Probably, most people who work have their own memorable and epic scenarios inside the workplace that they’ll never forget. It could be good or bad.
Sometimes, those crazy stories of either worst co-workers or just funny ones really make our day more thrilling.
People from the Reddit Community shared their crazy employee dramas that they couldn’t just let slide. You might want to check these out!
1. Lunch Thief
There was this Asian lady at my first job out of college who would sneak into the lunch room in the basement of the building and steal lunches. She'd go through all of them, taking bites or eating it all.
Whenever she took a bite of something she didn't like, she'd throw it in the garbage. Staff would come downstairs to find their lunches devoured or in the trash with one bite taken out of it.
This all came to a head one day when some guy was up in arms after his meatloaf sandwich fell victim to the Asian lunch thief. He caught her, she was fired, and she keyed everyone's cars.
MegAcedU
2. The Mystery Envelope
Worked at a new fast-food company that opened in my old town several years back. It was pretty bad initially, and they REALLY overworked employees.
The turnover was huge, and later, a suit was filed against this specific company. In any case, when I started, there was a blonde woman, but I forgot her name now, let's call her Beth.
Beth was overly enthusiastic to the point of being incredibly annoying to any and every employee/customer. Beth was apparently also a pathological liar and frequently left her shifts early to do god knows what...
When she was fired, she came back with a nice purple present. All wrapped up with a white bow and everything. It was meant to be an apology to the manager, but she quickly dropped it off and took off, saying she was busy.
It smelled like it had been doused in a gallon of perfume, but she seemed half-crazed, so whatever. At the time, her department manager took it and opened it near the registers.
Inside was a lump of poop.
She pooped in a box and gave it to her manager.
As a gift, of course...
allworknoplaytoday
3. The Master Plan
I work as a supervisor in a drugstore. One night, one of my employees was seen just letting someone walk out with hundreds of dollars of merchandise. A few minutes later, he went outside to collect the shopping carts. I'm reviewing the video evidence of this happening at the time, and on the phone with my store manager.
The employee was outside for a pretty decent amount of time. I hadn't noticed right away because I was busy collecting the evidence. However, my other cashier called me up and told me that he still had yet to come back in, 15 minutes later. As I walked downstairs, he came back inside with one shopping cart, and the guy was high as a kite.
Because I am not a store manager, my hands are rather tied as far as what I am able to do at the time, so I just send him home and keep someone else for the rest of the night.
The employee called me later (I happened to be best friends with his sister), and he started talking about how he hates snitches and that people should just leave other people alone. He was rambling on and on.
The next day, the loss prevention manager and my manager were there. The employee was terminated. It turned out that he would let his friends walk out with baskets of merchandise without scanning it. Then he would go to collect carts, and they would give him meth in payment for all the stuff.
He thought he had this master plan and that he was sticking it to the man. It was really sad to see. Since then, the employee has been incarcerated and successfully completed rehab. I am glad to say that he is doing so much better now and has apologized profusely for the entire incident.
vash_the_stampede
4. Junkyard Cats
We own a salvage yard (junk yard), and we usually have a few cats around. Every now and then one of these cats will claim us and live in the office. We feed it, take it to the vets, and it becomes our junkyard pet cat.
One particular cat was awesome, and all the guys loved this cat, even the burly guys. They would all share their lunches with the cat.
This one guy that used to work for us was a real jerk. One day, he decided that he didn't like the cat anymore. He took a can of spray paint and painted the poor kitty. All over, head to tail. When the cat came into the office, my husband, who is the boss, went ballistic.
The first thing my husband did was wash the cat off as best as he could. Then he went into the shop and raised holy hell. Screaming at everyone until a new guy finally told him that he saw Jim spray-paint the cat. My husband was raging and wanted to really fudge this guy up bad, but instead, he called the cops, filed animal cruelty charges, and fired him on the spot.
This guy had the balls to file for unemployment for unlawful termination. He was denied several times but kept opposing the judgment. We fought his argument all the way to the highest level of State review, where he was granted full unemployment benefits.
The reason was, even though he broke the law while at work, it doesn't (didn't) state in our handbook "no spray painting of cats" or "no unlawful activities at the workplace." We thought that would have been a given.
The guy finally got his karma, kinda. He's serving a year in jail for fleeing from the police while drunk.
The cat lived for several more years. One guy would always come in on Sunday to feed her, and he found her dead. She had died in her sleep, in the box filled with blankets that they kept for her.
jeannieb
5. Bob The Destroyer
Bob (not his real name), oh gosh, Bob (not his real name).
Bob lasted two weeks, which was about two weeks longer than he should have.
During orientation, he challenged me on several of our rules, many of them having to do with Health and Safety. He did not want to wear eye protection or closed-toed shoes since it was "too hot" in our climate-controlled manufacturing plant.
He wore a Bluetooth headset, which he proceeded to answer several times through orientation, and when informed that personal cell phone use was only permitted during scheduled breaks, he informed me that he was conducting "business" and needed it.
This was when I decided Bob needed to go. However, HR and the Company president also needed to sign off on it, and after three hours, decided I had not given him a fair shake.
Bob was untrainable. He had one job to do: balance material in a centrifuge and make sure it was draining. We had charts posted outlining how many of what to put in and how to arrange things.
So after working with him for a day showing him and overseeing him arrange and balance, I was satisfied that I could leave him unattended for 5 minutes while I grabbed a washroom break.
I was dead wrong.
I started to hear the clanking of metal on metal and ran back to shut down the machine to find that it was not loaded or balanced properly.
When asked why he loaded it against regulation, he said, "It takes too long to arrange everything." Still, nobody wants to get rid of him except me.
So, as the GM of a manufacturing plant, I spent the next week with BOB babysitting him as he loaded a centrifuge until I finally had to leave him to do my actual job. In under a half hour, from improper loading, he had damaged the machine.
While I was loading and setting up the backup, I instructed him to go to the board room to review the loading charts and that I would call him back when I was finished.
About 20 minutes later, I go to the board room - No Bob. There is nobody in the Men’s room. As I am walking back to my production floor, I notice that there is somebody in the president’s office.
This is pretty strange since the president is out of the office that day, and the only two people who are permitted in the office are myself and the office manager.
Wouldn't you know it, just down the hall, the office manager is happily chugging away at some reports in her office. So I go in, only to reveal Bob watching some of the most depraved Spanish porn on the president's computer.
While I didn't have the power to, I terminated him on the spot and cleared it with HR and the President later (who, after a quick viewing of his browser history, agreed that it was justified). Apparently, Bob didn't know how to browse incognito.
Bob has since filed a case with HRSDC for wrongful dismissal.
InspectorVII
6. Own Space
I was a supervisor for a "high-end" retail store that we were preparing for the Grand Opening. We had hired one guy (we'll call him "Tom") who was in his early to mid-twenties. Over the course of a couple weeks, I noticed that I barely ever saw "Tom" during his shifts after I sent him off to do something.
One day, I sent him onto the sales floor with a cart of merchandise to stock. I realized that it had been over twenty minutes and all of the other employees had already been back 2-3 times. I was the only manager on, so I knew he didn't get sent to another task, so I asked if anyone had seen him.
One girl turned to me and said "He's probably in his cubby." And then proceeded to show me where it was.
Apparently, "Tom" had created a cubby for himself about 3-4 ft wide behind some old shelving units.
He had stolen a heated blanket, pillow, and various food items off the sales floor, where he had been hanging out for most of his shifts for over a month. Checking in with various managers at 30-45 minute intervals to be seen by someone.
This was his 3rd or 4th offense, so we fired him. He proceeded to rip his shirt in half and start crying while screaming, "WHY!?" over and over again at the top of his lungs. We then escorted him out of the building, where he continued screaming and crying while beating his chest and hawking loogies on our windows.
This kid was a complete tool. Harassed all of the girls relentlessly (even me--his supervisor), tried to sell drugs on the premises, and stole nonstop. I don't know why he seriously didn't understand why he was being fired.
retrostretch
7. Proven and Tested
I worked for a big company years ago as the shipping manager. One of the guys I hired was an ex-Russian army guy. He was pretty good, a hard worker, and all that. Still a little off, if you know what I mean.
So one day, he doesn't show up, and no phone call. The next day he calls me, and he sounds like he's high. He's in the hospital. After work, I go by the hospital (we were kinda friends), and his whole right side is freaking black as night. Not a stitch of white. Serious bruising.
Broken leg and arm.
I asked him what the hell happened, and he told me that he and his friends were "having a party" in his 5th-floor apartment.
He was having an argument with one of his friends (as it seemed to be a regular Russian thing for them to do).
His friend was saying that he never follows through or something like that. So, my friend stated that he always follows through. My friend says, "If I told you I would jump out that window, I would".
His friend says,. "Hahaha, you wouldn't dare". So freaking crazy Yuri runs and leaps out the window, down onto the parking lot below. He spent over a month in the Hospital to prove a point.
Freaking ridiculous.
He quit, and I didn't see or hear from him until a year later when he called me on the phone all drunk, telling me I was Jesus.
remembername
8. Leave Abuser
Employee asked to have Friday off to watch a big darts contest and failed to give nearly enough notice, but what the hell, OK.
Phones the boss at home on Sunday. "I'm through to the third round, which is on Monday. Can I have Monday off?"
Boss: You said you were going to watch a darts contest.
Employee: Well, yeah, but I wasn't expecting to get past the first round, then I would have been watching after that. Can I have tomorrow off?
Boss: No, you're needed. It's too short notice.
Employee: Oh. OK.
Doesn't turn up for work on Monday. In the evening, his girlfriend rings up.
GF: Paul's made it through to the fourth round tomorrow. He asked me to call and say he can't be at work tomorrow.
Boss: Sorry, but if he isn't at work tomorrow at 8 am, he needn't bother turning up at all.
Doesn't come to work on Tuesday.
Turns up at 8 am Wednesday, and seems genuinely surprised when he is told to get lost. He's fired.
faithle55
9. The Milky Way
Had somebody at my old workplace who would do something weird and steal other people’s milk, mine included, but I could never figure out who it was.
One time deciding enough was enough I used half of my milk and proceeded to piss in the remainder of it, shake it up, and put it back in the fridge. Safe to say it was the last time that the mystery milk thief struck still no wiser who it was though.
Iggypiggy_meow
10. It’s Not On Me
I was a manager of a couple of departments for a local grocery chain a few years ago. I had a girl on one of my teams who was terminated for basically breaking every rule in the book - she sucked.
Even though I wasn't the one who fired her or made the decision (I didn't have that power), she decided to take revenge on me.
A week after her termination, I started getting calls on my cell phone from strange men wanting to make out. Turns out she made a fake listing on Craigslist, soliciting me for that thing (I'm a woman).
After much digging and convincing one of the strange dudes to assist me with getting evidence, I made a police report. It's a two-year felony to impersonate someone online/solicit them without permission (in Michigan at that time).
The fun part is when the police wouldn't press charges because it was a one-time thing. Yep. This girl endangered me by OFFERING ME FOR MAKING OUT ON CRAIGSLIST WITH MY PERSONAL CELLPHONE NUMBER, but it was a one-time thing.
I'm still pissed.
rottenbanana127
11. Caught Redhanded
Quite a few years ago, my boss left our office in Washington DC and went to Florida on a company-paid business trip -- a publishers' meeting was happening near Tampa. It happened to be springtime when baseball's spring training took place.
The second morning after my boss was away, the Washington Post published a photo on the front of the sports section showing a line of fans waiting to get autographs from Cal Ripken. Who's first in line? My boss.
Later that day, I was in the office of my boss's boss with two other guys when my boss called in. The head dude puts him on the speakerphone.
The conference is going well, he says. He's meeting lots of good business contacts that should promote sales. He says the meetings are running long and a little boring, but he's keeping up with them.
He returns two days later and gets his company travel privileges suspended for two years.
very_large_ears
12. Some Hygiene, Please
I had a coworker once who was just ridiculous.
First, he was a newly arrived immigrant from Senegal, so some of this is probably due to cultural differences.
He didn't shower. Seriously, this was at a summer camp, so we were there 24 hours a day. He didn't shower.
In lieu of showering, he just used Axe body spray. Lots of it. Yes, this was when we were in high school.
Similarly, he did not brush his teeth. Instead, he used mouthwash probably 4 or 5 times a day. He had a little bottle of it that he carried in his pocket.
Ridiculous lies. He claimed that in Africa, he was circumcised with a knife and then sent out into the jungle for a month to survive on his own.
He claimed that he had a Hummer but didn't like to drive it because he didn't want someone to steal it.
He claimed to make out with most of our female coworkers but that he made them swear to not talk about it. Etc, etc.
He regularly wore a bathrobe instead of a shirt.
He would hit on anything that moved and could definitely not read the rejection signs. The worst was when the mother of one of our campers complained that he got her number from the 7-year-old camper and had called her over the weekend.
I'm sure there's more I have blocked out of my memory.
Salacious-
13. A Couple of Dimwits
I've had a few crazies over the years. Let's start by saying that, at my bookstore, the general manager is so anti-confrontational that you have to basically wig out completely on a customer to get fired. She is also a horrible judge of character, so we had (and have) some real 'winners' on staff. Past crazies (names changed, although who really cares):
"Darlene:" Older woman in her late 50's/early 60's. One of those employees is slightly annoying because she can't seem to remember how to do anything, but generally isn't too bad. Then she starts showing off the gun that she keeps in her purse. On the sales floor. In a town where there REALLY is no need to carry a gun 24/7.
"David:" Foreign guy from South America who was going to the local university for a law degree. He would corner the petite music manager and declare his undying love for her.
He was a huge party-er and came in one morning talking about how he had to get his car's wheel fixed because he was driving home, got a flat tire, and didn't want to stop, but couldn't figure out why there were sparks coming from it. The idiot was driving on his rim. He also did coke and did some on the clock.
"Chris:" Your classic creeper. Pedo glasses, slightly overweight, bad comb-over. Told everyone that he was ex-black ops, that he had written a book that had been picked up by Tor (but wouldn't be published that year because they didn't want to compete with Harry Potter), and that he was getting offers to write some screenplays.
He took advantage of every younger female on staff despite all of us telling the general manager. He was eventually fired after threatening to kill a guy who was browsing the sports section because he put a book back in the wrong spot.
dementedpixie
14. Bunch Of Red Flags
I used to be a part-time manager at some store. I've had employees steal money out of my purse, take breaks to smoke pot, and get caught trying to steal hundreds of dollars.
Tell me they cleaned out the fitting rooms, only for me to find a locked fitting room full of clothes they just threw in there, give their friends discounts (and get fired for it)
Call the store manager a fat pig to her face; you name it. They tried to get me to enroll in their management training program to become a full-time salaried employee, but I said NOPE and went to law school instead.
kitteh_pants
15. Rollercoaster Journey
Here's a couple:
I was training at a gas station. The first hour was the normal rush, and everything went normally. When the crowd died down, we started to settle in, and I started going through the normal routine with him.
As we're talking, he pulls out a knife that's several inches over the legal limit and a stone and starts sharpening the knife. I immediately say, "You need to put that back in your car now and never bring it to work with you again. Carrying a concealed and illegal weapon is grounds for immediate termination if security or management sees that."
His response: "Oh, OK." He starts walking to his car, presumably to drop the knife off. And then he drives away, never to be seen again.
At my current job, we had two back-to-back.
The first person we hired appeared to be a godsend. She was very comfortable around computers and, by day two, was already well on her way to having her own routine for the day mapped out. She was picking up on her job far, far faster than anyone in recent memory.
Then, her boyfriend called the school she was assigned to. "Who the fudge is <manager's name>?!?!? Why the heck is his name in my woman's phone?........ Don't give me that bullcrap that she's not available! Put her on the freaking phone now, or I'll go down there and drag her out!"
This caused the lockdown of the school for obvious reasons.
She was called into the admin building and asked to give information on her boyfriend since authorities were interested in pressing charges. Her response? Totally nonchalant: "Oh, don't mind him....he gets like that occasionally. Just don't press charges, please.....if he violates his parole again, he'll be back in jail!"
She was immediately fired. Don't know if they ended up pressing charges against the boyfriend.
So now we're on the hunt for a replacement for her. Her replacement was a middle-aged woman. Spoke English and Spanish. Her attire appeared to be a mixture of religious and cultural garb -- nothing extravagant but a bit over the top. She was a deeply religious woman but didn't appear to let that spill into her work. At least not on the first day, anyway.
The school manager was out on the 2nd day for a personal day. She came back to find almost everything in her office thrown into boxes, stuffed into a closet, and replaced with various religious pictures, trinkets, statuettes, etc. The office looked like the Vatican.
So she goes and looks for the new hire.....who was found in a faculty bathroom sobbing, "ONLY GOD CAN HELP ME NOW!!!!". She had to be taken away by local police.
Don't know what happened to her, either.
-jackschitt-
16. Final Destination
I worked at a car wash, and I swear this is dome final destination crap. A friend was pressure washing the inside of the tunnel (where all the machines are to clean the cars) and was about halfway through (about 125 ft long or so) the tunnel.
The buzzer went off to indicate a car was being sent through the wash. The car is in neutral and is sent along a conveyor belt chain that pops up rollers to keep the car at a constant speed.
Well, he hears the buzzer and starts to make his way back towards the front, staying out of the way of the spinning cloth wraps. Well, the pressure wash hose (it has intertwined steel, so it is strong as hell) starts to get wrapped up in the wraps, and he is trying to pull it out, and somehow it caught his leg, and he was stuck.
He spun around with the wrap until it stopped to wait for the sensor to start it again for when the car got closer. Once it started again, he found something to hold onto, so it got his leg even more messed up because the wraps were spinning, and he was not.
The car slowly moves closer and runs over his hand, and finally, someone realizes he is stuck (the equipment is really loud) and stops the track. He has scars from the pressure of the hose to this day. The firefighters had to be called and cut him out with the jaws of life because the hose was so strong.
He broke his ankle and had to get 2 plates and 6 screws in his foot.
Kysteve
17. Other Side Of Her
A 50-year-old coworker I knew was the sweetest lady ever. She was constantly cleaning and often felt distressed that she wasn't doing enough.
One day, a guest complained to our resort safety department that she was driving dangerously to work.
When he confronted her, she took off her shirt in the coffee shop and started yelling at him in just her bra and old lady boobs.
Hope she's found help since!
katiehayley
18. Stinky Place
Many years ago, I was a lowly production manager of a small team at a graphics shop. One of the dudes on my night shift got pissed at the shop owner and started taking tidy little poos on the ceiling tiles and then placing the tiles back up into the ceiling grid.
An odor of poo started permeating the place, and nobody knew where it was coming from.
Took weeks, and then we finally discovered his high-altitude crap minefield.
The owner grimly admitted, "I don't pay you enough to take care of this (crap)," and broke out the ladder, face mask, rubber gloves, and bucket.
MochiMochiMochi
19. Keypad Warrior
I manage a family business - third generation, and we all have phones with AT&T.
We started getting iPhones on our account, and AT&T revamped their bills to include a line for the date and time of every single text message. Well, since we had a business account, they applied this new listing to all phones, not just the iPhones.
We got our first bill in, and it's a freaking book. I'm separating the piles to review and make sure it's all good, looking mostly for slamming charges, and notice the thickest pile is not myself or the family members of the company that I would expect to be the winner - heck, one of them is a teenage girl that has an iPhone. The biggest pile is for a delivery driver.
Curious, I thumb through it, and this guy is texting day in and day out, even during business hours when he's on the road driving! I think there is no way this can be right, and I get online to get live account access and verify that this driver has an obscene amount of text messages.
Month 1 - 2,900 text messages. Month 2 (the current month I was investigating) - 3,600 text messages.
Let me point out - this is a FLIP PHONE. And these are OUTGOING messages, not incoming.
It turns out he got a girlfriend and loved to text her like they were making out at all times.
Fired on the spot. He also didn't delete or warn her, and we got saucy texts for half an hour as he had no way to tell her to stop.
TheJanks
20. The Smoke
I'm not quite an employer, but I worked for a recruitment firm once. We'd get hired by companies to find the perfect employees for them. Once, we were asked to find a mechanical engineer for a factory that made glass.
This meant the best employee would have experience working with high-temperature systems, pressure systems, and conveyor systems and be willing to relocate.
I found the perfect candidate. He had 10 years of experience in a nearly identical industry and couldn't wait to relocate. The company interviewed him and agreed he was perfect. They offered to hire him, but he declined.
His reason was, "When I was leaving the interview, I noticed a jet leaving a contrail."
For those who don't know, a contrail is a cloud-like trail jets leave behind them when the moisture in the exhaust hits the cold air. In fact, have you ever gone outside and been able to see your breath??? That's a contrail.
He continued, "I know for a fact jets leave contrails when they are seeding the population with diseases like anthrax. It happened once at my son's little league game, contrail overhead, and the next day, my son caught a cold! Here are some conspiracy websites that prove it."
We all thought it was a good thing he didn't take the job.
mini-you
21. New Hires
I once was a manager for a small business who did business-to-business sales in person. One of my duties was to train the new hires. My HR manager hired this couple, who were straight-up gothic.
They wore black Doc Martens laced up with white laces and green army jackets with patches all over them. The female had a Chelsea haircut, and they said they were on Adderall, so they were continuously twitching, moving, talking, and grooming each other.
Why the fudge would you hire someone like that in an industry where you have to speak to business owners in person?
On the phone, okay, not that bad. The HR manager said he saw potential; he is Black, and I am Mexican -- seriously. He was fired shortly after for screwing people out of their paychecks.
botoya
22. Importance of Timing
In my first job, I was a dietary aid for a retirement home. They hired a convict that did a hard time (8 years). He got the job because he knew one of the cooks. He wasn't fully adjusted to the outside life, so he would only bus table and wash dishes.
One afternoon during the lunch rush, we're waiting for everyone to start leaving to give the convicted guy the heads up to start. He started too early and met the old guys that were still eating.
Convict: Excuse me, sir, I’ll just grab these plates out your way.
Old guy: I'M NOT DONE EATING YET jerkward
Convict: What do you call me!?
Old guy: (n-word! YOU CAN'T HEAR ME jerkward!
The sitter is trying to de-escalate the situation, telling the old man to be quiet.
Nope, he proceeds to beat the crap outta the old man; the sitter tried to get him off she got punched. After he was wrestled down, he was arrested, and the cook was fired.
The old man survived the beating.
Sticks_
23. Two-Faced Witch
I am the owner of a small hip-hop clothing & accessory, as well as body piercings and stuff like that. Anyway, had this one girl who, at first, was a fantastic employee, punctual, friendly, and intelligent.
One day, she showed up to work a mess and smelled like a mixture of sweat and urine, immediately, I wanted her to go home, but I decided she was having a bad day and didn't want to make it any worse.
On this particular day, she was quiet and hiding her face, making no eye contact at all. After about 3 hours of dealing with her terrible attitude, I politely told her she could go home for today and have the rest of the week off (I wasn't firing her; I really thought she just needed rest) after telling her that she completely exploded with rage.
She stood up and began screaming at me, saying that I was a terrible boss and apparently extremely rude for telling her to go home. She then continued to call me every name in the book (I ended up turning into a psycho myself and telling her to leave; she was scaring off my customers). This is where she really lost it.
She suddenly takes off her flip flop, starts hitting it against the display cases, and throws one at me (my ninja skills dodged that flip flop....PS. flip flops move incredibly slow when thrown, so I have no idea why I feel proud that I dodged it LOL).
Seeing that the flipflop does no damage, she grabbed one of the stiletto heels we sell, and she began to take the heel and scratch it against my glass display cases.
She grabbed racks off the wall and started to throw them out of the store (into the mall).
I lost my patience and tried to grab her arms and detain her, but she slapped me with her flip-flop repeatedly (must have looked hilarious, especially with that flip-floppy sound flip-flops make, lol).
Security finally detained her, and police were called for the damages. When police arrived, she head-butted the cop (he was alone). He put her in handcuffs, but she refused to get off the floor and walk outside to his cop car.
Every time the cop would try to pick her up, she would just turn her legs limp, so he ended up throwing her over his shoulder and carrying her out of the mall. The entire time she was screaming out insults towards me and saying, "Going to fly me" I still have no idea what she meant with the word "fly.”
I later got to find out from her....boyfriend/ex-boyfriend that he had broken up with her the morning before, and from friends in common, he found out she had gone to their houses and tried slitting her wrists with a plastic fork (apparently, she had gotten completely trashed alone and just showed up making a scene at their houses and left on her own).
I am now super suspicious when hiring my employees. No matter how put together a person appears to be, I will still assume there is a psycho underneath it all.
tazbunny
24. Lunch Eater
I'm not the boss, but one day, the Ops Manager hired a temp to pack boxes. On his first break, he went into the breakroom and ate everyone's lunch.
I am not exaggerating. Over 10 packed lunches in the fridge, those he could not eat completely he took bites of.
Unlike the Asian lady story, he was caught in the act of eating, of all people, the manager's pizza. He was sent home immediately, and the Ops Mgr called the temp agency and reported his bad performance 'for stealing lunch from the company.'
Many laughs and angry yells were had that day.
pizzlewizzle
25. Weird Commotion
I once had this quirky guy working for me... Strange hippy dude, but did decent work. He called me one morning saying he was going to be late… a whole lot of commotion in the background and yelling, and he hung up.
I work construction, and some of us blue collars have "other crap" going on in life, so I give the benefit of the doubt so long as you are usually here, on time, sober, and not asking for your check early every week...
Anyway, about two hours later, he shows up and has scratches on his face and arms (I didn't look anywhere else).... I asked, "What the heck happened to you? You and the old lady get into it or something?"
He then proceeded to tell me how he was peacefully sleeping, and his cat brought him a "present." A squirrel! ...mind you.
Apparently, this squirrel wasn't quite dead when said feline dropped it in his bed.
So, apparently, this half-dead creature came out of its death trance and ripped the crap out of him, and was tearing around the room when he called me.
I freaking LOL'd the whole way driving him to the hospital. I've never seen such a pitiful sight. I could only imagine him running around his bedroom in his tighty whities with his long, balding, frizzy hair flowing in the wind, trying to catch this mortified, half-dead squirrel after it had clawed the snot out of him while his wife was shrieking in the background.
Even now, just typing this has got me in tears... Maybe you just had to be there.
KleenexInAisle3
26. Huge Liars
I used to work for a fast-food taco franchise, and at one point, I had the mother of a couple employees (twins) call up my boss (who was the primary manager) for the store. The mother was pissed that my boss "worked them all night long."
Well, apparently, the girls went over and stayed at their boyfriend's houses after work and spent the night there but told their mother they worked all night to evade punishment.
The primary flaw in their argument is that the store closes at 1am. They claimed to be at the store until about 7-8am.
However, the mother didn't believe my manager.
I stepped in at one point to defend my manager when I talked to the girls directly later in the day when they came in for their shift (we can't prevent them from coming to work because that'd be classified as employer retaliation), and they later tried to file a frivolous s*xual harassment charge on me.
Well, the mother (we assume) eventually figured out her girls were lying, and the whole thing just kinda' faded away. Eventually, the girls left and were never hired back on when they reapplied at a later time.
M4ver1k
27. Crazy Workplace
I worked in a grocery store from age 17 to 20, and I have a lot of good stories from those years. I started as a cashier, and when I quit, I was a Front-End supervisor over all the cashiers and baggers on my shift. Here are just some of the interesting things that happened during my time there:
16-year-old cashier, only on the job for about a month. Gets fired on the spot after he tells a couple, "We don't let Greek people like you shop here." I'm not sure how he figured these people were Greek or why he disliked Greeks so much. We don't even live in an area with a large Greek population.
My store frequently hired special needs individuals as baggers. One evening, I noticed both of my baggers (one male, one female; both mentally differently-abled) had disappeared for over 30 minutes.
A few minutes later, one of my cashiers returns from his lunch break and says he found the baggers.
They were behind the store in the male bagger's car...the female bagger was "going down" on him. Surprisingly, the managers did not find this to be a fireable offense.
One afternoon, I got called in for what I was told was a random drug test. I later found out that everyone from the store was required to be tested...It turns out one of the baggers stole some prescription drugs that were left in a shopping cart (our store had a pharmacy inside of it)
Then proceeded to overdose on the medicine ( I assume it was some kind of painkillers). The corporate office thought we were all druggies and wanted us all tested.
An assistant manager got fired because he bought beer for an 18-year-old cashier. The security cameras caught him handing it to her in the parking lot. I have a feeling that there might have been more to the story that I don't know about.
opulentflatulence
28. Sabotage Went Wrong
I came to work literally 4 minutes late and was greeted by my then boss who told me I had to be let go due to being unreliable, citing my tardiness that day as the main instance, given that it happened in California (an "at-will" state) I decided not to protest it as who would want to work beneath a jerk who hated the place he worked and the was taking it out on the employees.
So I left home and was looking for work for about 10 days and then got a call from the owner of the business who was asking what had happened between me and the former manager.
I explained as best I could, and then he stated that Jeff had failed to show up to work the next day (no call/no show) and asked me if I wanted to pick up some hours.
Fast forward 6 months, and I am now the Production Manager of the pharmaceutical manufacturing house where this took place with a heavy pay increase.
docious
29. Dumbfounded By Credentials
I was put on as IT manager at a medium-sized government contractor.
I did a quick independent review of our infrastructure to get my bearings and noticed a problem..... all EIGHTY servers were being backed up to EIGHTY USB removable hard drives you buy from your local Walmart.
Also, none of the printers were set up to share between computers, and none of the cabling was documented.
I questioned the IT Infrastructure manager about it, and he saw no problem with the issue. I reviewed his resume; his ONLY job experience before this one was behind a counter at the local JB-Hifi (an AV store )
Somehow, this guy had gone from checkout witch to National infrastructure manager in one move…
It still baffles me to this day.
[deleted]
30. Pathological Liar
I work in timeshare, which is an insane industry in and of itself. I have an employee that is absolutely bonkers.
When this employee started working for us, she mentioned how she overcame cancer and was starting over. Really inspirational stuff. But as the days/weeks/months went by, her story got more and more bizarre.
She repeatedly stated that she was starting at "ground level" to prove to her wealthy parents that she was "independent." What she then mentioned was that her parents still paid all of her bills and bought her a BMW. That's when I first thought she was a bit wonky.
She was telling me once how it took her 9 years to graduate college with an art degree because all she did was party and not study. Then she said that she found out she had cancer shortly after and was bed-ridden for years at Duke Medical for treatment and that doctors said she would most likely die there. But a few weeks later, she talked about how being there made her wish she would have finished medical school...
When I said, "I thought you were an art student," she quickly replied that because her grades were so good and she did so well on the med school tests, she got into med school with an art degree.
She later sued our company for harassment and accused two separate employees of it. I should mention that she tips over 300 pounds and while I don't believe in such shallow judgment, this chick wasn't being propositioned by anyone.
One employee was in sales making 6 figures and just up and quit because he could afford to work elsewhere when he wouldn't take her out for a date. When the second employee declined her offer, citing his girlfriend, who also worked with us, she began filing complaints against both the man and the woman.
From that point on, I stayed away from her. She went on Family Medical Leave, citing that her cancer had returned. You had to feel bad, but when she got back, it got even crazier.
I had been moved up to management. She fought me tooth and nail over everything. She refused to work her scheduled hours, saying that I "gave her old schedule away" and that I was "out to get her fired."
I explained to her that nobody was out to get her and that it was fair, seeing as how she and the employee she had a problem with both worked 3 opens 1 close, and 1 middle. Each person got two days off in a row. Her response? "I don't do nights," and "I need Thursdays and Fridays off for medical reasons." My HR department actually sided with her on that, and as a result, the other employee quit, and I had to work clerk night shifts as a manager.
When it came time for her annual review, I was fair and balanced. HR said it was one of the "fairest and accurate reviews they had seen." She got a 3/5, which is rated "satisfactory." It did not merit a raise.
She was good with guest relations but lacked any kind of clerical skills required to do her job (typing, excel, etc.). She sat there quietly through the whole thing, providing no feedback, and wouldn't answer any questions I had for her.
The first words out of her mouth when it was completed? "You treat me differently because I am a woman and because I am older and in my 40s." I calmly said that that was not the case and that I didn't appreciate such accusations.
If she disagreed with the review, she could fill out her portion and sign that it was received. She refused to sign it and said she wanted her "real review." I explained that the signing was not saying that she agreed with the review but an acknowledgment that she had received it.
She wrote in her section that I threatened to fire her if she did not sign.
I couldn't believe it.
She wrote in her section that I threatened to fire her if she did not sign.
The next day, an employee from another department came to me stating that the crazy employee started a rumor that I hit her in a lobby full of people and that I was a woman beater. I was livid. She wrote in her section that I threatened to fire her if she did not sign. I couldn't believe it.
That was the last straw.
I went to HR to file a complaint for harassment because that is defamation of character, and an accusation like that can stay with you the rest of your life even after you are found innocent.
HR said that since it wasn't a rumor, I had no evidence and that they would not accept any form of complaint on the matter. Another employee found a 2-page mini-manifesto written by the crazy employee calling me unprofessional and explicitly stating that she would tell everyone "how I hit her like a dog."
I took it to HR, saying, "Here is proof that this is not a rumor but a serious matter that I want to be resolved." The result? I was investigated for abuse. Thankfully, it was proven that I had done nothing wrong as we have video records, and I never once even brushed up against her in passing.
She then started leaving early on my days off and calling in on check-in days, citing "illness." I took it as skipping work and displeasure with me not being reprimanded for her delusions.
She then started to come to work high on prescription drugs. I know this because she told other employees about her doctors' prescriptions. Other employees even complained that they felt uneasy about her tripping at work. Guests even remarked about her poor service and "appalling demeanor."
Since this episode, we have worked opposite days, and she works primarily at another location so that I can avoid her. She still tells people that I am a woman-beater who is out to get her.
I politely explained to people that she has a history of filing frivolous complaints and that I had the misfortune of being the target of a baseless claim that was proven false.
I have no idea what my HR department is thinking, but as far as I can tell, they are not concerned with the rights of their employees unless that employee has a litigious past, in which case they will bend over backward even if all claims are proven false.
BadLuckBaskin
31. Accidentally Caught
I think I've said it before, but I used to work for a now-defunct electronics retailer. We had a creepy cat piss smell man working there who was amazing at selling computers, but just the creepiest man you've ever met.
Well, one day, before we opened, the store director was reading his morning newspaper and just joking around with all of us. Then, his face contorted in an angry scowl, and he stormed off to the office and slammed the door behind him.
Two minutes before it opens, he comes out again and demands I send the creepy guy back there as soon as the guy comes in. I do, and don't bother telling him the store director is angry.
Even with the office door shut (and really thick as doors go), we can all hear muffled yelling. A creepy guy walks out. Before the end of the shift, the store director tells us he wants to speak to all of us in the warehouse after the next crew takes over.
So he tells us, at that point, that creepy guy lied on his application and was under investigation when hired, under investigation for child porn. The story that the store director had seen on the front page as he opened the paper was the creepy guy having pleaded guilty to it.
We were told in no uncertain terms the creepy guy was banned from the store premises. He's still in federal prison if he's serving out his whole term.
talsiran
32. Worst Choice
I had an employee call in two hours after her shift started and tell us, "Heyyyyyy! I am late because I was in a diabetic coma, but I'm OK now, and I'm on my way!" Perhaps it could have worked... If the people she called out to weren't a bunch of nurses.
My boyfriend, on the other hand, came to his welding shop the other day and discovered an alarming pool of blood below a large saw.
No one was at the shop, so he followed the trail… Blood splattered all over the office, trailing around outside before making its way out of the parking lot.
He got in his truck, drove around for a bit, and quickly discovered his new employee on his bicycle with a bloody T-shirt wrapped around his hand.
Turns out the guy had cut his thumb completely off, had stuck it in his pocket, and decided the best course of action would be to pedal 18 miles to the hospital.
DeLaNope
33. Worst Day For Everyone
I'm just an employee, but this was the craziest thing that's ever happened while I was working. To give some context on the stupidity of the person the story below revolves around, he drove off after work on more than three occasions without noticing the car topper was still on top of his car (I could understand if it was a big truck as it's not right at eye level as you are walking to your car).
Anyone familiar with Jimmy John's customer appreciation day knows that the $1 subs for the short (~4-hour) time period causes every store to be extremely packed. The one I was working at, in particular, made about 1400 sandwiches during that 4-hour time period.
The main character of this story was a guy who was just a bad delivery driver as he could never remember directions. A delivery order came in while the dollar sub line was wrapped well out the door. The order was to go deliver a couple of sandwiches and drinks to the auto dealership that was only 1/2 mile, if that, down the road.
As it is the most hectic time you could ever imagine working, no one really notices he has been gone on that really short delivery for almost 45 minutes. That is, until the lady who placed the order called asking where the hell her food was. So I told her that we would send someone else out with fresh sandwiches, and within 5 minutes, she called back, saying that the original delivery driver had shown up.
At this point, I grabbed the owner, who was in line at one of the cold tables making sandwiches. He came over and apologized again for the lateness of the order and told her to send the driver back and wait a couple of minutes for the fresh order to get to her.
So because we are so busy, the owner just hops back in line to make sandwiches; I am thinking in my head, "I can't wait to see this idiot get chewed out by the owner who loves to overreact." Boy, was I disappointed (at first)? The driver came back inside, worming through the sea of people, and was signaled by the owner to come over to him.
He didn't blow up in a tirade and just quietly said something to the driver. He didn't even send him home. A little while goes by, and I'm looking around the horde of people in line and see a cop and think, "What kind of bull**** is that, getting food in the slowest possible way on the taxpayer's dime."
Then I see the cashier go grab the owner instead of ringing up an order. The owner points out the driver, whom the cop grabs by the arm, escorts them outside, and proceeds to press face first against the giant glass windows that are in front of the store as he handcuffs him.
The cops put him in the back of their car and proceeded to dig through the idiot driver's car, which was full of a bunch of crap (boxes, multiple hampers of dirty clothes, just random trash and crap). It took a while, but they finally found something and drove away with the guy.
Later on, from my manager, I found out that the driver was like 8 miles away from where the delivery was supposed to go (outside of our delivery range as well) and he hit TWO cars and fled the scene (WITH A JIMMY JOHNS SIGN ON THE TOP OF HIS CAR)...And it turns out what the cops found in the car was a small baggie of coke.
Never saw that incompetent jerk again.
BryndenRivers
34. Not Learning
I trained a girl at a pretty popular sandwich chain I used to work at. The sweetest girl you could ever meet but dumber than a box of rocks with all the smart rocks taken out.
We explained cleaning procedures and went over that bleach, and ammonia should never, ever be mixed and that we will even go as far as to wash different parts of the bathroom at different times of the day (bleach the toilets and sinks in the morning, Windex the mirrors and use this awful ammonia-based floor-cleaner at closing). We explained that failing to do so could cause major problems.
My lovely trainee decided that because she was working the closing and the following opening, she could save time by cleaning both at the same time by mixing the two mixtures and wiping everything down with it.
I was managing at the time she was cleaning the bathroom and dealing with a particularly moody closing customer when she burst into the kitchen, eyes bright red and nose gushing blood, coughing and sputtering and crying.
I was instantly far more concerned with my employee and asked her what happened. She explained that she mixed the two chemicals, and then it started burning to breathe. We called an ambulance, and she was released later that night.
She was back two days later for work, chipper as ever. We closed the place early that night and vacated it while our bathroom fan ran. By the next morning, it was fine.
You would think that that event would have taught her to never mix the chemicals again, but it didn't. She did it again about 2 months later.
The same girl also got our dish sanitizer in her eye but refused to rinse it out with water because it would ruin her makeup.
She also would have to be repeatedly reminded that she had to wear gloves when preparing the sandwiches.
I know there are more stories about her, and I'll post them if I remember. She really was very kind and had all the best intentions, but she just lacked a great deal of common sense.
IsHomestuckAnAnime
35. Messy Kid
About 6 years ago, I was a store manager at a famous fast-food chain in a small town in Ohio. It was the only fast food place in town, and the only staff I had was early morning old folks, and for all the evenings, all 16-24, but mostly high school kids.
Every one of these high school kids complained about working Friday evenings and weekends in general - all very annoying. But that's how it goes, and someone will always get the short end of the stick.
I had one kid who kept complaining that he hated working Fridays, but I told him that if he wanted hours, that's all I had. So he said fine, see you on Friday.
So Friday, he comes in around 4 pm-11 pm. It's one of the longer shifts for the high school kids. Well, around 8:00 pm, this kid takes a break and comes back at 8:30 pm. Thought he looked a little funny, but I figured he smoked a joint or something. More than half the staff burned reefer.
So, continuing through the dinner rush, I catch out of the corner this kid slip and throw this tray of hamburgers flat against the ceiling- actually leaving hamburgers stuck to the ceiling. I'm like, WTF - stop everything and go check on this kid.
As soon as I approach him, he looks like he will cry. He kept apologizing, saying over and over he would never do it again. I knew something was up, but I really didn't have time to figure it out, so I told the kid to go sweep the parking lot.
He said okay and went on his way.
So I hop on the grill and do this kid's job so we can finish our dinner rush when I hear the drive-through girl say, "OMG, what are you doing!" Then she ran to me. I'm like.. what? She's like, you have to see this.
I go to the window, and there's no car there. So I lean my head out the window to see what the hold up is- and as I'm sticking my head out the window... I see him.
That poor dumb jerk, somehow, dropped his keys through this drain right by the drive-through window. Instead of asking for help, he pried open this huge gate that covered about a 6-foot drop, and there he was, in that hole. And no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't climb out.
Had to stop everything, get 3 people from inside, and pull this kid out. As we were pulling him out, he confessed he was drunk. While on his THIRTY MINUTE BREAK, he drove to a friend's house where a party was going on and "beer bonged" eight beers.
I fired him on the spot and called his home phone number to get his parents. Even debated calling the police, but really, that job just sucked so bad I just couldn't bring myself to press any harder on this kid. I was just like, WTF.
In reality, he's lucky to be alive. If that driver hadn't seen him jumping up and down, arms flailing, he could have been stuck under a car and died in that hole.
[deleted]
36. Freaky Friday
I know it's buried, but I just want to lighten the mood.
I was managing a restaurant, and on a Friday night, one of my best male servers called me right before he was supposed to be in. He's panicking and apologizing like mad.
I calm him down enough for him to get out these words: "Man, I'm on the toilet, and I can't quit pooping (fart, fart, fart). I'll be in as soon as I can (grunt)".
I know he wasn't lying because he's a good old boy but damn, did that not start my Friday night off with a laugh.
amayernican
37. Gift Card Thief
A co-worker of mine was ringing out a customer, and they used 2 gift cards. One was cashed out, and the other still had money on it.
Well, he didn't give the card back. The next day (his off day), he went to another store in the region and used the gift card and his employee discount.
The manager made a quick call to the gift card hotline and found out an employee used the card. He was terminated within the hour.
j_dirty
38. Plan Destroyed
I worked at a pharmacy that had a loyalty card program. One of my coworkers would enter her phone number instead of the customer's. Every quarter you would get 2% back from what you spent in-store.
We were at our weekly beer-league bowling night and a manager from another store mentioned that this girl came in with one of those vouchers and cashed out several hundred dollars in merchandise with it.
After running the reports, it turned out she 'spent' $55k that quarter. She was fired promptly and then somehow managed to get unemployment.
[deleted]
39. A Man Of Trash
The guy would come and sit at his desk in a cardigan and scarf and sweat his balls off all day long with the fan going.
Bragged all the time about taking metabolism-increasing meds and other supplements.
Got caught driving with no license, no insurance, and driving without the owner's permission. Went to court and got a 12-month ban, at which point he went and bought himself another car and continued to drive.
One day never came in. He was off for 3 days, apparently 'in a coma' following a reaction to what he was taking.
Sacked him in the end for poor attitude, taking loads of time off sick without phoning ahead, etc. Plus the fact that he asked me to write him a letter to the courts saying he needed his license to work. I said no, as this would have been perjury.
So yeah. A bit of a douche. Now he's trying to take us to court for unfair dismissal.
GreyFoxNinjaFan
40. Guy of Weirdness
I work at a fish and chip place. We are a pretty popular place during the summer months and get insanely busy in July and August. One time, a cook decided it would be cool to see what happened when he put a plastic action figure into a deep fryer.
In the middle of the lunch rush in July.
He was fired on the spot, and we had to go the rest of the day without one fryer, effectively doubling our already long wait times.
We also spent the next few hours dealing with pissed-off customers and cooks who couldn't handle the stress of the situation.
It was horrible.
TheDarkJester
41. The Invention
It's probably going to get buried, but the other story I had was from the same job. There was a guy named David who would come into the office very early- like 4:00AM.
I had been abroad for vacation and had jet lag, so I came in at 4:45 or something like that one morning. I go to take a piss first thing upon arrival, and David is pantsless with his ass in the sink, hosing poop off his butt.
Seems that he didn't believe that toilet paper got his butthole clean enough, so he invented a kind of rubber hose device he could carry in his pocket and attach to the faucet.
Bear in mind that he was about 6'4 and super hairy all over. I pretty much freaked out at the sight and left the room. He begged me not to tell anyone, but I washed my hands in that sink, and he was hosing his crapbits into it.
I told my supervisor, and his response was, "Not again! I told him he would be fired if he got caught doing that!" I asked when he had been caught before, and the boss told me that was the THIRD time.
He got fired. And blamed me.
Hugh-G_Rection
42. Old Crazy Guy
I worked in a factory on a production line (yeah, it sucked)... and they hired this one crazy guy.
The factory made fruit snacks, and when the machine didn't close the boxes properly, we would reopen and glue them ourselves. This guy started writing notes and sticking them in the boxes (Things like "You've just won a million dollars!" and "Hi, I'm bored!")
He "quit" one night by coming back from break, flipping out, and saying that someone had stolen his smokes from his jacket. He walked out. His job at the time was to prep the fruit for the production line, so after he left, the line ran out... We couldn't work anymore, so we all had to go home.
Once the truth came out about the boxes he tampered with, a ton of pallets had to be recalled (since the time and date he had done it were unknown). Such a waste!
visitations
43. Woman of Extra Mile
I am not her employer, but I have a pretty good one.
I used to work at a pet shop. Mostly all they sold were dogs, and they had the right to fire us if we couldn't make our commission. This one woman there, I forget her name...
Michelle or something would do ANYTHING to sell a dog. It was insane. She'd walk right up between a customer and another salesperson and take right the fudge over, stealing your chance at commission.
She'd scream at you (in front of the customers) if you responded at all. The managers would have to reprimand both parties because it was a "fight." She once sold a big, lots-of-exercise dog to a tiny apartment couple.
There was no manager in the shop at that moment. Any of them would have stopped her.
Naturally, the couple wanted to return the dog. The manager made them buy a different, smaller one since we don't accept returns, but it was clear the dog was in for a crap life at their place.
The poor puppy went insane after being returned and started self-mutilating. Michelle would tell people their 8-week-old dog was never going to grow any bigger. That Yorkies would stay the same color forever, while in reality some turn silver.
She'd sell dogs to families with allergies and pretend they were hypoallergenic breeds. Damning these dogs and families all to make what? An extra 200 a week?
They kept her on forever because she made them a lot of sales, while consistently firing everyone who didn't sell well.
It was sick.
JunahCg
44. Man Of Second Chances
Not me but my Dad, who was a small tradesman.
He hired his existing employee's nephew, who already had an extensive criminal record. Dad likes to give people second chances and has had some previous ex-cons turn into excellent employees.
The guy grew up in the city but for some inexplicable reason talked with a strong Rez accent anyway. He was friendly enough, but would sometimes go hide behind the port-o-potty so he could sit down without working. That enough would not have gotten him fired.
Payday was Thursday, and after a few weeks, he stopped showing up on Friday and Monday. He would roll in mid-morning on Tuesday bragging about all the beer he drank on the weekend, which is why he left the rest of the crew handicapped for two working days. He also got his Dad back on the booze, making him a long-time employee late and absent as well.
Finally, my Dad fired both of them. The older guy apologized and said he would miss us -- my Dad said to give him a call when he gets himself together. It was really hard on both of them.
The younger guy told the Employment office that he was laid off rather than fired and that my Dad laid him off because he was racist. The Ministry of Labour conducted an investigation, which ended very quickly.
My Dad faxed in the timesheets showing he averaged only 21 hours per week during the previous month and pointed out that both the guy's brother and cousin still worked for him, averaging 45 hours. Apparently, he wasn't racist against those guys.
Fast forward a few months, and the lazy guy who called my Dad a racist was arrested for robbing a pharmacy at gunpoint. My Dad has since retired, while his brother and cousin now run their own business with six employees.
byronite
45. Job Maintenance
I was not the boss, but I managed 3-5 chasiers at a casino. Well, they hired this blond girl with a nice rack. They were thinking this would be good because frankly good-looking women with drunk men = better tip split (when in a casino, at least)
She was freaking worthless, she was one of the people that the job is harder when they are around. Well after a few months (we could not understand how she still had a job and had reached a point of F it.) a customer hit a big jackpot, like over 20k, and before we could give them the money, the Slot manager had to review it.
It was hit in the blonds area and so a coworker and I handled it. We call into our boss that we need him to sign off on this and such. He told us he was busy but would be right there. Well, after waiting for 10 minutes with him not showing up, the work is starting to pile up (lots of lights blinking all over the floor.)
We decided to bring the paperwork to his office so we could get this crap cleared up. As we approach his office, out walks the boss and that blonde, chatting like old buddies.
As we hand over the paperwork to the boss, we both notice she has faint lipstick marks over the bottom of her nose and chin. At that moment, we understood why she still had a job.
The boss calls us into his office after we get caught up with the work on the floor. Sits us down and with the creepiest smile, tells us that if we ever mention this to anyone ever, he will make us lose our job and make sure we are blacklisted in the industry in our area.
Casino work is really crazy crap.
Remembering that brought up even more memories from that tweaked-out time in my life, lol.
tirsirrak