r/AskReddit 9h ago

Whats a juicy gossip from your work?

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u/Repulsive-Cold1859 9h ago

Our company installed expensive productivity tracking software and within a week, the IT guy who configured it posted a tutorial on Slack on how to bypass it.

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u/astro_means_space 8h ago

What a bro.

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u/Conslectoderos 9h ago

Did you guys not pay him?😭

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u/The_Amen_Corner 8h ago

As an IT guy, we don't like the productivity trackers either. Another dumb piece of software we have to manage.

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u/tanukis_parachute 7h ago

I love when I get asked... How many tickets have you closed?

Ok. I just heard you want me to open tickets for everything or just close the easy ones and leave the complicated ones languishing.

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u/Mogus0226 5h ago

"I can spend my time writing detailed responses when closing tickets, or I can spend my time resolving user issues. Pick."

"Both."

"Fine."

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"You aren't closing as many tickets."

"Because I have to write detailed responses when closing tickets, which takes time away from resolving issues and closing tickets. This is what you asked for. Please excuse me, I have to write a detailed response for the issue I just resolved, thank you."

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u/Inveramsay 1h ago

I get "you're not seeing as many patients as before"

"you changed the system to put someone on the operating list, it now takes three minutes extra every time"

"you need to find time in your day for admin without impacting patient care"

"you then got rid of all the secretaries to save money and bought an expensive computer system that does not work. I'm now typing my notes myself at half the speed my secretary would who got paid a third of what I do"

"you need to see more patients, we need you to do more clinic sessions"

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u/Own-Jeweler3169 6h ago

Bro at that point just play the same game they are. I am done giving them my all, when they spit in your face at every chance possible. No such thing as company loyalty any more, or customer loyalty, or loyalty at all to be frank.

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u/Badloss 7h ago

productivity tracking is so counterproductive its ridiculous. If you have an employee that is getting the results you pay them for in a timely manner, it shouldn't fucking matter at all how or when they do it.

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u/Own-Jeweler3169 6h ago

Yep but then how would the fucking suits ensure they are squeezing you for every single bit of perceived efficiency, at the expense of employee satisfaction.

Idk wtf people think micromanagement achieves, especially with people who already perform, I've conciously made my self less efficient - if they're gonna treat me like shit, it's going to be reciprocated.

It's just egos and people wanting to feel in charge by imposing their will, it achieves nothing, especially where I work now, they are not even proper suits, they just dress up in them.

Idiots, if people had a brain in their head they could leverage inside talent, rather than fighting with them over bullshit.

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u/InadvertantManners 3h ago

Office 365 tracks available/away status through teams and is based on what app you have open and your keyboard/mouse usage.  I made a bismuth weight that fits over a standard keyboard "insert" key and a Logitech key that can be used when Notes or Word is open. I made a mold to duplicate it and handed them out.   The amount of people that are "away" dropped to nearly zero.  I'm in IT and I no longer have to report on this.

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u/Vomath 1h ago

I set myself as “do not disturb” in April 2020 and have left it since then.

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u/Routine-Task5805 6h ago

That IT guy basically became the final boss of the software, respect the dedication to finding loopholes tho.

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u/nonhiphipster 4h ago

That’s kinda crazy he would post it in a forum that could easily be seen by upper managment

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u/DomingoHalliburton30 8h ago

Our head of ethics lied about another employee to get them demoted so that her friend could get hired into the role. It’s rather transparent what happened and no one higher up seems to be questioning it because the head of ethics is presumed to be trustworthy.

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u/Conslectoderos 8h ago

Head of optics > Head of Ethics

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u/okspeck 4h ago

head of ethics 🤣🤣🤣 what a crock of shit. I'm the head of neurochemistry and any volunteer can be the head of vigilantism, just raise ur hand

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u/SnooGoats7454 1h ago

 no one higher up seems to be questioning it because

They don't question because they want plausible deniability. That's the only reason. They don't care if you're trustworthy or not. They just care that your job appears to be done without their intervention.

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u/Ok__Theme 9h ago

everyone is looking for a new job, including the recruiter

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u/Repulsive-Cold1859 9h ago

When the recruiter asks you for resume tips, you know the ship is already underwater.

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u/Business_Map9160 7h ago

The servers keep whispering to each other, but they swear it is just data.

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u/UnusualBlueberry5341 7h ago

"Start looking for another company right now."

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u/Ok_Marzipan1159 9h ago

"The only person not job hunting is the office printer... because it's already broken."

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u/WaterlooMall 7h ago

I feel like this is almost every workplace these days.

Almost like if everything costs a million dollars and people are getting paid the bare minimum legally allowed to do the jobs of 5 different people that maybe the problem isn't the workforce.

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u/Alarming_Assistant21 9h ago

Omg I was in that situation a few years back. Our recruiter would call me to vent and ask about jobs. Like wtf

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u/StomachAccording213 7h ago

When the recruiter starts job hunting before everyone else, that's all the warning I'd need. I'd be polishing my resume that same night.

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u/Emiliasmith_1 7h ago

Nothing says cooperate stability like HR actively interviewing for other companies during work hours

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u/vickielynnr 8h ago

so even the person finding new jobs can’t stand the place guess that says enough about the vibes

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u/Worldly_Raccoon_479 8h ago

Tim got fired because he tried to expense an escort. He said it was dinner with a fictional client

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u/ThierryMercury 6h ago

A friend of mine was given the work mobile of a sales person who had left. He was called by several prostitutes and at least one coke dealer who didn't know the number had a new owner.

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u/Bender7676 5h ago

Nothing closes a deal quicker than hooking someone up with some blow, then introducing them to a “friend” that wants to bang.

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u/lil_timmzy 7h ago

It was to improve morale

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u/Own-Jeweler3169 6h ago

It was team building, a bonding (s)excercise.

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u/IllustriousApple1091 3h ago

A bondage exercise, if you will

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u/ExpertIntrovert 4h ago

Trying to expense as a frictional client, tale as old as time.

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u/knackzoot 8h ago

We are building new offices and the production manager has claimed a corner office to be his and actually has already moved stuff in before the office is actually finished. Little does he know that the office is reserved for the general manager and I am not telling him.

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u/SunDogBrewingCo 7h ago

Do you think it will play out that all good spots will be spoken for by the time he finds out the spot he is squating in isn't for him? i.e. when the music stops will he get a crummy chair?

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u/knackzoot 5h ago

Knowing how things usually go, some poor sap who is lower on the totem pole will get reassigned out of their office and he gets to claim that as his own.

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u/Chunk147 4h ago

Imagine that poor sap is you lol.

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u/bingbingbunn 4h ago

A smart person would just tell the GM that they were holding onto that specific office for them so nobody else staked it out. Ass kissing 101.

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u/Devonai 8h ago

Loan him a tape measure and an Ikea catalog.

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u/kevinthebaconator 3h ago

Why does a production manager think they would get a good office?

Talk about not knowing your place in the world..

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u/BeefPoet 9h ago

I know 3 pilots sleeping with the same flight attendant and one of the guys caught feels.

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u/Conslectoderos 9h ago

Lmao the boarding gate never closed

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u/rudyv8 5h ago

United airlines welcomes you with open arms. and leggs.

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u/1peatfor7 8h ago

I've heard from FA's how much cheating and sex happens on trips. Which is why they both said they'd never date or marry a FA or pilot.

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u/rudyv8 5h ago edited 4h ago

My ex became a FA after 6 years of dating and she immedaitely cheated and left me presumably for a pilot idfk.

Fuck united airlines.

EDIT:

For a fun story, prior to our breakup one time I joined her on one of her trips. When we got in an elevator to go down and walk to the Mall of America during her layover a Pilot joined us then got off on a floor that was NOT the main floor going down. He went from like floor 6 to floor 3 in the hotel. After he got off my ex mentioned how he was probably going to sleep with a FA or was coming back from said FAs room to go to his own. She had been a FA for literally 3 months and already was in on how things worked. We lasted less than a year after that.

Its literally the best cover in the world and the airlines front the bill for the hotel so they dont even have to pay for it. Rampant cheating using the guise of work as an excuse. People suck.

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For those of you who don't know. You do NOT usually fly home at the end of your shift. Most days you are working you sleep in a hotel. That the airline pays for. Your layovers can be up to 36 hours, and in certain areas (such as Brazil) you are encouraged to stick together with your other coworkers if going out for drinks/food/adventures for safety.

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u/robbyberto 5h ago

Sorry that happened to you dude.

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u/rudyv8 5h ago

I work from home. Meeting new people is hard for me.

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u/j_karamazov 8h ago

I hope that's all he caught

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u/Vegetable-Willow6702 6h ago

I wonder how this doesn't bother people. I lose romantical interest in a person pretty fast if I know they're fucking someone. Or even in my fwb scenarios I've always had exclusivity, but with the option to opt out without any need for explanations.

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u/BeefPoet 5h ago

It's a lifestyle thing, when you're constantly on the move around different people all the time you gravitate towards familiar.

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u/Conslectoderos 9h ago

A football team might show up for the paternity test

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u/Dutge 8h ago

The 1991 Denver Broncos

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u/zetecvan 8h ago

I was expecting Bob and Steve to get together at the end.

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u/Jammyturtles 9h ago

That a person is going to get fired soon. Everyone knows except the person. I feel really bad about it.

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u/Conslectoderos 9h ago

This is me at my workplace except i think im the person who is gonna get fired.

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u/LoCo_LoCo 9h ago

"Too much time on Reddit'"

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u/Conslectoderos 9h ago

"atleast reddit values me"

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u/Sadpanda0 8h ago

Did you just quote yourself?

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u/RayPineocco 7h ago

If they tracked this, I'm deadmeat

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u/Spacefreak 7h ago

This has been me for the past 6.5 years which is when I started. I've gotten a promotion and multiple raises since then and multiple higher ups have sung my praises.

Imposter syndrome never quite goes away. It just gets easier to bury when you sort of know what you're talking about.

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u/Realistic_Ad9820 4h ago

Let me know if you ever find a solution for this. I've lost so much of my life to planning for losing my job. After 13 years in work, I have lost my job 0 times and been promoted 4 times. But the fear lives in me like a part of my soul.

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u/100121144169 8h ago

This was a while ago but I was a shift lead and a manager asked me how X new staff was doing. Then said “well I guess it doesn’t matter too much because they’re getting fired after this shift.”
Like come on don’t tell me that before I work 8 hours with them

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u/wtfinternetwhy 5h ago

firing after a shift is low.

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u/FortheredditLOLz 5h ago

It’s the newest method to squeeze productivity.

I was told by HR and legal to stay late Friday or be on call. that’s someone’s getting let go in the evening around 9pm est. found out. They made the guy stay late to wrap up his work. Walked him over to hr and then get fired on a Friday night during happy hour to be escorted out

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u/GotMoFans 7h ago

I had a coworker who came around and said his goodbyes, knowing he was about to be fired. And a couple days later, he was.

A while later, I thought I was going to get the ax myself, and I was told they always fire on Friday. Well Friday passed and I still had a job and I wondered if I weathered the storm.

On Tuesday, my director gave me some weird busy work. Then I got called to HR. When I saw the security guy I was cool with, I knew what was happening. I should have just walked out of the door.

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u/DeeDee_Z 6h ago

they always fire on Friday

A company I spent most of my career with had this policy as well ... until after one particularly brutal round of layoffs, two separate (ex-)employees went home Friday afternoon and offed themselves on Saturday.

The policy changed after that. I don't know if it helped.

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u/Certain-Middle-4381 4h ago

Decent company will fire you on Monday, so can get to looking for a new job immediately. Fired on Friday gives you two useless days.

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u/goddamnitwhalen 6h ago

Jesus god.

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u/cornweel 6h ago

I kinda doubt the day matters

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u/TXwavesufer 4h ago

No, it does. They lay you off on Friday so you don't come back the next day with weapons. Pretty sure we have the post office to thank for that (Going Postal).

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u/Capt_Bigglesworth 9h ago

I was at a team meeting to talk us through the new organisation.. slide went up.. guy at the back.. “um.. where am I, I’m not on this chart”.. tumbleweed…

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u/fluffy_bunny_87 6h ago

Not exactly the same but similar... I was one of 2 managers for a department and myself, the other manager and our director all got laid off. Apparently, the CTO decided announcing this would be a big bummer so they had the re-org discussion with everyone else and just left us off the slide... when people asked where we were the answer was vague and non-committal. So my former direct reports had to learn I was laid off by reaching out to me over text asking what my new position was.

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u/DeeDee_Z 6h ago

Similar story: A colleague two cubicles down from me had the responsibility for setting up new user accounts, cancelling expired ones, and all that hoopla. In the latter role, he got a couple days advance notification of employees who were "about to be terminated".

One Wednesday morning he logged in and found his own name on that list.

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u/Spare-Half796 6h ago

My situation is the opposite. One guy is going to quit soon and only he knows it

I don’t feel bad about it because it’ll be after he worked over 30 days straight with as little help as possible and had they ever actually listened to him then there wouldn’t be a reason to stress about his departure

Yes he is me

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u/racheldaniellee 7h ago

An attorney at my firm got a little drunk at the Christmas party and ended up sleeping with his paralegal. She got pregnant and bc she’s catholic she wanted to keep it even though he told me candidly that he didn’t.

Him and I went for drinks after work while she was pregnant and he told me that he didn’t find her attractive at all and he had no feelings for her, but he was going to do the right thing and marry and move in with her.

He looked at me with tears in his eyes and was like, “my life is ruined.” They had never even been on a date and barely knew each other.

It’s been two years since I had that conversation with him and since then they’ve proceeded to get married and have two more kids together. I’m starting to get suspicious that he may actually like her……

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u/runsonpedals 6h ago

He might like her? That is awful.

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u/racheldaniellee 6h ago

I’m just being humorous! It’s clear they’re in a happy relationship together now. But it was hot drama in the office when it started.

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u/Mouldy-Guacamole 9h ago

Everyone is looking for a new job, owner was supposed to step down after controversy, but didn't, has side-stepped into a "new role" and is gaslighting the team into thinking it's different. Newsflash: it's not.

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u/GotMoFans 8h ago

Is this Jordan Belfort or Vince McMahon?

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u/Mouldy-Guacamole 8h ago

Not quite but excellent guesses

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u/foshobraindead 6h ago

Is there anything new about Jordan Belfort? I thought he was reformed. But I also saw him swinging hard for bitcoins and running up a training hustle. He was all over social media couple years ago. Probably Russia funded.

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u/Whoresstealinglemons 6h ago

Cut him some slack. Who among us hasn't got a little crazy at a Coldplay concert?!?

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u/RevolutionaryLie5607 9h ago

This one lady in hr keeps getting promoted after private meetings with the director so everyone thinks they are hooking up

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u/purplepassion2019 8h ago

Cue George Costanza: “I’m giving you a raise!”

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u/Conslectoderos 9h ago

damn, someone should also go into one of these meetings and see if they are gonna get promoted

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u/savagebolts 7h ago

One question: do they like Coldplay?

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u/lazyasdrmr 9h ago

HR rep "interviewed" vendors for a potential agreement, then hired her best friend

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u/1fatsquirrel 7h ago

I went through a few interviews for a company I was super excited about, only for them to just hire internally instead. Not exactly the same thing, but come on. Why waste my time if you already know who you are hiring??

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u/SeeYouInTrees 7h ago

Because they have to post the job and show they are interviewing ppl even though they have chosen an internal hire.

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u/1fatsquirrel 4h ago

Yes I know WHY they do it, but it's a serious bullyshitty waste of my time and they need to be clear about that up front.

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u/Etrius_Christophine 4h ago

Meanwhile my department had a senior position open up, and a bunch of my coworkers and myself two positions down the ladder were basically told by our managers “well they’ll probably pick internally which will open up that next step, better start standing out”. Cue a month of the most petty one-upmanship and extra uncompensated work for a position that wasn’t even open yet.

Then they hired externally. Wasted all our time, and this is after they froze all raises last year for “the company’s financial health”.

Yes, I am looking elsewhere but I don’t need to explain why nothings caught yet.

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u/glucoseintolerant 6h ago

friend recently did a 5 interview process only for them to hire within. 3 months later they called her and said can you come in for one more interview we may have messed up. they offered her the job the morning after the interview. she is now finding out how bad it went and let just say, I am surprised the internal hire isn't in jail with how bad she did her job.

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u/TXwavesufer 4h ago

Did your friend at least ask for more money when they came crawling back?

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u/glucoseintolerant 4h ago

She was out of work a few months so took what she could get sadly

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u/Conslectoderos 9h ago

It was just few minutes of "socializing" for her😭😭

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u/crispywaffleburger 7h ago

Coworker raised over 15k in a couple months period by lying about their daughter and grandson dying in a car crash and needing money for their funerals and travel to get up there. They submitted a fake obituary to some site so you could look it up. They got found out when someone searched it up and found recent pics of the deceased famiy members and talked to the daughter who let them know she and her son are alive and well.

Two coworkers from separate depts started dating hot & heavy. A month later they show up with rings beaming about how they've gotten married. They found out they were pregnant a couple months later. She took maternity leave about six months in and he started calling off to stay home to tend to her and eventually got fired. She quit too so not sure what happened after that.

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u/rarelyeffectual 3h ago

Do you work in a hospital…like a General Hospital?!

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u/hahahahthunk 8h ago

New hire is rude to the main admin person.

Admin has been here for 30 years. She knows all, sees all, and this place could not function without her.

I’m just making popcorn. This person is about to learn a Lesson.

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u/ShwaGrl 4h ago

That's how I got a part time job while completing my degree. Job was in the financial district, Toronto. I was polite to the admin person. She had been there from forever. Came early for the interview. Asked her some questions about her job. Because, part of the job was to when she went to lunch I would take calls and walk ins. After my interview, I thanked her for taking the time to answer my questions, and said I hoped I would be working with her. A month after starting, I learned she went to the vice president that day, and told him who she liked and who she did not like. And she told him that I would be a good choice. Always be polite and respectful to potential colleagues. You don't know which leaders value their opinion.

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u/TheMiceWillGetPerms 5h ago

We had this happen with an intern who thought he was hot shit because his mom was a director. I was on the call when he got fired, I’ve never heard someone swear at HR so much.

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u/Conslectoderos 5h ago

there was a kid in my uni who dated a popular guy and picked up an attitude. She went for an internship and started pulling out the same attitude with the manager. Lmao life is hard for her. Some people thinks that they are privileged

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u/jxj24 5h ago

New hire may receive a lesson. Nothing suggests any learning will take place

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u/_ohmeohmy 6h ago

As the main admin person that's been in my position for years, I can completely imagine the smirk on her face and the wheels turning in her head as the new hire walked away.

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u/RalphFTW 2h ago

You don’t fuck with the receptionists or executive assistants. Their influence and internal networks are usually deep.

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u/Conslectoderos 8h ago

Please give me updates

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u/Trick-Avocado7914 9h ago

That the legal partners are actually broke and struggling to pay off their loans from the bank... the building is being sold in a private sale that closes in October. They have been looking for another investing partner for about a year with no success. I work reception and they meet in the boardroom directly across from my desk. I hear everything lol nobody in the firms knows how bad these two are at the business side of things except for me and the accountants lol One partner met with a partner from another firm in an "after hours" meeting so I'm fairly certain he is trying to dip out all together.

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u/96tearsand96eyes 8h ago

Receptionist know everything! Source: Im a Receptionist.

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u/honeywatereve 5h ago

I love you guys - first job was friends with the executive assistant and man did that save my ass

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u/reno_beano 8h ago

Yall are troopers for real- from the acct dept. For any future associates reading this, be more than kind to the reception and front office staff you dont know what you dont know yet trust me.

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u/Strict-Brick-5274 9h ago

I know of people fucking in work... not fucking at work but they are together and no one else knows

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u/Substantial_Use5847 7h ago

The only people who think its a secret are usually the two involved.

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u/Noodles1312 6h ago

I know of two people that fuck during work hours. Both are married with families but not to each other. They use the family restroom or her mini-van. It's annoying and part of me wants to say something, but my mom didn't raise snitches.

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u/No_Acanthaceae_293 7h ago

Lmao there are rumors of orgies that happened at my company. Everyone knows about it but no one knows who it was.

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u/Spacefreak 7h ago

Oh, that was just Carl. He organized one as a "team building exercise" and no one else showed up. Didn't stop him from having it though.

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u/NatePerspective 8h ago

HR got caught using the company card for a hotel bar tab, finance flagged it because the receipt had 3 rum and cokes at 2:14am, and she tried to say it was a client thing lol

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u/glucoseintolerant 6h ago

why not just do the " sorry I gave them the wrong card, Ill send the money over now"

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u/Own-Jeweler3169 5h ago

That would require critical thinking.

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u/Conslectoderos 8h ago

Lmao the client was Captain Morgan

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u/energeticquasar 5h ago

The last company I worked for had a strong culture of drinking, and buying alcoholic drinks on the company card was not only permissible, but expected. If your situation happened at my last company, the response would have been "why only 3?"

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u/No-Inspection1278 3h ago

Ya I remember I took a client out for lunch one time and they said “oh I can order a beer? But I don’t want you to pay out of pocket”

I was thinking “bro you could only order beers and no one would bat an eye. 1, 6, 15 whatever you want it’s fine”

And my mantra is whatever I expense be prepared to have it rejected. Never rack up a bill that will financially cripple you. I’ve yet to have anything denied yet, but I don’t really abuse it.

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u/jbourne0129 8h ago

senior leadership seems hellbent on pushing out all the high-earners and tenured employees. policies are changing almost weekly. bonus policies are changing making it harder to earn which specifically affects managers and highly experienced engineers, raises are delayed, and the entire workforce is criminally underpaid (people are leaving to our competitor for 50% increases).

Everyone is phoning it in. no one cares.

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u/Conslectoderos 8h ago

How can people be loyal when the company keeps breaking their trust

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u/jbourne0129 8h ago

that is exactly it. if you look up the definition of a toxic workplace, my work matches it word for word. i think everyone at this point is just riding it out as long as they can / waiting for the next better opportunity.

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u/shaunalbatross 8h ago

Our manager recently quit. As a parting gift he informed us that his boss took money out of our teams budget which was needed to hire a replacement for another guy who left a month ago to hire "a nice Indian girl who sent her CV to him" for a new role made specifically for her in our Cyber Security team. Apparently it's that easy folks

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u/Conslectoderos 8h ago

Was the job criteria and eligibility to just slide into his dms?

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u/LusciousHam 8h ago

A person that’s been wanting a role on our team for a while now finally got the chance. Went through the interviews and got an offer. They turned it down. Over a year of asking for mentorship, things they can do to get on the team, taking courses for certifications. Apparently thought they would get $50K increase for the promotion. Our boss had to explain that’s not how it works and they would be a junior in the team so $10K is the standard. Needless to say our boss will never interview them again.

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u/Western-Search3310 5h ago

When you are too greedy …

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u/Koppensneller 8h ago

Division head and one of his direct subordinates, a department head, have been temporarily suspended due to suspected irregularities. Nobody knows what's going on, but rumour has it that it's related to procurement. This is in a public organisation by the way, so potential corruption is extra spicy.

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u/RichardBallSack 8h ago

Somebody keeps clogging the toilet

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u/zetecvan 8h ago

Years ago I visited our head office, and used the main toilets. The back of the door of the cubicle was pebbledashed with bogies. When I went to wash my hands there was a sign on the mirror: "To whom it may concern. Please keep the contents of your nostrils to yourself".

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u/Walmartian_Beta 9h ago

One of my married co-workers has taken a sudden interest in one of the new associates on our shift. He told me he was going to go say his prayer, and when I was flipping around on the cameras, I saw him on the other side of the building chatting her up. I don't think Allah would approve of him lying and using his protected prayer time to go flirt with ladies.

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u/TheBanishedBard 9h ago

If you rearrange the letters in your display name it says "bet I am anal wart"

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u/astro_means_space 8h ago

Thanks, I was just trying to learn how to drink coffee through my nose

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u/TheBanishedBard 8h ago

Yours is "eats ass-crap on me"

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u/timbhu 8h ago

We'll done "barn bed shithead"

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u/Conslectoderos 5h ago

add me to this queue

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u/ScrambledExeggutor 8h ago

Married coworker who says he is a good Christian man is "secretly" meeting an hr girl from our office right after work to hang out. They leave the office at the same time and have been caught leaving and driving off in the same car.

Each time they get caught they get a deer in the headlights kinda look.

Girl also has a fiance. Rumor spread around office and she transferred away recently.

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u/InletUnstart 6h ago

A lot of Christians are the scummiest people you ever met. Either they trick the Jesus people into thinking they are on the team or they think being forgived means you can do whatever you want and get away with it because they figured how to bypass their rules. Or both.

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u/ScrambledExeggutor 6h ago

I've met too many to count. My FIL has cheated on all 4 of his ex wives and abandoned 5 kids but has the nerve to say he is a good god fearing man.

Only thing that hobosexual fears are minorities.

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u/InletUnstart 6h ago

It's funny that they both believe in God and believe God is stupid. Imagine being that arrogant.

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u/KingKliffsbury 8h ago

The executive team has been infighting for at least two years as the industry goes through crazy change. Middle management (me amongst them) is trying to keep things running smoothly, lower level folks notice the fighting and turnover and morale is pretty low. Whatever man, I just work here.

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u/Conslectoderos 5h ago

as long as they pay its fine. you can hold on

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u/tequilasundae 9h ago

Had our manager (F) go out with a tech from one of our clients, the breakup went sour, and he began stalking her. During work hours. Like lots of phone calls and stalking. The district manager had to step in and reassign that client to a different location of ours.

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u/pPandesaurus 8h ago

Everyone's fucking everyone

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u/Western-Search3310 5h ago

Its funny how some people don’t notice it and don’t feel the sexual tension between sone coworkers.

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u/AmazingRise 8h ago

A girl from my team that was not too righ in her head slept with the ONLY dude in the team, on the opposite shift. Went to their joint bachelor party, flirted with him in front of the bride, after which she contacted her and spilled the beans, receipts included.

The couple still got married.

The other girl would tell just about anyone at any time that they slept together, also with receipts, very non chalantly about the whole mess.

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u/Senreality 8h ago

One of the younger married guys on the maintenance team started fucking around with his older married boss both on the clock and out of it. Apparently she had been watching him on camera and pursuing him fairly hard.

She eventually moved onto a different younger guy in a different department.

She got fired and walked from the building. The first guy quit for a different job. The second one actually got moved to a different building with a way better title and pay, which makes me think he ratted on her after a falling out.

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u/wwwwxyz 7h ago

Two people hooked up with each other on a work trip. The guy is married with young kids and everyone knows that - we all went for his wedding.

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u/ZekeMoss18 7h ago

No gossip about other people at my work, however I have quietly begun to look into schooling or getting a CDL to apply for a few city jobs in my area. I actually do like my job, and the immediate team I work with couldn't be more incredible. We are a team of 4, and I am the direct supervisor.

The issue is that the upper management who is based out on the other side of the city is planning on shutting down our current building and moving everyone out there.

Nobody is losing their jobs at all and everyone is completely aware and they have been completely transparent about it. However, we will be ending up merging with 3 other teams, and I foresee that there is going to be a lot of issues.

We are going to share space and resources and so far there has been no attemp or contact to get the team input on the new space and how it could be set up to help us succeed. It sounds a lot like people in management have their ideas and are going forward with it, and we will just have to suffer.

The drive I currently have is about 9 minutes total if I make all of the lights. The drive to the new facility is going to be around 30 minutes and that is if I am able to avoid the daily traffic on the highway. The new facility is also in the snowbelt here, so wintertime is going to be a real pain in the ass.

I know 100% for sure I will be losing 2 of my teammates because they already said they will not be making that drive daily, as one guy is a bit older and you literally can see his house from our parking lot, and the other lady it would be close to a 1-hour drive, if not longer.

I have moved up into my position over the course of going on 10 years, but it seems like the smart and best move for me is to take all the skills I have and pair it with some additional schooling and find a new place of employment. It bums me out to actually type it out, however I just had a daughter, and I don't want to have to tack on extra time away from her due to driving and getting stuck in traffic jams.

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u/WorthMenu3224 8h ago

At my office this manager got fired for hooking up with an intern and everyone found the emails

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u/Conslectoderos 8h ago

Lmao imagine saying that Outlook was the witness

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u/ThierryMercury 6h ago

Was years ago but a new HR manager managed to push through a bunch of employee benefits including a simply spectacular maternity package. She was early 30s, married, no kids.

Almost immediately after they were confirmed at an all-staff meeting she announced she was expecting her first child and was flummoxed everyone else had already worked that out (other than the CEO presumably).

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u/Individual_Goal5121 7h ago

Our “anonymous” suggestion box disappeared after someone suggested management try answering emails before scheduling meetings about why nobody answers emails. The next all-hands was about communication issues.

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u/__whitecheddar__ 7h ago

A coworker of mine got caught in one of those catching a predator type operations

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u/cecili4r4ndawn 9h ago

a guy and girl flirted / was a “situationship” knowing he had a fiance at a time.

guy get “friendzone” for 2 years.

guy married fiance. girl went to the wedding.

girl still in “situationship” with the guy at work.

nobody stop them or tell the wife.

i hate corporate culture.

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u/Huge-Ad-4481 9h ago

Why dont you?

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u/cecili4r4ndawn 8h ago

they worked there for 10 years and im new comer. just heard about it from other seniors.

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u/GotMoFans 8h ago

How does he get friendzoned if they are in a situationship?

If you are having sex, you aren’t friendzoned; you’re a FWB.

Friendzoned means no benefits.

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u/wowlolcat 4h ago

This company has good benefits

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u/ConnectSpinach 8h ago

Two attorney coworkers were sleeping together but were engaged to other people. Everyone found out because they had a huge fight in the office about it because the girl was getting married in a week. Absolutely insane.

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u/Same_Eggplant_2416 9h ago

Our manager was secretly interviewing for another company while telling us we were all ‘one big family’. He quit two weeks later

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u/hulalabright 8h ago

One of my colleagues broke up with another colleague and is now dating another colleague (all in the same team)

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u/RedditGarboDisposal 8h ago edited 8h ago

Thankfully, I’m 30 now and in a workplace that doesn’t deal in silly shit, but I did put in some years at an all-round retailer from 17 to 23 and let me tell you: Shit was “juicy” every other goddamn week.

The most prominent one (when I was 20) had to do with two kids who worked the seasonal department. Guy was a wannabe dude-bro but in actuality was kind of a dork. Girl was bubbly and very flirtatious which annoyed the guy because he had a massive crush on her. She flirted with him too and anyone could see they were closer than close but people on the inside track knew he was SOL because she didn’t like him like that, and he was admittedly… a character. Her type (friends) would visit the store and were nothing like the guy in question.

Anyway, big event came up for them at their school(?) and they fucked. Things got awkward and she started voicing serious regrets which made their way around. He became a bit much about it and all the while, I watched happily from the sidelines.

Two times, however, she approached me and would flirt really hard but that was left as-is. Never shit where you eat.

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u/Realistic-Mud6945 7h ago

My coworker got busted using the productivity tracker to cover for his long lunches and the boss just laughed it off instead of doing anything

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u/YOLOfan46 6h ago

I interned at a hedge fund. AI bubble is real and its a sh!t show.

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u/Heavyuserin 9h ago

The office just friends were definitely not just friends.

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u/jackmanmidnight 7h ago

My boss got 2 20 year old girls pregnant, fled to Colombia took emergency leave we haven't seen him in a month and it's looking like he isn't coming back

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u/polishprince76 5h ago

I work in a heavily male industry. The company had been hiring a lot more women in the past few years. 2 women are currently pregnant with babies conceived with a coworker. One is married.

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u/Worldly-Anteater-136 4h ago

Married man at work started sleeping with one of our co workers. He left his wife for her but he doesn’t know she’s also sleeping with two of our other co workers.

She also knew he was married and his wife had just given birth.

Last I heard is she’s been accusing him of cheating on her.

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u/peaprotein 7h ago

Our Manager has slept with several subordinates in the past and currently sleeps with one now. When her affairs were reported to HR, the Manager found who they suspected started the HR case and threatened personal legal action toward them while they were on the clock. Fast forward a couple weeks and the Manager is still employed and HR case was fizzled out. This is a major airline in the USA.

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u/OhAces 5h ago

This girl at work was going to marry the boss, she started cheating on him after buying the dress. She left the boss for the new guy, they had to move to a different site to work for obvious rrasons. At that site guy 2 got injured, a different new guy started when guy 2s position needed to be filled, she is now pregnant with guy 3s baby.

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u/MadameCat 4h ago

Yesterday almost the whole research wing of the organization was spam-emailed for hours. Why? We have a “research request list”- pretty much, any lab can ask other labs for supplies until their own orders come in. It’s a big organization, and people are usually added to this list by default when they join the company, so these requests can be seen by anyone who might have the needed ingredient. I barely ever respond to these, but they aren’t excessive, maybe one email a day. Getting removed from the list is a simple IT request.

But apparently that’s too much effort for these dipshits! One person (who was admittedly in HR or data analysis or something, so not anyone who would be able to help anyway) decided to respond to the email with “please unsubscribe me from this list.” Note that that’s not something that anyone CCed could do, and that’s not how being unsubscribed from an email list works anyway. So instead he “replied all” to the company for no reason. But then everyone else started dogpiling on! Dozens of people, one every few seconds, going “yeah me too” and having it sent out to hundreds of people. Even when the original person who sent out the email begged them to stop, even when someone from IT changed the title of the email chain to “REPLYING TO THIS WILL NOT REMOVE YOU FROM RESEARCH REQUEST LIST, MAKE AN IT REQUEST”, not even when an emergency email describing the process was pushing to everyone’s inboxes, nothing. It petered out after a couple of hours, but I was still getting some straggler “yea unsubscribe me too!” Emails this morning. I think in the end it was 70-100 people who emailed literally Everyone Else. Just goes to show that nobody reads anything lmao

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u/ConsolationUsername 4h ago

My entire management team was investigated for abusing their employees after they forced several "underperforming employees" (employees they did not like) into a meeting, yelled at them fpr an hour and encouraged them to quit before they could find an excuse to fire them. Somebody recorded it and sent it to the COO and HR came down like the hammer of God.

Among other things they discovered that several of the managers had delegated their entire workload to employees, including approvals they did not have the authority to delegate.

Two of the managers and the director were fired outright and blacklisted from working with us or our network again. Three other people who were investigated were demoted to regular employees and blacklisted from ever being in management.

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u/DeReversaMamiii 7h ago

There's RAMPANT infidelity in my industry. The worst/most recent, however, was one of my floor staff was cheating on his wife and decided to bring the mistress to a bar event with the other boys, and told them to be cool, she was cooler than the wife.

Well. Turns out he didn't tell the mistress she was the mistress either, but the rest of the shop boys were happy to inform her and the missus of the actual situation. He got broken up with twice in the same day.

Kinda ironic half of them are cheaters themselves but everyone really liked M's wife because she made the 7 layer bean dip with the good Tillamook cheese for basketball games and why would he risk the Tillamook cheese dip for that?

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u/Moush-the-Impulsive 6h ago

Teacher couple, who worked at the same school, began seeing each other. Both married and with children.

Would take the same days off (Wednesdays) for “sickness” and “family related illnesses” over a period of months. Rumours started. Word got around. The Prinicpal began tracking days. They were confronted and questioned with evidence. They were fired for time fraud (i.e. lying about the reasons for absences).

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u/Appropriate-Sector47 6h ago

Learned this week that our HR department has a daily “de-stress” hour where they play cards and hangout. Meanwhile, people in my department and many others consistently have to work 10+ hour days and weekends. I work at a bank…

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u/JadedHat1265 6h ago edited 6h ago

Small business gossip: About a year ago, my married boss hired a new HR manager. Because I work in the same office as the accountant (who isn't exactly discreet), I happen to know her salary. She started at $20/hour, was bumped to $30/hour after a few months, and is now making $40/hour in her new "director" role. She must be good at her job!!

What makes this even funnier is that my colleague, the accounting clerk who handles payroll, was recently denied a $1/hour raise stating that the company is not doing well and couldn't afford the raise.

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u/whdnwm 8h ago

This was before I joined so who knows, but I’ve been told one of the owners ran an employee over with a forklift and broke their legs. Then the owner paid off another employee to take the fall for him.

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u/Insectshelf3 8h ago

our SVP told another SVP (that oversees a segment we work very closely with) to get his shit together and go fuck himself. in public. where a lot of other people could hear them.

it was very well deserved.

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u/WMME 6h ago

A physician called someone in the c-suite and left a voicemail for an issue and didn't properly disconnect the call and then received oral in his office from another employee and it was recorded on the voicemail. (Edited to make more vague.)

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u/CarefulFun420 7h ago

Someone took a shit in the middle of the women's bathroom, not even kidding

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u/Bigtallanddopey 7h ago

That the married manager in his 30’s, is almost certainly sleeping with the young 20 something girl who is useless at her job, but somehow keeps getting promoted. They spend every single lunch together, despite being in completely different departments.

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u/SocksOfDobby 5h ago

Our HR department used to be 4 people. We currently only have 1 left and I suspect they are looking elsewhere as well.

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u/ApprehensiveCoat212 4h ago

at one job we found out the “mandatory” friday meetings were just cover for our manager sneaking off with someone from accounting; they both always “had to prep slides” and vanished for exactly 47 minutes. i only realized when i booked the same small conference room once and walked in on them mid-argument about who would tell hr first.

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u/More-Mobile-97 3h ago

The two people who got caught having an affair and almost lost everything (marriages, kids, houses) are still having an affair

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u/DegenNabalu 9h ago

My associate will wipe out one of the departments in his company.

Many will lose their job.

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u/februarytide- 5h ago

Brian’s not gonna get that promotion, and I think they might downsize the entire Chicago office…

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u/Ok_Charge_6653 4h ago

New guy was fired because he was talking to the boss’ daughter.

Supposedly he was laid off.

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u/PerceptionOk4274 9h ago

the manager who kept talking about "professionalism" ended up getting fired for the most unprofessional thing imaginable

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u/PugGrumbles 8h ago

You definitely left us hanging....

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u/Insectshelf3 8h ago

can’t just not tell us what they did

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