want equal pay, works well. Just keep up your current level of excellent work!
#29
We know what they use their laptops for, and what kinds of sick porn you watch. Some users download and stream it. We can see what's hogging the network bandwidth yo . I just pray the keyboards don't get returned sticky when they quit.
AnnaB 7 years ago
Are people really so naive that they don't realize that IT departments can pinpoint your work PC/laptop usage down to the keystroke??
Daria B 7 years ago (edited)
My thoughts exactly. In my company, not even your cell phone is safe, as long as it's connected to the company's wi-fi. And that's no secret either.
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CrunChewy McSandybutt 7 years ago
I have heard so many stories of people self-pleasuring at work and I never understood why someone would do that?
Trixster Million 7 years ago
Where does one acquire this "sick porn"? I ask for academic purposes, of course.
Unhuman_Weirdo 6 years ago
A guy at my dads work got arrested a couple days ago For Watching child porm someone saw after they asked to borrow the computer and opened a document that contained the sucking disrespectful stuff
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
Ewww the keyboard reference made me ill. I don't care what you do at home (as long as it's not kiddie) but at work? That's infuriating to those of us that are working their asses off!!!
Catherine Spencer-Mills 7 years ago
Cubicle farm, low walls, dude was caught watching porn and given a warning. Idiot did it again and was escorted out. They hung onto the computer for a little while until it had been investigated and then formatted the hard drive.
Anastasia B 7 years ago
I used to work as an IT tech. One day someone brought his work laptop to be fixed. I was trying to backup his files before sending it to be fixed to another company. Found some GB of porn. Who stores porn on the work laptop... seriously.
#30
At my old company the owner accidentally sent me the complete company accounting breakdown. I knew what everyone made, how much revenue we took, how much our office cost, how much eeeeeevvvvverything. Of course they immediately sent me an email "Don't look at that" I replied, "Oh I hadn't even noticed that email. No problem!" But it was too late. I've seen everything! I've seen it all.
Naomi Armitage 7 years ago
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain...
#31
One of our guys took a work van to rob a bank. He got arrested and after 5 years of 'working somewhere else' he came back to work for us.
BusLady 7 years ago
"Working somewhere else" I love it. I bet they don't let him drive anymore.
Wendillon 7 years ago
I can't tell if the company is stupid for taking him back...or very kind for giving him a second chance?
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Did they give him a raise when he got back? Sounds like he needed.
Jennifer Nation 7 years ago
That is really, really nice of that company, most companies would not give you a second change or hire someone with a record.
Siddharth Rath 7 years ago (edited)
I wonder where he worked. Because he was DEFINITELY NOT sent to jail for tying to rob a bank. Nope. Just like Donald DID NOT have sex with Stormy, nope. He must have worked with the Avengers. All kinds of ex cons and criminals have worked there.
#32
That upper management has so much going on that if you just act super hurried they will think you’re doing a great job and leave you alone. Honestly, that might work in most places.
SykesDaMan 7 years ago
1- Always be in a hurry 2- Never move in the company's premises with empty hands (use a laptop, a folder, ...) 3- Talk loud on the phone about numbers and business stuff and always be angry with the person on the other end...
Wil Vanderheijden 7 years ago
4-You're busy, so you don't have the time to say "Thank you" and "Please."
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Ryo Bakura 7 years ago
This isn't a secret so much as it is "the more important you're job, the more you have to do, and less time you have to scrutinize your employees".
#33
My bosses tried artificial insemination a couple of times but to no avail. They now treat the company like their child, which is understandable and I feel for them.
Elizabeth 7 years ago
sad but a little sweet in a way, they will probably care for the people that work there in a better way
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Keuthonymos 7 years ago
Don't know why he thought inseminating a company would produce him a child.
#34
The admin password for our laptops. The IT guy from 4 years ago never changed it.
#35
That my boss is a complete moron. When we figure out a way to accomplish something more efficiently than the set ways, she loses it because she hates change. Like, completely loses it and makes everyone panic while she panics because she is a moron
Freya the Wanderer 7 years ago
Count your blessings - at least you don't work in the White House!
#36
The reason my boss won’t replace the aging fleet of company cars for people below him is because he wasn’t allowed to get the car he wanted and now he’s pouting and nobody is getting new cars. A Jeep Patriot isn’t supposed to live to 200,000 Miles.
All With Heart 7 years ago
what a baby, but there's a surprising amount of them in most workplaces.
BusLady 7 years ago
What, he got a Lexus instead of an Aston Martin? Who does he think he is, James Bond?
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
What a sad, little boy who never grew up. I’m not happy, I didn’t get what I wanted, so, you, can’t have it either.... Karma will come calling one day.
Freya the Wanderer 7 years ago
What a crybaby! A Honda Accord can definitely live over 200,000 miles - mine did.
Josie Williams 2 years ago
Jeep's can actually last over 300k miles if maintained properly. My first car was a 96' Jeep Cherokee and I drove that thing every single day for 15 years and had over 340k miles on it and hardly had to bring it to the shop. I eventually retired it and got a new car, but I still miss that thing. Almost tempted to buy another 96'. lol
Josie Williams 2 years ago
Jeep's can actually last to over 300k miles. My first car was a 96 Jeep Cherokee and I drove that thing every day for like 15 years and had almost 340k miles on it until I finally decided it was time to retire it and get a new one. I loved that Jeep though and still miss it. lol
Constantin George-Florin 7 years ago
200k is actually the mid-life point of a modern car. What is this guy lamenting about?
#37
I know how much everybody in the IT is getting paid. From that I can safely say that new people with no skill nor experience get a lot more money than people who have been working here for years and know our product in and out and 2) that I am one of those who get paid the less. Raises are opposed against because "everybody gets the same, no matter the experience" (complete lie, see above). The result is that I am now actively searching for a higher paid job.
BusLady 7 years ago
How do they determine salaries in these types of companies? How does that work? (Serious question)
Randy Dhuyvetter 7 years ago
I've frequently been asked how much I hope to make. If it's lower than what they're willing to pay, they'll go for it
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arjelio mas 7 years ago
Actively searching for a job is different from searching for a job how, exactly?
Meyer Weinstock 7 years ago
This is actually illegal, now here in CA. Call a lawyer if you are near.
Samuel Asagwaram 7 years ago
I really can't believe this is happening somewhere, am actually in this situation I tell you.
phil blanque 7 years ago
Yeah.....well....Older IT employees may not be as productive as more recently trained IT staff. FORTRAN is not what it used to be.
Zenozenobee 7 years ago
Mmmh nothing says this person is a male, and even if, nothing says he thought it's normal for women to be underpaid.
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I work in a large federal government building, one of the ones you would see on the news frequently because a lot of stuff happens here and reporters are on location often. There are a series of "network closets" in the building, they're placed in the same locations on multiple floors so the cabling layout is standardized, they range in size from a decent sized bathroom to a studio apartment and you'd never notice them in the hallway because the doors are unassuming. One of these closets is completely unlabeled, the plaque with the room number has been removed and it's just a blank door in the hallway, I noticed it was where one of our closets should be but it's missing from all the maps and directory. It's the largest closet by far, someone has furnished it with leather couches and a tv and fridge. I have no idea who converted it into their own private lounge but there are 10,000 people in this building and only 30 or so people can open that door.
Ruth Beaty 7 years ago
There are contractors who have done this in government buildings and actually lived in them.
#39
We’ve had a salary/wage increase freeze for over two years due to our ‘dire financial issues’, but our President still took his raise. He now makes over a million a year. There are only 30 employees in the company.
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
What a dirt bag! Shows just how much he doesn’t care about anyone but his money!
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
Greed is a sin for good reason :( He could have spread it around and made everyone happy, what a bastard
#40
Old job. Those shiny new fumehoods and laminar flow cabinets didn't actually have working vents.
#41
My boss was/is sleeping with HR head and theyre both married (not to each other)
#42
This multi billion dollar job is almost entirely billed as time and material. That means they don't really give a fuck if you get much done, but if you miss any time they will rain down hell. They need us there for the billable hours. The job itself is rather unique, so there is no benchmark for cost/time. So as long as you aren't visibly drunk, sleeping, or fighting, you can dick off to your heart's content.
BusLady 7 years ago
I do, too. I could write the Great American Novel while I'm "working".
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Jimmy Wright 7 years ago
Are they hiring and/or do they want to open another location? I'm in NW Florida, Pensacola.
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
Sounds like a law firm but that's just because of the phrase, "billable hours".
#43
At a place that I used to work I was the only person with any IT smarts. I set up the spam filter to forward to my inbox any "maybe" emails that it caught which I would then look at and forward on if they weren't spam. On two occasions I was forwarded an email receipt for viagra which one of my colleagues had purchased with his work email address. I just deleted them rather than forward on because, well, because it's just easier that way.
Whawhawhatsis 7 years ago
My husband was the guy in his IT who for years found all the questionable computer use. It was pretty amazing what people will do on work computers -- even military people, who know it's illegal and they can get in a lot more trouble than just losing their job.
#44
There's a guy that clocks in for overtime every weekend and then drives home. He's making an extra 60 grand a year doing this.
Siddharth Rath 7 years ago (edited)
Nobody...cares...enough...also, unrelated, cool superhero name though
Load More Replies... Kim Lorton 7 years ago
Report him. That is illegal and he’s literally stealing money! He could and needs to be fired!
#45
At a past job, the husband of the HR director was friends and college buddies with my manager. My manager was misogynistic, maintained a hostile work environment (daily), and was sexually harassing two female employees. Though he was reported (almost weekly) he would never get into trouble (he did get promoted frequently), but the reporter would, one day, find their 'position eliminated' and walked out the door. The company is currently facing a class action law suit brought by 24 past employees, some with audio or video proof of the abuse or non-action by HR.
Final score:
34points
#46
At my last command the Legal Officer of all people would put his calls on speaker phone and leave his door open. So of couse everyone in the vicinity could hear him talking about people's sensitive information as well as his personal opinions about these people. One of the worst I overheard was "Is there anything we can do to keep so-and-so from advancing (getting a promotion)?" Another was "So-and-so's wife called the captain saying he beat the s**t out of her, so now I have to deal with THAT." He was a piece of s**t. Probably still is.
phil blanque 7 years ago
Sadly, he misinterpreted his job. He thought he was the Le Gal officer, in charge of covering up issues with attacks on women....the "gals". We have many in Congress, too.
#47
The head of my old org in my region stole $500,000 from the org, which caused us to cut our services to homeless people.
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
They need to be found out and prosecuted. I’d call the FBI as this is fraud, and embezzlement of company funds. Federal offense.
Whatevers not taken 7 years ago
Agreed but I don't think you know what Federal means. Its only a federal offense if its a federal or government building. No word was mentioned on what type of organization this was so it might not be a federal offense.
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My boss is faking a recovery program, hit her ex husband with a car, and is never going to change or get fired because she's the owner's daughter who "can't do anything about her."
#49
Only one of the security cameras actually works. The rest are for show. Also, at a credit union I worked at I knew both halves of the combination to the vault. (THOSE security cameras did work for sure tho).
Colleen McGinnis 7 years ago (edited)
I used to work for a business bank located in the heart of downtown (tons of homeless people, drug addicts, and genuinely sketchy people) and we were never told if our cameras actually worked, they would always say "act and record information about clients AS IF the cameras are not working, because we can't rantee that they always do". This is also a bank that never taught any of the tellers proper robbery procedures or gave them silent alarm codes for the security panel (which I sat right next to but had no idea how to disarm, or arm). I quit working there in less than 1 year.
Lilly 7 years ago
I once worked at a place that had security cameras EVERYwhere. Found out years later (about 1/2 way through the time i worked there) that only a few of them actually worked. I learned to avoid those areas when I could (very security sensitve job), but it wasn't always possible. later found out that the guy that installed the cameras was also putting them where they SHOULDN'T be--he was arrested, thankfully!
#50
That our CEOs speeches are actually written by low level grunts. Makes me wonder about all the inspiring leader's speeches of the past.
Lynda Momalo 7 years ago
I initially misread this as "speeches are actually written AS low level grunts" and was briefly imagining a gorilla CEO.
#51
My old Job's security system's passwords were the store numbers. And all computers had the same passwors and login which was the stores name and store number. I was told by my former boss that, it's the same for every store so I Technically have access to everystore in the country.
#52
I don't know if this counts, but my mom works for the Federal Government of Canada, and she was one of the first to know that Justin Bieber was banned from China.
Final score:
25points
Whatevers not taken 7 years ago
Sorry I think you need help with English. Useless... not useful.
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Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 7 years ago
I have more respect for the Chinese government now
#53
My CEO didn't resign by choice. Investors forced him because he was sued for sexual assault.
BlackestDawn 7 years ago
So... you're saying that just accusations are now good enough to effectively screw up someone life? I would have been with you if it was due to a conviction but merely sued, no just no.
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#54
- My boss's boss doesn't flush, pees on the toilet seat and doesn't wash her hands after using the bathroom. Unfortunately I know this first hand... - Also, I know a way to enter the building easily after it is "locked up" at 10 p.m. - AND... I once accidentally saw the salary of a Division head instead of mine (in USD it would be about 26,000 gross PER MONTH).
Freya the Wanderer 7 years ago
"Ladies, please remain seated during entire performance."
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Siddharth Rath 7 years ago
Doesn't wash hands? I'm quite positive she also munches on snacks with those hands...
#55
Theres a chair in our office which was used by two ex employees to have sex repeatedly on and I'm almost certain there's markings on it. Newer employees use it and it hurts me a little everytime
Ryo Bakura 7 years ago
"Hey Greg, we just thought we'd welcome you to your first day here. And as the 'new guy', we'd like to present you with the office 'good luck chair'. May it bring you as much fortune as it did for Dave and Janice." "Um, okay, but why are you all trying to stifle laughter?" "...Shut up and sit on your chair, Greg."
#56
My workplace is under investigation for the potentially negligent death of one of our residents. I suspect that they actually have a case too.
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
That's so awful :( I work in health care, and some of the elderly are downright dangerous and so frustrating to deal with, but as a nurse you always do what needs to be done no matter what. It makes me fear to get old, what if i lose my mind and end up in a place where they are cruel to me?
MPaula Whelan 7 years ago
In my area a nurse was able to kill 8 elderly residents without being detected despite the fact that she had been fired once. The firing was rescinded because these nurses get paid so little for the amount of work they are expected to perform and it is hard to find anyone to take the job. This nurse killed people at 2 different care homes. She outed herself, she was not caught. Now there is a major investigation about how this could happen.
Christina Sersif 7 years ago
We put my grandma into a nursing home because she kept falling down and my dad works crazy hours so he couldn't be home to watch her. Anyway she died 6 weeks after we admitted her :(
phil blanque 7 years ago
Yeah...A good friend of mine was a nursing home administrator. One evening a resident died. What to do? Call the doctor.....call the family...call the coroner? Nope...call for an electric blanket. Keep the body warm until after midnight. Another day....another $234. For real!
#57
If we have to clock in for work at a time when we are not technically on the schedule, we use what's called a "red card." For example, let's say I'm scheduled 2-9 on a particular day and I got called in early. If I tried to punch, I would get an error message. The only people with these red cards are managers (store manager, perishable manager and non-perishable manager). Well, I know the code for the red card, so theoretically I can punch myself in without needing to get it from a manager.
phil blanque 7 years ago
How do I sign up to be a "non-perishable manager"? I hate managing, but I like not perishing.
Whawhawhatsis 7 years ago
If you do, that's potentially a problem. You'd get paid for time you're not authorized, and while legally it may be okay -- I have no idea, IANAL -- it probably could get you fired for unauthorized overtime. I strongly suggest you continue not to use it.
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
As long as they are getting paid for the hours worked than what's the glitch?
#58
Manager fired one of my coworkers (lets call him Billy) because her good friend, who works with Billy, didnt like him. It didnt matter that he was never late, was dedicated, smart, hardworking, and didnt gossip. Manager also promoted her other friend (who was our billing person and previously worked retail) to HR manager. People's insurance through the company started lapsing and vacation days were taken without warning. Said people were not in the office those days when people had a full workdays' worth of emails to show for it.
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
She sounds like she should never have gotten the promotion to HR manager! Messing with peoples pay, insurance and vacation days, is guaranteed to have many complaints! That get noticed fast.
#59
At Kmart, the managers constantly show us attempts to steal from the store. But they never say who it is and nobody ever gets fired. They also have these impossible deadlines that we need to meet (which we don’t). They basically just lie a ton to scare people into working harder, which is why I quit
Rhonda Wayne 7 years ago
There's one in Jasper Indiana that is surprisingly still kicking.
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BusLady 7 years ago
I worked for Kmart 40 years ago. Oh, the stories I could tell... One thing they did was lock us in the store (off the clock) after we closed while the cashiers all balanced their registers.This could take up to 30 minutes. If one drawer did not balance, we all had to wait until they found the problem. They said they couldn't open the doors to let us leave because they might get robbed. But they were too cheap to pay us.
#60
So I used to work for an NGO in a government funded program. Shortly before I quit I found out that the higher ups were actually taking government funded money that was meant for our program and using it on their own non government funded programs. So essentially they were stealing millions of dollars from the government!
Whawhawhatsis 7 years ago
Fortunately, it does happen that people get reported. A person who worked for one large governmental agency who totally screwed our family over was, within a year, fired and blacklisted for wasting government money and not spending it where she was supposed to. We still rejoice in the way nearly instant karma caught up with her. These people bring it on themselves.
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Kim Lorton 7 years ago
Why doesn’t anyone report these money hungry a******s?! Report them! Send them to jail! That’s fund mismanagement, fraud and embezzling funds from the company a federal offense!
#61
I work in a pretty well known financial institution. I see a select few people most days commit what could be described as negligent at best and downright reckless actions at worst. I'm on a relatively low level so they presume I don't see but I'm just waiting for auditors/regulators to tear the place to shreds.
phil blanque 7 years ago
I live in a pretty well-known country. I see a select few people ALL days commit what can ONLY be described as negligent at best and downright treasonous at worst. They are on a really low moral level, so I presume they do not see. But we are all waiting for regulators/law enforcement to tear the place to shreds.
Colleen McGinnis 7 years ago
I used to work for a business bank (They only offered business accounts and personal accounts to employees) I saw so much c**p that was illegal, and whenever I tried to complain or bring it up to management they would bring up mistakes I made (like the back of a check not being endorsed correctly, or an outage of $10.00) to try and get me to stop bringing it up. Eventually a person who had nothing to do with me or my position sent an email to one of my supervisors (knowing we were friends) and she printed it out so that I could read it. It was basically a 3 paragraph letter stating how horrible I was at my job (I made a lot of mistakes in the beginning because I had less than a days training to do my entire job) and therefore they didn't have to listen to any of my complaints. I put in my 2 weeks (it had a lot of strong opinions and words) and they let me go the same day, but gave me a great severance package to try and cover it up. I still sent the BBB a letter of complaint.
Stina Kolling 7 years ago
So vaguely I see vague people doing vague things. Can't wait till they get vaguely fired!
George Erickson 7 years ago
the problem is that if it does happen you will be in trouble also because you said nothing. you will be guilty by association. it would be better if you didn't know at all so you could plead innocence. you no longer have that option.
#62
At one of my old jobs I was responsible for processing expense reports. One day I came across the company CEO's "business" expense report. The trip was a trip to Hawaii for him and his spouse and another person + spouse. The "business" trip includes extravagant meals and excursions. I questioned it but was ultimately was told just to process it since he's the CEO. Few years later (and after quitting the company) the company was pretty much gone. HAHA!
Final score:
19points
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
I'm all for capitalism but when the higher-ups abuse their power with little to no concern for their subordinates then there's a real problem with the corporate culture!
#63
Learnt on a closing shift at one place I worked that if you can convince the higher ups that you smoke, you get a 10 minute paid smoke break every hour on top of your break.
BusLady 7 years ago
Unbelievable! They pay employees to endanger their health?
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Thomas Turnbull 7 years ago
When I was 21 and did not smoke the company I worked for gave smokers a 5 minute smoke break every hour this started me smoking and it took me 45 years to quit.
Nikki D 7 years ago
I'm amazed smoking is even tolerated, but then again, if you don't get insurance through your employer, why should they care?
Whatevers not taken 7 years ago
Your surprised smoking is tolerated. Smoking is everyone's free will to do so. Doesn't matter what you think. Your just another one of those people with a stupid opinion that doesn't match your own so you have to open your mouth.
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Darryl Kerrigan 7 years ago
My dad did this for 40 years at his bank. Used to walk around the block...
ispeak catanese 7 years ago
My coworker takes a ten minute smoke bread every hour and then eats lunch at his desk and leaves 30 minutes early every day.
ispeak catanese 7 years ago
Dang! I meant "break"! Oh, and he's our third in command.
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#64
The guards at one of our sites aren't armed because they'd have to pay more and it would be harder to hire qualified people. They just had a shooting there. Not surprised one person quit over it.
Annette V 7 years ago
Armed guards are a lot more expensive but not necessary in all situations. They can pay a bit less and have just as much effectiveness by contracting guards with non-lethal force like stun guns, mace, and batons. A stun gun can look like a gun on a duty belt and be a visual deterrent to crime.
BusLady 7 years ago
When I was a Security Officer, I never carried a weapon,other than my Maglight. I did work on sites where there were armed Police Officers, tho.
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Contract Security is a bidding game. Clients will go with the lowest bid, even if it means having less competent guards on the site. By that, I mean that the really lazy Security Officers will keep getting fired, and go from one company to another, until they end up at the company that pays the least. So that company can submit a lower bid because their guards are being paid rock bottom wages. Armed guards are paid more, but worth it in this situation.
#65
One of my managers, who I'm not too fond of but is mutual friends with many of my friends, is dealing coke in the restaurant I work at. Both to employees and to guests.
#66
I worked in a restaurant, where the General Manager was incompetent and corrupt. The restaurant was violating numerous health code regulations. Every now and then, she would rush frantically through the place screaming at everyone to clean something up, label the food with dates, get that chicken out of hot water, etc. It seems she had a friend who worked at the Health Department, who would call her with a heads up that they were on their way over there to inspect the place.
Final score:
17points
LeeAnne Valentine 7 years ago
I worked in a stadium kitchen, and had similar manager like yours. EXCEPT, he'd make us cook way too much food than necessary, and at the end of the shift, we were allowed to take them home which was illegal to do so. The rest, we'd toss in the garbage. Most of the food could have gone to homeless shelter. One day, Big Boss came around, and caught the guy in the act telling us to take the damn food before Big Boss came around. Next day, Big Boss comes around and says he's moving his office to the kitchen. Things were never the same again.
Carol Emory 7 years ago
There was a restaurant a few doors down from where I worked. They'd serve spoiled food all the time. But reporting them to the Health Department was a waste of time since his wife worked there and would give him a heads up on "surprise inspections." He can legally pay his waitresses $2.25 an hour if their tips make up the difference to the $7.95 minimum. Their tips rarely do which means he's required to make up the difference. He never does, but reports to the IRS that he does. His waitresses live in poverty while the A**hole bought himself a 4 million dollar home.
BusLady (Submission author) 7 years ago
That's how rich people get rich. 😒
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Aurelia Grey 7 years ago
Believe it or not this is a fairly classic move in the restaurant business. In my town if restaurant "ABC" gets a surprise visit from the DOH, and employee of "ABC" will immediately call restaurant "" to give them a warning to gets things up to par.
Pam Falcioni 7 years ago
It was probably frozen and they were trying to defrost it quickly.
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Elizabeth Wilkins 6 years ago
It was my job for years to go around the "circle" the inspectors took with the managers ahead of them and fix any mistakes before they got to the area. It was never anything major. Stuff like a cleaning towel hanging slightly out of the sanitize water or clear a dish that was set on the unused prep table.
Scott Noris 7 years ago
Bus Lady, please e-mail me regarding J.D. Tippitt. snoris@ix.netcom.com
#67
I used to work for a pet store. My boss was such a crook. She would make photocopies of the vaccines the kitten/puppy got... It was always the same photocopies. She would lie just to get a sale, even if it meant hurting an animal. She would refuse to provide proper treatment to the animals we had. We had a whole litter of puppies die from parvo... A lot of hamster died from wet tail... We would find 5 to 10 guppies dead every morning because she refused to put in a water heater in their tank... She would constantly yell at us because we weren't selling enough. She wanted us to sell about 1 000$ worth of accessories if someone bought a kitten or a puppy. If we did, we would get 50$ bonus on our pay check... We never actually got any of those "bonuses"... And last but not least, we had an old cash register where you have to manually input the taxation percentages. Well, she would charge 15.5% of tax instead of 15%... I lasted 3 months. Just couldn't take more than that.
Final score:
17points
BusLady 7 years ago
I don't trust these stores, anyway. I suspect some of them buy from puppy mills.
Jade Lorreni 6 years ago
They’ve made a law against selling puppies in pet shops now to stop this.
Load More Replies... Thomas Turnbull 7 years ago
I would have given him a bad time and informed the bigger bosses if there where ones
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
Oh, this makes me sick, it's one thing to screw a person that can take some kind of recourse but the animals are defenseless!
My dog is my co pilot. 7 years ago
I wouldn't have lasted day in that store. As soon as I knew what that witch was doing I would have called EVERYBODY. The Humane Society, the police and the local news people after sending them pictures. I would have had her named and shamed and had her miserable life made hell over this. There is (hopefully) a special place in Hell for her and I hope she gets there soon after dying from a long excruciating illness.
sharron lynn parsons 7 years ago
In the case where animals were not treated to prevent illness or death is criminal, I hope you reported her, you will live with that forever, too many animals suffer and die as a result of horrendous humans !!!
#68
The boss makes a whole lot more money than he wants us to believe. If you believe him he and his family are a hairs width from living under a bridge. Nevermind the brand new 70" smart TV for the office...
BusLady 7 years ago
Rich people can never have enough money. They have no idea what poverty is.
AnnaB 7 years ago
Which explains why low income people are usually the most generous.
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Janet Chambers 7 years ago
My boss does the same thing and he has to know that as bookkeeper I know exactly what he makes. Duh.
#69
I work for a major car rental company that is now more than 15 billion dollars in debt, nobody will loan them money to replace it's aging fleet and there is no hope of making that money back. The State of Florida is currently suing them over toll charges practices. I have found this information by reading stock Market analysis, I know for a fact they are not clueing any of the local managers about it. The C-Level churn rate for this company is amazing. I believe if we got OJ Simpson to do some commercials for us again it would boost our revenue
Jane Alexander 7 years ago
If you're so far down that you'd look to O.J. S for salvation, forget it.
phil blanque 7 years ago
Ha Ha!!! If OJ can improve their stock position, then they are seriously screwed!!!!
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
That must hert a lot! I tried using them to rent a car for next weekend, and the prices were so overpriced and guaranteed to turn people away! Couldn’t believe how much money they wanted!
#70
Was a bus driver in the UK for Arriva. Instead of windscreen washer fluid, they use water. Before CCTV was common, was a shelf stacker at a co-op. Come in to find the boss has 'resigned', with the police getting called in. Turns out he had stolen stock over at least a year in the low 5 figure range. Had a couple of people in on it. He basically invented a chronic shoplifting problem by claiming that shoplifters who had been caught past and present had stolen a lot more than they had. Write it off and take the stuff from back of shop. Got off scot free somehow
Ruth Beaty 7 years ago
I knew a store manager at an area WalMart who stole big screen TV's for his family from the store. He also forged time records. He got caught, demoted and moved to our WalMart as an assistant manager. (Sounds like the government) He was at our store for awhile, cleaned out the safe one night at closing and left the country. WalMart's have huge amounts of cash in the safe at times, especially on holidays.
BusLady 7 years ago
Guess what everyone's getting for Christmas this year, kids? Big screen TV's! Oh, Dad, you shouldn't have!
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My boss is sexually harassing my colleague and there is nothing I can do about it. She is afraid of losing her job and we don't have any proof of misconduct to denounce him.
Alida Wilson 7 years ago
Have you thought about keeping a log of dates, times, and occurrences?
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
Great idea. He must not care about witnesses, because he’s doing it in plain sight, so, film his a*s. A few times.
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Darryl Kerrigan 7 years ago
Er... there are two of you and one of him. And start recording a log of all the harassment, when and where it happens etc.
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
You got a phone? Do a video, or an audio recording. Video would be best. Then report him and show them the proof. She should sue him and the company for that .
Katherine Handcock 7 years ago
You say below that even if the harassment is verbal, there is some proof. Unfortunately many MANY people do not take a woman’s allegations seriously unless there is something undeniable like video footage or it was witnessed/complained about by someone outside the organization. Even then, excuses will often be made (“She misinterpreted!” Or “it was a joke!”) There could be all sorts of things happening without the existence of proof that a company will be forced to act on.
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#72
I used to work at the University of Iowa as a secretary in administration. The rules stated that they had to accept a lateral transfer from another department they didn’t want. I heard them plan to stick this brand new person in the busiest area and then discipline them out when they inevitably made mistakes. Her failure was planned before she even worked her first day. A year later, my supervisor changed and they did the exact same thing to me, firing me for “too many typos”. Still boils my blood.
Final score:
15points
Nate Benoit (Submission author) 7 years ago
There was some satisfaction when the supervisor they assigned to make my life awful started getting in trouble for employees quitting or filing complaints. Now that supervisor has been fired. Sadly, the one telling her what to do still has a job there. It’s all about having the right friends.
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Nikki D 7 years ago
Well, at least being fired means you get unemployment, sounds slightly better than being harrassed until you quit. Still s****y.
Nate Benoit (Submission author) 7 years ago
I was harassed for a long while to try to make me quit, but since I was providing the income for my wife and new baby, i put up with the mistreatment.
Load More Replies... Nate Benoit (Submission author) 7 years ago
I did. I got about 40% of what I used to make, lost our health and life insurance. This is when our baby needed to go to the doctor and now we had to pay all out of pocket on less than half the income.
Load More Replies... Thomas Turnbull 7 years ago
I got sacked for saying yes when asked by the caller if it was about her credit card before I confirmed her details. I would not have passed further details until i checked her details but she was going to hang up thinking it was a sales call. Another lady hung up before we could tell her we owed her £1500 and wanted to confirm her address because of this she never got her money.
#73
In the past on three separate occasions I’ve known about people getting fired before THEY knew they were fired.
Nikki D 7 years ago
Maybe she wasn't supposed to know? That would be a heavy burden on my mind.
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The factory manager that recently "retired" in his 50s actually was sexually harassing two women engineers in their 20s that opened an HR case together. I've tried to ask why he gets to get off with reputation intact and HR says it's company policy to keep investigations private. One of his personal photographs from his travels is still hanging in the cafeteria with his name on it.
Nikki D 7 years ago
Are toilets a good place to burn stuff? Legitimately asking, I saw an old toilet used as a fire pit once. I don't see how it didn't crack from the heat.
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Former job. They'd falsify DOT records, so managers would get a nice bonus at the end of the year for not having any incidents.
#76
The hiding place for the key and the lock code to the controlled drugs closet
Sharon Lee 7 years ago
How long before you use it or sell it? Tell the person in charge. Take action.
Lisa Shelton 7 years ago
Why would you assume that the person would use it or sell it? Just because they know something that isn't part of their job doesn't mean they would abuse that knowledge.
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I had a job years ago I was working in a Primary / elementary school as a cleaner . My supervisor was the School's janitor. I got him fired as I had seen him follow the little girls when they went into the toilet and then he would stand on the toilet in the next cubicle and fap off while watching them go to the toilet. I took a photo on my phone of him and showed it to the headmaster and he told me if I showed it to anyone else he would fire me and then made me delete the photo which I had to do. Thankfully I was able to retrieve it later which I did and I rang the school board and got talking with a really nice lady who told me she would take this further. Both the janitor and the headmaster were fired from their jobs and the janitor was arrested. He had been doing it for some time and the headmaster kept quiet about it as they were cousins. If any child said anything they were told that this had to happen as the janitor was "looking out for them in case they were having any trouble in the toilet" and they were too young to believe otherwise as the only girls the janitor spied on were between the ages of 4 and 6. I was allowed to keep my job.
Final score:
13points
Jace 7 years ago
Horrifying. Good on you for reporting them. Shouldn’t there have been actual criminal charges against those people?
Shadow 7 months ago
There was, for the janitor, if he was arrested. The headmaster was probably blacklisted under the Protection of Children and Vulnerable Groups Act (or similar legislation in the country this occured)
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I know everyone on our wifi, and their devices and where they've been coupled with how they are affiliated to our company. My boss does a report daily for the cio with my metrics. Part of me wants to know why, part of me doesn't. They have a pathing system that tracks movement for 30 days that I had made for emergency exiting plans, it's not being used for that.
#79
That with a day or two of effort, I could draft a full proposal for eliminating my job and the other four people who do my job. It's completely unnecessary and the organization wastes, conservatively, $200,000 a year on salary and benefits for us to perform a very small number of tasks that could easily be delegated elsewhere or replaced with an outside service. I suspect it's one of those "being taken care of" situations. The other four employees are all women and have all been there for 15-20 years. Nobody wants to pull these old fossils into the office and say "You're a grown adult who gets paid a grown adult salary to sit around on Facebook and answer the phone three times in an eight hour shift, get the fuck outta here". Private sector, the position would have been eliminated a decade ago. I mean, it's nice that I'm employed, but the job is a complete waste of time and money. You know that book "Bullshit Jobs"? This is it.
Hannah Ingram 7 years ago
then new people take over and there's suddenly a huge remodelling (I know that's not the right word, I'm doing a business course and I can't even remember the right word)
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Chris Jones 7 years ago
For a time I was without a manager and didn't have much to do as the work wasn't being generated - the company knew this and would give me some things to do at times but not enough to fill a day. Quite honestly it was soul destroying, I felt useless and irrelevant. I really liked the company though and wanted to stay.
Lynn Noyes 7 years ago
Don't assume the private sector would be any different. I've worked both public and private. The public was schools and it was ethical and efficient. In the private sector our immediate boss hired people from his cult who weren't qualified and he paid them the max. The parent company was told many, many times what was going on and just supported the manager.
Miguel Denyer 7 years ago
...and yet somehow, if you were unemployed because your boss realised that your job was b******t, I think you would be one of the first people calling your former boss a "Piece of s**t" ...I guess there's no pleasing some people.
#80
Not employed there anymore, but I knew my boss made videos of himself in his office chair fully nude shooting baby batter all over himself. How? He “accidentally” uploaded one into an ftp folder I was using for an ongoing shared project.
Thomas Turnbull 7 years ago
He may have wanted to upload it to the Dark Web
Load More Replies... Ryo Bakura 7 years ago
You make babies with it. Men have it, ladies get it.
Load More Replies... Kim Lorton 7 years ago
Ugh! So gross! And completely unsafe! His stuff all over things others touch! Omg, a real healthcode violation. I’d let them know!
LeeAnne Valentine 7 years ago
"baby batter" - I legit had tears rolling down my face and it's now the new word among my friends!
Wil Vanderheijden 7 years ago
And you never had a conversation with him about a raise and company car?
Άρης Παπαδόπουλος 7 years ago
You worked for Charlie Runkle? (Californication tv series character)
#81
About 20 years ago at a former workplace we were all told there was no money in the budget for a pay rise, which was overdue, for the entire department. Within a few weeks I discovered, face up on a supervisor's desk, the pay rates for the entire office. Despite "no money", our manager had recently received a 45% pay rise.
Final score:
12points
Abby Rexroth 7 years ago
Should've taken a pic and looked for another job and then make multiple copies and pass them around to all the poor bastards still working there!
#82
Worked in a hotel kitchen once where the owner's wife routinely salvaged food scraps scraped into the garbage from plates and insisted kitchen staff reuse them on new orders. Got out of there fast!
Final score:
12points
Jace 7 years ago
You reported them of course, right? There’s no way that would pass a health inspection.
Rose the Cook (Submission author) 7 years ago
Naturally, but I didn't stay around to know if it was actually followed up. As for health inspections, the inspector gave two weeks notice of impending inspections thus giving businesses time to ensure everything was in order.
Load More Replies... Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 7 years ago
that happens in more restaurants than you might think
#83
My former boss (who is married) had sex in his office with multiple employees. Shit leadership skills. He came from a naval background didn’t have a bloody clue what he was talking about unless it was navy stuff. Office supervisor- had f**k buddies in the office. He would let them get away with murder in exchange for sexual favours. He would always talk about how much he got paid compared to everyone else. Never wanted to help anyone or give a shit. The entire department is a complete shit show the good bunch of people who made the place decent either left or constantly got f**ked over. Hard workers never got a thank you
Kim Lorton 7 years ago
He needs to be reported. If things don’t change, you can file a civil suit for unsafe work practices as he seems to have sex all over the place, and he may have diseases he’s exposing others without their knowledge!
#84
They sent out an email saying one of our coworkers is no longer employed with us, which means they got fired. They aren’t supposed to tell us why that person got fired, but one day the assistant director came up to me and asked if the fired coworker was still in a relationship with a certain client. Someone had mistakenly told her I might have information about it, but I had no idea. My department didn’t even work with that client. So now I know my coworker got fired for dating a client.
SnowyLynx 7 years ago
So this coworker was unjustly fired? Honestly this person’s personal life shouldn’t be a cause of him/her losing a lob
My dog is my co pilot. 7 years ago
Dunnes Stores which is a chain of supermarkets in Ireland will not let workers work together. If two people start dating one of them has to give in their notice.
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In the ’80s I worked at a large architectural firm; they had hired two college student interns to give them real-life work experience. The interns were given the assignment to create plan drawings for a proposed building that the senior architects were working on. They had completed their drawings and left them taped to their drawing boards overnight. The next day, the drawings were gone. The interns saw them displayed in a conference room – one or more of the architects had stolen them and claimed they were his / their work!
Final score:
11points
cybermerlin2000 7 years ago
My uncle was an architect (passed away of old age) He had a nice little trick of missing vital but unnoticeable parts of his designs because of this sort of thing. When his work got stolen on numerous occasions he would sit in on the meetings with the client and ask questions loosely related to problems that could be solved if the missing parts were put back in. needless to say 4 wannabe big shots lost their jobs and his integrity and work were protected
Thomas Turnbull 7 years ago
Should have reported it and asked the thieves about the plan details without them seeing the drawings.
#86
At a previous job I uncovered they were illegally skimming money by collecting “tax” from customers but not actually reporting the tax and paying it. Shortly thereafter I was fired for “no reason”... (Thanks at-will employment state)
Final score:
10points
Ruth Beaty 7 years ago
You should have told the IRS, lol. They will get their pound of flesh and you will get revenge.
Whawhawhatsis 7 years ago
Or the state tax agency. They're just as bad. Or even worse sometimes.
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I've been working for this man for 5 years, and I hated him with every cell in my body. I overheard him talking to my mom on the phone about me. What I heard made me cry. "Joel, we can't keep this secret from her forever. She has to know i'm alive..." My boss was my dad. My parents got a divorce before I was born, and they made an agreement. My mom would tell me my dad died in an accident, and my dad would never see me again. The worst part is before I quit, my last words to him were, "Burn in hell b*tch."
Final score:
10points
Mousio 7 years ago
It's such a tearjerker :_( I just hope they can repair their relationship somehow.
Lilly 7 years ago
some parental relationships are not worth the effort--speaking from experience in a similar situation (though i knew my sperm donor was alive {and NOT my boss}. He just sucked as a person. I tried to foster a relationship as an adult. He is a liar & a manipulator who doesn't want to put forth the effort in maintaining a relationship unless it benefits him financially.
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Nobody wanted to buy the subscription for our online services so now we sell a "server" for the same price that is little more than a metal box with a free subscription included.
Final score:
9points
#89
At a previous job we had an IT guy who didn't like staff to be using their work computers for anything other than work. Emails were circulated stating that computers were property of work and should not contain any 'dodgy' materials. So imagine my surprise when my apprentice at the time found an IT file on the network containing photos of IT chap's, I'm assuming, gay lover spread-eagled across a bed in a pair of stockings and suspenders. Always kept that one up my sleeve...just in case.
Final score:
8points
Carol Emory 7 years ago (edited)
When I worked for a University, we were told the same thing....goes to safety of the network from viruses. But I was still surprised when a professor at a satellite branch of the University was fired for buying a Saturn online. Also...husband worked as a computer repairman for several years. He said there were several dozen men and women that attempted to delete their browser history from all the porn sites, but the techs would still see all of them. One was a guy who managed to find a kiddie porn site and had down loaded a bunch of pics which he had attempted to delete before having the computer serviced for a hardware issue. My husbands boss turned in an anonymous tip to the police on that one.
Jo Choto 7 years ago
Can't believe people actually have to be told that work computers are for work only!
Jace 7 years ago
Well, not for porn at least. On your break, it shouldn’t matter if you read the news or Bored Panda.
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Walked in on a woman with her hand down her boyfriend’s pants, under the desk. Whilst her husband (who was in management) was in the next room and oblivious. Felt terrible, the husband had no idea about the affair. Even though everyone else in the company did. He did eventually find out, and they got divorced, cos she got pregnant with the guy she was sleeping with at work :( Twins! If you can believe it.
Final score:
7points
#91
I worked at Travelers Insurance Inc. while working on my BA in Finance. I took the job because they offered tuition assistance of up to $5500 A year. I applied three times and got denied three times by my manager. I ask HR WTF! HR said they never revived any paperwork. I showed them all my copies and they told me the degree was not needed for my current position. Once I graduated I left and complained turning my exit interview to the regional VP. He told me no one in my department has ever been approved for tuition assistance. I worked in the call center which was approximately 450 people at the time.
Final score:
7points
Bob Beltcher (Submission author) 7 years ago
The issue is workers have no legal rights against these.claims either. No law or regulation would force them to pay the benefits they say they offer other than health insurance.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 7 years ago (edited)
When I worked at Whirlpool, our training constantly stated that we were there to help the customers. That story changed when we got out on the call center floor. "Helping" customers rarely amounted to anything more than patting them on the head and sending them on their way. And managers were more concerned with call times than actual service. I was reprimanded often for having long call times. When I explained that I spent most of that time mopping up the mess left by the previous 3 agents, I was told that call times were more important. Hard to keep call times short when the customer on the other end of the phone is screaming because their slightly older than a year washing machine needs a $360 control panel replacement that's no longer covered under warranty. We were also told we would be reprimanded if we hung up on customers, even if they became abusive.
Jane Alexander 7 years ago
Thank you for naming a company to avoid. I wish all the posts her would name the culprits.
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#92
We are outsourced and our clients and overheard the client relations officer mention our "hourly rate" during a meeting. Apparently, clients pay us $8/hour for our services but us employees are just paid $1-2/hour.
Final score:
6points
Miguel Denyer 7 years ago
People seem to assume that when a client pays more for services than the employees that are providing those services get paid, that the bosses are getting a fat paycheck on their backs... This just goes to show how little some people know about how business works. Let's use an example: A security firm gets paid $100 per hour for each armed security guard but the guards themselves only receive $25 per hour... The company has to pay for the vehicles that these guards drive around in while on patrol, for their uniforms, for liability insurance, employers tax, healthcare benefits (if included) and a bunch of other incidental expenses. Are there douchebag employers out there that make a bunch on the backs of their employees? Sure... but don't assume that every employer who is billing the client more than what they are paying their employees, is actually "skimming off the top" and making a living off their employees backs.
BusLady 7 years ago
I worked in Security for almost 15 years. Our armed guards were getting far less than $25/ hr. And the regular officers were only getting a couple dollars over minimum wage. I left them 3 years ago, and at that time, I was making what the minimum wage is now. I hope they are paying them more now. The ones that get $25/hr are probably driving an armored vehicle.
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Falcon 7 years ago
Of course. It's a business and that's how outsourcing works. They get the customers and you do the client work. If you didn't want someone to find all the work for you, you could charge more and find your own clients, pay for your own advertising, pay for your own equipment, pay for your utilities, slowly build your own reputation and work all the extra hours/weekends it takes to start your own business.
Whawhawhatsis 7 years ago
Where are you located? In the US, that low pay isn't legal. Even for drastically underpaid restaurant workers.
Nikki D 7 years ago
As a waitress, my wage was $2.25 an hour, so it's not unheard of.
Load More Replies... #93
That the third floor isn't complete yet. A colleague told me how he was reprimanded for talking about it to people not in the know. I wasn't in the know...
Ryo Bakura 7 years ago
The third floor is going to be a factory where sub-par employees will be turned into Cybermen.
Stina Kolling 7 years ago
On the plus side, if you wander off to the unfinished floor for a snog with a colleague, you might get to come back as a Companion!
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Previous job. All the workers were told that there would be no pay rises (a whole 1-2%!) that year as the company was struggling financially. I found out that all the managers received big fat bonuses (well into the $1000's) that year. And they also made several people redundant, myself included, because of the 'financial struggles.'
Final score:
5points
#95
In the 90's I was being made redundant from my teaching job. The manager of another said said to me that if i spent my last week spying on the other staff to see what they where thinking he would hire me for his department. I refused point blank and took my redundancy but I did tell the others what he tried to get me do. He still kept his job because he had friends in high places. At least i left with a clean concious.
Final score:
5points
BusLady 7 years ago
And in the long run, you won't regret your decision. I hope you found a better job.
Thomas Turnbull (Submission author) 7 years ago
I did but it took a while
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#96
I worked in a kitchen at a casino in south Seattle. Used the restroom and a guy completely meth'd out walked out of the stall. It smells like a burnt tire in there, I noticed he left a bag of crystal, a pipe, and a playboy lighter. I put on gloves, and put it in a non-see through bag, and awkwardly got my shift manager. I told him the story, and that we should call the police. He told me to flush it down the toilet or I would be fired. I threw it away in a garbage can and quietly went out the back and called the police, I thought I would get a reward for seeing and saying something. Turned out the guy that had the drugs was a big time blackjack player, would tweak out and spend hundreds on the game creating a big pot for the house to win. My manager knew he was money, so he refused to rat on him. Seattle casinos are all connected, a game of thrones more than cards. Never gamble in Seattle it's worse than Vegas.
Final score:
5points
BusLady 7 years ago
The guy sounds like an addicted gambler, as well as being a substance abuser.
Shef (Submission author) 7 years ago
There are people known as professional gamblers. Get drunk, play cards, sometimes it leads to bookies, drugs, and crime. Casinos are legal gangs feeding all kinds of swill to the public.
Load More Replies... Jace 7 years ago
I’m no fan of the drug war, but their ethics at that place deserved being reported.
Shef (Submission author) 7 years ago
I'm in no way a supporter for a dead presidents botched job of law enforcement, I just hated the work, the establishment, and the enabling.
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One night while it was slow I was pulled to a different department and we were cruising around on the internet. They showed me how to look up the licensure board and we found out my manager had had her license suspended for drug diversion. She could no longer work as a CRNA so now she had this cushy office job bossing a bunch of us around. We discussed whether she'd been diverting them for herself or her partner. A while after I left there I found out she'd been fired for falsifying records.I guess if you're dishonest once you'll be dishonest again.....
Final score:
4points
Lilly 7 years ago
people tend to learn less quickly when they are allowed to remain with the company instead of being fired. Why change if the consequences don't necessarily suck?
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I work in a well know London building and all post has to be put through a scanner meaning the post team can see what is in the parcels. There are several employees who shop regularly at Anne Summer's, Love Honey etc.
Final score:
3points
Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 7 years ago
so what? let them buy that stuff, it's nobody else's business
cybermerlin2000 7 years ago
Sorter 1: Did you see that one? Bit of air and she could be management! Sorter 2: Well according to the label on the side she is a very busy woman Sorter 1: Hows that? Sorter 2: It said she has 3 working offices
#99
Previous job... Me: your funeral director is watching porn at work and falling asleep in odd situations. I think he's on drugs. Funeral home owner: Yes, the creepy funeral director really is watching porn at work (during funeral services taking place in the next room), but you're not supposed to look for more evidence anymore because it stresses us out. Funeral home owners: Well the employee found his drugs, now we NEED to fire him. We are shorthanded...time to hire a 70 year old attendant, who preys on younger women and sexually harasses them, because we had to fire the creepy funeral director and need the help. Me: I quit.
Final score:
3points
#100
One large superannuation and insurance company wouldn't allow me to run a script over the development/test/uat databases after a restore from production to scramble names, addresses, etc of clients. So all our developers and testers could get private financial details of several hundred thousand people throughout the country.
Final score:
2points
#101
Not my story, my mom’s. Just before I was birn, she worked at Subway. This one girl liked to give the people who asked for healthier options like diet soda or a different bread, she would always give them the normal option without telling them. Just to be a jerk because she couldn’t follow her own diet so she was likely jealous. One day, she put cheese on a vegan girls’ sandwich. Long story short, that girl had been vegan for a while, and the cheese caused her to get sick. Needless to say, she was fired soon after.
Final score:
2points
Valerie Carr 7 years ago
How did the girl not notice, they make the sandwiches right in front of you???
#102
Worked Security at a casino in South Seattle, big Chinese gamble spot. I was the only white dude working the front to check ID's, would get the regulars at this time of night. One of these regulars would come in and go straight to VIP (minimum bets were 100, free drinks, and comped food.) Management told me that they get a free pass on anything they do, they were more important than I ever would be, and should show them respect no matter what I witnessed them. I would just mind my own business around them and keep my head down. The only times I would go back there was to fill the tables with chips and cards. One of them asked me what I was doing (besides interrupting their gambling) I told them "I'm doing a fill, shouldn't be 5 minutes." "Fill huh? Yeah you look like a Phil! You white cracker, I bet you know Dr. Phil!" I was done at that point and told him to shut his mouth. Nothing happened for awhile until I went into the VIP bathroom and walked in to all of them snorting cocaine. I walked out before they noticed me and called the DEA. I quit the next day, it was a doomed business.
Final score:
2points
Shef (Submission author) 7 years ago
I believe that there are about 7 or 8 casinos in all. They're all jokes, and they hate each other. Had to kick out an old man just having dinner with his wife because he was related to another casino owner, it's a disgusting business.
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I work at a company where the boss was having an affair and everyone was well aware of what was going on. Both parties are married, the boss who passed away recently due to his alcoholism, we found out that the woman he was having an affair with her cousin who worked for us as well was supplying him with pain meds, making him more and more irrational. The adultress would leave love notes, and a note begging him back when his wife found and and made him promise to end the affair and fire her. He never did, and his wife had him served with divorce papers at work. He eventually tried to get clean and ended up near comatosed in a hospital for over 4 months. The divorce never went through so thankfully after all he put her through she got everything. Same company the boss who passed and his BFF (general manager) have a construction company as our building maintenance, the guy does shoddy work and over bills by thousands of dollars to prepay for work at their personal homes. When we had a power outage after a hurricane we ordered a large generator for a week, construction guy came took the bill which was only $10k and charged us $30k. He didn't order the generator and it wasn't his. When we show surplus in sales the head bosses pocket the extra money instead of giving raises and bonuses. They pocket the money for themselves.
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#104
I worked at an animal hospital we had to break down the door because the new assistant passed out inside after taking apple morphine Same hospital, the cleaning guy would work in the nude after hours, I know because I caught him Boss was a huge dick, a dog was barking at him while waking up from anesthesia and peed on the dog to show dominance. Same boss hit on every woman and was utterly gross about it, mind you he was married Went in on my day off to take care of a personal house sitting client who's dog was having surgery, tech'd in surgery and stayed all day while the dog was waking up in recovery. Boss tried to bill them an extra $350 for my time, but I didn't get paid, I took it off the bill then dared him to put it back on.
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#105
the CIO of our company asked a web developer for a report of all the people who have done the "ethical decision making" computer base training course. He then told everyone in IT who promptly did the course. He then changed the dates the course was taken so it wouldn't show that they were all done on the same date. I'm the only one who refused to do the course. If asked why I haven't done it ethically what should I say.
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Lilly 7 years ago (edited)
sounds like they were all supposed to have taken a course online (continuing training), but didn't. when the CIO wanted the list (expecting everyone to have already done it), the web developer told everyone to take it, they did, & then the developer changed the dates to show that they took it on various dates before the CIO asked for the report. lol, made sense to me, but i'm a bit geekish
steven (Submission author) 7 years ago
no. we are all contractors so we're not expected to do any of the online training. The irony is in the course "ethical decision making" and everyone essentially doing to opposite to try and look good when contract renewal time comes around.
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#106
when I was in the military during basic training I caught our female drill instructor with one of the other female soldiers (doing the deed) while we were out on a drill. I Never said anything to anyone & not to either of them. all though we were all aware they had been seen. my drill instructor did take it a bit easy on me after that knowing I had info.
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Pacer Three (Submission author) 7 years ago
but no it was not an affair as basic training only lasted 8 weeks & we were off somewhere else
#107
When I worked in the storage room at my old job (years ago at this point), my friend that was quitting at the end of the day after putting in his two weeks decided to draw penises for every box he had to put on a shelf that day. The day ended and he was gone. I quit 2 months later. A few years later I knew people that had started working there and they asked me "hey, do you know where all the D!cks everywhere in the back came from? we even found some on the ceiling" I did not know about the ceiling ones
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#108
I've been working for over a few months in a company specially for disabled individuals. I finally began to see the drama. One woman ie. CatLady had a crush on man in the dept. He became involved with the Elegant Woman. The cat lady lost her marbles. She threatens the Elegant Woman, harasses and stalks her for taking her man. Cat lady has been written up over 35 times for the multiple ppl she's harassed. Several victims got together and mass emailed the head of HR for an emergency meeting. The head came in and interviewed everyone. Cat lady was escorted out on administrative leave for the duration of the investigation. Week and half down, no answers. If she comes back, they've given her a two week vacation and no real punishment.
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#109
I worked in a Department where my husband at the time was Manager. I knew 2 weeks in advance that everyone in 1 section, around 30 people (many of them friends) were to be made redundant - but couldnt tell anyone. Would have prefered not to know. It was horrible.
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Whawhawhatsis 7 years ago
That's the truth! I've learned things that I really wish I'd never learned. Sometimes knowing is much harder than blissful innocence, especially when you're in a position where you can't do anything about it.
diane a (Submission author) 7 years ago
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I worked in a restaurant where one waitress would grab one of the only four shrimp on the shrimp plate and stuff it in her mouth on her way out the door to give it to the customer. What a pig!
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Jane Alexander (Submission author) 7 years ago
I don't know, I was busy with my own tables. She was so brazen about it though, grinning and chewing. They may have been tourists and not realized that they should have more.
#111
My elderly boss has a generic name. I went to verify a form of contact and discovered he and his wife frequented swingers forums online. I learned quite a bit about what they enjoy in the bedroom.
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#112
I used to date an IT guy that worked for a company where most of the staff was remote workers. I guess people don't realize that a work computer is still company property even if you're at home (so much porn).
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#113
My teacher in middle school called the whole class "bitches" because we couldn't find the partners her hadn't even assigned. That same teacher made a girl cry.
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#114
Not an employee there myself, but a friend of mine is the boss of an online company. I’m 90% certain he’s married. What I do know for certain is he’s been heavily involved with an employee in the next state for several years, making frequent visits to her for the weekend. He’s also involved with another employee behind the back of the first. At best, he’s cheating on his girlfriend. At worst, he’s cheating on his mistress who he’s cheating on his wife with.
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#115
As long as people refuse to rock the boat. Or status quo, things will never change, and people who do these awful things, will continue to do them! So, report them. Get evidence but so it legally. But take them down. We can’t complain about bad business practices and such, until they are stopped. The more confrontation and charges against them, the more the work place will change. But only if we learn, to rock the boat. ITS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
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Wil Vanderheijden 7 years ago
Very noble thoughts. But you do know that people that rock boats get fired and won't be hired again by any other company? The harsh reality is that the good guys seldom win in these cases.
Jace 7 years ago
Because too few people at one place do the reporting or boat rocking. Too many people are cowed into keeping their heads down and not rocking the boat. Wage slavery is a thing. It takes a large group resistance to get things changed.
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Shaawn Connell 7 years ago
That needed to be said, but fools rather just read scandalous dirt. That’s why you received negative votes. :(
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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 7 years ago
I'm watching at this on my work's PC... we're not supposed to have internet but I know one or two things about IP adresses, and the IT Administrator password XD
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
My first job ever, was the worst boss ever. He was pretty old, a manager at a fast food chain, and he was always hiring under age boys and drooling over them when they bent over.... He once ripped a girls ear half off because she didn't finish a job to his liking. He was"put on leave" for 2 weeks as punishment, but with pay. He went around bragging how it was a vacation laughing his head off. I found out he died a few years ago and I said "good riddance", I was shocked other co-workers were sad he was gone.
Hugo Raible 7 years ago
The usual stuff. The sysadmin's porn collection, hidden deep in some network share. A coworker cheating on her husband with a younger guy.
Me, of course 7 years ago
There is no evidence that any of your comments are original.
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Sergio Bicerra Descalzi 7 years ago
I'm watching at this on my work's PC... we're not supposed to have internet but I know one or two things about IP adresses, and the IT Administrator password XD
KT Trondsen 7 years ago
My first job ever, was the worst boss ever. He was pretty old, a manager at a fast food chain, and he was always hiring under age boys and drooling over them when they bent over.... He once ripped a girls ear half off because she didn't finish a job to his liking. He was"put on leave" for 2 weeks as punishment, but with pay. He went around bragging how it was a vacation laughing his head off. I found out he died a few years ago and I said "good riddance", I was shocked other co-workers were sad he was gone.
Hugo Raible 7 years ago
The usual stuff. The sysadmin's porn collection, hidden deep in some network share. A coworker cheating on her husband with a younger guy.
Me, of course 7 years ago
There is no evidence that any of your comments are original.
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