S/O Work drama

marriedfilingjointly · November 2010

We had some crazy work stories in the idiots thread. Share your idiot or non-idiot related work drama here.

Two days after I took a tax position with a large company, the VP of Tax disappeared. Two weeks later, a mass email went out to the company about accounting fraud. The next 10 months were interesting. I should have kept a blog.

Go.

AudgiePodge · November 2010

So, what was so interesting about it?

Anysunrise · November 2010

I have no real drama. But I had a millionaire short us $50 on a bill payment because he didn't think we should have to rent the tools for the work, despite it not being a commonly used item. /facepalm

shaydenise · November 2010

My last job was working with Michael Scott and Dwight Shrute clones. No joke. It was awful.

Anysunrise · November 2010

Oh, also, wild story. We have this customer who's huge in real estate or something and apparently really scary. His accountant had been siphoning off money for years, and when boss guy found out about it, he calmly called accountant and told him they needed to talk.

The accountant jumped in front of a bus shortly thereafter.

JenGin74 · November 2010

I'm surrounded by dumb All. Day. Long.

Celles · November 2010

My favorite is still overhearing one of the accountants ask if Europe was a country. It never gets old.

J&K10910 · November 2010

We had (well, my other coworkers still have) a coworker who liked to disappear the minute shiit started to get ugly. There were several times we needed more bodies and she was nowhere to be found. One of my other coworkers got her ass kicked because we didn't have enough people once because this person had decided to go take a smoke break at the worst possible itme, without telling anyone.

And if she DID tell you she was going, you better not tell her you'd prefer if she waited, because she'd biitch you out in front of the kids. It was awful.

SEWF · November 2010

I work in a used bookstore. I had a customer ask if he could take a cd out to his car to listen to it. I jokingly said he could as long as he paid for it first. He got very upset and said, "Well, they let me do it last time." I responded, "No, sir, we cannot let you take our merchandise out off the store without paying for it first. If it turns out that it's not what you thought it was, we can do a return for you, but I can't let you walk out with it if you haven't paid for it." He got very upset and asked for the manager. Just so happens, I was the manager on duty. He got even more upset, asked for the District Managers' card, and stormed out of the store. All this for a $2 clearance CD.

LesPaul · November 2010

I worked for a large, international public accounting firm, and the 'extracurricular' activities were blatant and disgusting. There was a married manager with 3 children who was dating a staff member 15 years younger. The fun part was the confrontation between the girlfriend and his wife at the company Christmas party. More than one partner divorced his wife to marry his secretary (one guy did this twice). Another partner (married, 6 kids) was openly carrying on with the admin in the report department - as in making out in the file room. Ugh.

LessThanZero · November 2010

People at my job think you can scan a document and then select and copy/paste the text from the scanned picture it produces.

Ahh, that's a knee-slapper let me tell you.

ETA: I don't have much work drama, just complete ignorance, stupidity and disrespect.

marriedfilingjointly · November 2010

[QUOTE]So, what was so interesting about it? [/QUOTE]
Truthfully not much. I mostly got payed to plan my wedding while I watched the company unravel.

[QUOTE]I worked for a large, international public accounting firm, and the 'extracurricular' activities were blatant and disgusting. There was a married manager with 3 children who was dating a staff member 15 years younger. The fun part was the confrontation between the girlfriend and his wife at the company Christmas party. More than one partner divorced his wife to marry his secretary (one guy did this twice). Another partner (married, 6 kids) was openly carrying on with the admin in the report department - as in making out in the file room. Ugh.
Posted by LesPaul[/QUOTE]

I didn't realize we worked together! That's awesome.

laurenclaire1386 · November 2010

We had two offices: one was my boss's house, the other was a little office just down the street from his house. We (office down the street people) get a call to come to the boss's house because his estranged daughter is about to show up and boss thinks she'll do something crazy, like threaten him at gunpoint, so he wants witnesses there.

Or, I show up at boss's house office at 9 AM and he's drinking vodka and grapefruit juice. That was every.single.day. It was like Mad Men, except with a worse wardrobe and way less work got done. But all the misogyny and booze and cigarettes were certainly present.

Boss's second wife's son is stealing an employee's Adderall (employee was had legitimage need of it, second wife's son just liked drugs.) Employee being stolen from is the one that gets fired and the theif is still in and out of the office every day.

I could go on for fucking days. Which is why I'm currently job hunting

Celles · November 2010

Once upon a time, I was a team lead in a large credit department. One of my team members was a meth head with a HUGE attitude and attendance problem. (Her husband worked sales for the same company and was actually fired for stealing inventory, presumably to fund their shared drug habit.) She was a freakin' disaster, and kind of scary to be around. She picked at her face when she was high and was badly scarred, plus she had all these nervous twitchy habits.

Anyway, my boss and I documented all of her tardies and the various performance issues that cropped up, but were consistently stone-walled by our lawsuit-fearing HR department. We couldn't even get authorization to send her for a drug test when employees complained that they could hear her snorting up in the bathroom! Eventually, we tried to get her termed based on her poor attendance. My boss's boss (whose nickname around the office was "jellyfish"; he was THAT spineless) brought her in to discuss things, and somehow the meeting transformed from a termination to a mediation -- with the Jellyfish treating it like it was some sort of mild interpersonal dispute. Uh, no. The chick is snorting up at work. We want her gone.

She eventually quit on her own, but it absolutely blew my mind that the company couldn't be bothered to fire someone who never showed up sober, and often didn't show up at all.

dmiller9274 · November 2010

I can't remember if I've shared this before...

I had an employee that couldn't come to work because there was a dead goose in the road and the bus driver refused to drive over it. When I fired him he came into my office with paper towel rolls strapped around his chest claiming he would blow us all up. Good Times!

I also had an employee call in to work because Wal-Mart was giving away free "diamond" earrings with a piercing. She obviously had to go get in on this deal because I didn't pay her enough to buy all of her kids diamond earrings.

[Deleted User] · November 2010

My boss just told me and 2 other people on a small project that our copy (writing files) need to sound the same...but he wants us to have our own voice. So now we have to rewrite everything based on each other's edits.

And here's the kicker. We then send our revised copy to our actual partner. And, because we've already received feedback, we know that what we are sending is not what they want. We told boss that, he said he wants it written his way, then we'll revise it again when our partner edits it. Ultimately, this will do nothing but make us 3 look bad and we are guaranteed to get yelled at by the same boss who is making us mess up.

Chi_Chi · November 2010

Our secretary quit last Tuesday. The Friday before she was sick. Come Monday, she was still sick. Come Tuesday she just didn't show up. Turns out she came in before me and left her keys and a letter of resignation on my boss' desk. I work for the most easy going guy ever. All she had to do was tell us she was quitting.

shaydenise · November 2010

Ugh and now I have work drama here. I'm cold. I'm ALWAYS cold. I have to share an office with two other people. When it's cold out, I flip on a mini heater that's under my desk because even when it's cold out they keep the window ac unit running which is right above my desk and "the blinds have to be down to feel the air!" according to them. So the cold air blows right on me. Now the other two people have conspired together and said that I can't use my heater anymore because they get hot. I'm irritated because how is it that it's okay for me to suffer and be painfully cold all the time? I know it's a double edged sword but still.

I know this is probably unpopular but it's my work drama. lol

JennaV26 · November 2010

I work for assholes. It's a prerequisite I look for before accepting any position.

Last job: Watched boss get escorted out of the building by cops for stealing deposits. They caught him when his supervisor looked at the deposit ledger and noticed the dude had written deposits down but not attached any receipts. Idiot.

A Job Before That: Boss routinely came in between 11 and 12, took a 2 hour lunch break and left at 4 citing mysterious "meetings" she had to attend. After being fired it was found she had purchased a laptop and other equipment on the company account for herself. She tried to shred the evidence.

A Job Before THAT: Boss beat the floor with a 2x4 when a sales person left the company and took half of his clients with him. No joke.

High School Job: Manager got fired for knocking up a hostess. 'Nuff said.

You name it, I've seen it. I did start a blog before quickly realizing I could get fired if anyone found it. I did start a book with another employee once but then she got fired soooo....

JennaV26 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_work-drama?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:9af77539-a929-4745-b7fd-1988be53714cPost:e2698313-b459-47b6-af85-546a743d6e60">Re: S/O Work drama</a>:
[QUOTE]I can't remember if I've shared this before... I had an employee that couldn't come to work because there was a dead goose in the road and the bus driver refused to drive over it. When I fired him he came into my office with paper towel rolls strapped around his chest claiming he would blow us all up. Good Times! I also had an employee call in to work because Wal-Mart was giving away free "diamond" earrings with a piercing. She obviously had to go get in on this deal because I didn't pay her enough to buy all of her kids diamond earrings.
Posted by dmiller9274[/QUOTE]

You win.

marriedfilingjointly · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_work-drama?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:9af77539-a929-4745-b7fd-1988be53714cPost:a2edc3cd-7b91-4d9b-8b6f-38f1975a8478">Re: S/O Work drama</a>:
[QUOTE]I did start a blog before quickly realizing I could get fired if anyone found it. I did start a book with another employee once but then she got fired soooo....
Posted by JennaV26[/QUOTE]

See, this is why I'm kicking myself. I already knew we were all getting canned. I totally should have blogged.

They separated us into 3 rooms to make layoff announcements (or kill us). They even told us which side of the table to sit on. Then the HR guy said "those of you on this side of the table, your jobs are safe until August. The rest of you, I'm sad to say goodbye. This will be your last day with us." Then he told this weird sob story about getting laid off himself the week before Christmas and trying to figure out how to tell his wife and kids that they had to return all their Christmas presents.

This is the same guy who was the reason we already knew what was coming--idiot had his realtor fax him about a property in the town the business was moving to, and about a dozen people saw it on the fax machine before he came to get it. Genius. Judging from the price of it, it's been a long time since he's had to return Christmas presents.

J&K10910 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_work-drama?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:9af77539-a929-4745-b7fd-1988be53714cPost:d07066e9-23fb-4f58-bec1-ce396ff4d8ad">Re: S/O Work drama</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: S/O Work drama : See, this is why I'm kicking myself. I already knew we were all getting canned. I totally should have blogged. They separated us into 3 rooms to make layoff announcements (or kill us). They even told us which side of the table to sit on. Then the HR guy said "those of you on this side of the table, your jobs are safe until August. The rest of you, I'm sad to say goodbye. This will be your last day with us."
Posted by marriedfilingjointly[/QUOTE]

It's like American Idol, crappy corporation style. Minus the bad singing.

marriedfilingjointly · November 2010

Haha yes, we totally compared it to AI after we left the conference room and burst into giggles.

MrsMack10612 · November 2010

A company I used to work for would arrange for a company sponsored field trip to a baseball game every summer. They would also arrange bus transport for everyone to get there - president of the company included.

The first year they did this one of the customer service supervisors got sh!tfaced at the game and road the same bus back with the president - then proceeded to flash passing cars her chest. She then called in sick the day after the game. Needless to say she didn't work there anymore after that.

reddy123 · November 2010

I hate managing people who are older than me, have worked for the company longer, and hate their lives, which is just about everyone under me.

And people at my work actually get angry when I work hard, because they are so lazy I make them look bad. (Sounds like I'm tooting my own horn, but it's true.)

There is a lot of different departments, a lot of people, many who have worked there over 10 years. Our level is on top with the most amount of down time, and they just sit around and gossip like there is no tomorrow. It feels like high school with 40 year olds.

This is hanging in my boss's office, it reads "gossip, don't pass it on". That;s how bad it is.

reddy123 · November 2010

I hate managing people who are older than me, have worked for the company longer, and hate their lives, which is just about everyone under me.

And people at my work actually get angry when I work hard, because they are so lazy I make them look bad. (Sounds like I'm tooting my own horn, but it's true.)

There is a lot of different departments, a lot of people, many who have worked there over 10 years. Our level is on top with the most amount of down time, and they just sit around and gossip like there is no tomorrow. It feels like high school with 40 year olds.

This is hanging in my boss's office, it reads "gossip, don't pass it on". That;s how bad it is.

Wrkn925 · November 2010

Ok, so up until an hour ago, I had nothing for this thread.
Then our insurance rep came in to work to update us on some stuff.

Over lunch, we were discussing his trip back home.
He said he wasn't going to fly anymore because of the scans.
He said: "How do they choose the people that look at the scans? I mean, how do I know they aren't child molesters or gayor pedophiles? Ya know, someone who might get off on looking at that stuff."

I just left the room. I liked the guy up until the bolded part.

NuggetBrain · November 2010

A few jobs ago I felt like I was working at Temptation Island. Everybody was sleeping with everybody else, including bosses, except for me and like, three other people. And everyone made us feel like we were somehow wrong for not slutting it up (and in three of our cases, cheating on our SOs). Also, I went through 5 direct managers in a year and half at that job. I finally got fired for "poor attendance". When I asked what that meant they told me (with a completely straight face) that I was 3 minutes late that morning and it was unacceptable. Uh huh. I found out later that all of the other three folks were gone within a year after I left as well.

At my last job my manager was a complete moron who used me to do things like set up her cell phone for her and come show her how to make a spreadsheet, and then bitched about me not getting my work done because I was too busy setting up her cell phone for her and showing her how to make a spreadsheet. My coworkers joked that they were going to switch out my name plaque with "Sabrina's B*tch". Her boss was also a big moron who spent all of his time in meetings to avoid doing actual work. During these meetings he'd sit there on mute until the last ten minutes, then spew a bunch of business buzzwords and crap so he looked like he knew what he was doing.

kd.joseph · November 2010

I am so glad got out of management, but the worst excuse to not come to work To.This.Day is....I cant come in because my brain is shifting!

J&K10910 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_work-drama?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:17Discussion:9af77539-a929-4745-b7fd-1988be53714cPost:21a276c3-ba9c-4490-ba0e-8e7eb26f3c33">Re: S/O Work drama</a>:
[QUOTE]Ok, so up until an hour ago, I had nothing for this thread. Then our insurance rep came in to work to update us on some stuff. Over lunch, we were discussing his trip back home. He said he wasn't going to fly anymore because of the scans. He said: "How do they choose the people that look at the scans? I mean, how do I know they aren't child molesters or gay or pedophiles? Ya know, someone who might get off on looking at that stuff." I just left the room. I liked the guy up until the bolded part.
Posted by Wrkn925[/QUOTE]

He's worried that pedophiles will be getting off on looking at HIS (I'm assuming adult) junk? Uh....confused, party of douchebag.

Wrkn925 · November 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_snarky-brides_work-drama?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding BoardsForum:17Discussion:9af77539-a929-4745-b7fd-1988be53714cPost:1a0fb99c-6672-4bfa-ab60-39417fc8e3ea">Re: S/O Work drama</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: S/O Work drama : He's worried that pedophiles will be getting off on looking at HIS (I'm assuming adult) junk? Uh....confused, party of douchebag.
Posted by J&K10910[/QUOTE]

I left out some key information, he was worried about his kids going through, too.
My bad.

Color me naive, but I assume the TSA wouldn't hire (convicted) child molesters.

I'm more offended that he's concerned about if the viewer identifies themselves as gay.

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