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People Who Work In HR Anonymously Share The Biggest Office Scandals They’ve Had To Deal With, And Here Are 30 Of The Wildest Ones
Who doesn't like some workplace drama? Well, some people actually don't, but I think a lot of us would be eager to hear the latest tea about our coworkers. There's one group of people that will likely hear about all the scandals, whether they want it or not. As you've probably guessed, it's the HR team. And they can't just be passively judging listeners, they have to actually deal with it.
One Reddit user approached this group of company secret keepers and asked them what the biggest office drama they'd ever witnessed was. HRs happily shared their office scandals as their answers are virtually anonymous and untraceable. And the stories were wild. It seems that infidelity is second nature and that stealing company funds to fund your Tesla is fine until you get caught; after all, TV shows have to get their inspiration from somewhere.
1.5k replies later, Bored Panda selected the best stories about office life gaining some flavor — not necessarily good flavor, but flavor nonetheless. Scroll down to see the spiciest cases seen by HRs, upvote your favorites, and if you have an intriguing story, be sure to share it in the comments!
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#1
One of the employees was having random Grindr hookups in the bathroom at work so his wife wouldn't find out. He would go missing for a half hour at a time multiple times a day. We watched the camera to figure out what he was doing. Over and over again he would lead different guys into the bathroom. One day alone we counted 6 different guys. We confronted him about it. Was in the process of letting him go and all of a sudden he grabs a pair of scissors and holds them to his throat. Screaming about how we ruined his life and he's going to end it all. Little did he know security was walking in when he was going off. The security officer walked right behind him and in one motion got the scissors and was restraining the guy. We called the police and EMTs. They took him away. About a month and a half later, he came back in claiming to have found Jesus. He and Jesus apparently prayed it over and they believe he should get his job back. One of the higher ups heard about it and said "when Jesus starts paying the payroll, then Jesus can decide who should work here."
Gabriela Cink 2 years ago
So many people had time during work hours to go to someone's workplace.
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Kevin J. Henning 2 years ago
Why is it when someone goes over the rails the first person they bring up is Jesus? Surely, there must be another founder of a religion looking for some free publicity.
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#2
Not hr but recruiter. Found out a potential candidate was fired from his previous job because he threw his boss into a dumpster. Dude was 6'5 so yes. Picked his boss up over his head and threw him until the dumpster. Had to admit I'm envious.
Al Jameson 2 years ago
Did the boss deserve it? Shows initiative, action orientation, decision quality, and strategic thinking.
#3
Not HR and not me but a former colleague.
He had given notice at his company. During his 2 week notice they had hired someone to manage the team that he worked on. The manager called a team meeting to introduce himself to the team.
The first thing he said was "I'm going to need all the ladies to let me know when their monthly cycles are because I don't need that kind of craziness!"
He proceeded to talk about a Black woman's hair. And literally every other possible insensitive topic you can imagine.
During my friend's exit interview he said to the HR person "I bet you're getting a lot of calls about X's meeting today!" They said no. He proceeded to tell them the whole story. The HR person excused themselves for a minute. The new manager was being led out by security when my friend walked out of the exit interview.
David H 2 years ago
Well when someone is a walking set of lawsuits, you bet they act fast
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Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
How did Mr. No Filter get hired in the first place? He must have been like that in the interview.
Joshua David 2 years ago
I can't think this is true. I'm a former HR BP and the company will not immediately escort someone out like that before an investigation. They would need to speak to multiple sources and then the employee themselves. Not. True.
#4
We had a christian married man who got offended at bad language or slightly off color jokes that were borderline inappropriate but still mostly acceptable in the workplace. We had to sit down with team members on his behalf a few times because he was so offended and felt the office needed to have higher morals. Come to find out, he is having multiple trysts a week with other men at local motels. Scheduling these meetups from his work computer, Shortly after IT flagged one of the sites we was frequenting, we hear that his wife has filed for divorce and a bitter battle began. She found out about the affairs with other men and was a stay at home mom to their 4 children. She wanted alimony as this guy was pretty successful and earned a lot of commissions. He tanked his production to limit how much he had to pay her in both child support and alimony.
On the surface he was such a stand up guy who preached strong christian values but the reality was he not only cheated on his wife, he stiffed his kids and ex wife the support they deserved.
Donna Peluda 2 years ago
Why do we have to respect people beliefs and moral BS. Religion has never respect none religious people right to be religion free. PS, same happend to a friend of mine, very wealthy hubby, 4 kids, church on Sunday etc. My friend got home early and caught him by the pool being pegged by a tranny while heblowing another one. They were dressed like Japanese school girls.. needless to say she very wealthy now.
ButFirstCoffee 2 years ago
Never trust the religious people, they are the ones with the least morals.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
Such people aren't Christian. Understand what is going on here: the person is claiming to be highly moral precisely because he's avoiding the suspicions that he's not. It's the same thing as all the homophobes from High School(the kids who used to call me a f****t for liking Styx or Lionel Richie) flew rainbows on their Facebook headshots. Christians are commanded to openly acknowledge their sins, while doing their good works in secret.
Praecordia 2 years ago
Christian was the red flag for me. Never really what they seem. Not all but I’ve met a few with no morals but somehow super religious.
#5
Our HR Lady told a pregnant factory worker "you should have thought about that before you got knocked up" when an employee asked "can I move to a different department so I'm not exposed to so many chemicals?"
liam newton-harding 2 years ago
And now that mother, and child own the factory in a sweet legal settlement.
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
“I have never heard of such a thing (as a woman in IT getting pregnant)!” This happened to me TWICE. I’m like, ok just because I’m a hardware technician doesn’t mean my reproductive parts don’t work.
Sunlight on a Broken Column 2 years ago
Not all devils need advocates, but for real, I have an honest-to-goodness question. I'm child-free, so please grant me some leniency bc I actually don't know the answer. Presuming the child was planned, wouldn't the chemicals have been a consideration before conceiving? (If the child was a surprise, this is moot, obviously.)
Jiminy 2 years ago
The thing is that you don't know when you will conceive. If I remember correctly it takes a year on average for a woman to become pregnant with regular sex without contraception.
Load More Replies... Alewa 2 years ago
Aren't there usually protocol in place to protect pregnant women from harmful working conditions? So if the chemicals were harmful for the fetus she would have to be moved anyway...
MiriPanda 2 years ago
If that took place in the US, then probably not. Over here in Germany you would be moved instantly upon learning about the pregnancy or sent early into paid maternity leave.
Load More Replies... Steve Robert 2 years ago
And maybe your parents should have considered an abortion when your mother got knocked up, you stupid twat!
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
One word: „Mutterschutz“! Or in english: „Maternity Protection Act“. If your work is potentially harmful to your unborn baby, your company HAS to either let you work in another department or, if that is not possible, your doctor will attest you need to start your maternity protection leave NOW.
#6
Security footage showed my manager rummaging through a computer he had no reason to be on. IT checked out the computer, and they found he deleted some security footage... so they recovered it.
He was fired for having sex with one of the employees at work. She was fired, too.
Marcellus II 2 years ago
It's rummage-ception. He would have to go to that computer again, to delete the footage of him deleting footage. But that would be filmed again, so he has to delete again... The take-home message: The only solution is to stage a violent destructive accident.
WindySwede 2 years ago
Office space.. (not the same, but that fixed the evidence). Maby that's why the boss was an idiot, to get someone to burn down the place to cover his tracks?!
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Uncommon Boston 2 years ago
Question - if you were caught having sex with your spouse at work, would both of you be fired?
Carole Reid 2 years ago
Do you mean "fired" or "tired"? Conjugal break room?
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Paddling Panda 2 years ago
If they did it while on the Employer's clock, it's time theft. I have a lingering question about the power imbalance inherent in this scenario since it involves a manager having sexx with a subordinate. If the subordinate felt they had no option but to acquiesce, it seems unfair that they lost their job as this would fall under sexxual harassment / sexxual assault. Note: misspelled sexx deliberately to try to dodge the BP censors.
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Sarah Stalder 2 years ago
Unless she was also a manager, she shouldn't have been fired, too. Whenever there's a power differential, the subordinate is not typically found liable as well.
#7
Oh dear Lord, I am friends with an HR attorney for a large agency. So so many stories but possibly my favorites is one where they walked in and fired one woman for dereliction of duty soon as she showed up for her shift. Like she was horrible at her job and barely performed, she was probational and it was clearly not working out. She and her boss leave for lunch and when they return, they discover employee is back on campus and working like nothing happened. Even greeted them in the gates.
They are shocked and ask why she’s there when she’s been terminated. Employee answered that “I’m working you can’t just fire me. This is my job.” And proceeds to turn around, ignore them, and keep working. They again repeat she’s been terminated she needs to go. She says “I reject that, I don’t accept your termination”
She literally had to almost be dragged out. It was quite entertaining.
SlothyK8 2 years ago
My mother (an evangelical) used to do stuff like this. If something happened that she didn't like, she'd just say "I don't agree with that" or "I reject that in the name of ". It's a great way to absolve yourself of responsibility.
LinkTheHylian 2 years ago
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own."
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Kate Jones 2 years ago
There's this weird thing going on with people right now where if you tell them something they respond with this 'i refuse' or 'i don't accept that' response that is really whacky. I was a customer in a coffee shop toward the end of the covid where we were allowed in places but still needed to wear masks. This woman refused to wear a mask and so they managed to get her out the door but she was blocking it so people couldn't leave. This one woman got mad and literally plowed through her and she acted like she'd been shot or something. They were trying to explain they are a private business, health code rules like wearing shirts and shoes are standard and this is also standard in this location, her knowledge of the law was wrong et al, but she just kept saying 'I do not listen to non-christians. I don't accept your laws or rules." The cops eventually had to physically take her off the property it was so ridiculous. And it's more than just covid stuff. I've seen it everywhere it's bonkers.
Melissa Harris 2 years ago (edited)
Hopefully she was placed on a psychic hold.This s**t is literally delusional.
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#8
I worked at an ad agency where the HEAD of HR sent a companywide email and attached an unsecured Excel Spreadsheet containing everyone in the company's salary. It was a crazy 24 hours or so after that, and several people walked when they found out what co-workers and peers were making over them, and it put some pretty nasty pay-related inequality on display.
She was NOT fired.
Justin Smith 2 years ago
Because she released sensitive information about all the workers.
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Alaina Moon 2 years ago
Pay transparency should be required. Hiding what you make just keeps the inequity on going. There is no reason that the person next to me doing the same job should be paid any more or less than me.
RafCo (he/him) 2 years ago
Agreed, but it should be up front, at the time salaries are being negotiated. Once you're in, it's so much harder to get a raise
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Aubrey Patterson 2 years ago
She wasn't fired because it is illegal to fire someone for revealing salaries. Obama also signed an executive order making it illegal for employers to forbid employees discussing compensation.
Uncommon Boston 2 years ago
Is it illegal to share salary information? I think not. Awkward, but not against the law.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
One of the nice things about a unionized workplace is that all this is public knowledge.
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago
I worked for a company where the HR specialist went into Cigna and fired every single employee on our DoD contract. Didn’t tell anyone. We only found out when I went to doctor and didn’t have coverage. We thought it was just me. No. It was 150 people. She also changed the bank account on my DD form because she had never seen bank account number like that, and decided to drop the last two numbers from the account.
Raymond Smith 2 years ago
It’s not illegal to discuss your salary. Even a law that protects it as it promotes equality but it does not include people from accounting and HR to let everyone know. Just peers.
john s 2 years ago
Sorry Michael Largey - wasn't supposed to be nested! Altho I do wish unionized workplaces were the norm.
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I'm not HR but the person that was in charge of all of our Purchasing (raw materials, equipment, tools, etc.) was fired 2 months ago because there are $500k worth of purchases on the company credit card for tools that are nowhere to be found. It now makes sense that he was able to afford the same model of Tesla ($75k) as the owner of the company even though he was an hourly employee that only worked like 5 hours a day.
Annie 1973 2 years ago
He had a company credit card with such a high limit on it? How come the person who paid the bills didn't notice straight away?
#10
I use to work in a nursery for kids age 0-5. The director was male, around 50, married with 4 children some of them young and some of them young teenagers. He was super friendly and got on well with everyone.
There was a nursery worker who started at 17 but was now 19, she was a nice but quiet girl with a troubled family.
The director left his wife for her.
It left a really bad taste in everyones mouth.
sofacushionfort 2 years ago
Stock photo of a nurse for an entry about a nursery. Next: photo of avian veterinarian for “I was a crane operator “
kitten levels tokyo 2 years ago
Next: photo of a baby cow for “I was a cafeteria worker.”
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Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
Quick question: is childcare always called „nursery“ for 0-5 year olds? Or is this a British thing maybe? I thought this would be called Preschool in the US?
Eric Johnson 2 years ago
What I don't get is, why do the girls who do this think it's okay to wreck another family just to get something they want? Years ago when I was married, there was a girl who had a crush on me. When she made it clear what she wanted, I felt kinda offended, she knew my wife and child, and the fact that she would go after me despite knowing it would hurt the woman who befriended her was bizarre to me. Even when I was young, I would have never gone after a married woman, whether she was into me or not.
#11
The manager was having an affair with one of our team members and no one knew. It was lunchtime and his wife came to surprise him and drop some food off. Me, my other colleague and his wife were walking together towards the kitchen, she was telling us how her husband has been working so late and he doesn't get time to eat lunch so she wanted to make sure he doesn't overwork.
We walked down towards the small corridor towards the kitchen and saw the manager spanking our team member while she was up against the wall. His wife dropped the food bags in shock and was trembling and fainted. My colleague called an ambulance.
Manager and team member were fired for their inappropriate behaviour on company grounds. We don't know what happened to the wife.
Melissa Harris 2 years ago
I just thought they were going to walk in on them doing it on his desk. Spanking; in the hallway; with the wife! It's like Cludo
#12
An outbreak of herpes at a branch office.
Most of the staff at this office were engaged in a web of affairs that would most accurately be described as Genital Musical Chairs.
I fired the HR rep for this branch office because she was involved in the affairs. I also fired two who were on probation for other poor job performance and the rest resigned. The handful of staff members who were not involved in the affairs were transferred while the branch office was closed.
RafCo (he/him) 2 years ago
Herpes is the glitter of sexually transmitted diseases
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RedPanda 2 years ago
This reminded me of an experiment I did in grade 11 biology class!!! We were all given test tubes with water inside and one of our classmates had diluted NaOH. Then, we used pipettes to exchange some of our water with 3 other people. Afterwards, he added some phenolphthalein into all our test tubes. If it turned pink, we were “infected”. We had fun tracing back to who it originated from. Then we went around telling people that our teacher had given us STDs /jk XD
Kate Jones 2 years ago
Herpes is my biggest fear. It's like being afraid of heights for other people. I'm petrified of it because it's so prevalent. I know there's a stigma about it but.... herpes just freaks me out.
CP 2 years ago
There is a stigma about it to scare people from having sex. Apparently heroe is only annoying and nothing else.
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Pudgy Panda 2 years ago
So let me see if I’m understanding this correctly - are you equating common cold sores (aka HSV) with a sexually transmitted disease? Lots of people get cold sores on their lips and while it can be, it most definitely is not due to sexual transmission in the majority of cases.
#13
I used to work at a tech startup, you know the type lots of nap pods/ relaxed, company culture and open bar after work hours.
One evening CEO, head of HR, head of sales and myself had just returned from a business trip returned to the office to collect some stuff and found a 3 way going on the conference room next to the CEO’s office, they were all fired and all married.
1 of them tried to sue for wrongful termination 😂
Telepathetic 2 years ago (edited)
"..... nap pods/ relaxed, company culture and open bar after work hours" . What did they think was going to Happen?
GoGoPDX 2 years ago (edited)
Going off all the stories in this thread, these kind of things seem to be happening in all different kinds of workplace culture, not just the relaxed ones.
Load More Replies... Elaine Morinelli 2 years ago
Why do people do this at work? Excitement? They need a bigger imagination and keep that s**t at home.
#14
I feel like I’ve been waiting for this moment for almost a decade.
One time, I had to do an HR investigation because somebody talked about somebody else’s dog. As in their canine. Ruff ruff.
In the end, it was determined that someone had, in fact, talked disparagingly about someone else’s dog. And was advised, moving forward, to refrain from making disparaging remarks about peoples pets. I wish I was joking.
I also had to investigate two people who were caught having sex in the office bathroom while most of us were at an off site event.
Ches Yamada 2 years ago
"I wish I was joking". I do, too, but not for the reason you are. Someone at my husband's workplace made a disparaging comment about our dog and I could barely control my rage hearing about it second hand. What an idiot - do I talk badly or make jokes about your religion, sir? Because surprise, surprise (red state, bibley as he11) he was a "man's man religious dudebro". So our "little" dog wasn't manly enough for him.
#15
Not me, but my mom.
Someone got fired and they smeared their s**t all over the bathroom on the way out. From then on people had to be escorted out by security.
The Mom 2 years ago
That's just so wrong. Whoever did the firing isn't the one cleaning the bathrooms.
Sonja 2 years ago
When people do stuff like that I always doubt the firing was without cause... People who are that nasty can't be good people.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Had someone occasionally poop on the bathroom floor at a factory i worked at...EVERYONE wanted to catch them.
Praecordia 2 years ago
That is a special kind of low. Anyone who is willing to touch feces like that needs to be institutionalized. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Brian White 2 years ago
And people wonder why big companies suddenly lock out 12k employees during layoffs. There's always one. It's not personal; it's necessary.
#16
I wasn't in HR at the time, but I once worked at an office where someone allegedly was fired for microwaving their socks in the break room.
A Bobcat From Philly 2 years ago
It's the button next to the underwear button...
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Terrible confession. At my own home, I was late and needed a shirt dried fast. It was all-cotton. I microwaved it, shook it so all the steam came out, microwaved it again. But yes, it was in a bowl.
Kraneia The Dancing Dryad 2 years ago
At least you were using your own microwave and not stinking up the office
Load More Replies... Richard Coy 2 years ago
Someone did this at a call centre I worked in. He thought it would be a good way to dry them after heavy rain. It set the fire alarms of and the building was evacuated... same guy set the fire alarms of my making toast about a year later
Svelk929 2 years ago
Why were they microwaving socks in the first place? Trying to set the office on fire? Attempting to ruin another coworker's lunch? Just trying to make their socks toasty warm? The world may never know...
Richard Coy 2 years ago
There'd been a really heavy downpour and he was soaked through. He'd taken dry clothes to change into but not socks
Load More Replies... Maltaros 2 years ago
Really? Have you seen some of the stuff people put in an office microwave that is supposed to be edible?
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Brian Droste 2 years ago
Why would they do that? Did they have wet socks or did they like warm socks?
#17
Normal scandal. The owner left his wife for his secretary. BUT—-the wife owned 50% of the company and she made him pay through the nose for it. He was a total stereotype! The company had become really prosperous, he started working out, got a really expensive sports car (Lamborghini, I think). Then he dumped his wife, was publicly involved with secretary, left his company to be run by other people and ran off to California, married, and had kids. He was kind of a s**t head before that anyway.
#18
Owner of the company had an affair with the head of legal. They ran away to Europe together for an extended trip. He embezzled money to pay for the whole thing and the company went under as a result. Investigations a plenty.
Sonja 2 years ago
Why the hell do people embezzle from their own companies? What's wrong with people?
Hedonism Bot 2 years ago
And his lover should have been the first one to tell him that it was a very bad idea.
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago
I hope you know a good lawyer. Oh... it was with the head of legal. Dammit.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
If You have a successful company Why would you do that? People are idiots.
#19
My project manager assistant was a centerfold beautiful woman and also extremely good at her job, the best PMA I’ve ever had. She isn’t my PMA anymore because a bunch of the guys in the office ( me included) stopped by a strip joint on the other side of town during a bachelor party for one of the guys and there she was up on stage. She was shocked and ran off stage when she saw half the office there. Everyone felt terrible and we tried to play it off that we didn’t see her, etc. but she still quit.
Gardener of Weeden 2 years ago
Really Sad thing is, if she was paid a decent salary she would not have needed to work the 2nd job.
Rick Seiden 2 years ago
Some people do that because they want to do it, so you can't just assume that's the case. But, I would say you have more than a 90% chance of being right.
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Lou Lopez 2 years ago
It sucks, but she has probably discovered that some men think strippers/burlesque dancers are "loose" and treat them with disrespect accordingly - they might even be dangerous. She might have quit because she assumed she would be propositioned, possibly assaulted, bullied, and treated like an idiot.
#20
Older one: New employee found during background check to have over 100 aliases and actively wanted by the FBI for industrial espionage, and we were the next target. He was kept on long enough for the FBI to close the case.
More recent: A director-level individual who slowly replaced almost every employee under him with a contractor, all from the same entity. Turns out he and his wife ran it. And every time a contract was up there would be an excuse to replace the person, complete with a new finder's fee for a new employee. His fake contracting agency wasn't even getting most of his employees paid. He was finally busted when he used a company computer to log into his personal bank account and pay an employee who was threatening to walk.
Kate Jones 2 years ago
Kind of weird that the guy is on the most wanted list and has managed to stay hidden for that long but a standard background check managed to find him.
Justin Smith 2 years ago
Didnt say most wanted list. Just said wanted by the fbi.
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A Bobcat From Philly 2 years ago
Now the US has a guy in the house that lies his a*s off about EVERYTHING and they love him and appoint him to major committees! Holy hell!
Florence O'Grady 2 years ago
Older one: Did the FBI catch his employer/s that sent him to commit industrial espionage at all these places?
Seadog 2 years ago
My son was at a military base, you know, the kind with very high security where you're checked at multiple points before you ever actually get to anything. A guy on the rigging crew for a crane company got nailed when he popped up on the background check as wanted for some felony. So cops show up and haul him away. If you have a felony warrant out for you, why would you go anywhere near a military base?
#21
Two concurrent office dramas that resulted in a mass firing.
First, my boss (m late-thirties), an ex-middle school teacher, hired and then knocked up an 18 year he used to teach. This is after he showed up to work a month before with a black eye, a gift from the baby daddy of the other teenage employee he was sleeping with. He was fired, divorced,and estranged from his own teenage children.
Meanwhile, his office enemy, another department director, was fired for paying her own employee to be her child surrogate.
Annette Easton 2 years ago
I'm guessing conflict of interest. It's hard to be an impartial boss when your employee is carrying your child.
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Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Kinda like our school district...teacher at LEAST waited until she graduated before marriage. Update...not together anymore. He's still there. Board meetings have been WELL attended lately.
Joy Myers 2 years ago
Same here. He was already divorced and 10 years older, but he was the drama teacher. They got married in her early 20s about 40 years ago. Still married.
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ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
what in the world is with these people? And how did this end in a mass firing? makes no sense.
#22
We had a team building day and the CEO made it so his team won. The 3 married people (not to each other) had sex in the hot tub.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
In "THE" hot tub? I'm more puzzled by the fact that there's a hot tub you would mention with a definitive article than the fact that they had sex in it. Also: Please don't have sex in a hot tub. That's disgusting. People don't need your bodily fluids and denatured sperm floating around.
Tammie Braggs 2 years ago
My previous school district would do this whenever we had an event that was supposed to honor management and increased morale. The superintendent was always voted the winner of whatever game we played even when he was the obvious loser. When the guy at the top has to “win” the best gift certificates, and cheat in order to do it, that may not be the best company to work for.
Nandros M 2 years ago (edited)
Would you make the same question, if you are the cuckolded spouse?
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The #2 or #3 HR lady got drunk at the holiday party and groped a bunch of people, stuck her tongue in someone’s ear and fondled a guy’s wife. The head of HR swept it all under the rug and told all the witnesses and people she grabbed to “manage it properly”.
I quit pretty soon after that. F**k that place.
Melissa Harris 2 years ago (edited)
Tell it like it is: woman got drunk at a company function and sexually harrased and assaulted half the staff and some spouses
#24
Back in 2000ish one of my coworkers had a giant crush on a guy in the office. Eventually they started dating, then one day his fiance showed up to confront him....as did the three other women in the office he was banging. He was due to be deployed in two weeks, almost the perfect crime.
JoJo Anisko 2 years ago
There are plenty of places where adultery is still a statutory crime, including several states on the USA.
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Narwhal Blast 2 years ago
This sounds like a movie plot. Then all the ladies went out for brunch and started a business together! The end!
#25
Not HR, but One of the founders was having an affair with the head of Human Resources. All that ended at some point and later they found out the head of HR was lying on her resume about her degrees lol. That was an awkward day - I sat right outside their offices and got to watch her slowly take all her stuff out of her office while he ignored her.
Upstaged75 2 years ago (edited)
I actually had the head of a company's HR ask me to forge a letter stating that he had a degree from the university I worked at. He came in to my office one day (I was the manager of a Master's program) and handed me a $100 bill. Apparently he was hoping that would be enough to convince me to create a fake degree for him. At first I was completely confused about why some random man was trying to pay me. The idiot even handed me his business card! I guess his company had caught him in a lie and he was desperately trying to cover it up. My boss ended up kicking him out of the office and told him never to come back. And yes, he gave the money back. I was a little insulted that he thought $100 was all it would take for me to forge something. The degree cost at least $20,000. It would have take WAY more than that for my services. ;) Afterwards my coworkers made a joke sign for my desk outlining the prices for various things I might forge for people. LOL!
#26
One shift lead having an affair with his wife with another shift lead girl at work.
They both opened the store in the morning, and before any customers arrived they would bang on the prep table, wtf.
One day when I had to check the cameras for something, I was watching it on fast forward starting from that morning and was shocked to see them doing it lol. I watched it for a bit before spilling the beans to my manager.
#27
My female boss was banging her male boss in the parking garage. Working late and her cell phone off, my bosses husband came looking for her and found them in her car. Fight ensued. Got the story from the garage security guy. My boss and her boss both had black eyes the next day at work. I didn't get to see what the husband looked like. Both bosses continued their jobs like it never happened.
Icecream Sarang 2 years ago (edited)
My female boss was banging my male colleague. Her husband showed up, beat the @;$;&/& out of him AND her on government property. The MPs arrested him, and she got a restraining order. The couple ran away to Hawaii with her kids the next day, and have been married for 15 years this summer living on Oahu.
Elaine Morinelli 2 years ago
All of these affairs just seem so childish. A parking garage? A company bathroom? I don't get it. Exactly how hit by ARE people?
Upstaged75 2 years ago
I worked in a hotel a long time ago. Pretty much everyone is banging everyone else in the hotel industry. My boss (married with kids) was having a long term affair with one of his managers. She was also married. It was NOT a secret - even the busboys knew about it. The company ended up transferring her to a new property in another state, but that didn't stop them. I processed his phone bills and could see that he spent hours on the phone with her every day. It eventually came to a head when she snuck back in to town and checked in to our hotel. Her husband, who had suspected what was going on, followed her and caught my boss with her in the room. A huge fight ensued and my boss got his a*s kicked. The husband then informed my boss's wife about everything. He was a loser anyway. I never understood why she was so crazy about him that she would risk her marriage and career.
ConstantlyJon 2 years ago
that stock picture is disturbing and somehow fits the picture perfectly. "both bosses continued their jobs like it never happened." I see you, BP.
#28
A guy I hired (and fired a week later due to poor performance) got caught robbing a bank a few weeks later....
Wood Carver 2 years ago (edited)
I can't imagine having the energy to go through the hiring process at a place and managing to be so bad at it you can get fired for poor performance in a week. In a week you're not usually expected to be any good at the job. Just not spectacularly bad. You don't have to know all the buttons on the cash or where everything is in the plant or what the security protocol is for entering form 36b or whatever your level of employment might be. You just can't be like asleep at your desk or standing in front of the coffee maker yelling order this lady a mcmuffin stupid cash register, or make a sculpture instead of the car you were meant to build.
Peter Parker 2 years ago
Good to see that he started his own business. Sadly, it didn't go so well..
Heather Talma 2 years ago
How exactly does someone perform so badly that they're fired after only a week???
#29
Not HR, but I once received an email that wasn't meant for my eyes.
A female coworker was angry with a male coworker (both from a different department, I didn't know them) since he had promised to leave his wife for him after they already had a lengthy affair.
I told my boss and he recommended I would simply delete the email and pretend it didn't happen.
Alewa 2 years ago
What would the boss have to do with that? And why would OP do anything about it?
Nandros M 2 years ago
Suppose the cuckolded spouse is a relative or close friend of yours. What would you do?
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We had to fire an Union worker. She was on this weird feminism power trip. She wanted to see more women in the positions that were generally male dominated. And, honestly, that's fine. But how she went about was a lawsuit in the making. Actively sabotaging men in a bid to get them fired then throwing temper tantrums when caught. Forcing untrained women into positions that they weren't certified in. And then, if you were a woman and spoke out against being forced into a position that you weren't trained in and wanted to get into a safer role into you had the training, she would turn against you and try to have you fired. This was at a plant with horribly toxic metals, molten metal around 1400 degrees, and machines that could take a person's hand off in a single stroke. Like, if we have an accidental release, every house in a 3 block radius would need to be evacuated type of danger.
Then there was this other chick. Came here with that same feminist stuff. But in her case, it presented itself in her wardrobe. She was in constant violation of the dress code. Our dress code is there so we don't get them chemicals, molten metal and whatever on us. And her dumbass was walking around in thigh-high boots and tiny mini-skirts. Everytime someone would say something she would act like it's sexism and s**t. Eventually, one of our visiting customers took issue with how she was dressed and complained. This chick tried to pull the sexism card again until she learned that the customer in question was a woman. Then it became out how this customer was setting the feminist movement back and s**t. This employee ended up on this s**t list for a lot of the higher-ups because of this. So when the bathroom incident happened, everyone knew she was gone. Everyone but her apparently. So yeah, she went to used a men's bathroom over a women's just because she felt like it. While she was in there, a man came in to take a p**s. She lost her mind and tried to act like she was in danger and demanded he should be fired. For the guy's part, he didn't even know she was there. Just came in, went straight to the urinal, then walked out. She had been watching him through the fabled stall gap. When she was asked why she didn't go to any of the other women's bathrooms on this floor (there's five women's bathroom to three men's) she wasn't able to answer the question. Well, after her termination, she came back with a lawsuit. Claiming she was fired due to sexism. She loss and the company cracked down harder on dress code violations and making sure people understood which bathrooms they were supposed to be using.
Fantastic Mr Fox 2 years ago (edited)
Absolutely. Calling women “chicks” is a giveaway.
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Diane Aguilar 2 years ago
Get this made-up misogynistic claptrap off this site. There is way too much woman hatred involved here to make this even the least bit believable.
You Should Do Nothing with the Fence 2 years ago
It starts with, "We had to fire a Union worker," but then never goes into why that is relevant. What are we supposed to infer about it being a "Union worker?"
Well-Dressed Wolf 2 years ago (edited)
You have no idea what gender OP is. And for the record, I’m female and I use the word “chick” to refer to other females occasionally. I also use the word “dude” to refer to people of every gender or lack thereof. What does that make me, in your book?
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Mike Armistead (Mike Armistead) 2 years ago
When saying you don't mind feminism then refer to a woman as a "chick", it kind of throws a wrench in your story.
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#31
Not HR, tech/software company were tipped off by their bank and discovered a financial analyst was embezzling funds (progressively more monthly for 2 years totaling $500k) he was fired and sued. As part of the settlement the company got his fancy BMW, condo, and his gf’s engagement ring.
Within ~3 months he landed a top government job, having lied in his cover letter & interview claiming he still worked for the software company. His girlfriend posed as a reference via. telephone.
He got promptly fired and charged. He was sentenced to 1 year in prison, 3 years probation.
In the time between being fired by the government and sentencing he had landed another corporate job (who were aware of both criminal incidents) !
Wood Carver 2 years ago
No. He has made it clear he never said he did that only that he said he didn't not do that and saying he didn't not say he said he didn't do something when he didn't not say that is not something he wouldn't do. If you look at what he said, all he said was that he wasn't not being investigated and that if you think about it he'd also spent some time in charge of some portion of the US board of Prisons, under a title the he couldn't remember exactly bur was something along the line of head of the board of prisons eastern division. Also he may or may not have oversaw the volleyball championship win that happened during the time he wasn't incarcerated there.
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The receptionist and the land administrator had an affair and she got pregnant. Her husband had had a vasectomy years earlier. The office affair ended, and the receptionist and her husband maintained that it was a miracle from God.
It’s a small town and everyone knew about the affair. It was a big scandal. The receptionist and the land administrator were both kicked out of the church they belonged to.
Publicly, the receptionist and her husband pretended nothing had happened and that this was a wonderful surprise. But everyone knew it was not likely to be the husband’s child.
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
Churches are allowed to kick people out. Very rare, but it's usually when they are unrepentant and church leadership sees it as a threat to the other members (bad example, chance of it happening again in the church, etc.)
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 years ago
"A miracle from God" would have been, say, anyone believing them. But sorry to hear they got kicked out of the Church of First Stone Throwers..
liam newton-harding 2 years ago
That's going to be a bitter marriage, and a very unhappy child.
#33
Vp of marketing was divorced with a young daughter and his number 2 who was married with two kids were having an affair. Okay, not a great situation but sometimes people end up together after working together for so long and they got messy.
Here’s what sucked. The woman’s husband found out and he proceeded to copy paste rather explicit messages into EVERY SLACK CHANNEL for our company the same evening. He had gotten ahold of her work laptop while she was out and went nuts. Told the whole company. The it/dev channel, the sales dept, customer support, the damn lunch break channel. He hit like 10+ different ones before our head of dev was able to disable her account.
Message said something along the lines of “you f’ing b**** (marketing vp name), I hope you can live with yourself once (tagged the Owner of company, other executives etc) find out you were fuc**** (woman’s name) and get fired. (Woman’s name) hope you like sucking his little c**k. Can’t wait till (tagged the HR heads) reads this! F***the both of you! “
The next morning neither came in and we’re both fired. Minimal public acknowledgment but it wasn’t a mystery about what happened. This was the week after our Christmas party. Not 3 weeks after I started with the company…
It’s time like that when I wish I hadn’t put myself on so not disturb. But I saw the screen shots and dealt with the whole situation as professional as possible.
#34
Worked at a car rental company in my 20's. I worked at the airport location where we had a manager and an assistant manager. There were some "issues" at the airport location - some of them were caused by managment telling the reps to do things, and then writing us up when the main office didn't like what we were told to do. (my response was to start typing notes that said "Per M, X was done" - when she caught on, she started changing the notes in the system, so I started going in and changing them back. But that's not the story I wanted to tell. So, due to "issues" at the airport, and only having a manager and and assistant manager, they wanted to add a "shift lead" position to help take up some of the slack. We had one employee that was a real "go-getter" very professional, his numbers were always good, etc. Since our most senior rep wasn't interested in changing her hours to take the position, were were certain that C was going to get it. Big meeting at the main office to make the announcment, all of us are sitting around the table....
and the Big Boss finally Opens the door and comes in. Followed by Manager. Followed by HR. Followed by Assistant Manager. Followed by two Police Officers. They arrest C.
After he'd been led out in cuffs, we got the story. Apparently, money had been going missing from the safe. A little here, a little there. They had been investigating for months and finally got the proof they needed. To say that we were ALL shocked was an understatment. A few of us knew that some money had gone missing (an entire cash bag had been emptied a few weeks before) but literally No One had suspected C was responsible!! So. After everyone had recovered from the shock. They announced the new Shift lead. It was a little anticlimactic.
3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
A quick Google search says some rental car companies do take cash, either for the rental itself or for a deposit. 🤷♀️
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Terry Rex 1 year ago
No it is not they had a bunch of other stuff in there too stupid.
Load More Replies... 3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
Yeah the most dramatic thing that’s happened at my work lately is that someone put root beer in the Coca Cola vending machine.
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Dillon Brown 2 years ago
All these stories be like "not HR but I decided to make an erotic work place fan fic and post it here"
John McLeod VII 2 years ago
I witnessed a colleague getting fired for padding their resume. My boss knew a particular skill would be needed soon when they hired this person. About a month into the job, they were told they were going to be on a team doing that skill, and the person said they didn't know how to do that. My boss reminded them it was all over their resume and fired her ob the spot.
Larry XK 2 years ago
I;m not HR. The guy who worked in the cubicle across the isle from was fired because he decided to light up joint in his car and he parked his car outside the window of the HR office. Ok guy is gone, IT comes a few days later to clean up his computer and found images of b*********y and also a ton of website URLs in his browser cache that dealt with the subject. Different place different time, the guy worked in the corner, always paranoid and very quiet. One day the sheriff shows up take him away in handcuffs. Turned out the guy was molesting his own 12 yrs old daughter. He was charged with a ton of s**t including, rape, incest etc. Same place a couple of years later. Guy worked in the welding department didn't show up up for a week. Finally HR got the news that he was booked into the county jail for first degree murder. Apparently he was at a party and someone made some comment that he didn't take well, so he turned around the host the other guy in the back. Dude died in the ambo
Dave Freeman 2 years ago
Not HR, worked in IT. Lead sales guy gets fired for fraud, but for some reason he wasn't supervised while he was cleaning out his office the Friday before a long weekend. We all come in on Wednesday and IT goes in to remove and refresh his pc. Walked in and the stench was palpable. Turns out the dude took a s**t inside his computer before he left. Management wanted us to try and fix it. We refused, and they ended up having to call in biohazard to deal with it.
Annie 2 years ago
I used to work in IT at a subprime mortgage company, where the mobile phone of choice was a Blackberry; we also had our own company BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server). We were always entertained reading the texts of (married) VPs, Directors & Managers who frequently texted each other about obtaining cocaine or pot, or "sexts" to their girlfriends and/or subordinate employees (who they were having an affair with). In addition to screwing around with his own employees, one VP was also screwing around with an outside tech recruiter & during Christmastime sent her a "sext" about how he wanted to have sex with her while she wore a Santa hat. I lost respect for a lot of people after that experience.
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
A male 30+ contractor kept sexting a 20 year old intern using the company’s Microsoft Teams chat. They were sleeping together but she was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the explicit sexting and him in generally so she told an older woman she worked with. Subsequent investigations showed he was sexting and sleeping with (or trying to sleep with, it was unclear) the intern, their boss, and two other employees. It was a lot of sexting, all saved on the company’s system! My comment when I heard all of this was “When did he find time to work?” Anyway, he was fired as was their boss who had been at the company for 15 years. One of the two employees was fired but the second one just got a warning as she hadn’t written anything too awful in the chat. The intern was allowed to finish out her internship as it was only a few weeks.
Deb Johnston 2 years ago
Worked at a PBS TV station. There was a woman who was doing community service there because at her previous company she was caught stealing money. There were no charges but she got probation and community service. After finishing her CS our station hired her. Years later she was being duck-walked out of the building because she was caught embezzling (lots of money). She was never charged and it was swept under the rug because the higher ups did not want the donors to find out.
Terry Rex 1 year ago
No it is not they had a bunch of other stuff in there too stupid.
Load More Replies... 3 Owls In A Coat 2 years ago
Yeah the most dramatic thing that’s happened at my work lately is that someone put root beer in the Coca Cola vending machine.
Load More Replies... Dillon Brown 2 years ago
All these stories be like "not HR but I decided to make an erotic work place fan fic and post it here"
John McLeod VII 2 years ago
I witnessed a colleague getting fired for padding their resume. My boss knew a particular skill would be needed soon when they hired this person. About a month into the job, they were told they were going to be on a team doing that skill, and the person said they didn't know how to do that. My boss reminded them it was all over their resume and fired her ob the spot.
Larry XK 2 years ago
I;m not HR. The guy who worked in the cubicle across the isle from was fired because he decided to light up joint in his car and he parked his car outside the window of the HR office. Ok guy is gone, IT comes a few days later to clean up his computer and found images of b*********y and also a ton of website URLs in his browser cache that dealt with the subject. Different place different time, the guy worked in the corner, always paranoid and very quiet. One day the sheriff shows up take him away in handcuffs. Turned out the guy was molesting his own 12 yrs old daughter. He was charged with a ton of s**t including, rape, incest etc. Same place a couple of years later. Guy worked in the welding department didn't show up up for a week. Finally HR got the news that he was booked into the county jail for first degree murder. Apparently he was at a party and someone made some comment that he didn't take well, so he turned around the host the other guy in the back. Dude died in the ambo
Dave Freeman 2 years ago
Not HR, worked in IT. Lead sales guy gets fired for fraud, but for some reason he wasn't supervised while he was cleaning out his office the Friday before a long weekend. We all come in on Wednesday and IT goes in to remove and refresh his pc. Walked in and the stench was palpable. Turns out the dude took a s**t inside his computer before he left. Management wanted us to try and fix it. We refused, and they ended up having to call in biohazard to deal with it.
Annie 2 years ago
I used to work in IT at a subprime mortgage company, where the mobile phone of choice was a Blackberry; we also had our own company BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server). We were always entertained reading the texts of (married) VPs, Directors & Managers who frequently texted each other about obtaining cocaine or pot, or "sexts" to their girlfriends and/or subordinate employees (who they were having an affair with). In addition to screwing around with his own employees, one VP was also screwing around with an outside tech recruiter & during Christmastime sent her a "sext" about how he wanted to have sex with her while she wore a Santa hat. I lost respect for a lot of people after that experience.
The Starsong Princess 2 years ago
A male 30+ contractor kept sexting a 20 year old intern using the company’s Microsoft Teams chat. They were sleeping together but she was becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the explicit sexting and him in generally so she told an older woman she worked with. Subsequent investigations showed he was sexting and sleeping with (or trying to sleep with, it was unclear) the intern, their boss, and two other employees. It was a lot of sexting, all saved on the company’s system! My comment when I heard all of this was “When did he find time to work?” Anyway, he was fired as was their boss who had been at the company for 15 years. One of the two employees was fired but the second one just got a warning as she hadn’t written anything too awful in the chat. The intern was allowed to finish out her internship as it was only a few weeks.
Deb Johnston 2 years ago
Worked at a PBS TV station. There was a woman who was doing community service there because at her previous company she was caught stealing money. There were no charges but she got probation and community service. After finishing her CS our station hired her. Years later she was being duck-walked out of the building because she was caught embezzling (lots of money). She was never charged and it was swept under the rug because the higher ups did not want the donors to find out.
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