" He got fired from his previous job because he drop his boss into a dumpster , ' WWF ' way . "
In a recent post shared tor/AskReddit, site useru/HighElfEsteemasked, “People who work in HR, what’s the wildest thing you’ve discovered that led to a firing in the course of your career?” Here are some of the most-upvoted responses:
1.“I worked in a car dealership. The co-owner of the company had a used car lot he had registered under a friend’s name. The big dealership would take in used cars, and he’d pay a technician off-the-books to give it a bad inspection so the car would go to auction. He’d use the other company to purchase the cars for dirt cheap and sell the cars at a huge profit margin.”
2.“So, I used to work at a software company, and we kept getting complaints about a nap room being cluttered, with trash from the nearby break room being left around in the mornings. So we asked security to do some late evening walk-bys to see what was going on. One evening, they found a young woman hiding in the nap room. She didn’t work there.”
3.“We had an employee who would clock in at the time clock every day and then go home. They’d come back to clock out for lunch and back in after an hour. Then come back at the end of the day. It was impressive how long it took a manager to catch on.”
4.“I’m not HR, but my coworker went to work for a competitor and never quit her job with us. She travelled for work and was able to work both jobs for months. It lasted until a customer mentioned he’d heard she left our company and asked who his account rep would be.”
5.“Years ago, I was covering as both HR and LP Manager for a district in a now-defunct retail chain. The stores carried a variety of adult magazines (also now all defunct). Overstock for these lucrative and quick-selling products was in a storeroom. There was a very small (for the time) camera in the room. One day, I was reviewing footage at a store, idly watching an assistant manager restock after closing. Then something odd happened.”
6.“My wife is in HR. She recently had to handle the firing of an employee because a federal background check revealed that he was some kind of local drug kingpin with an active court case. What’s wild is that he was also working this low-wage service industry job.”
7.“It came to my attention (after a few times) that a woman would stay in a restroom stall and take all the toilet paper off the rolls by just unravelling it, and she was seen putting what she had rolled up into her locker a few times. She claimed she was too poor for women’s hygiene products, so she was told that they are provided and there was no need for her to use that much toilet paper for that.”
8.“My friend worked IT support for a hospital. They would have the ability to remote desktop into employees' laptops even without authentication from the user, but was only supposed to be done under special circumstances.”
9.“A long time ago, I was an IT contractor working for a large company. There were probably about 20 of us on this one team that were all contracted by an IT staffing firm. It came to light that one of my colleagues had been previously fired as a high school teacher for a scam where he would go to his students' places of employment and steal a bunch of stuff in exchange for giving them good grades.”
10.“One of the salespeople printed their new offer of employment from a direct competitor using a company laptop, on a company printer, and forgot it there. She was not the sharpest tool in the shed. All of her stuff got immediately locked, and she had also tried to download the whole client database and sent it as an attachment from her work email to her private one. All this happened in one day.”
11.“We had a very nice HR lady who absolutely spoiled one of the employees (in a wholesome way). He was a young immigrant boy who desperately needed a job — he was only about 15 years old. So she’d go out of her way to give him rides, encourage management to give him raises, and even make him homemade meals.”
12.“Our HR VP was fired after a paid conference he attended turned out to actually have been a free vacation for him and his family, and that he didn’t even go to the same city as the conference.”
13.“My dad was working as HR in the construction industry. The story that stands out the most is they had a guy take a shit in another fella’s backpack.”
14.“We had a tech steal a customer’s purse while doing an install. I found out because her ID card was located, and we got the camera footage from the gas station he stopped at to refuel the company vehicle. He also filled up his girlfriend’s car on the company dime at the same time. He denied it, even though it was caught very clearly on camera.”
15.“I worked at a recruiting agency. I had a candidate with an interview lined up. He was a big biker machinist. I couldn’t get a hold of him to set it up. Finally, I got a hold of his girlfriend. She had kicked him out. She informed us he got fired from his previous job because he threw his boss into a dumpster,WWFstyle. I was envious but still put him on the do not call list.”
16.“This dude used to work two other remote jobs from his cubicle and he also has an Etsy business. True entrepreneur, he was.”
17.“Not HR but IT who involved HR. If you want to sell your homemade porn at least use your personal email instead of your work email to do those dealings.”
Shout out tor/AskRedditandu/HighElfEsteemfor having, and starting, this discussion!
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