Bad Employees (Spinoff Of Bad Bosses)

[Gracie09]

I had a paralegal that would run in and throw her bag at her chair at 9. I guess if something she owned was touching it she thought she was "safe"
She still ended up late 15 out of 22 days one month. She also go so intoxicated at a company function I had to drive her home and she vomited multiple times in my car and could not tell me her address for 30 minutes - I knew the town but not the street address. She also would just not do things. I was looking for something on her desk one afternoon she was out and found paperwork that was over 6 months old that was not completed.
It was a unionized work environment and I brought her to HR and did the whole grievance thing. The union steward was like, I can't defend any of this. She was put on probation and then I went on leave for a medical issue. By the time I came back she had left for another position.

 

[nene0182]

one of my coworkers was finally fired this past fall after years of constantly calling in with bogus excuses. Some of them included: She accidentally ate chicken pizza and it made her sick (she claimed to be allergic to chicken but ate chicken sandwiches often), a flat tire that took 2 days to take care of, someone parked behind her car and blocked her in so she needed to wait for the police and a tow truck, she found a mouse in her garage and had to stay home and wait for public health to come and more. The final one was she went home for lunch and "fell asleep" and didn't return on a payroll Friday.

My husband is technically on call 24/7 but mostly for emergencies. One of his guys took this literally though and would often call him at 3am to ask things like if he could have next Friday off or to tell him he had a doctor's appointment on some random Thursday 2 weeks away. My husband makes sure he's there before the overnight shift leaves at 7am in case they need to discuss anything with him and texts and emails are just fine. But, this guy just liked to call I guess. Thankfully he has stopped this habit. His new one is to threaten to quit a few times a week and ask my husband is he's trying to replace him. The guys that work for him are all union so he has to be careful what he says and does.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I was counseling an employee about ongoing substandard performance. It was a follow-up session to the one the day before in which I told her she was within a gnat's whisker of being unemployed. (That one didn't go well--hysterics, insubordination, cursing...) So, well into the second day session she said, "I spent most of last night thinking of ways to kill you." I looked at her. She looked at me. I asked if she was serious. She said she was. I called the police and HR in that order.

Whoa yeah that's a bad and I'd say dangerous employee.

 

[Mokat76]

Whoa yeah that's a bad and I'd say dangerous employee.

Quickly an ex-employee. That certainly expedited her exit.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

I worked in retail many, many years ago...when I still used AquaNet...and there was a co-worker who would stand near one of the clothes racks and slip clothing under her shirt or down her pants when nobody was looking. Then she'd excuse herself and go to the back and put it in her bag (we didn't have one of those shoplifting things by the door or tagged clothing). She was eventually found out and the manager told her she wasn't going to be calling the cops if she just paid for what she took. This girl goes, "well, I don't get paid until Friday." My manager looked at her like, 'are you kidding me?' And told her that obviously she was fired. She really though she'd be staying on.

 

[Adelle Dazeem]

I admit that I was the "bad employee" at a second job in my early 20's. I did collection calls after my 8-5 job and on Saturdays for a mortgage company - a job from hell, but I wanted the extra money. I used to come in on Saturdays totally hungover, if not still drunk from the night before. On more than one occasion, I would take my call list and go to a random cube on the other side of the office and just go to sleep. I did get caught at least once sleeping on the cubicle floor, but they never fired me. They were desperate for help and I was pretty good at my job when I could be bothered to do it.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I totally get the point that you made and can understand why he said what he said but it was also part of the acceptance letter we signed that we had to be ready to take calls the second our shift started. I guess it is free labour but how hard is it to turn on a computer and open the programs you need?

If a company wants people to come in at 8:55 to boot up computers and phoneand be ready to go precisely at 9:00 then they need to start paying people as of 8:55. Don't expect 5 minutes of freebie.
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[rastahomie]

If a company wants people to come in at 8:55 to boot up computers and phoneand be ready to go precisely at 9:00 then they need to start paying people as of 8:55. Don't expect 5 minutes of freebie.
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Reminds me of a night shift job I had once, where I'd spend the first 20 minutes of each shift cleaning up from the day shift.

 

[lifesavacation]

I was counseling an employee about ongoing substandard performance. It was a follow-up session to the one the day before in which I told her she was within a gnat's whisker of being unemployed. (That one didn't go well--hysterics, insubordination, cursing...) So, well into the second day session she said, "I spent most of last night thinking of ways to kill you." I looked at her. She looked at me. I asked if she was serious. She said she was. I called the police and HR in that order.

Yikes! Last year, I had an employee who was still in his probationary period as a new hire go downhill very quickly. He became intolerable and disgruntled. Threatened to hurt another employee and then casually mentioned he leaves his gun in his car during work. He was fired at 4:00. At 4:30, he made an anonymous, bogus, OSHA complaint and then 2 weeks later he filed a whistleblower lawsuit. His complaints were investigated and it was obvious to everyone he was using the system for retaliation.

So I guess be glad your employee left quietly. Sometimes even after being fired and escorted off the property they aren't gone for good.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

When I worked in HR, an employee reported that a temp was keeping a box of wine in his file cabinet and sneaking it now and then in his coffee mug. Apparently he wasn't sneaky enough because someone saw him do it. He was escorted out of the building and got upset that he wasn't allowed to remove his "personal belongings" from the file cabinet. He was allowed to take his mug, just not the box of wine. That went into the trash.

Then we had a girl come into the department in tears because she was being bullied by two other girls. Seriously, it was like high school all over again! They were sending "anonymous" faxes to the other girl's department that said mean things about her (mostly her weight). She was constantly checking the fax machine to grab the mean faxes before anyone else in her department could see them. Finally she got fed up and brought the faxes to us in HR. Geez! It was like Mean Girls in a corporate office! The poor victim was really a sweet girl and just wanted to do her job in peace. The meanies were told to knock it the heck off and we put write-ups in their files. Jerks!

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

Yikes! Last year, I had an employee who was still in his probationary period as a new hire go downhill very quickly. He became intolerable and disgruntled. Threatened to hurt another employee and then casually mentioned he leaves his gun in his car during work. He was fired at 4:00. At 4:30, he made an anonymous, bogus, OSHA complaint and then 2 weeks later he filed a whistleblower lawsuit. His complaints were investigated and it was obvious to everyone he was using the system for retaliation.

So I guess be glad your employee left quietly. Sometimes even after being fired and escorted off the property they aren't gone for good.

I had an experience like this.
A woman just stopped coming in Monday, Thursday, and Friday. No phone call, just quite coming to work, after a couple of weeks I found out she got another job that was part time but still wanted to work Tuesday and Wednesday, umm no it doesn't work that way. She got mad and cussed us, told me her husband was going to get me. I just said he knows where I'm at. Then for the next couple of months she called everything she could on me from the state health dep to the FDA, EPA, litter patrol, IRS, even ICE. If she could dream up a reason she called them. She even tried to file an injury claim after she was fired, claimed her eye got injured. Most quickly realized what was going on and simply put a note in our folder for future complaints. For months I would receive a call from someone at a different gov agency stating they received a complaint, they're required to investigate it, blah blah blah, thanks for your cooperation. The only warning out of any of this was issued by the litter patrol to clean up around my dumpster.
She was a Peach.

 

[JessL]

I own a tour company. I had one sub-contractor tour host who just made constant mistakes. She ordered lunch from one restaurant then took the guests to another - I had to pay for both lots of lunches because the first place had prepared them and it would have taken too long to go there once she reached the second. She left the tour bus parked directly over someone's driveway at the end of the day (overnight). She took the guests 1/2 an hour out of the way to a place she had been told the night before was going to be closed, claimed she hadn't been told even though it was by text and she'd responded to the text. Incurred a parking fine after being reminded several times that she was in a 30 minute park and she'd claimed to have moved it (her responsibility to pay) - didn't tell me about it, didn't pay it (entered into a payment arrangement but didn't make a single payment) and when I got overdue notice 7 months later which was the first I knew of the fine, she told me it was my fault she hadn't paid it because I hadn't given her enough work. And still doesn't understand why I won't use her any more.

 

[soccerdad72]

If a company wants people to come in at 8:55 to boot up computers and phoneand be ready to go precisely at 9:00 then they need to start paying people as of 8:55. Don't expect 5 minutes of freebie.
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Along those same lines, I have a staff person who generally spends the last 5-10 minutes of her day sitting at her computer with her mouse hovering over the "Shut Down" button on her PC.

 

[aristocatz]

The girl in the office next to mine spends half her day on Amazon.com & other sites doing online shopping or texting her husband. She gets all of her work done because her workload is not as much as most others in her positions.....but she constantly complains that her caseload is too high & blocks off 3 hours for 1 hour meetings on her calendar, so her supervisors think she is busy. She's been doing this for at least 5 years & I know some of her supervisors are aware, but no one seems to do anything about it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Along those same lines, I have a staff person who generally spends the last 5-10 minutes of her day sitting at her computer with her mouse hovering over the "Shut Down" button on her PC.

Yeah that was called call avoidance and was something you could get terminated for if it was a pattern. I would often get a call 1 min before my shift was supposed to end..some days it would be quick and other days I would be there 30mins-45mins to an hr past my shift