spin off: outrageous behavior at your workplace

[palavra]

So, what outrageous behavior have you witnessed or been a victim of at your job?

 

[laurie31]

Oh gosh, where to even BEGIN!!

I guess the overall winner is two people on the helipad trying to join the "almost-but-not-quite-mile-high club".

The helipad is on the roof of an 8 story building, but there are taller buildings nearby. Someone actually CALLED US and told us what was going on up there! I suppose they looked out their window and got an eyefull!

 

[Mrs. Darcy]

I don't know if this counts as outrageous, but it's uh different.

A teacher at my school wears black furry slipper with claws in class because she tells the kids while they're in her classroom she's the mama bear and they're her cubs.

 

[scrapquitler]

So, what outrageous behavior have you witnessed or been a victim of at your job?

I work in a group home. Regular 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath split level house, four developmentally disabled guys live there, and there is always at least one but usually 2 employees there to help them/supervise. We work 90% of the time without our boss there, so we have lots of leeway about what we do/don't do. Honor system and all.

One of the things we do is help the guys do their laundry. One day I was working, and I asked my coworker why resident A's laundry wasn't started. Her reply: "I can't help him with his just yet, I still have two more loads of MY laundry to do first"

 

[mamacatnv]

I had a guy roll a forklift off a loading ramp

When I was a teen I worked for KFC - one night after work we got into a major food fight during strawberry pie season. We found remains for days and days......

 

[IdesOmarch]

Oh gosh, where to even BEGIN!!

I guess the overall winner is two people on the helipad trying to join the "almost-but-not-quite-mile-high club".

The helipad is on the roof of an 8 story building, but there are taller buildings nearby. Someone actually CALLED US and told us what was going on up there! I suppose they looked out their window and got an eyefull!

So whatever happened to the almost mile high couple? DId they get fired?

 

[IdesOmarch]

This reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where George and the cleaning lady, well just say made whoopi on his desk. He gets called into the boss's office and the boss says, "It has just come to my attention that you and the cleaning lady engaged in ______ on your desk"

George: Really who told you that?

Boss: She did.

George: Was that wrong? Should I not have done that, I mean if anyone ever told me that that sort of thing was frowned upon in this office...

 

[Luv Bunnies]

When I worked in HR, we had a temp who kept a box of wine in his overhead cabinet. He would try to sneak some into his cup every now and then, but another worker saw him and reported it to us. Couldn't the guy figure out a less obvious way to sneak his booze into work? Needless to say, the temp didn't temp anymore!

 

[mamacatnv]

When I worked in HR, we had a temp who kept a box of wine in his overhead cabinet. He would try to sneak some into his cup every now and then, but another worker saw him and reported it to us. Couldn't the guy figure out a less obvious way to sneak his booze into work? Needless to say, the temp didn't temp anymore!

We had a bookkeeper who kept a tall bar glass in her car in the cupholder. I would arrive every morning and see it there, full. Then she would go to her car "to take her medicine" or to "take an Advil" or to "get something she forgot" several times a day.....as the day wore on she would stumble back into the office.

I was brought in to replace her and once I figured out how bad she was I put my foot down that she needed to go. Her nickname that she was not aware of was tippy. It was sad actually.
When I started here I was so mad that my boss knew she was wasted when she got into her car to head home everyday so I started to get into her face and try and get her to call for ride or take a cab, she wasn't fooling anyone. She started to call in sick or leave early before she got totally tanked. Thankfully my boss terminated her within a few weeks of me coming on board.

 

[bballmom56]

One of the things we do is help the guys do their laundry. One day I was working, and I asked my coworker why resident A's laundry wasn't started. Her reply: "I can't help him with his just yet, I still have two more loads of MY laundry to do first"

LOL, I just sat in on a training class today for prevention of abuse and neglect and of course that very topic was discussed. As the trainer said, we talk about it because it has happened. So I then picked up my DD at her job (an agency that serves DD adults, plus she has worked in group homes) and said in my most sweet, sarcastic voice "do you know that you shouldn't take your laundry to the group home and do it there?"

But seriously, it is considered financial exploitation.

 

[luvmy3jewels]

The worst/most outrageous thing that I have seen happened fairly recently. Someone left a very smelly pile of poop in the hallway outside my office (and also left a pile in the ladies' bathroom floor and stuffed their dirty underwear behind a toilet). Our building is open to the public and apparently someone was having some issues that day. I felt really bad for the cleaning lady who had to take care of it!!!

 

[Pakey]

There are tons here but my personal favorite:

One of the employees came to work with a fighting rooster strapped to his back. He worked second shift and hadn't had time to go home after the fight so he thought it was a good idea to tie it down under his shirt and just come on into work.

Blood was seeping through his shirt and dripping from where this rooster was clawing his back. I guess he didn't think anyone would notice the blood, the moving hump, etc.

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I used to work in a residential home for people with development disabilities. Most of our residents were completely nonverbal, pretty much no independent movement, etc. They depended on us for everything. A friend of mine started working there after I left for Florida. One day she was talking about how she loved when a particular nurse was on duty because she let them, "Do just enough to get them by." I was never so mad at her. It was a tough job, but it's not like it was our clients' faults. We even had several children in our care. If it were my child, I would hope that the workers would see her as a person and want to do more than "just enough to get by". Thankfully I never heard any of my other coworkers talk like that.

 

[laurie31]

So whatever happened to the almost mile high couple? DId they get fired?

ummm....they weren't employees...

One was a patient, the other was a visitor. Not that patient's visitor, either. It was two people that hadn't met before.

So now the elevator to the helipad is locked and you need a security escort to go up there.

 

[npmommie]

ummm....they weren't employees...

One was a patient, the other was a visitor. Not that patient's visitor, either. It was two people that hadn't met before.

So now the elevator to the helipad is locked and you need a security escort to go up there.

omg that story is too funny!

 

[nathalee81]

There are tons here but my personal favorite:

One of the employees came to work with a fighting rooster strapped to his back. He worked second shift and hadn't had time to go home after the fight so he thought it was a good idea to tie it down under his shirt and just come on into work.

Blood was seeping through his shirt and dripping from where this rooster was clawing his back. I guess he didn't think anyone would notice the blood, the moving hump, etc.

Oh, my...ding, ding ding-I think we have a winner.

 

[Robinrs]

I work in broadcasting so the types are crazier than usual... I could write a book!!

When I was in radio our gm was KNOWN for being a horndog. He was the poster boy for sexual harrassment! All of the saleswomen were expected to comply, those that didn't... well, we forgot their names usually

One night I stayed late to finish my work. I thought I was in the place alone but heard someone in his office. I thought I would say goodbye and was surprised by seeing his latest hire sitting on his desk facing him completely spreadeagle. She didn't see me but he did... I took OFF!

Needless to say I was able to ask for AND GET, just about anything I asked for in my dept from that day on... and YES, he was married.

 

[OceanAnnie]

Wow. You guys have some doozies!

I worked in an office that had a birthday party with scantily clad dancers and lap dances. I was so stunned I couldn't move my feet. I looked around the room and watched everyone's reaction. It was kind of like everyone had one foot headed for the door and the other firmly planted and their faces were hysterical.

There were many more special moments at that office. But that's the first one that comes to mind.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I was told two employees were caught having sex in the rec room, but that was only a rumor. I do know of an employee that once pushed his manager. Somehow he wasn't fired.

 

[WDWBarb]

Oh, so many I could share...

At my last job, I started receiving phone calls from a man who wouldn't give me his name but would describe what I was wearing every day and describe what my office looked like and where it was and then he would ask me if (ahem) he could have (ahem) "access" to my feet. Seriously. He would ask for me by name and his calls were so consistent that it was really starting to freak me out. There were about 40 people in my office and the voice wasn't familiar at all.

I couldn't ignore his calls because he knew my extension and blocked his number (and I couldn't risk not answering client calls).

He got weirder and weirder and my tactic of hanging up as soon I heard his voice wasn't working. So one day I decided to chat him up and see if I could get anything out of him about his identity. He offered me a large sum of money if I would drive to a specific parking lot, hang my feet out of the car door and ... well, 'nuf said. I asked him how he had access to that much money and he slipped and said it was a settlement from where he hurt himself at X company (that delivered to my office every day).

BINGO!! LOL. A few phone calls later and my problem was solved.