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he automated his entire job and told no one what is the worst thing that you've seen a co-worker do and still avoid being fired HR rep found out about a person's elective surgery and made fun of her with a former employee let me recap this person knew about an employee's private medical information because she worked with our health care plan in her role as HR and shared that private information with another person for the sole purpose of mocking the employee she was not fired worked with a guy who punctured the main gas line to our shop three separate times it was a construction company and they somehow was still my superintendent although he could have blown up the shop worst co-worker ever was the credit mooch he would constantly horn in on other people's projects getting his name added to them to make it look like he was doing stuff when he actually not if people tried to assign him any work on said project he would have a personal emergency or a virus would make him lose all his work or his schedule is booked with other project or the worst he would pull some sucker and to help him with it and said sucker would end up doing it all in utter frustration because he was so good at stealing credit he managed to get top marks on his reviews despite doing absolutely zero actual work for the company I know at least four people quit due to this guy getting better races than they did far as I know they never actually got rid of him had a boss storing pictures of himself and only his wide open bathrobe on company servers it was reported to HR but he wasn't fired for it later he was arrested as part of an undercover sting where he thought he was meeting a 15 year old girl about five hundred miles away the images were stored in a shared folder used by a few employees the guy was our IT manager so he should have known better than storing them there assuming that pictures were taken using a work camera because digital cameras were very expensive at that time in the company had a few before he left for the weekend to meet the girl he had asked to use the digital camcorder I had for work he told me he needed it to make a video of his home possessions for insurance purposes but I was suspicious of that so I told him I needed it for work we found out he was arrested when he called the computer room collect from jail this was later in the evening when he did not show up for work that day we didn't accept the charges but called back later to see what he was charged with at that time we were told solicitation of a minor but the whole details came out later when he was on the local news station for the ones that doubt the story a guy of my wife's old job was brought in because he was really good at selling the services they provided proceeded to send genital pics to the women at work and solicit nudes from them women said to stop or they'd take it up with management at its subsided some solicited nudes from a new chick who asked my wife about it and my wife went to management with everything and said this guy's out or I'm quitting well she quit guys still there but most the original female staff has quit as an assistant manager at a Valvoline instant oil change I was dealing with an unreasonable customer that had just spitted a female employee that he didn't want working on his car he didn't know that the guy under his car was her boyfriend the guy comes up the steps grabs an oil gun and starts pumping oil all climate into the guy's window as he's frantically trying to start the car and roll up the window the employee was reprimanded pretty hard but it was understood why he did it no charges were filed the franchise owner paid a lot of money to have the guy's car cleaned obviously I never saw him again after already being disciplined and essentially demoted for doing his job terribly my co-worker drunk texted all of our managers in the middle of the night asking why they didn't love him it's been about two weeks and I haven't seen him since but he's not gone not the worst thing he could have done but I cringed thinking about it obligatory not me but my wife she had a co-worker that literally punched a customer wasn't fired he later got into a physical altercation with another co-worker wasn't fired then he wrapped my wife's hair around her throat and play choked her still was not fired finally he got into yet another altercation with a co-worker and pulled a gun on him all while on the clock then he was fired had a co-worker as a standard business practice falsely condemned furnaces and winter to pressure homeowners into buying new systems and pad his Commission check I couldn't do anything as I had no direct proof but he would joke about it all the time it did finally catch up with him when one customer smelled BS and called other companies with advanced testing machines took those results and sued the poop out of him I ended up working for that second company and haven't looked back got caught with CP on his work computer had access to the net taken away but wasn't fired as it's possible he didn't know it was real CP this was about 15 years ago at a public institution in Canada upper management was terrible in so many ways I talked to a friend who was in the RCMP she said to me reporting him would lead to the institution lawyering up and an internal investigation would happen that's all because likely upper management erased the hard drive and left no paper trail he did nothing documenting work has completed when no actual work had been done management knew or was suspicious of it but not so much as a write up a reprimand eventually management changed figured out no work was being done called it fraud and canden the job was easy - and good money I don't get why they didn't just do the work I work in a medical marijuana state one guy neglected to check a dry room for a few days assuming all was well all was not well at all the dehumidifier crapped out while the plants were being hung to dry and sat in a warm dark room for three days before it was someone else's responsibility to check it by that point every single plan was coated in mold and we had to throw out a little over a million dollars worth of product side note I had never done the math to see what he cost us until now in a mad all over again his only punishment was to be denied moving today shift but other than that it was forgotten about telemarketing coworker was very obviously a psycho or sociopath showed up late every shift by definition had quite a temper with authority but would often just cause trouble out of boredom by his own admission the most controversial thing he did one particular day was address every client he spoke to by the N word once the manager heard him he yelled at him outside for 20 minutes and that was the end of it a week later this co-worker denied it had ever happened before going on a tangent about how he liked to start arguments with his girlfriend just to see her cry absolute sociopath a co-worker jumped out from behind a door at my husband who is a disabled combat veteran with PTSD dressed as if he was from the middle-east he was literally trying to trigger a flashback no repercussions as he was the boss's friend two weeks later he fell down some icy steps and broke both legs karma took care of that one I have a co-worker that his terrible work ethic he doesn't know how to separate his personal life from his work life so if he's in a bad mood which happens often everyone will know including customers he's had at least three disciplinary meetings once he was caught just messing around for an hour not exactly sure what happened but our boss wasn't happy another time he just didn't show up to work without calling in and it was a day that everyone knew would be busy I don't know why he hasn't been fired yet everywhere else I've worked he would have been gone by now I can do an opposite example my company tried to fire a guy for farting on a customer site essentially he did some shady things and actually fireable offenses but HR decided to let him off with a warning I think they quickly realized their mistake but they had already signed off on the first issues so instead they tried to get him on anything they could and that ended up being farting while working at a customer site oh man it was wintertime and she was helping a customer by carrying something they had purchased out for them once outside but still on the store property she slipped and sustained an injury was threatening to sue the business and was also trying to claim workers compensation came into work every day with a sling on her arm and constantly wincing and being in pain anyways HR and the store manager called her into a meeting sit her down and show her the video surveillance from outside which she obviously didn't know was there showing her faking her fall I don't know everything but she got called out hard and she broke down and admitted everything for some reason they kept her on she then tried it again like six months later this time claiming that a customer had something from their card hitter or fall on her something again tried to claim workers comp and had this whole show of being injured they pull up security footage again and disprove her injury and claims she still wasn't fired blew my mind one of my former co-workers she's since been fired for stealing customers lottery winnings told an elderly woman that she was stupid for not knowing how to pump gas this woman's husband had recently passed and he had always pumped the gas for her so she never learned I had horrible secondhand embarrassment when the woman came in and told us we related to the manager I worked for an organization that had a small maintenance department it only consisted of two guys they both hated their jobs and felt underpaid and were applying to other jobs they both left work without telling anyone they were leaving to go to the same job interview on the clock the job interview also happened to be for a job at a sister location for our office and they both used our manager as a reference she got a phone call within minutes of their interviews and collected their unstamped time cards before they even got back to the office she had them dead to rights for wage theft but it also took two months to fill any position at our organization because of crushing bureaucracy for job postings and the law needed to be mowed before the weekend they both got to keep their jobs they were still working there six months later when I left guy in the same building I work in was going into the common bathroom and watching porn in one of the stalls on his phone he was using earbuds but had the volume up so loud that anyone could hear it and know what it was and to top it off in the background noise you could hear him whacking it while the video played finally someone noticed the shoes that were in view and busted him in the hallway later HR was called and did interviews with all the dudes in the building who may have overheard him yanking it despite many confirmations he was never fired but other nicknames that came from it he automated his entire job and told no one help desk ID the guys that come to your desk when phone support can't solve the problem he started out writing a simple script using the ticket systems API to assign the good tickets to himself the second they came in then he wrote some software to solve those tickets remotely and close out the ticket overtime kept expanding the software until it could solve almost every common issue by itself he built his scheduler for it so it would start solving problems at 8 a.m. every day and stop at 5 p.m. it had limits and random time delays so it wouldn't do something suspicious like solve 50 tickets in a minute to management he was the untouchable rock star of the team most resolved tickets by a good margin extremely consistent performance and was part of why our team was always on the list of top performers at corporate he got the big raises bonuses Awards they even sent him to other facilities around the country to talk to other teams and share our successes nobody knew he was strolling in at 10:00 every day ducking out at 3:00 and spent most of the time in-between browsing the internet or reading books no one caught on for three years then corporate decided to outsource all the helpdesk teams to some crappy third party he used his reputation to land a sweetheart job in a different part of the company and took his software with him the disaster that caused took years to recover from I know all of this because I was that a-hole thanks for listening to radio TTS hit the subscribe button and activate the notification bell for a free HR visit click the right box for the radio TTS career advice playlist let us know in the comments what you think about these stories

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Length: 12min 15sec (735 seconds)

Published: Thu May 21 2020