Messiest Drama Stories People Are Currently Experiencing at School and Other Workplaces

In every place, there are natural events that we will never prevent. Those events are the results or consequences of one’s choice. It might affect everyone in the same place or not. 

However, some people just want to make things extra and create such dramas that affect the workplace or other settings. These people from the Reddit Community shared the drama stories they have seen. Some might be familiar. Check them out!

1. Too Much Accusations

A teacher at our school was constantly being reported by her assistant for grossly and absurdly exaggerated offenses because the assistant didn't like the teacher she'd been assigned to this year. 

The teacher is new to our school. The assistant is related to a high-up administrator and has been moved several times. The administration kept writing her up (the teacher).

Despite her protests that the complaints were absurd, she kept requesting this assistant be switched with another. The teacher finally had enough and quit. Admin spreads around the rumor that the teacher had to leave her job for "mental health reasons." True story.

thecountessofdevon

One co-worker had a bunch of cash stolen from her purse. Everyone knows who did it. Not only was she the only one not in attendance at a meeting when the money went missing.

But she suddenly started avoiding my co-worker when they had been friends before that. Also, she would have to know exactly where the purse was stored to sneak in and out before being noticed.

Now, no one in the office is talking to the alleged thief. That’s our version of office justice since management can’t fire her without more proof.

IrianJaya

Well, I am pretty sure my CEO has been stealing money from our company. I am a textile designer, and we have factories in India and China. 

No one wants to ship our product because they haven't been paid. I haven't gotten a raise in 3 years. The CEO is driving a Bently and just purchased a new $2+ million home.

He is constantly getting angry calls from our factories to whom he owes Millions of dollars (7mil to one in particular), and I am pretty sure if he went to China, he would be legally detained bc of how much he owes people. 

Many of them fly to our office here in the States and wait for him for meetings, and he ducks out the back door like a coward. He even drove an old truck to work one day, so no one would know he was there.

hmmimthinking

2 teachers in the office sit side by side, each other passively fighting over a computer. It is been this way for six months now. There are other computers and seats available, but neither one will budge.

The way it works is one comes in first, he starts using the computer, and when the second one comes in a bit after, he'll just sit right next to the first dude really close. The convo usually goes something like this:

T1: Are you done?

T2: No, not yet...It might be a while

T1: Ah, that’s cool...I've got time.

T2: Ok, cool...

bosstrasized

One of the higher-ups in a writers' forum I frequent went on a rant about a week ago about someone who stole the plot of their most recent story, calling them out in public. 

It's not true -- not even close, except for a few initial details; I skimmed them both, and it doesn't hold up -- but it came out that the person who wrote the new book is also a forum member who hadn't previously revealed her pen name.

Half the people are sticking with the higher-up, and the other half are accusing her of being a bully over nothing (romance novels tend not to have particularly innovative plots, after all). It's a real sh*tstorm.

Portarossa

Our young, African American lesbian temp was just fired by her older, white, straight boss. It's causing some major backlash and racial division in our office.

However, he has hard, undeniable evidence that she was claiming overtime she didn't work and turning in fraudulent timecards. 

She was also taking overly long lunches and "forgetting" to register the time she'd taken off on her time card. Overall, she was working just over 1/2 the time she was actually getting paid for.

I'm one of the very few people in our office who know this. Still, I'm not allowed to say anything due to employee confidentiality rules - so I just have to sit back while her boss gets verbally pummeled by people who don't understand what's really going on.

ManiacallyReddit

Not terribly upset because this is older… One of our company's owners (who owns a tiny portion) was forcing a female manager to do certain acts with him to keep her job. She reported to HR in the store, who then reported to corporate HR.  

They originally seemed very concerned and like something would happen to him; instead, the Corp HR lady encouraged her to quit, "lost" 4 separate statements that supported her claims, the actual voice recording she told of said act, and any other related evidence. 

Then she said she investigated and found the claims were false after she encouraged every employee she talked to to tell the manager to go find a good lawyer.

Now everyone is lying, the woman has quit, my office trusts nobody in upper management, upper management is actively trying to fire us, and everything has gone to literal hell. It's now been a year, but jokes on them; she filed a claim with the state.

They are slow af, but she will be getting a letter any day saying she can sue. How do I know she really did file a claim, and it really did happen? I heard all the evidence, and I helped her type up the claim and mailed it myself for her. 

The best part is that Corp never reported the accusation to the insurance company, so it's going to be an out-of-pocket lawsuit.

Dark-Grey-Castle

I work for a very prominent doctor in my city who has a solo practice. His wife is the practice manager. They hired a cute blonde RN in her early 30s (married) to work part-time. 

I work next to her, and she tells me everything. The doctor proceeds to hit on her in person, via intraoffice instant messaging, and text. 

The latter two methods caused the wife to take notice. Instead of apologizing for the extreme discomfort this caused the nurse.

The wife progressively and passive-aggressively pushed her out of practice by gradually reducing her hours, making her keep track of everything she does minute by minute, and generally making her work environment crappy. She's gone now. It worked.

SynapseForest

We have been noticing small, mysterious changes in our office over the last month. A square of brand-new carpet is being torn up and replaced in a hallway. 

The runner in front of the cafeteria disappeared, and a few weeks later, we got a brand new one. Parts of the hallways have been strangely roped off. 

We also just had security cameras installed in all of the walkways. The situation was finally brought up and discussed in a private meeting. 

An employee has been pooping randomly throughout the building during business hours. These have been rather large piles of poop that people have narrowly missed stepping in. 

This very professional workplace makes this entire situation all the more perplexing. This person is still on the loose, and it could be anyone.

Captainsandman

This reminds me of when I got to work, and the middle elevator of the three was out of order. Turns out we had a bum living in our building for weeks who would just hide during the day on empty floors.

Apparently, this gentleman had mental issues as well he one day decided to make his presence known to the entire office by smearing his dump all over that poor elevator. 

The elevator was thoroughly cleaned by professionals but reeked for a long time afterward, and we had to endure it because there was nothing they could do.

Rita_Metermaid

At a state agency that I work with. They had an issue with stuff disappearing and couldn’t figure out how. Every hallway was video-monitored, and it got progressively worse. 

More and more expensive things started to vanish. It went on for a couple of years and would flare up occasionally. After about ten years of this crap, they realized a senior staff member never left at night. 

She’d been living in the ceiling for about a decade, would steal stuff for fun at night, and would access the offices and rooms through the ceilings. 

She lived in the ceiling and would enter her “apartment” through the bathrooms each night. Every door has an individualized key code entry for each staff member.

[deleted]

It's with my ex-coworkers and my bar-mates. They've all been sleeping with each other, and the drama has started to build. 

Jealousy and other crap. What used to be a carefree fun zone has turned into people avoiding each other, getting into stupid pissing matches, etc.

I do not want anything to do with any of that drama. At some point, I know it will blow up, and I would rather be as far away from it as possible when that happens.

Gr1pp717

A woman at my work is lying about having cancer. She comes up with new sicknesses and calls out all the time. 

She told us she was pregnant with twins and sent us an ultrasound picture. We searched "pregnant twins ultrasound" on Google, and it was on the first page.

It goes so much deeper than this, too. She would send pictures of herself "dead on the hospital table" from the "nurse" (using her phone) to my direct manager.

We don't know what to do. Our bosses are telling us to fire her, but we can't. Every time she calls out, she has a doctor's note.

EuphioMachine

We had a new employee who used her pregnancy to get out of doing any work. She was only a few months pregnant, and every time she was told to do even a minimal amount of work, she'd hold a napkin over her mouth, put on her best puppy dog eyes, and pretend to be nauseous. 

And it always happened after she was asked to do some work (and even then, it was always at half the capacity the rest of us had to do). I knew that she was faking illness to get out of work. 

Everyone at the office accused me of being "a hater" for suggesting that she was pretending. But then she said, "Every time they tell me to do work, I just act like I'm sick! Hahaha!"

My Manager overheard her when she said this. She was given the option of quitting or being fired. But what would I know? I'm just "a hater."

[deleted]

I just started my current job almost two months ago - the beginning of September. Since then, we've had the head of marketing leave his position. 

I came to find out he was not only in charge of much of the company's financing but also the owner's. He has been stealing money - over $100,000 - from the owner. 

Opening credit lines in his name, draining bank accounts, etc. I'm not sure how long it's been going on. But I discovered that the same guy was in jail from '94-'98 for embezzling over 1mil. 

I am not sure why they hired him here in the first place (back in 2003) knowing this... I work in IT, so I've had to spend my time going through his emails and his personal computer and shutting down his access to anything and everything. It's fun stuff to jump into.

woodlandolive

So, to set the scene, I will fake name the characters at the outset. My boss is Megan, her husband is Daniel, and my colleague is Melissa.

So this all started about 18 months ago. Megan, Daniel, Melissa, and I work in the same department. However, Daniel works on a different team because Megan can't be his boss. 

We're all going for a team night out (curry, karaoke, blah blah), but Megan can't make it. So Daniel, Melissa, and I all go for the curry and a couple of others.

On Monday morning, Megan calls me to a meeting, crying her eyes out because she's convinced Melissa and Daniel slept together on the night out. She's hysterical, so I agree to ask Melissa, as we're close. 

I ask Melissa, who also hysterically cries, telling me that Megan is using her power as her boss to push her out of the company and begs me to believe that she didn't sleep with Dan. 

I trust her; we've known each other for a long time. Dan also promised me nothing had happened; however, Meg and Dan's marriage suffered due to all the drama.

Months go by, and Megan becomes strange and follows Melissa to the bathroom, trying to listen to her recorded calls and access her emails. I tell her that she can't use her position like this, and we do this weekly routine where she cries, promises me she won't do it again, and she does it again the next week.

It gets to a point where Melissa can't cope, and she resigns. Megan walks around all triumphantly. Dan seems to reconcile with his wife, and they start trying for a baby.

Last night, Melissa posted a picture of an ultrasound, clearly stating that it was her and Daniel's baby. It turns out they'd been sleeping together for 2 years (6 months prior to their wedding), and she'd lied to me the whole time.

Megan is devastated, walking around like a ghost of herself. Daniel thinks it's the funniest thing ever. He now lives with Melissa and is expecting a child on his anniversary date with Megan, which also happens to be Meg's due date with Dan's child.

[deleted]

I work in a hostel in Amsterdam. It's a quick turnaround because we hire travelers who are passing through, and we let them work for their beds, changing bed sheets and cleaning toilets. 

People usually stay for a couple of months. There's this new guy who everyone loves, but I am growing more and more suspicious of him. Things keep going missing in the rooms that he cleans. 

It started off small. Earphones, sunglasses, hats. Last week, 150 pounds were stolen, and two days later, he asked me for the exchange rate for 150 pounds to euros. 

He also told me that he was traveling on his brother's passport using a fake name and was kicked out of his parent's house for stealing. I don't know who to turn to. I like the guy, but we can't have a thief working in the building. I've got lots of juicy stories, and we get some crazy characters coming through.

alexeggbird

I work with documents from a short-wall cubical. I get to my office at around 6 AM. My boss shows up around 5:30 AM. It's just us for the first few hours of the day. We prefer the lights off because we have windows producing natural light when the sun comes up. 

The lights in the office are too bright and bother us. Every day, this guy (we'll call him Ron) shows up and turns on all the lights in the office. Ron will even turn on the lights in rooms with no one. 

We've told him that we don't like the lights on in our area. It's bothersome. Ron flips out and says we have no authority over the lighting in this area and that OSHA is on his side. 

He then called up the legal team and demanded that an OSHA representative be sent to check for the lighting levels in the office. Someone came out and said it's fine. Ron demands another test. This time, they sent a team of people to check the light levels and try to devise a resolution.

Because of this, much testing must be done on our light system. So now we have maintenance people turning the lights on and off to see what happens. This has been going on for months. 

Everyone in the office is sick of the lights being messed with, but Ron keeps making a deal about it. Recently, a couple of people have sided with Ron that the lights should be at full power throughout the day.

So now there's a huge feud in the office between team no-lights and team full-bright-blinding lights. The teams are getting bigger, and it's to the point where some work isn't getting done because of the feud. 

Some people say, "I can't work with the lights so bright—I'm going home," while others say, "The lights aren't bright enough, and I can't see without them on, so I'm going home until OSHA fixes it." 

People are starting to prank each other by buying lamps and flashlights for team bright lights. This is a huge company (without naming my company, think Google or Microsoft size). Yet we're raging a war based on a light switch.

DiDalt

Last Friday, my school (grades pre-k - 12th) had a nighttime fundraiser called “Noodle Night,” where you pay one price to eat an unlimited amount of assorted dishes that involve noodles. 

Some crazy things went down on Noodle Night. A girl in my junior class has been dating one of the current senior boys since the beginning of our sophomore year. I’m not friends with either of them, but over the past year or so, I’ve heard a ton about how controlling he is /that he’s put his hands on her. 

I guess the girl had enough of his crap & broke up with him on the day of Noodle Night. The boy threatens the girl that he’s “going to end himself” if she stops talking to him and comes at 9 pm ish during the fundraiser. 

The boy climbs onto a roof (my school is literally built onto a cliff) and threatens to jump off. All of the teachers and students tried to get him down, and his father and the police were eventually called to campus. 

I remember hearing his dad say, “Son, please come down. I love you.” maybe 30 mins-1 hour after being told to go back inside, it was rumored that the boy got down from the roof and left the school. 

The boy hasn’t been at school since last week Friday (today’s Thursday), and his ex-gf/the girl in my grade has been getting tons of crap from all of the seniors/his classmates.

secretschuylersister

We have an employee named "Carl". Carl is That Guy. You know he was unpopular and unsuccessful growing up, never changed, and now he's in his 40s, so that's his lot in life. Carl graduated high school with our company's president, a total Golden Boy, so you can imagine Carl's insecurity.

Well. Carl got demoted a few years back and now does a pretty entry-level job. He didn't get fired because Golden Boy felt sorry for him. Our company was small at the time, so Carl's job title wasn't a big deal. 

Well, we've grown substantially, and there are now people in their mid/late 20s with the same job title as Carl, and they are way better at this job than Carl ever was. You can sense the insecurities growing.

One of these people in their 20s is "Greg," who's especially good at his job and will be promoted to Carl's previous job title within the next few years. Greg is a good friend of mine, and I'm really happy for him that he's succeeding here. Carl, on the other hand, is not.

Carl will constantly make digs at Greg that he passes off as "jokes," but you know they come from a very salty place. Much of it concerns Carl tracking Greg's office attendance, which he has never been tasked with but has taken upon himself. 

See, Greg works 7:30-3:30 instead of the typical 9-5 because he wants to, and the bosses don't mind. Carl works 7-6 because he'd rather be here than home with his miserable wife. 

So every time Greg leaves at 3:30, Carl makes some sideways comment, "Oh, look at Greg skipping out early again!" Recently, Carl has also been checking up on Greg.  For example, if Greg has to go to a company worksite, Carl will text someone to check that Greg got there. 

The text recipient tells Greg this immediately, and Greg gets super pissed, yet Carl will swear up and down that it's "just a joke." Well, today, it all came to a head. Carl pulled his little texting maneuver, and when Greg came back to the office, he just freaking lost it on Carl. 

Telling Carl that his job isn't to track Greg's whereabouts, that he's sick of Carl's crap, just dressing this guy down. Carl was less than pleased, and they've been meeting with HR throughout the day. 

sunshinepills

Pet store drama. There’s this girl who is a completely, utterly terrible human being. She is so fake, talks bad about everyone, and acts like everything is high school, and she finally has the chance to be the popular kid.

I won’t detail it because that’s not the point, but everyone hated her. The only reason she was still employed. She was sleeping with the boss. Anyways, she goes on being completely terrible at getting other dude's numbers while she’s dating the boss. 

She went on dates and slept with another co-worker, all while dating the boss. She bragged about it to everyone cause she didn’t know everyone knew. She was, again, dating the boss.

Now, the boss was, quite frankly, a giant pansy. Through people complaining about her customers complaining about her, he does absolutely nothing. But the terrible witch terrorizes everyone and gets away with it because she is invincible through means of her nasty pewee, right?

Wrong. Her potential borderline personality messes everything up. She went into the computer systems and was slowly stealing everyone’s sales. She came in late to work every day by about 30 minutes and started lying to customers. There’s only so much the boss could cover for her at that point...

As she was close to getting caught and feeling the pressure, she got into a fight with the boss at his house, like a physical fight was punching and scratching the crap out of him, breaking TVs and crap, just in general, losing her mind.

He finally gets the witch out of his house. She gets in her car and freaking destroys his lawn. Running over bushes and flowers, using her tires to destroy the grass. The boss pansy dude loved his lawn. Now she’s fired, and all parties are pressing charges. 

poottooter

A couple of months back, this coworker lady approached my supervisor and asked if she smelled like cat urine. My supervisor, curious, asked why. My coworker informed him that her cat had peed on her in the van on her way to work, and she didn't have time to go home and change.

Now, people kept mentioning the odd smell around her cubicle. My supervisor told her she could go home to change or take the rest of the day off.

Right as he finished saying that, another coworker came over with a question, smelled the air, and whispered, "Hey, guys, does it smell like cat piss to you?". The lady promptly left for the day.

I was left wondering 1) How do you go most of the work day without realizing you smell like cat pee? and 2) Why was she driving to work with a cat in her car, and is the cat just like...chilling in the car now, while you work for eight hours?

Stubev

Somehow, I have managed to piss off one of the directors here simply for doing my job. I hired a lady to fill a position that's been vacant for almost two months (it's been hard to fill). 

I hadn't even filled the role for 24 hours when an employee asked me what was happening with that position. I told her, "Oh, we just filled it like yesterday. She will start next Monday for a few hours while she works out her notice at her old job." 

I finished calling the lady Monday night (like 4-430pm, end of the day), and then this employee asked me first thing in the morning. I've barely had time to tell anyone, just my boss and her boss.

Well, the dumb employee went and told her director, and her director proceeded to ridicule me (while not being there), saying how: "What a crap show, they don't even communicate what the hell is going on," etc., etc. Like... Jesus, man, it makes me feel great to work here. I did my freaking job.

n0remack

At the landscape maintenance company I work at, the boss's Daughter came back after a hiatus to help work on one of the crews. One guy fell in love with his daughter and asked her out at one point, and she turned him down but didn't tell anyone about it. 

A guy is a super good worker and was in line to get a promotion to supervisor, and the current supervisor would get a bit demoted (he's not smart enough for the position). 

Near the end of the season, Daughter has a change of heart and asks out Guy! They keep it a secret from Dad (who owns the business). He's still lining up to give Guy a job promotion during this time. 

Daughter and Guy come out and tell her parents. Parents are actually thrilled because Guy is a great guy. But now they aren't sure if they want to give him the promotion because it looks too much like nepotism. Plot twist: I'm the daughter.

meowsungah

We have a sales guy that I have nicknamed Seabiscuit, who doesn't know how to handle his temper. He easily gets hot under the collar and isn't quick enough to pick up on jokes. 

He also takes gentle ribbings way too seriously. We also have an estimator who laughs at uncomfortable situations. They do not like each other. It has been delightful to watch.

So, his boss, our Sales Manager (male), has referred to him - more than once - as "a wild stallion who just needs to be broken." He has referred to him as "frothing at the bit" to get sales. (I had a really difficult time keeping a straight face while this was being said.)

So, in addition to alluding to my boss that there might be some erotic office fanfiction in the works, I also dubbed the sales guy Seabiscuit.

Encrowpy

The chick at the front desk is evidently very combative and always catty with the other girls, but the girls who have been here run the office. They are extra catty.

So, there's a power struggle. The woman who sits behind me was sleeping with another girl in the office's brother who also works here, and she apparently cheated on him, but the dude's sister hates the chick's guts but still acts friendly with her at work.

This all came out because I sat with the chick at the front desk at lunch, and all I did was ask how her day would be nice. I just work here, and I could give less of a damn.

bigboi2115

One of the two attractive girls at my 500-person construction company went on a hot date with a guy from work and has started sleeping with him, but she won't tell anyone who. 

Three people told me the gossip this morning, and speculation is flying. It’s me. I’m sleeping with the chick from HR. I’ll admit this was about 6months ago, and there is an ending. 

We ended poorly after she got mad at me for things I still disagree were worth getting mad about, especially VERY mad about. 

But we patched it up and ended on good terms. We both realized we weren’t 100% into each other and just liked the idea of a relationship. So we stayed friends, slept together a couple more times, and I left the company for unrelated reasons. 

I probably wouldn’t try it again personally (I’ve already scoped out my new HR chicks and wasn’t interested), but my cousin is engaged to his former secretary, and she’s just lovely, so there’s hope yet)

thebestemailever

Had an email go to the entire student body about theme ideas for a dance, and someone replied that it should be tropically themed. They hit reply all instead of reply, so another person hit reply all to tell him, “It’s tropical, you half a meatball.”

One hundred seventy-eight mass emails later and the theme to the dance is meatball-themed. We have a GroupMe with 170 members, and the leader of the student government supported our advances to form a meatball group.

People also got mad at the mass emails and replied all to tell us to stop replying, which would lead to 20 or so people hitting reply all to say “Sure thing.”

[deleted]

Well, there was a riot at my school today. Kind of. We had an extended break for about an hour. No teachers in the yard at all because they had a conference. Just 250 kids. About 100 kids all fought each other. It was a mess. 

Some were bleeding, and some were crying. A few were sent home. Everyone was screaming. We'll see how the story unfolds tomorrow when teachers and parents will be involved.

It's an average school with about 300 people. No special needs school, lol. The ages are 10-18 because the school system is different here in Germany, don't ask me. During all breaks, one teacher watches over the yard, which is pretty big. No teachers on that day.

I also may have exaggerated. Yeah, there were 100 people fighting and the rest of the school shouting! But there were only 3 or 4 serious fights with punches and hurt people. 

Rest were just your typical 12 yr olds fighting like pussies trying to put each other on the ground and crap. It was still a mess.

[deleted]

I am the curator at a smallish museum and have been out of town for a conference and family stuff. It has recently grown cold out, and now that I have returned, staff (including the crappy director).

They asked me, "What is your plan for turning the heat on? People are complaining." And I am all like, "wth? I have been gone for over a week. I'm not your mom. 

You are adults, and you know how the thermostats work. Be responsible human beings!!!" Maybe that shouldn't have missed me as much as it did.

sweet-tuba-riffs

Oooh! I'm here for this!! The most relevant piece of drama right now is my sous chef just put his 2 weeks' notice in after being shafted by our executive chef for about the last 6 months. 

The final straw was that we did a big fundraising event for the CA wildfires over the weekend. He and our (incredibly alcoholic) banquet sous chef were running a station together& stressing the fudge out over this event. 

The executive chef was essentially just walking around schmoozing with the crowds and asked why he was so stressed out. His response was, "You! You stress us all out. f*ck you. You freaking jerkward.”

And he put his notice in the next day. Since then, I've witnessed several meetings with him and our other sous/executive chefs. Unfortunately, he's an incredibly hard worker who puts his whole self into the management of staff and the kitchen. 

I'm curious if he will go through with it or if it's an elaborate tantrum to get what he wants from our chef. The other piece of drama is one of our In-Room Dining server girls I've nicknamed "HBC" (HOT BUT CRAZY) just got knocked up by a line cook. 

This line cook was the BIGGEST jerkward in the kitchen with a freaking horrible attitude, and he recently quit to go work elsewhere. What's sad is he's already a deadbeat dad to one kid. 

These two have NO business reproducing, but as HBC has already admitted to me, she's already had one abortion and doesn't think she can go through it again. But according to her, the line cook is stoked to be a daddy.... as in stoked to pay child support for another kid?

chefturnedstripper

Two individuals are having an affair at work. Both are married. Neither are as discrete as they think they are.

Both of their partners are aware that there's a problem. Some of this came out at the most recent company picnic, ended with people yelling and screaming obscenities at each other.

But that's not the good part. The most recent news is that the woman wants to get pregnant. The man does not. She's off the pill and picking sexytimes at the right time of the month. 

He's beginning to get cold feet at the whole idea and is starting to flirt with a receptionist. Meanwhile, popcorn supplies are running low.

asdkasjdf

I was recently promoted within my company, and I am now my ex-boyfriend's supervisor. We'll call him Chris. That man and I dated 18 years ago for 2 years, broke up, and remained friends. 

Chris introduced me to my husband, Jim, who works with us at the company. Chris' long-term girlfriend and baby mama, Jean, just left him because he got loaded and verbally abused her one night. 

Sadly, this was a regular occurrence and the straw that broke the camel's back. Jean and I are very, very good friends. She didn't have enough money to get out of Chris's house, so I loaned her $1200 to help her get her place with her two kids.

Chris has no idea that I, his friend of 20 years, helped his girlfriend escape him. Also, since I'm now his supervisor, I see everything he does at work all day. He does all sorts of stupid nonsense. 

He's been drafting a "please come back" email to Jean for the past three days. She and I chat online regularly, sometimes while he's online, begging for her to come back. He has no idea about that, either.

he-mancheetah

I work for an attorney and did when I broke up with this guy. We'll call him K. It has been eight months since K broke up with me (in a text message), and he still hadn't returned my $800 worth of camera equipment at his place. 

I had known K for quite a long time before I dated him and believed him to be a decent guy, so I never pushed the issue of getting it back. Every few months, he would resurface and apologize for not returning my stuff. 

My boss (attorney) knows about this and doesn't understand why I didn't press the issue more. Yesterday, K randomly resurfaced again via text while I was at work. 

I am standoffish and tell him that I want my stuff back. K says I have to commit to sleep with him to get it back. I work out of my boss's home, and conveniently, her husband (who also knew the situation) was home. And I told him what just happened and asked if he would talk to K for me.   

The husband speaks to K on the phone for approximately 10 minutes. I didn't stay to listen to the conversation, but apparently, he told K to have my stuff in a box at my house by 4 or he would accompany me to the police station to file a complaint.

My boss (attorney) says that she wants to file a Replevin motion and file a complaint for extortion and prostitution. Wow... yesterday was one rollercoaster of a day...

715winona2012

The nice young woman responsible for assembling the quarterly report on each department's workload is slowly learning (like everyone else who has been assigned this task) that she doesn't have the authority to make people give her the data she needs. 

She is completely responsible for the task, but she doesn't have any authority. This task always turns people into raving loonies. There have been many screaming scenes.

A few years ago, one woman threw a coffee cup at another woman about the same task. It's kind of a cruel psychological test for people to see if they crack. 

This really nice girl is within weeks of raving b*tchiness and probably doesn't realize it yet. It will be fun to watch her descent into madness.

picksandchooses

One day I got a ride into work, and we have this rule where you can't smoke unless you're in a car, so I asked a co-worker I've never talked to before to take a break with him.

That was 3 months ago, and now I'm sucked into his work drama of loving a manager in another department and how he's sure they're soulmates, but now she wants nothing to do with him. 

He's manipulative and plays victim to her when they talk, and she's just fed up with his crap. I should mention that she's about to get married and is 15 years younger than the dude. His Facebook is both a hilarious cry for attention and very dramatic.

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This girl I go to school with got cheated on by her boyfriend of 3 years. They had promise rings together and were the ideal high school couple ( we are in university now). 

It’s only funny because his girlfriend before, the one who got cheated on, was portrayed as crazy after their break up. After all, she was concerned about this guy talking to the more recent girlfriend. 

No one thought anything of it then, but now he might be a serial relationship hopper. Only breaking one off when a relationship with the next girl is certain. Now it seems like that other girl might not have been so crazy.

kyschasemilligan

I went to have "2nd coffee" the other day. So I pop my Tassimo cup in the work machine, and away we go. Then I realize I'm out of milk. 

So, I decided to "borrow" a splash of someone else's from the community fridge. I've seen that video of that woman squirting breast milk into her milk container at work, but I decided to risk it anyway. 

Anyway, I screw off the top of "Brenda's" (fake name) almond milk 2L container, and it's full of a brownish amber liquid, like full to the top. It ain't milk. 

It's either booze for herself or laxatives to punish pricks like me. Not quite sure what to do, but it serves me right.

jetsdude

This is old but it was a super juicy and gross affair. This was back at my first job. My boss was the epitome of an upstanding Christian dad and husband.

He and his wife, who also worked at the agency, had been married 20+ years, were in their late 40s, and had several kids, including one adopted internationally. They volunteered in their child's home country, had their church fund various causes there, etc. 

I always got an icky vibe from him when we had one-on-one meetings, but he never said or did anything inappropriate, so I chalked it up to my social awkwardness. He struck me as a perv, but I had no real reason to think so.

We hired a new person who was probably about 25. She was married and had a toddler. She seemed happy in her marriage and was a nice, normal person. Her husband came by once with their kid, and it was really sweet.

You've guessed by now, I'm sure, that the boss and his young employee ended up having an affair. To this day, I still don't get it - to me, there was nothing remotely sexy or appealing about my boss. 

He was just an average-ish dude who turned out to be slimy. He wasn't attractive, didn't make much money, and had a boring personality. The really crazy part is that I was talking to a co-worker at a totally different workplace many years later. 

Through our small talk, we learned that I'd worked at the same agency as his ex-wife. He told me her name and then just watched the look of recognition go over my face. I then (thinking I was being nice) told him I never liked our boss and that he always seemed a total creep. 

Well, turns out my boss and the co-worker had gotten married and were still together - I was telling this guy how disgusting his kid's stepdad was. Oops.

adiostrasero

I just got fired. Rumor around the campfire is that I was getting paid 25% more than I really was, and it was too expensive for the company. 

I made sure everyone I knew who still worked there thought I was making even more money, causing them to ask for huge raises to keep them there and costing the company even more.

They fired me because there were blatant health and sanitation problems that extended beyond my department, and I called out the other managers on their filth, hoping to spur a cleaning frenzy. 

Instead, they canned me, and I will deliver the best holiday present of them all: a visit from the health department. It's cool knowing I can cost those dirty bastards money even though I work elsewhere.

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Well, this afternoon... one guy sat in the other guy's chair even though his name was on it. So then the chair owner picks up another chair and THROWS IT at the chair sitter. So, of course, the chair sitter guy freaks out and starts screaming at the chair owner.

The next thing I knew, they were both yelling for me to come to get in the middle of it. I pointed out there are two chairs and two people, so... this should not be an issue. They're not really satisfied with that answer, though.

My husband calls about this time, and I end up skyping him so he can see the chaos. Screaming, yelling, two knocked over chairs. It's a mess.

I finally get so fed up that I turn on Daniel Tiger and hand everybody some goldfish crackers in a bowl. Because these guys are 2 and 4, and this is just another day, another drama drama.

busytiredthankful

Usually, my work is Drama City USA, but it's been pretty chill lately. The only thing I can think of is my coworker/best friend is quitting for a new job, and our other coworker is in love with her. The problem is that she has been with her boyfriend for three years, and they plan on getting married. 

So, a coworker in love with the other is desperately trying to make her stay or at least keep in touch with him by telling her he "knows things" about her boyfriend that people have told him. 

That she doesn't know her boyfriend's "dark past," which is hilariously bullsh*t because she knows about the crap he's done in his past. 

He's a different person now. He's changed, grown up, and not the stupid 20-something he used to be. He's honestly a really good guy. This coworker needs to back off.

TroubadourVagrant

Someone posted passive-aggressive notes in the ladies' bathroom to the extent of "clean up your mess." Most of the ladies here have laughed it off, mainly because it was typed up and printed off, yet somehow, they still managed to misspell hazard as "hazard."

That was Monday. Today, the men's restroom got a note that said:

"This isn't a basketball court, so please don't dribble on the floor."

I laughed. I figured someone was jumping on the bandwagon of passive-aggressive notes. As of this afternoon, a picture of Mr. T appeared below the men's restroom note stating:

"I pity the fool who dribbles on my floor."

FranticJ3

A girl started working at my company and was gone halfway through her first day because she lied about having a Bachelor's degree. This girl is pretty well known online and was central in a high-profile issue within the past couple of years.

She seemed so cool online, even when I was intimidated to work with her and told my boyfriend she made me feel like a potato. Well, well, well. Look who's not even a little bit cool after all! 

Not having a Bachelor's isn't what makes her not cool. It's the lying and being a schmuck part. Like she sat at her new desk and spent her time TYPING UP A NEW RESUME to show to my boss?!??? Why??? Just a huge mess.

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My office is within shouting distance from finance, and something is always happening with those people. Currently, 1 of the married women on the team found out she's pregnant. Congrats, right? No

Story is she got knocked up by one of the gay guys in their group. It gets even better because the gay dude who knocked her up is legally married to another guy in finance.

More craziness seems to be added by the minute, but that's the latest. Usually, when this stuff happens, there is a cop at both entrances for a week.

EricKingCantona