31 People Who Had A Bad Day At Work
This person who accidentally set off the fire extinguisher while they were at work:
This person who dropped their watch into the wood chipper at work:
This person who dropped their work badge in the toilet after they used it:
This person who bumped into this window at work:
This person who left a freight container in the middle of the road:
This person who lost thousands of dollars worth of products at work:
This person who dropped a $5,000 bottle of Cognac at work:
This person who installed a water dispenser incorrectly:
This person who accidentally cut into their client's internet cable:
This car technician who lifted this truck totally incorrectly:
This person who knocked over a ton of plates that were needed for an event:
This person who had to reorganize these bins after one of their coworkers knocked them all over:
These people whose work computers got showered by a leak:
This person whose arm got pinched in a metal door at their job:
This person who had to clean up after the nastiest customers:
This person who broke their leg minutes after clocking in to the first day at a new job:
This person whose coworkers left 45 minutes early and left them with the dishes:
This person who cut their hand with a box cutter while on the job:
This person who knocked over a ton of plates that were needed for an event:
This person who had to clean up the theater after an awful audience:
This person whose pants zipper broke right before a big meeting:
This person whose boss wouldn't let them leave for five minutes to turn off their car headlights:
This person who brought lunch to work and ended up having to eat something else anyway:
This person who watched a customer's child spill goo all over a chair and the customer didn't apologize:
This person who made a huge Uber Eats order that was then canceled:
This person who came in to work and found the new tardy policy:
This person who unfolded their "cash" tip at a restaurant:
This person who opened up their free lunch after working a 12-hour shift:
This person who found another guest in their hotel while on a work trip:
This person who showed up for Whoville day at work as the only person on theme:
And finally, this person who found that someone had left the ice machine door open at night:
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This person who accidentally set off the fire extinguisher while they were at work: This person who dropped their watch into the wood chipper at work: This person who dropped their work badge in the toilet after they used it: This person who bumped into this window at work: This person who left a freight container in the middle of the road: This person who lost thousands of dollars worth of products at work: This person who dropped a $5,000 bottle of Cognac at work: This person who installed a water dispenser incorrectly: This person who accidentally cut into their client's internet cable: This car technician who lifted this truck totally incorrectly: This person who knocked over a ton of plates that were needed for an event: This person who had to reorganize these bins after one of their coworkers knocked them all over: These people whose work computers got showered by a leak: This person whose arm got pinched in a metal door at their job: This person who had to clean up after the nastiest customers: This person who broke their leg minutes after clocking in to the first day at a new job: This person whose coworkers left 45 minutes early and left them with the dishes: This person who cut their hand with a box cutter while on the job: This person who knocked over a ton of plates that were needed for an event: This person who had to clean up the theater after an awful audience: This person whose pants zipper broke right before a big meeting: This person whose boss wouldn't let them leave for five minutes to turn off their car headlights: This person who brought lunch to work and ended up having to eat something else anyway: This person who watched a customer's child spill goo all over a chair and the customer didn't apologize: This person who made a huge Uber Eats order that was then canceled: This person who came in to work and found the new tardy policy: This person who unfolded their "cash" tip at a restaurant: This person who opened up their free lunch after working a 12-hour shift: This person who found another guest in their hotel while on a work trip: This person who showed up for Whoville day at work as the only person on theme: And finally, this person who found that someone had left the ice machine door open at night:
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HR is such a fascinating profession to me that I would never, ever want to do. Mad respect. Recently, I came across a Reddit thread of HR workers sharing the wildest fireable offense they came across, and the answers are borderline shocking, and I don't get shocked easily. 1."A contractor for the US federal government (USGS) brought his work laptop into an unauthorized country on personal vacation and then tried to use it. Taking a government-issued laptop across country lines requires a great deal of paperwork, depending on the data security and likelihood of theft in said country. This guy brought his laptop into a red-flagged country (worst data security) on a personal vacation. When he logged on, his IP was instantly flagged, and IT bricked the entire laptop remotely." — u/MysteriousPlatform59 2."Years ago, I was covering as both HR and LP Manager for a district in a now-defunct retail chain. The stores carried a variety of adult magazines, also now all defunct. Overstock for these lucrative and quick-selling products was in a storeroom. There was a very small (for the time) camera in the room. One day, I was reviewing footage at a store and I was idly watching an assistant manager restock after closing. Then something odd happened. He was taking one copy of each adult magazine, opening it to a photo spread, and laying it down on the floor. Soon, there were about 15 magazines spread out. He left for a moment, and then returned in view of the camera completely naked. Then, he lay down on the magazines and started rolling around you can guess what happened next." "I met with him the next day and said, 'I need to let you know there's a camera in the magazine storage area.' He stood up, said 'okay then,' and walked out of the store. I ended up putting him on our system as 'resigned,' and didn't dispute his unemployment claim when he filed." — u/JackiePoon27 3."I heard a story of a guy using an unmarked company car to run Uber Eats and DoorDash all day. He got away with it for a couple of years. He finally got caught because he was using his work phone for Uber, and his data was astronomically higher than anyone else in the company. If he had just used his personal phone, he probably could still be going." — u/40ozT0Freedom 4."We had an administrator who was in charge of the program that oversaw the entire operations of the two company jets. She would regularly schedule and fly her kids to visit their grandparents five states away. One of the pilots filed a complaint about the misuse of company jets. Guess who they fired? 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They would have the ability to remote desktop into employees laptops even without authentication from the user, but was only supposed to be done under special circumstances. He had an urgent ticket that required a remote login, but the doctor was completely unreachable, so he ended up just connecting to the laptop. Turns out the doctor was watching porn at that very moment, and he immediately logged out, hoping nothing would come of it. Apparently, the doctor reported the situation, landing them both in trouble." — u/KarenBasking 8."I had to fire a guy who brought a dildo to work, put it through the zipper on his pants, walked over to a manager who was sitting at a lunch table, and put the dildo next to the manager's face in front of everyone who was in the lunchroom. Needless to say, the manager wasn't happy. It was really pathetic when I had to interview everyone to figure out the details. The guy who brought the dildo couldn't even say the word dildo because he was so embarrassed. 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When the inevitable "No, we will not help you commit insurance fraud - turn in your ID" conversations happened and all facts presented to him, it was the only time I've heard a union rep say words to the effect of entirely siding with HR in a dismissal." — u/Timbo2702 10."Not HR, but my coworker went to work for a competitor and never quit her job with us. She traveled for work and was able to work both jobs for months. Lasted until a customer mentioned he heard she left our company and asked who his account rep would be." — u/Caspers_Shadow 11."It came to my attention (after a few times) that a woman would stay in a restroom stall and take all the toilet paper off the rolls by just unraveling it, and she was seen putting what she had rolled up in her locker a few times. She claimed she was too poor for women's hygiene products, so she was told that they were provided, and there was no need for her to use that much toilet paper for that. Hoped that was the end of it, it started again, and she claimed this time it was for wounds, and she couldn't afford gauze and wound dressings. Ok, so we just told her again she could use what was in the first aid kits, management wanted to be gentle. So it starts up again, and she confessed she just liked stealing things, and this was easy. She was termed after that one." — u/No-Celebration3097 12."We had an employee who would clock in at the time clock every day and then go home. They'd come back to clock out for lunch and back in after an hour. Then come back at the end of the day. It was impressive how long it took a manager to catch on." — u/stitch714 13."So, I used to work at a software company, and we kept getting complaints about a nap room being cluttered and trash from the nearby breakroom being left around in the mornings, so we asked security to do some late evening walk-bys to see what was going on. One evening, they found a young woman hiding in the nap room. She didn't work there, and she didn't speak English. It was super weird. It turns out, one of the software engineers who worked in the building had purchased a mail-order bride. But here's the kicker: he was already married. So, unable to bring his new mail-order bride home, he kept her at the office. No idea where she hid during the day, but at night she made good use of our little nap room. Gotta feel bad for that poor woman." — u/AnimusFlux 14."I did some repair work in a food production facility. One of the employees there told me a funny story about a guy who got fired. This guy would come in every day, clock in, do a little work, then disappear. It took a while for anyone to realize he was not working, as this is a big facility, but no one could figure out where he was going. He wasn't leaving the building either. This apparently was a mystery for a while. Finally, it was discovered he had somehow gotten his hands on a copy of the elevator service key, and he was running the elevator up partway, stopping it, opening the doors, and climbing into the space below the elevator car. Elevators have a crawl space below them for maintenance. He apparently slept down there and then came out before the end of his shift, did a little work like nothing was wrong, then went home." — u/DrPeekinside 15."My wife is in HR. She recently had to handle the firing of an employee because a federal background check revealed that he was some kind of local drug kingpin with an active court case. What's insane is that he was also working this low-wage service industry job." — u/EarthExile 16."We were doing an inventory of these barcode scanners that they use in the plant. They needed an update installed, and we figured we'd do inventory at the same time since we need to round all of them up anyway. Well, we only found about 1/3rd of what we were supposed to have. Some missing is to be expected, but not that many. Well, later I found a bunch in a coworker's desk drawers. I didn't think much of it at the time, so I ran updates and put them back. Still looking for them, I found most of our missing stock for sale on eBay when searching for them by serial number. Brought this information to my boss. He tells me to close the door. You always know it's going to be a serious talk when they close the door." "He tells me, 'Now you listen here, you didn't see anything if you know what's good for ya.' I was fired from that job the next month. Still, I don't actually know what was going on there, but in hindsight, a lot of stuff disappeared. I'd install a bunch of monitors, then go back to that area later and find the old monitors are back. Unload printers off the truck, and then never see them installed. Clearly, it was my coworker and my boss, but sometimes I wonder if it was bigger than that." — u/Catshit-Dogfart 17."When I worked for the federal government, one of our senior managers was 'dating' two women who were his contractors. They lost the contract to a competitor. Not wanting to lose his harem, he demanded that the new company hire them. They said, 'lol, no.' He cancelled their contract in retaliation. They sued, and the truth came out. Our CIO demanded he quit. He said he was a disabled vet, and she couldn't fire him. He literally told her to go fuck herself. He ended up just moving. Not fired. Not demoted. They just moved him out of IT. He still works there." — u/Smurf_Cherries "My dad was working as HR in the construction industry. The story that stands out the most is they had a guy take a shit in another fella's backpack." — u/Vecoma What's the wildest HR story you've heard? Tell us in the comments or completely anonymously in this form below!
